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July 20 Bye-Bye ZombiesI mentioned quite a few months ago that pregnancy made me unable to stomach graphic violence in video games. I really hoped it was a temporary effect of pregnancy. Turns out, it's a permanent one. I watched E3 coverage on G4 most of this past week to help me prepare for editing articles for Kombo.com. I swore I was going to get physically ill from the demo footage of Dead Space. It hit me at that point that I was never going to be able to attempt to play Dead Rising again. I'm a little sad about it, because it seemed like such a crazy fun game. I laughed at the comics written about it, and I enjoyed the game reviews. But I can't play a game I can't physically handle. I am officially a pansy, but I've accepted it. I called a friend of mine who loved borrowing it from a friend when he lived in Seattle, so he's getting my copy. At least I know it will be loved by someone. At least I made one Achievement before quitting. Hee. Still playing a lot of Puzzle Quest when I get a few minutes to myself. I thought I only had a few more battles left. Turns out, I only had a few more battles in the first chapter left. I'm on chapter three right now, and I think I'm almost done with it. I have no idea how many chapters are left. I'll go a couple of more, but not much farther than that since the gameplay, as addictive as it is, does get old quickly. Besides, I'm ready to turn on the PSP and crank out Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. July 15 E3 - The Big 3 Press ConferencesIt's that time of year again, and my TV is tuned to G4 and my laptop is ready for frenzy copy editing. But just because I have to be poised and ready to edit doesn't mean I can't write a teensy bit. So here are my brief thoughts of the big three press conferences.
June 29 Blowing the dust off of games A fellow gaming friend told me that she plays mostly with her DS and
PSP since she had her little boy, as it's easier to pick up and put
down. Today is the first day I've had since Gabriel was born (oh by the
way, he was born May 30th... hence my month long absence  )
to even think about playing games, so I tried out her theory with my DS
and Puzzle Quest. I'm just a few quests away from completing the game,
so it seemed like the best choice. And my friend was right. Gabriel
woke up a little early from his nap, and it was so easy to just close
my DS mid-game before attending to him. If I was playing KH2 (waaahh...
I'm NEVER going to finish that game), I would have to pause --
hopefully not in the middle of a boss fight -- attend to Gabriel, and
either find a minute to quickly save my game and turn off the system or
just leave it paused for a few hours until he naps again or Shawn can
relieve me of parenting. The latter would waste electricity, possibly
overheat my console (especially if it was the PS3), risk a power outage
wiping out my progress, and add hours to my game clock. Yes, I am anal
enough to want an accurate game clock.I am immensely relieved that gaming won't entirely be on hold. However, I'm ready to find time for my console gaming as well. I probably won't fulfill my New Year's resolution to finish KH2 and Twilight Princess this year, but I'd like to at least finish KH2 and start on Zelda. Not to mention that there are other console games I'd like to play. At least I have a couple of DS games to keep me preoccupied and I did get FF7: Core Crisis for the PSP before I went into labor. I should have enough to mull me over until I'm able to fire up the consoles again. May 18 I'm beginning to dream in Disney Since I've been ordered to rest with my feet propped up due to swelling and my blood pressure, I've been playing a lot of KH2... probably more than I'd like to admit. I'm doing my best to play the game "correctly" by leveling up (everything) as much as I can in between plot progression. I'm about half way through the game and I'm already at the level I was when I reached the final bosses the first time I played, so I can only hope that means I'm doing it right. OMG I'm so bored it's killing me. Hopefully that means I'm overdoing it so I won't have as much to level when I reach that final "are you ready to proceed?" marker before the final boss. Always better to overdo it now while I still have plotlines to get through than later when I have NOTHING but leveling to do. That about killed me in CoM. Thank God I learned my lesson when I started to play as Riku in the latter half of the game. Why that lesson didn't carry over into KH2, I don't know. I guess I was too excited about the story, the reaction commands, or the limit breaks. Take your pick. (It wasn't the limit breaks.) As much as I understand that this game is supposed to be somewhat silly and goofy because well, one of the main characters is Goofy and the game centers around Disney movies, I can't believe HOW silly the developers made this game in comparison to the first two. It's like they had a brainstorming meeting just for ideas how they could make Sora look more ridiculous. Why don't we have him ride a skateboard? Sing Under the Sea? Jam on his keyblade like a guitar Elvis-style? Summon Chicken Little to throw baseballs? Smack blue balls out of people with a nerf bat? Wait, I know! Let's have him do all those things! No wonder there's a huge fangirl following for Riku. Everyone knows Riku wouldn't do any of those things, as that goes against the Emo Creed. I like silly, I really do, but there's a line. Sora, Donald, and Goofy sticking their tongues out at Hades? Hilarious! Sora playing the ukulele with Stitch (in the middle of a tournament, no less)? Overkill. This may be a sign that I'm ready to finish Twilight Princess. May 02 Back to KH2 It's amazing how much time you'll find for gaming when you quit your job. And as a result, I've quit Baten Kaitos. The morphing cards and the fact that I have no control over the order of my deck frustrated me to the bitter end. Nothing will make you as mad as starting a boss fight and finding out that ALL of your healing cards have changed to poison. It was an interesting twist to the gameplay, but it was a rather annoying one as well. At this point, I'm really not sure I'll even finish playing the game, which is kind of a shame because it has some of the best graphics for the Game Cube I've ever seen. So what does this mean? Well, it's time to work on my New Year's resolutions to beat KH2 and Twilight Princess this year. I started completely over with KH2 and I'm doing much better on the leveling up as I go this time. I am still frustrated on the amount of leveling up you have to do (Sora, all his forms, his summons, his moogling...) but I guess that's the trade-off for the game not being as difficult as the first one. However, I will say screw Jiminy's journal. I'm not going to beat myself up over not completing a bunch of mini-games that I despise. So I may get the bitch ending I deserve. So be it. Besides, I'm on a bit of a countdown to finish this game. I'd like to finish it before I go into labor, which in reality could be any day now, but I'm hoping it's closer to my due date at the end of this month. How I'm going to play Twilight Princess with a newborn... I'll figure that out when the time comes. I may have to rely heavily on Shawn for that. I'm sure that's exactly what he had in mind for fatherly duties.
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what's eating my spare time aside from the baby
my current stack of games glaring at me to at least play them or finish them already
Dear Santa...
I love reading. Really, I do. I just don't have as much time for it as I used to. Darn hobbies!
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