well i'm listening to it now, and I'm very very surprised by how DARK it is. O__O For a game with enough cutesiness in there to give me a toothache (based on the screencaps anyway), the music reminds me surprisingly of FF7. Take track 2, for example, Lamenting Toll Bell, it reminds me very much the music in FF7 in latter part of Shinra building and also some flashbacks to inside the Mako reactor. The Ice Village track (or snow village) reminds me somewhat of the snow village in FF7. Overall there are just more somber/darker pieces than any recent osts i've heard.
Considering the Blue Dragon OST is done by Nobuo Uematsu, I suppose i'm not surprised that it might sound like some of his older works, but I'm seriously surprised that he chose ff7's mood. i would've expected something far cuter/preppier. lol
Well it's not really a BAD thing, honestly. I misses his work on FF7 (being one of the better OSTs he composed) and I have a feeling Blue Dragon OST is going up there for me afterall. :D
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playing on the monitor!!
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omggggg i managed to make it so i can play the ps2 on my desktop monitor. Which is awesome because it means i can play all my games even before i get my butt home. :D
So I was playing more of FF12, i've logged approximately 41 hours now. It's funny because I was talking to this guy and he was saying how people can totally beat FF12 in 40 hours or so. I just find it hilarious because at 41 hours i was barely about half way through the game. XD
I finally got my second esper, Mateus. She's not all that great, but i put her on Balthier 'cause I can see him using ice. :D I really like that game, but there are both problems and good points.
The world is huge which can be seen as both a good and bad thing. I love the graphics, and the feeling that it's an entire world is awesome. But on the other hand, after playing it for, say, 5 hours straight, my hands starts to hurt from constantly pressing forward, and i start to get really annoyed at having to run around the world eithe rfighting or trying to find what I'm trying to find. For example a couple of days ago i spent almost an hour wandering around Giza plains Rain trying to find those stupid dead trees to knock down so i can get access to the Track of Beast area to find a hunt. and then the subsequent fight against the Gil Snapper took nearly 40 min just on it's own, and i had to do it twice because toward the end al i could do was heal like mad.
At times like those, I just wish the world is far smaller. But I think it's more because i've been playing for way too long that I feel that way. XD Like the next morning i'd be thnking "omg i dun wanna play it any more..." but once i start, i can't stop. That is, until 5 hours later when my hands are hurting and i have a headache from fighting. XD
As for the story...well after playing games like SMT, i feel like I've been ruined for other games lol. The thing about ff12's plot is that it's normal fantasy epic. Which to me by this point in time, isn't much of an epic any more. Not after the true grand epic of games like Xenosaga, where the story is utterly incredible. That game, every term has a hidden connotation. Ever character is mysterious. Every object and army and even the monsters has an ulterior motive. And put it to the utterly grandness of an entire universe - now that's epic.
But ff12, I sort of saw a lot of things coming. It's not epic, it's merely grand. It's grand fantasy, basically, which by now is nothing special any more. But that doesn't mean it's not good, but it's just nothing special. Comopared to the eeriness of any SMT games, compared to the epic of Xenosaga, FF12's fantasy root is just too set, so to speak. There's really not even that much political stuff going, far less story scenes, which makes me feel remote from the plot of the story. On the other hand, the gameplay and battle system being the true strong point of the game, they might be the smarter one to make the focus that rather than the story.
On a side note i've bought myself SMT Devil Summoner too. :D I started it for like 20 min, and it's so cute. XD I like it but i feel like i should finish ff12 first before i really dig in that one, mostly because i'm starting ot feel guilty about having so many unfinished games (FF12, Shadow Hearts 1 & 2, Magna Carta, DQ8, DDS2....yeah...). Plus ff12 really is hard to put down once you start. XD
But still i can't wait to dig into Devil Summoner... XD
So I was playing more of FF12, i've logged approximately 41 hours now. It's funny because I was talking to this guy and he was saying how people can totally beat FF12 in 40 hours or so. I just find it hilarious because at 41 hours i was barely about half way through the game. XD
I finally got my second esper, Mateus. She's not all that great, but i put her on Balthier 'cause I can see him using ice. :D I really like that game, but there are both problems and good points.
