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[Cure]

Originally Posted by Turo602

Ugh, WB Montreal really ****ed me over with Batman: Arkham Origins. I started it yesterday and now it won't even let me play because of some stupid bug they haven't fixed about damaged DLC. I've tried using a different disc, deleting everything, and still nothing. WTF? How could they sell this sh*t when some people can't even get the game to play?

You'd they'd at least update it by now. It's been a while since that joint came out.

[Turo602]

Originally Posted by Cure

You'd they'd at least update it by now. It's been a while since that joint came out.

Right? I've checked their forums and it's nothing but outrage. Apparently they've even commented on it before and basically they decided to focus their attention on the Cold Cold Heart DLC rather than making the game playable for everyone. They seriously shouldn't make anymore Batman games. Though, this hasn't been suggested anywhere I've checked, but I've installed the game and it seems to have fixed the issue. Hopefully it stays this way even after redownloading the DLC. I'm just glad I was able to back up my save data.

[Cure]

Always install, breh.

Speaking of, I hope Arkham Knight is good.

[Turo602]

Yep, though I had to make space. My hard drive now has less than a gig of space after installation. Need to get me a new one. It just sucks knowing that many people haven't been able to finish their game or even know that installing the game could have fixed the issue. I mean, if it was such an easy fix, why hasn't anyone said anything?

Same here, game looks great. Definitely on my top three most anticipated games along with Zelda and The Phantom Pain.

[snake]

I picked up NES remix pack and it's great when you have another friend to play it with. The challenges are fun, but playing alone on a game like that isn't. Well worth $30 in my opinion.

[Redmage1987]

Originally Posted by snake

I picked up NES remix pack and it's great when you have another friend to play it with. The challenges are fun, but playing alone on a game like that isn't. Well worth $30 in my opinion.

I got Remix 1 and 2 awhile back, and 100% completed both on single player. I thought they were really enjoyable games. It was MUCH easier to Rainbow Star everything on Remix 2, though. Some of the stages (certain Ice Climber and Excite Bike stages come to mind) were pretty tough to complete. It seemed like you had to be 100% perfect and precise with everything in order to Rainbow Star the stages on Remix 1, whereas on Remix 2 I was able to Rainbow Star a lot of the stages even after screwing up.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Redmage1987

I got Remix 1 and 2 awhile back, and 100% completed both on single player. I thought they were really enjoyable games. It was MUCH easier to Rainbow Star everything on Remix 2, though. Some of the stages (certain Ice Climber and Excite Bike stages come to mind) were pretty tough to complete. It seemed like you had to be 100% perfect and precise with everything in order to Rainbow Star the stages on Remix 1, whereas on Remix 2 I was able to Rainbow Star a lot of the stages even after screwing up.

I haven't got around to remix 2 yet, but screw those excitebike challenges. Landing perfectly 3 times is no easy feat.

[Redmage1987]

Originally Posted by snake

I haven't got around to remix 2 yet, but screw those excitebike challenges. Landing perfectly 3 times is no easy feat.

I actually found the Ice Climber challenges to be a little more annoying than the Excite Bike ones. That's probably because I played Excite Bike growing up, but never played Ice Climber. The jumping sucks in Ice Climber, in my opinion. Half the time it seemed like I should have clearly landed on a platform, but instead I would fall through the edge of it. The Excite Bike challenges that drove (no pun intended) me crazy were the ones where you had to avoid the CPUs.

But yeah, if you liked Remix 1, then I think you'll definitely like Remix 2. Remix 2 even comes with a Bonus Game that you can unlock.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Redmage1987

I actually found the Ice Climber challenges to be a little more annoying than the Excite Bike ones. That's probably because I played Excite Bike growing up, but never played Ice Climber. The jumping sucks in Ice Climber, in my opinion. Half the time it seemed like I should have clearly landed on a platform, but instead I would fall through the edge of it. The Excite Bike challenges that drove (no pun intended) me crazy were the ones where you had to avoid the CPUs.

