When I came upon Destructoid a year and a half ago, I was intrigued. A video game blog, updated daily, with a blossoming (and funny) community contributing as well as the editors and writers? Awesome! I loved Niero's vision, and I loved the wit and comedy that spiced up each write-up (that kind of rhymed, but it was the same word so i don't know), and I became glued to the site. Eventually, I became a member and POASTED COMMENTZ a lot, and that was the extent of what I did. It took me a while after the community blogs were blowing up to start one (I'm a lazy sack of shit), but I'm glad I'm able to voice my opinion on things and then have guro and scat commented on it. Niero, you truly are an amazing person for bringing these interbutts together, and raising a family of robots that looks out for eachother and contributes to the Dtoid society, much like a group of communistic robots. I love you Destructoid, I love you Niero, Happy Birthday to the both of you!

Games


LOST ODYSSEY IS AMAZING!

I just finished the first disc, and it's so enjoyable! EGM gave this game flak about it's long "boring" stories, but they can fuck themselves. These stories are so well written and provide a great backstory, well, backstories, to Kaim's past. This game is amazingly well presented, and the level of challenge is perfect as well. The last JRPG I played was Blue Dragon, and it was a grind fest, but this one has some good balancing and A.I.

Music



Born Ruffians
Born Ruffians - EP

These guys are great, the vocalist sounds a little like the guy from clap your hands say yeah!, and I love them. Check em out.

What you guys be playin' dis week yo?

My Not Turning Point Gaming Rig is actually a mac. Now, albeit, it is a very nice iMac, I do wish I had a computer that could play pc games. Now, I could always use xp under bootcamp, but this thing isn't really meant for games, as I found out. Now it would be completely fucked if you guys chose me as the winner for this contest and I took both of these,I mean come on, an iMac AND a gaming rig!? Balogna. BA-LOG-NA.
But here's what I intend to do:
Give my iMac to my parents! They'd love it! They have windows vista (which barely runs on their downstairs computer, yowzers) and my dad constantly throws shit-fits with his accent (He's british, from Newcastle) and my mom loves macs. The only reason we could get my mac was if i bought half of it, and I did. So if I'm chosen, I'll make a video of me boxing up the mac and giving it to my parents . I'll make them go out, set up a small birthday cake, and throw a "You guys have a decent computer now" surprise party. I think my parents, especially my dad who makes music, will enjoy it more than I do.
I've always wanted to play PC Games well. I owned a pc a while back and could play the orange box decently and I've always wanted to have one of those computers that I could one day marry and live together in gaming bliss, and I'm pretty sure my parents would love me if I Gave em the mac!
So, without further fucking ado, here's my imac!








[Note: The sole reason for me purchasing my computer desk is because it was labeled as "black kid's computer desk". Oh god lulz]

REZ HD has taken over my life. I had the original for dreamcast and loved it, and now it's back on the 360, and I'm so happy. This is old news, but I just now bought it and I'm loving it. The different ways you tweak the graphics like the bloom and glow and sepia tones, along with the different sound modes like underwater and cave really make it a lot of fun to play. It's the kind of game people will come over to play, but don't mind watching as well because it's so damn trippy.



Along with that news, I just downloaded a different browser. I used to use Safari, then went back to Firefox, and now I'm using Opera. For those that don't know, Opera is fucking amazing. It's (In my opinion) the fastest browser of the three, and surfing is really fun with it. Mouse Gestures are rad, if I hold the right click, move my mouse to the left and release it, I'll go back a page. If I move it to the right, I'll go forward a page. The gestures make it really fast and easy to navigate, along with this feature called Speed Dial. Basically, it shows up when you launch opera, as 9 numbered boxes. (see the picture above) You type a website in and save it, and it shows the page inside the box, then yuo can click it and start surfing. At any time, you can hold control and press 1-9 to go to the page you assigned it in speed dial. Be sure to save a Rick Roll for when friends are over.

Anyway, what do you, the people, think of REZ HD or Opera? Can anyone show me anymore trippy games that I may enjoy?

Here's what I'm doing this week.

