The Energon Pub

[The Happy Locust]

Prototype
Now cured and fully powered, returned to my contact, only to have her get snatched by a new type of hunter. Pursued the hunter through the city but Military intervention separated us. She's now their captive and I need a new plan. Looks like I'm going to try linking into the infected's hive mind. Luckily 49% of the population is now infected so that part's easy.

Soul Calibur Legends
Started the game and passed the first level. Was granted an ally named Iska and we went hunting. After fighting a guardian dragon, Ran into Ivy who joined our quest. Neat. Off to the Cyprus Arena.

[Shadowman]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:
BEATEN! And with the Codename of Hawk, how can I go wrong? I also nabbed the codenames Hawk (Be admired by 25 friendly soldiers) Hyena (Pick up 400 dropped weapons, not sure how I pulled that off) Pig (Use more than 50 recovery items) and Panther. (Over 75 alerts, over 250 kills, less than 25 continues, not sure how I got that many kills)

[The Happy Locust]

Prototype

Still trying to track down Dana. At the Doctor's suggestion, attempted to consume a leader hunter to learn where it took her. Unfortunately, it can't be consumed. For plan B, led it to the abandoned military base and defeated it there, allowing me to contain it. Now to get the doc there so he can examine it.

[Shadowman]

Ghostbusters: The Video Game:
Going back to get all of the Artifacts. Rooster Teeth's Achievement Hunter helps.

[The Happy Locust]

Soul Calibur Legends
More dungeon crawling. Unlocked Astaroth-alpha (a prototype for our favorite golem) and rescued Sophitia, also unlocking her for play as well. Found a new friend named ParaCelsius but got called back to the empire for another base defense mission.

Prototype
With the doc's help, was able to consume the leader hunter. This gave me a new type of vision which let me see infected carriers. Using this, consumed the proto-infected in order to connect to their hive mind. With full reception, found the place where Dana was being kept. Unfortunately, it was too strong to break into. Needed a new plan.
The military came forward with a super-tank that can destroy hives in one shot. Guarded the tank as it took out a few small hives. Unfortunately, a copperhead disabled its crew. Taking over, I drove the tank to the main hive and blew an entrance.
Inside, met Greene. She kicked my ass but I still had my tumor-causing weapon. Injected her and prepared to laugh as she died. Unfortunately, she simply hacked out the tumor as a newer type of Hunter.
Epic boss battle between me, the infected's new hunter, and the military. After the battle, retrieved Dana and took her to the doc. She's comatose but alive. While the doc works his magic, I'm off to... um... Ack, I already forgot.

[Psycho Warrior]

Overlord 2
Man the devourer is proving to be tough for a boss that doesn't actually hurt you.the thing is he can spew out enemies and turn your own minions into monsters with the ooze he leaves behind. 5 tries and 5 failures, mostly because he will spew out archers and health items are few in the battle area.

[The Happy Locust]

Prototype
Found a new contact by phone who knew an awful lot about me. Found that I'm not human but am actually the infection virus given sentience. Neat.
infiltrated Blackwatch's HQ by assisting them in their missions (disguised as a helicopter pilot). The ploy worked until I found that the meeting room was being filled with a new chemical called bloodtox which is toxic only to the infected. My cover was blown and I had to fight my way out.
Next meeting with the contact informed me that the army was setting up bloodtox blowers all over the city. Destroyed them in various ways, making the city safe for... um... me, I guess.

On a side note, I've officially lost interest in the side-missions. way too many 'kill as much in X minutes' missions for my taste. Will focus on story for now. I like to compare this game to Hulk: Ultimate destruction but that game actually takes the victory in side missions simply for fun side games like punting cars through field goal posts or batting soldiers like baseballs.

[Psycho Warrior]

Overlord 2
GAME OVER.

After spending some time gathering forge stones by killing gnomes and forging the Reaper axe and the infernal helmet and armor the final boss was cake. It beat using the default items by a long shot. All in all a good game. Still have to go through on the destruction path. hopefully the spells are better.

[The Happy Locust]

Prototype
More fun with epic boss battles. Snuck into military's convoy to defend a truck full of bloodtox until they reached the deploy point. The stuff may be toxic to me, but it's just as deadly to the infected legions hiding underground. The convoy reached it's point and started filling the underground with bloodtox. The plan worked as the infected came rushing to shut it down. After defending it until it was empty, we finally got Greene to reveal herself.
Looks like my earlier injection to her had some odd effects. She's now in a gigantic flesh and bone mass coming from the ground. After a truly epic boss battle, managed to defeat the monster, separate the original Greene, and consume her.

[The Happy Locust]

Prototype
GAME.OVER!
After defeating Greene, finally met my contact face-to-face. He and I teamed up to destroy all military transports that could allow our target to escape. After that, it became an epic tank-a-thon to catch and consume the target before he fled the city. After this, learned the true story of my origins. It's not a happy story.
Having consumed the target, I posed as him in order to get aboard the carrier anchored in the harbor. On the carrier, the military proceeded to shoot me in the face (apparently falling for my disguise). To their surprise, I got up, removed my disguise, and killed their commander, only to have my teammate suddenly turn into the Supreme Hunter I had fought earlier. Epic boss battle ensued as I then had to defeat the hunter before a nuke could wipe out the city.
Defeated the boss, safely detonated the bomb 15 miles away from the city, and returned to the city to fade away into the crowds.

