I hit my wall in Arkham Asylum again (840/1000) except this time I played on hard instead of medium the first time around. Harley Quinn still looks like a slut.

In other news I probably won't buy Resident Evil 5 now because Dragon Age: Origins showed up earlier today and that may keep me busy until all of my other crap from gets here.

I bought a PS3 (Amazon bundle w/ Killzone 2 & Infamous) + 2 games...it's doubtful that I'll be using my 360 heavily for a while with all my new toys.

I promised I'm not paid to advertise.

http://www.direct2drive.com/8455/product /Buy-Resident-Evil-5-Download

Resident Evil 5 PC for $25. It is GFWL, if only it were more convenient for me (I don't use direct2drive, but I've heard plenty about it) I'd be all over this deal, but I'll hold out a little bit longer to see what steam has to offer today. I doubt it'll be Resident Evil 5, but whatever.

My discovery of cheapassgamer is making me spend so much more money than usual. :(

At 11/26/09 08:41 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Started CoDMW2 on veteran, this'll be interesting. Currently on the stryker mission, wanky wank wank if you ask me. Not looking forward to holding the estate while the download completes later on.

My first 1,000/1,000 was CoD 2; CoD 4 and CoD "6":MW2 veteran modes are for babies. Honestly they took it down a few levels; spawns are less rapid, grenade deaths are rare, and checkpoints are all over the god damned place.

Don't sweat it.

Just 1,000/1,000'd Tekken 6 on a rental period, no problem. I just noticed that that was my first 100% in a while...if I brought myself back to BlazBlue I could easily polish it off for the last 40 I'm missing but it would mean playing 100 more ranked matches, and I'd probably embarrass myself online and wreck my record so I'd rather not. Beside that the last thing I 1,000'd was Eat Lead, if I could play that game all over again I would; it was very fun.

At 11/26/09 07:30 AM, AllMightyBruce wrote:

At 11/26/09 07:20 AM, Matt wrote: Anybody with a capable PC should consider this deal on Steam.

That and all the other deals. I'm considering getting the THQ pack.
Also, I think my warrior career in Dragon Age is fucked.

THQ pack looks nice, but I own Stalker and Saint's Row 2 already...not that that really stops it from being an awesome deal. Picture for reference

I noticed that they have Red Faction Guerrilla and Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II in there, both of which are GFWL :)

Consider this a public service announcement.

Anybody with a capable PC should consider this deal on Steam. It's GFWL, so aside from being a great game it has achievements. My download's started already.

I'm looking forward to seeing new members; hopefully this new thread will spark some real competition in addition to interest.

I don't really have much else to add. I'm getting a new monitor in a couple days, 1920x1200 rather than 1680x1050 for my 360 is going to be rather nice, maybe I'll spend more time playing my 360 instead of my PC.

Anybody else have plans for taking advantage of this week's deals?

Black Friday week has already netted me Dragon Age (on PC) and I really could blow a lot of money for a ton of games, but I think I'll have some self control and only pick up some newer stuff.

Namely Tekken 6 & Left 4 Dead 2 for $40/$35 from GameStop and Best Buy respectively. I also thought I saw something about $20 games at Best Buy, I think I remember it headlining with the 'new' Riddick game...I could see myself buying that.

Blah, whatever. The closer it gets to Friday the more accurate details they'll have and I'll be able to figure out what I'm willing to spend. It's good timing as always with my birthday being a couple days ago, I've got plenty of spending money floating around thanks to my relatives not knowing what else to give me.

1) Sure. Inactive members probably wouldn't mind being removed, just make sure if they decide to come back that they're able to be "re-instated" immediately.

2) Yes, they should be removed, but not without definitive proof. Anybody who isn't playing by the rules just to climb the ranks of a leaderboard is kind of pathetic. I don't care if they have a separate gamertag which they use for pirated games, that's their own prerogative, but don't use it on a leaderboard.

3) Great idea for two reasons. It makes it easier on you, and meta tags make grouping/meeting for games possible among many people with only 1 of the 100 friend slots rather than 10-20 or whatever. I have a few of the members already added, but if they were friended by a meta tag I could just use the "View Friends" option to get access to them rather than keep them on my friends list individually.

