tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80221852011-04-21T11:20:33.552-07:00Rantings of a jaded gamer.Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.comBlogger1211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-41639996156554097802007-10-08T14:31:00.000-07:002007-10-08T14:33:28.603-07:00

This is going to be one of those "first impressions" posts, and yes, I know that Blue Dragon has been out for a while now. I was dragging my feet on buying it because I played the Demo on Live and wasn't very impressed with it. Fresh off of finishing a console RPG for a change (Enchanted Arms), I had sixty bucks burning a hole in my pocket. I went for it.The noticeable thing about Blue Dragon

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-6170696984392455392007-09-14T12:17:00.000-07:002007-09-14T12:18:30.424-07:00

There was some talk about reviving old Gamer's Logik, but I think that like an old dog, sometimes you have to let things die. There is some history to that place, for those of us who care to remember. GL was on the brink, and with the way game journalism has changed in the past couple of years, it's entirely possible that GL could've gone on to big things. GL was in a perfect position to

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A statement that's most likely to get me marked as a heretic, but I've never been afraid to buck the general trends this way (I still feel that FF8 was the best of the PS FFs. Two statements like that in one post!). Anyways, I was talking with CodyG when I reached this assessment. Stay with me on this one, because I think there's truth here.When I first heard about FFXII and the new combat

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Let me start out with this. I had an incredible time at PAX. Hanging out with my best friend for the first time in nearly two years was part of it, the other was the general excitement of the event itselt. I will say that I was a bit disappointed with the Exhibit Hall. I made the rounds and saw just about everything in the hour and a half or so that I had on Friday (my friend's Thursday

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-9055786103648842402007-08-23T16:56:00.000-07:002007-08-23T16:57:18.964-07:00

It's less than a day till PAX 2007, and I'll be in attendance this year. As an added bonus, a good friend is flying in tonight, and along with the Mrs, we'll all be heading up to Seattle to view what has become the E3 replacement. I'm excited to get a chance to check out what the event is all about. I've seen the pics, read PA's post about it, but being there will be an entirely different

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It's the last Monday of the month, and here at work that means it's implementation day. Unlike some of my early implementations, I'm not dreading this one in the slightest. In fact, I'm writing this blog post because of the fact that I was able to get everything staged by Friday afternoon. It's a goal that I've strived for over the past couple of implementations that has worked extremely well.

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I've been trying to play FFXII lately. The key word there is try. The game has a few things going for it. It's gorgeous, for starters. The licensing system is nice, if a bit menial for some functions. There's no random battles (this ultimately killed Dragon Quest for me). I still can't seem to play it for more than a couple of hours at a time.Tantamount to the game's problem is the battle

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Another month, another release at the new job. While I may not be drinking from the .NET fountain of knowledge, I am learning what it means to be in a real (kind of) development environment. Before I could just pound on an app till it was done, or work on a few tasks and do some minor QA. What I used to do I'd call ad-hoc development. I worked with very little deadlines, very little outside

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After I got laid off I was in an interesting position. In the span of a week I had a four job prospects lined up. Two of them offered me a job. One was with a startup that was using PHP but eventually planned to move to the .NET platform. The other was with a IT consulting firm that used a wide variety of programming languages. My primary job function would be on supporting internal projects

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The time between my last posts was a fairly big margin. As such, I doubt many people actually read this any more (I refuse to look at the stats, that'd be too depressing). In my defense, I had good reason for not posting. A lot has gone on since I made that post, some good, some bad.For starters I landed a new job shortly after that post. It was a job doing web development. It was fun. I

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-38871848662614190842007-04-30T12:18:00.000-07:002007-04-30T12:21:12.836-07:00

It feels odd to be posting again after such a long absence. There's a lot of ground to cover, as things have been interesting since my last post. I'll start off with what is probably the least interesting to whoever it is that used to read this blog: the NBA playoffs.I wrote sometime last June, as the bitterness of watching one of the most magnificent collapses I've ever seen in sports. I mean

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I know that I don't usually talk about much outside of games here, but fuck it. This is my blog and I'll go emo if I want to. Let's set the backstory here. Last year I got moved from being a Data Entry Clerk (which was a huge undersell to what I was doing) to being a Database Specialist (which certainly sounds nifty, but still undersells the fact that what I'm doing for the Foundation is

