I watched the endings and thought they were shitty.

I may play the game someday, it's bound to be better.

Finally got round to buying Portal 2 yesterday, been wanting this ever since it got released, managed to pick up the Xbox version for £1.49 :D

This game far exceeded my expectations, it feels like 2 games in one because the co-op feels like an entire new games itself. I could spend ages going on about what I love in this game but it will probably be things you have heard people say a million times before.

One thing I did want to mention were a few bugs I encountered, The 2nd time I started the game up, all the graphics on the main menu were screwed up, so I ignored it and loaded my single player game, but when it loaded, it spawned me above water and I died instantly, thankfully when I respawned it was on land, then the graphics messed up when I paused the game >_<

That's because it's the Xbox port.

1,50£ for Portal 2? What the fuck?

It's that fucking Xbox port. It's fucking cheap.

What's so wrong with it? When I got it for the Xbox it worked fine for me.

It was £24.99

But I traded in Goldeneye 007 Reloaded and Triple Pack (Trials HD, Limbo and Splosion Man) and then used the points on my loyalty card.

Super Mario 3D Land.

My god is it amazing. The graphics are up there with Mario Galaxy and the gameplay is so good. Best 3D mario game yet in my opinion.

The Xbox port is fine, I don't see your point in complaining about it.

Is it the same story like the other games where?

I'm guessing that was a hate comment boney?

But to anwser, Yes it is the same 'Save the Princess' storyline. Much how like Zelda is the same and that's how I like it. Mario isn't about the story as such anyway; The charm of the games comes from the gameplay and the character and level design.

Also Super Mario 3D Land is a great throwback to older Mario games, especially Super Mario Bros 3. (Which I consider the greatest Mario game ever) New SMB and Mario Galaxy did it also but more so in SM3DL.

For example a Super Mario Bros. Flagpole.
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/image...e9e19f041b.jpg

After every world you get a letter with a photo in the same artstyle as SMB3 :D
http://stuffmideast.com/wp-content/u...main_mario.jpg

This game should of been called Super Mario Bros. 3 2!

Not at all. :D

I just feel that selling a game with the same story is just a kick up the ass for buying the game. But the gameplay looks very fun. I would of got it with MK7 but I had too many games to play.

My next 3DS game is Resident Evil Revelations might be the only 3DS game I be getting this year. ):

Make way for the PSP Vita.

I already got Portal 2 through the holidays... :D

Meh, still not impressed. Granted I rage quit out of like the second mission because it was just shitty. It was the one where you're in a gun shop and some bane-esque mongoloid that's all hopped up on steroids comes in and chases you around the tiny ass shop. Go outside and get nailed by like 14 gang members just waiting for you with guns. Stay inside, rarely get the chance to shoot muscle man [who's next to invincible, apparently] because he's faster than me and can kill me in about three hits. Of course what makes that even better is that I'm rendered useless by his first attack.

Like I said, rage quit. It just felt glitchy and forced and awkward.

I dont say this a lot and usually I dont like it as an argument, but it sounds like you're just bad at it.

Out of curiosity DI, have you played Saint’s Row 2? If so, how does 3 compare? I haven’t had the chance to buy it, and honestly I’m a little apprehensive after hearing some negative opinions on it. I loved 2 though, so I kinda want to play 3 to see how it compares.

Maybe I am. I played the fuck out of the first two games and never got as frustrated as I did with this bit, though. The fact that there are so many things to get hung up/stuck on in the shop makes it annoying, and every time I tried to run outside to get some breathing room, the man-beast would toss a car my way and get me next to death. Then various bullets would finish the job. This happened four times in a row. FOUR.

The first was fun, I felt like it improved on a lot of previous issues that GTA had while still managing to make fun of itself and not be too serious. The second I liked even more for those reasons, as well as the general improvements that were made. This one...Eh. I don't know, rent it. I was initially going to buy it just because I liked the first two so much, but got sidetracked with Skyrim and just rented it instead. Definitely glad I didn't buy it.

Well, it's official. Rage has the worst fucking checkpoint system. I was going through the Shrouded Bunker and at the very end, an enemy came out of nowhere and shot me and I thought it would start me from not that far away, but nope! I'm in the Wasteland, near the door to the bunker. Fuck this, I'll put this game right on the shelf and continue it some other time...

Yeah, Rage was a major let down. Boring game.

I second that.

I beat Portal 2 yesterday, goodness me what a challenge it was! I ended up resorting to Youtube 3 times on my play through :(

I actually managed to defeat Wheatley by a complete accident, I was at the very end of the fight where you are lying on the floor with the portal gun in your hand, I saw the moon and I thought just for the hell of it that I would shoot the moon, I had no clue that it was how you defeat Wheatley, made me chuckle.

I think that's how most people did it. I certainly didn't pay enough attention to Cave to figure it out.

I feel like I was the only person who did sometimes.

He keeps going on and on about how they spent billions of dollars importing moon rocks to grind up into portal-conducive paint.

Then the moon dust gives him lung cancer or something.

I finished Costume Quest, it was pretty fun. Started up the Grubbins on Ice thing.

Yeah, me too. I thought to myself "I wonder if they've handled what will happen if people shoot up there. I'll give it a try and then afterwards work out what I'm meant to be doing here."

The only part of cave I paid attention to was the very first time I heard him and when he as going on about lemons, the rest of the time I was busy trying to figure out what to do.

It actually didn't register until I read the last few posts (which I read after I submitted my last post, what with the new page and all) that Cave had been foreshadowing it all along. I just thought it was a funny gag.

The setup was exactly the same as the climax of Mirrors Edge, so I knew exactly what I was doing.

Though yeah, the foreshadowing didn't occur to me until months later.

