I like MGS2 a lot as well. I have much of the spin-off games to play too, but I've taken a break from playing the series. At this point I'm very satisfied and fulfilled with what I've gotten from the MGS series.

I might be starting Pathologic this month. I heard it's rather challenging. Did you beat it without a guide? Do you have any advice for me before I start?

Thank You!

I can see why it was your desktop banner for a long time. Chun-Li does have the best banners.

Please tell me your thoughts on MGS4 once you beat it!

Liquit!

All the Arcade games I marked as instead of are because they either had other characters or routes I've not finished the game with. The characters thing is mostly personal preference, most arcade games just have minor character variations that I wouldn't blame someone for ignoring.

Normally I count the highest difficulty level as a requirement, but all the dip switch settings for time, num of lives, etc etc make that murky. And it's all just there to give arcade owners options to fine-tune how quickly they take your money, so I'm fine ignoring it. Doesn't feel much like the game designers intent to me, so I just leave it on normal.

I'm almost beating it and it coincided everyone wants to complete it at the same time

hah hah, i'll take the original art and no achievements, please :V

i'm just taking a quick spin through an old favorite for some "comfort food" gaming. it's been too long.

Well in my case I need those bestiary entries for achievements. I have played through a majority of the game before (though never all the way through) so I already know most of the stuff that happens, the plot, etc. I am just trying to be as efficient as possible, make sure I don't miss anything, and get everything I can in one playthrough.

I find you have to use guides with some RPGs now if you want to know how everything works and how to get it all in one sitting. But that's just me.

I think its more or less the same version. I can't be sure. I realized the other night I had barely started it so I decided to hunker down to get it all done. Of the annoying things though is that you need to collect all of Gaus rages for an achievement so I am trying to gather up everything I missed. I currently have all of the ones up to the three scenarios, so now I am trying to get all of the ones from the Defense of Narshe down through Zozo. I'm using two different guides, one specifically for Gau to help figure out wher3e all the rages are and hints on how to use him (never realized how useful he is) and another so I can get all of the treasures and Bestiary entries.

I just call things as they happen during my journeys haha. As for the systems...well, I'm a bit of a collector!