Best Laid Plans

Right now I should've been enjoying some time away from my kids.  I felt enough crap happened to me that the universe would have let this go through.  Nope.  For various reasons, the kids are not likely to be able to visit their grandparents for a few days, leaving me stuck with them.  So, no vacation before the oldest goes to school.  It feels like I'm so unlucky I can't even win an "Unluckiest Contest".  I can hope for a trip around Christmas, assuming one of us doesn't go crazy in that time.  This is more disappointing than Transformers: FoC being moved farther from my birthday.  So if I want to finish the platinum trophy on Heavy Rain, it looks like I'll have to do it in 1-2 hour bursts late at night.

A Break?! Finally...

If all goes according to plan, next week my rugrats should go to their grandparents' house for a few days.  Man, that will be soooo nice!  I'm already planning out some stuff to do while I have the freedom to do it.  I'm thinking of finishing off a few PS3 games, so I can delete the mandatory install.  Until I can get a bigger HD, I'm stuck with "only" 120GB.  I should finish my "trophy run" of Heavy Rain, getting most of the rest of the trohpies (I already beat it over a year ago), and hopefully beat the Wolverine game.  And for 360, maybe  play some Dead Island GotY edition that I picked up cheap a few weeks ago.  So many possibilities!

And I'll just sit around and enjoy the silence.  Seriously, it has been too long.

If Redbox gets Transformers Fall of Cybertron, I'll try that out for a day as well.  It's not on their site, but I can hope they just magically get it.  I'll have to play it somehow, and I don't want to just watch my friend play it when I go over.  That's even worse than not being able to play it myself.

I might as well finish a few more Youtube videos too, and post them.  We shall see!

2 Steps Forward, 2 Steps Back

I played Lego Batman 2 at my friend's house the other night, and while this is "the most changed" Lego game to date, it's not that changed.  They added voice acting, and the Batman ones were slightly different in they had the suits, not different characters, to solve the puzzles.  Everything else is the same.  Same terrible camera, hit detection, targeting, sending endless guys while you try to figure out a puzzle, etc.  I'll get it cheap for my son, who will likely love it as he has the others, but I'm fine that the last one I played was Lego Batman.

Now on to the stupidest part.  Yeah, I would be skeptical after reading that, too.  In the Batcave, there is water underneath the stage.  This water is the most dangerous thing in the game, as it can kill 95% of the cast.  If you jump into it, your character dies.  Except Superman and General Zod.  They are the only ones who will fall in and automatically fly out of it instead of dying.  Everyone else will die a horrible death.  Green Lantern?  Check, even though he can fly.  Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman?  Check, even though they are "invulnerable".  A being named BRAINIAC?  Of course he's stupid enough to die, even though capable of flight.  Killer Croc?  Of course he would drown.

This brings us to Aquaman.  You must think that a guy named ****ing AQUAMAN could swim and not drown.  Well, you are wrong.  Even Batman dies in his own water.

A minor gripe?  Sure.  It's just remarkably stupid to have that in the game.  Why drown all but 2 people?  Why not have all flyers just auto fly when they drop in?  The developers are lazy, considering they have made the same game, what, 10 times already?  Just put a new coat of paint on the Lego guys and you're good to go?  I think the drowning thing is even stupider than my previous favorite, robots having ragdoll physics in Transformers Armada for PS2.  I actually liked that game, though.

Fall of Cybertron Demo Impressions

While I'm very excited to play this game, it's unlikely I will be able to afford it upon release.  I might use my birthday money for it (assuming I get some), but we will see.  Until then, the demo will have to suffice.  So, how was it?

I liked it a lot.  I was sad to see Bumblebee have a damaged voice box, so they are making the stupid Michael Bay Bumblebee cannon, I guess.  I don't like BB at all, but the voiceless one is even stupider.  Please stop doing it.  Other than that, his level was ok, but there are several scenes where they just kill nameless Autobots for no real reason.  I don't like stuff like that, it is very pointless.  I'm a fan of making a character's death mean something, not just have them fly out into space to show that it can happen.

Vortex's level was fun, I like his chopper/jet form.  I really wanted to explore it and look for collectibles, but I don't know if they are actually there, other than the 1 obvious audio log I found.  Both levels ended at strange places, so I hope it's nowhere near the full level for either.

Now for multiplayer.  War for Cybertron was one of the few games where I enjoyed the competitive multiplayer.  I managed to max out 2 of the 4 classes.  I could likely max out scientist, but it would take awhile.  The scout....nope.  I hated that class.  When trying the multiplayer in the demo, I at first wasn't impressed.  Sure, making your own Transformer is cool, if a little limiting at first, but I died a lot.  I slowly got the hang of it, but I felt really weak.  The warrior's Tornado ability seems a lot worse than it was in the first game.  I used to get plenty of kills with it, but it just seemed bad.  I still wish you had more than 4 weapons to choose from per class, as the biggest reason why I couldn't use the scout was I hated the weapons.  Seeing as how the only achievements I don't have in the first game are the last 2 for multiplayer, I'm not sure how much I will play it in the sequel.

I'm definitely looking forward to playing the game.  The demo gave a good feel for the game.  I might not like the competitive multiplayer as much as the first, but that could change after getting some time with the full version.