The Energon Pub

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:47 pm

The right choices:

Tech Expert for Vents: Either Tali or Legion
Second Team Leader: Garrus, Miranda, or Jacob
Seeker Barrier: Either Jack or Samara/Morinth
Distraction Team Leader: Garrus, Miranda, or Jacob
Crew Escort: Anyone loyal, but Mordin is considered the best choice.
Final Battle teammates: Tali, Jack, and/or Mordin, basically anyone except Garrus, Grunt, or Zaeed.

Defensive team is interesting, the walkthrough says: "The game will calculate the defensive value of the characters left behind, and will kill off squad members based on that value and their loyalty if your combined level is not enough." Typically having everyone loyal and being mid-twenties is good enough, in my experience.

I followed those choices from that walkthrough, I didn't lose a single teammate.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:19 pm

Alien Swarm [PC]:
Thanks for the rounds, Shadow! Your "kill both teammates and win with 1HP" schtick was AWESOME.

Got the Scrambled Eggs achievement.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:34 pm

1337W422102 wrote:Alien Swarm [PC]:
Thanks for the rounds, Shadow! Your "kill both teammates and win with 1HP" schtick was AWESOME.

Got the Scrambled Eggs achievement.

Yep. Turns out I was that thing from The Thing. I told you we should have taken a blood sample from everyone and poked each sample with a hot needle to see who was human and who wasn't but nooooooooo, you thought we were ALL human. It clearly didn't work out for you in the long run, did it?

Team Fortress 2:
Got all the items from Poker Night at the Inventory. Not using the Heavy's Iron Curtain because I like Natasha better, and I'm not using the Pac-Man Watch because I like the Cloak and Dagger better. Also, I found that the Shutter Shades I got from Strong Bad go great with Demoman's Fro.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:37 pm

Shadowman wrote:Yep. Turns out I was that thing from The Thing. I told you we should have taken a blood sample from everyone and poked each sample with a hot needle to see who was human and who wasn't but nooooooooo, you thought we were ALL human. It clearly didn't work out for you in the long run, did it?

I'm usually more of a "haul ass first, worry about poking stuff later" sorta guy.

Shadowman wrote:Team Fortress 2:
Got all the items from Poker Night at the Inventory. Not using the Heavy's Iron Curtain because I like Natasha better, and I'm not using the Pac-Man Watch because I like the Cloak and Dagger better. Also, I found that the Shutter Shades I got from Strong Bad go great with Demoman's Fro.

Damn straight, son. You must be one mad pimpin' D-Man!

by **The Happy Locust** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:59 am

Fallout New Vegas
Picked this up earlier than I planned thanks to a Black Friday deal.
Game started. AFter waking up with a bullet in my brain (bioshock 2 flashbacks, anyone?), did some odd jobs around Goodspring before heading out. Reached the town of Primm and cleared it of a local gang as well as rescuing the last remaining deputy while also finding info about the guys who attacked me.
On the deputy's suggestion, found a forciby retired sheriff who was willing to run Primm's security if he could get a pardon from the NCR. Next stop, NCR mojave outpost. But first, ran a quick assassination job for the Powder Gangers leader.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:25 am

Borderlands [PC]:
Took out that last boss, got 4 Achievements, cleared Playthrough 1. Doesn't Pattie predict some kind of time loop (ie: playthrough 2), at one point?

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:57 pm

1337W422102 wrote:Borderlands [PC]:
Took out that last boss, got 4 Achievements, cleared Playthrough 1. Doesn't Pattie predict some kind of time loop (ie: playthrough 2), at one point?

Yeah, it's in her cell in the Crimson Enclave. She's also admitted to eating bugs and hallucinating, so I wouldn't exactly take anything she says at face value.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:59 pm

Shadowman wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:Borderlands [PC]:
Took out that last boss, got 4 Achievements, cleared Playthrough 1. Doesn't Pattie predict some kind of time loop (ie: playthrough 2), at one point?

Yeah, it's in her cell in the Crimson Enclave. She's also admitted to eating bugs and hallucinating, so I wouldn't exactly take anything she says at face value.

Well, that goes without saying.

by **The Happy Locust** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 10:56 pm

Dead Space: Extraction
After my encounter with security, woke up in a quarantined area as Lexine finished receiving a full body scan. :shock:

Before the overseeing doctor could give me my turn, the area went into lockdown. Snuck out through a vent and reached a control console to unlock it just before a hull breach nearly sucked me into a full vacuum (good thing I had a spacesuit on). After some time in the vents, ended up in a morgue where the others found me. We found another doctor who was promptly eaten by the enemies. Fought our way through and met with security. Split up and went to go find others but the floor came out from under us. Enter the obligatory sewer level... IN SPACE!
In the lower areas, found the lockdown in effect and tried to find a way out, losing a member in the water treatment plant. Wandered some more and ended up in hydroponics only to have a giant tentacled plant monster attack. Destroyed it's eye-stalks (?) by hopping through vents and letting it get chopped by a fan as it followed me. Then played catch by throwing explosives back at it. With it hopefully dead, my crew decided to move forward.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:23 am

Golden Sun:
I played a little bit of Golden Sun before, but that was so long ago, my memories of it are so distorted I may have been only watching videos. There's scenes I should have seen that I don't remember, scenes I do remember but thought were parts of other games. So...yeah, playing it for real this time.

