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July 1, 2008
I covered the end of Disc 2 in my Final Fantasy IX playthrough log at GameSpot. This portion covered the Pinnacle Rocks, the destruction of Lindblum, Fossil Roo, the Outer Continent, Conde Petie, the Black Mage Village, Madain Sari and the Iifa Tree. At this point I was in a huge rush to complete the game so that I could participate in Retro Revival Week.
July 2, 2008
FFIX Playthrough log continues as I cover the my first part of my progress in Disc 3. Down in Alexandria, Cards in Treno, Alexandria meets Kuja, Black Mage Village 2nd Visit and Captured by Kuja where the plot points covered in this article. I was really pushing hard to complete the game at this, because the next day...
July 3, 2008
I completed Disc 3. A whole disc completed in two days, I guess you can do a lot when you are motivated to. This edition of the FFIX log covered: Oeilvert, Desert Palace, Esto Gaza, Mount Gulug, Ispen's Castle, the 4 element shrines, Terra's Bran Bal and Pandemonium. I knew that completing the game was within my grasp when I completed Disc 3.
July 4, 2008
I did it! Disc 4 isn't much more than what they couldn't fit on Disc 3. It is a short few hours of gameplay with a few middling boss fights. What boss isn't middling is the final boss Necron who has one of the cheapest attacks in the history of RPGs. Grand Cross is infamous for kicking the asses of even the most prepared combatants. With Final Fantasy IX completed it was time to get ready for Retro Revival Week.
July 5, 2008
This is where we said good-bye to my long running NLU Weekly series. It had a great run of 76 weeks, but it just became too much of a crutch for me. It got to a point where there would be months with only NLU Weekly. I wanted to get back to my old form of coverage which was much more spontaneous. Anyway in NLU Weekly #76 I covered my games of Retro Revival Week and did a simple recap of the entire FFIX log. There was a bit of a scare that Retro Revival Week was canceled, but that was short lived and it was time to get your RETRO on!
July 6, 2008
For day #1 of Retro Revival Week I popped Super Metroid in to my SNES for the first time in too many years and played through the entire game. It took me nearly 4 hours with only 90% of the items, but that was mostly due to rust, I just couldn't remember where I was supposed to go at times. Not to mention that my poor old SNES controller's D-Pad has seen better days, which makes wall jumping accurately a bit of a chore.
July 7, 2008
Day #2 saw me attempt again, to complete the entire original Mega Man series in one day, I was two games short this time, but as usual I broke down a summary of my thought on each of the NES titles that I did manage to play. Next RRW, when ever that is, I am going to kick some ass and complete this challenge.
July 8, 2008
I decided to take on the Mega Man X series in Day #3, but I got a late start and didn't have nearly enough time to even think of doing that, so I moved on to playing Mega Man X4 as Zero, which at first I didn't like, but as I beat a few bosses and grabbed a couple of heart tanks, I really started to enjoy. I still haven't fully completed my goal, but I will get around to it soon enough.
July 9, 2008
Day #4 featured me playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, my favorite in the series. The controls where still fairly simple at this point but the challenge was fair and with a bit of skill and practice completing a character 100% wasn't too much trouble. But because it doesn't take all that long to complete a character I mess around with a few other PS1 titles, they where all Hockey games and they thrill didn't last long... other than the THPS2 action, kind of a bum day.
July 10, 2008
Day #5 was another day where I didn't quite manage to complete my day goal, but I did play quite a bit of the game of the day: Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA. This game is still definitely one of my favorites on the N64 or just in general really.
July 11, 2008
This is where my excitement for getting my RETRO on was starting to dwindle. I was supposed to play through Sonic 1, 2 and 3, but I just wasn't even in the mood to play those games at all. I tried a few different games including Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World on the SNES, but neither game could spark my RETRO mood. Which leads me to the final day...
July 12, 2008
Day #7... I played about 15 minutes of Castlevania: SotN and then just fell flat on my face in terms of RETRO gaming. Though I do still plan to pick up a whole bunch of Retro games for the next RRW, so that I have more choices than just my old staples.
July 13, 2008
Holy crap, a summary of a summary, the posts of which I just summarized again in the above paragraphs. Crazy. Anyway, I summarized my thoughts on all 7 days of Retro Revival Week. You've been summarized!
July 14, 2008
Damn, this has to be a near record for most consecutive posts on the blog, I didn't check, but it must be close, I mean 2 straight weeks with post. This was my rant on the pile of shit which is Sonic The Hedgehog (next-gen). This is by far one of the worst games that I ever owned, it is slightly playable, but it isn't worth the effort slog through the crap to find anything that resembles fun.
July 18, 2008
The streak is broken, but that's okay, because in this special I covered my thoughts on my favorite games from E3. I was going to do awards like the previous year, but there just where not any real big surprises like last year. But this fall is going to be the shit with games like Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, FarCry 2, Mega Man 9, Saints Row 2, Dead Space and Rock Band 2. Can't wait!
July 21, 2008
I casually celebrated 2 years with my same XBox 360 that I picked up July 21, 2006. This was also the first post to be posted both on Giant Bomb and on GameSpot. I also talked about my collection nearing 300 games something I could have never imagined when I first started gaming back in 1985.
July 22, 2008
The first Finished article in awhile and this one covers the Xbox classic: Halo 2. This proves that going back is just a bit too tough when it comes to the Halo series. Halo 3 is just so far beyond the first two games that as person who played 3 first, it causes the flaws of the first two games just stick out. But I am glad to finally have completed the trilogy though, which is pretty cool for a guy who never even played an original Xbox game until Halo 1 in 2007.
July 26, 2008
After picking up about 15 games over the last two months all for super cheap at my local Blockbuster which is pretty small so I guess they are freeing up shelf space by selling some older 360 games for $15 or less. Here I covered just about all of those games, which include: Call of Duty 2, Project Gotham Racing 4, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Viva Pinata and Sega Rally Revo. The is among my most epic articles.
There you have it Giantbombers, July 2008 in a nut-shell. August looks to be a fairly slow month as usual, so I will have time to work on completing the plethora of games that I picked up during July including Final Fantasy IV (DS) and BioShock. I will have something soon, maybe I will have a best/worst of alpha99 or something covering my older posts. I also want to say that my post will probably continue to be posted on GameSpot for awhile to come as I have to convert these Giant Bomb posts to HTML format to archive on my site and that translates in to easy cross posting to GameSpot. Though I think that I enjoy being at Giant Bomb more, it is so much more laid back, plus it is fun editing game pages of lesser known games like Blaster Master: Blasting Again and such. I think I will probably have impressions of Geometry Wars 2 tomorrow. What IS IT!? I have THIS! Loading Complete!
