Oh, you played it again on normal didn't you? You're such a little bitch.

Well of course I did. I have absolutely no intention of wasting an additional cockload of time to beat hard. It's only a 1.2 damage multiplier difference anyway, and the only reason to beat a harder difficulty would be to keep beating harder difficulties, and I don't feel like beating the same game 10 times.

Well, it's damage and health and probably some other things.

still a bitch

No, it's pretty much just damage and health. Not worth resetting all my damn levels and equipment. Took forever to do all that shit. Also, my friend got the Plat in 18 days, and I was on day 16 or 17 or whatever trying to beat that. And I got Singularity used before I finished Resonance, so I wanna try to beat that so I can just return it in a week. And I couldn't do Hard mode before getting Singularity, cause there was a nice 50% trade-in thing going on this week. And after I finish Singularity, I still have Castle Crashers and Shank. And by then new games will have started coming out. But if I ever felt like playing the game from the beginning again, I could always do Hard mode.

Seibei4211 wrote:

I think awp might enjoy this game since it really tries to be like Bioshock. It's the the luggage searching, E99 upgrades (aka Adam upgrades), gun uprades, stuff like that.

I've heard good things about singularity. At least, entertaining things. I might have been mistaking it for something else, but I hear the "It's a lot like Bioshock" comment getting passed around, which might be a token worth value once I play Bioshock 2 and then have the urge to play something else that's like Bioshock.

Need a new computer though and spending habits tell me that isn't going to happen any time soon

awp wrote:

Seibei4211 wrote:

I think awp might enjoy this game since it really tries to be like Bioshock. It's the the luggage searching, E99 upgrades (aka Adam upgrades), gun uprades, stuff like that.

I've heard good things about singularity. At least, entertaining things. I might have been mistaking it for something else, but I hear the "It's a lot like Bioshock" comment getting passed around, which might be a token worth value once I play Bioshock 2 and then have the urge to play something else that's like Bioshock.

Need a new computer though and spending habits tell me that isn't going to happen any time soon

Yeah, it's incredibly like Bioshock, except easier. Definitely easier. And the story's kinda stupid, too, but it doesn't really matter. This game has this pretty sweet rifle that lets you guide the bullet as it flies through the air and it explodes on impact, and you get to see the guy's body part or head fly off before you go back to normal view. And catching rockets to toss back at enemies is pretty amusing. As cool as some of these weapons are, though, half of them are useless. You just use the assault rifle, shotgun, and gatling gun the whole time. Except for special sniper needs.

Edit: Ok, the endgame is pretty fucking fun.

Ok guys, here's a tip: Never play Splatterhouse. This game is a pile of shit. Gonna swap it out for Force Unleashed II or God of War III or maybe even Epic Mickey tomorrow.

Seibei4211 wrote:

Force Unleashed II

I've only heard bad things about it though.

oh wow Sazh is god tier

I've been mulling about how to engage with the Adamantortoise without all that fancy equipment like Genji gloves or top-tier accessories, and it turns out Sazh can just solo Adamantortoises while Fang* and Claire just cheer him on like the boss that he is. Blitz is definitely god-tier



*Fang actually debuffed the Adamantortoise which probably allowed a greater pull of damage

adam2046 wrote:

Seibei4211 wrote:

Force Unleashed II

I've only heard bad things about it though.

Absolutely anything on Earth is better than Splatterhouse. Besides, I like the first Force Unleashed, and the only complaint I hear about FU2 is that it's ridiculously short, which doesn't really bug me. As long as it's fun like the first one was. I actually want a short game right now, cause LBP2 is just around the corner.

Edit: But seriously, Splatterhouse is officially one of the worst games I've ever played. I made it to the beginning of the second to last chapter before I reached my breaking point with that shitfest of awful.

So Force Unleashed II was pretty cool, but man, people aren't kidding when they say it's shoooort. You can beat the whole thing in a day. A really lax day of mild play. Now I'm just dicking around until LBP2 comes out. By the way, awp, are you getting that game? I know you liked the first one.

And also, it occurred to me recently that the second incarnation of the 360 thread died in two days. I knew it wouldn't last, but damn, two days...

Well, this thread would probably die if you didn't talk about your ps3 experiences so often!

Not that that's a bad thing.

Mass Effect II on ps3 next week.

I tried playing FFXIII a few days ago after not playing it for a while. Gameovers left and right, I don't know if I was just under-leveled or I just sucked. I did skipped a lot of enemies and didn't grind too much but heck, I was even getting frequent gameovers on the trash! One of the things that I got irritated with was when I retried after a gameover, some big monster would swoop in and engage me again which lead to another gameover.

