Woohoo for me I guess. It just doesn't seem as important anymore as it once was. But I guess it's still nice to see a change in level, and one that I worked really hard to pass. From reading news to preveiws to actual reviews, looking at gameplay movies, etc. It's really just me and my obsession with anything rpg-like.

In other news, as you can see I'm playing Kingdom Hearts and I think I'm very much near the end. Now I've finally played all the Kingdom Hearts games, and until the remake is released in December, I will be anticipating the DS and PSP sidestory games.

After all, way back when the only thing that I was going to buy a psp for was KH: BBS. But now luckily there are five more games that I'm planning on picking up, and I guess it's kinda worth it to get a psp. I mean I'm buying a psp around 2009-2010 so it's obviously going to be dirt cheap. There's no denying the failure of Sony's handheld system (and you'd think they'd have seen the ps3's demise beforehand based on the status of this system) and this is strengthened by the fat that the psp 3000 actually makes some games look worse. (The article's somewhere around here, it'll explain how Sony have become just so totally *#(@&@#%)

Oh dear me, my blog post has transformed into yet another rant on Sony. I really need to stop that, some will think I actually care about the outcome of Sony's horrendous decisions. Well good bye for now, I hope you all enjoy your games and systems.

Just wow... One of Square's best works, I have to say. I think I almost got as teary as I did during Ocarina of Time's ending.

But do you know what this means? Only one more Final Fantasy to go! I just need to play and finish FF 12, and then I can eagerly anticipate FF 13 with the rest of the fans! Though not as much actually, since its multi platform announcement will surely damper what could have been a very great game. But oh well, I've put the fact that Sony has failed behind me, and that the future of next gen rpg's is all but lost.(I just can't buy that other console, my situation doesn't allow me to)

Of course now I'm going to have to take a short break before playing FF 12. It's too early, and my lingering thoughts on FF 10 will interfere with my gaming, especially since it seems FF 12 has strayed from a few of the conventions of the FF series. I don't want to hate on 12 when I've just finished 10 and loved every minute of it.

So in the meantime I think I'm going to try my hand on the two Tales games for the ps2: Tales of Legendia and Tales of the Abyss. Which would you recommend I play first? And do you know any other top quality rpg's or action rpg's that should be played while I have the ps2 in my possession?

All in all things are looking good... if only I wasn't so hasty to purchase a ps3, believing Sony to once again be king of the rpg's! (where do MS come up with all the money to pay developers to abandon the ps3?). Now my ps3 is inside it's box and stuffed in my closet collecting dust. Well, once again I'll remember to be smart next time with my purchases.

Well, have a nice day all! I wish you guys nothing but good luck and a happy forthcoming Eid!

So yay for me, I've turned 19 and everything (yeah I know what you're thinking, what's a 19 year old doing playing video games, but who cares) and this has been one of my better birthdays.

Usually September 2 always marked the day of or day after school starts, and that was a real bummer. My birthday was never a celebration so much as a reminder that school was about to start, and that the carefree summer days were over, so it did get a bit depressing at times.

Even though my leg's still broke I'm happy, b/c we don't have college for a whole month! The start of the holy month of Ramadan marks the first time that we've ever gotten the whole month of before attending schools and universities. So we're really going to be relaxing now, I for one can't believe my luck.

Well anyways have a great day everyone!

and now that's it, it's over, I'm done with the ps1 era Final Fantasies. It has been quite an experience this past year. Starting out with Final Fantasy 7 in February and finally experiencing the game that's been hyped over to this day, to Final Fantasy 8 the love-it-or-hate-it game, and finally the commonly overlooked Final Fantasy 9, just a few days before the start of September. Now I can put the first 9 Final Fantasies behind me.

I now have only 10 and 12 left on the ps2, and am quite excited for the upgraded graphics. No longer will I have to suffer from jaggy or blocky 3d models. No longer will I have to look upon 2d sprites (cute as they may be). Now, as I have mentioned before, this will be the start of me shelving away my very dissapointing ps3 in favor of my friend's ps2 slim, in which I will play a number of great rpg's.

I mean, I have to say I feel like such an idiot now for buying a ps3. I mean wireless controllers has been an awsome experience and I will sorrowly miss that, but the console itself is just garbage. I mean why did developers leave Sony? Just cause Microsoft has all the money in the world to throw around doesn't mean they should shun away gamers that have been sticking with them for two whole generations, ever since the playstation 1.

