But what if you get locked out of a really coooool quest from advancing the story? Thats always my fear..... even with new game +'s and whatnot, hardly ANy games get a 2nd playthrough from me no matter how good..... there are just way too many things to play for 2nd completionist playthroughs these days I'm afraid.....

On a completely different note, I just put 4 hours straight into tales of graces f today..... I haven't had a 4 hr game session IN YEARS!! I feel like a kid again..... what a pleasant day.....

also I've come to terms with retiring Children of Mana so everyone could ignore my plea from the above post to help me justify that decision...... LoL....

lastly I've been affording some time to the 1 and only non-rpg series that has interested me in my many moons of gaming... Mega Man! Well..... Megaman  Zero to be more accurate.... not as cool as remember em though.... not sure if I'm gonna continue with it or not.....

That totally put a smile on my face friend, thank you much :)

I haven't posted in the game journal in a minute or two.... why?? well i've been way too busy playing games in between long tattoo sessions (I totally could have trumped the main arc in tales of graces f by now, but my workload the last 2 weeks has been a bit staggering).... namely Tales of Graces F, Suikoden, and trying out various DS titles has really been consuming me as of late....

But I have a question... WHY THE HELL CAN'T I SEEM TO RETIRE CHILDREN OF MANA!! This game completely sucks..... despite that fact that I am a HUGE mana fan, to the point of even liking Dawn to a degree, I must admit that children is an utter disapointment from both a mana perspective and as an action/RPG.... yet I can't seem to stop.... 8 hours in and I don't even want to look at the thing yet I compulsively feel the need to finish this awful title (my OCD has been acting up real bad lately..... no joke, I have freakin' horrible, diagnosed,ritualistic OCD)..... So I implore someone help me and justify putting this one back on the shelf.... or give me one good reason not to when  I have radiata historie and Castlevania dawn of sorrows just waiting..... aside from FF3 and dragon quest 9 which I'm sure I would also enjoy WAY more then this current turd of a mana title......

Thats enough of my rant about my compulsive need to finish such a poopy title.... back to graces F

This thread is coming at such an ironic time for me... I just decided to start a 108 star playthrough of the series (carrying on save data and all) and am loving the hell out of it.... I totally forgot how absolutely stellar these games (at least the first two....) were.

Never shot for all 108.... trying it guide free with multiple save slots in case I overlook something, then going back and checking the guide over for my last few hours of gameplay to be sure I didn't miss anything integral..LoL

I was a HUGE fan of odin sphere, and from what I understand this more of that to a degree.... however due to my backlog of games, Muramasa still sits idle on my shelf.... so I too am interested to hear what anyone has to say about it.... I have to admit being a little turned off by the samurai tone of things.... I'm totally a elf and fairy sort of guy-LoL.... in that regard the, presentation of odin sphere was simply stunning to me.

I don't usually do DLC but new costumes excite me.... for anyone curious, there are some pretty neat looking school outfits available this week.... why couldn't they make this stuff in game secrets, damnit...... DLC feels like cheating.....

I am a nut-case completionist and strange as it may be, I have not finished a Zelda since the OoT. A Link to the Past was my favorite but something happened to my tastes thereafter and I never was really able to "get into" a Zelda title the same way ever since...  I gave Twilight Princess a sincere effort but it also fell off my radar long before completion...

I don't know why the Zelda franchise doesn't do it for me.... but it just doesn't....

Don't worry my man, your ahead of me and I've been playing since it released.... as much as I would love to marathon the hell out of it, I have to marathon the hell out of some art first to pay my bills....

Kos-Mos..... Why? Well I like my chicks android-like, cold and kick ass..... my logic is simple.... I don't like confrontations and only weigh 125 pounds, so I need a bad ass chick to defend me without being too mouthy (could land me in a mess or too). Additionally my sex drive is... well... ok so I don't have a sex drive.... I lost it back in 2008 (long story...) so I need a girl who isn't terribly interested in sex....

Then again.... if you guys let me use a loop-hole and pick from ANY rpg (even those not released stateside)... I would take advantage and enter the realm of anime to take Rei Ayaname as my bride to be.... she needs to leave the Eva back at Nerv though.... I could never afford the insurance on that thing.....

She is my favorite too :)


Yea, sad thing is they all know me as well and I just flipped out on one of them about a month ago for a slip of the tongue Xenoblade spoiler.... a bad one too.... I got that guy back though..... beat the game waaaay before him and went back to the store and spoiled the last 10 hours..... maybe there is an unspoken spoiler war commencing between me and the Gamestop crew...... all I know is Kharma is a bitch and I know the new guy who spoiled my Tales for me is about to embark on his first playthrough of Lunar 2 Eternal Blue... I'm half tempted to retaliate but I can't really think of much in Lunar 2 I can really spoil....

I am pretty stoked about this announcement... much more so then the .hack fighting game announcement I caught this morning right alongside this tidbit in my crunchyroll news.... rythym aside, I'm just excited to play as little sprite incarnations of many of the characters in the latter FF games no matter how they let me do it.... Klyde loves the 2d sprites of old, Klyde loves the FF soundtracks thus Klyde figures this can't be bad.... Then again Klyde has been surprise at how bad FF could prove to be in the past..... So excited as I am, I do still remain skeptical... errr, Klyde does..... wait who am I again?

I just need to vent for a moment.... I am having a REALLY bad week.... naturally I will spare the details that don't pertain to Tales of Graces..... but just as some background info... things are sucking as of late.... my oasis? This lovely game.... I was totally enthralled with Tales since it came out.... then I go to the game store and the ass-hole (after just discussing where I was in the game...) decides to blurt out some names of final bosses and plot points that TOTALLY spoiled A GREAT DEAL of the rest of this for me....

....I can't even express my disgust right now....

If only the world of chrono trigger was real and I could just go to a time portal and either alter the past or go to the future where I'm sure they've developed a way to selectively alter specific memories....... man that would sure solve all my problems this week....

... Sorry just needed to vent....

....oh well... back to watching Pascal do stupid things that make me smile.... I love when she goes for a high five at the end of a battle... makes me happy

My subjective near-perfect list is as follows....

Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of Mana sequel)
Final Fantasy VI
Suikoden 2 (haven't played it in a long time though.... another run-through may change my mind)
Xenoblade Chronicles
Chrono Trigger (I think this one is as close to a verdict as your going to get seeing as how it would pop up on most lists)
Earthbound
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete (many would disagree I'm sure...)
Legend of Heroes TITS
Tales of Symphonia (but right now Graces is giving it a run for its money in my book)

ahhh damn... you know what? None of these are perfect and there are a ton more of equal caliber I would love to list.... so I'm just gonna stop there.....

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I too fall into the this category... Actually I fall into the "to small to be considered an adult male" category..... I need to shop kids sizes or womens for the most part.... uni-sex tees... well forget it....

I'm still all over this pre-order though!

I'm still upset I didn't MK2 with those stupid cards and art book.... I will never let that happen again...

Just want to let everyone know about this little steal I discovered...





The black is only like 3.99 on amazon right now and it totally makes gaming waaaay more comfortable.... there might be better options, but certainly not a better price.... these are 17.99 in stores around where I am right now...

I just got myself one btw... and while it doesn't offer much in the way of protection, it is ergonomic as all hell... especially if you got big hands as I do..... go figure, I'm 5'8 and only weigh 124 dripping wet but I have the hands on a beast-LoL....

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004LQRENK/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1332004970&sr=8-1&condition=new
Just scroll down the list to find the one for 3.50