humbling rexperience

i just beat phantom dust. Now, to those of you who haven't played it, its too bad. It is now one of my most favorite games. The end boss was an oversized helping of rapefruit, but i managed to overcome...after a few days of continuous losses. It was just a matter of time. For lo, while my characters in videogames might even have infinite lives but still die, i do not give up so easily! Mwahaha! ok i tend to get a little angry sometimes..... we've got problems.


i really, really like the storyline for the game. Really nice take on the whole god bit, it tickled my smarty think parts, and gave me an IQ erection.

And kind of left it open for a sequel? hmmm? i dunno what kind of storyline would follow the amazing one they just put together, but the gameplay was also fantastic, and something i would love to play other people with instead of the bots. Don't get me wrong! The Ai programming was pretty good, but still had its faults (dodging without checking to see if you're going to fall off when the incoming shot would have done less damage than a plummet into the rebirthing abyss, continuously chasing me in circles when i KNOW you have a melee weapon and all i have is a flagrant vocabulary, just to kill time)

The soundtrack was good too! So thats why its now on my top list of good games that didn't get the plugging they deserved. Eternal Darkness, Beyond Good and Evil, and now Phantom Dust. Sure Square will have its own trohpy room with the ever magnificent and (at least to me) inspiring Secret of Evermore, FF7 (ok and 6), and nintendo's party palace of Zelda, Smash Bros, and slew of other good titles. Lets break it down:

Nintendo knows how to make games replayable, fun, and downright enjoyable all around, for all types of people. They understand what videogames are supposed to be, single AND multiplayer, and they like to try new things.

Square knows how to keep me interested with great writing and endless gameplay, they are masters of Eon Spanning Games. 70 hours to beat FF7 the first time. Seriously, that was like 3-4 hours at a time, with the occasional 12 hour saturday with no homework or chores. High quality entertainment, to be sure, and though they try new things, they set the standards or bar WAY too high for their extraneous department, and can things they shouldn't can.

But then we have the indy dev. co.'s, the first timers who are either veterans of the game-making sport with feisty noobs, or a ragtag team of whoever would take the pay, and they don't dissapoint. They are the vanguard of continuous creativity, the ones that the big dogs wish they had in THEIR creative departments, and often spend big money to collect them for their own.

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Ya know, its not too late for me to get into making videogames. I can still do the other things i like to do, and get paid for a creative outlet. But the only strengths i really have are writing and programming, at least applicable to the videogame market, as well as a Winning Personality! Every time i thought about it before, it seemed like the wrong thing to do: spend $$$ or DEBT into college to get the fancy paperwork and proper skills, then go whore myself or join a team of friends to make videogames, and do our fucking bestest to make the next WarioWare or Razzmatazz Golem Fighters, errrr, i mean robo-pit. (Thats another under-played classic). Ya know...

I've spent my growing life playing videogames and reading fantasty books, and fighting people in a ring. Why not go for it, huh? I'm interested in travel, but im down with vacations. And as much as i'd hate to admit it, it'd be a lot less stressful in the long run to just save $$ then try to steal it.... and enjoy things i like in the meanwhile, i mean....i think i get too caught up in my own Fight The Man booyaka. Fuck the man, he's a suicidal maniac anyways. Who wants to fight a suicidal maniac, thats an annoying greedy liar? It's way easier to just wait til he turns his back to a window.

But yeah....its been on my mind. I know me and nick have been vying for a lucrative expenditure of our creative talent, and not to mention: gamer chicks are hot man, specially the smarter ones. Or at least, there are hot ones; not all of them are hot. Hmmmm. Get to goto all the big 'cons, be a rockstar....

I'm only 23. And its not like i'd be starting something new....so much as finishing something i've left undone....

Hmmm, requires more thinkatronics.

im gonna go oompa a loompa or two.