My copy of Dragon Quest IX arrived earlier in the week and I can’t wait to dive into the game this weekend! I’m probably going to be tired from super-secret project so plopping down on the couch or by the pool with my Nintendo DS sounds perfect. I’m still enjoying the hell out of Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip, so that will be my mindless-diversion game.
How about you? What’s on your weekend playlist?
maybe dive into fat princess more. I played it briefly with the gladiate mode, just to get an idea of the control scheme. This seems like a good game so far. I'll try to see if there is a game i'll pick up with the gamestop special going on. I'm wavering between MAG and Demon's Soul but have no idea what the my free game will be. i will take suggestions. the special is buy 2 used get 1 free.
Since I'm going to Orlando this weekend, I'll see if I can get a good DS game for the trip. I may also get in som Ballad of Gay Tony time.
-M
Well I'm pretty pissed about Rainbow Six Vegas having the stupid requirement to get the Realistic completion achievement still, but I am still gonna play some co-op with one of my roommates on that game maybe.
I have to work tomorrow (at 4am, next week starts 2am. So when it is 11pm for Ray and N8R I will be starting work for the following day) morning, and my fiance is coming down for the weekend- i.e. not a whole lot of play time. Still need to get through Fight Night Round 3 and stop being stuck.
i'll be trying to beat Red Dead Redemption.. i'm like 57-60% complete so far but if i put in some good hours, i think i'll be close to done at the very least.. i must admit that i'm also playing through Halo: Combat Evolved on the Legendary setting once again.
Tanking in ICC on saturday. Can't wait. Maybe I'll get my sanctified shoulders.
@Cornflake
Nothing to be ashamed of, Halo: Combat Evolved is a great game.
my reasons are because my friend let me barrow his 360 since mine's been dead for a while now and i wanna play ODST soon so i'm gonna beat Halo 1, 2, and 3 real quick (on Legendary, no other way is worth the time) and then enjoy some fire fight.. sux though cause now i need to subscribe to LIVE =/
Dead Space and Tekken 6.
@cornflake
I would join you on firefight if I had ODST. I never got any of those achievements. And unfortunately I never got the ones for beating those games on Legendary because I am definitely not good enough to beat them on that difficulty.
I've got the new Prince of Persia from Gamefly, and I recently started up a new playthrough of Mass Effect 2. First time through with a new character and not a carry over from ME1. Interesting to see what they're considering "official" cannon vs what I did in my numerous other playthroughs.
I started Tales of Vesperia yesterday, so I guess that counts. I'd like DQ IX tho. And I'll be getting Dante's Inferno in the mail Monday :D
@Bsukenyan;
What is the "realistic completion" achievement? I've never played R6:Vegas.
@Smartguy;
What is ICC?
@Cornflake;
That's awesome! I did the exact same thing last year to see if the trilogy's story made any sense (sadly, no), and I really enjoyed it. I would love to join you if you'll let me. I've beaten every Halo FPS on legendary solo and I'm always looking for an excuse to play again. My latest excuse is: I cannot transfer the original Xbox game save files (like Halo 1 and 2) from my old Xbox to my new 360 S. So I can either call customer support and find out if there is a way to do it that I don't know about or play the games and beat them all over again.
The hardest part of all four games for me was the first level of Halo 2 in the hangars that the Covanent were boarding in. Holy crap, did I spend many an hour on that one part. A trio of dual-weilding silver elites that can yake you out in less than two seconds was the hardest fight by far.
-M
@Iceman
For the achievement on beating the game on realistic you have to beat each scene on Realistic, which seems easy enough with a little bit of trial and error and time. That's what I thought. Well what happens is that after you die and the options for quit or reload last checkpoint come up, if you choose reload last checkpoint you cannot beat that scene on realistic that time. When that option is chosen it messes with the difficulty setting. Basically you have to go through each scene without dying on realistic difficulty. The one big problem is that I do not know which scenes I would have to go through again, and I don't know how I could go through a couple of them without dying once throughout the scene.
It would be like not getting the achievements on a CoD game for beating levels on Veteran if you died somewhere in the level and had to reload a checkpoint. It is crazy hard at some points already, then to throw that in to the mix as well makes me not even want to try for that achievement. I could probably beat another game in the time it would take me to get this one achievement.
@ Bsu
in all fairness, that's pretty "realistic". I mean, if you die in real life, you can't just reload your last checkpoint. You have to survive the whole way through.
