E3 has come and gone for another year and whilst it wasn't as exciting as I hoped it might be it was still great. With new games revealed and the end of the years release schedule taking shape, it's time for my most anticipated games. Any game that isn't official announced yet such as Zelda Wii U can't make this list and neither can The Last of Us or Animal Crossing New Leaf as I have both pre-ordered for today. 

Honourable mention- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD(Wii U)- I never had a Gamecube so haven't played The Wind Waker. As such I am looking forward to playing it on Wii U but as a remake and a game that over the years I have learnt plenty about I've decided not to include it in this list.

12. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U)

I was not expecting another Donkey Kong game to be Retro's secret new game and I will admit that I am disappointed that it is. However that doesn't mean it won't be a great game and one that I am looking forward to getting. I will definitely get it this year as it looks to build upon the quality foundations of Donkey Kong Country Returns.

11. Rayman Legends (Wii U)

Originally a Wii U exclusive that was set to be a launch title, Legends has seen two delays and gone multiplatform. It will now be out at the end of August and while time has diminished my excitement for it a little, I am still greatly anticipating it. 2011's Rayman Origins was a sparkling return to form for the limbless hero and I expect the extra development time will ensure that Legends is even better.

10. Pikmin 3 (Wii U)

I haven't played Pikmin 2 and I found Pikmin very difficult to get into. However I am encouraged by the comments from Mr. Miyamoto and the previews I have read for Pikmin 3. It won't feature the pressure of a limited number of days to complete it and features new controls and innovations that should make it much more inviting to play and easy to enjoy.

9. Professor Layton and the Azran Legacies (3DS)

The Professor Layton series may not have evolved much over the course of its five games but the quality has remained consistent high. New puzzles and engaging storylines keep things fresh and I expect Layton's final adventure will be no different.

8. Watch Dogs (Wii U/PS3)

I am currently undecided as to whether or not I will get Watch Dogs on Wii U or Ps3 but if the Gamepad is utilised effectively as Aiden's smartphone then I am sure it will be the former. Ubisoft's new IP looks genuinely unique and clever and I can't wait to see the different ways in which you are able to use Aiden's hacking abilities.

7. Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)

The Mario Galaxy games are a tough act to follow and it was never likely that the latest 3D Mario game would be up to their standard. 3D World could of course be so but from I've seen so far it looks like a very good game but not up to their  standard. The new Cat suit looks like a welcome addition and I'm sure there will be plenty more to discover. As always with Nintendo the proof will be in the playing.

6. Batman Arkham Origins (PS3)

Rocksteady may not be developing this prequel to the previous 2 Arkham games but that doesn't mean it won't match their standards. Everything I've seen so far is promising and I particularly like the new look of Detective mode and how it is going to play a bigger role this time. Batman being younger and more untested should make for a good challenge too.

5. Pokemon X/Y (3DS)

Every new detail I found out about the latest Pokemon games is making me more and more eager to play them. I have already pre-ordered Y version and October 12th can't come soon enough. The new world looks good and the plentiful new mechanics should make the game feel fresh and exciting.

4. The Legend Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS)

I own A Link to the Past on GBA but have never been able to get into it. That hasn't stopped me greatly anticipating its successor though. I think that the ability to become a painting and merge with the wall is a great idea that will be used for some interesting puzzles. The game is set to make good use of 3D effects and the gameplay should be as high quality as we've come to expect from the Zelda series.

3. Star Wars Battlefront (PS4)

All we saw of this new game from Battlefield developers DICE was a very brief CGI teaser and the game is only in the ideas phase so won't be released for a couple of years. However I have been waiting for a new Battlefront game for years and I am so happy that one is finally coming. It may be a long way off but just knowing its coming is good enough.

2. Mario Kart 8 (Wii U)

One of the few reveals in the E3 Nintendo Direct that didn't disappoint was that of Mario Kart 8. It is looking stunning in terms of both graphics and gameplay. The new anti-gravity elements should bring a whole new dimension to the game and I expect the online offering to be even stronger than the previous two Mario Kart games. Spring 2014 is going to be brilliant when this is released.

1. Super Smash Bros 3DS and Wii U

This may technically be two games and I intend to get both versions as they will have at least unique stages, however I have included it as one entry here as I am anticipating both equally. Animal Crossing Villager and Megaman should be great additions to the character roster, although I am not so sure about Wii Fit trainer. Over the coming months we should get plenty of new info and I anticipate finding it all out. The gameplay should be as brilliant as ever but I am really looking forward to is a fully fledged online offering that Brawl lacked. If that is done right then these games will be something special.

Thanks for reading and of course there are plenty of games outside these top 12 I am looking forward too. Let me know your most anticipated in the comments.

