Maybe it's my copy then. I've had loads of glitches and crashes.

Just reached #300 on the challenge tower of Mortal Kombat. It is true. You do have to loose. The more matches you loose the less the game seems to give you the negative perks and the less it seems to give the CPU the positive perks. It's still stupidly difficult though. Millena (they seem to over advertise that alternative costume) is the furthest I have managed to get.

Or it could be your console!

I downloaded Jurassic Park Operation Genesis for the PC, and surprised my PC could actually run it.

The game is pretty damn fun until a T-Rex gets bored, breaks out, eats fucking everything and you're left with repairing the damage and paying for the damage.

Fuck T-Rex.

Is that the Park building/zoo sim? I think I had that for the original xbox. If it's the game I'm thinking of. Either way, I know I bought some jurassic park zoo-sim game pretty much the day it came out because I was such a dinosaur nerd. Well, still am. I remember liking it well enough, but I also remember hating the t-rex.

Just beat #300 of the Mortal Kombat Challenge Tower.

Used Cyber Sub Zero and I'm just glad the whole thing is over. I hated every single second of that damn tower!

I'm playing through Mr. Smiley Head's Safari. I've only just started but I already on level 3! It has killer pacmans...

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The chicken shoots egg bombs, and that is supposed to be barney if you couldn't tell.

Bought portal 2 yesterday, couldn't put it down, beat it this morning.

Great game, felt like I was in a pixar movie.

Yep. I didn't know it was out for the original Xbox, I must invest.

But yeah, the T-Rex is a cunt because it won't even eat any cows. The damn Spinosaurus is docile in comparison.

Something that made me laugh was how one of the tourists was called 'Kurt from Portugal'.

What the shit?

Im fairly sure you could destroy the park entrance in Genesis, so no one could get in or leave. This resulted in me destroying the entrance and letting all the dinosaurs out at once.

Yeah, I did that. Out of annoyance really, a few people were hard to please so I just unleashed theropod hell on their holes in retaliation.

The T-Rex doesn't want to be fed...He wants to hunt!

T-Rex went on a rampage and got killed by a Triceratops.

Serves the cunt right.

I misread that as 'T-Nex went on a rampage and killed a Triceratops.' It was a mystifying, yet pleasing, mental image.

T-Nex being gored to death by a Triceratops is wankworthy, yes.

Freudian slip.

No it weren't.

He misread the T-Rex part and who killed who.

I just changed it so T-Nex got killed instead.

It made more sense.

You've obviously never seen T-nex on a rampage.

Got Civ V from a friend. Much like Civ iv, I am useless when it comes to actually fighting something.

I'd like to think such a thing would never happen.

Angry females are a force to be reckoned with.

I do, but my save file (80% complete, only Ultor left) got all messed up, so I lost a bunch of progress. I'd be happy to play it online, though.

Bought Halo:Reach today. Unique in its own right, and Firefight is incredibly fun. I got bored of wandering around the same downtown area after like 2hours and turned it off.

Cool beans. I don't have you on my friends list any more because I pretty much deleted everyone I wasn't playing with on a regular basis in some sort of drunken stupor that apparently made sense when I was doing it.

Friend request plooz.

Been playing DJ Hero 2 and Duke Nukem 3D a lot lately. Some Blur too.

I finally beat DJ Hero 2's empire mode and now I'm doing online battles. I've now beaten the first stage on Duke Nukem 3D, currently playing Lunar Apocalypse.

If somebody wants to play some games with me on Xbox Live, add me: Ronzie4Lulz

I'm on quite a lot now that it's summer vacation and I have lots of free time. You can check my games from my profile on Live, I have a variety of co-op games so hit me up some time.

Hey motherfuckers (King Canada and Bearded Zeus) I'm getting Gold soon + also have SR2. Can I has fun tiemz too?

Do I get to use my single player avatar in multiplayer?

Taking a break from Zelda titles after my recent rediscovery of Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga. Holy shit I forgot how hard this game ruled. One of the best games ever to grace the GBA.