I did get my first platinum trophy on another game called Altelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland. Thank goodness I don't have to play that again. First playthrough was pretty cool, but afterwards it's just a matter of collecting the trophies. No fun replay value there. Went through 37 save files to get everything I needed for the plat! Trophies are cool. I play PS3 games for their trophies.

Hyperdimension Neptune - Feb 15th is the release date (I think). Will probably be getting this. Saw gameplay and looked a lot like Trinity Universe which was a bit "fun" for me at least. Turn base but able to execute commands while attacking = Awesome. (But not Cross Edge, hated it. Mainly because of the non PS3 graphics and all it's weird mechanics and lagginess.)

I think I've seen you playing White Knight Chronicles a bit, Mafiamaster. What's your GR and are you still actively playing it?

GR is 9. Level 48 with no rebirths yet. Yes, I still play from time to time.
What? You want to quest with me or something? =D

Mafiamaster wrote:

I tried playing FFXIII a few days ago after not playing it for a while. Gameovers left and right, I don't know if I was just under-leveled or I just sucked. I did skipped a lot of enemies and didn't grind too much but heck, I was even getting frequent gameovers on the trash!

Gran Pulse is loaded with enemies that will readily destroy you. It's a bit hard to gauge what will and what won't. Never under-estimate the value of buffs/debuffs. Debrave is fucking vicious - it's not some pitiful 50% damage modifier; I got hit with that against some avian foe and went from 4k to 600 damage a shot (which is still poor damage given Fang's sloppy 20ks)

I've been destroying adamantoises for a bit with Sazh, and the drop rate on Plats is a hell of a lot better than I was led to believe. I recall reading that it was like, 5%, but in my experiences is more in the ballpark of 40%. I also finally got a trap, so I can go about cloning it and building some endgame gear.

Sazh so OP



I do intend to get LBP2, for sure. I don't play LBP1 enough (probably due to my irl friends being primarily Mario gamers and I dislike anon-online play) but I certainly enjoy it. Of course, I've got no intent to buy it on launch; 60 dollar price tags are not my cup of tea. Ditto Mass Effect 2. It looks like a fun third person shooter.

Mafiamaster wrote:

GR is 9. Level 48 with no rebirths yet. Yes, I still play from time to time.
What? You want to quest with me or something? =D

If you wanted I could! I think I'm GR11 and fully rebirthed etc.

Haven't played in like months though so I have no idea what's up.

awp wrote:

Gran Pulse is loaded with enemies that will readily destroy you.

That's exactly where I was trying to grind, lol. Once I first got there, I completed the first mission then decided to go farther into the story. Those robots pretty much obliterated me after using their "upgrade version" move. My debuffer (Vanille) probably isn't good enough yet though because I don't think she even has that skill you mentioned (or even a lot of debuffing skills yet).

Ivalset wrote:

I think I'm GR11 and fully rebirthed etc.

Did you just rebirth every chance you got right at 50? Some person a month ago on it told me to wait until GR10 before doing that, though of course I don't see a problem with rebirthing early. I'd rather be gaining both exp and gr then just gr. The way we handled that one Gigas was pretty awesome. You made him sleep and we just started buffing/debuffing. I was laughing because I've never seen that happen in the game before. Usually everyone just wails on him full group-wise. I stopped using those salves because they almost never really work for me. But seeing you, it's like 100% chance. Maybe I'll try it out later... much later.

Sleep tip is one of the tricks I learned while duo'ing stuff with a divine/elemental mage. Makes those duo fights a lot more reasonable. I wouldn't really bother with the other tips too much. Stun tip works sometimes as well but it's a lot harder to land.

There was a good reason to wait for gr10, though I can't for the life of me remember what it is. I think it's the third version of the spider mission at GR10. Everything's level 50 and it only takes like an hour or so to go from 35-50. I just exploded shit with Immolate I think. There's a room in the mission that has like 9 waterspider sprogs, it's the first boss room. But you can kill all of them, then wait 2 minutes and they'll respawn again. So basically you surf the internet then whack em all for awesome exp.

I'm not sure if it's really that amazing now, with all the new quests and such. Before I hit GR10, I used King of Dragons II and circled through the fire and ice elemental areas. Usually by the time I finished a full circle, they'd start respawning. Was also a great source of elemental shit!

