Pursuing The Ark--Lego Indiana Jones

This level was good and at the same time annoying. The first area was nice, with just a few enemies, lots of machine guns, rifles, wrenches, shovels, and stuff to break. I couldn't even get all of the studs since I need Short Round to get a few and someone wirh a bazooka, but I still got True Adventurer. In the first area!

The next one was a bit more annoying ans stupid. First was a section with infinite enemies and an idiot that ran the guard both. Apparently he didn't realize that, even though his guys were shooting at me and I unloaded a machine guy into his guys, I could go through the gate because I had the right hat on. you would think that he would have done something when I opened fire.

After that I had to deal with a Jumping Puzzle! I hate jumping puzzles! And the stupid AI didn't help any (the AI in this game has to be worse then in Lego Star Wars 1 and 2.

Oh well. level over and on to the next one. only unlocked the "I'm making this up as I go along" achievement this time.

Well Of Souls--Lego Indiana Jones

Jumping Puzzles. Why did it have to be Jumping Puzzles?

Ok, so there weren't too many jumping puzzles in this level, but since I hate them, I figured it would be an appropriate time to quote Indy.

This was actually kind of a cool level since, after finding the Ark, you switch from Sallah to Marion, they use the same area from when you first entered the well, just with a different camera position. Some games would have just made a different map but it was kind of cool to see stuff you couldn't do with Sallah and then end up there again with Marion and be able to get to them.

Over all, it was a fun level, and while the phobia thing was kind of annoying, it makes you actually use the other character for more then just whatever their speciality is.

In the end, I got 6 artifact pieces, unlocked the "Why did it have o be snakes?" achievement and the "I step on fortune cookie!" achievement, for killing 50 creepy crawlies.

Dude! This explains everything! smokers aren't mutated by a virus (or whatever the hell caused the Zed outbreak in Left 4 Dead) They are all clones of Gene Simmons!



From the web comic Backwards Compatible

City Of Danger--Lego Indiana Jones

Got to Cairo and the first thing I did was accidentally kill a few civilians.

Opps.

After I took care of their angry friends, it was time to explore the city. only got one Artifact piece :( but I did get to run over a bunch of guys with a truck and shoot a bunch more. In fact I shot enough to get the "I Hate These Guys" Achievement and broke enough stuff to get "He no nuts. He Crazy!!" i also got Belloq's staff is too long" for beating the level.

On a side not, that is a really bad name for an achievement. I'm wondering how many gaming sites or comics have jokes about it written by people with dirty minds.

Into The Mountains--Lego Indiana Jones

Took me a while to beat this level. Not because it is really hard, but because I had to keep stopping for one reason or another. Stupid work and having to sleep.

Anyways, got through the level. had to do a lot of back tracking. actually I didn't, since I could have dug up the Snowmobile and blown up stuff during free play, but I wanted to. and by doing so, I got 5 Artifact pieces, and know where 2 more are. And I unlocked the "it's important Marion, trust Me" achievement.

Now back to killing Nazis...I mean Bad Guys.

The Lost Temple--Lego Indiana Jones

Got Lego Indianan Jones yesterday and started playing it last night.The first level is The Lost Temple, which I already beat in the demo, but oh well. Got to play it again so I can move on. After all. How else are you going to start Indiana Jones if it's not with Alfred Molina betraying Indy and then dieing?

Got through the level no problem. Got most of the Artifact Pieces too. couldn't find 3, but I'm guessing a few are in areas that you can only get to in free play with certain characters, like behind the silver wall in the Idol Room and near the Thugee statue.

So I beat the level, unlocked the rest of Raiders, as well as Temple and Crusade and I got the "There is nothing to fear here" achievement. I also got the "Got lost in his own museum" achievement while exploring the college.

Thought this was rather cool. Went to Walmart to get Halo 3 since they dropped the price but they were out so I got Eternal Sonata instead, as well as Saint's Row off the discount rack.

So I get home, pop them into the 360 and check out the achievments. There are only 22 of them in Eternal Sonata, and they are all Secret ones! No clues or nothing. While it sucks because you don't know what you have to do to unlock them, it's kind of cool because it makes it more suprising when you get one.

I HAVE RETURNED!!!!!!

To steal a line from The Rock; "Finally The Iceman Has Come Back To The Internet!"

For those that might not know, I have been with out net access at home since I moved back in with my parents a few months ago. It was supposed to be only for a month or so, then a 6 foot drift formed in front of the building where all my crap is being stored. So it looks like I'm here to stay. At least until the drift melts and the ground is no longer a muddy swamp. In other words, sometime in June.

you know, when you practically live online, you don't realize how much you miss it till it's gone. Between being net less and having to move back home, I've actually been a bit depressed over the last few months. Fortunately that is over, with no annoying Insomnia, which usually follows any periods of depression for me :)

And don't worry my faithful Non-Existent Readers, I haven't been idle. While I didn't get much written during the time offline, I did get some posts written for both the Freak Show and the Game Journal and some stuff written for SPW, as well as some that I haven't written yet but will (and a few I forgot to date, so I will just put a "Sorry don't know when I wrote this" not at the top of those) and I will be posting those over the next week or so, retrodating them when I can.

All in all it's good to be back.