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1161103221645708022006-10-17T09:29:00.000-07:002006-10-17T09:40:21.656-07:00

I'd like to take a moment to pimp what has been, to me, the single best show that I've watched in some time, Heroes. It's a remarkable show, and given the (collective TV) networks' latest trend to ripoff all things CSI, incredibly refreshing. You can catch last night's episode on their site, along with a brief synopsis on what's happened so far. If you're not watching it, shame on you!In other

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There were three RPGs that defined the PlayStation era for me: Xenogears, FF8 and Chrono Cross. By defined I mean that these three RPGs are the RPGs that I'd take above any of the others that came out to a deserted island (ah, have to love that gimmick). When the Xenosaga series was announced as six episodes as a "retelling" of the Xenogears story I was naturally excited. Episode I hit, and I

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Suikoden IV was a strange game. By strange, I mean that I actually tolerated the extreme bullshit in the game that required a complete playthrough. I'm not sure what kept me playing. The story wasn't exactly top notch, the gameplay was bland outside of the Naval battles (which were pretty cool), and the random encounter rate was insanely high. (Think DC Skies of Arcadia. Now take multiply

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1155853788947047462006-08-17T15:16:00.000-07:002006-08-17T15:29:48.960-07:00

Leveling SAM in FFXI hasn't happened like I thought it would. There's some sort of mental block going on here. I want to press the "Easy" button and be 37 already. The thought of Dunes, Qufim, the Jungles, and the Citadel for a third time makes me queasy. The speed of the game is starting to drag on me. I still, however, enjoy good groups as much as anything. Part of the problem is that

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It's been something like three months since I started back up into FFXI. After all that time, it's finally time for me to begin leveling the job that I truly want to play: Samurai. Thanks to a badass group composed of mostly Sabotender members (including a PL who has the hots for BT /snicker) and Mo's help with the actual NM fights. Currently I'm waiting for some gear to sell (goodbye all that

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Stashed among the pile of games that were released over a year ago and that I should've played by now was Growlanser Generations. While I haven't played the second game included in the package, I did play Growlanser II and found a surprisingly good game.Centered around the I'm-so-emo-looking-but-not-actually-emo Wein Cruz, Growlanser takes you through a tale of war and intrigue (at least there

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It's been over a year since I first played Stella Deus, but I finally finished it a couple of weeks ago. It was somewhat disappointing in its story arc. The fourth chapter felt like it was lengthed artificially by four fights that were virtually the same.It's a shame that the cliched story of Stella Deus could turn some people off to what is an otherwise enjoyable game. Like most games I play

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1150934569462827602006-06-21T16:30:00.000-07:002006-06-21T17:02:49.636-07:00

The Return to Vana'diel fizzled out faster than I expected. The Mrs couldn't stand the pace of the game (was too slow for her), Kyle couldn't handle the time invested, and I don't actually see Rock online. So what was planned to be a glorious restart has ended up with me being the last one left standing. To this point, I'm still having fun. Yea, I'm only level 33 but it's been a nice change

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Let me preface this by saying that I try my hardest to not blame any officiating when a team that I'm rooting to win a game loses unless the officiating is horrendous. For the most part I understand that refs have to make these calls at game speeds, which is hard enough, but they also have to deal with the fact that there's slow motion instant replay at seven billion different angles to show

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For those that I told but haven't gotten in touch with yet, my wife does not have a tumor in her brain. Instead they think she has either intercranial hypertension or chronic migraines. While neither is very fun to live with, they aren't life threatening like a tumor might've been.

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I'm no NBA expert, I'm pretty much a casual fan. I enjoy the NCAA Tournament and the NBA Playoffs, sometimes I barely pay attention to the former. I love the game of basketball though, perhaps even more than I love football (which is saying alot) so I thought I'd talk a bit about what I think is going to be important in the Western Conference Finals (or at least, what I'm looking forward to

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Grouping in a MMO is fascinating process. It's not often that you'd roll up to five strangers and say, "Hey, let's hang out for a bit." Considering that the typical MMO player is painted as an antisocial geek living in their mother's basement and you'r eleft scratching your head. How does this make any sense? It's amazing what someone is willing to overcome in order make progress.Of course it

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When I restarted FFXI, I did so with the best outlook I possibly could. I had visions of skillchains and magic bursts in my head. Parties that clicked. You know, like it was before, in the good ole days.Reality is a harsh mistress.I vaguely remembering trying to PUG in Valkrum as a thief back then. Seems to me that I got out of there as fast as fucking possible without ever actually killing

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The return of the Merbillian Order, Final Fantasy style.

