The Energon Pub

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Portal [PC]:
At course #9. Epic lollery is being had. I'm having too much fun making gravity do my bidding and spitting in the face of physics. Working on Achievements.

GTA Advance [GBA]:
Reached Staunton. About 39% through the game. Done all the Portland Vigilantes, Firefighters, and Races.

[8 bit]

Final Fantasy VII:
I got the Highwind, now I have to go bust some heads in Mideel. Aerith is dead, Cloud is out, and soon Tifa is going to leave the gang. At least I've been building up Yuffie to be my new healer. (Even though her Magic stats aren't up to par with Aerith)

Are you planning on going the whole nine yards and breeding/raising/racing your Chocobos and getting the Knights of the Round—and possibly even defeating the final two Weapons?

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Final Fantasy VII:
I got the Highwind, now I have to go bust some heads in Mideel. Aerith is dead, Cloud is out, and soon Tifa is going to leave the gang. At least I've been building up Yuffie to be my new healer. (Even though her Magic stats aren't up to par with Aerith)

Are you planning on going the whole nine yards and breeding/raising/racing your Chocobos and getting the Knights of the Round—and possibly even defeating the final two Weapons?

Needs more Chocobo Inbreeding.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy VII:
I got the Highwind, now I have to go bust some heads in Mideel. Aerith is dead, Cloud is out, and soon Tifa is going to leave the gang. At least I've been building up Yuffie to be my new healer. (Even though her Magic stats aren't up to par with Aerith)

Are you planning on going the whole nine yards and breeding/raising/racing your Chocobos and getting the Knights of the Round—and possibly even defeating the final two Weapons?

I'm probably going to get KotR later on. I'm at least going to kill Ultimate Weapon, I dunno about the others.

Final Fantasy VII:
Stopped the train from smashing into North Corel. Next up, the Fort Condor mini Game Spectacular!

[The Happy Locust]

Grand theft Auto 4
Guess that wasn't the last mission. Oh well. Anyway, made my decision and tracked Dimitri down to a cargo ship. Blasted my way through dozens of goods until it was just me and Dimitri in the cargo hold. It was probably overkill to bring a rocket launcher to a gunfight, but it definitely made Niko look more intimidating during the cutscene. In either case, Dimitri got a rocket to the brain.
In celebration, Took Kate to Roman's wedding. Too bad Jimmy didn't agree with me screwing over his deal with Dimitri and set up a drive-by. Kate ufortunately didn't survive it. I get the feeling a revenge mission is next up.

[8 bit]

Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link:
Defeated the 2nd Palace with ease, but it seems no matter how many times I play this game, I always miss a key somewhere. Gave the Water of Life to the old lady in Mido, got the Fairy spell and the awesome Downthrust. On to Palace 3.

I don't know about everyone else, but if I knew a spell that turned me into a fairy, I wouldn't tell too many of my friends about it.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy VII:
Kicked ass at Fort Condor...I would have to beaten all those Spartans at Thermopylae.

Went through Cloud's broken, splintered mind, which was surprisingly devoid of anything a normal man traveling with Tifa would think. Fixed his memories; Cloud was at Nibelheim, despite Sephiroth's claims to the contrary (Sephiroth is, as you may recall, a jerk), but up until saving Tifa and fighting Sephiroth in the Mako Reactor was taken from Zack, (Probably just before Zack's death, with Jenova cells) probably in an attempt to make himself feel better about his life.

Got a submarine, and met Sephiroth's mom. It's hard to believe Lucrecia, who is hot, would do the act with Hojo, who is very unpleasant looking. This probably did not make Vincent very happy.

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Resident Evil 4 [PC]:
Still in the second mission of Separate Ways. Luis and Leon were carried off by some bad guys, now I have to trek back across the entire map to try to find them.

Also, bats don't drop stuff when you kill them, unlike crows. Weird.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy VII:
BEATEN! Safer Sephiroth ended just...abruptly. I had thought the fight was going to go on much longer, but then Vincent, in Chaos form, used one of his attacks, ending the fight before I could even get Yuffie to heal up Cloud.

I didn't get Knights of the Round (Though I heard that it makes the final battle more difficult), but I at least beat Ultimate Weapon, and I'm glad I did; not only was the monster not difficult at all, but Cloud's Ultima Weapon just does crazy-huge damage.

Hey...part of the ending medley is from FF1. Huh.

I'm gonna go watch Advent Children...maybe try to find a cheap copy of FF8.

