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Thanks for the input! I'm gonna take a look at these tonight.

 

Considering our talk about Taco Bell earlier. I thought this was appropriate. Haha!

 

I saw that you were playing it. If you ever want to play, just send me a invite. I'm always up to play.

Mages/Support are basically my favorites also just because I love midlane. I haven't tried Aphrodite or Nemesis yet but I'll probably change that soon.

Which mode do you like to play the most? Right now I'm heavily into arena just because of how quick the matches are.

 

Arena is my favorite too, followed by conquest

 

Arena is where I did all my farming to get most of my gods to mastery.

Its just so dang fun going all attack power.

I've been eh on Conquest lately because people seem to quit a lot on my teams. It's frustrating.

 

Us TB-reggies (That's our official name) are vastly disappointed with the quesalupa such a promising menu item, but not enough cheese

 

The post-PAX depression is real, what an amazing weekend as always. Got to demo PlayStation VR yesterday and it was so wild, definitely want one now.

Great meeting you too!

 

So ready

 

I'm not

 

true, I guess I'm not either haha. Moving this weekend so I'll be most likely buried under boxes.

Also, backlog isn't getting smaller...

 

REVIEW OF BULLY

There’s been a bit of a break in my “RockStar” reviews but I’ve left the best to last; “Bully”, later renamed “Canis Canem Edit”. Released in 2006 originally for the “PS2” and then the “X box 360” and “Wii” before being re-released for the “PS4”. This to me is “RockStar’s” master piece and a finer game you will never play!

Set in and around the fictional school of “Bullworth Academy” the player takes control of young rebel James “Jimmy” Hopkins. The story of the game is Jimmy’s progression through the school year complete with different seasons and cultural events like Halloween and his struggle for acceptance in an environment rife with different cliques and overrun with bullies. The groups of teenagers and students are things like Greasers, Nerds , Preppies, Jocks and all the groups you ‘d expect in a modern school and you have to earn the respect and ultimately, control, of each group by beating up each group’s leader in an effort to become the main man of the school and bring peace between the tribes.

This is how the game is set up, each segment a battle between one group of children and Jimmy but there’s much more to it than that! There are classes to attend and with Jimmy’s progression in each subject he earns new abilities and skills. With English you gain the ability to apologise to authority figures, like cops and prefects, where when at first - when you have broken curfew, skipped class or been caught fighting - you could only hide. In chemistry you learn to make weapons like fire crackers and stink bombs, BUT there are other lessons to like Art, Workshop and Maths which all gain Jimmy new skills to use as the game progresses. It is, of course, your choice whether you attend your classes or not but if you do choose to pay hooky and skulk around the Academy, you have to avoid Teachers and prefects, by using the map and hiding in place like the bathroom or even bins and lockers.

Like most “RockStar” games “Bully” is set in an expanding and free roaming world and if you want the basics imagine GTA for kids but with the game play being mainly based around hand to hand combat and less involved with weaponry - although things like sling shots, fire crackers and later even a potato gun are available.

When the games starts you’re confined to the actual school, dormitories and class rooms but as you progress through the story and gain respect of the warring groups of children, you get to explore the city outside. The main areas of the game are Bullworth Academy itself, Old Bullworth Vale, Bullworth Town, New Coventry, and the Blue Skies Industrial Area and you will explore all of these, gaining new hangouts which, are used as save points, and the wide tribes of drop out kids which inhabit the areas outside of the school. The youth of the Industrial area are probably the hardest and are the last to be encountered.

And again like most “RockStar” games, although the game can only be completed by advancing through the missions and the full environment unlocked as you go, in the mean time you can do nearly anything you like. You can beat up nerds or bullies, attend class, pick the locks of lockers, blow up the toilets with fire crackers, sneak into the girl’s dormitory’s, start food fights at lunchtime, date girls with the ability you gain from Art class, learn fighting moves of an old vagrant and collect various items for unlocks. There’s also detention for being caught doing wrong where you have to mow the schools playing field and even underground boxing clubs, a football game to sabotage and a mascot to beat down in one of the boss set pieces. In the town you can ride bikes and cruise on your board - Michael J Fox style - holding on to the back of cars, avoid cops and violent Townies and even do graffiti campaigns all to unblock the story, items and abilities.

Not only this but the game IS beautiful!! Bullworth Academy, an independent boarding school in the New England region of the United States is a neo-gothic design, and is similar to many other public schools and colleges in the United Kingdom. There’s both male and female dormitories, playing fields and of course the main building itself complete with grand halls and a work shop. As the game progresses the environment changes from snowy winter, to the fall, to the golden summer and the whole environment stays this way until that particular campaign ends.

Also the attitudes of the kids change and ,as the respect of each group is earned, that group will stop attacking you as you move around the school and at one point, before the games villain Gary fucks it all up for you, there’s actually peace between the clans brought about by your actions.

I have a personal theory that this game was based on an old “Spectrum” game called “School Daze” in which you could do many of the same things but was bewilderingly complex and impossible to really do anything as it would end after about ten minutes leaving you baffled as to what you were supposed to have done. Bully however is a much more successful game and to anyone out there with a “PS4” I’d recommend it fully!

 

Year of the JRPG continues, Exist Archive (tri-ace's Valkyrie Profile spiritual successor) is coming over in October. VP is one of my favorite games so I've been hoping this would get announced soon.

Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky Launches October 18 on PS4, PS Vita

 

My body is ready for Uncharted 4. Especially since I was just able to replay the other three, a few months ago.

 

Update: Ratchet & Clank is the most fun I've had playing a game in a really long time. This'll keep me occupied until U4.

 

I've already beat Ratchet & Clank twice. Collected all the gold bolts and all the cards. I have no clue which enemy I did not hit with the Groovitron which is annoying.

 

Okay that was pretty good

 

Sounds like Season 3 of the Walking Dead is going to take place during the same time as the most recent comics (which makes sense with the Michonne ep) and Clementine will be around so that means we'll see an older Clementine. So excited.

Kirkman also basically said that the games are canon with the comics which is really cool. They'll be blending together a little bit more in S3.

 

Currently going to Taco Bell to get an Overwatch cup and some food.

Taco Bell thread 2.0

 

Chalupas and frito burrito night baybay

 

There will be many broken hearts tonight. If you are getting the Quesalupa that is. Hey, on a positive note you are helping to rid the world of rodents! Go you!

 

I'm more of a beefy five layer burrito guy myself.

I do my best to help save the world every single day.

and I'm also super disappointed in the Overwatch cup just because it doesn't seem like it can last long but hey I got Winston but I really wanted Tracer.

 

For me it was the last fucking boss.

 

Oh, to be 5 again with those Happy Meals!