Vidya Gamen

Haven't played video games till dawn in a very long time.

Was supposely trying out some new games I bought for the PS2:

Sengoku Basara Cross
2D fighter like Street Fighter. Some characters have assist characters, where by the push of a button, he pops out to deliver a blow and runs away.

Animated opening uses Crosswise by TM Revolution. Awesome.

Lego Indiana Jones
Very cute. The cut scenes are pretty funny too.

Lego Batman
Another very cute game. Quite possibly one of the best Batman games. Has all the Dark Knight Detective's stuff, all done in cutesy manner.

Star Wars: Force Unleashed
Errr, haven't tried yet.

Speed Racer: The Video Game
This one got me hooked most of the time.

Based one year later after the movie. Only based on the T180 races, so no Mach 5 or Shooting Star. Can you believe it? A Speed Racer game without March 5!!!!

Read from gamefaqs.com message board, one of the makers said they have a very short time in making the game. So they picked the T180 racers only.

Controls are actually very simple. I usually sucked at racing games, unless they are arcadish, but I manage to go through a bunch of championships using Speed and his March 6. Should try Racer X tonight.

All the car-fu you see in the movie is here. Coolest thing ever in the game is when you consecutively use the nitros in about 5 times in a row, it gets psychedelic.

Oh yeah, you get to play as Trixie too.

By the time I knew it, it's already 6am, Sunday. Went to bed at about 7am and woke up at 4pm.

What a way to waste a day away.

It's Back!

Received a call from the shop to inform me that the PS2 is fixed. Went to collect it yesterday. Cost me RM180. Only a part of the laser is broken so there's no need to replace the whole thing.

Haven't have a chance to play it yet though.

PS2's In The Workshop

Worst Case Scenario: It might cost me half price of a new unit to fix. If the problem's cause by the laser lens. RM 380.

Not Too Bad Scenario: Mod chip problem. Cost only RM 100+ to fix.

Haha I Win Scenario: Timing's off. Only need to adjust. Dunno how much is that as it is one of the posibility of the problem that Kenji thought of. I doubt it will cost RM 100 if this is the case.

A new unit would cost RM 600. If it's a worst case scenario, do I really need to get a new unit? Fixing the worst case scenario though would cost half of a new unit, but I'm saving half here. Besides, the so called Next Generation of consoles are out... even though they cost a bomb right now, 2 - 3 years down the road would definitely be cheaper. And if paying for the Worst Case, could still at the very least lasts me 2 - 3 years; I think I'm set.

Ok, nothing to read here, move along. Just want to vent.

Hunting For Japanese Food

Me: Hey, I'm busy with a few cases. Need to do some urgent follow up.
Try check and see which Japanese food you want then we"ll go there tonight lah. http://www.midvalley.com.my http://www.1utama.com.my/

S: Ok.


After a couple of hours...



S: Yoshinoya

Me: Har?

S: Shokudo

Me: ???... Hadoken...?

S: Gin Ryu Tei

Me: Shoryuken... ?

S: Kiku-Zakura... Teppanyaki... Oh! Sushi...

Me: Oh, the Japanese food outlets is it? Say so mah.


Ok, maybe finding Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike for the PS2 and it may be the best 2D fighting game I ever played...

We end up having Sushi King anyway. At first, someone said her standards has raised and don't want the same old stuff worr *mock smug*. In the end also caved in because of lazy having to choose.

We went to the one at Mid Valley Megamall. The one at the top floor, Centre Court I think. We sat at one of the tables, near the glass errr windows? Where anyone who walk past the shop could see us... it was weird.

Having sushi would need to order from the waiters/waitresses instead of picking up from the conveyor belt. But usually they don't have the ones I want from the conveyor belt anyway.

I think someone just got hooked on Edamame. ^.^

M37al G3ar Solid 4: Guns Of 7he Pa7rio7s 7railer

Edit: Decided to screw around with the title. Don't want google to mislead surfers to think the trailer is downloadable here.

Saw the new trailer shown at E3 and I've only one word to say: "AMAZING!"

Here's some screen caps.

Beaten Black. But should've online sooner. :(

Sengoku Basara Intro Movie

Woo, very high! Finally found one of my favourite hack and slash PS2 game, intro movie video clip: Sengoku Basara!



















Can be downloaded here at, Koei Warriors site. Only 20MB, and the download speed's quite fast.

One of the video game intro that I don't mind watching everytime the game is boot up for the first time.

A Shadow Of The Colossus Valentine

Found this from some message board, not sure who did it.



Happy Valentine's Day!


Full size pic click here.

Finally Beat Shinobi!!!

Actually, beat it yesterday. The final boss is such a pain in the @$$.

