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233 days ago
Since I write in my RPG blog almost daily, it's gotten difficult for me to maintain this gaming journal as well. I was recently hired to write another geeky blog, so one personal blog has to go. This one is it. I'm detailing most of my gaming exploits at my new blog about strategy guides. It's not as boring as it sounds, trust me! :) http://www.strategyguidereviews.com
264 days ago
Years ago, a friend told me of her woes while playing Mario 64. She said that the game frustrated her so much, she constantly threw a barrage of racial slurs towards Mario's direction. For the past few gaming sessions, that has been me with Cloud. Not that I can use racial slurs against Cloud, because he's a fictional ethnicity, but I've still called him a bunch of insults. Most of them are from his role in Crisis Core. I believe that dumb blonde, useless, airsick bastard, f***ing pansy, and spikey-headed dumbass were some of the few terms slung around. I got so mad at Cloud the other night, I thought about chucking my controller at the TV for the first time since Super Mario Bros. 3. I took a few days off to cool down, but I forced myself to try to make up with him last night, otherwise FF7 would suffer the same fate Kingdom Hearts did a few years ago (I got so mad at it that I didn't play it for three years). I'm very glad that I did, because we were able to get through our ...
272 days ago
My plan, or goal, was to have both Lost Odyssey and Final Fantasy VII finished by the end of March. I just started the third disc on Lost Odyssey, so I'm at least halfway done, but I'm still at 17 hours on FFVII and I'm not sure I'll have it finished by the end of April at this rate. It doesn't help that Shawn usually goes out of town during the week I'm slated to play FFVII, so that means full-time parenting duty with no break and I usually crash early. However, that's not fully the reason. As much as I love the story to the game, especially all the little tidbits I'm learning about the characters, and it makes me laugh with all the hoops Cloud jumps through, the gameplay drives me crazy. It's not the turn-based gameplay. I've long gotten over that. I haven't gotten over using the D-pad, but that's not the issue either. I hate that if I pause for a second to get my bearings and then take a single step forward, or if I get stuck behind an invisible wall and I have difficulty ...
286 days ago
I don't think I'll keep up readers over at a blog where I get paid to keep readers if I yammer about what games I'm playing right now. When I say yammer, I mean discuss everything that happened while playing the night before. More suitable for a journal than a somewhat professional blog. So let the yammering commence. Lost Odyssey is continuing to be the best game I have ever played. It's the FIRST game I have ever played where Shawn is glued to the couch watching. He gets bored during the battle scenes at times, but he is enjoying the storyline and the memories I unlock (when you unlock a memory, it is presented in a short story format, and I would kill to write anything as well as these are written). My favorite character is of course the spaz, Jansen. He's a magic user and he dies a lot because he's useful (although last night was the first time I fought a boss and he didn't die) meaning that he gets targeted a lot by boss attacks. I assume it's because he is so useful. As of now ...
292 days ago
I've been neglecting this blog since I'm writing about rpg gaming for Today.com, and a lot of posts I would make here would be cross-posts. I think Today.com would frown upon that and well, I'd frown upon it as well. I may be closing this one down, but I haven't made a complete decision yet since my Today.com blog is specific towards RPGs and I do play more than RPGs. Sometimes.
