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Look, at this point, it's spectacle. Unless you're one of the bastards on the leaderboards below, you're not going to win. But hey: You could still take first place for the final contest and totally fuck things up for the guy aiming for second, so that's something to aim for!

Also... There's going to be a lot less comments during the daytime comments and comments in general. While I, in my infinite intelligence, only surfed the internet using proxy-condoms and also did so rarely, and didn't let it effect my work, the same cannot be said of my co-workers. Thus, anything related to fun (like, ANYTHING) is now banned from my work connection.

In theory, I could tether my phone to my computer's net connection, but the network admin, aside from looking good in a tight t-shirt, also ferreted out most of the sneaky shit I could pull. The first thing she looked for on the network block was people looking for cache'd google pages, which tells me she's smarter than a table.

I totally plan on seducing her, so even if I wanted to get around her connections, I wouldn't. Also, the doing work thing when I'm being paid to do work. I should do that.

Contest Information!

Now, for this one, I've decided we'll do something a little bit different. Like always, I'm going to come up with a random, painful, or otherwise aggravating task for you, the contestant, to participate in! Or, in this case, five tasks! To win Gears 3 Epic Edition and action figures!

But what's that?

I already pre-ordered Gears of War 3, this contest sucks!

In that case, you're in luck! Should you possess an inferior, regular edition of Gears 3 or a slightly cooler, but not prohibitively awesome edition of Gears 3, I will pay you the cash value of the copy you ordered (if you don't have anyone to give it to because you're nice), because yes, I am that awesome!

Yes, even if you've pre-ordered Gears of War 3, you're going to make out like a damned champion!

The Prize

For the prize, I'm going to begin by pre-ordering the contest winner a copy of the $150, holycrapexpensive! edition of Gears 3. If the contest winner has already ordered a copy, I will reimburse them for the full cost of it, plus shipping to me, the moment their inferior, not awesome copy is in my hands.

I'm not done. I mentioned action figures, right?

Beyond this already-awesome offer, I will be ordering the winner of the contest any five Gears of War action figures available on sale between $10 and $20.

This is a total prize worth, potentially, $200 to $250 before I buy the contest winner's copy of Gears of War 3 from them. And I'm buying the second-place person an Epic Edition as well!

Also, the second-place entrant ALSO gets a copy of the Gears of War 3: Epic Edition because fuck you Brazilian tax law! This will be my biggest and last contest until after the new year.

The Contest

Now, I'm not sure exactly what "tasks" I'm going to have each person partake in beyond the first, but I do know two things:

1) The final task has the following point values:

-First Place: 18 Points
-Second Place: 14 Points
-Third Place: 12 Points
-Fourth Place or worse: 8 Points

If you don't participate in a task, you get nothing, so participation, however elementary, could mean the difference between winning and losing!

2) There will be a total of four tasks. The theoretical "best" for this competition is 26 points, but I honestly expect the winner to be ranging in the 10-20 range. But I lie a lot, so whatever.

So, for the Wonderputt Leaderboards, we have:

Blasto: 151675
ScottyG: 147753
SuperMonk: 141600
HammerShark: 133744
JohnnyViral: 128671

With all that entails! Congratulations to Blasto for being a physics-defying wizard who has somehow gained first place. Now, based on my arbitrary rules, fight a good battle so that you can at least get second.

Leaderboards!

Blasto: 18 pts
SuperMonk4Ever: 14 pts
Epic: 11 pts
ScottyG: 9 pts
HammerShark: 3 pts
Occam's: 3 pts
JohnnyViral: 3 pts
mrandydixon: 3 pts
knutaf: 3 pts
johnnyviral: 3 pts
PerfidiousSinn: 3 pts
Caiters: 2 pts
WyllVengeance: 2 pts

The True, Final Task!

Bullet Heaven. Survival with Matt. List your Best Wave, High Score, and Most Kills using a screenshot.

Based on my own experience, you've got to at least beat

Wave: 17
High Score: 69540
Most Kills: 164 (80%)

If you want to stand a chance. give the game a shot and remember to screencap that shit!

Cheers!
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Sweet, been waiting for the final phase.

Umm, can't help but notice that there's a cheat menu. Does that mean you are allowing cheats then? I ain't complaining, I have to play these shits on a laptop, and I suck at keyboard controls as it is so I could use 'em :P
No cheats. Plug a corded controller in or die in a fire. :P
Sheesh, no need to be mean, I don't know nothing bout playing games on 'puters ...so, I can just plug a 360 controller in, and it'll work? Also, is there a way to tell if you used cheats? I only ask because I don't trust SuperMonk >_>
I'll be able to be tell about cheats. Psychic here, yo. Also, you cheat by living, you high-score breaking motherfucker, You're in no position to complain.
Jeez, you're awfully angry for a Canadian :P I screencapped my Wonderputt high score, just in case anyway. Ima chainsaw you in the ass after I win yo shit, sucka >:)

<3
Canadian just means I'm nice about being a badass. I've eaten black bear which has invaded my tent, enough to know that the flank is the tastiest part. I'm sn Ur-Canadian... the exact man America wishes didn't populate the country so that they can talk shit about how manifest destiny is all about USA patience and tolerance, and not about how badly Canadian terrorists would fuck up the USA if you invaded.

