Celebrate Freedom by Clearing Your Pile

Well I finally got through all the Phoenix Wright games. My god they are long but very well crafted, the feeling is not unlike going through a really really long TV series that's like 10 seasons over the course of a few months. I.e. something like Millenium or 24.

Now on to the rest of my DS games, most of which are either 10% or 33% of the way through, most of which were aborted when the urge to "just see the beginning" of a new Phoenix Wright game sucked me in completely.

Mystic Violet wrote:

It is beyond frustrating. I am sick and tired of walking into a new dungeon and being obliterated. This is the same reason I stopped playing Disgaea Etna Mode. You level up in the current dungeon, destroy everything, kill the boss, go to the next dungeon, die, die again, die some more... Even my highest level party members die in a few hits. It's as if grinding doesn't mean anything in this game. I can't even level up anyone because they're always dead at the end of battles.

I really want to finish this game too. The story has my attention but I can't go on. I'd have to grind my way into hell in order to survive.

There. Fixed

OH yeah can anybody help me with a proper walkthrough for Impossible Mission DS? there's 3 or so room I'm stuck on and I have no idea how the puzzle pieces fit together. I've got a picture from the C64 version but some of the pieces are different on the DS version. Otherwise I'm just a hair away from beating that one. Oh and Nanostray 1's been beaten already in just over an hour, now the second one is waiting I've also beaten Ninja Gaiden DS in a little over 6 hours.

fathamburger wrote:

OH yeah can anybody help me with a proper walkthrough for Impossible Mission DS?

Have you tried http://www.gamefaqs.com? It has walkthroughs for pretty much any game you can think of. Some are better than others; since they are all written by the average gamer on the street ymmv.

I've put away the time sink that is Settlers II: 10th Anniversary and picked up The Witcher again. Will take some time to finish though...

Rallick wrote:
fathamburger wrote:

OH yeah can anybody help me with a proper walkthrough for Impossible Mission DS?

Have you tried http://www.gamefaqs.com? It has walkthroughs for pretty much any game you can think of. Some are better than others; since they are all written by the average gamer on the street ymmv.

Yup I have, there's zilch on the NDS version of impossible mission and little to no interest since it's a remake of a really old game that the Halo kiddies have never heard of. That and it doesn't stand up too well anymore. I do have one or two faqs if I recall but they weren't of any help and none really covered the puzzle.

OK, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is done. Done three times in fact; I hit three different endings anyway. I'm assuming that the last one was the "correct" one but I'm not totally sure. (I know the Wishbringer ending was a wrong one.)

I felt that things went a bit off the rails towards the end but still a good game overall. Looking forward to Clear Sky now.

I finished Half Life 2 this morning. I loved it! Especially the last couple of levels. I'm really looking forward to Episodes 1 & 2, but they will have to wait for now. Battlefield: Bad Company has been calling my name since it arrived from Gamefly a couple of days ago.

Wow, that makes 3 games cleared from the pile this month! Maybe I'll spend some time with my wife and kids now.

Jagged Alliance 2 is down.

I've stopped dinking around with side quests long enough to find the cult's secret trailer park. Seriously, I miss the days when bad guys would at least try to keep their homes presentable.

And why does everyone keep nice clothes and folded cloth stuffed in bags like that? It's gonna wrinkle something fierce!

Got through the tunnel, jet engine crispied the tentacle beast and now I'm trying to through some switches to get some power to start a motor to....

Wow, this game is supposed to be that good? Way too much backtracking around areas to get the "puzzle" working.

I'm going to finish it out of sheer stubbornness. Well, that and I want to play through HL2 and the eps on my 360.

It's good that you're getting practice routing power to things... not that there's any of that sort of thing in HL2...

Higgledy wrote:

It's good that you're getting practice routing power to things... not that there's any of that sort of thing in HL2...

***Sarcasm Sense...Tingling***

Played some more tonight, the endless mine cart crap isn't that great either.

Hemidal wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

It's good that you're getting practice routing power to things... not that there's any of that sort of thing in HL2...

***Sarcasm Sense...Tingling***

Played some more tonight, the endless mine cart crap isn't that great either.

The mine cart bit was definitely the low point for me. Stick with it though -- it does get much better after that.

EDIT: Also, I haven't picked up Metroid Prime 3 at all yet this month, but with all the Rock Band 2 excitement I've gone back to Rock Band 1 to play through the Expert guitar career. I'll try to at least get that finished this month

I made a terrible mistake...I thought I'd have another stab at finishing STALKER.

