3/14/07- Too busy

[Marik]

Wow, it's been since Secret Rings' review since I posted here? Dang, it's been a while. So where to start. I've been extremely busy with a ton of stuff. Between full time school, full time work, full time with my Xbox 360, it's been just too difficult to do anything I want. Unfortunately I doubt I'm graduating this spring now due to my failure in Psychology. Sucks too cause I'm one for screwing with someone's head.

Work is getting a lot better, more casual and promotion after promotion is keeping me busy for quite a while.

Ever since Zelda, I have had little use of my Wii. Right now it's only used when my friend comes over and we play WiiSports or go beat our record in WiiPlay Tanks. Sonic and Trauma Center are getting more frustrating and hard. And with Xbox 360 games coming left and right, more excuses to gain my GamerScore and beat my friends, seeing everyone online on my friends list while playing a game or movie, constantly with my friends on Phantasy Star Universe or Gears of War (and this fall Halo 3, PSU's expansion pack, Blue Dragon, and Unreal Tournament 3 also), there's no doubt that the 360 will win this current console war. It's the PS2 of this generation. Just if they made their machine more durable... (Buy the warranty!)

Wow, am I speaking like a Microsoft Nazi? Speaking of Nazis, I just beat Call of Duty 2 and bought Call of Duty 3 Gold. More reason to play my 360. Also am playing Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja on the DS. HARD game and if you're defeated, you lose all the items, money, weapons and armor you have equipped. I get beaten like 25 times a dungeon. So you keep very little.

Only a few weeks until Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. It's all done when they come out. And when Pokemon Battle Revolution comes out on June 25th, My Wii wil see online action. On a surprising note, Nintendo is using GameSpy for the Wii's online gaming. They have a good reputation and it can't be as bad as the Japanese version, all laggy.

And on to my newest Anime reviews. Disgaea. The anime's storyline does NOT make any sense compared to the game. Still a lot of fun to watch though, and very, very well made, but if you expect to watch the storyline of the game, be VERY disapointed. PuniPuni Poemy- Very very mature anime. So much that the box tells you "If this anime doesn't offend you somehow, we haven't done our job!" Funny as hell and from the makers of Excel Saga. So know what you're getting used to. Only thing that's bad: Only 2 episodes. It only lasts 2 freaking episodes. Now that I have Volume 3, I will soon start Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid, as well as Tales of Phantasia and Steel Angel Kurumi.

After proofreading, I feel so nerdy now, that I'm a little ashamed, yet I press the post button.

[odinsafeperson­­]

FINALLY, I have been waiting for you to have a blog entry forever! Oh well, you had good reasons. I'm the exact opposite with my Wii, been playing a lot of Metal Slug, awesome game, should have bought it sooner. My Friend and I are going to get his PS3 this weekend, and now I don't know If I should get one too later rather then a 360 because he has no one to play online with, but I'd also like to play online with people on the TAMB, so I don't really know right now. One last thing, my friend and I (same friend, only have 1 friend because most of the people that live around here are snobs) got done filming "The Super School", all we need to really do now is edit it, hopefully before March 31st because that's when the deadline for the film festival is, and I want to get in really bad to win this year, or at least get another cool trophy ( www.jaha.org/FilmFestival/Awards.jpg ).

[Marik]

Marik's New Gen Rant of the night, part 2:

The PlayStation 3.

After working at a game store, I learned first hand that this system is garbage. For the various reasons:

-$600 for the system. No point in the $500 model since it also was discontinued.

-No HD wires in the package. the 360 does in the premium model(which is the only model to buy as well) So if you want to experience the real power of the PS3, you need to invest in expensive another 70-100 bucks.

-No force feedback in the controllers, though in the future, it might happen. Might. So no rumble.

*The Xbox 360 has all this and it's only 400. And you get a headset.

-Half assed motion sensing, not as good as the Wii's

-5/6 of the games coming out are on or ALL READY OUT for the Xbox 360, games like Oblivion, Rainbow Six Vegas and Ghost Recon 2.