EAT MY POINTY SOUL EATING STEEL, HIROKO!!!

Welcome To Silent Hill

Gonna Be Another Late Night

Slept around 9 and woke up at 12. Gah, how to sleep back?

Brother bought Gundam Seed: O.M.N.I VS Z.A.F.T. Not bad. An improved version of Gundam Seed: Towards Neverending Tomorrow. Action is more arcadish. Basic 39 mobile suits and a few more unlockables.

Will be changing the blog template, or at least the colours. Tired of looking at pink in my blog all the time.

The Weekends Are Over, How's Yours?

Saturday. Plans were cancelled at the very last minute *shakes fist*. Didn't really do much except playing Gun. That and I woke up in the morning by rolling off the bed and on to the floor. Ouch. Spent a total of 6 playing hours. Day time: 3, night time: 3. I would've progressed further if not for forgetting to save. 2 Bosses were quite a pain in the @$$.

I've been playing too much... even my dreams (though I can't remember much) is in third person perspective and there's a target/cross right in the middle... -_-" And, if you go near to someone: "Press traingle to talk to Mom". Maybe it's time to lay off the PS2 for awhile...



Sunday. Whee! Finished Gun (at least the story mode)! What a game! The final boss is surprisingly easier then the previous two. Thomas Jane's voice acting kicked @$$! So is Ron Perlman's and Lance Henrikson's. Definitely will do a review. Now left the side missons.... If you are into free roaming wild west game, play this game! Must oh!

Followed my parents to Carrefour to get my hair cut. Dunno why, but Dad keep wanting my hair to be cut by TT. Yeah, the girl who's from the same home town as him: Tanjung Tualang. Yes, TT stands for Tanjung Tualang. XD

when we reached there, wait, my parents were suppose to go to Carrefour to shop... I got there late cuz I kinda strayed off... saw Dad talking to the girl who's the one who usualy cut my hair.

For the sake of not calling her "the girl who usualy cut my hair" all the time, let's call her Bridgette. Why? I dunno, she looked like a Bridgette. :P

Anyway, Bridgette told Dad that TT had went for a short break. My Dad: "So lazy ah?". Some other chick called Connie:"Yah lah! Lazy people has more shit and piss." I swear I didn't make that conversation up.

Asked Bridgette what's with my Dad. Bridgette said that he wants to introduce TT to me... to be my girlfriend. -.-" Geez. It's not like I haven't met her. It's not like she's my type. She looked a bit like Fish. Fish with a blonde mullet. I hate mullets.

Bridgette complained that my hair is very thick and long, "Not nice some more!" T__T... She also said that my hair doesn't even look like Dad's, Mom's and Bro's (apparently brother had came here before). "Dunno follow who", She added. If she had seen my Takuya Kimura styled hair, I think she would've fainted.

After less than 30 minutes... viola! Hair done. Let's save something to post later.


What the hell!?! Carrefour doesn't sell any of em marshmallows?!?! I will not be denied of my marshmallows!!!! >__<

Spartan: Total Warrior

"Look! Romans! Let's kill them!!"

Yeaaah! Lets!! Believe it or not, that's an actual quote in the game.

I'm suppose to work on my monthly report for this 4 day weekend and guess what i've been doing. ;P

It's been weeks and I've finally managed to beat this game. In no way this game is an accurate representation of Greek history and mythology....

The Romans, led by King Tiberius have sent his army to invade Sparta. You play as an unnamed Spartan warrior, only known as The Spartan; joined by 2 brothers Castor and Pollux to fend off the invading Romans.

Spartan: Total Warrior, a hack and slash PS2 game. It's something like Dynasty Warriors and Lord Of The Rings action game. Basically you just run around and just kill enemies. But guess what, it can have 150+ enemies on screen at the same time!! And the bodies won't disappear! Yeehaaa!

You start off with a normal shield sword combo and bow and arrows. As the game progresses, you get new weapons: twin blades, hammer etc. Each has its special magic ability.

Moves are quite simple. One button for hitting individual enemy and another for sweeping a bunch of them. When the rage button fills up, you can perform individual or sweeping rage moves.

Though it's a hack and slash game, some levels has some platform jumping elements, defending the front lines, protect/ and escort some VIP to safety, boss battles, and the most fun of all is kill all enemies. Romans are not the only enemy. Not to spoil it, but there are some others who are out for blood.

The graphics are pretty good. Though the character sprites are a bit rough around the edges, but the game makes up for its incredible epic battlefield and sheer number of enemies. Cool lighting effects which I can't remember what's it called. Unfortunately, no Full Motion Video cutscenes. All cutscenes are in-game graphic engine.

Music is nothing to shout about. Dance beat? What in Hades are they thinking??

