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Just Cause 2
Running more faction missions instead of pushing the plot forward. This game is definitely not for OCD types. The sheer amount of stuff to do is mind-boggling. You could realistically spend more time on this sandbox than on an RPG like Dragon AGe. Definitely not a bad thing though.

Thanks for reminding me! I had forgotten I got the demo.

One thing that astounds me about Just Cause 2 is that Zero Punctuation gave it a good review. I have a personal rule: "If Yahtzee gives something a good review, then the game must be bought, because if someone who is paid to hate everything loves it, it must be good."

The first Just Cause made me laugh SO hard. It was the most action-movie-like experience I have ever had, and I loved it. So over the top, but on purpose, and immensely fun! Plus the world was massive, and the tropical island locale was rather unique. And few experiences can be as fun as boarding an aircraft, killing the guy inside it, bailing out of the exploding aircraft, parachuting into a jungle, 'jacking a dirtbike from extremist revolutionaries, and jumping off a cliff.

[Shadowman]

Just Cause 2
Running more faction missions instead of pushing the plot forward. This game is definitely not for OCD types. The sheer amount of stuff to do is mind-boggling. You could realistically spend more time on this sandbox than on an RPG like Dragon AGe. Definitely not a bad thing though.

Thanks for reminding me! I had forgotten I got the demo.

One thing that astounds me about Just Cause 2 is that Zero Punctuation gave it a good review. I have a personal rule: "If Yahtzee gives something a good review, then the game must be bought, because if someone who is paid to hate everything loves it, it must be good."

The first Just Cause made me laugh SO hard. It was the most action-movie-like experience I have ever had, and I loved it. So over the top, but on purpose, and immensely fun! Plus the world was massive, and the tropical island locale was rather unique. And few experiences can be as fun as boarding an aircraft, killing the guy inside it, bailing out of the exploding aircraft, parachuting into a jungle, 'jacking a dirtbike from extremist revolutionaries, and jumping off a cliff.

You know, it just occurred to me that while I was saving up for the new Sam and Max season, those new items in TF2 aren't all that important and that new season will always be there and yeah I'm getting Just Cause now CURSE YOUR HIDE.

I could get it free off of GameTap, but I could just as easily use a power drill on my crotch for the same experience.

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Enjoy your Just Causing! Wait, it's free on Gametap? I know gametap is a steaming pile of fail, but could you elaborate on this free deal?

[Shadowman]

Enjoy your Just Causing! Wait, it's free on Gametap? I know gametap is a steaming pile of fail, but could you elaborate on this free deal?

Gametap is a subscription-based service, (Assuming it's even still active) technically if you're a subscriber ALL games are free. 1000 games for $10 a month, you know? But some games you don't even need a subscription for, typically games that are pretty good. The only downside is having to jump through hoops and using GameTap's pile of broken links to get it.

Read this next sentence at your own risk, it may cause your head to explode like that movie Scanners: I dropped $15 on Just Cause because getting it for free wasn't worth it.

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Enjoy your Just Causing! Wait, it's free on Gametap? I know gametap is a steaming pile of fail, but could you elaborate on this free deal?

Gametap is a subscription-based service, (Assuming it's even still active) technically if you're a subscriber ALL games are free. 1000 games for $10 a month, you know? But some games you don't even need a subscription for, typically games that are pretty good. The only downside is having to jump through hoops and using GameTap's pile of broken links to get it.

Read this next sentence at your own risk, it may cause your head to explode like that movie Scanners: I dropped $15 on Just Cause because getting it for free wasn't worth it.

Paying for Gametap? Bwahahaha!
Oh yeah, there's some kind of deal on Steam. Something about getting an Ice Cream truck when you buy Just Cause 2. I didn't read the details, but knowing Just Cause, the truck probably has rocket launchers and miniguns.

[Shadowman]

Paying for Gametap? Bwahahaha!

I know, right? Just about the only thing that would have made it worth it is the Sam and Max games, but those were made available on Telltale's website the next day, and are now on Steam.

Oh yeah, there's some kind of deal on Steam. Something about getting an Ice Cream truck when you buy Just Cause 2. I didn't read the details, but knowing Just Cause, the truck probably has rocket launchers and miniguns.

