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Wait, what? Cerberus wants to kill you in ME3? Wish I'd known that before ending this run, damnit! Wouldn't have been so nice to them and sure as shit wouldn't have given them the Collector's station! Up to this point, like Strangelove, I didn't hate Illusive Man. The only aspect of Cerberus I didn't agree with was how their operations are all separate and generally unsupervised, which can lead to shit like (Overlord spoiler) But other than that, I could get behind the whole pro-humans things, so long as it doesn't get all racist and anti-aliens.

Yeah, pretty sure we're talking about the same thing.

Well I just finished my PS3 run and managed to keep everyone alive. So, yay! Now all that's left is to buy Arrival and get ready for ME3.

Alright so recently I got to do something I don't get to do very often, and it ended up biting me in the ass. That something is going into a movie blindly. I recently heard of a movie called Catfish and it was referred to as "the scariest movie of 2010", which immediately got my attention because we're in october and that always puts me in a horror mood. So I decided to not check up plot summaries or trailers and just go in blind and be surprised. It's something you generally don't get to do very often these days what with the internet and youtube and all that. Holy shit, I could not have picked a worst movie for that. The thing about Catfish is, if you watch a trailer (which I only did after having seen the actual movie) they'll be selling you a thriller. And then movie critics, for reasons I can't even begin to comprehend, perhaps in an attempt to appear clever or some shit, decided that the movie was scary and what we end up with is a whole lot of misdirection and, frankly, lies. The movie actually starts out very intriguing and me and my friend who I'd convinced to watch it with me were enjoying it a lot. It wasn't scary, but it was very intriguing and mysterious and there was definitely potential for it to become scary. But then about halfway through it takes a turn that..... well, without spoiling the plot, just makes the whole thing very boring and anticlimatic. Don't let anyone make you think otherwise: this is NOT a scary movie. And not in the sense that it fails at being scary. No. It's just not that kind of movie. I don't know if it was actually crap... There's probably something to enjoy in there, I guess. It's not like it's a poorly made movie. But it was so misleading and ultimately disappointing... that it ended up doing little more than pissing us off. And it's not like this was because I decided to go in blind either, since I would've had the same kind of expectations had I decided to watch a trailer before watching the movie. So, yeah, in short: fuck Catfish!

Finally got around to watching All-Star Superman a few days ago. It had been sitting on my hdd for a while now so it was either watch it or delete it. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. It wasn't great, but I don't think it was bad either. It was just... weird.

I'm really liking the new Action Comics so far, but the proper Superman #1 didn't do much for me. So far my favorites of the new 52 are Justice League, Green Lantern, Action Comics and most of the Batman ones (as in Detective Comics, Batman, Batman & Robin, Batman: The Dark Knight, Nightwing, etc...) Aquaman and Flash aren't bad, either.

A few weeks ago, EA sent me a 25% off coupon to use on Origin for my birthday. Some of you might remember I was considering getting NFS: Hot Pursuit. I ultimately decided against it. Fast forward to just now: for some kind of Halloween promo, EA sent me another Origin code. The email says they sent out codes randomly for 10%, 20%, 30% or 40%. I tried mine out of curiosity and it turned out to be 20%. Then i decided to try and see if I couldn't work this to my advantage. First, I added Hot Pursuit (PS3) to my cart and redeemed the Halloween code. This dropped the price from 29,99$ to 23,99$. Add the 6,99$ shipping charge and the game still comes to a little over 30$. Then I redeemed the 25% code from my birthday, and this added a 6$ discount, effectively cancelling out the shipping charge. Did not expect the codes would stack, but they did. So, the short version: It sucks that the codes don't work on pre-orders, as that would've made for a pretty cheap Mass Effect 3. But still, not a bad deal!

So, earlier I was collecting more Riddler stuff and I decided I was sick of aimlessly wandering around in hopes of stumbling on the next part of the Identity theft side-mission. It was the only side-mission I had left to complete and I wanted it over with so I looked it up online and went on with it. And it turned out to be quite the awesome coincidence because

Well I spent most of that time reading through Hush. Read the whole thing in a single sitting. I think it just might've dethroned The Long Halloween as my favorite Batman story. I also read some of the new 52 stuff like Flash and Aquaman. I've been downloading all the new 52 issues as they came out, but haven't really had time to check them all out yet.