But yeah, I didn't wait for my rebirthing. Might as well get them out of the way, they'll make you a lot more powerful with all the passives.

awp wrote:

I do intend to get LBP2, for sure. I don't play LBP1 enough (probably due to my irl friends being primarily Mario gamers and I dislike anon-online play) but I certainly enjoy it. Of course, I've got no intent to buy it on launch; 60 dollar price tags are not my cup of tea. Ditto Mass Effect 2. It looks like a fun third person shooter.

I'm surprised that you're interested in Mass Effect 2. Have you tried the demo? The combat is some of the most blatant cover-based shooting I've seen. You really have to duck into cover way more than you actually get to shoot. You'll probably get to upgrade that, but I don't see it making much of a difference. And the weird thing about aiming is, like, you can only shoot what's "targetted". So weird. Those are the two things that are keeping me from dropping $60 on it.

It's an rpg first and a tps second.

Also, charging shit as a vanguard will never get old.

Seibei4211 wrote:

awp wrote:

I do intend to get LBP2, for sure. I don't play LBP1 enough (probably due to my irl friends being primarily Mario gamers and I dislike anon-online play) but I certainly enjoy it. Of course, I've got no intent to buy it on launch; 60 dollar price tags are not my cup of tea. Ditto Mass Effect 2. It looks like a fun third person shooter.

I'm surprised that you're interested in Mass Effect 2. Have you tried the demo? The combat is some of the most blatant cover-based shooting I've seen. You really have to duck into cover way more than you actually get to shoot. You'll probably get to upgrade that, but I don't see it making much of a difference. And the weird thing about aiming is, like, you can only shoot what's "targetted". So weird. Those are the two things that are keeping me from dropping $60 on it.

I kinda agree with this as I played the first one when my brother brought home his Xbox. But yeah, I couldn't really get into it as it was just too boring and the story didn't really grab me.

Also, I have LBP2 pre-ordered and I'm hoping to grab it on the day it comes out as long as my Gamestop isn't gay and gets it in late.

The Mass Effect games are regarded very highly. I'm hoping there's a reason for it.

The game tries to put emphasis on cover-based combat but I don't have anything to do with that shit. I just use walls for cover while holding the aim button and just move until my enemy is in my line of sight.

RE4 is probably the best TPS I've played/seen and it doesn't have any of that cover garbage (except in a couple places in the last chapter, I think) and whenever playing TPSs henceforth, I try to play them as if they're RE4 with better mobility

Ivalset wrote:

It's an rpg first and a tps second.

Also, charging shit as a vanguard will never get old.

We are talking about ME2, right? The game that limited its RPG elements compared to the first one? Just making sure. It was an okay TPS, but lacking in RPG elements.

Mass Effect is widely regarded, but it really could have been so much more IMO.

Depends on your definition of RPG elements!

I can appreciate that it's an RPG, but if over 70% of the game movement and combat, then I want it to at least be enjoyable. Like Fallout. And I don't mind cover-based shooters at all. But I wanna be able to shoot for more than 2 seconds without losing my shield on the easiest fucking difficulty. When you're spending 75% of your combat time waiting for your shield to recharge, something's lame.

What? That just means you're bad.

Maybe you should switch weapons or something. What class were you using?

Fucked if I can remember. I think it was Vanguard, or whichever one was specialized in weapons that don't suck. Didn't really think it mattered all that much for a demo. And I'm not bad at TPS's. I think I've played enough of those on the hardest difficulty to qualify as being good at them. It's not my fault that I can't shoot people I point my gun directly at half the time. Heaven forbid my bullet ever travels more than 20 feet. Like that time I was trying to get rid of a rocket launcher guy, but he was too far to the right or something, so he wouldn't get targetted. Fucking balls to that.

I don't really know what to tell you. It sounds like you were using an inappropriate weapon for the range you were fighting at. Vanguards specialize in shotguns and charging into enemies and fucking them up. Also a bit of biotics. You should really use biotics.

I didn't have any problems pistol'ing down the rocket launcher guys, so...

oh I used the sniper rifle and picked them off pretty effortlessly

actually I was a bit surprised/impressed by my marksmanship with Dual Analog

Vanguards can't use snipers!!!!!!

but it's ok because charge is fuckin' awesome and so are shotguns

Whelp, I'm running the black road.
Skate 3 off HDD.
PSN is still okay... For now...

Ivalset wrote:

I don't really know what to tell you. It sounds like you were using an inappropriate weapon for the range you were fighting at. Vanguards specialize in shotguns and charging into enemies and fucking them up. Also a bit of biotics. You should really use biotics.

