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1 year, 100 blogs

So this is it, the 1 year blog!! Now I'm gonna tell you my story from the moment I joined GS until this day, so "Listen to my story".

Part 1: Pre-Joining

"OMG, I got this thing that people call Internet", just kidding, I already knew what Internet was in a very long time, but I've never had a good Internet connection. Now I would be able to visit more sites and do new stuff, and because of my passion for games I started consulting game-related sites. As it would be obvious, GS was the name that appeared more times. Very cool features, organization and look. Still there were some features, like game guides, that only subscribers could see and that's how the account was born...

Part 2: What name should I choose?

The name selection was quite simple. I used to play this online game called Travian in which, of course, we had usernames. When choosing the name I wanted to put there something a bit crazy, so I remembered the game Total Overdose that looks really insane. That's from where overdose is from. The _ was because it would be most likely that anyone was already called overdose. Name formed: _overdose. Now I use that username in any site that I join.

Part 3: Cool, I now have an account

As I said in a previous blog, I was afraid of contacting people, so _overdose's cool account only had cool ratings. Then I moved to the reviews, that in the beginning were very addicting to write, and then the blog. My first intention when I started writing blogs was to be like those cool soapbox guys that receive above 100 comment and write blogs like they are very intelligent persons. I wanted to look like them but I'm no good at that. I even tried to write something that looked smart but with no results. For more than 20 blogs I received 0 comments. Then I realized that I just had to be myself.

Part 4: The cool users

My first very friend on GS, even before I started writing reviews, was AbyssD. I remember he sent me a PM saying that I loved cool games. Thanks man, you're very cool.;) The first person that ever commented one of my blogs was FinalFan789 that sadly is no longer with us because he left GS recently. If you ever see this blog, thanks to you too man.:P When I started being myself and getting friends the comments started to increase and now I'm very happy with the friendships the I've made and I'm making with this account and with what I achieved in this last year. THANK YOU ALL!

Part 5: It's party time

It's my 1 year anniversary and it's the 100th blog so what are we waiting for? Let's party!!! Bring whoever you want what whatever you want. Today is a special day and let's celebrate. And don't forget to bring the booze!!

1 very happy year... :D

P.S: This was my last attempt to make a cool and smart blog. :P

It's complete!

So, I was not on GS yesterday because I had a cool school trip. We left the school at 6:30 am and arrived back at 10:00 pm. It was a 4 hour trip making 8 hours of traveling in a very hot bus. It was worth it, though, because it was very cool.

When I got home I got this waiting for me:

FF VIII

So that means:

[spoiler] My FF PS collection is complete (FF XI doesn't count).
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I had the chance to play a bit of it and I'm very impressed. More details in the future.

I want to say that tomorrow I make on year on Gamespot and I'll make a special blog showing all my way until this day and tomorrow is a national day here, so I'll have time to make it properly.

Well people, I got something to do, if you know what I mean... :P

I'm level 21. Level 20 is finally over!

99th blog!:D

Top 10 TV shows #6 and #5 + SAV of the week #3

I'm gonna go a little fast with the Top, because I feel like I have to post a member every day, so here are number 6 and number 5.

#6 - Entourage

Entourage is an Emmy Award-winning HBO original series created by Doug Ellin that chronicles the rise of Vincent Chase - a young A-list movie star - and his childhood friends from Queens, New York City as they navigate the unfamiliar terrain of Hollywood, California. Doug Ellin, Mark Wahlberg, and Stephen Levinson serve as the show's executive producers, and the show's premise is loosely based on Wahlberg's experiences as an up-and-coming movie star. In the pilot episode Doug Ellin says in the audio commentary that the pilot actually took two years to write, get the actors to commit, and receive the budget for filming. - Wikipedia

#5- Prison Break

Prison Break is a Golden Globe and Emmy nominated American action/serial drama television series that premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on August 29, 2005. The story revolves around a man who was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and his brother's elaborate plan to help him escape his death sentence. Created by Paul Scheuring, the show is produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions in association with Original Television and 20th Century Fox Television. The current executive producers are Scheuring, Matt Olmstead, Kevin Hooks, Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse, Neal Moritz, and Brett Ratner. Its theme music is composed by Ramin Djawadi, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2006.

The show recently concluded its third season. A fourth season of 22 episodes has been confirmed by FOX as of March 25 2008. It is expected to be back on television later in the year. The production for the fourth season will move from Dallas to Los Angeles.

