Half Action and Half RPG

• 12Jul 08

  Catching up

  It took me a month before my body adjusted to it's everday activities such as waking up at 5am, lifting weights on 6-8am and the usual office hours (8-12nn , 1-5pm) with an extended working hours up to 7:30pm. Thankfully, my new desktop computer was really more of a comfort to work with rather than picturing it as a stress generator. I'm currently enjoying the power of Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 with a 4gb RAM and a GeForce 8600 going along with it (Mounted on an Asus P5N-MX). However, I'm STILL currently running Windows XP up to this day and I won't be planning on moving on to Vista not until I have heard quite a handful of stability reception to it.

  What can I say!? It's quite a HUGE leap from my old Pentium 4 3.0ghz / 1.5gb RAM computer. I can run Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Corel Draw X4 and I can still play Bioshock and....uhhhh Red Alert 2 all at the same time (with Bioshock on it's Medium Quality settings). I think it's very easy to say that this setup is well enough for Starcraft II with a little tweaking on replacing my GeForce 8600 to 8800 sometime in the future.

  On consoles, I'm still quite lazy on finishing the last stretch of Suikoden 5 maybe due to that irritiating part wherein you'll have to split up at the Ashtwal Mountain which instantly killed my excitement on rushing all the way up to the end (but giving myself a thumbs up for focusing that THAT game alone for the whole month of May). As of now, I'm refreshing my mind on the Metal Gear series all thanks to that box set (but having the second disc on the Original MGS3 Subsistence release was more satisfying) and my only gap before touching my copy of MGS4 was MGS3 and Portable Ops.I do believe that I'm expecting quite a lot on this *ahem* 10/10 game as well as preparing myself to dive into the GTA series since part 4 also got a *ahem* 10/10 on both IGN and Gamespot (which I always trusted in scores). That's it for now and that's quite a lot of catching up for me to do.

  • Posted Jul 12, 2008 7:19 am PT
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• 24Apr 08

  Something got on my list

  Yet another "OMG!" momment has surprised me this summer. Nothing strange yet quite a bit surprising because A GAME has undergone a REPRINT and it's perfect to take along Persona 3 FES with it. But not for me, since my Persona 3 FES order is packaged with my Metal Gear Essentials along with it so I only placed a pre-order of Little Big Planet along with it just for reservation reasons . Oh, there's also a note on it's page that the soundtrack doesn't come along with it unlike the original prints but better than nothing since Atlus and Konami doesn't like too much reprinting on most of their games (Yeah I know, how I wish they could've just released their PSone Suikoden games on the PSN Store)

  • Posted Apr 24, 2008 6:29 am PT
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• 28Mar 08

  5 things you don't know about me

  And this time, I was tagged by my fellow Filipino friend jaykho213

  1. I always avoid eating Shrimp and Prawns when it comes to seafood
  
  Because I had an allergy back then after eating those things and it was a traumatic experience that I wouldn't forget.
  
  
  2. My handwriting is terrible
  
  If Gamespot would rate my handwriting, I would say that it would score exactly 6.0/10
  
  
  3. My family and I are actually taking care of 21 dogs in total
  
  8 Stray Dogs (but they are the most reliable)
  3 Mixed Breeds
  1 Black Labrador (ONE BIG SPOILED DOG!)
  1 Spitz
  1 Toy Poodle
  7 Dachshund
  
  - And no, not all of them are in the house, half of them are on my father's printing press workplace which is close at the grasslands where the weather is really nice at night.
  
  4. No Girlfriend since birth

  Most of the time, I'm really shy but above that, I'm really quite picky just like most of my friends said to me.
  
  5. My sibling rivalry fire with my twin sisters hasn't been extinguished since 2004
  
  I haven't talked to my twin sisters since late 2004 just because of this:
  
  They stolen my PS2 Memory Card and gave it to their boyfriends in which I have spend hours on maximizing my stats on Final Fantasy X as well as gathering all the dog tags on Metal Gear Solid 2.
  
  Okay okay, that might sound quite a bit too shallow to start a fire on family relations but I was really a dead kid back then, all game, no sports, and not even updated with the latest news and I have to give a huge thanks for my college friends for awakening that musical side of mine as well as getting influenced in a diverse genre of music that they listen too and thus, adding more colors to my former "black and white" life of mine.

  • Posted Mar 28, 2008 7:49 am PT
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