Intro

Wow, it has been literally forever since my last blog post. The reason for my absence is simple; I've spent my net time on Myspace, Facebook, and 1UP instead of Gamespot. But, I guess I'm back, lol.

Game Updates

Pokemon Diamond: The game I'm currently playing. I have four Gym badges and I'm working on the fifth. Very good title I'd recommend to anyone with a DS or DS Lite.

Future Plans

I plan on selling my desktop, monitor, and *cries* my Xbox 360 to help me purchase a gaming notebook (think Alienware or Dell XPS 1710 or a Velocity Micro). I need a portable unit; I greatly regret buying a desktop last year. I don't need something tiny, just something I can take around with me. Long as it isn't 500 pounds, I'm ok with it. I'm waiting for the GeForce Go 8800 line to become available before I do anything, as that is the card I want.

It's been a while, huh guys? Sorry that I haven't written any blogs in a while. I plan on writing one at least once a week from now on. Anywho, this one is just updates, plus some impressions and what-not.

Game Update: Dragon Quest VIII
I am currently on a quest to the Dragon Graveyard. I decided to escort the bratty female of the Golding family, Carrie. She's really annoying, too. But, her and her brother Cash have the best voice-work in the game besides Yangus, Morrie, and Don Mole.

Game Update: Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
Currently playing Street Fighter III. I'm practicing with Dudley, since he's my favorite character. I'm not exactly a good fighter, but I enjoy fighting games. Especially 2-D fighting games. I'd be a mean opponent if I could remember all of my combos. That's why I enjoy the Marvel vs. Capcom series. You don't have to know specific combos. Just imagine a combination, and it's done.

Life Update: New York Baby!
Next week, I will be traveling to New York City. I'm so excited. The Statue of Liberty, the Nintendo World Store, and so much more. It's going to pwn.

Life Update: Tests, yuck
This week is exams. Eww...

Net Update: Newgrounds pwns
If you haven't been to Newgrounds, you should go IMMEDIATELY. It's great. The George Bush Show is a classic.

Anyway, those are just updates. I'm actually writing a fanfiction right now. I plan on posting all of the chapters on the net as I finish them. Hope you enjoy them (when I post them). See ya next mission! :wink:

And PS

All your base are belong to us.

In the past few weeks, I have been addicted to only one thing. That thing, is Dragon Quest VIII, which rivals Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Resident Evil 4 as the best game of last year. It's a great game, but sometimes, you just gotta take a break. I've killed enough slimes to earn one. :D

So, in the mean time, I've decided to brush up on my fighting game skills. I've been playing Capcom Fighting Evolution for a few days now. It's a half-decent game, despite its negative critisism. You just have to get into it. I've been playing as Zangief, for the most part. I've never been into grapplers, so I had some trouble adjusting to his style of play, but now I like him. His Spinning Piledriver owns just about everyone, if you can get it to connect. He's also got the best super in the game besides Ryu. His Final Atomic Buster does a ton of damage (try over 75% of the health gage at level 4 damage) but it has horrible range and it's easy to avoid. Still, it's good. I'm more of a Special Forces guy (Guile and Charlie are my two favorite characters in the world of Street Fighter and fighting games in general) since their charges let them do some pretty cool (if not cheap) tricks. Although they are my favorite overall, my all-time favorite character is the Super Street Fighter 2: Turbo (and CFE/CVS2) M. Bison.

I've also sat down with my PSP (which is ugly now, due to the face-plate being scrated, darn my laziness for not buying a screen protector) which I haven't done in a good, long while. I've been playing good ol' Darkstalkers. Who doesn't love Darkstalkers? Next to Street Fighter III, it's easily my favorite Capcom fighting series, bar none.

I've also been playing my friend's copy of San Andreas, which has been in my possesion for around 3 months now. Just performing missions. And, unlike him, I'm not using cheat codes to beat the game. I only use cheats after I beat a game. And, there is Advance Wars.

That's about it. See ya next mission! :wink:

One of the games I bought with my Christmas money this year was the phenominal RPG, Dragon Quest VIII. And, although I've only had it just a short time, I've racked over 50 hours on this single game. Not a big achievement by any means, but I also logged in some decent hours on Advance Wars: Dual Strike and the Internet.

So far, I'm in love with the story. It's pretty cliche, but it's very light-hearted, and the characters (with decent voice-overs) really bring it alive. Yangus and Don Mole happen to be my 2 favorite characters. King Trode is very cool, too. The battle system is very simple and easy to learn, but the battles can be tough as hell. One example is my current boss, Dhoulmagus himself.

His first form is fairly easy. He makes two clones with several hundred HP, and he has several thousand. Despite the fact that I lost the first try (I was dumb enough not to return to town and heal, which means I had jack MP), he was fairly easy the second time. His second form, not so much. The bastard has a variety of attacks, including devastating KaCrackle and KaSizzle that hits for 70 damage per character. Also, he can attack twice in one turn. He ate me alive pretty darn fast, since my party's MP reserves were pretty much depleted at that point. He also resembles Freeza's second form... Very, very slightly.

One cool thing about the game is that, when you die, you aren't given the Game Over screen and forced to lose all your progress. In DQVIII, you start back at the last church you visited with full HP/MP and half of money gone. Also, if you fight a two formed boss and lose against the second one, you can continue your fight just against the second one. you don't have to fight the first one again.

This isn't a review, but I must say, it's a great game, and one of the best RPG's in over a decade in my opinion. I recommend you give the ol' baby a try. It's n00b friendly, but it doesn't shun on difficulty. That's what I love most about it.

It's been a while, Gamespot. I migratetd to 1UP several months ago, for several reasons I won't name. But, I'm back. The new lay-out, plus a better profile system, was just too much to resist.

