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It's definitely worth checking out Black Swan Dream and number9dream, as well. I don't have much to say, but -- uh -- yeah, I really enjoyed both. Ghostwritten had a few decent ideas, but at this point I'd consider it more of a curiosity than required-reading.

yeah that was weird

in hindsight, 3 was my favourite episode. it had some of the coolest little touches. not only did it have some awesome puzzle design, settings and gameplay mechnics, it also had some neat presentation quirks -- stuff like the episode title card flying in as Guybrush and Morgan fell down the beast's gut. it doesn't seem like much, but it really makes the whole thing just feel like a really classy production. Ep 5 and 4 are on the same tier for me, with 1 & 2 a tier lower. my one significant complaint on the series as a whole was that the writers fell back on typical

I just finished the game. I don't want to say anything other than, even if you hated DMC or NG, you owe it to yourself to play this game. it does SO MUCH right, it's absolutely absurd. I don't want to spoil it, just go buy this game and enjoy it, I don't think there's been a game more deserving of my $99AU in quite some time. It's hard to say because it's so early, but this might make my favourite games of all time list in the future. It's certainty one of the highlights of this current generation.

I'd sell Bart's soul for an Idle Thumbs 2.0 -- er, 3.0

there was a cool moment where Guybrush said to Morgan "my wife just etc etc (spoilers)" following a dramatic moment mid-way through the game, and it actually caught me off-guard. It's the sort of consideration for character video games usually don't have. So props to TT!

loved Season 1 and 2. 'Reality 2.0' and the two parter 'Chariot of the Dogs' and 'What's New, Beelzebub' are must plays.

oh, you have no idea

train levels are usually the best levels in video games, so mm.

yep, the game looks like it is going to be absolutely fantastic. I understand why some dismiss it outright based its presentation and trailers, but the game is just so much fun to play.

I got stuck there, too. You have to use the back door facing the lake.

I know it's going to make me sound like an unbelievably huge ass-kisser -- in this case the mouth-to-ass shenanigans are purely coincidental -- but The Tales of Monkey Island 3: Lair of the Leviathon deserves a mention. The best ep in the series, with the series in general all but definitely in my top three games of the year.

This game has sections in it called 'Assassin's Tombs' that are basically rooms that would have fit right in Sands of Time. They're the old-school "here's a room, figure out how to get to the exit" type platform/lite-puzzle rooms that made me love SoT so much. I highly recommend checking this game out, if you haven't already. After a disastrously slow opening hour or two, the game really opens up and becomes kind of great.

I'd say The Rock of Gelato seems like the more likely place for the series to end rather than Monkey Island itself.

I really liked the 'dramatic moments' and where Telltale took the story. I've already posted about it at length on another forum and cbf'd doing it again, but yeah, I'm just throwing that out there.

Yeah, and look, it's okay to let the enemy take a resource point or two if it comes to that. The main thing is to not let your troops get too split up and diluted. Keep them together, there is huge strength in numbers. If there's a handful of enemy troops attacking a resource point, a good strategy is fly over there by yourself and take care of them all with a Facemelter solo and some melee attacks. Oh, that's another thing: Battle Cry is very handy. Use it when the enemy send troops at you en masse. Just play around with solos in general, they can be pretty handy at times. Bring It Down (or whatever it's called) has saved my ass in a desperate situation more than once. I guess the best thing to do is too not over-think it. I type all this up like I have some extreme understanding of the game's minutia, but in reality, I've learnt these things by just messing with the system. I play each match by the seat of my pants, I find I have the most fun that way. Just experiment and have fun.

I just tried that map on normal, and I managed to get a fairly clean win by building a whole lot of headbangers, some razor girls and a healing bassist or two early on and AGGRESSIVELY taking the resource points around your base. Just ignore the bridge leading straight to the enemy base to start with. Once you have an extra two or three resource points, then upgrade your base. You'll want to build some Fire Barons (maybe three or four) to support your troops. After that, upgrade your stage again, build some headsplitters, some metal beats and some heavy guys and go crazy. You should have a strong enough hold on the map at this point that you can just go crazy and build what you like. If your troops are getting harassed early on, double teams are your best friend. Use the head-banger double-team on groups of enemies and razor-girl double teams on your opposing avatar enemy (eddie, ophelia, deviculus). Just be very, very aggressive. Don't spend too much time spending enemies back and forth. Keep them in a large group and send them from resource point to resource point. Also, use the flag ability, and then pick it up with Y so that all new units spawn head straight to you. If you lose heaps of units toward the end as you assault the stage, don't get too stressed. You should have a whole lot of spare resources by that point, just rebuild! You shouldn't need a Rock Crusher, but if you're kicking ass, make one for fun.

wait, episode fifty will be the last episode? I'm in denial.

were you playing in the Pleasure Tower area? I can usually handle some really, really tough AI, but even on Normal I get crushed on that map.

Chapter 5 is when the game really picks up. The beginning is fun, but from Chapter 5 on out, the game gets great. In my opinion, anyway.

he knows it if you've been scouting for "legends".

looks like Metacritic is finally going to have an actual average

"Tim Shafer is one of the funniest guys in games and Jack Black is one of the funniest guys in movies -- together they'll keep you ROFLing" - IGN.com

yeah, that's what I'm going to do after I finish all the Riddler stuff I left unfinished in my current playthrough.

well, I haven't actually played the DLC, but going off of second-hand information, apparently it doesn't really advance the story in any meaningful way, meaning that by the end of it, the characters and events in the world are still very much in the same state as they were before the events of the DLC took place. I'm okay with that. maybe someone who has actually played it can clear that up a bit.