Imma survivor!

So finally; finished grinding, stocked up on items and fucked off West to find some Astos dude who'd put the elven prince in coma. Didn't find Astos, found the ruins of a castle instead... residents consisted of a king who claimed he needed a crown to restore the castle which Astos stole and took to a cave to the south...

So off I went to the cave in which I got very very very lost but SOMEHOW, with all healing resources FLAT OUT found the crown and managed to get the FUCK out with all party members STILL ALIVE.

So off I struggled back to the ruined castle to give the king back his crown in order make the castle all prettiful again only to encounter a hideous plot twist...

So I faced off with Astos who immediately decided 'I want that bitch dead!' and used a spell called 'reaper' on Ashley, killing him/her/it... so err yeah, fair play, bye bye all means of healing this already broken party, the bitch then started nuking the fuck out of the rest of my party with high powered shit killing Fabio in the process. I managed to use Gordon's magic to finish him off before the on-slaught could continue. Now with no means of healing, I had to crawl back to the village near where the elven prince's castle is, I just managed to somehow, I'm sure Gordon and Rogan have benefited from the experience of carrying around two dead party members, feels nice to now have a fully functional party again! -_-

Where's the 'revert to easy mode' button? ;-;

Big in Japan - Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 1 & 2

The first ACTUAL dance game!

I was ECSTATIC when I watched a video declaring that the first PROPER dance game is going to be arriving on the Kinect around it's release! It's not going to be like any other dancing game prior to it's release... You use your body, you dance! WOOP! If you're interested in a demo and watching some people play it, check out the video below!

In-depth editing

I'm really getting into this game! Upon realising that the majority of people play as furri... I mean 'untamed' (refer to previous post) I decided to create a second character of a less popular class. I chose for him to be a 'cleric' which primarily heal, they are also have angel styled wings and are capable of flying. I started to design the character... I was quite amazed to see all the facial editing options, much more in-depth than that of when I was designing my untamed, I decided why not base this character on myself? :3

Look! I even got the wings sprouting out of my head right! ^^

Halo 3: Oh Dear Start Trying

To produce a better game! I've just got this game... So far I've just roamed through a few levels on campaign mode in Heroic difficulty (the third hardest difficulty out of four) with a friend over Xbox Live which proved without difficulty. I'm not impressed, it seems like an INCREDIBLY boring waste of my money so far, no wonder the price dropped dramatically! my bad for not seeing through that! I suppose it might be a little more interesting if I had more people to play it with, it's worth a try.

Furry friendly

A few of my friends are playing this game at the moment so I figured since it's an open source MMORPG, I'd try it for myself! Immediate downside; the game itself took me around 5 hours to download on what I'd call a fast connection... once downloaded I started creating my character, I was delighted to find that one of the choices for the race of the character are furri... I mean err... untamed.

I chose to be a wolf, made him muscular and overpowering in appearance and called him 'MianCrushh', you can see him above. I'll probably play this game along with other PC games a little more once I move into my new flat since here at my mums I have a fully functional seXBOX360 with online capabilities... orgasmic.

Fucking ninja's...

I've had this game for a few months now but not had chance to play it online until now. As I have it on Xbox360, there are achievements for completing the Forest of Death exam with each individual character and... fuck me it's hard, you've got to win 6 consecutive fights against online players in a sort of tournament style battle... I'm playing as Haku simply because he's my favourite character but I'm starting to get the feeling he's the hardest to play as! The more I play the better I'm getting but so far I've only won 4 consecutive... Grrr.

Big in Japan - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Get the fuck to work Enix!

I think Enix (or Square Enix as they're now known as after their merge with Square of course) should get working on a new dance game! It looks like they did produce a couple more dance based games after Bust-a-Groove titled Bust-a-Groove 2 and Dance Summit 2001 (which is basically Bust-a-Groove 3) but they were only released in Japan! I've had a look at Dance Summit 2001 and it looks like a great idea for a Wii game, I mean why not? There's not an incredible amount to compete with.

