If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, I can't see how our nation would have made any progress on a social level. This is Sunday Ramblings!

Well guys, I have finally got to see more eventful things going on. I got back a few hours ago after seeing Battle: Los Angeles right after getting done with work. Sweet, fun as coolness movie I really enjoyed after having seen an aggressively mediocre movie and an overall just plain good movie about a month ago. I know some people might be a bit put off by it considering it was done by the same guy who did The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and it might remind them of Skyline somewhat given the premise, but this is way better than either believe me. The story is done before, but it's like a spiritual successor to Independence Day of sorts and that's pretty much what I was hoping for when I went in. The acting was pretty good, and the music was really cool and added a lot of intensity to the battle and drama scenes and they actually worked pretty well together. If I had any complaints I think it would be that the alien designs weren't all that interesting (they looked like Prawns in an early stage of development) and the reason behind the plot was pretty iffy and borderline ill-found. That plot was still more plausible than Skyline though. Anybody who's interested, check it out it's a really fun alien invasion action movie fighting against the invaders.

Back onto gaming, some people might have seen that I picked up a lot of games recently and it's pretty much my Fat Tuesday for Lent. It's a Catholic thing even though I'm not 100% devout it's something of a self-improvement thing. In a nutshell, it's the time of year where I actually put some effort into achieving some form of New Year's resolution. Games I got: Dragon Age II, Dreamcast Collection, Mindjack, along with two games that I've been looking for after quite a while: Rise of the Argonauts and Supreme Commander 2. So at least I'll have something to go off of when waiting for Easter of this year. And even if I do beat them all before then, I'll just have to get around to actually beating more of my games seeing that my backlog is bigger than a Redwood Tree. It would also help considering that I still have some bills to pay, so I'll be able to get out of that scenario. This is a diary after all, so don't take this as preaching of some sort.

Dragon Age II I have enjoyed so far, and trust me the side quest glitch that has been found does work. You also don't have to worry about how fast you tap the A button either, just don't move from the character and you'll still get exp. and gold if you just stand in place besides the character. This is the 360 version anyway. I know there's dislike for this game because of how it's more casualized than its predecessor and I like the game because of that, it actually was what I was hoping Dragon Age: Origins would be like. But what do I know? I like Final Fantasy XIII for a number of the reasons that people didn't like it, so don't bother listening to my opinions.

In the Dreamcast Collection, I've only been playing Sonic Adventure so far because I like being able to play a game I've always enjoyed with the benefit of achievements. I heard Crazy Taxi was one of the Dreamcast's best so I can't wait to play it, and I think Space Channel Part 2 and Sega Bass Fishing have some acclaim last time I checked.

I have been playing some of Mindjack just because I was curious about it in part because of the negative press it was getting. I'm just that kind of person and I wanted to see what it was like, and so far it doesn't seem like a very bad game it just has really sub-par production values. The first boss was a bit of a nuisance but I beat it. I did get something of a glitch though, I beat all of the enemies in one of the levels and then I wasn't able to progress and I think it might have been because I didn't destroy this hovercraft enemy seeing I ran out of rocket launcher ammo.

I know there are some big name releases coming out, but at least I'll be able to go on a binge of sorts when Lent ends. Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, and Shogun 2: Total War are the ones I definitely want and good news Homefront has been getting good reviews so far so it might be worth checking out after all. Above much else though, I hope to save up enough for a 3DS when it becomes available. Those are my goals and I hope to solve some of my monetary issues down the road. Fortunately there are more releases coming out in May than there are in April so I hope my backlog might decrease somewhat before then. Life sounds like fun doesn't it? When important things are getting this close to finishing it sure can be.

That's the news from Myviewing as of March 13, 2011.