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News Credits: 2 · Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:28 pm

Painkiller:
Made it through several more areas, including a military rocket base, an oil refinery, and a million other nice looking places infested with demons. Also I killed a monster made from a swamp (Or was it a swamp made from a monster?) an a giant monster that had more then a few references to Thor.

Also I have a gun that shoots both shurikens and lightning.

News Credits: 23 · Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:35 am

Not progress-related, but related nonetheless. It would seem that Umbrella Corporation is now seeking financial aid. Is there no end to this bailout madness??

You can read the story here: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/residentevil4/news.html?sid=6207121

News Credits: 2 · Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:59 am

1337W422102 wrote:Not progress-related, but related nonetheless. It would seem that Umbrella Corporation is now seeking financial aid. Is there no end to this bailout madness??

You can read the story here: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/residentevil4/news.html?sid=6207121

You know, now that I think about it, doing something like that for an entire site would be a pretty cool idea. Kind of like the Onion except the stories are on pop culture.

Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:39 pm

Just finished Lost Planet today, for the moment I am gonna take a break from the PS3 and get back to the PS2 for a while with good ol' Kingdom Hearts

News Credits: 2 · Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:45 pm

I thought I posted in here. Hm.

Painkiller:
Killed a bunch of demons in a Castle, and then a bunch of Demons in a Palace, though really a palace is just another kind of castle. Now on to Babel, which I assume means the Tower of Babel and not Babylon as a whole.

Tomb Raider: Anniversary:
Got pieces of the Scion in Peru and Greece. Now to wreck some faces in Egypt!

News Credits: 23 · Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:46 pm

Battlefield Heroes Beta [PC]:
Really missing the older stages of the beta. Prices, time limits on items, and certain abilities becoming items now is just annoying.
And the Matchmaking is plain BS. It works as an 'I want to join a game, ANY game, NOW' sort of thing, but it makes playing with friends damn near impossible. I can't wait until they put in a standard list of rooms and servers like every other PC game.
Whoops, I wasn't supposed to talk about that game...

Resident Evil: Director's Cut [PS1]:
Met up with Rebecca, but she vanished when I came back for her. Weird. Used the blue gem on the Tiger statue. Found the Sword key. Going to use the plant poison on that evil vine thing and keep exploring.

Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:23 pm

Madworld
Cleared the first area of AsianTown and defeated RinRin. I apparently suck at the MoneyShot minigame because I didn't get a single point off of it.

Fallout 3
More exploring. found 2 more bobbleheads bringing me up to 15 so far. I cleared out Evergreen mills by releasing their captured Super Mutant Behemoth. Havoc ensued. Then headed underground to the Raider's Bazaar. Havoc Ensued. :twisted:

Met Smiling Jack, killed him and stole his shotgun.
I got lost on my way to Arlington and, in a sheer stroke of luck, found an underground metro area that had the Burnmaster flamer and tons of ammo. Neat.

Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:45 pm

3 days seems to be enough downtime. Continuing...

Fallout 3
More exploring. Happened accross bobblehead #16.
after 41 hours of gameteime, finally decided to move the story forward and visit Dr. Li in Rivet City to ask her if she's seen my dad.
After visiting Li, went to the Jefferson memorial and tracked Dad's holotapes which led me to VAult 112 and the Tranquility Lane simulator. In the simulator, decided to play along with Betty's demands and performed the following:
- made Timmy cry by telling him his parents were divorcing and it was his fault.
- Broker up the Rockwells' marriage by convincing Mrs. Rockwell that Mr. Rockwell was a transvestite. :twisted:

- Killed Mabel Henderson with a gas leak in the stove.
- Donned the pint-sized slasher costume and killed everyone else.
Betty was pleased and let me and Dad leave the simulation.Returned to Rivet city to get Dr. Li's aid in reviving Project Purity. From there it was back to the memorial to boot up the project's system. Had a heart-to-heart with Dad where I bragged about blowing up Megaton. He wasn't thrilled. :roll:

while reviving the project, the Enclave made a surprise appearance. I made short work of the enclave soldiers with my level 20 skills and unique weapons but still couldn't save Dad when he sacrificed himself to help us escape.
During the escape, Dr. Li told me Diego was injured and couldn't continue without help. I solved the problem by curing nailing Diego's head to the wall with a Railway rifle. Problem solved, but Dr. Li wasn't too thrilled.
We escaped (and I got to collect lots of Enclave armor on the way) and arrived at the Citadel. While there, I learned to use power armor finally.