@N8R
Oh I agree completely, it is very realistic and very very difficult to actually do that. What I think I am more mad about is that I did not know that that was a requirement before I started the game and I spent more time than I should have trying to beat it in what I thought was the required way. It would have easily taken me 5-10 hours less to beat it on normal rather than realistic, and I would be no worse off for the achievements as I am now.
Just goes to show that newer games have certainly made their fair share of changes with concern to the difficulty settings. Although, even CoD 2 which came out a little before this game didn't have that as a requirement for Veteran difficulty. Of course they are also usually considered easier games I think, and traditinally Rainbow Six always felt more difficult than "normal" games of the time I thought.
@ Bsu
See, here I am wishing I could reload a save file of my life in the summer of 1998.
I lived on the beach of Ocean City MD. I rented out umbrellas on the beach by day and played music on the boardwalk by night. I was homeless the first 5 nights I lived there, but managed to spend each of those 5 nights in a different girl's bed.
My god, how awesome it would be to just skip back to that level in my life and then just reload my save file in the game of life that I'm currently at.
^ This idea of reloading save files from our lives could be a whole Coffee Talk topic.
@N8R
I would love to say that I have done something along those lines, I always wanted to just travel somewhere without more than a backpack, wallet, and the clothes on my back. If I could reload save points in my life I probably would do something like that with one of them…well that and tell my dad to find some small time company out in Cupertino and just pour his savings into their stock right when he was graduating from college or so. haha.
@N8R
Now worries, an interesting experience is always worth the read. Ahh to be carefree. In an opposite experience I've been working while going to school since I could drive (so a little over 7 years now) to pay my own way for most of what I have in life. We moved a lot when I was young and I lived almost all of the places I have lived in my life within the first 12-13 years of my life.
Most of those places were small towns, or I was too young to be let loose on my own (downtown Indy might not be the worst place in America to live, but I remember evening news stories about kids being strangled by their babysitter and her boyfriend just a couple blocks from my house, or having drug deals and gangs with guns on the walk to library, coming home to find our house broken in to, people doing drive by's on streets nearby, you get the idea).
Then where I lived the bulk of my life so far was surrounded by corn fields on three sides and a woods and creek on the fourth side. Closest neighbors were yelling distance or farther in either direction. Then when I started driving gas prices started jumping. Needless to say it has been expensive to be able to travel from wherever I am for as long as I have been able to travel by myself. So to be able to pay for the ability to do anything was expensive. Closest friends from school that I hung out with were about 15 miles away, closest city was about the same- I throw the term city around loosely, this is one of those places where Wal-Mart is the center of activity for most people; a lot of these people's ambitions were to find a local job and live near their parents their whole life. Also, the KKK is still popular (and if you have seen my fb profile pictures of me and my fiance you can tell that that doesn't exactly fly with me). Not the place I want(ed) to live by any means.
Going anywhere in my life has usually been expensive, no less with me being pretty independent like I tend to be, so I have paid for most of what I have/have done in life. I never felt like I had the option or ability to be carefree because I always needed to be able to pay for something else. I did do things that I wanted back in high school which is where most of the cost came from. I ran track and cross country, and to keep in good condition for those sports only worked when I was out of season so I didn't hurt my legs anymore than I already did or needed to.
I would have loved to just live in a big area or major city somewhere just to have more to do and more to see with less traveling that had to be done. I usually hear stories from people who lived in bigger cities about being able to do everything they wanted within wherever they could travel to and from in a day. That's something I wish I would have had a long time ago, but while I many times would love to trade my experiences to grow up in a big city it just makes me work that much harder to be able to get there on my own with my fiance some day soon.
i didnt know n8r's dad and this is just conjecture, obviously…but it seemed to me like it was a big deal for mr fitzgerald to give the young n8r the opportunity to see as much of what life has to offer as possible. Hes got more stories than a roadie for the spin doctors (bad analagy time). This is exactly what i want to do for my daughter. Being young is about experiencing life, after you have kids, your priorities shift. Now, all i want to do is make my daughters life so that she doesnt have to struggle like the young body slam up there is having to now, and like i did much of my young life.
@ Bsu
The “travelling somewhere without more than a backpack, wallet, and the clothes on my back” was the year before in the summer of ’97.