The game can get very hard at some levels (Stupid Achimedes level!!). You most probably would die in your first mission, but the learning curve is easy.

Though some might find the game repetive, but IMO one of the best games I've played. Please make more Total Warrior games!!

Go to the official game site for screen shots and videos: Spartan - Total Warrior

レポート

Urgh! So it was the time to do the monthly report. God, I love it. Right.

But it wasn't all that bad. Granted lots of data need to clean up. And just as long as I understood what those columns represented and needed, shouldn't be a problem.

Yesterday stayed back late till around 8:30pm to do it. Got stuck and decided to throw in the towel. Don't want to ruin the excell sheet any further.

Suppose to finish it by myself today. But then had to attend some briefing for 3 long fricking hours. So, Kar Cher just guided me through. Should be alright for the next month. Need to practice lor.

For the past two days, I've woked up with my whole body hurting. Dunno what happened. Voodoo? Friend says maybe someone 打小人 me. Perhaps I fell off the bed and got back up? No bruises. Perhaps I've been grappling myself at night? ROPE!! ROPE!!!

Yosh! Finished Gundam Seed: Towards Never Ending Tomrrow. Just noticed that the US version is out. There are quite a few game shops have the game on demo. Perhaps it's the US version? Mine's the Japanese version. All original BGM and voices are there. Heard the US version was buttchered.

It's one of the better Gundam Seed games out there. If getting to use Freedom Gundam's multi lock function doesn't make you excited, wait till you get to use....

Tonight we had a farewell dinner for Kar Cher at Soul Out. Tai Kar Cher even joined us. We had the Buka Puasa Buffet. Food wasn't that good though.

Things had started to slow down a bit but it will get hectic again soon.

Updates And Stuff

Hahaha, Bie!

Since I've managed to tear myself away from either from the bed or the PS2, I"ll use this opportunity to blog.

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チームリーダー

Kar Cher is quiting. Apparently, for a career move of some sorts. She still have yet to tell me where she's going. I guess that's why she will always be a colleague first, a friend second. Now who was it who've said about trusting each other after all these years?

So, been picking up her roles. It's not like I have not done any of it before. Just more on the little extra side things like keeping processes updated, reports blablabla. Yeah, reports. People who really knows me knew how much I looove reports.

A bit of training the new guy. Kar Cher's the main person who train him. So far he's picking up quite fast. Should be. As he was an onsite engineer before.

He's also into anime, games, Japanese songs and most of all... T.M. Revolution's songs!! Trying to get him hook on Asian Kung Fu Generation. :P

Hhhmm, what else? Kar Cher's not the only person who's leaving. One of the Onsite Team Lead is leaving and so's one of his onsite engineer. More farewell dinner to attend and that means bye-bye money. T__T What to do...

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PS2

I bought a PS2? Nah, it's not mine. It's my brother's. But it seems like I'm the one who's hogging occupying it more than him. What to do, people have lousy hand eye coordination with the controller. I thought people who can drive shouldn't have a problem with it....

Bought a lot of games. But most of them seems like lacking in the oomph department. Either they are rehashes or there's just too much stuff to remember to play. I'm the type who play games mainly for fun and releasing stress. Who the heck wants to remember moves like triangle, triangle, triangle, square... pause, square, square circle, circle, jump, trangle?? I probably could but I'm just lazy.

Games that I've finished: Batman Begins, Gundam Battle Assault 3 featuring Gundam Seed, Sengoku Basara, Tekken 5

Games that I'm playing: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Never Ending Tomorrow, Sengoku Basara, Destroy All Humans and Oaneecha Blue.

Games that are pending: Ultimate Spider-Man, God of War (stupid error in disc!!! GRR!), Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater etc.

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A Friend In Need

A friend who's currently depress due to work and relationship problems. Been accompanying her alot. At least she appreciates it. She asked me to introduce her a nice guy... hmmm do I know any nice guys? I only know one. But she had her chance ;P.

If a friend tells you that he/she is not exactly happy in his/her marriage, and is seeking your advice.... What would you do? I think it's a bit heavy for me to handle... He/she should seek a marriage counsellor? How reliable are these people? Damn.


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Let's see if bro's football (soccer!) match is over... so I can go back to slashing 51412411 people and conquer Japan!! 天下第一, Showtime!!

Hiatus

Sorry for leaving you peeps without notice.

Been busy with PS2.

Router came back, and then there's problems with it, modem and router has been taken for testing by PC guy. So, can't blog at home and I'm not really comfortable with blogging at office.

Alot to blog about. Later!

PS2 ROCKS!

OH YEEAH!

Man Dies After 50 Hours Of Computer Games

CNN News:

S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games


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