Some of you might look through your friend list and think "who the heck is PainsPerception?"

Well, GameFAQs made me fuse profiles....and my GameFAQs username "PainISaPerception" had too many letters so I had to come up with a new username. FeelMyPAIN was already taken so I had to shorten my gamefaqs username.

yawn....

been a while since I last blogged about something lol

Haven't been sleeping good lately, I think it's because of work lol. My workload has been increasing a lot because 2 people quit and one went on maturnity leave, so the rest of us have to work harder to compensate for it. And our hiring process can take a while sometimes so it might be this crazy for a few more months :S. It's backed up a ton of personal projects I was doing too. I was working on a kefka costume as well a various personal projects in 3D and photoshop. For a while it was interrupting with my workout and brazilian jiujutsu routines because I had to go back to work late when I usually workout and train BJJ.

But on a lighter note, I finally bought a Swap Magic for PS2, now I can play some good ole' imports like the FF internationals and KH Final Mixes to name a few :D most likely can't get started on that until work goes back to normal but it won't stop me from at least buying the games XD

First game on the list is a game called mushihimesama futari. A really crazy arcade-style shooter :D

After that is a game called Berserk, based on the manga of the same name. It wasn't released in english but I bought the game when it came out because I'm such a huge Berserk fan.

aaaand after THAT is Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut. a remake of the original ToD on ps1...man i'm so mad at namco for not releasing this game and many other Tales games in english... grrrrrr

If any of you have any suggestions on good import games, feel free to give me suggestions. I don't care if it's an RPG or not.

Still haven't updated my PS3 to 3.50 XD the very limited compatibility with 3rd party products is making me afraid of losing compatibility with my secondary controllers. There's apparently some kind of PSDowngrade for PS3 where you can downgrade your firmware from 3.50 or 3.42 to 3.41 or less so you can jailbreak it but it seems like a pain in the ass to try so I'm not going to bother PLUS you apparently have to already possess the original jailbreaking software, which I don't have because I'm not paying $100 for something Sony will counter (well, already has with firmware 3.42) anyways XD

It would be cool though if it were possible to store PSP games on the harddrive and you can play it on your PS3 :) there's some russian hacker who made youtube vids back in september about being able to do this but he hasn't posted any updates on his software development in over a month so he's most likely a scam artist XD

Anyways I should get back to work LOL my boss might accuse me of extending my breaks again XD

how long does it take to get the E3 emblems?

I seen sony,MS, Nintendo, Ubisoft AND EA conferences LIVE

still no emblems...

Hello to whoever reads this :P

A lot has been going on since I last blogged:

-graduated from the Law program at the end of May, haven't gotten a job in a Law Firm yet because all the ones around here aren't in need of my expertise :( personally, I'd say having a paranoid searchfreak in your Law Firm would help with Caselaw searching but whatever :P;

-met a REALLY amazing girl in the middle of May but as of July 9 we aren't on speaking terms (long long story) and I hope we can be friends again someday, she has things to think about and the last thing she needs is me smothering her...makes me so sad but I have a gut feeling we'll hang out again;

-I don't want to get in trouble with the moderators so I won't go in-detail about this one, but my PSP no longer has a valid warranty ;) that should be a good enough hint haha

-Been doing some work on video stuff like special-fx and composites, I really need to get my butt in gear and make a good Demo Reel so I can finally get a good art-related job;

-Been doing some work with 3D Studio Max, I need to brush up on my modelling/texturing/rigging skills because a bunch of new programs came out while I was busy with the Law thing and I need to learn them as soon as possible :S;

-Mastered FFVII: Crisis Core :) beat the game on hard, maxed everything, killed everything, Zack now owns the world :)

-saving up money for camp equipment and a car...so far not so good lol

-Played the hell out of Guild Wars last month, I play that game in bursts...I'll get the urge to play and then I'll work hard for a certain armor then I get bored...at least now I don't have the same old Flameforge armor I've had for the passed 3 years! I now have Dragon Gauntlets and Dwarven Armor on my Elementalist, looks pretty cool. I hope we hear more news of GW2 because I want to kill some of the dragons we see sleeping in Eye of the North :)

Well a lot more has been going on but I don't want to make a super long blog lol, but thanks in advance if you get this far into the blog and I'll try to make another one around the end of the month if I can :) Take care everyone, bye

I'm at the final save point in the game but busy doing all the optional stuff.

