Finished two games this past week.
Finishing my Final Fantasy V challenge was exhilarating. Playing the game with such a crazy restriction caused good amounts of frustration but having to come up with different strategies to win was great fun. The final battle can be found here. I think I’m going to try to do a new challenge every month. Tomorrow I think I’ll start Final Fantasy Tactics and hopefully beat the damn thing. Been working on Final Fantasy 4 Easy Type and I don’t think I’m going to rush through that, but an hour or two every now and then really makes progress in this game. It is so short and after finishing the DS version of FF4 almost two years ago I really don’t find this game to be all that challenging. It is still fun, though.
I’ve come to determine that my lifestyle cannot simply hold an MMORPG amongst its endeavors. I just can’t do it. I have logged into FF11 once since installing it almost 3 weeks ago. It’s not even that I don’t have the time to sit down and play a game. Even though I do spend a significant amount of time playing games on the go, I manage to find time to play games on consoles. I just can’t dedicate it all to one game, especially a type of game that requires so much investment to actually do something of progress in one sit down. Hopefully this will finally be the time I give up MMORPGs for good, although I highly doubt it.
The other game I finished was Duels of the Planeswalkers on the 360. While genuinely fun, it reminded me of two hard cold facts:
- I have shit luck.
- People suck.
The first was confirmed with the number of times I got mana screwed/flooded. It is borderline stupid. But that’s random numbers for you. Why it seems they hate me on such a regular basis, I don’t know. But I can’t damn it too much. It is what it is.
People, on the other hand, really need to stop dropping out at the first sight of their loss. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but this is just ridiculous. The worst was when I was playing a four player game and the “Host dropped connection” after I had taken down the other two players. This wouldn’t be a big problem if the single player was great, but it isn’t. The AI is dumb. I have seen plays that don’t even begin to make sense. Why, when I am all tapped out, would you spend all your remaining mana on regenerating a creature that you’re not even attacking with? The AI just completely dumped their remaining mana on their turn into a Drudge Skeleton, which I was able to kill off the next turn. I know that it won’t make the best plays but where in the game of Magic would this even make sense? How would they have programmed it to think this way? It’s just silly.
I also started Gyakuten Saiban which is better known among English speakers as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. There are a good chunk of words that I don’t know, but I am surprised that I am actually understanding a large chunk of the story. Enough to actually solve the first case without a hitch. I know it’s supposed to be easy, but I figured the language barrier would be too much. Glad to see that this isn’t the case.
So this week should be that, Final Fantasy 4 Easy Type, some FF Tactics and maybe some Donkey Kong Country if I can convince Eriko to throw down a little.
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