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CLOUDBOND007

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(01/21/08 3:31 AM)

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Beat Super Mario Galaxy!

It really ended on a high note, too. The last level was really exciting, but short enough that you don't lose interest before getting to Bowser. And while the Bowser battle had the same overall structure as your other encounters with him, everything was intensified a great deal and he had some tricky new attacks. I feel like there's just so much more to do, there are entire levels with multiple stars that I haven't even seen once yet.

The more I play this game, the more I like it. After many years of mostly mediocre games, this one really shines bright, even more so when you consider that it's the latest in a long running series. I hope that kids playing Galaxy today feel some of what we felt playing SMB1 and SMB3. It certainly captures the spirit of those games, and more than a little of the gameplay intensity. And I hope that there will be more Nintendo sequels like this one instead of garbage like Wind Waker.

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(01/21/08 1:49 PM)

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I beat Tales of Symphonia for the Gamecube. Awesome game!

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(01/21/08 8:47 PM)

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Got a few more stars in Mario and watched the original Die Hard for the first time. It was okay, nothing special, and I won't be watching the sequels. One annoying thing is that they made the police and FBI SO incompetent and annoying that it took me out of the movie a little.

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(01/21/08 9:12 PM)

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That was Ebert's complaint about the movie, too.

I beat Secret of Mana. It was okay. I wouldn't recommend it to Facility Pro, though. If I had to guess, I'd suppose he'd hate it.

Anyway, the story really wasn't flushed out enough. When we watched the ending, and the Sand Ship appeared during the credits, FO said that it was weird that that didn't have more to do with the plot. I said a lot of the game's plot isn't fleshed out.

Like ... why did the Sprite use up his mana during the final fight? What IS the Sprite? The boy actually is from the Mana tribe, meaning he is kind of a magical creature (his mother turned into the Mana tree). But he didn't use up his mana? He's not from a mana world? What is the difference between whatever the sprite is and the Mana tribe?

I also have to wonder about whether the Flammie had anything to do with the Mana Beast, but I can accept that as something that's purposefully vague. I can accept that because the vagueness has an emotional effect, so it seems like it was done intentionally.

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(01/21/08 11:10 PM)

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I think the Sprites are made completely out of Mana like the Mana Beast, whereas the Mana Tribe are just normal humans who have Mana powers.

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(01/22/08 1:01 AM)

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I rented and watched the new Transformers movie.

The fact I'm not a huge Transformers fan is probably the only thing that kept me from being all-out offended by the movie, but it was still pretty bad.

The best parts were easily the parts that actually involved the Transformers, and even then there's some pretty bad stuff here, like when all the Autobots appear, Prime introduces them, and they each give off some shitty catchprase like "You feelin' lucky... PUNK?!" and Jazz (I think) break dances, and when the Transformers are "sneaking" around the guy's yard, Prime steps on the fountain, and goes "Oops, mai bahd". There's a scene where the main guy's parents were talking to him about masturbation, Bumblebee pees on somebody just like in that script Crawl posted a long time ago, and the very end has the guy and girl making out on top of Bumblebee rather than in him.

Also, every time a fight broke out, I thought of the third panel of this comic.

Because the Transformers themselves are so generic and spindly, I couldn't tell who was fighting who at the BIG CLIMACTIC BATTLE!!! at the end of the movie and I was half expecting one of them to go "Woah, I'm on your side!" And some plane Decepticon comes out of nowhere, and vanishes just as quickly. He's not even killed, he just vanishes. Also, that backhoe guy got killed off so quickly he may as well not have been in the movie at all. But of course, the average movie goer is going to look at that and go "OOOH! SHIT BREAKING AND FLYING! NEAT!"

There was also one embarassingly hilarious moment where the girlfriend is driving a tow truck with a handicapped Bumblebee in tow, then she stops the truck, starts bawling (silently) and puts her forehead on the steering wheel as some sad-like music and it cuts to some marines fighting one of the Decepticons, then it goes back to her, she puts on a "let's kick some ASS!" face, kicks it in gear, gases it, and some hard rock stuff starts playing while she goes peeling down the street with Bumblebee blasting randomly.

And then there's this annoying Decepticon that I read was supposed to be Soundwave but they renamed him "Frenzy" that skitters around, making noises you'd expect from a Star Wars alien, then is anticlimactically defeated by it beheading itself.

