My feelings about video games, ephemeral as they may be, have once again taken a shift, however fleeting it may be. I am once again firmly on the PS3 bandwagon after perusing some more in-depth info on FFXIII which really didn't tell me anything other than some details on the combat system, which, from what I have read, could be really cool and a nice marriage of all of the different combat dynamics Square has used throughout the years. I guess I like the gambit system, but there is the annoyingly persistant feeling that you're not quite in control of things. In fact, you're in even less control than you think, but still... Anyway, my point here is that I'm excited about both PS3 Final Fantasy games, and they really are selling points for me far more than any other game for any of the platforms...until we get word on where Kingdom Hearts is going. I could maybe handle it on the Wii, and I guess that would be enough to push me to get a 360 (esp. if the much muttered about HD version ever appears, though it never should unless MS wants to take over Sony's position as most hated company in the gaming world). Right, so I think I might have lost my thesis (speaking of theses, I still need to find on for Joe Andrews...ugh) somewhere, but my point is that, despite whatever Penny Arcade and others may caution about buying a particular platform for one or two games, at this point that's the only way you can make that decision. When you have major games like Unreal Tournament, Darkness, etc. going to PS3 and 360 (and how can they not, if you really want to make some money on them? [not that Epic needs more money, but...]). There aren't going to be naerly as many platform exclusive games like there were last time around because there doesn't look like there's going to be a run=away winner like there was last time. I'm not buying into the analysts' idea that the PS3 will somehow end up winning, as much as I would like to. It's certainly the best platform from a hardware standpoint, if you're willing to swallow the pricetag. Xbox live is nice...but that basically counteracts the PS3's higher price. So, really, all things are more or less equal except for a few exclusives. Bioshock (which I have no opinion on as of yet) and Halo 3 (which, *gasp*, I don't care about) are the sellers for 360 (and Gears, of course), and then you have 2 Final Fantasy games that I do care about, and Metal Gear, which I might care about, for the PS3. Again, if KH were to pop up on the 360...well I'd have to do some parental arm twisting. But really, everything is so much more equal, and there are so many good multi-platform games that you need to find the ones that you really care about and buy based on that.
Oh, and I'm having a lot of fun with Trauma Center, though I'm not sure that I would really enjoy playing the same thing on the Wii. Speaking of the Wii...I'm not entirely certain that I would be surprised if the Wii ended up crapping out. Sure, you've got Zelda, and Metroid, but that's really it unless someone steps in and does them some real favors. Well, I should rephrase that...I think the Wii will do fine, but it's going to do so because, as Nintendo plans, it'll be selling consoles to, you know, old people, stuff like that, and they'll be playing...I don't know, pool, or something. And, frankly, I'm not gonna waste my cash on that. Super Smash Bros could be fun, and if there's a major price drop I might grab one, but there just isn't anything on it that I want to play, and I think that that reflects the feelings of a large part of the US gaming community. So, Nintendo will be forcing off into their own territory, boldly bringing weird video "games" to new people and stuff. But as far as I'm concerned they're really not a combatant in this console war, that's for Sony and MS. They're welcome to shred themselves as far as I'm concerned. In fact, if I had more expendable cash I wouldn't even be concerend because I'd just buy both consoles. Which brings up the point that there really should be a universal format for gaming consoles, but with Nintendo doing its own thing with control design and what not, I can see how that would get really troublesome
Meanwhile, I'm praying that Square doesnt pull a bunch of asshole shit and keep the Kingdom Hearts Final Mix in Japan this time around. I might even be persuaded to play Chain of Memories if it were on the PS 2. I guess we'll see. I suppose I could at least get the first one cause it's in English w/ Jap. subtitles, I believe.
Well, I should go read, and my brothers watching some...interesting anime. how do you do a show about tennis? well, maybe some monsters will pop out or something. Omygah! the old lady has a beard! I must watch this. And please, God, let the Gophers win. I know I already got my wish with Duke, but come on, just one game!
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
ouch
Wow...Last weekend was looking like the end of an ordeal, beating the crap out of CC...It was all fun, and now we go and get raped by St. Cloud. Well, tomorrow is @ home against them, and if we can get some retribution I'll be very happy. If nothing else, Wisconsin got owned too...by fucking Michigan Tech.
Anyway, Pride and Prejudice is a bitch, but I managed to get a little less than 100 pages read today, so things are starting to look like they're in pretty good shape.
