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My Twitter and my Tumblr, yo in the event you want to pester me, to give me advice/ideas for stuff, or to see me post artwork not entirely game-related. Mostly if you want to pester me.

Stuff Classy Enough To Get Front Paged (The Monthly Muses and Other Goodies)
~Those About to Die: Bob-ombs
~The Forgotten: Life as a Lethal Enforcer

My Favorite Silly Ramblings (The Features)
~The M Rating: A Chance to Have a Deep Story vs. Here, Have Some More Blood
~inFamous: What Could Have Been
~Acknowledging The Omnipotence That Is 3D Pinball: Space Cadet
~A Look Into Metal Wolf Chaos: The Greatest Patriotic Game You've Never Played

What if I've finally turned into what they've always said I would turn into? A maniac. A psycho killer. A guy who enjoys quoting Sin City.

In a brief description, I play all genres of games. My personal favorites are and always will be platformers and shoot 'em ups. Galaga is probably the first shoot 'em up I have ever played and still manages to hold my attention to this day. Platformers, jeez, far too many for me to name. There are a few FPSs I like, but only if they manage to be different enough from the rest. I have my fair share of fun with other genres as well. Except fighters, I tend to be pretty bad at those but it still doesn't put a hamper on the amount of fun I can get from them.

I was born in 1990, my first video game system was a Sega Genesis and it was probably the best thing I had ever had the chance to play. As the years went, as did my interest in the video games field. Parents and relatives usually got me game consoles for birthday and christmas gift, you wouldn't believe how excited I was when I got my first SNES. My older brother and I did all we could to pool money together to buy GameBoys (Possibly a GameGear at some point as well) and eventually the Playstation 1 and 2. I can safely say that I have interacted with every Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Microsoft, and a few Atari consoles and handhelds at least once. As of now, I still play games as often as I can, despite my game library has not been expansive as it once was when I was in my "prime." Since GameFly and various other rental places popped up, I have still been able to keep playing to my heart's content.

As of now, college usually eats up some days. Whenever I'm not doing college activities, I am improving my drawing abilities, watching movies, expanding my musical tastes both new and old, partying with friends, eating cultural food and, of course, playing games.

And I am a sucker for just about anything film noir, enough so that I occasionally write in that style. Rad stuff.

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Capcom: Their Constant Rise Leading to An Inevitable Fall? Jack Maverick | 10:37 PM on 04.15.2009 9 comments

Capcom, a company made famous from arcade hit titles and other various games during their run of the mid 1980's, was one company to help make a large impact on the gaming scene. Imagine a world without Street Fighter, how much would fighters have differed? How about MegaMan, how would platformers have changed? Bionic Commando, a game where a jump button does not exist and you rely on another device to get your mission accomplished, would creativity have been different? Sure, at some point, companies would have made something like these games, but with Capcom, there was something different about them. It was like they had their own unique flavor of making something work. As of recently. Capcom seemed to be on a hot run, releasing plenty of original titles such as Viewtiful Joe, Dead Rising and Okami. They appeared they had the old spark that they had two decades ago and were reluctant on making games that everyone would love. But one has to ask: How long can that old spark last? Of course, not everything they released was an original title, not saying it's a bad thing, but it's only so many times we can handle an updated release to the same game. Well, that only really applies to Street Fighter II and the thousands of rereleases that got. Maybe Street Fighter III but that's a stretch. But it seemed like they really loved their old stuff so much, we would have loved seeing our favorite characters in a new sequel or spinoff on occasion. I do love MegaMan but the number of times he had appeared in his own game and spinoff? At least they're not as bad as Sega has been with Sonic and I pray that it doesn't get that bad. They have been rising and releasing new stuff like Flock which I have been loving but what else do they have? A majority of it is sequels, we're already up to Resident Evil 5, Devil May Cry 4, Street Fighter IV and MegaMan 9. There have also been plans for Lost Planet 2, Dead Rising 2 and a revamped 3D Bionic Commando. So many sequels and not enough original titles? I understand that I am slightly exaggerating this but really, since Flock came out, the last original title was Lost Planet on the 360 and before that, some original stuff was pre-PS2 stuff and even I admit that this is a stretch. I just have to ask is how much longer can Capcom keep going before this spark of theirs goes out completely?