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Looks like i am ~6 missions away from finishing the Puzzle Quest 2 story.
I'm so excited. I just can't hide it.

I've been playing through Phantasy Star IV the past couple nights. I haven't played this game for probably 15 years or more but it still plays and looks great!

I'm still working on Albert Odyssey, and for my handheld I'm playing Sly Cooper Thieves in Time on Vita and it is pretty awesome.

Good Lord, Far Cry 4 is good.

How does Albert Odyssey play? That is in my backlog.

Good luck with Galactrix then.

Check out my review of it!

http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/sirpsycho/Psychotic-Reviews-Albert-Odyssey-Legend-of-Eldean-2774.php

Yes, do that. A good write-up though I actually like the bad script.

My one sentence review is that it's a passable Final Fantasy IV wannabe with a really low-brow script.

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LOL!  I might have to start up Albert Odyssey once I finish Magic Knight Rayearth.

Oops i made a mistake...

I was thinking of Abyss Odyssey...

Damn son, do you own real copies of both those games?

Yep, I've got a few gems for the Saturn.

I've been playing through The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct on the 360 the past couple nights. The game is BAD but at the same time I find myself enjoying it.

I have a loose copy of Albert Odyssey I wouldn't mind offloading so that I can replace it with a CIB copy...

I know, and believe it or not I have a buddy who has the case and manual but no disc. I would love to put all these things together one day Ray, maybe you could pm me what you would want for it just for kicks?

I took that same approach with Burning Rangers.  Caught a relatively good deal on ebay for a CIB copy, then sold my loose copy for more than it's probably worth.  It worked out to be a pretty good deal for me overall.

Now that I think about, I have a loose Shining the Holy Ark that I need to do this with....

Finished Puzzle Quest 2.

Decided to waste 5$s on the Puzzle Quest DLC so i could finish that one now.
Unfortunately after completing every remaining quest with my character i discovered i have to start a new game.
Apparently if you progress too far with your character the DLC missions won't load up since i had already passed their natural activation point :-/

So starting again as a knight. Hopefully i can blow through and get to the DLC in "short" order. I'm still guessing it will take more time than i am going to be happy about...

Played more Shatterhand (with infinite lives cheat).  After the first stage, that game becomes a real jerk. Vice: Project Doom has a much gentler difficulty curve.

Rage quit Shatterhand for the day.  That game is a real jerk.

Plants vs. Zombies (PS3/PSN) - That Yeti sure is elusive....

Almost done with Albert Odyssey. Thankfully I power grinded enough that the four tower bosses were not nearly as bad as they were made out to be. Now for the point of no return last tower and final boss.

So apparently when i read that the Puzzle Quest DLC was "story related" it really meant make sure you do this option sidequest immediately or you will be locked out from the DLC.

So i am once again restarting after spending the last 2 days progressing through half the game.

So damn, this last dungeon kind of ruins the frigging game. I wasted like two hours and about four levels that I had to dump because I couldn't find a save point. So, I was hoping to finish it today but it wasn't in the cards. Now I have to go back to my last save and lose all that progress but at least now I know to use a walkthrough. Yuck. They really killed it. In a bad way.

started Pokemon Omega Ruby today, first pokemon game i've played since original Gold. really enjoying it for the most part, though the multiplayer is pretty lame...forces every pokemon to be level 50, so it feels really generic for the battles, like your work put into levelling doesn't matter when you play against friends. other than that it's a lot of fun though.

edit: oh, there's an option to disable battle restrictions. multiplayer is fun again!

007: Quantum of Solace (360) - More Team Conflict mixed with Golden Gun with the neighbor again last night.

My girlfriend and I have been working through Super Luigi Bros for the last week. We're on the last world. She plays it a lot more than I do, as I generally don't enjoy platformers...but the level design is pretty cool, and even I have to say that I'm enjoying it.

I finished Magic Knight Rayearth last night.  Great game, although a lot shorter than I expected.

Haven't decided what I'm going to play next.  I'd like to start up Valkyria Chronicles on Steam, but I'm gonna wait and see if it goes on sale during the next big Steam sale coming up.

So in the meantime, I'll just keep chipping away at the '30 Years of Wrestlemania' mode in WWE 2K14 (been playing this off and on for months), and playing Call of Duty: World at War co-op with a friend.

Edit:  Just finished a run of Star Fox 64 3D that I've been playing for a week or two when I have some downtime at work.  I haven't played this game since the N64 days, but it's still a lot of fun.

Edit:  ...And just ran through Star Fox 64 3D again since work has been pretty slow lately.  I played through a lot of the levels I missed the last time.

Finally got the Puzzle Quest DLC to recognize.

I was having an issue where it was seeing the DLC for character selection but not when i actually loaded into the game.
It took a few tries once i figured out what the problem was but i got it to work and wrapped it in no time.


Popped in Gears: Judgment to grab an event medal. I need 11 more. So if they keep updating on their usual schedule and i remember to put it in every time i should be done by 2016ish

Did my weekly challenge in Project Spark.

Firing up Puzzle Quest: Galactrix now.... Not sure what to expect. I'm pretty sure it was radically changed from the PQ2 which was changed from PQ. I liked not losing resourced for a blocked attack in PQ2 and the weapons ability. But i preferred the board always being the same size/shape in PQ more so.

EDIT
OK now that i have moved around on game map and used the battle system a bit....
This game is going to probably blow.

EDIT 2
Oh my god absolute shit.
Battles are probably going to take forever and i hate that it is laid out like a hex tactical map. Then things don't drop from the top. They drop in whatever direction you moved the piece to make the match. Cascades seem to in turn fall from whatever direction the game decides.

Oh, just played a little Aero Fighters today. :)

Finished Albert Odyssey last night. Great little game except for that last dungeon.

Not sure if I'm going to start a new console game tonight or wait for the start of the long weekend tomorrow. I might focus on Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (Vita) for now so I can clear the handheld slate for Persona Q, which I expect to be on my doorstep tonight when I get home.

Crap, Judgment is still doing events? Need to pop that in again. Thanks for the reminder.
Warned you about Galactrix.

Mafia (XB) - Finishing up a few things before playing final mission.

Yea i think the schedule for GoW:J is supposed to be once every 2 weeks.
I can't remember for sure. I think Gear 3 is on the same time frame. Their is a link to the appropriate threads on the Gears forums about the event updates.

Galactrix hasn't gotten any better. The travel system is atrocious and i am pretty sure i ended up on a quest line that is was to hard for me. It took me like 3 hours to beat an enemy ship(constantly getting my ass kicked) and when i finally did i leveled up two times and most of the way through the 3rd...

All of the enemies have at least 2x my shields and are just generally way to powerful. And if you lose and don't try again you travel back to where you were coming from. And then get attacked by a ship there that is just as powerful. Some enemies have 3x the health and 2x the shields.

Going to have a hell of a time finding my way back....

smash bros

Playing both Risk of Rain (thanks, Fleach!) and Don't Starve.  The latter game is a great little survival game that gives me that squishy Rogue-like feeling that I enjoy getting without the insane level of difficulty (hello, Project Zomboid).  It's hard, but the fact that your efforts actually count for something such as unlocking playable character really keeps you going. 

Risk of Rain...  is super fun and hard as nails.  The art design and game mechanics really bring me back to a simpler time, though the gameplay really makes me thing of a combination of Dark Souls and a shmup.  But I just cannot get past the second level, no matter what boss is waiting for me.  There are also unlockable characters in this game, but they appear to be entirely skill-based.  That, and the fluidity of the controls, really keeps me coming back.  Four our of five coney dogs.

I've had an interesting few days starting the weekend early for the holiday.

First there's Heavenly Sword. Man, what an interesting game. It had so many things going for it, for example amazing voice acting and mocap, an emotional story, and that cool Ninja Theory hack & slash combat involving pulling the triggers to modify your weapon on the fly. This system was also used in their reboot of DmC. On the other hand, this being an early PS3 game there is a lot of sixaxis action and although for the most part I'd get used to it overall, I'd groan every time it popped up as it became a chore to use, especially in longer sequences where the fail states meant you'd have to start all over again. Also, though they're not overused to be honest, there are QTEs. I'm in the camp that thinks QTEs need to be put out to pasture and in this game, as usual, they only serve to break immersion, especially when used in situations where they can end a boss battle, unless failed in which case the boss regains half his life bar. That is hair-pulling.

Interestingly enough, I'd read some widespread hatred for the final boss of this game. I gave it a few tries and couldn't really figure out what to do. Now I should backtrack a little and note that this game has a counter system where if you hit triangle right at the moment of impact you can counter almost any attack, including projectiles. The thing is, I simply could never get the hang of the timing required to counter projectiles. In the third major boss battle there was an opportunity to counter projectiles for major damage but I could never pull it off. In that particular battle however the boss also engages you in regular combat. So it took me longer but I was able to grind through it by surviving the projectile attacks and the whittling his health down via regular combat. So fast forward to the final boss. I was getting my ass kicked, so I looked up a youtube video entitled something along the lines of "Heavenly Sword Final Boss + Ending." To make a long story even longer I saw that in order to defeat the final boss (in all three of his forms) one must counter a ton of (sometimes rapid) projectile attacks. Before I knew it I had watched that entire video, including the ending and credits, said "No thanks" and put the game in my trade pile. And you can bet your ass I added the game to my beaten in 2014 list. I put a lot of hard time into that game so I don't feel bad about having some youtuber do the last fifteen minutes for me.

So what else? I had been playing Sly Cooper Thieves in Time on Vita, and although I thought I liked it, something about it just wasn't really blowing me away or calling me back to it. I decided for the first time to use the cross-save feature and try the game out on PS3. At first it breathed new life into the game but almost immediately the same underwhelming feelings kicked in. This morning I struggled through the third major boss battle which left me with that feeling of "is it me or are these boss battles really poorly designed?" I ended up watching a handful of reviews of the game and even favorable reviews noted that the boss battles were bullshit. So, I think I'm going to drop this one. I've only ever played the first in the series before this so I think I'd be better off going back and playing Sly 2 and 3 if I was in the mood for it.

I had figured that a long holiday weekend would be a good opportunity to jump headfirst into a nice meaty JRPG so I decided to pop in Eternal Filena. After all I just dropped almost $40 on that repro cart and it took forever to get it so I wanted to try it out. It seemed good enough but having just played Albert Odyssey it only took about forty-five minutes for me to realize this game was too similar to that one in its old school JRPG mechanics to play so close together, so I shelved it.

Then I popped in Sin & Punishment for the December playthrough (wasn't paying attention or it would've been R-Type Final, the game for week one). Holy crap what an amazing game. I mean it is really something special. You know that anecdotal question you sometimes hear on podcasts or youtube videos that goes like "What game would you show to someone who had never heard of video games to show him what they were all about?" I always had a hard time thinking of a good answer to that question. Not any more. This is everything a video game should be. It is fun, frantic, challenging, and beautiful. As Mark from CGR noted in his video review of the first game in the series, the game asks you to do a lot of things at once. It is engaging in an incredible way and requires an intense amount of focus. I noted in the shmup thread that the game is hard as hell, even on easy, and even playing as Kachi (who has auto lock-on). For the most part it is hard in a fun way, meaning rather than making you want to chuck the WiiMote through a wall (if it weren't strapped to your wrist anyway), dying gives you that "Ok this time I got it, LET ME AT 'EM!" kind of feeling.

So I'm a little more than halfway through that game. I'm going to give it another try for sure but I have completely accepted that I may not complete it.

So now I have a few choices. I've been in the mood to play my next Tales game as it's been about a year since I played Vesperia. I also want to play Persona Q which I swore, especially after dropping $85 on it, that it would be a "drop everything else and dive in" kind of game as soon as I got it. Having said that my 3DS is fully charged and ready to go, I'm just not sure I want to do two massive JRPGs at the same time. Heavenly Sword was meant to be a kind of palette cleanser after Albert Odyssey, but quitting Sly Cooper is putting me in a position where the JRPGs wouldn't be staggered. So the choice is: Do I play Persona Q and something else on the consoles, play Tales of Hearts R on Vita instead? Or dive into both? I don't know. For now I can take another crack at the spot I'm stuck at in Sin & Punishment and maybe check out R-Type final.

Anyway I hope my American friends are enjoying the long weekend, if like me at least, you got today off. Happy gaming!

First time in 6 years I've had the day off without pay, and to make matters worse, I'll likely spend the day doing homework.  :-\
Hope everyone else is enjoying the time off.

I've been sick for a few days, so I played some Far Cry 4 last night. I got stuck on a mission that seemed a bit glitched, and it was pretty frustrating. The failure condition wouldn't always execute properly, so that you could fail the mission, but not be forced to restart. This took me a long time to figure out as I couldn't figure out why I couldn't progress. At times it would even glitch and play the audio for the transition, but never continue. Eventually I figured out the contrived path they wanted me to take and could continue. I hope others don't run into it, as it has been amazing otherwise.

where is the real Shawn and what did you do with him? this post can't be from the same guy who says "if a PM gets too long I just skim or don't read it."

Heavenly Sword inspired me. I figured I've been wanting to take a crack writing about games a little more seriously so why not start small? That game had a lot of things to discuss, and once I got going the thoughts just kept coming.

That's how I started doing reviews.

And your reviews are great so I'm following some nice footsteps.

Here's another review that will take me considerably less time to write.

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor for the Nintendo Wii. When I beat it I was like:

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In conclusion, best game ever.

Plants vs. Zombies (PS3/PSN) - Playing coop with the wife when the kids are in bed.

Started Persona Q this morning. Ended up putting two and a half hours into it already. The idea of an Etrian Odyssey game with a Persona skin on it was a little intimidating to me at first as my only experience with EO was playing EO IV demo for like ten minutes and always hearing about how hard they are. I feel like I'm taking to the gameplay pretty well though, and the Persona presentation (like slightly remixed versions of the music) gives me all the warm and fuzzy feelings I was hoping for.

Still playing Destiny quite a bit, but finally shifting focus to a second character. Would love to have a second leveled to 20 before the first DLC comes out in a couple of weeks.

Got Knock Knock for a song on the Google Play store.  Too bad I didn't play this earlier or it would have ended up as my October blog post.  Coupled with some head phone this is a truly disturbing experience, and one I really hope to replicate on my PC in the future.

007: Quantum of Solace (360) - More multiplayer with the neighbour.

Knocked out some more Kane & Lynch.

Started Samurai Shodown II. Which looks like it might be problematic to get all achievements.

Got back on track for story related missions in PQ: Galactrix. Hopefully i can start making real progress.

Since we had a long holiday weekend here in the US combined with the fact that I plan on taking most of next week off of work, I decided to jump head first into both a console RPG and a handheld RPG.  On the PS3, I started playing Final Fantasy X HD.  I played this on the PS2 back when it was first released, but my memory is pretty hazy on a lot of the details.  I really enjoyed it back then, and I'm really enjoying it again now.  The game looks great and has really benefited from the HD treatment.

On the 3DS I started playing Project X Zone.  I wasn't too sure what to expect going into this one, but now that I'm several chapters in, I think I've got a pretty good handle on it now.  The gameplay is a lot of fun, and it's awesome seeing so many characters from so many different franchises interacting with each other.  I always look forward to starting a new chapter just to see what new characters will make an appearance.

Earthworm Jim HD (WP) - Time to beat the game on Hard difficulty.

Been playing some of the 2+ player games on Nintendoland with my wife and son over the holiday weekend.

Been playing the hell out of Super Smash Bros. Wii U. Unlocked all characters on the first night. (Ripoff...you start with 44 characters and only have to unlock 8 of them...)

Also played Microsoft Solitaire Collection and completed a 4-suit spider solitaire game, now I just have to play a lot more games overall to complete it.

Congrats on the 4-suit spider solitaire game - that was a pain.

I've settled nicely into Persona Q and am also playing Splinter Cell Blacklist on 360. Really good stuff on both fronts. This is where I get the most enjoyment out of gaming, when I'm deeply into one handheld and one console game, and they're both good and engrossing and leave me wanting to come back for more. Settling into both of these games was a great way to wrap up the long weekend.

I also played a ton of Luftrausers. 

Since I've got most of my NES collection in one location and displayed, I decided to play a little bit of every NES game I own to see which I want to play again and which will just remain shelf candy.

My plan is to just run down my stacks as I have them, so I will play games I've played before, but I'm going to try to get one or more new-to-me games per session.

Today's games (with impressions):

Kabuki Quantum Fighter:  An NES action platformer in the vein of Ninja Gaiden & Batman.  I really like games in this style, so this is a game I've played before.  I really enjoy it, but, like Shatterhand, after a few stages, the difficulty spikes and frustration reigns.  Also like Shatterhand, I really enjoy the aesthetic.

Alien Syndrome: A top-down shooter, I find I enjoy Alien Syndrome much more than the similar Commando or Ikari Warriors.  The graphics are a bit plain, but the game runs smoothly and the action is quick and fun.  The "rescue crewmembers" aspect reminds me of Zombies Ate My Neighbors, which is neat.  Now, if only I could beat the first boss...

Big Nose the Caveman: Reminiscent of Hudson-style platformers (ironically, more Adventure Island than Bonk).  Except that the controls are so bad I almost quit immediately.  However, if you stick with it long enough to adapt to the slide-y controls, Big Nose can be amusing, if not particularly memorable.

Castle of Dragon: The new game for this session, which is surprising because I was looking very much forward to this game.  Castle of Dragon is a left-to-right hack and slash game.  A lesser known predecessor to the already obscure Sword Master, Castle of Dragon is very primitive in comparison to its sequel.  The gameplay lacks the light platforming of Sword Master, the combat has less options, there's no magic/spells for your character to use, and the graphics and sound are far less polished.

However, Castle of Dragon does have something Sword Master does not that I rather enjoy.  You can pick up weapon power ups, new weapons, armor power ups, and new armor.  I like these power ups more than I like Sword Master's magic system.  Also, your character is less delicate than the character in Sword Master, allowing you to be more aggressive in combat.  The downside is that there's no mercy invincibility and no knockback from damage, so enemies can stick to you and drain your life very quickly, as happened to me in this session.  I'll definitely play this again, though, as the fun challenge outweighs the frustrating cheapness.

Agreed. Took me over 50 tries to get it done.

Also, been playing tons of Smash U, and I am surprised to see the amount of online activity in duos. I figured it would be mostly 4 Player smash, but most of the activity is 2 vs 2. Now I need my brother to move back home so we can rule the world. ha ha ha Seriously though, been kicking some serious butt with Little Mac, Mega Man, and Duck Hunt. I haven't even tried most of the characters out yet.

gave gradius a try last night, rage quit after half an hour or so.

been playing pokemon omega ruby on and off.

also what happened to the earlier gaming diaries?

Locked and unstickied.

oh ok, i figured but didn't see them anywhere on the first page and was worried they might have been deleted

Shenmue II (Xbox) - Even after watching a "Let's Play" of the first game, I still don't get the big deal with this franchise.

Today's NES selections were Castlequest and Tetris.

Tetris: It's Tetris.  I'm not a skilled Tetris player.  I miss Korobeiniki.

Castlequest: I remember tracking this down after seeing it on Chrontendo.  The exploration aspect seemed pretty interesting.  Upon trying it out, it is.  The color coded key & door mechanic and splitting the castle up into screens does a really effective job of guiding your route through the castle.  However, I stopped playing after I trapped myself with no way to progress.  Attacking enemies also seems a bit awkward.  I think playing the game with a turbo controller may help that.

Persona Q and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Some further thoughts:

Persona Q has me hooked. I'm a big grinder in RPGs to begin with and the exploration aspect scratched an itch that I didn't know I even had. I am really psyched to check out the Etrian Odyssey series now, or more dungeon divers in general. The game is not nearly as hard as I thought it would be, though I've only 100%'ed the first two floors of the game, playing on normal I haven't had even one character get KO'ed yet.

