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BlackHawkPaul

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I started playing Little Big Planet.

Not bad so far.

It's a trip with 4 players.
 

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In a moment of weakness and sales I let woot sucker me into a pair of gunnar optiks glasses as much out of curiosity as anything else. They are basically just clear vision classes that are supposed to help with eyestrain and such when playing video games, I have bad glares where my TV is and it's supposed to help with that so I hope it does but mostly I think it's kind of silly to get glasses to play video games but we'll see they were only 40 bucks after shipping instead of the normal 100+ reviews on amazon were all pretty positive but you can never tell which ones are real anymore and who are just plain idiots. I got those FPS analog attachments that I thought were going to be gimmicks but I like them so who knows. I've never worn glasses and my vision is better than 20/20 so who knows if they will even work for me as well as they are supposed to.



http://www.woot.com/plus/gunnar-optiks
 

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Finished off the Harley Quinn DLC the other night... was a lot of fun and exactly what DLC should be... (although I didn't really find it particularily challenging).



Also reminded me that I actually hadn't finished the regular game... so there was some renewed vigor to finish. I had stopped at the fight with Joker and his goons (including the one-armed hammer guy and a Titan) because it was friustrating me. After countless tries, I finally got passed it... just to go right into a Catwoman story-arch. Not that I mind them, just that I really wanted get back to the Main story. For those who've beaten the main story - about how much is left?
 

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Man I really need to get that game back. I wanted to try to platnum it out but some of the challenges are so hard.





I beat Infamous2 and Warhammer40000. Played Saints Row 2 a bit, nothing special but kind of fun. Infamous was great. I played through all as good, I plan on going back through all as bad to see that ending. The good ending eludes to a sequel in my mind, i hear the bad ending could too but in a different way.



Warhammer was ok going through the campaign, pretty interesting concept. Got a couple of my buddies playing with me on the coop and that was more fun. I wish I had more friend haha. It's pretty fun on coop, limiting at first but once you build your characters up it gets better. lot's of stuff opens and you can customize a lot of things. Supra you'd probably like it because it's like the old school roman army but in the future kind of. At least that's what it reminds me of.
 

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I just wanted to let everyone know, that in anticipation of borderlnads 2 coming out and post E3, you can get the full borderlands bundle on PSN right now for 29.99, and PSN+ for 20.99. If you don't have it already, now is your chance.
 

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I just wanted to let everyone know, that in anticipation of borderlnads 2 coming out and post E3, you can get the full borderlands bundle on PSN right now for 29.99, and PSN+ for 20.99. If you don't have it already, now is your chance.

I think I got it cheaper than that through an Amazon deal. But for those who like RPG/FPS types of games, I highly recommend!
 

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Can't wait for Borderlands 2 to come out....



Til then, I'm playing Lollipop Chainsaw and Diablo 3, lol
 

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Here's a short of my review on Lollipop Chainsaw, Ymono37.



God of War meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer works as the best definition.



Pros -



- IF you expect it to be as cheesy and original as you think, you will love the game.

- I know some didn't like Juliet's voice, but the person who voices her... what a history! I love the fact her Valley Girl voice works. It reminds me a lot of where I lived in LA. Girls there remind me of Juliet... not a good thing, I assure you, but the memories remain.

- Nick's one-liners are good.

- Gameplay is decent. Controls are easy over time.

- XBox Live option of "Beat scores of others".

- For the RPG fan in me, exploration is moderate at best.

- You can destroy things and kill zombies with a chainsaw! How cool is that?

- Plot is cheesy, but its expected.

- The shop is cool!

- Sexual innuendo and lots of swearing in the game. I swear like a sailor, so hearing this and seeing this made me happy.

- Songs like "Mickey" and "Lollipop" are actually used in the game! Yes, they got the rights to both songs. As much as I hate "Mickey" (Its most famous for its appearance in Beavis and Butthead.), the song is appropriate for the game.

- Original concepts and ideas utilized with the chainsaw. The game takes risks when it comes to its creativity. Big plus! The originality alone gives me hope in video gaming as a whole.

- Boss fights are epic, and the game really makes you work to beat the big baddies.

- The achievement "I swear, I did it by mistake!" You can look up Juliet's skirt for an achievement.
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Cons -



- No save points until after your done with the stage.

- Stages are long. But then I throw the question at those who think this.... Don't you also complain if the levels are "too short"? If so, then throw this one out.

- Can be a bit much in terms of killing zombies. It does get boring over time.

- The camera angles can get a bit annoying. I'm used to moving it around with the right joystick, but still, it gets annoying at times.



Overall -



I am pleasantly surprised with the game. It gave me what I expected and more. I love this game.



As I said before, it overexceeded my expectations and challenged the negatives in most games similar to this genre, with long levels that were enjoyable, and fun challenging options. It could come out as a surprise candidate for game of the year. I get new franchise games because of the risks they do as individual creative minds, and Lollipop Chainsaw, though cheesy as I expected, took risks that I know no other game would do.



Grade - A -



Another colleague of mine at the podcast my friends do gave it the same grade.
 

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ME Extended cut is still fucking ass. Good job Bioware take a great series and ruin it in 10 minutes. Bravo. I am done with the ME series. **** ppl eat poop and die
 

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ME Extended cut is still fucking ass. Good job Bioware take a great series and ruin it in 10 minutes. Bravo. I am done with the ME series. **** ppl eat poop and die

I havent played it yet.
 

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Finally played Ratchet and Clank when my buddy came over. Was as fun as the rest of them I recommend it but you really need to play it with friends. THey have an online matching feature which I believe throws you in with others so that's good. But it's not really made for one player.
 

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Finished AC: Brotherhood and AC: Revelations.





They introduced some cool new concepts, and by revelations actually completely did away with the whole repetative quest crap, as every quest even side stuff is story relevant.



The only problem is Revelations doesnt really end desmonds story.
 

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By the end of both of those I was completely done with the game. They were pointless. I won't be buying ACIII
 

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By the end of both of those I was completely done with the game. They were pointless. I won't be buying ACIII



Thats the problem i had with it. The fucking story didn't go anywhere! While its neat seeing the shit that happened to his ancestors, the real story is in the here and now, and it didnt fucking go anywhere.
 

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