It’s my birthday and there’s no cake! However, I am expecting a nifty little present today. It arrived yesterday but I wasn’t here to pay the taxes on it so it should be here today sometime before 2pm. I will post pictures as soon as it is finally in my hands!
I don’t have the R-Type Command PSP game but I did talk a friend of mine into giving me the figure that came with it ages ago. I finally found it again while cleaning this afternoon so I got to enjoy putting it together (less than a minute, really) and take some quick pics.
I am reminded at how much I love stuff like this and how bare my room is looking these days. I used to have a bunch of street fighter resin statues and tons of other video game related figures and, well, moving can suck sometimes. These days I’m paranoid about moves and tend to carry everything myself even though it takes 8x as long and makes things more complicated than they need to be. If all goes well in the fall maybe I can try picking up a few new pieces. I recently got into the whole Nanoha series and I’m pretty much in love with everyone :)
A friend of mine got me Eternal Sonata a while ago as a very early birthday present (and I swear I’ll play it soon now that midterms are over!). Another friend gave me one of the Eternal Sonata 360 faceplates. I laughed my ass off when I saw it and knew I was going to use it anyway. I think it should be self-explanatory but there’s further proof below.
Watchmen Trailer. I never expected it to look half this good.
update: new (temporarily?) working link. (link take 2, thanks to General Bison. Man, they take these down as fast as they can find them!)
Admittedly I’ve been trying to hide from the onslaught of E3 hype and all of the usual conferences but I don’t seem to be doing a good job of it. I don’t know whether I’m officially jaded now or what but, wow, it’s been boring so far. All the news that were obviously meant to be big announcements were leaked in some form much earlier so there’s no real surprise-factor, FFXIII on the 360 aside. No titles have really piqued my interest yet. There’s almost nothing that’s going to make me care about the 6 different flavours of Resistance or yet another Mario sports game. On the other hand, I was really looking forward to Mirror’s Edge until I heard the lousy voice acting and witnessed the hand-holding I was hoping would be avoided. It’s early yet. This is why I so rarely follow previews since my imagination runs away and envisions the game that I want which isn’t necessarily what the developers had in mind and then I end up disappointed. So silly, eh?
I really must be getting old! The games I am most excited about are all remakes or ports of games I already played to death, like Rhapsody DS and Kirby Super Star Ultra and Dragon Warrior IV DS, or something that probably isn’t coming out any time soon like LittleBigPlanet (it was genius for Sony to have their charts done in LBP instead of lame old powerpoint slides. Easily the best part of the show for me). The Wii Remote addition, Wii MotionPlus, will be a huge boon to developers that I hope gets taken advantage of since it will finally be able to track the location of the remote better and more accurately in a 3D space. Granted, I’m not keen on buying 3-4 of them for each of my controllers but I know I will anyway cause I want to swing that sucker like a sword and have it work better than in Twilight Princess. Bring on the Lightsabers! :)
update: Also kick ass? The new Prince of Persia trailer.