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So it looks like my return to Vana'diel will most likely happen. I'll be starting fresh (along with a hookup from IGE) as a Taru Taru of some kind. Time to decide on a server next.

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I noticed that people are still checking this blog on a semi-regular basis, especially when I actually update, so I figured I might try and post a bit more. It's a dangerous proposition. I think often about why I don't write about games much anymore, and the answer is pretty obvious. Standard single player rpgs don't do it for me. I've been desperately trying to get into Dragon Quest VIII,

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It's an interesting event when you find yourself no longer caring much about your guild. At least, not caring to the point where the stupid shit that people do doesn't bother you anymore. That's kind of where I'm at with Eternal right now. While it'd take a lot of space to fully explain how I've gotten to this point, I think the shorthand version would be: bullshit drama. Eternal exists on a

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1142960477885034312006-03-21T08:50:00.000-08:002006-03-21T09:01:17.933-08:00

All's been quiet on this front, I realize. Call it laziness, call it lack of interesting things to write. Whatever. Don't call this post a comeback, but I'm getting that itch to write again. To the point of this post.Yesterday I sold the condo I bought a year and a half ago for 195 grand. To translate, I put roughly 800 bucks down, and I'm turning it into a 50k profit. I can see why people

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1136584838383556362006-01-06T09:02:00.000-08:002006-01-09T11:30:57.796-08:00

At some point in time there was a paradigm shift in the way that turn based strategy games were developed, at least on the consoles. They went away from being Empire simulators to being a mix of strategy and RPG. Thus the strategy RPG was born. On the PC they moved into the realm of real time. You still had a classic turn based game from time to time but they were few and far in between.I picked

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I'm not terribly sure how much more I can say about Fire Emblem without repeating myself. I've played three incarnations of the game and the shine still hasn't come off. Even though they are all incredibly similar it just doesn't seem to matter. All the characters are the same basic archtypes. It still doesn't matter. Fire Emblem is about the battle system. I don't think that there is a

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1133546942301357512005-12-02T09:15:00.000-08:002005-12-02T10:09:02.373-08:00

Some months back a football game came out. We even tried to all get together and play it. Yea, it failed miserably. Scheduling conflicts and all that. NCAA Football 2006 faded into the recesses of my gaming library with a whimper. I hardly even thought it.I don't know why, some five months later, I'd begin to play it but I did. It was like I found a lost puppy or something. It kept staring

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1132001909444772662005-11-14T12:30:00.000-08:002005-11-14T12:58:29.516-08:00

The demise of this blog has been somewhat exaggerated. I still play a game called WoW. I choose not to go the whole "Look at the picture of the dead mob" route though. I don't find that very entertaining to write so I doubt you'd find it entertaining to read. I'm also in a guild called Eternal. We kill shit.Joining Eternal was an experience in and of itself. Being the one to make the call on

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They sat on the shelf, dust collecting on and around them like the leaves of fall. Whispering, pleading, begging to be remembered. "Remember me?" They would whisper, and I wouldn't listen. I moved in a realm beyond them, attempting to increase the size of my ever important e-peen. They didn't understand, they spoke about places that Azeroth could not go. The diamond, the gridiron, the hexes

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1126729944372421102005-09-14T13:30:00.000-07:002005-09-14T13:33:13.253-07:00

So lately I've been in a bit of a gaming rut, and just a rut in general. I really hate it when this shit happens. It's like there's a deadzone that happens every year where there is absolutely nothing interesting going on. I've had NCAA 2006 for quite some time now and I haven't even completed a single season, not even half of one. I have a Race for the Heisman Season with one game completed,

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1125521973976501482005-08-31T14:00:00.000-07:002005-08-31T13:59:34.026-07:00

There's been some questions on my mind lately, so I'm just going to go ahead and lay them out here. Maybe I'll get around to eventually answering them, who knows?Whatever happened to playing a game instead of using a mod to do it for you?Whatever happened to figuring an encounter out on your own? Whatever happened to raiding in a MMO because it was fun to beat something? Why do I get at least 5

