Current Series to Complete: The Legend of Zelda - 11 Games Total

Games Finished: The Legend of Zelda, LoZ: Ocarina of Time, LoZ: Twilight Princess, LoZ: Phantom Hourglass

Games Owned and Not Complete: LoZ 2, LoZ: A Link to the Past, LoZ: Majora's Mask, LoZ: Link's Awakening

Games Not Owned: LoZ: Oracle of Seasons or Ages, LoZ: Minish Cap, LoZ: Wind Waker

• 10Dec 08

  GTA IV Has it's Flaws

  Okay, before you complain about the fact that this game came out all the back in April and it might just be a little bit late to post a blog entry criticizing it, I want to point out something. I only got my first Xbox 360 a month ago and I got GTA IV with it. So I've only had it for about a month and I feel that's a good time to start pointing out it's flaws. Maybe it's actually a tad late as it is. Oh well. Let's start this mini-review.
  
  The first thing I noticed about this game is the fact that it has so much to do i it. I mean, you can catch rides in taxis, watch tv, go bowling, get drunk, err, watch tv... There's a problem here. There's so much to do in it but it seems to wear a bit thin fairly early. The only thing these activities I mentioned are there is that they are to distract you from actually playing the game, except for the taxi rides of course.
  
  The driving controls are pathetic. In previous GTA games, it's easy to turn tight corners but on this one, trying to turn a corner will send you sliding straight into an unsuspecting police officer. Don't say that I should slow down to turn the corners because that's what I was doing. Also, don't try to handbrake. It just makes things much more difficult.
  
  The fact that when you crash into a solid object at a high velocity will send Niko through the windscreen and into oncoming traffic is cool at first but it soon becomes a major annoyance. For example, you're chasing a guy and you almost get near him and a barrier comes out of nowhere and sends you flying into the water as you watch helplessly as the man gets away.
  
  A problem with the previous example is that some objects don't render themselves fast enough when you are going at a high speed and you hit an invisible object just before it becomes visible. I've only had this happen to me a couple of times but it is a bit annoying and maybe I shouldn't complain this much about it.
  
  There are many more problems with this game but it is overlooked by the ability to run innocents over with a bus, before you run into a tree and kill yourself.

  • Posted Dec 10, 2008 11:30 pm PT
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• 27Nov 08

  No Internet = Buildup of Updates

  Over the past week, I had no internet. Yesterday I got it back and the amount of updates to the sites I go to was fairly staggering. I'll try summarising the updates into a short list.

  • 55 New Emails, none of them spam.
  • Approx 10,000 words on stories that I read.
  • Approx 10 new comics for webcomics such as 8-Bit Theater and Penny Arcade.
  • Countless videos including a new AVGN video and two new Zero Punctuation episodes.
  • Posted Nov 27, 2008 1:48 pm PT
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• 23Oct 08

  MegaMan Star Force 2

  Before it talk about this game, I want to talk about how I got it. Apparantly, it's not out yet in Australia, it comes out at the end of October, so I ended up buying it off EBay from the UK for about $50 AUS, which is about $30 US, stupid economic crisis! Australian money was almost worth more than American money and it just dropped half way when the crashes started happening and... wait, what was I talking about again? Oh right. MegaMan Star Force 2.

  Four weeks ago, I sent away for it and waited a week. I noticed something during that week. A lot can happen in such a short amount of time. But enough about my personal life, back to the end of the week.

  Three weeks ago, the game arrived in the mail. I opened the package and there it was. MegaMan Star Force 2: Zerker x Ninja, the version I bought. So I started playing it. Something I noticed immediately was that it wasn't much different from the original. Okay, I kind of expected that. Capcom has a reputation for that. Or is that just the MegaMan series? It doesn't matter.

  Two weeks ago, I got stuck on it. But it was at a point in the game where you'd expect that to happen. The final boss. This boss is HARD! Or was that just me and the fact that I rushed through most of the game and didn't get any powerups? Probably yes.

  One week ago, I beat it. Thank god for that! And then a thought hit me. 'Oh, that's it... that's a tad disappointing.' Since I've finished the game, I might review it but since I didn't review the original and I said I was, don't count on it.

  Just a quick summary of the game. The same old thing and disappointing. Sadly I expected that and that's why I bought it. Let's just wait for MegaMan Star Force 3 to come out and see if they can pick the series up. Which probably won't happen.

  • Posted Oct 23, 2008 11:38 pm PT
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