The Energon Pub

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GTA IV [PC]:
Did some work for Little Jackob. I can now buy hardware from him. Working on reaching 100% friendship because eh's a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.

Met up with Brucie, who seems like a total douche. Still, I'm going to give him a chance and play some pool or darts with him as he gives me some good work.

Working on Police missions, as it's fun to travel across the city laying down the law. With automatic weapons. And a baseball bat. BONK.

Story-wise, doing jobs for Dimitri and Faustein. Just took out the nephew or son or something of a power warlord. Or something. Don't remember. Or it might have been Mikhail's daughter's jerk of a boyfriend.

Also hunting down the flying rats. Got 10 so far.

[The Happy Locust]

Saints Row 2
Finding driving with a keyboard to be a bother, hooked up a gamepad to my PC and played with more standard console controls. I've since learned that my ability to play with a gamepad has weakened significantly. Having primarily used either mouse+keyboard or wiimote for recent years, my dual-analog skills are lacking. STill, tried at it and got to a point where I'm at least somewhat comfortable with the controls.

GAmeplay-wise, went to the university, killed a bunch of dealers, stole their goods, and then killed a boss dealer. After that, just killed time on the 'Trail Blazing' diversion. Words cannot express the awesomeness of driving an ATV while on-fire and causing vehicles to explode with a touch.

[Shadowman]

Overlord:
Playing for 100% corruption. Saved Rose, suppressed Spree, and now working on kidnapping some maidens.

[The Happy Locust]

Lego Batman
Cleared the remaining 3 levels of the Riddler's villain story, controlling Poison Ivy and Two-face along the way.

[Shadowman]

Overlord:
Found the Green and Blue minions. I'm now at 35% corruption...and large spikes are growing from my shoulders. Huh.

[The Happy Locust]

Saints Row 2
Took Johnny with me on a mission to rob a casino owned by a rival gang. Lots of dead Yakuza and a hearty cash pile for me.

Killed time with diversions of the most deviant kind. Cleared 6 levels of the septic avenger diversion, 3 levels of streaking (yes, streaking!), 45 minutes in plastic surgery tweaking my looks to more accurately reflect myself in-game, got a gold on a racing area by my main crib, upgraded my crib as much as possible, and generally wreaked havoc wherever I could. Good times.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy IV:
Escaping from Baron Castle, Palom and Porom Petrified themselves to keep the gang from dying. Saved Rosa and, by extension, Kain. However, Tellah apparently died casting Meteor. (Sephiroth called him a wuss for that) from there, we headed to the Underworld, and the Dwarven Castle, where Golbez tried to, again, kill us all. Everyone was saved by timely intervention from Rydia, who is now both legal and smokin' hot. Of course, Golbez still got the Dark Crystal in the Dwarven Castle. Phooey. We headed to the Tower of Babil, confronting Dr. Hojo--er, Dr. Lugae. Afterwords, in an attempt to stop a cannon, Yang sacrificed himself to keep it from firing. After escaping from the Underworld, Cid blew both the entrance and himself up to aid our escape...so, that's five suicide attacks in quick succession.

heading back into the Underworld, we ran into Edge, who is half-ninja, half-Edgar. We killed that last of the Elemental Lords, and stole an Airship. Heading back to the Dwarf Castle--hey, Cid didn't die...somehow? Huh.

[The Happy Locust]

Saints Row 2
Shaundi asked me to return to the prison I broke out of earlier to break out one of her friends. I did. Turns out her friend is a TV-mom-slash-drug-dealer character. Go figure.
Went to a meeting with the leader of the Brotherhood, but was interrupted by cops. Blasted my way out and spoke with the brotherhood's leader at his home base. Turns out he had an offer but the terms were far from fair.
Off-mission, cleared the Hitman activity at the marina, defended my marina turf from the Ronin, ran a few races, and updated my outfit. I'm now wearing a red, blue, and green gladiator helmet. Cool.

[Shadowman]

Armed and Dangerous:
Woo, damn near breezed through this. Still, despite the fact that I could finish the game today, the cutscenes make it worth it. My God this game is funny. Also, the Land Shark Gun is officially the best gun in any game ever. ("The BFG kills everything in the room" "But it doesn't shoot sharks at people")

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GTA IV [PC]:
Did a few more jobs for Brucie. Got him the PCJ. Blew up the garage on the Faustin mission "Rigged to Blow," which was a total throwback to GTA III. I loved it.

Dimitri wants me to deal with Faustin now. I look forward to it.

[The Happy Locust]

Painkiller
Started chapter 5 by clearing out a city on the water and then performing pest control on the docks. Enemies are becoming a nuisance but the enemy design is still fairly unique. The grunts for this chapter are gimps with spike launchers for arms and "Ghost Rider" look-a-likes with shotguns who will use other enemies as shields. Neat.

[The Happy Locust]

2 days and 2 games later...

Saints row 2
Mostly running diversions, but cleared out samedi and Brotherhood stronghold, forced a brotherhood mechanic to rig explosives on his gangs trucks, conducted an aerial assault against a Samedia drug farm, and laundered the money I stole from the Ronin. Swapped my previous suit for a business suit with green sunglasses and a red&blue tophat. I'm pimpin' in style. Cleared another round of hitman missions.

