I just read this week's BQ, and I have to say, the ten thing has been bugging me for a while. The last question is from a reader who says GS hasn't given a game a 10 in almost five years. Only, my beef is the other way around. I look at the reveiws and scores people give games around the site and many people have 10s accross the board! I think it's pretty dumb.

A 10 means that game is perfect. PERFECT. I don't think I've ever played a game where nothing was wrong with it. Even the famed OoT I found short of what people make it out to be. And...Tony Hawk...? 10? Psssssssssh, Metroid Prime and Halo are better than any Tony Hawk game :x

But, don't listen to me, see for yourself! I guarentee one out of every three friends in your contacts have given at least one perfect score for a game they've rated or reveiwed. Then, you'll see how some people don't get it. It's a shame. 10s are a privelage a game rarely deserves. People dole it out to easy.

It's been a while since I blogged. Summer's drawing to a close, but do you know what that means? Wii is drawing close as well. I stopped shooing the school year and now I welcome it. Just don't go by too fast :P

In other news, I got a tentanus shot the other day. My arm was supposed to be sore from it. It isn't sore at all :? Is that good or bad? Am I an alien? :twisted:

I also got pwned by some hardcore Super Smash Bros.ians in a IM conversation about clones and their differences and now I am under their wings in tutelage...sort of. They opened my eyes to a wealth of half sort of but not really cheap and glitchy techniques that seperate the experienced from the pro. Now, I'm somewhere in the middle. Some of them I've known about but didn't see why they mattered, some really aren't advanced techniques, but just aren't taught by the manual or video, and some I would never have thought of, and wonder how someone did :|

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I figured out how to do the face!

That's the highlight of this blog post. At long last, someone told me how to make that face! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Freakin' sweet, no?

In other gaming news:
I started a play through of MGS Subsitence the other day
I started playing DBZ: Supersonic Warriors for GBA again 
I sort of have an idea of what I'm doing in SM64DS

And since I missed a day of the basketball camp, 15 dollars of the 75 aren't coming my way, but the neighbors want help spreading mulch in their yard, and I'm totally doin' it. I don't know what to expect from that, but anything is better than nothing.

Until next time, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's a mouthful to say!

One of the things me and my friend used to do was sing/hum/etc the different OoT tunes on the bus ride to school. We could never get it as perfect as Koji Kondo, but I loved those tunes so much. A few months back I bought the OoT soundtrack off eBay (as well as two other ones) and as soon as I got my iPod Nano a few weeks later I put them right on. The other day at work (it feels weird to call it work) I caugh myself humming the Hyrule Field theme and I was like

"HOLD IT HOLD IT HOLD IT!!!" I rip out my iPod, stick the headphones in, and put on the Hyrule Field Main Theme. Perfection in the form of music 8)

That had to be the coolest thing ever. I can't believe I own that music xD

Anyway, I still eagerly await GS's final say on Starfox Command becuz I went from wanting it real bad, to not caring, to not being sure, to wanting it real bad again, andnow once again I'm not sure. I won't buy it now until GS has convinced me whether it is or isn't worth buying. I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really wish Nintendo would just make a normal NORMAL Starfox. At first drawing my flight path sounded interesting, until I heard that:

Missions were more strategy and thinking to intercept enemies

Missions are timed

By the end all enemies must be taken out (they did say that, right?)

And also if you look closely at the screenshots some show different vehicles that aren't Arwings. One of the coolest things about Starfox is how beastly Arwings are, and if they have me flying other ships they'll hear from my mother :P :lol:

Well, I'm sort of stuck on SM64DS. So far I've only been to the Bob-omb place and the Snow Mountain place, I have a few stars, and I haven't recused Mario, Luigi, or Wario. I almost thought I was going to be Yoshi the whole game, aside from finiding Mario hats etc. Is this true? Am I really mainly Yoshi in Super MARIO 64 DS? Again, if this is true Ninteno will hear from my mother :D

Well, I suppose that's all.

Until next time, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's a mouthful to say!

I'm back from Ocean City. It was really fun. Now I'm sitting at home, completely bored. I watched a new Psych episode, and man that show is good. Then for some reason, I got the Drake and Josh theme song stuck in my head. Then I started thinking about how bad Nickelodeon is these days and I thought back to the countless hours I used to spend watching the best TV had to offer. Now I'm on to bigger and more mature TV shows, but I can't stop thinking about all those memories.

What a messeded up generation we are.

