I’m back!

Had no idea this site was still going and working, lol. Don’t even know where to begin. It’s been almost 4 years, pretty sure I went through a couple of newly built computers before remembering about the site. And frankly, I didn’t have the time to keep up with all my interests to keep on blogging. The more I play a game or get into anime, the less time I have for the site.

Keeping it short, I’ll be trying to focus more on what I’m currently doing. As of now, I’ve gotten back into an MMO called Tree of Savior. Not the best of what’s out there at the moment, but then again there isn’t much out there to begin with that interests me. FFXIV is as generic as it gets, FFXI is on it’s last legs, Wakfu still has no idea wtf they are doing, and then there’s the rest of them that I don’t care for. So ToS it is.

Happy Holidays!

Well I’ve finally got to play some FFXI during Xmas. Dunno why, but I never seem to be playing the game during holidays so I always missed the events and prizes. Got most of what I wanted and was also able to duo all four Limbus areas with my BLU and “new” alt WHM (recently took over a friends account).  The December update made some awesome changes, mainly the cool-down periods for Limbus and Einherjar from 3 days to just 20 hours. Hardest part of Limbus had to be the area with Kaiser Behemoth, was a pain in the ass with me dying 3x before I got him down the 4th time, and due to pure luck… srsly. Really don’t want to try that again, but will have to if I fail to get Proto-Omega down. Still need a damn pair of HASTE boots for my BLU, in the meantime I’m stuck wearing my lame white booties.

Really lovin’ Lightning’s new look in the upcoming game, using my favorite color scheme of red, white, and black! Oh, and I used “upcoming game” because they wanted to get retarded and technical by naming it Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, whatever. Because we don’t wanna make it easier for the consumer by using FFXIII-3, right okay… Besides that, also got my Ni no Kuni on pre-order from Gamestop, since Bamco are a bunch of queers and don’t know how to milk the Western consumers with their ever awesome Wizard Editions. >=\ Some news floating around that Sony gave out dev-kits for the PS4…

Disappointments with the apocalypse not coming aside, I am still looking forward to a great new gaming year!

Update 1 – Okay so Proto-Omega was a joke… lol. Added some screens of the win. Kaiser Behemoth is easily 10x harder. Need to do another 4 days worth of Limbus again, urgh…

Update 2 – Dumb images may not have all loaded until you refresh the page.

Mog House 1 – Bastok – Kanonenofen

Mog House 2 – Orchestrion

Mog House 3 – Windurst – Pot Topper

Mog House 4 – Jeunoan Tree

Mog House 5 – Switch to change MH music theme.

Yeah, that’s right, a win is still a win, woot!

Sexeh PLD Lightning ❤

What a crappy screenshot… lol.

Finally gettin’ my Homams.

Except I wanted the damn boots!!~#@

PS – Friggin’ WP is always changing crap! But I actually like the way the images are displayed now, lol.

Another missed game…

Seriously, how did I miss something like Bravely Default: Flying Fairy? Besides being the unofficial winner of best Engrish title of the year, the game looks great (I’m a sucker for distinct artwork). It has that Final Fantasy Tactics/XII look to it which I love. It’s supposedly the spiritual sequel to Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, and I’m pretty sure most of us kind of just shrugged that one off…

The game has some serious hype, not just from the JRPG crowd, but even them big-name game reviewing sites. That collector’s edition is making the fans drool all over the place (or just me?). I’ve been spouting how great Ni no Kuni is, but with Bravely Default out now, this will surely put JRPGs back in line.

I am definitely keeping my eye on this one, and crossing my fingers for a release outside of Japan. And if you’re planning on checking out Ebay… the JP standard versions are going for $70-$80, with the amazing collector’s editions going for $700-$900… I am lol’ing with tears about the CE. The game has only been out for two months and the damn CE is going for $900… /wrist.

I don’t currently own a 3DS, but will be a proud owner of one if this gets a US release date. =D

Bravely Default: Flying Fairy official site.

Ragnarok Online 2

So I ran into Ragnarok Online 2 SEA version. It’s finally in English so I have no problem with jumping into this. Except for the fact that the installer is full with all types of bugs and BS. I’ve been going at it since last night to get it working. Here’s the link to the official site.

The game is in “open” closed beta, meaning anyone can get in right now without needing a beta key. It’s running between December 7th to December 12th, and between 11am to 2am (GMT +8). Which is 7pm Pacific time. It’ll be going open beta on December 27th. Here’s a link to some in-game events to win some prizes, but with the problems with getting the game to even install/update and server downtimes, most of us are going to be missing out on it anyway.

For those who have problems with the updater and the anti-hack program that gets “stuck” or seems to just hang, here’s what I did to get it working (I’ve reinstalled the game 4 times and did things differently each time, and the only thing that got me through all that BS was):

1) Let the installer install to the default path that it wants. I originally installed it into my 2nd drive and it made 2 sets of folders within itself, which caused all kinds of problems. (I know this shouldn’t really cause any problems if you wanted to install into another path/drive, but this game is full of crap from the get-go).

