I beat Skyward Sword, and now I'm playing it on Hero Mode cause I'm hardcore.

Those swinging blades are by FAR the hardest part in the game. I hate those knives

Yeah tell me about it! Even when I put my soul stone down and was summoned (By the same guy... 4 times in a row, lol, I think he likes me), I died/came close to death SO MANY TIMES because of them, thank god I didn't lose my souls though!

FINALLY cleared Final Fantasy 13

Now playing Golden Sun Dark Dawn (3) without equipment


Games are to expensive atm...
But maybe i need to learn to wait for a game instead of buying it at release and not even complete it :S

What did you think of Final Fantasy XIII by the way?

I played it. Never beat it cause my brother got married and took away the PS3. I thought it was good. Great story. Brilliant graphics. I missed the towns and shops, and I've kind of missed world maps since Final Fantasy X, but I thought the game play was very solid. I do hope FFXV is more fairy tale and less sci-fi.

Mass Effect 2;

Creating a safe for ME3 (you should think after already finishing the game 6 times I'd have a safe I'd like but nooooo).

I'm doing EVERYTHING on this save, every side quest (takes quite a bit of time to find 'em), every research, etc.. Currently I need to do that Reaper IFF mission.

Dark Souls...

Finally decided to go kill Havel after him giving me a beating the first time I met him, but I decided to give myself a little challenge too, and dragged the Black Knight along with me, so I had to kill both of them... needless to say, 2 fireballs and 3 backstabs later, I came out victorious with a shiny new ring...

lol I hate Skyrim crashes and synchronises on Steam.

I started playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced 2. I've played all freaking day. I even skipped classes to keep playing. It's just so addictive.

Its final fantasy tactics A2 btw :p

Well, yes, but I'm pretty sure the A stands for Advanced. The full name would be Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift.

Started Mass Effect 3 last night. So far very good.

Motorstorm RC on my vita! Such a fun game! too bad they gave it for free :( but i decided to buy ps3 version too :D

Told you it was fun, lol

Also, I've taken a break from Dark Souls, just about to start playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, since I bought the Ultimate Sith Edition and it's been unopened for almost a whole year now

i only bought that version cause it came in like a metal case :x

It never came in a metal case over here... just has a different cover art, lol (And all the ingame stuff ofcourse)

I'm playing Star Trek Online. It's free now, thanks to China. It's the best free game I've ever played. Downloading 4+ gigabytes is the only hard part. STO is like watching Star Trek and playing it at the same time. I can solo a borg cube, but not a tactical cube. Tactical cubes are the SOB's in that game. My current ship is the USS Aurora Horizon.

Mass Effect 2;

I've done EVERYTHING except the suicide mission. This game isn't as big as I thought it was, only 25 hours (and probably another 2 for the last mission).

Fucked up Miranda's loyalty (my paragon score wasn't high enough to end the conflict between Miranda and jack) so that's one character without the loyal status. I really hope this isn't going to screw me over as I want everyone to be alive when I finish the game.

There's a randomized chance that anyone can die in the last mission, even if you do EVERYTHING right (though it's really low -- and Mordin seems most susceptible to dying).
Chances of teammate death are lowered by loyalty status, what upgrades you got, and who you pick to be team leads for various stages of the last mission.

But I'm pretty sure that loyalty plays the biggest determining factor ... So there's a good chance Miranda will bite the dust :(

Good news though is that there are plenty of sites out there with 100% perfect savegames you can d/l, so if you're really concerned with having Miranda alive in ME3, download one of those.
You were allowed to modify the face of your character in the beginning of ME2, so you'll probs be able to in ME3 (so don't worry about what the savegame Shep looks like).

Thing is I want to import the choices I made too. Damn it for not having that TINY bit of extra paragon score that would have solved all those problems.

Oh well, I've read on the wiki that it's not "such" a big problem if it's only a single character that isn't loyal as long as you put her together with characters Grunt, Garrus or Zaeed (who luckily are all loyal).



According to that I should do just fine.

What I noticed was that the chance of someone dying in the final mission is pretty big, even when you have them all loyal.
I found out that you can prevent it by taking your "weaker" teammates with you to the final fight, I took Mordin and Tali with me for instance since one of those two kept dying.
With that approach I've had about 3 successfull savegames where everyone survived.

So apparently I'll be playing Dynasty Warriors Next pretty soon, since I've just played the demo and it was epic as fuck, easily one of the best Dynasty Warriors games... so I've just ordered it based off my 10 minutes with the demo, lol

In my playthrough I was perfect except that everyone but Dr. Chakwas died among my Normandy crew.

Didn't have any save files dated before the Normandy was stormed, so I just said "screw it, let them stay dead"

Okay so I did the Suicide mission in ME today and. Everyone including the crew came out alive. The fact that Miranda wasn't loyal luckily didn't fudge anything up.

My perfect save for ME3 is ready now. Took me about 27 hours and 23 minutes do every side quest, explore every planet and create all research. I've also have made all choices I wanted sooo, bring it ME3 (which I get for my birthday in a week)!

I pirated it after hearing all the negative press about it :x

TBH it really does feel like a step back from ME2 in a lot of ways :(

But if you liked ME2, then you'll like ME3.

