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Thursday, August 7, 2014
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Ranking the Marvel Films
Monday, May 5, 2014
My Skyrim Journal: Journey To A Platinum
Since this is probably going to end up being a crazy task on my part, I've decided to chronicle my insanity in a weekly journal. Wish me luck. Hopefully I don't lose my mind.
Day Zero: 5/3/2014
The road to all role-playing game (rpg) platinums starts with character creation, and that is exactly where I begin. I choose to play as a cat-like character called a "khajiit" because cats are cool (and slightly, ok very, mean). I also choose to name her "Selina" after Catwoman in the DC comics.
Apparently I've gotten myself into quite some trouble here, as I'm sent tot he beheading block before I've even taken a step in the game. Which is just horrible.
Luckily, right before the axeman swing his mighty axe, a dragon appears out of nowhere, and I'm able to escape with a fellow prisoner (I am also given a choice to run away with a guard. One of the guards who just tried to kill me. I'm sure that would have turned out well).
Anyhoo, after a quick journey through an enemy filled cavern I'm finally free. My companion then tells me that we really should separate and runs off. Now I'm just stick with some leather padding and a couple of rusty daggers in the middle of nowhere. Oh, and there's a dragon still around here somewhere. What have I got myself into?
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
I Was There!!!!! Game 2 of Bulls-Wizards
Monday, April 7, 2014
Random Ramblings: Are Video Games Art?
So a urinal can be art, but video games can't? That makes sense. |
Powerful story, but not enough. |
Yes. The murder and mayhem (and strippers) all had a point. |
This guy. |
1 In some cases (ok, most cases), they can also cause stress. ↩
2 Of course, I am also ridiculously into both film and television. #WinterIsComing ↩
4 As mentioned previously, I’ve seen many comments on GTA V in which detractors and supporters alike view the game as an advocation of violence. ↩
Monday, March 31, 2014
Rapid Reactions: How I Met Your Finale
1 Consider that between the end of Doogie Howser in 1993 and the beginning of How I Met Your Mother in 2005, NPH only had two relatively significant roles: Starship Troopers in 1997 and Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle in 2004.↩
2 Though I understood the complaints, I got especially annoyed when viewers started clamoring for the mother to “show up already”, especially in the early seasons. If they showed the mother in the first few seasons, the show would have to end. It was in the title, people. After the show started to outgrow it’s welcome, however, I concede that they had a point. ↩
3 Though surprising, I guess you could argue that their divorce was realistic. One problem I that I had though (which many viewers probably share), was that it made this entire season pointless. All the growth that Barney, Ted, and Robin underwent seemed to be thrown under the rug for most of the episode. I guess some could argue that the last scene invalidates the series as a whole, but on that point, I disagree. More on this later.↩
4 I guess this lack of contact with Robin is explained a bit by her successful career, ↩
5 Maybe I’m being too hard on the gang. Since the episode is told in time jumps, it is impossible to see how hard they fought to keep Robin in their lives. ↩
6 Whom many correctly predicted was going to die. I would argue that the finale would have been even more unfair to Robin if she did not get her happy ending, which I must admit would have bothered me a lot more. Ultimately, I think it was more important that a character we knew for nine seasons have a happy ending rather than a character we’ve know for one. ↩
7 Speaking of the daughter, I like it how Lyndsy Fonseca was essentially unknown when the series started, and now she is both Kick-Ass’s girlfriend and a kick ass assassin in Nikita. ↩
8 Also remember that many argued that the Ross/Rachel dynamic had growth stale by the tenth season of Friends. Now it is mostly remembered fondly. ↩
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Random Ramblings: On Trophies
1 I’ll also admit that I love footnotes. You’ll see by the end of this post. ↩
2 Playstation profiles only display the player’s experience in terms of overall level and percentage complete until the next level. ↩
3 I think a platinum is worth about twice as many points as a gold trophy, but I’ve been wrong before. ↩
4 Mostly because most of my gamer friends are on a different system than I am, and I do not enjoy playing with strangers. ↩
5 In fact, at level 18 I would say that I am rather low on the PSN’s totem pole. ↩
6 Probably goes back to the pride thing. Although, I have to admit that I’ve been swayed into buying a game based on the difficulty of the trophy list, though were games that I already had an interest in. The happiest case for me was the Walking Dead game. I was on the fence before I saw the easiest platinum in gaming. It is now one of my favorite games in terms of storytelling. ↩
7 And point and laugh, I hope. ↩
8 Like the (to me) infamous trophies in Uncharted: Golden Abyss, that required you to complete “bounties”, which were basically sets of treasure. Only the treasure was dropped by enemies. At random. More often that not, they would not drop anything, when they did, chances were that you already had that treasure. Seriously. I hated these damned trophies. ↩
9 OK. Another admission to make. I’m a Sony fanboy, and I love all (well most) of the exclusive put out on their consoles. Anyways, the point is that I completely agree with the perfect scores IGN gave to both The Last of Us and Uncharted 3. I know lot of people disagree. I don’t care. Both of those games are masterpieces. Beyond. ↩
10 With the exception of those bounty trophies in Golden Abyss. I really, really hated those things. Still a great game though. Probably my second favorite vita game right now. I’ll probably put out a list of my top 10 games on each of the Sony consoles later. Once, you know, the Playstation 4 starts to have something resembling an actual library. ↩