In the meantime, Christmas went fairly well this year. I recieved around 500 dollars in cash money. I didn't spend too much of it. I'm one of those people who likes to save their money for future events. I did purchase several movies and some games, though.

In the games department, I purchased Dragon Quest VIII, which has been killer awesome so far. I'm currently searching for the Venus Tear, which Ms. Red has ordered me to go find if I want Medea back. I love everything about the game so far. The character design is by far the greatest aspect of the game, though. Akira Toriyama is a great character creator, and for the first time in a Dragon Quest/Warrior title, his animations are brought to life. It's very impressive.

I also purchased Call of Duty 2: Big Red One for the Xbox. I've already beaten it, so I regret buying it. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

I purchased several DVD's. The first is a Evangelion double pack. It contains "Evangelion: Death and Rebirth" and "The End of Evangelion" which are pretty hard to find on their own. Death and Rebirth is basically a recount/review of the entire series. I haven't seen the whole series, so it was rather interesting. The End of Evangelion is the weirdest move I've ever seen. It makes perfect sense for the first half, but then it sorta destroys itself at the second half. Still a great movie, but it didn't make any sense at all. Asuka got it bad. Had her eye gouged and her arm split in half. :cry: She is my favorite character, after-all. Very sad.

The Fatal Fury movie wasn't half-bad. Despite the fact that the girl Sulia talks for about 15 minutes (very boring) and Terry and Andy look like 15 year old school girls, it was pretty good. It even had a shower scene, aka Street Fighter II. You can guess who was in teh shower. :D

I also bought Goldmember (already seen it) and Minority Report (great, already seen it). That's pretty much it. It was a fun Christmas overall. There just wasn't too much out to buy right now. I have to buy a new cell phone, though. My old one got washed. :P

See ya next mission!

Today, I picked up Final Fantasy Anthology from EB Games. It's, surprisingly, brand new.

I'm loving Final Fantasy VI so far. Right now, I'm working on the Phantom Train. I'm about to go back and play it shortly.

Final Fantasy V has been... ok so far. It sorta throws the story and characters down your throat the first 5 minutes into gameplay, so it isn't very well balanced in a traditional story sense. The gameplay is deep, though, and I hope to really get into it tommorow.

That's it for now. See ya next mission. :wink:

School started today, for me at least. Yet another boring year of sitting through classes listening to annoying speeches and editorials being read. Sounds like fun, no? :|

Here are my gaming updates.

1. I downloaded the Japanese update 2.0 for the PSP yesterday. I'm on dial-up, so you cannot imagine how long that took. It's interesting, though. I don't have a WiFi connection, nor are there any in a nearby radius. Looks like I'll have to wait to try the web-browser. I like the wallpaper function, though, and the start-up time seems to be slightly faster.

2. I've gotten farther on Metroid Prime 2, although not as much as I hoped. I'm currently in Dark Torvus making my way back to the Light World to get me greedy fingers on those seeker missiles.

3. Resident Evil 4, what can I say. It's the best game this generation. So, I decided to play through it again. This time, with Leon in his fancy RPD outfit. Now, time to save for that Chicago Typewriter and a Unlimited Rocket Launcher. :lol:

That's about it for today. See ya next mission! :wink:

Well, Band Camp was fun today. Extremely hot, extremely muggy, and just annoying, but still fun none-the-less.

Back to Metroid Prime 2. I'm currently heading deep into Dark Agon, which is where I actually stopped playing the game back in December. Things are going fine, but since Band Camp lasts till 4:30, I don't have much time to do anything, after-all, one can invest a days worth of gameplay hours into Metroid Prime or Metroid Prime 2 and still not get extremely far (maybe 35% if they're lucky).

I recieved a free issue of the Playstation US Magazine, with a free God of War demo to boot! Thanks, Sony. :)

The God of War demo wasn't terribly long. It was merely the first level of the game, without the dramatic fight with the largest Hydra (it ends right when you climb up the ship's mast to fight him), although it allows you to fight the smaller, blue hued Hydra. The game is definately fun, and I plan on picking it up eventually (after a price-drop or two).

That's it for today.

As you know, I've been playing alot of games I have already finished lately. Well, today, I restarted a game I got for Christmas that I never really got into. Namely, Metroid Prime 2.

I loved the first Metroid Prime. It's massive world, almost living, and plenty of awesome back-story texts. It was a first-person-adventure, and that's what I loved about it.

When I purchased Metroid Prime 2 Christmas of 2004, I quickly started playing the game. Sadly, after 2 hours of playing I became frustrated at how much backtracking had to be done. The backstory was still awesome and the visual art was phenominal, but if there's one thing I hate in a game, it's needless backtracking. This didn't improve when school started back in January, since I didn't have the time to constantly search for save points and backtrack for items.

Fortunately, I've been given a sudden urge to give the game another, well-deserved chance. Summer is coming to a close (band-camp all week, meh) so I know I should have re-started playing Metroid Prime 2 back in the summer's beginnings, but hey, I'll have to live with it. I hope to get about 30% of the game finished this week, and I'm actually going to negate all other gameplay sessions until I've done so. No new games to destract me either. I'm fully devoted now.

That's it for today. Kinda long, I know. Everyone, I urge you, to find some games you never finished, and try to finish them.

Things are going normal. I've been replaying Ninja Gaiden, and so far, I'm on chapter 10. It's a great game, and I recommend it to anyone who likes games like Devil May Cry or God of War.

My lappy is still screwed. I contacted someone, but his advice didn't help. My preacher is a computer wiz, so I'll talk to him soon.

That's it for today. I plan to get back to Ninja Gaiden in a little while.