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[Russ]

So... regarding the Christmas-themed Cave Story+...

After making it through a Christmas-decorated Hell, you get to the Seal Chamber and find... Santa. Ballos... dressed as Santa. The ground is made of gingerbread men, and the spike that come up are menorahs. Nicalis... you are amazing. So very amazing.

That said, seeing Santa's eyes burst into blood-filled empty sockets while he summons demons from Hell is a bit jarring.

[GamingNomad]

Believe it or not....Final Fantasy 7. This is actually the last game in the series I need to play before I can officially say I've played all of them. Did recently just beat 9 though, and it's a gorgous game.

[Ventus]

Well I'm starting up Dual hearts on the PS2. Had to give up my town on Animal Crossing city folk...
My mother has borrowed the Wii and because she wanted to play AC as well... But she did not like my town and she nuked it

Did recently just beat 9 though, and it's a gorgous game.

Gotta agree with you there that game was gorgeous!

[The Satellite]

Played Left 4 Dead 2 to get some campaign achievements I missed; when Russ and I played, we either didn't play the whole campaign in one sitting, or got booted for some reason. One of these was Dark Carnival. It's known that the L4D series AI is questionable at best... But at the very end of the last level, where you have to get on the chopper to finish the campaign, me (as Ellis), Nick, and Coach are aboard, and Rochelle... just stands there. Shooting zombies, but otherwise she's right there and doesn't even get on the chopper:

http://cloud.steampo...9E18A90AFD02A4/

Then a Tank killed her and we took off. The end.

[Shane]

I'm considering to play Final Fantasy XIII, I only seen a few videos, it really looks great but a bit cutscene heavy. I also heard that FFX is getting remastered which is awesome. FFX was my first FF I played and it's my favorite FF game.

Edited by Shane, 11 December 2012 - 04:11 AM.

[kurt91]

Tried playing Minecraft on something other than Peaceful for a change. Built myself a neat little base underground, and started working on putting together a tree farm so I would have a safe steady supply of wood for my tools. I've only just managed to gather enough iron for my first iron sword. What happens? It starts raining and suddenly my base is invaded by an Enderman. I thought they were supposed to be somewhat rare, or at least less common than Creepers.

On the bright side, I was expanding the room to make space for more than one tree at a time, and already had a two-block-tall safe zone to hide in while I tried to fight the Enderman. However, he teleported away after I hit him the first time, and I spent about fifteen minutes waiting and peeking around to make sure he was really gone. Great way to start a new world, isn't it?

[The Satellite]

Got the Swamp Fever achievement on L4D2 earlier today and finished ODST. That just leaves Halo 3, and I'm done with my Halo marathon. That is, until I get Halo 4...

[Ventus]

Did beat Links awakening 2 times today once on the DX version and once on the black and white version.
The black and white version I beat it using nothing but glitches... Ah good old Map select screen and walking near the edge of a screen to glitch the game.

[SpacemanDan]

Got a significant chunk into Kirby's Dreamland 3 today. Started today, and am currently in the 5th world. I've got two more levels after that I think, then the boss. I haven't been aiming for 100% right away, but I'll probably go back once I beat the final boss or something.

Also, on chapter 7 of Miracle Mask. Things are getting interesting, though I think I have the plot figured out. (If it's what I'm thinking, then I've had it figured out for quite awhile now.) But we'll see! Layton's usually good about throwing me in a loop, lol.

[Anthus]

I've been playing through Four Swords Adventures again on my Wii. I've also been playing an MMO called Continent of the 9th Seal. It's a pretty solid clickity-click action MMORPG, but there's not anything really unique about it. I've also been playing TF2 on Steam.

[Zacron]

Got Assassin's Creed 3 for Free, and I bought Forge last night. Also got Metro 2033 for free, so I have a LOT on my plate.

[SpacemanDan]

So it turns out I was two levels from finishing Dream Land 3 when I put it down yesterday. ._. Ah well. Beat it and went back for all the heart star things and beat it proper. Which means I've beat all the games on the Dream Collection. O: All in all, I had a good time. Getting some of those things was a pain (I found some of those minigames way too late in the level. If you failed, you had to get there again and again. >_>) but in all it was fun.

