Well, I'm Sad Now

Apparently Nintendo Power is finished. The last issue will run in December and after that, a twenty four year long era comes to a close. I dropped my subscription about thirteen years ago sometime in 1999; at least I think, it might have been sooner. After that, I subscribed to EGM for a bit then wound up with a free year of Game Informer that I didn't want a few years back. Gaming magazines had become completely irrelevant to me sometime around 2001-2002 as I had found Gamefaqs. I didn't need them anymore, so why am I sad? Simple, I was three years old when I got my first glimpse of Nintendo Power and it started a chain reaction that probably kept me a gamer.

My uncle was a gamer back then and had a subscription to the magazine. I remember seeing a small stack of the magazines at my grandma's house and the cover of the one at the top of the stack was some kind of clay art picture of Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario Bros. 2, I don't really remember. Fast forward two years to 1990; I'm five years old and I occasionally flip through my uncle's issues, but don't know what the hell they're about. Then he pops Super Mario Bros. 3 in his NES. I instantly recognize the stout mustachioed man on the screen; it's the guy from the book! So, I sit and watch and watch and watch. I just watched my uncle conquer that game. Now I know the importance of those magazines; they contain vital information relating to video games.

Skip ahead about five or six more years(memory's a tad hazy); I'm a young gamer, with a subscription to NP. I've read Howard and Nester, I had the issues with the Super Metroid comics and the Link to the Past comics. I've read the columns, the reviews, the letters and the cheats. Much of my taste in videogames has been shaped by this wondrous publication.


...In about five years I would drop it like a rock and move onto to EGM. I kept the issues I had built up, though; I think. I got rid of a lot(read: plastic storage tub full) of my old magazines a couple of years ago. After this, it was Gamefaqs and then multiple other websites. If I hadn't laid eyes on that magazine over twenty years ago, I might not have become a gamer and now that magazine is going to end in December. At least I have the memories.

Well, Fuck...

My PSP of less than two years is shot. A month and a half ago, I get a game I've been wanting to play, I put it in, turn on the system and get stuck with the start up loading screen. After trying a few more times, I check the memory card slot; no memory card. Must've shot out when the system was knocked off the table by the cat or dogs.

So, after cursing incoherently for a bit I decide to order a new eighty dollar memory card. No big deal, my progress in Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Star Ocean: First Departure, Maverick Hunter X, and Megaman: Powered Up!(Yay, now I have to start from scratch with the custom stage I was building!) is gone forever. No reason to flip out.

So, I spend a month waiting and finally get a new memory card. I download and install the system update, again and... I still can't play my games. Apparently when the system took a fall, the drive busted. I turned the system on and used a butter to press the tab that tells the system there's a disc in there. The motor doesn't spin and there's no light from the laser assembly.

So, I'm totally not flipping my shit and making up new profanities right now.


What happened to the days of quality handhelds? I remember the original GameBoy and how that thing was tough as a brick. I remember reading an old Nintendo Power article about how one was in a fire and the casing was half melted when it was found but it still played games. I remember mine hitting the floor quite a few times without any of the inner workings being fucked up. Unless it was one of the things that got looted years ago during one of my many moves, I probably still have it; buried in a plastic tote box. Hell, if I do still have it, it probably still works. If I ever com across it, I'll test out my copy of Poke'Mon Yellow on it.

Now it seems like every handheld system these days is about as tough as a flimsy plastic container. You'd think all those fancy new innards would be protected a bit better.







...Yes, I'm going to eventually buy a new PSP. It'd cost more to find digital downloads of all the games I currently have and I'm not sure they're all available as digital copies anyway.

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Capcom's Latest Steaming Pile

THIS is what they decide to do with Megaman after cancelling Universe and Legends 3?! People wait for ten years to get Legends 3 and then we get dicked around for a year with progress updates and screenshots and fan involvement before they cancel it and their Europe branch blames the fans, when they weren't even promoting the damn game. These are the same fans that thought their involvement meant something, the fans who've waited for years for fucking closure after the cliffhanger ending of Legends 2, the fans who were absolutely elated that the sequel they've been waiting ten years for was being made! Then Capcom pretty much flips the entire damn Megaman fanbase the bird and cancels the game, despite promising to release the prototype and gauge how well that did before making a decision about it's fate.

