No, no, you are looking at it upside down. There... much... better...

Lots and lots and lots... of Katt heads.

 

What the hell is THIS?! SNK is back? Anyone know what this means?! If its a fake then its fairly authentic what with its engrish and all. Oct 25.

 

Well, because of this, i went out and bought myself a Plantium Gamecube a few days ago. Well, that and Super Monkey Ball 2. Plus i can get a few (million) more miles outta the eCard Reader which i so feverishly purchased not a few weeks ago. Despite my loquacious nature towards the subject ive not put too many hours into enough excitebike to really get my fill of it's 40 bucks.

 

About 6 months ago there was many many games to play and checkout and experience but there was always one that i kept coming back to every night. This game isnt anything really special really. Its simple. Based on simple RPG elements that were centered around a comunity not even PC MMPORPGs could touch. This game was Sonic Team's Phantasy Star Online. I had about <shudder> 5 active characters and the 3 main ones i used all had about 700+ hours put into EACH of them. After awhile i wouldnt even go in for the game, id just go to meet up with some online-made pals to chat it up about what made us happy, mad, pissed, laugh all that buddy shit that makes friends. Ive never gotten that much outta my 50bucks (domestically, 4 bucks a month) EVER. It was a sweet deal. That was about 6 months ago i stopped. Now PSO is back on the GC and XBox. I really want to get back into the game but i have so many little things i should instead do than play this game. Things which will help me insure my future as something more than a bum this game will make me. So i made the right choice. I have pre-orders on both games. Now, the thing is despite all the time i will devote towards my PSOing ill only really have time to play one at a time, or one at all. The trouble is that they both have things that make each a better buy. The Cube version has a GBA link up mode that uploads games and other fun stuff that are only gonna be found by linking the GBA to the GC PSO. NiGHTs is looking really cool. On hand number B, the Xbox version is gonna have a new EXCLUSIVE character and other goodies. Decisions... Tell you what, i A. hit myself over the head with a heavy mallet or B. Go with A. You choose for me.

 

Goes great with your iPod. Wait, you mean this isnt an iPod?!

 

oops, i never put down the list of all the people whom are working on that Animatrix thingy, a bunch of animé based off stories from the Matrix by creators, the Wachowski Brothers. Its got so many great names there. Cowboy Bebop director, Shinichiro Watanabe and WickedCity/NinjaScroll/X director, Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Square Pictures actually made one too.

 

UT mod The Third Reich has a new trailer. Schon.

Shinji Makami who? There's a first DMC?

 

XBox Live will have a USB connector adaptor?

 

Amen.

Praise the lord!

Contra: Shattered Soldier. Buy it. The first good contra since 3. Old school and fucking impossible to the core. Lots of eye candy.

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Mini Game Site of the Day Revisited:

ismokecrack.com

Ninja
"when i was 17 i drank my very first beer..."

Ninja
"fly me to the moon and let me play amongst the stars"

Ninja
"now i want a clean house and no fuckin mix ups or your balls in the harbor"

New Poll Up!!!!

Finally. In light of current events.
Moved all the September posts into archives.

Ninja
"OMG, you are a deranged monkey?!"

Aieee! How one man become such mighty!

Does not compute...

 

I havent really imported a game in awhile. At least not one that ive had a substantial amount of enjoyment from. As far was shipping games from overseas i tend to stick with the fighters and shooters. But every so often the moons are aligned and i fancy myself something else. Well, i dont know if any moons had anything to do with it, but i had some heiny in my tummy and eBay on my screen. Ive been meaning to checkout the SuperRobotWars game since the second one on PSX came out (there are like a fucking million of these in Nippon. Japan.). Thing is, when you are on eBay and a game comes up for only 10 bucks you dont think about it, you DO it. Do it, meaning get with the clicking and bidding. And click and bid, i did. Its been a couple of days and its in my DC right now. On a measure of 1-10 its about a 7 to 8 making it a medium to high rating on the what-the-fuck-is-happening scale. A downside to importing games not in your native speak. Or an upside, as shin and i think. For those who dont know, Super Robot Wars is an amalgam of many many different Mech/bot series all meshed and smoshed into one tacRPG. A simple and fun one at that. Oh, and all the characters are super deformed [the art of making characters more cute and chubby than they would normally be]. The one thing about this version among the other [million] are its inclusion of eva01 from the Evangelion series. I think its also only 1 or 2 that are polygonal, too. A house fav over here. Right now in the game im shooting these guys who look like gundam d00ds with MY gundam d00ds and my guns make the bad mens fall down. Yep. Im a little lost as to where im to go. Actually, im past the part with the shooting. Im more in the... talking...part. At the beginning of the game i was given the chance to name my pilot. I thought Lt "Bitch = Face" was appropriate. My character looks like the other side of happy all the time. In case you are thinking about getting this game ive been at a loss trying to find translations. GameFaqs has been nothing if not unhelpful. Eh, im having a blast not knowing what anything means or does anyways. Now how the hell do you save...