As for SS:BL I'm kind of wishing the game wasn't so co-op focused. The story missions are great and fine to play solo, and replaying them in different styles is encouraged, but I feel like I just started the game and I'm already halfway done with the solo campaign. The side missions are all designed for co-op. Some of them can only be played in co-op, and the side missions that are available in solo mode are impossible as such. Overall though, awesome game and I am thoroughly enjoying it.

Earthworm Jim HD (WP) - Just finished my Hard run.

Coming into the final stretch for Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Kane and Lynch also got a bunch more multiplayer progress. Should wrap that up over the weekend :D

Beat Galactrix.

Warface is getting shutdown so i tried to play that. Didn't really pan out...
I still have A LONG way to go so i'm hoping the strange problem i ran into (for the first time ever) was due to a problem on my end. Also hoping that they do a HUGE XP multiplier since the team is actually responsive still.

Moved on to Samurai Shodown II. Completing it without losing a round should actually end up happening easier than i thought. I should have had it twice tonight. Only one time did i feel like i was cheated. There are 2 or 3 AI who give me trouble when they are at the end of rotation. I've started getting the hang of them already though.


EDIT
Samurai Shodown II has been completed 200/200
I initially expected the no clear continue to be crazy hard but it only ended up being moderately hard. It still took more hours to do than i care to admit. Especially since i was able to consistently get close almost right from the first hour.

I was planning on knocking out a few more hours of Kane and Lynch multiplayer but Xbox live decided it wants to give me more reasons to hate it so it has been down or almost completely unusable for the last several hours.

Game Room: Pitfall! (WP) - Wasting time with this during lunch at work.

Persona Q all morning. I'm actually at the end of the first dungeon. Things got a little hairy at times, but I resisted the urge to bump down the difficulty.

Also knocked out a few more campaign missions in Splinter Cell Blacklist.

Gonna spend some time with them shooters today but for now I have to take a break and do some real life stuff.

more Smash. I feel like I'm getting pretty good. I still get creamed every single time online though.  :'(

Jumped into Abyss Odyssey.
I really have no idea what i am doing other than descending into a pit, leveling up, killing stuff and grabbing gold/items.

I'm enjoying myself.

Just finished Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Awesome game but again, I wish the optional missions were more do-able without a co-op partner.

Got to do more Kane and Lynch. Huzzah!
Need another ~25 mil and 30-40 matches so i will definitely be done with the online next time we play.

Loaded MS Bingo on WP8. It got a soft release in Trinidad/Tobago. Thankfully almost everything synced over. Unfortunately 2 of the ones that didn't sync are for completing Collections. I already have almost all of them unlocked so i can't unlock any more until i see others have unlocked them. Would suck to complete all the collections and then have them become completely unobtainable.

Back to Abyss Odyssey before bed.

Plants vs. Zombies (PS3/PSN) - I don't know how some people can get so far in Endless Survival mode.

Been playing Far Cry 4 for almost a week and i'm really getting tired of it. I will probably drop it.

As much as i enjoyed Far Cry 3, i don't feel like i want to the same kind of stuff all over again (liberating camping outposts, climbing radio towers, killing animals to get their skins…) , but now in a (unnecessary) bigger open world map filled with WAY more (repetitive and laborious) content, along boring characters (except the villain) and a uninteresting (and poorly paced) plot.

Sometimes less is more and this game could have taken a lesson from it.



 
 

Finished Abyss Odyssey earlier. I liked it. Was a decent romp but IMO overpriced at the usual price. (I think it is supposed to be 15$)

Started Garou: Mark of the Wolves It is proving more difficult than Samurai Shodown II was.... I need 2 no loss clears. This time with default settings. One time i have to rank A or better (if i win i usually get AA-SSS) one time i have to barely win each round because if my fight rating is too high i will fight a different character.

Roll in the Hole (WP) - Too bad the wifi doesn't work in this old Windows Phone, oh well at least I had a few games downloaded on it anyways.

Still chipping away at both Final Fantasy X HD and Project X Zone.  I like both games, but it was probably a mistake to start both of these at the same time.  I remember my play time in FF X on the PS2 ended up being 80+ hours, so we'll see if it ends up taking me that long to finish it on PS3.  I'm 25-30 hours into it now, and I don't think I'm even close to finishing the main story yet, let alone all the side content that I'll probably do.

Project X Zone is a lot of fun, but the battles tend to drag out after a while.  The game keeps giving you more and more characters to work with, which in turn also forces the game to keep throwing more and more enemies at you.  The game really isn't very difficult at all, it just takes a while to eliminate all of the enemies.  Fortunately I just started a chapter that looks like it may be a lot shorter due to there being fewer enemies on the screen, but this game has a habit of throwing more enemies at you halfway through the chapter, so we'll see.  I'm about 15 hours in and not even half way finished with the game yet, so I can see this one becoming a grind before it's all said and done.

I felt the same way. Its a little better when your characters unlock their AoE skills and can take out bigger groups of enemies at once though.

Been playing Fire Emblem Awakening and GunVolt. GunVolt is pretty fun, feels a lot like the earlier Mega Man X games.

Right now only one of my units has an AoE attack, and it really helps.  I can see the battles going a lot quicker once most/all of my units acquire an AoE skill.

007: Quantum of Solace (360) - Loads of multiplayer with the neighbour.

I played 10 iterations of Pac-man tonight thanks to Pac-man Museum.

I'm not entirely sure how i feel about that still...

Izret your avatar looks like Chef from South Park now.

I actually didn't know about them until much later in the game. Needless to say a lot of these missions were like pulling teeth after a while.

Earned the last of my money in Kane and Lynch

Got some time in Warface. I earned 2-3k xp today in a few hours. I need to at minimum double that number daily if i want to finish the game before servers go down.

Beat Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots this week. I have owned this game for a few years now, and I just got around to finishing it, talk about procrastination. It was a fun game

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Xbox) - Almost finished now, think I may pick this up when it hits Vita.

150k grind... I hope they come through with an XP boost for the holidays.

Game Room: Lunar Lander (WP) - This is quite addictive, I may check out other Atari classics.

Just beat Scribblenauts Unmasked.  Starting Bioshock now.

Think I'm down to 135k in Warface.

Need about 25 more 3 round sessions in Kane and Lynch.

Multitasked KnL and also played some SnapAttack. Quit right around the million mark. 1.5mil left in that still....

Rayman Origins (360) - Still one hell of an amazing platformer.

smash bros

I spent some time last night playing X-men Destiny. The game isn't very good but it's not bad either.

I'm pretty entrenched in Persona Q. It's really damn good.

I've been listening to the soundtracks of P3, P4, and PQ pretty constantly as well.

Just started 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand to set up for the playthrough in January. It's great!

50 Cent: BotS is a great game.

Glad it made the playthru cut. Hope everyone gives it a chance!

Me too!

Just played some Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance on the PS2 with my wife. It's been a very long time since we played something together and we're both very happy with it. It feels nice, we really used to play together all the time and got away from it for some reason.

More Warface.

Did maths got accurate remaining XP for Warface.
Currently need 130k more
If i can put up at least 3k XP a day i will be done before server closure. Today i managed about 6k. Tomorrow i might be able to get more since a doable mission is in the Skilled spot.

More Civilization Revolution.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (360) - I'm getting inducted into the Hall of Fame.

NES Remix pack. Worth the wait.

Started Slender: The Arrival tonight since Warface has been kicking me for a good portion of the day.
It isn't a "pretty" game. It also tries to force the perspective of being a child (which ends up poorly when dressers nearly touch the ceiling). But it does still have a kind of creepy feeling to it. Probably due in large part to audio.

Even with all the trouble Warface gave me i believe i am still down to 122,379 XP left to completion. I want to try and get down to at least 120k before bed if the online will co-operate.

Working through 50 Cent BoS for the playthrough. Also squeezed in a little Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance with Mrs. Grayghost last night.

Mainly though I'm still pumping away at Persona Q. I'm pushing 30 hours now, and I keep thinking "this is going to get boring" and thinking I might want to take a break. Yet despite the same dungeon crawl throughout, the game has an ingenious network of incentives constantly working their way through each play session. There is always a character, weapon, persona, ability, or map that can be improved. It's a damn good game.

I'm glad to hear that about Persona Q.  I've yet to play a dungeon crawler like PQ or Etrian Odyssey, but I always got the impression that those games would get boring pretty fast.

As for me, I'm nearing the end of Final Fantasy X.  I'm going back now and doing some sidequesting before tackling the endgame, but there's so much side content in this game, I'm not sure how much I want to do.  Part of me wants to do most/all of it, but another part of me wants to hurry up and finish the game and move on to something else.

Project X Zone has been relegated to a game that I play when I have some downtime at work.  It's a fun game, but the battles just drag on and on.... Fortunately it's very easy to pick it up and play for a few minutes and then quicksave and come back to it later.

Also playing a little Smash Bros. here and there on the Wii U.

I have a buddy who is a tremendous Persona series fan, and he is thoroughly unimpressed with Persona Q thus far

Too bad for him. I suppose perhaps he didn't realize it's really and Etrian Odyssey game and not a traditional Persona game?

Hell yea! in 4.5 hours Warface is getting a 4x multiplier until server closure.

I got to around 105k XP needed for completion today.
If i ONLY idle boost the game in a private lobby i could still finish before server shutdown now :D

Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX (WP) - Such an addictive game.

Cleared the first "world" in Bad Piggies. 3 stars on all dem contraptions!

Warface - Last i checked the XP multiplier still hadn't been activated for Co-op but was on in Versus.

Zoo Tycoon Friends - Started plugging away in this grindfest.

Game Room: Pitfall! (WP) - This appears to be one of the best Atari 2600 games from back in the day.

Focus on Warface man - ZTF will be there when that's closed, and you're looking at 2 months grind overall. Although, you really only need to check in ~4 times per day for the concessions, you can accelerate things quicker by checking in every 45 minutes to collect from the animals. If you wait and they get hungry, their contribution winds down to 1 coin.

Actually i had it open on my PC while playing Warface lol

Is ZTF still region specific? I changed my PC region and can't get it to load again.
But i also noticed i haven't been able to launch the game on 2 consecutive days since i got to a challenge that required signing in for 2 days in a row.

I downloaded ZTF in US and stayed in US, so I can't really comment on that. I do know, however, that TNTJudbud had problems when he moved from T&T to US with it.

Eh swapped back to Trinidad and even tried rebooting.

It just won't let me connect. I suppose the only thing i can try is next time i load it up leave it on for 48 hours straight. Boy will that suck...

Got SUPER lucky and ended up with a really good group of randoms in Warface.
In ~3 hours i earned as much XP as i did in the last 3 days :D

The 4x multiplier sounds good.
But then when i actually SEE the payouts it is just incredible.

Also
Zoo Tycoon Friends
Snap Attack
Tiny Troopers
Bad Piggies
Secrets & Treasures: The Lost Cities

Finally finished the online in Kane and Lynch.

Also more of all the same stuff from the last post.

Finished Tiny Troopers and Secrets and Treasure. Starting Angry Birds Stella. Continuing Zoo Tycoon Friends and Microsoft Bingo.

I actually just got back to the Bingo guys on Twitter.
Its been 2 weeks since i pointed out the glitched achievements.
Original response was that it wasn't officially released yet.

Now it has been properly available for awhile and is still broken.

finished the main story of Pokemon Omega Ruby. besides a few new features it's still the same old pokemon, unless you're really into it you can easily say "played one, played them all." i enjoyed it though and i'm really happy i played it, still a lot of fun.

Yeah... Bingo's not fixed. Same !#*!%* version.

and finished the postgame story of Omega Ruby! that was such a better ending than where the main story left off, glad i kept going with it.

007: Quantum of Solace (360) - Finally playing Golden Gun again after we found a few people also playing.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (360) - Just need 20 5-Star rated matches now.

Finished:
Warface
Tiny Troopers

Playing
Asphalt Overdrive
Secrets and Treasures: The Lost Cities (Ray explain the daily bonus thing)
Zoo Tycoon Friends (when it wants to load)



FAKE EDIT
Hmmm guess i didn't post this before. Played a bit more since writing the above.

Finished:
Red Johnson's Chronicles: One Against All (One of the 5 games i was able to download once Warface was deleted)

Did a first playthru of Slender: The Arrival. Was apparently cheated out of my achievement for completion of Normal and completing it in under 45 mins.

Think i might fire up Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
I've heard nothing but praise.

Daily Bonus:
You receive 1 ball per consecutive day you've played, up to 5 (which will continue to stay at 5 until you reset the streak). Try to shoot it into each bucket for the rewards - you'll want to focus on the center diamond and the treasure chest. The achievement related to it is somewhat glitchy, as is the Daily Bonus itself - it'll reset before 24 hours sometimes (in a good way), and if you collect 5 "different" rewards within a 24 hour period it'll reward you the achievement. I got mine when I was only up to a daily bonus of 4.

Yea i guess cross play made me lose the ones i had saved up :-/

Beat Classic Mode on Level 9 without losing a life!! The rest of these challenges should be a breeze now :)

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Hot damn. Well done.


More
Asphalt: Overdrive
Zoo Tycoon Friends
Secrets and Treasures

Got back into:
World of Tanks - I love that every time this game gets an update it adds something noticeably new and beneficial. The game is constantly improving with more tanks/maps, improved visuals, better menu design, new play elements.For most games it seems updates offer new problems, lame fixes or make things generally worse.

Started:
Angry Birds Stella
NeoGeo Battle Coliseum

EDIT
Started Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
So far it is really good. Short though.

PersonaQ all day every day.

NES Remix part 1 started to get too hard, so I moved on to part 2.

I finally beat another game, Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories. Easy adventure game but it still took me around 18 hours to finish it. I haven't decided yet on what to play next.

I also keep on playing DOTA 2. Such a good game, such fun. I've put in nearly 300 hours into it, I surprised myself when I saw that. It's a good thing I don't really get agitated quickly, because so often you're playing with absolute idiots. Now I'm not the kind of player who "puts the team on his back" and wins despite them, but I do believe I have some idea of what is going on. But some of the people I play with are the kind of players who, after killing the enemy team, don't push and instead go farm the jungle.

Finished Secrets and Treasures.
Loaded up on phone synced everything across and finished it there too ;D

Level 20 in Zoo Tycoon. Wishing i hadn't blown so many diamonds on decorations since i see now there are some hefty price tags on exhibits.

Plugging away on World of Tanks. Think i need about 175k 200k XP to completion. I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand i hope there are more achievements as i have enjoyed playing it. On the other i am afraid they will be crazy 100 hour long grinds again.

Got sidetracked from Valiant Hearts....

EDIT
Was way off on remaining XPs

Dance party in the tower, Destiny servers are back up!

OK so seriously, since the PS4 servers have been down for 3 days, I have put some serious playtime in on my Xbox characters.  Because it's the 360 version, I appreciate the PS4 one so much more now.  So pretty, and the menus load instantly.

180k xp to go in World of Tanks (My second edit was still wrong. I had ~210k XP last post.)

Zoo Tycoon Friends is making good progress too :D

Valiant Hearts again as soon as WoT is done... Or my free premium time expires. Whichever happens first.

My brother has been harassing me to play Borderlands too. So i'll probably be starting that up soon.

EDIT
After playing World of Tanks off and on i managed to get down to ~148k remaining.
I don't plan on putting in any 8+ hour straight play sessions so i don't see myself finishing before the new year. But it will likely be my first completion of 2015.

~105k XP left in World of Tanks.

Transistor (PC) - Loving it so far, supergiant seem to have a knack for creating incredibly atmospheric games. Transistor got this melancholy cyberpunk noir vibe going on.

World of Tanks is done.

Back to Valiant Hearts.
Might even get a second completion before the end of the year ;)


EDIT
Valiant Hearts was great. Highly recommended.
Not sure what to load up next...

Legend of Korra, Child of Light, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood or FarCry Classic

Surprise. PersonaQ. Got over a huge hump in a really pain in the ass dungeon but the boss was a pushover so I'm all high on this game again.

Ended up starting Child of Light last night.

Really want to play that. Hoping for a PS+ or Games with Gold freebie of it.

It MIGHT still be half off.

This and Valiant Hearts were both done by Ubisoft Montpelier so far this is also great.

Watching my son play Minecraft and Luigi's Mansion. It never stops amazing how quickly he learns new things. He started off pretty creative, making trains out of the minecarts, filling them with animals, sending them off with the redstone switches...then he learned about water and how it flows after removing blocks...so he made a waterpark out of water slides...then he learned about TNT...and it has been all destruction ever since. :)

PlayStation Home (PS3) - Finally had my 50th visit today, that wraps that one up :)

Need for Speed: Undercover (WP) - The motion controls aren't bad in this game.

Finished Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Back to Child of Light tomorrow.

Zoo Tycoon Friends is of course also getting play time.

Game Room: Pitfall! (WP) - I want to track Pitfall down in some kind of compilation....I'm sure there are many options across numerous systems to choose from.

Pitfall is in the Activision Anthology, as well as Game Room on 360.

Finished Child of Light.
Ended up having a story related achievement and a side quest both fail to unlock so i had to replay a few hours of the game.

Going to give Retro City Rampage a try. A few people i know have been playing it since it was on sale again recently. Heard nothing but good things so i have high hopes.

EDIT
Retro City Rampage is amazing.
Choose a device (is is available on everything apparently) and buy it if you haven't already.

Roll in the Hole (WP) - I am really hating certain levels in here..

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Finally got my hands on a copy of Puzzle Quest for the DS. I've been stuck on that first boss (Dogun? something like that?) for like 4 days. Can't beat him. However, that led me to download Marvel Puzzle Quest on the ipad, and I've spent a good deal of time on that one as well. Very different game, but also fun.

Finally, been playing a lot of Arkanoid with my girlfriend. She had somehow never played Break Out or its progeny in her life, so she is thoroughly enjoying the simple complexity of the game.

Need for Speed: Undercover (WP) - Finished off the last few races.

Plowed through Retro City Rampage.

I stand by my previous comment.
Everyone should play this game.

It is absolutely stuffed with references and homages for Mario, Sonic, Back to the Future, Contra, Duck Hunt, Game Genie, Punchout, Simpsons, Terminator, Robocop, Bionic Commando, Seinfeld, Frogger, Batman, Evil Dead, Rad Racer(even had an option for "old school" 3D), Smash TV, so much more.

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is way over rated.
The kid is a dick. The start of the game he uses a spell to have his little brother taken and potentially eaten by a demonesque creature. Apparently realizes that might have been a bit overboard and dives through the portal to another realm in an effort to save him.

The controls feel floaty.
The puzzle aspects are neat sometimes.
The trial and error frantic run for your life sequences that include puzzle elements are neat no times.

007: Quantum of Solace (360) - Playing more online at the neighbours house.

I hate that I had to do it, but after 66+ hours of PersonaQ I decided to dial the difficulty down from medium to easy. The last ten hours or so have been such a tedious pain in the ass that I just want to race to the finish line.

I still would say it's an amazing game and that perhaps I simply cannot hack it when it comes to the later puzzles. I've enjoyed my time with it thoroughly, I just have a bajillion other things to play.

Don't feel bad, I did the same thing with Bravely Default.

As for me, I finally finished up Final Fantasy X HD last night.  I originally wanted to go for the platinum trophy in that game, but filling up the sphere grid for every character is more of a tedious timesink than I'm willing to endure.  I exploited a trick in the game to quickly get 99 sphere levels in one battle, and those 99 levels didn't even make a dent on the overall sphere grid, so I'm out.  On the bright side, I was so ridiculously overpowered by the end of the game that I killed the final boss in one hit.  Being so powerful made the final boss fights kind of disappointing, but after pumping dozens of hours into this game, I was just ready to be done with it.

Now I need a good action game after playing nothing but JRPGs for the past month, so I'm going to start up Watch Dogs soon.  I also need to put some time into the community playthrough games this month (I've hardly touched either one), and I'm still putting some time into Project X Zone here and there.

Cut the Rope: Experiments (WP) - I am still waiting for the 3DS compilation to drop under the $15 dollar mark..

Should finish Max: The Curse of Brotherhood tomorrow.
If i liked it more i would have finished today or maybe even yesterday...

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - The online seems to be down now.

