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2:04 am
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| Monday, August 24th, 2009
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1:13 pm - Class Schtuffs
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This poor girl in class, she's obviously not doing well and came out of a personal conversation with the teacher almost in tears. Second time I stayed after class to help her rewrite her entire paper, so I just got home. Took about two hours, but I think she's doing better. Also, I have to critique two other guy's papers tomorrow as well as edit one, and today I still have to revise my restaurant review and finish up my final.
In other news, my puppies is bein' specially cute today!<3
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| Sunday, August 16th, 2009
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1:29 am - Weekly Update
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Let's see, Friday was about the best day I've had in a month. I have a much more positive feeling that everything will be okay if I just give it some more time. I think I've learned my own lesson here, and hopefully that will be enough to mend everything. Mending everything is about the most important concern I have at the moment.
Right now I'm staying over my Aunts with my cousin Matthew and his wife and son. I've been working on my papers here and everyone has been really helpful. One of my papers is on a subject I'm not too familiar with, 9/11 conspiracies, so I decided to work on it here. The nice thing about having a laptop is I get to sit in bed with the computer when I'm not tired enough to go to sleep, like I'm doing right now. Nico, my nephew, is about the most hyper kid on the planet. It's quite entertaining to watch. It'll be nice when I can see my niece Camille again, too. Dunno when that'll be though.
So yeah, all in all I feel a bit better. Not all the way there yet, but that's okay. It'll all be worth it if everything turns out okay. I also don't want to get too ahead of myself, as I'm well aware I'm completely capable of doing something unintentionally stupid yet again, but if I can just stay within myself, and BE myself, I know this will work out okay.
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| Monday, August 10th, 2009
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12:20 pm
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Well, from the time of my last entry (all of that one minute) one good thing happened. One very small thing, but it cheered me up a bit.
Now time to get motivated! Paper writing awaits!
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| Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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12:02 pm - It Was Even
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This has been by far the most difficult month of my life.
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| Monday, July 13th, 2009
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8:06 pm - Epic Fail
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I decided to go into the City today to surprise Caroline (this amazing, smart, beautiful girl I met at my cousins wedding) with a pizza and chocolates. Godiva's. Mmmmmm... Unfortunately, she got home one day later than expected from her trip and wasn't able to meet up. Her job keeps her really busy. Soooooo I pretty much came into Grand Central aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand turned right around and went home. That part doesn't matter to me at all, it just sucks I keep missing opportunities to go see her. Ah well, Imma keep on tryin'! I'm starting to understand how Jim Halpert from The Office felt while pinning after that pretty Pam. The difference here is his girl was 10 feet away from him every day, mine is an hour and a half train ride away and moving in a few weeks. Lucky bastard!
Oh, and it's my cat Boxer's birfday today. Happy Birfday, Boxy!
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| Friday, June 19th, 2009
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3:09 am - Haruhi Seasn 2 Intro
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| Friday, June 5th, 2009
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6:34 pm - E3 2009 Roundup
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Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Nintendo DS)
Alan Wake (Xbox 360)
Assassin's Creed II (Xbox 360, PS3)
Bayonetta (Xbox 360, PS3)
The Beatles Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3)
Blood of Bahamut (Nintendo DS)
A Boy and His Blob (Wii)
Brutal Legend (Xbox 360, PS3)
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Xbox 360, PS3)
Dead Space: Extraction (Wii)
Fat Princess (PS3, PSP)
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (Wii)
Final Fantasy VII (PS3, PSP)
Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360, PS3)
Final Fantasy XIV (PS3, PC)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Wii)
Front Mission Evolved (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
God of War III (PS3)
Golden Sun DS (Nintendo DS)
Heavy Rain (PS3)
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Nintendo DS)
The Last Guardian (PS3)
Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360, PC)
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo DS)
LEGO Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3)
Little Big Planet (PSP)
Lost Planet 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360, PC)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP)
Metal Gear Solid: Rising (Xbox 360, PS3)
Metroid: Other M (Wii)
Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, PS3)
ModNation Racers (PS3)
Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 (PS3)
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Wii)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (PS3)
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Wii)
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (Xbox 360, PS3)
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Wii, PS2, PSP)
Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny (PSP)
Splinter Cell: Conviction (Xbox 360)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
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| Friday, May 29th, 2009
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3:14 am - Up
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| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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3:43 am
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An awesome cousin of mine should get me a full account so I can have more pictures.
