The long, winding road of some philosophical life ramblings. And 2012. I'm not one for New Year's Resolutions, so I haven't made an exception of this year. You know something? I'm sure you do! But what I mean is, I'm into thinking about what I'll probably do this new year and what I'm looking forward to, you know (you know! ), instead of making promises that are easy to break.They're more simpl...
Gaming Tortoise: n. One who takes a fucking long time to finish a game that came out years ago. I'm trying to remember a time when I didn't have a backlog of games at my disposal. Maybe when I was ten or so, but even then I'd still have arcade games to fall back on when I didn't quite feel like moving that one step further towards getting the next star in SMRPG , got frustrated trying to get ye...
I hate to write a clichéd "I'm back!" post, but I figured someone might be wondering what in the hell I've been doing for the past year due to not participating nearly as much as I use to. I have been busy with a full work load at college for the past year in addition to working two jobs to make rent (now down to just the one again, thank goodness). I was also doing an internship at the Poughke...
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First order of business, if you haven't seen my latest review on Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits , give that a look, a comment, and a yay or nay, and then hit up the No New Games Podcast for the latest craziness of myself and the rest of the NNG team. Now back to our regularly scheduled blog post. As some already know, my sound card decided to die yesterday. While I mourned it's loss and o...
The journey continues with Arc the Lad . This time, I've gotten up to finishing the second chapter for Kharg, which lasted about five hours...three of which where I was out of bounds from a save point . Luckily, no death yet . It's hard to die in this game. In today's venture, I dwell on names . What's in a name ? Letters ? Numbers ? An obnoxious number of x's ? Maybe so, but names are so much...
To kick off My Summer Challenge ( see previous blog ), I popped in Arc the Lad last night and started there. Despite working all most of the day today on a PPT, I've managed to get the first two sections of the game done as of last night, which is not too shabby, but it felt like like the sections were rather short. This is probably due to the very short battles and lack of story progression, o...
Alright folks, here's the deal. I have a mess of games that have been sitting on my backlog for well over a year now, and I currently have a decent amount of time on my hands. While I have this incredible opportunity, I'm going to milk the crud out of it by not only finishing a good chunk of it, but also to review it as well. So here's how I'll be working: as soon as I'm done typing this blog,...
Last week, I sat in my car watching people at one of my college's parking lots to do some research for my Nonverbal Communication's class. I recorded pretty indepth information about walking pace, facial movement, objects being carried, interaction/reaction to others' presences, and more about 165 people. Come class today when the paper's due, I find out that I only needed to do an observation...
Yo, dawg! I'm totally feeling a spa after this round Is this more of a commentary on the Globetrotters's crowd, or wrinkly, Japanese women?
The very first real game I ever touched was on a road trip to Florida. My dad had bought me a coloring book with crayons and my brother a brand new Game Boy with Mickey's Dangerous Chase and, what it came with, Tetris . My brother fiddled with the new toy for awhile, while I stared at him collecting items, jumping, and dodging on such a small screen. I was intrigued. Once he got sick of getting...
For the stunning conclusion to the Day of a Ten Game Run, please see this blog! For the epic beginnings, see this other blog ! Continuing on with the final six of my glorious day yesterday, this is the better portion of play I had. I'm sure everyone will be able to agree on that. Warning Forever Eat lead, blinky! I can't quite remember where I heard of this title from (probably GameSpot when it...
Alright, folks, here's what went down. I've been meaning to get to a few dozen indie titles I've downloaded, but have been so wrapped in my Japanese studies that I have not gotten to them. Today, I blocked out some time and went through ten of them. What you are about to witness is my experience with the first four titles. Names have been changed to protect identities, except my own. That one s...
Now that Nintendo no longer holds the market in motion gaming, how do you believe this will effect the gaming industry? It is my belief that, like Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony will take on a much more casual audience like they are probably anticipating. Does that mean a giant slew of multi-platform shovel-ware titles with the core audience forever being pushed aside? I do not think so. What I d...
Yep. This guy. Alright, folks. We all know there's been games inspired by literature ranging from murder mysteries like Agatha Cristie: Murder on the Orient Express , to post-apocalyptic science fiction like I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream , to completely twisted children stories like American McGee's Alice in Wonderland , but I think it's rather safe to say that there are no book based game...
See this? No more. Boys and girls, one of the oldest gaming companies has made some more changes to itself. For starters, Infogrames , the dudes who bought out Atari back in March '08, is now known purely as Atari, so no more Infogrames labels. The second more interesting bit of news is Phil Harrison moving from President to "Non-executive Director of the Group" and Jeff Lapin moving in as Chie...
Just finished listening to this relatively new podcast called A Life Well Wasted, though this particular episode is not canon due to it being an slow paced, unedited interview. The interviewee happens to be a gaming curator over at Stanford named Henry Lowood. In simpler terms, he helps preserve the history of games. All this didn't really interest me until Lowood drew a picture. "There's a fam...
There's a very interesting article up on Kotaku about the creation of 360's avatar system. All those heart wrenching, gut turning details are included, such as the fact that, although Miis came out first, Rare had been hard at work on the system prior to Nintendo's revolutionary revelation. Such as the Lee Musgrave, the basic head for avatar design, states: "We kicked the idea about internally,...
Just played the incredibly short "interactive piece of art" called The Gutter created by Jan Nijham and Robin Rodriguez. In it, you play an old, drunk man that needs to find someplace to sleep for the night. The game features walking, vomiting, sleeping, and, if you donate $5, death. It's worth to glance at it, and it won't take a terrible amount of your time. If you're like me, you'll wonder w...
