and ya, i’ve seen the credits but i know that it’s not over yet as i keep getting more story missions and bonus missions. some of these bonus missions are pretty amusing. this morning on my ride into work i played through a mission where i was supposed to take a photograph of a commanding officer hidden among various soldiers. the only hint i had was that the commanding officer didn’t work as hard and i found him by the river doing squats instead of patroling. i proceeded to take his photo, shot him with a tranq, and recruited him. “welcome to my army, slacker!” haha

but why stop using your robotics facility after making an observer? now that you have a robotics facility or two up, you might as well start cranking immortals or colossi (after making the support bay) after your first observer or two to give your massed stalkers more beef.

i recommend transitioning from only stalkers into observers and stalkers with blink for the mid-game, and then once you’ve expanded, throw in either immortals or colossi out of two robotics facilities depending on what you go up against: against tanks and roaches go immortals, and against mass mmm or speedling/hydra go colossi. (colossi or immortals work against an opponent simply massing stalkers.)

just think of it as a 3 stage process: stalkers first, then stalkers with observers, then stalkers with observers and colossi or immortals. stalkers and colossi are a very potent combo, and are recommended as the general protoss army when you don’t know what the enemies are making. immortals should only be made as a hard counter and it’s a judgment call at that point.

will i even open halo reach when it arrives next week?! help!

This also protects them from dark templars and any terran cloaked units, which I saw with great frequency this weekend.

A lot of people want a PS3 version of Peace Walker, but I think there’s something about it that works on the PSP. The story is more character driven than the other games in the series that have lots of big action moments, so it seems right to have the game on a hand-held where only you are experiencing the game (unless you actually know someone else with a PSP so you can play adhoc co-op). Also, the soldier recruiting and searching for wi-fi points is quite fun too, but I think I would be less inclined to spend so much time with that on a home console. Commuting is perfect for just doing a couple short levels and trying to recruit some soldiers. I think the replayability is actually increased with it being on a handheld, I guess.

So you have seen the credits. I hope you keep playing though, because it’s not over yet…

was afraid espion4ge would stop playing after briefly reaching the top of his diamond division in 3v3 RT

i like the new class system from trying out the beta, but it’s not enough for me to be too excited since i was never a big fan of the halo gameplay to begin with. of course, i never got a chance to check out the objective based multiplayer mode(s) in the beta, so maybe i will have fun with it after all.

it’s funny – we’re definitely not getting any younger and time for video games seems so little nowadays. it’s like each night do i feel like playing a couple games of sc2 or cod or halo? and that’s it! i was even interested in wow cataclysm, but decided that it would be a terrible idea to consider getting back into wow at this point in my life. how sad it is to grow up…