Be Excellent To Each Other

Gears 3, as with all the gears games, really needs to be played in coop.
Although I do think it worked much better with 2 person coop rather than 4.

Son of a bitch. I just accidentally completed Dawn of Sorrow. Thankfully my save takes me back before the boss. Apparently I need the Paranoia soul to get the good ending. What a game though!

Someone set of my OCD alarm!

Who was it?

Couple that with the endless stream of shit DLC means the Gears franchise is now dead to me.

The lambent berserker is so fucking easy, but it's an endless, boring slog. I'm still stuck on the beetleshit on Insane 4-player co-op. It just kicks us in the teeth every time I try it.

Mass Effect 3 finished now.. Not bad at all. 9/10 for me I think

I seem to remember the beetle bugged out on our insane playthrough and it was rather easy that time. Hours of attempts before it did that though.

I utilised a trick to obtain the infinite ammo modifier which was vital. Clear your cache and start an offline horde. Build a turret and during the brief setup between waves, shoot two bullets, reload it, shoot two bullets, reload, etc etc. Get the ribbon 50 or 100 times and you unlock the infinite ammo.

Without clearing the cache you can only get the ribbon once per wave.

Trine 2 : Rather entertaining. Although some tit kept whacking me with planks.

And told me that he needed the man.

The Man was needed at that time.

Finished the story of Lego Batman 2 - by far and away the best Lego game yet, apart from some niggles. Flying in the hub section, the constant saving every time you pick up a gold brick which causes your co-op partner's character to just stop what they're doing (meaning they often fail an objective of their own).

It's going to take a while to get to 100% though, the game is huge - I think we're up to about 36% now.

Deus Ex 3 done. Essentially completed it in three large chunks over a year or so... Was excellent though.

It doesn't take long. I was quite disappointed in the brevity of the game. 15 story missions instead of the usual 19 or 20. Hub world is good but repetitive. I did spend 31 gruelling hours maxing Star Wars 3 though so I might be SLIGHTLY MAD.

I preferred it to be a bit shorter - the story mode usually drags for me.

Ass creed brotherhood done. Basically the same as Ass creed 2 still good fun. Shame the story was so short.7/10

WTF at the ending however. Now on to Ass creed revelations.

Unless you really really love AC, skip Revelations. They basically got a handful of the team to cobble it together as a filler while most of them worked on AC3 making that wonderful, and the end result shows. Hopefully it will show in AC3 too and I'll be able to forgive them, but Revelations was a meandering pointless cash cow of little value.

I'll add this to the list of U-turns, shall I?

What is it you've got against people changing their minds? Are you a robot or something, man?!

Sometimes games can go from good to bad and vice versa! And that's especially likely if you're discussing a game as you're playing it.

Alberto is legendary for it though. He once told me that DLC is for glitchers and kiddy fiddlers and that he would never support that business model - now he guzzles it down like when Augustus Gloop got his hands on that crack-flavoured chocolate in the Wonka factory.

Another one was when he said all military warfare games are shit and he'd never get one. Now he's played all three Modern Warfares. He's awful for it. If he wasn't so vehement about his views before flip-flopping it would be one thing, but he's so vocal about it. There's been so many I have to keep score these days.

It's like you and your opinions on cricketers.

I always thought he understood hyperbole; that I am so vehement and over-the-top in my complaints on purpose precisely to amuse him if and when I backtrack. Now I'm really not sure

As specifically relates to AC:R/AC3, I didn't realise at the time that AC:R was essentially a playground for them to test some new ideas (Desmond portal-lite sequences, tower defence bits, running around making bombs like a fucking 21st century terrorist in Renaissance Italy and other awful awful stuff) to see how they worked/were received before deciding whether to use them in AC3, which was the proper game to bring the series to a crescendo. I expected AC:R to be a glorious continuation of the saga in its own right, and went into it with probably as high an expectation level as I did any game that year, which is why I found it such a crushing disappointment. Objectively, it's still not very good, but if I'd understood at the start how it really fitted in to the series then I'd have been more accepting of its many faults.

I agree with your Ac:r comment.

Are there any important ahem, revelations in Revelations, that I would need to read about?

In what way?

No, in a word. Ezio looks for books because he fancies a woman who likes books. There's flashbacks to Altair which make you wish you had spent the last three games playing as him instead of Ezio. In the present day, that annoying English bloke muses over whether they can trust Desmond after
and Desmond himself spends the entire game in the animus. Nothing moves on in any meaningful sense, in fact the only thing I found vaguely interesting came in one of the DLC portions of the game when it is revealed that

As I said, an "OMG we have a space to fill in the annual franchise, let's bung something out there" game that avoided containing anything of value that could be better utilised in AC3.

