Objection!

So, I played all through ‘Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney’ and Phoenix Wright 2: Justice for All’, and it has changed me profoundly. It’s not like it changed my prospective on life or on reality, it just plain ol’ changed how I act. Now when people talk, it’s like I’m constantly looking for contradictions in their statements, then I would cry out “OBJECTION!” and present evidence to put them in their place. This hasn’t actually happened yet, but I know it’ll happen eventually. One day, one of you jokers will slip up in a big lie and I’ll SO call you on it.

On the topic of gaming, I have recently decided that I shall embark on a courageous scheme of… bum bum BUUUM, buying a new computer! I know that I HAVE a computer, but it’s not mine. It’s the ‘downstairs’ computer, and when I move out, I can’t very well take it with me. Also, my laptop is not Xtreme enough to run the awesome games I plan on playing.
If I am to buy a computer, I could, theoretically, buy a good one that will be good for me right now and stay good for at least a year or two. OR I could buy a wicked axesome computer that will be good for at least 5 years, and leave me room to grow thereof.
How can a computer be good for that long? Poppycock! It can’t. Or can it? Firstly I want to get a Quad-Core Processor, which, because the technology is knew and gaming companies are yet to utilize it’s full potential, so that will come in handy when the time comes that they are standard. Also, I wanted 4 slots for ram, leaving me room to grow. Wielding those two weapons, my computer could stay relatively top of the line for a good, long while.
What does a computer like that cost? Perhaps poverty.

Tacticians

Right now, I’ve got three activities I’m-a working on. That is working at the Deli, listening to “The Dragon Reborn,” book 3 of the Wheel of Time series, and I’m playing Final Fantasy Tactics for the Playstation. Here’s a healthy update on all of those activities.

Work sucks. I’m no good at working at a deli, and, what’s worse, the stupid Union sucks up an unhealthy $15 from every one of my paychecks. I made 16 sandwiches the other day. 16!! When you make a sandwich for yourself, it a whole different mind set then when you make 16 of them. It’s like it on a whole different mental plane of existence. Then I have to skewer about a thousand chickens ((Literally not a hyperbole!))… and now, because the fat-cats up in head office think that us lowlings don’t deserve garbage, we have to find a supervisor to open up the trash shoot for us, because heaven forbid the deli gets a key. If anyone knows where I should work, please tell me.
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.” Hurrah for the Wheel of Time! I’ve got basically all of the books, except for, perhaps, the newest one. I downloaded The Dragon Reborn audio book so that I can listen to it and do other things at the same time. Much more time efficient that actually reading it. All though it’s going to take a bizillion years ((Literally not a hyperbole!)) to read, instead of the usual 1/2 a bizillion years it takes me to read books on my own. It’s not that I’m a slow reader. I’m actually a pretty fast reader. It’s the fact that the act of reading is such a time-sink!
Final Fantasy Tactics is the absolute second best game of all time, behind Chrono Trigger, of course. As we all know, the story is the most important part of the game, and Tactics is easily a 12.5/10 (125% good!) on the Game-Story Scale. Seriously. If you haven’t played it, or haven’t played it in oh so very long, then you don’t even realize. So epic. Warring kingdoms, political strife, backstabbing, killing, murder, love, betrayal, demons, robots, Cloud from FFVII…. This game has it all! And a wicked Job system to boot. Seriously, this game kicks. Kicks. Butt.

Seriously.

Wow, Seriously

I made a funny. You see, when I typed ‘Wow’, I was actually referring to the game “World of Warcraft,” that, when abbreviated, makes ‘WoW,’ which, when perceived in freecase, could translate to Wow. This is a funny because I’m going to talk about WoW! Hurray! I know I’m always ranting about story, but if I immersed myself always in good story, well then I wouldn’t get as much satisfaction out of life. You must starve yourself from what you truly desire.
And as long as I’m starving myself from story for a while, I might as well be entertained. So far, WoW is the only game to-date that I find enjoyable to play after so many hours of playing it. Seriously, Wow. Others should join. Seriously. But, if anyone is going to do anything that I suggest, watch Battlestar Galactica.
Just typing those two words makes my heart ACHE. It’s aching because I know that it won’t be until FREAKING SEPTEMBER until I get to see any more of it. It makes me want to just hibernate through the summer just to get to it. But I can’t hibernate because I’m not a bear. I just can’t “BEAR” to wait! But, seriously folks, I like WoW. I’m playing a druid, and I’m level 62. I need to level up.
Seriously.