I didn't have any problems pistol'ing down the rocket launcher guys, so...

Well, the demo didn't really have a shotgun, did it? I think I would've used it if there was one since it's my favorite play-style most of the time. The only other weapon I remember gettings was an assault rifle and a useless piece of junk heavy pistol thing. There was a lot about the game that I didn't get time to fully understand either. Like different ammo types pretty much flew over my head. Do you only get, like, one shot or something? And I thought Overload was supposed to make gas tanks explode, but that never seemed to work, so maybe I got that wrong, too.

Yes, there definitely was a shotgun. You only have access to weapon types you can use, so it's quite possible you weren't a vanguard, then. Sentinels and Engineers are limited to Heavy Pistols and Submachine Guns. Sentinels get some crazy tech armor shit that increases your shields and explodes when it's destroyed. Engineers get some combat drones or something. Both also get access to Overload, not sure if you were saying you had access to it or Miranda did.

Ammo selection is permanent until you toggle it off. Vanguards had access to Incendiary ammo in the demo, and it was pretty easy to see if it was on or off, since the ammo glowed red and there was an energy cell dealie on the weapon that switches to red when you activate it.

Seems like overload is supposed to explode gas tanks, not sure what went wrong! Maybe it wasn't a gas tank or maybe you misclicked or maybe it was fucked up in the demo!

Whelp, guys. Remember how after you beat FFXIII, you were thinking "Wow, there are just so many questions I have left. This story is so open-ended! This game was so short! I don't want it to end!" Well Final Fantasy XIII-2 is coming this year to satisify all of your burning desires! Ugh... At least it'll be better than FFX-2.

Here's the so-so trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZFmOhnA1s

Steam is for PS3 now, or is going to be very soon. I don't know if this is news. I don't entirely see a point to it, unless the PS3 gets to enjoy Steam sales, because 3.75 for Super Meat Boy on a PS2 controller for the PC is a hell of a lot more value to me than 15.00 for Super Meat Boy on a PS3 controller for the PS3. I mean, Valve's doing the whole "if you buy it on PS3, you get the PC version too!", which would be awesome if Valve made non-FPS games, which quite frankly, have no home for me on a game machine without a mouse and keyboard.

I saw the news about FF13-2. Claire's open-leg suit of armour doesn't seem like a good design decision, both against the implement of weapons and character. She was fortunately on the non-skanky side for FF13, but if they take it in the direction they did with X-2, we're not only looking at an uncharacteristically skanky bitch, we're going to be joined by another skank nobody gives a shit about and Sazh will get demoted to a secondary cameo story character like that poor bastard Wakka.



Granted that's probably not where they're going with it, since they said they were aiming for it to be an improvement in more ways than "just the battle mechanics". A full suit of skank armour isn't the right direction to take, though.

Oh man, fuck FFXIII-2 cause we have THIS. ACTUAL GAMEPLAY FOR ONCE.

FFX-2 was a good game with an unbearable story.

I think both FFXIII-2 and FFXIII Versus are going to be great.

As for the steam shit, I'm just glad cross-platform is in and all that. More excited about what it means further down the road.

Also, I just bought Mass Effect 2 and I'm downloading it now. Selphie, you should give the demo another shot and play a class that owns, like Vanguard, Infiltrator or whatever the "i like guns" class is. Because I bet you love guns.

So FF Versus 13 is Kingdom Hearts with less colour? I can live with that.

Anyone else have/getting LBP2?
I "have it working online."

Yeah, I've been playing LBP2 today. Pretty fun stuff. There's quite a bit different from LBP1. Although it's way too hard to just simply find a list of all of your friends in-game.

Edit: Holy shit, Clive Handforth is fucking awesome.

I got LBP2 and I think it's much improved on the first. They added so much stuff, both in the story and for users to use, it just overall has a better feel. My only gripe is that I can't import my stuff from the first game as the file was copied off of a different PS3 since we had to replace it.

rust45 wrote:

I got LBP2 and I think it's much improved on the first. They added so much stuff, both in the story and for users to use, it just overall has a better feel. My only gripe is that I can't import my stuff from the first game as the file was copied off of a different PS3 since we had to replace it.

oh man it's been released already?
I checked yesterday and no justice for us brits.