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1125076921635265162005-08-26T10:29:00.000-07:002005-08-26T10:22:01.690-07:00

Yea, I'm still around. Haven't been playing much outside of WoW, so there's not much to say. I could talk about the raids and such that I've been on but those tend to be more of a "Grats me" type of thing and I'm not really into that. I do want to comment on one thing I've noticied since I started raiding.Apparently there's a lot of really shitty healers out there. I'm not sure what exactly

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I've finally climbed the first mountain in WoW, aka getting to 60. Ignore the fact that I've got a character sitting at 59 that I could've wrapped up months ago. Despite the fact that I ultimately like the Horde better, we're Alliance and there's nothing to be done about it now. I'm pretty surprised that I kept this particular priest as my main, actually. It all started out as just being an

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Sometimes I get angry, and sometimes I say things about it. Such was my last outburst, I'm not actually quitting WoW. I know I said I was, but we all know that's not true. Even Blizzard. The truth is that I'd rather play WoW than not play it. More than any of the other MMORPGs I've played, WoW is the one that fits me. It fits my playstyle and play times. I'm not a hardcore gamer anymore,

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Fuck them right in the ass. Just when I start to enjoy the game again, my server hamster decides to fucking die. I'm sitting here, wishing I could be playing WoW right now. So I check out Thottbot to see if there's any word on Scarlet Crusade and its issues. I actually got excited when I saw that there were some realms getting taken down for 24 hours. I'd glady go through that so that I can

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Blizzard's idea of slight interference is a very odd one. I suppose that the ability to log out, check your mail, browse the AH, rez yourself and actually play the game are all very minor things. No there is no server problems here folks, Blizzard is on the case! Of course that message was released serverwide Sunday night, after nearly two days of the server going down more than a crack whore

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When I first read about the classes in WoW, I figured I'd be a hunter. I love being a ranged damage dealer that doesn't have to use magic. Rangers are without a doubt my favorite RPG archtype. Of course Blizzard fucked all that up by making hunters a pet class, the one thing in MMOs that I can't stand being. So I tried rogue and warrior in the stress test and open beta. Eventually I decided

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"On your deathbed, when you look back at your life, will you think to yourself that you wish you had played more games?"I got asked that today, and my answer was "Absolutely." The lady asking the question just rolled her eyes, like there was something wrong with that thought. I understand that some people think gaming is waste. I don't agree with them but at least I don't tell them that the

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Despite the fact that I just finished Fire Emblem on hard mode while I was on vacation this weekend, I still can't get enough of the game (got a serious fucking crick in my neck from staring sideways at our little 7" DVD player while playing on Saturday). Looks like Gamefly will get money from me on this one, cause I'm not sending it back. I'm not sure if I can adequetaley explain my zeal for

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It looks like the dust has settled, and inexplicably, I find myself back at GL. Doesn't really solve my dilemma though, that being that I wonder if I've still got "it." And by it I mean the passion to write about games. I look back over my last few postings (drama related ones aside) and realize that I may just still have it, and that the only thing truly killing the desire was the place I felt

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There are a good deal of things that I could tell you about The Sacred Stones. I could tell you that it's formulated, that's its story is one step above derivative fan fiction. That the game isn't much different than the one before it, and the one after it probably won't be much different than this one. None of that actually matters though. Why? It's quite apparent that all that stuff is

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It struck me the other day, about how wrong I actually was about WoW and it's lack of a community. Shocking, I know, for me to admit that I was wrong about something. Certainly the elements aren't there to build a community like EQ and FFXI did (forced grouping) but after playing my priest over on Scarlet Crusade for a bit I figured it out. WoW had no community for me because I never wanted to

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I thought that the Spurs would probably win this series in seven games. After the first two games I wondered if I was out of my mind as the Spurs looked unbeatable. Then the Pistons rang the Spurs bell two times and we finally had a game for game 5. It bears mentioning that if it wasn't for Horry putting the Spurs on his back that game that the Pistons would be celebrating their second

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I talked before about how I felt about GL but I came to a (not so) shocking revelation on my train ride home yesterday. That being that I don't even really like the majority of the people still posting over there. You might suspect that this was the reason for my thoughts, but it's actually not. I'm used to getting into it with Dan and while I find the whole thing more trouble than it's worth

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1118773230929510662005-06-14T11:20:00.000-07:002005-06-14T14:59:50.786-07:00

