The Totally Rad Show community, "w00t i finally beat it !" thread

[quantumtheory]

Singularity.

It was surprisingly fun by the end. Kind of a half life clone, but the story really comes together at the end and there's lots of fun to be had, especially when you unlock all the powers for your device.

Sad that NO ONE plays the multiplayer. I was looking to get maybe SOME of the achievements before I gave it back to my friend. But there was literally no one. Oh well.

[blacksymbiote]

Today I finished Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. This was reviewed on TRS a long time ago, and I spotted it used and going quite cheaply so I picked it up. I actually got it just before Red Dead Redemption came out and I wasn't all that impressed. The guns don't feel right. The pistols and shotguns in particular. They feel weak. I had stopped playing it for a long time, but decided a few days ago to hop back in and finish it off. I played the majority of the game today, at least half the campaign if not more. The story started picking up towards the end, but the characters were generally all unlikeable. I wish the graphics were a big better. The people all look like wax statues with almost zero facial animations.

[iccanui]

Dragon Age.


Wow, what a game. At times i wish it had just ended cause i wanted to see the end, but then i got sucked back into the story. I havent thoroughly enjoyed a game like this in a long time. It makes me feel good in a lot of ways about SWTOR.

[damnedeyez]

due to Rooster Teeth's Achievement Hunter channel on youtube (Fails of the Weak...hilarious) I picked up Halo: Reach again...played through and finished the campaign on legendary solo.

I'm still surprised when I do things like that (Mass Effect as well)

Now I'm torn...I want to play through 1-3 for the story again, but have no incentive to play 1 and 2 on Legendary, but I'm not sure if I want to scale back or go straight into 3 while I'm in that mindset.

[jabber]

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. This series just gets better and better. Calling the recruits into a battle and watching them descend from the rooftops to snuff out a guard who was about to skewer Ezio with a pike is so satisfying. Jesper Kydd's score is moving and exciting and adds a wonderful cinematic quality to the game. I've been a fan of Kydd's since his score for Freedom Fighters.

I've dabbled in the multiplayer modes of Brotherhood and like how different it is from most other multiplayer games. Slowly stalking my prey, knowing someone else is stalking me, gets my heart racing like no other multiplayer game has before.

This has become one of my favorite franchises. I even loved the first game so much, I've considered going back and playing it again just because I enjoyed the setting so much. I can't wait for the next installment.

[damnedeyez]

ok, so I did wind up running through Halo 1 & 2 again (don't recall if it was easy or normal difficulty though), then Halo 3 on Legendary, Halo 3: ODST on Legendary, and Mass Effect 2 on Insanity.

I think that's worth of a w00t for January (well, and 2 days into February).

[iccanui]

Just beat RIFT. I honestly thought those last 2 level were gonna get the best of me. Then i found stillmoor is a hotbed and blew through the last lel. I had to solo so much on a dead server, but now that im merged to a very active server, this game is hella fun.

Anyway, havent maxed out a MMO in a while. w00t ! :)

[loganbutler]

My PS3 is back in Canada, won't be able to use it until September.


So I used my shitty laptop to finally finish Stonekeep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPkbMFiWh8

[nshady]

Mass Effect 2.

I'm a bit behind the times, I know, but man, what a great game. I struggled with the first one - the combat was clunky, the side-missions borings, the Mako planet-trekking agonisingly broken and the save system infuriatingly sporadic. I stuck through it knowing the second was meant to be better, and boy was it! 35 hours later, I finished, and I loved every second of it. Such a great game. Just spent more on the DLC than I did buying the disc in the first place, and perfectly timed for ME3 coming this year too.

Yay.

[damnedeyez]

Mass Effect 2.

I'm a bit behind the times, I know, but man, what a great game. I struggled with the first one - the combat was clunky, the side-missions borings, the Mako planet-trekking agonisingly broken and the save system infuriatingly sporadic. I stuck through it knowing the second was meant to be better, and boy was it! 35 hours later, I finished, and I loved every second of it. Such a great game. Just spent more on the DLC than I did buying the disc in the first place, and perfectly timed for ME3 coming this year too.

Yay.

I actually thought quite the opposite...I preferred the combat and the Mako missions in the first. If anything, the main thing I got from ME2 was that ME3 wasn't likely to be worth purchase, just a rental to finish the story.

[nshady]

Wow. You must be in the minority, though, surely? To me, the second one was better looking, bigger, deeper, more varied, more refined and more enjoyable. The first was ambition without execution. The planet roaming was so tedious and pointless.

[damnedeyez]

Wow. You must be in the minority, though, surely? To me, the second one was better looking, bigger, deeper, more varied, more refined and more enjoyable. The first was ambition without execution. The planet roaming was so tedious and pointless.

For awhile I thought I was about the only one...when it first came out, people were so enamored with it that everyone was saying it was the greatest. I've noticed others since then, though. That so many people liked it better than the first is one of the main reasons it's only a rental for me, since it will likely mean more of it in the third.

Basically, they took out a lot of things I liked in the first, and added a lot of things I didn't like in the second.

[nshady]

What in particular?

[darth-ed]

FWIW, apparently, Morgan Webb is not a fan of ME2, but that didn't stop X-Play from selecting it as Game of the Year.

[damnedeyez]

What in particular?

Added dislikes:
Heat Clips
Planet Scanning (far more tedious to me than landing in the Mako)
Enemies that were overly difficult even on the easiest setting.


Removed:

Various armors...the 'pieces' you bought and then swapped in the locker were pitiful. I liked having different appearance with different armor, and being able to swap out the accessories.

Various guns...same as above. I liked that I could find them and swap as needed...not buy blueprints, scan planets for resources and then 'buy' them on my ship.

Ship Access...the hell, why are the doors locked until teammates get on the ship?

Story...the story was seemingly 4-6 missions...started and ended with story, and then filler about recruiting (start story mission, recruit 4 people, next story mission you're forced to go to, recruit some more/make some loyal til you hit another magic number, force go to another story mission, etc...the 'side' missions, prior to the DLC, were just getting your crew loyal. They didn't feel like side missions, nor story missions, simply 'gotta do that'.)

Mako...I still liked driving that...and until the Firewalker DLC, missed it.

Stats...too pared down. I also didn't like that I couldnt' max everything by the time I hit level cap (at least, not without a 'glitch' before it was patched.)


I'm sure there are other things, but it's been awhile since I last played...that and I'm tired.

Generally I hated the combat in 2...felt too much like Gears of War, and I didn't care for those games. There were nice parts of the game, but a lot of those were related back to the first one.

[jabber]

Dragon Age II on PC

I had played up through Act 2 and partly in to Act 3 when the game was initially released but then got burned out and put the game down. For reasons unknown, I got a wild hair yesterday and finished the rest of Act 3 in one sitting.

[gglynn00]

I picked up a copy of Arkham Asylum so that I could catch up with the story.

Man, everyone was right about this game, it's like a super cool skinned version of Zelda with a dash a Metroid.

I found all of the riddler's challenges and got the "party crasher" achievement.

Looking forward to Arkham City.

[damnedeyez]

Currently on my 3rd or 4th consecutive run of Demon's Souls. I bought it a year or so ago and got through the tutorial and then sparred with the blue guy before...but watching a Dark Souls "Let's Play" got me to actually play the game...plan on getting the Platinum, then using some trickery to max the soul level, and then go through it again...getting a bit antsy, though, since I have a stack of games to play and I don't like switching between them.

...and those damned Crystal Lizards are annoying as hell.