Game Room: Pitfall! (WP) - Finished this up at work tonight.

Finished Max: The Curse of Brotherhood yesterday.

Going to start Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare. Not sure if i will stick with it but i do want to at least give it a shot.

EDIT
Need another 1.5ish GB for PvZ patch.

So i'll probably try and knock out MX vs ATV: Alive next.

Cut the Rope: Experiments (WP) - Wrapped this up at work tonight.

Loaded up MX vs. ATV: Alive but turns out there is an achievement for beating a higher level racer so i want to knock that out before i start playing it.

Was looking for something co-opish the so started
Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
Turns out it is two (coin op)arcade games in one. I was unawares until starting it.

Played through each a couple times and will be working on finishing it up today.

Hung out with my brother last night and made a little progress in Kane and Lynch. Then we kept getting the shit kicked out of us by a helicopter/bazillion enemy section with no checkpoint.

After an hour or 2 of that we swapped over to MvC3. He mopped the floor with me pretty handily since he has a few hundred hours playtime over the last year or 2. But with luck and him using only random teams i was able to get a couple wins with Hulk, Dante and a random 3rd.

Him using random teams still ended up with me getting some pretty awful beat downs. But it was still a ton of fun.

Finally at the final boss (and near the 75 hour mark) of Persona Q. Trying to decide if I should go in and roll the credits or do more side stuff and shoot for whatever the "best" ending is. I really loved this game, so even though I feel like I'm so ready for it to be over, I know I'll be a little sad when it is.

007: Quantum of Solace (360) - More Team Conflict.

I started playing Watch Dogs some time last week.  I didn't really like the game at first, but it's starting to grow on me.  The driving mechanics are kinda wonky though.  All of the cars feel way too 'slippery'.

Week #2: The Italian Job for PC.  Italian Job for PSX was pretty good, so this one should be, right?

Rayman Origins (360) - The artwork in this game is fantastic, I still find myself stopping and looking around in some levels just to admire the view.

Since i forgot my thumbdrive with MX vs ATV alive at my brothers i've had to move on to other stuff.

MvC Origins a little bit. Wasn't making great progress towards what i wanted and set it to the wayside AGAIN but this time it was to get back to...

D&D: Chronicles of Mystara. I have already finished it but i helped my co-op buddy through one of the campaigns. Hopefully tonight we can go back through the other one and work on some of the collectable pick ups he needs.

Started Realms of Ancient War for some hack and slashy goodness before bed. Supposed to be a pretty long winded game since you need to play through with 3 characters.

And of course Zoo Tycoon Friends.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (PS4) - Thanks for the free game EA! This game is fantastic!

I tried speed-running RE4, this is a "don't stop to pick anything up unless it's health I need" run with the special weapons and Ashley's armor:

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Been thinking about maybe tracking down a copy of FarCry 4 on PS4. Never played a FarCry game.

I've only played Blood Dragon.
I was thinking about firing up FarCry Classic the other night but opted to do so in the near future instead.


On the games played front:
More Realms of Ancient War and Mystara.

Roll in the Hole (WP) - Nearing the end of the levels.

I've come to the heartbreaking realization that I'm not going to finish Persona Q. After 75 hours, I thought the fourth dungeon was the final one, and that the fifth dungeon was just the final boss. Not only is the fifth dungeon yet another full blown dungeon, but it is at least nine floors, where all the others thus far have been four floors. No thanks.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - I love playing as a heel.

Was given a code of SteamWorld Dig for 3DS.
It is apparently on a butt load of platforms and from my cursory playthru seems extremely promising.

Reminds me of Motherload (which is like a hybridized DigDug)

If you can at least demo it i suggest you do :)
Seems very kid friendly too. Will find out when my son gets home since i got it for him :D


For me though
More Realms of Ancient War, Zoo Tycoon and i started one of the new Monopoly games yesterday. Just a random luck achievement left that i really should have just finished by now....

Game Room: Lunar Lander (WP) - I feel like I've landed enough shuttles, I'm ready to be an astronaut now.

Roll in the Hole (WP) - Wrapped up the last of the levels today.

Finished Monopoly Plus.

Back to Realms of Ancient War. Finished the Warrior playthru. Doing Rogue now. Probably the worst class. Weak ranged weak close. Warrior is strong close no ranged. Wizard is strong ranged.

But since i got as much done as possible with the Warrior i am hoping i can speed run Rogue outside of the one achievement she is required for and then do a full speed run with the Wizard.

Might run through Monopoly Deal tonight too.

After fighting with 2 different NES systems and a Genesis last night, I finally broke down and ordered a Retron 5. Excited to get it. Will finally be able to get into grabbing some imports (plus be able to play my games without having to take 15 mins to tinker with a system every time)

Did start and finish Monopoly Deal.
Also more D&D: Mystara
ALMOST got roped into helping someone with Chivalry again too. But i got boosting buddy to do it instead since he still had the game on his system.

Was going to try and clear a stage in Realms of Ancient war but i am dead tired. So likely will not.

Rayman Origins (360) - Still remember where most things are in most of the levels.

Broke the halfway point on Realms of Ancient War playthru 2.

Rouge class is so much suck. Warrior was a cake walk and Rogue i find myself kiting and still regularly swarmed and hammering down potions in an effort to stay alive.

Wizard will hopefully be a bit better since his magic/long range is supposed to be on par with warriors melee/close range. Hopefully...

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After years and years and many, many people telling me I needed to play this game, I finally popped it in.

The only other Bethesda game I've ever played is Oblivion. I liked it a lot, but at times I found it to be a little too open ended. I'm having kind of the same problem with Fallout 3 so far, but I had someone give me some pointers over the weekend so I'm going to try some different tactics going forward. I will say one thing I love is that the NPC character models are slightly less hideous than the ones in Oblivion.

Also,

[img width=480 height=360]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pFlcqWQVVuU/0.jpg[/img]

I have a Nintendo 64 hooked up in my house for the first time in years as of yesterday, so I had some buddies over and we had a multiplayer jam yesterday afternoon. I have almost every good game for the system, and it's a wonder I don't play it more often, but now I can make up for lost time. We played: Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Ridge Racer 64, Mario Tennis, Mario Party 2 and a bunch of other stuff I can't even remember now. Forgot how good the system is for that good ol' local co-op!

One of the issues I have with N64 though is the same I have with the Dreamcast, which is that I look at it as a console whose games are more arcadey and meant to played in single sittings, rather than something that is long that you can save and come back to and play over weeks and months. I have always wanted to play the original Paper Mario so when I have time I'll probably start with that.

I can vouch for the awesomeness of Paper Mario.  I bought it last year and have been working on it off and on for several months now, and am working on either the 3rd of 4th chapter at this point.  I'm not playing it through from start to finish in one big chunk, because the battle system is super repetitive, and the battle music tends to grate after you've heard it about a zillion times.  Otherwise, it's a fun game, and in somewhat short bursts, quite enjoyable.

I myself am working on Bayonetta.  My wife got me Bayonetta 2 for Christmas, and having never played the original, I'm working on that first before launching into the new game.  HOLY COW is it hard, especially the challenge stages in Alfheim.  The stage where you have to beat all the enemies in a certain time limit is brutal, and yesterday, I took on the challenge stage where you can only attack and defeat enemies using one of the "Wicked Weave" attacks.  So your standard attacks don't work, and you have 3 minutes and 40 seconds to defeat 4 separate waves of enemies.  The enemies themselves are easy enough to take out, as long as you space yourself far enough from them to execute the normal attacks that build to make the weave attack.  The last wave, however, has a hard boss fight, and the boss (who you fight earlier in the game) takes a LOT of damage and you have to whittle him down a little at a time.  Not an easy chore, especially when his wave has lots of other enemies, and by the time you finally clear the rest out, you're lucky if you have more than 45 seconds to do all the necessary damage to him to take him down before the timer runs out.  I spent 2 and a half hours yesterday afternoon playing ONLY that stage, and probably fought through it 2 dozen or so times before I FINALLY executed enough attacks successfully and quickly enough to get just that final boss in my sights with about 50 seconds left.  I think I had somewhere between 5 and 8 seconds left when I finally beat it.  And that's after having unlocked that challenge the previous day when I played, and spending at least 30 minutes on it before having to put my game pad back on the charger.

Anyone else played (or playing) Bayonetta?  Have any of you who have slogged through it before had that much trouble with it?  I can't imagine earning Pure Platinum medals in some areas.  I've only managed to score 2 or 3 the entire game.  I usually end up taking so much damage during boss fights, OR dying so many times that I exceed the 5 continues it tallies, that my medals earned in the separate verses amount to nothing, and I end up getting the Stone Trophy for each chapter.  I did reasonably well in The Wonderful 101, earning a bronze trophy in at least a third of the areas, the consolation prize for most, and a handful of silver and gold medals.  But Bayonetta is kicking my butt big time.  My biggest problem is the Witch Time mechanic.  Even after purchasing the "bats" ability, which gives you the ability to activate Witch Time sometimes if you've been hit, I still have a hard time with the timing of my evades.  ESPECIALLY with the bosses and enemies that move really fast.  It seems like I either misread the cues, or I just don't execute fast enough.  Or other times, I jump the gun and evade too quickly, which is, of course, when the boss decides to do a combo attack, and my attempt to evade ends up in me taking damage because attacks 2 and 3 connect and I get wailed on.

i'll 2nd Paper Mario, it's a lot of fun and definitely not super short, it took me around 30 or 35 hours to finish.

if you're ok with collectathons, Jet Force Gemini is really good too, though the controls can be awkward. most of Rare's adventure games can be medium length games, but they're all collectathons so play them in moderation.

another long RPG is Ogre Battle 64 if you have or can find a copy, i don't have any experience with it but it might be worth dabbling in.

the biggest multiplayer game that you left out is Gauntlet Legends, that's great with 4 players but even 2 is pretty good.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - Still taking Edge through his strides.

Finished playthru 2.

Started playthru 3. Going to see how much i can get away with rushing from point to point. Would be awesome if i could be done with this tomorrow night.

Played a lot of X1 games this weekend:

The Crew: Driving around is fun, but the story is terrible. I'm trying to decide if I want to put more time in to this one.

Farcry 4: Playing through this game a second time and it is still lots of fun but I'm noticing how quickly you can become overpowering.

Sunset Overdrive: I want to like this game but I find myself bored with it. I'll keep trying.

Dragon Age Inquisition: Finally finished at over 100 hours in. Great game.

Halo Master Chief Collection: It's Halo 1-4. Not much more to say but it's still fun.

Forza Horizon 2: One of the best looking games I have seen. I might play this over The Crew.

Alien Isolation: Just started. I love the atmosphere.

Game Room: Lunar Lander (WP) - Working on this while out and about today.

Starting EA Sports Active 2 again.
My last achievement:
Run 1000km/621.4 mi. in Fitness Trail

I've probably already met the requirements from when i was playing before. But it was discovered the game only stores X number of sessions. So i have as much as 70+ hours of running ahead of me.

Going to try and play SnapAttack or Bejeweled on the phone while running since each of those have 50-100 hours left in them too.


EDIT
Maybe finish R.A.W. in a couple more days. Only cleared 2 stages before passing out last night. Was hoping to knock out 5+

Game Room: Lunar Lander (WP) - Ended up finishing this off late last night.

Got 2 hours of running in today.
I ended up deleting my old save since apparently every single person who has the achievement has had to create a new save to obtain it.
So yesterdays hour was a wash.

I ended up getting through much more of Realms of Ancient War last night than i had anticipated. I guess not being able to sleep helped with that... So i will likely finish tonight :D

On to new things!... Hopefully.


EDIT
Finished R.A.W.
Went back to something old instead. Pinball FX got the last 2 "easy" achievements. Al i have left now is the 3 tournaments.

Now a little Pac-Attack before bed.

Rayman Origins (360) - Almost halfway through the game now.

Got 3 hours of running in EA Active 2.

Also put up about 80k points in SnapAttack during those runs.
Only ~1.4 million more to go!!!  :'(

Going to play some Millipede before bed. Still going for that 125k every now and then.
Wish me luck.

Kingdom Hearts 2.5 (PS3) - Started playing so I'm ready for KH3.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - Finished Edge's Road to WrestleMania storyline.

"Aha! I Found It!" Hidden Object Game (WiiWare) - Playing with my daughter.

Rayman Origins (360) - Not really looking forward to fighting the livid boss again...

Finished Centipede/Millipede!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT


EDIT
Also finished up Comix Zone.
Not as excited about that one but always glad to add another to the pile. Especially one i started so long ago.

Centipede was started in 2010 Comix Zone a few months later in 2011.

Also at 565 (maxed achievements) completions!

Must have put about six hours into Fallout 3 yesterday. Finally got over that initial "Bethesda Hump" and am feeling like I'm on a good track in the game. I'm enjoying this way more than Oblivion. I love Three Dog and all the other stuff that adds context to the fiction. Immersion, baby!

I also had to get over that 'hump' before I really started to enjoy Fallout 3.  For me it wasn't until shortly after I left Megaton for the first time that I really got into it.  Great game once you find your groove with it.

Pretty much having the same experience with Watch Dogs.  I really wasn't feeling this game at first, so that combined with a few frustrating missions almost made me put the game back on the shelf.  But I stuck with it and am enjoying it much more now.  I'm still just going straight from one story mission to another just to finish the campaign, which is odd behavior for me since I usually do a lot of the side content in open world games.

I'm probably going to start up Link Between Worlds soon since I just finished A Link to the Past.  I also want to start up one of those SNES repros I just picked up, but I'm not sure which one yet Bahamut Lagoon.

I feel like I am in a gaming rut. I've been playing more Civilization Revolution and Risk: Factions.

I've been playing a lot of Hyperstone Heist on the Genesis for the last week. I have made it to the boss gauntlet but am having trouble beating Tatsu in that part due to low remaining life and being unable to figure out his pattern. I hope to beat it this week.

I will also be starting A Link to the Past for the community playthrough this week. I hope to finally play this game through to the end.

Looks like my job might end up being closed tomorrow for the snowpocolypse. If that happens I predict I will be playing Fallout 3 and Link to the Past from the time I get home tonight until my eyes start bleeding. What a great pair of games to be into for a snow day!

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - "Link" is now the World Heavyweight Champion :P

Finished Garou: Mark of the Wolves.
Ended up being much easier than i initially thought it would.

Spam FTW

Aabs Animals (PS3/PSN) - My daughter thought there was a real kitty trapped in the TV lol.

Neo Geo Battle Coliseum falls tomorrow.

Unless i continue to not be able to sleep.... Then it will fall tonight and i will feel like death by tomorrow afternoon.

Rayman Origins (360) - So close to the Land of the Livid Dead.

Zoo Tycoon Friends until complete or closure at end of April... WHY DIDN'T I DOWNLOAD THE WIN8.1 CLIENT?!

As predicted I played a ton of Fallout 3 yesterday. It sucked that we had to burn a sick day and barely got any snow. I wish they'd have done a delayed opening or something. In any event, I find myself now nicely in between the second to last and last main story missions. I'm only like 22 hours in and still really enjoying the game so I'm going to go explore and hit up the DLCs before I end the campaign.

I'm also playing Link to the Past here and there, but when I'm at home I want to play Fallout.

Dunno. 8.1 was a free update (i think it still is.) and Win7 owners were able to get Win8 for something like 30-40$s maybe less...


Finished Neo Geo Battle Coliseum

Got in 2 more hours of running in EA Sports Active 2. Might try and get a 3rd.
Also played SnapAttack until my battery died while running

Zoo Tycoon Friends all day erryday.

Not sure what will be next on the chopping block for this evening. I might start Guardians of Middle-Earth since i have enough space to download the patches for it now.

I meant the Zoo Tycoon Friends version for Windows 8.1.

Started Grim Fandango Remastered (not that remastered by the way).

Road to Rubacava right now.

Kept on my fighter kick.

Yie Ar Kung Fu

Managed to beat Tonfa and Blues.
I have not managed to get a no death clear though. Which is unfortunate since the first game i beat Tonfa on my first try and the second i beat Blues on my first try... after having died on Tonfa.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - Working on Submission matches.

More running in EA Active 2
More wording in SnapAttack
More kicking in Yie Ar Kung Fu

One of those things will likely not get played again for a long time.
Hint it is the one you probably don't know how to pronounce.

Also gave Iron Frog a shot in Zuma 2.
Failed.

Still playing Watch Dogs and just finished Act 3.  I have a strong love/hate relationship with this game.  Sometimes this game gives me a mission or two that I absolutely hate and almost makes me quit the game for good, and then it redeems itself by giving me one or two awesome missions that I have a blast playing through.

Pretty sure I'm gonna start A Link Between Worlds soon since I feel like I blew through LttP too fast to really get my Zelda fix.  I also want to start .hack Mutation soon.  I played Infection about 1.5 years ago and really enjoyed it, and have been meaning to get back to this series for a while now.

Too bad a360p is no longer around. I wrote an in-depth Achievement Guide on that game, which included ways to beat all of the enemies with consistent patterns.

Aabs Animals (Vita/PSN) - Keeps my daughter occupied while I clean, and she earns me Trophies for doing nothing lol.

All of them are a cake walk except Tonfun and Blues.

They are both more erratic with their movements.
Sometimes they will run over to where you jump. Sometimes they will saunter over.
Sometimes they will hit you once.
Sometimes they will hit you 6 times in rapid succession.


It only takes like 10 minutes to play through it so might might keep at it.

More running.
More Snap Attack-ing
More Zoo Tycoon Friends-ing

And new to the mix:
Dead Island (JP)

Rayman Origins (360) - Finally beat the boss!

Fallout 3 all the live long day. This is absolutely the perfect winter game, to waste away these 10 degree Saturday afternoons where there ain't a chance in hell of me setting foot outside.

Since I put the brakes on the main story because I'm at the end of it, I'm working on side stuff and the DLC's. I tried the Alien DLC and the game froze. I tried another one (where you start on the riverboat) and I didn't have enough frigging money to ride the boat. Come on.

Anyway I ended up doing the "Chinese are invading Alaska" one and it was HELLA FUN. This game rules.

You know what else is the perfect winter game? Virtua Cop with the Stunner!

Made a ton of Dead Island JP progress.
Heading into the jungle. (All areas fully explored and side missions done so far.)
Got all the Blood Bath Arena DLC done.

And Zoo Tycoon Friends.
Should wake up with enough money to start construction of my pizza place

Building my Koala Exhibit in ZTF. Should be complete around 10pm Monday (52 hours total).

Played some Microsoft Bingo on the phone along with Angry Birds Space. Me and my son built an underground house in Minecraft with hidden escape tunnels and traps. Playing Super Mario 3D World to complete the all-nighter while getting ready to head out early to hunt amiibos.

^^^
Do me a favor harass MS support to patch MS bingo to fix A Few Souvenirs and Mementos achievements.

WP version has been broken since soft launch and they seem to keep ignoring anyone who brings it up. Hopefully more voices means they will start listening.
45 hours on this Pizza Pizazz BS
By the time it is done i should be 3/4 of the way towards my African Buffalo though. (Hmm might be stretching this a bit....)

Just for hahas (i'll be out of the house most of today) as of now i have 5, 048 coins 932 diamonds.
See where i end up.

Trivia Crack. 'Nuff Said.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - Finally done with submission matches.

Hell yeah, every time they post something on Facebook, I jump on their case about fixing those. They even replied a couple times saying it was in the works, and I just quote that post and ask for more details. ha ha

Been working on Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep for a long while now, and just yesterday, I finally completed the story for Ventus. One down, two more to go. I ought to have this game finished by March or April at the latest.

If I could afford the Buffalo, I'd be done with ZTF next week.

~10 hours of decoration clicking later
just finished collecting the long over due payouts, feeding, preemptive strike on healing ended up with:

145,456 coins 952 diamonds
I'll manage to clear 200k and probably 1k before i fall asleep.


Now onto Ridge Racer Unbounded!

I just started A Link Between Worlds over the weekend, and as expected, it is awesome!  I can't believe it took me this long to finally start playing it.

