Video & PC Game Discussion

What the hell happened? Did all those inane teen Kingdom Hearts fangirls ruin their vision? I'unno. I tried playing Final Fantasy XIII - it literally made me sick. Falcie and Elcie and heroes and I'm a hero we all need heroes and running straight for hours on end and snow and lightning and hailstorm (the super secret character with even spikier and more colorful hair!) and shiva is a goddamn motorcycle and We're going to be the heroes! 

I only paid 5 USD for it and I still turned it back in for store credit at gamestop. I actually enjoyed 12 (obviously not for plot-related reasoning). I remember enjoying the non-plot aspects of Kingdom Hearts, too. I can't stomach the ending, though. (My heart is a pure heart. The essence of darkness is outside the heart. I trust the heart of my heart and my friends. We are friends to the end and we trust the power of the heart of the universe. Darkness is, like, totally bad. Gag me with a spoon, Goofy, darkness sure is lame. Heart heart pure friends love heartSephiroth cameoheart love blah blah dark dark bjork cork.)

I never actually finished Xenogears. I remember putting 70+ hours on it and losing my memory card. I know I was close to finishing, but never how close.

Oh  and online playing never really clicked with me.

Finally,a gamer on my wavelength.

I am in my late 40's and having been playing video games since the Pong and Atari days.I am used to playing by myself or with a few friends.I DESPISE online multiplayer in consoles and computer gaming.The only exception to the rule has been WoW and Star Wars The Old Republic.

I could care less if somebody called me a f**king fa****. I hate having to share my game playing time with people I hate. I like being immersed into something as completely as possible. Idiots yelling 'Leroy Jenkins' or 'pwnd that n00b' or typing 'I need a +2 enchantment on my dex skill' always cracks it for me. I've played enough online to know it isn't for me. I used to play Neverwinter Nights all the time. I had a WoW account for two months. I played Guild Wars for about a month. I was addicted to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory in high school. I'd rather play something by myself or with my close personal friends. This is why I am not interested at all in the ideas of multiplayer Fallout or Skyrim. The only game I've ever played to incorporate online multiplayer in a manner I enjoy is Dark Souls. And even then I could've lived without that. 

I'm nearly finished with Twilight Princess. So far I really like it. I only wish they would've removed the Snowpeak ruin - not even because of how annoying it was. The characters were pitiful, the item was ludicrously inane, and the puzzles were dim. Every other dungeon has been a real pleasure to work through. After that I'll probably start Skyward Sword. I got Super Paper Mario today. I started it up and played for a couple hours. Really fun mechanics, too easy for any concentrated application. Super Mario Galaxy is about three or four times as entertaining as I would've expected. Not the greatest game of all time, but something I can see myself being happy to have in my collection some months down the road. No More Heroes is on the way. I have heard wildly different things about it. But I got it cheap and my Wii games library is sorely lacking. Hopefully it'll be worth the 7 USD I paid out for it. 

I finished Alan Wake yesterday. I can't believe I actually enjoyed the overall plot and ending. Better than half the Stephen King books I've read. Lately I've been going back and listening to piano reiterations of older Final Fantasy songs. I love the melodies. I think that, years on, I'll have completely forgotten the games, themselves. I'll never play Final Fantasy 8 or 9 again, but all those songs will still most likely be in rotation.

I don't hop on here often enough to update what I do as I do it, so I guess this is an overview of my video gaming for the past couple weeks or so. I had been playing Dragon Quest 8, which was a great time-killer for being such solid quality, but I kinda dropped out of it. I got the Wii and my girlfriend keeps asking me to play Mario Party with her. We got really cheap used copies of a few Dance Dance Revolution games and dance pads for the PS2, so I've been messing around with that a little bit. I like it because I've a fondness for nearly all decently-constructed rhythm games, even if it involves dancing in time with Sean Paul's Temperature or something.

I got a 5 dollar used game coupon for Gamestop, so I may swing by and pick up a copy of DJ Hero 2. I've looked over the track listing and am not particularly impressed, but for 7 dollars used, before the 5 dollar ticket, I'll end up paying less than two bucks for it with my discount. I want to get Metroid Prime Trilogy, but those gamestop f**kheads are charging nearly 70 dollars for a USED copy. That is utterly insane. Cheap copies of it online hover around 40 bucks or so. How do they live with themselves? 

I don't know why I prefer actually getting the old games on my Wii. I downloaded the original NES Zelda a few nights ago. Sure, I could've downloaded it for free on my laptop, but that would require moving it, setting it up, not being able to sit on the couch, playing with a smaller screen, dealing with all that wiring sh*t, reconfiguring my old wired Xbox 360 controller and all that. Plus I'll be tempted to cheat or use turbo speed or what-have-you. I want to have every Zelda game I can on a single console. So here's to having Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Zelda 1, Skyward Sword, and Link to the Past so far. I need to get Wind Waker for the 'cube if I can find it used for cheaps. 

I ordered a couple of the Wii classic virtual console controllers online and when they got here I was appalled at the short wire length. Lo and behold, I looked it up and found that you could effectively make it wireless if you plugged it into the wii remote. I tried doing so for five minutes before I realized I'd purchased cheap hong kong knock-offs that use a gamecube plug instead of the classic pro plug. Hell on wheels, for sure. Now I have the cheapest one I could find on ebay in the mail. It MAY be here before June 1st, dammit. Probably not.

Has anybody played any of the Persona games? I have the 3rd one, which is great entertainment, but I've heard the 4th one is even better. I don't want to shell out 30 dollars for a PS2 game, though. That seems preposterous. I had to bite the bullet and pay nearly 20 dollars for a used copy of both Okami and Shadow of the Colossus some months back, so perhaps I'll put it on hold for a couple months.  

I think this post is long enough. Nobody will read it.

You don't like people calling you a f**king fa****?