The Energon Pub

[Shadowman]

And yes, I did buy the system specifically for this title.

Buying a Wii specifically for No More Heroes? Yeah, that makes sense.

Star Trek Online:
Went back in time, and met Bones and Scotty. Hit level 17, now I'm trying to stop a series of Klingon genetic experiments, trying to make some kind of Klingon KHAAAAAAN! KHAAAAAAN!

[1337W422102]

And yes, I did buy the system specifically for this title.

Buying a Wii specifically for No More Heroes? Yeah, that makes sense.

Thrift stores FTW and/or it fell off the back of a truck.

[The Happy Locust]

And yes, I did buy the system specifically for this title.

Buying a Wii specifically for No More Heroes? Yeah, that makes sense.

Thrift stores FTW and/or it fell off the back of a truck.

And there may or may not be an unconscious sales clerk tied up in alley near where said truck was last reported seen.

[1337W422102]

And yes, I did buy the system specifically for this title.

Buying a Wii specifically for No More Heroes? Yeah, that makes sense.

Thrift stores FTW and/or it fell off the back of a truck.

And there may or may not be an unconscious sales clerk tied up in alley near where said truck was last reported seen.

In that case, brofist for the assist.

[Shadowman]

Star Trek Online:
Finished the Klingon story arc, now moving on to the Romulans. Hit the rank of commander and got a new ship; it's a heavy cruiser, but I went all-out with the customizations, and it only barely resembles a ship with the typical Federation aesthetic. I named it the USS Vode An because I am a smart ass.

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Star Trek Online:
Finished the Klingon story arc, now moving on to the Romulans. Hit the rank of commander and got a new ship; it's a heavy cruiser, but I went all-out with the customizations, and it only barely resembles a ship with the typical Federation aesthetic. I named it the USS Vode An because I am a smart ass.

Man, that is some good trolling.

[Blurrz]

Dragon Age Origins: Just finishing up the last of the trio of storyline quests in Awakening.

Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer: Just leveling up my Asari Adept, so bloody fun

Assassin's Creed Revelations: Trying to do all of the non-storyline achievements and stuff. Done Sequence 4 Story and Desmond Sequence 2. Sofia =3

Halo CE Anniversary: Playing on Normal and two levels left.... for the life of me, this just feels way harder than the original and it's agonizing.

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Gears of War [PC]:
Made my way through the rain, into the factory, rode the mine carts (nowhere near as fun as Donkey Kong Country), went down some giant-ass elevator, and now I'm in caves, or a mine, or something. I like how there are conveniently-placed people-sized slabs of rock just sitting around...

Can't wait to finish this crap and uninstall it.

[Shadowman]

Can't wait to finish this crap and uninstall it.

If it makes you feel better, the third game was written by Karen Traviss. It probably doesn't, though.

[1337W422102]

Can't wait to finish this crap and uninstall it.

If it makes you feel better, the third game was written by Karen Traviss. It probably doesn't, though.

It doesn't, but I appreciate your effort, man.

[The Happy Locust]

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Amazing how little you can get done in 2 hours. Cleared out a vampire nest with the goal of contracting Vampirism. It worked, but I cured it accidentally when I cured myself of a different disease. Whoops.
Did some major traveling just trying to get some malachite now that I can forge Glass armor. But it was worth it. I now have a full set of Glass armor, all pieces improved and enchanted. Whee!
Side-quest wise, retrieved a lost helmet from an underground forest guarded by Spriggans.
Random exploring found me a talking Goddess statue right next to a word wall. New shout sounded awesome until I realized it didn't work on enchanted or bound weapons (which is my entire arsenal). Grr.... Also working to build up my lately-ignored destruction magic skills.

[SlyTF1]

Mass Effect 3 (Multiplayer):
So, I played the ME3 demo litteraly all day yesterday, got a level 17 Quarian Engineer, a level 12 Sentinel, level 5 Soldier, level 4 Vanguard, and other classes I don't remember, got ranked 75o something in the world and got inducted into an elite squad of players. All in one day of playing. Those 29 times I beat ME2 have definately paid off.

