Welcome to my profile. I've been playing video games since I was three, pretty much nonstop, even though I rarely find a game that I really enjoy. I usually don't enjoy playing video games unless they have a good story or have co-op, although I have somehow still managed to get achievement crazy on my 360. I think some guys at Bungie said it best while describing playing CTF on Halo 2 and you are killed a second before scoring, you hate it but you also love it and when it's over you want to do it again. The only difference is that now, I want to do it again and again and again to get those damn achievements. I seem to be the same way with the emblems on Gamespot.

"360 fanboys are ignorant
PC fanboys are arrogant
Wii fanboys have a creepy personality
PS3 fanboys are the most vocal" Destructoid

"One of the surest signs of true maturity, and one of the first requirements for profound contentedness in life, is reaching the state where you no longer care whether or not what you're doing in private is mature." GabuEx

Upcoming games that I might/will buy. I probably will not get all of them, me adding them here just means that I am interested in the game, but not so much so that I will buy it even if it is getting bad reviews everywhere. Ones with extras or special editions come first if I don't have enough money. Text in ( ) is to remind me where I preordered it or if I still need to

Red Dead Redemption (Still need to preorder, April 1)
Metal Gear Solid Rising (Still need to preorder, TBA)
Final Fantasy 13 (Mall, March 3)
Splinter Cell 5 CE (Gamestop Mall, February 23)
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (Mall, Jan 26)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Still need to preorder, May 25)
Bayonetta (Mall, Jan 5)*
Valkyria Chronicles 2 (Still need to preorder, 2010)
Dante's Inferno PS3 (Still need to preorder, Feb 9)*
Alpha Protocol (Still need to preorder, June 1)
DC Online (Still need to preorder, 2010)
Mafia 2 (Still need to preorder, May 3)
Mass Effect 2 SE (Gamestop Mall, January 26) Darksiders (Still need to preorder, January 5th)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 SE (Still need to preorder, March 2nd)
The Agency (Still need to preorder)
Heavy Rain (Still need to preorder)
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Still need to preorder, March 9)
Red Steel 2 (Still need to preorder, Feb 16)*

• 13Dec 09

  Bought a PSP

  I bought a PSP, the Hannah Montana one, for some reason it is cheaper than buying a new PSP 3000 by itself ($20 cheaper). It comes with a purple PSP 3000 (not girly Jessica!), which I like better than the black, the usual battery pack and adaptor, and it comes with a 2GB memory stick. I was going to get the Assassins Creed one because I liked the white more than the black but then I realized this was $50 cheaper and comes with the same things (just a different crappy game and instead of a crappy movie crappy TV show episodes).

  I've bought six games for it so far, I ordered the PSP on Amazon and also got

  

  Metal Gear Acid: $12

  I love Metal Gear and cards. Yay

  

  Generations of Chaos: $15

  I thought it would be like an anime version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is, but the horrible slowdown is much more annoying than I thought it would be. It takes a second or two to load after every few lines of dialouge in cut scenes, what the hell?

  

  Persona: $28

  Bought it new with the two disk soundtrack and box. 67 Tracks total, Persona and Demons Souls shows that Atlus knows how to make a soundtrack. I like it a lot so far.

  It's the Playstation game with slightly upgraded graphics, new cutscenes with voice, new music to make it more like the newer Persona games (probably a bad thing for the most part, though the battle music isn't anywhere near as annoying, it just keeps getting better as more Persona games come out), and it added the Snow Queen quest back to the game, which was cut from the US release of the Playstation version. The Snow Queen Quest is an entirely different path you can take at the start of the game, almost doubling the length of the game. Even more replay value when you have to decide on taking 1 of 4 characters as your fifth member in the main story or 2 of 3 as your fourth and fifth in the Snow Queen quest, while having a new character with you by default for the Snow Queen.

  Bought at Gamestop

  

  Metal Gear Portable Ops: Free

  I wanted to buy Metal Gear Portable Ops but it was at least $40 used online at Amazon so I went to Gamestop. I found it used for $15 and they had a buy two get one free deal along with two other games I wanted. It's just like a Metal Gear Solid game, but with lousy controls. Not really anything they could have done other than to put the game on the PS2 like they should have in the first place, you are able to completely customize your controls though. Not that it helps without a second stick and four buttons missing (L2, L3, R2, R3). I still enjoy it though. Recruiting characters to help you is kind of cool, having to drag them back to your truck is not.

