I was also pleasantly surprised that your readiness never drops below 50%, which I was thinking was only the case if you never activated online. I thought for sure my percentage would be a goose egg after having not played it for two months.
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Not sure if you knew this already, but I just saw that they also lowered the EMS requirement for the "best" ending from 4000 to 3100, so you won't have to worry about MP anymore. Which is nice, because I was just about to go online to raise my galactic readiness back up when I saw that.
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Arnhem - 7 (this kinda strikes me as something that would work better in game)
Pier - 6.5
Area D - 8.5
Area E/F - 8.5
Boss - 8 (I recently tried my hand at The First Encounter HD on Serious Mode. I got about halfway through level 2 before I realized it simply wasn't going to happen. That s*** was......absurd).
UB - 9
Nom
Borderlands - Mad Moxxi's Theme
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10 (my new favorite song from either Alan Wake game)
7 (I do believe that guy is a psycho. I also think the song works a bit better in game because the guy it's portraying, Mr. Scratch, is pretty out of his god damn mind)
Nom
Mickey Mania - Moose Chase
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Hopefully the sound effects on the Last Boss video weren't too distracting. There weren't any videos where it was just the song (Xardion's rather obscure), and I hoped people could get the gist of it from the parts where there weren't any ear grating super lasers being fired off. On the other hand, I didn't expect it to do well regardless, having half nominated the song to show off what a stupidly long final boss that game had (every boss in that game has way too much health, but that guy is just absurd). Kudos to anyone who watched it all without skipping parts or shutting it off outright.
Bayou - 8
Mast - 7
LB - 6.5
Goza - 8.5
Sunny - 7
MS - 7.5
Nom
Mega Man X8 - Gravity Antonion
By the way, has anyone heard the remix with DKC2 songs being mashed up with Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight?
I was pretty surprised at how much Jack had grown between games. I know Bioware said they'd be doing that with her, but they really improved her quite a bit. Anyone who purposely killed her off missed out.
It's also interesting how she's the only ME2 squadmate to change appearances, aside from Garrus getting his armor fixed (and a new paint job) and Miranda removing the Cerberus logo from her jumpsuit. Well, Ashley and Kaiden do as well, but they're ME1. And Wrex changes back to his old outfit. Everyone else looks exactly the same.
Therein lies the problem. The pilot is considered by many to not be a good indicator of why the show is as popular as it is (there IS a reason it has the fanbase it does, and it isn't irony). And what other shows aimed at little girls feature a bear getting its neck snapped, a Big Lebowski shout out, an evil spirit of chaos that brainwashes for fun and is voiced by Q from Star Trek, or characters going bat***t crazy and start talking to inanimate objects?
However, the tone of your response to the show tells me you wouldn't be very receptive to even the best "Convert-A-Hater" episode (IMO the first three episodes of Season 2), so I'll leave it at that.
Glad you enjoyed the song, though. Fighting Is Magic is a fanmade fighting game that's still in development, but has released three songs and a few gameplay videos.
Oh wow, two in the top 25? I did NOT see that coming. I'm guessing the FIM song is the higher of the two since I noticed you tried to nominate it for the VGM contest (I would have too if it were eligible).
Thoughts:
You said there wasn't anything that made Benedictum stand out. You didn't notice the female vocalist?
And I suppose I could have picked a different BCC song. I like Hadrian's Wall because it's mellow and invokes a Led Zeppelin feel (fitting that Jason Bonham is the band's drummer), but I can see where you might find it uneventful. You might like An Ordinary Son or Black Country.
I'm surprised that The View placed that high. I'll agree with you in that while the Lulu album is pretty bad quality wise, it's so unintentionally hilarious that I actually listen to it regularly (some of it, anyway). I also would have picked either Brandenburg Gate or Pumping Blood instead because they're even worse, but The View was the only one with a link that didn't have its sound quality butchered due to copyright police.
Black Country Communion - The Battle For Hadrian's Wall
Lou Reed & Metallica - The View (I was gonna go with another track (ie worse) from Lulu, but The View was the only one that didn't have its audio altered in some way)
Poets Of The Fall - Balance Slays The Demon (from Alan Wake's American Nightmare)
RainbowCrash88 - Twilight Sparkle's Stage Theme (from My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic)
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A heads up: I noticed a very large topic on LL talking about how ME3's ending has been leaked (I didn't dare click on it. It had over 1100 posts so it had to be legit).
Watch where you guys visit.
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In regards to Poet And The Muse, the reason the lyrics don't make any sense is that you really do have to play the game to understand them. They're actually literal plot points, specifically what happened to one of the characters and his lover 40 years before the game takes place (the verses), and also give clues to Alan on how to rescue his wife from the game's villain (the chorus).
To anyone who hasn't played Alan Wake, I can understand if you find it weird. If you have played it, it's quite awesome.
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Also, the full version to Balance Slays The Demon from AWAN (which I recently nominated) is on Youtube now, so if you would be so kind as to replace the old link with this one:
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare - Balance Slays The Demon (this is a shorter version of what appears in the game, but that version hasn't been uploaded yet)
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At Bat - 7 (Beast Wars? Also I used this link because it was the only one that didn't sound like crap and actually looped. That and it was a way to show off the game itself, which is super fun)
UP - 8 (Lol! This actually kinda sounds like something from Deep Purple or Rainbow)
WCF - 7 (And this sounds like the credits song to any early Steven Seagall movie)
Nom
My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic - Rarity's Stage
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