Metroid Frustration

Here's the story:
I'm working on completing Insane Difficulty in "Gears of War 2" when "The Ballad of Gay Tony" comes out. I gotta run through that. Then I realize I don't have 100% in "The Lost and Damned." So I finish that first then get 100% in Ballad. I still need 100% in the missions but decide to come back to that later.

Instead of going back to Gears 2 I decide to put in Burnout Paradise. I've been wanting to play it since it came out and I've had it for a month. It's better than I thought it would be. The demo doesn't do it justice. I play it all day long. Next day I fire up the game again but the disc isn't reading. I take it out and it looks fine, not at all like the first Gears 2 I had to send back. Try a few more times, it still doesn't work. I decide to clean it, still nothing. I pop in Gears 2 and it works fine. So I'm like "What the hell? I have to send another game back?"

I start playing Gears for a few hours then I shut it down to do something else. I come back and now Gears isn't reading. Now I'm freaking out. I try Halo 3 ... nothing. Orange Box? No go. So I realize it's not the games. My disc drive is dead. My 360 is past warranty and I can't pay to fix it at the moment. I have these games installed to the hard drive by the way. I just need to read the disc for a second and I can play. But no. And of course it didn't Red Ring so I wouldn't have to pay for it.

So here I am driveless and can't play disc games. Peggle goes on sale. I buy that and have been playing it since. A friend asks me what I'm going to do about Gamefly and I say "I don't know. I can't find any info about freezing the account." His question gets me looking again and I find out you can't freeze Gamefly accounts, only terminate them. So I'm stuck paying $20 a month for games I can't even play.

Which brings me to Metroid Fusion. See, I was getting there. If I'm paying for games I'm playing games. Emulators FTW. Played through Fusion. I found it harder than Super Metroid. There were a few times where I had no idea where to go. I had to watch a speedrun to get through parts. I thought the bosses were easier once you knew how to beat them: Spam Beam or Spam Missles. A good sequel over all. Next up Zero Mission, which should be interesting since I never played original Metroid.

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360, Gamefly, games, Gears of War 2, GTA IV, The Lost and Damned, xbox, The Ballad of Gay Tony, Burnout Paradise, Halo, The Orange Box, Peggle, Metroid Fusion, Super Metroid, Emulators, Red Ring of Death, Bill G can S my D

Street Fighter II 2

After the Gamefly thing I just decided to get rid of Street Fighter IV as well. Also cause I suck at it.

The trial challenges are insanely hard. I only beat the hard trials with Ryu and Ken is my main.

I unlocked all the characters and that's good enough for me.

Only got 490/1000g.

Gears of War Boo

I finished Gears of War and I decided not to play Gears 2 right away because the first gave me headaches. Which often happens to me in Third Person games. So I put ODST at the top of my Gamefly Q because a friend has it and he's dying for me to play it with him. But I didn't think I was going to get it because it's new and popular. So I put a bunch of games in after that but before Gears 2. They send it to me anyway. I'm like "Fine, whatever. I'll play it anyway." The game doesn't even work. The disc is unreadable. So after sending back Gears waiting for it to get to them, then them sending me Gears 2 and waiting for it to get to me I now have to send Gears 2 back to them and wait then they send me another Gears 2 and wait for it to get back to me. This is what I pay $20 a month for.

Gears of Peace

Finished Gears of War with only 570g.

Multiplayer is virtually non existent with the game being over three years old and having a sequel.

I got all of the solo achievements.

John (Forge) of Arcadia

Done with Halo Wars. Only got to 790g.

After spending an hour and a half in one online skirmish I could tell online just wasn't for me. At about an hour in my ADD kicked in and I was trying to lose.

I got all of the solo achievements minus beating legendary. Still was a fun game.

Underground Complex

Just finished Shadow Complex with 200/200g. The game is amazing. It's hard to believe it's from the same people who made Undertow. Which I didn't like. Although they do look kind of similar.

I also got the Master Challenges: "The Insurgent" and "Status Update: Single". Now I'm working on "ChAIRness".