PORTAL 2 CO-OP

Baron von Puttyington versus The Cancerous MC Escher Maze of Cheese. It's addictive, scarily so.

The hardest part of the game is trying to get a floppy cube to roll in a straight line.

I bought Dark Messiah of Might and Magic from the Steam sales yesterday. It's really fun and if Skyrim has a similar combat system, it will be fun as hell.

Machinarium, I only played the demo but it looks bloody sick, wish it was on STEAM so I could buy it. I urge everyone else to at least look at it.

It is an amazing game and it is on Steam.

I bought some Wii points today and purchased Starfox 64 and Final Fantasy III (or Final Fantasy VI, which I hear is its proper title).

Enjoying both, especially the latter. Starfox 64 can be incredibly difficult with my bad reflexes, but it's still very fun. Except when you don't save, get a game over and have to start from the beginning when you're already 3 or 4 levels into the game. Also, for anyone who has played it, are Peppy, Slippy and Falco always meant to die so easily, or am I just really bad?

But yeah, Final Fantasy III rules. Only Final Fantasy I've played apart from 7 (which I didn't even finish), and I'm enjoying it a hell of a lot more. Not that 7 was bad or anything.

Damn, I forgot about you.

D:

Isn't that the chicken from Aqua Teen Hunger Force?

I playing one of those interactive movie things that WoF loves so much. The story is excellent, the manga art style... *grits teeth* ... bearable, but I loathe the format. They should've just made it into a choose-your-own-adventure book.

Which one was it?

Bought Bully on Steam 'cause it was on sale.

I'd enjoy the game a lot more if the controls weren't so fucking dumb and somehow the port just feels bad.

The PS2 version was fun, the PC version... not really.

Sorry, that should be visual novel. I'd call that a faux pas, except I've got no intention of looking like I know what I'm talking about here.

It was Katawa Shoujo/"Cripple Girls" (Act 1 - Demo Version), that one that was constructed from characters doodled on one sketchbook page by a 4chan members. It's about a teenage boy who discovers he has arrhythmia (his heart stops at the slightest overexertion), and gets sent to Yamaku academy for disabled teens. This isn't really what he wants since he a) found out about his condition at a very inconvenient time (no spoilers!) and b) He doesn't really see himself as disabled, so the thought of spending the rest of his education surrounded by 'cripples' is depressing in the extreme.

However, stereotype challenging feelgood teenage acceptance not too clichéd blabbity bloopity blah

I like Hanako. It probably says a lot about me that my waifu is the one with the hideously scarred face. Rin's a bit of a laugh though.

On a vaguely related note, a few playthroughs of Air Pressure left me so relentlessly knurd for the next 45 minutes I just went to bed.

You know what? Since I've only played three "interactive movies" in my life I may as well go into the third. It's Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story. As you can guess from the title, it's more Western than Katawa and not as cripplingly miserable as Air Pressure (and also more than 90 seconds long). It's also the spiritual successor to Digital: A Love Story, which I never played but seemed to have a profound effect on everyone who did.

The basic idea is that you're a 38-year-old double-divorcee teacher who by some plot excuse of advanced school surveillance (it's 15 years in the future) is able to to eavesdrop on his students' web conversations. You're then faced with the decision with how much you want to interfere with your students' lives, and how comfortable you are about doing it. For me that meant answering pretty much every probing question with "I can’t make your decisions for you, what do you think you should do?". I prefer to give assistance rather than guidance... except I’m dating one of my students.

Probably weren't expecting all that, huh? Now I need to go play a game where I actually shoot something to assert my manliness.

She's my favourite too, though I don't like playing half completed games so I'm waiting until they finally fucking get it done sometime this summer. It's definitely something I've had my eyes on for a while.

