Thursday, February 26, 2009

So far so good.

Well, I don't seem to have forgotten about this for too long at a time, which is good. Here I am again, not even a full week after my last update! Awesome.

Today, I'll tell you about a webcomic or two I keep up on.

First on the list, is Misfile. Personally, I enjoy this comic a lot. It's funny, it has a strong plot, and I feel it has an open mind about things. Add to the mix that it updates regularly with minimal filler and maximum reliability and you have a winning combination. The art is also quality from the start, though, of course, it has improved over time. Only once or twice have I found myself looking at something and wondering why it seemed so strange, and that was only because I imagine that particular pose or position would be really hard to draw.

Now for a peek into the story. Heaven is run something like a corporation. The Angels are the workers, there are managers and bosses and all that sorta stuff, and our main Angel, Rumisiel (or something like that) works the files of everyone's life. Every person has a file, detailing their life and the events of it, and they're sorted by boy and girl. He mixes up two people's files. Some missing pages from one, and he accidentally slips Ash's (Main character, boy) file into the girl filing cabinets, while also misplacing two pages of another girl's life, her name is Emily. It's all about how that stuff gets sorted out.

Oh! I'm supposed to be writing a game review, that's right. Gotta go do that. It's about Chromehounds, I'll tell you more later. Gotta go write it. See ya.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

X3:Terran Conflict and... uhm.. stuff

Alright, today, I'll introduce you to a nice space sim. X3:TC, while you can't find it in stores in the states, you can find it instead on Steam, otherwise known as Valve. The game is amazing, if you ask me. It involves a balance of an economical system and fighting, and a storyline which can bolster you along on your way to creating an empire throughout the X Universe, as it is known.

Trading will certainly get you more money faster than gunning down pirate ships ever will. You can trade anything from energy cells, the in-game power source, to full-blown heavy weaponry. Of course, you have to have the necessary notoriety to be able to trade weapons. You can't just wonder into some new race's space and expect them to let you buy guns. They have to trust you.

And there's no better way to earn their trust than to shoot down some pirates or doing a mission. If you shoot down pirate ships in space controlled by a race, that race will trust you more on account of the favor you've done them. Additionally, ships you destroy will sometimes drop some of their cargo, allowing you to pick it up and use it or sell it.

Doing missions is another great way to gain notoriety. They can vary from finding ship x and returning it to station y, defending a station from incoming pirates, patrolling a sector for various dangerous faction activity, be it Kha'ak, Xenon, or pirate, tailing someone to a secret meeting, or hunting someone down, among other things. There are trading mission, combat missions, all sorts of missions.

So, I've been playing that game for a while. I've got a bit ol' Terran destroyer-class ship, which makes me a force to be reckoned with, and right now I'm searching for some sort of Boron (one of the races) mobile base or other, I dunno. I'm not sure where I'm supposed to be looking for it, really.

If you pick it up, though, make sure you have a joystick.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Do it!

Hoo-waaah! I live! Alright.

The trend of me not having time to do all I wanna do continues. Rather, all I -should- do, bu that's besides the point. I'm doing well in school, no need to worry. Oh, wait, I need to study my Calculus... Oh well. I'll get on that later.

Oh, I should watch the rest of A Little Snow Fairy Sugar...

Not much in news other than I've been into my roleplaying a lot lately, and I also got my girlfriend the first 9 episodes of Gurren Lagann, which you should go out and buy right now. I'm serious. Right now. Go to your nearest Suncoast and buy it. And then watch it. And then come back.

Did you do it yet?

Friday, February 13, 2009

New blog

So, I decided I should change my main blog to something a bit more fitting. I don't just play games, after all. I roleplay, I watch anime, I read manga, -and- I play games. It's so much more than just the video games.

So, let's see... I've been reading Negima! a lot lately, I'm up to volume 15, though I used the internet to finish the current story arc. Just to get it over with. I'll still buy it, of course, but I just wanted to finish it already. Heh. As for anime, I watched Ghost Hunt, which is good. Suspenceful at times, kinda scary, I couldn't sleep right away after watching it late at night, all by myself.

As for games, I've been playing a new MMO with a friend and I also found a cool Source engine mod off of Valve. It's based on space ship battle, between two capital ships. You can fly fighters and infiltrate the enemy ship, all sorts of stuff. It's good fun.

Now, with all these games I'm playing, you can imagine that, factor in school, and I might feel crunched for time! Oddly enough, I don't. Though, well, I suppose it's because I watched Ghost Hunt a while ago and read my Negima! books a while ago, too, so all I've got occupying me right now are the games and school.

Also, I've been rewatching parts of another anime, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I highly recommend this anime! It is AMAZING!

Anyway, yeah. So, here we go, maybe I can maintain the habit of posting regularly this time...