Terraria...

I noticed the foreshadowing and got it like five seconds after firing.

Rayman Origins, it's perfect! I beat it the other day but I'm still playing for Achievements. I was never a fan of Rayman but the demo for this game converted me; everything from the level designs to the critters reminds me of Earthworm Jim 2 which is one of my all times favs. Sad that it sold so poorly, I'd love a sequel...

I checked out the demo for Asura's Wrath today.

I really, really don't know what to say about this game. There were two playable... "levels" and both were pretty absurd. It's like the game doesn't really know what it wants to be, it changes from quick-time events into a buttonsmasher and then turns into a shooter. It's really bizarre.

I also didn't really get the anger/burst system; you punch a shitload of things and get a full red meter and then you grow four extra arms... ? It's really really strange.

I did like the art style quite a lot though, other than that it was really weird and didn't seem that good.

Oh and the music for the second level in the demo was really fucking stupid, you're in the middle of a huge fight and there's some stupid Japanese ambient music playing. Whaaaat.

And I couldn't help but laugh at the moments when they yelled at each other in the fighting scenes. It was so DBZ style that it was actually pretty awesome.

"YOU ARE NO MATCH TO ME, ASURA! I AM A GOD!"

"I WILL DESTROY YOU, WYDEN! I AM ASURA! BRAAAAAARGH!"

I really love the art style, but when I heard it was mostly QTEs I became disinterested. Apparently the game director is an artist, so thats probably why it goes for presentation over gameplay. Never the less, Ill try out the demo.

Just beat Saints Row 3, what a fun ass game. Beat the alternate ending as well, I still want more. What I would pay for a New Game + in that game.

Now that I've given it more time I actually like it quite a bit. It seems sort of linear compared to the previous games, but still fun. Still fucking hate the brutes, though.

Actually, that game was from the Jam. This game was voted best overall in the Compo.

That game was pretty fucking cool, though. Especially for 72 hours.

I will warn you there is another bad section later on in the game, with more tutorials essentially. Brutes are pretty easy by the end of the game, you have so many cool weapons and shit. I prefer the arm cannon or whatever its called.

Picked up Star Fox 64 3D a couple of days ago. A really good remake. Plays just as good as the original and looks amazing. The only problem I have with it is that it lacks online multiplayer which is really disapointing because It would be a great game online. Also the price is a bit high for what it really is. A remake with a couple of new features. It's a good job I got it pre-owned :tard:

I beat Rage last night. I guess I could scrabble a bad review of it.

The story of the game is (in a nutshell) that you start up in an Ark shelter where some people were stored before a meteor named Apophis hit the earth, and you wake up and when you go outside, a huge part of the world has turned into a wasteland and there are bandits, regular people, mutants (though the mutants weren't caused by the meteor, the people turned into mutants because the authority did some nanotrite experiments on them and they failed really badly.) and 'the authority' fighting over for supplies and such.

As you are an Ark survivor, the authority are after you, and the regular bandits just want to kill you to turn you in to the authority and the rest of the people are regular town folk who just want to survive.

You have to do tasks for the mayor of the city you go to, Wellspring, and then you join up in a resistance group who are against the authority's plans and you end up in their base later on in the game, which is beneath a city called Subway Town. Or something like that. Then you kill the authority guys and everything is ok.

Really. Such an uninteresting story. Not to mention the graphical issues (texture pop-in) and the boring enemies. Only enemies I found a *bit* interesting were the Jackal bandits, and there's really only one part later on in the game where you have to go to their bunker. Laaaaame.

Meh, it was really.... dull. Not horribly bad, but just really dull and boring. All the guns were stupid except for the wingstick (which was actually a pretty neat weapon), the story is dull, the enemies look boring and yatta yatta yatta.

The mutants were also a very big letdown, they look like regular bandits with glowing eyes and ugly noses and the bigger mutants are something a 10 year old could have designed... One thing that was alright was the Mutant Bash TV part of the campaign. Other than that, it was just really boring and I felt frustrated at many parts because I just didn't really want to play it anymore. Took me about 13 hours to finish it, tried the multiplayer once, hated it. (It's vehicular combat...)

Co-op might be alright, but not really recommending it for anyone, even for hardcore id -fans. Also, the difficulty of the game is a letdown too, I beat it on hard on my first (and most likely last) playthrough and it was way too easy. Maybe nightmare is a bit different...

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Aaaanywaaays, I got Dark Souls today and I'm going to start playing it tonight. Friday night and I'm ready to get frustrated, woo!

Yeah fuck Rage, bring on DOOM 4!

I'm playing the first Sly Cooper atm and I'm sorry I didn't buy these games when they were on the PS2 because they're a lot of fun. Some of the mini-games are kind of annoying though, mostly the stuff with Murray, but some of them are fun so I appreciate the variety even though it's the stealth based levels where you play as Sly that rock. Plus Sly is just a fun guy and I wish there were more mascots with cool attitudes.

Well motherfucker. I was expecting Dark Souls to be hard, but this hard? Jesus I'm going to have a hard time beating this. If I beat it that is.

I'm now at the Undead Burg part and I got up to the Taurus Demon AND I fucking almost beat it, but then I accidentally rolled to his feet and he pummeled me to death in a matter of seconds. I do like the bonfire system, but the game is a bit unfair. I think they should have a map of some sort and before a boss there should always be a bonfire, I don't really feel like killing all those fucking undead guys again and again just to reach that demon and get my ass handed to me. Brutal game, that's for sure. But I did get what I expected and so far it has been really good. Extremely hard, but gives a lot of satisfaction when you defeat a tough enemy or reach a bonfire (checkpoint, basically) after a tough part.