Tommy Gun

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  1. Posted

    Yay! I played this last night

    Yes! Now there'll be more than just Miffy on my leaderboards space! Now that I have all the achievements except Smile, I don't know how often I'll be playing it, though, heh.

  2. Posted

    Never played it, but I remember this from a magazine a while back. Wiki puts it best: "Rhapsody, along with its sequels, are considered musical RPGs, meaning in place of FMV cutscenes, there are musical numbers, complete with vocals."

    I own it, and beat it. I'm not crazy about RPGs, but I love musicals! I should point out, it's coming to the DS soon! :woohoo: (okay, the game isn't that great, but whatever, I liked it)

  3. Posted · Edited by Tommy Gun

    How short is it? [EDIT: I've been reading it's about 5 hours.]

    I was really excited about this game, but the demo didn't blow me away. It's still cool, and the art is beautiful.

    My roommate said he'll probably buy it though, so I guess it doesn't matter! $15 is a bit much, especially since I haven't bought N+, etc. yet. I need my points for Rock Band!

  4. Posted

    I beat Sequence! Zero lives left, and I used my last bomb on the final stage, but I made it! It was during my first try yesterday -- like I said, I'm always the best right at the beginning.

    I also got the Wax Off achievement! That was pretty damn tough (same one the guy was trying to get in the video I posted above). Now the only one I have left is Smile, but I don't think I even want to TRY getting that.

    I'm definitely getting a lot better at Sequence though, there are a bunch of levels I can do without bombs that I never thought were possible before -- like the one with ALL the waves, but also snakes. Or the one with tons of purple boxes.

  5. Posted

    Anyone who isn't playing and wants to know how we're feeling with these achievements,

    (you don't have to watch the whole thing).

    I still haven't fucking beaten Sequence! I got to the last level again, and keep coming really close, but screwing up on easy stuff. There were times when I really should have used a bomb, and that would have saved me a life, which, in the final level, would have meant I would have won. I want to murder someone. This isn't that hard! I can do it! I keep fucking it up! And the more I play, the worse I get.

    When I first got the game, I never failed on the one Sequence level with those guys who fly at you, and you can only shoot them in the back. Level 10. I could beat that every time (without a bomb)...but I can't remember exactly how I was doing it. Now, I can't beat that for the life of me (without a bomb).

    On the bright side, you know the level with only green guys? I finally beat that one without using a bomb! It just takes so long, but I finally did it with barely any time left. The one with the bubbles/green guys, I still haven't beaten in time -- I can get down to just the bubbles, but they take forever to kill, unless I'm missing some trick.

    Also: if you haven't heard -- when playing, hold RB and hit BACK. It's cool.

  7. Posted

    I find it interesting as hell how quickly the addition of Geoms changed the way I play.

    Agreed -- especially for Deadline, you really have to go for geoms to get a high score, which means you really can't retreat as much as before. I'm still terrible at it though. I got the Rebound achievement (bounce bullets off gates) and that was actually my high score...so I guess I should do that more often.

    I didn't get the King achievement, but I did get the one for surviving 8 waves without firing a shot. Bloody hard.

    That one was fun, have you tried:

    Phobia

    Score 1,000 points in Waves without collecting any geoms.

    Sounds easy, doesn't it? I got it, but that took some tries. You obviously can't shoot your way through a wave, or you'll get a geom, so you need to really pay attention and dodge them all.

    30 TIMES I died with 28 of those fucking hoops done.

    Damn.

    I only have three achievements left to get:

    Wax Off [Fucking hard! Wax On is so easy, but damn this gets tough.]

    Game Over (Reach the end of sequence.) [i got to the very last level, but died. I think that was the time my roommate walked in front of the tv, too, so I'm just going to blame it all on him. I'll definitely get this one soon.]

    Smile [Yeah...this isn't going to happen in the near future, shit.]

    Oh, and I got 70 Million in Pacifism. :tup:

    GW was never a game I liked to play for very long though (in one sitting). GW2 mixes it up a lot more, so you don't get as bored, but I still don't like to do the same thing over and over again.

    If anyone wants to compare scores, add me: Tommy Gun CRG

  8. Posted

    Who else is playing? It's awesome how it shows your friends' high scores right on the main menu. I don't have many people on my friends list, so I only know that Miffy is playing (*cough*and I was kicking his ass:yep:).

    The new modes are really fun, my favorite right now is the new pacifism -- you can't shoot, but flying through these trip-mine gates will kill enemies. So you get this massive swarm of blue guys following you around. 13.x million was my highest in that mode today, but I didn't have a ton of time to play yet.

    King is another fun mode, where you can only fire from these rings, but the enemies can't enter. The rings disappear quickly, so you have to make sure you've cleared the way to the next one, then fly to it. Anyone else get the achievement for this mode? You have to fly through 30 rings without firing a shot. I was literally a centimeter away from ring 30 when I got killed -- the enemies become faster than you at the end, so you can't outrun them! But after like ten more tries I got it.

