A Winner Is You 2017 Edition

Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (PS4)

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197:40 Hours

That final run time is not entirely accurate, lots of dead time in between PVE and PVP, of which was done a lot of in this playthrough. Invasion kills with were like 50, red soapstone kills were something like 70, Dragon Covenant kills 30, Bell Covenant trespassers killed like 130 (only 100 required for final rank but messed up and upset covenant, resulting in loss of some progress), Rat King Covenant trespassers killed 35, helped 30 players for Heir of the Sun Covenant and who knows how many I've helped outside of a covenant.

This is a very nice new game plus save file set up for when I return.

18. Metroid: Samus Returns (3DS):

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So it sucked that bad, huh. Well you couldn't have wasted that many hours into it.

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

18. Metroid: Samus Returns (3DS):

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Lol. Is that u waiting for my post or something? If so, u gotta give me another day or two, lol. Still very early in the game.

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Originally Posted by Thief

So it sucked that bad, huh. Well you couldn't have wasted that many hours into it.

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Originally Posted by QuickSciFi

Lol. Is that u waiting for my post or something? If so, u gotta give me another day or two, lol. Still very early in the game.

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No, I actually really liked it. I just wasn't entirely sure whether I was really done with it or if I was going to try to replay it for better endings. I'm also pretty sick, so I can't quite formulate too many intelligible sentences on its behalf. Once you finish it, my head should be clear enough to exchange a few more thoughts on it.

MrMatthews, you're clearly sick. Playing a game more then once is clearly another experience. Please get better.

But no, seriously mean you well and get better soon. If you're really, really sick, recommend Tylanol cold and flu to seriously mask the pain, make you functional again and give you a great buzz. Otherwise avoid.

Please don't take tylenol unless prescribed by a physician. And I mean it.... as a physician.

Wait... you're a doctor??

I always figured you were a high school teacher or a college professor. :?

Lol

I of course meant that in the nicest way possible. ;)

One of those was true at some point in my life, so I took it in the nicest of ways. :)

Dynamite Duke - Genesis
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It was a fun game, an arcade shooter in the vain of Operation Wolf or Mechanized Attack. Considering the ton of enemies and tanks, projectiles, et cetera on screen at the same time, I was impressed with the relative lack of slowdown throughout. It pops up on occasion, but with so much going on, it's impressive how little there is.

Most of the bosses are the same, but with palette swaps, and level 4 (I think it was 4) was about the shortest level in gaming history. But overall, it was enough fun that the pros outweighed the cons. The final boss battle is a 3 boss gauntlet which took me a couple tries. Don't blow all of your Dynamite power punches early or you'll regret it.

I will say that the controls take a little getting used to because you move your gun aim and your guy simultaneously with the D-pad. Obviously a modern controller with 2 sticks and a trigger would be better suited for the game, but then, that would probably make it too easy. Using only the d-pad for both movements makes you make quick decisions, like shooting a vehicle for as long as you can before dodging out of the way of projectile attacks. I think they did a good job of utilizing the controls of the Genesis controller.

Also, I noticed that early in the game, there are weapon power ups aplenty. The bazooka and autofire came up in the first couple levels a few times, but I didn't get them at all in the later stages. So that was a bit unbalanced. Still, not that difficult of a game though, so no big deal, but they should have dispersed those a bit better.

Sonic Mania again. Beat it with Tails, then with Knuckles. Spaced my playthrus over a period of a week. Really great game.

Hmmm. I haven't thought of doing that yet. I wanted to go for all the emmeralds first. Not having the least of fun any more. I think I'll just try to redo the whole game as you said.

Dragon's Dogma for PS4 comes out this Tuesday, if I can't find any enjoyment out of Fallout 4 by then, it's getting traded it. This generation of gaming is worse off then I thought.