08.27.08
Posted in Gaming, Site News
at 7:07 pm
I’m just a tad burned out right now, folks, but rest assured I’m not completely devoid of the words that usually show up on this here blog thing. This weekend I should get a post together.
Or I’ll just sit around and play FFTA2 for seventy-two hours straight. That works too.
In the meantime: Tales of Vesperia has a gorgeous opening movie, Castle Crashers is silly mindless fun, and I would enjoy Hail to the Chimp a hell of a lot more if the minigames didn’t suck ginormous donkey sack. That is all.
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08.24.08
Posted in Game Cleared 2008, Gaming
at 7:37 am
At 8:10a, I cleared the final song (with all checkpoints OK) in Moeru! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 on the DS. This is the twenty-fifth game cleared in 2008. The next game that is queued for completion is Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS), followed by Brave Story: New Traveler (PSP) and Bionic Commando: ReArmed (360). Game was cleared over fourteen days.
This fulfills the literal requirements for the 2008 Game Resolution. However, two games cleared to this point were remakes of games I have already cleared in the past (Rez HD and Parappa the Rapper PSP), and an additional game was judged too easy (flOw). Therefore, three more Game Clears are necessary to have definitive completion of the Game Resolution. Further analysis will be posted in the Game Report on the LJ tomorrow.
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08.20.08
Posted in Game Cleared 2008, Gaming
at 7:59 pm
At 8:48p, I met the win conditions for flOw on the Playstation 3. This is the twenty-fourth game cleared in 2008. The next game that is queued for completion is Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 (DS), followed by Band of Bugs (360) and Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (DS). Final clear time unavailable.
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08.17.08
Posted in Anime, Gaming, Site News
at 7:35 pm
Hey, just a quick note that the Otakon 2008 Report is complete and on the site. You RSS folks can read it over here.
….holy crap, the report is up on time!! That’s a miracle in and of itself!
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08.16.08
Posted in Game Cleared 2008, Gaming
at 5:00 pm
At 5:39p, I completed Story Mode for greater than half of the initially available characters (4 of 7) in Fate/Tiger Colosseum on the PSP. This is the twenty-third game cleared in 2008. The next game that is queued for completion is Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS), followed by Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (DS) and Band of Bugs (360). Game cleared over one week.
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08.12.08
Posted in Game Cleared 2008, Gaming
at 4:55 pm
At 4:46p, I completed Episode 1 of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People on the Wii (via WiiWare). This is the twenty-second game cleared in 2008. The next game that is queued for completion is Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 (DS), followed by Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (DS) and Band of Bugs (360). Final clear time was 2:56 over two days.
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08.11.08
Posted in Anime, Site News
at 5:12 am
If anyone’s interested, the pictures I took from Otakon are available here. They’ll be incorporated into the con report eventually.
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08.10.08
Posted in Anime, Gaming, Rants, Site News
at 4:21 pm
Well, as of right now I’m in Baltimore-Washington International, waiting for my plane back to Pittsburgh. The con was, as always, a monstrous amount of fun, and I have many stories to tell. But it’s not exactly the best time for me to start telling them– in order to make things as smooth as possible I decided to check the Basroil. And, to be truly honest, I’m on the verge of burning out completely. That’s bad. But I can at least say that the Inappropriate Word Of Shouting Of The Day is: “yuri”.
I think we’re likely to have Bailout for the next few posts as I recover and start writing for Blueberries. The con report… Expect that in a day or so.
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08.06.08
Posted in Anime, Gaming, Rants, Site News
at 7:59 pm
Not like I’ve been terribly adroit in updating this here blog as much as I should now that I’m off the schedule, but you should probably know that I’m off to Otakon this weekend and will be back Sunday night. I have no real idea when I’ll manage to get the con report up; some weirdness in life is happening after I get back, and I’m not entirely sure I’ll be able to get it done before the week is out. Though I do have to admit that doing the report up that week would put me back into a wordy mindset and prime me for the noveling to be done the remainder of the month. We shall see.
In the meantime, I have made some comments about this week’s Xbox Live Arcade title, Braid, at Ye Olde LJ. I encourage you to head over there and read them, particularly if you think my opinion about the video game industry is completely given over to fanboyish rejection of reality, and that all I ever espouse are words of glowing praise, punctuated by rainbow-flavored sunshine lollipops and underscored by massive veins of rich buttercreme frosting.
….dammit, now I’m hungry. Later, folks.
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