I'm currently playing Cross Channel which is probably the last VN I'll be playing in English as my Japanese is coming along very well. It focuses on eight teenagers who attend a school called the Gunjou Institute which the fictional government made to keep all the maladaptive kids out of society. There's this Adaption Coefficient test that all kids are forced to take, and at above 30% the government deems you a thread and forces you to attend. The main character has an Adaption Coefficient of 84% which is thought to be impossible. He's also a lolicon, sexual harasser, narcissist, sociopath and all round douche.

He invites the members of the club he's in, by lies and deceit, to attend a mountain camp where they all fall out with eachother. They go back to the city to find that humanity has been annihilated and they're the last eight people left alive. Also time is looping every week and the only person aware of this is a mysterious bicycle riding sailor costume wearing tomboy.

Also it's dark and bloody.

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I like it because I like when people write well and fairly about psychological disorders.

Also I'm soon to buy Shogun Total War II, and I should probably get round to downloading the complete series of Sam and Max that I bought a year ago and can now run on this laptop.

Finished Don't take it personally, babe... I swear to God, I feel like crying right now. But I can't. DTiPB goes to great lengths to explain to you that it's not that kind of story. It's not about twists of fate and melodrama. It's just about... life. And life is confusing.

Even for people like me, who wouldn't normally touch anything resembling anime with a ten-foot barge pole, I'd still recommend it. It asks for genuinely taxing moral judgements, not black and white, nor even shades of grey; It's about personal conviction or restraint, how much you believe something. It had me pacing up and down my bedroom more than once.

I felt like these sort of descisions mattered because the characters were believable. By about halfway through I could recognise them by their posting style. Even the protaganist was believable, with his "weary teacher" mindset, which is a tough job when you're asking the player to step inside their skin.

It'll pull you in for a good couple of hours. When the end finally comes, you won't want to let it go.

...And you know what? They bloody well know it. One of the characters describes her experience when one of her favourite TV shows ended, and it's exactly how I felt. Damn, they're good.

I've played it a few times now, but the choices I made the first time ("Gentleman to the bitter end" - Kind, Professional & Helpful, in that order) carved out my own personal universe, and I prefer that one. Especially when I saw how mundane some of the other endings are in comparison. I've watched 'my' ending about six times now. Damn you, Kendall, you were right.

This game tries to say a lot of things, but it ultimately taught me that yeah, things don't always go the way you expect them to, but if it's better than what would've happened otherwise, who cares?

If someone reading this does give it a go, good on you. Despite all that, I can't guarantee that you'll enjoy it. I was able to get over my mangaphobia and see the story behind it. Some people just know for certain what they like and what they don't, and there's no shame in that. What I can guarantee is that if you do enjoy it, it'll have been worth the gamble.

You're probably wondering, good people, "Why the hell is MeechMunchie talking like a pussy/a weaboo/my therapist?". IT'S THIS FUCKING GAME IT MADE ME ALL SENSITIVE

Miscellaneous notes:

1. This may be the only game to feature convincing webspeak.
2. It also features '12channel', a decent 4chan parody.
3. Half of the characters are homosexual, and pleasantly so.
4. The creator says she tried to make the teacher seem creepy and horrible. I'm sure glad she failed there.
5. My favourite quote from the game:
Oh, and I take back what I said about the format. It takes a while to get used to, but it's basically just like a cross between a scanning through a comic and reading a book. Facial expressions give more depth to the dialogue.

... Fuck. I know how ridiculous this all seems coming from me, but I don't think I've ever been left this emotionally drained by a game before. It's just too real. Though this might have something to do with the fact that I finished scrawling the gist of this post on a Post-it at quarter to 1 in the morning. Or maybe they're not expecting the person playing the game to be the same age as most of the characters ;)

GRAAAGH LOOK AT ME I JUST USED A SMILEY

Music is a big part of it too.

I've been playing Beat Hazard and Dark Messiah of Might & Magic quite a bit.

Beat Hazard is really fun and Dark Messiah is quite good too. I should've bought Beat Hazard Ultra when it was on sale, kinda regret it now.