4) Merits other than post count should be considered; if they have decent scoring flash, if they submit art/audio, etc. ONLY going by post count encourages spamming just to be allowed in.

5) Sure, I wouldn't mind seeing this thread being pruned; if the first post was "set in stone" and absolutely correct it should help prevent any confusion of potential new members who were interested in joining. There's no downside to it as I see it, anyhow.

Because I got Modern Warfare 2 a day late most of my friends (GOOD friends, anyway) already have spec ops 100%'d and would rather never touch it again, and I don't blame em' but god damn it, I'm not able to do most of that crap solo, especially that Prypiat mock-up sniper stealth mission, one shot puts me in danger and the next comes so soon that I'm dead before I drop down to prone.

Then again, I refuse to do them on anything but veteran, maybe that's part of the problem, but I just don't feel like wasting time re-doing anything.

At 11/3/09 03:53 PM, HALL0WEEN wrote:

At 11/3/09 03:04 PM, Dobio wrote: I want to get the Renegade version, it looks tight.

Because paying an extra £70 just for 3-4 'extra' songs and a shitty recoloring of the decks is cool right?

The turntable's made of different material as well. Regular version seems pretty solid anyway, but I've only had it for 2 days so my opinion doesn't mean much.

DJ Hero's fun, but I've already hit my wall as far as achievements are concerned; after I pick up the 2 guitar/DJ achievements I don't expect to get anything more out of it unless I put some serious practice time into it. (And I probably will, but this is a lot more involved than guitar hero and could take a considerable amount of time to be good at.)

$120 is still pretty damned expensive, however. I'd recommend waiting for Black Friday if you're patient enough, maybe a relevant deal will roll around.

At 11/1/09 07:17 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Got a few Gs from Forza 3, it's pretty swell.

My rental ended today. It was more of the same (as it should be) but I'm just not ready for it right now; I'm still burned out from finishing off what was left of my Forza 2 file. With that said I may buy it in a few months when it drops in price, it's still a great game.

P.S.: About to take off to Best Buy, wish me luck. I got an advance on my birthday cash from later this month so I can afford it quite easily now.

So Best Buy's buy 2 get 1 free deal ended yesterday, but I'm gonna go in there and pull off the customer is always right bullshit and buy DJ Hero, Borderlands and Tekken 6 tomorrow.

I don't really have much money to spare at the moment and normally would never buy games at full price, but DJ Hero just looks like fun and I might as well take advantage of the (now expired) deal before it's too late. I'd think they'd still let me get away with it at least for tomorrow. Should they decide to be shitty with me I just won't get anything; hopefully there's no arguing to be done, I hate harassing cashiers.

At 9/13/09 10:28 AM, Fezz wrote: 25G from RSV2. Hard game.

I loved Rainbow Six: Vegas to death and got pretty heavy into a clan for daily (or more accurately, "nightly") play. When RB6:V2 came out I had already had my fill, it really was the same thing with a sprint button after all, but I still played it long enough to more or less max it out.

RB6:V 2 - 970/1000 (Only missing attack & defend map specific achievements, I was more prone to playing survival when I did get on.)
RB6:V - 1000/1000 ('Master of Ceremonies' was pure chance, not really something that should have been an achievement.)

With that said I could use an excuse to play again; if I'm not busy and there's something you're struggling with, or you just want to play with somebody, let me know. Maybe I can help? I doubt I'll be as good as I was before but that's not really the point anyhow.

Shit I got WotW? By 5 POINTS?!

Wow, my last achievement I got in Fight Night Round 4 was a 5 pointer. What would have happened if there was a tie?

I thought about getting SF IV again like I posted earlier and then I remembered the horrible day I spent just running arcades and raging at time trials and all that blah. It'd be a lot of work and absolutely none of my steam friends are getting it, so I reluctantly decided against it.

At 9/6/09 11:35 PM, Obvious-M wrote: Saw some kid having a yard sale today, bought The Battle for Middle Earth 2 for 50p. Win.

Joke's on you.