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Was that subtle enough? =(
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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6:14 pm - Dreamwidth
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Hey lookie, I got meself a Dreamwidth account. Anyhoo, for those on my friends list who don't know, Dreamwidth is my cousin Janine's as-of-two-days-ago husbands own personal business. Both of them were LiveJournal employees until they decided to be poopy faces and lay Neenie off. So you should all support this instead cause it's RED....yes. Uh, if you're worried about loosing your friends and schtuff from LiveJournal, you can cross-something your journals so all your posts and comments here show up on your LiveJournal. I prove this by making this post on Dreamwidth and you all bein' able to see it. So there's no excuse! None!
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| Saturday, May 9th, 2009
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12:10 am - More Eva 2.0
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| Friday, May 1st, 2009
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12:11 am - Spring Anime 2009
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The past few summers have seen a whole lotta nothing as far as Anime is concerned. This summer seems to be making up for it in strides. While I haven't seen everything, there's at least 4 shows I'm keeping an eye on, and while they all might not end up great in the end at least they're holding my interest.
What to watch:
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
This is an obvious one. FMA is one of the best of the best, so no matter what the new show is getting watched. After the first four episodes they haven't done much but sort of cliff note the beginning of the first series, but it has been good, if not quite as much as series one.
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K-ON!
This is another obvious one, as the studio who's brought the best shows by far for the past three years is Kyoto Animation. I've only seen one episode of their new show (I've been waiting the extra month to watch it in HD Widescreen), but I was fully entertained. I hope they keep up their excellent streak. Oh, and they also continue their streak of great outros, as you'll see below.
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Eden of the East
This is one that came out of nowhere. I hadn't even heard of it before it started airing. It has to do with a lot of current issues, like terrorism, and it could wind up being one this years best and most unique. The first episode starts off with a Japanese girl in Washington D.C. and features a lot of spoken English. Not Engrish, but actual English actors speaking English. It also has one of the best intros and one of the best outros to go with it. Which shouldn't be too surprisingly when you realize the intro is the song "Falling Down" by Oasis. Yes, that Oasis.
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Basquash!
This is one that most people seemed to be anticipating, since it was coming from the people who did Macross Frontier. I was not one of these people. I didn't care for that show, and this one is about a futuristic basketball game being played by guys in giant robots, and it's awesome. Sure it's a little cheesy at times, the main character is really loud and obnoxious, and sometimes it seems like a giant Nike commercial (Nike did shoe designs for it, so you see their logo everywhere) but it's animated superbly and has been very entertaining so far.
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Valkyria Chronicles
While I don't expect much from this adaptation, I am, as you know, a huge fan of the game by Sega. It's a fantastic game and I recommend anyone with a PS3 to PICK IT UP! The show so far has, admittedly, been far more decent than I expected. Not great, but passable, which is more than I can say for most game adaptations.
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Intro and Outro: http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2009/04/04/valkyria-chronicles-01/ (Not on YouTube due to dem legality issues.)
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| Friday, April 3rd, 2009
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11:36 am - Eva 2.0
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| Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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10:07 pm - More Useless Lists: Most Wanted Sequels
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We know that what the gaming industry needs most right now is new IPs. Having said this, there are plenty of true sequels fans have been asking for years now. Recently, some companies (mostly Capcom) have obliged (Mother 3, Seiken Densetsu 4, Contra 4, Mega Man 9, Street Fighter IV, the upcoming Wii Punch-Out!! and Bionic Commando). There are still plenty more, and here's what I would like to see, even if I'm sure not all would quite live up to my high expectations. Seiken Densetsu 4 ("Dawn of Mana" in the US), for example, is a mockary of a great series and the new Bionic Commando looks terrible. First the full list and then a little reasoning behind each. All videos are of the last main entry to be released.
1. Chrono 3
2. Lunar 3
3. Phantasy Star V
4. ICO 3
5. Shenmue III
6. The Legend of Dragoon 2
7. Skies of Arcadia 2
8. Shining Force IV
9. Marvel Vs Capcom 3
10. Kid Icarus 2
1. The team behind Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross may no longer fully be with Square, but that still hasn't broken my hopes for a third, and hopefully good, Chrono game. Sure, with a different team working on it, it might not be the same, but the fanboy in me is still holdin' on.
