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melaniesuzanne) wrote2009-01-05 12:45 pm
melaniesuzanne) wrote2009-01-05 12:45 pm
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And in gaming news...
Hubbyfink finished "Gears of War 2" last night. It's the first video game he's played to completion. He said he was a little disappointed and wanted to keep on playing when I asked how he felt about that achievement. Yeah, I know what he means; I've played through "Twilight Princess" and "Resident Evil 4" for the same reason (well, that and they're awesome games). He still has "Halo 3" to get into.
I'm still roaming the post-apocalyptic Virginia countryside in "Fallout 3". Found Arlington Cemetery, ransacked Arlington House and the metro stations yesterday. Also found the satellite array up in the northwest and then hit the NW edge of the game world and had to turn back. Ran into three Regulators who called me a villain (oops, I guess my karma's too low) and then shot me down like a dog on the highway. I'm still looking for Reston Town Center. I haven't braved the wilds of Maryland yet, beyond Seneca metro (I crossed a body of water so I'm assuming that was Maryland), nor DC as I got shot at by some Raiders on the DC side when I got too close to the Virginia waterfront.
One of these days I'll unwrap "Left 4 Dead" and get sucked into zombiepocalypse, but I'm pretty happy getting radiation poisoning and hacking giant scorpions and mole rats into tiny bits at the mo'.
Hubbyfink looked up twelve-step programs for FO3 addiction. I told him that chopping off my hands and destroying the game disc are not options.
I'm still roaming the post-apocalyptic Virginia countryside in "Fallout 3". Found Arlington Cemetery, ransacked Arlington House and the metro stations yesterday. Also found the satellite array up in the northwest and then hit the NW edge of the game world and had to turn back. Ran into three Regulators who called me a villain (oops, I guess my karma's too low) and then shot me down like a dog on the highway. I'm still looking for Reston Town Center. I haven't braved the wilds of Maryland yet, beyond Seneca metro (I crossed a body of water so I'm assuming that was Maryland), nor DC as I got shot at by some Raiders on the DC side when I got too close to the Virginia waterfront.
One of these days I'll unwrap "Left 4 Dead" and get sucked into zombiepocalypse, but I'm pretty happy getting radiation poisoning and hacking giant scorpions and mole rats into tiny bits at the mo'.
Hubbyfink looked up twelve-step programs for FO3 addiction. I told him that chopping off my hands and destroying the game disc are not options.
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I prefer not to be put on the spot for coming up with quick physical hand actions that result in either extraction from death or character corpseitude. I am all about mental fail. Love stuff like Myst...
(I bought my son Left 4 Dead for the computer, so at least he's holed up in his room, addicted. Do Not Want TeenLump occupying valuable familial real estate in the living room-- it's a 1050 sq. ft. house!)
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My all-time favorite Wii games are Twilight Princess and Resident Evil 4 but those both have fairly high corpsitude chances and do require the occassional arm flailing as the characters battle with sword and knife, respectively. I'll take a look at our game collection tonight and see if anything jumps out at me as a recommedation for you.
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BAH HUMBUG.
Thanks for doing this!
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Lego Indiana Jones is also cute, but shorter since there are only three movies (well, three at the time the game was made) to go off of. Lego Batman is okay. Despite my adoration of the dark knight, I'm not in love with the game.
If I recall correctly, Raymond's Raving Rabbids doesn't require quick movements and is FULL of puzzle games. Get the first one; the second one got fairly poor reviews. I got Raymond's Raving Rabbids TV Party for Christmas, but haven't opened it yet so I can't comment on whether or not it'll work for you.
That should get you started. :)
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Yesterday my son and I hunted down Twilight Princess and I've... uh... already got 2 1/2 hours of playing time into the game.
::snerk:: I haven't played a video game since we had a SEGA Genesis.
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Seriously... the whole series get totally stomped on by this. It's that good. The multiplayer experience turns it into Return of the Living Dead, 28 Days later, 28 Weeks Later, and every other fast-mover horde zombie movie. Even the cliche's become emergent- the idiot who runs off alone and get picked off, the idiots who shut themselves into a closet/basement/attic with no way out, and my favorite- the idiot who sets off a car alarm/bomb/loud noise that alerts the entire horde.
It's awesome.
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"This just in... that little vault rat son of a bitch from 101 is at it again" usually means trouble ;)
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I can't remember. Did you play this on the 360 or PC? Apparently, there's a way for PC players to see their karma via the command line. I don't know of a similar exploit for the 360.
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Since it runs the Oblivion engine (Oblivion is awesome too, btw) you can pretty much cheat your ass off if you choose to on the pc (like say, making Dogmeat "essential", so he's an unkillable canine companion who latches onto Super Mutants and keeps them at a distance so you can pop their pulpy heads off one by one...)
Or, if you're evil go buy the Clover, the whore bodyguard from Eulogy Jones in Paradise Falls, set her to "Essential", modpca her small guns, perception, and health and she's Summer Glau from Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Of course, that would ruin the game. Unless you're on your sixth pass through it and want to kill every living thing in the world (I've got her, dogmeat, and Red (didn't finish her quest so she sticks with me) armed with the alien blaster, firelance, and me with a nice railroad gun going from place to place killing everything in sight. The last to get shot will be the damned DJ ThreeDog.
Radio Silence! (I even killed Malcolm Macdowell's "President"...)