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Nov 29, 2008
Wayne Santos
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Stating The Obvious

Why is the hardest level of MGS 4 so… HARD?!

Granted, it’s still not the insanity that is the “Dante Must Die” mode of Devil May Cry 4, but the precision you need to get through this game without killing anyone, without being seen and without resorting to healing items is craaaaaaaaaaazy.

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Nov 27, 2008
Wayne Santos
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Starting The Big Run

It’s time to get the Big Boss emblem in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Not a task for the faint of heart; play the hardest difficulty level in less than 5 hours, don’t use healing items, don’t kill anyone (you can knock them out with a tranq gun or stun grenade) and don’t get seen by any enemies.

Fortunately, you can save in between rounds, something that a similar task on the original Metal Gear Solid wouldn’t even allow you to do without disqualifying yourself.

Games
Nov 26, 2008
Wayne Santos
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Maybe Europe Is Better

I'm really, REALLY surprised at the difference in behavior between America and Europe.  Quite stunning how dramatic it is.

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Nov 25, 2008
Wayne Santos
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And Done

< ![CDATA[Tomb Raider:  Underworld is finished.  Not the greatest TR game in the world, but it managed to present itself ably.  My only criticisms are that the camera gets occasionally funny, and the pacing between game and story seems off, which is odd considering how balanced it was in earlier titles.  Still for what it was, I had a good time, it’s a decent addition to the collection.

Games
Nov 17, 2008
Wayne Santos
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Round 2

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Grand Theft Auto IV has now been finished.  AGAIN.  This time for trophies.  Now to 100% it.  AGAIN.

Boring And Insipid Posts
Nov 11, 2008
Wayne Santos
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Still Boring

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Played more LittleBigPlanet

Games
Nov 3, 2008
Wayne Santos
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Playing For Shinies

The Playstation network recently upgraded the operating system on the Playstation 3, and now PS3 owners have this thing-a-ma-bob called “trophies,” which are the Sony equivalent of Microsoft’s “Achievement Points” for the Xbox 360. Unfortunately, there’s going to be a bit of a wait before all the games get patches to allow trophy acquisition, so for the moment, there’s only ONE game that gives them to players. Sony has also announced that games, when finally patched for trophies, will NOT retroactively award them. In other words, if you had to satisfy a certain criteria to get a particular trophy (ie, finish the game, is usually one) the system will NOT read your previous game save, see that you’ve accomplished this, and give you the trophy. Everyone starts from zero, meaning that if you want that trophy, you’ll simply have to create a new save file and start over again.

Needless to say, my teetering on the edge of completing “the Big Boss Emblem,” the single hardest achievement in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is going to sit there, incomplete, until the official Sony Trophy for the task is patched in.

In the meantime, I just bought that one game that has trophies enabled for lack of anything better to do and am now shamelessly trying to get them.

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