I mean, look at the lineup for that 360 console, that which can break so easily (even with this alleged chip that will partially fix the RRoD problem or whatever: you have the recently released Tales of Verspia by the traitorous Namco, and it seems to be like one of the better tales games. Then you have this Infinite Discovery by Square Enix as well as Star Ocean, which are both exclusive for the 360. Oh but hey we get FF 13 right? WRONG!! Not only is FF 13 going to be a multi-plat, it's also going to be delayed for US shores solely b/c Square are going to be porting the game over to 360. So we don't even get this "timed exclusive" garbage that everyone's been muttering about. I mean it's bad enough that the there's even less reason for a gamer to get a ps3, now less developers will be inclined to make a solid effort with their games.

I mean the ps3's supposed to be this big powerhouse right? It's supposed to give us photo-realistic graphics with blu-ray and everything right? but I keep feeling the graphics aren't up to par with what I thought "next gen" was going to be about, and I blame it on the 360, which has less graphical capability than the ps3 (seeing as how EVERY game is now multi-plat, and more often than not the 360 version always seems to be superior in one way or another). I mean look at the ps1 and ps2 game Final Fantasies, they've always pushed the hardware to its limits. Final Fantasy 10 is a game that came out in 2001, yet it has beautiful graphics, not to mention phenomenal cgi cutscenes that really captivate your attention; more so than the last 3 FF's to be sure. What exclusive are we getting from Microsoft or rather the 360? Bioshock. A shooter. Big whoop. I can't believe I ever thought Sony would lead this gen, or rather, would not suck. That'll teach me to do even MORE research before I buy a console, and wait a few months (that's all it took for me to notice, a few months) before I see how badly it will suck.

If only Sony did not drop backwards compatibilty... Don't give me bull about hardware costs and being cheap. I know Sony are poor; I mean they were really only able to sell 140 million or so ps2 units, that's not enough money to survive on right? and the Spiderman movies haven't grossed that much money for Sony, the poor fellows. I mean dropping ps2 compatibility when it was the best thing that ever happened to them... I just don't get it. The ps2 itself succeeded with the fact that it had backwards compatibilty, and one of the gamecube's biggest flaws. I guess Nintendo took a leaf out of Sony's book, and Sony decided to follow in Nintendo's footsteps by failing on their third gen running.

I mean I don't care if not a single exclusive ever comes out for the ps3, but the fact that I could play all of last gen's games with a wireless controller and without hassle would be enough for me to get the ps3, since I am incredibly behind with last gen's games. But alas, all has not worked in my favor

Who's really supporting the ps3 right now? Resistance 2, little small planets, GOW 3, MAG and whatever. All by SCEA. They have to pull their own weight, no developer wants to bother with the ps3 system. Half of those titles I could never muster the urge to play, seeing as I'm a casual gamer myself who's only interested in rpg's, and top quality ones at that, the kind that Square has always delivered to us in the past.

If, and only if, I can sell my horrible 40 GB bundle (the one with the unbelievably dissappointing Spiderman 3) for the 80 GB bundle, then I'll be happy, seeing as how it still can play SOME ps2 games, and I'm willing to bet FF 10 and 12 are one of them. I only really got the 40 GB in my haste to play FF 7, and a week later or so I found out about the MGS 4 bundle... talk about a rip-off.

I'm just glad I've been smart with the psp. Holding out on the psp 2000 has been a wise decision, seeing as there's a new one recently announced. At least the psp has Square Enix support, not just SCEA themselves, so that's good. I'll buy one when the Kingdom Hearts game comes out, and I'm sure by that time there'll be ANOTHER iteration of Sony's mediocre handheld, so I'll probably get that as well.

All in all I'm completely dissappointed in myself for not being smart with my purchase, and hopefully I can rectify my mistake. If not, then my ps3 is going to be in the closet for a year and a half, while I play last gen games on the ps2. By that time FF 13 will have arrived and Versus 13 will have a tentative release date, so hopefully it will all work out for the best. Don't expect Sony to succeed next gen, you can count on that. Their time has passed, and I can only hope Nintendo don't drive themselves to the ground with the casual/ shovelware epidemic they have.

For the past 4 months, I've been jogging and lifting weights non-stop. It got to a point where my jeans just couldn't keep on me; I'd button up and take one step before it fell right back down (yeah I went ahead and got a belt, even though I hate wearing one)

I mean, I was on a roll, losing all my heavy poundage and actually having discernable biceps that I could flex out and be proud of. You have no idea how it feels to be able to wake up in the morning and not wish to die when looking upon one's self in the mirror. To actually have a nice clean face without pudgy skin... and boy my legs just felt huge, totally ripped from all the running. My squishy jello thighs felt like solid rocks. That of course, is all in the past now

What I had not anticipated from all the jogging and stuff is that there is a force out there that hates me, which all my life has done its best to never get me to get off of my lazy ass and do something about my weight. Now it sensed a threat; the fact that it was failing.