Torrent was the fastest place to download for me (just copy and paste the link into your torrent program if clicking doesn’t work): torrent download link.

2) Before launching the game, download the manual patch and install it into the folder where the game is at. Faster link to download the manual patch: manual patch from Mediafire.

3) After the manual patch installs itself, the updater will open on its own and will do either one of two things: 1) if you’re lucky it will load really quickly and move you to the main patcher with the start button, or 2) it will still be stuck on the updater with about 20% (4-5 bars left to finish). If you are still stuck on the updater, just wait it out for 30 minutes to 1 hour. It will eventually finish itself, my guess is the servers are just really slow and crappy (the manual patch is only 27mb… derp).

In my multiple installations of the game, the first time I installed and patched it, it went past the updater quickly, but the 2nd time and afterwards it would get stuck on the updater until I finally decided to just go out and AFK a bit, came back and it was done updating itself after about 30 minutes.

4) Once you get past the updater, the main updater/patcher should pop up with a start button. Pushing the start buttong brings you to the login window.

Now here’s where you may or may not run into another problem that’s with the anti-hack program. It’ll hang for a bit, but it should eventually update itself and fill up the bar. Once you get past that the game should launch, but for some of us the thing will update itself then hang around for about 10 seconds, and then close itself. I can’t really pinpoint what will fix this exactly, but I think it was because of letting the game install into the default drive and letting the updater do it’s thing. (Just be patient!)

I forgot to mention that I’m on Windows 7 64-bit, and I did not bother with changing my region settings to English (Singapore). But if you still have problems, it wouldn’t hurt to try it either. Go through the control panel and change the format.

If this still doesn’t work for you then I can’t really help ya. I’ve been going through the forums with no one really finding an answer to the anti-hack closing itself bit, so I’ve been reinstalling the game in different ways since last night. I figured I’d share what I did to get it to work. And so I finally get around the anti-hack part, only to see the servers be down.

Cheers. *rolls eyes*

Berserk Movie #2 and other things…

Second movie of Berserk should be coming out on the 5th of December on Blu-ray. Can’t wait!

I totally missed out on the Wii-U release date, since I haven’t kept up with Nintendo ever since the N64 era. I just have this feeling the Wii-U will be worth getting… except I heard about it a bit too late, and it was already sold out everywhere. =(

Some updated opinions of the current anime season:

– Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! – As much as I hate to use the word moe, the characters in this anime are just too entertaining to watch, especially Dekomori.

– Jormungand: Perfect Order (S2) – What can I say? If Koko wasn’t Koko, I’d probably have dropped this series.

– Little Busters! – Wow, uh yeah… I kept hearing a lot of people wanting to see this one get animated, so I figured it’d be decent. Except it isn’t. This thing fails at everything it tries to do. The comedy seems really forced and not one bit funny. Dropping this one.

– Magi – Watched the first episode, read that the manga was really good, ended up reading the manga instead. Really good stuff, and I like things deviating from anything highschool related or Japan in general. Oh dang, an anime that isn’t set in Japan?

– Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse (S2) – Don’t know what to say after watching the latest episode (after recap). Just got serious, yo. Thumbs up.

– Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo – Only thing that’s keeping me watching this is surprisingly, Aoyama and Misaki. This one gives me vibes of… uhh that one anime… series… Honey and Clover, yeah that one, except it’s far from anything serious.

– Shinsekai Yori – Holy crap, this one kinda just came outta no where and became an instant hit with me. Love the mysterious tone of the series. Also, MONKIES. ❤

– Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun – Serious contender for best of the season.

– K – Luckily it started picking up in the later episodes. Production on this thing is super high, so I’m glad it wasn’t wasted. Don’t know if its a sad thing or what, but as soon as I recognized Miyuki Sawashiro’s voice, things got better. =D

– PSYCHO-PASS – Turned out better than I had thought. Guns that blow you up internally? Sold.

– Robotics;Notes – Main male characters like this one makes me wanna headdesk. Lucky for them, Akiho and Furugoori keeps me watching. Here’s hoping for some PSYCHO-PASS action up in here, and they accidentally hit Yashio. Would love to see his head pop all over Akiho, LOL.

– Sword Art Online – They need to rename this into something else, seriously. Sword Art Online may have been the start of it all, but when you go into 3-4 other games it starts to lose meaning. Loved that last episode btw. =3

Wakfu… again

Amazingly, a patch that actually made me come back to the game. After playing for 3 months after Wakfu went live, I ended up quitting to play other games and had 4 unplayed months out of my 1 year sub. I really wanted this game to succeed, and I even bought a ton of stuff from their cash shop, but with the lack of content (grinding for hours is not content, whether it’s for character or crafting levels, grinding is still grinding and still isn’t content. IE: go play that stick-man game that has a progress bar that you just look at and it auto-lvls up for you every hour or so) says quite a bit about a game that I paid for a year’s worth doesn’t it?

