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• 17Dec 09

  Today's Coming of Age Story is...

  MINE!!! News for the world, today I have at long last reached the adulthood age of 21! Yep, if you didn't keep track of my blogs for over a year, you'd probably know this.

  So you might wonder, how did I celebrate today? Well it wasn't a very big day since I had to take my final exam today, so my classes for this semester are finally done. WOOT! Now I have a month of free time. From my folks, my sister made me a pretty unique cake, it was checkerboard on the inside of both vanilla and chocolate, and had peanut butter and raspberry frosting. As for what I got, well not much to speak of, my Grandma gave me some money and I got a GPS system from my parents, which is still a pretty cool contribution to my daily living and I wont have to get lost when I go driving anymore. That was my day overall, though I did have pizza for dinner which is always awesome. I begin to wonder if maybe this a foreshadowing of my life in the future? Well not all of it is done really, my parents actually have another gift for this weekend, IM'A GONNA SEE JAMES CAMARON'S AVATAR! Yeah, I can't wait to see this movie, it looks so awesome!

  Well that's the beginning of my 21st year of existence, I'm sure you've read better, but oh well I felt like typing these 1s and 0s anyway. And with that, I hope you all have a happy rest of the December of 2009, If I'm away for a bit, it's probably because I'm visiting my grandparents in South Carolina this year for Christmas. Every year or so my family decides to visit them down there and I have to brave the allergies that will ensue. Those are the big updates in a nutshell, you all have a good night.

  That's the news from Myviewing as of December 17, 2009.

  • Posted Dec 17, 2009 7:42 pm PT
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• 15Dec 09

  Favorite Games of the Decade By Year

  Seems to be a bit of a popular new theme, I have another top ten planned for the end of this year, but I recently managed to put this together. Hope you manage to enjoy to a decent degree.

  2000
  Banjo-Tooie/Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
  Banjo-Tooie I was a huge fan of after playing the epicness that was Banjo-Kazooie. Not only was it a sequel, but it was everything that justified the existence of sequels in the first place. Tooie took everything that was fun about the first and made it even better. Evidence? The ability to play as Mumbo, transformations, all new powerups, variety around every corner, tons of new humor, it was a blast playing through Bear and Bird's second journey.

  Tied though, because in the same year The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask came out. Majora's Mask is of course the sequel to the Godfather equivalent of gaming Ocarina of Time, using the same formula but adding in a mask system along with harder dungeons and a pedophilic moon to take into account. I would be able to decide whether or not if I liked it better than Banjo-Tooie or even Ocarina of Time if I still had the game, but like the numb-skull kid I was when I was merely 13 or so, I traded it away for other stuff. Next year, I'll try regaining this gem on Amazon to see how it compares. Despite being unable to judge it fully, this game had a huge impact on me as a kid after playing the gentler Ocarina of Time, and as I played this I thought Majora's Mask would be an indication of Zelda games to come … Boy was I disappointed with what came next because of that.

  Whatever the case, the fact remains that these are two puffs of golden dust to puff out of the last great cartridge console that was the Nintendo 64.

  2001
  Final Fantasy X
  Say what you will, but there are many like I who found the tenth fantasy to be one of if not the best entry to the series period. Reasons being ear-pleasing voice acting, excellent music, brilliant story, being visually grand to this day, and several neat gameplay features that role-playing games should consider revisiting (ex. The sphere system being based on skill points as opposed to level systems or the Blitzball games.)

  2002
  Metroid Prime
  Probably the honor of best jump to 3D this decade would belong to the Metroid series with one of the best Gamecube games ever made. Playing out like the influential first three titles of an open-ended world, everything was taken into the first-person perspective. Also gadgets that made a staple in previous Metroid saga like the Ice Beam and new ones like the Wave Beam brought much variety into this FPS, making it a very enjoyable entry to the Metroid saga and a great FPS in general.

  2003
  Pokemon Ruby Version
  I know many consider this to be a weak entry to the series, but I personally couldn't get enough of this game as a kid, be it for the pleasantly colorful graphics at the time, the tons of new variety to the Pokemon formula, the cool new Pokemon to discover, I was able to put a good chunk of my life into yet another Pokemon game. Not to mention that there were many extra features (such as the reserve disk you got with Pokemon Coliseum) that increased the number of hours you could input, making for more drugs to be sniffed up the collective human world, but I at least would care about that.

