[SideswipePrime]

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Originally Posted by Locke

It controls very fluidly, and since I've been taking the easy...I mean evil route...you feel REALLY powerful too. It's a real power trip.

and you'll eventually get red lightning from doing that.

[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by Locke

It controls very fluidly, and since I've been taking the easy...I mean evil route...you feel REALLY powerful too. It's a real power trip.

I prefer the Hero route. Better powers once you do the- wait I don't know how far you are, better Spoiler this- Power Swap thing where you can either get Nix's powers or Kuo's powers. Kuo's function much better IMO.

You ARE playing the second game, right?


Also, Festival of Blood. Get it!

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by SideswipePrime

and you'll eventually get red lightning from doing that.

Way ahead of you. Just blew up a whole village to take down a few rednecks - but don't worry I used my powers to heal them after ;D

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

I prefer the Hero route. Better powers once you do the- wait I don't know how far you are, better Spoiler this- Power Swap thing where you can either get Nix's powers or Kuo's powers. Kuo's function much better IMO.

You ARE playing the second game, right?


Also, Festival of Blood. Get it!

Yeah I'm playing the second game!

Can I download the expansions off of the store?

[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Way ahead of you. Just blew up a whole village to take down a few rednecks - but don't worry I used my powers to heal them after ;D



Yeah I'm playing the second game!

Can I download the expansions off of the store?

Yes. The Festival of Blood DLC, and various skins and a weapon for the first game called "Lightning Blades."

All awesome.

[SideswipePrime]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Way ahead of you. Just blew up a whole village to take down a few rednecks - but don't worry I used my powers to heal them after ;D

Oh goodness...

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

Yes. The Festival of Blood DLC, and various skins and a weapon for the first game called "Lightning Blades."

All awesome.

Gonna go check this stuff out!

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Originally Posted by SideswipePrime

Oh goodness...

[Galvantula]

Guess who just found all the secret exits and beat ALL of the secret levels?

Galvantula!!!!

Now I'm trying to get all the KONG letters so I can beat the Temple levels as well, but both of those goals are lofty at best. I'll still be working on that by the time Shovel Knight drops.

[Locke]

Alright recap of my first day with a PS3.

Out of the three games I chose, inFAMOUS 2 is BY FAR my favourite. I get that it isn't anything "special" in this genre of game but I dunno, when you've not had the resources to play a sandbox fantasy relief game like this for years and you finally get to unleash yourself, it's just really thrilling.

I picked up Uncharted simply because it was an exclusive but I've never been good at platformers and I'd already struggled by the end of the first temple, so I don't see this lasting long in my collection. It certainly looks nice and everything but eh.

I guess time to give Heavy Rain another crack, see if I can get into it and not make it two duds out of three.

[Dr Kain]

And now I have once again completed the greatest video game ever made, Super Metroid!!! Not only that, but this is also the first time I decided to just take my sweet ass time with the game and complete it with 100%.



Unfortunately, I did something very stupid. I forgot that you get locked out of the rest of the map after a certain point in Tourian, and I ended up saving my game right at the final save point, so now I can never go through everything with all of my items. Sure, it just means I have to replay the game, but my next playthrough will be attempting to speed run the game so I can have a file beaten in less than 3 hours (which I haven't done in 15 years). It is kind of stupid to be locked out of the rest of the world, but whatever.

Of course, that might not happen as in the twenty years I have been playing the game, I still cannot figure out how to do the wall jump or even the mock ball. I watch videos all of the time on Youtube on them, read how people do them, but I just cannot do either of them. For the wall jump, I can usually get one bounce and then that is it. I have no idea how these people are going up entire passageways like they do.

Anyway, the game itself is just so amazing. It is so much fun, has a great use of atmosphere and audio to tell its story. Not to mention there is just so much going on with the world of Zebes itself. The boss battles are great and even twenty years later I am still learning new things about the game. For example, today I learned about the quick way to kill Draygon using the grapple beam. In all of this time, I have been beating him while nearly dying and there was an easy way to deal with him. Go figure. The battle with Mother Brain is just down right incredible and is still to this day one of the best final battles in video game history. Overall, I give this game a perfect 10/10.

Lastly, for nostalgia purposes, I played through the game using this as my controller:

[Locke]

Okay so I played some more Heavy Rain and... THERE ARE GONNA BE SPOILERS AHEAD, SINCE THERE IS NO TAG BUTTON I'M GONNA JUST WRITE THIS IN ALL CAPS RATHER THAN HAVING TO PAINFULLY MANUALLY ADD THE TAGS THANKS.

The first hour of Heavy Rain is pure boredom, I'm sorry, it is. Stories of dead children, and torn apart lives, are engaging on the silver screen because we don't have to clumsily bumble from one action prompt to the next to get the thing moving. By the point where I was helping my distant son with his homework, while cooking pizza for him in the microwave (seriously)...I was ready to turn the game off. Which I did. But at about three in the morning I decided to turn the game back on...AND MY GOD AM I GLAD I DID.

Seriously, in the next hour, it basically becomes an entirely different game, throws logic out of the window and becomes pure AWESOME. In quick succession we take control of three new characters. One is a private detective introduced as having a terrible way with words, Asthma and then you're exploded into a quick time event fight scene that is so 80s action movie silly, and so out of place in such a dour title, you'll be howling like a small child on cherryade. Oh yeah, and the next time we control this guy? You get to talk a gunman out of doing what he is doing, before wrestling the gun from him and beating the shit out of him. HELL TO THE FUCK YEAH.

The next character is...and I'm not kidding...an FBI profiler, with a weird accent that makes his nationality impossible to place, with a scar on his face, who is also a drug addict AND solves cases using futuristic holographic technology, super shades and the fucking power glove. I AM NOT KIDDING.

I have no fucking idea what the hell is going on any more, but it's awesome. And wow this miserably depressing game is silly, like really really bonkers silly.

The truly crowning jumping the shark moment though - and keep in mind probably only about forty five minutes to an hour have passed between making the son pizza to turning your fucking dusty office into an alien planet before reading about dead kids - you take control of the protagonists wife which leads almost immediately into the opportunity for a nude shower scene, in the oddest apartment I have ever seen.

So to refresh, we go from pure boredom, to in the space of about an hour to an hour and a half, asthma warrior private detective saving the day who for some reason thinks this noir game is actually an 80s popcorn flick, to holy shit I'm almost robocop but a drug addict FBI profiler to OH SHIT GLISTENING WET TITS. Am I even playing the same fucking game?!

THIS GAME IS AMAZING.