It's DLC, free DLC I think. I guess the idea is that an army getting killed by one guy is embarrassing, getting killed by one guy in a bright pink ice cream truck doubly so.

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I know, right? Just about the only thing that would have made it worth it is the Sam and Max games, but those were made available on Telltale's website the next day, and are now on Steam.

The first Season is available on a disc, too, in case you're oldschool like me and like getting tangible stuff when buying games.

It's DLC, free DLC I think. I guess the idea is that an army getting killed by one guy is embarrassing, getting killed by one guy in a bright pink ice cream truck doubly so.

(pictures carnage caused by blood-splattered pink ice-cream truck)
Oh man, I hope my machine can run this game!

[The Happy Locust]

Paying for Gametap? Bwahahaha!

I know, right? Just about the only thing that would have made it worth it is the Sam and Max games, but those were made available on Telltale's website the next day, and are now on Steam.

Oh yeah, there's some kind of deal on Steam. Something about getting an Ice Cream truck when you buy Just Cause 2. I didn't read the details, but knowing Just Cause, the truck probably has rocket launchers and miniguns.

It's DLC, free DLC I think. I guess the idea is that an army getting killed by one guy is embarrassing, getting killed by one guy in a bright pink ice cream truck doubly so.

Bothering to play in a ground based vehicle period is embarrassing in that game. Parachuting and grappling is so much more satisfying and responsive.

Just Cause 2
Ran the next agency mission, a long drawn-out mission that involved me reaching a remote base, destroying 4 venting plants, fighting Ninjas armed with SMGs, and then hijacking a patrol vehicle that was carrying a hostage I was trying to rescue. Yes, that was as fun as that sounded.
Running general chaos at the moment, but making headway on the faction missions.

[Airhawk]

Currently Playing through

Oddworld Abe's Oddysee - Currently on Stockyard Escape, have saved all the mudokons in the escape from Rupture Farms and have picked up the first 3 in the Stockyards (the secret area with the Scrab = Major frustration)

Trine - Got my first platinum trophy on this, wish more games were like this with their trophy systems, there were some hard ones to pick up, but none that were needless timesinks that make you get bored with the game, pretty fun to pick up and play if you like Action/Puzzle platformers.

[Shadowman]

Trine - Got my first platinum trophy on this, wish more games were like this with their trophy systems, there were some hard ones to pick up, but none that were needless timesinks that make you get bored with the game, pretty fun to pick up and play if you like Action/Puzzle platformers.

Already got it, already beat it, already beaten the bonus level that seems to hint at a sequel.

Already waiting for the sequel.

[The Happy Locust]

Red Steel 2
Started the game, was forced to watch a 5-minute video on how to attach the motionplus (WHY?!) then actually got to play the game. Started off as my character gets dragged by a motorcycle gang and managed to escape and get away. After tracking down the biker and shooting him to death, reuinited with my trainer. He sent me on mini-missions before receiving a distress call from the sheriff. The sheriff then sent me to go meet up with our contact, a girl I apparently knew a while back.

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Red Steel 2
Started the game, was forced to watch a 5-minute video on how to attach the motionplus (WHY?!)

Because casuals.

[Skullgrin140]

Finished Bayonetta a little while ago, Now I'm Currently I'm going through the Kessen trilogy.

[The Happy Locust]

Final Fantasy 4: The after years
Still working on this. Finally cleared B9 Depths. A difficult task concerning it required 4 boss battles to open the warp to the next level. This included Astaroth, the Iron Giant, Beelzebub, and the King Behemoth, all of whom were apparently bosses in other FF games.
My party is pretty well-rounded, with each character able to perform dual tasks. Golbez is an attacker & black mage, Rydia is fairly strong physically but also has black magic and summoning, Ceodore is a physical attacker but spends most his time pinch-hitting as a second white mage, Rosa is pure healing but has lots of Holy-related bands to fall back on. Cecil's still building up but as a physical attacker is very competant.
The weird thing is that I don't fear the boss battles but will flee every random encounter due to the instant death nature of the enemies. I still say the random battles should not fill a player with more fear than the 4 boss battles in the same room.

