1/9/07- Going through some tough stuff

[Marik]

Yea the big thing with me is that now that the holidays are over, I have no hours at work, funny to say that a manager cannot get 10 hours a week now. And expect the store to run with my boss keeping most holiday help.... (And the ones we laid off are getting more than me in unemployment, those bastards!) So saving up for that dream trip to Japan, paying my credit card bill from the holidays and fixing some stuff and buying a ton of anime has to hold off. To combat this....


I bought anime.... Shut up.

I'm not buying the ones I'm begging for though like Ninja Nonsense. I bought the Midori Days Handheld Set(it's the whole series) some Pokemon movies from GameStop, Full Metal Panic The Second Raid Vol 2 and this little anime that came out today called PaniPani Dash. Disgaea came out today and it should be on my way as well. I also recieved the Gacha Gacha manga series. And to watch all this without my controller idling out everytime, I bought a 360 DVD remote.

I'm also playing a bunch of games. Kirby Squeak Squad, Yugioh GX and Tales of Legendia the most.

I need a second job so I'm emailing my professor to see if I can score a teaching gig in the gaming dept, since I've been begging him for months and the semester is not far off. I'm also gonna start selling my game collection on eBay cause I don't need most of my games, I really should stick with a modest collection. I'm ditching a ton of RPGs that I really want to play, but due to time restraints, I cannot play them.

Enough of my lameass life and me drowning it, I'll show you cool stuff:


iPhone announced (Check the board's official thread for more details)

Anime Simpsons (Love the Lisa in there)- www.deviantart.com/deviation/46036660/

Anime Futurama- www.deviantart.com/deviation/46124117/


And my gaming news like I always give it: halfassed:

Treasure's Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga team is making their third huge shmup (Scrolling shoot em up) for the Xbox 360.

360 Dashboard and Gears of War had updates today. 2 new Gears maps and the said connection problems should be fixed (I'll test that when I care) while the 360 Dashboard has no new features, just minor connection fixes and little crap like that.

Europe gets a ton of good VC games coming out, which mans we should too here in the US, but for now here's the awesome Euro VC list:

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (SNES)
Super Probotector (Contra III: The Alien Wars) (SNES)
Streets of Rage (Genesis)
Soldier Blade (TG-16)
Double Dragons (TG-16)
New Adventure Island (TG-16)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Mario Kart 64 (N64)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

One of my fav gaming sites, GamesAreFun.com, just listed what Japanese gamers, developers and retailers about what they think of 2007 (From Famitsu, the big weekly gaming magazine in Japan):

gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=7392

Remember my Predictions of 2007 idea that I said I ripped off them for too? They did their own one too:

www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=7387

Small reviews

I played Resistence: Fall of Man and I dunno why they compare it with Gears, it's a great FPS, but nothing OMG about it, other than the fact it's the only good PS3 game out lol. I lol'ed that's how funny it is.

Kirby Squeak Squad is the second best Kirby game made. That's saying alot. 120 stages, inventory and new abilities!

Yugioh GX is starting off very slow, but when I get a deck going, see me online!

Tales of Legendia, pretty good story and it's funny to boot, that's what keeps me going cause the bettle system is a total downgrade from Symphonia.

Also, find people to join the board. Odin needs more topics to post in and we haven't all been active as we should be.

[odinsafeperson­­]

Kirby has 120 stages!?! That must be a really long Kirby game if you want to complete it 100% (I always do that with my Kirby games). Last
week was good for me, my friend and I started voice overs on our new film, "The Super School", we got 4 out the 8 scenes done . I have been playing Twilight Princess a lot, and I think I'm on the next to last dungeon, the Sky City, the Music is a little weird there I think.

I come to the board every day, so I should be back to my number of posts before I stupidly deleted my account, 89.

[E-109 Omega]

I, sadly, have been really busy in life, so I can't post that much, though I do have to say:

Kingdom Hearts kicks ass. Great RPG, story isn't nearly as good as, say, Chrono Cross or Final Fantasy VII (I do have a huge obsession with FF7), but the battle system is just do darned fun.

Also, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night kicks ass, as well.

[Marik]

I'm waiting for the rerelease of Symphony of the Night on the 360 to replay it. I also think Kingdom Hearts is good but not as the overhyped fanboys like my friend say it is. I barely call it an RPG.

[E-109 Omega]

Oh yeah, they're releasing SotN on the 360, forgot about that. I'll have probably beaten it before it comes out/I buy a 360, but I might get it anyway, it's better than using a copy in an emulator.

[Marik]

360 version is totally remade, some upgraded graphics and music(which can be turned off if you want the classic), widescreen mode and HD will make it crisper than the PS1 classic.

[E-109 Omega]

Oh, kickass. I dunno if I could get the HD working, but I'll try. Hopefully they'll fix some of the voice acting ("Crush this flea who invades my castle!" Dear Lord, Richter). You know if they'll be porting Maria/the Saturn extras for this version?

[Marik]

Nope ^_^. No matter how good and bad it is, no VO changes at all.