What are you playing?

Currently back on Suikoden II.

Rented and dual-beat Epic Mickey:

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Both for the good and bad paths. Granted, as it turned out, the ending wasn't really different at all, so I wasted my time and effort dual-beating it within a single rental.

As far as how the game was itself; I'd say the complaints aren't unfounded. Camera movement is sluggish, there are many exploitable hills that you can double jump up, end game side-quests were in fact annoying thanks to the method of transportation in game (it is fun at first, but eventually you get to the point of "we're still doing this?"), and often times it is unclear what you have to do in order to remain good or evil. But the worst thing about it was the combination of "No Backtrack" + "No Manual Saving" + "Auto-save after choices" + "Collection List". It is literally an OCD nightmare. For starters, it takes a minimum of 2 completions to get everything, and the replay was more tedious than anything. Even then, with me exploring everything I could without a guide, I only wound up with 90/105 collectibles.

All this said however, the first playthrough was enjoyable. I'd still recommend it for a rental or borrowing it from a friend if you had the chance. Otherwise, I'd wait to buy it when it is under $24, since it doesn't meet my $50 standard. Having put an equivalent of $9 in gift card value myself though, I won't be buying it later.

Had gotten a blockbuster gift card and with all the negativity around it, I just went with it.

Beat Sam & Max 101-105

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They were short, but entertaining, and seeing as $30 got me this and half still remains, I'd say it was worth it.

Jumped into Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and it keeps tempting me. Once I start, I want to go back into it again, even though I know I should save it for when I'm out of the house and work on my backlogged console library. Also, going OCD and making everyone master every weapon that they can equip .

Chaos really has me fairly certain I'm going to quit MS then, so I have been on it a little to finally connect my lower characters to my main via a family before I go. I might spread out my characters and allow friends to use my characters as a free warp service.

In Minecraft while browsing the mods I could use for a server, I found a couple pre-made maps and lost all motivation on completing my spawn structure for others here to use since there are far, FAR better ones out there. So that isn't gaining my attention for now. EDIT: That, and the recently announced statement that save file format will be changed anyway.

Bought DKC 2 & 3, and have $43 left of holiday money now, so I could get DKCR in the near future, but I'm thinking of leaning more towards saving for a new console. Though, I'll have to some other work in order to afford those too.

 @Sarah about Suikoden

In all likelihood, once I finish the series, I'll be reselling it. At least so far, I haven't been overwhelmed to the point that II is worth $150 to me along with years of hype that obsessed fan friend of mine gave. Oddly enough, the reason I've been procrastinating on finishing it is that the castle theme is driving me mad. I have yet to finish it, so I may change my opinion by the climax, which has happened with me before, but so far, I liked the first one better. Just beat that bastard and I apparently have peace for now.