A big rainstorm hit the tiny village of Vale and OH CRAP giant boulder attack! tried to help but the villains (Who probably indirectly caused it) had other plans. As a result, no less than four people died, including Isaac's father, and Jenna's entire family.

Years later, we had to go up to the Sol Sactum to find out what the villains were doing there. As a result, they stole the Elemental Stones from us (Except the Mars stone! Suck on that!) and OH CRAP one of them is Jenna's clearly-not-dead brother!

Met a kid named Ivan, helped him find a bunch of stolen loot, of which I only re-stole one thing. Stopped an evil tree from turning the whole world into evil trees before it died, which would kill off anything attacked to it. (Including those people-turned-trees) And then went to the Mercury Lighthouse to stop the villains. Met a healer named Mia, who helped us stop them--crap we didn't stop them. yep, seems Alex and his gang are getting away with it so far.

Unkilled the no-longer evil tree, and headed on through another forest. Stopped a series of living statues from flooding a town, saved a guy from being crushed to death by a boulder. 13 Djinns in my possession so far. Going to evil forest next...if you're wondering why that last paragraph is so stunted, it's 2;15 in the morning and I'm too tried to make this tl;dr.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:25 am

Shadowman wrote:... I'm too tried to make this tl;dr.

Hate to break it to you...

:Team Fortress 2 [PC]:
Got the Frontier Justice achievement and the Holy Mackerel. Time to beat people to death with a fish.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:49 am

1337W422102 wrote:
Shadowman wrote:... I'm too tried to make this tl;dr.

Hate to break it to you...

Well, too tired to make it even more tl;dr. I was trying to shorten things up and ended up going into Rorschach mode.

1337W422102 wrote::Team Fortress 2 [PC]:
Got the Frontier Justice achievement and the Holy Mackerel. Time to beat people to death with a fish.

The Fish is statistically no more powerful than the regular bat. And almost everyone agrees that it is TOTALLY AWESOME. Maybe it's the jiggle bones that make the fish flop about, maybe it's the way it lists how many times you hit a man with a fish in the kill counter and adds FISH KILL alongside the regular kill icon. (I imagine it being said in the voice of the Quake Announcer) But nearly everyone agrees the Fish is awesome. Which is weird because it's TF2 and we rarely agree anything is awesome.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:57 am

I'd prefer the Oldschool UT announcer, personally, but I see what you mean!
I haven't had a chance to try it on anyone yet as I was playing Engie and Pyro, but next time, I'll give whack. See what I did there?

by **The Happy Locust** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:14 pm

Fallout: New Vegas
More wandering. Reached the MOjave outpost. Ran minor jobs for the soldiers there, including clearing the road of critters. Was asked to drop by a town and see how things were going. Found half the town crucified and the other half not so good. Short version: Things were going swell. :shock:

Also placed a robot as sheriff of Primm. currently exploring random areas including a hotel in the bottom of a radioactive crater.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:18 pm

Borderlands [PC]:
Got the Hunter's skill achievement.

Lunia [PC]:
Got a free permanent pay (haha, implying I'd pay real-life money for time-limited in-game items) and fought the urge to name it "THE GAME," which wouldn't have ended well. I spend most of my time in town these days would just have wound up trolling my guildmates.

Also, sorry for making you guys lose the Game. Problem?

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:44 pm

1337W422102 wrote:Also, sorry for making you guys lose the Game. Problem?

FFFFFFFFFFF--

Golden Sun:
Nearing the Venus Lighthouse. Unfortunately, the entrance isn't an entrance at all, and the actual entrance is somewhere else entirely. Phooey! I have 25/28 Djinns, though. I feel mighty.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:46 pm

Shadowman wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:Also, sorry for making you guys lose the Game. Problem?

FFFFFFFFFFF--

Related.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:59 am

1337W422102 wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:Also, sorry for making you guys lose the Game. Problem?

FFFFFFFFFFF--

Related.

I prefer this flash one.

Golden Sun:
BEATEN!...wait, beaten? How is this beaten? I've only dealt with two lighthouses, there's still bad guys on the loose, we still need to find the resident damsel in distress, they were making a pretty big deal about that dude's immortality potion, and what was up with that floating eyeball monster? This isn't over! This is barely 50%! WHY DID THEY PUBLISH ONLY HALF A GAME?!