The uniqueness of Prison Break is attributed to its serialized story structure, a similar format used by Lost and 24, and to its setting, as very few television series were primarily set and filmed in a prison. - Wikipedia

I really love this shows. I'm very addicted to them. Entourage shows the other side of a Hollywood star and Prison Break is about, as the name says, an escape from a prison. I highly recommend these two shows.

Sav of the week #3

Song: Panic at the Disco - Nine in the afternoon

Video - My gameplay video! (If you haven't watched it yet) (I don't have a video in mind, sorry!)

Not only back problems...

I am cool. I am strong. I have good friends. A duck and a guy that runs like he has some kind of back problem. Maybe he has, who knows... I have a key. No one else has a key as cool as mine. I hit lots of guys, black guys, black ugly weird guys. I heal, I jump, I kick their @$$. I climb towers. There are lots of people that climb towers, but not with a duck and guy that seems to have back problems behind them.

After lots of magical elevators and black ugly weird guys, I arrive at the top. She waiting for me but, who cares? I kick everybody's @$$. She can't be that strong and she wasn't. "Destroy floating stone": check, "destroy floating stone again": check, "not again": check. "Kill her": First I want to destroy the floating stone, again... She hits, she summons black ugly weird guys, but my cool keyblade killed her, after destroying the floating stone.

"Don't run away from me"! Let's enter that creepy black hole where she entered after seeing that there was no more floating stone. "Wait!", "What?", "Save the game": check. These guys spend so many potions; they should save them and use cool magic like I do. After all, I have a cool keyblade. I must keep my cool status...

I arrived to other side only to see the most shocking thing I've ever seen in my life: I cooler keyblade. "No! What about my status? I should have revenge! No one messes with Peter Pan's blade! What? It has special functions? Now you're asking for it!" I saw it coming, but it wasn't enough. The giant Kickass black dragon did what it was supposed to do: Kick my @$$. "HA, ha, you're keyblade doesn't allow you to continue or load the game. How about that?". The answer came with the next 10 deaths, until I gave up, for now...


I summon... Simba?!

No top today, I'm just gonna talk about Kingdom Hearts...

When I first played a bit of the game, 2 or 3 years ago, I didn't like it, and after being stuck in the game for the first time, I quit playing it. This was after 5 hours of gameplay.

Now I'm on my second play through, and it's nice to see all the Final Fantasy characters, that I had no idea who they were when I first played the game. This certainly helps making a better gaming experience but I'm still expecting for the game to make that "click". I'm not saying that I'm not enjoying it, because I am: the combat is cool and fun and the story is good, but I think it can and will get better. I already visited Alice, Tarzan, Hercules, Aladdin, and Pinocchio and now I'm hanging with Ariel. Now that I know how to play an RPG, the game is much more enjoyable.:P

And I forgot... wonderful boss fights!8)

I'm loving the game and I'm very addicted to it. It will surely have a better score that the one that I gave to it before: 7.0.

I'm already hyped for KH2!

Today, just the Top 10 TV shows #7

#7 - Two and a half men

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Two and a Half Men is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American television sitcom, which premiered CBS on Monday, September 22, 2003, at 9:30 p.m., ET/PT. The series centers around a freewheeling bachelor, Charlie, whose carefree life****/em> is interrupted when his newly separated brother Alan moves in, along with Alan's son Jake. The show was co-created by executive producers Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn. In its third season, starting September 2005, it moved to Mondays at 9:00 p.m. (taking Everybody Loves Raymond's time slot). 'Two and a Half Men debuted in local syndication in September 2007, also soon to be syndicated on the FX cable network in 2010. Production on the show was halted on November 6, 2007 due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike. However, once the strike ended (announced February 13, 2008) the show returned March 17, 2008 with 9 episodes to come. CBS has also renewed the show for a sixth season. - Wikipedia

The first comedie on the top. I really love this series and I'm always laughing when I watch one of its episodes. If you want to do the same, I suggest you should watch it. And Charlie Sheen enters in it. He's one of my favorite actors.

I'm too lazy to write about anything else and I wanna play Kingdom Hearts so, that's all for today! :D

Top 10 TV shows #8 + The mistake

#8 - CSI: Miami

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CSI: Miami (aka. Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is a spin-off of the popular CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The show trails the investigations of a team of Miami-Dade Police Department forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and crimes committed.

CSI: Miami is produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance Atlantis and CBS Paramount Television. On May 16, 2007, CBS renewed the show for a sixth season. CSI: Miami's sixth season began airing on September 24, 2007.