Lego Batman
Cleared the Penguin's chapter on the villains side. Slightly peeved that I didn't get a level as Man-bat but oh well.

[Tyrannotaur]

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2- Replaying on a higher difficulty, for the Pro Reg side of the game. Also trying to get Hulk. Fun game, especially Co-op.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy V:
After a long series of events, Exdeath destroyed all four Crystals, then hightailed it back for his and Galuf's homeworld...okay, well, he's out of our hair, can we--Oh, right, have to stop the Big Bad, huh? Working on taking down the barrier generators on Exdeath's castle.

[The Happy Locust]

Lego Batman
Cleared the Joker's revenge missions, then went back to the Penguin missions to get the super-villain kit I missed. Got 15/15 of the villain super-villain kits, and completed all the story missions. Now I get to go back and run all missions in free play. the fun begins.

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Ghostbusters [Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]:
Playing through the game with a friend. Just cleared the library. Having a blast.

GTA IV [PC]:
Completed the Export jobs for Brucie, got the Order Fulfilled Achievement. Took down Faustin. Then crap got real when one of Niko's old "friends" showed up. Good thing Little Jakob was able to help in that shootout.

Next, crap got even worse when apartment and the cab depot are both torched. Fled to Bohan with Roman, moved into the place Mallorie let us use, and got another Achievement. Sweet Raptor Jesus, this game is fantastic.

[The Happy Locust]

Saints Row 2
more fun while accomplishing nothing. Completed a set of 'snatch' mission which had me recruiting 'hos' and returning them to a massage parlor. AFter that, it was time for another round of 'Heli assault' defending my friends from a military helicopter. fun fun fun!
Mission wise, stuck it to the 3 gangs by destroying drug labs owned by the Samedi, demolishing the servers hosting the Ronin's web porn sites (you heard me), intercepting the Ronin before they could attack my base, and spiking the Brotherhood's leader's tattoo ink with nuclear waste (ouch!)

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...demolishing the servers hosting the Ronin's web **** sites (you heard me)

No we didn't, thanks to censorship!

...and spiking the Brotherhood's leader's tattoo ink with nuclear waste (ouch!)

lolwut?

[The Happy Locust]

...demolishing the servers hosting the Ronin's web **** sites (you heard me)

No we didn't, thanks to censorship!

...and spiking the Brotherhood's leader's tattoo ink with nuclear waste (ouch!)

lolwut?

there's an auto-censor now? weak...

And the tattoo part, let's just say the guy didn't like that his new facial tattoo started smoking.

PainKiller
Cleared the game on Nightmare difficulty by defeating the adversary himself in hell, though the battle was fairly lame. I do give props for a rather unique view of Hell. The level was basically showing battlefields throughout the ages while at the same time, all time has stopped (leaving explosions, flames, debris, etc just floating in midair). Follow the path and you go from medieval war up to a missile and a mushroom cloud.
Ran into an odd glitch though. After falling out of demon morph mode and returning to the battlefield, the game would forget to reload the level geometry and I'd be shooting enemies in an invisible landscape. Strange, but cool...
Now on to the expansion in which I work my way back out of Hell.

[Shadowman]

there's an auto-censor now? weak...

It's been there for years. Since I think 2004.

Final Fantasy V:
Blew up Exdeath's shield generator. Now we have a submarine...it wasn't stolen from Exdeath, it was stolen from Galuf's friend who died helping blow up the shield generator.

[The Happy Locust]

Saints row 2
Didn't work any actual missions but cleared another set of 'snatch' missions for a local pimp. Cleared out a Samedi stronghold and 2 Ronin strongholds. I think they're getting pissed at me now.
Bought some new cribs and my activities earned me a new model of SMG and infinite ammo.

Lego Batman
Starting free play. got all minikits, bricks, and hostages in the Hero side of the Riddler's campaign.

[8 bit]

Assassin's Creed:

Beat!...I think. All I did was look at a wall with my eagle vision, and the next thing I knew the credits were rolling.

[Shadowman]

Assassin's Creed:

Beat!...I think. All I did was look at a wall with my eagle vision, and the next thing I knew the credits were rolling.

Yeah, and that wall was covered in text all pointing at the end of the world. Likewise, the game takes place in 2012, and the Templar intend on launching their satellite in only a few months.

Star Wars: Jedi Academy:
Did a marathon of this game. Just picked the twin Lightsaber style.

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Star Wars: Jedi Academy:
Did a marathon of this game. Just picked the twin Lightsaber style.

I was gonna bother you on Steam to play some TF2 with my buddy, but I know better than to get between an man and his Jedi Knight game. I can't wait to get that Dark Forces überpack.

Team Fortress 2 [PC]:
Got two Sniper Achievements: Grey Matter and one which involves shooting 10 enemy Snipers in the head, or something.

[The Happy Locust]

Lego Batman
Completed Free play on the hero side. 3 levels into the Riddler's campaign on the villain side.