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Final Fantasy VII:
BEATEN!

Nice. Way to go, Shadow!

Portal [PC]:
Testchamber 18, I think. Getting tough, now.

GTA Advance [GBA]:
39% through the game. In Staunton, exploring, doing Rampages and finding Packages. Did a few Firefighter missions.

[zero-kaiser]

Super Smash Bros Brawl [Wii]:

Picked this up about two weeks ago and Ive hardly put it down!!

Subspace Emissary Cleared - still need to unlock Toon Link and Wolf O'Donnell..

Events 1 - 28 Cleared - need to unlock above characters to unlock remaining Event matches..

100 Man Brawl Cleared on Easy - ...my thumbs hurt

..not bad for an afternoons work!!

[The Happy Locust]

Grand Theft Auto 4
GAME.OVER!
Pegorino has paid for what he took from me. plus I got to pilot an army helicopter for all of 20 seconds. Oy...

I enjoyed this game, but I'm really torn on how to rate it. The story is excellent and would have been great as a movie script or series. The problem is, this isn't a movie or TV series. It's a game. And there were very long stretches where I was just playing to complete the game and get it over with rather than because I was enjoying it.
All in all, I felt I got my money's worth but this is not a game I'm in any rush to play through again. For pure enjoyment, I'll probably reinstall GTA:San Andreas before I play this again.

I have to say I miss a lot of the little side-missions that were in previous games. This game had vigilante missions, but the taxi mission, pimping mission, firefighter missions, etc added a lot to the previous games. I definitely miss the character customization and evolution features such as increased accuracy and skill for using weapons a lot or getting more skill for driving by driving. It was just another reason to play more. GTA:SA > GTA4

[8 bit]

Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link
Conquered this timeless classic tonight. Got lost in the final palace a couple of times and had to bust out my Nintendo Game Atlas for help, it's definitely been a while. I love the final battle with Link's shadow, and I think it was stellar of Nintendo to include a stage in Smash Bros. Melee where you can fight him again. All in all, this is still my favorite Zelda game.

[Shadowman]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:
Playing this one again. You can never have too much Snake.

Particularly, in the opening TV sequence (Where you can watch several channels), I particularly watched an interview with none other than David Hayter, who said he had just got off the set of a movie, when questioned about his strange attire; he was wearing a strange combat uniform, and, much more notably, a Solid Eye system. (He said he could get TV on it, and was watching a baseball game during the interview) He was also unshaven, and his resemblance to Snake was just astounding.

I think that's a reference to the Metal Gear movie they're making.

Currently on Act 1: Liquid Sun.

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Playing this one again. You can never have too much Snake.

Giggity.

Particularly, in the opening TV sequence (Where you can watch several channels), I particularly watched an interview with none other than David Hayter, who said he had just got off the set of a movie, when questioned about his strange attire; he was wearing a strange combat uniform, and, much more notably, a Solid Eye system. (He said he could get TV on it, and was watching a baseball game during the interview) He was also unshaven, and his resemblance to Snake was just astounding.

I think that's a reference to the Metal Gear movie they're making.

Heh heh, that's amazing. Hayter FTW.

[Me, Grimlock!]

Still on Dead Rising. Finished the game, but trying for some of the achievements: saint, full set, and whatever else I can pick up along the way.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:
Playing this one again. You can never have too much Snake.

You make me cry every time I play this because I can't. Is it really as fantastic as they say? I'm going to live vicariously through you if you don't mind.

[Shadowman]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:
Saved Naomi, with a little help from Raiden, and Raiden's ability to make Gray Fox look like a pansy.

Now on Act 3: Third Sun. Some real film noir, trench-coats-and-dark-alleys stuff is happening. It looks nice, but it's not my favorite mission. (It takes stealth much more seriously than any other mission in Metal Gear) My favorite mission comes next, though.

You make me cry every time I play this because I can't. Is it really as fantastic as they say? I'm going to live vicariously through you if you don't mind.

It...really is. There's a few things that have changed that need to be adapted to, mostly the new camera and aiming system. I got used to the camera immediately. The new aiming system requires to first hold L1 to ready and aim the gun (By default it's over-the-should, but pushing Triangle puts it in first-person), and R1 to fire the main weapon, and R2 for the secondary fire. (If the weapon has one).

The story is your typical MGS fare; highly complex, several ridiculous scenarios, a few jokes here, a few minutes of crying like a baby there. There are literally hundreds of callbacks to previous games, both in the form of Flashbacks (By repeatedly pushing X when prompted during cutscenes, you'll get a few brief pictures from other MGS games), and an entire mission taking place at Shadow Moses.