It struck me the other day, as I was thinking about GL and any role I might play in the future there, how much I abhor reviewing games. I don't mean in a sense of "I don't like to write about games in a negative fashion" but in a sense of "it's contrite bullshit." I don't pretend to be the pinnacle of game reviewing, but I'm beginning to think that GameSpot is one of the biggest reasons why I

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1118093059772820812005-06-06T14:23:00.000-07:002005-06-06T14:25:09.586-07:00

Despite a bevy of other games to play, I found myself drawn towards Stella Deus. Not quite sure why I was drawn to it over all the others, but it probably has something to with the fact that it came right out and said, "Hi I'm a turn based strategy RPG!" Any game that says that has got an instant edge over any other in my ever growing queue. All said, I'm terribly happy that Stella Deus has

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1117733890027079652005-06-02T10:37:00.000-07:002005-06-02T10:38:10.063-07:00

As you might have already read, I got a chance this past weekend to shoot the shit with the fabled BT and the maligned (as far as GL is concerned) Mo Pete. I'll have to echo Matt's sentiments. It's really fucking nice to talk with someone about games not called Madden or WoW. Those two games take up such a large part of my gaming life, mainly due to the fact that most of the people I know play

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1116950912549382722005-05-24T09:04:00.000-07:002005-05-24T09:08:32.620-07:00

Before I get into what I thought of Episode III I need to preface it with how I feel about Star Wars in general. I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan, I enjoy them for what they are. I didn't expect the prequels to be earth-shattering, I expected them to be Star Wars movies which is what we got, for the most part.A couple of things stood out as I was watching the film. First, Portman and

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Just realized it's been a bit since I've mentioned WoW and what I've been doing. Yes, I'm still playing. I still haven't gotten my warrior to 60 yet, only playing him once a week does that to your progress. My druid is 43 over on Mal'Ganis and is really starting to rock. Innervate is the fucking own and I'm beginning to like my warrior a little less each time I play it. Sometimes I just get

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1116446024253492092005-05-18T13:49:00.000-07:002005-05-18T13:51:51.890-07:00

I was all set to talk about E3 and how utterrly unimpressed I am with it so far, but alas, GL purveys again.My man RockPrime recently got fed up with the bullshit that's coming from Nintendo. Of course, speaking any ill of Nintendo over there is almost as bad as speaking ill of Nintendo at any random fansite. It's like poking a hornet's nest. They fanboys come out and start defending their

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1115757794163548712005-05-10T13:43:00.000-07:002005-05-12T09:42:30.853-07:00

If there's one thing that GL is good for these days it's giving me something to talk about here. If you're wondering why I don't talk about it there, it's because I realized the futility of that endeavor a while ago.This is the thread in question. Now, I have my own issues with Vagrant Story but the fact that it took place in one location is not one of them. It's not like it was sprung on you.

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1115315644066990722005-05-05T10:47:00.000-07:002005-05-05T10:54:04.123-07:00

I just clicked the next blog link at the top of the page and it came up with some hand bag blog site.What.the.fuck.Do people actually care about that kind of shit? Honestly?

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1115315146210666462005-05-05T10:12:00.000-07:002005-05-05T10:45:46.373-07:00

It's NBA Playoff time, and as usual, my annual interest in basketball. Usually this involves me breaking out my old copy of NBA 2k2 for the Gamecube (!) and playing it ad nausem with different teams in as many different combinations of playoffs as I possibly can. This year, thanks to the good people of Gamefly, I've got a copy of the latest 2k game to play.It's a lot different, which is to be

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1115143495359211622005-05-03T11:04:00.000-07:002005-05-03T11:04:55.360-07:00

Went to go see it this weekend. I throughly enjoyed it, despite the fact that it wasn't a by-the-book conversion. A bit hypocritical of me, I suppose, since I dripped venom at the Return of the King movie. I think the key here is that while both took liberties with the events in the books, one took liberties with the characters and one did not.Mos Def was awesome as Ford, absolutely nailed it. I

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I've been playing Madden a lot lately. Not in the loner sense, which is my usual method of playing it, but with actual people. I forget, at times, just what gaming used to be like for me. Back in the Genesis days when my friends, and my brother's friends, would all get together and throw it down old school style. Madden, NHL Hockey (which I was nigh unbeatable at), Live, you name it and we