2. In all honesty, this is equally as wanted by me as my number 1. GameArts attempted to give us a new Lunar game a few years back with the DS game Lunar: Dragon Song, and to be frank, it sucked. Not only was it terrible but it tanked sales-wise, making the chances of a true sequel to Lunar almost non-existent.
3. Yes, Phantasy Star has continued on strong as a franchise since Phantasy Star IV was released in the US in 1995. Phantasy Star Online and it's two sequels, Phantasy Star Universe, the upcoming Phantasy Star Zero, but how about a true, single-player sequel to Phantasy Star IV? Sure that game ended a four-game long story, but hasn't it been long enough where we can have a true sequel now?
4. This isn't so much a sequel as a hope for the ICO teams next game. I didn't include Guilty Gear on this list because they have BlazBlue coming out, which is good enough for me. Having said this, Shadow of the Colossus is a sort-of prequel to ICO. In fact, it's original beta title was "NICO" (a pun, "ni" means 2 in Japanese). I don't care if their third game has anything to do with their previous ones or not, I just want to see what they have coming next. Unlike most games on this list, this is a game that we probably will eventually see.
5. Despite only having tried out the two games, this is still a series that needs to be continued. Shenmue was planed as six-entry series. The first two entries were completed, and then the Dreamcast was discontinued. Shenmue II ends on a cliff hanger, so fans have been wanting some closure for a while now. We don't need parts III, IV, V, and VI, we just need part III. Hopefully they give the series the swan-song it rightly deserves.
6. The Legend of Dragoon was a solid first forray into the RPG genre by Sony. Sure it borrowed heavily on themes form other RPGs of it's time, but the battle system was excellent and original. There was a lot of unrealized potential this game presented, so a sequel would be more than justified.
7. Skies of Arcadia is a game that I've desired a sequel to for a very long time. My desire isn't as strong now since that very same team more than delivered on another game this past year: Valkyria Chronicles. So while this would have placed much higher before, I still believe a quality sequel can be delivered.
8. Another Sega game on this list, yeesh. Sega has tried to revitalize Shining Force for years now. Never once with a true sequel. We've been given horrible hack and slash games like Shining Force Neo, but what we really want is a true strategy RPG sequel much in the same vein as Nintendo's never ending Fire Emblem franchise. This would have placed higher if not for Sega giving us one of the best strat-RPGs in recent years in (again) Valkyria Chronicles. No matter how solid a true forth Shining Force game is, the chances of it topping Valkyria, a game from the same publisher, is slim at best.
9. While I mentioned earlier that I didn't include Guilty Gear on this list because they're giving us BlazBlue, it would still be great to see MVC3 despite the recently Japan-only release of Tatsunoko Vs Capcom. Not only because we have no real chance of seeing that game here in the States due to licensing issues, but also because, let's face it, Tatsunoko isn't Marvel. I just hope if a sequel does happen, which will be tough considering EA holds the rights to Marvel games now, that it does just like Tatsunoko Vs Cacpom.
10. Kid Icarus is a game people have wanted Nintendo to grant them a true sequel to since the original came out on the NES however many years ago. It's also been rumored to really be getting said sequel for a while now. It's low on my list because, while it would be great to see the character again, it'd be a Wii game with waggle. Who really expects that to be good? Punch-Out!! is easier to bring to that system, it's a boxing game. Who knows though, maybe they'll put it on the DS instead and make it good? And maybe I'll see my Lunar sequel. And maybe Duke Nukem Forever will actually come out this year.
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| Monday, February 16th, 2009
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11:55 pm - Ugh
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This is quite possibly the most poorly produced trailer I've ever seen. If it wasn't for it being on GameTrailers and the full credits at the end, I'd believe it was fan made. I'm still not entirely convinced. And what's with that "song?" Please, please tell me that won't be in the final version.
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| Saturday, February 14th, 2009
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1:39 am - Shame!
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Added Wii Music to the runners up for the worst games of the year part of my previous post, which it so richly deserves. I wouldn't have even thought about it, but I was reminded of it when I saw my cousin got Wii Fit.
Which leads me to my next point: Shame on you, Janine! =(
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| Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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9:47 pm - Game of the Year 2008
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I'm doing things a little differently than last year since I've played a large number of games this year, and haven't had a chance to finish a lot of them and probably won't for a while. So after what I thought were clearly my three favorite games this year, I broke the rest up into tiers. I also increased the amount of "best" crap after, including runner-ups, and the top games for each major platform. I even included an entry for remakes, which there were a lot of this year.