Once again my console blues have been setting in, and I constantly wonder why I thought that I could ignore all of the fun little goodies that are attached to a 360. Funny thing is, I have absolutely no desire to get a Wii, because there is absolutely nothing on it that I want to play. Yes, I like Trauma Center on my DS (my good console purchase of the year), but if I'm gonna shell out several hundred dollars, I better be getting something other than a lazy man's version of tennis for chirst's sake. (I cannot type tonite, by the way). Really funny thing is that it's all of the analyst predictions that the PS3 will somehow come out in good shape if not on top this time around that make me the most depressed. Okay, so there's final fantasy, and metal gear...maybe tekken, but is that enough to hold off the ravenous horde of halo followers? I see ads for halo 3 and go "well...the first one sucked, never played the second one...but I almost wanna jump on the bandwagon just for the sake of being on the band wagon." I'll feel better when rainbow six and oblivion hit, assuming they're entertaining. still, the fact that there isn't shit on the playstation store pisses me off. We should be getting stuff like Vagrant Story, jesus christ. That's how you sell consoles, and sony needs to get their heads out of their goddamn assholes and start twisting square's arm about that one (or throwing money at them; either one would work well). Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that all of the selling points of the 360 aren't really selling points. Yes, there's Gears of War, but Resistance is still a great game, and I have my doubts about the multiplayer, though I haven't yet played either (gotta figure out how to either a. set up a wifi network in my house or b. run a cable from my PC down to the basement...or, maybe move the Beast upstairs, though I'm kinda afraid it might start blistering if exposed to sunlight or something).
This would all be so much easier if I, you know, had a job, could buy more than one console without having to save up for years and years in between. Unfortunately there's that whole get-perfect-grades-in-school-even-though-you're-still-not-going-to-get-into-harvard-cause-you-have-to-fucking-cure-cancer-to-get-in
thing...Yes, there have been some parental concessions that I need a means of getting money. However, they have done little in the way of offering up solutions beyond vaugeries that do little but forstall the inevitable conclusion that they will not be supplying said funds, likely in the belief that I will forget about it with my (they think) typical teenage attention span of all of about 5 seconds.
Yeah, so basically I hate this whole generation of consoles because they all SUCK. I just wanna go and play some finally fantasy 12, maybe pick up God of War and Okami and have some good old retro (jesus, is that shit really retro now? almost, I guess...) gaming. Or I could start dealing coke. That'd make some money.
I guess I should work on writing too...I'm getting the feeling that I'm really in over my head on this whole HiTN thing, even though I haven't worked on it in fucking forever. Trying to deal with multiple major emotional/spiritual tribulations for several characters while at the same time orchestrating a stupidly complicated plot is...daunting, to say the least. It's probably a good thing that I've been on this hiatus. I just don't think that I could handle it right now, not with school and all that stuff.
Basically I'm just feeling really bummed out right now, and barring ~$1000 falling in my lap, I don't think I'm going to feel a whole lot better any time soon. I could pull the whole "fuck school, I'm gonna get a job and get money for videogames" thing, but then I'd feel shitty about not doing well in school, and at this point I don't think that it's physically possible for me to do the minimum amount of work required for all of my classes, which is really all I ever do (it just so happens that that minimum involves reading pride and prejudice within a motherfucking week)
On a lighter note, I've been wondering about what kind of person, in highschool, has a DS with TRauma Center and Pokemon in it, simultaneously, and has a pokemon named HaHa I gave U AIDS on the aforementioned game. It also worries me that my brother has recently been uttering such nonsense "cracker I'll kill you" which I know is my fault, especially since I have failed to impress upon him the importance of dropping the last syllables of the first and third words in that phrase. Hmm...this could be a problem.
Yeah, so basically I'm stressed and pissed, and I really just wanna go skiing tomorrow and forget about all this crap. I'm also entertaining the idea that asking [someone] out might be a) good for me, on various levels, social, emotional, etc. and b) help take my mind off of all of this crap. Or it could be just one more thing that I have to deal with and just make everything worse. In the meantime, I'm just trying to get through the weekend so that on monday (well, tuesday, I guess) the usual shenanagins may resume. I'm particularly looking forward to some more extreme rock-paper-scissors and further culinary speculation on the best way to eat cancerous human FACE.
...thank you Sony, you have caused me to lose faith in video games...
Anyway, Pride and Prejudice is a bitch, but I managed to get a little less than 100 pages read today, so things are starting to look like they're in pretty good shape.
