The DLC is negligible though. It's exactly the same as the stuff in the first game: Extra character a few bonus items.

Still a scam, like that JRPG that you have to buy the right to use extra party members with real money.

It does, an additional party member and a new merchant.

Yep, game developers are intentionally withholding content from their games so they could sell it as DLC, it's BS, and I rarely buy DLC unless it's something really game changing like the water DLC in LBP. As for additional costumes or power-ups, forget it, bring back the days of unlocking that stuff by being a skilled player.

You know what's really one of the biggest ripoff's now? MvC3's Shuma-Gorath and Jill characters. They cost separately 400 Microsoft Points!

One new character = 5€. Such bullshit, they could've added them both in a DLC and sell it for 240MSP or something like that.

Ever played Marvel Ultimate Alliance? There's a good DLC trap for you, the Hulk isn't even a playable character you have to buy him seperately. Worse yet the DLC for that game isn't available anymore so I'm screwed.

Speaking of the Hulk I'm playing Hulk Ultimate Destruction for PS2 which is pretty awesome, steel boxing gloves <3

I finished Braid. That was worth the $15 easily.

The last puzzle piece I found was the "guide 2 sequential goomba-things through piranha-plant hell" one in the last world. It was annoying. I ended up painfully synchronising all of the piranha-plants so that I could just tap rewind constantly and guide as many goombas as I liked through. It took about 10 minutes to get them lined up.

World 1 was awesome, apart from it not making sense. How does stepping on a dead goomba revive it? The broken ladder bit was really cool. The first/last level was amazing. It took me a while to get the timing right for the goomba-canon part. I had to redo the level 3 times to get it just right.

It was really cool seeing it backwards afterwards. It all made sense.

The epilogue was odd, but satisfying. I'm assuming that the secret stars will put text in the blank books, but I'm not sure. I guess there's only one way to find out…

I'm currently trying to reach that mysterious cloud in the first world. I can't get to it. I can't see any way to get to it. I know that's the point, but I'm annoyed by it. Every other puzzle has given me an idea of what I'm supposed to do at least. This is just a cloud that it impossible to reach. More on this situation as it unfolds.

I've never even bothered trying that puzzle, but the cloud is moving incredibly slowly. You have to leave the game running for a long time until it reaches a point where you can jump on it.

OANST got most/all of the secret stars. The cloud takes roughly an hour to cross the screen.

I decided to play some Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe yesterday because I wanted to play a fighting game and it's pretty much the only one I have for the 360.

It's not that good, but it is okay. I'm pretty excited for the upcoming MK, but I heard it doesn't have Offline 2 player. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?! I want to beat my friend in it. >:/

Just be thankful they're classifying it where you live.

I started playing Morrowind a couple of days ago. It's pretty good, but I'm not very far at all. And by not very far at all I mean still in Balmora and just got my weapons/armor.

All I can say is that it seems a lot less accessible than Oblivion, which I loved. But I can see this growing on me, for sure.

Yeah, that's how I did it too. I think that I got so frustrated that I ended up checking out a walkthrough. I hate the puzzles that involve perfect timing rather than puzzle-solving.

World 1 is initially occuring in reverse; what you perceive as you stepping on the goomba and reviving it is actually you jumping off the goomba after killing it.

Not... exactly. For the record, it's actually impossible to get one of the stars if you've already completed the game with all the puzzles made up.

yoostar 2. Sober it's pretty fun. After five or six beers, boy howdy.

I'm about 20 minutes from my first secret star in Braid. I'm currently waiting on that damn cloud to move some more.

I set up the game and left it running for 20 minutes. I then attempted to jump onto the cloud, and realised that it wouldn't be as simple as I initially thought. I then spent 3 minutes of jumping around. After that, I thought "I give up", accidentally jumped and managed on land on the cloud through sheer arse.

So now I'm just leaving it until I can jump across to the star.

Also, I was given Red Faction: Guerilla for my birthday. I haven't played much, but the little I've done I love. Blowing holes in shit and then shooting people through them is always fun, until enemies swarm in through that hole. It takes a bit more thought than most 3rd person shooters I've played and I appreciate that.

EDIT: I now have my first secret star. I believe I know where world 4 and 6's stars are, but I have no idea how to get them. Also, I'd appreciate if you'd use spoiler tags if you're going to talk about them, unlike last time when Mac posted the solution.