    I really hate Waves. I suck at it, and it's annoying.

    Sequence looks like it'll be a lot of fun -- kind of a puzzle mode, where the levels are always the same, so you need to memorize them. I only played it a couple times. Stupid roommates wanting to watch a movie, grrrrr.

  10. Posted

    It's simple, you just █████ the ███, then ██████████ the ███ in the ████ :P

    EWWWW, not in the ████!! I saw pictures of that on the internet once, and haven't recovered.

    Also: 0101011101101000011000010111010000100000011101010111000000100000011110010110000101101100011011000011111100100000001000000100101001110101011100110111010000100000011000110110100001101001011011000110110001101001011011100010011100100000011101110110100101110100001000000110110101100001011010000010000001110100011010000111010101101101011000100111001100101100001000000110001001101001011101000110001101101000011001010111001100100001

  11. Posted

    This is worse than Phantom Hourglass' save system.

    What was the problem with it? I honestly don't know, because I literally never had to load a saved game in PH -- I beat the whole game by closing my DS in between sessions.

    Also:

    TIM is awesome.

    I beat the final boss in Dead Rising when I realized I had zero time left and couldn't win, even though I defeated the boss. :deranged:

  15. Posted

    Ever since I saw an article about it in Game Informer a while back, I've been really excited. I love parkour, and first-person games, and interesting color palettes, so I can't wait for this game. It really sounds like my thing too -- lots of checkpoints, but tough gameplay. From the previews I've read/heard, you will die a lot in this game, because it does not help you at all with the jumps (which is good, in my book). There's a video of a live demo of the first level.

  17. Posted

    I finally 5*'d The Perfect Drug and Thrasher! I kind of fixed my drums...it was just enough that they didn't break streaks as often.

    Oh, and speaking of OD/SP, did you hear that hyperspeed is finally in the game?! Of course, now it's called...Breakneck speed.

  19. Posted

    he said it's incredibly sensitive

    That's what the 1up review said; it's just way too sensitive to play. I don't have an iPhone, so I won't be playing it anytime soon, so I'd like to hear your thoughts, Miffy.

    I hate that they're back to the "10 levels in a row" to pass, though. I thought SMB2 did it the best, allowing you to beat any ten(?) stages out of the group to move to the next world.

  20. Posted

    I doubt that the ION kit will work, as Red Octane would have to allow third parties to create instruments for their game, right?

    Well the ION kits WILL work with GHWT -- they're RB drums, and RB drums work in GHWT. But what I was wondering was if they'll be able to work with all 5 pads. The cymbals are just copies of the other pads, so it probably won't work, and the kit should be detected as RB drums, so no matter what you'll probably get 4 lanes only. I guess I just need to wait until people start making adapters for all these games.

    Great news on the MIDI interface thing... does that mean ANY electronic drum kit will work? Maybe Activision/NeverSoft have finally got things sorted :tup:

    Yes, any electronic kit will work, as long as it has MIDI out -- but you'll have to plug them into the GH drums! So again, I hope someone eventually makes a separate adapter.

  21. Posted

    They actually did something right!:

    LOS ANGELES -- Own Rock Band instruments on Xbox 360? They'll work with Guitar Hero World Tour.

    At Activision's E3 press conference Tuesday, Guitar Hero director Brian Bright told the crowd that if they already owned guitar controllers and drum controllers from "previous games" on the Xbox 360, they'd work with Guitar Hero World Tour.

    What Activision didn't say is how that will actually work, considering that Rock Band drums have four pad inputs and Guitar Hero World Tour has five.

    UPDATE: Here's how it'll work. Speaking with Bright after the conference, I found out that the game's five-button drum track, shown above center, will be compressed down to four inputs if a Rock Band drum controller is inserted.

    There's also a MIDI jack on the back of the drum kit, Bright said, which will allow gamers to play Guitar Hero with any electronic drum kit by simply plugging it into the controller. You can also hook up a second drum pedal if you want to play two bass drums.

    http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/xbox-rock-band.html

    That might be weird, though, compressing it into 4 pads...RB can do it because it's made that way, it's not auto -- unless GH will actually have two sets of note charts.

    Also, MIDI adapter on the drumset, great! Except...why the fuck do I want to buy your drums if I already have my own set? How about you just sell me an adapter? HMX, you too!

    Now I wonder if the ION drums will work fully with GH, since it'll have enough pads/cymbals. I have a feeling I'll probably be buying GHWT (game only) since I'm such an addict, and already have all the instruments anyway. User-created songs are definitely appealing.

  22. Posted

    Wtf?

    That's a brand new song off their new album that hasn't been released yet, that's been in production for years. Apparently it's a big deal.

    <--- (Not really a GnR fan.)

    The Who pack got released today, and holy shit it's awesome. The songs are great, but the difficulty is also pretty high which I love! "Young Man Blues (Live at Leeds)" has some insanely hard drum parts, but luckily they're short enough to not kill you.