-Blu-Ray: Good for game storage, not for a media format. HD-DVDs also contain a DVD counterpart so it'll play on a DVD or HD-DVD Player. reason for the $200 more and still little selection. The HD-DVD/Blu-Ray war is meaningless anyway since normal DVDs will always have the movie. Also look at the last 20 years of Sony making a format:
-BetaMax, little thing called VHS beat that.
-Hi8 another attempt to overthrone VHS.
-Mini Disk, trying to beat that fancy CD format. No luck.
-SACD, CDs and DVDs didn't keep that up
-UMD, the PSP movie format was discontinued in Spring, one year after the PSP's American launch

-Halo 3, yes this does sound weird now, but Microsoft is the BEST in the business in marketing. When Halo 3 comes out, it'll make you ashamed you didn't go after a 360.

-PS3 online pales in comparison to Xbox Live: Xbox Live lets me see whos online, what there playing and what they're doing in said game. GameScore makes you ACTUALLY play these games. You want a higher GamerScore, its pure competition. You feel better when it goes up. The online community is so great, invite your friends anytime. Gears of War online co-op. Sweet.

-Between the Xbox Live Arcade and the Virtual Console, PlayStation Store cannot keep up. I was playing TMNT the old 1989 Arcade game! Can't do that on PS3.

-360 has been out for a year longer, thus bigger library. Much more selection and better one too.

-The 360's controller uses AA's or a removable rechargable battery. PS3 is a INTERNAL battery, after a year or so when the battery holds no charge: YOU NEED TO BUY A WHOLE NEW CONTROLLER.

-for $600, you have everything you need with a 360. You still need tax for a PS3 with only $600.

[Supertails07]

My opinion on the blu-ray: "a ton of garbage is still garbage"
(I like bashing Sony :

[odinsafeperson­­]

Hmm, guess I'm going back to buying a 360.

[Mr. G]

tailsandgrowly said:

The Xbox 360 has all this and it's only 400. And you get a [crappy] headset.

I've had nothing but problems with the mic that came with the 360. Although it kinda works, sometimes it won't even let me speak, or just spew static across the channels. And, FYI, doing mic troubleshooting while a torque bow is trained at your body, and a shotgun guy is running at you, and unable to shout for help... it sucks.

[E-109 Omega]

Good God, I've got to buy a 360. VicVyper T375 is just collecting dust right now. I really want to play Perfect Dark Zero, well, mostly due to the multiplayer. Yeah, it's old, I know, but it's Perfect Dark.

Gotta get the Wii first, though. I really want to play Twilight Princess (Though, do I really need another game, after FF6 Advance, Portrait of Ruin, Kingdom Hearts, Shadow Hearts, MGS3, Golden Sun, etc.?).

[Marik]

Perfect Dark has very little people online. I'll warn you now.

Mr. G, my headset is great, nothing wrong. But I upgraded to a wireless one cause that thin cord annoyed me a bit.

[odinsafeperson­­]

tails2 said:

Good God, I've got to buy a 360. VicVyper T375 is just collecting dust

Oh yeah, I forgot about my gamertag, now I really want to get a 360.

[Mr. G]

tailsandgrowly said:

[...]Mr. G, my headset is great, nothing wrong. But I upgraded to a wireless one cause that thin cord annoyed me a bit.

I've just had nothing but bad luck with that headset that came with it. Maybe I was just pampered by the Logitec headset that I got for the original XBox. Now I beat the heck out of that headset, and it worked perfectly. Granted, one of the clips broke off, and I had to jam a pen for it to charge, but the sound quality was great, the range was amazing, and it pretty much never disconnected. Now considering that the 360 headset is directly connected to the controller, I just don't see any reason for static/no voice issues.

[Marik]

A few less reasons to get a PS3 and get a 360: Ace Combat 6 exclusive to 360, and finally it's announced, Devil May Cry 4 is hitting the 360 and PC also. Two former PS2 exclusive series hitting 360's.

[E-109 Omega]

Yes! Damn, that's good news, I love both of those series and it's great to hear that they're PS3 only.