The Energon Pub

[Shadowman]

I was playing MGS 1 and I found somthing odd. When Liquid attacks you in the Hind D. attack chopper, and in a few other scenes, Solid Snake doesn't know who he is, even after he claimed to be his brother. Yet I could have swore that the MGS database said they fought together in Foxhound, so shouldn't snake recognise him?

Nope. Liquid Snake didn't join until 2000, Solid Snake's last mission with FOXHOUND was in '99.

[BeastProwl]

So, playing Borderlands in an effort to reach a certain level befor even attempting ANY DLC, I found a couple tiny church houses, Inside each one there is a stack of papers. With one of those little digital stamps you scan with your smart phone! What do they have hidden inside? I cant scan them, so I have no clue...

[Shadowman]

So, playing Borderlands in an effort to reach a certain level befor even attempting ANY DLC, I found a couple tiny church houses, Inside each one there is a stack of papers. With one of those little digital stamps you scan with your smart phone! What do they have hidden inside? I cant scan them, so I have no clue...

It's for a mission, I think you pick it up at the Middle of Nowhere Bounty Board.

[1337W422102]

So, playing Borderlands in an effort to reach a certain level befor even attempting ANY DLC, I found a couple tiny church houses, Inside each one there is a stack of papers. With one of those little digital stamps you scan with your smart phone! What do they have hidden inside? I cant scan them, so I have no clue...

It's for a mission, I think you pick it up at the Middle of Nowhere Bounty Board.

There are a number of scannable QR items throughout the Borderlands world. Real-life scannable, I mean.

[BeastProwl]

So, playing Borderlands in an effort to reach a certain level befor even attempting ANY DLC, I found a couple tiny church houses, Inside each one there is a stack of papers. With one of those little digital stamps you scan with your smart phone! What do they have hidden inside? I cant scan them, so I have no clue...

It's for a mission, I think you pick it up at the Middle of Nowhere Bounty Board.

There are a number of scannable QR items throughout the Borderlands world. Real-life scannable, I mean.

Those be them! Yarg!

[Shadowman]

Fallout: New Vegas:
Bought Dead Money. Beat Dead Money. It was fun, all around, but supplies were often short, and I wasn't able to use any of my weapons. (My old Thermic Lance would have been a godsend) Killed Father Elijah, rather than locking him in the vault (Though I intend to go back and sneak out for the achievement) because I wanted his sweet, sweet Gauss Rifle. Turns out Arcade already had one on him that I could have taken any time. Well, whatever, now I have my own. I also picked up a couple of gold bars on the way out. Literally, only two, this isn't common knowledge but gold is really heavy.

I plan on getting at least Honest Hearts and Old World Blues tomorrow. Maybe Lonesome Road if I can get enough money scraped together.

[The Happy Locust]

The elder scrolls: Skyrim
Running out of quests. May have to jump to riften and windhelm soon.
At winterhold, used my conjuration level to get some master class spells. Summoned an unbound dremora, made him my plaything, and earned the Thrall spells.
Completed the cannibal quest. While I didn't feel good about leading an innocent priest to his death, It all balanced out when my bloodlust got the better of me, I turned into a werewolf, and then slaughtered and ate the cannibals. Ah Karma.
Finishing up the companions quest. Was sent to get some witch heads, returned to find the silver hand had led an assault. Returned the favor by depopulating the silver hand hideout. On my way back to Jorvuskarr.

[BeastProwl]

So I have to wait until the first to buy a new controller...
Just when the warrior within started getting interesting!
I just had beaten the empress of time and was on the hunt for the mask, when suddenly I wall ran and the button I was holding snapped inward and broke internally. It was a POS controller to fill in until I got a proper one, but it broke early. Such is life.

[1337W422102]

So I have to wait until the first to buy a new controller...
Just when the warrior within started getting interesting!
I just had beaten the empress of time and was on the hunt for the mask, when suddenly I wall ran and the button I was holding snapped inward and broke internally. It was a POS controller to fill in until I got a proper one, but it broke early. Such is life.

That's why you stay away from unlicensed third-party crap, mate, unless if you have a real good reason not to. Like I do. But more on that later.

No More Heroes [Wii]:
Finished a playthrough, and as much as I love this game and Suda 51, the last 2 hours or so really fall apart. The story takes more plot turns than they know what do to with and neither of the endings provide any kind of satisfying closure. Granted, they are aware of both of these facts and joke about them, but I was still let down.