You know, I think it was actually kind of a clever move to do this so soon after Arkham City's release. I'm in full-on DC mode right now. I actually spent 2 hours reading comics last night and now I can't wait for this to go F2P Also, damn you, Hot Heart! My credit card hasn't even been charged Probably only going to get Uncharted 3 near the end of next week, at the soonest.... That is, unless they still haven't charged me come tuesday, in which case I just might say fuck it, cancel the pre-order and grab it from a local store. Amazon.ca's pre-order bonus is a sucky perk, anyway.

Yeah, okay, I don't remember ever hearing that. Thanks. Though the whole

I am so getting the Nightwing pack! I haven't really touched the challenge rooms yet, though. Only gave Robin a quick try to see how different he was. edit: oh and I was working on the riddler stuff earlier and some of the radio chatter made me realize something. The game never answered the big question I had from the very start, which just cements me in my position that the story was fairly weak

So I finished the game earlier. Overall it's pretty damn amazing and definitely an improvement over Arkham Asylum. That being said, I do have a few minor complaints. - Arkham City itself turned out to not be that big once you really start exploring. There's a lot of hidden nooks and crannies, but in terms of territory it's not much bigger than Arkham Asylum. - The story is, in my opinion, inferior to the original's. It doesn't feel as tight and well-crafted as the story of the first game That's still a minor complaint, though, because the gameplay is just so much fun. I always had more fun when I was just flying around and doing side-missions. In fact, sometimes I found that the pressure to continue the main story actually detracted from the overall experience. - The Catwoman chapters feel like nothing more than glorified challenge rooms. Playing as Catwoman is actually fun. She controls well and there's actually some stuff to do if you just start exploring. But her main "missions" are really not that memorable. So, yeah, one of the best games I've played this year so far but the side-stuff was actually more fun to me than the main story. Once I finished the game and got into free roam mode, I just started doing Riddler stuff and ended up playing for two more hours without even realizing it.

Batman: Arkham City Impressions in the bat-thread.

My favorite was the ME1 reference "Remember the old days when we could just slap omni-gel on everything?" Anyway, so I wasn't expecting much from Overlord, but it turned out to be also very good Not as amazing as Lair of the Shadow Broker, but a very close second. Honestly, I'm inclined to agree with Strangelove. I can't think of any other game whose DLC was that damn good. I'm actually a bit shocked considering how disappointing BioWare have been the past couple of years. Lair and Overlord alone have made this repurchase well worth it.

So, I realize this is a bit late, but I've been replaying ME2 on PS3 for the first time since it first came out, so I'd never played any of the DLC that came out after launch. I played through Lair of the Shadow Broker today, and holy crap! It's better than most of the missions in the main game! After that I'll only have Overlord to play and then it's on to start doing loyalty missions. Oh and, about Arrival: should I buy it now or wait until after I finish my run? I mean, I know it technically takes place after the ending of the game, but I imagine if I buy it now I'll probably get an email on my terminal and I'll be able to do it right away?

I actually started exploring Darkroot Garden and Darkroot Basin before I realized there was a Lower Undead Burg, so that's probably not a bad place for starters either. By the time I found him, Capra Demon was a fucking joke lol

North American release on February 22nd. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/10/18/get-ready-ps-vita-is-coming-february-22nd/

So, got my PS3 copy of Mass Effect 2 yesterday. Figured I'd replay it without rushing, so long as I've got a save ready for ME3 then all is good. Besides, I'd been meaning to go back and "fix" my PC save ever since first playing the game because for some reason I was in a hurry to finish it at the time and I neglected some upgrades, which turned my final mission into a semi disaster... Then I went to save earlier and realized I already have close to 10 hours of playtime. Oops. Looks like Dark Souls is on indefinite hold :/ And with Arkham City, Uncharted 3 and AC Revelations in the coming weeks, it's just as well. Dark Souls requires more attention than I can give it right now.

It's possible I got it backwards, but what I'd heard is that Dark Souls runs on dedicated servers and Demon's Souls worked differently. Ah okay, just looked it up a bit and the difference is like Dean said, Demon's Souls had a single dedicated server for each region whereas Dark Souls is more P2P-based.