Once again my console blues have been setting in, and I constantly wonder why I thought that I could ignore all of the fun little goodies that are attached to a 360. Funny thing is, I have absolutely no desire to get a Wii, because there is absolutely nothing on it that I want to play. Yes, I like Trauma Center on my DS (my good console purchase of the year), but if I'm gonna shell out several hundred dollars, I better be getting something other than a lazy man's version of tennis for chirst's sake. (I cannot type tonite, by the way). Really funny thing is that it's all of the analyst predictions that the PS3 will somehow come out in good shape if not on top this time around that make me the most depressed. Okay, so there's final fantasy, and metal gear...maybe tekken, but is that enough to hold off the ravenous horde of halo followers? I see ads for halo 3 and go "well...the first one sucked, never played the second one...but I almost wanna jump on the bandwagon just for the sake of being on the band wagon." I'll feel better when rainbow six and oblivion hit, assuming they're entertaining. still, the fact that there isn't shit on the playstation store pisses me off. We should be getting stuff like Vagrant Story, jesus christ. That's how you sell consoles, and sony needs to get their heads out of their goddamn assholes and start twisting square's arm about that one (or throwing money at them; either one would work well). Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that all of the selling points of the 360 aren't really selling points. Yes, there's Gears of War, but Resistance is still a great game, and I have my doubts about the multiplayer, though I haven't yet played either (gotta figure out how to either a. set up a wifi network in my house or b. run a cable from my PC down to the basement...or, maybe move the Beast upstairs, though I'm kinda afraid it might start blistering if exposed to sunlight or something).
This would all be so much easier if I, you know, had a job, could buy more than one console without having to save up for years and years in between. Unfortunately there's that whole get-perfect-grades-in-school-even-though-you're-still-not-going-to-get-into-harvard-cause-you-have-to-fucking-cure-cancer-to-get-in
thing...Yes, there have been some parental concessions that I need a means of getting money. However, they have done little in the way of offering up solutions beyond vaugeries that do little but forstall the inevitable conclusion that they will not be supplying said funds, likely in the belief that I will forget about it with my (they think) typical teenage attention span of all of about 5 seconds.
Yeah, so basically I hate this whole generation of consoles because they all SUCK. I just wanna go and play some finally fantasy 12, maybe pick up God of War and Okami and have some good old retro (jesus, is that shit really retro now? almost, I guess...) gaming. Or I could start dealing coke. That'd make some money.
I guess I should work on writing too...I'm getting the feeling that I'm really in over my head on this whole HiTN thing, even though I haven't worked on it in fucking forever. Trying to deal with multiple major emotional/spiritual tribulations for several characters while at the same time orchestrating a stupidly complicated plot is...daunting, to say the least. It's probably a good thing that I've been on this hiatus. I just don't think that I could handle it right now, not with school and all that stuff.
Basically I'm just feeling really bummed out right now, and barring ~$1000 falling in my lap, I don't think I'm going to feel a whole lot better any time soon. I could pull the whole "fuck school, I'm gonna get a job and get money for videogames" thing, but then I'd feel shitty about not doing well in school, and at this point I don't think that it's physically possible for me to do the minimum amount of work required for all of my classes, which is really all I ever do (it just so happens that that minimum involves reading pride and prejudice within a motherfucking week)
On a lighter note, I've been wondering about what kind of person, in highschool, has a DS with TRauma Center and Pokemon in it, simultaneously, and has a pokemon named HaHa I gave U AIDS on the aforementioned game. It also worries me that my brother has recently been uttering such nonsense "cracker I'll kill you" which I know is my fault, especially since I have failed to impress upon him the importance of dropping the last syllables of the first and third words in that phrase. Hmm...this could be a problem.
Yeah, so basically I'm stressed and pissed, and I really just wanna go skiing tomorrow and forget about all this crap. I'm also entertaining the idea that asking [someone] out might be a) good for me, on various levels, social, emotional, etc. and b) help take my mind off of all of this crap. Or it could be just one more thing that I have to deal with and just make everything worse. In the meantime, I'm just trying to get through the weekend so that on monday (well, tuesday, I guess) the usual shenanagins may resume. I'm particularly looking forward to some more extreme rock-paper-scissors and further culinary speculation on the best way to eat cancerous human FACE.
...thank you Sony, you have caused me to lose faith in video games...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
urgh
Let's see...I'm sick, I'm tired, this is the second weekend in a row that I've been staying at a shitty hotel in some stupid hicktown in the middle of nowhere...Oh yeah, I have to read a gazillion pages of fucking Pride and Prejudice by Tuesday (cause we all have time to read 300 pages in a week, Mr. Regina...okay). Oh, I have to get quotes for my essay, do normal homework, and did I mention that I'm sick and I'm supposed to be skiing tomorrow and the day after. Yeah...we'll see how that one works out. Basically I just wanna curl up on my couch in my basement, play some Final Fantasy, watch ESPN and go sleep for a million years.
By the way, State for Ski Team was fun, all party shenanagins aside (That was really what made it fun). So yeah, boo. I hate everything right now. And advil/sudafed don't work for shit, by the way.
By the way, State for Ski Team was fun, all party shenanagins aside (That was really what made it fun). So yeah, boo. I hate everything right now. And advil/sudafed don't work for shit, by the way.
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