Update 1.7 brings in much needed new pieces of gears (particularly in the mid-level range), loads of high-level alternative weapons that are on par or better than Maka-weapons, revamps on crafting professions (although still unbalanced in terms of mats vs crafted item), Haven Worlds, and the thing that sold me was Krosmaster. A wannabe Pokemon mini-game, that you need to find some figurines from wherever and whatever that drops it. You have them fight each other, blah-blah, and blah. Didn’t really look into it too much, so I have no idea how it works.

The new gearsets are from the old dungeons, ranging from low 50s to high 60s. I have yet to see any drop for myself, so I’m assuming there’s some nice amount of PP required. I wouldn’t really go out of my way to get these gear pieces, but it does give for much more variety in gear selection/customization, it gives that old Dofus feel which is much needed IMO. Which leads to my next wish of hoping they put in more non-set pieces of gear (that doesn’t suck like the current pieces) to give us more build variations.

Overall, probably the best patch since launch. It’s got me playing again at least. Still needs to touch up on uh, you know, BALANCING the current classes, instead of adding in new ones out of left field. The grind is so damn grindy it just grinds my grinds, ya know what I’m sayin’? Seriously, I can tolerate grinding, but Wakfu is the king of grinding games. I have thousands of wild gobball mats that I have no use for, real cool, not. Government/outlaw system still has no perks, so nobody cares. But the real problem is the craptacular world population, with Squeenix’s fail advertising of the game. Wakfu will make you cry if you don’t find a guild or have friends to play with.

Yes, this is my weak attempt at hoping more people will try the game out.

Rest of the year’s wishlist

Feels like another dry period of gaming again. Still a ton of games I want to try out, and yet they’re either never going to be released outside of Japan, taking forever to finish being developed/released, or just fell off the radar.

Really looking forward for Ni no Kuni, Atelier Ayesha, Final Fantasy Type-0, and possibly the Wii-U. And here’s wishing for a Suikoden VI, a Breath of Fire whatever, Valkyria Chronicles 3, and a non-crappy Mana game. Seems like my old favorites will never be coming back, no matter how many fans want it to happen.

At least the current anime season is actually good (been a pretty long time since I can say that, lol). Still waiting on the second Berserk movie and Blood-C: The Last Dark, unfortunately. Berserk’s third movie and The Last Dark’s trailer has been around a while too. =(

Current season anime that I’m sticking to:

– Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
– Jormungand: Perfect Order (S2)
– Kamisama Kiss
– Little Busters!
– Magi
– Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse (S2)
– Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo
– Shinsekai Yori
– Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

Kinda crazy, since it’s usually 3-5 per season.

Unsure about these ones, as I either ended up reading the manga/light novel (and watching it just to see it animated), or the first couple of episodes failed to keep me interested:

– BTOOOM! (Caught up on reading the manga after the first 2 episodes, which IMO ended up being generic and not very surprising story-wise.)
– Code:Breaker
– K (Great first episode… annnd that’s about it. Will give it a couple more episodes…)
– PSYCO-PASS (Every time I see this one, I keep thinking of engrish… lol.)
– Robotics;Notes (Never liked any series with “;” in it. Steins;Gate is the only exception. Giving this one a couple more episodes as well.)
– Zetsuen no Tempest

– Sword Art Online –
This one gets it’s own little section, because this is one of the few anime/manga/light novels that irks the hell out of me. Not that I’m an expert writer myself, and I love what the author is trying to get at, but the way it’s portrayed and written just doesn’t seem right to me.

All these girls flocking from no where, loving the main character because he has a big-fuzzy-lovable heart, and of course there’s never a story unless the main character has insecurities, or just random people dying. This happens in pretty much every arc of SAO, or rather it happens with every female Kirito runs into. The worst part of it all is probably when Yui came into the story. These kids are trying to be the parents of a kid that’s 5-6 years younger than them, I couldn’t help but lol. Honestly, SAO could have been done without Yui ever being thrown in. I can’t help but wonder if the author is trying to project himself into the story; at least try to be a little more believable.

I originally just watched about 2, maybe 3 episodes of the anime? First thing that came to mind was, WTF was that? I didn’t know anything about the characters and they started dying off already. I know they did the same thing with Ga-Rei: Zero, but that worked out a lot better than SAO did it. It was obvious they wanted you to feel for Kirito, but it kind of just whooshed over for me. Despite all my rantings, I still love reading the novel.

And lastly, I still want one of those Insane Black Rock Shooter figures that came bundled with the Blu-ray. Just might get one… maybe… so damn expensive!