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I can aim well with a 360 pad but I find it harder to aim with a Dual Shock, pretty sure the placement of the sticks is at least part of the cause.

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Still playing Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising. Still loving it.

Mission 6 starts as a fun stealth, but ends with a couple of tricky firefights. Fighting my way through a base then driving out through the cleared out base in a truck enemy reinforcements showed up in was pretty sweet. As was knifing dudes in the stealth part.

Mission 7 has a harder enemy base at the end of it. I've died a lot at this part, but I think I'm starting to get it. It's much easier if you approach the base from the side that doesn't have a road, but that approach still gets tricky when you get to the road. So next time I'm going to try doing a couple of quick drive by's in the jeep with the machine gun to clear out some of the guys at the road before looping around and approaching from the other side.

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Played Super Chase H.Q twice today, in the morning I only got to mission 3 before getting game over.
Second attempt, I finished it.

Difficulty: Normal (hardest difficulty)
Shifting: Automatic
Steering Type: 1

I like this game. It has blue skies, a red Ferrari and a single play through can't take more then 12 minutes.

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Played more Super Chase H.Q. which is the Super Nintendo port of Super Chase Criminal Termination (super chase 3)
I improved a bit! I finished it with one credit instead of two. So hopefully next time I 1cc it.

Steering Type 2
Manual Shifting

I enjoyed manual shifting more then automatic, so I think I'll stick with Manual from now on.

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I 1cc'd Super Chase H.Q (snes)

BONUS MISSION! Fuck yes.
Finished it first try. Even happier ending then normal.

Oh man, what a pleasant surprise this was. :D

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luvcraft, I agree with you and I think there were other sb'ers who felt the same way.

RE4, "holy shit what a terrible game."
Have someone else finish it for you, then try mercenaries mode.

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I've made arguments against it in the past.
The main character is terribly overpowered, there's rarely any risk to a skilled player, chainsaw bag-head man is a minor exception, but it's not like the game doesn't give ample warning, and stack the odds far against him by making him very slow and starting him a good distance from you. Risk and challenge help to build a feeling of reward, a positive feeling. I don't think I felt a positive feeling once when playing RE4, I just kept wondering when it would turn into that marvelous game everyone was raving about.

Certainly other games have had areas and enemies that weren't especially challenging, and then placed the bulk of the challenge in boss battles, that's a design I'm mostly ok with. In this game the boss battles are filled with QTE. Perhaps we have this game's popularity to thank for the frequency of QTE in modern games. What we're left with is two somewhat legitimate challenge areas the shack and the village. The shack is good, while the village largely fizzles out and turns out to be just a story set up, it's the first encounter of Vile for a new age.

Unlike it's predecessors which were simplified adventure games with action in them, this is quite clearly an action game, yet it retains the old system where you have to bring up a separate menu screen which pauses the game, if you want to change your weapon.
Speaking of the weapons, they're not particularly fun or interesting but they'll do. Shooting and the reactions of the zombies when they get hit are positive aspects of the game. What I dislike is the upgrade system. You upgrade your weapons through the shop/currency system (another issue I have with the game) and it's not at all satisfying, why on earth wouldn't you upgrade your weapons? In some cases you have the option to upgrade a weapon at the same time you have the option to buy it in the first place. Where is the reward in this design? In RE3:Nemesis upgrades came in pieces that were only attainable by winning a fight with the meanest monster, it was risk for reward, and it was satisfying. Another holdover from the older games is that you stop to shoot. I don't stop to shoot because it feels natural, and there's no indication it's because the super-human Leon is somehow not impervious to recoil, I stop because the game doesn't let me fire in motion.

I'm not going to suggest it's some objective truth that RE4 is a terrible game, but to me it is, and I think there's an argument for it.

The odd thing is that mercenaries mode is great. It was as if they had a huge team make a ton of assets, then had the more talented designers make the real game with those assets while everyone else slaved away to make the game that would sell, have terrific 'replay value', ect, ect. I have no idea how they actually made the game, but mercenaries mode being so good, while the rest of the game is so bad, is puzzling. Risk & Reward show up, chainsaws are all over the place and there's even a giant double chainsaw nemesis like enemy. A fun chaining mechanism is added to the shooting, a time system is added, the level design is solid. There are enough enemies that having to stop becomes a risk and continuing the combo is the reward.
So here at last is the marvelous game, I just wish the designers had respected my time enough to have it playable at the start.

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MOAI, Thanks for the correction.

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muteaid, that's a lot of games.

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Went to look at an apt.
Secret ending finished Contra: Hard Corps, with my soon to be new roommate.

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Wait, I could be playing Vampire Savior online?
Someone tell me more.

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The chainsaw is probably the worst melee in the game. Occasionally you might luck out and chainsaw all four opponents in a round if you rush them, which is hilarious, but it's not reliable. Use other weapons for melee.

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