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break over soon

2010-04-19T10:08:00.001-04:00

Sorry about the slight hiatus that I have taken working on new blog now it will be out soon.

Site Changes

2010-03-24T20:02:00.003-04:00

Here is a quick blog, If you look at the top of the page you will see a beta request page, click it and give me some ideas, anything and everything is allowed.

Final Fantasy XIII (Or is it?)

2010-03-22T11:01:00.000-04:00

Ok so here we go again, this review is of Final Fantasy XIII, as it sounds it is the thirteenth installment of this very popular series (not including crystal chronicles and spin off titles such as Dirge of Cerberus and Crisis Core). The series has a rich history, but this installment seems to change many regulars about these games that fans have come to expect. One such change is the fighting style. The new fighting style is a mix of final fantasy favorite (and personal favorite) turn based fighting and free form which is the new craze. There are no random battles so you have to run into the creatures to fight them, and then your party enters a battle screen, in which you control one character and fight based on enemies weakness employing techniques of many paradigms.
What is a paradigm shift? Well in basic terms its the same as a job system. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, a job system is a way of controlling party members via a.i. (artificial intelligence)and the capabilities that each character may or may not have. A simple explanation being which is that there are three major classes in RPG type games, that is Physical, Those who rely on brute force, hand to hand contact, swords, blunt objects, even guns (This may be offensive or defensive), the second is White Mage, a white mage being one who uses magic to heal, despell status effects, and bring the dead back to life, sometimes white mages can even cast spells on its own party to enhance there capabilities, the last true character type is black mages, a black mage uses magic to inflict damage upon enemies, and they also cast spells that harm the status' of enemies. Now in most RPG's characters are assigned these roles by the developers and you as the consumer and player play as them as they are given to you. In a job based game however, the developers add a system, which differs from game to game but usually is relatively the same, and that ability is being able to alter a characters type, therefore a character or all characters can change based on opponents, this gives you an advantage of changing based on your needs. You can then make a Physical fighter a black mage, your black mage changes into a white mage and maybe your white mage turns into a black mage. The reason this is significant is that some characters can learn attacks in some classes that others may not be able to learn. For instance one black mage could learn fire, water and ice attacks, while another one may learn, water, earth, lightning, and dark attacks; depending on what you need one may be better than the other, there is also room for overlapping as seen in this example as both characters have the spell of water.
Well that is the job system and if you still don't get DON'T CRY ABOUT IT TO ME! This is a review of a game and I spent more time then i wanted defining job classes! So the jobs in this game are called paradigms. You may change your paradigms at any time in a battle, as long as you have it in a paradigm menu that you can customize in the main menu of the game. The paradigms that you have available to you are: Commando which is a Physical offensive type, then Sentinel which is a physical defensive type, Ravager which is a black magic type which focus's on attacking with elements, Medic which is the white mage that cures, then there is Saboteur which is a black mage that harms status's of opponents such as casting poison, debarrier, deprotect and such, lastly there is synergyst a white mage that casts status spells on your party like haste and protect and such. Once again once you get further in the game each character attains all paradigms and you can switch between paradigms at any time.
This brings up the question of how do you make characters stronger in each paradigm, what is the leveling up system. Well in this game that term has become obsolete because there are no levels in the game. After each fight you win CP which is the equivalent of experience points, you then use the CP points to advance your chrystalerium. I know what your saying.... "SLOW DOWN THERE TIGER WHAT THE FUCK IS A CHRYSTAKERIUM? WHERE DID YOU PULL THAT ONE OUT OF YOUR ASS?" Well its a little complicated but in simple terms its the system where you take the CP points and use them to develop paradigms making them more advanced. However each paradigm has a track that you must follow so its not free form, you have to go in order. The closest thing that there is to a leveling up system is the system for weapons. The new system for weapons is taking certain items and combining them with your weapon to add experience to it until it levels up and gains attack and magic bonuses, your weapon can even change completely making it a whole new weapon.
"START TALKING ABOUT THE GAME ALREADY GOD!" I know but these notes were worth making, it is the changing of one of the best franchises in gaming history, and for video game companies to actually try something new when they had is extremely rare and worth talking about, because most of the time it blows up in there face, and we the consumers pay the price because even if it sucks are you really not going to by Final Fantasy XIII lets be serious.
This is where I get to unveil my little joke on you guys, this is not a review of FF XIII it is actually a review of Squarenix, if anything at all besides the newest changes to my personal favorite game franchise. They have decided to change it up on us in an effort to blow us away. Well it is still to be decided if they accomplished there goal, that will take the review of many people, and the honestly it is in the people that make a game what it is so its up to you the gamer to decide.... "BUT NICK YOU STUPID FUCKING NINNY YOUR A GAME REVIEWER (at least in your own head... or is it my own head... talking with yourself is hard) ITS YOUR JOB TO TELL US WHAT TO BUY" For one if you are saying this don't trust me with your $60, and if you do want to do that, tell me I will give you my address and you can mail it to me "REALLY!?!?!?!?!" NO NOT REALLY GOD ITS SARCASM.... FUCKING IDIOTS! So here is the truth "YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!" I HATE YOU ALL! I have yet to beat the game and as such have an inability to review said game. So keep tuned for an actual review... and yes I know I'm talking to myself.