THIS is the steaming pile of regurgitated skunk excrement that they deliver to the "fans". A crappy social phone game crossover that let's you "hur design your own Megaman". We would have been able to do that with Universe.

First, they let Breath of Fire die a slow, silent death, then two epic looking Megaman games get canned and to add insult to injury, the chances of Ace Attorney Investigations 2 being localized become exceptionally bleak.

I'm officially done with Capcom. Unless they go forward with Legends 3, they're dead to me. Maybe if they make X9; but that's never going to happen. Megaman characters have been demoted to starring in crappy phone games.

Drama

Drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama...











drama. Maybe if I start using physical violence, it'll finally go the fuck away. I'm seriously on edge and have no idea ho much more I can take before...well; let's just say "very bad things" start happening. The universe is really pouring it on this time. The funny thing is, this is how comic book villains are created. All it takes is one bad day and BOOM! they're tearing the multiverse a new one all because they were treated like crap/screwed over/lost a loved one.

Heh, all of that's happened to me. If I ever develop some kind of superhuman talent or skill, I'm going to devote my life to figuring out how I can use it to exact revenge on the universe, and then for shits and giggles; take over the world. Of course; if I accomplish this, I'll totally become a benevolent ruler that's all about eliminating crime completely, tolerance of other cultures, etc. It'd be like an amalgamation of Gandhi, Al Gore and Coop from Megas XLR having absolute power over the world. Peace amongst everyone, keep the environment alive and veg out watching TV and playing videogames; that would be my personal creed.

Of course, this is never going to happen and I'm stuck being one of the universe's many victims. My role in existence is taking all kinds of crap and bitching about it while simultaneously doing nothing to break the cycle.

*sigh* One of these days, I'm going to just unload and write a long ass post that tells the story of why I always let a bit of drama get me so down.

Fall of Cybertron,

has consumed me; and it's only the demo. I've spent the last week playing FoC, War for Cybertron and arguing with people on Gamefaqs about both. When the retail copy I pre-ordered arrives in the mail, I may very well spend every bit of free time I have with it for a few months; possibly longer. This is one of the few game franchises where both the single and multiplayer modes have me in their iron grip and I'm sure as hell not fighting it.

So, I'll try to keep posting, but if I don't until, like, October anyone reading this will know why. It goes without saying that my RPG Maker Blog may suffer the same inactivity, though I will try to get the screenshots I promised up sometime within the next couple of weeks.

Aaaaaand it's Another Post

Holy-I'm starting to freak myself out a bit with this posting streak I've got going, especially since I've downloaded the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron demo and may or may not be in a state of semi-fanboyish glee that has caused me to all but disappear from the internet completely in the past.

Anyway, this post is about said demo. I can't really say anything about the single player mode, though I did hear co-op campaigns are gone, which doesn't affect me since my multiplayer experience from the previous game came from escalation and the various multiplayer modes. Multiplayer is where I'm spending my time with the demo and I'm absolutely loving it. While the classes are the same(three being renamed) they seem more balanced than the previous game; (well I haven't really played the scientist yet so I'm not sure about that one).

I used to stick to Soldier and Leader in War for Cybertron and I sucked at being a Scout and Scientist so much that I hated playing as them. This time around I enjoy playing as a Scout/Infiltrator. I played a few matches as the Infiltrator and was surprised I didn't completely suck at it. I love the Path Blaster; I've dubbed it the "Jet Killer". In one match, a player from the opposing team opted to play as a Scientist. They hovered around in jet mode, raining down misslely death on my teammates. I constantly killed them with the pathblaster; It also has great aim. This match soon turned into a game of "I killed you three times in a row, you got me once" on constant repeat.

I also love the more robust character customization system for multiplayer. Right now in the demo, there isn't much, but it's great. I'm absolutely going to pre-order this game the first chance I get. I'm sure I'll enjoy it just as much as it's predecessor, if not more. Oh, wait. This one has Grimlock...I'm definitely going to enjoy it more.