The world is huge which can be seen as both a good and bad thing. I love the graphics, and the feeling that it's an entire world is awesome. But on the other hand, after playing it for, say, 5 hours straight, my hands starts to hurt from constantly pressing forward, and i start to get really annoyed at having to run around the world eithe rfighting or trying to find what I'm trying to find. For example a couple of days ago i spent almost an hour wandering around Giza plains Rain trying to find those stupid dead trees to knock down so i can get access to the Track of Beast area to find a hunt. and then the subsequent fight against the Gil Snapper took nearly 40 min just on it's own, and i had to do it twice because toward the end al i could do was heal like mad.
At times like those, I just wish the world is far smaller. But I think it's more because i've been playing for way too long that I feel that way. XD Like the next morning i'd be thnking "omg i dun wanna play it any more..." but once i start, i can't stop. That is, until 5 hours later when my hands are hurting and i have a headache from fighting. XD
As for the story...well after playing games like SMT, i feel like I've been ruined for other games lol. The thing about ff12's plot is that it's normal fantasy epic. Which to me by this point in time, isn't much of an epic any more. Not after the true grand epic of games like Xenosaga, where the story is utterly incredible. That game, every term has a hidden connotation. Ever character is mysterious. Every object and army and even the monsters has an ulterior motive. And put it to the utterly grandness of an entire universe - now that's epic.
But ff12, I sort of saw a lot of things coming. It's not epic, it's merely grand. It's grand fantasy, basically, which by now is nothing special any more. But that doesn't mean it's not good, but it's just nothing special. Comopared to the eeriness of any SMT games, compared to the epic of Xenosaga, FF12's fantasy root is just too set, so to speak. There's really not even that much political stuff going, far less story scenes, which makes me feel remote from the plot of the story. On the other hand, the gameplay and battle system being the true strong point of the game, they might be the smarter one to make the focus that rather than the story.
On a side note i've bought myself SMT Devil Summoner too. :D I started it for like 20 min, and it's so cute. XD I like it but i feel like i should finish ff12 first before i really dig in that one, mostly because i'm starting ot feel guilty about having so many unfinished games (FF12, Shadow Hearts 1 & 2, Magna Carta, DQ8, DDS2....yeah...). Plus ff12 really is hard to put down once you start. XD
But still i can't wait to dig into Devil Summoner... XD
FF and gaming
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okay so right now I'm absolutely and completely swamped with school. I got so many tests this week. T__T But by Friday i'll be able to play more games, and once i get home for winterbreak, it's FF12 time again~~~
God I love that game. XD
God I love that game. XD
gaming
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School started, which sucks. I got a new used TV, which is awesome. It's pretty big too, 32" and fit sin my dorm room. It's really blurry though. I think I got spoiled by the newer nicer tv's from my old apartment. But this tv was only $45, so what did I expect. At least I CAN read and see the stuff on the screen. yay for gaming!
Otherwise, I'm obsessively playing this computer puzzle game thing called Tropix. It's so cute, and you got this monkey who wants to buy all these idffernet islands. So you gotta play a bunch of different puzzle games (like cascade, which is like jewel, or waterwords which is like scrabbles of a sort) to earn money and buy the monkey food and comfort and fun stuff. haha, it's freakin addictive.
Anywayz I shall shut up now. And no, I'm actually playing more KH2 than DQ8 right now, but I might go back to DQ8 soon, as soon as I find some time to play. Heard it gets better and better as it goes on, even if the battles are so oldschool.
Otherwise, I'm obsessively playing this computer puzzle game thing called Tropix. It's so cute, and you got this monkey who wants to buy all these idffernet islands. So you gotta play a bunch of different puzzle games (like cascade, which is like jewel, or waterwords which is like scrabbles of a sort) to earn money and buy the monkey food and comfort and fun stuff. haha, it's freakin addictive.
Anywayz I shall shut up now. And no, I'm actually playing more KH2 than DQ8 right now, but I might go back to DQ8 soon, as soon as I find some time to play. Heard it gets better and better as it goes on, even if the battles are so oldschool.
Fabula Nova Crystalis
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Good God, Square is going crazy LOL.
