The Gaming Diary: Chapter 3

[Ikariniku]

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.

[GrayGhost81]

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.

[Link41]

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

[Izret101]

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

[Izret101]

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.

[Link41]

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

[GrayGhost81]

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.

[Beardcore84]

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

[Izret101]

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.

[GrayGhost81]

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

[Izret101]

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.

[Link41]

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

[raffa1985]

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.



 
 

[Izret101]

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.

[Link41]

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.