My love for Dragon Quest.

Today I was thinking of revisiting a game and the one game that came up was "Dragon Quest 8". Now I never beat it do to the whole save deletion mishap (rather not talk about it) and waste a good 60 hours on the game. Now I going back to it because it is a series I love to play. Old school style RPG (Role Playing Game for those who do not understand what it stands for, but if you are a gamer reading my blog then something is wrong with you) have never really caught my eye, I do like Final Fantasy but I can't really play it for long without getting bored. Ever since I played "Dragon Warrior:Monsters" for the gameboy color I knew this is a series I was going to grow playing. Then I played the actual DQ series, starting with the 3rd one. It was the port to the GBC (gameboy color), I never beat it though.

       Awesome box art huh?

       The reason I wrote this blog is to share my love for a great RPG series. I always love the monsters in the game and the very beautiful artwork done my Akira Toriyama (creator of the Dragon Ball series, Dr.Slump, and a lot of other animes and mangas). The core mechanics are simple, you go to town to town completing quest and grinding to level up. Not many RPG's focus on grinding heavy anymore and just becomes simplistic. It has been the same formula for the games but each new game always brought something new (the ones I have played). I use to have trouble finding where to go but it become clear if you actually take time talking to the town folks and knowing which direction to go from the town. That what I like about the series, the time you are spending is rewarding. The music to the series is just pure bliss and I enjoy the opening score because it sets the grand scale of the journey your about to take.  Just the overall experience is just awesome. Now the series is continuing with the tenth installment and I really can not wait to play it. I have to play the 9th one before hand though. I really hope this series keeps going strong and I hope this develop a bigger fan base. I enjoy spending hour into this series and I hope I encourage you to find a copy of one the series irritation. If you don't like it then theres plenty of other RPG's to indulge.  So keep questing and be back for more.

                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                  

Missing the Arcade.

Awhile back I went out to go shopping for some stuff and went to a old mall that I have not been in for years to see how it has changed. To my surprise the arcade I use to play at was still there. I was completely surprised because there was not many arcades here in my state. I reminisce about the days I would try to beat a high score on a Pac-man machine. Now today a lot of arcades close down due to a lot of poor business. The place did not change much from the last time I was there, beside a lot of new machines.   I was truly happy to waste my time again on a good old Time Crisis machine. I exchanged some money for these awesome little Pac-man Namco coin. After a couple of hours playing I was tired and beat. I really wanted to play some Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (so pumped for 3!!) but they got rid of the machine a long time ago, pretty bummed only arcade fighting game cabinet they had was Tekken 4. I missed the SNK cabinets and Capcom fighting cabinets a lot.

The reason why I wanted to post this is to find someone who reminisced about the days of begging parents for money and blowing it all in a matter of hours on one arcade machine trying to surpass others in a high score. I know that arcades here in america are pretty much ghost towns but it is a nice treat to find some arcades that still have people chipping away money. I am not saying that consoles are bad at all I just saying gaming has changed a lot from the old days. My friends still get together and do games matches but it so hard to do when everyone is so far away and I can see the greatest of online gaming. Arcades are what made a lot of us enjoy gaming and connect with others and have fun. I feel like a 80 year old guy talking about some war that happened almost decades ago. I just know there are arcades still alive and still making people submit quarter after quarter  just to make it to the next stage. So I will leave you with that.

Brocolli!!! and Activision stupidity.

    Another apology for being late with another post but been swept up in a lot of things. Mostly MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3!!!! Yeah got it in on opening day and it is awesome. Probably write a post about it soon or I may end up being lazy again. I been caught up in Law and Order SVU too, great show and I been watching a lot of crime thrillers and television shows about crime solving. Oh I forgot to mention I been talking to a guy I had my eye on. Super excited to see where that goes. So any ways I wanted to talk about something that really pisses me off and that is Activision, you know the game company who kept spamming the hell out of Guitar Hero games. Trust me it not about that game series. Its more on the Call Of Duty series.

    Don't get me wrong I love Call of Duty but Activision really needs to stop charging 15 bucks for lack lusting content.  I have not bought the new map pack because it is a waste of money. I mean 4 maps and one Zombie map that people will probably never play. Does anyone remember World at War map packs? They were 800MS points and 10 bucks on Playstation Network. That is before the whole Modern Warfare 2 stuff with the whole lawsuit. I paid for both of those map packs and deeply regretted it....especially when the game developers did nothing to stop people hacking crap. Call of Duty 4 was thing that got me started with console online gaming and now Activision screws people over because they know they can. Well I am not being screwed over anymore. Oh and guess what another Call Of Duty game is coming out this year!!!! Sounds like the Guitar Hero franchise huh?

                                                          Thanks Activision ^.^

   Yes I am ranting by the way because this is crap. I remember when games gave you value content that kept you playing for months or years. EA games never charged me 15 bucks for Mass Effect 2 add on that only had a new costume. Now Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam add on is a way different story then Call of Duty add on. They actually give you a new expansion campaign and multiplayer maps and new guns and vehicles. Now why can Treyarch do some new gun add ons with the map packs and bring some new perks into play? "Oh no there Walley we can't just tell Activision we want to put value in our content" and I not putting the blame on Treyarch because they work for Activision, Activision looks over  them and can value the add on however they want..... Another thing is why can't you just release the same day on the PS3, because we are in day and age of people still fighting over what console is superior and it does help when you play favoritism. It starts gamers arguing with one another and building fuel to the fire.

   Okay time to calm down and finish this post with a positive output. I really wish the best for Call of Duty franchise but I am not playing any more incarnations. I want to play Modern Warfare 3 to finish the story but I may just borrow it from someone. I hope (not putting much hope into it) that Activision would stop screwing over consumers. Oh by the way almost done with the Fifth series of Doctor Who!!! So be on the look out for that. Oh and for the people hoping to hear about Brocolli, unfortunately I forgot it in my rage of ranting. So stay tuned for more content.