Damn. I wrote a 2 paragraph post about DOOM II and Just Cause 2 on Friday but apparently it didn't post.
Anyhoo, Doom II was released on Xbox Live Arcade on thursday, and I bought it and the expansion packs for Just Cause 2 and Castle Crashers right up.
I fucking love the Doom games, and I'm not bad at them, so this was a fun weekend. There's a brand new chapter to play through and you unlock the Doomguy/Space Marine suit as an Avatar award if you beat it. It's fucking tough.
A bunch of the achievements are named after lines from the Doom comic, making them DOUBLE WORTH IT. It's only 800 Points, too.
Just Cause 2 DLC is pretty cool but frustrating; you get two additional rocket launchers, a Grenade launcher that shoots cluster bombs, an 'Air gun' which is basically just for dicking around, a fighter jet that you'll never use and a jetpack for your parachute. The rocket launchers are...neat, but there's not a whole lot of use out of them since the homing one doesn't have enough rockets and the one that shoots 4 rockets at a time is inaccurate as fuck. The clusterbomb is completely useless since it can't shoot farther than the standard grenade launcher and doesn't actually do a whole lot of damage since the bomblets just fuck off out of range before blowing up. The jet is probably the best in the game, but since you NEVER have to use a jet that isn't already provided it's useless and too expensive. The air gun is cool, but 45,000 dollars for a weapon that basically just makes people fall over is dumb. I already paid to download all these fucking things, why do I have to earn more money just to use them for all of ten minutes?
Which brings us to the parachute-jet-thing.
It was the main reason I bought the DLC. It costs 50,000 dollars in game, so when I bought it I assumed I would have to do so once. Nope. Did you die while using it? Then you have to buy another one. Did you fail a mission? Buy a new one. Used the fast-travel system? Buy another one. Complete fucking bullshit.
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