Scorponok amount to jack shit, as he appears in some shootout, gets carpet bombed, then goes underground flinging his tail off along the way and is never seen again.

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CLOUDBOND007

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72 Stars. I've done a couple of the purple coin levels where you've got to find 100 coins. Unlike the other games, there are exactly 100 coins present and they aren't just scattered about. Most of them are in plain sight on kind of a trail of coins, but some are hidden pretty well along the way. I think there are some levels where collecting them will be more reflex oriented, like if it were an autoscrolling section of a level and you couldn't go back if you missed something. That was the sense I got from message board posts.

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(01/22/08 5:23 AM)

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How long until you get to play as Luigi?

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Not until all 120 stars are done, unfortunately. You can actually play the whole game over as him and it adds to your star count. After you get 240 stars, you get some other little bonus level, I'm not sure exactly what's involved. I've read that he tends to be more difficult to control, which is the normal Luigi situation. And I think he uses air faster underwater. It'll be amusing to fight Bowser using him, though. I'm looking forward to using him, the character's grown on me from playing Luigi's Mansion and from the interaction you have with him throughout Galaxy. He does his best despite his crippling fear.

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(01/22/08 7:53 AM)

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I beat Tales of Symphonia for the Gamecube. Awesome game!

really? i read it's even more boring than the previous tales.
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completed the last davion(feds)-aligned mission with my recuit-level game. much easier than i thought. even more easier when i replayed it the second time with 3 altas mecs and 1 daishi(actually i prefer calling dai shit since it's too madly slow for anything other than long-range support fire). after spending money on the extra altases and 1 daishite, i still have over 100 million credits. the later mission pay very very well.

the last davion mission was some raid on a palace. 1st objective, take out some enemy mecs, with some fairly powerful victor mecs backing me up. easy. 2nd objective, take out enemy hangar. that was tricky during my 1st run through, as i was mostly equiped with short-ranged weapons, and the enemy aircraft were the fastest enemies in the game. 3rd objective, escort the prince peter(destroy more mecs on the way) into the palace grounds. he didn't really need my protection as he was piloting a powerful fafnir(sp?) mec, and hanging out with 2 victor bodyguard mecs. fafnir is probably even more powerful(but only slightly faster than the daishit) than the atlas. not 100% sure since i can't buy it with my gray death sponsor. it does carry 2 heavy gauss rifles. i think it's the only mec which can carry 2 of those. after the enemy mecs near peter are gone, some general shows up and the final objective is to kill him. the general uses a hauptmann. powerful weapons but like the 4 daishits which guard him, he's slow. me and the victor mecs ran circles around him and blew him a new hole before the prince peter got a piece of him.

after that it's some short dialogue with the prince demanding the surrender of remaining lyran forces, and finally the cutscene, which is an mpeg video i already viewed from the game's resource folder. media said the prince dealt the finishing blow on the general, my company got some cushy job guarding the new administration, and some hint on the upcoming word of blake jihad event within the battletech storyline. i guess the 5th mechwarrior(if fasa wants to make another) would be about the jihad. maybe one of the reasons it's still not made, is because the plot resembles the "war on terror" too much. well, perhaps a more right-wing version of the war on terror.

according to an faq and the mpeg videos i watched, siding with the lyrans(steiner alignment) won't make them win the war. instead i get to choose to take on another neutral mission and take over an entire planet, or betray archon katarine(sp?) steiner to wolf clan and join wolf clan. that's kinda lame. this game is trying too hard to stick to the canon story.

and ... noticed that all other missions, including the solaris arenas, get closed off once the last mission is available. too bad. i really wanted try doing the solaris grand championship before getting on with my elite-level game. annoying that i can't save during a mission. actually, there is no save game option anywhere. the game automatically creates savepoints each time i complete a mission or jump to another planet. rather convenient.

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really? i read it's even more boring than the previous tales.

Best one I've played so far.

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TaroSH

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(01/22/08 7:52 PM)

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More on the Transformers 2007 movie.

Bumblebee is mute for most of the movie. According to Optimus, his "vocal mechanics" were damaged in battle, and they're still trying to fix them. He talks by playing related crap on his radio (for example, when the kid asks where they came from, he switches to a prayer program saying something about "coming from high heaven"). But at the end of the movie, he magically gets his voice back, which is especially stupid because the rest of him is pretty much in pieces.