I was so close, so very close to achieving maximum happiness, to be able to be thin, dropping so many shirt sizes and easily slipping into my shoes without undoing the knots first! But this force has decided to cramp up my leg, and during one of my jogging courses, my left leg actually seized up and stopped moving, rendering me helpless to stop the fall that almost crashed the damn treadmill, and making me scream out in agony for no one to hear.

Scared but trying to rationalize, I decided to just head up on the stairs to the living room and hopefully walk it off with a bit of relaxation on the couch, hoping upon hoping that the pain will just.. go away.

What came afterwards was me falling up the stairs, landing on my knee, and banging my head, sending me into an unconscious state. When next awoken I discovered myself in a hospital bed, with the doctor (who thankfully was my aunt, so at least I could be more comfortable with the situation, if that was possible) asking me what happened and doing the standard set of drills to confirm that I was a mess and needed instant tending to.

And well... here I am. Alone, miserable, 4 months worth of hard work wasted as I decided to go crazy with the junk food, stuffing my face to try and fill the sorrow that just won't subside. I cant face anyone, I cant go back into the world with my saggy and ugly body, and it's just SO NOT FAIR!!! I mean, just why? I've been "a good boy" and blah blah all my life, always helping people and always being betrayed due to my kind nature and naivety.

I can slowly feel myself rotting away, my once perfect body going to waste and wishing, more than ever before, that I'd just roll over and DIE. (how effin melodramatic...)

but oh, enough about me, how are you all? Doing well I trust? I'm so very happy for you all!

I was really dissapointed with Final fantasy 8 near the end, it just wasnt my type of rpg. It's great that at the time Square tried to do something different, but I didnt like it much, even though I enjoyed the story a bit.

But now I'm done with it and have put it behind me, so it's off to play Final fantasy 9! Here's hoping it's better, since it supposedly had the best graphics at the time and, apparently, had an evil villian that could rival kefka (I implore you to play Final Fantasy 6, it is awsome). I'm just glad it went back to a traditional battling system (when in doubt, level grind!!!... yeah yeah I know, but that's how I play, so sue me) with still a bit of customization, and the job system is back!

So far so good, though the load times for battles are really long, and are proving to be quite irksome. After this game, I'm going to have to shelve my ps3 for awhile (no complaints really, the console is a bitter dissapointment concerning current games) and then pick up my friend's ps2 slim, to play Final Fantasy 10 and 12!!!

As well, I might consider a few other games for the time that I will own his ps2. Should I consider picking up the two Tales games, Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Legendia? I dont know, I enjoyed Phantasia and Symphonia, but Tales of Eternia left me feeling... frustrated, to say the least. I'd also like any other rpg's that are AAA, so that by the time I've had my fill with them, Final Fantasy 13 and Versus will have already arrived for the ps3! (and any other rpg's if developers still choose to make games for the rather failing console)

I've just returned it to my friend and I must say what an enjoyable experience, now I finally know what all the hype for this game was like! I must say it's a bit unfounded... this game is good but I certainly can't see how it garnered such a huge fanbase... I mean was it really because it was the first rpg experienced for some people?

I mean if FF 8 was the first of the PSX rpg's, would it be regarded in the same light, and have these "fanboys" swooning over rinoa? (shudder the thought)

I mean my first Final Fantasy experience was FF 4 on the gba. I must say I loved it, and immediately set to work on playing and anticipating all of them, so next was FF 5 and then 6, all on the gba. FF 4 is the game that convinced me to start enjoying rpg's, the best game genre ever, and with it came a whole slew of games for me all at once. I must say I'm now overwhlemed with the amount of rpg's I have to go through when I was so rpg starved last year

I mean what kind of word is "blog" huh? seriously, it sounds so stupid, I actually wanted to punch someone when he said the word blog, his annoying voice + stupid word = me going crazy and doing my best to make him feel miserable. Though it's worse when I succeed, since I feel bad after the rage has cooled down.... I need to do something about that

ahh the internet, what a...

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It's amazing how quickly people switched from the ps2 to 360, ignoring the ps3 for whatever reason. Very stupid indeed. As I always say, if I wanted shooters, I'd go to whatever arcade that hasn't been demolished yet and relive the 90s