Yeah, but if you're going the overleveling route, you might as well acquire Boss Skip as well.
Come to think of it...
P4-I finished this earlier this week. Final boss did kill me once due to bad luck with status+Summons to Yomi on the MC, but the second time I was prepared and managed to kill her without much difficulty. The glasses toss that the MC does at the end was pretty awesome. The rest of the ending was a never-ending pile of sap, but I guess that makes sense since it's all about the Power of Friendship.
A lot of people have said that P4 is P3+, and for the most part I agree. The game just really feels better in pretty much every way. It's funny, interesting, the music is amazingly good (and P3 already had good music), the battle system changes were positive for the most part, and it's just overall better. The only real complaint I have is that Magaret is not nearly as awesome as Elizabeth, but ah well.
Great RPG, A+++, etc etc
L4D-Been playing some with Eph lately. I've done every campaign on Expert besides Blood Harvest at least twice, and started playing the new and improved Versus Mode. Being a tank is awesome again, hooray! The Smoker is somewhat better, but his damage output still sucks and he's entirely dependant on level geometry. The Hunter got his swipe nerfed but the added pouncing damage helps, a little. Any half-decent team will stick together and keep him useless though. Boomer's entirely the same but he didn't need changing anyway. The game still is easily stacked on the Survivor's side, what with:
1. Melee being incredibly broken
2. Healthkits every 3 feet
3. Cresendo Events are easily bottlenecked
And, of course, people still refuse to try to strategize together as the Infected.
The Darkness-Picked this up along with Mass Effect and Dead Rising at a Gamestop the other day. At first I didn't think much of it. Jackie moves like someone filled his shoes with concrete, the Darkness powers are weird and unintuitive, and enemies can take 3 shotgun shells to the face but three pistol shots and you're dead. Also you run out of ammo way fast.
Then I got used to things and some more abilities unlocked, and things are getting awesome. There's no reason not to have Darkness Shield on pretty much all the time, solving the bullet problem, and steal kills are easy and fun. Also the story has gotten ridiculous, starting out as just a standard mob war, then you get introduced to the Darkness, and now Jackie killed himself and I'm in hell fighting Nazi zombies with the help of the horribly mangled British.
