What did you Accomplish in Gaming Today?

[DS1]

I made a playlist of all of my favorite tracks from all of my favorite game OSTs and played it as my Wipeout HD soundtrack while doing time trials. That's sort of an accomplishment.

 

[CrimzonEyed]

Ac:nl: flower's, flower's, flower's, flower's, cafe donation complete, 80k left over and a ton of watered flower's.

Mario & Luigi DTB: solved the desert puzzle and is on my way to what seems to be a boss.

 

[weavile001]

Bought Terraria On Steam!
3 hours so far......i made a huge house with my friends!.

 

[BlackWizzard17]

Almost done beating Newer Super Mario Bros for the wii (on world 6 or 7) an amazing game by the way (kinda hard for a Mario game in some aspects.

 

[Flood]

Did a couple of assassin missions in GTAIV and going to start Pokemon Orange.

 

[xwatchmanx]

There's a huge difference. The GBC version is a RPG and the GBA version is an Action-Adventure game.
The GBC game doesn't really have random encounters, but the monsters appear in these little thunderclouds that trigger the fight when you walk into them (couldn't find any pictures about that). By using spells a lot, they level up. For example you start with flippendo uno and then you unlock flippendo duo and flippendo tria. Other spells are vermillious, verdimilious, incendio, petrificus totalus and wingardium leviosa. Each creature is weak to a certain spell and the spells cost MP, obviously the leveled spells cost more MP. It also follows the story way better than the GBA game. It follows the story even better than the movie lol.

Like I said, the GBA game is an Action-Adventure. You can scroll through learned spells with R and cast them with B, and solve puzzles by doing this.

Of course it has better graphics than the GBC version, but I liked the textures and overal look (especially the layout of the castle and look of the characters) better in the GBC version. The story in the GBA version was also really poorly implemented. There's almost no dialog. Just enough to tell you where you have to go next. Sometimes this makes it really weird, for example you deal the last blow to Voldemort and he flies at top speed at you, you see a green flash, and then you see a picture of Dumbledore and Harry, with Dumbledore saying 2 sentences, then another screen anouncing you won the House Cup and then the credits. All of this in about 7 seconds.
In the GBC game after you defeat Voldemort you see a little scene of Voldemort attacking him, Harry fainting and then a whole dialog with Dumbledore and about winning the House Cup which probably takes about 15 minutes. The story of the GBA version just seems rushed.
The controls of the GBA version are not bad but could be better and at some point you have to use a flute to make a monster follow you but they never explain how to do that (and I didn't have the manual).
And finally: the 'quests' or puzzles or whatever you call them are really dull or frustrating.

Harry Potter and the Chambre of Secrets also has both a GBC and GBA game. Again the GBC game is an RPG and the GBA game is an Action-Adventure. The GBC is almost the same as the first game, but not as great. They changed some things and I didn't like it as much but it's still a good game. Haven't played the GBA game but going to start that tomorrow (I bought both a few months ago). My first impression is that it's at least a little better than the first game though.

The third game only has a GBA version and thank god they made it an RPG. It really is the best of the whole Harry Potter game series.

Wow I didn't expect it would turn out that long lol.

Anyway on topic: Finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for GBA.
Glad that's over.
On to the next!

So to make a long story short, Harry Potter got a decent tie in game on the GBC, of all things. How about that. I might have to try it out.

 

[EMP Knightmare]

Updated my 3DS to ver 6.1.0-12U but it's still early

 

[weavile001]

Uped my high score on the Endless Remix of Rhythm Heaven fever,it was 169, now its 489.

 

[DragorianSword]

Finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for GBA.
Thank god it was better than the first one.
Also was able to finish Super Mario Land for GB for the first time!
On to Dragonball Z Legacy of Goku II!

