Re-downloading Mass Effect 2, JRPGs, Stupid Used Wii

me:  ahoy

  Marty:  Aloha

 me:  what's crackin'?

  Marty:  Meh...same old

You?

 me:  same

bored

  Marty:  Sorry - dealing with poop

 me:  it's cool

i'm very, very bored

so i'm just wanting good stores

stories

 Marty:  I started insanity on ME2

ps, I also downloaded Me2

took 2 hours

  me:  oh really?

you got all of the dlc with it, though

i've played some of it, and it was worth it

 Marty:  Mmm not the arrival

 me:  what, really?

 Marty:  Wait...I got the "Cereberus pack"

which included the digital comic

Does that include the DLC as well?

 me:  hmm... i don't know

i really thought the PS3 version came with all of the DLC pre-loaded

especially Lair of the Shadow Broker

you want that one

 Marty:  Well I have one achievement called "confront the shadow broker"

so I'm guessing I have that

 me:  ok then you do

there are some small ramifications from that in ME3

 Marty:  Isn't Liara the shadow broker? Or does she kill him?

 me:  you fight the previous shadow broker and she takes over

sorry to spoil it for you

but it's a good, meaty DLC pack. it's a long mission and a good boss fight to cap it

 Marty:  Ok good.

I like insanity...

It really forces you to understand the powers

whereas normal, I just spammed whatever was ready

 me:  my first playthrough of ME3 was as a vanguard with some great in-your-face powers. i feel as though i used them really intuitively

the one i'm doing right now is as a tactician (the sniper one) and i barely use my powers at all

 Marty:  I was the sniper guy for ME3...infiltrator

 me:  however, i missed the fact that you can buy weapon upgrades from your ship between missions (not just mods)

 Marty:  That cloak is a life saver

 me:  oh that's what i meant

and that's the only skill i use

the other ones are meh

 Marty:  I have no idea how anyone is suppose to survive that london mission on insanity

but I'll try one day

 me:  no shit

swarmed by banshees is not what i'd call a cake walk on normal

 Marty:  I hate those effing things

One thing I found annoying was upgrading weapons in ME3

I didn't know which were being used by my squad, and I couldn't find out until I was loading out

 me:  yeah

i hate that

 Marty:  As a result, they all stayed at level 1, while my sniper was super maxxed

I thought of writing them down, but I was too lazy

 me:  i remember what my last squad was using during the last missions of my first game and i'm just making them stick with those

but i'm trying to use james because of his shotgun/ heavy armor thing

and he's a dipshit

i wish i could give individual orders and have him bum rush everything

  me:  so i shelled out another 100 clams on a new joystick

 Marty:  Wha? Why?

 me:  these guys i met run weekly fighting game tournaments

but they all play on 360s, which is bunk

i bought a stick to bring with me, but it was cheap and i got what i payed for

so i sold it on ebay, and now i'm sitting on my third expensive joystick

they're starting another "season" of tournaments in a few weeks

 Marty:  That sucks...why was it bad?

 me:  the one i sold wasn't very sturdy, had some lousy stock parts that didn't feel right, either

sat kind of funny on my lap, which made it hard to play in a crowd of people

this new one has gotten the thumbs up from folks i trust, and the price was right

then again, i think i may just be getting a joystick fetish

i'm starting to look them up on ebay more often than i should

 Marty:  It's all that new money...going to your head

 me:  ha must be

honestly, outside of our trip to san fran, this has been my one and only frivolous purchase

or however that's spelled

  Marty:  Same here. Except that used Wii

Which I'm regretting

Here's been my experience so far:

Hey! Lets buy a Wii so we can play as husband and wife. Oh! I'll get Rampage and Price is Right for It since those are the only options

"Holy crap these games are horrible"

Ok, lets buy Rayman Raving Rabbids

"I need a fucking nunchuk now??"

Ok, lets download Sonic

"This is only one player??!"

Fine...fuck it...MJ likes Street Fighter, we'll download that

"Game requires classic controller"

Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhh

 me:  wait, so you bought a wii finally?

 Marty:  Yeah, from the classifieds

spent $170 so far and haven't enjoyed it yet

 me:  ok, first, rayman raving rabids is fun

but yes, the wii is the ultimate nickle and dime machine

i have tons of wii junk laying around that i'll probably never use again

but the good stuff is GOOD

those mario games

the resident evil shooting games

 Marty:  Yeah...hey...can you mail me a couple you aren't using?

 me:  house of the dead overkill is hiiiiiilarious

 Marty:  I'll send a cheque back covering shipping...

 me:  sure i can do that

oh forget shipping, dummy

 Marty:  Nah, I will. You're saving me tons of money

 me:  ha

 Marty:  Do you have twilight princess? Mario Galaxy? Anything I can play with my wife?

 me:  i have the first mario galaxy, but it's still a one-player joint

 Marty:  That's cool - I'd love to try it

 me:  does your wife like shooting zombies

?

