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Oh, hi there. Didn’t see you enter. Anyways, welcome to my humble little blog. For those of you not familiar with who I am, the name’s Brian. I’m 24 years old and hail from Findlay, Ohio. I work at the local newspaper here as a copy editor, putting my four long years of college to actual use. Kind of. I think.
For those of you who might recognize me from elsewhere, I work as Assistant Gaming Editor over at Blogcritics Gaming and as Features Editor over at Tomopop. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it because I get to do a lot of cool shit with a lot of cool people.
I've been gaming since the relatively young age of around 3 and I've played plenty of games, both good and bad. I'm continuously expanding my gaming collection, which has become more of an archive in recent years as I'm focusing on collecting older, less well-known titles. You'd honestly be surprised on what people are missing out on in bargain bins...
Other than gaming, I love anime, manga, sports, movies, TV, and a whole lot more. I also happen to have something of a legendary love for Cammy, to the point that I am the site's unofficial official Cammy fanboy. And yes, I do play as her in Street Fighter and do so quite well, too.
Also, I am Chad Concelmo's B.F.F., my prize for coming in first in The Great Retro Quiz .18 - ActRaiser. Accept no substitutes. Not even Aerox.
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Well, this week sure has turned out great. Nothing like being trapped inside all weekend because there's 10 inches of snow outside and no one's plowed the parking lot. At least it was plowed today so I could get to work, but hey, at least I got to stay inside and play some video games, especially new ones. And that, of course, is the signal that it's time for What'd You Get?, the weekly unofficial community feature where we talk about the games we all got this past week. This week, Steam had an insane sale: the entire X-Com series on sale for $5. Naturally, you'd have to be stupid to pass this up, and not being stupid, I took advantage of the offer and now own the entire X-Com series of games. Which I will play once I'm done going through the buttload of other games I have to play through on Steam. Unfortunately, that might be a while. Anyways, that's all I got this week. What'd you get?
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
Also, FFVII
It's been haunting me since I was six years old and damn it I am going to finish it.
It's alright I guess.
But I can't stop playing Persona 4, even grinding on that game is fun. And I hate grinding!
Its alllll good.
I don't know if it counts, but I also have the fan translation of Persona 2: Innocent Sin on my PSP, and have been playing it sparingly.
Oh, Puzzle Quest and Metal Gear on my cell phone cuz they were cheap(and awesome).
Also, I got RE Degeneration and I want to stress DO NOT buy this. This is definitely a rental. It is too short for 20-30 bucks.
I forget if I mentioned FFVIII last week. But anyway, I got FFVIII.
I also got Space Invaders Extreme after last week's recommendations in the Games of the Week post. I think it's one of the best updates of a classic game ever, it stays really true to Space Invaders while adding a bunch of pinball- and modern shooter-inspired mechanics, as well as speeding up the game to make it more exciting. The way the music ties in Rez-style is also a big draw.
ReceivedWorld of Goo on WiiWare, it's fun and the music is great. Halfway through is when the difficulty really ramps up.
And I just found Kirby's Dream Land 2 and Kirby's Block Ball together on eBay yesterday for $14 shipped, which isn't terrible.
Picked up a used, full SNES system w/ Super Mario World.
Jetset Radio for the Xbox
Gonna be a slow year. :/
10 definitely but not anything over that. Note I'm not saying it's bad I just regret paying full price for it.
I bought Lost Odyssey and Infinite Undiscovery from a friend - 6 discs total for $20. I almost felt guilty. Almost.
I'm probably just going to trade IU on Goozex, because I've heard bad things. Lost Odyssey almost had me in tears last night, though. So fuckin' good.
Also, I ordered my Pistol Grip for the Falcon Haptix doodad... I can't wait to play some Half-Life with it :D
Why must my PC be DEAD? WHY??
fuck my life.