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[The Happy Locust]

Batman: Arkham Asylum
GAME.OVER... AGAIN...
Took down the Joker's henchman and then the joker himself. Final stats this time around were 239/240 riddles, all bios, and 0 challenges. No clue which riddle I missed but not in the mood to go searching for it.

[Shadowman]

Dissidia: Final Fantasy:
Finished Destiny Odyssey I (Warrior of Light), III (Onion Knight), IV (Cecil), V (Bartz), VI (Terra), VII (Cloud), VIII (Squall) and X (Tidus). I also unlocked all the villains (Not including Gabranth, and, if you want to get technical, Santotto, since she WAS a villain in XI for a while) as well as the alternate costumes for Clooud (His outfit from Advent Children) and Squall (His SeeD uniform).

Yeah, I've been busy. Finding out Arena Mode gives out a good 300 PP (Which is used for unlocking characters and their costumes, among other things) as well as an item that can be used to level up a character. Also, Sephiroth and his ability to make things dead real quick helped.

[The Happy Locust]

Dragon Age: Orgins
At Ostagar, me and two other recruits were sent to the wilds to collect darkspawn blood and stored Treaties. I also promised to find a specific flower for the kennel worker.
Our team explored the forest, finding the items necessary, tracking down a treasure through a point-map, and meeting a forest woman named Morrigan and her mother.
Returning to the camp, the joining ceremony began. The first recruit died during the process and the 2nd opted out, getting a sword in the gut for his troubles. I survived and am now a Grey Warden.
With the Darkspawn coming, me and Another warden fought our way to the top of a tower to activate a beacon which would alert our secondary troops to join the battle. The tower was surprisingly infested with Darkspawn and had an Ogre at the top. Killed the Ogre and activated the beacon.
The secondary troop leader saw the beacon and instead of helping, fled, leaving the darkspawn to kill the main forces, kill the king, and kill most of the Grey wardens, including myself, it seemed
My character woke up in the Wild woman's home, having somehow been rescued. Alistair survived as well.With Ostagar lost, the darkspawn are now advancing to the northern areas. We still had our treaties and decided to hit many of the northern areas in order to gain support and troops against the Blight. Morrigan's mother volunteered her to join us, much to her annoyance.

[Shadowman]

Dissidia: Final Fantasy:
It's a personal belief of mine that an enemy of equal or lower level than the player, should not be able to kill the player before the player has a chance to make any significant difference in the battle. Incidentally, up yours, Sephiroth.

Completed Shade Impulse 1, 2 and 3. Just one more left. I also got alternate costumes for Warrior of Light, Onion Knight, Terra, Kefka, and Tidus.

EDIT:

Dear Sephiroth, sorry about the mean things I said before.

Dear Chaos, go &*($# yourself with an eggbeater.

In a battle tip from Selphie from FF8, she actually admits one of his attacks is instant-death, and that the whole fight is pretty much unfair. So at least SOMEONE agrees with me. On the other hand, this means the developers are aware of that as well.

I did some heavy-duty grinding with Cloud, getting him Omnislash Ver5 (Which, unlike classic Omnislash, I don't need EX Mode to use), as well as getting him to level 60 or so, which should be a good 20 levels ahead of Chaos, assuming, of course, Chaos doesn't level up to match my level...

[The Happy Locust]

Dragon Age: Origins
After leaving Flemeth's home, traveled to Lothering. On the way, a hound I helped earlier showed up and started following me. I named him Wuffy At Lothering, Engaged in as many sidequests as I could find and leveled up to level 7, earning a point for specialization even though I haven't learned any specializations yet. After a barfight, got the Rogue Leliana to join me. Found and freed a convicted murderer named Sten who is now in my custody. I now have 6 party members, though only 4 can be active at any one time. At the moment, I'm sticking with Alistair, Morrigan, and Leliana. As they level up, I'll swap in the hound and Sten to keep things even.
Skill-wise, I'm focusing my City Elf Warrior to focus on duel-weapon wielding with a secondary Sword and shield. Alistair is my tank, focusing on his sword-and-shield with a secondary two-handed. Morrigan is staying a mage. Leliana is going to be my ranged fighter.

[Shadowman]

Dissidia: Final Fantasy:
Dear Chaos,

Who's the God now, bitch?!