In hindsight, I should've pushed the story forward to this point before exploring because it means I would've actually got some use out of the many armors I've got in storage. Currently I've got Power Armor, Brotherhood Power Armor, Prototype Medic Armor, Outcast Armor, Linden's outcast Armor, Enclave Armor, tesla armor, and the T-15b armor all in storage gathering dust. Sigh. Maybe next time.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:00 pm

Tomb Raider: Anniversary:
BEATEN! I preferred Legend.

Super Mario Galaxy:
109 stars. Purple Coin Stars suck. They suck very hard.

News Credits: 23 · Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:03 pm

Shadowman wrote:Super Mario Galaxy:
109 stars. Purple Coin Stars suck. They suck very hard.

Giggity!

News Credits: 2 · Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:34 pm

Super Mario Galaxy:
113. As a great man who got shot five seconds later by Darth Vader once said "Almost there...almost there...!"

Preemptive giggity.

EDIT:
BEATEN! After a good four months and thirteen days...and a few long breaks.

Now to play as everyone's favorite second banana, Luigi!

Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:12 pm

Golden Axe Xbox 360
Downloaded and beat it three times with everyone. Nostalgic fun but I remember there being another level or two...

News Credits: 2 · Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:52 pm

Super Mario Galaxy:
Or should I say Super Luigi Galaxy?

37 stars down, 83 to go. Luigi is a bit harder to play as, since he slides around a lot more, which cost me a lot of lives before I got used to it. Though his jump is higher, so that's a benefit, except in some parts where a higher jump is a bad thing.

Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:47 am

Fallout 3
Held back on story progression for some more exploring. Tracked down the last of the Keller Transcripts to get access to the National Guard Depot. Then explored the Depot, earning another bobblehead and the experimental MIRV launcher.

Word to the wise, never fire the MIRV indoors... especially not in the Rivet City marketplace. :twisted:

News Credits: 2 · Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:09 pm

Super Mario Galaxy:
63 Stars down as Luigi. Past his half-way point. The end is so close...I can't say I can see it given that I'm just barely past the half-way point. I should have saved that metaphor for later.

News Credits: 23 · Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:04 pm

Resident Evil: Director's Cut [PS1]:
It's hard making the jump from RE4 to RE1, but I'm getting used to it.

Met up with Rebecca, who looks/sounds like she could use a hug. A big, long hug. Naturally, she disappeared when I went into the room where we was for the second time... Found the armour and sword keys, the broken shotgun, the lighter, and have been stockpiling clips and shells. Also found the Wind and Sun discs. If LucasArts' oldschool adventure games have taught me anything, I'll have to use these discs to get into Atlantis. I should probably look for some orichalcum before I go any further...

News Credits: 2 · Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:11 am

1337W422102 wrote:Met up with Rebecca, who looks/sounds like she could use a hug. A big, long hug.

1337W422102 wrote:Naturally, she disappeared when I went into the room where we was for the second time...

These quotes seem related somehow...

Stubbs the Zombie:
I had started saying "Okay, it's getting late, so I'll just play for an hour." I had saved and exited, two hours later, saying "Huh. Who knew brains could be so tasty?"

Currently wreaking havoc in the Police Station. There's one particular part, in a big lobby with a decent number of cops. But by that point, you've already infected a decent following. So of course, you could easily find a cozy spot out of the way and watch as the police try in vain to battle your army of the Undead.

I think I'm starting to realize why my therapist won't return my calls.

I'm having trouble when playing as the possessed cop; by the time I realized "Hey, what if I used cover?" my health was down to the point where one bullet would do me in. And that's no good in a firefight!

News Credits: 23 · Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:51 pm

Shadowman wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:Met up with Rebecca, who looks/sounds like she could use a hug. A big, long hug.

1337W422102 wrote:Naturally, she disappeared when I went into the room where we was for the second time...

These quotes seem related somehow...

Hmm. That would make sense. I guess if it was a kitchen rather than a room with a bed, she would have stayed the hell put. And made me pie.