I loved playing this game. If the side missions had been more varied, it would have been better, but the core game is outstanding in so many ways and most importantly, is actually fun. All hints point to a possible sequel so fingers crossed.

Fallout 3
Having beaten prototype, finally installed the DLC package. Starting operation: anchorage, located the outcasts, helped them defeat a bunch of super mutants, and volunteered to step into a battle simulation.
In the simulation, fought my way into a Chinese bunker and up a mountain and blew up 3 artillery stations.

[Shadowman]

Advance Wars:
Bushed the Blue Moon Army out of Orange Star territory. While rampaging through Blue Moon territory, I wound up in Yellow Comet territory (At this point wondering when the leprechaun would stop me from taking his Lucky Charms), which I began tearing apart in a display of my awesome foreign relation skills. To be fair, they thought I was hostile, and after they shot me, they were right.

[The Happy Locust]

Soul Calibur Legends
More basic level design paths. But at least I got Taki and Mitsurugi to join me.
Defeated the twin guardians Geki and Maki and got the 3rd shard. Chapter 3 is done. Moving on to chapter 4.

[Shadowman]

Overlord:
A game that does not lie about what it is: Pikmin + Evil * Lord of the Rings References * More Evil = Fun.

After being revived by Minions, I'd been told my predecessor had been killed by heroes, which is the number 1 cause of death in Evil Overlords. (The More You Know!) My Tower had been left in shambles, partially wrecked, Minion Hives stolen, and the very power source had been removed. Upon finding it near the town of Br--I mean, Spree, I took it back to my Tower, from there, I raided a Hob-- Halfling labor camp, saving prisoners, as well as construction equipment for my tower. I had been advised that while killing "innocents" is a good short term plan, a better plan involves their praise. This, of course, reminded me of something said in Zero Punctuation (About Infamous) where a more evil plan, rather than destroy everything, is to feign the role of Hero, then, when your praise reaches it's peak, BAM, offworld slave camps.

From there, I raided the Halfling villiage which looks remarkably like the Shire, including a party around a large tree. Killed Melvin, one of my predecessor's killers, a Halfling so immensely fat he's even larger than me (Overlord is a fairly tall man, Halflings are very small people). From there, freed the Reds, a unique breed of Minion, capable of not only surviving in flame, but also casting fireballs.

Back at Spree, I took a back exit, finding that the Halflings had the Tower's Smelter. I took that back, of course. Can't have a forge without a smelter, that's Forging 101 right there.

Now to find out why an Elven forest is spreading to non-Elven land. I may have to ignite some faces.

[The Happy Locust]

Fallout 3
Still in the anchorage simulation. Managed to destroy the Chinese listening post and destroy the fuel tanks at the Chimera tank Depot. Time for the listening post.

Ran into an odd glitch while playing. A chinese stealth sniper and a chinese flamethrower attacked me at once. I used VATS on the flame soldier. I somehow missed and landed a fatal headshot on the sniper, which was cool. The same shot apparently knocked the flamethrower out of the soldier's hands, yet he still acted as if he was holding it. Even stranger, when he attacked, flames came from both his 'invisible' flamethrower and the one that fell on the ground. Wacky.

EDIT: Managed to clear the final mission by bringing down the pulse field. Defeated General Jingwei and ended the simulation. Didn't get the covert ops perk because I only found 9 of the 10 intel items. It's a good percentage considering this was my first run through it but was embarrassing considering the linear nature of the quest. Oh well, next time around.

Got a boatload of goodies in the armory including my new favorite outfit, the Chinese Stealth Armor. Had to put down an Outcast mutiny but both McGraw and Olin survived. Deposited my extra armors in my megaton home (I'm replaying my 'good' character, in case you were wondering) and called it a day. On to the Pitt.

[Shadowman]

Overlord:
Got some new things for my castle, including a new smelter for smelting, and a mistress for...erm...

Tore through Heaven's Peak, halting the Zombie Plague, getting the Silent Order to accept me as their new God, and killing the hedonistic knight Sir William. This is a fun sentence to use to describe the game. I chose Rose over Velvet, because hot Goth chicks are a dime a dozen, but hot redheads who still accept me, despite being the avatar of evil, and also give me pointer on how to destroy the world are a different story. Repeatedly looting Angelis Keep, because there's no enemies aside from a few beetles, and somewhere around 2000 gold, every time I go there.

[Skullgrin140]

Finished Assassins Creed today, now I'm starting Clive Barker's Jerhico. It's a pretty good game.

[Shadowman]

Overlord:
BEATEN! Going again for 0% Corruption. I like how it handles morality choices. While most games give the choices of "Be a Saint" or "Be the embodiment of evil." But Overlord changes that by the fact that you're already evil, so you don't have to worry about being a jerk, because being evil is what the game is supposed to be about.