Yankees pre-season

2010-03-17T00:07:00.000-04:00

So its pre-season, and that can only mean one thing baseball is around the corner, and can I just say, HOLY FUCKING SHIT! its about time. There is a sporting dead hole for me in between football and baseball. I'm not big into hockey and I can really only watch post season basketball. BUT NOW THAT IS OVER! I will say this however, the winter Olympics were very exciting. I did jump on the bandwagon of curling I admit it, but it was cool... haha winter Olympic pun... Hockey was amusing among others but it was able to sustain my need for competition. Tiger Woods just declared that he would play in the Masters I'm psyched for that, and yes i still like Tiger Woods. Crucify me if you will I may not agree with his personal life but he may be the greatest athlete of our or of any time, so I think hes worth watching.

Ok I got of track. Lets talk baseball, the smell of pine tar is in the air. So its the pre-season, the meaningless games, yes some might say this but its a good time to scout talent and shake off the rust. Baseball starts on Easter Sunday and to me thats more important than anything else that ever happened on Easter... I mean its not like Easter has ever been really special, magical or divine in history. So the Yanks start off against the Sox all I have to say is beautiful, however, having them play so early means less games late and those are always more exciting. I truly believe thats what makes baseball so great, its the tension the thrill, the endless drawn out war that it is. Its the only sport where everyday is a battle and the cant be one in a single day, or even week. As a matter of fact sometimes seasons can be one by a strategic loss. It truly is a masterful sport.

Needless to say I'm excited, I am hoping to by tickets when they go on sale Friday. I have not yet been to the new stadium and that makes my heart sink. But I will remedy that like the festering infection that it is. A little bit about me and my Yankee loving self i guess is due to you, my favorite yankee is Texiera (he used to be my favorite player in baseball but then we signed him damn straight), other than him I like the captain of course and Cano, and who can forget Andy Pettite my south paw hero (since I also am a lefty pitcher), Jorge is up there and Mo of course, and against common belief I think A-Rod is amazing and deserves praise. I lived in Rhode Island most of my life and we do not get the YES network (the Yankees entertainment station I believe... point is this is the channel that has the rights to the Yankees) so I listened to all the games on the radio, I ususally caught around 150 games a year thats not so bad. Recently I have been finding hard to watch so many due to schedule, but I vow to catch at least 130 this year!

So here is my A.L. East predictions look for more to come: Yankees- 102 wins, Redsox - 91wins, Tampabay- 85 wins, Toronto- 72 wins, Baltimore- 60 wins

Surgery

2010-03-08T19:57:00.000-05:00

Hey all... Well I told you guys a post a week so here it is. Not much to talk about, I am getting surgery tommorow so thats something. i still need a cover for my dj shift thursday night so I am gonna give the list one more call, and then tell my manager. As for ranting, i'm really not in the mood, my mind is really on the surgery well have a good night everyone... and as always yes i know i'm talking to myself.

Its been awhile

2010-03-03T23:21:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone wow... its been awhile... a real while its almost a year, way to long to some up shortly. But there is a plus I work at a radio station WSOU and I will be blogging about that a lot from now and i promise to update more i have been a sloth i know and i promise to bring you the wacky crazy, slightly out of my mind reviews that i promised you before, I have played a lot of games recently watched many movies and the sports world is at its peak right now so there is a lot to say.

First of all a major reason i am updating my blog is because I want to be the webmaster for the station i work at and the current webmaster wanted to see my blog so I thought I would put a post up for him to read (hope you like it lol). Ill keep everyone updated on how this goes, and if anyone reading this lives in the New York, New Jersey area you can hear me on WSOU (89.5 FM) Friday mornings at 3-6am .

Ok so Ill fill you in with the big stuff, I am now a sophomore in college, The Yankees one the world series WOOT, team usa mens hockey fell to Canada *tear* played some great video games will get into that later but a good couple are: Bioshock 2, Dragon Age: Origins, NHL 2010, and many more; some movies that I have seen recently: Sherlock Holmes, Inglorious Bastards, and Law Abiding Citizen and more!

I will try to update at least weekly from now on SO BELIEVE IN ME I SWEAR IM A CHANGED MAN! This is a man blogging about what he believes in... and yes I know im talking to myself.

This one goes out to the ones I love

2009-04-01T19:56:00.000-04:00

Hey I dont know who's out there and who's reading, but being new on the blogging scene I didnt know what to expect, so I was nervous. After a few posts though, I have to say I am thoroughly loving it and I will continue to do it, so I love whoever's reading, and just saying I know its been awhile, but its summer and now I have free time. So love you all (knows I'm talking to myself).

