Legendary Skill Hunter
Originally uploaded by FlipSide3.
I did it! I did it!
Took forever, but I finally managed to capture all the elite skills from a three campaigns of Guild Wars with my necromancer. Now hopefully I can find something else to pour gold into. I’m thinking fancy weapons and armor… though that Guild Hall still needs a little work.
Oh, and just for history purposes… I capped the last skill just about the same time that Michael Phelps won his first gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
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Soul Calibur 4 Cervantes
Originally uploaded by darciastevenson.
I have good and bad things to say about Soul Calibur IV. The good is that it looks amazing, play control is spot on and may actually be better than the previous games by a hair, the custom character creation is cool, and having Yoda as a playable character is just down right neat. The Soul series of games have always been one of my favorites. Nearly bought a Dreamcast on a number of occasions just to satisfy my desire to play the original Soul Calibur… which is still the pinnacle of the series by the way.
So number 4 is by far a worthy addition to the series, but I do have a few minor complaints… which once again brings it all back to the Dreamcast version as being the best one. While the game looks amazing and the addition of Jedi is very fun, having Vader’s apprentice be the next to last opponent in arcade mode every time (and thus always having my butt handed to me) has become very tedious. The apprentice is overpowered in the way Cervantes was during the Soul Blade/Edge days, and at least then the old pirate was the end boss. If there were a way to adjust the difficulty of the arcade mode or turn off the apprentice, then I’d probably be happy.
You have to remember that I’m playing for fun here, not to become a frothing ball of frustration to the point of scaring my family. You can blah blah blah all you want about challenge and such, but I should be able to tailor the game’s difficulty to my liking. I can always ramp it up later once I’ve got all the moves down again. I completely skipped over Soul Calibur 3 because I heard the difficulty level was absurd a SC2 was still working fine for me.
This version has online play, which sounds great… but with my silver account on Xbox Live it does me no good. I’ll be upgrading to Gold this fall once the update comes out to allow Netflix streaming, so I’ll just find out about all that then.
Custom character creation is pretty neat. I’m hoping to have more options once I unlock more outfit pieces, but I’ve already made two Chrono Trigger characters for it (Magus and Lucca) using what was available. My only complaint is that instead of just going for the appearance, I have to worry about how each piece effects my stats. After finishing up a pretty respectable Lucca lookalike and starting the game, turn out she starts out with only 50% health. No wonder she was dying so fast. I added some extra outfit bits to bring her health up, but it did spoil the look I was going for… bummer.
At any rate the game is still great, even if the menu system seems to have suffered a bit. I also miss the old travel the world to unlock stuff game that was in SC2. That was better than the new tower of souls or whatever the call it. That and the story mode seems like a replacement for the way the arcade mode used to play… all in all it is like they messed to much with what used to work perfect.
In the end I’m really impressed, but also slightly disappointed… which has been the case with every game since the original SC.
Oh and the anatomy on some of the girls (I’m looking at you Ivy) has gone off the deep end of absurdity. Honestly, could we tone it down a tad. My wife watches me play this game, and she’s already telling my newborn son he’s not going to get to play… which is a shame.
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IMG_4905
Originally uploaded by FlipSide3.
Sometimes I wish I could ignore the world the way my son can.
The last week or so has been a tad crazy. I almost had to serve as a juror on a murder trial, found out that my car’s air conditioning is broken instead of just needing a coolant refill, and my daughter has decided that climbing out of her crib is fun. So, tonight we have to get a toddler bed from some friends and hope Katie takes to it.
As far as the car goes, it’d be really great if we could find a mini-van or a small SUV. The main problem is we already have a car payment and we’re broke as it is. Figure I’ll just have to sweat it out and hope that I can make it to the fall when these 100 degree days will go away.
Once upon a time, I could actually save money every month and was practically debt free. Oh how getting married and having kids can change all that. All well, have to make the best of what I’ve got, which are two great kids and a wonderful wife… along with two annoying cats.
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Me am happier than ever… besides the birth of the children, getting married, blah blah blah… the game I love most of all is coming to life again, this time on Nintendo DS. Looks like I’ll be getting me a DS for Christmas. Guess I won’t be jealous of my brother-in-law anymore, who just got one for his birthday. Once this game comes out I will have one, no question about it.
Chrono Trigger must be mine!
PS: Saw Wall-E tonight… such a great movie. Choked me up more than once.
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I kept my eyes open this evening for the fox. After I heard the neighbors dog barking, I knew it was time. Then what do I see… 2 foxes. So Bridget comes over to take a look.. and spots a third. Now there are 3… at least. Yeah, I’m going to call Animal Control a lot tomorrow. Time for a fox relocation and I’m not going to take the lack of call backs this time.
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Went to Schlotzsky’s and since they were out of the salad I wanted, they gave me a free one.
Nothing better than free food.
I hadn’t even thought about getting a salad from them until today, and I must say they make good salads.
Took a bit getting through the drive through, but it was well worth it.
Yum!
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I was on our enclosed porch the other day feeding the cats, when I saw something moving in the backyard. At first I thought it was a cat, as that’s not out of the ordinary. Only took a moment to realize that was a wrong assessment.
A gray fox padded its way right onto the patio. He (or she) sat there for a bit scratching itself and otherwise acting like he owned the place. Didn’t see me or the cats due to the solar screen (wonderful invention).
I snapped a couple videos since the normal pictures didn’t work through the solar screens (so there is a small drawback to them). We saw the fox wandering down the neighborhood street last night, and he was sitting out there this morning as well.
Bridget called animal control the other day, but they just told her to leave the fox alone since it’s a wild animal and it would probably go on its own. I’ll be giving them a call tomorrow and letting them know that the critter seems to have made a home. That and taking a stroll down the middle of the street can’t be normal behavior.
I’m personally not bother too much, because I’m sure it’s eating up the vermin. Which is one less thing I have to worry about. I just don’t want the kids down the block at rabies risk… or having a fox get in our garage.
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