 

Timesplitters2 for the Xbox. Such a great game to be slowed down by sloppy System link play. If you dont ever plan on playing this game via system link its an excellent title. Ok, ok, im being a bit of an ass here. The system link isnt THAT bad. Its quite buggy, doesnt log your score, and is limited as far as setting up the games go, but its still 16 player fun. Hell, if Sega put together a 16 player game that you simply flung poo at each other id have fun with it. Heeeeeey... No, wait, im thinking of almost everything 3DO vomits up these days. No, wait, and thats not THROWING poo as so much eating and swimming in it. Anyways, if a system link game isnt already in progress you have to keep exiting and reentering till on is setup. I think its the tedious little touches that really get to me. Its almost like they made that feature at the last minute. I mean, the normal game logs all your kills and points in a team game but the system link games do not. Only your team points. Little things. Overall, though, the rest of the game is outstanding. THe Arcade modes and the Challenge modes are tons of fun and even have little stories to EACH one. The bot handling and AI is excellent. The story mode, though totally nonsequential (or sensical), is fun. The map making feature is lots of fun, leting you add your own story elements and even lighting effects to your arenas. I kinda wished Free Radical would have taken the Xbox HD into account. Maps cannot exceed 4 blocks (about 900k) which leads to smaller maps with less intricacy. Still, its better there than not. Ive found that the PS2 version and the GameCube version are equally as fun. The PS2 allowing system link also.

 

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The Candy of the Day:

Intense Peach SMINTs.

smint.com

My damn tongue is raw from eating so many of these. But they so small, mommy!

Buy an entire case! One of my actors got me hooked on these little bastards, those little bastards.

Ninja
"the strength of the weatherman is in me!"

Ninja
"daft, isnt he, the boy"

Herby always said he wore the pants in the relationship. But, without legs how was this possible? How, Herby?

Christmas is a corner away and my pocket book has been never thinner. This sucks. One might even sugest that it concurrently sucks ass. Id agree. About this time of year its really hard to balance games, music, acting, classes and more games. When it comes to balancing my time im more of a romantic. Juggling with no hands. Sans telekenisis. So im back for a bit to help inform and discuss and spit and hollar about what i think is cool. I guess, this is what my function here is to do. Hmm... time to backtrack...

 

I had mentioned somewhere before that Sega and Microsoft had decided to throw together a sweet package of XBox-ige, The XBox Holiday Package. And when i say 'sweet' i only wish i could think of a sweetER adjective to thusly extort my feelings on the deal. So, ill do so with so many words. Ok, what happens here is you stickout about two bones [read: two bills [read:read: 200 big ones]], before tax, and you get the Xbox, an S controller, JetSet Future AND the fairly fresh off the press SegaGT. In other words you get TWO free games and the S controller (which i enjoy using more). Not bad. Even better considering if you purchase the DVD playback kit, Microsoft will, in all their abnormal nicety, GIVE you 30 bucks back! Quite a deal, folks! If you dont have an Xbox this is about the time to do the right thing and buy one before Tekki and Panzar come out. If you are somebody like moi whom already has the Xbox and the two games, you can kick the crap outta someone smaller than you to help make you feel better. Find someone who had just purchased the bundle for added effect ^_-||

 

Some older GBA tidbitties:
± MegaMan Zero is out. WAS out. I think i enjoyed it more than all the other of the X series COMBINED. At the very least, the PSX ones anyway.