Especially since the biggest plot twist is either ignored at the beginning of the sequel, if it's true at all. If it is, it would explain some of the sequel's cutscenes, anyway.

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle [Wii]:
Much improvement over the first game in terms of technical aspects and gameplay. The beam katana takes much more effort to charge up now, though. And the 8-bit sidejob games are much less unforgiving than the BJ5 shmups. What gives?

Finished the battle against the music dude.

[BeastProwl]

It was free...
Normally it would have gone for like, $10.00 I think, cause it was turbo. It sucked major ass though. You know that ps3 controller transformer? It was almost as tiny as he was! I'm not exagerating either!

[1337W422102]

It was free...
Normally it would have gone for like, $10.00 I think, cause it was turbo. It sucked major ass though. You know that ps3 controller transformer? It was almost as tiny as he was! I'm not exagerating either!

Damn, that explains why it was free!

[BeastProwl]

Well, I didnt have a controller at the time so...
some controllers better than none!
Around the first i'll get an official sixaxis PS3 controller, then I'll be playing back in time with my usual schedule.
Theres a pun in there...

[Shadowman]

Well, I didnt have a controller at the time so...
some controllers better than none!
Around the first i'll get an official sixaxis PS3 controller, then I'll be playing back in time with my usual schedule.
Theres a pun in there...

I got a 360 controller on loan from a friend of mine. Microsoft was really thinking ahead with this one, since it can be used as a PC gamepad, and a good number of games will switch over to their 360 interface to match it. I have no idea why the Dual Shock 3 and SIXAXIS can't do this, though.

Fallout: New Vegas:
Completed Old World Blues, the only DLC to bring me to tears from laughing so hard. (Stop the evil Dr. Mobius and his army of Robo-Scorpions from conquering all of science) The downside is that the enemies are hella tough. it said it was for level 15 and up but at level 40 I was struggling. I went in with a rather large compliment of 80-something stimpacks, and I had exhausted that by the half-way point. I even had to resort to god mode at one point! I am not happy about that.

[The Happy Locust]

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Finishing up my current quests. Led the companions on a quest to cure a dead friend.... which seems pretty random. Still, a dungeon crawl, a wicked axe, and a ghost wolf battle later, he's free and I got a promotion. Neat.
Finished Azura's quest. Retrieved the Star, entered it, booted out an evil soul, and got to keep the star for my trouble. Decided to take Azura's advice and left the gem as a white star, which means it's going into a trophy room as it's useless for my purposes now.
Ran 2 random dungeons and obtained 2 more shouts.

Sonic Colors
Cleared Planet Wisp. Only a level and a boss left on the aquarium world.

[1337W422102]

Gears of War [PC]:
Finished the game, and by extension, its two sequels. Without exaggeration one of the most disappointing games I've played and a huge leap backwards for Epic. In many ways, this game embodies so much of what's wrong about this gaming generation. Uninstallation felt great.

Thanks to the Aimon XB Elite, I can now play shootan gaems on my 360. Having wrapped up my playthroughs of Halo 1 and 2 a while back, I jumped into ODST.

Halo 3: ODST [360]:
Got to the part where you can choose between four missions. I finished the one in the park and the one at the police HQ. Working on the train station one now.

Red Dead Redemption [360]:
Drove Ms. MacFarlane to Armadillo and took out some clowns with the Sheriff. Still working on finding a good control scheme for my Aimon for use with RDR.

[Shadowman]

Assassin's Creed II:
BEATEN! A few weeks ago. Forgot to mention it.

Beat the Pope is a fistfight; I had no idea the Pope is trained to be proficient in hand-to-hand combat. Got a message from Minerva...well, Desmond did, Ezio was just confused as hell. Well, the day is saved, so there's that.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood:
It begins like an epilogue. The villa is turned into a straight-up fortress, Ezio goes on about "Well, we're done here, yeah? Sure, the world is going to blow up, but that's in 500 years, I'm sure this Desmond guy will figure something out, the Gods themselves seem to be on his team." Then he goes and has a sex-bath with Catarina.

Then the Borgias show up and blow the goddamn villa up. Well...damn.

Ezio escaped, obviously, but it went off on sort of a cliffhanger ending. Took a moment to play as Desmond for a while, which is cool, I really wanted to play as him. Siphoned power from the villa to the Sanctuary, and the Animus 2.1. Back in Rome, kicking ass, taking names, and telling Machiavelli what a jerk he is.

