Indestructible (approximately 50% of the time)
By Cwaff 1 Comments
Real Life
I left you last week heading off to a costume party and I have to say that it was a lot of fun. I went as Rorschach from Watchmen, there was a Danny from Grease, Superman, V from V for Vendetta, William Wallace, one of the Incredibles, a penguin, Cleopatra and many more awesome costumes. A Saturday night well spent if I may say so myself. I think from now on rather than blogging on Saturdays I will blog on Sundays as Saturday seems to be the day in which everything happens! This blog post was meant to go up yesterday but while adding images it crashed and I lost everything! But anyways, the party was last week, it was fun and not much more to say on the matter except for one very important question. 
On Monday of last week a friend and I headed up to Belfast to see our other friends taking part in a relay leg of the Belfast Marathon. We headed up fairly early but we had no idea where the guys started their leg or where the race finished. So we wandered around for a while and found the 22 mile mark of the race. As we had no idea where the end was we were forced to follow the marathon track all the way to the finish at the 26 mile mark. It was quite a nice walk though, lots of runners running past us, people cheering at the runners and glaring evilly at us as we walk on by. When we made it to the end we got to see our friends for a whole 5 minutes... then had to walk all the way back again. In total we walked around 10 miles in those few hours we spent up in Belfast and considering there is a 9 mile marathon walk we may as well have done that and got something more out of it!
However my trip to Belfast was not all worthless. I did say in my last blog that I had no money to buy games anymore... and I didn't buy any games! What I did buy however was a Fight Pad to improve my skills at Street Fighter 4. I got the Sagat version which although he isn't my favourite character or anywhere near it, I guess it will do. I do love the artwork on the controller and the D-pad is much more usable than that on the 360 controller.
The other important thing that happened last week was that it was my last ever week of school. I only ever have to go back to do my exams, pick up my results and then I will probably never set foot in the building again. It's a scary thought... I've spent the last 7 years in that one building and now I am done, ready to move on. Needless to say the last day was full of many pranks and mischief.
Some people brought in chickens and let them loose around the corridors causing havoc because they are damn well hard to catch as many teachers found out the hard way. We made paper bats, composed of paper, blue tac and a drawing pin, which we walked around the school and stuck them to the roof by throwing them as hard as we could so that the drawin pin would impale itself in the ceiling. Some of which will be impossible to get down because the roof in the gym is just so high. Someone got a rape alarm and threw it on the roof of the school and it didn't go off until it ran out of batteries. Fish were hidden behind radiators and other places and the smell of certain places was unbearable. I also heard there was a pigs head placed at the back exit of the school although I did not see it for myself.
On the very last day we headed out of school where we had a fun day planned for us all with a Bull Riding Thingy... you know the spinning bulls which you have to stay on... A bungie run, oversized boxing gloves inside a bouncy castle and other inflatable games. We then had the most epic water fight I have ever seen. There were hoses, water balloons, water pistols, buckets and around 150 people just going crazy and soaking each other. Then others came with ketchup, flour, sour milk and eggs and just added to the already growing chaos. Have to say though, best day of school ever!
Saturday night was a barbecue which was a fundraiser for 2 of my friends heading around the world for charitable purposes. One is heading to Argentina and the other to Moldova. Again that was a lot of fun and they raised a lot of money for their causes. But enough about all of this, you don't care about my real life at all, all you want to hear about is the games right?
Virtual Life
Last time I said I was going to play FF13, Soul Reaver, Battlezone and Bad Company 2. I played FF13 and a bunch of other random games... This week has been primarily composed of Street Fighter 4
To give you a rough idea of where I am in skill level for Street Fighter 4, I can fight my way through arcade mode on medium 3 rounds without a bother in the world, until I get to 2nd round of Seth. He completely annihilates me in that 2nd round. I think with practice though I should be able to get to a stage where I can beat him easily and consistently!
Anyone have any tips for Blanka they could give me?
I mainly just stay back and roll in whenever they try to attack and electrocute if they get really close.
Next onto... Beyond Good and Evil??? Where on earth did that come from?
Well... I had it on my shelf and I bought it preowned last year some time and never actually played it. So I started it up and I am really enjoying it! The characters are lovable its a beautiful universe which has been well crafted, it has things for me to collect (pearls) and an interesting story which I want to see through to the end! It however has a few flaws which bother me. I dislike the letterbox view, I feel like I am missing out because it is not filling my entire TV and in places I have found the framerate to dip below general acceptable levels but what else can I expect from an old game I picked up for under £5? I still love it and plan to finish it up this week hopefully and give it a review before long! Speaking of reviews I never got round to reviewing Ape Escape... Another thing to add to the list!
Now, back to normality with... Deus Ex!?
The list just gets more and more random. I picked this up in that Steam sale a while ago, the one that was mentioned on the Bombcast. It was cheap, I never played it and I cannot resist a bargain... So I started it and oh my... I can see why this game is regarded so highly by some people. The level of depth and detail in the world is astonishing and I love how there are multiple ways to perform each mission. I am not too far in yet so I cannot comment on plot development or anything like that but I can see this is something that is going to take up a good bit of my time and possibly be a contender for multiple playthroughs!
Okay seriously, back to normality with the beast of a game that is Final Fantasy 13. Still working my way through and managed to get everyones summons. I am however struggling severely against a specific enemy and now I have found a boss version of it which is giving me an extremely hard time. It is in the tower in Chapter 11 and it is a Robotic type box thing, which has 2 robot minions. If you kill the minions it summons 5 more and that is game over. If you leave the minions too long they upgrade and can almost one shot your party members. The main boss also hits pretty hard and has a crapload of health which I can only get to about halfway before I die. Right now I am using Fang, Lightning and Hope switching between SEN/COM/MED, SEN/MED/MED, SEN/RAV/RAV to try and get it to stagger and then nuke it with all I have got. Anyone got any suggestions on how to defeat this beast, I have to be doing something wrong and would love any help anyone could muster!
Finally the last thing I have been playing is Team Fortress 2. A Giantbomb member who I'm sure many of you know MRacoon posted a status update about medals in TF2 so I started it up to have a look. I got my Gold medal for playing from launch and I was proud to be wearing it as I blew my enemies to smithereens!
Right before I leave I must say that today I got a nice surprise from a friend of mine. A Starcraft 2 beta key! Hurray! At long last I can have a go at the game I have been waiting impatiently for some time now. Too bad that my download speed is so slow and that in around 8 hours downloading I am still only at 65%! Tomorrow I should get a game or two in though!
WIth that I will leave you! Thanks for reading as always, if you enjoyed it please follow me as I will be posting another blog like this each and every week for as long as I can! There shouldn't be any delays next week unless of course the whole thing freezes again and I lose my entire blog post like yesterday! :(
Thank you, Cwaff.