Review: Resident Evil 5

2009-03-30T20:12:00.000-04:00

I plan on being a harsh reviewer, something like Ben Yahtzee if you are familiar with him... So when I decided to blog about Resident Evil five (RE5)...Fuck My Life. The game was good... okay great. I am currently in the process of achievement whoring my third time through the game. To date this is probably my favorite 360 game. (Unfortunately for anyone who cares, I just sold my WII for a lack of games it was providing for me so all I have left is my 360, but fear not since to a great roommate the magic of the PS3 is available Yay bluray, (yet I still don't see the actual fucking difference)) So listen I cant just go off on how amazing this game was (and it was), though it had flaws. Lets start with the aiming system, the laser is sometime mysteriously missing, and you wonder why game developers that would make a aiming system that doesn't fucking aim, sometimes it the lasers only purpose seems to be a Christmas decoration floating through the air, maybe to the sound of Pink Floyd, but it fails at that too since your only fucking pissed at it for being significantly fucking absent when a horde of zombies... actually a horde of parasitic infested humans (sure capcom... not zombies) are trying to enjoy you like a ham fucking sandwich and all the help you get from the laser is a postcard from somewhere preferably less zombie infested, soaking under the sun sucking on a straw which is quenching its fucking thirst with the great taste of a fucking Pina Colada instead of telling me where TO FUCKING SHOOT like a guiding laser should. Thankfully capcom kept the arch rival of the zombie and apparently the arch rival of the guiding lazor, the shotgun, which helps the fucking aiming system because of the spray of the bullets produced from the shotgun covers everywhere you assume the aiming laser to be. As far as actual gameplay that is my only main concern with it, maybe except the apparnt lack of concern in the movements of your main characters. You figure stranded in the middle of Africa with thousands of zombies attacking you, and a arch nemesis in Wesker who leaves you in a corner staring at a picture of him wishing you could be more like him like a pre-pubescent teen acne infested dork looking up to the leather jacket wearing pimp of your school, while you cry yourself to sleep in your envy, he will continue to get cooler and cooler until you rage up against him in an epic battle in which he ends up dodging bullets and then proceeds to put a gun to your head, or at least that's how my pre-pubescent acne infested dork (and they were) years went... Okay that might actually be just the game but still, that's how middle school worked in my head, anyway with all this stacked against you your main characters move very lethargically throughout the game, which I think would be atypical in such a situation, maybe its to much to ask for a little bit of urgency in a emergency type situation. Lastly there is Sheva... oh Sheva, why isn't there a friendly fire option. This game lacks puzzles that are expected of the series, the only true puzzle seems to be how to give a equal share of ammunition to yourself who will smartly conserve ammo for the most dangerous situations, and Sheva who sees walls as such a great threat that every drop of ammo will be poured into them. So here is some advice PLAY WITH A FUCKING FRIEND IF YOU DON'T WANT A PARTNER WITH ITS BRAINCELL TELLING IT TO RAM ITS HEAD INTO THE FUCKING ZOMBIES MOUTH BECAUSE ITS SAFE IN THERE. I think the presidents daughter from RE4 is more helpful than Sheva because at least she fucking ducked when you pointed a gun at her. Okay, I'm done ragging on the game, here is whats good. The story line is intense, there are a few plot twists (though you'll see them all coming), the ammo to zombie ratio is good, keeping the game both challenging yet possible. At the end of the game there are a few bonuses to keep playing, different costumes, figurines, mercenary mode etc... There are in level Easter eggs called emblems that you have to find to unlock certain figurines and such... some friendly advice get an online guide to find them... they are put in the most insane devilish locations, where in some cases you cant even see them or they are so far away that the dot on your sniper scope is three times bigger than the fucking emblem. IT is if satan came up from his fucking hellish home (see what i did there, clever ain't I?) and inspired capcom to fuck its players with insane unfair, unreasonable, and an overall fuck shit head move by placing these things in the middle of nowhere in shitsville bumble fuck Tennessee where to see them you have to look at it just right, at dawn, on a Sunday, with a magnifying class, in the month of April, but only after a leap year, from on top of an unscalable mountain, and then aim for a glimmer off a blue shaped emblem, twenty miles away, blending in with a background of the same FUCKING COLOR, so in the apparent words of capcoms developers "GO FUCK YOURSELF GAMERS, GOOD LUCK COLLECTING AND BURN IN HELL." The main point of this review however, is to tell you to buy this game 5 out of 5 two thumbs up, whatever you want to say, the good outshines the bad, Its a fun game, that will occupy your life, and once again the RE series lives on continuing its noble, yet slightly over lived life, and I cant wait for RE6, so I'm signing off have Fun.

What I'm all about

2009-03-30T17:39:00.001-04:00

Whats Up Blogging word? This is my first blog so treat me nice, or I might cry... or go off on a tangent about how I will find you when your sleeping and "gut you like a fish!" (Jim Careys How the Grinch Stole Christmas) If you have not seen this movie then your living under a rock GO FUCKING SEE IT. Anyway I love the internet, so I thought I would give the blogging thing a try. I want you to know that I am a nerd, and that admition is the first step so I just thought I should let you know. I'll talk about anything, and then everything, and then go on a tangent about your mother. Thats just me, love me, or hate me, I dont care and thats who I am!