But yeah, if you liked Remix 1, then I think you'll definitely like Remix 2. Remix 2 even comes with a Bonus Game that you can unlock.

Remix 2 sounds a lot better from looking at the selection of games. I looooooooove the balloon fight challenges.

[Redmage1987]

Originally Posted by snake

Remix 2 sounds a lot better from looking at the selection of games. I looooooooove the balloon fight challenges.

Indeed. I definitely think that it's the better of the two for sure. I liked the Zelda challenges, except for the remixed challenge where you have to climb up the Donkey Kong Stage as Link. Not being able to jump makes for one really annoying level.

[Redmage1987]

I finished my files on Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and Pokemon Emerald. I liked Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door just as much as I liked the N64 game, and I loved that one. I liked using the new partners and the audience was a pretty neat addition to the battle system. My favorite partner was probably Gombella. I found her to be the most useful during boss battles because she could display their HP with her "Tattle" ability and she could also do some good damage with her "Multi Bonk" attack. The little Yoshi wound up being Blue, which I thought was awesome because that's my favorite color. Overall, this was a really enjoyable RPG. It took me a little longer than expected to complete it, though, because I failed on my first trip through the Pit of 100 Trials. I made it all the way to the final floor and then died. That kind of burned out my motivation to keep playing for awhile because it took forever to get that far. I'm glad that I've finally finished this game, though.

As for Pokemon Emerald. I fought my way through the Elite 4 only to go up against Wallace, whom I forgot was even the champion .....and 4 out of 6 of my Pokemon were weak to Water Type moves! Sooooo....yeah, I failed. I leveled up the team to Level 55 at Victory Road after that and emerged victorious on the second attempt. Zangoose was a total pro. Swords Dance x 3 + Slash was a good combo for sweeping the Elite 4 members. I'm going to hold off on doing the Battle Frontier for now. I'm going to save that as sort of a "finale" for when I've beaten all the Gen 3 games. I've never beaten that, so I'm going to form a better team later on and try to finally complete it.

I only have one more level with any secrets to find in Donkey Kong Country (Tanked Up Trouble), but I can't seem to find the last bonus room. I've been through the stage at least 20 times, but I still haven't found it. I'm sure I'm just overlooking something, but I'm not going to look anything up. I've found everything else without a guide so far, I'm sure I can find this. Other than that last bonus room, the only thing I have left to do is defeat King K. Rool, and then this game will be finished.

I defeated some more trainers on Pokemon Puzzle League. I was able to beat Giovanni, Ritchie, Lorelei, and Bruno. Now I'm working on beating Gary. I've gotten better at doing chain combos, but it still seems like I'm only winning because I survived long enough for the opponents to somehow mess up, haha.

I've S-Ranked quite a few more stages on Sonic Generations. The only stages I have left to S-Rank are Modern Sonic's stage in Tropical Resort Zone, the last Chaos Emerald Stage, and the last three boss battles. It shouldn't take too much longer to S-Rank those stages, though. After that I'll start working on completing all the missions.

I've completed the main game, and now I'm working on completing the Special Worlds on Super Mario 3D Land. I'm at Special World 4 right now. I've unlocked Luigi as a playable character, and I've been using him whenever I have to stage return for Star Coins or Golden Flags. I'm a little disappointed with the Boomerang Mario power up. I know the Boomerang can grab items for you, but overall it just feels like a harder to use Fire Mario. Still a fun power up, though.

Since I beat Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and Pokemon Emerald, I decided to go ahead and pick back up my files in the NES Punch Out! and Ghosts 'n' Goblins. When I last left off in Punch Out! I had defeated Super Macho Man and wrote down the pass word. Since then I've been working on taking out Mr. Dream. Every time that I fail against Mr. Dream I have to fight Super Macho Man over again, but I've gotten his pattern down, so it's not that big a deal. I'll eventually get Mr. Dream's pattern down and then he'll be no problem as well.

