Ghost of Tsushima (PS4) Coming summer 2020

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DrRosenRosen said:
I've been playing this the last week. It's fun and seems to be a good game. However, it gets really repetitive rather quickly.

A ton of stuff to do here for sure. Seems huge.
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Was playing before Cyberpunk came out, about to go back to this lol. It works first of all haha
 
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#52
Call me a weeb or whatever but I love Japanese stuff. Not really the anime, but historical samurai culture type stuff.

I am finding myself lose three or four hours on this game and not even know it. The shrines, towns, etc. remind me so much of when I was living in Japan, so I think that has something to do with it.
 
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A haiku about the only thing that can stop the Ghost.

blade, bow, kunai, death
then Jin’s great foe obscures all
these f-ing bushes
 
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615vols said:
This game is amazing. Definitely in my top 3 all time
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Best melee combat system? Stances are genius, especially as it actually melds with the story's adapt to survive theme. Usually games would make you decide which of these stances you wanted to master and forsake the others--here you'll use all 4 in 20 seconds if you want to stay alive. I love high risk/high reward parrying and perfect dodge mechanics. Best of all, almost every bit of combat is still hard on the hardest difficulty deep into the game but the game is gentle with how much it costs you. For instance, duels are insanely hard, but you don't have to go back to the start of a quest to get to the duel again so you can learn the attack tells and get good.

In short, they did a lot of stuff right. I can see they've played all the good games in the RPG and open world genre and took the stuff that they liked and improved on it in many cases. There could be more variation in vendor NPCs and random enemy encounters, and more world-building specifics, but that is minor stuff. I'm retiring my PS4 with this, but hear it looks amazing on PS5. I could see playing it again.
 
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Rifleman said:
Best melee combat system? Stances are genius, especially as it actually melds with the story's adapt to survive theme. Usually games would make you decide which of these stances you wanted to master and forsake the others--here you'll use all 4 in 20 seconds if you want to stay alive. I love high risk/high reward parrying and perfect dodge mechanics. Best of all, almost every bit of combat is still hard on the hardest difficulty deep into the game but the game is gentle with how much it costs you. For instance, duels are insanely hard, but you don't have to go back to the start of a quest to get to the duel again so you can learn the attack tells and get good.

In short, they did a lot of stuff right. I can see they've played all the good games in the RPG and open world genre and took the stuff that they liked and improved on it in many cases. There could be more variation in vendor NPCs and random enemy encounters, and more world-building specifics, but that is minor stuff. I'm retiring my PS4 with this, but hear it looks amazing on PS5. I could see playing it again.
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It also runs amazing. 60fps really makes such a difference. I never want to go back to 30fps again!
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
It also runs amazing. 60fps really makes such a difference. I never want to go back to 30fps again!
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It helps a lot when precise timing is required. I blame the frames, not my aging reflexes, for every time Kojiro killed me on Lethal difficulty. "Not a demon or a ghost. Just a man."
 
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Bump. Just picked this up. I've done the intro and played about two hours. So far not anything different in terms of quest, side mission, repeat, but it seems pretty fun with a good plot and great scenery.
 
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clarksvol00 said:
Bump. Just picked this up. I've done the intro and played about two hours. So far not anything different in terms of quest, side mission, repeat, but it seems pretty fun with a good plot and great scenery.
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I finished it a couple of weeks ago. I got the platinum on it, which I don't usually do. As sword combat goes, I can't think of a better system outside of a dedicated fighting game. There are a ton of ways to build a character with all the charms too. It's not Red Dead 2 revolutionary for the genre. But they get most everything right with a unique setting/story
 
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JCHateSteve said:
I finished it a couple of weeks ago. I got the platinum on it, which I don't usually do. As sword combat goes, I can't think of a better system outside of a dedicated fighting game. There are a ton of ways to build a character with all the charms too. It's not Red Dead 2 revolutionary for the genre. But they get most everything right with a unique setting/story
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Plus when you unlock more abilities, the stealth gameplay is so satisfying! Also, the game is just gorgeous. The varying landscapes of Tsushima, the lighting, the foliage, etc is just beautiful! It looks even better on PS5 running at 60fps. Until I had played Ghost, I thought Horizon Zero Dawn was the best looking game I had played but I do believe Ghost edges it out. Oh and I love the music as well!
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Plus when you unlock more abilities, the stealth gameplay is so satisfying! Also, the game is just gorgeous. The varying landscapes of Tsushima, the lighting, the foliage, etc is just beautiful! It looks even better on PS5 running at 60fps. Until I had played Ghost, I thought Horizon Zero Dawn was the best looking game I had played but I do believe Ghost edges it out. Oh and I love the music as well!
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It's pretty striking, even on PS4. The areas where you have different color leaves blowing around, in particular. So many good photo ops there. I need to replay Horizon. I still haven't played to the expansion. But' I'm finally getting around the Witcher 3 right now. So I'll be on that for a while.
 
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JCHateSteve said:
It's pretty striking, even on PS4. The areas where you have different color leaves blowing around, in particular. So many good photo ops there. I need to replay Horizon. I still haven't played to the expansion. But' I'm finally getting around the Witcher 3 right now. So I'll be on that for a while.
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I'd hold off on playing Horizon, as I have a feeling they're going to release a PS5 sku with graphic and framerate upgrades. Plus the sequel, Forbidden West is coming out this fall.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Plus when you unlock more abilities, the stealth gameplay is so satisfying! Also, the game is just gorgeous. The varying landscapes of Tsushima, the lighting, the foliage, etc is just beautiful! It looks even better on PS5 running at 60fps. Until I had played Ghost, I thought Horizon Zero Dawn was the best looking game I had played but I do believe Ghost edges it out. Oh and I love the music as well!
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JCHateSteve said:
It's pretty striking, even on PS4. The areas where you have different color leaves blowing around, in particular. So many good photo ops there. I need to replay Horizon. I still haven't played to the expansion. But' I'm finally getting around the Witcher 3 right now. So I'll be on that for a while.
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The only complaint I have is that Tsushima is down in Nagasaki Prefecture in real life, which is where I used to live and go to school, and there ain't snow there...so the northern part of the island kind of caught me off guard!
 
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ButchPlz said:
The only complaint I have is that Tsushima is down in Nagasaki Prefecture in real life, which is where I used to live and go to school, and there ain't snow there...so the northern part of the island kind of caught me off guard!
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LOL well you certainly have a different perspective on this given your life experience. I didn't know that but I'm glad you pointed it out. I guess this is just a case of "creative liberty" taken by the developer to have a variety of biomes and show off winter effects. I guess that little detail didn't bother the people of Tsushima that much because they made the developer ambassadors of the island.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
LOL well you certainly have a different perspective on this given your life experience. I didn't know that but I'm glad you pointed it out. I guess this is just a case of "creative liberty" taken by the developer to have a variety of biomes and show off winter effects. I guess that little detail didn't bother the people of Tsushima that much because they made the developer ambassadors of the island.
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I liked it for sure, it was just kind of surprising!
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
I'd hold off on playing Horizon, as I have a feeling they're going to release a PS5 sku with graphic and framerate upgrades. Plus the sequel, Forbidden West is coming out this fall.
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I got the complete edition for free from PS Play at him. Hard to argue with it when I dint have to pay for it. I've already beat the base game anyway.
 
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ButchPlz said:
The only complaint I have is that Tsushima is down in Nagasaki Prefecture in real life, which is where I used to live and go to school, and there ain't snow there...so the northern part of the island kind of caught me off guard!
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Climate Change? ;)
 
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