I so cant wait for it i love lbp ((:

Anybody who has LBP2 add me on PSN or something.
Username is Pokebis as it says in OP.

renafgt wrote:

rust45 wrote:

I got LBP2 and I think it's much improved on the first. They added so much stuff, both in the story and for users to use, it just overall has a better feel. My only gripe is that I can't import my stuff from the first game as the file was copied off of a different PS3 since we had to replace it.

oh man it's been released already?
I checked yesterday and no justice for us brits.

I so cant wait for it i love lbp ((:

Should've come out yesterday in the UK.

MARVELLOUS ITS RELEASED.
so buying this later

PG_Rhydderch. Add me to PSN, people.

Just got my hands on 3D Dot Game Heroes and White Knight Chronicles, 'cause they were cheap and I wanted to try them out. Well, time to see how they are.

It won't let me!!! Add me instead or something: Ivalsetto

WKC's story mode is absolutely shitty, but the online is honestly pretty fun if you get into it. Additionally, most of the issues with the first game are fixed in the second (most notably action ring speed, amongst a pile of other changes).

I can help you out in online and give you general tips and other shit. It's a surprisingly complex game and it's pretty easy to drop 350+ hours into it.

Why is Ival always on PSN, but never on vent?

Mogsy has an account now?! OH MY GOD IT'S CHRISTMAS

Pokebis wrote:

Why is Ival always on PSN, but never on vent?

Mass Effect 2, mainly.

It appears that I was wrong, it's PG-Rhydderch. Not an underscore, but a hyphen. Whoops. Ival and RL have been added, adding a few more people over the course of the night.

PSN's got some 50% off game sales

grabbed Deathspank 2 and Costume Quest

I have LBP2 to blame for me not being on osu! much the past week. Making a half-decent level takes forever.

awp wrote:

PSN's got some 50% off game sales

grabbed Deathspank 2 and Costume Quest

I grabbed Costume Quest last Saturday. Feels bad, man, to buy a game right before the price went down.

http://lbp.me/v/w2pey1
My first LBP2 level for anyone interested.

If we're gonna be sharing our levels, then check this shit out. http://lbp.me/v/w28t8c

In other news, FUCK YES DEAD SPACE 2. Pretty fucking sweet.

I have a level that I made in LBP1, but it sucks. I'll post it anyway. http://lbp.me/v/-0r74

Also, adding your guy's levels to my queue.

Oh shit, Ival! Here you go!

Just got a new PS3 as an early b-day present!

I might be getting LBP2 as well soon. Haven't played the first one because it really didn't look appealing to me. I'll see what all the hype is about when I do get it.

Oh yeah, also got Blazblue: Continuum Shift today.

Seibei4211 wrote:

Oh shit, Ival! Here you go!

I don't know what I'm looking at, aside from the obvious.

Mafiamaster wrote:

Just got a new PS3 as an early b-day present!

I might be getting LBP2 as well soon. Haven't played the first one because it really didn't look appealing to me. I'll see what all the hype is about when I do get it.

Oh yeah, also got Blazblue: Continuum Shift today.

What was wrong with your old PS3?

Mafiamaster wrote:

Since my PS3 stopped reading discs altogether, hopefully I can get a new one before then.

Posted one month ago. D;

Oh yeah, also got LBP2 today.

But I don't see why this game is so great. Maybe it's just that I haven't progressed far enough or possibly that this isn't my kind of genre.
Maybe it's just me.

Edit: Actually, online is pretty fun

You pretty much need to play it with a friend for it to be really fun.

I remember dragging Skipper's lazy corpse through the water levels in LBP. That was good times.

Finally had the chance to play Scott Pilgrim VS The Game the other day when CheeseWarlock was in the area. That game is an absolute blast, however buggy it may be. I'll just jump off the top of the subway car and...woops I'll just slide back on.

Got the FF13 plat yesterday. Apart from the Equipment trophy, it was actually a bit fun. The Equipment trophy was very gay though.

Equipment trophy sucks. But at least you get a Fang theme for it. Fuck yeah, Fang.

I unlocked the Sazh theme first which was good because Sazh is the best character in the whole game. Assuming his fro-chicobo doesn't count as a character, that puts Fang at second

The next Double Fine game, Stacking, is coming out on Tuesday. Can't wait for that. Definitely looks a little better than Costume Quest. Oh, and if you guys haven't seen it yet, you have to watch this.



You can actually download that game for free, too. For the PC. And you'll never need to get another PC FPS again.

So who's getting Bulletstorm? Can't wait for some face-kicking action.