Man E3's so crazy, so much new info coming out all at once, I'm getting so overwhelmed. Doesn't help that it's finals week and I'm SO gonna fail all my classes. x____x
biggest news, of course, is the revelation of three FF13 titles. I was really surprised at first, but then thinking on it, it's not as surprising as I originally thought. Square's is already working on Code Age series, the multi-platform title that they're trying to promote. I'm assuming it's not going as good as they had hoped...? I haven't heard much about it at all, really. But yeah, if they're willing to spend money on a huge piece of work as unknown as Code Age, then it would be far more smarter and intuitive to make the next multi-platform investment in something that IS safer, and have potential to be far larger as well.
I mean, all you need are the two words Final and Fantasy in the game for the game to sell nowadays. And it helps that nothing storywise or character wise ever links the FF games, therefore it's practically like starting a new franchise, except you start out with the loyalty of the old fans. Smart move. Very smart.
Square is really genius, Compilation of FF7 is bound to greatness, and they can see it. So now they got the next one coming already. :3
I'm confused about the art designers though. Yoshitaka Amano-san said that he's working on FF13, and I'm fairly sure I read in some official stuff that Nomura did the art design for Vs. Which make sense, since to me, the screencaps of the chara in Vs does look very much a Nomura work (he's like a cross between some really cute and really pretty evil boy, and short-haired and younger Riku LOL, I'm already in love with him from those two screencaps), but I swear the chara design for FF13, the girl doesn't look like Nomura's work at all. Granted, I can't realy say that it's Amano-san's work, but that's to be expected since almost NONE of his chara designs ever turn out to be like his art, considering his art style....but yeah, I really dun think Nomura did the design for FF13. However, according to some of the unions I go to, Nomura does the art design for all three of the FF13 games. : I'm getting a little confused and hopes to get some answers soon. I really wanna know if Nomura is really designing the chara for all three (especially since he's still working on Compilation of FF7!!!!), and if he is, then I wanna know Amano-san's role in the series.
What can I say, I'm a big fan of Amano. :3
I'm pretty pleased to note that the staff for Vs includes the composer who did the music for Parasite Eve and KH series (Yoko Shimomura I believe) since I'm a big fan of her work in PE. A little less pleased of the staff for FF13, since most of them turned out to be from FFX, and FFX was one of the games that I did not feel much for...it was just bland to me, so having a FFX kind of feel for FF13 would probably ruin it for me. I'm just hoping my predictions are wrong in thise case.
As for the PS3, so the guesses of the price being around $500 isn't bad at all. But I'm reallhy surprised. For only $100 more you can get the huge 60gig HD instead of the 20. That's actually not that bad for a PS3, and of course remember the blu-ray reader that PS3 is. A typical blu-ray player costs no less than $1k. Which means in all technicality, a PS3 is a total grab. Cheap!
With the sheer amount of new games announced for PS3, including the PS3 exclusive Fabula Nova Crystalis, I really think Sony'll be recovering from their 100bil loss soon. well, once the PS3 actually comes out anyway lol. But I'm excited. :3 The graphics on the PS3 is absolutely incredible, far better than anything the Xbox 360 can do, and I dun even wanna think about the Wii. It's actually sort of sad, compared to the loads of games and rpgs announced for PS3, Wii only has a few major titles to back it up, including the new Zelda game, Pokemon, Baten Kaitos II (Origins), and the new FFCrystal Chronicles games. Other than those, there aren't anything big announced for it at all, as far as I know.
Xbox 360 isn't evne worth talking about, it's still a second gen console even if they claim it's third gen lol.
In any case I should sleeeeeeeeep so tired. So much information I dunno what to do! I hate finals. T___T
Man E3's so crazy, so much new info coming out all at once, I'm getting so overwhelmed. Doesn't help that it's finals week and I'm SO gonna fail all my classes. x____x
biggest news, of course, is the revelation of three FF13 titles. I was really surprised at first, but then thinking on it, it's not as surprising as I originally thought. Square's is already working on Code Age series, the multi-platform title that they're trying to promote. I'm assuming it's not going as good as they had hoped...? I haven't heard much about it at all, really. But yeah, if they're willing to spend money on a huge piece of work as unknown as Code Age, then it would be far more smarter and intuitive to make the next multi-platform investment in something that IS safer, and have potential to be far larger as well.
