Been awhile since I updated. Finished 3000th Duel the other week and I highly recommend it. The game was the perfect balance of Vania-Souls. Challenging enough but never frustrating. Some of the boss fights I cleared first try while others took me a few attempts. Really worth checking out if Castlevania meets Souls interests you.
Still on San Andreas and yeah, I'll never come back to this game. I replayed 3 + Vice City a few years ago and while they were dated, I still had a fun time. I always said GTA 4 was when Rockstar started to go downhill but really, the signs were there in San Andreas. They don't respect the players time and lock main story missions behind stupid progress. The mission where you have to swim to the freighter? Yeah, you have to go swimming for half an hour or so to build up your lung capacity. Need to progress with the casino heist? Not before you take the croupier out on a bunch of dates first. Some of the missions are just plain awful too (any of the Zero RC missions). Why do I have to waste time flying this plane towards Liberty City? Just take me there in a cutscene, having to hold down R2 for 3 minutes while doing nothing is idiotic. I don't know how much longer I have to go to finish this, I must be 10 hours or so close to the end. But this will be the last time I ever touch this game. It was a good game bogged down by Rockstar's obnoxious fart sniffing.
Still on San Andreas and yeah, I'll never come back to this game. I replayed 3 + Vice City a few years ago and while they were dated, I still had a fun time. I always said GTA 4 was when Rockstar started to go downhill but really, the signs were there in San Andreas. They don't respect the players time and lock main story missions behind stupid progress. The mission where you have to swim to the freighter? Yeah, you have to go swimming for half an hour or so to build up your lung capacity. Need to progress with the casino heist? Not before you take the croupier out on a bunch of dates first. Some of the missions are just plain awful too (any of the Zero RC missions). Why do I have to waste time flying this plane towards Liberty City? Just take me there in a cutscene, having to hold down R2 for 3 minutes while doing nothing is idiotic. I don't know how much longer I have to go to finish this, I must be 10 hours or so close to the end. But this will be the last time I ever touch this game. It was a good game bogged down by Rockstar's obnoxious fart sniffing.