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Posting this from my laptop. Got my web browser open so I can use images of characters as reference for making Mii characters. Currently working on a Niko Bellic from GTA IV so I can go BOWLING, COUSIN

[The Happy Locust]

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Took my nifty glass armor on a road trip. Cleared out a bandit's cave, a vampire's nest, another bandits cave (this time in a trapped shipping dock) and got paid nicely for it all. Also found an awesome Ebony mace, pre-enchanted with my favorite drain magicka power.
While travelling, decided to explore a ship. Turned out to be a Pirate ship so I slaughtered them all in the name of experience.
Got the second part of the gaulder Legend amulet and also found a word wall teaching me Frost Breath.
Turned off the solitude lighthouse. Now time to go explore the ship I just caused to wreck.

On a side note, when did this smiley show up?

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The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Took my nifty glass armor on a road trip. Cleared out a bandit's cave, a vampire's nest, another bandits cave (this time in a trapped shipping dock) and got paid nicely for it all. Also found an awesome Ebony mace, pre-enchanted with my favorite drain magicka power.
While travelling, decided to explore a ship. Turned out to be a Pirate ship so I slaughtered them all in the name of experience.
Got the second part of the gaulder Legend amulet and also found a word wall teaching me Frost Breath.
Turned off the solitude lighthouse. Now time to go explore the ship I just caused to wreck.

On a side note, when did this smiley show up?

When it was stolen from another site, or something? I don't know.

NBA Street V3 [GameCube]:
My brother and I are making teams of Street Fighter characters for fun. It's not so bad so far. Unfortunately this game isn't enough like NBA Jam, though. Still having fun with it.

Drift City [PC]:
The Drift, it be a-changin'. The car system's all different now. There are no longer level requirements on any of the cars, but as a consequence, nearly every vehicle in the game is now a useless Class 1 car (Class 1 having the lowest stats of any vehicle class). To improve a car's Class, you have to pay real-life money. Eff this ess.

One of the few non-unlockable cars that still keeps its Class is the Ferrari Enzo knockoff. This used to be restricted to Level 81+ characters and cost a million in-game dollars. Now it's only 100,000 and available to any Level player who can afford it. Since I got 300,000 during that New Year's event, I bought myself one and one for a friend.

Y'see, our guild is called "Troll," our guild icon is the trollface with a 9-point "U MAD?" under it, and jokingly antagonizing other players for humour is what we do. Being passed by (and losing to) a hot pink Ferrari driven by a character under Level 20 when it used to only be accessible to over 81s who had worked hard enough to earn it has to suck. And seeing the guild icon just rubs it in.

Story-wise, we just finished the first Station of the second city. The Enzo OM NOMS gas like there's no tomorrow. It costs less to buy a new one than to fill the tank up, so I'm not putting a drop into it. When it's dry, I'll sell it and get another set of wheels. In hot pink for trolling, of course.

[Shadowman]

DC Universe Online:
Not really doing much of much, mostly playing as Lady Awesome, helping lower-level friends of mine get through the game faster. (Unlike TOR, having a high-level character in your group doesn't decrease experience gain) In particular, my new sidekick.

Yes, it was entirely my idea for that to happen, and the both of us agree, it was a good one.

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DC Universe Online:
Not really doing much of much, mostly playing as Lady Awesome, helping lower-level friends of mine get through the game faster. (Unlike TOR, having a high-level character in your group doesn't decrease experience gain) In particular, my new sidekick.

Yes, it was entirely my idea for that to happen, and the both of us agree, it was a good one.

JB FTW.

Metroid: Other M [Wii]:
Got to the first Navigation room. Really not liking it so far. I was hoping this'd be a badass Metroid adventure and not The Emo Kid Travels of Space Barbie: Revenge of the Daddy Issues.