I mean, all you need are the two words Final and Fantasy in the game for the game to sell nowadays. And it helps that nothing storywise or character wise ever links the FF games, therefore it's practically like starting a new franchise, except you start out with the loyalty of the old fans. Smart move. Very smart.
Square is really genius, Compilation of FF7 is bound to greatness, and they can see it. So now they got the next one coming already. :3
I'm confused about the art designers though. Yoshitaka Amano-san said that he's working on FF13, and I'm fairly sure I read in some official stuff that Nomura did the art design for Vs. Which make sense, since to me, the screencaps of the chara in Vs does look very much a Nomura work (he's like a cross between some really cute and really pretty evil boy, and short-haired and younger Riku LOL, I'm already in love with him from those two screencaps), but I swear the chara design for FF13, the girl doesn't look like Nomura's work at all. Granted, I can't realy say that it's Amano-san's work, but that's to be expected since almost NONE of his chara designs ever turn out to be like his art, considering his art style....but yeah, I really dun think Nomura did the design for FF13. However, according to some of the unions I go to, Nomura does the art design for all three of the FF13 games. : I'm getting a little confused and hopes to get some answers soon. I really wanna know if Nomura is really designing the chara for all three (especially since he's still working on Compilation of FF7!!!!), and if he is, then I wanna know Amano-san's role in the series.
What can I say, I'm a big fan of Amano. :3
I'm pretty pleased to note that the staff for Vs includes the composer who did the music for Parasite Eve and KH series (Yoko Shimomura I believe) since I'm a big fan of her work in PE. A little less pleased of the staff for FF13, since most of them turned out to be from FFX, and FFX was one of the games that I did not feel much for...it was just bland to me, so having a FFX kind of feel for FF13 would probably ruin it for me. I'm just hoping my predictions are wrong in thise case.
As for the PS3, so the guesses of the price being around $500 isn't bad at all. But I'm reallhy surprised. For only $100 more you can get the huge 60gig HD instead of the 20. That's actually not that bad for a PS3, and of course remember the blu-ray reader that PS3 is. A typical blu-ray player costs no less than $1k. Which means in all technicality, a PS3 is a total grab. Cheap!
With the sheer amount of new games announced for PS3, including the PS3 exclusive Fabula Nova Crystalis, I really think Sony'll be recovering from their 100bil loss soon. well, once the PS3 actually comes out anyway lol. But I'm excited. :3 The graphics on the PS3 is absolutely incredible, far better than anything the Xbox 360 can do, and I dun even wanna think about the Wii. It's actually sort of sad, compared to the loads of games and rpgs announced for PS3, Wii only has a few major titles to back it up, including the new Zelda game, Pokemon, Baten Kaitos II (Origins), and the new FFCrystal Chronicles games. Other than those, there aren't anything big announced for it at all, as far as I know.
Xbox 360 isn't evne worth talking about, it's still a second gen console even if they claim it's third gen lol.
In any case I should sleeeeeeeeep so tired. So much information I dunno what to do! I hate finals. T___T
joggs and piggies
by bailuli on Comments
man KH2 is really jumping all over the place on the GS rank isn't it? lol Like two days ago it went completely off the charts, and then suddenly yesterday it went back up to #2 without warning, and now it's like 3 or 4. haha, either way, goodjob KH
Other than that, not much is happening with me. Wushu testing for conditioning stuff was last night, I did decent I suppose. Could've done better if I got more flexibility. x____x
tonight's an orchestra concert that I'm going to with a bunch of the wushu people. We're going to eat sushi beforehand. lol Then tomorrow I need to shop for better clothes to wear to the wushu banquet tomorrow night.
alright gonna go for a jog. :3
Other than that, not much is happening with me. Wushu testing for conditioning stuff was last night, I did decent I suppose. Could've done better if I got more flexibility. x____x
tonight's an orchestra concert that I'm going to with a bunch of the wushu people. We're going to eat sushi beforehand. lol Then tomorrow I need to shop for better clothes to wear to the wushu banquet tomorrow night.
alright gonna go for a jog. :3
level up!
by bailuli on Comments
well just thought to post something again. I'm really close to lvling up, so figured I should do something to bump myself up that little bit, lol.