I also included something I didn't really want to do, which is the category for "worst game of the year." The reason for this is very simple: I don't play many bad games of that caliber outside of demos, and it's easy to name something stupid like The Naked Brothers Band so I decided that as a rule only a game that actually put forth an attempt and turned out to be shit would qualify. So this is a completely different category than "most overrated" since a game can be overrated and still be mediocre, playable, or sometimes even halfway decent. I even went back and added one for last year, just because it entertained me so.
Add &fmt=18 at the end of any video URL to watch it in high quality, if they don't already have the option.
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The Top Three Games of the Year:
1. Valkyria Chronicles
2. Persona 4
3. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Tier 1 (in alphabetical order):
Braid
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Dead Space
Devil May Cry 4
Fallout 3
Little Big Planet
Lost Odyssey
Mega Man 9
Rock Band 2
Tales of Vesperia
Tier 2 (in alphabetical order):
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Apollo Justic: Ace Attorney
Castle Crashers
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Left 4 Dead
Mirror's Edge
No More Heroes
Prince of Persia
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Soulcalibur IV
Tier 3 (in alphabetical order):
Culdcept Saga
It's a Wonderful World
LEGO Batman
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
Patapon
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wario Land: Shake It!
Best PS2 Game: Persona 4 -- Runner Up: N/A
Best PS3 Game: Valkyria Chronicles -- Runner Up: Metal Gear Solid 4
Best PSP Game: God of War: Chains of Olympus -- Runner Up: Patapon
Best Xbox 360 Game: Tales of Vesperia -- Runner Up: Lost Odyssey
Best Wii Game: No More Heroes -- Runner Up: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wario Land: Shake It!
Best Nintendo DS Game: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia -- Runner Up: Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Best Multiplatform Game: Fallout 3 -- Runner Up: Dead Space
Best Downloadable Game: Braid -- Runners Up: Mega Man 9, Castle Crashers
Best Downloadable Content: Rock Band 2 -- Runner Up: Mega Man 9
Best Story: Lost Odyssey -- Runners Up: Metal Gear Solid 4, Persona 4, Valkyria Chronicles
Best Multiplayer Game: Rock Band 2 -- Runners Up: Left 4 Dead, Little Big Planet, Castle Crashers, Soulcalibur IV
Most Replay Value: Rock Band 2 -- Runners Up: Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, Left 4 Dead
Best Game With Little or No Replay Value: Braid -- Runner Up: Prince of Persia
Best Level Design: Braid -- Runners Up: Little Big Planet, Mega Man 9, Prince of Persia, Mirror's Edge, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Most Innovative Game: Little Big Planet -- Runners Up: Braid, Mirror's Edge, No More Heroes, Valkyria Chronicles
Best Remake: Final Fantasy IV -- Runners Up: Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen, Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories, Star Ocean: First Departure, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Bionic Commando Rearmed
Best Expansion: Persona 3 FES -- Runner Up: Portal: Still Alive
Best Boss Battle: Angelo Credo from Devil May Cry 4 -- Runners Up: Screaming Mantis from Metal Gear Solid 4, Brachyura from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Best Trailer for an Upcoming Release: Street Fighter IV -- Runner Up: Resident Evil 5 (Spoilers at the end of this trailer!!!!)
Best Graphics: Metal Gear Solid 4 -- Runner Up: Gears of War 2
Best Original Score: Metal Gear Solid 4 -- Runners Up: Lost Odyssey, Valkyria Chronicles, Persona 4, It's a Wonderful World
Best Original Song: "Still Alive" from Mirror's Edge -- Runner Up: "Pursuing My True Self" from Persona 4
Most Pleasant Surprise: Valkyria Chronicles -- Runners Up: Braid, Dead Space
Biggest Letdown: Ninja Gaiden II -- Runners Up: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Too Human, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
Most Overrated Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto IV -- Runners Up: Gears of War 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Call of Duty: World at War, Spore
Worst Game of the Year: Legendary -- Runners Up: Golden Axe: Beast Rider, Sonic Unleashed, Wii Music, Spore
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| Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
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7:08 pm - The Gaming Hall-of-Fame #15
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Title: Final Fantasy VI
Platform: Super Nintendo
Publisher: Squaresoft
Release Date: 1994
Genre: RPG
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4:37 pm - Actual Gameplay + No Transfomers = Thumbs Up!
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