My fondest memories from when my life was more relaxed are from hours and hours of watching TV. Part of this is where I did and who I did it with, but still, shouldn't these memories be of lazy summer days reading books and playing CTF in my back yard?

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Ok, so some of them are, but still!

Anyway, video games as a whole are slowing down. We played GC in the car pretty much the whole ride both ways on the screen in their car, and no games sat in the Cube for more then 20 minutes, with the exception of all the alternating SCII battles. MKDS with three people got old faster than usual too. My only hope is that when the Wii finally comes out my life won't be as boring! I can't do anything without somehow drawing what I'm doing towards games and then Wii! I need the Revolution so bad!

I'm so weird.

Until next time, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's a mouthful to say!

Ok not really.

But I got you to read my blog though, didn't I :P?

Now if I could get them to comment on it...

Anyway, for being a family that doesn't often go on vacations, I'm going to Ocean City with my friend's amily for 4 days starting Friday. That's pretty slick, I guess.

Also, I'm getting sort of good at SCIII now. I still hate where the block buttons all are :roll: but the switching up Horizontal and Block isn't bothering me as much anymore. However, with L1 and X I still can't get guard impacts down. On GC (SCII) it was so easyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!

Ugh.

Anyway, that's really all news from the front. Speaking of the front, I'm also sorta into the Chronicles of the Sword mode. It isn't as bad as GS said it is, but man the mission I'm on is P.O.ing me. It's only level six, but the four people in the strongholds just don't wanna die :? :cry: I keep forgetting to hold people back as I lay siege to a stronghold becuz if I attack it with all my party members and all of them die, I lose. I split my four into 2 groups of 2, and worked from the outside in. My frist group lost one person but took the stronghold, and my other group lost both and didn't. I waited for them all to come back (so my one remaining person wouldn't die and I wouldn't lose). Then, the first group assaulted the next one, and they both died. I said, "Oh crap, I better make sure I hold one person back in the other group in case--" Bam, too late. Battle for stronghold, both die. Game over. "OMFG HOW DID I LOSE!" Oh well. That was only my first try, it just lasted forever...I should try again before I leave and have to return it.

Anyway, PM me with FCs for MPH and MK and I may or may not pwn you to smitherines.

Until Tuesday, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's a mouthful to say!

P.S. Comment, even though there isn't much to comment on in this particular entry. Say something about SCIII.

I FINALLY got around to renting SCIII. I figured, PS2 exclusive my butt, it'll be on GC (the best for fighters, I hate the PS2 controlls :x) and Xbox in a few months and I'll get it then. Fast Forward almost a year later...

OMG WHERE IS MY SUMMER GOING AND WHERE IS MY BOREDOM GAME LIST? Enter Soul Calibur? Bingo.

It's pretty slick. I really hate the PS2 controls though. They're almost identical to the GC ones that I'm used to, except the block buttons aren't the same, and X should correspond to A (not B), O with X (which it does), Triangle to Y (which it does), and Sqaure to B (not A). Instead, Square is really A, and X is really B, which is only a problem becuz they switched around the shoulder buttons too, making blocking and grabbing harder then it needs to be. On GC, the shoulder buttons were both block, so I'd just use R and A or R and Y to grab, and guard impact was a snap, too. But since X is block instead of Square, throwing is really difficult. I never played SCII on PS2, so I don't know if it was the same way, but either way GC layout is the best. 

I don't know if that made sense to you, (it'd be easier if I had a compare and contrast diagram or something), but I'll move on.

Graphics are nice, but lots of recycled animations from previous iterations. I love custom characters, my only beef was the lack of much clothing to make your character unique. But lo and behold, you unlock more as you go along. I was gonna say, it's cool and all but not much to choose from...>.>

But yeah. I also like all three new characters which is a plus, usually you like 1 or 2 of new ones...but what happened to the voice actors? A lot of the voices are different from SCII and they're worse...:roll:

More as I get more into it and get used to the less-than-perfect controls. Man I wish they had this for GC:!:

Anyway...be sure to read and recommend my reviews, and PM me with FCs for MPH and MK and maybe not Starfox Command, after reading the import hands-on I'm starting to think Nintendo really needs to take a hint. here are more then enough games that use the touch screen and Dual Screens, and frankly there aren't enough that utilize the four buttons that I was so happy to have...

We really want a straight up shooter Nintendo!

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Until next time, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's a mouthful to say!

Here I am once again. Not much is going on in my world.

