A decade of gaming
Well the end of the decade is here and I think its a good time to do a quick run down on my favourite games on the last decade. Before anyone complains I will only be counting game I have actually played so the likes of uncharted and AC2 are out of the running. my second rule the game must of been released in the UK within the last 10 years (so if they were released in 1998 in Japan but 2002 in the UK its still counts)
ok lets being with 1999 because that was a great year (even though its not part of this decade).
1999
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Medal of Honor
- Metal Gear Solid
- Driver
- Jade Cocoon
2000
- Hogs of War
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Medal of Honor: Underground
- Colin McRae Rally 2.0
- Parasite Eve II
2001
- The Legend of Dragoon
- Final Fantasy IX
- Breath of Fire IV
- Pokémon Gold/Silver
- Digimon World (it was a great/hard game)
2002
- Final Fantasy VI (first official UK release)
- Grandia II
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Kingdom Hearts
- Golden Sun
2003
- Beyond Good & Evil
- Project Zero (Released 2003 on Xbox)
- Final Fantasy Anthology(FFIV and FFV)
- Call of Duty
- Clock Tower 3
2004
- Tales of Symphonia
- Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
- Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen
- Final Fantasy XI
2005
- Fahrenheit
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
- Guild Wars
- Roller Coaster Tycoon 3
2006
- Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC)
- Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
- Kingdom Hearts 2
- Final Fantasy XII
2007
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (first official UK release)
- Eternal Sonata
- Blue Dragon
- Portal
- Team Fortress 2
2008
- Valkyria Chronicles
- Lost Odyssey
- Fallout 3
- LittleBigPlanet
- Saints Row 2
2009
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
- Dissidia: Final Fantasy
- Final Fantasy VII (PSN) (ran out of good games for 2009)
- Steam Arena
The Decade
- The Legend of Dragoon
- Valkyria Chronicles
- Lost Odyssey
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
- Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
- Hogs of War
- Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
- Beyond Good & Evil
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- Team Fortress 2
I’m Sure this list has annoyed a few people but I don’t care these are my games of the last 10 years so 
to you.
I also sure I’ve missed a few but at the end of the day if I’ve forgot about them there not important.
I’ve also noticed that my top 10 of the decade are almost all RPG’s
Well Happy new year to everyone 
Also note to self buy a damn camera in the new year!
Challenge
now I’m setting myself the challenge to play every single one of those games from start to finish over the course of 2010. Starting with 1999 and working my way up to 2009 should be fun
Never ending
Looks like the Christmas todo list is going to have to wait until Easter I only have 3 weeks to get 3 massive projects completed!
first is a project which I will not be discussing in this blog entry but lets just say this has been pushed to the bottom of the pile far to many times and now it must be finished asap
next are projects for work that never got finished but I’m hoping 2 days will solve this one (I hope)
which only leaves me 2 weeks to get most of my uni project programmed… which I’m being optimistic about even after been told my project its up shit creek without a paddle.
and in this time I need to do Christmas shopping and actually do Christmas… emm time machine please?
and what could possibly make this worse? emm I wonder…
yes its having to spend a good part of the next 3 weeks working on a mac! so slow progress and annoying errors and crashes yay how I do love using that unstable crappy OS it might not have a BSOD but it certainly likes not booting after you install complex software! 2 failed boots and formats in a single day… yea the worlds best operating system my ass.
Christmas The Fun @TODO List
I also have a not so fun one, which consists of writing buckets loads of code and report writing… but I’ll have a few days here and there.