That game was so bad that when I rented it, played it for a minute and literally took it back to store. At least I got my money back/free exchange.

AND it's games for windows live compatible! :)

Arkham Asylum is pretty fun, but fuck those combat challenges. I cannot kill everybody in time on Shock and Awe (extreme) and to "three bat" everything else would practically require you to be telepathic and have perfect timing. At least the predator challenges were fun while they lasted, I would buy an entire game based scenarios like that, I felt like I was playing splinter cell.

BlazBlue has to be the most fun I've had going for online ranked game related achievements, of course, it doesn't actually matter if I win or lose for these, but it's much more fun to win. I just love ranked matches. Perhaps I'm speaking too soon, I mean, I haven't even fought a single spamming Jin yet, but every enemy, regardless of who they main, has faced the same demise.

GENESIC

EMERALD

TAGER

BUSTER

Settle down, rookie.

I forgot the time I spent playing Mirror's Edge would be counted towards this week's total. That + BlazBlue gave me more than I realized, but I'm not complaining. Even if you had checked scores on Sunday I would have had right around the same amount give or take 50 points. I'm surprised more people didn't benefit from the added time.

Ever wonder what the bottom of an avatar's shoe looks like?

Officially done with all of BlazBlue's offline content. 100%'d the gallery, completed all arcade modes and 100% cleared all stories and have unlocked all of the japanese interviews I can't understand.

Now I just need to play 200 ranked matches and a few more player matches and it's an enjoyable, quick 1,000/1,000.

NeoTokyo thwarted further gamerscore earning these past two days.

I regret nothing.

At 7/3/09 11:19 AM, Naked-Nintendo wrote: Is 14410 a decent score for someone who has only had 360 for a year without online?

I suppose. Now that I think about it, I average just over 25k a year.

BORING MATH INCOMING

I got my 360 in December of '05, so that's about 42 months
90210 / 42 = 2147.857 * 12 = 25774.286 g/y

Oh and hooray, I broke 90,000 yesterday/this morning. I was actually flat on the number but didn't bother pausing for it, there was a whole lot of stuff in BlazBlue I had left to do and I didn't feel like stopping. Looks like I'll be unintentionally grabbing a spot in WotW next update.

PS: Leonidas - 40g FINALLY FUCK YEAH

At 7/2/09 08:58 PM, Jercurpac wrote: Fuck, I think I messed up a full corruption run of Overlord so I can kiss that achievement goodbye.

Those achievements are so iffy and easy to miss, I only did a full corruption run and lost my patience going for the purity. (Unless you're talking about Overlord 2, which I haven't played yet and wouldn't know about.) IIRC, you have to take every decision opportunity and choose to be a dick or choose to be good EVERY TIME there's absolutely no middle ground, if you slip up once your run doesn't count for anything. Then again, if you still burn down the grove afterwords there's a chance it would make up for your previous deed, but I doubt anybody would be able to tell you for sure whether or not that would work, most people wouldn't find themselves in that situation.

Hey did anybody else buy BlazBlue yet? I haven't really decided if I like it yet but plenty of my friends have it and I suppose I can learn to love it. For now I'm still learning basics, it's a lot like Guilty Gear, for obvious reasons, and it's a refreshing break from Street Fighter. I suppose I'll be wasting a lot of time offline with friends possibly earning a random secret achievement every once in a while.

And although I think I shouldn't even acknowledge his posts PhobicRaptor has me intrigued:

I realize this means a lot to you "PhobicRaptor" but regardless of how you can prove that you're really who you claim to be (and arguing will get you nowhere) there's a reason this is called the official NG gamerscore leaderboard. Hang around for awhile, get your post count up to at least 500 (proving your involvement in the community) and you're more than welcome to join.

In the mean time if you're still upset that nobody believes you take a picture of your dashboard with a paper sign and date or something at least; if you were in our position would you really believe a same-day sign up abruptly posting here and claiming the top spot with nothing more than his word? Alternatively you could keep saying "shut the fuck up and add me" not that wouldn't provide any proof anyhow; we can already see that the account you're claiming has that score, but there's no way of knowing that it's actually yours.