Ratchet and Bumblebee was the worst case of looking the same. They look identical transformed (yellow plates all over random silver crap), so when Bumblebee got his legs smashed at the end (which is why that girl was towing him) and there was this yellow robot running and jumping and blasting, I always instinctively went "Huh? Why's Bumblebee got his legs back??" at first, then finally realized it was Ratchet.

When the male said "There's more than meets the eye to you" to the female it was so fucking cheesy and forced, and when he went "What a stupid line that was" I went "No kidding!" Of course, I'm sure a lot of idiots gobbled it up.

Oh yeah, and one scene implies Bumblebee also farts. The boy fires up the car and it lets out a cloud of smoke that turns practically the entire screen brown for a second.

I guess for decent scenes, the one where Bumblebee was getting harpooned, pinned to the ground, and blasted with liquid nitrogen was mildly affecting. Might have been more affecting had Bumblebee been given more of a personality than "pissing mute robot" and the kid going "NOOOOO!!!!1 STOOOOOOP!!!!ONE" been more likeable and a less whiny actor. And I guess the scene where Bumblebee is driving the boy and girl home, then the girl asks "If he's some super advanced robot from another planet, why does he turn into this piece of shit?", then Bumblebee kicks them out was kind of cute.

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When the male said "There's more than meets the eye to you" to the female it was so fucking cheesy and forced, and when he went "What a stupid line that was" I went "No kidding!" Of course, I'm sure a lot of idiots gobbled it up.

That line was also in the dreamwave comics. It was not, however, in the Transformers episodes, as far as I can remember (okay, ignoring the theme song). So, not only is it dumb, it's lazy and not much of a reference.

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(01/23/08 12:53 AM)

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When I took Transformers back, I rented Spiderman 3. I got about an hour into it and it started glitching out bad. I took it out and looked at it and there's a nasty scratch on it. I'll have to get it exchanged tomorrow after class.

What I saw was probably even worse than Transformers, though. Mary Jane is a slut, the Peter and MJ watching something (fireflies I think?) at the beginning and they go to kiss JUST BARELY missing the meteor with Venom in it was hilarious, the guy who plays Sandman screams and looks like he's passing a kidney stone all the time, and the fight between Peter and Harry at the beginning was like a Transformers fight scene at night. And the crap with Harry all "YOU KILLED MY FATHER AND I WON'T LISTEN TO YOU AND I'M GOING TO KILL YOU SO SHUT UP!" is so forced and cheesy.

Of course, the second movie was pretty lame, so what was I expecting?

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(01/23/08 1:04 AM)

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I think I liked the 3rd Spiderman the best, although don't take that to mean very much. It's coming from someone who didn't like the first one and thought the second was only okay at best. I remember the fight scenes at the end of #3 being pretty good.

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(01/23/08 1:40 PM)

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I beat Pocky & Rocky on Easy. I've only made it as far as the Graveyard stage on Normal. DH and I also played Easy together and I noticed a significant drop in the difficulty when you have a second player. The game is almost too brutal with only one player because you're such a sitting duck. Everything moves about twice as fast as you do and there's no auto-scrolling.

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(01/23/08 2:32 PM)

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I got Spiderman 3 exchanged, and I'll finish it tonight.

One thing I forgot to mention was the humor is okay. The "I want Spiderman exposed as the madman criminal he is! Bring me a photograph of Spiderman with his hand in a cookie jar!" remark was funny, at least.

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FO and I saw the first two Spider Man movies (in theaters, even), but I don't think we need to see the third one, ever.

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TaroSH wrote:
I got Spiderman 3 exchanged, and I'll finish it tonight.

One thing I forgot to mention was the humor is okay. The "I want Spiderman exposed as the madman criminal he is! Bring me a photograph of Spiderman with his hand in a cookie jar!" remark was funny, at least.

J. Jonah Jameson is the best part about anything having to do with Spider-Man.

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(01/23/08 7:00 PM)

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CLOUDBOND007 wrote:

really? i read it's even more boring than the previous tales.
Best one I've played so far.

...more like the ONLY one you've played!