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Medal of Honor, developed by Danger Close was released October 12th 2010. It had a 3 week head start on Call of Duty Black Ops. Medal of Honor was marketed as a more realistic and not a ridiculous over the top like Modern Warfare 2. If Medal of Honor came out around the same time as MW2, it would have fared a bit better.

In the single player campaign you play as 4 different soldiers, but it seamlessly transitions in a way it seems like you never changed a soldier. The Tier 1 squad consists of the names Preacher, Dusty, Mother, and Rabbit. The game starts off in the Tora Bora mountains. The Tier 1 operators are undercover driving a technical in a town to rescue an informant. At night they get stopped by a shepherd and a dozen goats crossing the road. At first the squadmate shouts in the native dialect to move. Then after a long time of 5 seconds, the Tier 1 operative yells Move! in English like no Taliban soldier would ever notice.
A special forces soldier undercover would never yell in English in any Middle Eastern, Central Asian conflict. Within the first 5 minutes I was stunned.

When the Tier 1 Ops, get to the informant, they pull guns on him. They did this to make sure if the informant lead them into a set up. The informant tells the soldiers that The Taliban are bad people and he wants his daughter to grow up and get an education. All the Taliban does in the context of the game is terrorize the locals. This is one of the rare times Taliban is actually mentioned in the game. Throughout the game Tier 1, US Marines, and helicopter pilots refer to the Taliban as bad guys. Not tangos, but bad guys. Danger Close couldnt make it any more black and white.

The US invade the Bagrams airforce base. What makes this odd, is that the takeover of Bagrams was a joint op of US and UK special forces. While Danger Close mentioned multiple times that they consulted with the Tier 1 Special Forces, it seems like Danger Close gave them full control of script writing.

In the game the Colonel in Bagrams airforce base wants to use tactical strikes to slowly weaken the Taliban, but the clueless General in Washington D.C. that has no idea whats going on in Afghanistan wants to send marines. The missions consists of destroying Taliban ammo caches, bunkers, installations, getting ambushed, and a rescue mission. There isnt a good sense of mission pacing of rising conflict, climax, and resolution compared to call of Duty. Due to the success of Modern Warfares All Ghillied Up, Danger Close tries to implement stealth in some later missions, but it never has the same effect. The mission pacing is as clueless as the US military main purpose in Afghanistan. The last mission of Medal of Honor just ends. There is no change in pacing such as a massive firefight to indicate the end.

While the game tried to be a grounded, and have a serious tone, the Linkin Park music washed all that away. There was two Linkin Park songs used in Medal of Honor. One of the on rail helicopter scene and one for the end. It was strange that they licensed Linkin Park when they already had an acclaimed hollywood composer. The end credits of Medal of Honor has a long over the top tribute to US veterans.



My first time reading the slides, I remembered what Chris Antista said in October 2010. Without your sacrifices we wouldnt been able to make this game. I was recalling information of the TalkRadar hosts in Episode 123. Tyler Wilde was not making an exaggeration about the ending deifies the troops. Tier 1 consultants basically were given free reign of the story. After playing Medal of Honor, I dont understand that Medal of Honor accurately depicts what the actions of the Special Operation Forces. The Tier 1 could do nothing wrong, and the Marines barely caught breaks. Medal of Honor comes off way more propagandized compared to the Call of Duty Modern Warfare games because it never uses real historical events as a setting for their games.

Setting the game based upon real life conflict was a bit tasteless. It wasnt pulled off that well. The Taliban could have been called opposing force and it would have made no difference. While it tried to be serious, it never fully committed to the tone. It is sad that one of the most influential and creative series in World War II shooters got rebooted to be the pinnacle of this generation generic contemporary military shooter.

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Mark 12:30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH

Revelation 2: 2-7 I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent. Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God

The church at Ephesus did not tolerate evil, they tested all who called themseleves apostles and they had perseverance. But they lost their first love, they lost their love for God. It doesn't matter what you do, how good of a preacher you are, it doesn't matter if you shun away from evil, it doesn't matter if you know false teaching to the truth. If you do not love God with all of your heart, soul and mind you need to repent and love God again.

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Listen to this while you read the blog, just for the lolz

I spent this weekend watching old episodes of DBZ. IDK why, but I just did. I really enjoy watching DB Kai but I wanted to see what happened after the Cell games saga once again because I missed out on a lot of those episodes when I was kid. Plus, I watched it out of boredom My life's been real dull ever since I graduated, but meh that's life I suppose.