Taste My DNA

I made an account on GamerDNA and linked it to a new twitter account: @nicsgamerdna.
And one on 360Voice.
Hopefully I'll get these working right.

I also created accounts on Friendfeed and Digg.

You maybe wondering what's up with the social networks all of a sudden.
Well it's my half-birthday and it's kind of my thing to do this every six months.

Alternate Origins: Wolverine

1000/1000g on another game. I'm killing these things lately.

And like Dead Space it said I had unlocked Hard Mode by beating Hard Mode.

The Force Repulsed

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is the third game I got 1000/1000g in.
I doubt that will happen with Street Fighter IV.

Spectral Horse Shit

Spectral Force was so fucking hard. I've never quit a game due to difficulty before, and definitely not an RPG, but I spent weeks doing the same mission over and over again. So I decide to level up nonstop for a week and because the enemies level up with you their even harder now. I needed to go on a trip anyway so I said fuck this game and fallout 3 which I stopped playing after I finished the main storyline and sent them back in. In return I got this.

I Ain't Cause I'm Not

My next two games were indeed Mirrors Edge and Fallout 3. Although Fallout 3 came half a week later.

Three Hundred And Seventy-Five Degrees of Exploded Bacon

I made a Bacon Explosion tonight. Bacon wrapped in sausage wrapped in bacon, "M'm M'm! Good God My Heart."

I had to make a few changes:
I cooked it in an oven instead of a smoker.
I used ketchup instead of barbecue sauce.
I added cheese to the middle.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicjitsu2099/3327261589/in/photostream/

They're Hot 'Cause They're Fly

Gamefly decided to give me Unreal Tournament III, the 10th game in my "Q". So I've decided to list all of the games and see which two they give me. I'm returning Lost Odyssey and UTIII.

Mirror's Edge
Fallout 3
Gears of War
Fable 2
Street Fighter IV
Resident Evil 5
Halo Wars
Crackdown
Operation Darkness
Army of Two
Spectral Force 3
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
Battlefield: Bad Company
Dead or Alive 4
Dead or Alive Xtreme 2
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Infinite Undiscovery
Guilty Gear 2: Overture
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
Gears of War 2
Left 4 Dead
Bioshock
Burnout Paradise
Skate 2
Bond 007: Quantum of Solace
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year
Too Human
Sonic Unleashed
Last Remnant
Prince of Persia
Afro Samurai
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad

Unrealest Tournament Ever

A note to my last team in Unreal Tournament III from my subconscious:
"Hey guys I just hopped in to play some vCTF. I would be playing ranked deathmatch but no one is ever on."

"Dude, I just hat-tricked on the last two maps. I love this hover-board."

"We're playing Suspense? That's my favorite map."

"I usually suck at FPS's but for some reason I'm always pretty good at the Unreal Series. It might have something to do with the flak cannon. A shotgun that hits at a distance and bounces off of walls? That's my boomstick."

"I just scored again. I've been doing that a lot tonight, you guys need to step up your game."

"They scored on us but it's okay. We'll end this tie any minute. Go Blue Team."

"I got their flag."

"Crap they got ours too. Somebody kill the carrier I'm almost at our base."

"Good he's dead, I'm already standing on our flag post so just touch our flag and we score."

"It's been like 30 seconds. You must be having some trouble out there. I'd love to help but I'm kind of busy."

"It's been a minute. You'd think by now someone would have gotten our flag back. I just killed a dude who came after me. It's getting kind of dangerous here. I think I'll go upstairs and protect myself better."

"It's been two minutes. What are you people doing? I have half a mind to go get our flag myself. I wish I could drop this flag first. Wait I could get in a vehicle. That drops the flag. I'll bring the vehicle up here, then bring the flag back here, then jump back in the vehicle. It's risky but I'm all I can count on apparently."

"Holy Shit! There's a guy right outside in a raptor. Now he knows where I am. He's trying to shoot at me through the holes."

"Let's see how Mr. Raptor likes Mr. Rocket."

"Guys It's been 4 minutes, you think you would have accidentally touched our flag by now. The only reason I'm still alive is because Red Team sucks almost as bad as you."