It was the same place, Ocean City MD. A month or so before that, I had graduated high school and my mom bought me my Ovation acoustic bass guitar as a graduation present (I still play it regularly to this day). So one of the first things I did, was take it to a friend’s house who was having an “end of the school year” get together to show it off. There was about 30 kids there and quite a bit of beer.
I didn’t drink then and I don’t drink now. So I was just sitting on the couch (I was 18 years old) picking at my bass guitar impressing the ladies. After a little while goes by, I feel someone shove their beer behind my back between the couch and my back and beer spills on me. I look up to say “WTF”, and notice that there are 2 policemen in the house calling for backup and rounding up all the party-goers.
I got hauled down to the police station and cited with underage drinking and disorderly conduct even though I never touched any of it.
Now a month or so goes by, and I had saved up all the money I made from my job and other *wink*wink* things and I had more than twice the maximum fine I would get in my pocket on my way down to the courthouse. But…. my car broke down on the way to the courthouse.
I hurry to a payphone (because this was in the days of pagers) and after an hour and a half later I finally secured a ride down to the courthouse to find that the judge had found me guilty in my absence. I was flipping mad.
They handed me the paperwork and sure enough my fines were about a quarter of the maximum penalty and I was looking at a 90 day license suspension starting later in the fall of that year. I was still mad since I never touched the alcohol and never got to plead my case, but on the other hand, I had a bunch of left over money and my car was fixed later that day.
I said “screw it, I’m going on vacation”. Called my job, told them I’d be gone for 2 weeks. I called my band at the time and told them the same. I called my best friend at the time who was also the best songwriter I knew and said “grab your guitar, we’re going to Ocean City tomorrow for 2 weeks”. He was all about it.
We left the next day and only packed for 2 weeks. We drove for 5 hours from Pittsburgh to Ocean City. We get out of the car and are in town for about 45 minutes when some guy is like “Hey, dudes with guitars, come play a song for us” while drinking a beer on the boardwalk. We start playing “Roadhouse Blues” by the Doors, when some cops come up and arrest us all because this one dude was drinking in public (That’s how the cops were at this time).
We spent 9 hours in jail waiting for a hearing with the commissioner. We see the commish, and he doesn’t see us as a threat so he releases us telling us we have to go to court in 2 months.
I didn’t think my P.O.S. car would make it form O.C. to Pittsburgh, back O.C. and then back to Pittsburgh (same car that broke down on me on my way to the other court in Pittsburgh). So… we decide to stay for 2 months on a 2 week plan.
We stayed in a 1 room studio apartment that some guy said we could stay at. We slept on a blood stained mattress we took from a dumpster of a hotel. We made our money for food by playing music on the boardwalk for tips. We also ended up running from the police at least once a day the whole time we were there.
However, I learned so much from this experience, that I wouldn’t trade it for anything. By the next year, we knew the game there. We came back with recorded CD’s and a plan of action that worked brilliantly.
To be that young again.
^ forgive my abundant reminiscence.
@ Thundercracker
I was the only dude on that boardwalk with an acoustic bass. If you were there in '97 & '98, it's hard for me to imagine you didn't see me and my boy Soul Boy there unless you stayed away from the boardwalk completely.
My dad showed reluctance in alot of my ventures. I totally lied to them about why I stayed so long in '97 until I got back. When I got back and told him the whole story, he was proud of how I handled myself and didn't call for a bailout. My mom on the other hand, almost fainted with worry.
Come '98, they knew I could handle myself and asked if I was in jail every time I called home. Pops never showed any interest in my music until after those years, but i think that was on purpose to make me grow more into my own. Dude always had a plan like that.
@ Thundercracker
In '98, we usually setup on 3rd street and the Boardwalk because the other boardwalk musicians preferred to stay away from us and the businesses didn't want us in front of their shops (because crowds would be looking at us and not their store). When we weren't playing, we tended to hang out at N. Division with all the gutter punks. The local paper there even covered a story about us titled "They Only Come Out At Night".
"97 we usually setup in front of Book World because we knew the owner and his daughter.
lol@n8r
i used to go to ocean city all the time back in 97 and 98…if i had only known
and btw, i agree, ovation does make a good acoustic bass. My brother has a carvin that i love as well
when i say i was ocean city all the time, i really mean like 5 times each year, and i was too busy getting high and trying to surf, lol
im sure i saw you, i dont remember seeing you, but im sure i must have, maybe…i also was in nags head, myrtle, and va beach all the time…if you get a chance to go to nags head or cape hatteras, i highly reccomend it