  

  Crisis Core FF 7: $18

  Not to far into it but I like it so far (I love not having turn based battles in this and FF 12) and it isn't the greatest hits version. Always hate getting the greatest hits version, damn ugly red in the middle of all my other black box games.

  

  Star Ocean First Departure: $18

  I am just about to play it but I loved the Snes version a few years ago. This one updates the graphics a little and adds a new character, like Persona you have to decide on what optional characters you want. I think you get four by default and have to choose four characters from 8 or 9 others.

  Now I can get the new Metal Gear Solid and Valkyria Chronicles 2 (BUY IT so they can release the next one on the PS3)

  • Posted Dec 13, 2009 9:03 pm PT
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• 28Nov 09

  Bought my first blu-rays and a lot of on rail Wii shooters

  Wal-Mart was selling some Blu-Ray movies for $10 so I picked up two of them after work

  

  Three Disk Special Edition of The Dark Knight

  

  Wanted

  Games Bought

  

  Dead Space Extraction: $Z5

  I am about halfway through and am really enjoying it. I wasn't planing on buying it yet but it was for sale at Wal-Mart for half price. By the time I got off work all next gen games were sold out, I went to the other end of the store to check out with Batman and Wanted and saw this just sitting in some random spot.

  

  Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles: $45

  I had $10 off on Amazon and it was already $5 cheaper, with how long it is taking for the first game to go down in price I didn't think I would be finding it much cheaper anytime soon. Just got it today, have not played it yet.

  

  Ghost Squad: $13

  Fun arcade shooter. Play through it multiple times to unlock new paths and weapons, very short but fun. Decided to get it now while I had my free month of free two day shipping.

  

  Fear Effect 2: $9

  Should come with everything and is much cheaper than I usually see it for, I ordered this on Amazon along with Resident Evil and Ghost Squad.

  • Posted Nov 28, 2009 2:14 pm PT
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• 18Nov 09

  News Games and seasons of shows that I have bought, a lot of anime

  

  Left 4 Dead 2

  I played through the first two of five campaigns. It's great, like the first with improvements. A lot of new guns and fun to use melee weapons as well as new enemies. The characters are ok so far, I like Coach and Nick, both are good replacements for Bill and Louis, Ellis is funny but not as good as Zoey. The girl sucks, so I guess she is like Francis.I tried co-op once with a friend but it was very laggy for both of us at first them him later. My wireless internet is slow and I think his brothers were playing WoW so that would explain it.

  

  Assassins Creed 2

  I've been playing this a lot and have really been enjoying it. It's definetely an imporvement over the first so far. I like the way money is used, the duel hidden blades, weapon collection, and upgrading your town.

  "Itsa mee Mario!"

  Movies Bought

  

  Naruto Shippuden Movie 1

  Two years after the first series ends and I still hate Naruto (in the shows timeline). Needs more Kakashi and Shikamaru. Wal-Mart has been getting a lot of Naruto stuff in lately and they always have cheaper prices so I have been getting stuff their.

  

  Naruto Movie 2

  Ordered off of Amazon for $5, I have all the movies once I get this one.

  Series

  

  Naruto Season 1 (box set one and two out of the 16)

  With the release of Shippuden the price of Naruto is going down. New box sets used to be $30-$40 each (with 12-15 episodes each), they have gone down in price and are now coming out with seasons that mix two box sets for $20-$30. The next one comes out next week and the first box set of Shippuden in Janurary, I will be getting those when they come out. So far I have the 4 movies, OVA, and box sets 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10. and will have 3 and 4 when I get the next season.

  

  Babylon 5 Season 3

  

  Babylon 5 Season 1

  Babylon 5 and the X Files are my favorite shows, Wal-Mart just got these in for $20 each so I picked up these two. Giving me seasons 1, 3, and 5. Just need 2, 4, and five of the six movies (no interest in one of them). Wal-Mart also just got in season 1/2, 3, 4, and 9 of the X Files. Shame I already own the first four, don't know if I will get 9 yet. I might, it's only $13.

  

  Bleach Season 3

  Love last few episodes of this season. Good but the first two are my favorites so far overall

  

  Bleach Season 4

  Ok but not that good of a season, also one disk shorter than the past three at the same price of $50 (luckily only $35 at Wal-Mart).

  These were all bought within the last month and a half

  I get paid about $570 every two weeks with $20 going to insurance and $50 to 401K and put at least half in savings. You can see where my money goes. Of course it doesn't help this is the half of the year where almost all the anticipated games come out, September-March.

  • Posted Nov 18, 2009 2:31 pm PT
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