  2004
  Doom 3/ Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
  Another tie, Doom 3 was an awesome FPS for it's time even if it didn't really play as a Doom game. The graphics were really lifelike for their time, and to tell you the truth this is probably the only game that I can ever name that actually had me scared at one point. But aside from that, tons of awesome weapons and cool enemies to fight made this a very entertaining FPS especially on the PC, and the boss fights were just as cool.

  Another tie because Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was released as well. From what I played, it was a cool RPG with a ton of variety in its battle system, and the puzzles were really enjoyable to keep the game from getting derivative. Despite this, I haven't gotten around to playing a majority of the game, but I hope I'll be able to finish it some other time. Maybe I'll be able to find out if it does top Doom 3 by then.

  2005
  Resident Evil 4
  This was my first jump into the Resident Evil universe, and boy what a jump it was. Shooting people all over the place and being overall a walking tank to kill everybody in the village made the gameplay something hard to put down. It was also really graphically ahead of its time, and the gameplay was a lot like a next-gen game put in the previous generation. Anyone is capable of picking up this game and becoming interested in the Resident Evil series, you'll just have to get used to the control scheme afterwards.

  2006
  The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  This was the Zelda I wanted back in 2003, and was it ever worth the wait. Brilliant visuals and excellent music that modernized many tunes, and Wii specific controls that made the game even better were enough to make this launch title on the Wii a very promising start for the Wii's lifespan. Now with the planned exclusive entry coming soon, it's only a matter of time before we find out whether or not it will be able to top this beauty.

  2007
  Super Mario Galaxy
  The best way to sum up Super Mario Galaxy is to think of Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3D. The controls were enough to compensate for the frantic action, the wide amount of platforming and ways to do them, and a lot of levels in general to complete, along with the ability to play through the game again via Luigi, this makes for a platformer that will be remembered as a cla$$ic alongside Super Mario 64 and the 2D games. Of course there is the question of whether or not Super Mario Galaxy 2 will surpass this or not, but that's something for the next decade to consider.

  2008
  Lost Odyssey
  Anyone who's read my review of this game will know why it is that I enjoy this beauty so much. A unique and extremely emotional story, beautiful music, nicely detailed graphics, great ring system, it's pretty hard for me to give it any faults when it's easily such a wonderfully constructed RPG. I hope Sakaguchi manages to produce another game of this caliber for us sometime soon… Shame Cry On was canceled.

  2009
  Muramasa: The Demon Blade/ Silent Hill Shattered Memories
  And yet another tie. Muramasa took almost everything that made Odin Sphere the grand cla$$ic that it was and made it even better. More emphasis was placed on weapons, the story was branched into many different paths despite only being focused on two characters. There wasn't any English voice acting though, but this only enhanced the authentic Japanese experience of the game. As a result, we have the best side scrolling game on the Wii to date and just something that anyone who likes these kind of games won't get enough of.

  Tied with Silent Hill: Shattered Memories because of how cool Shattered Memories was. Not only is it one of the most graphically powerful games on the Wii, but this is probably what one would call the first "actual survival horror" game. There's no combat, you can only run, and the story branches into many different outcomes, and the game itself makes for a really atmospheric tale that puts most modern horror films to shame. Unfortunatley the main game is pretty short, but there's a decent amount of replay value for the different endings. As a result, I put it up there with one of the best games this year, and hopefully it will give spawn to sequels and spin-offs in the future.

  My choices, you got the blog and comment options.

  That's the News From Myviewing as of December 15, 2009.

  • Posted Dec 15, 2009 3:41 pm PT
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• 11Dec 09

  I Commentate on the First 50 minutes of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

  http://www.viddler.com/explore/Myviewing/videos/6/

  Yeah, I decided to go the commentating route with this vid this time. From this I can at least learn that recording the TV screen results in crap quality. If you hear anyone else in the background, that's my mom and sister watching Dancing With the Stars downstairs. Hope you manage to sit through my commentary. I hope that despite the poor qaulity you might be able to see the cool gameplay and might convince you to at least try the game. Game is pretty fitting since it's set in a Winter wonderland and it's December, not only that but just Two Weeks until Baby Jesus' B-Day. Also just another 6 days until my final exams, that's pretty much all I have to say really, boredom causes me to make videos like this.

  That's the news from Myviewing as of December 11, 2009.

  • Posted Dec 11, 2009 1:04 pm PT
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