I thought the demo was alright, I'll grab it if it's on Steam or something. If for no other reason, because the advertising campaign was so damn awesome.

murseli - murseli

The games:
Battlefield: Bad Company
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
DJ Hero
Fifa 08
Final Fantasy XIII
Grand Theft Auto IV
Gran Turismo 5
Just Cause 2
LittleBigPlanet
Red Faction Guerrilla
Resident Evil 5
Skate.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion GOTY

Seibei4211 wrote:

So who's getting Bulletstorm? Can't wait for some face-kicking action.

"Hey Dick-tits! This game isn't gonna preorder itself!"
I lol'd. And yes, I will get it, however, on 360 as all my multi-console games go on there cause I know more people on Xbox live. I still think the PS3 is superior and has much better exclusives though.

rust45 wrote:

I still think the PS3 is superior and has much better exclusives though.

at the risk of igniting a flame war based on my limited experiences the 360 seems better from a performance standpoint; load times for disc games are a lot shorter in some cases and the dashboard features are more robust and plentiful

it's a pity I find the PS OS more intuitive because the 360 Dashboard has awesome features like game-unspecific voice chat

as for Bulletstorm I think I'll be getting it for PC since PC has a mouse and keyboard control scheme

PS3 has USB ports why can't I play FPS with kbm on it

awp wrote:

PS3 has USB ports why can't I play FPS with kbm on it

You could buy a third party adapter thing but, that's not exactly ideal...

Yeah, the exclusives really are kinda better on the PS3, huh? Ratchet, Resistance, The Last Guardian, Uncharted, LBP, that Katamari game, Final Fantasy vs. XIII, inFamous, Flower/Journey, and Metal Gear. Also, if it ever comes out, Kingdom Hearts.

There's really just three things I don't like with the 360: the controller is so weird, large games come on multiple discs, and you gotta pay for Xbox Live. I sure do like that cross-game chat though.

@awp
I personally dislike the way the Xbox dashboard works as I find it laggy, unresponsive, and kinda confusing, hard to find what you want. The PSN store is much better then the market place in that it just straight up tells you how much money you pay, and I can find what I want with ease.
Disregarding that though, another plus to Xbox is that my brother and I can be signed in at the same time.

Also Seibei, you forgot about Valkyria Chronicles, granted the series moved to PSP, but the first one was still an all time great.

rust45 wrote:

Also Seibei, you forgot about Valkyria Chronicles, granted the series moved to PSP, but the first one was still an all time great.

Disgaea cough

I bought Disgaea 3 before I had a PS3 ={

Seibei4211 wrote:

There's really just three things I don't like with the 360: the controller is so weird

As much as I like the feel of the controller I hate that the face buttons are like the SNES buttons but mixed up; X is Y, Y is X, A is B and B is A

I grew up with a SNES controller, changing everything around is a dick move. My biggest gripe with the 360 controller is literally in how they name their buttons. LB, LT is another thing I haven't gotten used to.



I have been playing Costume Quest and I'm actually surprised by how difficult the game is if you don't abuse stun tactics. I've been in fights where victory hinges on what order the enemies attack the allies in. I have about a 98% success rate with input commands, which oughta be enough, but it isn't.

The adult humour in the game really caught me off guard. Because it's designed to look like a kids game I was expecting it to be just a light-hearted kiddy jrpg but Double Fine seemed determined to cram as many innuendos and double-entendres as they could. Even some of the overt stuff is taboo; not a lot of games threaten to kill a five year old child in his sleep.

I'm not sure if the DLC expansion is worth the money, though. The game by its own admission seems awfully short; I started playing it yesterday and I'm in the third area, which based on the quest log appears to be the last area. By extension the Expansion pack is about 33% of the length of the original game, but I dropped about 7.50 on it and the expansion is 5. By full price that seems like a 1:1 value per play ratio, but the game does not feel like it is worth 15 dollars. 7.50, sure, but not 15.

Deathspank 2 may have been worth the 15 I didn't pay for it. That game's awfully long for a downloaded title.

You just gotta use the right battle stamps and the right costumes. And the Jack O' Lantern costume has the best special attack once you get it, but he's gotta attack first to do the best damage. Then you follow with a Missile Barrage and kill everybody. And the DLC isn't really that short. It's split up into about three areas, I think. There's only one boss in it though, but you get some new Battle Stamps, a new bag (which glitches like a bitch, actually), and some decent new costumes. The last boss in that DLC seriously almost whooped my ass though. He wasn't messing around.

The final boss of the Costume Quest DLC was kinda an unexpected difficulty spike, it took me a few tries to beat it.