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1114184033103101372005-04-22T08:33:00.000-07:002005-04-22T08:33:53.106-07:00

Since Blizzard just released the misnamed Honor system on Tuesday I've been staying away from the pvp servers. It's not really that I don't enjoy pvp from time to time, in fact, I throughly enjoy group vs group pvp, but that's not what's going on right now. For the most part the game has turned into raid after raid clashing, mainly in Hillsbrad and Stranglethorn. I actually took part in one of

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1113847413975817432005-04-18T11:03:00.000-07:002005-04-18T11:06:28.093-07:00

I find it somewhat ironic that the very day that I say, "WoW's grouping really sucks." I go and have one of the best group experiences I've had in the game in a long while. Sure it was with the same group of guys that I've been playing with for a while and we've not been slacking in the instance department: Zul'Farrak, Uldaman, Maraudon. All have been conquered but they all lacked something to

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You might be wondering at the lack of WoW talk from me lately. Yes, I'm still playing the game but something about it is bothering me. The worst thing is that I can't exactly pin down why the game irritates me now. It's not the server problems, they've been cleared up for the most part. The patch cycle seems to be on track for something better than 90 days, and my warrior can actually gain

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1113322872791897192005-04-12T09:21:00.000-07:002005-04-12T09:21:12.816-07:00

I finished up Xenosaga this past weekend. Once I stopped doing those god forsaken Global Samiratin campaigns things took a turn for the better in the game. At least I started to enjoy it a lot more. It's hard for me to get a handle on how I truly feel about the game. I enjoyed it, a lot more than that last RPG I played. I'm not sure how much shorter this one is over the first one. I clocked

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1112649169431648362005-04-04T14:15:00.000-07:002005-04-04T14:12:49.433-07:00

If you haven't played any of Xenosaga II, and you have no intent on doing so than pardon this entry as it will be a bit boring.One thing I would like to know is who the fuck put this Global Samaritan bullshit into the sequel of one my favorite games. I understand that some people enjoy being errand runners and button pushing monkeys, that they like to run around pressing X over and over again,

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1112373318333238192005-04-01T08:29:00.000-08:002005-04-01T08:46:04.630-08:00

I'm around 15 hours into the game and people tell me that I'm near the end. I refuse to believe it even though I hit the second disc at the ten hour mark. If this is, in fact, the truth you will hear about it as I have much to say about what was done to the game that caused this truncation.Overall I like the game, as much as the first one I'd venture to say at this point. Not quite as epic in

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1111684491606069572005-03-24T09:13:00.000-08:002005-03-24T09:14:51.606-08:00

If you enjoy MMORPGs, there's a great thread with a lot of really interesting ideas for the genre here. Enjoy.

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I was torn between writing about Xenosaga II or EQII, in the end I decided that I'd like to spend some more time with Xenosaga before I offer up my initial impressions of the game.So about this fancy EQII game. It's a bit hard to get the true gist of a MMORPG when you can only play for six levels, and I haven't even done that. Three is about when my tolerance level starts to fade and the number

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1111444087982183042005-03-21T23:13:00.000-08:002005-03-22T11:17:25.590-08:00

I thought about discussing the fact that it took ninety days for Blizzard to patch WoW but I think patchtimer says it best. Instead a recent thread over at GL got me thinking. What exactly are the best strategy games ever made?Four immediately popped into my mind: Fire Emblem, Warsong, Disgaea and Final Fantasy Tactics. Fire EmblemWhen I picked up Fire Emblem I was heavily into FFXI. The fact

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1111080400745859512005-03-17T09:21:00.000-08:002005-03-17T09:26:40.746-08:00

For the time being it looks like my hopes of getting all my friends together has been horribly crushed by Blizzard. I'm not even angry about it. I know that it's not their fault, but it's obvious that they can do character transfers, so they should open it to every server to move (with the ruleset limitation still in place, I don't mind that at all).

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1110989340428215922005-03-16T08:07:00.000-08:002005-03-16T08:09:00.430-08:00

Yes I changed the design, and yes it's still a work in progress. I got tired of the FFXI motiff though, so here we are.