It appears to be team based game allowing for up to four or possibly eight players I think, much unlike its two predecessors... couldn't it perhaps be improved a little and re-released? Wouldn't do any harm.

Spot the lever

Okay, so this level wasn't too much trouble, took awhile to find the cogs and then work my way back through it in order to get onto the next but it didn't require too much thinking or effort...

Now the next level certainly has seen a rise in death traps introducing spikes, darts, crumbling floors, falling ceilings... it even started off with a boulder chasing me down a tight corridor, 

as you can see below; I'm about to be crushed, fun...

This is the room you start off in, I was stuck in it for quite sometime looking for a way to progress, turned out I had to pull a lever displayed in the picture, can you spot it? Took me awhile, 

I actually took this screen shot prior to noticing it.

Okay so missed all the secrets but on a whole the level wasn't that hard at all, ended with this guy shooting at me, not entirely sure why since the graphics and sound fell out of sync, I think he wanted a relic I picked up or some shit like that, what a bitch.

05/11/11 update: This is the last post I made about my play-through of Tomb Raider. I recently started a video Let's Play of it, that can be found here.

Noms for the dino

Bitch killed me in one hit, took Lara in it's mouth, nomed, then spat her out... surely she doesn't taste THAT bad. Second time round I sorted the beast out, very cowardly stood inside a cave as it ran around outside like a lost puppy, gave me plenty of opportunity to put a few bullets in it. Ploughing through this level now, looking for some cogs or something...

Fuck yeah!

As you can see I've ripped level two apart, took my sweet time...

I managed to find ALL the secrets... didn't die once, I am proud.

Yeah, that's right, these fuckers didn't kill me this time...

one HIT but somehow didn't KILL, makes sense right? 

On another note, I accidentally how to sexy pointless move...

I'm not even going to consider how the fuck she does that.

The return of day

I recently started playing Pokémon Pearl which is the latest Pokémon game I've played since Pokémon Sapphire. So far I'm quite enjoying it, this is mainly thanks to a few admirable returning features, the notable one being the transition between morning, day and night based on what time it is along with different Pokémon making an appearance at each period of the day. Other than that I've been enjoying playing because it's providing me with a whole array of new Pokémon with which to subject to my cruel spontaneously stupid demeaning naming system and because I've seemingly reached a point in the game whereby it doesn't seem to be linear... I know right? Freaky, maybe I'm dreaming a little too hard, this is a Pokémon game after all...

Lesson learnt

Yeah, I know it's nothing too special but my friend got Tomb Raider working on my laptop earlier and I am endlessly amused. I haven't played it in so long and I never got too far in it since I was a bit too young to play it.

Up to yet it's been suprisingly jumpy, I don't think that the atmosphere has been lost with it's age, for example when a bear growl came from nowhere and then the bear itself charged from around a corner I'd just ventured from, I screamed like a little girl and then bashed my keyboard to get my guns out before diving around the room in every direction trying to remember what the shoot button is...

So anyho, I got to what I assumed was the end of level 2 after about an hour of gameplay when suddenly the first pendulum blade I've seen in the game popped out of the wall without warning and gave Lara a nasty little cut, she died, the game then requested I loaded my last saved game and I was like... 'fuck', I hadn't actually saved the game since the beginning of the first level after discovering how to, so yeah lesson learnt; save more often... Let's try again!

Download this game

I was looking at a real-time strategy game similar to Command and Conquer on wikipedia that my long term memory recalls finding rather appealing after playing a demo of it on the Playstation about 10 years back, it's called Warzone 2100, I was shocked to find that it's since been re-released on PC, been made open source and is open for download, so I've jumped at the opportunity to play it again and I'm not at all disappointed.

It's a little tough to grasp the concept of if you just dive in but I'm beginning to understand that if you play through the tutorial, followed by the story, it introduces you to each of the features one by one so that's what I'm doing at present.

Download link:
http://wz2100.net/

I highly recommend going through the effort of downloading the videos and getting them working. Without them, the games campaign mode really leaves you in the dark...