 Marty:  yes, we always play house of the dead at the nearby Dave and Busters

 me:  then i'm mailing you HOTD: Overkill

it's awesome

 Marty:  haha sweet

 me:  a ps3 version with move support just came out a few months ago, but i'll save you the trouble

you should look into wario ware smooth moves. we rented it and had some fun

 Marty:  Awesome...willd o

  me:  there seems to be a way awesome rpg coming out next friday called xenoblade

i'm kind of tickled by that

 Marty:  yeah, isn't that on Wii too?

 me:  yep

i am quite excited for it

wii exclusive

 Marty:  That was the one everyone was clamoring for in North America eh?

Oh!!!

I forgot ... you'll appreciate this

 me:  coooooorect

that and The Last Stroy

Story

 Marty:  We had one of MJ's friends knit us two, custom made toadstool beanies for our kid to wear in the hospital

My child will be born a nerd

 me:  haha awesome!

bringing it into the world correctly

 Marty:  Yep...that's out plan. They look crazy cute

Sorry...I remembered I wanted to tell you something...just did

  Marty:  So xeno-whatsit. Is it a xenosaga thing?

  me:  same director, but it's not involved with his other nonsense

when it came out in the uk last year, the words "genre-defining" were tossed around a whole lot

 Marty:  You mean the clusterfuck that was those 3 PS3 games?

 me:  yessir

 Marty:  Sweet lord. I remember sitting through 1-hour long cutscenes

 me:  no shit

those games were poop

weirdly, part 3 has since become something of a collectable

 Marty:  hah

because it's rare?

 me:  i think it might have had a low print run or something

it demands more money on ebay than it's worth by a landslide

  Marty:  Really? How much more?

 me:  oh now i'm curious too

let me look

  me:  looks like it averages just north of $30

but i'm seeing bundles of all three on there for 90

and that's just asinine

 Marty:  30 is pretty decent

I thought you were going to say $100 or something

 me:  oh no

i would have sold mine for that

ok the first one averages about 10, which i think is fair

2 looks to be around 20

it seems as though they just go in increments of 10 apiece

 Marty:  I just remember being so mad at that game

 me:  what, for sitting there and making you wait to play it through those bogus cut scenes

?

 Marty:  Yeah...because I think I had rented it, and I just wanted to play it, but one afternoon I played like a half hour and watched about 2 hours of bullshit, horribly paced, shittily rendered PS2 cut scenes

 me:  yeah that sounds about right

i completely passed on it when it came out. when i moved to cleveland, i worked at a used music store for a while and we were practically giving copies away

so i made sure they gave one to me

and was unimpressed

for some stupid reason, my best friend bought be the sequel as a birthday gift

i think i bought the third one because i knew that it was getting hard to come by

and that's my story

 Marty:  Riveting...and understandable

 me:  i have a lot really terrible jrpgs, and i'm always willing to tell stories about them

much like everyone else with a lot of really terrible jrpgs

 Marty:  Honestly, I think I'm done with Final Fantasy

I feel like I drag myself through them

 me:  yeah i think i might be at that point, too

 Marty:  Its been an obligation thing, but I always tank out at least a few hours in

 me:  after the last few years, i'm pretty sure i'm hanging up jrpgs in general

 Marty:  There's just no need for them anymore

 me:  i dunno

 Marty:  RPGs were made because it was impossible to do that level of real time action

 me:  i really want a great one to come out and reignite why i like them

 Marty:  True

 me:  oh i agree on that

but the last few great rpgs i've played are western-built

and i'm sick to death of the cliches and tropes

 Marty:  Yes. Absolutely. I think it would take a really well told story to get me back

But if I see one more giggly, large breasted woman I'm out

 me:  you ever play any of the vanilla ware stuff/

?

 Marty:  Which are those?

 me:  odin sphere, grim grimoire

another good wii game called muramasa: the demon blade

doesn't matter

anyway, they're developing something for the ps3/vita that may or may not turn into vaporware

my gut reaction to that was "oh no!"

after seeing more of the art from it sporting impossibly chesty chicks, it was more like "mmmmaybe for the best

 Marty:  Oh one sec...coffee

 me:  yeah get on that

 Sent at 3:11 PM on Thursday

 Marty:  Mmmmmm fuel

 me:  hey does google save these conversations we have?

 Sent at 3:17 PM on Thursday

 me:  i have kind of a fun idea

oh it's gonna be like that, is it?

 Sent at 3:19 PM on Thursday

 Marty:  I dunno..huh? what's going on?