The AT 3DS game is such a great package. Awesome music, great cartoony graphics, and a ton of fun. It just needed to be another 3-4 hours longer.
I just beat Black Ops 2's campaign on normal mode. I didn't get a great ending or anything. I was surprised to see Mason alive at the end, but after reading up on it apparently it's because I'm naturally a horrible shot. If I have a chance later on I'll give it a more solid run through and try for the best ending.
Yeah, was reading it's very, very short. A fun nostalgia trip. I'll wait till it's a daily deal.
Best nostalgia trip RPG that is long, fun, involving, and has an engrossing story is Radiant Historia for DS. That game is like someone discovered a precious relic from the '90s that somehow didn't get released until a couple years ago. Everything else is a candlelit flicker against Square-Enix these days--Radiant Historia is the fucking sunshine.
I want it so bad, but apparently it's gotten hard to find. I'll have to do some hunting after I get my tax return.
Mike and I just finished up Gears 3 the other day, and we are super into Horde Mode now! Last night we played with 2 other friends and got to wave 40! :3
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Portal 2
Just finished the single player game. I really enjoyed the sealed off basement level stuff. Great little bits of Aperture history. Jokes were funny. Only critique is really the same as the critique I had of the first: it was too short. I'd like to see some test chambers that take more than 2-3 steps to solve, too. But overall, very enjoyable.
Just finished the single player game. I really enjoyed the sealed off basement level stuff. Great little bits of Aperture history. Jokes were funny. Only critique is really the same as the critique I had of the first: it was too short. I'd like to see some test chambers that take more than 2-3 steps to solve, too. But overall, very enjoyable.
Honestly, I'm glad I pre-ordered it, because its first printing sold out fast and for a while it didn't look like they were going to do another. Eventually, they did. Amazon sells it directly from Atlus.
The two to three steps things bothered me as well. The challenges felt a lot simpler than some of the ones in the first game. Of course, in the last third of the game that simplicity makes sense
.Damn, these are both games I really want to replay. Unfortunately, I have so many games I haven't finished or have just started for the first time. Speaking of which ...
XCOM: Enemy Unknown: I wish I'd asked for this for Christmas instead of shit like Space Marine or Resident Evil: Revelations. This is fantastic. And I say that even though I suck at it! But I don't suck as much as I did in the first XCOM. So that's cool.
I finally got to play the multiplayer for Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon with an in-person group, my wife and cousins. Once they got the controls down, we had a lot of fun. It's really a great multiplayer and I love that the more levels you add to the tower, the harder it gets right from the very beginning. I also love that if you fail, THAT'S IT. You don't get to just retry that floor of the tower, even if you're at the top and the final boss. If everyone falls, it's game over and you'll just have to try again from the start. We made it to the top of a 10-floor sweep, almost had the boss down, but we ended up dying off. We lost, but we were laughing and had a great time anyway. That's on top of what's already a great single-player experience. I'm so glad I picked up this game.
That sounds like a great game design. A lot of the great classics had essentially the same deal, mostly because they lacked a save option. You died and that was it. Start over. Contra. Megaman. Zombies Ate my Neighbors. Yeah a few of them had password systems, but if it was something like Zombies Ate My Neighbors it was a complete waste of time. You'd be facing harder challenges with the base equipment. Nah. The best way to tackle those games was form beginning to end in one sitting.
Only the multiplayer works that way; the single-player is mission-based, so you go back to the hub if you die.
But for the short session workings of multiplayer, yeah, it's perfect. It forces you to work together if you want to win, or else lose everything.
I don't know if 3Ds work over an internet connection, but I wish I owned 1 so I could try this with you guys.
It has online multplayer, though the download play only works locally. What's neat is that once someone has downloaded the data locally, they can play online so long as the source cartridge is still nearby. But each place where someone is playing from must have at least one cartridge.
Paper Mario: Sticker Star: I've heard so much I didn't care for about this, how it wasn't going to have exp points and levels, wasn't going to have much of a story, that Miyamoto practically forbid the development team from adding anything not already established in the Mario world--which is the kind of crap I've been hating with the franchise lately, as if Nintendo feels with Mario that they need to get back to their roots, except they've been doing that since 2007. They're hugging the roots so tightly that the tree is dying.
Despite all that, it's a lot of fun and I actually like it a lot.