I made it to Level 5 the last time I played Ghosts 'n' Goblins. I've lost count of how many game overs I've gotten so far. I played it some today, however, and was successful in completing Level 5. Now I'm on Level 6. I actually think the Shield Weapon isn't too bad. I was stuck with the Axe for a long time, and the Shield is what replaced the Axe. Funny enough, the first run through the level after I got the Shield was the successful attempt. I'm going to do my best to avoid the Torch and Axe on the second journey through all the levels. Oddly enough, I haven't seen the Dagger even once yet! Anyway, this is definitely one of the toughest games I've ever played and this will be my first time going all the way through the game.

PHEW! What a long message! Have fun reading that! Hope you guys don't mind the added colors.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Turo602

I've checked their forums and it's nothing but outrage. Apparently they've even commented on it before and basically they decided to focus their attention on the Cold Cold Heart DLC rather than making the game playable for everyone.

This happens more often than you think and it's almost always entirely ignored. I've had it happen to me twice and it's bullsh*t. It happened once with the original Lost Planet, where specific launch 360's would crash at the exact same point (the giant moth fight) without fail, which they never fixed or even gave an explanation for. The second was with Gears of War for the PC. There's a certain section of the campaign that would crash, again without fail, and though it was acknowledge and documented, it was never ever fixed. In both cases it's presumed that they didn't bother because it only had an adverse affect on X number of people, where X = not enough people for them to give a sh*t.

It's an absolutely disgusting practice and it happens a LOT.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Peanut

-Snip for brevity-

Wow, sounds like the bugs and issues filed at my job A report I filed 8 years ago literally just got fulfilled within the last two weeks.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

Wow, sounds like the bugs and issues filed at my job A report I filed 8 years ago literally just got fulfilled within the last two weeks.

You do like malware and spyware related stuff, right?

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Cure

You do like malware and spyware related stuff, right?

Phishing mostly, but yes, that too.

[Leo656]

Quick question: These bugs etc. about Arkham Origins, are they platform-specific or is it across the board? Because I got it for 360 as a Christmas gift and haven't played it yet. Just curious how to best avoid any of these issues if it can at all be helped. Thanks in advance.

Still chipping away at L.A. Noire, it's a lot longer than I thought it'd be for some reason. I like it a lot, not sure why I kept putting it off, other than I rarely have my PS3 hooked up. Some of the logic during the interrogations is a little off, like there was at least one time when their face clearly implied they were being dishonest but it turned out I had to select "Truth". And then another time where I got every clue, did every question correctly, every bit of evidence pointed to one guy, but in the end I got screamed at for charging the "Wrong" guy with murder. I read about it, and it turns out the game basically "forces" you to charge the wrong guy to fit the game's storyline, and I didn't like that, as it basically "punishes' you for playing the game correctly. On the whole, though, I like it a lot.

Redmage: I love the Paper Mario series, I agree that Thousand-Year Door is great and it's my personal favorite in that series.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Redmage1987

I got Remix 1 and 2 awhile back, and 100% completed both on single player. I thought they were really enjoyable games. It was MUCH easier to Rainbow Star everything on Remix 2, though. Some of the stages (certain Ice Climber and Excite Bike stages come to mind) were pretty tough to complete. It seemed like you had to be 100% perfect and precise with everything in order to Rainbow Star the stages on Remix 1, whereas on Remix 2 I was able to Rainbow Star a lot of the stages even after screwing up.

The trick to the Ice Climber stages is to run before jumping, it really helps because if you don't, you fall right through the platforms.

[Peanut]

Peanuts Pro-Tip of the Week*: The trick to Ice Climbers is to never play Ice Climbers!

*Pro-Tip of the Week also relevant in regards to these "classic" games ...

• Urban Champion
• Devil World
• Any NES Sports Title
• Adventures of Lolo
• The Entire LJN Catalog
• And more!!

[Ninjinister]

Seanbaby kind of lost his je ne sais quoi when he started writing for Cracked, so any time I have an opportunity to read some of his older stuff, even if I've read it hundreds of times before, is a positive experience.

[Peanut]

Fully agreed there. Dude used to kill me on Broken Pixels back in the day.