It amazes me how some people on here have a memory of who said what to such an extent that you can actually start mapping patterns of behaviour like that. It's all just some people on the internet to me. I dunno who's better off, to be honest.

That they know each other away from here may well have something to do with it.

Alberto was best man at my wedding (contradiction in terms though it is).

woohoo, completed xbox pacman ce dx...
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Finally finished Guardian of Light with the Mrs! It's only taken us two years. Helluva lot of game for your buck. Great fun co-op from start to finish.

It is excellent and I too played through it with Mrs B, who enjoyed it in spite of herself. It's just come out on Android (currently stupid fucking pointless Xperia exclusive) so I'll probably play it through again when it gets a full release. Although it depends on how well the controls translate...

Pro-tip: don't buy the DLC, it's fucking awful. I was expecting some more of the same but it's just some of the shittest mechanics from the full game stretched out annoyingly.

I shan't bother with the DLC then!

I'm gonna carry on with Mass Effect 2 today. I can't remember where I got up to though so I hope I can jump straight back in... Seeing as Dimrill thinks it's 'mazin' and everything, I should at least give it another shot.

I doubt you'd like it now. It builds. What you've done is stop fucking it halfway through, now go back and immediately spluff and expect it to be the greatest sex ever. Won't work.

I'll use a lubricant!

I was halfway through a mission that I just finished. I got a Krogan in a glass tank. How far am I? Also, it's fun. I've no idea why I stopped playing it. Can't remember at all.

Krogan in a glass tank, I know, I know, it's serious.

Impossible to say. Its not entirely linear.

The main missions are essentially to go around and recruit all your crew members, followed by a second mission per crew member to earn their loyalty. These are all interspersed with missions for Cerebrus that speak to the overall plot and aren't focussed on specific crew members. The second set of loyalty missions are optional and you can run straight for the end game without doing them, but doing so would not only rob you of half the game content but also mean your crew members don't get upgrades that make them more useful in battle.

The problem with working out progress is that the initial crew member recruitment and subsequent loyalty missions can be done in (almost) whatever order you want so, for instance, you might have chosen to get the Krogan as one of your first missions whereas someone else could do it as the last; so you'd be much further forward through the game even though you're both currently doing the same level.

Aye, gotcha! I'm about 15 hours in anyway. And I'm enjoying it. I really don't remember why I stopped playing it. I assumed I just got bored of it, but now I'm not sure. Probably some shiny shiny.

I still think the controls are clunky though. Getting into cover and moving around in combat is awful. But not awful enough to ruin it.

If you're playing on anything >normal difficulty, you'll really need to use your squad positioning orders. They'll take the weight of fire before you move around. Ir ay Gears ay it.

I'm on "Veteran". Is down follow, up attack and left and right specific markers for each member?

Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

Hard as nails on normal difficulty. It's one for the DmC/Ninja Gaiden crowd looking for some smacking and dodging action while trying to work out what the hell is happening on screen.

Very, um, decently good? Yeah, that'll do.

London 2012 maxed. A highly surprisingly decent Olympic tie-in. Well done Sega Australia!

Really enjoying Gash Effect 2 now. Nearly 30 hours played and still a fair bit to do. Currently making my squad "loyal", although I lost the loyalty of the Australian bird because I sided with the bald tattoo bird. Will I still be able to get everyone to survive the suicide mission?

I did.

But then I am the best at computer games.

You need everyone to be loyal in order for them all to survive the final mission. You can regain the loyalty of the character you went against in a later conversation if you've got enough paragon or renegade points apparently; but if you're swithering somewhere in the middle at that point then you're fucked unfortunately.

I'll keep working on Paragon then. It's annoying that it's so black and white. I didn't want to be nice or evil - I was choosing the appropriate actions for each situation. It shouldn't force you to be a cunt or an angel.

Aye, that was a bit of a failing. I played it 'realistically' for a while by making whatever decisions I felt right in any given situation but I think I noticed an achievement for getting either 100% Paragon or Renegade and just started taking Paragon decisions every time after that which pretty much ruined the whole mechanic. I was high enough paragon at the point of their argument to retain both loyalties, and I must've sided with Miranda given that it was her I ended up shagging.

Also, from doing some buggering about on a wiki, I was reminded that there's another set of requirements aside from crew member loyalty that you need to complete before heading for the final mission if you want everyone to survive. I'm not going to mention the details unless you want me to but when you talk to various characters later in the game I think they'll heavily signpost what you need.

Just finished Red Dead Redemption. I did not expect that. Bloody good game though. Please make a second.

I can't finish gears of war. The RAAM keeps kicking my arse.