Jeez, I put in four hours of skyrimming today.

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My tongue is tired.

travo said:

I'll have to give you guys my 3DS friend code because my wife got me a 3DS and Super Mario 3D Land.  Yay!  Now to pick up Mario Kart and Zelda from an after Christmas deal.


I also got Skyrim (360) and AC:  Revelations.  I can see all the fuss about Skyrim now after vowing to play for fifteen minutes, but playing for two hours straight.  It's certainly not gonna be my GOTY, but it's pretty damn good.

Damn son, your wife is awesome.

Why the hell are we stuck here with you? Your wife seems so much cooler! Let's trade in Travo for his wife!

Iga_Bobovic said:

Damn son, your wife is awesome.

Why the hell are we stuck here with you? Your wife seems so much cooler! Let's trade in Travo for his wife!

It's the same with Aspro and Steel.

Perhaps Aspro's wife could join us instead of him?

Who else is playing Peace Walker right now besides me and Travo?

Anyone on PS3?

I guess that somewhat answers my question!

What part are you up to that you had this Kojima revelation?

I just got blocked from going into the tunnel, following the Trucks, and I am about to fight a Tank.

So the 3DS has had the biggest December in the history of Japan, selling 1.492 million units, the DS has never sold that much in Dec. It has sold over 4 million units in Japan so far. BOMBA... oh wait.

Ravenprose said:

Crysis (PSN) AI =

I just shot about 6 guys, and destroyed a helicopter with an grenade launcher. Not 20 seconds later, I hear one of the AI enemies say, "Did you hear something?" not 10 feet away from me.

I'm playing it now just to see what the trainwreck AI will say or do next.

Its pretty comical that websites even tried to say that it was on the same level or better than the PC version. I mean wtf?

phantom_leo said:

I guess that somewhat answers my question!

What part are you up to that you had this Kojima revelation?

I just got blocked from going into the tunnel, following the Trucks, and I am about to fight a Tank.

I'm a few hours past that....make sure to read all the conversations.

Dvader said:

So the 3DS has had the biggest December in the history of Japan, selling 1.492 million units, the DS has never sold that much in Dec. It has sold over 4 million units in Japan so far. BOMBA... oh wait.

Yeah whatever. Nintendo is still doomed.

My take on Peace Walker so far. There's a WHOLE lot of POSITIVES, with a few TINY Negatives:

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Pros:

• Seeing how Big Boss got "hardened" after the events of Snake Eater, yet he still cares enough to rescue Innocent people and give advice to children, as when he tells Chico to grow up before starting to smoke.
• This is very nearly Metal Gear RPG! Weapons have Levels. There's Base Building and Weapon Forging (Research). You gather Resources (Confidential Documents). You can Level Up your troops by repeating Missions or Doing Training excercises. It's NUTS! I wonder if any of the old Suikoden guys worked with Kojima on this one?
• The Levels were made for a Portable --BUT-- this is not a bad thing AT ALL. The areas are small enough where you can finish them in a few minutes, but enjoyable enough where you'll WANT to go back to them to improve your Ranking.
• Capturing Soldiers or Rescuing Prisoners with the Fulton System NEVER. GETS. OLD!
• The Cut-Scenes have QTE's in them! I LOVE how they are drawn in the Graphic Novel, Concept Art style that was used for the Instruction Manuals or briefly in the cutscenes of the previous games!
• There's a METRIC TON of Items, Weapons and Equioment to Develop. You REALLY can play this game in any way that you want! Tranqs? Machine Guns? Explosives? Stealth? CQC? So many options! It's an amalgamation of ALL previous Metal Gear play styles!
• There's A LOT of Optional Side-Quests and Playing them is totally addicitve. Do you JUST go for completion and Rank? Do you try to Capture all the enemies in there to increase your Army? Do you even bother? I think you will as a LOT of the cooler weapons and items are found in those side missions! SO COOL that you can send in guys OTHER THAN Snake!
• They give you THREE Control Styles to choose from: The more Traditional Action scheme. The MGS4 Shooter scheme and the Monster Hunter scheme! I LOVE when Capcom and Konami collaborate on stuff!  <3

Cons:

• Not being able to crawl on your stomach feels WEIRD! Are there REALLY ---NO--- Vents to crawl thru in this game?!
• Snake's Character model looks appropriately aged and obviously bitter --BUT-- you can tell he was developed for a Portable Screen! Very low poly and his expression looks... Off!
• Can there be TOO MUCH equipment? Sometimes you have SO much stuff to choose from it can be overwhelming, and there seems to be less Item Slots this time around!

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More to come as I play!