As far as music goes, here's my week's pick:




Beach House- Devotion

My album choice of the week, Devotion by the band Beach House. These two lovely people create the most moody and underwater-exotic sounds I've ever heard. Being a fan of the previous Beach House album, I knew exactly what this would sound like and that I would enjoy it. There are very minimal percussion sounds, mostly light drums or drum sounds with shakers, while the real draw here are the haunting vocals and the echoing guitar parts, combined with the lead's gloomy synth. Go ahead and pick this up.

Games: In b4 Niero (or I) can't spell.



I'm playing through Devil May Cry 4, which despite my gripes on the half-hour install, I'm enjoying for the most part, along with Unreal 3 for the PS3 (bad rental choice is bad) which is okay, single player is complete shit-biscuits. I'll probably finally start playing through Mass Effect, get some Lost Odyssey on, and keep plowing through Earthbound for Snes.

Other Things:
I need to get Radiohead tickets this week. They are playing at the Nissan Pavillion, in Virginia, (I hate this state) and I'm getting the tickets from this guy Chris who i met on craigs list. I pray to god I'm not raped in the process. Maybe I'll also finish making another song. Here comes a shameless plug for my terrible music: www.myspace.com/zapzappewpew Zap Zap is a project I've been working on, and there should be a few people joining me in the future. Be sure to add me as a friend and spam guro on my profile, I'm sure it'll increase my traffic.

Now that I'm finished plugging my music and talking about shit you don't care about, feel free to comment how much you don't care about it, but be sure to somehow include what your thoughts on Beach House are if you liked them, or what your week is going to be filled with. Will it be a hotpocket made of win or fail? You must decide, nao.

Hello gang, I'm Roryzilla.
You may have seen me lurking about on this fine piece of ass we call Destructoid, and it
was only a matter of time until I started my blog here. This first part is going to be a rant,
however.

Devil May Cry 4 for PS3.


What the fuck, Sony?

Who do you think you are? Sure, let's take an hour (Re: 22 minutes) to install content
while showing a
story line for 3 games looping over and over again set to (agreeably okay) orchestra
music, all for 5 second quicker load times. You know what I like about the 360, Sony? I put
a disc in, and the game boots right up. No need for a installation bar set to (agreeably
okay) orchestra music filling for over an hour. Dis sum buushit. Please give me the option
to install next time you have a game that may need some faster load times, or someone
in your company's dick is going home with me tonight. This thing is still installing. Holy shit.

That was the rant part.

Here's the "Learn about Me" part.

I'm Rory, I'm 16, and I've been gaming since I got an N64. I enjoyed the beautiful worlds
of Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie, and moved on next to a Playstation to enjoy Final
Fantasy 7, and some others which i can't remember now. Next up I went for the gamecube,
then opted for a ps2, then finally held out for an xbox. I later purchased a 360 for my
birthday, and enjoyed it wholely, and still do. For my birthday last year, I got a gaming
computer which I had to upgrade. (Editor's Note: That fucking game installed. But the
Siren's singing is lodged in my brain forevermore.) I eventually sold the computer and got
an iMac, which I love for video editing, since I'm a skateboarder. Yes, I own a mac.

I'm using an iMac, 24", 2.8 ghz dual core, 4 gigs of ram in it.
Call me a mac fag, but I generally hate the people who own macs. Preening assholes. But,
I can tell you that running The Orange Box on this bad boy with full graphical settings on
this screen makes me cum ducklings. I'm going to put up a video of me running Crysis
soon, I believe I'll be able run it on high to medium settings without it turning into a
slideshow.

I own a PS3, a 360, and I used to own a wii, but sold it for $650 before christmas and
bought a PS3 due to the fact that I sensed a huge lack of games coming to the Wii.

I enjoy many a game genre, and I've been lurking this site for about 2 years now. So,
here's a formal hello. Supskis?

[Editor's Note: It has come to my attention that by telling you about my specs, I may look
like even more of a preening asshole than most mac users. I'm totally okay with that
though. Pshh. You're probably just jealous that I'm my Highschool's football captain, or that
I have a totally hot girlfriend (she just blew me; shit was SO cash).]