MistakenEvil

The Little Leagues Favorite cola - Pepsi Favorite pruney soda - Dr. Pepper Favorite strong citrus - Mountain Dew Favorite weak citrus - Sprite Favorite rootbear - IBC The Minors Favorite discontinued drink - Crystal Pepsi Favorite mainstream soda - Mountain Dew The Majors Favorite Soda of all time - Mountain Dew

I don't really watch wrestling much at all anymore, stopped aound the time McMahon or whoever bought WCW and cancelled it, but Benoit was one of the ones I enjoyed watching the most. It seems like everyone I knew of from when I was watching regularly is either retiring, having their career ended by someone or passing away. Chris may not be with us in person anymore, but the Rabid Wolverine will be immortal.

Bioware, huh... guess that means the main reason I'll be waiting before buying is the fact that this is the same franchise that gave us Big, Cream... ugh... any given character debuting in Sonic Adventure and after... and Amy. Hopefully they'll be smart and focus as much as possible on the old-school chars as possible - say, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and possibly some of the Chaotix. (Hmm... Chaotix RPG.... >.>``) In any case, I'll agree that the style of gameplay will have a huge impact on the success of this title. A BG/ID/Torment/NWN-ish style will kill it. I could settle for a KH-ish style, but that series felt more like an action-adventure than an RPG (not that it's a bad thing, but saying 'RPG' and not feeling like yer playing one is a little disappointing). I'm just going to sit back and wait a month or two before picking it up. I'm sure it'll be good, Bioware hasn't let me down yet, but there's this little voice saying that I'll still be playing with the NWN toolset more often than playing it.

*gasp!* A game mentioned here as a "must play together" that I actually have ready access to and works decently with my old-as-hell-ex-office computer? I usually suck at RTS games, but I'll see if I can get the disc again and try to practice up with it. Might be a little, as Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 is just about the only RTS I've been able to just jump into and give the impression I actually know what I'm doing strategically in, so don't expect me to get very far at all in any tournaments. I expect to only see two matches in a double elimination. O.o``

Online gaming is usually my last bastion of multiplayer fun without references to overhyped games/movies. RtCW is usually the last game like that to get inundated with said references. It's not that the act ticks me off, it's just that when it shows up there (where it makes no sense at all to do it) it makes my interest in the whole thing burn out that much quicker. As for the topic derailment, I never meant that to happen. I was just explaining the background to my opinion because I felt it would show the difference in my thinking of "popular" and "too popular". That much has been done (I hope), and you'll prolly not hear from me in this topic for a while. I've already said all that I felt needed to be said for now.

More like it's too popular. Moderation is the key. If I'm playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein online and my HUD starts filling with character names from something that isn't World War 2 related, it's going too far. Actual event: I hear a teammate call for health and start rushing to him, taking out an enemy on the way (named Legolas) with a little help (from Gimli), get asked for ammo from Megatron, then finally drop the health packs off for the wounded teammate, Sephiroth. LotR1 had just hit theatres.

Part of my reason may actually be that one of my friends has been obsessed with Transformers for as long as I've known him, and it makes this automatically lose points with me. Kinda like how anything "Lord of the Rings" and "Pirates of the Carribean" makes me cringe and think 'Oh goodness... not again...' due to how you just can't get away from them... they're seemingly everywhere.

No, not really. I just keep my yap shut most of the time because of past dealings with fanboys/girls. The CG's okay, but not as impressive to me as everyone seems to make it out to be.

This both gives me hope and makes me want to cry. I'm nowhere near Japan and my PS2 isn't equipped to understand foreign discs, but if it's being made that means there's a chance (even a small one) that it might see light of day over here.

I feel your pain, Midi.The only game I've played on a NeoGeo emulator that was anywhere near as fun as Kizuna Encounter was Savage Reign (followed very closely by SamSho 2). Having the characters from it in a collection game is nice and all, but it's not the same thing as playing the original. Maybe it's just me knowing I'll be tripping over the wave of nostalgia and wanting to cry, but I'd love to have stand-alone copies of KE and SR.

You rang? Yeah, I've kinda been in "lurker mode" a bit lately. I'll try to be a bit more sociable, though. Might also help if I had access to a computer that doesn't have a heart attack and nearly lock up any time I open an IM proggy, if anyone wats to know why I vanished from AIM/YIM. So far the birthday thing's going well (gatherings and celebrations are held on the closest weekends in my family), and it looks like it'll be getting a little better before it's over. ^.^

http://mistakenevil.deviantart.com/ Just a couple sketches, but I'll be adding better stuff soon enough.

I was on the WoW Beta forums (the boards for the losers (including myself) who didn't get in the closed beta) when we first started getting the big hints Ghost was dying. Maybe five people there cared. They were asking when they'd be working on this instead (either this or a World of StarCraft).

WarCraft and WarCraft 2 were the first RTS games I've ever played, and StarCraft always gave me the "What could I be doing in WC?" feeling. Besides, being introduced to the genre by a fantasy game and then jumping into a sci-fi one was a bit of a shock at first. It didn't feel right. But, with that all being said in addition to my C&C:RE comment earlier, I'll certainly be giving this one a try.