An overlooked prequel

After wanting to for so so many years I FINALLY got the chance to start playing Chrono Cross, however after looking it up on Wikipedia I noticed it had a prequel titled 'Chrono Trigger' that was produced for the SNES, after being a commercial success it was then re-released on the Playstation around the time Cross was released, so I thought I would knock playing through Cross until I'd given Trigger a fair trial...

In brief, I'm really glad I have because after a couple of hours of play, I can honestly say it's a brilliant game... great story, comical and I love the battle system, rather unique to the game, only thing I'd like to poke at is the fact the characters are almost identical to some Dragonball characters, to counter that, I gave my characters the names of Dragonball characters!

The master of dance returns

Playing this game again after 8 years makes me realise just how damn good I used to be at it. I'm playing on easy mode and struggling, regardless, I'm having a lot of fun.

So far I've managed to plow through the game with a character called Gas-o, I'm now playing through with Heat; the male character in the picture above dancing off against some crazed fetish whore called Kelly.

What. A. Team.

So I started playing the re-release of Final Fantasy on the Playstation today. When presented with the choice between Easy and Normal mode... simply because I'm not a n00b, I chose to go on normal mode. After that came the joys of character select screen whereby I had a choice between six professions (Warrior, Monk, Theif, Black Mage, White Mage and Red Mage) for each character along with their names. I went with:

A Monk, which I named Rogan 'cause he looks like he needs a manly name, a White Mage which I named Ashley because it's a unisex name and I don't know what gender it belongs to, a Theif which I named Fabio because he looks like some sort of hairdresser, and finally a Red Mage which I named Gordon 'cause with an outfit like that; he looks like some sort of posh twat.

Okay, so that's my team, and there starts that adventure... Woop.

The Out-Cast: Episode 07 - E3 2010 Report

This is the sixth episode of the Out-Cast. In this episode, we talk about E3 2010. This episode was recorded right after E3 and we had hoped to have it up right away. However, in the middle of editing, Gwyn's appendix burst and he spent a week in the hospital after it went a bit septic. So here we are, better late than never. Please leave any comments or questions in the section bellow.

Download: Mediafire, iTunes
Streaming: Blip.tv


00:00:00 What's the Happs?
Gwyn

• Splinter Cell Convition
• Super Street Fight 4
• Space Adventure Cobra
• Nagabuchi

Richard

• Red Dead Redemption
• Mass Effect 2
• Chrono Trigger

Kyle

• Soccer and Summer
• Fami-case Exhibition
• Muteki Mario

36:44 E3

• History of E3

40:02 Microsoft

• Press Conference
• Kinect
• Gears of War III
• Halo: Reech
• Medal of Honor

1:04:38 Sony

• Twisted Metal
• 3D
• Move
• Gran Turismo 5
• Portal 2
• The 3rd Birthday

01:32:23 Nintendo

• Zelda
• Kirby
• Donkey Kong
• 3DS

02:09:47 Third Party

• Metal Gear Rising
• Child of Eden
• Rayman
• The Old Republic
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Castlevania
• Scott Pilgrim vs the World
• El Shaddai
• Enslaved

02:39:19 Dissapointments and No Shows

• Milo
• Mega Man Legends 3
• The Last Guardian
• SSX
• Half Life 2: Episode 3
• Dreamcast 2
• Natural Selection 2
• Dudebro: My Shit is Fucked Up So I Gotta Shoot/Slice You II: It's Strait Up Dog Time

02:50:49 Best Showing at E3

02:52:20 Mail Bag

• Favorite things about living in Japan?
• What do you miss from home?
• Why did you move to Japan?
• How safe is Japan?
• Will iPhone rule western portable gaming?
• Is there self-segrgation between western and Japanese gamers?
• Which is more popular in Japan, Evangelion or Macross?
• What are the differences between Eva 2.0 and 2.22
• Do you prefer Japanese or Western Games?
• What music do you play during the cast?
• What are some awesome PS1 or PS2 titles?
• Are games cosidered a lesser form of media?
• What is "Moe"?
• What is so popular about the Japanese High School setting?