All of this has got me thinking, not that we should need it except in unusual situations, but should we establish another way of signing up and validating your account? Like even something as simple as replying to a message sent to the account? (Not that I'd want to make that extra work necessary for Jawdyn, I mean, you already do enough.)

I've gotten to the point in Mirror's Edge where I've finally realized it's not fun.

The speed runs pretty much require you to memorize everything in the level and hope that the dumb AI doesn't suddenly decide to actually aim for a second. At any time the game could kill you and if your motions aren't perfect that 5m drop to the area below you that they just decided shouldn't be accessible will probably kill you.

For what it's worth I've gotten very good at crossing the triple-sniper area without being touched in under a minute, but that fucking gas can by the last sniper really doesn't need to be there. More than half of my attempts have been thwarted by a random bullet from a PK soldier spazzing out a quarter mile away and nicking that gas can right as I cross it's path, and I just don't have any more patience left.

At 6/30/09 05:28 PM, Dobio wrote: lol, so you support those idiots with 200K gamerscore who just gamesave every game and unlock them?

Microsoft actually put a stop to that a while ago. People were gamesaving and selling accounts or competing for top spots on the leaderboards, people like StripClubDJ (who I actually talked to and helped with "Stuntman: Ignition" legitimately before the whole fiasco) were banned and had their gamerscore wiped out entirely. In his specific situation, he had a whole lot of gamerscore already because he had both a japanese and american 360 and imported a lot of games but he supplemented that with a lot of gamesaving as well and that's what got him wiped.

They have many systems in place now to catch that sort of thing early, and game saves have since tied to accounts/names to prevent it at the most basic levels. The best way to tell if anybody's legitimately playing or not on your own is to check achievement timestamps on xbox.com. If it just says "unlocked" with no date they did it offline and, obviously, if it's an online-only achievement, they're a dirty gamesaving prick.

At 6/29/09 10:01 PM, malachi117 wrote:

At 6/29/09 09:47 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Neither have I, but just a couple of pages back Matt explained how you can use the developer's console on Fallout 3 Games For Windows to change your character's level and alignment to easily get the "Bad/neutral/good at Level 8/14/20" achievements.

Or just use the ad achievement command, you can even get the DLC achievements using the console if you dont have the DLC.

I never heard of that but now I had to look into it.

And you're not wrong: http://www.giantbomb.com/news/easy-weeke nd-achievements-fallout-3-edition/923/

GOD DAMNIT THAT'S TEMPTING. (Mostly because I don't want to pay for DLC)

At 6/30/09 02:56 PM, Dobio wrote: Matt should be taken off the list for using codes to rip PC cheevers.

lol

Oh and hey, if you already haven't had enough of me posting back-to-back here's another for you.

I rented Ninja Blade on Wednesday; it's like an easier, more-over-the-top Ninja Gaiden. Think Ninja Gaiden gameplay with Devil May Cry action sequences, but a little less intense and much more forgiving difficulty wise. I played it through once and redid a few missions all on normal picking up all the collectibles, maxing out weapons, trying to earning the best possible grades and ended up with 815 points. I'll go back through it on hard and earn another 70 at least but I don't think I'll have to the patience to go back through and do a one-weapon/no dying run so I'll probably leave a little over 100 points on this game when I return it.

Be warned, if you hate quick-time events stay away from this game; a major part of this game is comprimised of QTE's. When you do special finishing moves on bosses QTE's of various lengths and difficulty are guaranteed and if you want to get the most grade points on a mission you have to go for special finishes (which are mini QTE's) on all the cannon-fodder enemies scattered about the board among other things. Fortunately the QTE's have mini-checkpoints in them, but if you get stuck on a major QTE (which is likely to has less QTE checkpoints) it could continuously roll back an annoying amount and cost you precious grade points every time you mess up and are forced to sit through the cutscene(s) again.

Overall it was a good rental, but I've got my sights set on other things immediately after it. I'll be renting prototype and maybe buying the genesis/megadrive collection which should pretty easily push me over 90,000 some time soon. (Then I've got about 5 months to earn another 10,000 for the 100,000 which could take a little dedication, but I don't think college will keep me that busy.)