I also started Lords of the Fallen, and it seems kinda 'meh' so far.  I've only put about an hour or so into it, so hopefully I'll get more into as it goes on.

Also went ahead and started up .hack//Mutation since I've been meaning to do that for a while now.  I only put about half an hour into it so far, but it's gonna take a little time for me to get used to the .hack mechanics again.

And I finished Watch Dogs.  Ok game, but as we all know by now, it didn't live up to the hype.  I mentioned before that I had a love/hate relationship with this game, and that's a sentiment that held throughout the entire experience.  I almost put this game back on the shelf several times due to some annoyingly frustrating missions, but would push through and be greeted with an awesome mission that made me want to keep playing.  Overall, I'd say it's worth playing, but I have very conflicted feelings over this game.

Another miserable snow day here in the wasteland. Just what I want to burn vacation time on.

Well, I just played Fallout 3 for damn near six straight hours. I'm sure there will be more to come today, but I had to take a break.

"Aha! I Got It!" Escape Game (WiiWare) - Only two rooms to explore.

I received my Xbox One (I know it's not mine, this one is in terrible condition) from the Microsoft repair center today. I'm hoping to boot it up and play some Sunset Overdrive again.

~875k coins 1154 diamonds
44% of the way through Ridge Racer Unbounded

Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox) - I'm going to beat this game finally.

~...0k.
I CAN'T @#$@ LOG IN.

After knocking out Bayonetta 2, I went back and started inFAMOUS 2.  I bought the inFAMOUS collection when I first got my PS3 in January 2013, and the original was the first PS3 game I really played through, and I loved it.  I decided to work on other games after that, and come back to inFAMOUS 2 at some point, but never did.  Glad I finally started it, though, because I'm having fun.  I know that Second Son is supposed to be underwhelming with respect to the PS4's capabilities, but if the gameplay is as fun as IF1 or 2, it will be on my short list when I finally get a PS4.  I've collected 3 of the blast cores right now, and have unlocked a handful of cool new powers.  I like the updated Static Thrusters power, where you actually get a bit of a boost when first activating them, really cool stuff and very useful.

After upgrades and purchases i've hit my next time brickwall.

Down from 1.3 mil to 235k
I have about 2 days to recoup the losses.
Hopefully by then i'll have enough to rush me through to the next time barrier.


EDIT
Oh yea at something like 60% in Ridge Racer Unbounded.
Also got 5 sessions of running in EA Active 2 since i've been falling behind.

Poor me, I could only play Fallout 3 for about a half hour last night, but I know what I want to do the next time I can devote a multiple hour chunk to the game.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - Starting on Shawn Michaels Road to WrestleMania.

Getting hung up on "dominating" some of these tracks in Ridge Racer Unbounded.

Borderlands 2 (Vita) - Losing my life to this form of crack. Handsome Jack is easily one of my favourite villains ever now.

Got my car. Dominated the final city sector.
I skipped ahead though so i have to go back and dominate Tower Heights and City Center. Only 13 tracks left!

And i can't connect in Zoo Tycoon Friends now :-/

EDIT
Batteries died while working on my final race.
Guess i'll get it done tomorrow after EA Active 2

Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox) - So this Halo thing is a machine? Weird..

Finished Unbounded like a boss.

Back to Dead Island JP tomorrow i guess

Cleared three Crota (normal) raids today

First time swordbearing, and I kicked ass as both warlock and hunter!

Also, sooooo close to having a lv32 hunter.

WWE SmakDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - Finished Shawn Michaels storyline.

Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't wanna leave the Congo oh no no no no no.

Just wait for New Vegas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPArO-OI_3U

Annihilated Dead Island JP.

Hilarious glitch discovered while driving by explosives.(That i blew up...)
We were ejected a few car lengths back the truck was moved several forward and when we got back in it was floating. Then started to rotate, then the hood started to go under ground and the bed floated up.
This lead to the death of our pick up truck (and its driver). Which neither of us knew was possible.

It also broke my game. Every time we loaded to a new section his system would freeze up and he would have to reboot.

Sounds awesome! It'll likely be a long time before I jump into New Vegas. I'm way more likely to bounce back to the Elder Scrolls, as I haven't played Skyrim yet, then go back to Fallout.

You might like these Fallout comics.

Always happens at least once.
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Every time I need to go 'shopping' at the Super Duper Mart.
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New Vegas players will like the Awkward Zombie ones.
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#killallzombies (PS4/PSN) - Having trouble unlocking the final weapons, can't seem to get through many levels.

More Microsoft Bingo on the Phone. Really annoyed with the glitch, but I am not the only one. Hopefully it will patch by the time I hit level 40-whatever and unlock the last destination in order to get the longest achievement.

More Minecraft for my son.

Some Left for Dead 2 for me with my little bro.

Also been playing Charlie murder with my other little bro. Charlie murder is awesome if you haven't played it. Combo attacks are OP and awesome to use. ha ha

Still sitting at Level 16 myself for Bingo... I did mention it to Helen Casper directly though.

+1 Thanks for sharing!

I finished A Link Between Worlds late last week, and it was really good.  A worthy successor to LttP.

I'm probably gonna put Lords of the Fallen back on the shelf for now.  I haven't played it since my first hour or so that I spent with it a week or so ago, but I'm really not feeling it right now.

So I've been playing .hack Mutation for the past few days, and I really like it.  It's pretty much exactly the same as Infection (it's my understanding that these games don't evolve much, if at all, throughout the entire series), just a continuation of the story.

Halo 2 (Xbox) - Well here is hoping that the story is better then the first game.

Finished everything in Dead Island JP except the 4 player co-op and play with 10 different people for 15 minutes (i have 5 left for that one)

Got a bit done in MX vs ATV Alive.
Also working on Asphalt 7 since Zoo Tycoon still isn't loading for me.

I finished the first three when they were newly released. There really are no differences in game play mechanics from one to the next. The only real difference is that the monsters get a little tougher, and you can get more weapons/armor. I enjoyed the series for what it was, and it was a pretty interesting story concept.

Angry Birds Space today. So far my favorite one of the series. Not a fan of the 500,000 blocks broken cheevo, but I love the physics of the game and having to not only plan for the arc, but for different gravity strengths, water buoyancy, and geysers along the shot too.

Bobblehead hunting in Fallout 3. Don't have a ton of time to play lately so getting one each night is a really good pace. I believe I have five left.

And yes, I got the one in Vault 101 before it closed, by a pure stroke of luck for sure, but I got it.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - Working on random Trophies.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (GBA) - Testing this out on my new Game Boy Player!

Halo 2 (Xbox) - Story is much better this time around. I am liking the sections with the alien more then Chief...

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - I hate Championship Scramble...

Kingdom Hearts Final Mix

[img width=700 height=393]http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h32/grayghost81/IMG_20150214_062443_420_zpsaf92d8b4.jpg[/img] (http://s60.photobucket.com/user/grayghost81/media/IMG_20150214_062443_420_zpsaf92d8b4.jpg.html)

still taking a break from gaming for the most part but the other day i decided to play some Pokemon Puzzle League. for those who don't know this is basically a re-skinned Tetris Attack. even though it's nothing like tetris i really enjoy these games.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (GBA) - My daughter doesn't like it when I kill animals in the game.

Ahhh. Brings back memories :)

Forza Motorsport (Xbox) - I feel like I'm driving on glass.

Looked at a guide and now I know I have exactly one story mission left in Fallout 3. As of quitting for the night last night I'm just about to crack the seventy hour mark. I tried to do The Pitt DLC but actually all the reports of the terrible technical performance and damn near unplayability of that add-on were accurate, so I motored through the main storyline in a way that I didn't even end up completing it I think, and hightailing it out of there. Shame too, I could see it being really good and it certainly had its own flavor.

So now I just have the Out of this World DLC, which is probably the next thing I'm going to do, then the final main campaign mission, then the Broken Steel DLC.

So it seems like I've been on a big Zelda kick lately that started with the Link to the Past community playthrough and following that up with A Link Between Worlds.  Over the weekend, I started up Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for the NES and am loving it.  I know this game is known as the black sheep of the series for being different than all the others, but if you judge this game on its own merits for what it is, it's a great game.  I haven't consulted a walkthrough once so far, and while it does take much longer to figure out what to do sometimes, it makes it that much more satisfying.

I'm also still playing .hack Mutation, but I hit a little bit of a wall in that game which has caused me to take a short break from it.  I basically just need to kill lots of enemies to find some virus cores that I need for the game's Gate Hacking mechanic, which may or may not take a considerable amount of time, but I just haven't felt like doing it right now.

I also started up Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc on the Vita, but I'm not very far into it yet.  The story starts out interesting enough, but lots of dialogue means that I can only play for so long before needing to switch gears.  I think the game will hold my attention more once I start getting to the more interesting stuff (the trials).

I've been wanting to try those .Hack games forever. Perhaps the next time I go the JRPG route I'll start that series.

I agree Zelda II isn't nearly as bad as the general opinion makes it out to be, I really enjoyed it when I went through it.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - I like the Triple H segments more then the John Cena moments...

Getting serious with my pledge to actually play and beat some games this year.

Picross 3D - Getting close to the finish, just a few dozen puzzles left out of the hundreds in the game.

Smash Bros. Wii U - More online play. Killing it with Little Mac.

Charlie Murder with my little bro. Played though it once already and are now working on the Chaos and Total Anarchy playthroughs while trying to farm all of the relics.

Wrapped up 999 in the nick of time today, to offer my services as guest, on the Monthly Playcast. Now I am tempted to start Batman a bit early, but part of me thinks I should jump into Farcry 4, so I can listen to the new spoilercast.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (PS3) - Almost done with this.

I just finished playing through Spider-Man on the PS1 in "What If?" mode. Probably the fastest I've ever completed it. :P
Seems it took around 4 hours (Including messing about remembering how to get into one particular room that's not necessary for progression).

SSB4: leveled up my newest amiibos and am starting to fill the challenges board. The top three rows are going to stay incomplete though, I am good, but not THAT good. ha ha

Picross 3D: Starting to get a little more difficult. Love the control scheme in this game though. This series has come a long way since Picross on the GB.

Snap Attack (WP8) : Playing the hell out of it to get into the top 250 on the top players leaderboard for the biggest cheevo. I was going to call it good after that, but I am raking in 2-3,000 points a match, which is making me want to go ahead and complete it.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker: This game is hitting all of the right buttons for me. I am having a great time with it, and my wife and son love watching and taking turns.

Jade Empire (Xbox) - This seems really good so far!

Just started another Mass Effect 2 play thru. I'm about 6 hours in and really enjoying it. It's been a few years since I've beat the game and I still really enjoy it. I have jade empire but have not have a chance to play it yet. I'm thinking of starting jade empire next.

I finished Zelda II a couple of days ago.  Great game, it's a shame it gets as much flak as it does.

So it looks like 2015 is going to be the Year of Zelda for me, as I think I'm going to keep the Zelda train rolling and work through as many of the games as I can before I get burnt out on it.  I played a few minutes of both Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time 3D, and I'm not sure which one I want to go with yet.

I personally think Zelda II is better than Majora's Mask.

Didn't have any time for Fallout 3 last night. The horror!

Though I was hoping to finish LttP this week so I'd have played it exclusively at work, I'm not sure if I can make that happen, as I had a rough time finding Turtle Rock yesterday afternoon. I think I know where I was getting lost now.

Jade Empire (Xbox) - About halfway through. Still pretty good so far.

Jade Empire (Xbox) - Near the end now

SSB4: Getting more of it completed. I love getting advanced moves unlocked for amiibo that I do not have yet. I think I have Dunk Hunt filled out with all 8 specials, but cannot be sure.

Fable (Xbox) - Should I be evil?

I think I'm finally just about ready to wrap up Fallout 3. I cracked the eighty hour mark last night. I'm a few hundred exp away from the second level cap (I would have hit it last night but the game crashed so I just turned it off for the night). I already finished the main story, every side mission except one, and am now just trying to milk the fifth (and for me, final) DLC for everything it is worth.

It's been a long time since I played a game like this. A game where I was so entrenched, obsessed, and consumed by it for months on end. Thinking about it constantly when I wasn't playing it. Reading guides and wikis and watching youtube videos about it constantly. Listening to the soundtrack at work and in my car. These kinds of games only come along every few years for me. The last one I can remember was Persona 3, which I played two years ago, similarly over what seemed like a harsh winter. Maybe that's the key. My wife made a comment along the lines of "damn, you really like this game huh?" and my response was that this game is kind of carrying me through the winter. I couldn't have chosen a better title to lose myself in and escape the misery of constant sub freezing temperatures and the fact that sunlight has not touched my skin in about five months. Yeah I'm very late to the party on the game, and I've had no less than five of my friends, who all call this game their favorite of all time, trying to get me to play it for years, but I know I couldn't have picked a better time to play it than now.

Over on the handheld side, since I finished Link to the Past on Saturday, I wanted to play a PSP game since I was really high on the system last year as far as acquiring games for it, but haven't played any of them. I decided to go with Sweet Fuse: At Your Side because I wanted something light and I've never really played a visual novel before. So far I like it. Nothing but reading as of yet but that's good enough for me. It's rather relaxing.

I understand completely Grayghost. Fallout 3 was easily my favorite from the last generation (7th) of game consoles. When I first played it, I too would randomly break out into song: "Bongo, bongo, bongo I dont want to leave the congo, oh no, no, no, no ,no!" My most anticipated game on PS4 will be Fallout 4.

I played through the entirety of The Order: 1886 over the weekend.  Sure, it was short, but it was a fun ride while it lasted.  I highly encourage everyone who is interested in this game to pick it up when it hits the bargain bin.

Other than that, I've been playing .hack Mutation, Danganronpa, and Link's Awakening concurrently for the past week or so, but I haven't really felt like playing anything at all since I finished The Order.  Been playing a little bit of Link's Awakening here and there, but not much else.

me, just back from a walk in a cloudless sky in t-shirt/jeans...what's winter?

seriously though, that's really awesome Shawn. I love it when games grab hold of you like that, it happened to me with Final Fantasy XIII a couple years ago, and with The Last of Us too, though not nearly as long an experience there. still waiting on that to happen again.

I really want to play Final Fantasy XIII, to see why so many people hate it, and why others like you and another close buddy of mine adore it.

I imagine we will be seeing that at E3 considering Bethesda is actually doing a conference this year.

I hope they don't screw the lore up anymore.

If they're going to keep going somewhere new I want to see what's going on around the Great Lakes. The Midwest Brotherhood should be strong around there, but so should tribals. There might even be slimy Québécois trying to migrate southwest.

Been awhile since my last update... Haven't played much though.

Make It Rain on the phone. Finished it but 2 achievements glitched and are apparently now unobtainable without either doing a factory reset or getting a new phone.
Every single person who has played the game has run into the same issue but with different achievements. Which is stupid. I hate all things Xbox more and more everyday.

Dead Island JP got finished (might have said that in last post.)

Samurai vs Zombies Defense cleared the first 50 waves and a started running through them again. Each one needs to be completed 99x

Space Invaders Infinity Gene tried a couple times for the no continue clear. Really rusty but if i decide to put this into a regular rotation i should be able to get it. I was getting pretty close to doing it way back when.

Started playing Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare over the weekend. I picked it up awhile back but some friends recently grabbed it so i jumped in to play with them and be social after being MIA for a couple weeks.

Fable (Xbox) - Being evil feels good.

More PvZ: Garden Warfare.

Really enjoying it. I'm sure once i have to start grinding hundreds of waves for the treasure yeti i won't be though...

i wouldn't be surprised if most people who hate it stopped playing within the first 10 - 20 hours. the gameplay really is just "press X to win" throughout most of the early game. eventually it requires a lot more fast paced strategy during battles to switch to the right attack mode (paradigm) to fit each situation, and a lot of pre-planning on bosses especially when setting up your party in the menu. i found the gameplay was really mostly about setting up a good team in the menu, and then the battle was more or less automated based on your pre-setup. that's how i liked to look at it, and from that perspective you can get a lot of enjoyment out of it.

you also have to be ok with the game being linear, because it is essentially a hallway through most of the game. i don't think linear is a negative point though, with this game or any other.

Dark Souls... so much Dark Souls...

Been playing, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light. 5 battles in now.

I finished A Link Between Worlds about 5 min ago.  With this and Link to the Past it's been a very Zelda month for me :)

I was able to grab a new 3DS XL over the weekend at my local Toys R Us before they sold out of them. I started collecting some 3DS stuff without having a system and now I get to play.

Mario Kart 7 tonight when I go to bed, SSB4 now. All my amiibo level 50 and most all of the special moves unlocked for most of them. Not a single move for Mario though, which I find humorous. Almost got all of the events done (I don't consider it complete until all special reward conditions are done as well). I have all but three spots filled on the bottom five rows of challenges.

Also got a new Windows phone (Nokia Lumia 635) yesterday and have been playing some of the older WP7 stuff. It lets me download both WP7 games and WP8 games and even knows which games I had digital rights to three phones ago, which is awesome because it means I don't have to do it the long way. Still won't let me buy Castlevania though. :(

Haven't posted in a while. I hate when these forums randomly stop sending me topic updates.

Anyway, aside from lots of WoW, replaying Costume Quest 2, this time on the PS4. If none of you have ever sat down with the Costume Quest games, I highly recommend them.

i think there's a limit on the number of emails the site can send out, for any reason

Just finished playing through Costume Quest 2 last night on XB1. 7 hour playthrough for 100%, but fun.


250 emails/hr, or the server things we're sending out spam.

Noted, thanks.

Fable (Xbox) - Nearing the end now.

I keep meaning to finish Fallout 3 but I guess my heart isn't ready. I keep stalling as I work on finishing the last quest. I'll have to do it tonight I suppose. I need to start playing Batman: Arkham Origins so Engineer Mike will know how far to play the first week!

I think I'm about halfway through my first (and what will probably be my only) playthrough of Sweet Fuse: At Your Side. I like it a lot. The story keeps getting more and more intriguing. It's one of the most interesting games I've played in a while as it is my first visual novel. It is also my first actual Otome game, despite the fact that I'm always claiming to be into "girly" games. Although I play as a female character whenever possible, I never romance male characters, so being in a game where you have to do so is very interesting to me. I didn't know which dude I would find most "attractive" but now I'm gunning for this stud muffin right here:

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I also like the guy from the boy band. I suppose I'm going for the least intimidating guys. I don't know. It's a very interesting thought experiment.

Closing in on the completion of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.

I have mostly enjoyed it thus far.
Treasure Yeti might change my mind

Damn, I can't believe I just woke up and I won't be playing Fallout 3.

More PvZ: Garden Warfare
&
Trivial Pursuit Live!

I did that with a few games I spent months on for a daily grind. It's always awkward.

Borderlands 2 (Vita) - More coop later tonight.

Finished Garden Warfare.

Back into Trivial Pursuit Live!

I finally finished .hack Mutation over the weekend.  I was really into the game up until I hit a snag towards the end that caused me to lose interest, but fortunately I was close enough to the end that I was able to push through it.  Just like when I finished the first game, I'll probably wait a year or two before starting the next game.

I was in the mood to play some random stuff, so I took my Master Games List (a list of almost 2500 games that includes every game I own in both physical and digital format.... yeah, I'm OCD like that), plugged it into Random.org's List Randomizer, and just played whatever game appeared at #1 on the list.  The first game I got was a PC Indie Adventure game called Richard & Alice.  It was interesting, but not really my cup of tea.  Fortunately it was only about 2-3 hours long.  Then I got Strikers 1945 for the PSX, which was a fun schmup.

Other than that, I was in the mood to revisit Xcom: Enemy Unknown, so I played a couple missions of that.  Still playing Danganronpa here and there, and I'm just about to start the first trial.  I'm about halfway through Link's Awakening.  And I just started MediEvil for the retro community playthrough.

Finished
Trivial Pursuit Live!