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There are times when I imagine that the people over at Blizzard are all sipping on martinis, talking to Bob about how they're going to finally get that Porsche they wanted, with their feet propped up on the desk and smile so wide that if you saw it you couldn't help but smile because this guy's happiness is that infectious. Then there are times when I see the frazzled, balding network admin who

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Blizzard decided that patching WoW would be a good thing. Unfortunately they don't tell us when this patch will go live. I have a few things to say about this patch:Where is the content? I see pages and pages of bug fixes (good thing) but one new dungeon and two new raid targets (bad thing)?Why the fuck can an engineer build a fancy robot to repair equipment but A FUCKING BLACKSMITH can't?

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I think I figured out where the true source of my burnout lies with WoW. I have entirely too many characters. Alts on servers that I picked at random one day when Deathwing took a crap, and alts on the servers that I actually want to play on, so I've come to my resolve at last.Dragos, Vane and Xannder are it for me. So if you read this, and want to find me you can check on Deathwing for Dragos

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So I'm sitting up in Gank's office this morning when I came to the realization that I'm pretty burned out on WoW right now. I thought that maybe creating some Alliance characters might fix the problem, but that's a negative. Even when my bestest bud invited me to his WoW guild I only feel marginally excited. I sit back and wonder where the excitement and enjoyment has gone. I think it fled

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I really don't know what to say about what I've done. At some point in time I was so against the thought of playing EQII that my blood burned just thiking about it. I can honestly say that my rancor towards Sony was not wholly formed of my own experiences. I was only in an "uber" guild for a brief time. Long enough to realize that raiding 5 hours a night, six nights a week, with time off

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I think Blizzard is the only company that can get away with releasing a patch where they say that they are fixing the lag issues and it only makes them worse. Furthermore, their patch cycle sucks total ass. These are the kinds of things that make me miss FFXI. Yeah playing the game was like getting a root canal sometimes but at least SE had a patch cycle and you knew something was coming every

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1108749633298361692005-02-18T09:45:00.000-08:002005-02-18T10:00:33.300-08:00

Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't just keep my mouth shut when I see things that piss me off. The thread has been moved to a private forum now but I really couldn't stand to see Dan spout off again about how FFXI was the end of GL. If further alienation on my part is what it takes to actually get GL moving again, I guess it's not that bad of a price to pay. I know that some of the people

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1108595286358971792005-02-16T15:05:00.000-08:002005-02-16T15:08:06.360-08:00

I thought I'd try a regular update schedule for this thing. Until today I really had things to talk about but now I'm sitting here wondering if I'll end up repeating myself trying to do this. Things are going ok in WoW, nothing new on that front to report except the fact that 50k rest xp bonus leads to some really fast leveling.I hope to have Xenosaga II in the next week or so. Fuck, I wish I

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There are times when I'm playing WoW that I don't actually feel like I'm playing a massively multiplayer game. In general terms, I think of a MMORPG as a game that you play with other people. This isn't always the case with WoW as I can go hours without ever encountering another player, even of my own faction. That aside, when I have weekends like I just did I remember why I love to play this

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At times I get tired of ranting about things. I could go on and on about how badly Blizzard is fucking up with their management of WoW but I know that it won't change a damn thing. Even though the current issues with the game don't entirely effect me, and that they may never effect our small guild, I know that it's precursor of things to come. Instead of focusing on all that, I'm going to

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Given enough time and thought, I can normally figure out any problem a game presents to me. I mentioned before that the last boss of Star Ocean goes into "cheap mode." I figured out how to survive that, essentially as long as you have 100% fury you are imprevious to his cheapest attack (it bounces off of your shield and back to him to stun him). With that figured out I thought that I could

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No, I'm not just talking about them. There's also these guys. While one is the very essence of winning, the other is defining failure like no others. Well, perhaps not. Like I said though, the Pats didn't win this game outright. They got it handed to them in the end. It's not often that I get to play against other people in my football endeavors so when I do I invariably imagine the worse,

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Upon reflection, I decided that stocking up in Star Ocean was simply not an option. So I put my nose to the proverbial grindstone and willed my party to victory after victory. As I did I thought that perhaps I had been a bit too harsh on the game. That maybe the "twist" in the story wasn't so bad. Then I got to the final boss event and any doubt was forever burned from my thoughts. I still

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Though the month of January is coming to a close, and resolutions are something that most people do at the beginning of the year, I just haven't had the kind of time to look back and reflect on what a completely fucked up year 2004 was for me. There existed in it such opposites that to wrap my mind completely around them is still somewhat boggling. How many people do you know that have gone