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor [Wii]:
Stays faithful to the original, yet badassly maintains its own personality. Shame it pretty much ignores the story, though. Can't say I'm surprised.

Finished the first level; uploaded my crappy high score.

No More Heroes [PC]:
Got kicked out of Sylvia's car, literally. Did some odd jobs, including coconut harvesting (got a Gold medal) and the two hitman jobs available. Got gold on the "fight until you die" one but only silver on the "kill the pizza C.E.O." mission. Still had enough to pay for the next Rank Battle, though.

[The Happy Locust]

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor [Wii]:
Stays faithful to the original, yet badassly maintains its own personality. Shame it pretty much ignores the story, though. Can't say I'm surprised.

Finished the first level; uploaded my crappy high score.

heh,just picked that up last week. It was in the $10 clearance been. It's bad on so many levels except the gameplay, which is luckily the most important part.

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Sin & Punishment: Star Successor [Wii]:
Stays faithful to the original, yet badassly maintains its own personality. Shame it pretty much ignores the story, though. Can't say I'm surprised.

Finished the first level; uploaded my crappy high score.

heh,just picked that up last week. It was in the $10 clearance been. It's bad on so many levels except the gameplay, which is luckily the most important part.

The clearance bins up around here have it for $30. I found it at Best Buy for regular price of $10...

It makes no attempt to be anything more than an oldschool, fast-paced shoot-'em-the-hell up, and in that regard it is smegging amazing. If you're looking for anything other than shootin' things up from a Sin & Punishment game, you're doing it wrong!

Red Steel 2 [Wii]:
Do you remember that Wii launch title, "Red Steel"? No? Perfect, because this game has NOTHING to do with that one.

If for some reason, you DO remember Red Steel, or, even worse, my mentioning it has dusted off terrible memories you forced into the dark recesses of your mind, Red Steel 2 is more than an apology.

Wild West meets Far East in a gunslinging katana-wielding good time. Hell, this has more in common with Borderlands than the first Red Steel, and makes me disappointed there was no Borderlands for Wii, which I would've played the hell out of with a friend.

Woke up, was tied to a motorcycle and dragged through the desert, under a truck, and into a quarry. Nearly blown up (the gloves on fire was a nice touch), I lost my sword to the leader of the Bandits-- er, Jackals. Rescued my sensei, borrowed his sword, took out some high-ranking Jackal, bought the "Rush" attack, and now I'm off to save (not shoot) the Sheriff.

This game rocks pretty hard, so far. Well worth the $5.

[Shadowman]

I do remember the first Red Steel. The sword fighting was nowhere near as realistic as they made it look, and the story was really bland, but I did love the gunfights. I always had a soft-spot for how FPS games can be done on Wii. Which reminds me, seeing as you have a Wii now, Metroid Prime Trilogy is a must. At least MP3, but the Trilogy pack if you can get it. (First two games with Corruption's beefed up graphics and gameplay, also Echoes doesn't have that stupid finite ammo anymore)

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind:
No Elder Scrolls game, or a Bethesda game in general, is complete without massive flaws and we love them despite it all. Morrowind is no exception though in this case it's not entirely Morrowind's fault so much as it's because of Oblivion and Skyrim. In particular, certain facets of gameplay that I might have taken for granted do not exist in Morrowind, and by that, I mean, proper goddamn directions to where I need to go.

I still love this game, though.

Currently playing matchmaker in order to get a tribe to recognize me as the Nerevarine. Killing a Vampire wasn't enough, now the tribe leader wants me to get him a girlfriend. The problem is, he wants a noblewoman, and no that is not happening. So instead we're going to pretty up a slave girl and try to make that work.