Unsure of what I will play next. Probably just put more time into Persona 4 or something, lol.

[ShadowTiger]

Going to make an Imperial run on Skyrim. Heavy armor this time. Experienced extraordinary resistance to not picking the Thief stone like I always do, and picked the Warrior stone instead. For combat, I usually pick archery with healing spells, and maybe some destruction. This time, I might pick two handed weapons or a shield and a mace, and some kind of curse spells. Just to try something different I guess.

[The Satellite]

Master Quest completed via stream, and I played a bit of Super Hexagon after the stream was over. Fun little game. Not the greatest thing ever, but definitely fun. And frustrating. Worth playing. Music's pretty good too.

I started the first Left 4 Dead last night; all the campaigns were ported to Left 4 Dead 2, and Russ wanted to play those versions since it has all the updates L4D2 has, but I wanted to play them in their original form. To compromise, while he's on vacation, I started them in L4D so I could see them in their original form, then when he gets back, we'll play through them in their L4D2 ports. I've played the first two campaigns, No Mercy and Crash Course, and so far, not bad. I think I might actually like the level design a bit more than the sequel so far (might have to replay the sequel to judge for certain), but there are definitely some setbacks.

The AI is less intelligent (though I haven't ran into many significant problems), which, well, if you know anything about L4D2 AI, is not a good sign, though it's manageable enough. I just wish they'd be a little more responsive to when you're being attacked by a Hunter... I've seriously had a Hunter on me, the others were a short distance away, and they just stood there for a brief moment before approaching... ... with their backs toward me. It wasn't until they were literally right next to me that they actually shot the Hunter off. Now, if a Hunter pounces on you while you're all together, they make short work of it. But otherwise, they're slow as hell to respond. There are far too many Boomers, which are rather irritating, though I suppose this is because the only Special Infected the first game has are Boomers, Hunters, Smokers, Witches, and Tanks; L4D2 added Chargers, Jockeys, and Spitters. If you use melee weapons often in L4D2, this game would be a pain with the lack of them, but since I rarely use them I do fine. The weapon selection is pretty balanced, not as good as L4D2, but plenty good enough, although I miss magnum pistols.

The Survivors themselves... not as interesting or fun as the L4D2 Survivors. ... let me rephrase that. The Survivors themselves... not as interesting or fun as Ellis, Nick, and Coach. Zoey is a hell of a lot better than Rochelle (not that that's saying much), and I kind of like her, but otherwise, the other three just hang at that "likable" stage and don't really get much higher than that, though it has only been two campaigns. At least Louis is funny, but his shouts of "RELOADING!" do get on my nerves.

... apart from that, I need to start Halo 3. It's the last game in my Halo marathon, and I've never gotten this close to completing a Halo marathon before (I'd just lose interest at some point), so I need to get on that and do it. Then get Halo 4 and beat it too.

[SpacemanDan]

And now I finished Miracle Mask.

Insane amount of spoilerage

So Russ can attest that I figured out that Randall was the Masked Gentleman. Well, at that point it was baseless guessing, but as the game went on, everything just pointed toward him being the Masked Gentleman. I guess I just never trust when a character 'dies'. I also had the motive and even how he survived the fall. Also, from Russ' post, I kinda figured how it tied together the Last Spectre and the Eternal Diva pretty quick, what with the discussion of ancient civilizations so much.

Though all the other twists threw me in a loop like Layton games usually do. And that cutscene after the credits. My god. I'm eagerly looking forward to the next game and move. O: Time to go watch the trailer for the next one!

In all, I loved it. The puzzles were clever and fun to solve. Either I'm getting better at figuring out how they like to do things or they were a little on the easy side this time, though. By the end of the game, I had 123/135 puzzles solved. That's...a lot more than I usually have. O: Probably going to go back and solve the missing puzzles and do the extra stuff I didn't bother with. And maybe do the same with the other games. Dunno yet.