There's a lot of optional stuff in this tiny UMD..wow...

There's...an assload of Missions;

a time consuming Materia Fusion system;

a bunch of mini sidequests in each chapter of the game;

a very entertaining Cactuar summon animation :)

Right now my Zack is:

level 76

SP:489869

HP:64003

MP:528

AP:346

ATK: 105

VIT: 137

MAG: 61

SPR: 100

LUCK: 46

MATERIAS:

Curaga MASTER HP + 850%

Wall MASTER HP+ 230%

Darkness MASTER ATK +26

Lucky Stars MASTER SPR +15

Rush Assault MASTER ATK+ 15

Assault Twister+ MASTER VIT+ 71

ACCESSORIES

Genji Helm

Ribbon

Adaman Bangle

Wizard Bracelet

I'm at Mission 9-6-1 now..it's getting somewhat hard due to my crappy Materia setup :(

...now I need to buy a PS3 :S

I'm most likely going to end up buying the 40GB model for $399CAD and then upgrade the Harddrive with a Seagate Momentus 100GB 2.5" 5400RPM notebook HDD for $100CAD...so I'd be saving like $100 than if I bought the 80GB ps3 :)

Anywho, the Collector's Edition of Devil May Cry 4 has:

1) Volume 1 of ADV Film's Devil May Cry: The Animated Series on DVD, including four complete episodes of the anime (a retail value of $29.99)
2) Unique Steelbook™ metal case
3) Bonus DVD
- Making of Devil May Cry 4
- Music from the soundtrack
- Digital artbook
- PC content (screen savers, wallpapers, icons)

I hate deciding between games like this...well here it goes:

Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core

Dragonball Z: Tenkaichi Budokai 3...or is it Budokai Tenkaichi? I keep getting confused...

Any of the Naruto fighting games for PS2...

I can't chose...I only have enough money for one game but I want them ALL!

*takes a deepbreath*

sotomakethisgoreallyquickiwontbeusingthespacebarforanything

LOL jk...anywho, moving on

1. school is going good, it's getting really intense with homework and searching for a placement/co-op now but I'm having fun peeling away at the layers weaved of lies, deceit and of fakeness that compose my ex-gf :P

2. found a new girl (kinda) we see each other at college all the time so I figured I'd finally say hi...she's really cool so I hope it keeps going nice and slow :)

3. Last weekend I watched 36 episodes of Death Note ;) one of the longest animarathon's I've done in a while...the longest was watching ALL the episodes of Fullmetall Alchemist AND the movie :) Death Note has a very suspensefully intellectual storyline, but it gets kinda boring after 25 episodes :(

and finally.......

4. I finally got a PSP...it's pre-owned by a friend of mine who GAVE IT TO ME FOR FREE cuz he doesn't even use it (he prefers the DS) and he gave me the only 2 games he has, Spider-man 2 and some Snoopy vs. the Red Baron game. Spider-man 2 is a 3-4 hour game and I'm on the hard mode now...it's not that hard :S. Ummm I only just started playing the snoopy game but its funner than spider-man 2 lol :). Just to give you an idea on how long it's been since my friend even touched his PSP, the memory stick is only 32MB...which means he got it when it came out and never really used it since...Hell, he didnt even get passed the 2nd level on Spider-Man 2 lmao! So I'm going to update it then downgrade it with custom firmwares (looking into the m33 and OE firmwares) then I'm going to make a Pandora's magic memory stick and a Pandora's Battery just in case it starts to brick. After all that is done I'm going to get my hands on FFVII: Crisis Core :twisted:

Seriously...beat the game in 9 hours and 10 mins on my FIRST playthrough and I did almost everything

The gameplay is surprisingly pretty fun, I was expecting the game to feel like a chore but I liked it. Definately not worth buying brand new at full price but it's still kinda good.