It is very possible to beat the entire game without using stun tactics, though, but I ended up using stun tactics in the DLC to put the game on e-z modo. In the standard game, I didn't.

The DLC was really short. Like, an hour. In all honesty, I don't think it was worth the money, but I didn't like that my completion wasn't 100%.

The last boss ruined me the first time (AOE that hits for 900 is a bit unreasonable) but then I flipped a couple battle stamps around (stun is useless) changed a costume and didn't even break a sweat the second time around. It was actually disappointingly easy.

Penny-Arcade Adventures 1 and 2 is just 3 dollars on PSN right now if you don't have it get it

Damn. I paid full price for those things ages ago. Cool games. Kinda hard to 100% the first one though.

Seibei4211 wrote:

Damn. I paid full price for those things ages ago.

I'd been tempted by the idea (I paid the full 15 for the first one on PC already) but was kind of hoping for a 50% off sale.

But an 80% off sale will do.

Keep in mind that we're never going to get Episodes 3 & 4 before buying.

Yeah. It really sucked for it to end on a cliffhanger like that. But then again, I don't know if I could take anymore punishment. Those last bosses don't really fuck around. Especially in the first game.

Anyway, I got Bulletstorm and de Blob 2 today. While I do like Bulletstorm, I've had an awfully hard time playing it cause I just get this urge to play de Blob 2 instead. There's just something about collecting random shit...

Seibei4211 wrote:

Especially in the first game.

If you use Attack Down items his attacks do 1 damage. I actually found him very easy. Also, when spamming Hot Toddys etc throw an Attack up on Gabe. He's fast enough that he can do a standard attack for every Hot Toddy that You and Tycho throw, so you can drop him down to like 20k HP before the battle even actually starts.

It's been 2 1/2 years since I played that game. I have no fucking idea what you're even talking about anymore. I just remember that I didn't like getting the trophy for beating that boss without using healing items.

Oh, I got that on my second try. First time was poorly managed and I had to use healing items to prevent Tycho from dying, but the No-Heal trophy is actually pretty easy.

I'm not 100% sure you can get the "use all combat items" trophy against the last boss. It wouldn't pop for me, but it's possible I never used the 100% heal item. I also thought the trophy only referred to the items that damaged, and I had to create a new file and play up to the evil gate just outside French- Mime-Kthulu to get dynamite.

I'm now plugging away at the second episode and it seems to be more fun than the first one. It's also nice that they solved a few design issues that Episode One suffered from.

Bulletstooooorm! Lemme just say, guys, the demo for Bulletstorm absolutely did not do the game any justice. It's like how the Dead Space 1 demo was completely off-target. It doesn't capture the game at all. And it doesn't even have any good weapons in the demo.

I'm keen to get Bulletstorm - Painkiller was a blast, and Bulletstorm's ad campaign was so good they deserve the sale even if the game is mediocre. But it's like, 60 bux on steam right now. I'll wait until it falls to 30 or something. It's not like the game will get worse over time.

Just picked up 3D Dot Game Heroes yesterday and I'm gonna be taking it back at my earliest convenience because fuck that game. I just spent an hour trying to figure my way back through the bullshit sand maze puzzle shit, then I get killed by a blue dragon 2 feet away from where I was trying to go. Then of course my last spawn point was on the other side of the fucking world. Ridiculous.

Seibei4211 wrote:

Just picked up 3D Dot Game Heroes yesterday and I'm gonna be taking it back at my earliest convenience because fuck that game. I just spent an hour trying to figure my way back through the bullshit sand maze puzzle shit, then I get killed by a blue dragon 2 feet away from where I was trying to go. Then of course my last spawn point was on the other side of the fucking world. Ridiculous.

Don't judge a game because of your inability to plan ahead. Sleeping bags can create a spawn point wherever you use them, and if your spawn point was on the other side of the world, you didn't spend the night at the desert inn right before the maze, which is easy to navigate if you go by the cacti positioning. An NPC even tells you how to go through it.

Hell, even then, you could just use a Wind Wing, which most standard merchants sell, to get back to where you were. Blue dragons are random spawn, anyway, you were just a victim of bad luck.

I personally love the game, even if it gets a bit ridiculous at points. Nothing is really handed to you, it feels like classic Zelda in all the right ways.

Also, I've got MvC3, but I might return it to Gamefly once I have enough money to actually buy it. I would be more into it right now if I had the time to play it. The next game I'll get Gamefly to send me might be Bulletstorm, but we'll see.