[The Happy Locust]

I do remember the first Red Steel. The sword fighting was nowhere near as realistic as they made it look, and the story was really bland, but I did love the gunfights. I always had a soft-spot for how FPS games can be done on Wii. Which reminds me, seeing as you have a Wii now, Metroid Prime Trilogy is a must. At least MP3, but the Trilogy pack if you can get it. (First two games with Corruption's beefed up graphics and gameplay, also Echoes doesn't have that stupid finite ammo anymore)

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind:
No Elder Scrolls game, or a Bethesda game in general, is complete without massive flaws and we love them despite it all. Morrowind is no exception though in this case it's not entirely Morrowind's fault so much as it's because of Oblivion and Skyrim. In particular, certain facets of gameplay that I might have taken for granted do not exist in Morrowind, and by that, I mean, proper goddamn directions to where I need to go.

I still love this game, though.

Currently playing matchmaker in order to get a tribe to recognize me as the Nerevarine. Killing a Vampire wasn't enough, now the tribe leader wants me to get him a girlfriend. The problem is, he wants a noblewoman, and no that is not happening. So instead we're going to pretty up a slave girl and try to make that work.

I got the first Red Steel as part of a package deal for my Wii (Ebay FTW). I may be very generous, but I thought it was pretty fun. Yeah, not the best game ever but I was enjoying it enough to finish it off.

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My friend picked up the original Red Steel. I watched him play the first mission or so while we both made snide remarks. Multiplayer was very uninspired. However, the samurai cowboy sequel is well worth checking out and makes very good use of the MotionPlus technology. That being said, the FOV is too damn small, like pretty much every other game of this generation.

Wasn't the Metroid Prime trilogy some kind of special edition, or something? Limited release or whatnot? It never hit general retail up here, and I've only seen a single copy in a specialty "lol wer hardcore gaemerzzz" store for about $80. I'd like to get my hands on the Trilogy, but eff if I'll pay that much for it. Hell, the system cost me less than that.

No More Heroes [Wii]:
Took out the good doctor. Bought a new beam katana from Dat Naomi as well as the treasure piece (it's paying for itself already), and got the 3 abilities from Thunder Ryu's gym.

Anyone else having issues with the drifting on the bike? When I hold B and turn the Remote, the bike drifts in the opposite direction that I turned it. Am I just an idiot and I'm supposed to hold it upright with the B button facing me, or something?

[Shadowman]

Wasn't the Metroid Prime trilogy some kind of special edition, or something? Limited release or whatnot? It never hit general retail up here, and I've only seen a single copy in a specialty "lol wer hardcore gaemerzzz" store for about $80. I'd like to get my hands on the Trilogy, but eff if I'll pay that much for it. Hell, the system cost me less than that.

Ah, you're right. Seems Nintendo discontinued it in North America a couple years ago. If you snoop around, you might be lucky to find a used copy somewhere, it really is worth checking out.

[1337W422102]

Wasn't the Metroid Prime trilogy some kind of special edition, or something? Limited release or whatnot? It never hit general retail up here, and I've only seen a single copy in a specialty "lol wer hardcore gaemerzzz" store for about $80. I'd like to get my hands on the Trilogy, but eff if I'll pay that much for it. Hell, the system cost me less than that.

Ah, you're right. Seems Nintendo discontinued it in North America a couple years ago. If you snoop around, you might be lucky to find a used copy somewhere, it really is worth checking out.

I won't be able to find it in this province unless I really luck out and decide to pay out of an orifice or two, but it's on my "DO WANT" list.

As for the No More Heroes drifting, it seems I was supposed to turn my wrist as if opening a door, not turn the Remote sideways, according this message board post I found. Not that that really clears it up, since there are many ways to open a door, depending on the type of door, knob style, etc. I'll have to experiment.

[Shadowman]

Suda51, before NMH2 came out, mentioned he didn't really like how the overworld came out in the first game. I haven't played Desperate Struggle yet, but it's supposed to have been vastly improved.

EDIT: And in case you didn't know, be sure to buy the final beam katana (Not necessarily the upgrades for it) BEFORE going for the final mission. It'll pay off, trust me.