Hey guys, joining in on the Dreamcast Love-in. Everyone's gone over why the dreamcast is so great, so this time I'm focusing on Skies of Arcadia with a Video Review, Showing off my Dreamcast Collection, and some awesome Virtual On Figures!!!

Those who know me knoww that I absolutely LOVE the dreamcast (who doesn't!). And my favorite game ever came out on the dreamcast (actually it's the reason I bought my first dreamcast), Skies of Arcadia! I haven't done a video in a while and my editing/movie making skills were less then stellar then before but I'm extremely pretty happy with how it came out. This one is much longer and took a lot longer to make then my other.

I just want everyone to know how much I HATED playing skies on the emulator :| It's terrible, there's random slowdowns. Sometimes the menu slow down sometimes they don't, clouds all have pixels at the end, the effects are messed up. For some reason the font is different. It also runs a little bit faster... I suffered!!! SUFFERAGE!! Ah well ;p

Without further ado here's it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DPOOwphvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zk9gckSMII

For some reason the embed is not working so I have to give you links sorry :( Keeps saying "Assertion Failed: bad pk"

Hopefully this will get at least one person to try the game! I tried real hard to avoid spoilers so someone new could get into it without anything being ruined for them!



Ah my dreamcast collection! I've posted bits and pieces of it, but never updated the entire collection of dreamcast systems and games that I have. So here it is! The pictures of the actual DC systems are the older ones, just collating it all. I'll start off with those.

The good old plain white/grey one is a great place to start! I have 2 of these, 1 sitting under my TV and 1 as a backup.


The Sega Sports one, wish we got a just all black one instead :(


The first of the non-official shells. This is my least favorite one, I replaced the shell once but it didn't turn out well.


One of the 3rd party clear shells, 1 of 3 that I have, my least favorite of the 3 but still very awesome.


The "smoke" clear one, my 2nd favorite (very close favorite) It's real nice, need to change the led to a white one though.


The Lime green one, my favorite clear color shell, it's just too damn sexy not to love.



My Favorite Dreamcast, look below for the reasoning :P





The first of my 2 Skies of Arcadia Themed Dreamcasts, I like it quite a bit.


The second of my SoA DCs, I'm not really happy about this one and it will be replaced/fixed soon (I hope :P)


But one really good thing that did come out of the second SoA DC was the controllers.

Picture is old as I said, They have boards in them now. They're moonstones falling off the moons (from Skies of Arcadia of course :P)

I also have a DC Arcade Stick and about 15 other controllers, from grey to black and the clear colored ones but I didn't really think they were worth taking a picture of.

Here is my meager DC collection, not quite as beefed out as some other portions of my game collection but don't worry, it's getting there steadily.


Edit: I forgot to add my latest and favorite Skies related possession! My Custom Skies of Arcadia Flag




Next (and last) are the 3 Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram figures I have. I had just 1 for the longest time, but recently acquired 2 more.

The original Temjin, with a replacement head.


The new Temjin, which came in ridiculously huge packaging.



And my Cypher


And don't worry, they're all over the dreamcast spirit.


A shot of all 3 (the one sitting up top is not a virtual on figure, he just snuck in the picture ;p)


That's all folks! Thanks for reading and HAPPY DREAMCAST NA RELEASE 10th BIRTHDAY WOO!!

Note: Any constructive criticisms about the video would be awesome, just note that that's about the best of my ability to edit :( So that's it for now! Please be gentle, even if it's not my first time :P

I doubt anyone remembers my first blog post (which I hardly encourage you to go back and take a look at it if your at all interested in Skies of Arcadia and want to know a little bit about it.)

Original Bloggagl

But I, once again, was playing Skies of Arcadia at a friends house. Oddly enough for me it's more fun to play jrpgs with someone else, you can give them orders while laying back and chilling out, like a jrpg butler, and if they're terrible you can always fire the noob ;p But I'm sidetracking, so I was playing again, for like the 14th or so time and in this one play session I noticed 2 things I never have before.

Usually I don't "learn something new" everytime or whatever that adage is, but oddly enough I did. We usually take it one part at a time, this time we back in the grand fortress again. The first (actually second, but I'm doing this in reverse order) was the fight with the Dralkor Tank. I was using Daccat's Blade which one of those damned gerbil-bunnies thoughtfully had wedged in his skull for me, and it's special is that it (rarely) put sleep on the target, and I didn't think it applied to enemies that are normally immune to such attacks but I sure was wrong...
One hit and that TANK fell asleep. Unfortunately the photo doesn't want to transfer from my phone so reenacted it in mspaint.



Astounding.

Now the second new thing, something far more disturbing and the real reason why I made this blog is what I noticed fighting Admiral Vigoro, I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed "it", but in my numerous playthroughs (and my friends, though not as numerous) neither one of us had ever noticed "it". Before I get to "it" if you don't remeber/and or more likely you don't know Vigoro is a pervert and self-proclaimed ladies man, and you walk in on him presumably about to do terrible things to Aika. Now to the "it."



I can't believe that's there, we couldn't believe it, after he fell we went and looked from like every different angle and sure enough :| He has a "protrusion" sticking out of his crotch. That is awesome, sad, and disturbing all rolled together.

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And since I'm making a blog on dtoid, something I haven't done for a bit, I fell like showing off my newest piece of Skies of Arcadia greatness (just a note, I only threw the money at it, the flag is from a custom flag making company and the graphic was done by a friend and backups provided by a contest I ran on tomopop.)

My new pride and joy, where I can look at every day and warm my heart.