Started
Elements of Destruction

So far it is a pretty cool game. You control tornadoes, earthquakes and lightening strikes and must destroy things for points.
I'm not very far in but it seems like there is going to be increasingly more strategy involved besides "destroy shit like crazy!" as there are things that attack you and drop your energy reserves as well as "traps" that negate the effects of certain attacks until they are destroyed.

Being playing loads of Fallout: New Vegas  - I'm enjoying it but something about it just leaves me cold, I'm not sure what it is as I loved Fallout 3.

I should probably finish NV, I did a couple sidequest DLCs and the main story once and quit. I have the Ultimate Edition, so I have no excuse not to finish it.

Been playing IonBallEX for an annoying cheevo I couldn't get while I had my first windows phone.

Mario Kart 7

Nearing the end of Super Mario 3D World. They hid a couple of the stars and stamps pretty well, but not well enough to save the game as a whole. Way too easy for my tastes, but fun nonetheless.

Finished the bottom 7 rows on the challenges for SSB4.

Played the first three stages of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the 360 with my son two nights ago. It was an awesome experience, but he is a total pizza hog. ha ha

I feel it's the Mojave. The maze-like landscape of the ruined Washington, D.C. always seemed more interesting to me.

Finished up the "story" mode and got all the gold medals
That unlocked survival. Now i get to do it again. Not care about score and only have to worry about keeping alive and destroying my objectives.

Then i get to do it again in co-op!

Plants vs. Zombies (Vita) - I find more time to play handhelds nowadays with the kids starting to take up more of the television time these days.

Grinding gold in Hearthstone.

Getting to know my 3DS a little better. Activated streetpass, but nothing happened while I was at work or three stores, so bleh.

Face Raiders - This is actually really amusing to shoot my wife in the mouth with a ping pong ball. ha ha

Mario Kart 7 - Reminding me why I love Mario Kart so much.

Pokemon Shuffle - Sucks only being able to play for 10 min. every two hours without paying, but it is actually really fun.

Plants vs. Zombies (Vita) - Finished up Adventure mode, now its time for mini-game madness!

I think that might be it, plus it feels overpopulated compared to the capital wasteland. Anyway still playing Fallout NV but getting a bit bored so I've decided to kill everyone starting with faction leaders so far taken out mr house, Motor-Runner, Caesar, Tabitha and all of the White Glove Society

Finished one playthrough of Sweet Fuse and much like the discussion of 999, it seems you have to play through it a few times to get at least a good ending. I will some day but for now I put it back on the shelf.

Decided to pull out the DS and after much internal deliberation I'm going to start Atelier Annie. After trying twice and failing to complete Totori I had soured a little on the series, which is a shame as I adored Rorona. I've read that Annie is pretty easy and it'll be cool to try a handheld installment in the series. Plus the cutesy style, upbeat music, pastel colors and island resort setting will get me thinking about Spring. It's coming eventually right?

After a little over 2 months I decided to pick up a game with the intention of beating it. I started the first Bioshock for PS3, a series that I've been strongly intending to try out for years. I have the first one on PC and would normally prefer that for an FPS, but I own the 2nd and infinite on PS3 so I thought the transition from PC to PS3 would make the 2nd game feel a bit worse than it actually is. I played up until getting to Neptune's Bounty and really enjoy it so far, it's pretty awesome.

From what I gather this game is heavily influenced by the writing of Ayn Rand and it makes me wish I had read her books first. I have a rough idea of her philosophy and i'm seeing a lot of it in this game. I do own a couple of her books so maybe i'll pick one up after I finish what i'm currently reading, the Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Also I'm so happy that I gave System Shock 2 a chance before trying this series, it really is a spiritual precursor to Bioshock in so many ways.

Anthem - read it.

Apparently I only have The Fountainhead, thought I had Atlas Shrugged as well but I guess not. I want to pick up more by her and Anthem looks short so that would be a good place to start then.

I could send you a copy - my wife picks up Ayn Rand books fairly often just to hand out.

thanks but that's alright, i know i could find it easily locally :) i'm in no rush to read it asap, like i said i have another book on the go.

Alright - I'll put it back on the shelf with the 3 OTHER copies. :P

Ayn Rand is my favorite author, but I have a lot of problems with The Fountainhead. Atlas Shrugged is great but too long to recommend casually. Anthem is cool but very different from her other novels. I think We the Living is very easy to recommend. I loved it, and it isn't too philosophy-heavy. It's just a great story in my opinion.

On a gaming diary kind of note, Atelier Annie is awesome and everything I hoped it would be. I'm playing it at work right now and really stretching my breaks out because I don't want to stop playing.

In a competition to complete a game every day. Last man standing gets 250$

So i sidetracked Elements of Destruction and struggled to find the time during the week but managed to pull through.
Finished:
Day 1: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (previously mentioned)
Day 2: Trivial Pursuit Live (previously mentioned)
Day 3: Dead Island (JP) - This was my only "gimme". All i had to do was launch the game to get the achievement for playing a month after starting.
Day 4: Dream Track Nation - Started and finished it. "Physics based racing" game. In reality it was poorly made, bad level design, terrible physics, terrible controls. But still relatively easy.
Day 5: Make It Rain: The Love of Money - Reobtained my last achievement that glitched on my old phone. Required a little effort. Was hoping to finish Tetris Splash but it didn't pan out :-/
Day 6: Wallace & Gromit 1: Fright of the Bees - Lamesauce point & click. Annoying achievement for not missing a shot in a crappy minigame style sequence. Guide was meh
Day 7: Wallace & Gromit 2: The Last Resort - Lamesauce point & click. Poorly worded guide almost caused me to miss an achievement and replay ~half of the game.

Also worked on
Tetris Splash (already mentioned)
Sega Vintage Collection: Toejam & Earl
SnapAttack

Plants vs. Zombies (Vita) - Finishing off the Almanac.

Put a little more time into ToeJam and Earl.

Also cleared another section in Asphalt: Overdrive.

Started Real Racing 2

Mario Kart 7: Trying desperately to get 3 stars on each GP.

Pokemon Shuffle: Still awesome and addicting, but looking like I will be finished with it too soon.

Streetpass gift and find mii Games: Took my 3DS with me to Best buy while hunting for Little Mac. Was not disappointed.

Finished Asphalt: Overdrive

I survive another day in the comp :D
I should have made progress on more games over the weekend but ended up only playing roughly as much as i did all week while working :-/

Yoshi's New Island - I can barely form words for how much I am into this. SO MUCH Nostalgia. It is built just like SMW2 with what I believe to be some of the best ideas for gameplay improvements and mechanics. Plus, the 3D is nice and basic, but still effective. I will be blowing through this one a little too quickly. ha ha

Pokemon Shuffle - Almost done, and I was hoping that since it is a freemium game, that it would last longer so they could get more money out of it from those willing to pay for playtime. Too bad.

Atelier Annie. So effing good. Can't wait until I have time to play it at home.

Beat the Random World in ToeJam and Earl.
I should be moving on to Panic in Funkotron so i can finish the game up but i don't think i can force myself through it at this time...

Worms: Revolution - Knocked out some misc stuff. Still need to finish the 300 online kills and play with 20 different people.

Wallace and Gromit: Muzzled! is loading now. Will be my next completion to keep me in the comp.

Unfortunately, I haven't spent any time on the Arkham Origins (Modern Monthly Playthrough) because Criminal Girls: Invite Only has been taking up ALL of my free game time.

Thief- XboxOne

My sympathies.

Yoshi's new island - Done with two worlds and cranking more out, this just keeps getting better the more I play.

Streetpass Mii Plaza - Learned a lot about the functions of streetpass and how to increase my contacts since I am 4 years behind in the game. ha ha Gotta catch all the 3DSTD's I can. ;)

Pokemon Shuffle - Mopping up the remaining "S" ranks to call it done. I was impressed initially with this title, but now I am let down.

Finished Wallace and Gromit 3
Finished Wallace and Gromit 4. Then ended up needing to replay it because i was cheated out of an achievement. Stupid missables.

Little more Worms Revolution.

Fight Night Round 3 (360) - Giving this a spin.

Best boxing game sans Punch-out that I have ever played. Easy cheevos too.



Yoshi's New World: 3 worlds in.

Pokemon Shuffle: Only 4 S ranks left. There seems to be a lot of content missing, hopefully future releases are why.

Evolve - Not my type of game. I might try a GOTY or all DLC inclusive version later on.

Sunset Overdrive - Just like Bill I played the game a little bit more and I get it. I'm over half way through and really enjoying it.

Shadow of Modor - So far it's been a fun game. I need to do some more story missions.

Rock On - Dearly Beloved we move the Yellow Submarine for great justice! The Engrish in this game is great.

Kung Fu Rabbit (Vita) - Collecting all 4 carrots in each level is a pain in the rear.

Finished Arkham Origins yesterday morning for the playthrough.

Had a few friends over and one brought his WiiU. Loved Mario Kart, Smash Bros not so much. I know I'll catch hell for that, take it easy guys, it just isn't my thing.

With my entire physical collection on its way to Texas I am trying to clean up some of the 300 or so Playstation Plus games I've accumulated so I started Crysis 3 yesterday. I was expecting a no-frills FPS but this is actually a super fun, fully fleshed out game with very elegant menus and controls. I'm loving it. A very pleasant surprise.

Also, Atelier Annie. It's just so damn good. The first DS game (as I'm also trying to clear out some backlog on the R4) I've chosen to play and it's going to be hard to top!

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Wanted to finish both Annie and Crysis 3 yesterday but couldn't quite pull it off. Today should be the day for both, then it's on to the next ones!

Been playing lots of games lately to unwind.

Bioshock Infinite: I thought it was alright but I prefer the first two, The ending didn't fully make sense to me.
Friday the 13th: Sat down and finally beat this one. It took about 3 tries after having a strategy down. Even then I think I got a little lucky.
Heroes of Mana: Im not too familiar with RTSs and this one just kind of throws me off.
Tallowmere: Hard to say how much I really like this one. I might just of been jonesing for a Rogue-like.

If I have any spare time today I'm hoping to start Persona 3.

I'm not really a fan of Smash either, so don't feel bad.

Thanks, sometimes I feel like I have to watch myself around here if I choose to criticize any Nintendo or Nintendo related product.

Just hide behind Tynstar and you'll be fine. He can do enough Nintendo bashing for the rest of us.

Mario Party 10 looked interesting, but I found it EXTREMELY stupid that you can only hold data for 1 title in an Amiibo, so you have to overwrite your data if you want to use the same Amiibo between titles. That kind of defeats the purpose of having figures that can work for every title, when you have to delete your save data to move it to another title. Do I want to keep my data for Smash and Mario Party? I need to buy a second Amiibo, that hopefully looks unique enough so I don't confuse them. At least Skylanders lets you import your old characters to a new game without erasing the data...

ALL OF THE SUNSET OVERDRIVE.  It just keeps getting better.

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Got a really cool drop in Borderlands.

Commented on this over at DP, but Lego Batman 3 is such a cluster of a game. It's not bad, it just doesn't feel as put together and thought out as previous games.

Just beat Bioshock, which is AWESOME!  I definitely recommend it.  Starting The Walking Dead.

Finished Atelier Annie. It was everything I was hoping for. Thank you GUST.

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non-smash fan x3 over here. Almost done Criminal Girls for Vita.

Damn, I was trying to play Tales of the Tempest but I think the rom is no good.

Best NDS games, with a preference for RPGs? GO!

EDIT: I'm leaning towards Dragon Quest IX, which I've heard is awesome, or Pokemon Black which I have also heard is awesome and I've never played a Pokemon game.

NDS RPGs huh...

As for the NDS Dragon Quest games I really enjoyed V the most. Its gameplay was nothing too mind blowing but it has my favorite story out of the 4 Dragon Quest games on the NDS.  If your alright with Harvest Moon types of games I'd give Rune Factory 3 a try. The World Ends with You is also a very fun and underrated action RPG but I remember the controls being a little hard to get used to.

Knights in the Nightmare and Rondo of Swords are both decent games with small unique spins on gameplay so they are worth checking out but YRMV.

Also if you like Roguelikes Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja and it's sequel are both pretty fun.

Thank you very much for the recommendations. Out of what you mentioned I have only played The World Ends With You. I also had trouble with the battle system but the music and story have stuck with me long after playing it.

The other games you mentioned have been on my radar so I'll look a little deeper into them. Always wanted to play a Rune Factory (or a Harvest Moon).

In the meantime, I got past the part where Tales of the Tempest was freezing so I'm going to try to ride it out. Despite it being the most hated game in the series, I'm liking it a lot. I may be just enamored with the reality of playing a portable Tales game, but who cares?

Over the last week

Finished
Sixty Second Shooter Prime - Was a pretty cool twin stick shooter. Don't see why it had to be on "next gen" (i guess it is technically current gen. I'm still behind a gen) as it wasn't by any means a visually stunning game though.

Trivial Pursuit Live - Had already finished the 360 version. So many wrong answers in these games it is sad.

Real Racing 2 - Wrapped this up. Started it because there was a local co-op achievement. Actually looks good for a phone game.

Attack of the Movies 3D - Started this 3 years ago when i was last down visiting Tyn. We got a 4th this time and wrapped up the last bits we needed then helped #4 thru the game. Then we also had a #5 jump on and ran thru for him too. More people finished this game in one day than have probably ever or will in the future.

Monopoly Plus - Another one where i already had the 360 version completed.

Fibbage - This was a TON of fun with a group. Only one person is required to launch the game on the system then everyone plays by logging into the site on their phone/pc/tablet and using the room code and selecting a username, Highly recommended.

Also played:
Snap Attack - Made some progress and got to load it up on Android to get some freebie sync achievements.

Sensible World of Soccer - WOoooo sports.

Bejeweled Live - Got a few hours in while on planes.

Worms Revolution - Still need to play with a bunch of unique tags online.

Kane & Lynch (JP) - Blew through the campaign in a few hours. Ended up with soem fairly insane glitches that the KnL veterans had never seen before. Like police cars flying several stories into the air, enemies not spawning in, NPC team mates dying who were supposed to start alive, NPCs who were supposed to stay alive spawning in across the map, NPCs who were supposed to stay alive allowing you to carry their carcass around instead of reviving them. It was fun.

Project Spark - Fired this up on the One to get a bunch of cross platform achievements unlocked. It was pretty lame how few did compared to how many i had earned. Ended up knocking out a few other ones along the way.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game - Ended up helping someone run through this. He owned the game but since it and the DLCs were removed from the marketplace he was unable to complete it on his own.

Super Meat Boy - Tyn wanted to see how it was.Pac-Man Kart Rally - Another phone game with local co-op only achievements.

Diner Dash - because i wanted to end my vacation on a low note.

More Tales of the Tempest.

I've played (and enjoyed) many games that have gotten a ton of hate. I sometimes seek out these types because I get a kick out of reviled titles that aren't that bad, or in some cases are quite good. For a few examples I loved Dragon Age II and Fable III and while I acknowledge that The Last Rebellion is in fact a terrible game I quite enjoyed my time with it.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why people hate this game so much. It rocks! It's a portable Tales game. The battle system is cool. Complaints about the menus are way overblown. The story is a little weak and cliched? For shame! This is the first JRPG I have ever played that has that problem!

This game is fine. Bravo to whomever put in the work of translating it. I'm enjoying the hell out of it.  

Dark Messiah: Might and Magic Elements - Got sucked into helping out people with the online. I had a fair amount of it done already so hopefully i'll be done with the last of it tomorrow.

How is that game? Picked it up a while ago for like two bucks, was hoping for a poor man's Elder Scrolls.

I haven't played single player.
I've never heard anything good about it but can't confirm.

The Walking Dead: Season Two - Episode 1 was an awesome start last night, now to wait for the kids to go to sleep so I can start Episode 2 later tonight!

I've been playing Ziggurat and been watching my daughter play Costume Quest 2 on the Xbox One.

Finished the online for Dark Messiah: Might and Magic Elements.
I had a jump on it from working with a different group ages ago though so i still have others to get through it.

Cruising through Tomb Raider and Tales of the Tempest. Enjoying them both very highly.

Ori & the Blind Forest (PC) - Amazing looking game and from what I've played has good gameplay.

Battlefield Hardline (X1) - No great but not sh*t. Pick it up when it hits $10 or less or just rent it. This primarily a stealth game not a fast paced action game. I love that everyone you arrest falls asleep. Bring back Battlefield Hard Line.

Dead or Alive Last Round (X1): Decent game and worth maybe $10.00 or so but so many pop-ups. This game lets you know when it installs anything. I had over 25 pop up notifications before the install was done.

Sunset Overdrive: I'm getting close to the end and enjoyed the time I've spent with the game.

Nexuiz (XBLA) - I don't know why my neighbour picked this to play, there doesn't seem to be much to play nowadays...

^Was a cool game. Shame it never came back online. Someone bought the license for it. Pretty sure it was the same people who bought Darksiders.

Then I wonder why Nordic hasn't turned the servers on...

Haven't played games in quite some time, I got a stack of PS3 games for Christmas, and I haven't touched half of them.

So now I have started playing Alien: Isolation again. IMO the androids are a whole lot creepier than the Alien creature

This should answer why:
https://www.facebook.com/NexuizShooter

Lamesauce.
No word of it coming back online for 360 just steam.

I'll have to start trying to contact them when I am back on pc

Game Room (XBLA) - I thought I owned several arcade cabinets but I stand corrected. A few random achievements popped from playing the WP games it seems though on the plus side. I actually liked this app, it's too bad support came to an end.

Agreed. "You're becoming hysterical." *punches face with metal fist*
Ah, memories.

Just getting into Bloodborne. Fantastic so far. NOT a Southpaw-friendly game. But with a hard-modded stick swapped controller combined with Sony's new accessibility system-wide button swapping, maybe I can FINALLY press a dodge button without clawing my hand across the controller.

Pretty excited to try that out.

I am pretty jealous of anyone who gets to play this game, I am a big fan of Demon and Dark Souls. These are the one games I always come back to, and can always find something to do. So sad I will not get to play this one for awhile.

BTW how are the parry and roll mechanics?

Parry is completely done by using an offhand firearm to stagger an enemy attack. Rolls are activated in any direction by tapping a direction and O, while the same button dash-steps when locked on a target.

As for how well it works, well, since I get motion sick unless the right stick is used to move, and while using my hard-modded controller I still had to move the stick and somehow press O with the same hand, I couldn't tell you how well it works because it cramps my hand to try.

Thankfully, the PS4 update as of literally today includes system-level button remapping, so once I get that changed, I should be golden.

As for the game, if you like the Souls series, its a fantastic followup.

System-level button remapping?! HOLY HELL, slackur, your dream came true!

Very close, and very appreciated.  Still no stick swapping, which is disappointing, but as mentioned I have the hard-modded controllers for that.  If I'm being picky, I'd like to be able to save and load presets for different games, but considering Sony is the first company to release this and a bunch of other accessibility options at ground level, I'm THRILLED!!  I can only hope this makes it's way into EVERY OTHER SYSTEM!  Microsoft and Nintendo, step up your game. ;)
 

Yeah though, super good on Sony!  They've really impressed me so far this generation.

Finished Tomb Raider Wednesday night. Still trucking through Tales of the Tempest.

Played through two levels of Ducktales Remastered last night. Super fun, and nice and easy. At first, like a lot of reviewers I was put off by all the cutscenes but I relaxed my mind a little and started to enjoy them. WayForward kicks so much ass.

Gonna jam through that and Papo & Yo before I dive into the next full length experience. God bless downloadable games for being the short palate cleansers I need while not giving me clutter to put on my shelves ;).

After Burner Climax (XBLA) - Still a great way to kill off an hour waiting for annoying inlaws to arrive...

Played through Papo & Yo today. Ironically, it has literally driven me to drink. As ya'll know I'm not a huge fan of environmental puzzles, but at first they seemed so easy that I was kind of getting into it. About halfway through the game both the puzzles and platforming got really sluggish and had me constantly thinking, at every cut scene: pleasebeover pleasebeover pleasebeover pleasebeover.

It's finally over. So now I'm noticing my Beaten in 2015 list is really starting to get loaded up for March, so although I was going to dive into something super long, I may continue to knock out these super short PSN titles. But no indies. Screw them.

