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Kriggs said:

That makes 39 plats so far and I'm not really sure what I should make my 40th. 

Nothing. Don't do anything special for any milestone. I always tried to do that but it doesn't ever matter to anyone.. I held off on getting my 100th for a while but it's just pointless. I could've got way more plats done in the time it took to figure out which plat I was going to do and it wouldn't even have been worth it.

So I got plat one hundo!  I considered doing Max Payne, MGS4, Sly 4, a whole bunch, but in the end, I said fcuk it and I bagged the Devil's Cartel plat. It was a pretty fun game, Insane had 2-3 checkpoints we had to repeat but it was fine. Pretty easy platinum and I'm glad I don't have to worry about what I'm doing for my 100th platinum anymore.

Anyone here about the Ratchet and Clank movie?

I remember when I just wanted some R&C action figures in the fourth grade. Now they'll have a full feature-length movie soon? It really is a great time to be a gamer. Playstation is the freaking best.

Just a heads up for ya this time, Denzel. I'll be straight there after the ACT is done!

Oh and this just got my hype level to boner status:

http://www.ps3trophies.org/news/news-9591-Call-of-Duty–Black-Ops-II-Mob-of-the-Dead-Gameplay-Vid-Goes-to-Sing-Sing.html

Again, welcome to the site, Frederick!  The aiming controls were a little bit weird but if you don't like MGS3, you are beyond hope, Denzel.

Went through Bioshock 1 for the first time in 4 years to get the platinum in one playthrough. The art of rotating saves is key here, in addition to loads of patience and gathering resources. It's a pretty fun game still except for a few of the Big Daddy encounters. They take shit tons of damage on Survivor, more than most of the level's bosses! Some of the encounters were enjoyable and fun with some tactical planning, like when I had one of them on my heels all the way into a room of turrets and cameras I hacked. Then I hid in a jail cell like a bitch.  Oh well. I felt intelligent when he kicked the bucket.

The Dead Space playthrough is worse than I ever could have imagined. I had more of an appreciation for Patrick since he was the one who got all the collectibles when we did it; it's fcuking dreadful to do. Every 2 rooms holds 2-3 collectibles. I'm fine with games that have maybe 1-3 collectibles per chapter but 40+ is just retarted. Also, the objective marker lead us into a trap, making us pick our floor in an elevator, only for it to disapear and have us fall down a shaft to our deaths.  The game will probably be more enjoyable when we're done with our first playthrough…

I've been doing the remaining Bioshock 2 singleplayer trophies while I wait for the boost that's currently on haitus…  Knocked out the pretty decent Minerva's Den and I'm on the last four Protector Trials. The 15th trial has a really enfuriating glitch that's not allowing me to switch my Plasmid. That would be managable but this trial doesn't allow the collection of money and you have no weapons you can use. I was just putting the Decoy in front of my fountain and I prayed nobody would touch the Little Sister.  They did.

I'm also doing a playthrough of Bioshock 1 on Friday! Now we just need to get Ben to do one…

What little time I spent gaming today was put towards the boring Protector Trials. God, those are a grind.

And then I lubed up to Injustice trailers…

#98 God of War: Ascension

So I'd probably say that this was the hardest “Hard” mode of the series, but it's still not that bad if you're good at action games. I got through the platinum in exactly 10 hours, scoring everything but the 1000 combo in my playthrough. Trial of Archimedes is nowhere near as bad as some people have been bitching and moaning about. I played it while 1.03 is active, but I'm positive I could've done it without. It took me 4 tries, it gives you a little bit of health and magic per floor but there's still no checkpoints. I was also worried if I'd have all the weapons and relics fully upgraded by the end, so I farmed red orbs at Chapter 20. Guess what? That's also dramataticized by little babies in the forums. I had over 30,000 orbs left at the final boss.

I thought it was a pretty good game but the storytelling definitely left something to be desired. Where were the actual origins of the mighty Kratos that were advertised? They can't do another prequel to 1 now because that'd just be redundant. Ever since 1, I thought it'd be cool to actually play the first fight with the Barbarian King or the burning of the Athenian village. Ghost of Sparta actually provides more details of the origins of Kratos than this! Also, it's missing a lot of elements that made GOW God of War like the freaking sex minigame!

Gameplay-wise it was still pretty fun. You can still do pretty badass combos and the four different ways you can charge your blades kept the battles varied and interesting. (Hades all day, bitches!!) The boss design is spectacular as always, especially the final one. The enemies were fun to fight and all, but it goes against David Jaffe's way of keeping everything extremely Greek. I mean what do armored elephants and bug people have anything to do with Greek mythology? The finishing QTE's are phenomenal, especially the Juggernaut one, slicing open the elephants cranium to reveal it's massive pink brain…

Anyway, it's a really good action game if you can ignore the disapointing storytelling and it's a fun plat to do, in my opinion.

@Doc-B

You joining in sounds fine to me. It doesn't matter that you haven't done any of the MP yet but once you hit Level 24, the XP goes by quicker. Do you plan on getting the DLC?