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(01/23/08 7:13 PM)

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Nah, I've played Phantasia and Tales of something on PS1. I think it was Eternia renamed as ToD2.

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ToP sux and Eternia way too hard for you, girlyman.

Didn't I tell you to play Abyss?

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I'll get around to it someday. I started it once but stopped for some reason.

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(01/23/08 7:31 PM)

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PLAY IT!!!!!

I know where you live I could...force you to play it!

>_>

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(01/23/08 7:33 PM)

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It's too cold for you here, you'd never survive the trip. Tweeters can die from just a slight bit of cold air blowing on them. They be fragile birds.

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(01/23/08 7:56 PM)

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Not I, I have been blessed with 100% Ice Defense.

Still, the trip to Newfoundland would take too long, so smeg it.

In actual vidyagaem stuff, made it to Stage 14 in Advance Wawrs Day of Ruin. A few maps have given me some trouble after I mis-step. I have a feeling 14 is going to be hard though, because the badguy for this stage looks like Revolver Ocelot.

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(01/23/08 9:57 PM)

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I finished Spiderman 3.

Was it better than Transformers? Ever so slightly, if at all. At least the final fight scene was comprehendable.

Toby Maguire always had the stupidest grin on his face, and Thomas Hayden Church looked like he was constantly trying to push his skull out of his forehead.

I will say the scene with Peter Parker getting high off Venom managed to be even more painful to watch than the Transformers sneaking around the Even Stevens kid's lawn while his parents talked to him about masturbation.

The soundtrack was retarded at times. Like, when Sandman is still getting used to being made of sand, his neck is cricking around, and something like Gogo's Theme was playing. There was one other moment when the soundtrack made me laugh out loud, I think it was at the beginning of the final battle when the giant Sandman was forming.

A lot of crap seems to happen just because the script said so, like Sandman's 'confession time', and Harry "dies", like, three times throughout the movie, and Sandman twice (plus his creation).

And what happened with the crane scene? It's like, Spiderman saves the girl, he takes off, and the crane itself is never dealt with.

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(01/24/08 12:19 AM)

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One thing I've noticed about Galaxy is that the difficulty hasn't really progressed the way I thought it would after beating Bowser. I've been told that the first 60 stars are of average difficulty but that things really ramp up after that. I'm up to 81 now and haven't really seen that happen. It seems more like there are a handful of very difficult stars sprinkled throughout the mostly average ones. Well, there's still a couple of galaxies that I haven't set foot in yet and I'm sure some of the purple coin and other comet challenges will be pretty rough. We'll see how it goes.

I'm curious to compare the difficulty of Sunshine to this one again. I think that the linear sections of Sunshine were pretty tough in a fair way but my memory is foggier on the rest. I remember losing lots of lives in particular spots but feeling like I was losing because I was fighting the controls or the camera. I decided to watch some Youtube videos of Sunshine and it makes me feel even more strongly that greater linearity was the best way to go for Galaxy.

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(01/24/08 1:17 AM)

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More Spiderman 3 babbling:

Mary Jane isn't just a slut, she's a jealous slut. Her reasons for being pissy with Peter amount to (A) he's Spiderman, and he gets more attention that she does, and (B) he kissed the girl he rescued from the fall. She calls up Harry and comes over to his mansion, and they dance, and they kiss, then suddenly she storms off, leaving me asking "...did I miss something? Was a scene cut out here?"

The guy who eventually becomes Venom was some photographer punk I kept wanting to call "Jimmy Olsen" who wants Peter dead because Peter called him out on doctoring a photo of black Spiderman stealing some moneybags, which is actually a recolor of a photograph taken when red-and-blue Spidey recovered some moneybags from Sandman. Why did he doctor that photo of Spiderman stealing the money? Because they needed somebody to become Venom.

Oh yes, and FO's favorite cliche: Harry gets amnesia when he hits his head!

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(01/24/08 5:57 AM)

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TaroSH wrote:

The guy who eventually becomes Venom was some photographer punk I kept wanting to call "Jimmy Olsen" who wants Peter dead because Peter called him out on doctoring a photo of black Spiderman stealing some moneybags, which is actually a recolor of a photograph taken when red-and-blue Spidey recovered some moneybags from Sandman. Why did he doctor that photo of Spiderman stealing the money? Because they needed somebody to become Venom.

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