Got rid of four in-laws that stayed with me for 9 days during spring break. Finally have a night to myself...or at least to me and my son alone.

Wii Sports Club - I love that I can play against others online instead of having to be stuck locally. Gonna be fun to get into.

Pokemon shuffle - They added a few stages to the game in a recent update. It seems it will continue this way for a while, but 15 stages wasn't enough to keep me going until the next update.

Pokemon Alpha Sapphire - About to get lost in the world of pokemon again...my first venture since leafgreen, and my first time seeing any pokemon past G/S.

Mario Party 10 - I cannot describe my disappointments with the lack of online play from this game...it is a great game, but I no longer have my brother and friends around every day like I used to in high school.

Tried to blast my way through the Castle of Illusion Remaster but this guy made me rage quit and nuke both the game and my save. Not too upset about it as I wasn't exactly having the time of my life with the game.
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Started Kingdoms of Amalur and my initial impression is that I love it. The aesthetic of a Fable game with the RPG depth of a Bioware game with the combat of any AAA third-person action game. Wish I had started it earlier in the weekend as I could have played more, but like I said, I'm in love so far. 

I completely understand where you're coming from. The puzzles in Papo & Yo get really overly complicated. I remember getting so frustrated with the part where I had to move that bed thing from one part of the area to the exit. The "puzzles" with the frogs were also annoying, as were the walking houses.

Destiny of Spirits (Vita) - Grinding out my newer low level guys so I can round out my team a little better.

Sunset Overdrive - One last mission to finish the game. I'll probably take a break from modern games after this and play something older.

Maleficent would have given you much more hair pulling out than that guy. Maybe it is best you quit :P

This was another one of those games that the difficulty seemed to be pretty understated. Specifically when going for all the achievements/trophies.  


Getting ready to jump on my 360 for the first time in a week or so. If i have the space (or can quickly make space.) I'll be doing the new freebie Fast and Furious presented by Forza 2.

If not i have no clue what i'll play.

Finished
Elements of Destruction - Fun little game. Not worth the 10$s it regularly is but the sale price wasn't bad. Doubt it will ever be on sale again though...

Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious - Fantastic bit of promotion. Supposedly the Xbox One version is easier. There were some pretty crazy difficulty spikes but still definitely finishable in one sitting.

Alpha Sapphire - Encountered a shiny for the first time. Made him faint though, pretty pissed over it, but how else will I learn to just throw the damn poke ball even if it means using two or three to get it?

Pokemon Shuffle - Finally Caught Blaziken to complete the game up to the current update. I can't wait for more.

WWE 2K14 (PS3) - Playing some online.

My gaming time has been monopolized by the April community playthrough games for the past couple of weeks.  I'm almost finished with Tomb Raider (going for 100% on the collectibles), and about half way through Paper Mario.

I grabbed Battlefield Hardline for relatively cheap since Best Buy had it on sale, and started playing the campaign last night to mix it up a bit.  What I've played so far seems alright, but nothing great.  I know I won't touch the multiplayer so it should be a quick flip for me.

Destiny of Spirits (Vita) - Still grinding out spirits.

Mario Kart 8 - gonna beat this before 200cc comes out so I can get into it online.

200cc looks waaay too crazy for me.

Started Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball

I've been trying to get this for a couple years now so i'm happy about that. Single player is done and should finish the online tonight with any luck!

I've been trying to get an achievement in every Windows Phone game I haven't played yet, just to see how many I have left to purchase or how many I've missed that have been delisted. Also trying to get a ribbon a day for GoW:J, and thinking about grabbing the Season Pass for it.

Finally played Half-Life 2 for the first time about a week ago. Surprising how it still holds up visually and is a generally accessible game difficulty wise.

LEGO Batman 3 is taking longer to complete than I'd like. Partly because of time constraints, partly because the last leg of collectibles are all locked behind annoying races.

Only playing Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning right now. I love it so far. It is Fable meets Dragon Age in all the right ways.

Giving the DS a short rest so I can focus on some reading.

Sat down with Marvel Super Heroes for PS4 and played a few hours yesterday.

It's really good, I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. It's too bad it bankrupted the state of Rhode Island, as 38 Studios had assembled a three-man fantasy writing dreamteam.

If you haven't already gotten it, I recommend the two DLC packs.

WWE 2K14 (PS3) - Playing through 30 Years of WrestleMania mode, on WM X now. Razor Ramon is a tough SOB so far in this ladder match though...

Probably biting off more than I can chew, but I'm currently playing all of the following:

Paper Mario
Battlefield Hardline
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
GTA San Andreas HD
LoZ: Link's Awakening
Danganronpa
Project X Zone

I should have Paper Mario and Project X Zone wrapped up soon.  Still pretty close to the beginning on Battlefield, Sleeping Dogs, and GTA.  I haven't touched Link's Awakening and Danganronpa in a month or so, but I intend to come back to them.

Destiny of Spirits (Vita) - Ended up summoning a few SR spirits, so now I'm grinding their levels up.

Half-Life 2: Episode 1 down, now on to Episode 2.

...and then you'll be wanting Episode 3 or HL3. :P

Good things are worth waiting for. :D
And working on Episode 2 now.

Edit: And there goes Lost Coast. I'm now all out of Half-Life 2 stuffs until the next thing or if I decide to play that HD mod thing.

This: http://www.blackmesasource.com/ ?

That too, but I was speaking of this:  http://store.steampowered.com/app/290930

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Wii) - Just finished up several rounds of Hardcore TDM.

Battlefield 1943 (PS3) - Been playing this inbetween grind sessions of Destiny of Spirits.

Started and finished
Goat Simulator

Also started
Lococycle
How to Survive

Been working my way thru
Puzzle Quest 2 on the phone

Ended up finding a cheap Vita. After downloading the single cross-trophy game I own, I figure I'll start on Stranger's Wrath.

Battlefield 2 is my best memory of video games.

Stranger's Wrath was awesome. Enjoy!

I'm still only playing Amalur, barely though. I may put it down next week and buzz through something short and then go back to it.

Still playing way more than I can handle:

Paper Mario - should have this finished tonight

Mortal Kombat X - haven't had much time to devote to this one yet.  Played the first few chapters of the story mode.  I really love the MK backstory and lore, as silly as it is.

Kirby's Epic Yarn - started this in co-op with a friend yesterday and played through probably about half the game.  Pretty fun game!

Hyrule Warriors - also started this in co-op with a friend yesterday.  Played through the first 3 or 4 missions.

Sleeping Dogs - still pretty close to the beginning on this one

Danganronpa - haven't touched this game since completing the first trial.  Still want to come back to it, but I've had so much going on lately.  I guess that's good enough reason not to play all these games at once....

Link's Awakening - supposed to be heading to the seventh dungeon now I think, but haven't touched this game in a while.  I find traversing the overworld to be very tedious in this game.

GTA San Andreas HD - kinda forgot I was playing this until I scrolled up and saw my last post where I mentioned it.  I'm a few hours into this one.

Project X Zone - Finally on the last chapter of the game.  I guess I'll have to see how many times the game is going to add a wave of enemy units to the final battle before it's over....

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ (Win 8 ) - Took me a few tries to get 2,000,000 in 10m Time Attack.

Finished
SEGA Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. - Comprised of Alex Kidd in Miracle World(full play thru), The Revenge of Shinobi(full play thru) and Super Hang-on(partial play thru).

I was hoping to, as I've been wanting to play it since it was first released on XBox, but it seems this Vita has a faulty right stick. :/

Giving How To Survive a go.
So far it is pretty cool.

Finished the campaign for How to Survive on Iron Man difficulty.
I'd recommend it.

Hopefully the challenges are too bad... Guess i'll find out tomorrow.

Started and finished
Toybox Turbos

Got back into
Lococycle - It is meh.

Peter Jackson's King Kong (360) - Started this last night then got stuck on a glitchy level and quit for the night.

THAT SUCKS!

Still Plugging away at Lego Marvel Super Heroes. Fell asleep while playing last night.

That good huh?
Maybe i should open up the copy i got for Xmas then!


Finished Lococycle.

Now working my way thru the challenges in How to Survive. They are aptly titled. Trial and error is needed for completion and then a certain amount of luck is involved in addition to heaps of skill(which is acquired by playing campaign). I've gotten completely slaughtered a few times and then get an A rank. I've also gotten completely slaughtered and moved on to a new one because it felt too unfair.

Yeah. :/
Might get a new one after I get the refund. We'll see.

In other news, full Broken Age is out!

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (DS) - Defended my ECW title at The Great American Bash, only to discover that I got drafted to Raw.

How To Survive

I wasted my time clearing a few challenges on Iron Man difficulty since apparently only points earned in a specific difficulty count towards your level progression.
Hopefully i can clear one of the 2 remaining challenges tomorrow without too much trouble and wrap this game up.

made some more progress in Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door last night, i tried the pit of 100 trials and made it to floor 50 before i gave up. doing some side quests between chapter 2 and 3 now.

Finished
How To Survive

Ended up finally completing one of the last 2 levels i needed. Ended up with a better score than any other level previously completed lol

Tough game. Pretty fun though.

Started cawladoody GHOSTS last night.

OK, any game where you have a dog is an automatic win (see also: Fable II, Fallout 3).

Extra points if the dog has a knife in his mouth (see also: Persona 3, Tales of Vesperia).

In summary, BEST COD EVARRR!!!11

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Destiny of Spirits (Vita) - Still leveling up spirits while I head into Europe to start cleansing the area.

Been playing pretty much nothing but Mortal Kombat X for the past week or so, but I think I'm slowly starting to lose interest.  I finally started up Shining Force last night for the community playthrough, but only finished the first two battles.

I still have several other games on hold that I started up over the last couple of months, and I intend to come back to all of them when I can.

Strider and Ziggurat on Xbox1.

Finished COD Ghosts. Seriously don't understand why this game gets slagged so hard critically. I thought the campaign was pretty awesome overall.

Playing the Phantasy mod for Mount and Blade: Warband. All of my companions and myself were knocked out, but I still won the battle thanks to my one man army.

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Finally got the Sybarite achievement in GoW: Judgment.

Also been playing PuzzleQuest 2 on my phone quite a bit lately.
Hopefully i wrap it in the next few days.

Started playing Skyrim again, haven't played it since before the 1.9 patch.

Assassin's Creed Unity

Finished Puzzle Quest 2 the day after that post i think.

Working my way thru Bejeweled 2 now.

I'm in a puzzle-y mood lately i guess.

Cleared Classic, Twilight and Hyper mode in Bejeweled 2.
Crazy long endless mode grind still remains.


Starting Saints Row multiplayer.

Just realized that I've played DOTA 2 for 400 hours now, wow..

Also, I'm playing Puppeteer.

Finished the achievements from the last Minecraft title update.
That is done again...

Found a random in Worms Revolution.
I wish i had some idea of how many people i had played with online... Only need 20 total :-/

Grinding away on goals for Sims Freeplay. I should've probably kept track of how many goals I've actually completed, but I know it's well over 200 now.
Playing Pac-Man Kart Rally besides that.

Playing a lot of Shining Force.  Just hit Chapter 7, so I'm getting pretty close to the end.

Tried to jump back in to Danganronpa a couple of days ago, but I'm really not feeling it.  I've read a lot of good things about these games, so I was really trying to like it, but I think I'm just going to walk away from this one.  I would like to play something on the Vita since I haven't really played much on it since I've gotten it, so I just started Uncharted: Golden Abyss.  As a huge Uncharted fan, I feel like I've put that one off long enough.

I almost can't believe it, but I think I'm nearing the end of Project X Zone.  Unless the game has any more surprises in store for me (and this game really loves to throw more stuff at you), I should have it wrapped up in just one or two more play sessions.

Also recently played through Terminator Salvation in co-op.  The game was pretty much universally panned, and I can see why.  I can't say it's a great game, but like most bad games, it was still a fun ride in co-op.  Except for those on rail sections, those were just bad.

Just finished the main story line in Assassin's Creed Unity, not sure if im gonna start the dlc or start something else.

Trine and just completed Shadowgrouns (PC) - Downloading GTA5 but its 60gb so might take a while...

When I have time, and I usually don't lately, I'm playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. It is awesome.

33gb hanging on a server,
33gb hanging on a server,
and if 1gb should accidentally download,
There'll be 32 hanging on a server,

32gb hanging on a server,
32gb hanging on a server,
and if 1gb should accidentally download,
There'll be 31gb hanging on a server......


GTA5 at some point tonight.

Started Saints Row.

Still trying to find games with randoms in Worms Revolution too.

Actually, there'll still be 33GB on the server. You're just copying it. :P

Finally got the Social Butterfly achievement done in Worms Revolution. Probably will start working on the kill grind now.

Also started the online grind for Kane & Lynch JP

Lots of Streetpasses to go through now that I am back from my in-law's.

Mario Tennis Open - 20 streetpass opponents beat in a row, unlocking the last costume I needed for the game.

Super Street Fighter IV: 3D - 10 straight wins for my figure collection.

Pokemon AS - Discovered Wonder Trading and am addicted to seeing what I can fill my pokedex with at random...although I should probably focus on beating the game so I can unlock the National Dex before I get TOO into it.

Kirby Triple Deluxe - Not a fan of the streetpass features, but collecting the keychains while playing through regularly has kept me coming back to this one...and probably will until I finish it, which is always a good thing.

Mario Kart 7 - I have a long list of opponents to challenge...but I really need to get around to playing this more so I can unlock all the cool vehicles and upgrades in order to beat the ghost times and opponents in GP.

GTA 5 (PC) - absolutely loving it but it did take a while to adjust from Saints Row craziness. Also it seems really well optimized for PC, been running at steady 62% - 70% across all six cores, can't wait to get my GTX 970 at the end of the week to turn up the graphics and run it on all 3 of my screens

Used a 48 hour card to finish the online kills in Worms Revoluion. I needed ~7....

So i don't completely waste it i decided to fire up Pacific Rim and start grinding the online in that.

Grabbed Mortal Kombat X from the local library. I liked what I played. I'll pick it up once the Komplete version comes out.

Finally finished Project X Zone.  Fun game, but about 3x longer than it needed to be.  I started up Fantasy Life to fill the 3DS void, and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet.  I'm going to need a little more time to formulate an opinion on this one.

Played a little bit of Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and so far it has been kind of frustrating.  I know they wanted to show off all of the features that the Vita has to offer, but I really hate all of the shoehorned touch and gyro crap.  I felt like half of my play session last night was using the touch screen for charcoal rubbings or to 'inspect' objects (which really just involves rotating an object repeatedly like a moron until the magical counter reaches 100%).  Even the gunfights were no where near as enjoyable as they are in the PS3 counterparts.  I have a hard time aiming with the Vita control sticks, so my aim was all over the place.  I don't know, I'm only on Chapter 2, so maybe I'll come around to this one once I spend some more time with it.  I love the PS3 Uncharted games, so I'll probably stick it out with this one either way.

Played Link's Awakening a little bit the other day, and finally reached the entrance to dungeon 7.  I'm not sure how I figured all of this out back when I was 7 or 8 years old, because I needed a guide to do it now.  Did I get dumber in the last 20 years?

Also finished Shining Force and the Story mode in Mortal Kombat X.  On the whole, Story mode in MK X was good but not as enjoyable as the one in MK9.  Greatly preferred the story and characters in the last game.  I'm still playing MK X, doing Towers and other things.  I dabbled a little bit with the online a while back, but I probably won't spend much more time with it, if any.

Got a few other things that have been on the back burner for a while that I want to come back to, which include Sleeping Dogs and GTA San Andreas HD.  Also started Kirby's Epic Yarn and Hyrule Warriors in co-op with a friend a few weeks ago, so hopefully we can get together and finish those up soon.

Messed up the time that my 48 hour card ended at.
Ended up having to use another one so instead of finishing one faction i'm going to shoot for 2... Maybe  all 3.

Been trying to play God of War III, but oh how I hate the QTE's and mash-the-circle-button sequences. I was going to try to balls my way through it, but it really sucks. Almost time to pack up the PS3 anyway.

Played some of the DS version of Civilization: Revolution on my lunch break. It's just as addictive as the console versions.

Lots of people dislike the QTE segments in God of War, but I think it's part of the game's charm.  When I bought the GoW Saga set and snagged all the games, I played through each one in release order, and had a blast over the few weeks it took me to get through all of them.  Of course, the battle with Zeus at the end of the 3rd game drove me batty, because it took me forever to take him down, but overall I quite liked the GoW games.  Don't have Ascension yet, however, need to add that one to my collection...

That's fair FRO, it's not like I didn't know what I was signing up for.

I started playing Axiom Verge... it has stopped me from playing anything else.

Was in the wrong thread before...

"Finished Pacific Rim and Worms Revolution.
Probably going to get back into Saints Row now."

Actually ended up finishing the single player achievements in Kane & Lynch (JP) and then played a little Worms 2: Armageddon.

Now the Witcher 3 has stopped me from playing Axiom Verge. This is getting ridiculous.

Laid the smackdown on The Pinball Arcade.
It is a bad pinball fx.
Fewer camera angles, some tables have "floaty" balls, sometimes flippers get stuck, sometimes the ball decides it is going to travel thru a flipper (this one has always been beneficial at least), etc

I don't know if i'll be able to knock out all the Wizard Challenges on the 3 tables i have left
Black Hole - fun table hard challenges
Ripleys Believe it or Not - meh table challenges look easier
Theater of Magic - meh also is the floatiest feeling table. Has at least one hard challenge.

EDIT
Got all Wizard Challenges done on Black Hole.
Played for a bit on the other 2 tables. Think i managed to get one done on each. I think if i put in some effort learning the tables i could consistently pull off the maneuvers needed to get Wizard done on both of them. That being said i'm not sure if i will bother....

Did end up going back to Pinball Arcade.
Got all but 2 (which i should get at the same time eventually) of the wizard goals on the Theater of Magic table.
Turns out the 100 mil jackpot was somewhat tough as you had to get your first shot of a specific multiball into a small hole. I managed to juggle the first and second ball over to the left flipper bounce the 3rd ball over the bumper above my right flipper and get it lined up properly. In my case more luck than skill was probably involved.

Final set of wizard goals i need are completing all Illusions and completing the Grand Finale.
Grand Finale is unlocked by starting the specific multiball, spelling THEATRE by taking the left most orbit(off the tip of right flipper), get the clock to midnight with the right most orbit(off the tip of left flipper) and completing all Illusions.

Once that is done i have 90 seconds to perform some task that i can't remember now.... With luck i'll get it done on the first try. I can't imagine putting all this time in and then failing so closely...

I managed to meet all the requirements minus one Illusion on my first ball earlier tonight. Ended up with 2 nearly instadrains after that :'(   After slowly deteriorating from there i decided to give up for the night. Probably give it another go tomorrow.

Played a little bit of Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments on PS3 last night, thinking I wouldn't like it and delete it right away. I actually quite enjoyed my brief time with it and I think I might save it to play with my wife because I think she'd be into it.

Other than that I'm just playing single-serve NDS games. I've hit up Contra 4, Metroid Prime Pinball, Mario Kart, and Lego Batman 2. All fun. I really like Metroid Prime Pinball.

I swear I've played Theatre of Magic somewhere, and remember that 90s being a pain.

Playing LOTS of Lara Croft: Relic Run. Working with the other person that's far ahead to try to figure out the rest of the achievements that have yet to be unlocked. We still haven't figured out where the 6th curse is supposed to come from.

More Witcher 3. The game is rough around the edges but a great game.

I've never been a FPS kind of guy, outside of classics like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom I & II, and Duke Nukem 3D.  However, the last couple days I've been enjoying Medal of Honor: European Assault.  I started playing on Monday because of Memorial Day.  Both of my grandfathers served in WW2, and since one of them was a machine gunner on the front lines, similar to the campaigns in this game, it made me appreciate the military and what he had to do during wartime even more.

That reminds me.

Defiance hard / long grind / guide required??
All three?

