Achievement Unlocked: Dammit RAAM edition

So guess what game is freaking impossible to beat on Insane? Gears of War. Well, impossible to beat without dying many horrible, horrible deaths, that is. Playing on insane effectively makes you the weakest person ever. Everyone can survive a point blank grenade, except you.

And because of this, the final boss, RAAM, is one of the hardest bosses I've ever fought. Not because he has an impenetrable shield, not because there are also enemies firing at you from the sky, not because there are thousands of Kryll in the sky waiting to eat me, and not because my teammate Dom is an idiot that gets himself killed right away... it's because he's a fucking dead-on aim with a gatling gun. And will kill you in under a second. Yet, the only reason I beat this monstrosity is because my AI Teammate, Dom, had to be an idiot and keep getting himself killed. Except on the last time, he died in such a place that RAAM could not come any closer to me. Thus ensuring sweet victory, granted I wasn't out of cover for more than 1 second at a time.

And who the hell came up with exploding Wretches? This game is extremely fun, but I mean come on, why do you have to make something that kills me fast kill me after its dead? (Read: Act 3 sucks ass.)

In either case, this brings Matt up to 500 achievement points in Gears of War. Woot!

Screw Halo, go play some Gears. >_>

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This Week In Comics (was uneventful)

Not a whole lot new came out. There was a new World War Hulk, which is entertaining to read, but pretty predictable. Everyone knew Sentry was gonna come into play for issue 5, so there were no real surprises. Just what this series is good at: lots of random fighting and random sound effects. There was a "SCHLOOOORF" this issue, but that's nothing compared to "Krakka Bathroom!" from issue one.
If you want me to keep buying WWH, at least throw in a "That's what she said joke". Oh wait. You already did.

Editor's Note: Yes, I know, comics come out on Wednesday, and today is a Tuesday, which makes me almost a week behind. I know.

Achievement Unlocked - Gun, Oblivion, and teh haloz Edition

So I finally got around to writing the new xbox 360 related column I mentioned back in the day. I'm calling it Achievement Unlocked, because I already had the graphic made, and I'm too lazy to think of a better name.

Recently, I got Oblivion and Gun in the mail through Goozex. I quickly beat Gun 100% on easy which gave me every achievement but 3 (beating the game on medium, hard, and expert). I'll probably go back and get 'em eventually.

I was playing through Oblivion, trying to get the achievements for beating the main storyline before getting to the various guilds. About 3/4 of the way through, the game froze and all my save games became corrupted. So I cursed a bit and then made a new character and am flying through the thieves guild quests.

Played a bit of Guitar Hero II, but accomplished nothing. Now that Freya's beat on expert, I've hit another wall. Need to get the unlocking all the characters achievement, but other than that, all of the achievements are near impossible or co-op.

Some of my 360 time has been spent playing teh haloz. I also have been exclusively calling it 'teh haloz' and will continue to do so until 'teh new haloz' comes out.

I'm at 6740. 7000 soon?

Sounds delicious

I knew TV shows other than Lost talked about needing to eat.
Metalocalypse is friggin' funny, BTW.

My hellza exciting weekend

I basically sat around playing video games (oblivion, gun, teh haloz), watching tv (lost, bones, prison break) and reading old comic books, mainly x-men. I started reading the dark pheonix saga. It's a classic. I also plopped down 6 bucks for a copy of X-Men (vol2) Issue 1. Now I just need issues 2-199, and I'll be up to date!

The Last of the Lost

All good things must come to an end, and as such, so have my lost videos (at least until Season 4, orI go back to seasons 1-2). But hey, there's other shows, and I don't think the videos will be stopping.



Anyway, enjoy!