It doesn't help his name is a synonym for "Manipulative douchebag" these days.

[SlyTF1]

Batman Arkham City:

Got it yesterday, finished it about an hour ago. Such a short ass story, while the side missions aren't interesting enough to make me want to do them.

[Shadowman]

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Made some new friends, all of whom were old friends. Met up with La Volpe and Thieves Guild up and running, while helping get Bartolomeo and his mercenaries get out of a jam. Also, Ezio's sister Claudia is running a brothel, which happens to be a front for hooker-spies. Ezio didn't want his sister to do that, either because he didn't want her involved in the war, or because the idea of your sister running a whorehouse is enough to make any man throw up in his mouth a little bit.

But enough about single player, I've been doing some MP as well. It's hard to tell if I hate it or not. I scream and swear and rage when I play it...but I can't stop playing it. Doing good feels great, losing is maddening. It doesn't help that half the people run around as fast as they can. (Which makes them hard to catch, but at the same time means they don't get nearly as many points for a kill; I've come in second behind people with twice as many kills as me, as well as ahead of people with more kills than that) It's so annoying...but the Hellequin's ass is sooooooo fine.

Which brings me to my next point: If Ubisoft really does hate PC gaming, they got a weird way of showing it. Achievement point values, like Microsoft uses, actually have a purpose; you can spend them on various rewards. Usually something small, maybe a new outfit or an ammo bonus, sometimes even an unlockable character. (Such as the Hellequin!) They give you something other then a little picture, a golf clap, and a half an inch on your e-peen, they give you actual rewards, it's the way achievements should be done.

EDIT: Wow, that was way longer than it should have been. tl;dr version: Multiplayer is fun and annoying, Hellequin is sex-flavored hotness, Uplay actually does achievements right.

[The Happy Locust]

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Ran some minor quests for the companions but didn't get the option to cure them. So instead took Aela on a hunt for a totem. After that, decided it was time to hit Riften. Reached riften and didn't want to bother with the guards at the door so headed around back to find a skooma-addicted argonian. Gave her a little health potion to ease her pain.

Sonic Colors
Cleared the Aquarium planet. 2 stages into the Asteroid coaster.

[Jazz813]

Well on PC I have started a lot of games, which I play from time to time like :

Trackmania United Forever
Trackmania 2 Canyon
Guilty Gear XX Reload
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2

On the Xbox 360 I play those games below :

Gears of War 3, time to time just online and mostly Capture the Leader.
Halo Combat Evolved Anniversairy
And also time to time I still play on Pinball FX 2

[Shadowman]

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood:
Got the ability to recruit Assassins. Immediately picked up nine (Which is as many as I can get right now, I can get a maximum of twelve) then spent a HUGE amount of time ranking them up until I could make them full fledged Assassins. Several hours, in fact. It's a lot like HMW, except I have the option of going out and stabbing people myself. Totally worth it. A push of a button, and my Assassins come down in a cloud of smoke, a flurry of blades, and a pile of corpses.

Killed Juan Borgia the Banker, in...a...what in God's name is this? It looks like a orgy but I'm not seeing anyone get laid. A bunch of people in leaf-bikinis and thongs, only a few of which manage to pull the look off. And the pope is there! The pope who I beat in a bare-knuckle boxing match but a pope nonetheless.

On the multiplayer side, I hit level 13. It's fun, once you get the hang of it. Still annoying as hell to get on a losing streak, though, especially when you die chasing a target who thinks running everywhere at full speed will get him ahead. (Spoiler alert, you actually do worse that way; quality, not quantity!)

[Wigglez]

I almost have every trophy on Brotherhood. The horrible thing is not alot people play multiplayer in it anymore so I can't get EVERY trophy which sucks because I know I could do it, if people were still playing it

[Shadowman]

I almost have every trophy on Brotherhood. The horrible thing is not alot people play multiplayer in it anymore so I can't get EVERY trophy which sucks because I know I could do it, if people were still playing it

There are enough people playing it that I can still find a match, but it usually takes a while for the system to gather enough. The whole series was 50% off on Steam last Friday, that's sure to have attracted a few more players, at least. I didn't even think I'd get into one at first, I figured everyone would be off playing Revelations' MP.

[Jazz813]

Yesterday I downloaded the game Joy Ride Turbo on Xbox Live Arcade, and I must say it's much funnier than the Kinect version.

[Wigglez]

Get Shadow Complex off of the Arcade. I downloaded that back when I had a 360. That game is really good.