I've been in a bad mood ever since what happened a couple weeks back. When I finished my clas s, I left my campus and went to my dad's job to pick up him. Unfortanetly, when I pulled out my cell phone and held it on my hand, a cop saw me with it and later pulled me over. I was so mad. Technically, I was not using it, but as the driving laws of NJ say, you cant have any handheld device in your hands while you're driving. Even though I didn't get any tickets, I ended up getting summons, which means I have to go to court (you can be sent to court in the U.S. for anything nowadays it seems). Also, since I'm still a provisional driver, I ended up getting penalized more and will most likely pay more money for these ******* summons. The cell phone violation is $130, the other 2 violations is the reason why I'm going to court. I wonder what would've happened if I told the cop I was using the phone, instead of saying I wasn't. My mom says I should fight it, but we'll see what happens. The good thing is, if these damn summons won't get in the way, I'll be able to get my basic driver's license in a couple days (I would've gotten it tomorrow, but the DMV is closed tomorrow because of election day). So hopefully things start turning for the better soon.

Because of this, I won't be able to get Black Ops first day of release. I'm gonna have to wait a while, and once again, I'm going to be all alone because my friends will be playing that like back when Reach came out. Dammit v_v. I tried out Kirby's Epic Yarn with my sister when it came out, it seems ok but I need to play it more. I haven't touch Sonic 4 for a while, all I've been doing is playing SSFIV like always, and that game is making me rage more as well, especially when I lose. I gotta pull myself together.

Off to watch Goku and Majin Vegeta fight.

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Do you still remember me?

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facebook's the shyeaat now!!(:

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I can't believe I'm at level 30 over here. I haven't even reached level 20 on GT! Maybe leveling up is easier here, or maybe it was because I used to post in the forums like crazy here. Not to mention all the blogs.

Anyway, I still check in regularly. If any of you read this, how are you doing? What have you been up to?

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Like I said in January, I won't be blogging that much anymore. Since my last blog I have -

Subscribed to Pragertopia (Dennis Prager's last thirty days of his radio show podcasting). Dennis Prager recently started an online video series, which you can view here -

Prager University: The American ...

Bought Dennis Prager's highly regarded "Men's Sexual Nature" CD's. It cost me $80 for them and call tell you their worth every penny... Even though I am already a guy, this was pretty enlightening. -

Men's Sexual Nature - All 4 Parts - (CDs)

Allison Armstrong has also been a great help understanding both sexes. Here is some videos and audio of her -

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=londinangel&view=favorites

http://personallifemedia.com/guests/668-alison-armstrong

My dad got an AR-15 (Assault Rifle like M-16) for his birthday. It cost around $1200 and is a lot of fun.

I got rid of a lot of my games and have decided to slowly stop playing. I'm not sure if I will eventually quit but for now it's alright if I don't play during the week. I also would like to eventually stop watching much TV. I have become more interested with something meaningful; such as reading.

I have been working for Little Caesars, for three months now (part time).

As many of you know, the TV show "24" is my favorite show. While I think it was still better than other shows on TV, it was diffidently my least favorite season yet. OMG if Jeneen Garafadumbo, is on next year, I'm going to be pissed. I hate that witch; and she's a horrible actress for the part of FBI!

I have started attending Brown Mackie College and will be going for my associate's degree in Criminal Justice. I will be going full time and I complete 1 ****every month for 2 years to get my first degree.

My current belief in religion is that I view myself as Judeo-Christian. Which I see as believing in Jesus as the Messiah but also find the Jewish laws very good as well.

I have read and bought quite a few books since my blog in January. However, one that has really affected me is "Mao: The Unknown Story". Once you read this biography of Mao, you won't believe how truly evil he and Communism were and are. It goes over his whole life and talks a lot about Stalin as well as a lot of other big commies. It is a very easy read, considering it is around 600 pages. However, it is an extremely important, interesting, and is a must read for all (although it gets a bit graphic, so it's not a children's book.).

Well that's all for now.

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i want t write blog about the wrong historical facts in assassin's creed and info about the Hashashins but it will take so much time and i don't know if anyone will read it so if u r interested tell me and i will post it about a week

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As for the rest of you, No im not dead yet, so hold the celebrations.

How the hell are ya guys

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Now, I don't mean great in the sense that it rivals Lord of the Rings or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I mean great in that it's a mystery/horror/thriller that is not meant to be taken too seriously; it made me jump a few times, but really kept me guessing until the end. I was literally on the edge of my seat for most of the second half. The kills were all very cool (see note), though the plot and the "fight" at the end was...uh...different. The ultimate ending didn't have much explanation, but I think it was pretty neat.

Note: I watched the unrated version, I don't know what's different about it but it's likely a few (violent) scenes were extended.

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1.) No 8 o'clock classes.

2.) No morning PT. It's all in the afternoon.

3.) 13 hours instead of 18.

4.) No roommate so I have the whole dorm to myself.

5.) No girlfriend back home to distract me.

6.) More money.

7.) Better weather.

8.) Way better social life.

9.) Music Appreciation (because I don't have to go to it).

10.) Tons of sleep every night

Anyone feel me?

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