My goal I decided on last night was to beat Daxter by the end of this weekend, and considering I was 50% into the game, that goal wasn’t as outrageous as some of my others. Notice the use of the past tense throughout that sentence. Now, that goal I guess is still theoretically attainable, but considering I accidentally overwrote my save game, I get to play through the first half of it again. Luckily it’s not too long (I was only probably 4 hours or so into it), but it just goes to show that no gamers are immune from accidentally screwing themselves over.
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After 4 years of knowing me, you’d think if I told Andrew that “I had a first last night”, his mind wouldn’t immediately jump to where it did. But, I digress… (and considering I’ve yet to start the real point of this post, that just proves you never know what’s going to happen with me around.)
Anyway, yes, I did have a first happen to me Friday night. I actually managed to enjoy a PSP game (Daxter) and play it for a long enough period of time that it gave me a low battery warning. Hey, maybe not the most important accomplishment in the world, but at least it shows that there are a few decent games out for it. On other other hand, I beat Partners in Time on my DS Saturday night/Sunday morning (final boss battle took almost an hour), and The Rub Rabbits along with Metroid Prime: Hunters provided nice entertainment for today.
Barring any unforseen conflicts, I have a schedule for next year which not only makes me happy timewise, but also lends itself very favorably to me working HP football again (Thursday and Friday nights). Even though this was really the only schedule that was going to work well regardless, all the classes are common to both CS and SE so I still don’t have to commit to one or the other yet. In slightly over a month I’ll be out of school for the summer, and while I don’t have any solid plans yet, you can bet that playing a bunch of games will be thrown in there somewhere (primarily handheld if I get an internship somewhere, otherwise probably mostly console with a few handhelds thrown in for variety).
I’ve already started considering what I’m going to do for the second anniversary for this blog (coming up on May 15), and while I’ve got a strong inclination towards one idea, nothing is decided for sure yet. Not like anyone reads this anyway, but it amuses me, so for that, I’ll continue. :)
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2 part post (mainly because the first one should have been done Friday night, and then the second either Saturday or yesterday):
Jeff Guebert, Sports Announcer:
Friday night I got to work a HP JV baseball game. Now, “work” for me in the normal sense would be sitting in the dugout and doing some minor taping and icing. Not this time :). Coach Gibbins was out of town for some reason and they couldn’t get anyone else, so I volunteered to run the scoreboard and do the announcing for the game. Even though I only really “knew” one of the players (one of the baseball managers from last year), that game was still insanely fun because I not only got to play with the scoreboard (always fun) but actually call out names and stuff also. It was a really different experience from training, but still a blast to do.
Finally a PSP Game Worth Playing:
And that game would be……Daxter. No, it’s not perfect; the waiting times are much more noticable than in Jak 2/3 (although maybe still only about the same amount of time) and there are a few slowdown issues, but it’s really the first PSP game that has made me go “Man, this is really fun”. Granted, my previous games have only been Untold Legends, Lumines, and Metal Gear Acid, but it no longer will simply sit on my shelf gathering dust (on its nice Logitech case which I got for Christmas :) ).
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It’s been an off and on thing for me; sometimes I’ll have it, at other times I won’t. I think it’d make my life easier if it always was, but of course this can never be the case. Oh, you want to know what “it” is? Ok, I guess you deserve to know: Warrior.
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within takes the first one, keeps the same formula (a good thing), improves the combat system (again, a good thing), and shifts the focus slightly more to the combat side than there was in the first one. Note how there was no parenthetical comment after that last one. The improved combat system doesn’t make it nearly as painful as it would be otherwise, but I’m not sure if I like it or not yet. It’s generally been entertaining (except for dying and then having to resolve all the puzzles since the last save point), but I’ll be lucky to finish it by the end of the weekend. Guess that means my game comple count for this week will be the great zero. Gotta love it when that happens…
I also went up to HP tonight for one of the games in our tournament that we were playing in. Everyone that knew me appeared to enjoy seeing me, and I also learned that our state ring ceremony will be April 1st up at the stadium. We dominated (as expected) 10-1, and if the team makes it all the way to the championship game on Saturday, I’ll go up there for that one also (even though I’ll have just been done with 2 UTD games). Is it bad that I still enjoy HP baseball more??
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Ok, maybe it’s just something to do with Disc 2 of my games (although 7 did not have any issues) because 9 worked fine on the first disc, but the same thing started happening a few minutes into the second. Granted, I never actually checked to make sure those rings weren’t there to start with, but this is supposedly a more than obscure issue and Sony has been known to fix it for free. Guess that means I’m calling them tomorrow, and I won’t be finishing any more Final Fantasy games this week (and no, I didn’t try the GameDoctor on this disc, so I won’t need to order another copy of this game also :) ).
This leaves me with games like Batallion Wars (GCN) and Conker: Live and Reloaded (XBX) to finish with other games such as the 2nd and 3rd Prince of Persia (GCN) to keep me occupied. I almost wrote Ratchet: Deadlocked, but that would (unfortunately) be a PS2 game.
P.S. I’m writing this on my downstairs computer as I’ve gone up and down the stairs in my house enough in the past 30 minutes, but this 6 year old keyboard was having major spacebar spazzage for a while (although that might be for some reason the comp is accessing the HD every 1-2 seconds and not the keyboard’s fault).
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Has it been long enough since I made a post, because I could go another 2 to 3 we….ah, ok. Just checking :)
My goal over Spring Break (which I’m currently on!) was to try and beat Final Fantasy 8, 9, and 10 (and even 10-2 if I had the time). You heard me right, “was”. I got through the first disc of 8, but upon loading the second disc, my PS2 for some reason didn’t like it and kept making this evil sounding noise whenever it was accessing it. I know it’s not my PS2 because it didn’t happen when I put in disc 1 or 3 to test, so I currently have a used copy on the way from Half.com. (Yes, I tried using my GameDoctor on it, but that only made matters worse, lol). Until it arrives, however, it seems as if I will be unable to finish that one. I’m moving onto 9 so I can hopefully still get it and 10 beat before the week is over, so I guess this is one instance where it’s a good thing each game stands on its own.
I had 3 baseball games this past Friday and Saturday, and other 3 this upcoming Friday and Saturday. The team is 9-2 now, and even though my “role” in the team is very different at UTD than it was at HP, it’s still enjoyable. Next year is still up in the air, but I might do it anyway just so it doesn’t look like I’m bowing out after 1 year. To me, exiting after 2 just looks better (but then again, I haven’t always been the one to care for how something looks).
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