Due to the writers strike ending, the show returned on March 24, 2008 with eight new episodes. - Wikipedia

Another TV series about crime. This is probably the most well-known series in the world. There are also the Las Vegas and NY ones, but I personally like this one most, because the characters are very cool and it shows more the "human" side of a crime investigation, unlike the other CSI series.

The series about investigation are over. The comedies are coming!

I just got two "new" games. One of them is Kingdom Hearts. I bought it because people say "it's so cool" that I have to play all the game, because I once played for 4 or 5 hours (some guy lend me it) and I didn't like it much.

I hope you noticed that I put new between "" because that was a mistakes with the games that were sent. I bought KH and FF8, but instead they sent FF7. Now I have two FF7s. I already emailed the store and when I return FF7, they'll send me FF8. I hope they don't make the same mistake again. Well, at least I have KH to spend the time.

I was supposed to talk about FF X-2, right?

I gave the game 9.4, if you didn't read my review:evil:. Overall, I enjoyed it and it's a game that if you run through the story, you'll not like it. You have to slow down, do some side quests and you'll see you'll like it better. I loved the Vegnagun fight, but it was too easy because I was over-powered. Frickin' level 65! Vegnagun is now my favorite boss of the FF series. I already saw all the endings on youtube and I gotta ask MonkeyStew: Why did it ruined the FFX ending? It was a normal ending for me.

So, that's all for today, now I'm gonna play KH.

Beware!!

[spoiler]
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Top 10 TV shows #9 + Clean up time!

#9 - Lost

lost cast

Lost is an American serial drama television series that follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. Each episode typically features a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character's life. The show was created by Damon Lindelof, J. J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber, and is filmed primarily on location in Oahu, Hawaii. The pilot episode was first broadcast on September 22, 2004.Since then, three seasons have been aired, with a fourth season currently being aired. The show is produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and airs on the ABC Network in the United States. Its soundtrack is composed by Michael Giacchino. The current executive producers are Abrams, Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender and Carlton Cuse. Because of its large ensemble cast and the cost of filming in Hawaii, the series is one of the most expensive on television. - Wikipedia

Another cool show that has a very interesting plot and that always keeps surprising the spectator. Many weird things happen and they're all very cool. A great TV series.

Next one comes tomorrow!

About my life:

This is one of those times where I need to clear my mind and think of things I need to do with my life. So today I'll be cleaning up everything. I already made a new profile (hope you like it), finished FF X-2 (Vegnagun, coolest machine ever) and now I'm gonna erase all my gaming save files and clean, literally, my room (it's full of dust, I don't clean for almost 3 weeks!).

I ordered two new games and they should arrive tomorrow. I think you have enough capability to guess one of them...

Also, I was playing too much time per day (over 5 hours!!):shock: so I was thinking of another way to spend my free time, because I have a lot time in which I have nothing to do and I keep playing. Studying was out of question :P and then I came up with it. I'm starting having Guitar lessons. I should start before the end of the month. I just need to buy a guitar to train at home and I so I'll not spend so much time playing. No more than 4 hours per day now! :P

EDIT: I will talk about FF X-2 tomorrow, but the review is already up.

Top 10 TV shows #10 + SAV of the week #2

#10 - SHARK

shark cast

"Shark is an American legal drama, which premiered on CBS on September 21, 2006. The series stars James Woods as Sebastian Stark, a notorious Los Angeles defense attorney who becomes a prosecutor." - Wikipedia

This is a really cool TV series in which a prosecutor (James Woods) and his team investigate a series of crimes and then Stark must convince the Jury to condemn who they think the guilty is. A big part of the action happens in the courts and it's really cool to watch a good attorney in action. Like in any crime investigations, there's a lot of mystery, which is also really cool.

So here's number 10. Number 9 will come very soon.

SAV of the week #2

Song: Linkin Park - Given up

Video: Stoned Journalist

About FF X-2, I leveled up like crazy yesterday. I'm on level 60 because I can't beat a boss before Vegnagun and that's making me really mad. I beat the game today for sure.

Who doesn't love tops?

I'm starting making Tops. I'll do one monthly and I'll start tomorrow with my top 10 favorite TV shows. I guess you'll know all of them because they're all American shows.

I'm the last chapter of FF X-2; did some side quests and leveling up. I think I'm ready to go to the final boss fights. I wanna kill that Vegnagun!

This was just a Sunday morning update... 8)