...now I'm trapped in an underground laboratory, wounded by a flabby walking tumor on legs, under constant barrage by some telekinetic...thing and trapped by fire in a sub-cellar with only shriveled up mutant-baby-things for company

stevenmack wrote:

I made a terrible mistake...I thought I'd have another stab at finishing STALKER.

...now I'm trapped in an underground laboratory, wounded by a flabby walking tumor on legs, under constant barrage by some telekinetic...thing and trapped by fire in a sub-cellar with only shriveled up mutant-baby-things for company

Cheat codes are cool by me

stevenmack wrote:

I made a terrible mistake...I thought I'd have another stab at finishing STALKER.

...now I'm trapped in an underground laboratory, wounded by a flabby walking tumor on legs, under constant barrage by some telekinetic...thing and trapped by fire in a sub-cellar with only shriveled up mutant-baby-things for company

Look for a floating, moving electrical anomaly in the area where the barrels or whatever are being thrown at you telekinetically and shoot it. That's the thing throwing things at you.

They'll keep spawning but it will give you enough time to find the door code to the next area.

yea, got the one that I needed to kill in order to proceed. The horrors of the lab are behind me now...

I just wish the game would stop crashing at random intervals and automatically resetting the PC -_-

I just finally beat Gun on the Xbox 360. Next up, Hitman: Blood Money.

Sidenote: I would put World of Warcraft up there just to see who thinks they beat it- because you can't. It's one of those games that bitterly beats you in the end.

The way to beat WoW is to cancel your account.

And then not reactivate it. Yeah, you guys know who you are.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

The way to beat WoW is to cancel your account.

And then not reactivate it. Yeah, you guys know who you are.

Woot! I beat WoW! Throw that on my pile for the month.

kaostheory wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

The way to beat WoW is to cancel your account.

And then not reactivate it. Yeah, you guys know who you are.

Woot! I beat WoW! Throw that on my pile for the month.

You will have to go through a 60 day WoW rehabilitation program called WOW (Weened Off Warcrack). You may find yourself with the shakes and quite a bit of sweating, but don't worry, steady doses of Oblivion will offset this problem.

After 60 days you will recieve your "60-days off WoW" coin and then finally you may able to address the real issues involving of your WoW addiction.

Zen Mutty wrote:

You will have to go through a 60 day WoW rehabilitation program called WOW (Weened Off Warcrack). You may find yourself with the shakes and quite a bit of sweating, but don't worry, steady doses of Oblivion will offset this problem.

Man, they should've put that on the Oblivion GOTY Edition box:

"Oblivion: the methadone of RPGs"

kaostheory wrote:

Woot! I beat WoW! Throw that on my pile for the month.

You haven't beaten it until you've survived an expansion release without reactivating your account.

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I have actually found Oblivion no help at all in easing my WoW delirium tremens, and I've tried a couple times. No game helped; I just had to go cold turkey and gut it out. Only recently have I been healthy enough to enjoy Jeanne D'Arc.

I am totally serious, btw. I couldn't enjoy games for weeks.

Crap, how the hell did I miss this until now? I've been working through Planescape: Torment, Final Fantasy VII, and Patapon still. Chalk me up for the two latter ones and hope they are done in 10 days.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I have actually found Oblivion no help at all in easing my WoW delirium tremens, and I've tried a couple times. No game helped; I just had to go cold turkey and gut it out. Only recently have I been healthy enough to enjoy Jeanne D'Arc.

I am totally serious, btw. I couldn't enjoy games for weeks.

I had a similar experience recently, though with GTA IV, not WoW. Because I have quite a few things on my pile, and GTA IV landed in the middle of it and messed everything up, I was really looking forward to finishing it so I could get back to one of the many other games I have stacked up. That was about two weeks ago, and while I've played the odd Rock Band or multiplayer Gears session since, I just haven't picked up any of those big single-player games yet.

I did pick up GTA IV again last night though. There are a few easy achievements that I want to pick up, and I'm sure it won't take long...

Damn it I found Finding Nemo on the stack. After I get done silent killing marks whilst in a penguin suit I promise to make that game my little pet goldfish.

I've completed Burnout Paradise to my satisfaction. I got the Elite license. The completion in me wants to get 100%, and I probably will eventually, but for now Elite is sufficient for me to label this game "solved!"

This is my first game finished as a part of this project, and I wanted to say thanks Hemi. Awesome idea.

You're welcome. I hope you enjoy the strike through on your name...

Now, get back to clearing your pile.

Going to be close on Half-Life for me, I think. Satellite is in orbit, but me forgetting to save every 5 minutes is really pissing me off. Miss a jump, hop in the Delorean, hit 88 and travel back in time 20 or 30 minutes. Grr...