Yes I play....

I'm sure that every single gamer out there has done a difficult objective of some sort, expecting something amzing in return like a new costume for their character, a weapon that pwns.... I don't know, whatever you can think of. You manage to complete this awful task and when you're done all you gain is an achivement... or you get something completely useless.

That's basicly the definition of Deathcon II. I was excited becuase I missed some holiday events and ended up missing out on some really cool items, so I vowed to log on during the holiday event times and claim my items. This year for halloween, they threw out a seriously complicated quest, something involving arranging some stautes, solving a bunch of random numbers and walking in an "L" shape with a chicken.... don't worry about it.... And I actually had to walkthrough the part with the random numbers. I had to decorate a dancefloor with a picture using some random numbers. I'm not sure why they didn't just hand us a picture at be like "here, draw this" because the girl litterally knows what it is, but she makes you go through this rediculous decoding process anyway. I was never good at sudoku, wasn't sure how they expected me to figure out this one.

The other two things were of moderate difficulty dispite the fact that I spent 2 days on the first one, but maybe it was just the numbers... I didn't get it..

The theory of time traveling has been debated over years. Some say that time travel could be possible in the future, I however am not one of those people. I believe that it's not possible unless one impossible event were to occur. If time travel were plausable, the only way for it to be true would be to asume that time somehow records all of the events of earth's history. Sounds easy enough, but for that to be possible time would have to truely exist.

Time in itself if a man made funtion in which we use to dictate how long until the sun rises or sets. So natural time would be day and night. You would then have to figure out what causes day and night. The earth rotates on its axis, and the sun is there or it's not there. Which means that if the earth were to rotate on its axis in the opposite direction, nothing in peticular would happen. So if "time" is caused by the earth, one would have to believe the earth somehow has recorded all of the events of the past. In a way it does, by the patterns in the formation of the earth's surface. The earth can eventually revert to its natural state, but not by going backwards and hitting a reset button, but by letting progression slowly reset everything.

Time in and of itself wasn't programed like a computer to document it's every action. If this were the case Time would have been programed like a super computer, having a large enough hard drive to contain all of the events of past years. Wheather or not you believe in billions of years or a few thousand, to retrace all of the events of either timeline would take an extremely massive hard drive, which at the start of time whenever that was would not have been created, heck computers were created only as early as the 20th century and for the most part could only hold a flie as big as a Word document to just over 1/2 of a 320kb/sec song.

Now some may want to bring up the use of black wholes. That might be a good argument if you can prove in solid evidence that black wholes actually exist. You can't, it's a therory. Unfortunately with no proof an argument such as would be completely useless, although I'm sure many people would like to try, but if you have no eveidence, you can't form a valid argument. I too would like it if time travelling could in fact exist, I want to meet some historical figures, possibly even tell myself not to make certain mistakes, but that is the unfortunate state of reality. I even tested the idea of such happenings. my friends and I vowed that if time traveling were to exist, we would see our future counterparts appear in 3 seconds. Now one of 5 things could have happend:

1. They never did invent time traveling

2. We died before it got invented

3. It was never realesed to the general public

4. Our future counterparts were taken in the second coming of Jesus (that'd be great really...) so technically there was no time in which to invent it.

5. 3 seconds later we'd see our future selves

Number 5 didn't happen which leaves us wondering which of the other 4 did......

I really hate facebook. Or at least I do now. I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but a few of my friends are. For whatever reason, facebook somehow weeds out who your best friend is and from there proceeds to make it so that the two of you never see eachother online. Why? I don't know. Not sure what facebook has against best friends. Maybe the guy who made facebook lost his best friend and is now vowing to rid the world of best friends... or maybe he wants to see if you can sustain close friendships without using facebook. The second one is a little far fetched because that would just defeat the purpose of having an online networking system designed to keep you in touch with your friends... I don't know. that's not the only issue I have though. In general the system that FB now has is cluttered with nonsense. They have chat and messages together, while it sounds like a good idea, I think it might be part of the problems with chat where it won't let you send messages, it warps chat bar... the chat bar itself is annoying if you try and find your friends who are online.

facebook is not the only thing I want to talk about though, I played shadow of the colossus last night... or this morning.... it's hard to say. I got up to the 5th colossi within a few hours of playing, most of it spent on the 1st and 3rd, I havn't beat the 5th yet. Personally I like the story, no matter how vague it may be, starting off with this guy who's carrying this random girl on his horse, who at first I thought was just a random bag, to a weird temple to ask Dormin, a weird talking voice to bring a girl back to life. For the most part nothing about what's going on has been clearly explained, but I believed that they did it that way to bring the idea of imagination into the story. It's a really good game. If you get the chance to play, take it.