ok I have a small games list that seems to be growing every time I look at it…(This doesn’t include any new releases! apart from 1)
Xbox 360
- Chrome Hounds (I will finish this I promise)
- Devil May Cry 4 (still sealed!) (£5)
- Infinite Undiscovered (not a bad game just so hard to get back into) (£35)
- Kengo Zero (this thing got rated lower than the game I worked on!) (£2.50)
- Mass Effect (DLC)
- PGR4 (£15)
- WarTech (£2.50)
- GRID (Well probably not) (£20)
- Ridge Racer 6 (£5)
- Street Fighter IV (yawn) (£35)
- The Last Remnant (£5 from HEAD brand new)
- The Simpsons Game (£10)
- Fallout 3 DLC
- Star Ocean 4 (£40)
- Golden Axe (£5)
- Ninja Gaiden 2 (£5)
- Forza 3 (technically a new released so £40)
- Condemned 2 (£10 really disappointed so far in this)
Emm yea there’s A lot of hours there…
PC
- Dragon Age: Origin
- DOW 2 (started it loved it not finished DOH)
- Left 4 Dead 2 (Yea maybe in the new year)
- Overlord II
There are a lot more those are just the ones I want to play
PS3
emmm Nothing actually, best £400 I ever spent…
Wii
- A boy and his blob
PS2
- MagnaCarta (started it)
That’s it
ok that’s the games out the way… and looking back I really need to stop buying 360 games when I see them for about £5 but its so tempting plus you can get some good games (forza 2 cost me £2.50)
other fun things to do, sleep, drink, eat and sleep
Now i don’t expect to get any of those done but I’m gonna try! And who knows next semester might give me some free time.
Dammit that’s reminded me I need a copy of Leopard or snow leopard…
And just to piss everyone off who haven’t started Christmas yet here you go. Still doesn’t count UNTIL I see it on TV so I’m still safe
This one better though
Nearly over the hump
Well the end of this semester is in sight, which is both good and bad.
Firstly the bad by next Monday I will have a good 70% of the total University work done (This semester anyway) but the last 30% is not going to be that easy.
The good is Christmas is coming, now I honestly and truly hate Christmas the whole hype and craziness over a single religious holiday is a joke. But I don’t care about all that I just want the time off to rest catch up on games from 2 years ago along with all the new ones.
Sounds like a plan but the holiday will be tainted by my university project… bleh well at least I can stay in bed late and just do a bit here and there. Should hopefully be able to actually recharge for a change.
On that note I will have to spent a few days sorting out my music collection its currently fubar so that means hours and hours of ripped, tagging and downloading in some cases. WMP states 582 hours but i know that’s wrong cause most of the tracks don’t even report there track length anymore so 12,000 Tracks seems a better representation(12,000 4 min tracks is 800 hours).
and speaking of Fubar I need to rebuild my Foobar. its getting there its going to take a while though
my original foobar setup
the little red T indicates no replay gain data which in this case means corrupt so you can kind of see what I’m up against.
my foobar mark 2
This version is still missing a lot of features and colour scheme, such as no lyrics or search and even the correct playlist layout. Though I have used this opportunity to change a few bits like album art but I’ll finish it another time. oh and I’ve already started writing my plugin for better playlist support but that probably going to have to wait until the new year.
Also you may notice a lot of those tracks are in 192kbps! Now that’s another reason to rip them again most of my tracks have been reripped into flac but there’s still a lot of tracks at below 320kbps 48khz which kind of annoys me (depends on the track).
but for now Its back to WMP for lack of any alternative.
you can make you own foobar as well just download Foobar 2000 and get modding and if you can be bothered there a few preinstalled setups and there are loads of plugins written by the community and even a few remade setups you can probably download. Though its only for the people who really want 100% control over there music and have the time to set it all up.
It can also be used to sync your iphone or ipod as well as stream to 360 and PS3 and everything else there’s even a milkdrop extension (project visualisation used un winamp)
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emmm there seems to be a bug in Writer, it keeps thinking the word here means that stupid connie link?? emm wtf? every time i right here or maybe not? here here here emmm whatever, i’ll leave this in to see if it stops doing it now
Bargain
now the interesting thing is you can buy 36.6TB in 1TB dives for the much now or 15.4 TB in 2TB drives
8 Bit Pwny Club
During a random break on you tube this morning I came across a new animation done by good old Weebl (Jonti Picking)
Episode 1
Episode 2
very sad I know but there good for a laugh.