  23. Posted

    ROCK BAND 2 SONGLIST ANNOUNCED:

    1. AC/DC "Let There Be Rock"

    2. AFI "Girl's Gone Grey"

    3. Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know"

    4. Alice in Chains "Man in the Box"

    5. Allman Brothers "Ramblin' Man"

    6. Avenged Sevenfold "Almost Easy"

    7. Bad Company "Shooting Star"

    8. Beastie Boys "So Whatcha Want"

    9. Beck "E-Pro"

    10. Bikini Kill "Rebel Girl"

    11. Billy Idol "White Wedding Pt. I"

    12. Blondie " One Way or Another"

    13. Bob Dylan "Tangled Up in Blue"

    14. Bon Jovi "Livin' on a Prayer"

    15. Cheap Trick "Hello There"

    16. Devo "Uncontrollable Urge"

    17. Dinosaur Jr. "Feel the Pain"

    18. Disturbed "Down with the Sickness"

    19. Dream Theater "Panic Attack"

    20. Duran Duran "Hungry Like the Wolf"

    21. Elvis Costello "Pump It Up"

    22. Fleetwood Mac "Go Your Own Way"

    23. Foo Fighters "Everlong"

    24. Guns N' Roses "Shackler's Revenge"

    25. Interpol "PDA"

    26. Jane's Addiction "Mountain Song"

    27. Jethro Tull "Aqualung"

    28. Jimmy Eat World "The Middle"

    29. Joan Jett "Bad Reputation"

    30. Journey "Anyway You Want It"

    31. Judas Priest "Painkiller"

    32. Kansas "Carry On Wayward Son"

    33. L7 "Pretend We're Dead"

    34. Lacuna Coil "Our Truth"

    35. Linkin Park "One Step Closer"

    36. Lit "My Own Worst Enemy"

    37. Lush "De-Luxe"

    38. Mastodon "Colony of Birchmen"

    39. Megadeth "Peace Sells"

    40. Metallica " Battery"

    41. Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Where'd You Go"

    42. Modest Mouse "Float On"

    43. Motorhead "Ace of Spades"

    44. Nirvana "Drain You"

    45. Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in the Sky"

    46. Panic at the Disco "Nine in the Afternoon"

    47. Paramore "That's What You Get"

    48. Pearl Jam "Alive"

    49. Presidents of the USA "Lump"

    50. Rage Against the Machine "Testify"

    51. Ratt "Round & Round"

    52. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give it Away"

    53. Rise Against "Give it All"

    54. Rush "The Trees"

    55. Silversun Pickups "Lazy Eye"

    56. Smashing Pumpkins "Today"

    57. Social Distortion "I Was Wrong"

    58. Sonic Youth "Teenage Riot"

    59. Soundgarden "Spoonman"

    60. Squeeze "Cool for Cats"

    61. Steely Dan "Bodhitsattva"

    62. Steve Miller Band "Rock'n Me"

    63. Survivor "Eye of the Tiger"

    64. System of a Down "Chop Suey"

    65. Talking Heads "Psycho Killer"

    66. Tenacious D "Master Exploder"

    67. Testament "Souls of Black"

    68. The Donnas "New Kid in School"

    69. The Go-Go's "We Got the Beat"

    70. The Grateful Dead " Alabama Getaway"

    71. The Guess Who "American Woman"

    72. The Muffs "Kids in America"

    73. The Offspring "Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated)"

    74. The Replacements "Alex Chilton"

    75. The Who "Pinball Wizard"

    Bonus Songs

    76. Abnormality "Visions"

    77. Anarchy Club "Get Clean"

    78. Bang Camaro "Night Lies"

    79. Breaking Wheel "Shoulder to the Plow"

    80. The Libyans "Neighborhood"

    81. The Main Drag "A Jagged Gorgeous Winter"

    82. Speck "Conventional Lover"

    83. The Sterns "Supreme Girl"

    84. That Handsome Devil "Rob the Prez-O-Dent"

    Plus 20 more FREE DLC tracks! And you can import the RB1 songs for "less than $5".

  25. Posted

    Haven't downloaded Snow. It's that good? May do it tonight.

    EDIT: Oh my god you bastard. Failed at 60% on my first try. Haven't done a second yet. This is definitely one I'll need to work at repairing the strat before I have another go. Trying this with the GHIII controller was murder.

    *D:D Well you got farther than I did on my first try.

    Thinking about that ION kit some more -- it uses 1/4" jacks, so you can buy a drum "brain" and use it as an electronic kit (brains are expensive, though). But that also means if I could just BUY THAT ION BRAIN I could plug in my Yamaha pads for RB! Arrrghhhh. It's so damn tempting to try and do the whole "solder a MIDI cable to the RB controller" thing so I can use my real kit, but if I fuck it up, I lose my RB drums AND a MIDI cable! Plus, it's good to have the RB drums for parties at other people's houses.

    RB2 Trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36036.html