EDIT:

Completed Act 4: Twin Suns. Went back to Shadow Moses. Had some laughs, walked down memory lane, made vague references to Otacon pissing himself. Surprisingly, much of the base is left intact, too bad you can't visit half of it.

Best of all, I got to pilot Metal Gear REX...alright, so it has really rough controls to work out. But at least I beat Metal Gear RAY with it...which is weird, considering RAY was billed as a Metal Gear "designed to wipe the floor with all the other models" and I just kicked its ass with a ten-year-old model left to rust and with half it's major components destroyed.

Also, a quick thign Raiden did that made him totally awesome: Trapped under rubble, he cut off his arm so he could go help Snake, who was about to get run over by Liquid's massive battleship.

Think about that: He cut off his own arm so he could go fight a battleship. And he stopped it with his bare hand. And he survived. Somewhere, Grey Fox is highly impressed. (And horribly jealous)

[Shadowman]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:
BEATEN! Again. I got the Hawk Emblem, and the codename of Scorpion.

Here's what's weird, though: Twice in Twins Snakes, and at least once in MGS2, I also got the codename Scorpion. I don't know how this happens. I don't know how I'm able to get the same codename throughout multiple games. It makes no sense!

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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:
BEATEN! Again. I got the Hawk Emblem, and the codename of Scorpion.

Here's what's weird, though: Twice in Twins Snakes, and at least once in MGS2, I also got the codename Scorpion. I don't know how this happens. I don't know how I'm able to get the same codename throughout multiple games. It makes no sense!

Depends on playing style. Things like time spent in game, amount of saves, number of deaths, weapon stats, etc. change the codename. But you've been playing 'em long enough to know that.

Hey, at least you're consistent, eh?

[Shadowman]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:
BEATEN! Again. I got the Hawk Emblem, and the codename of Scorpion.

Here's what's weird, though: Twice in Twins Snakes, and at least once in MGS2, I also got the codename Scorpion. I don't know how this happens. I don't know how I'm able to get the same codename throughout multiple games. It makes no sense!

Depends on playing style. Things like time spent in game, amount of saves, number of deaths, weapon stats, etc. change the codename. But you've been playing 'em long enough to know that.

Hey, at least you're consistent, eh?

The first playthrough I did a lot of killin' and got the codename Tarantula. (I only ever get the cool codenames, accidentally) This time (and usually every other MGS game) I paid more attention to the Mosin Nagant and MK.2 non-lethal weapons, as well as the stun feature on the knife (It's both Knife AND taser. Awesome), saving my lethal weapons for enemies like tanks and Gekkos.

Scorpion requires a relatively small number of deaths, kills, and alerts. (Don't be impressed, I usually only play on Easy) So the Mk2, which has a built-in silencer, comes in handy, while the Mosin Nagant (A tranq sniper rifle) is useful for bosses and areas where the loud noise will go unnoticed. (Such as boss battles, or battles between Rebels/Militia and PMCs)

[Skullgrin140]

With the recently aquaried PS3 I have started playing Genji Days of the blade, half way through already. I might get it finished today or tomorrow.

[Shadowman]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:
Went back one more time for the Solar Gun. Must've screwed something up, because even though I have all the Trophies, I still don't have the Gun. (It's from Boktai, another Kojima game. Also, it can one-shot Vamp, not surprisingly)

Nyah!

Also took some pictures of the B&B Unit because...I mean, really, the option is there. If they didn't want me to use it, they wouldn't have added it!

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Resident Evil 4 [PC]:
Separate Ways:
heading to the warehouse in the north-east of the village, where Leon fights the big cheese of the town.

GTA Advance [GBA]:
In Staunton. Finished the Staunton Vigilantes and Firefighter missions. Did some Rampages and found some Packages (I'm up to 40). Working on the street races. About 45% complete the game.

[Me, Grimlock!]

Shadowman, did you ever manage to shoot all the toy frogs in MGS3?

[zero-kaiser]

Shadowman, did you ever manage to shoot all the toy frogs in MGS3?

I know Im not Shadowman.. but..

Agh!! those damn frogs!! Ive hit all but about 5, all of them on the motorcycle sections toward the end of the game and try as I might I cant hit them :\ -sigh-

...Ive actually considered playing through on extreme to unlock the stealth camo that way.