The NEW Game Journal

[Bytor]

OK...the final boss in Atelier Iris Eternal Mana is IMO bullshit. One attack takes everyone's hit points to single digits, another attack is instant death and 3 out of 4 tries he targeted Klein who is the only SOB that can use his powers to heal party and/or revive people. I don't mind a tough fight but it is BS when instant death occurs that often an there is nothing I can do about it, simply piss poor luck which I like to call piss poor programming. Looks like he has @31000 HP and let's see, I got @27K off the first try, then 5K (instant death), then 12K (pretty much instant death), then 2K (instant death), and just recently @25K before he knocked my whole party to the ground (all at pretty much full HP I might add) and then killed them all...I feel there is simply way too much luck involved in this fight.

[Dice]

Someone hasn't been customizing weapons. ;D

Oh... and FYI, make sure when you DO beat him, turn off the game audio or keep to English, IIRC.  There's a post-game glitch that freezes the game during the ending.  Joy.

[Bytor]

No, they're customized, perhaps not enough lol, but even with that I still say there is too much damn luck involved with the instant death shit.

[Akanbe-]

Been playing a lot of Third Strike lately.  Been in a 2d mood lately.  I've mainly been using Yun which is pretty uncharacteristic of me to pick a top tier, but Yun is fun to use.  Besides, he's only top if you can do Genei-Jin combos which I cannot, but I've only been messing around with him a little bit and only from what I can figure out on my own.  Fun times.

[Monsoon]

Tartarus is much more tolerable now that people aren't tiring every twenty minutes and I have good type coverage. Still need a good arcana for wind damage, though....

[Darklight]

Adventure on colecovision with the volume turned up on a 47inch screen. All so my neighbour can watch/hear through my back window. With the volume down, i've been on it for hours. Spent some time on Burgertime for intellivision which imho is NES quality.

My companion quests have glitched and I can't continue them according to the wiki. I've also noticed quite a few misc quests repeat themselves if you re-read the instigating book. Kind of annoying after so many hours though the $ glitches make up for it.

Bought and played minecraft a few days back for the 360, really getting into this one. Easy to get into and as complex as you want it to be

[Yggdrasil]

Just got Uncharted 3 so better put that MGS HD Collection aside, I've already had too much Snakes and nanomachines for now.

[Bytor]

Time Hollow is actually shaping up to be an interesting game, did a few missions on Mas Effect 3 earlier (Reaper on Rannoch was fun) and did a few hours of Alundra earlier, still a fun little game.

[D-Rider]

I picked up Zeno Crash on a whim.  It looks quirky and fun.  I can't tell for sure because it won't run worth a fuck.  It's been a long time since I came across a game my system can't run at max, and this one is choppy even on normal settings.  I'm just gonna assume the game isn't optimized well. :P

[MeshGearFox]

I picked up Zeno Crash on a whim.  It looks quirky and fun.  I can't tell for sure because it won't run worth a fuck.  It's been a long time since I came across a game my system can't run at max, and this one is choppy even on normal settings.  I'm just gonna assume the game isn't optimized well. :P

Zeno Clash is apparently Source. Which... usually runs fine on anything that's not an integrated laptop chip. WTF.

Anyway, made another Scavenger in Mordor. I have to grind a bit because I didn't realize you could make a party when starting out and now I have one character that's a l8 Nomad/l4 Warrior, and a bunch of... l2/l3 nomads/healers/seekers. Sooooo.

Next up is "after hours working from home bullshit because fuck"

[Yoda]

Jumped back into Infamous. Doing the good path.

Not doing a whole ton of the missions, just enough to get good upgrade.

[GrimReality]

Moving along in ME3...again. I'm about to do the Genophage mission. Contemplating going a different route this time, but I have a feeling that's not a good idea.
Going full Renegade is pretty fun, even though I hate making choices that I, personally, would never make.

I picked up Child of Eden, but have yet to try it out.

[Dice]

I got Dark Cloud 2.  Enough said. :D

[Aeolus]

I got Aladdin, Super Street Fighter 2, and a Baseball game plus an extra Gen 1 XBox controller. 'Nuff said. :D

[(Tunnels)]

I've been playing some AssCreed 2! Started it up on Sunday and it confirms everything that I heard about it: that it improves on everything in AssCreed 1. Assassinations are still super fun, and perhaps are even more fun now. But I think the part that keeps me going is the "The Truth" collecting mini-game, because those segments are really fun and come off like ARGs. Morse code wtf?!