"5 minutes? Really? Did you guys think this was deathmatch or something. You can't win just by killing the other team.

"Mr. Raptor is back."

"I got him but I'm almost out of life."

"There's a guy in our base with a rocket launcher and he just found me. I don't think I can make it. I'm in a box surrounded by walls."

"I'm dead, they got their flag back. Thanks Blue Team"

"Our flag has been returned? And just moments after I respawned? Irony you are a filthy whore."

"Fuck you Blue Team. I'm not helping you anymore."

"Oh look, Red Team scored again, and with just one minute left. I wonder who's going to win."

"Surprise, surprise, Red Team won."

"I would just like to say Blue Team has ruined UTIII for me. I am returning this game on Monday. In fact you might have ruined all games for me, as well as my faith in humanity."

"I hope to see you all burning in hell one day playing a live version of capture the flaming flag, and sucking at it."

Found Odyssey

So I finally finished Lost Odyssey after 4 months. I just kept getting sick of it for some reason. No, I know what the reason was. I'm the kind of guy who has to get every last little thing in an RPG so I was following a walkthrough.

It made me sick of JRPG's so I started playing games I didn't have to be so meticulous on.
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick: Precipice of Darkness: Episode 2,
Unreal Tournament III,
GTA IV: The Lost and Damned,
even Dead Space, another RPG but much more linear.

But I went through all it's nooks and crannies, finished all of the side quests, killed all the secret bosses, and what do I get? 980/1000 or rather 980/1100 for some reason.

Treasure Trove is a bitch. To go for it now would require me to start a new game and do all of those side quests again and be even more meticulous, all for 20 gamer points. Fuck that! The worst part is you don't even know if you've got it 'til you beat the game again. "Oh I didn't get it, sure I'll start the game a third time, but first I just need to put this gun in my mouth for a quick second."

I didn't have to take this shit from Blue Dragon.

Quarter Century With Cheese

I turn 25 right now. The impact of this event is yet to be determined.

Edit: 1:23 my ass. It was 1:26 by all of my clocks.

One Gun And Done

Finally finished Dead Space with 1000/1000g. This makes 2.

Why does it say "Impossible Mode Unlocked" when you finish Impossible mode?

As in Life...

You may not know this but I'm a huge beverage junkie. I may not like everything but I'll try anything. Anyway, I was drinking a Talking Rain's Sparkling ICE I got from Costco and I noticed it said this on the back:


As In Life, Chill For Best Results. (TM)
Refrigerate After Opening

I thought it was pretty cool. The drink isn't that great. 3% juice and sucralose.

whoPhone?

So I touched an iPhone for the first time today. I know, it's sad. Replace "iPhone" with girl and it gets even sadder, and less grammatically correct. It was nice, but I still can't afford to pay that much every month.

(for a phone not a girl)

(but for a girl too)

New Year's Revolution

I normally make a ton of resolutions so if I fail to achieve a few I can still feel good.
So two of my New Year's Resolutions were to make a blog (this) and create a twitter account (that). I even threw in a Flickr (the other) for good measure. That's 3 in one day. Suck it Bitches (smokers and fat people).

Old Blog Posts

These are posts from my old blog in image (png) form with added commentary.

Truest words I ever wrote.


Kicker?


I got 100% completion before the contest ended and never got my key.


I actually didn't get any candy this year.


I voted for the second time this past year. This time my guy won.


I'm no longer pacing my drinking but I'm still out of money.


These posts make me seem like an alcoholic but I actually drink very little.


If I knew I was going to drop out I could have saved a lot of money. Also the first of many [pronoun] [preposition] this[adjective] bitch[expletive].


I complain a lot. I admit that. But this makes me sound suicidal about a keyboard. It did suck though.


I'm pretty sure "cheap bastards" refers to the student housing and not my former roommates.


I had a total of 12 roommates over 4 semesters.


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At least I wasn't stuck in an airport for 12 hours. And when that eventually happened I couldn't blame it on the snow.


Life is weird. So is death apparently.


I have no idea what week I was referring to.