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Well, while I haven't played GTA4, I can't imagine it deserving a perfect 10 score. But marketing creates hype. I mean even Metal Gear Solid 4, as much as I love it, I wouldn't give it a perfect 10. A 9.9 maybe... But a perfect 10...

And universal reviews might make a good estimate on what the general majority of gamers would say. But again, it has a lot of that mainstream (my definition) gamer mentality. So a lot of it is, like... You could have GTA4 get a perfect 10. But it probably would've gotten like, an 8 if not 7.5 if it didn't have multiplayer in it, you know what I mean?

A general review might say things like, "Rule of Rose has buggy combat system, 6 out of 10." And maybe the combat system isn't perfect, but combat isn't the point of the game. That's like... That's like getting Uncharted and saying, "It's crappy for a puzzle game." A lot of them miss the point. And miss the mark, in my opinion. I mean, they might be roughly in the ball park. But usually games with big budgets and lots of advertising get too high, and games with none of that get too low.

Like, look at Heavenly Sword (another game you should look into), what were their complaints? That it was too short? Frankly, heavenly sword is just about as long as the first God of War, and had more diverse gameplay than God of War... So why's GoW getting high 9s while games like Heavenly Sword gets a 7? You know what I mean?


I'm not like a huge Zelda fan. I only ever actually beat two Zelda games... OoT and Majora's Mask... But I love them both. And have them both on the Cube. But making a list out of the two would be pointless.

I did play a good chunk of Oracle of... Umm... one of them I can't remember which, and I thoroughly enjoyed that. If I actually owned the game, I might've even beaten it.

Game Informer had the first picture in one of the issues a while ago. Looks interesting... I want to see it a lot.

Top 5 Zelda games:
1. Ocarina of Time
2. Majora's Mask
3. Twilight Princess
4. The Wind Waker
5. Link's Awakening

I know, I know. "Zomg! Link to the Past is not on there! Blasphemer!" Well, it ranked so low because I can't freaking beat it. As in, I can't get to the second dungeon in the Dark World. I'm a shitty 2-D Zelda gamer. D:

And I don't get why people b***h and complain about Wind Waker. It's actually a really fun game. So what if it's cel-shaded? It's not like you'll magically turn 8 years old if you play it, so quit whining.

Also, new Mario game that is not New Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario Galaxy 2 in the works! Check it.

I don't think Cel Shading is the issue, I think it's the overall art direction. I mean, if Resident Evil visually turned into an Anime...
Well, if it did that, then people would only realize that narrative wise, and storytelling wise, it turned into an anime a long time ago. Bad example.


On another note... My ******** luck... With only my luck.... Do I buy a new Laptop, and it turns out to have a faulty mother board... EVERY damn piece of technology I buy ends up screwing up. WHY!? >.<
So I exchanged it for an HP. It was $50 more, but it has a better processor, and a bigger screen. So hopefully, this one's a keeper.

It's gettign closer and clsoer to halloween and Angela already ahs a great avi costume...

I'm dressing up... And scaring people... For money.... At the local amusement park.

I'll just be partying. All night. To tell the truth, I'd rather be in Bio's position. I mean, you can party anytime you want, but Halloween only comes like, ten times a year (For horror fans who go to conventions lol).

Speaking of conventions, for the f*** of it, as I was standing three feet ahead of Stuart Gordon (The director of such horror classics as Re-Animator and Dolls) with my back facing him, I just randomly said (Very loudly so that he def heard) "What the f*** is Re-Animator?" I then walked ahead as both my friends covered thier faces. Later, they told me that when they looked back at him, he was shaking his head. Awesome.

This Saturday I'll be going to another convention with Mr. Robert Englund in attendance. If I get a good oppurtunity, I'm going to shout out to him "Look, it's Rorschach!" I love f***ing with my idols. Btw, if you don't get the Rorschach joke, the guy who played Rorschach is now starring as the new Freddy Krueger.

So ever have one of those days that just falls apart from the very beginning, and it only gets worse, but you're not sure to be super-pissed off or still excited because something awesome is happening the next day? Yeah, this is one of those days.

So, I get to school and the first thing that happens is both zippers on my backpack snap off. Joy. Not too bad though, I can always get another one. So I still go about my day, 'til third hour in Intro to Programming. I've been using my external terabyte HDD because my flash drive got severely owned. Thankfully, I backed it up literally minutes before the prong that goes into the USB port snapped off two months ago. Was trying to muster up enough money to get another one without my parents finding out (as I'd not even had it a year). So anyway, it's one that requires an outlet too, and the only one not being used was one that caused it to stretch across a path just an inch or two off the ground, hardly anything worth noting. One of the kids was like "Haha, I'm gonna trip over it!"

Guess the <********> what.

"Oh, well I tried to lift my foot!" Oh my ******** God, he did it on purpose, and I know it, and he knows I know it. I dunno what I did to provoke that, but now my hard drive won't work. It'll turn on just fine, but the computer won't recognize it. It clicks. I called my mom's cousin, a tech guru, and he said that could be one of two extremes.

A. Just replace the case on the actual hard drive. No problem.

B. I'm totally ******** screwed.

I have all my music, all my funny photos, all my school work for the past three years on there, all my emulators, all my movies, everything. If it ends up being bricked... Augh, I want to punch a ******** wall right now, I'm so pissed off. This is the third storage device in two years I've had get ******** over. I lost my first flash drive last year, as well as the terabyte HDD on Black Friday. Backed it up on the HDD, lost the flash drive. Got the one I have, migrated the old flash drive stuff onto it, saved more on it, backed it up, the prong falls off. Now this s**t. This is really just ******** great.

But tomorrow I get to go on a field trip to Stratford, Ontario for Brit Lit to see a professional performance of Macbeth, which is really sweet. So yeah, I'm happy, but I'm so pissed off at the same time. It'll be a ton of fun. Come to think of it, this problem can be dealt with when I return. Let tomorrow be awesome! biggrin