So I'm sure by now most people have played this game. Or I really hope that you did. Sadly I've only played it for about half an hour, and most of it was spent customizing my character to look like me, which didn't end up looking like me at all. I like the game so far, the whole 10-20 minutes I spent actually playing the game...

This is what I've learned from this game so far:

~It's hard...

Everyone will tell you this. It's only too true. Out of the time I spent playing the game, I spent most of it learning how to attack things. Unlike any game I've played before you don't use the X, triangle, square or circle buttons, ridiculously this game wants you to use R1 and R2. or L1 and L2 depending on where you place your weapon in the confusing equip menu. I still can't figure out how to use it. Maybe I'm just retarded, I don't know.

~Dying is the easiest thing to do in this game

I died. Quickly. The enemies have this thing for coming out of nowhere and just owning you. If anything it's a challenge. if you can play this game, any other game of this style will come like a breeze. But I suggest you use a walkthrough...

I just want to say sorry for not posting anything more often, school has gotten more busy, and I have a lot of school involvement, I plan to do a lot more posting this month however, so don't be descouraged, I'll be around :)

XB360 appeals to causal gamers, casual gamers are popular and it's "in" right now to be causal about gaming. When things become popular, the fans wear blinders, maybe unintentionally some very much intentionally. However what they fail to realize is that most things come to an end. In this case Xbox 360 forgot it belongs to Microsoft. PC has been growing more and more the unpopular computer to use. And could you blame anyone for thinking that? People who aren't too tech savvy wouldn't know what do with things like crashed browsers, error reports, constant program updates, complicated tech support which gets you pretty much nowhere, and a long list of viruses your computer is susceptible of catching. Not to mention you have to replace the computer itself every so often. A computer that only would appeal to those who want to customize and are good with computers. There aren't too many people like that anymore so why buy PC? Same comes to Xbox 360. He system red rings and overheats like a woman on menopause. Yet for whatever reason the systems have more fans than any other in North America. If you were to read the reviews for it in Asia, the system doesn't sell all that well. Why? Previous reasons stated. Who in their right mind would ever want to invest hundreds maybe even thousands of dollars in a thing that just doesn't work? I had a friend who got one of these money grubbers back in 06 when it cost a fortune to buy them and it melted. The improper ventilation made it overheat. My other friend has had 4 including the one she had to buy because of the recent problem. The first 2 red ringed and the other got hit with the disk reading error. She's just hoping the next one doesn't overheat or something retarded.

Somehow you judge us for like our PS3. We get personal info stolen from us and you get robbed willingly. At least one of us isn't doing so willingly. If people were smart and would just use PSN cards they wouldn't even have lost any info to begin with so it'd be like the internet being down for a few days instead of this holocaust Gamespot is turning it into.

Being that I have very few online games or games that must be played online so I'm probably the last person who should complain about this, however I did purchase many things off of the PSN. In fact I got a PS game and Sonic Adventure as well as its add-on, and don't forget the countless clothing items on Home. What bothers me about it is that when I went on my PS3, and I auto sign in I get an error code search it up, go to various 3rd party sites, they tell me about some hacking group and I check out the official site and only get two sentences..... TWO sentences that are so vague that I wonder if they are in kindergarten or something. Maybe if they just said they didn't know what was going on or that they do know but can't currently disclose the issue. Another thing is that my sister goes on and doesn't get an error code she can still sign in. WHY??? we use the same system!! I could be wrong if she didn't use it recently but I'm pretty sure she did....

What killed Sonic the hedgehog? Well many people will point to the games, particularly Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) or Sonic Unleashed for 360 and PS3. However if you take a closer look, Unleashed got good reviews for Wii. Why is that? Well it goes to prove that it's not the games themselves (however a few bad things do make them worse) it's that Sonic Team is unable to configure a proper set of controls for a 3rd party platform.

