nukesniper

That list is big, but Lumines, Lumines 2,Patapon 1 and 3, Metal Gear Ac!d 1 and 2, and Work Time Fun aren't on there. What is that about? The Vita makes me sad.

I play most games with sound on, but when I am playing something that I care less about, the volume goes down, the story is ignored, and the podcasts or music come out. My best examples are Dark Void and Dark Sector. I simply did not find the story in those games fun and I mainly played them for achievements at a point, so I ignored most of what goes on.

Every game gets a chance though.

I'm currently in a spiral of modern board games (German type) ever since a friend brought over 7 Wonders. I bought that shortly after, followed by Forbidden Island, Ticket to Ride, The Resistance, Carcassonne on XBLA, Ticket to Ride on XBLA, Catan on XBLA, then I got Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer and Pandemic for Christmas last year.

I have found that I love the strategies of the board games and the social elements that they contain. I feel like some of the deeper games run like Civilization (Yes, I know that there is a Civ board game too, and that that is where Civ started), but with a board game you have to understand more about it. Nothing is hidden from you, and if it is hidden you can find out how it works if you have to do that. I love the interaction and the mechanics and the understanding that goes into them. Now I spend a lot of time on the computer looking into other games I would like.

This isn't an immediate spiral like this topic started as, but it is what I have going on now. My amazon.com wishlist has no less than 12 games in it right now, and I recently bought a few promo cards and pieces for games I don't even have yet, but I plan to get them someday. Crazy/dumb.

Zynga makes this real bad and obvious. When Tiny Wings never came to Android, I wasn't bothered by Dragon, Fly! because it was the same game, but it was free. Now there is an ad-free paid version of it and I think it is really crazy that people can get away with things like this in the mobile market.

Tiny Tower is awesome though, and it looks better than Zynga's dumb game.

Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands 2, Diablo 3. That is all right now.

This is simply a heads up for people who have Streets of Rage 2 or are looking at buying it. However, this is only something to be concerned with if you have multiple consoles you use regularly. Streets of Rage does not have a full game license that ties to your player profile. This means that only the original console that purchased the game can play Streets of Rage 2 on it. I have two Xbox consoles (one is my girlfriends) and when I move my profile to my other box Streets only comes up as a trial while any profile can access the full game on my main xbox.

Note: The usual way of doing things on the Xbox is to tie the license to your profile (as long as it is online) and to the original xbox it was purchased on (which will work offline). Streets of Rage 2 is the only game that I know of that does this with only one of the two modes.

Just know that if you take a flash drive with Streets of Rage 2 on it to a friends house, you will not be able to play it that way. Weird, but annoying little bit of programming.

@BisonHero said:

@nukesniper:

Out of curiosity, which puzzle did you misunderstand? Was it the one where you're trying to throw a rock at a government agent, and the moon rays will move the rock, and you have to place trees in the right spots? I thought that puzzle was so vaguely explained that it almost forces you to just waste a guess to even understand how the puzzle operates. And then I said "Nuts to that, I haven't messed up a puzzle prior to this one", so I looked up the solution online.

Yes it was! My first attempt the rock flew out of the woods. I had devised another solution that worked, but it assumed that the edges of the screen would contain the rock, causing my rock to fly out of the screen on the first "throw."

I agree about the puzzles too. There are only 31 in the game. Three puzzles are sliding puzzles, and two of those require blocking windows. Three or four are "put the pictures in order" puzzles. Two cut the locks on the door puzzles, which i know return from the first game. And two or three connection and distribution puzzles like you mentioned.

The layout of the game is a similar, winning formula. The story is dumb and awesome and delivered well (aside from the fact that you can't skip the drawn out animations if you accidentally click on the wrong thing). I like these games, but not in any way like I like the Layton games.

@eternalshades said:

Where you able to do this after completing the game?

I've got 33 puzzle solved (including the last two robot ones), with 4 of them not having a perfect score. I tried re-solving them from the case files, but it remembers your previous attempts and hints used... seems like a waste of time to start over from scratch just to get the final achievement.

I'm late to the party here, but it seems that you have to do it all in one run. I had a perfect run until I misunderstood a puzzle near the end (one where the mechanics are vague, but it animates once you hit submit) and now I'm a Puzzle Agent, but I'm not perfect.

Seems I have to play the whole game again, perfecting every puzzle along the way, in order to get these last 2 achievements.

@EvilKatarn said:

The final answer is The Kore Gang, right?

Yes. It has to be. I'm shocked no one else has figured that yet (that I've seen).

Not at all. Runescape was my first MMO before I got a new computer. Then I built a computer for WoW. WoW ruined me and I played it for 4 years. Now I am free (To play way too much of every other game out there).