I should be doing hw right now. >.>;;; lol well I really doubt I'll be going to wushu practice tonight. It's about time i prioritize what i need to do, and the first thing is get my math hw done so thurs i can get more help with it. The midterm is next monday! I think doing math hw is the most i can get outta tonight. But if possible, I should either start cs hw/project or read physics. Neither of which I've done, and both of which I need to do asap. *sigh*
I figured today'd be the day to ditch wushu, since I think Sifu's not gonna be there, so at the very least I won't be missing any new section to the Broadsword form. Fridays are bad days to miss wushu, lol. Either in a little bit, or later tonight after studying, I think I'm gonna go up stairs to the room and practice wushu on my own. I wanna practice jumps some more...I especially wanna practice jumps lol.
aah I need a shower tho. >.>;;;;
E3's coming up!! God I can't believe it's just a little while before E3. *___* Square got some awesome game lined up, and I'm looking forward to any new information. I'm still hoping for that rumor about them releasing info on FF13 to be true, though, but I guess we won't know until E3 actually comes. Man, I wish i can go. x____x
I finally got the apartment thing finalized, thank god. The room'll be furnished, and hopefully there'll be a TV for me to play my games on, lol. So now that's settled, more or less, now I need to get the studies done, study study study, eat less (I haven't been exercising as much as I would like) and start packing I suppose. Aaah so much work! T___T
I need ot stretch. >.>;;;
I should be doing hw right now. >.>;;; lol well I really doubt I'll be going to wushu practice tonight. It's about time i prioritize what i need to do, and the first thing is get my math hw done so thurs i can get more help with it. The midterm is next monday! I think doing math hw is the most i can get outta tonight. But if possible, I should either start cs hw/project or read physics. Neither of which I've done, and both of which I need to do asap. *sigh*
I figured today'd be the day to ditch wushu, since I think Sifu's not gonna be there, so at the very least I won't be missing any new section to the Broadsword form. Fridays are bad days to miss wushu, lol. Either in a little bit, or later tonight after studying, I think I'm gonna go up stairs to the room and practice wushu on my own. I wanna practice jumps some more...I especially wanna practice jumps lol.
aah I need a shower tho. >.>;;;;
E3's coming up!! God I can't believe it's just a little while before E3. *___* Square got some awesome game lined up, and I'm looking forward to any new information. I'm still hoping for that rumor about them releasing info on FF13 to be true, though, but I guess we won't know until E3 actually comes. Man, I wish i can go. x____x
I finally got the apartment thing finalized, thank god. The room'll be furnished, and hopefully there'll be a TV for me to play my games on, lol. So now that's settled, more or less, now I need to get the studies done, study study study, eat less (I haven't been exercising as much as I would like) and start packing I suppose. Aaah so much work! T___T
I need ot stretch. >.>;;;
not that hungry
by bailuli on Comments
I got a xanga now, but who knows if I'll ever really use it. I had too much fun changing the whole thing to a Digital Devil Saga 2 theme though, using the picture of Serf walking down the road and everything is shades of yellow and brown, with the poeple frozen into stone and stuff. Awesome picture so I used that as a background, and everything was the yellow and brown color. My icon picture is the other official DDS2 pic of all of them in their demon form piled up with blood all over the place. lol
What can I say, I adore DDS.
Aaah I should find unions for other games other than FF series...how do I search unions anyway? x___x
The free hotpot dinner is in half an hour~~~~ so can't waiiiiiiiiiiit *salivates* I really shoudln't have eaten such a big lunch lol.
What can I say, I adore DDS.
Aaah I should find unions for other games other than FF series...how do I search unions anyway? x___x
The free hotpot dinner is in half an hour~~~~ so can't waiiiiiiiiiiit *salivates* I really shoudln't have eaten such a big lunch lol.
Kiss Me Goodbye
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oh god it's like 3AM, I got back from the boatdance at 1AM, and I'm still not going to sleep. lol I'm so ditching all my classes (read 1 class) tomorrow. screw the quiz.
