This is where I will say whatever is on my mind. It probably won't be often, but when I have something, you'll know that it almost had to be to the point where I had to speak. I'll try my best to keep it video-game related, but I might throw in a few other things for kicks.

• 29Sep 08

  Updating, Revisiting Older Games, and Moving (maybe)

  Greetings, all! I've been meaning to update this blog for about a week now, but haven't been able to get out of the house to do so until today. As you can tell, I'm still on this 'break' of mine, but that's not to say I'm not thinking about what's going on in the gaming world and my online buddies while I'm away. I try to stay in touch, even when it's nearly impossible to do so. Since time is important when you're not at home, I'm going to get to the point of this entry now.

  You know, the one cool thing about not having the internet around all of the time is the fact that my gaming activity has seen a huge boost, as predicted. Sadly, though, since my budget for allowing me to buy newer titles is non-existant, I can only settle with what I have. As I've re-learned very recently, that's not exactly a cause for panic or anything. Just to name a few, games like Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Feel the Magic, Luigi's Mansion, Dead or Alive Ultimate, and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap have seen some gaming love lately. I have to admit that Luigi's Mansion and Zelda: Minish Cap were the most surprising rediscoveries, as I had forgotten how solid and polished of a game Minish Cap was and how underappreciated and charming of a game Luigi's Mansion still is to this day. It's things like this that make me proud to know that I still can be a very active gamer these days, which is something I worried about when I wasn't doing as much of it. As for right now, Mario&Luigi Superstar Saga is getting some nice treatment, as well.

  To finish this off, I have some news to make. While I won't go out and make it official yet, as things tend to happen differently when I try, it appears as though I will be moving from my longtime local area soon. If things REALLY go as planned, I will actually be finding myself leaving the state of Virginia and hopefully on my way to making a better living for myself (college, job, etc.). I won't enclose all details just yet because as far as I know, this could blow up in my face like most ideas, but I am looking forward to seeing new things in a new area for really the first time since I was too young to remember the last time.

  Well, I suppose I've said what I wanted to say, so I'm going to end this little entry now. Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still thinking about this place, the gaming world, and most importantly, all of the friends I've made along the way. Thanks again for reading. *in his best Luigi impersonation* Bye-bye!

  • Posted Sep 29, 2008 1:21 pm GMT
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• 13Sep 08

  Breaks, Online, and ...World Records?!?

  Howdy guys. I'm going to try to make this fairly short. As of last week, I'm on a possibly very long break from my typical online browsing. Of course, this means fewer visits to GS and fewer blog entries (although that's not saying too much). Due to the lack of internet at home and, to be perfectly honest, a rather... challenging situation regarding my home to begin with, I'm unable to put as much time into this as I would like. As usual, I will try to keep in touch, but that will probably be with only the best of situations.

  In other news, thanks to a overnight visit at a friend's house (which is where I'm typing this as well), I was finally able to engage a little online console gaming competition with my Wii. Brawl was being a pain, but Mario Kart Wii provided some great moments. It didn't take me too long to gain over 1000 VR points with my competitions, so take that for what it may be worth. Perhaps I will post my friend codes for both games later, but I'm thinking about the best way to do that right now. If you're interested, let me know. I should still be around for a few more hours, so if you can get to this by then, feel free to make a request.

  Back to MKWii for a second, though, after the races were over, I wanted to see how good my time was in comparision to the world rankings. To be more specific, I wanted to see how good my Toad's Factory time was. What I would discover would be mindblowing... or at least for a moment. As it would turn out, when I looked at the rankings, I found my 02:03:600 time to be the exact same as the World Champion's. ...No I am not kidding. However, when I decided to take a closer glance at the best times, it would appear that some of the times had been 'glitched', to say the least (seriously, if you're going to make up a time, couldn't you do something better than 00:000:1-- something?) Ironically enough, the same "Top Player" that made up this time was actually a player (I won't name that player, but it's a wild name) that I had just finished beating repeatedly. How's that for proving him/her wrong? Anyways, does this mean that I could still be very well have one of the game's top times? Who knows? I doubt it, but I will say that what I experienced earlier was nothing short of awesome while the feeling lasted.

  Anyways, I'm going to go now. As always, your comments are appreciated, and I'll get to them whenever I can. Take care and thanks for reading.

  • Posted Sep 13, 2008 10:08 pm GMT
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• 1Sep 08

  This can't be happening! *SMRPG related*

  Hello fellow Gamespotters. It has come to my attention that Nintendo has finally gotten around to releasing Super Mario RPG for the Virtual Console. While I will not be taking part of the process of downloading this game to my own system (no online, among other things), I did want to share some of my thoughts about this. I know that a lot of you are excited that Nintendo has finally once again released a game of such huge magnitude on the service, but this game in particular raises one huge problem.

  Since Nintendo has now released this 16-Bit RPG classic, doesn't this mean that Square-Enix won't have the chance to charge $40 ($5-10 more than the usual price) for a CG filled "enhanced" DS version of this game? How painful this is to me... Ok, not really. In all seriousness, I just wanted to point out the fact that S-E seems to love doing that these days, and even that I've had plans to buy some of these remakes, I don't really enjoy the company's "premium" pricing. It's actually good to know that Nintendo didn't take that route along with them.

  This was also my way of saying hi. I wanted to get the blog a little love, so I figured I would make this quicky. Thanks for reading. Until next time, boom. Outta here!

  • Posted Sep 1, 2008 5:48 pm GMT
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