Star Wars Republic Commando:
Fighting the Battle of Geonosis, blew up a Droid Factory, and also a lot of people's faces. Lightsabers! Psh! I'm going to shoot people.

[The Happy Locust]

Soul Calibur Legends
Continuing from where I left off. Returned to the Cypress arena to join a tournament. Turns out my first opponent was none other than Lloyd Irving. Despite the seemingly questionable choice of Cameo, I figure if Link can join this series then why not Lloyd? Makes more sense than Vader and Yoda, that's for sure.
Ahem, back to the game, fought Lloyd but was interrupted by a dragon attack. AFter killing the dragon, Lloyd joined with us.
We needed to Track Cervantes down, to do that we hit two separate thief camps to obtain a set of maps which would lead us to Cervantes' hideout. Doing so, we were then called back to Vienna to defend the Emperor's castle. Now that the defense is done with, on to Cervantes.

[Shadowman]

Overlord:
Playing...somewhat LESS evil. That is, I'm going for 0% Corruption. Gave Spree their food, saved Rose, stole a Smelter.

I also played the Overlord II Demo. I was going to get it anyway, but the demo has pushed "Eventually" all the way up to "I'm getting that next."

Star Wars: Republic Commando:
Fought through the Battle of Geonosis, taking down a Trade Federation Core ship. After that, we took back a Republic assault ship from, who else? The CIS. Took down a Droid Control Battleship in the process. Now we're on Kashyyyk, in a team-up with the Wookies.

[The Happy Locust]

Soul Calibur Legends
Tracked down Cervantes, invaded his fleet, and defeated him, thus taking his soul calibur shard and completing my sword and giving me a new form of it. With my sword at full power, returned to Vienna to fight the giant sized Barbaros.
Barbaros went down after some knuckle grinding (literally) and his corpse popped out a fresh Soul Calibur blade. With Barbaros' armies defeated, the Masked emperor thanked us but then attacked us, apparently having been made insane in her need to protect her people due to Soul Calibur's influence.
Siegfried and Iska woke up outside of the castle but missing the rest of our crew. We found them in pairs in another dimension apparently created by Soul Calibur. After fighting our friends and knocking some sense into them, we managed to reroup. Time to go wage war on the empire.

[Shadowman]

Star Wars: Republic Commando:
Attempted to blow up a bridge separating Wookie Territory from Separatist territory. The bomb misfired. Phooey. So instead we had to hike up to a window, and shoot a fuel line with a rocket launcher. After the spectacular explosion, we have to go into Separatist territory, and kill them all dead.

[The Happy Locust]

Fallout 3
Spent my entire session in the Pitt's Steelyard searching for Ingots. Found most of then, around 95. didn't feel like treading old ground for the missing 5 and will return later. Trading what I did find to Everett for some nifty toys.

[Shadowman]

Star Wars: Republic Commando:
Finished the Separatists off on Kashyyyk, leading to the Invasion of Kashyyyk by Republic forces, with Yoda at the helm. We were forced to leave Sev behind, and if the EU is any indication, we never retrieve him, even though we end up going right back to Kashyyyk. Of course, we may have to change our plans if certain Orders come in from Palpatine.

Final Fantasy VII:
Lots of things happened. Now we're back at Gold Saucer, having obtained the Keystone for the Temple of the Ancients. And Cloud gets lucky with Aeris...

[8 bit]

Blaster Master NES
Got an inkling the other day to take a crack at finally beating this game; it's something that has eluded me for, well, a couple decades. This game is pretty tough, with no extra-live or stage-select cheat codes. So with my NES Advantage fully juiced, I set out in the Sofia 3 to blast away at mutants living below the earth.

And it went--not so good; I'm a little rusty. Unfortunately, playing this game isn't like riding a bicycle. Hoping to try and tackle it again today.

[The Happy Locust]

Fallout 3
Still in the Pitt. AFter collecting ingots, was tossed into a pit fight (no pun intended) against a series of surprisingly easy opponents. Word to the wise, no one likes an auto-axe to the face.
For my victories, was freed as a slave and allowed to reclaim my stolen belongingins. Unfortunately, this meant that my inventory was now incredibly overloaded due to my need to have at least one of every new armor and weapon type on me. I hope they remain where I left them.
Left downtown and entered Haven and spoke with Ashur, who didn't seem as evil as expected and in fact believed his actions were for the greater good. IU also found the mutation cure, a baby girl. Despite my misgivings, I kidnapped the girl and killed Ashur's wife, returning the girl to the slaves. On Wernher's reccomendation, went to the power plant and disabled the floodflights for uptown, which allowed the Trogs to invade.
After speaking with Wernher again, left the Pitt and stored my new collectibles in my Megaton home, save for Ashur's power armor and a perforator, both of which are now part of my standard toolset.

Well, I guess that's it for both DLCs on the disc. I'll probably come back as my evil character and do things differently, but I'm in no hurry.