Also, we burned down the White House. Doing it again is a goal should you bastards invade.
Pffft, anyone can eat a bear; I've eaten a groundhog! Vicious, fearsome little bastard. Charged right for my throat, it did. Know what part tastes the best? None of them! I think you underestimate America's redneck population, sir.
I got
Wave: 44
High Score: 263710
Most Kills: 384 (79%).

Can I enter for the last task?
Blasto, you can plug in a wired 360 controller and it ought to Just Work. A wireless one using a play-n-charge cable will not just work; you need a special dongle for that.
Ouch on the internet work ban... so who in the office was surfing porn sites? LOL!

.... and you are indeed waaay too fucking generous!
Holdin' strong with those three points! Gooooo ANDY!
My first score so far!
Wave: 33
Score: 197,210
Kills: 274 (87%)
New High Score!

Wave: 37
Score: 298,540
Kills: 341 (92%)
Unlocked a character and tried him out, New New High Score!

Wave: 42
Score: 416,350
Kills: 429
Haha, sorry about the spam... NEW SCORE!

Wave: 50
Score: 453,250
Kills: 466
^^ AHA! I told you SuperMonk would cheat! It's all in his beady little eyes!
Guys, Screenshots. And I'm posting these two because I'm not sure which is "better" since they best each other in different areas.

Aw, balls. There's two there, honest. Just rightclick -> view image.
I just stopped by to let you know that although I don't have the skill to compete, the fact that you run these challenges makes you one of my favorite people. Shit, I just enjoy watching the contest unfold. Bravo to you.
@Roager

There's a little button that says "View High Scores" if you don't believe us. Just saying. ;)
wooooo staying strong! at...2 points :D
I have no idea how you can get that high Roager, even with my maxed out character.

FFFFF- I can't get my screen caps to get smaller without them becoming too blurry.

Here's my newest high!

Sheesh, here's my first survival score. Now that I got my 360 controller working, this is sweet, I love Bullet Hells :) I just need to invest some time in leveling up my character, I only had a few upgrades for this run.

Pictures be gone? Or is my computer just dumb?

Also, I'm pretty sure the upgrades don't apply in survival. that's what it seems like, anyway.
Roager:
Yeeep, I realized the upgrade thing didn't work after I leveled up a bit. Damn it lol. But, the game is actually pretty fun, I got up to the pharoh kitty boss and stopped. It's not really a legit Bullet Hell, in that some boss shot patterns just can't be avoided without bombs and you barely do damage without buying power ups. So, it's more like a shmup/rpg, since you need to grind upgrades. Pretty good though for free. I'm going to plug the laptop up to the tv later, and give it another go on a bigger screen. I don't see how the hell you got to wave 78, with 2 bombs remaining no less. That's impressive. Jerk lol. Also, the pics are still there.
Yeah, I'm not sure how I did it either. Kinda got into a rhythm of backing up shooting, then moving up for sword, and back again. Not like it really matters, since I can't very well win the contest, but it's a fun shmup.

And yeah, my computer's just being an idiot. Pictures all here again.
@Roager
I wasn't saying anything bad about ya, I was just saying that damn... DAMN that gets hard.

Yeah, I grinded so much to max out my character to only realize it doesn't matter. Oh well...


BAHAHA. And yeah, it gets rough. But I finally learned to start using bombs!


This game is so much more addicting than it has any right to be.
I really wish I'd recorded that.



Also, apologies on the triple post. I kind of feel like a dick. I'm gonna go do something else for a while.
Jesus on a pogo stick. Im supposed to be good at Shmups and Im having the hardest time... Maybe its because my game pad isnt working for the game at the moment. but anyway here is my first score.
Score number 2. Getting better. Also finding that using my own music while playing this makes me a little better. The music fr the game is good, but repetitive so I started to listen to the DTOID Comunity Album while playing.
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JohnnyViral: I used Xpadder for my 360 pad. That or Joy2Key, or some other similar program should help.
Phew, here's my new best score, good for 2nd place in this phase so far... which I am happy with, being as Roager is obviously a genetic freak <3

Genetic Freak, eh. Well, you sir... you're... Blasto.

Blasto Masto.
Welp... I dont think I can beat Blasto anymore.
Now, Johnny, that's no attitude to have. Anything the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Now kick some ass on a flash game.

Also, I'd like to point out:

"Based on my own experience, you've got to at least beat

Wave: 17
High Score: 69540
Most Kills: 164 (80%)

If you want to stand a chance."

yeah... about that...
To be fair, I played it maybe four or five times. I'm not putting the practice anyone here is putting into it.
Hope I can beat my current score:
Hammershark: Just a heads-up, you're using the wrong character for the contest. NoLegs is fun, but Matt's the one we're competing with.
Maybe too late to make it into the contest, but looking at the scores they figured out something I didn't.

Ah thanks Roager. Matt is better anyway.
Well it's not by much but I think I'm getting the hang of this.

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