One nice thing is that they made the load-outs a little more robust than in ME2. You can now add modifications to your weapons.

Still really bare-bones of an inventory management system compared to ME1 but ... They tried, I guess.

And the faces of the people are a little less horrific.

My saved game fem-Shep face was all super wonked-out when I loaded it, so I had to modify it some to make it look like it used to. But it mostly looks better than before.

Still massively underwhelmed to see that there are no female versions of any other race besides humans, quarians, or asari (obv). I saw a screen of a female krogan ... but it looked the same as a male one lol

How do you mean? :o I played only the demo so far and it seemed to be better (but that was only 2 levels).

It's hard to say. I'm playing it on PC so I don't know how it fares on the consoles (it's obv made with consoles in mind).

*** Note: There may be LIGHT ME2 spoilers below, interdispersed ... But they're light, and if you didn't know about this shit before from just hearsay, ... do you live in a cave ***

It's the FEEL of it. The 1-button-does-everything schtick. Like the "Use" or "Inspect" is the same key as sprinting or jumping or hiding or whatever else. A lot of times Shepard does some random jump & roll instead of hiding behind cover, or instead of inspecting a thing. I find it super crazyannoying. I don't remember ever being this annoyed with the controls of ME2, despite their functions being somewhat similar. I've died 2 times because I accidentally vaulted over cover, and when I couldn't seem to "unstick" from cover I was standing behind, when a grenade was tossed at my feet. Lame.

Also they use a -LOT- of the textures from ME2 (and even some from ME1!!!) -- Look at the clothes of the NPCs especially. If I'm playing this fucker on 1900x1200 with all my settings as maxxed as they can be, I should never see giant shitty JPG artifact splotches all over peoples' clothes or on walls.

The environments feel more impressive; more reminiscent of the "you're a small thing in a big world" feeling you'd get sometimes in ME1. And that's a good thing. But then you get talked at by Low-Res Lisa (who happens to have one of the SAME 5 hairstyles that all people in the universe have) and feel kind of angry at EA for not giving BioWare enough time to polish this shit.

The story also feels a lot more predictable. In 2, you were gathering allies, and wondering after the intentions of Cerberus, and it *FELT* like you had more control over your shit.
But in this one, from minute 5, you're being told EXACTLY what to do.

"You-gotta-recruit-more-dude's-to-fight-the-Reapers-bro," says every person in the galaxy.

Ho hum. Well, I could have figured that out on my own and felt better for it, but thanks for telling me 60,000 times.

Also, in ME2, you got all sorts of interesting races to ogle at/romance in your party.
The new team members you get in ME3? Humans.
Boring shit ass humans.
If I wanted to stare at humans all day long in a game about outerspace times, I'd walk my happy ass over to Space Mountain in Disney World.


Not to mention, you start out the game DISGRACED!

I am Commander Shepard, savior of the UNIVERSE, who is a Citadel Spectre, and a galaxy-slinging, asshole-fighting, skirmish-quelling DEMI-GOD of a HERO.
Not only have I saved Citadel space, but I saved the outer reaches, too.
And I DIED trying to save everyone, and then I was REBORN by a company, who I used to the last penny, and tossed out the window like a bitchy girlfriend.
I SHOULD BE RESPECTED LIKE JESUS BECAUSE I SORT OF AM JESUS

And despite ALL THE SHIT I DONE SEEN AND DID, and despite the fact that this playthrough's character is p much 100% Paragon, I was COURTMARSHALLED and STRIPPED OF HONOR & RANK and they announce all over the news that I am a MASSIVE SHITSTAINED TURDNURGLER.

What?!

In ME2, when you arrive back at the Citadel, everyone's like "HEY! It's Shepard! I thought you were dead! You're our hero! You're the bottom bitch, baby! Please endorse our store! Love us like we love you! Omggg *jizz*", and you know, call me egotistic, but it gave me warm fuckin fuzzies to know that my game was idolizing me. Shit yeah they should be idolizing me; I'm fucking COMMANDER JESUS H. SHEPARD.

But in ME3? Even though I screwed over Cerberus royal-style, everyone doubts me, I'm publicly called a disgrace, and even my PARTY MEMBERS don't trust me and look at me like a sack of shit.

Lastly: WTF, plot?
In the end of ME2, the VERY end, you talk at all your teammates (who are still alive; mine were all still alive), and are like "YEAAAUH WE'S GONN' GET'IM!!!"
And it was IMPLIED that this team would be working together NON FUCKIN STOP to STOP THE REAPERS, because FUCK THOSE BITCHES.

And then in ME3, everyone's fucked off and gone their separate ways.
Fuck you!!!
Not on my god damn watch!
If even one of those bitches tried to amscray I'd do the ol' right-click knock-out-punch and knock 'em on their asses like a TV news reporter.

Anyway ... Sigh.
So that's my reasoning.



Lol I got way into that rant there.

I may change my tone towards the end of the game :x

For the last hour I've been playing Dynasty Warriors Next, since my Vita games all came today, and so far I'm enjoying it SO much!

AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH NO

It will be worse.