I've been playing a few different games all week.
Started replaying Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on the week end, died once doing something stupid, but otherwise just bulldozed my way through the game. I remember it being a lot longer. Like, when it came out back in 2004 (when I was 12 years old, sheesh), it took me over a month to beat. I just plunked myself down and got it done in a few days this time, though.
But I digress. Echoes is my favourite Metroid (Prime) game. I love it to death for pretty much every reason everyone else thought it was the weak link. Apart from how every single fucking meaningless missile expansion is blocked by Denzium (which can only be destroyed by Power Bombs, which is the third-to-last item you find. ARGH)
I got to the very end this morning, going so far as to collect every single Sky Temple Key (of which there are Nine scattered all over the entire goddamn place), head on up to the final boss, beat his ass down with only 2 energy left (out of about 1000)
and then stupid Dark Samus appears out of her gay blue radioactive fart ether and literally rips off my butt and tapes it to my hands while floating around and turning into a giant and shooting shit at me that I don't even want to know about. I scan the bitch, because scanning tells me how to kill bitches, but oh no, it tells me to suck in phazon energy. So I do. And it kills me. Cue anger. Cue that golden Gamecube anger from yesteryear.
There was this weird, semi-furious, semi-nostalgiac moment where I remembered the exact same thing happening to my 12 year old self all those years ago, killing the final boss and then losing to the OTHER final boss like a nincompoop. I looked over at my Gamecube, one of countless bought and sold over the years, and saw the large chunks missing from my memory cards, both of which are retained from my first GC, from when I threw my controller at the system when I was 12. And you know, almost destroyed them and about 10,000 hours my sister had put into Animal Crossing. Good times.
Sooo I decided to cool off with some Reach.
I wanted to replay the campaign of Halo Reach, so I did that for a few missions and then got to the one where Kat gets shot in the face. This bothered me, as Kat is pretty much the only (almost incomprehensible Eastern European) voice you hear telling you where to go and what to do. Reach really could have done better than 'Everyone's fucking dead, good job, idiot' on the whole story aspect.
Also TF2. I've come to a realization: I LOVE Team Fortress 2. It's super. I HATE Team Fortress 2's community, which is composed of the worst assortment of ragtag misfit disgusting gay furry bronies this side of a Reddit meetup. No, I'm not talking about any of you people on my Steam friends. Don't worry.
I've also realized the one class I played the least is the most rewarding. Medics are just the best. I'm buying that damn Taunt when I get the chance.
Last edited by Mac Sirloin; 07-25-2011 at 09:00 PM..
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It's a shame they used to new design though. Ah well.