I wonder if this one will be good enough to lure me away from WarCraft 3 for a little while at least... like the first one wasn't able to do when I was playing WarCraft 2. O.o`` Although, I have been playing more Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 lately, so maybe I won't be as sceptical towards a sci-fi RTS as I was then. Time will tell, I guess.

I'm really feeling out of the loop now. Having a dial-up connection and spending most of my time in front of a console kinda limits my exposure to anime, but I do have a list to post... it's just not much of one. O.o Akira (The gem of my DVD collection) Gundam Wing Gundam 08th MS Team X (Most of it, including bits and pieces of the movie) Trigun (A bit of it, need to finish it) Princess Mononoke (Most of it, my friend's girlfriend turned it off after he passed out. >.<) Big O (Nearly all of it) Yeah... I need to flesh this list out.... >.>

As much as I haven't really liked any of the Final Fantasy games since 7 (which, I might add, in my opinion was nowhere near as good as the SNES games. Hard to really explain why, it just wasn't as fun for me), I'm happy about this. It means when Square finally makes that mistake I'm waiting for and releases a Final Fantasy I can like I won't have to borrow a friend's system to play it all night long... like I'm doing with Twilight Princess.... >.> I just hope they make that mistake soon.

Heh, Gargoyles and Goof Troop... the extent of my weekdays after homework before heading outside or playing whatever Genesis game I was obsessed with at the time. I miss those shows. >.>``

Wow. Truly incredible. Reminds me of Spirits Within, only more realistic. Therefore, infinitly creepy. Not only that someone would spend the time to do it, but that it actually came out that well. Fake just isn't supposed to look real. *shudders*

I'm occasionally on World of WarCraft. If anyone cares I can give the info reuired to contact me. I'm one of the leaders of a guild, so unless people intend to start a new one, I can get that base covered.

To go back a bit into the topic... sorry about that Midi. I haven't really been online much anymore long enough to warrant loading my IM programs. My bad. o.o Back to glitches, I've been borrowing my friend's copy of Soul Calibur 3 for a few weeks and I've already had to restart by Chronicles of the Sword files a few times due to my saves getting corrupted. Is this normal for the game, or does she just own a bad disk?

Thanks for the indirect-if-not-unintentional support, Koray. I was about to say something similar, about how the subject matter of a game is inconsequential if the game itself is fun to play. Back on topic, my most annoying and game-breaking "glitch" so far is how my copy of Dragon Quest 8 seems to have gone corrupt. Not my saves, the game disk itself. It works fine right up until you actually start a game, then it hangs on a black screen. It's done the same thing on a few different PS2's. The really annoying part of this is that now the only turn-based RPG I have in the house is Final Fantasy X, which always leaves me yelling at the game to shut the heck up and let me continue playing. At least DQ8's dialog was rather funny in places....

It's actually quite fun, once you look past the kiddy atmoshpere (not that the kiddy feeling really lasts all that long after you meet the Gelert Assassin, who has the same voice actor as Kain from Blood Omen... using the same tone of voice). Speaking of Legacy of Kain, about halfway through Vorador's Mansion in Defiance I had just discovered the correct path to get on with the game after nearly an hour and a half of hunting (I hate Raziel's chapters) and the blasted thing locked up. My last save (stupid me) was during Kain's chapter right before. I wanted to cry so badly. Kinda-sorta-not really. No capturing anything, and most of the focus is on keeping it healthy and happy, not fighting (which you can do, but you aren't forced into doing it). And the games to get money for food and toys.

Neopets: the Darkest Faerie for PS2 (wait... was it released for anything else?) Never been able to dodge this glitch. I'm told to go to another map to find a certain character and bring him back, all the while I'm able to tilt the camera and see that same character up on the cliff above me... on the same map. He never leaves the village to get lost in the mine. Granted, I've yet to have much of a problem beating bosses, so the reward's prolly not neccessary, but it's still annoying to have an unfinished quest from the middle of the game cluttering your log in the final dungeon. As for "lethal" problems.... The Sims for PC Downloaded and used a custom skin, only to have it go corrupt. Now that entire neighborhood is really unstable. If that character decides to walk by the active house, the game insta-crashes. I've removed all custom content since, but the neighborhood is still buggy as all get-out.

Nothing game related for me this year ( u.u; ), but I did end up with a couple scetchbooks, a package of printer paper (96 brightness, better then the scetchbooks... the printer's never going to see it), new 0.5mm mechanical pencils (why can I never keep track of these?), slippers (good thing, my bedroom has no heat), sleepwear, a shirt that says "Trust me, I'm perfect" (don't ask, I don't even know), a set of five colored gel pens (not pigment ink, but it'll pass), Disney's Robin Hood - Most Wanted Edition DVD (back when Disney artwork was actually decent, not overloaded with distracting straight lines where curves should be), Barnyard DVD (saw it in the theater with a friend, he's going to kill me when he finds out I have it), black dress pants, black and blue embroidered dress shirt, Happy Bunny poster that reads "I did it, but I'm blaming you." (already on my wall, dominating that section of my room), butane lighter ( ^.^ ), and a Stitch stuffed figure (the only recent Disney movies I can really get into - maybe it's the lack of straight lines...). In all, a decent set of gifts. I just wish I was able to get more out to other people. o.o