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) – Review
so it is a bloody mess or is it as good as the original.
before I even do this quick review (and it will be quick just doing it to break my day up a bit) i think we can guess it going be very terrible because its a live action remake. But to be fair it was much better than I expected it did actually have parts of the original still in it!! shock!
now if you are going to watch and expect a good film go away now its just not a pile a steaming whatever. if you liked the creepy dark feel of the original you will be disappointed with this.
first we start off in the exact same way at the original so all things started perfectly (expect the black guy has been changed to some annoying American white guy)
so far its all good she kills the guy and puts him in-between the trains for safe keeping. now the secon she gets off the train the film goes from being a stunning 10/10 to a 9/10 so ok I can deal with the character changes though Liam Cunningham does a great job as playing Michael shame though cause he’s the only person who stayed even close to the original.
great actor shame he also one of those people where you go oh I remember him from something what was it…?
ok now this is where it gets bad so Saya is sent to the school where some people have been killed by some “bloodsuckers” so ok that’s correct still a 9/10. Now enter annoying American number 2 who is called Alice Mckee played by Allison Miller. She is really only in this film to drive the cars and look helpless.
not the worlds greatest actor and she was only used in this one to advance the plot! wait what? why does the plot need advancing it did fine by itself before. oh joy 8/10
now sit though some pointless school class crap where they talk about boring stuff yay 3 minutes of filler just what I wanted. now cut to a scene where its kendo practice but it now mad demons with swords trying to kill off the support character!
then saya comes in to save the worthless teen so annoying American saved once to advance plot.Then the “council” turns up to clean up and the American army goes ape shit so annoying american 2 goes into town to find some answers. Then is turns into L4D2
look I’m on the roof in the middle of town just cause I might be needed to save some stupid girl.
Looks Resident evil 4 without the chainsaw.
emm fake computer generated blood amazing. oh look annoying American 2 get saved again then she drives the car onto the air base and trigger the end of the original film. Did i point out we are 35 mins in.
so now its time for extra plot which I’m not going to bore you with but it consists of annoying American 1 killing everyone so Saya and annoying American 2 run away and get attacked by some random demon she failed to kill 400 year prior. then its time for pointless demon battle star wars style. With the most predictable (suppose to be plot twist) of all time cause its never been done before.
Then they win an annoying American 2 ends up in a mental hospital and Saya is stuck looking for a way back home. So leave it open for a sequel which has no point what so ever.
probably worth a rent if you like watch films a lot or you just want to see how bad it can be. I’ll compare it to a Dragonball Live action moment you watch it cause they did it. so my advice rent it don’t go a buy it on blu ray like it did. and the only reason why I’ve given it such a high rating it because there are a few good bits like the opening… and the credits and ok a few of the fight scenes
5/10
Ninety Nine Nights 2 – TGS 2009
Looks like a right bloody affair and a massive improvement from the first one, which to be honest there was plenty of things that needed improving and the frame rate certainly was one of them.
But this looks like its going to be a gritty brown and black style game, which will be a shame after all the rich colours in the first game but saying that it might lend it self well to the large amount of blood
Though this may be down to the fact its appears that the game has been made in a different engine (not sure) but it appears that Phantagram have nothing to do with this project (kingdom under fire series) this time and its being coded by the team that did lost odyssey so at least the frame rate and the graphical effects are going to look amazing.
one thing though none of the original characters appear to be in this, which in some cases is good but a few of them were pretty ace. Though saying that it would appear that Dwingvatt is still in it but I’m so glad that Inphyy isn’t in it one of the most annoying main character ever in a game.
looks like some good boss fights as well though in the trailer I’m pretty sure I saw a quick time event (I hope not)
regardless here’s the trailer, looks pretty good.
Another one of those stop start thingies
I love stop motion there’s just something about it that I love its probably just the sheer amount of time that goes into making such a short clip.
well here’s another good one for you all to enjoy
feel the pain of that poor rubix cube 
ok back to Gantt charts WHOO!
OK officially back
ok this is the first official post of the new formatted blog I have about 10 failed post from that last few months that I need to publish and now I can YAY! so once I find them out (on my external back up drive) because i wrote them before my last format. I’ll publish them
well it good to be back so now I can sort out all the loose ends that I couldn’t before *dances*