Looks like you may have had your answer, but your hard drive can move to a new box. My last hardwear failure I just went and bought a new Arcade system at Gamestop. I traded in the broken one and still got $60 trade credit because they were doing some used system deal.

Me too! Let's make red and green Spartans and go play!

Um, after football, anyway. I got priorities today.

EDIT: Oh no, jedah got RRODed!

Boo hiss.

I still have my storm trooper on Reach

After football, maybe we can make red and green spartans. I've been off of Reach for too long.

Actually, tonight, family has trumped Spartaning, but I'll try to fire it up later. The advantage of being 2 time zones ahead of you.

And since we don't have a PC gaming thread, I'm posting it here. Got Dragon Age:Ultimate Edition for the PC as a Xmas gift, so played Darkspawn Chronicles.

And it was... mildly entertaining, but hell, I wish the Archdemon was such a paper tiger when /I/ fought the damn thing. For those that acquire it, JUST KILL ALISTAIR. The others can be mopped up later. I admit a certain guilty pleasure when the ogre picks up party members and you can then pummel the daylights out of them.

(Also, enthrall the hurlock emissary, the magic will help out tons.)

Got 2/3 cheevos, didn't get the +100 Approval from all possible minions one, just because... well, it's difficult enough already.

You also get to kill Howe, Vaughn, and Goldanna. So hey, Darkside has its perks!

Thanks to Wade I now have Monday Night Combat, so if anybody wants to get some game going throw me a message.

You're never on I keep looking, plus you won't play Army Guys with us

Is there any hope for a Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 that has nothing to do with Civil War and therefore isn't annoying to play?

I hope they go back to some of the stuff the XML games did..

UM2 lost so much of the RPG elements it wasn't even funny.. It sucked only having power selections of the 4 powers you could choose.. yay... boring..

Additionally when UM took away the stat distribution stuff that was disappointing too..

I loved making Colossus that I didn't put all my points earned into strength, and instead used focus so I could spam his punch over and over..


XML2 > XML1 > UM >> UM2

I couldn't even get to the end of UM2 before it bored me.

I dunno. I really liked a lot of the changes in MUA 2, like the in-game leveling, the Team Boost system, and the power combo system. I just wish they hadn't watered down the actual RPG, and made it so that unlockable characters didn't truly unlock.

I would have really liked to play the game with the Green Goblin, from start to finish. That my only real opportunity to do this is on the super hard mode where Green Goblin can't last for more than 0.000005 seconds is pretty annoying.

This is very true. If they kept the original RPG elements, costumes/unlockable methods from XML/MUA? That would have been far superior.

So... so annoying. I'd rather play MUA1 than MUA2, just because you feel like your progress is saved in an additional playthrough.

To each their own I suppose. I just like assigning my stats places.. That was always a big part of the game to me.. At least MU1 had the gear that allowed for some kind of customization.. And the fact that there were more than 4 powers per character.

One thing I always felt is that even though MU2 had MORE characters than any of the previous games, it always somehow felt like it had LESS.. I'm not sure why I had that feeling.. It had chars I really wanted to play as.. but still felt limited for whatever reason.

I blame the costumes, and the restrictions on who you could play with the Civil War scenario.

It'll never happen, but I'd kill for MUA3: Conquest/annialation/thanos Imperative.