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it's so lonely at the top of spelunky...

btw, the jet pack is insanely good. i would piss off a shopkeeper to steal one.

finally got past the ice caves to the ancient ruins. got melted by the lava on i think the second stage of the ruins. new high score:

$143,625

I am loving happy wars, esp now that I have started doing all the geeky item management stuff, it's got just enough tower defense stuff balanced with just the right amount of 15 on 15 pvp shit. Plus level progression and loot and tactical stuff and moments of utter madness. Highly recommend.

i think spelunky is my goty

i'll try to give both of those a shot this weekend

Right now fez is goty for me, but happy wars is rising quick, although the lobby crash ratio is infuriating

wait, did happy wars actually come out? it doesn't appear on xbox.com

and shit i better remember to get fez by the end of the year

(need more xbox live points deals)

Happy wars is only available if you are doing the new Xbox beta

oh, ok - i'll wait until it's public then

i forgot how Spelunky feels really, really on the edge there between fun, masterfully designed compulsion and hollow random-reward addiction. damn you all! just binged for about 3 hours straight

cool to see how much the game changed since the original, though from what i understand the free game was updating with new elements and monsters long after i stopped playing. but just playing it in HD with hand-drawn graphics on a TV is a total trip by itself, let alone all the weirdness that was translated intact (i.e. using the damsels as body shields or dropping them one too many times, the hyperactive angry shopkeepers and insane terrorist-fearing dudes just walling themselves in with treasure)

Played a couple of games of Happy Wars this morning and yeah, might get drawn in, especially by the loot management stuff. Am I on your friend list jjj?

i think so? my xbox handle is nnnnnggggghhhhh

really?

Anyone getting Mark of the Ninja?

yes, thats my real xbox handle, mostly because after going through about 100 attempted already taken ones, that is the low growling moaning sound i was making

anyone can feel free to friend me, i am a whore

My friends really enjoy it when they see "nnnnnggggghhhhh is online" pop up.

Ha, I think I deleted you in a cull a while back because I couldn't remember whose gamertag that was. Re-added you now.

Got Spelunky and now have regret. I know I hate these types of games, not sure why I went for it. I don't respond well to failure.

ILX peer pressure downfall as usual

fail less

Games I have given up on:

Dark Souls
Witcher 2
Soon to be Spelunky

i think spelunky is my goty

― Mordy

Me too. What is your tag Mordy? I seem to be having better runs every time I play this game, though I haven't been improving on my old score...

Are you getting better scores by starting out later with the tunnel shortcuts since the later levels have higher gold values? Or it is better to suck it up and start from 1-1 each time? I've only been using the shortcut(s) if I'm trying to push forward, not really for score.

i've watched a couple playthroughs of spelunky on youtube and that's as close as i'm getting

i've been starting from 1-1 each time - my gamertag is Shinefield

I pretty much always start at the beginning. I've only opened up a shortcut to the second section so far, where I hardly ever seem to collect any money anyway, since it's tough enough just to try to get through those levels. Ugh, going to go play more.

i'd open up the next shortcut but i never have the shotgun when passing through.

me neither. i died on 2-4 with a shotgun in my hand yesterday.

mark of the ninja is pretty impressive. there's a demo up that i highly recommend if you are intrigued.

ok, i was wondering if i was just bad at this. even on the pc version i think i made it past the ice levels twice. the jungle is really tough! god help you if you find those bees.

(and i mean twice out of probably over 1,000 deaths)

bees are easy to isolate though! endless boomerang dudes/spike trap combos, on the other hand...

Oh hi dere res evil 6 demo how u doing?

Will return with a racism scale rating of % limbaugh

low on the racism scale!

high on the schizophrenic "hey wait what game am i playing" scale, esp since the second of the three scenarios is basically a call of duty level. cant shoot or stomp zombies on the ground even though you know that they are going to get up until you hit some magic trigger point and they go unghghhhh and rise up, which is TOTALLY MADDENING on the first most old school scenario. survival horror dudes are going to hate this game.

that's dumb. i've been playing RE4 mercenaries for the last few days (for the first time really) and shooting/stabbing them when they're down is basic.

pretty sure i'm going to skip this game and give Dishonored a shot.

well you can shoot/stomp them once you have knocked them down, its just those moments where you walk in a room and there is a corpse like sitting in a chair right by the far exit or lying across the floor next to a table with a keycard, obv set up to grab at you when you get over there. but nope. cant shoot the zombie until the game says "OH NO ZOMBIE WHERE THAT COME FROM" at you.

this is made even funnier by the fact that your dude will literally stumble/trip over these exact same not zombie zombies half the time.

survival horror is the worst genre

oh ha

xp

script is pretty lolsome as well esp the second scenario where you basically give generic hero platoon leader speech #438 right at the beginning. "my job is to get us all through this alive, so buck up private insertnamehere, we were born to do this."

gonna try the demo; maybe i'll pick it up when it inevitably hits $40 around Black Friday

i bought borderlands 2 and so far i regret it. i don't think this game is for me.

uhoh i just also bought borderlands 2 and havent started it yet

should have called it morederlands!

If you liked the first one I think it'll be fine. I just don't feel comfortable with the controls at all so far.

anyone played the new NiGHTS into dreams hd remake?

btw if any of yall were wondering if people actually won that dumb scratch and win game they have on live, i won it last night. you do not get to choose from the 4 options, which means i am now the proud owner of some twin stick thing called aqua.