I just kept strafing back and forth inside the cave while launching tons of rockets, and retreating to heal/charge up when my health gets a little low.
Dang dude. That is indeed a long game. I can’t say that I’ve touched any of the Persona games, though I’ve heard quite few good things about them. They don’t make games that long anymore, and it makes me sad that a six to eight hour experience is considered a normal length for a game. I remember when Call of Duty’s campaign was considered too short.
I just got accepted into the PS2 beta today, incredibly late.
Installing now.
No kidding; the PS2’s been out for years now.
PS2?
Do you mean Phantasy Star Online 2? Westerners used to be able to get in but Sega cracked down until they release an International version.
Played some HL2 and then Planetside 2, though I’m not quite sure what I should be doing yet other then shooting people who are of opposing factions and capturing points like battlefield.
Though I must admit, they did a damn good job on making it feel like a war. Running across a wide open desert with tanks rolling around and turrets firing shells at you in the distance, and not actually dying cough BF3 cough, it almost feels like a movie
A nice long game of FTL to calm the mind which has been burdened with a fuck-ton of homework.
I managed to draw out a nice long fight with the final boss, which I ultimately lost, but made me feel good that I wasn’t just a fly on the windshield this time. 
Yeah, it’s not for those with high blood pressure.
The crew I was rocking, veterans with 10-20 kills a pop, before my game froze and crashed / I discovered the auto-save feature isn’t on unless you set it so.
:AJS:OUIG:LHELKJAS;lij
Reinstalled and played some of the original Unreal. Why the fuck do some people think it isn’t a good game?
Planetside 2. These huge battles really makes it feel like a war.
Played a bit of the HD remake of “The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay” (the pack-in with Dark Athena). Great stealth game and one of the only fun licensed games. But it follows the Starbreeze rule- if it’s an adaptation from a different medium and it’s developed by Starbreeze, chances are it’s probably going to kick ass.
Unless it’s Syndicate, or so I hear.
In this scene, my initial group of 6 were decimated down to three, when one was critically wounded. The left, “Smokes” had just stabalized the downed soldier, while he and Lt. Boyd, aka “Pitbull”, fended off on-going assaults. Only Boyd made it out alive, killing 2 more Berserker’s after Smokes was killed. She’s now the Psionic veteran leader of my team. Fuckn’ XCOM man.
Just got out of my blind Black Mesa session for the video I promised in another thread.
It was … really annoying.
I just finished On a Rail in Black Mesa. Haven’t encountered any serious bugs, in fact my playthrough has been smooth sailing save for a couple instances where minor prescripted event triggers didn’t occur (specifically when my cart didn’t activate the elevator in On a Rail) forcing me to reload a previous save. Nothing big. There are also some balancing issues with the glock and mp5 being underpowered, but no biggie. Otherwise, an awesome experience. I love it, and I can’t wait to get back to it after I get out of work.
Since I’m now into BMS, that means I beat Baten Kaitos Origins in 113 hrs and 33 min. Officially the longest game I’ve ever played. I received the best ending too. Good stuff.
I’ve also completed all circuits in the Beginner and Standard divisions in F-Zero: Maximum Velocity for GBA. It’s a hard racer until you get a handle on the controls, but later on the bots get brutal. Too bad the 3DS port doesn’t support multiplayer.
^ FUCK YES, Maximum Velocity is awesome. I still have that cart and a GBA to play it on. It sucks that you can’t use attack moves like F-Zero GX, though.
As for me, I finally got my hands on a copy of Max Payne 3. I’ll have to do a full review, because my thoughts are somewhere between “This is the ultimate Max Payne ever” and “this is a fucking ridiculous piece of shit that gets a ton of basic things wrong.”
Well, attack moves weren’t implemented until GX, right?
Playing Maximum Velocity makes me want to get into the other GBA games, including Climax. Does anyone know if the GBA and/or the GCN GameBoy Player are region locked?
Played through a few 50cc cups in MarioKart: Super Circuit for GBA last night, and made it into Questionable Ethics in Black Mesa. It just keeps getting better and better.
Edit: Screw that. There’s no way I’m gonna pay $40 - $50 plus shipping for a GBA cartridge, especially if it’s used. I might as well download the rom and play it for free on my Wii.
I finished Max Payne 3. I wrote a review, but it’s almost 3500 words of ranting, and half of it is a retrospective on how great Max Payne 2 was in comparison.
I actually found my Anthology the other day, and fully intend to finally beat the original Unreal.
I don’t think any of the Nintendo cartridge systems before the 3DS were region locked, other than the cartridges physically not fitting. (usually easy to bypass) But I would agree, that is a ridiculous price for a GBA game, you should go the ROM route.
I have been playing through Arkham Asylum to test out my new video card. More specifically, I wanted to get to the first Scarecrow segment so I could drool at the PhysX, since with my old video card, it turned into a slideshow once those bricks started coming off the walls with PhysX turned all the way up. I was not disappointed. @_@
I’m also working my way through LittleBigPlanet Vita, and Pokemon Black. I’ve owned Black since it came out, but never beat it, so I’m using some of the legendaries I’ve gotten through mystery gift to blast my way through the game.
And speaking of Vita, two weeks from today is a huge day for the system. Ragnarok Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed, Need for Speed, and probably some other stuff I’m forgetting. My wallet will cry that day…
Playing Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. I have learned how to use advanced combat techniques and employ them in combat, and now the game is 10x more fun.
Also, kicking, Dark Messiah style: