Hand Held Madness!

After giving a look at what's to come for the hand held gaming this year, man... it feels like the Christmas season is rolling right back in the door all over again.

Topping the list for me is Prinny: Can I really be the Hero?, which actually looks pretty good to me. What makes it so much more attractive to me is the fact that it's finally a Disgaea game that isn't just another entry into the series.

And call me crazy, but I am assuming that the Prinny pictured to the left here is the main character. Notice something though? What is with that scarf around it's neck? Could it actually be Laharl...?

A better picture for the sake of this thought would be the one below. The only reason I have the picture at the top was because it tied into what I was writing today!

Sorry, I my brain is a little warped today.


Next one up is DJ Max Fever, which looks and sounds interesting to me. Outside of Rock Band though, I don't really stray into the land of Music games. Nothing against them, it is just that those types of games weren't ever really something I was that interested in.

And for the love of humanity, don't let me get near a drum set for Rock Band. I can't play that thing even if my life depeneded on it. I am just THAT DAMN BAD at it!

Getting back on track here, RPGs are getting a lot of love on the hand helds I've been seeing. Games of note include Blue Dragon Plus, Dragon Quest V, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Suikoden Tierkeis.

Of the games listed there, I am most hopeful for Suikoden Tierkeis at this point in time. In my opinion, that series lost it's way after the second game and it just never recaptured the sense of adventure and feeling that the original and second games had.

I am hoping that this release for the DS reaches back to it's past, rather then boosting up graphics and having empty towns and boring fights.

One last game I'll mention here and I am almost ashamed to even say this, but the last game I'll mention is Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia. It is a game that I've been looking at for a while now and it actually does look interesting to me.

Now I haven't played a Pokemon game in quite a few years, the last time being when Pokemon Colosseum was released for the Gamecube. And even then, it was not something I had picked up myself and so my time playing was limited.

Thinking back to that game, it actually reminded me of the Suikoden series. It reminded me of it because the towns, hell the entire game itself really, felt soulless and just really bland to me. Just thinking about it makes me happy that I can still play games like Chrono Trigger, which reminds me of the good ol' days...

War Against the Horde

Today is the first time I've actually gotten to try out playing the "Horde" mode online in Gears of War 2. It is fun, certainly a different experience rather then just playing it offline. Life is a little easier when you've got five guns shooting, rather then just you alone or with a friend (or in my case, my girlfriend).

Overall though, it is definitely a work in progress at this point. The furthest we've made it online is level 8 (level 12 offline). The insanity that ensues when one reaches the 9th and 10th level is just, well... insane!

On the other hand, I do have to get back into playing more of Fallout 3. I think this time, unlike how I played things in Fable 2, I won't be the good "saint" of a character. No, this time I think I'll try it on the dark side, I mean I already started out by killing Aneta's Overseeing father after all.

How was I to know I -didn't- have to kill his ass? He did have a gun...

One more thought! We watched "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" tonight and it was good fun. A little strange maybe, but it was fun movie to watch overall. Bill Murray is awesome!

Ok, ok... now it's time to go back to the post-apocalyptic "future" and be a prick the world never knew it needed. Fun for all, no doubt.

Here is a little after thought, which I forgot to mention when I wrote up this little post earlier. I've gotten onto Twitter the other day and the entire concept of it seems to be lost to me at this point. It does seem interesting though, so maybe I'll hang around and just keep typing stuff in every now and again.

Who knows, maybe some day someone will respond?

Quick Thoughts Tonight

I really don't have any excuses left as to why I haven't been writing more. Chalk it up to laziness, a force so powerful that I do not have the willpower to overcome it. I don't even work as much anymore and I still can't get myself to do more writing.

Even while I don't work as much, I am still hanging onto two jobs. It's just that my second job, which I thought would have been my present day savior, ended up not being what I had hoped it would be. Yuck...

Anyway, I downloaded the demo for Resident Evil 5 a short time ago and only came to play it this morning. I would like to say that I got through it without a hitch, but that would be an outright lie. I was promptly destroyed by that giant mountain of a beast with an equally large axe.

It does seem like an interesting game, perhaps it will be a future rental down the line.

Another interesting thing for me was being able to finally see the trailer video for Final Fantasy XIII. While it was mostly in Japanese, I will say that the game still does look pretty damn good. But what bugs me is the lack of an absolute date as to when it will finally be released here in the States.

I am still debating if it would be wiser (and better looking) to play this game on the Xbox 360 or if investing into a PS3 would be better.

Honestly, two games I'd love to play are Little Big Planet and Ratchet & Clank. Resistance looks kind of cool too. One wonder though, is Resistance the PS3's equivalent for Gears of War?

I rented and have been playing Fallout 3, which I like more then I did Oblivion. Funny and equally sad note: After escaping Vault 101, I ran into a kid who led me to an infestation of fucking ants that breath fire! Thanks, thanks a lot kid... I'll kill your ass someday...

One last thought: I've hit 250 posts! That is a heck of a mile stone, considering I thought I would have quit writing after the first 100. Yes I know it is a little silly to make any sort of deal out of something like this, but I'd be damned. I am still going! I wholly intend on continuing my writing for as long as I possibly can.

I think I enjoy it a little too much to just drop it like a bad habit.

Ouch

The Super Bowl might be tomorrow, but the other huge event in sports has got to have been the UFC fight pitting BJ Penn against George St. Pierre. And in thanks to the fact that BJ Penn is from Hawaii (Hilo, Hawaii), it's been hyped for the past few weeks all over the place.

Needless to say, I was pulling for Penn to secure the victory tonight. I sided that way not because of the fact that he is from Hawaii, but more the fact that I think GSP sounded like an overconfident prick.

And in the end, how did it all pan out? GSP won via TKO in the 4th round.

When I read the news (my girlfriend, who predicted GSP winning by TKO in the 3rd) sent me a text to inform me at work. How else could I put this? I was simply CRUSHED. On the flip side, however, I am glad I did not bet any money on the outcome...

Last little sports thought here, man the Super Bowl was an interesting game! Although admittingly, I did only catch bascially the ending of the fourth quarter. Still, there was a good deal of suspense and never before have I bore witness to an actual public crowding around a store's TV section.

It is too bad that the game didn't end up going into overtime. Then again, I suppose that could have been too much for some people to handle. Still, perhaps that would have given the Cardinals the opportunity they needed to turn the tides back to their favor?

Oh well. Maybe they'll get another chance next year or was this year their first and last for a long while?