There, I've finally at least started all the games I got for Christmas.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but What is Known, this game is fucking addicting, It is known, Khaleesi. I played this way too many hours. Then I realized I'd boned myself for focusing too much on scientists, not enough on engineers, and had gotten so many of my guys killed that I went into the first invasion battle with a Squaddie Assault guy and four Rookies. I've restarted since then and I'm doing much better and I CANNOT STOP HELP ME.
Despite all that, it's a lot of fun and I actually like it a lot.
There, I've finally at least started all the games I got for Christmas.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but What is Known, this game is fucking addicting, It is known, Khaleesi. I played this way too many hours. Then I realized I'd boned myself for focusing too much on scientists, not enough on engineers, and had gotten so many of my guys killed that I went into the first invasion battle with a Squaddie Assault guy and four Rookies. I've restarted since then and I'm doing much better and I CANNOT STOP HELP ME.
I logged so many hours in that game. How far along as you?
FPS zombie shooting, fighting zombies in waves. Pick a class, giving you one specialty and earn money to buy better weapons.
This is a super basic overview, someone who's still playing could likely tell you more.
This is a super basic overview, someone who's still playing could likely tell you more.
Except way harder, with better weapon variety, more diverse settings, and more levels. I generally prefer Killing Floor to Mann Vs Machine.
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Or even just join a server with people already on it. Going it alone is not an option in this game. After all, you need another warm body to catch the tendrils and chainsaws with their bodies while you safely dispatch the baddies. And there's ALWAYS a fleshpounder inc from behind. ALWAYS.
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. Great game, my only qualm is without spoiling anything to anyone who might buy it is that the final boss fight was kinda easy. Which is weird, because the other bosses were pretty challenging.
The really hard part of the game is getting all the treasure and the bottles....you can go mad looking for those bottles.
The really hard part of the game is getting all the treasure and the bottles....you can go mad looking for those bottles.
Finally playing Mass Effect 3 again. I started it, got distracted, and then thought about playing it for a long while... <3 I've missed these characters.
Can anyone give me the rundown on Legend of Grimrock? It's on sale right now, and I've been feeling a bit of the old-school dungeon crawl... worth picking up?
Bioshock Infinite
I don't buy many - if any - games so soon after release, but all the discussions on this, particularly the ending, piqued my interest. I've avoided spoilers and so far, I'm glad I did because, welllllll...
I was up until 5am last night playing it. I couldn't stop. I was completely engaged and enthralled with this game from the get go. My jaw has been consistently on the floor.
dmittedly, the action is mostly easy, but it's diverse with all the powers and guns, so it's remained fun. The world, story, and characters have me totally hooked.
I don't buy many - if any - games so soon after release, but all the discussions on this, particularly the ending, piqued my interest. I've avoided spoilers and so far, I'm glad I did because, welllllll...
I was up until 5am last night playing it. I couldn't stop. I was completely engaged and enthralled with this game from the get go. My jaw has been consistently on the floor.
dmittedly, the action is mostly easy, but it's diverse with all the powers and guns, so it's remained fun. The world, story, and characters have me totally hooked.
Did you ever play Might and Magic or Eye of the Beholder? It's like that, but with a more dungeon crawl focused experience.
Thanks to the generosity of one Terrik, who offered a gift in the interests of promoting closer exchanges and ties across the Taiwan Strait, I am now playing Fallout: New Vegas.
Still in the tutorial stages, but my impressions are that it's hit the sweet spot of being similar to Fallout 3, while also adding new stuff. This means it's fairly intuitive for a Fallout 3 veteran to simply pick up and play, while also offering lots of new features to play with.
Also, Terrik is awesome. Just wanted to reiterate that.
Still in the tutorial stages, but my impressions are that it's hit the sweet spot of being similar to Fallout 3, while also adding new stuff. This means it's fairly intuitive for a Fallout 3 veteran to simply pick up and play, while also offering lots of new features to play with.
Also, Terrik is awesome. Just wanted to reiterate that.
Hey ... Paper Mario Sticker Star. What the fuck, man? You challenged me today. I know you're new, but let me give you the rundown--modern Mario games aren't supposed to have a lick of challenge that you can't completely bypass. They're a cakewalk. You're upsetting the balance.
I think we're going to get along just fine.
I think we're going to get along just fine.