I forget to post here. Probably too busy actually playing. I beat NG+ on Dark Souls II the other day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LNIM5GtaIQ

I'm finishing up the DLC again now, and then on to NG++!

6th curse is MIA also got a buttload of Ankhs that disappeared also ran into some other atrocious glitch but can't remember it now.
All the glitches in games are just blurring together now....

On the plus side it seems lik i've gotten all the harder stuff done. Just the grind and 1500 no slide :D

Defiance is just long grind - no guide required.
I've almost done the 2nd boss without any ankhs, since I don't have any from the drops. 1500 slide I've died quite a few times just before unlocking, and had no ankhs.

Completed Arkham Asylum, got all the Riddler Challenges, looked at the secret room, and unlocked that final "secret" profile for The Spirit of Arkham's current host.
That was fun.

More Sanctum 2.

Had my little brother over last weekend and we had been looking for Goof Troop for a while now to co-op. Even though we didn't start playing until 2 a.m. and we were both pretty drunk by then, we pretty much destroyed it. I wonder how short it would have been without the alcohol. One thing I do know is that it wouldn't have been as fun. ha ha

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Plowed thru some more Sanctum 2. Unfortunately it was all the easy stuff... Still a huge struggle ahead when the Feats of Strength get turned on...

Finally got back to Saints Row. For a little bit anyways. Tagged a little more than half of the locations. Accidentally gabbed some of the CDs along the way which sucks since i'm sure when i get around to doing them i won't remember what i grabbed and what i didn't.

And Monsters GO and Lara Croft: Relic Run both of which are just grinds left. :-/

I have a ton of games that I've started over the past few months that I keep neglecting and want to come back to, but I've been busier than usual lately.  Pretty much all I've been playing lately is Uncharted: Golden Abyss on the Vita and Diablo III on PS4.  Uncharted took some time to grow on me, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit now.  I'm having a lot of fun with Diablo III, mostly playing in co-op with 1 or 2 of my friends (depending on our schedules), but also soloing sometimes.

I need to get my NES hooked back up so I can get started on the Mega Man community playthrough.

Playing Settlers of Catan on my Iphone a lot.

Having 100%'d LEGO Batman 3, I hope that game isn't a sign of things to come. The story was short and pointless, containing less than 40% of the game. The rest was all search and find missions on large planets with no map and way too many races. I've already got LEGO Jurassic World pre-ordered, so we'll see where this goes, but if it's just jammed with races an "Oi, I need this item, go find it!" crap, it might be my last LEGO game.

Also, Contrast is a horrible, glitchy game and I hate it.

Contrast on what platform?

I played it on 360 most people raved about how amazing it was i had the same feeling.
I don't remember anything about the story (i think it was something like abusive father, child escapes thru fantasy?) and it had some cool mechanics but was ruined by a seemingly endless number of game breaking glitches.

so much Rust this week, all the new changes are awesome.

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Gunpoint (PC) - Cool 2d platform/stealth/puzzle game that reminds me of Bonanza Bros.

Grabbed Lego Jurassic World from the library for the X1. I've heard good things and can't wait to try it.

I like what I've played of Resident Evil Revelations 2. More couch CO-OP please.

Been playing Witcher III, with all my free time. Love the boobies in this game!

Been playing Alpha Sapphire in my spare time.

Also, I got to demo super mario maker at Best Buy today, I'm sold on it based on the stages the developers built themselves for the demo, it was so much fun playing a couple of them but also watching others play them. Limitless possibilities with the level of customization they showed off.

New DLC characters on Smash Bros got me playing a bit of Smash again. Finally finished up the last challenge I had to do in the game!

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Damn, impressive.

@Crabby: Congrats!

Lego Jurassic World is one of the best TT Lego games I've played. 

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I love playing as a T-rex.

After years of procrastination, I finally decided to play through Zelda's Adventure on CD-i...on real hardware no less. :) SirPsycho provided me a Let's Play/Walkthrough years ago, and I'll be making use of it.

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masochist

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i've never played the game, i'm sure it's not quite as bad as all the talk online...though from the little i have seen, it doesn't look good.

It really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Granted, it's not nearly as good as the original LoZ or Link to the Past, but it's not that bad either. "Average" would be a good word to describe it.

been play-testing a bunch of PS3 games that have sat on my shelf for years without being touched, trying to decide which are keepers and which can go. i remember trying Lost Planet once very quickly years ago and thinking it was terrible, that the controls sucked and the camera was wonky. now i tried it and tweaked one or two settings and it was perfect and a blast to play, i feel stupid now about the animosity i've felt towards the series all these years.

I remember trying to play Lost Planet (and its sequel), and thought they were both pretty bad.  Maybe I should give them another shot....

As for me, I've also been trying to clear my shelves of some games.  Pulled a few PS4 games off my shelf that I intend to sell (technically they've already been sold), but wanted to play through a couple of them before getting rid of them.  The first of which being Murdered: Soul Suspect, which I finished over the weekend.  I know this game got pretty bad reviews, but I still enjoyed it.  The other game which I still need to finish is Call of Duty: Ghosts.  From what I hear, this game has very mixed reviews, but I'm about half way through the campaign and am enjoying it.  Although, this is the first CoD game I've played since the first Modern Warfare (other than World at War, which was a co-op experience), so maybe I haven't worn out the series yet like many other people have.

Have since gotten a new Vita, finished Murisaki Baby, started Stranger's Wrath and am nearing completion of Sound Shapes.
LEGO Jurassic World is ok, but the current version is one of the glitchiest LEGO games I've ever played.

I've been playing through Batman: Arkham Knight. The game looks gorgeous, especially while standing on a rooftop and staring at the city. I'm almost done with the main story now, and I'm about 50 or so riddler trophies away from completion.

Finished off Grim Fandango Remastered finally. Very really good all the way through.

Working my way thru Civ Rev on 360

Technological victory on Deity is eluding me...

EDIT
NAILED IT!
Took too damn long... Past my bed time.

Always love seeing people checking this game out. I've mentioned it before but I've lost entire weekends of my life to this game, and recently cruised through about a dozen completions on the DS version (which is a surprisingly good conversion).

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I've been playing Tales of Graces f when I have time. When all else fails, when I can't choose what to play next, I just grab a Tales game and it's like mama's home cooking. I was in the mood for an easy one too and boy...

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See at the bottom where it says "Next: Head to the Manor?" At any time you can hit L1 and the game reminds you, in case you have a thirty second attention span such as I do, what your dumbass is supposed to do next. I'm still in the prologue where the main characters are children, which a lot of people didn't like, but I'm digging it just fine. Tales games kick ass.

 

I've been playing Arkham Knight off and on for the past month (since it released).  I like it quite a bit, just haven't had a whole lot of time to invest into it yet.

I played and finished Spec Ops: The Line about a week ago, but I'm going to have to play through it again since I'm pretty hazy on some of the story details.  Fortunately the game is short, so that won't take long.

I also just started Ocarina of Time 3D and have finished the first dungeon.  I haven't played this game since it first came out, so I remember practically nothing about it.  So far, it is just as good as I remember.  A friend of mine finished the game pretty recently and was telling me about a lot of annoying/frustrating things about it, and he came away with a pretty unfavorable opinion of the game, so I'm curious to see if I end up feeling the same way when it's over.

Started J Stars Victory Vs and it's not terrible but not great. I rented this one and probably won't put a lot of time in to it.

I'm continuing my playthrough of Phantasy Star 2. A grinding we will go.....

I started playing Dying Light again and I'm enjoying it so far but I'm not sure how long it can hold my attention.

I played through the demo of Tembo the Elephant and I like it but not enough to spend $15 on it. Once the price hits around $5.00 I'll pick it up.... I also purchased Castle in the Darkness recently and honestly it looks like the better game.

I plowed through it on the phone quite some time ago (also was good there).
I told my brother i would have it finished before the week was out despite having almost no time to play. Since i knocked out all the hard things i MIGHT be able to do so. I think all i have left is getting a win with all civs. Already have 6/16(?) of them done.

It took me all week to finish a single game of CIv rev. I kept falling asleep. Apparently 1 turn before winning i hit a button sequence and canceled building the World Bank to win.
On the plus side i got a few more of the special historical people i needed...

Played Smash Bros on Wii U for the first time. Bowser is WAY better than he was when i last played Smash!
My usual bunch was Bowser, Donkey Kong, Dr Mario, Marth. I managed to kick ass tonight with Bowser pretty consistently in 3-8 player matches. I think if it was 1v1s it would have been a different story though.

Also played BroForce. Tons of fun in co-op. Worth checking out for the Steam people. It is still in Beta.

And a little Mario Kart 8 Wii U. I was able to consistently take 4,5,6 place lol I was surprised at how much depth there was with the customizations actually effecting the vehicles stats.

EDIT
Oh yeah. I should clear Bejeweled 2 Endless level 280 in the very near future!

@Izret101: Have your tried the Expendables version of Broforce? It should still be free on steam.

I believe we also played that... Not 100% sure tho as we never loaded into a different game. If it was just an expansion then yes we did.

We cleared thru nearly all available levels. Around 130AM we called it quits with a final set of stages left.
Super frantic fun game.


Firing up my One for the first time. After updating whatever needs to be updated going to play something trashy on there no doubt.
I can't wait to see how much space all the games i already "own" take up when it is all dloaded.

Finished Diablo on the Xone. The game was easy near the end due to some overpowered weapon drops.

Hmmm if/when i get Diablo i might have to hit you up for some gear :P


Been playing One lately.

Finished:
Quiplash
Boggle
Scrabble

Also gave some time to:
Project Spark
Forza Presents Fast and Furious - working on now
So Many Me - seems like a decent platform/puzzle style game
Threes! - Super addictive... Learning curve to master it seems super high though so not sure if i'll ever finish it.
Jackbox Party Pack - Finished everything except You Don't Know Jack. About halfway done with that.
Worms Battlegrounds
World of Tanks - still really enjoy this game. Gave arties a try and either they have been better balanced or i was just using better ones that didn't exist before.
Happy Wars
Pinball FX2
Airmech Arena
Spectra
other stuff.....

Been busy for some time playing the PS3 version of Dark Souls. Not sure if I'll go for all trophies, but it may not be too much effort to complete it. Just a couple areas left to clear on this playthrough.

After my previous find of Guitar Hero 3 for PC, I bought several of the games for 360 from GameStop: Band Hero, Guitar Hero 5, and GH: Warriors of Rock, as well as GH: Aerosmith from a different Goodwill. I think it goes without saying that I enjoy these games. I need more Guitar Controllers for 360 though. If anyone is looking to get rid of some, PM me. :)

After dealing with a sinus infection for the past couple days I finally was well enough to play some games.

Rare Replay - Great presentation and selection of games but what is up with that installer? The game itself installs last as the 360 games have to install first.

Odallus the Dark Call - Duke needs to play this game. I like Axiom Verge better but this game pulls off a good Metroidvania with a little bit of Demon's Crest.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/319480/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/odallus/odallus.htm

Odallus looks bad ass!  Only on PC?

@Shaggy: As far as I know yes. I hope they port it to consoles.

Been playing the hell out of Hearthstone

Last hurrah for my cousin before he heads back to Japan
Played
Quiplash - Steam
Drawful - Steam

Back home and on the One until i pass out.
Forza presents F&F is back on the menu.

Finally opened up my birthday present from April...
Mortal Kombat X!

I'm not sure how i feel about it yet.
About halfway thru and story is still interesting.

I'm still playing through my Guitar Hero Games, as well as Band Hero and Rock Band 1. I still can't do anything higher than Easy on Guitar, and I can only do Beginner on Drums and Vocals.

EDIT:


That's a pretty fun game. Me and a friend beat it a while back. I still prefer Killer Instinct though. :P

Having finished the story i am still not quite sure how i feel about the direction it took.
I stuck thru the credits tho and enjoyed the little Marvel style surprise though.

Last night, while streaming on Twitch, I started a game of Super Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong Country's JP Counterpart) just for fun, ended up finishing the whole thing during the Stream. It was my best run ever for that game I think.

Batman Return of the Joker NES - Amazing that this game started off as a tech demo for the Sun FME-7 chip.

I finished Batman: Arkham Knight a few days ago.  I really wanted to get 100% in that game so I could get the 'true' ending, but I'm not hunting down 250 Riddler trophies.  I don't know why they felt the need to put that many in the game, and then make it a requirement for the best ending.  It's just superfluous padding for the sake of padding.

I was playing Race The Sun and really enjoying it, but I hit the max level (25) and can't progress anymore, so I don't feel compelled to keep playing it.

I started Monstania, a Super Famicom RPG that never made it to North America.  It's interesting, but not very good I'm afraid.  I'll finish it since it's supposed to only be a few hours long, but there are way better offerings on the SNES and SFC.

And I played about an hour of Deadpool a couple of days ago.  It's probably the best PS2/Xbox action game we never got.  It's a shame that it didn't come out until PS3/X360.  Gameplay-wise, it feels extremely dated.

@Redd - I followed you on twitch.tv I also stream, feel free to watch my streams if you can

I'll follow you too. Thanks! :D

Also, sorry if you got a lot of E-Mails today saying I'm going live on and off. I've been testing a new setup all day long. :/

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Harebrained does not disappoint, easily one of the best devs that's been using Kickstarter.

I finished up Dark Souls on PS3 last night.
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Mostly:
Beach Buggy Racing - Fun, surprisingly challenging, much better game than i was expecting.
MKX - almost done with all the offline stuff. Not ready to head online and get annihilated.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch - Review in the works.

More Hong Kong.

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About halfway through Spec-Ops: The Line. Hoping to finish it before tomorrow afternoon when Steven and I will be recording our PlayCast segment on it.

Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition is a great game and I'm reminded of it every time I play it. But the areas added specifically for this version are for the birds.

Started the online in MKX
Project Spark - ugh
Beach Buggy Racing
Octodad

Destiny
Real Racing 2 (WP)
Glow Artisan (WP)

...level 33, still have never played a single Raid in Destiny.

Been playing a lot (A LOT) of Sword Master for the NES.  I've really been enjoying it since I noodled out some of its secrets.

On a hardware note, I figured out how to split the composite video out signal from my NES with the parts I had on hand, so I've been playing Sword Master, one of the finest looking NES games, on a color TV and a B&W TV simultaneously.  It's been very interesting, especially as retro game video fidelity is all the rage to talk/think about these days.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGpVcdqeS0

Finally beat Omega Quintet, my first JRPG for the PS4 console. Pretty average fare. At least the soundtrack's pretty good.

I really have fallen out of favor with DRPGs. I used to play those all the time, and nowadays I can't stand them. Weird.

getting into Animal Crossing New Leaf, it's a lot of fun. doesn't feel significantly different than the original but it has many improvements to existing features that make it play much better than the first (i haven't tried the others in between).

I just killed the last of the 4 Major Bosses on Dark Souls 2's New Game Plus mode. :)

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth (360) - Been playing coop w/ my 3yr old.

Madden 16 X1: I haven't had a chance to try any of the new features yet but it seems like a solid entry. The Origin authentication message of "Do you trust this Xbox?" was odd.

I finished Until Dawn last night.  Awesome game.  I'm definitely going to start another playthrough soon so I can see some of the other ways that the story can play out.

That games looks like something I would love. Definitely on my list when I get a PS4.

So I finished Tales of Graces f on Monday, and started Metal Gear Solid yesterday and finished it this morning.

I started both Panzer Dragoon Orta and Total Overdose today. I plan to finish Orta first then go back and finish Total Overdose.

Man, a person can get a lot of gaming in when he's unemployed on sabbatical.

Sonic the Fighters (XBLA) - Been taking Amy for a spin.

Started Metal Gear V.... That intro....  very odd.... so far this game is amazing.

I also started MGS V this week. I agree that intro was very odd and unique. The game is amazing. I got about three hours in today before switching gears to MGS on PS1 as part of this months community playthrough. Once I got a handle of the controls I'm all good. These two games are very different, but they are both amazing in different ways.

Finished NG+ and all achievements last night. :D
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I started MGSV this morning at about 4:30am and didn't stop until I realized it was past noon. As soon as I put some calories in my body it's right back to it.

The game is freaking Godly.

While everybody else is knee deep in MGS V I'm playing a spiritual successor to Syndicate.

Wow, that is amazing. Congrats on this, I think I still need 3 or 4, and they are some of the harder ones. Can't seem to get the all weapons one, not sure what I am missing.

There is a list on TrueAchievements. It's mostly weapons that require special materials to upgrade like Demon Titanite, Twinkling Titanite, and Dragon Scales. There are a few rarer drops in there, and all of the tail weapons. Also all the boss soul weapons. Takes 2.5 playthroughs to get them all.

Be while since posted here haven't been in the mood gaming much lately, Anyway just started Divinty 2 (PC) which seems pretty solid so far but it does looks a bit dated and been beta tesing Sol Trader (PC).

played a few hours of Battlefield 3 with a friend, first time i've played it in months and it felt great to try it again. also played some Army of Two for 360, that seems like a ton of fun, gotta try the co-op on it when i get a chance.

Virtua Fighter 2 (XBLA) - Kicking some ass with Dural.

Nothing but MGSV. It is impossible to put down.

More MGSV. Rocket Punch!

I grabbed Mad Max at the library. I'm hoping to try it this weekend.

Deadman's Cross (Vita) - Square Enix is shutting down the servers at the end of the month, so I thought I would check out this F2P game.

Finished Whispering Willows tonight.
I didn't pay much attention to the story to be honest but what i caught of it was pretty dark.

Short game probably 3-4 hours for full experience 1ish to power thru ASAP.

Castle Crashers Remastered

Free for a limited time if you bought it on the 360.
Also the 360 version got an update so you can upload your progress to the One ;)

Been playing a lot of Resident Evil 4 HD.  I played RE4 when it first came out and loved it, but any attempts over the years to replay it have not gone well.  I think the somewhat dated control scheme takes a bit of getting used to, but I finally got past that barrier and am having a hard time putting the game down.

I'm also playing a little bit of Ocarina of Time 3D here and there.  Just finished the Forest Temple.

Mad Max X1: It's a decent game but it's nothing memorable. If you see it for $20 or below pick it up.

Oh, that's how everyone's doing it so quickly...

Yea then you just need to replay the levels requited for the achievements.

MGSV though it's getting sadistically difficult. Almost 80 hours in, no end in sight.

holy crap, 80 hours? i had no idea metal gear games ever got that long.

i just spent 2 hours in the Pit of 100 Trials from Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door. made it to level 91 before finally losing, so close! i'm pissed but at the same time satisfied, i know what to expect and i'm sure i could make it to the end soon. a few more levels higher and i should be good to go.

Fighting Vipers (XBLA) - Candy is an awesome fighter!

Mad Max X1: I've upgraded just about everything to max level right now. If you see it for cheap $20 or less pick it up.

NHL 16 X1: I didn't like last years but I'll give this years game another shot.

finished the main story in Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door! great game, a must-play for any RPG fans with a gamecube. the gameplay can get a bit repetitive but it's still a lot of fun. i'm going to go back and attempt The Pit of 100 Trials again, and i may try to finish off all the "troubles" side-quests.

I finished Resident Evil 4 the other day.  Most games, no matter how good they are, I'm usually just playing them to complete them.  RE4 is one of the few games that I actually don't want to end because of how good it is, which is high praise considering that it's a 15-20 hour game.  I felt the same way when I first played it 10 years ago.  I seriously think it's one of the best games ever made.

So now I felt like changing it up and playing something different, so I started Koudelka on the PSX.  It's an odd mix of survival horror style exploration and turn-based RPG battles with random encounters.  In theory, it seems like taking a gameplay style that forces you to explore the environment with a fine-tooth comb and mixing it with random encounters would be a bad idea, and it probably is.  However, I'm about an hour into the game and am enjoying it so far.

Dash of Destruction (XBLA) - My daughter chasing me as the T-Rex, lots of fun when catches me.

They typically didn't until Peace Walker came out.

Anyway I finished the main story a few days ago. Didn't much care for the ending, honestly. Still can't put it down though. I'm well over 100 hours now. That's rarefied air right there, the only other game I can think of off-hand where I hit triple digit hours is Persona 3.