Looking back to the past, Sonic Adventure was released for Dreamcast in 1999. The game got outstanding reviews as Sonic entered the 3D generation. It later got a sequel, Sonic Adventure 2 in 2001. SA2 came out around the same time as Nintendo GameCube, and I suppose the Dreamcast wasn't selling well so they made a revised version of the game for the new system. The game was supposed to be better. They added new features, reorganized the menu screen and removed unnecessary features. Oddly enough, the game lost about 2 ratings to the original. What was the problem? Controls. The camera was wonky, there is a long list of glitches you can perform on the game (Some aren't nearly as fun as they seem. There's one where if you go to the edge of the neutral Chao garden and homing attack at the wall a few times you fall out of the garden, come back and all the chao are underground. This seems awesome but if you try to leave the garden to go somewhere else in chao world, the whole game freezes and you can't just press the reset button, you have to turn the GC off completely.) About 2 years later they made a remake of SA for GC and it had pretty much the same amount of issues. It kind of makes me wonder why they would choose this version of the game as the one they'd released on 360 and PS3 as a remake after a good majority of us who owned it probably now own one of these systems.

So why can't they just fix their controls? I'm not giving Sonic Team a break when I say this but, the reason is probably because after Sega was unable to continue selling their own systems, Sonic Team got left in the dust struggling to figure own control configuration. You may say, "Well Sonic Heroes got pretty good reviews." Most of the systems out at the time were fairly well aged. if they couldn't configure controls for it, they weren't going to be able to ever. I personally disliked this game. I didn't like the idea of having so many people at your control at once. Using flight was an absolute bother. You pray for fans and use power to glide over everything. You'd be in the middle of a boss battle and you start shuffling through the abilities and u just end up dying because you will more than likely only use one button to shuffle and you miss it you have to shuffle through 2 abilities before you get the one you want. You might even die before then. That's another story for another day though....

Controls were relatively good for Wii games. Most of them were story book and they received mediocre reviews because they appealed heavily to a category of people who weren't or possibly still aren't even old enough to rank or review the games. 360 and PS3 games apparently changed their settings completely because Sonic team has yet to figure out a game that would work for these systems. 2006 was probably going to be a great game. It would be good if they got rid of elise and didn't get lazy and pretty much borrow everything for Sonic Adventure. That being said those problems are minor in comparison to the controls. It wasn't even just a wondering camera. At least with SA2 and SA2B you would get a linear camera in Sonic and Shadow levels, Knuckles and Rouge levels were the only ones to worry about. In this game though, everyone gets a free roam camera and the sad part is that Sonic and Shadow levels are still linear, but now you can go everywhere and get lost and die trying to find your way back. In Crisis City with Sonic you're being chased by a fire tornado. The camera flips to show you the road in front of you which is annoying because you were in the middle of avoiding an obstacle, but when the camera flips you realize you walked right into another obstacle sending you flying when in laws of proper physics, Sonic should have bumped into that car and splattered into pink goo or flung backwards braking all the bones in his spinney little body. The game also has laggy controls. You could tell the game to perform an action and it refuses to complete it. Like Sand Ocean with Shadow in the last part because of free roam camera i got seriously lost in the middle of an ocean of a hover car. I wanted to get out so I could figure out what I wanted to do, but it wouldn't let me, so I tried to blow it up by riding it on places it shouldn't have been. Big mistake, I was on top of a wooden doc and it blows up. I had rings so I expected to survive it, but no. They chose that moment to be realistic and I end up dying.

I pity Sonic Team. Where is Naka Yuji when they need him most?

Maybe it's just me, but I find that the longer a producer takes before they release their games, the better. Games that seem to give a good amount of time between them and their predecessor before release turn out better. it's probably because they give enough time to get the bugs worked. When a game is hastily released you can tell. Although their are always exceptions. Some games take forever to come out and you can see that they were just procrastinating because it was a piece of bull, But take a look at the games that seem to be getting the top rating. Most of them take lots of time before they even come out. I recommend that producers should stop trying to bring out new games if they haven't given them enough time in which to be their full potential.

I don't know about how other people feel, but the Sims 3 doesn't appeal to me the way Sims 2 does. I spent all my time looking up the Sims 3 and I definitely like the idea of no loading screens to go across the street, but it's the sims themselves that bother the crap out of me. I can't seem to get around the fact that nearly every sim you make in the Sims 3 looks like their related with skin tone variations. I know that should probably not be the only reason I won't get the game but still... perhaps if the Sims 4 comes out with Sims 2 like customization of facial features (with obviously better graphics) and keeps what good the Sims 3 has to offer, I might just skip right over and get that instead.