The start of the game is one of the most enjoyable parts - you only truly feel like an adventurer when you wander, woefully under-equipped, into a world you have yet to comprehend. To this day I remember clanking around in a cobbled-together suit of mismatched armour, swinging my discount axe and racing away from Cliff Racers, only to tumble off cliffs.

I probably should have put two and two together when I saw the name.

I found world 4's secret star. It was easy. Really, really easy. I don't know where to go from here on out, though.

It isn't a simple one-per-world relationship. Look at every location where there is a ladder going up to a hidden location above. And use your imagination. And... without giving too much away... there are certain actions you can take within Tim's house that enable you to find a star.

I've already assumed that there is one there and have been dicking around accordingly.

EDIT: I reread and found another meaning. Either way, dicking around is the only way I can think of finding it.

Annd back to Pokemon

I've got Black and i've got to say its much better then I thought. The games story, map, music have a 2nd gen feel which I love.

I'm currently past the Elite 4 and now training up a team :D

I've been playing Mortal Kombat: Armageddon for the PS2 lately.

I'm pretty hyped for the new one too.

I played the demo for the new one. It's pretty damn fun, but I'm sure the best thing about it will be the multiplayer.

Multiplayer in fighting games is so meh in my opinion. MK vs. DCU's online is so bad, everyone just spams Flash's or Captain Marvel's special moves.

Also, I hope the new MK demo hits Xbox LIVE soon.

Fable 3. And I want to kill whoever came up with the entire Sanctuary thing. Makes no sense and is horribly annoying.

There's nothing wrong with the sanctuary.

The disembodied villager voice that follows me around in combat, telling me "I'm not impressed in the slightest" every time I flourish with the pistol, though, now that's annoying.

Dragon Age II.

Would be good if my companions weren't so dumb. I spend a decent amount of time setting up their tactics, and for what? So they can run into AoE attacks and get themselves cornered by half of what we fight.

Fucking. Sucks.

Quite many people seem to dislike Dragon Age 2. At least few of my friends who bought it say that it isn't nearly as good as the first one. I can't really comment on that since I only have the first one and haven't played DA2. I haven't really played DA:O either though, ha.

Meh, the tactic slots are only there for basic attacks and standard healing processes. Anything more complex than that then I'll take control of them myself.

And speaking of DA2, the game is lying on the desk wistfully looking at me to play it, but I can't. I had to restart my DA:O game to tweak a few things and that's been delayed as I recently reacquired POP: Warrior Within. By jove that is a great fucking game.

Doesn't even compare to Sands of Time.

Ah, I've always been a huge fan of the PS2 series and although TSoT is the best, I've outplayed it and now I have to outplay the other two now. Prince of Persia and the other one can go kiss my ball-less sack, I will never play them ever.

The cel shaded one is alright.

I think my favourite part of Warrior Within is how beautifully the time loop segues together. My least favourite part being the added emphasis on battles.

Also emo prince

This is the worst part.

I actually still need to finish the Sands of Time trilogy - got 1/3 of the way through Warrior Within and just stopped playing.

The rest is better.

The story is actually really really good and everything is so well foreshadowed.

But I heard that the cell-shaded one isn't canon? I enjoyed the battle system if I'm honest and the emo prince sucked major ass balls. I wanted the old Prince back, the one with the witty banter and a jackass attitude but we got him back for The Two Thrones, I guess.

I know I should play it, but part of me is just put off by how much of the game I have left to get through - I was following a guide (to make sure I got all the secret health powerups) and just seeing how little progress I was making was really a buzzkill.

I guess I'll get around to it eventually.

It isn't Sands of Time trilogy canon, no.

It does have a great ending though. Sort of. I liked it.

Cel-shaded Prince was okay, but the whole way through I couldn't shake the feeling that it was really bare-bones gameplay.

Whole thing just felt too basic - one enemy at a time, really linear paths combined with a world that felt like it was built in ruins?

Yeah, the way I saw it the game was just one big collectathon. While some of the fights were cool I guess - like that one puzzly one at the top of a tower I think??? - I was really put off by seeing all this shiny shit scattered everywhere I would have to collect after making an area reborn or whatever the game called it.

You're the only person on the planet who has held that opinion.


I played 1/4 of Sands of Time. Hated the fighting. Failed miserably in the fight against the Prince's father and never returned to it.

If my Xbox wasn't still at mum's place I might have returned to it and cheated through that fight.

The fighting in Sands of Time is amazingly broken, either you hobble through it cursing every fight or you use the second special attack you learn in every battle and be utterly invincible.