Well, for just a half a game, it was still pretty awesome. And there's a save transfer thing, so I can import all my crap into Golden Sun: The Lost Age via...260-character password?! Why do you hate me, Camelot?! What did I ever do to you?!

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:22 pm

Shadowman wrote:Golden Sun:
This isn't over! This is barely 50%! WHY DID THEY PUBLISH ONLY HALF A GAME?!

Seriously related.

Shadowman wrote:Well, for just a half a game, it was still pretty awesome. And there's a save transfer thing, so I can import all my crap into Golden Sun: The Lost Age via...260-character password?! Why do you hate me, Camelot?! What did I ever do to you?!

Metroid for NES pissed me off SO badly with that crap.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:01 am

Final Fantasy Tactics:
Finally cleared Chapter 2. Everything is easier when you hit key personnel with a liberal application of Holy. Met Malak, except I don't know his name is Malak. now I have to go to...a place, I guess. I need to bring a big book that proves the Church is run by a bunch of amoral jerks probably being possessed by Demons. Gonna have to deal with that.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:18 am

Shadowman wrote:Gonna have to deal with that.

Bring your sunglasses!

by **8 bit** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 7:10 pm

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow [Xbox]
Beat...

Shadowman wrote:Super, Mega, Ultra Spoiler that WILL ruin the end of the game for you:

Gabriel Belmont IS Dracula, or at least he'll take on that name. When he learns he can't actually bring his wife back, he feels betrayed, stacked along with previous betrayals, and feelings of regret and anger. He's pissed as hell, and evidently becomes a Vampire, taking on the name Dracula.

Still, alternate continuity.

I actually didn't read your spoiler until just now; had to see how it ended for myself.

***SPOILER ALERT*** for anyone who hasn't played this game yet..
Since I knew this was a reboot, I began to suspect that this was a Dracula-origin story and that either Zobec was Dracula, or Gabriel would become him. I'm not sure what to think of the ending though; I kinda feel like Konami pulled a "MGS: Sons of Liberty" ending on me...i.e. left me hanging with a lot of questions!

What really caught me off guard was the modern setting at the end. Didn't see that coming!

by **The Happy Locust** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:05 pm

Tron 2.0
Left Alan's PC and decided to search for the Tron Legacy code in an old Mainframe. Needed to redirect power in order to power-on the dormant unit. Protected Ma3a until the unit could be powered and then went in, only to find a dangerous seeker program. Fortunately, the system couldn't handle the seeker and it malfunctioned, allowing me to defeat it. The system can't handle Ma3a so I'm working on Overclocking the system... instability occurred. Oops.

Fallout New VEgas
Minor quests. Freed some powder gangers from the Legion, changing my rating from villified to Notorious thug amongst the gangers and making the Legion hate me. Explored some general areas of the wasteland looking for treasure. Found a gang of prospectors searching for radiation suits in a town destroyed by a radiation bomb. Tracked the goods to a legion destroyed town and returned them, then explored the town. Unfortunately, I must've misfired somewhere because the prospectors turned against me. Killed them, stole the key their leader had, and explored what I could while simultaneously growing extraneous organs from the high radiation levels (slight hyperbole). Encountered a queen radscorpion which I killed and found that the Legion had set the bomb. Escaped the town with my radiation levels spiking, having something like 997 rads when I left the area (1000 being fatal). Phew...

Dead Rising 2
Killed zombies. What more is there? :mrgreen:

Had to restart because I missed a story point, but now I'm level 10 with some fun new combo weapons to try out. Kinda wish the survivors would stay rescued when restarting the story, since I end up losing all my time trying to escort them.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:53 pm

Speaking of Tron, some of you might like this.

Yesterday, I went to the Montreal Comic Con and artist Kelly Tindall[/ur] drew me [url=http://www.majhost.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2869419]this hilariously awesome sketch. This is probably the best thread on the forum to find people who'd actually get it.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:37 am

Got a lot of games to finish, and which one do I play?

The Legendary Starfy (DS)
Completely finished the first world, Gluglug Lagoon, found all treasure chests and secret levels. Was almost too easy. Now I'm on level 3 of world 2, Hotcha Springs. It's a cute game, kinda a Kirby wanna-be

Glory of Heracles (DS)
Tried it out and it starts well enough. Just a lot of fights to force you to learn. I'll let you guys know more when I actually save

Here are the other games I need to play more:

Sonic Unleashed (Wii)
Wario Land: The Shake Dimension (Wii)
Vertigo (Wii)
Mercury Meltdown Revolution (Wii)
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Wii)
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (GCN)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (GCN)
Star Fox Assault (GCN)
Luigi's Mansion (GCN)

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (DS)
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (DS)
Sword of Mana (GBA)
Lufia: Ruins of Lore (GBA)
Final Fantasy I & II (GBA)

*gulp*