Week 11 - MvC3

After a couple busy weeks I have jumped back into the gaming chair to put in some hard hours. This week I put lots of hours into MvC3, and I think I've played enough to final give it my review this week. That also might be the case because I have nothing to talk about this week, but I wouldn't rush this just for that reason. I also knocked out a few trophies on DS: Extraction, so first we will start off with how much I've accomplished in Extraction (which doesn't happen to be a lot).

On Extraction I've been taking my time with, mainly due to not liking rail shooters, but most of you know all this. This week I finished getting all the stars and logs, weapons, and upgrades for the required levels. Now I must go through the other levels to collect all the upgrades. I'm also thinking about just picking them up through my next playthrough when I go through it on impossible, and that's because I can't remember which levels I need to go through to find the missing upgrades. If I keep on this same speed and finish impossible by the end of the week I'm hoping to finish this before the month.

With MvC3 being my game to keep me sane while playing Extraction. If I don't platinum Extraction this month then MvC3 is my fallback plan, which I'm half way through them. I finished the hardest trophies first which was completing 320 mission in the mission mode. Now I've been playing through the arcade mode, there are a few choose this team and win a match with them trophies that I'm missing. I've completed beating arcade on the hardest difficulty, and right now I'm just going through it with every character and picking up a few more trophies along the way.

Now for my review on MvC3, and again I must state this right now... I haven't officially play MvC2 yet.

Review:
Sound: It's a fighting game... if your playing this for sounds then there is something wrong with you. I've completed the 320 mission trophy, and I got sick of the sound. It doesn't bother me one bit because I don't play the game for the sound. They didn't give much variety to the sound each number combo is given a phrase... "Wonderful", "good!", "Viewtiful". You hear it once you'll hear it again next time.

Gameplay: If your looking for something that will captivate you and pull you in for all hours of the night? Look no further! This game will make you feel like the pros when playing. You will be pulling of insane long string combos, and the game is real easy to pick up and play. Of course as always practice does make you a better player allowing you to string longer combos together and pulling off even more fancy stuff for your opponent to lose too. Also the more time you put the more you learn about the game, which makes the game always fun to pick up.

Playability: You have simple button map out especially when playing on a arcade stick. If you don't like the layout you can customize to any way you want, which makes it even more simplistic to learn. I used to play on the DS3, but never used it when playing MvC3 though. I'm assuming it helps a lot more.

Story: Again your playing a fighting game... your not gonna find a compelling heart felt story in this game. I don't even think the story makes sense in this game.

Online: I have yet to take full advantage of this aspect of the game. I have played online with friends on my PSN list, but from what I hear things are not good when it comes to the mathcup features. I hear that it takes a long time to find matches and then when you do find matches 9 out of 10 times they are spammers. From when I play with my friends the lobby talk is great very clear, matches are fast to get started. The only problem I have with it is when you have multiple people in the lobby then you can't watch the match if your not in the matchup (obviously).

Replayability: Between the mission, online play, and people on your friends list I think this game will last a long time. From what I hear it may not be longer then MvC2, but from what I see a lot of people will be playing this for a long time.

That is it for this week. Thanks for joining me, and hope you all enjoyed my MvC3 review. More updates to come next week, and still have 2 weeks left in the month definitely need get pull a platinum out of something. That's one thing I'm stressing over right now. I really wish I could just bite the nail and finish Extraction. Anyways I hope to catch you all next week!

Trophy Counter:
Trophies: 1247/2012 Platinum Trophies: 19/32

Week 9 & 10 - Busy, Busy, Busy

Alright guys sorry for the delayed blog yet again, and I just wanted everyone to know that I am okay :P. For realseaze though these last 2 weeks I have made some huge lifestyle changes and been busy with that, and I just haven't had time to post with all that going on. I have still been gaming somewhat, but not doing so well in trophies this month. Right now we are halfway through the month and I have only gotten a handful of trophies, as well as now where close to getting the Mass Effect 2 platinum. I have been playing though, and I'm about 20 hours into the game. I have about another 10-15 hours left before I beat it. I've also been playing Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, which I have to say has been most my trophy output at this moment. MvC3 has given me a bunch of easily obtainable trophies, and I've been trying to accomplish the harder ones at the same time. On top of all this gaming biz I've been car shopping, and I have been successful. Got me a nice cheap beater that runs really well, and really only has cosmetic problems but it's a beater so I don't care. Plus I moved into my Fiances apartment so we can officially start the beginning of our lives together.

Mass Effect 2 has been a great game, so far I'm loving the story line, the way the game handles, and even the gameplay is fun. One thing that's got me down is it seems is repetitive. Go hear, talk to this person, get the mission, go to this area, clear at the bad guys, recruit certain person, mission accomplished... it seems like that on every mission.

I am absolutely loving Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, and most people might be like why? the second one was better. I will admit I am very late to the series, I literally didn't play MvC2 until I heard MvC3 was even out. I've played the MvC2 demo once, but I'm loving MvC3 due to it's feeling of being more of an arcade style game. Fast action cool and easy to pull off combos, and plus the mission mode in this game is 10 times easier that in SSFIV. I'm one character away from being halfway done, and the combos are challenge to some degree, but the game is so easy to pick up I'm just not having that many problems with mission mode.

Now that I moved into my Fiances apartment I was able to bring my recording equipment, T.V, and my computer, so now I should have no excuses of not playing a game. This means that Extraction needs to be finished this month. I'm gonna have to bust some ass to get it done, and as much as I don't like rail shooters I'm almost tempted to go out and get the move for this game (among other reasons such as KZ3). I have 2 missions I have to get 5 stars on, and then 3 mission I have to get all the items on, and then I have to beat the game on impossible as well as the challenges. Hopefully I can bust through it this month.

Now that you guys got your update and the gist of why I've been gone, and my future plans I believe my time here is done! Thanks for reading hope you guys enjoy and catch me next week. Off to play some Mass Effect and Extraction... Later!

Trophy Counter:
Trophies: 1227/2012 Platinum Trophies: 19/32