 

[Blaze163]

Big day for gaming around here. Bought myself a PS3 at last. Old style 80GB model (are they backwards compatible or not, I can never remember), came with Uncharted 3, Sleeping Dogs, Ghostbusters and one pad, plus I treated myself to Tales of Graces F through trades as well since that Rhythm Thief 3DS game I was hunting down for years turned out to be really quite pants. Whole thing cost me £85 off a guy on GumTree. There were cheaper units available, but with a decent game selection to give my new console a kick-start plus he was local so we met up in town rather than me having to pay my friend extra to drive out of the city (only fair I pay the petrol costs when we do go out of town for my benefit), it works out to be a pretty good deal. Would've preferred a slim model in a perfect world but for the price I'm sure not gonna complain. All working perfectly, despite its age. Previous owner was extremely careful with it.

So with that in mind, my biggest achievement so far in the last 24 hours was blasting through Uncharted 3 til 2AM (and I only figured out it was 2AM when the autosave flashed up with the time) all the way up to the airport so far. Odd that I haven't even taken Tales of Graces F out of the box yet, but last night was supposed to be a quick test of the system, make sure it was all ok. And then I discovered that Uncharted 3 rocks like the other 2 and kinda lost track of the time...

Oh, and not sure if it counts, but I finally achieved my dream of owning a gold chocobo by finding one of the rare Banpresto ones on eBay. Payment proved a little tricky (shipping cost dilema) but it's been overcome. Not bad for £40 considering the black one cost me £65. Just need the blue and green ones now and I have the complete set.

 

[weavile001]

uped my high score on the Endless Remix of Rhythm Heaven fever even more, now its 585.

Spoiler

 

[Thomas83Lin]

Just started (Time and Eternity) for the Ps3, so far I'm having a hard time staying interested, hopefully it picks up soon. Though I'm not very far in, looking for the assassin on Panela Isle. level 6 2:28. Figured I'd Play this while waiting for Xillia

 

[weavile001]

Started playing Final Fantasy 8, got through the the fire cave and the sea, but i struggled on the boss atop the tower:

Spoiler

I Call This Luck:

and on the spider boss across the town......

Great Boss Battle Theme!.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

Over past few days:

• "Doom 3 BFG Edition" Doom Campaign (Marine Difficulty) and also got speed run achievement!
• "Organ Trail" finished twice while technically its a game designed for re-completion its worth mentioning
• "McPixel" all main content finished
• "Rogue Legacy" got over level 50 and defeated 1st boss (not in that order)
• "Poker Night 2" Won my first tournament and unlocked an item for "Team Fortress 2" and "Borderlands 2"
• "Bad Rats" Somehow mustered the boredom to get from Puzzle 1 to 21 then lost the will to live

 

[weavile001]

reached the top of the Zeifellt Holy Tower on Arc Rise Fantasia.

 

[DragorianSword]

Got to the Cell Games in DBZ Legacy of Goku II.
God I love these games. Especially used to play the crap out of Buu's Fury on emulator.

 

[weavile001]

reached comstock´s house on Bioshock Infinite,i think this is the last ``Dungeon´´.

 

[Maxternal]

I had a quick Wii demo testing session :
"Vampire crystals" and "And Yet it Moves": passed the first level
"Art of Balance" : passed as many as the demo would let me do in one sitting

 

[xwatchmanx]

reached comstock´s house on Bioshock Infinite,i think this is the last ``Dungeon´´.

Have fun! You're gonna be blown away when you finish. Such a great game.

Anyway, I just finished my linked game of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC version, not 3DS VC), thus completing the Oracle duo. Put together, these two games make one (two?) of my favorite Zelda games ever, for sure.

I'm trying to convince myself to take a break from Zelda before moving on to Link's Awakening Dx. Especially since I played Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, and the Oracle games all back to back over the past few months (and I powered through Oracle of Seasons in just a week). But knowing me, that Zelda itch is going to come back pretty quickly, so my break won't last long.

 

[weavile001]

upped my High Score on Kung Fu Ball on Rhythm Heaven Fever, now it´s 1100.
the highest score i could find on the internet was 3828, guess my new goal?