Really, I heard 3D Dot Game Heroes didn't live up to its expectations. I'm not one to give a flying duck about someone else's opinions, but my brother's a pretty good judge of what I might like. Mind you, it's only a matter of time before that game winds up on the 10 dollar rack in the local pawn shop.

Mogsworth wrote:

Don't judge a game because of your inability to plan ahead. Sleeping bags can create a spawn point wherever you use them, and if your spawn point was on the other side of the world, you didn't spend the night at the desert inn right before the maze, which is easy to navigate if you go by the cacti positioning. An NPC even tells you how to go through it.

Hell, even then, you could just use a Wind Wing, which most standard merchants sell, to get back to where you were. Blue dragons are random spawn, anyway, you were just a victim of bad luck.

I personally love the game, even if it gets a bit ridiculous at points. Nothing is really handed to you, it feels like classic Zelda in all the right ways.

Also, I've got MvC3, but I might return it to Gamefly once I have enough money to actually buy it. I would be more into it right now if I had the time to play it. The next game I'll get Gamefly to send me might be Bulletstorm, but we'll see.

I didn't want to use a sleeping bag next to the desert because that would've defeated the purpose. I used one in front of the next temple that I accidentally found so I could kill myself after I had progressed the story. I left the desert temple to begin with cause that was my stopping point one day, then I forgot what I was doing in the morning and left it before realizing I wasn't done there. So that's why I was trying to get back in the first place. And I can't use a Wind Wing to get back to a temple, I could've only gone back to the inn, which meant I'd have to do the fucking sand puzzle shit again, which wasn't gonna happen. And I can't be pissed to talk to every single NPC to see if they finally have something useful to tell me. And I didn't decide the game sucked just because I got hit with that bullshit dragon, I just wasn't having any fun at all the whole time I was playing it. It's really annoying how you lose all of your sword's power just because you lost half a heart from some cheap shot from some off-screen enemy or whatever. I really loved the 2D Zelda games. The only thing this game didn't copy from Zelda was the fun.

Beat Hyperdimension Neptunia yesterday and I must say, ending was unexpected. It left quite a lot unanswered too which doesn't help. I didn't really want it to end either. =( Now I'm rolling through everything on new game+ (the story dungeons to be exact). There was more dialogue than gameplay which was fine for me on the first playthrough but now it's just a huge burden as I go through it again. Overall, this game seems pretty easy to plat, got 73% before finishing. The rest of the trophies don't look too bad to get (unlike Trinity Universe's). Anyways, the gameplay is fine even though the game does slow down considerably fps-wise during most battles. But a major flaw in the game that I had was the "auto" button during dialogues. It didn't proceed naturally like it was suppose to. It would literally sit there for 10+ seconds before going onto the next dialogue. So doing the standard 'X' button to proceed was the only other way. (There was the skip button but I'd miss out on the story!). English voices aren't bad at all either!

(Random): I realized that Neptune was pantless after the third day of playing.

I've heard so much awful shit about that game that I can't bring myself to play it.

Then again, I'm playing dragon age 2, so it turns out I'm not so good at that avoiding shitty games thing. I guess it's more of a quota deal.

Ivalset wrote:

I've heard so much awful shit about that game that I can't bring myself to play it.

Then again, I'm playing dragon age 2, so it turns out I'm not so good at that avoiding shitty games thing. I guess it's more of a quota deal.

I haven't played either yet, but if Neptunia is anything like I think it is I'll hate it to all ends. I can't stand bad JRPGs they become a tedious chore for me.
Shame too, because when I first heard about the game I thought it'd be brilliant.

Just got Ar tonelico Qoga today. Planning on playing it tonight. I'm particularly interested in the hymns and the device located at the bottom of the screen during combat. Anyone else planning on getting it / got it? Nevermind, I know you guys don't have it, lol.

I've considered getting it, but I hear it's just a real letdown compared to 2.

I'll probably end up grabbing it when it drops in price a bit.

Also the sexualism has gone so far off the deep end that I'll be embarrassed to pick it up in a store, so I'll probably order it online.

Ah, I wouldn't know about the other games since this is the first one I've played.

It was a real eye opener when I first saw three layers of clothes just started disappearing off the girls.

I mean, I did watch a few gameplay battles on youtube but watching them right up in my face was a different experience.

They had only one copy at my local gamestop. The dumb thing was that it wasn't in shrink wrap so the box wasn't really in mint condition when I got it.