• 2Aug 08

  I ordered some hardcore RPGs from ebay!

  So yeah! There are alot of older games that I'd been meaning to play but haven't got around to playing, so I decided to order a bunch of them from Ebay. So here's what I ordered:

  Baldur's Gate + expansion
  Baldur's Gate 2 + expansion
  Fallout
  Fallout 2
  Fallout Tactics
  Planescape: Torment
  Diablo (ordered this one a while ago actually, after D3 was announced)

  They're gunna be SO good! I'm still deciding which one to play first. They should arrive by the time my exams finish (my last one is in 12 days) so then I will have time off to play these... muahahaha! I'm surprised at how cheap they were though... all 4 Baldur's Gate games were like $40 total, all 3 Fallouts were like $20 total, and Diablo was like $9. Planescape is kind of expensive though because it's rare (the auction is still open actually, I win it in 3 hours ). Can't wait till they arrive, it's gunna be good!

  • Posted Aug 2, 2008 11:56 am GMT
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• 22Jul 08

  E3 thoughts

  Well E3 has come and gone and here are my thougts:

  Microsoft:

  Microsoft had the best conference I think. They showed off the best games. Fallout 3 looks AWESOME (Oblivion with guns!) so I can't wait to play that one. RE5, we finally got a release date (March 13), and co-op is amazing. Fable 2, I LOVE what they did with the online, where you see people as these orbs and just walk up to them to invite them into your world. Gears of War 2 footage blew my mind and is shaping up to be the best shooter of 2008 and even better than the first one! Then they announced a new xbox interface and avatars, which were both pretty cool. FF13 announcement made me laugh, I couldn't even believe it! Overall, good conference.

  Nintendo:

  This was the most disappointing one by far. They announced Animal Crossing Wii which will be awesome though, I definitely can't wait for that one! But the rest was disappointing compared to what I was expecting. I wanted a new Zelda trailer to at least know that they were making progress on a new one and see what it will be like, or a Pikmin 3 trailer, or something like that, but... we didn't get any of that, we just got a "yeah, a new Zelda and new Pikmin are coming... sometime in the future..." which sucks without a trailer because "in the future" could mean 2-3 years and means we have no information about the game to get excited about. Wii Sports 2 got announced, but the thing that made Wii Sports 1 so good was that it was free, I don't know if I would pay $60 for another Wii Sports. WiiMusic had DJ RAVI WHO WAS AWESOME but honestly I didn't like it at all, it seemed like there was no goal to it, it's like Guitar Hero without the arrows... just play at your own pace... seemed really REALLY LAME especially considering it was their "big" announcement. Very disappointing outside of Animal Crossing.

  Sony:

  Sony's press conference was alright. They had some cool videos for some of their games. A bit disappointing that they didn't have more surprises though. But still, the God of War 3 teaser was pretty cool and got me pretty excited for the game! The Resistance 2 boss fight looked freaking epic. LittleBigPlanet looks crazy and unique and I definitely wanna pick that one up. Hmm... I think I'm forgetting something, but still, it was an ok conference overall.

  Overall though it was a pretty disappointing E3 because there weren't all the huge announcements like there usually was. But there was some cool new announcements and stuff so overall it was pretty cool but maybe I was expecting too much. Anyways, I enjoyed it.

  • Posted Jul 22, 2008 12:57 am GMT
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• 13Jul 08

  Tales of Vesperia Demo: AWESOME! (and E3 hopes)

  OK wow, so this is probably my most anticipated game right now (along with Tales of Symphonia 2), and I finally got around to playing the demo, and all I can say is WOW!

  First off, if you want to play the demo, it isn't available on the North American xbox live marketplace yet for some reason, so what you do is make a hotmail account and say you live in Japan, then turn that into an xbox live silver membership (for free), then you can access the japan xbox live marketplace. You can download it from there, and as long as your console is set to English, the voice acting and text and everything will be in English.

  OK, everything about the demo is absolutely amazing and lives up to the Tales name for sure! The battle system is awesome and very similar to Tales of the Abyss, and the graphics are some of the best cel-shaded graphics I have EVER seen (ESPECIALLY IN 720p :O), it is amazing, and the dialogue is really funny as well! I cannot wait another month to play this, I want it now! :O Tales of Symphonia is my favourite game of all time and every game that I've played in the Tales series ended up in my top 5 games ever, and this is looking like it's going to be just as awesome as the previous ones! I cannot wait! Check out the demo if you like Tales games!

  Also, E3 is, like... TOMORROW!!! And I haven't said what I hope will be there, so here is basically what I hope to see from each of the big 3 press conferences:

  Nintendo:
  Animal Crossing Wii footage.
  New Wii-exclusive Zelda announced, along with a teaser.
  Pikmin 3 for Wii.
  The next Mario RPG, whether it's Mario RPG 2, Mario & Luigi 3, Paper Mario 3, or Super Paper Mario 2.
  Tales of Symphonia 2 release date.
  More Fire Emblem DS footage.
  More Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles 2.

  Microsoft:
  Halo 4!
  Bioshock 2.
  Mass Effect 2.
  Jade Empire 2.
  Halo Wars release date.
  More Resident Evil 5 gameplay.
  More Gears of War 2 (obviously, LOL!)
  Infinity Ward's new IP.
  Bungie's next project (if it's not Halo 4).
  More Fable 2 stuff.
  More Fallout 3!
  More Infinite Undiscovery.
  More The Last Remnant.
  Assassin's Creed 2.

  Sony:

  God of War 3.
  White Knight Story.
  Final Fantasy 13.
  Final Fantasy vs 13.
  More Little Big Planet!
  Valkyria Chronicles.
  Kingdom Hearts 3.
  PS3 exclusive Tales game.
  Home.

  • Posted Jul 13, 2008 9:06 am GMT
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