toxicitizen

Been a while since I posted here. I've mostly been trophy hunting in previously completed games for the past few weeks. Anyway, I platinum'd BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger today. Normally a fighting game can't really be completed in the normal sense, but this one has a pretty deep ( for a fighting game) story mode and after playing through every character's story, I finally unlocked and played the True Ending story today. So I count that as beating it.

This got stuck in my head because the stupid thing plays every time I start the damn game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrMVte7EfQ0 And to make matters even more annoying, it's not even on the soundtrack I downloaded >_<

Yeah, same here. I have a bit under 500 songs total (including previous game exports), but the completionist in me wants to keep working at those challenges hahaha

That's not a bad idea,. I'd probably stick to quickplay for such practice, though. When I was going through the setlist on hard, I was doing the career challenges, and doing those with no-fail feels like cheating :/

I thought Enslaved was pretty decent. Nothing mind blowing, but well worth the 20 bucks I paid. I did not get the DLC, though. At some point I should probably take some cash and instead of buying a new game, spend it on SP DLC I've been meaning to get. Off the top of my head, I need to get Dead Space 2: Severed, Pringe of Persia: Epilogue, ACB: Da Vinci Disappearance and the Enslaved one. Anyway, I've been keeping at the Rock Band Drums, though the difficulty curve on hard proved a bit steep. Shortly after making my previous post about it, I went from playing songs just fine to suddenly failing within seconds So I've taken a slight break from it. I still play daily, but I've went back down to medium and play mostly for fun rather than challenge. In other games, I've been mostly focusing on BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger this past week. I finally managed to beat the insanely hard score attack mode earlier tonight and now I'm only two trophies shy of the plat! Just gotta finish up the stories to unlock the true ending, and grind another 40 or so ranked matches online. Online is pretty dead, though. Maybe half a dozen people doing ranked fights on a good day. Had to grind most of the online trophies with Kovach_

What do you mean? All I know is Sterling gave it a 10 and that supposedly helped sales quite a bit, but is there anything else to it?

Powerslave

Man, I really wish they would localize the PS3 version of this That game looks absolutely terrible yet somehow completely awesome.

Yeah, but it's not anymore. That's my point. It's not weird that they were doing it in the first place, but it kinda is that they still are to this day. I mean, granted, I was mostly a lurker back then, but this isn't exactly the same forum it was at the time.

Am I the only one to find that a bit ... weird? I mean, aside from the Fucking Kotaku thread where we basically just complain against them, we have no affiliations with Kotaku anymore. Why do they even care at this point?

So they let a shitty story full of plot holes and nonsense dictate game length?

MW2 took me about 6 hours on my first run... Maybe close to 7, but no more than that.

I find 10-20 hours to be the sweet spot for most games but I expect 40+ hours out of RPGs. But I'd rather a game be great and only 10 hours long than 20 hours long but half of it is artificial length like boring side quests and padding. Though it really varies depending on the game. The MGS games are notorious for lasting less than 5 hours when you skip all the cutscenes, but I don't mean that because for me a big part of the experience is the story and the first time you don't skip it. Stuff like COD with its 6 hours short campaign, though, is a bit more irritating. And I'm not a huge online gamer, so I never include multiplayer into the equation. I haven't touched Black Ops in months and only played the MP for about 25 hours, which is actually quite a lot for me. Normally I'll play online for maybe 10 hours and then move on to something else. Hell, I never even tried Dead Space 2's online. That's why I normally shy away from mp only games like Brink. TF2 is the exception here, and I don't think I ever reached the 30 hours mark on it.

Notice I put that word in quotes... While the game wasn't incomplete at launch, now they are releasing a new version with new content, so yes, the first release has become the "incomplete" one.

Can't really blame people for feeling ripped off, though. I mean, the "incomplete" version came out like 6 months ago. Personally, I'm really glad I held off on buying.

Man, that was awesome I can't wait for a proper trailer, now! I'm really digging how ominous this is. Considering that the villain is Bane, I'm thinking Bats is going to take quite a bit of damage. It's kinda weird how they're calling it the conclusion, though. I mean, I realize this is supposed to be Nolan's last batfilm, but conclusion sort of implies... I don't know, closure, I guess? I can't imagine how they could possibly give a definitive ending to something like Batman. Also, I still think it kinda sucks that they never used the riddler. Would've loved to see the Nolanverse's take on that character.

I'm sort of the opposite of that. I "get" the game well enough, I just need to work on my speed, really. But put me on a real drumkit or even in freestyle mode and.... I need the game to tell me what to play otherwise I just don't know what the hell I'm doing.

Recently started playing again two games I hadn't touched in a while. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and Rock Band 3 on drums. BlazBlue, what can I say, I played a few hours last night and again today and the tip of my thumb still hurts. As for Rock Band, it's been a few months since I played drums but somehow I'm better than I was before. I was previously stuck on medium but now I started working my way through RB3's setlist on hard and haven't hit a wall yet. It's weird but I found that taking an extended (but not too long) break from the game can actually help you get better when you're stuck. I guess it's because you keep the muscle memory but lose the bad habits you developed on lower difficulties. Or something like that.

I also like how the IGN review praised the game's originality. That's something too far few games dare experiment with and I was happy to see they it acknowledged. Some of my favorite games this gen were the more unusual titles. Flawed but unique games like Mirror's Edge or even L.A. Noire. I still love me some Uncharted, Dead Space and Call of Duty, but you always know what to expect with those games.

Actually, I'm pretty sure there was. Or, at the very least, there's a trailer that exists and people have seen it. I'm just waiting for the trailer to become available online...

Who's getting riled up?