drahkon

Anyone up for some rounds in 10-20 mins? Just invite me, I'll be there any time :p

We should do a private match so we can get the knife-5-friends trophy sometime. I want to get that out of the way as soon as possible.

Jim Carrey I love him Jim Carrey again

I'll be available for some matches during the course of the day, so if anyone's up for it then leave a message, invite me or join me.

Just had an amazing round of conquest with dwarf, Tyson and MAT. We need more of that =) Too bad that my illness is keeping me from staying up all night.

I seriously don't get the site. I just don't know what to do after logging in. After some great first games my skill rapidly sank to the bottom of Mariana Trench. To put it simple: I suck. No idea why. In the Demo I always have been one of the best players in a round... Ah well, it's still fun And that's what matters, right? ...right?

Yeah that is the one I really dislike...especially since I don't have that many friends. I mean people on my friend list that play BC2.

Anybody up for some matches tonight? Don't know when, but I'll probably be online the whole evening.

I will. Got Mega Man 9 on the Wii, but this one I'll get on the PS3. Gonna be awesome. Easy-mode will be ignored. Bought InFamous yesterday. Quite a cool game.

This arrived just now. Emasher I'll ad you if you don't mind.

Hm, I live in a different time zone (GMT +1) so it'll be later here, but I guess can be online from 9:45 PM (GMT) as well.

Amazon will be shipping this on Thursday, I think, so it should arrive on Friday at the latest. If not, I'll hate. Might have a mate at home as well, but he'll probably play, too. So I guess we'll meet online TysOnToast (and hopefully some more). Edit: My headset will be back in my possession by then. You'll have the honor of listening to a Germany guy speaking rubbish English and cursing the hell out of everyone - if you wish.

If we (the great PS3 owners) have the game on - let's say - Friday, would you be up for some gaming? Preferably at nighttime.

Crash Bandicoot: Warped

Amazon (Germany) says it's the 4th, too. I hope so, then I'll have the weekend to play Honestly, I can't wait.

I've just finished the game.

How ebarrassing Had an appointment in a local fitness centre to do a check-up before I start exercising. So the guy examined me in order to localise some problems (I have a hollow-back) and then I had to do an endurance test...I knew that I don't have much stamina since I have been doing almost no sports for 4 or 5 years. My pulse went up to 145 (which was the limit the guy gave) during the 5 minutes that I spent on this thing (I don't know if it's called bicycle in English but it's pretty much the same). The resistance while cycling went up but still, 5 minutes? I feel ashamed. I could have gone on, no problems at all. I didn't start to sweat and I didn't feel tired at all, but my pulse so high after only 5 minutes... Anyway, I'll probably start the training programm next week.

The walls itself aren't the problem. Only that they give away the enemy appearances. It always goes like this: You walk through rooms, hacking things here, taking things there...then you see some waist high walls and you know: enemies. There is no way foes can ambush or surprise you. So it is as Daft has said: very predictable. The cover mechanics are a different aspect. They work very well. An alternative would be different environments. You often walk through warehouses, docks and other space ships. They all have containers and little boxes which you can use as cover. Let's take a different environment. A forest: You walk through the forest. Every tree and every ledge can be used for cover. Since there are lots and lots of trees and other natural advances for you to use you don't know when enemies attack you (if you take into consideration that cover is an indication for enemy attacks). They could jump from trees, climb down little hills that might be in the forest. Some wild beasts could even dig themselves up and launch a surprise attack. I expected the "help Jacob mission" to be like this when I landed on th planet. But no, there are more boxes and containers. It just feels artificial. The AI worked fine for me oO Didn't have much trouble at all.

So, I've just finished the game. The ending was partly "yeah", partly "meh". To be more precise: the last boss and music were "yeah", the story was "meh". I don't know...something's missing. Of course I have to agree with the fact that the game builds up to the final part of the trilogy but still... I don't feel like I've accomplished anything (except helping a random guy by killing little ape-like creatures in order to save his storage of food or rescuing half-dead Krogans). The main story felt like it was way too short. I've been recruiting members non stop and it was kind of cool to do their loyalty missions because you could learn stories of their past (or present) and get to know their personality (which I loved) but as I said: the big mission wasn't as big as it has been described (or maybe I didn't get immersed that well). Gameplaywise the game did some things better and some things not so much (what a statement). The fighting was good, no doubt. Maybe some little things here and there (like the non-existent enemy ambushes, since enemy appearances were quite obviously displayed by the placement of boxes and containers that provide cover, or better flying curves of biotic skills) that could have been improved but overall the mechanics worked. Here's a question: Why was there no experience gain when I kill a foe? Really, I missed that. And I also missed loot. With a better inventory loot would have been great. Exploration on planets was fairly limited. Although I don't miss lifeless, mountanious and boring planets that can be traversed by a vehicle that manoeuvres like a rock it would have been nice to see an improved version of this (we'll see what the DLC with the new vehicle brings). Scanning planets for materials sucked. The amount of sidequests is huge. I guess...since I didn't do many. But I don't think that I missed out a lot of new gameplay elements. For a guy like me (at least in my current position which is: I don't have that much time to play games) it is overwhelming. This is not a negative criticism. I like games that have a great amount of content. The problem is that I wouldn't have done many more sidemissions even if I had more time. I just couldn't be arsed. While all this sounds so very negative I'm not saying that I think ME2 is an incredibly bad game. The experience as a whole was mediocre (at least for me). Maybe I was too hyped, or maybe I'm just someone who can never be satisfied with what he's got. And yeah, I'm looking forward to Mass Effect 3.

Just before I wanted to start the Suicide Mission I lost Tali's loyalty -.- Maybe I'll try to get her loyalty back and do some sidequests (I need credits. Some upgrades are soooo expensive...I might need about 400.000...maybe more). And then the scanning... To be honest: I don't want to do the stuff and get right into the Suicide Mission because I just want to finish the goddamn game. This is not as good a game as I thought it would be. From the end of the prologue on I've been extremely disappointed. The only good thing about the game (aside from the prologue) has been:

Well, many recent games that didn't get a release here or were cut can be imported from Amazon (just like Demon Souls...So tempted...but in 2 weeks so many other games will be out) and since I can pay them without a credit card that wouldn't be a problem I guess.

Hm, not too much trouble there. Will be busy with Heavy Rain, FFXIII and Bad Company 2 anyway. So much to do. Played the Demo again. This looks incredible plus it plays just like the two other titles. WANT NOW.

Hello, I hate you. On a more serious note: Hello.

Ok, so I'll buy New Vegas. Even if it gets cut here in good ol' shitty Germany. Would love to play a Fallout game and this sounds bloody fantastic.

Played the Demo yesterday. Holy shit. There will be DLC in the collectors edition (Arena, etc). I assume those contents will be available for all to buy from the release?