Okay, getting back on topic about game related stuff, I'm really interested in Angela Aki. Well, not really her. I still don't like her style of singing/music for a lot of her songs (or whatever I've heard of her stuff anyway) but I also love Kiss Me Goodbye like nothing else. So I'm listening to the Japanese and eng version of the song, and getting hyped up on FF12, which I really shoudln't because I need to sleep, and study and do HW rather than dream about a game that won't come out for antoher 5 months. lol
She's going to be at Play! Premier at Chicago apparently, singing Kiss Me Goodbye. it's too bad I can't go, (tickets must be ridiculously expensive!, not to mention the plane ticket. Not to mention I'll be at europe at the time lol). The way they phrased it, it sounds like she might try to make an American debut after Play!, like Utada Hikaru probably. Her voice is pretty good, and her pronounciation is fairly good too, but I dunno, I'm listening to Kiss Me Goodbye in english, and I keep catching some random words that sounds sort of awkward the way she pronounced it. Also I'm not sure if Americans will really go for her style of music. Granted, when I first heard her songs, I was surprised Japanese people really go for her songs, but perhaps one of her charms is that she's bilingual, half american half japanese I think, and definitely look like she's a mix blood. Unlike Hikki who's a pure blood Japanese, Angela Aki is so obviously a mix that I keep thinking she's gonna spout British English or something. >.>;;; Maybe she's Brit/*** mix instead....
whatever the case is, somehow i'm just not extremely into the idea of her, although I think if she does try for a debut, if her english is as good as Hikki's, with her more American/western features, she might blend in better. She might do better than Hikki (well, Exodus did badly but I think it's 100% because she was experimenting so all the songs were really really weird lol).
Anywayzzzzzzzzzzz, time to stop rambling and go to sleep. My feet are sore, my legs are sore, my head is sore, all from the night of dancing. lol
Okay, getting back on topic about game related stuff, I'm really interested in Angela Aki. Well, not really her. I still don't like her style of singing/music for a lot of her songs (or whatever I've heard of her stuff anyway) but I also love Kiss Me Goodbye like nothing else. So I'm listening to the Japanese and eng version of the song, and getting hyped up on FF12, which I really shoudln't because I need to sleep, and study and do HW rather than dream about a game that won't come out for antoher 5 months. lol
She's going to be at Play! Premier at Chicago apparently, singing Kiss Me Goodbye. it's too bad I can't go, (tickets must be ridiculously expensive!, not to mention the plane ticket. Not to mention I'll be at europe at the time lol). The way they phrased it, it sounds like she might try to make an American debut after Play!, like Utada Hikaru probably. Her voice is pretty good, and her pronounciation is fairly good too, but I dunno, I'm listening to Kiss Me Goodbye in english, and I keep catching some random words that sounds sort of awkward the way she pronounced it. Also I'm not sure if Americans will really go for her style of music. Granted, when I first heard her songs, I was surprised Japanese people really go for her songs, but perhaps one of her charms is that she's bilingual, half american half japanese I think, and definitely look like she's a mix blood. Unlike Hikki who's a pure blood Japanese, Angela Aki is so obviously a mix that I keep thinking she's gonna spout British English or something. >.>;;; Maybe she's Brit/*** mix instead....
whatever the case is, somehow i'm just not extremely into the idea of her, although I think if she does try for a debut, if her english is as good as Hikki's, with her more American/western features, she might blend in better. She might do better than Hikki (well, Exodus did badly but I think it's 100% because she was experimenting so all the songs were really really weird lol).
Anywayzzzzzzzzzzz, time to stop rambling and go to sleep. My feet are sore, my legs are sore, my head is sore, all from the night of dancing. lol
boredom kills
by bailuli on Comments
I'm really really bored right now. Lol didn't go to any of my classes today (only 2 tho) and tonight's the boat dance. I've been watching .hack//SIGN to pass the time. So bored!
And it looks like there's not a whole bunch of news to check out either on game stuff. Meh. So bored!!!! x____x
And it looks like there's not a whole bunch of news to check out either on game stuff. Meh. So bored!!!! x____x
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