The only things I dislike are:

1. The game is wayyy too short and the story picks up wayyy too fast within the last 3 hours or so.

2. TOO EASY! The Galian Beast is over-powered, enemy A.I. is kinda stupid most of the time and for some reason I can stand still and kill most bosses within 2 minutes lol...I didn't even bother much with upgrading.

4. Shelke looks like a clown, I think it's her shoes that throw me off...she's probably related to Ronald McDonald.

Things I like:

1. Graphics r cool.
2. Customizable guns.

3. Soundtrack is awesome.

4. YOU GET TO REVISIT SHINRA HQ.!!!!

5. Hojo's voice ^_^
6. Some bosses have a TON of moves, somewhat easy to avoid/counter but nonetheless; they have lots of ways to kill you ;)

I thought this game would keep me busy for a least 2-3 weeks, but it kept me busy for a day...

I might buy all 4 onimusha games for $40 sometime next week...THAT should keep me busy for a while ^_^

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW..actually I beat the game last weekend and I've been to busy with homework to write a blog :P

That game is pretty darn cool lol. It's got a few little flaws and nuissances here and there but the good greatly outweighs the bad. If you liked Wild ARMS 4 then you'd most likely love Wild ARMs 5 a LOT more :)

I beat the game at around 72 hours but about 20 of those hours I ended up passing out from time to time with the game on :( There's SOOOOOO much side stuff it's unbelievable, I don't think as much as FFXII or Rogue Galaxy but there's a TON of stuff. Optional bosses left and right :)

- The storyline is pretty good for the most part..a few times it reminded me of Star Ocean 3 and Xenosaga 1-3 in a BAD way but it redeems itself. Unlike Star Ocean 3, the storyline doesn't rollercoaster downhill after a certain part :P

- On the world map (which is CRAZY HUGE btw) and in some dungeons there's these funky lookin' floating crystal things that are optional bosses later on in the game :)

- only 3 characters in your party at a time but if you're on the right Hexagon you can switch party members.

- it's not TOO hard...it's actually pretty childishly easy at first but there's a few noticeable difficulty spikes as the game progesses.

- regular battles are easy enough, sometimes a bit harder than Wild ARMs 4 but still fairly easy. HP recharges automatically after every battle so it makes things easier.

- Lot's of sidequests for items, money, gear for your party members...most of them are fairly easy and involve running from place to place talking to certain people, I've had a few that involved fighting an optional boss.

- LOTS of cameos of playable characters from previous Wild ARMs games,talk to them and it triggers side missions and stuff, one of them lets you synthesize Badges :D I'm sad there's no cameos from the villains though :( it would have been awesome to see Zeikfried as a civilian in one of the Veruni towns ;)

- Voice acting is ok....Once you hear Carol you might want to mute your TV, Dean's voice during battles can get annoying sometimes but then there's a really crazy guy called Kartikeya and I swear he reminds me of Kefka from FFVI...pure badass

- the dialogue in some cutscenes are HILARIOUS! I laughed a lot during this game.

- the parrots you talk to for saving the game are one of the best parts of Wild ARMs 5, pay attention to what they say before you save the game XD XD XD XD sometimes they are extremely bizarre, sometimes they reference other games/movies ;)

- the music is phenomenal, most towns have cool redneck cowboy music lol some characters have their own boss fight music, it's pretty cool...Kartikeya's battle theme is pretty rockin'.

- I hate most of the dungeons though...it's like "well to get into the next town we have to go through a cave" and it's the same thing in every dungeon: solve a few EASY EASY EASY puzzles to progress through the cave, every few screens there'll be a dialogue scene that lasts about 3-5 minutes, fight a sub-boss halfway through, purify a Sol Niger near the end (EASY EASY optional bosses), fight a boss at the very end then exit the cave...the only GOOD dungeons are the optional ones or the end-game ones..oh, and the shrine with the Gobs (I wish I made a save before that dungeon...omg it's so freaking funny in there :D)

Well that's about it...I probably should have just made a video blog lol but I'll save that for when I have time for film editing ;)

Off to play Guild Wars: Eye of the North now, ttyl