*sniff* it's so bueatiful! *sniff* It's the logo of the Albatross (also the sort of unofficial logo of Skies of Arcadia) and air pirates the (not apparently flat) world over! Stretched and in crimson over black (since I like it better that way) instead of white over light blue.

Wow been a while since my last blog :o

I read daily though ;p more than once daily. But I still missed the memo about the 10 things thing :| But I guess where just writing 10 things that people don't know about you? Hmm 10 things is gonna be hard ;p

1 - Alright number 1, ummmm let's see ;p I'm Iranian, that doesn't mean I'm arab -_-

2 - I live in maryland, in a city that has absolutely no gaming stores outside of gamestop :( The last retro gaming goodness store around he closed up and the one 30 minutes away is terrible.

3 - Shit I alreay ran outa stuff :| Ok I go to montgomery college! shout out anyone else who goes there!

4 - Despite taking (and passing) comptia and ccna certifications and having built numerous rigs for friends my computer was bought prebuilt :| from velocity micro (which isn't that bad i guess), still its akward and embarrassing ;p

5 - I didn't know videogames existed until I was like 10, and my first system was an n64 that me and my brother saved up for, my parents hate videogaming and until around the 8th grade we couldn't play videogames at all during the school year :| Only breaks and on my birthday, other then that my dad took it to his office and locked it up, the bastage ;p

6 - I have a website about how cake is evil and wants to destroy mankind and how cookies are the goodness sent by the emporer to save us all ( i know i spell emporer wrong ;p and i spell fuckign fuckign on purpose ;p) It's old and I haven't updated it in years though :o


thats a skittle btw

no disrespect meant to gay people :| u no how the internet throws around those words ;p

7 - I love warhammer 40k, don't like playing the game (though I can see how it's fun, just not for me ;p) but I used to collect/paint the figures (BA ftw ;p shits expensive though....) and I still read books and love the fluff. I have been enjoying the beta and it's awesome ;p just where the fuck are my meltaguns and lascannons :| Also the venerable dreadnaught sucks

8 - I want to get back to playing eve online, but the person I left my character with got it permabanned! Now I feel like an idiot ;p That was a dumbass idea... :(

9 - This is more of a buildup I guess, cause if you've ever read any of my past blogs (unlikely) you'd know I'm a pretty big gamer ;p I'd say I'm a hardcore gamer :| I play games for about 5 hours a day, own way to many systems to name (more then 10 different ones though) have a game collection of like 500 games that go from nes to ps3, and I love my pc gaming ;p

10 - Now... for the big shocker :o For all the big hardcore gamer that I am, I have yet to play Ocarina of Time. I like zelda, I like action adventure games (IT'S NOT AN RPG FFS), I have it :o, I just.. haven't played it yet :o A travesty I know :O

Well that's it! Thanks for reading!

I'm sure absolutely none of you remember my original Company of Heroes "Operation Monster" video. Well I made a second one!



Parts of the first one is in it (first 30 seconds). For anyone curious how it works. You get a couple of noobs, and play as panzer elite. Call in hummel after hummel, blow em to bits (but save the pieces) and then when you've had enough, bring em back to life ;p

Now while this does seem super overpowered (see: video) it takes an EXTREMELY long time, like 2 hours long time. And an ass ton of manpower, and you need to be left alone. Which means you have to leave the entire front to your partner. So really it's not a good strategy :( If you can pull it off you could have killed the enemy about an hour ago :P (which we could have, but that woulda sucked the fun out of it ;p)

I do feel a *little* bit sorry for them :<

Wow I shoulda posted this a while ago :P

but I'm lazy ^^ Ah well made another video, but not a look-back like my others! (not that i can really look back on 2-3 weeks ago and report on good old times with a straight face for a game as new as fallout 3 :P). Actually it doesn't have any of the talking. It's not the most amazing video around since im not the alakafuckignzam of video editing but I think I did a pretty good job and I'm very pleased ;p (though sad I didn't get a LPrime voice synther :/)

Ah well I should shutup and get to it huh ;p But first the "guide"

The 2 things you need to know about fallout 3 that you might not know (but probably do by now)

1: There is a flashlight, hold down tab.
2: you can assign shit to hotkeys, go to your pipboy and hold down a number then click on whatever u want ;p

alright to the video! As always youtube has managed to play it in craptacular vision on lq so I suggest clicking through and watchign it in hight quality!



Linkage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZGe3xGIII

rapidshare download linkage in case you for some reason want to dl it :P http://rapidshare.com/files/161375018/Fallout_AwesomenessF.wmv.html (about 180 megs)

enjoy!

Hey,

Haven't done a blog in a while ;p Haven't gotten many video games either but here's what I got :P



Wing Commander IV: Complete (even with the reg cards and other junk that I threw away :P). Pretty much mint cept for a little bit of wear on the edges of the slip cover. Total $20 shipped.



Final Fantasy 12: Biggest Ripoff of Skies of Arcadia ever. A bad ripoff too ;p Cost: Free

CSS: I only have orange box not the original hl2 or goty edition so no css till now ;p Cost: $20 shipped (brand new of course).



And now, the 2nd skies of arcadia dreamcast. Along with 4 matching controllers.





The controllers now have the boards and buttons in them now :P Only 4 controller ports on the dc so I couldn't do every moon ;p




And here it is, the part you've all not been waiting for. The video look-back of the blog ;p It is going to be my final video look-back, at least for the foreseeable future. I'll still probably throw up some blogs but they won't be 1 week apart or anything like that ;p

Youtube managed to darken it and pixelate it a bit and I don't know why there's no HQ on this one :| The game does look far better, and it's free so deffo give it a try. And of course zombie panic looks better, it's the source engine ffs :P



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Linkage for the key. Enjoy :D