Halo for PC is being stupid and for whatever reason five pistol shots (three in the head) and later on two sniper shots (doesn't matter where they're placed) wouldn't kill my friend, and after twenty five deaths and increasing spawn times, I snapped and vanished into the world that is Wind Waker.

For the first time ever, I'm getting the map and info for every island. I realized that a lot of the stuff the fish tell you point to other side quests that if you didn't explore areas like Windfall in the first place that you wouldn't know about. Things like the Firefly things in Forest Haven letting you see in a rainbow of color (hinting at color pictographs [a side quest]), and the Lighthouse at Windfall, and other things like that. You just have to marvel at how huge and interconnected that game is. It blows my mind that if Nintendo would just make a handheld with GC size disks then they could have such monstrous games like that and Metroid Prime. GET WITH IT NINTENDO! PSP DOES IT!

Anyway, I haven't played Far Cry Instincts in a while, and I've been menaing to beat it before Kyle gives it back. Some of those levels at night are creepy! :shock:

Anyway, that job I told you about in a few blogs ago has the third and final week at the 14th-18th. However, my friend has a basketball tourney in Ocean City which he invited me to, and we'd get back the 14th :? I don't want to give my job up for a day :x

Ugh.

And of course, PM me with FCs and we can play MK or MPH online...I still have two in my inbox I haven't added yet >.>

Until next time, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's a mouthful to say!

"I just spent all morning watching a VH1 specail on Gwen Stefani. I don't know what a Hallaback Girl is...All I know is I want...her...dead."

How dare they! Of course...who am I kidding? It's MTV. So why am I surprised when most of their nominees for best game music are mostly games that use real pop songs? I don't know. All I know is I want them dead.

Halo, Metroid, Zelda, Mario, even Starfox, all have especially excellent music, and we wind up with rap and pop? What gives? Yes. Ok. Oblivion had some kick *** music I'm sure. But let's face it. If it didn't look pretty, would MTV care? Doubtful. They need to lay off video games. It's barely even Music TV anymore, so don't give games a bad name, kay?

Anyway, the answer to my plight was a copy of Super Mario 64 DS used for 25$ at Gamestop. I wanted it before it goes away, becuz I can't make the mistake I made with GC with any more systems. Other than that, I'm going to Ohio and I leave tomorrow morn', so...

Until next time, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's amouthful to say!

Saturday in the morning I get on a plane to go to Ohio for the day and come back. I was hoping for a cheap but good DS game no more than 30$. I only have Advance Wars DS, Mario Kart DS, and Metroid Prime Hunters. So basically, I need to buy it tomorrow. Any thoughts?

Other than that, life's good I suppose. I don't have much to do. I'm reading The Once and Future King. It's ok. The one problem is I'm like a hundred pages in and we haven't met Arthur yet. Which isn't surprising; one-third of the way through Fellowship of the Ring they were still in the Shire...:roll:

Also, I've decided I have enough money to splurge on maybe 2 DS games without ruining my Wii fund. Starfox is already gonna be a given, and I was getting worried about some of the other games I want vanishing :shock: I'm really worried, cuz the same thing happened with GC (I still don't have Geist or Veiwtiful Joe :cry:) and Im not letting it happen with Wii! No sir!

Anyway, PM me with FCs and recommend some good games for DS (I know what most of you will say but I can't decide between like a million)so I wanted ideas. Thanks!

Until next time, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's a mouthful to say!

Because no one is reading mine. Now, that doesn't mean I'll stop blogging. It levels me up and on the rare occasion some one does read it they hopefully have a nice day after, since my blogs are so full of wit and sarcasm. Was that last statement sarcasm? No idea.

Anywho, I really need to put my Metroid stories up here. They're really long tales of Samus's origins, and they're really sweet. However, the day I stop making petty changes to them is the day I die, so I have some doubts about anyone outside my friends ever reading them. They're action packed and full of contradictions to Wikipedia's info about Samus and Metroid, and I don't really care.

.....

Anyway, PM me with FCs for MPH and MKDS blah blah blah...and everything else...oh, and I'm finally not a total n00b at Halo PC now (muhahahahaahha pistol b**** FTW!). Oh, and also on a gaming note, my brother borrowed Far Cry Instincts again from a friend the other day and yesterday I actually played it!...For five hours xD. It's a sweet game, no lie. And the dialogue is priceless :lol:

Anyway, yes and no and maybe and such.

Until next time, I've been irmeleeman5995, and that's a mouthful to say!