Dude, to be honest I kind of wish we'd done RE4 for the playthrough. That game seriously is a GOAT.

Also, always wanted to play Koudelka, have yet to get my hands on a copy, though I believe it is on PSN.

I understand the Shadow Hearts series is kind of a spiritual successor to Koudelka, and the first Shadow Hearts game was phenomenal.

I was wondering what you would think about the ending, I heard bad things about it. Haven't seen it myself and don't want spoilers though, just wondering if it soured your experience very much but it must not have if you kept playing beyond it.

As for myself, I finally got around to play-testing at least 10 - 20 minutes of all the new games I picked up in the last small scores thread post I made. Really happy with all of them, except I'm a little unsure of Zack & Wiki. It seems like a good game but it feels targeted to a very young audience which can get a little annoying. I would have to play longer to decide how I really feel about it.

Haha, too late now I guess.  We'll have to bust out RE4 one month for a playthrough.

Yeah, I've heard that there's some relationship between Koudelka and the Shadow Hearts series.  I've wanted to play Shadow Hearts for a long time since it's supposed to be amazing, but have always put it off so I could play Koudelka first.

Got through the first play through of Dragons Crown attempting the second play through now.

I'm now pushing MGSV to it's limits. It's a completely different game now.

Having beaten the main story, the stakes are much lower. I'm basically just grinding for good soldiers to level up my base to develop whacky crap like the infinity bandana to play with so I can really break the game. As it stands I'm running around with the speakers on terrorizing the guards every damn where taking down camps so fast I actually sometimes have trouble finding the poor fools that Quiet has tranq'ed so quick (hence I make a lot of noise to draw them to me first). Just fun, fun, fun.

I do realize it's going to be time to move on with my life soon, so I started playing Mimana on PSP. Nice little JRPG. The battle system is a poor man's Tales hack and slash, everything else is by the numbers, but I'm enjoying it a lot. As Mark from CGR put it, the game is quite relaxing.

I was playing Total Overdose on the PS2 before I started MGSV, and I played a little bit of that tonight. I would like to finish it, as I'm more than halfway through it, but it's not that great of a game and there are a bunch of other things I want to play. I dunno.

Dark Souls 2 X1: After talking with a certain someone I decided to give this game a try again.

Mad Max X1:  I think this game will show up in a Metal Jesus hidden gems video in a couple years. Buy it if you find it for $25 or less.

NHL 16 X1: I still suck at hockey games but it is a lot better than last years.

finished the Pit of 100 Trials in Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door! took nearly 3 hours but somehow i managed it without skipping any floors. i think i'll go through the glitzville fights one last time, finish off the Troubles, then call it quits.

also started and made great progress in Conker's Bad Fur Day. it's my first time playing, but i've watched a friend play though it twice already so i know it fairly well. at least it's been long enough since watching it that i don't remember how to do everything and it's still challenging at times. i left off last night at the start of the zombie level.

lastly i've been putting a little time into Animal Crossing New Leaf now and then. working towards getting a golden axe so i can go nuts with a giant Perfect Cherry orchard to fund more house expansions and public works. catching beetles on the tropical island worked well for money but it took so much time i would rather have a steady cherry income, even if there's a 3 day gap between crops.

Just finished Total Overdose. I kind of rushed through it because quite frankly there are much better open world GTA clones nowadays. It was silly and fun though. Happy I finished it.

Probably will focus on Mimana for a little while before I start another console game...maybe.

Betcha can't guess what I'm playin'.

I just bought Super Mario Maker this last weekend, and am really enjoying the zaniness so far.  If any of you have levels you've designed, I'd love to try them out!

I decided Koudelka wasn't really working out, so I put it back on the shelf.  The game isn't very good, but I thought I could stick it out to the end since it started out pretty easy.  Then the difficulty spiked, and I decided that it just wasn't worth it.

So then I just bit the bullet and bought Resident Evil on my PS4 to prepare for the upcoming playthrough.  I've played this game so many times, but it's always a joy for me to play through it again.  I've actually been playing it on my Vita using the PS4's streaming features, and it works surprisingly well.  I've been hesitant to play PS4 games on my Vita in the past because the Vita has fewer buttons than the Dual Shock 4, so I'd imagine most games wouldn't translate very well, but Resident Evil works fine.

I also started up Rule of Rose on PS2.  I've owned this game for about 5 years, and seeing how much it goes for on ebay now, I figured I might as well dust it off and see if it's worth the price tag.  I haven't put much time into it yet, so nothing has really happened in the game, but it does have a nice atmosphere so far.

Interested to hear about Rule of Rose. The copy you gave me is still one of my prized pieces, and I'm always thinking about going for it.

I'm playing No More Heroes. I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand you have that awesome Suda51 stupid arcadey gameplay, but then you have to grind money by doing crappy minigames between levels? I know Duke.Togo is gonna roast me for this but the open world stuff and grinding I could totally do without.

I've been having lots of fun with this game too.  I'll send you a level but it will be tomorrow as I'm not off work until midnight.

Hey now.

As you all well know, I'm plowing through Skylanders Superchargers right now. As if the DK and Bowser Amiibos weren't enough, there are other outright ripoffs glowing tributes to the Nintendo empire in this game. Actually, there are tons of tributes/lifts to many notable games in the entire Skylanders series, but that's another discussion for another time.

I'll give ya an example: for one of the air vehicles, it is able to perform a certain... maneuver while engaging in sky combat. Here, I'll give you a hint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIkJvY96i8w
Click the link above to find out. What are you, a pussy? DO IT!!!

BTW I read somewhere that StarFox was originally gonna be one of the Amiibos to appear in Superchargers, but the Nintendo bigwigs were afraid it'd take attention away from the upcoming release of StarFox Zero. Are you kiddin' me?! That woulda been the best promo EVAR! It could have potentially been the first vehicle amiibo that was cross-compatible with StarFox Zero!! Actually, they could've given him TWO: the arwing for air combat, and the landmaster for ground assaults! Ya really dropped the ball on this one, Ninty. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised...

Then there are the racing challenges, which feature rotating cubical item boxes in the middle of the track that contain some real oddball power-ups. Sound familiar? Interestingly enough, one of those power-ups is a temporary invulnerability shield that looks like this:

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Hmmm. You don't suppose-- naaah, couldn't be.

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Errr... then again...

ANYway, I found the vehicular parts of this game a bit frustrating at the outset. But with the gradual acquisition of upgrades picked up throughout the various levels, I've built a pretty decent hod rod... that has yet to place higher than third on any of the race challenges I've run so far. Guess I gotta keep grindin'...

As for the on-foot stuff: pretty much the same-ol' same-ol'. The only new twist are parts of levels that shift your perspective from third-person to top-down third-person or upside-down third-person. Kinda like the galactic adventures of a certain mustachioed midget toilet-jockey...

More details to come for you to completely ignore.


...'Late

I broke down and bought Phantom Pain for $45 and I've been working on that. Love it so far.

I absolutely love No More Heroes.  Stick it out, and I think by the time you get through to the end, you'll be glad you did.  I actually like the small open-world feel of the 1st game, versus the more restrictive setting of the 2nd game.  I know the battle system is the game's bread and butter, but the other stuff really adds diversity and breaks up the flow.  The 2nd game adds some nice 8-bit styled mini games as challenges to earn the money to do the fights, but unfortunately, they're kind of broken by requiring more precision timing and movement than what the analog sticks allow for, and there's NO OPTION to use the D-pad to control the on-screen character for some of those.  The exterminator sequence is particularly frustrating with analog controls.  So while the 2nd game might have more boss battles and such, for my money, the first NMH game was the more fully realized game with all it had to offer.  I need to go back and play through that again...

Perhaps it's a bit cliche to say so now, but I'm loving Metal Gear Solid V. I wasn't too fond of the slow start with the hospital and all, but after that, it got really good. :)

@FRO - Thanks for chiming in, I'm getting more comfortable with the game now. I think I just a little off-put because I was looking for a quick pallet cleanser after MGSV and I found myself in another open world game. I'm getting more into now, but...mowing the lawn?

@Shoboni, @Redd - Welcome to MOTHER BASE.

PLAGUE INC IS DEVOURING MY LIFE.

The second game is better about that because the mini-games are not only fun but completely optional, and you'll unlock high-enough paying assassin missions in the first to make the stupid shit like mowing lawns obsolete.


It feels good to be home

Cleaning a whole mess of backlog Famicom games to play during an extended stretch of paid free time later tonight.  Really looking forward to it.

The big winners during my Famicom Paid Free Play were Karateka, Dragon Fighter, and FC Genjin. 

I still can't believe that Karateka is a Famicom game.  The visuals are so unique and dynamic that I get sucked in every time I play.  Also, despite the game being relatively simple, it still has a good sense of challenge in a "How far can I get this time?" way.

Dragon Fighter is a very engaging action platformer.  The best way I can describe it is a game halfway between Shadow of the Ninja and Sword Master.

I love Hudson platformers, but the Bonk/Genjin games usually bedevil me with their difficulty.  However, I hit a groove last night playing FC Genjin that carried me through several levels.  It actually reminded me of a more difficult Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa.  Easily one of the best platformers I've played for the system, lagging only slightly behind the Super Mario games and Kirby's Adventure.

The best part is that if you want to try these games out, they can still be had cheap.  Import away.

Tried dabbling in the FOB stuff in MGSV.

After about 115 hours playing the single-player game, I instantly realized how badly I suck at it. Had a chance to defend myself against a live invader and he manhandled me in the most embarrassing ways. I mean, holy crap, I'm not the world's biggest online PVP guy, but I've had my fair share of wins and losses over the years. There's something different about this game though, in that the other player has an opportunity to not only kick your ass but to take your stuff! Wow, I've never felt so demoralized while playing a video game. I had to turn it off and walk around for a few minutes.

Then to make myself feel better I turned the game back on and found an FOB in the lobby that was ridiculously under-secured. Tranq'ed like five D-level guards and walked through the door. First and so far only FOB victory.

I want to keep trying these missions but the emotions involved are legitimately stressful. I'm not kidding.

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Meanwhile I'm ranked 6th in No More Heroes and the grinding is not too bad any more. The garbage collection mini-game is pretty lucrative and now there are many random kill-streak missions open on the map. I suck at them and fail every one very quickly, but you keep the money you make from the kills in them so it's a quick way to mop up.

Also playing Mimana: Iyar Chronicle on PSP still. Again, kind of a really mediocre Tales ripoff but it's easy and has great voice acting. Also, I had a huge issue with the ridiculously high encounter rate but I read online that you can hold circle to walk and the encounter rate becomes almost zero, making exploration a lot easier. Every time I play my PSP I wish I would play it more often. I love this handheld. 

 

Been loving me some "choose your path" style horror, with Until Dawn. Sooo good.....If you like that kind of game.

finished Conker's Bad Fur Day! what a great game, i had a lot of fun with it. very challenging at times though.

Almost done with No More Heroes (just beat Bad Girl, what a pain in the ass!) and I see I'll be grinding $1.5 million if I want the last sword and the upgrade that gives it infinite charge.

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This is the essential LOVE/HATE game for me. I'll be so happy when it's over, but in all likelihood I'll forget all the grinding and remember it fondly in about a few months.

Alright finished it. True ending and everything. Can't recommend it honestly. I enjoyed Killer is Dead and Lollipop Chainsaw a hell of a lot more without all the bloat that this game has. I noticed my copy of NMH2 is still sealed and it just may stay that way...

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (360) - Yet another simple coop game to play with the little one.

Going to start Eternal Sonata.  Anyone play it?  How good is it?

Wrapped up Castle Crashers Remastered finally.

Got a little progress made on getting KOTH respect in Mortal Kombat too.

Overnighting the 100 games played in DOA5 Last Round.

After Burner Climax (XBLA) - I want another After Burner, Sega!

Do you like JRPGs?

It's one of my favorite games of all time.

NMH2 gets rid of the open world stuff, and it moves more smoothly. I liked the story of the first game better, but 2 is fun to play. Plus you finally get to fight Letz Shake.

Why yes I do. :)  Thanks.

I wouldn't call it one of my favorite games/RPGs, but Eternal Sonata is definitely worth checking out.  I played it way back in 2008 and enjoyed my time with it.

Anyway, I finished my first run in Resident Evil a couple of days ago.  Just started a knife only run with Chris, so we'll see how that goes.  As many times as I have played this game over the years, I've never attempted any kind special/speed runs like this, but the inclusion of PS4 trophies in the HD remaster have goaded me into it.

Speaking of goading me into playing something, I just started Bloodborne because a friend of mine won't stop playing/talking about it.  I never thought it looked all that appealing, but I am definitely enjoying it so far.

The game has no trophies?!?!?!  :o

Which game has no trophies? Eternal Sonata? It came out in 2008, and trophies were first implemented in 2009.

Yeah, eternal Sonata.  I didn't realize that.  I'm surprised none were patched.

NES games don't have trophies either dawg, just play the damned thing.

A few were, but not many.

Just finished Saints Row Gat out of Hell.

I loved The Third and IV but I can't recommend this one. No music nor character customization (you play as either Gat or Kinzie).

I know it's a budget title but because of that the best parts of the previous games are absent. I bought it for $8 and I don't feel ripped off, it was kind of fun for the weekend, and who knows if we'll get more Saints Row ever, but it sucks that this is my last impression of the series.

Tiny Toon Adventures (Famicom) - Fun for a quick play through

Dark Souls 2 (X1) - I started talking with Duke about this game.... just finished the tower of flame.

Fifa 16 (X1) - Just started.

After I get back from RWX, we could co-op some if you like. I'd probably have to build a new character, but wouldn't take too long to catch up. Have fun!

Yeah, but NES games were cool without Trophies.

Ok you win.

Anyway I started Threads of Fate on the PS1. For a game that I've heard is easy and short, it's one of the grindiest damn games I've ever played. It is cute and fun with nice bright colors and a very funny script so far.

After Burner Climax (PS3/PSN) - Beaten with all craft, now to unlock all the EX options.

I'm getting there.  I fell asleep TWICE while watching the opening movie.  On another note, I played Ren & Stimpy for the NES and I couldn't figure out what to do on the first level.  Damn, you need manuals for games back in the day.

I think I'm going to stop playing Mimana. Sucks because I'm more then three quarters of the way through and the story is finally getting good and I love (most of) the voice acting but then you actually have to play the game. Look at the dungeon I'm in right now. Come on with this crap!

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Looks like standard dungeon affair.

Have you been spoiled by linear gameplay? :P

Reminds me of Hunt the Wumpus. We're going back to 1972?

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Trust me, it's a friggin' mess. Maybe the map doesn't really do it justice.

Yea I'm guessing it isn't a small run 3-4 minutes from start to seal one.

I have never been a big fan of backtracking.

So I gave up on Mimana, then I gave up on Threads of Fate. I decided to "buzz through" Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, and I ended up hating most of it.

I'm not sure why I'm on such a bad streak lately (on a side note, I think I just hate first person shooters now), but at least I got through COJ. I finished a lot of games in September (being unemployed is a huge help there), so I'm going to start Fallout: New Vegas either tonight or tomorrow morning. I figure get it out of the way asap. It's not like I'll be getting Fallout 4 right away (still don't have a next gen console) and I know what I'm in for and even if the story is much weaker as I've been told time and time again, I know love the gameplay.

Borderlands (PS3) - What took me so long? This game is bloody fantastic!

Dark Souls 2 (X1) - Making my way through Sinners Rise. I just made it to level 100.

At Helios One in New Vegas.

What should I do with the energy?

Also, Veronica is my waifu.

I finished up my first run through of Undertale, an excellent jRPG with a lot of trope subversions. The main gimmick of the game is that you can go through without killing a single enemy - you can spare every enemy, primarily (but not exclusively) through the use of the Act command. Of course, if you do decide to go through the game killing some or all of the monsters, then the game reacts to that, having the in-game characters react differently to you, giving you different boss battles and different endings. The less you read about the game the better the impact. I recommend it to all, especially fans of SNES jRPGs.

Sounds very interesting.  What is it on?

started up Super Mario Sunshine for my first playthrough of that. did a little in the first 4 areas, finished off most of the first one. it's a fun game but the controls are a real pain when i'm only used to SM64. mario reacts so quickly in this that i find myself running off cliffs or doing side flips way more often then i'd like to. slowly getting the hang of it though.

Borderlands (PS3) - Tracking down this Sledge character. On a side note, everything Claptrap yips about is awesome :P

@Shaggy: It looks like PC only right now. The official site is http://undertale.com/

Scooter is my favourite, have you met him yet?

The guy who runs the catch a ride?

ya, that's the one!

As expected, the four 5200 controllers that came with my 5200 are all a bust.  Luckily, I had planned on this, and was able to scoop up some homebrew controller adapters on ebay and some PC gamepads and joysticks from my town-wide yard sale.  Result: for the price of one rebuilt 5200 controller, I have several joypads and joysticks of infinitely better quality to choose from.

Ya, he's pretty funny as well.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 X1 - What happened? ....

Lego Batman 3 X1 - Much better than Tony Hawk. Not as good as Lego Jurassic Park.

Still wandering around New Vegas. A little too open-ended, not sure what to do. Spent a lot of time doing Yes Man's faction quests but I don't want to just run over and kill House and miss out on six or seven increments of The House Always Wins main quests. I think I'm overthinking it.

Started The Wolf Among Us as well. Only ever played one Telltale game (the original Walking Dead) and it took me about ten seconds to remember why. How tragic is it that Telltale makes these awesome interactive dramas when they run like a dumpster fire?

Borderlands  (PS3) - Sledge beaten, now mopping up the random missions in Fyrestone.

Forza 6 X1: So far so good. It's a very good looking game.

I'm looking forward to trying out Read Only Memories ... just not sure if Steam or GOG. I've heard it compared to Snatcher.

Sidequesting/fooling around in New Vegas and picking here and there at Wolf Among Us.

Still playing Eternal Sonata not totally into it yet...

I finished Rule of Rose a few days ago.  It has a really interesting story, and I like some of the gameplay mechanics (using the dog to search for stuff).  The worst thing about the game is by far the combat.  It's atrociously bad.  I really wish that they would have just ditched the combat altogether and just used that development time to implement some puzzles instead.  Overall, I'd say it's a good experience, even if it is frustrating at times.

Upon finishing Rule of Rose, I started Metro 2033.  I'm really enjoying this one.  Sure, it's an FPS, and the core of the game is just to shoot stuff, but it still has so much more going for it.  Being based on a novel, the story is pretty interesting, and the writing is very good also.  It also has a really great atmosphere.  This game is actually deeper than I thought it would be, which is a very pleasant surprise.

Uno (WP) - Been playing this lately in the mornings while the kids occupy the TV.

I've heard that combat is really bad in that game. Haunting Ground has a dog that is used for combat while you run away from the crazies chasing you Clock Tower style.

Forza 6 X1: - I haven't played a mainline Forza game since 2. It's a great game and one I could see myself playing for a long time.

Transformers Devastation X1: - Just installed it last night. I'm looking forward to trying out the game but I've heard it is only 5 hours long.

Borderlands (PS3) - Made it to New Haven, now for loads of side-quests and grinding to level up.

Fruit Ninja (WP) - Been playing this while at the in-laws for Thanksgiving.

Yep. :)

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^^^ COOL!

Finished The Wolf Among Us. Cool stuff, though the poor technical performance, as has been mentioned ad nauseum by myself and others on the internet, is unforgivable.

Playing through Old World Blues, one of the DLCs for New Vegas. I wish I had just finished New Vegas, gone to something else, and tried the DLCs later, but it's too late now.   

Borderlands (PS3) - Krom seems like he might put up a fight.

Transformers Devastation X1 - Finished. If you like Bayonetta's combat and Transformers this is the game for you.

Forza 6 XI - One of my favorite games of the year. I'm working my way through the career.

Yeah, I got about halfway through before I gave up on it. Had a tough time getting into it. Same thing happened with me and Nino Kuni