My plan worked flawlessly. Liberal application of Omnislash ver5, along with a handful of rounds of regular Omnislash proved highly effective at level 60. I walked away with well over half my health. Then, I went ahead and unlocked Shantotto (Who is so short she's often hidden by the HUD) and Gabranth. I also unlocked Chaos as an enemy for Quick battle (He's not playable, unfortunately) and a handful of Omega Stages. (Variants of the normal stages, where things get wacky--some stages become lethal, some become brittle, some change shape and form, some become entirely different stages, etc.)

[The Happy Locust]

New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Cleared world 7, taking out Ludvig von koopa. I was saying previously that this game had little challenge. I now retract that statement. Some of the levels in world 7 are brutal, but always fun.

[Shadowman]

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes:
Got the Spider Ball. Next, as the guide on GameFAQs suggested, is the Power Bomb.

[8 bit]

Dragon Age: Origins
After cleaning up the bandit problem in Lothering, my crew and I traveled to Redcliffe to seek the aid of the Arl. Unfortunately, the village is getting hammered every night by zombies who come out from the castle. Being the noble human warrior that I am, I spend my entire day making sure that the remaining troops are well armored and that morale is high for tonight's undead assault.

After surviving the evening onslaught (without a single casualty--thanks Dwyn!), everyone agrees that the castle must be investigated. To make a long story short, the castle is being controlled by a demon who unfortunately has taken control of the Arl's son. Poor kid. Anyway, we had to decide whether or not to use his mother's lifesource to enter the Fade and defeat the demon in his own dimension, or travel to the Circle of Mages and instead find some lyrium to enter the Fade.

I chose the latter, and I'm not sure it was the right choice because the tower where the Circle of Mages reside is being overrun by demons. Whether or not I'll make it back to Redcliffe in time to save the day is yet to be seen...

[Shadowman]

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes:
Got the Light Suit. It's very light, and also a suit. Now I have to find all nine Sky Temple Keys. And here I thought finding three Dark Temple Keys was a pain in the ass...On the other hand, I already found one Sky Temple Key by ACCIDENT, looking for a Dark Sanctuary Fortress Key.

[Skullgrin140]

At the moment I've been flipping back & forth with my games atm. I'm currently playing Dragonage Origins and its an epic game

[Shadowman]

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes:
BEATEN! Dark Aether is destroyed, Dark Samus is dead, and regular Samus lives happily ever okay we all know that's a lie.

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption:
Killed Rundas, blew up the first Shield Generator on Bryyo.

Final Fantasy XII:
GOD I HATE THE MIMIC QUEEN. I want to meet and/or strangle the person who thought a good design for a boss would be allowing it to spam its two strongest attacks at such speed that no matter how many healing items or healing magic I use, it's never fast enough, by the time I get one Cure or Potion in, it's already attacked twice. This always happens when its health is nearly gone, so I get to die going "I WAS ALMOST THERE" then have to restart the fight from the beginning.

[The Happy Locust]

Dragon Age: Origins
After cleaning up the bandit problem in Lothering, my crew and I traveled to Redcliffe to seek the aid of the Arl. Unfortunately, the village is getting hammered every night by zombies who come out from the castle. Being the noble human warrior that I am, I spend my entire day making sure that the remaining troops are well armored and that morale is high for tonight's undead assault.

After surviving the evening onslaught (without a single casualty--thanks Dwyn!), everyone agrees that the castle must be investigated. To make a long story short, the castle is being controlled by a demon who unfortunately has taken control of the Arl's son. Poor kid. Anyway, we had to decide whether or not to use his mother's lifesource to enter the Fade and defeat the demon in his own dimension, or travel to the Circle of Mages and instead find some lyrium to enter the Fade.

I chose the latter, and I'm not sure it was the right choice because the tower where the Circle of Mages reside is being overrun by demons. Whether or not I'll make it back to Redcliffe in time to save the day is yet to be seen...