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Games have always been about goals; be it going to another castle to save the Princess because she's not in that particular castle or delving into the depths of a pointy haired protagonist who watched innocence personified get murdered, there's a reason why we play and it's to "win", to beat the game. The largest portion of MMORPG sucess has been that you cannot beat the game but that there

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1105986391300859202005-01-17T09:51:00.000-08:002005-01-17T10:26:47.200-08:00

I was all fit to rant and rave about Blizzard and their lovely server stability. Tycho beat me to the punch, and he said it much better than I ever could have. It still boggles my mind that they took our server down for [i]sixteen[/i] hours and when it came back up the performance problems are now worse. We're talking end of open beta and Launch Week kind of bad. I'm willing to give them time

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As I sit at my desk, with visions of Nascar and Warcraft in my head, I recall a time when there wasn't a mountain of work waiting for me. A time when shit actually got done when I left for vacation. I don't think it was ever at this job though, maybe when I use to work as a cashier. Visiting my old stomping grounds always reminds me of why I'd never go back. It's amazing how much better things

Kydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17831776032396871753noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022185.post-1103756821610609312004-12-22T14:43:00.000-08:002004-12-22T15:07:01.610-08:00

I'm going to refrain from linking to the bitchfest that's present over at the WoW official site concerning warriors. It's really not worth it, I play a warrior, I understand, I'm not happy but I don't see things really getting better for the warrior class in WoW. Why? Because of rage, the entire concept of rage. I like my warrior, he has plenty of useful abilities, when I can actually use

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I spoke earlier about having no mercy on the Alliance players that I came across. I held to that creedo for the most part. There were a couple of times where I let someone lower than me go, only to have them blindside me when I was at half health. After about the third time this happened I decided enough was enough and that I would attack without hesitation. If I died, oh well, at least I died in

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So I had a pretty fun weekend of gaming. Along with WoW I received MLB 2k4 in the mail from Gamefly and decided to start up a season as one of my long ago favorties. I also created the obligatory super player, myself of course, and started up a franchise. After about 6 games I decided that playing 160 games was out of the question and just simulated to the playoffs. I'm up 2-1 on the Dodgers. As

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The past week has been primarily comprised of a steady diet of World of Warcraft. I don't think there was ever any doubt whether that would be the case or not. We're talking about a game that I've been waiting for years to come out. Why? Because there's one thing Blizzard is good at, and that's doing a genre right. Not since the days of the original Warcraft have they really done much that is

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More to come.

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Sitting on my desk, amid a pile of work that I should be doing, are two boxes of eloquence. They call to me, pulling at a part of my psyche that can only be pacificed with the experience of a massively multiplayer game. World of Warcraft is finally live, and I have my account. I'm setup and ready to go when I get home from work today. There's something wonderous happening here, it's one

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The beta test for WoW ends today. Despite my earlier post of slight dissatisfaction, I had a really fun time. Once the members of Clanzero got into the game the fun factor increased exponetionally. I'm going to have a very tough decision coming up on launch date. Rogue or warrior? I played as a rogue during the Open Beta, and as a warrior during the first Stress test. Even though there's been

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It took me roughly 16 hours to get a beta key for WoW and actually create an account. I'm not gonna lie, I get frustrated pretty easily when it comes to things like this. Especially when it's a repeat of past events. Not only did the account creation pages for the "Stress Test 2" crash and burn just a week ago when people had to pay to get in to the damn beta, but they crashed and burned when

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Approx 2:00 pm: Announcement posted that signups for WoW Open Beta have begun. Link to FileAssFuckPlanet.com Approx 2:20 pm: After several tries of submit, back, submit, back, submit, back. Sign up form finally goes through: key received! Yay, I can play the game! Approx 2:45 pm: After several tries of submit, back, submit, back, submit, back. Sign up form finally goes through: Open Beta

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Finished up X-men Legends this weekend. The ending was a bit disappointing, or maybe I'm just jaded. There use to be a time when I beat a game that I got a sense of satisfaction, a thrill at seeing that ending cinema. Legends was lacking in that regard. Maybe it's because it was a shallow game to begin with. The story wasn't incredibly deep and it became apparent at the end that a sequel was in

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Finally! WoW Open Beta is set to start Monday. See you bitches in Azeroth.

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