These puppies are adorable. Nauseatingly adorable. Seriously, staring at my main pooch as she was frolicking with a blue bird hovering over her head playfully in Snow White style? I was getting physically ill. Really. The object of the game (thus far) is getting medicine for a sick sibling. I'll be stealing it for myself, thanks. Also, could there have been more sniffing? Leveling by discoverin...
I'm a collector of odd things, so when I see a title as odd as My Little Pony Pinkie Pie's Party , I have to take note. Have to . As a result, I've compiled the top five games I felt deserved the title of Weirdest Choice of Representation. 5. Irritating Stick You'll be hard pressed to find a more bothersome stick. THIS STICK IS SO IRRITATING MY BRAIN IS ASPLODED YARG! THE BITS ARE EVERYWHERE AN...
Now listen to Mr. T and treat your mother right. Or someone else's mother right. For the sake of discussion, what are you doing on Mother's Day? I got my mom clothes and ate donuts and hot cocoa with her. What did you fools do?
Used games are a rather controversial subject with people continually damning the evils of places like GameStop for their practices while places like Amazon and eBay go on chugging with little to no backlash for their users' resale practices. Although the reselling of games does not directly benefit the games creators, it certainly does benefit the consumer. The most obvious reason used games a...
10. Urnials 9. Fascinating Talking Points About Cockroaches 8. Coolest Movies for Geeks 7. Angry On-Camera Meltdowns 6. Strangest Lego Creations 5. Video Game Beards 4. Female Streakers 3. Action Figures That Are So Bad, They're Good 2. Games That Would Be Better If They Said "Party" On the End 1. RapeLay
I Have A Face from Jacki Jinx on Vimeo . In other news, I can't chug. Also, the cutting from scene to scene rather choppily is due to my video deciding, "Hey, I'm going to cut out now. Clear some more room if you want to tape, duder!" Oh, life. How lovely!
I'm still beating your gamerscore. Eat it!
So I beat BioShock last night and am VERY happy about that. Managed to only miss two audiodiaries as well, so I went back and got those to get the Historian Achievement. Now, I'm redoing it because I missed the Cohen achievements and the tonic achievement...that, and I want brass balls. So far, so good having beaten Steinmen without dying. Thought I was going to when I realized I didn't hack bo...
I celebrate this week my gaming abilities and my ability to gather what I consider a small load of points. My time has mostly been consumed by Left 4 Dead and sleeping with Uno (yes, falling asleep playing Uno), but I have other titles that have been occupying my time. First, there's BioShock. Lovely title, but I still haven't played farther than the tragic submarine sequence yet. Next is Sneak...
What are you going to do about it?
I try out a lot of different games, but I hardly ever actually spend money when it comes on things like indie titles, which I mostly find off of Play This Thing! and GiantBomb articles. This year, I ended up getting Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble! and The Blackwell Legacy , the later which I bought two days ago and haven't had time to play yet. Other than that, I suckered myself into bu...
Good news: got something something In my face, bitches! Bad news: no 360 until a least the nineth. Hot damn, I just want to rip the sucker apart and play it already! The wait is killing me =(
BioShock. Oh, and a wireless adapter...and Sneak King. Yes, I went and bought Sneak King. Why? I...I don't know. I like the Burger King, and the game always seemed weird enough for me to like it, so, yea. My first two games I'm getting are BioShock and Sneak King. My system? I went out today and all they had were those stupid bundles for the pro. I don't want Kung Fu Panda, thank-you-very-much....
Let me just run this down with the actual scenario, like a screenplay. Sister: (walks in with Circuit City flyer) Mom wants to know if this bundle would be fine with you for your graduation gift (points to Pro 360 deal) Me: (takes flyer from her hand and goes to Mom) Ah, yes...that'd be fine Mom! Mom: I was thinking about giving you the money this week so you could go pick it up, that way you g...
Alright, here's the scoop. I asked my parents about getting me a 360 for Christmas, but my was all "no dice" because he's afraid that's all I'd end up doing when I transfer. Oh well. I've been getting a lot of hours lately, so as soon as I get enough for a game and a 360, I'm off to the store. No questions asked. Well, one question for all you lucky people out there: Which of these titles shoul...
I can't seem to concentrate on anything right now. I'm having trouble understanding arrays, so I'm reading over that chapter in my textbook right now. I love this stuff, but it's just so hard to wrap my head around without some solid examples. Christmas? Bekern made me think of what I want for Christmas. Maybe I can convince my family to get me a 360 for Christmas if they buy me nothing else. M...
I realize that I've been dwelling much too much on how crappy things are going for me lately, so I figured it was time for a change. Let the happy videos begin!
What makes you stop playing a game?
Why do you like playing the games that you like playing?
I recently order a few books from the library and two just came in today, and since I had nothing else to do and the library is not terribly far away, I biked it. Oh god, the pain. When I was holding my bike while I waited for my dad to open the garage door, I could barely keep my grip and my legs decided, "Hey, I don't feel like functioning right now," so I went to my room with some Italian Ic...
This semester since it's my last one before I get my Associates and I'm paying for it all, I'm only taking a few classes. I can say with no exaggeration that I've taken up to 18 credits worth of classes and have only had to pay at the most $250-275 for my books all together, and that's at bookstore price. Not this semester. Of course not, that'd be ridiculous. I only need four books and they to...
One daiquiri that tastes mostly like smoothie until the very bottom where upon it went WHOA. Apparently, I have a very low alcohol tolerance level. That's all I have to say about that.
I like it. Sure, I get frustrated with some submissions and small things that are bound to human error, but overall, I like the site a lot.
As I wait on my pending submission, I guess I should go through some of my games. I have no idea what I want to play right now though, so decisions decisions, I'll see if anyone wants a say in the choices that I have. The following is a list of games with how much I've played them: LoZ: Phantom Hourglass- Nada Bomberman NES- Level 6 Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced- Just discovered the cards Rune...