RE1: Director's Cut [PS1]:
Exploring. Found room with deer head on wall. Possibly Evil Dead reference. In which case, groovy. Also found some researcher's will. Mentioned guy with sunglasses and a pharmaceutical company. Wesker and Umbrella? Hurm. Must investigate further.

News Credits: 2 · Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:23 pm

1337W422102 wrote:RE1: Director's Cut [PS1]:
Exploring. Found room with deer head on wall. Possibly Evil Dead reference. In which case, groovy. Also found some researcher's will. Mentioned guy with sunglasses and a pharmaceutical company. Wesker and Umbrella? Hurm. Must investigate further.

Albert Wesker? A villain? I could not see that happening!

Stubbs the Zombie:
Cleared the police station, and noticed that my reputation seem to precede me; outbreaks are occurring without me, meaning all of those guys I infected really did their jobs well.

Tore through Punchbowl Mall, and then Otis Monday's farm. I missed the "Patton" cutscene because I assumed it would happen by itself, rather than me needing to go out of my way to trigger it. Silly me. Maybe I'll play through again to get it next time. Found out that Otis Monday is the reason Stubbs is a Zombie, and, in fact, everything that happened so far is indirectly his fault.

Went to the Punchbowl Dam. ("Where out motto is 'Dam it'") Took a much needed restroom break...in the water supply for the town. Broke open the dam, thus causing massive damage to the town, as well as spreading the infected water.

Currently working through the Zombie Apocalypse...by making it worse.

News Credits: 23 · Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:29 pm

Shadowman wrote:Albert Wesker? A villain? I could not see that happening!

Whoulda thunk it, eh? What's the world coming to...

Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:09 pm

Fallout 3
GAME.OVER!
Mild exploring. Headed to the Yao Guai tunnels and Deathclaw sanctuary to get the last 2 bobbleheads. HOORAY! FULL SET!
With the end now in sight, I pulled my biggest guns out of storage and met with the Enclave to stage the raid on Project Purity. With Liberty Prime in the lead and me backing up with my MIRV launcher, the enclave didn't know what hit them. Let Colonel Autumn go and used the power of quicksave to view all available endings from the project's control room.

Even after playing the hell out of this game (twice!), I have no complaints. Even paying $70 for the bonus collector's package, I still feel this game was well worth my money. But now that I've done probably 95% of everything there was to do in the game, I'm done with it for now. Time to focus on Madworld and the Prince of Persia sands of time trilogy.

News Credits: 2 · Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:22 pm

Stubbs the Zombie:
BEATEN! ...Oh wait, that's sad. Why do games need to be so short?!

Super Mario Galaxy:
66 stars as Luigi, 54 to go...okay, I take back what I just said.

Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:08 pm

Metal Gear Solid 2 SUBSTANCE:
Well, after years and years of playing through the original MGS2 on my PS2 (to the point where I have the game practically memorized), I found MGS2 Substance at a rental store and decided to pick it up for the weekend. Unfortunately, it isn't what I expected it to be.

I was mostly looking forward to finally playing as Solid Snake through Substance's bonus stages at the Big Shell. However, I was under the impression that these bonus stage's involved Solid Snake as Pliskin and the dual story of what he was doing in the Big Shell while Raiden was running around freezing bombs and fighting Fatman. It would have been nice to play those missions rather than stopping drug shipments, rescuing Emma, and other things that have nothing to do with the original story.

Oh well.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:12 pm

Super Mario Galaxy:
85 stars as Luigi. Now I'm doing the "Not leaving a particular area until I've finished it entirely" thing for real, as opposed to when I tried with Mario, I ended up going to every OTHER area.

Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:00 pm

MadWorld
Finished off AsianTown by killing Yokozuna in the sumo arena... a very spiky, electrified, cannon-surrounded arena. Messy, but with a very flashy ending.
After leaving Asiantown, it was onto the classic castle style level. instead of grunts or goons, the enemies were zombies. Long story short, these guys don't stay down unless they're shredded or sliced vertically. the bloodbath challenge this time involved a Mario Golf-esque ring challenge, only with my opponents heads. :grin:

Unfortunately, didn't clear the level because I got my ass handed to me by the Shamans. For whatever reason, my Wii mote wouldn't register horizontal motions so I kept failing the power struggle.