± Castlevannia, a little shorted than the first on GBA, it seems. Still a good play. Obviously influenced by its predecessor, Symphony of the Night. DracX.

± SuperPuzzleFighterTurbo/X is coming to GBA!

 

Knockaround Guys. Not bad. Not as good as i had hoped. Brian Koppelman and David Levien filled out a cast of tough talent with characterization that left me wanting to know more about these sons of mafioso giants. Seth Green, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper, Dennis Hopper and John Malkovich. I had to go see this movie. Though entertaining, it seems like the plot was rushed towards the end where the pacing was very decent. I think i got my money's worth, but i dont think im gonna buy the DVD.

 

Speaking about seeing movies based on who's in the cast... Catch Me If You Can is looking pretty decent too.

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The biggest Wish I WASNT a Mac User Site of the Day:

iMacClothes.com

Ninja
"im a cop, you idiot!"

Ninja
"does this jacket make me look fat? (no, your face does)"

Ninja
"here he comes, here comes speed racer"

Ninja
"Bento boxin it, foo!"

Madden...Madden...Madden...

A few years ago when Lucky's (a small Local BayAreaCali chain) was bought out by Albertsons/Savon they had this thing where they were supposed to tell people seeking grocer needs about how their place was better than the competition or better than what Lucky's used to be cause they didnt NEED to implement a savings card feature to be a better place to save us money. There was this one particular poor excuse for living tissue who talked on about how becoming Albertson's was a better way for us, Mr/Ms Shopper, to shop and save.. as the workers grumbled in the background about how their cut in benefits and working style was compromised with the accusition. I dont know how eliminating their previous 24 hour open time and upsetting all of the nice people who work there was supposed to up on the shopping convenience. But, hey, they're the ones running their biz. Well, it looks like Savon has changed their attitudes. "Remember what we said about being better because we dont need to have a card? Well, forget everything we said that day. Ya'see, we were...drunk that day." is, i guess, what they want us to think now cause now they are implementing a savings card. At least its free. I dunno, ive been Albertson's hatin since they came to town. Now that im done deflating my argument (what little was there) how have you been?

 

This is a bit old now but: Capcom's Shinji Mikami went on and on hitting criticisms towards Sony, Square and general customers in a recent radio program in Japan. He mentioned that Sony makes their consoles easy to break to increase their installer base. He said they were selling so well cause people kept breaking their systems and were having to buy another to play their games. He said how he bought multiple of the same Sony Playstations to play single games. He said the same goes for all their products: PCs, walkmen, discmen, cellphones, etc. Its known that people in Japan toss out older stuff when the newer come out. Mikami said that sony makes things to only last two or so years and its "a way of cheating and committing a crime". He went on to say that Kingdom Hearts has sold so well is because when one person buys it all his friends do too, something he calls an "aura purchase" despite if the person likes that game or not. This was, as he cited, the main reason for Square's game selling better than Biohazard for the gamecube. He did say "Square please forgive me" he thought Biohazard was a much better game, though Kingdom Hearts was also a good game. He then proceeded to jump, bite and claw at the radio dj cause he was "looking at him funny". Apparently making good games is a bit... stressful.

 

Holy shit, what the fuck is this?! If you havent got this new and exciting SPORT at your school then chances are you have fancy things basketballs and tracks for running and other such absorptivly rich things like PLAYGROUNDS. If you DO have a CupStacking team at your school you prolly dont have TVs or a lot of time. Or both. Honestly, it really does look like its something of a sport (rules and everythang, pa!) which can be fun but something about it tells me to steer clear before i steer queer (HA HA, i make funny!). Still, the movies on this site are staggering "shown at actual speed". I only wish we had these kids working on things like curing cancer or something. Something like GOING OUTSIDE AND PLAYING like normal kids. Eh, to each his own.

 

Why the good goddamn is this news?

 

Micro$oft does it again, folks! Keyboard and exclusive character for Xbox PSO!


KOF2001 preorders open at NCSX.com

 

Yeah! Bandai, boo! Yeah! Bandai, boo!

Ninja
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way it treats its 'tards."