Seriously. Watch BSG. So that YOUR heart may ache as well! MUAHAHAHA.

Anyway, I like WoW for many reasons. It’s got a seriously good community. Hardly any game can claim that. Counterstrike? Yeah right. Final Fantasy XI? “”Sorry! I am not in speaking of English!” That’s not very fun. Lone RPs don’t provide the sort of comradeship that an MMORPG does, and just going online to ‘chat’ isn’t fun enough. Ok, sure, you’ll get the odd dorky dweep who’s all like WOOH, I’VE GOT NO SOCIAL SKILLS… But that doesn’t happen very ofter, especially when you’re in a good guild. Then you deal with your guildmates, who are usually just like you. Oh, and we have this one guild member… she’s like a 45 year old mother. She’s all like, “Sorry, guys, I can’t run Karazan tonight. I’ve gotta pick up my kids from school,” in her wicked southern accent. Old woman gamers are hot. Seriously. (More like NOT, am I right? lawl)
World of Warcraft also offers good depth to the game play. Sure you can mash your abilities hoping to kill the enemy, but you really have to know the subtleties of your class if you want to be productive. Things like that make it interesting to play, and also rewarding to play for a long time.
And then, WoW is, like, the ONLY MMORPG where soloing is an option. Try pulling that off in FFXI, or EQ, or EQII, or RO, or Rose. Or any other MMO. Even though I am playing an MMORPG for the multiplayer action, sometimes it is fun just to fight alone. Grouping is really just for hard quests and dungeons.
SPEAKING OF WHICH! There are actually DUNGEONS in this game. Like, “go from room to room killing everything until you get to the boss and kill him” type place. That is so awesome! AWESOME.

All in all, I really like WoW. And I will probably be playing it all the way throughout summer. Until school and BSG start up again.

Seriously, play Wow.

Seriously.

Watch BSG.

Seriously

Greatest Aphrodisiac

Ooh, I love tetris. I love it so much. I realize how silly it is for me to like it so much considering how that the reason I play games is for the story. I would have to say, though that it is my favourite game of all time. Bar Chrono Trigger.
It’s just such a… mental workout to play Tetris. Constant arranging. Constant organizing. Which is perfect for me because I’m so anal. I know what you are thinking, “Tyler, anal? Nigga’ please!” But it is true. And Tetris is the ultimate anal test. Ah, thinking about this makes we want to whip out my Tetris DS and pwn nubs online. I love pwning nubs. Nubs suck.

Good Story

When people say to me, “oh, you’ve gotta beat this game,” or “oh, you’ve gotta play this series,” the first thing that pops into my mind is, “no, it’s probably going to suck.” I realized today that nothing, and I mean nothing, interests me in a game more then the story line. That’s why I play games. I don’t care if it has nice graphics. I don’t care if it has handsome gameplay. All I care about is the story. I’ll say it loud; I’m a Story Whore.
Video Games, Movies, TV shows, and Books are all entertainment. To me, they all supply the same form of entertainment. I mean REAL entertainment. They all provide access to something other then simple comedy or visual stimulus. They are all just different media for a story. Now, VGs are my favourite medium for a story because:
Books take too long to read.
There are too few good TV shows (Only show worth BSG).
Movies are too short.
That’s why I’m not playing World of Warcraft anymore. There wasn’t a predominant, nor a meaningful or complex, storyline. That’s why I just can’t play Kingdom Hearts. That’s why I can’t play Metroid Prime 2. That’s why, secretly, I dread the day that Super Smash Brothers Brawl for the Wii comes out. For all of these things, I would be donating so much of my time, and getting nothing in return.