[Shadowman]

Final Fantasy Tactics:
Killed Algus, an unrepentant asshole who believes that anyone who isn't born to nobility doesn't deserve to live. I didn't just have to kill him because he shot an innocent girl who was being held hostage, I also really wanted to.

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...where is everyone?

Star Wars: Dark Forces [PC]:
Long live the classics, assisted by DOS Box. Finally beat the third mission. Never could as a kid, never could when I played it again in high school. Beating a level after 16 years? Feels good, man. Onto the mining moon with the red fog. Man, DF was advanced for its time.

[Shadowman]

...where is everyone?

Taking advantage of Greece's failing economy. Guess how many ancient temples I conquered!

Metal Gear:
Just finished MGS3 (Again!) and decided to go back to the beginning. Just took down the tank and entered building 2. I'm really getting freaked out by the lack of lengthy cutscenes and philosophy major villains. It just doesn't feel right without it!

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...where is everyone?

Taking advantage of Greece's failing economy. Guess how many ancient temples I conquered!

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "all of them." Did you have them sculpt a statue of your BlueComet mech while you were at it?

[Shadowman]

...where is everyone?

Taking advantage of Greece's failing economy. Guess how many ancient temples I conquered!

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "all of them." Did you have them sculpt a statue of your BlueComet mech while you were at it?

I tried, but the riots and all.

Metal Gear:
By the way, not the chump-change NES version. That version is a dirty lie. I'm playing the original MSX version, off of MGS3 Subsistence.

Got key cards 5 and 6, and took down Fire Trooper. As far as MG series bosses go, he was about as hard as Decoy Octopus. All I did was stand in the corner and use RC Missiles on him, he never even hit me once.

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By the way, not the chump-change NES version. That version is a dirty lie. I'm playing the original MSX version, off of MGS3 Subsistence.

Damn straight! I used to play that one, emulated on my computer.

[Shadowman]

Metal Gear:
BEATEN! Big Boss is dead (ha) Metal Gear is destroyed (until they rebuild it) and the world is safe...well, as safe as it can be being controlled by a collective of insane AI units hellbent on controlling human thought. Not exactly part of this story, but food for thought at least.

Next, on to Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

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For each of my games, there's a long-winded TL;DR story... Here goes.

Lunia [PC]:
Started playing about a year ago. Found the game to be really fun, like a fantasy RPG version of Double Dragon. On my first day, made some friends in-game; got recruited into a Guild, the Loliance. Got harassed, probably because of the name and our Guild icon was the Pedobear. We made a new Guild with a different name/icon, I made some new characters, I played with some friends, times were good.

Then my computer failed on me and I had no way of contacting my Guildmates since I didn't know their emails or names on the forums. When I got my new laptop, I didn't even bother to reinstall the game, as it OM NOM'd a lot of my time and I was sure I'd been booted from the Guild due to inactivity.

Flash forward to April. The game gets an update, more content, a month-long event, and a new free character. I figure, "what the hell," and get back into it. The Guild master was nice enough to NOT kick me since we were bros, despite my being AFKWOL for months.

Got my Dark Magic ample-chested jailbait healer princess to Level 75, and I accidentally got my jiggly-chested half-naked half-elf ninja thief tomboy to Level 70. Wanted to keep her at Level 69 for a bit longer. Ah well.

[Shadowman]

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake:
Fought the Black Ninja, a ninja who happened to be a former ally with a German last name wait just a minute there. Kyle Schneider, former ally, now enemy ninja. Frank Jaeger, former ally, enemy ninja, dirty little plagiarist!

[Shadowman]

No one plays video games anymore. It's all about audio games now.

Mass Effect:
So...many...side-quests...

To put this in perspective, there's maybe eight main story missions total. These can last several hours each, mind you. I have completed three of them, but because I obsessively did so many side-quests, I'm nearly 20 hours in and I haven't even hit the half-way point. I'm almost level 30 with seriously high-end equipment.

I'm not complaining, though. I enjoy getting my money's worth and no one can pad out a game like BioWare.

[Psycho Warrior]

Beat the Secert of monkey island. I hope they remake curse of monkey island before I die of old age.