Dragon age: origins
See 8-bit's post, but change the dog's name to Wuffy.
Chose pretty much the same path. On the way out, got attacked by an assassin's crew after Leliana. After several unsuccessful attempts, managed to survive and fight my way through. Left the leader alive but beaten.
Decided to do some Chantry side missions and went to rescue a group of refugees from darkspawn. Getting my ass handed to my by a dozen Hurlocks.
My tactics must suck because I can't seem to get through these battles in one piece. I swear the enemies have overleveled somehow.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy XII:
Finally got out of that godforsaken hole. I had to team up with the mysterious and knight of the former ruling party. We went to a bar to seek help from a lovable rouge and his non-human companion to go rescue a princess (Who is also a leader of a rebellion) from Imperial hands.

I'm beginning to wonder if there's any connection between the KotOR-style gameplay, and the fact that I can't stop picking out Star Wars references.

Dissidia: Final Fantasy:
Went partway through the first part of Inward Chaos with Terra, just so I could get this cutscene. If that doesn't make you go "Awww!" you are dead inside.

[The Happy Locust]

Final Fantasy 4: The after years
Working on the Lunarian's tale. They've definitely upped the difficulty, at points unfairly so. I managed to survive the Lair of the Father despite being attacked by no less than 3 count Malboro enemies (these things suck up Flare spells like they were smoking'em). Moved on to the Meteor site where the Mysterious girl kicked my ass and killed me... um... I'm coming back to this later.

New Super Mario Bros Wii
GAME.OVER!
Cleared the final levels in world 8 and fought Bowser in a battle that could best be described as Absurdly Epic. Currently going back for all the star coins. Got all the ones from worlds 1 and 2 so far.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy XII:
Got off the Leviathan by grinding my levels, and got Quickenings for Vaan and Penelo. Quickenings are Limit Breaks, learned by accessing them on the License Board, but with each panel, There Can Be Only One, much like the Quickenings in that one movie where the Spanish guy was Scottish. Now we have to venture through the Valley of the Dead, to find King Raithwall's tomb, and steal everything of value we can possibly find.

[The Happy Locust]

Dragon age Origins
Managed to survive the Hurlock assault and hit a few other side missions. After resupplying, took a side trip to the Dales forest and learned of their plight. Accepted but immediately left, instead going shopping at Denerim. Helped Leliana reconcile her past with Marjolaine (who we left alive). Otherwise, just hitting the city's high points trying to earn some quest related XP.
Apparently it's only the darkspawn that are overleveled. I've been attacked by a swarm of spiders, a team of Wolves and a Bereskarn, random thugs, and bandits and the battles have all ended in my favor. it doesn't hurt that I'm making more active use of Morrigan's cone of ice and mind blast spells.

[Shadowman]

Dissidia: Final Fantasy:
Got all the Chaos Reports (Taking a villain through Duel Coliseum until you fight their hero counterpart as a boss), now I'm working on Cosmos Reports. (Beat Chaos in Story mode with each hero)

[The Happy Locust]

New Super Mario Bros Wii
Still on a hunt for Star coins. Got everything up through world 6 and half of 7.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy XII:
Killed the Garuda, a manner of flying bird monster. before heading into King Raithwall's Tomb, I headed back to Rabanastre to do some hunting quests. Then I headed back, and took out not one, both BOTH Demon Walls. Neither one was exceptionally difficult, especially now that I know the virtues of spamming Quickenings...well, okay, they're glorified Limit Breaks and I know very well how fast you can win fights by spamming those.

[The Happy Locust]

New Super Mario Bros Wii
Got all the star coins through world 7. Found out that I missed a level completely on World 7. did anyone else know there was a hidden 7-6?

Dragon Age Origins
Spent the day faffing about in Denerim, running odd jobs for the Mages' collective, the Chantry, and the Blackstones. Also found a Blood Mage's den and cleared out the mages and their followers. Tough battle.
After clearing everything I could think of in Denerim, took a side-trip to Lake Calenhad. From there, found a group of cultists who were harrassing the bartender whenever anyone asked about Brother genetivi. Dealt with the threat and followed them down to their village of Haven. The villagers were not welcoming and very suspicious. Found a redcliffe knight in the shop (the shopkeeper turned hostile and I had to put him down). In their Hall, found their leader performing a church service. When I inquired about the body, the procession turned hostile (sensing a trend?). Took them down and found Brother Genetivi, who had been a captive. He led me to the ruined temple near the village.
I had originally planned to go visit the Mage's circle first but ended up coming back to the Urn of Sacred Ashes quest.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy XII:
Got nuts after killing those Demon Walls, including a trick to get me Demonsbane swords for...well, everyone. I got them for Vaan, Ashe, Penelo and Basch. They're about twice as powerful as any other sword at this point in the game, I won't have to re-equip for some time. Dealing 300 damage per hit isn't too shabby either.

Killed Belias the Gigas, not he's my first summon. The regular customers, Shiva, Ifrit, Bahamut, are all absentee, for the first time since Final Fantasy II. Airships are named after them, though, but that's not as good as actually committing murders with Diamond Dust or Mega Flare.

Got the Dawn Shard, which Ashe intends to use to A) Prove her nobility, and B) Smite people. Particularly the Imperials. Judge Ghis intended to power-up the Airship Leviathan with it, and, well...Leviathan and every airship in the 8th Imperial Fleet got blown to pieces.

Now I'm heading to STOP an anti-Imperial rebellion. Apparently, the rebellion would attract another nation capable of easily going toe-to-toe with the Empire, and would be a great excuse for war. The war would, of course, destroy Dalmasca in the process, thus rendering all our work so far meaningless. So...go Empire? Smite those rebels?

That did not feel right.

[The Happy Locust]

Dragon Age Origins
Changed my mind on the Sacred Urn quest and instead headed to the Mages' tower. Found it in lockdown with the Templar read to purge all the mages. Entered knowing the doors would be locked behind us. Inside, met Wynne, a senior mage with exceptional healing skills. Trading her in and leaving Leliani on the bench, worked my way up through 3 floors of abominations, shades, mages, and an arcane horror. On the 4th floor, found a Templar being controlled by a Desire demon who simply wanted to be left alone. What to do?...

New Super Mario Bros wii
All Star coins up through world 9-5.

[1337W422102]

A challenger appears! Hey, guys! Miss me? No? Well, damn it. I brought biscuits for NOTHING.

Let's see, it's been a while. Here are some recent updates:

Bionicle Heroes [PC]:
Oh, those crazy Lego Star Wars guys... This one has a greater emphasis on action, and it's real fun. Beat 3 of the Piraka. Roughly 50% complete.

GTA IV [PC]:
BOWLING, COUSIN! I had to restart because I wasn't able to get the game to read my saved data properly when I installed it on my laptop (holycrapmylaptopcanrungtaiv) since my desktop's completely pwned. Currently doing the deliveries for LJ. They're so much easier once you realize you don't have to use the crap car they give you for the missions.

Gunz: The Duel [PC]:
Felt like mindless shooting. Made a new character, got her to Level 7, gave her an MP5.

Alliance of Valiant Arms [PC]:
Leave it to ijji to mess up the event going on. Oh well, the prize is crap anyway. Got some bonus $$$ at my Supply Points meter rolled over. Still not enough to buy the M4 yet. Looks like my character, CousinNiko, will have to keep using the AK-47 I bought back in the beta for now. Because he's a GENETICALLY SUPERIOR ALPHA MALE with Red Army skills.

Diablo II [PC]:
Playing with a buddy. Reached Act II. Lut Gohlein's nice this time of year. Except for the palace. You may not pass. You may not pass. You may not pass.

Warrior Epic [PC]:
Killed my Pit Fighter so I wouldn't have to use him anymore. Right now I'm working on my scantily-clad Devotress and my redheaded Assassin who sets things on fire. I refer to her as the Datassassin, and you can certain see why, especially about one minute into this video I shot. I haven't seen a walk that kinky since Batman's in Arkham Asylum.

[Shadowman]

I refer to her as the Datassassin, and you can certain see why, especially about one minute into this video I shot.

So how much damage does she cause with that hip swing?

Final Fantasy XII:
Killed Tiamat...only to end up in a boss fight with an enemy MUCH STRONGER than Tiamat. Damn it.

In response, I went back to Rabanastre to run hunting missions, get my levels up. So far, everyone except Vaan and Penelo has their level 3 Quickenings. Oddly enough, this didn't help me kill the boss.

My latest hunting mission is almost over, I have to kill a giant turtle...that's stronger than Tiamat. FFFFFFF--