Join me as I take a journey to finish every video game I own. Feel free to offer advice whenever you want. It's clear that I couldn't finish these games without some help; so if you want to help out, I am all for it.
The title of this entry is probably my favorite quote from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Today, I played Oblivion all day. From the time I woke up until right before starting this post. It's just been a save the world from daedric princes and other evil baddies. More specifically, saving the realm of Sheogorath from the Greymarch. I have been working on completing all of the quests in the Shivering Isles all day. Currently, my character is standing in the church place after lighting the torch.
I broke down and bought a video game today. I bought Pokemon White, and I shouldn't have. I just really wanted to play a DS Pokemon game again. I played Diamond last year, but it was a borrowed copy and I had to return it. I will be glad to trade Pokemon with my friends again.
But my eBay journey didn't stop there today. I actually put three of my games up for sale/auction. If you are interested, I will post the links below.
I have another copy of Xenosaga I, so I don't need this one. And the other two games I have never played before. I have never owned a Super Nintendo, so I don't even know if they work. Unfortunately for now, I am unable to ship outside the country. However, if you are interested in these items, leave a comment or contact me personally and we can go from there. It's just for the random eBayers that I am uneasy about shipping outside of the U.S.
Tomorrow I will be working on more video games. I don't know what. I should focus on completing what I have started, but that rarely happens. Anyway, until tomorrow, have fun playing whatever it is that you play!
I am seriously considering halting the playthrough of The Adventure of Link for now and moving on to another console game. I made absolutely no progress on it as of the typing of this entry. I am also thinking of just skipping this dungeon altogether and continuing the journey to the next one. I have the item from Midoro already, and since I will just start back over at Northern Palace every time I run out of lives, I can just save Midoro's boss for later.
I guess there was some leftover angry feelings from yesterday still inside me when I played today that I couldn't stand playing for too long of a time. I nearly reached the boss of Midoro Palace, but those red armored enemies killed me every time. It is just so frustrating. I have the map of this dungeon memorized, so the only thing I have to worry about is defeating the enemies along the way. And asking for help is pointless because I can't even reach the place where I would normally ask for help.
Oh well. I will try again right now. Just wait...
Well, I got to the boss. I removed two of his heads. And then when I had him down to one bar of health, I died.
I think I may play a quick and easy game tomorrow after I get home from work just so I can say that I have more than one game completed in the challenge.
I played a little bit more of FireRed today. Since I am recording the gameplay, I don't want to give away too many details. What I can say is that I didn't play very long. Only 15 minutes.
And when I was too angry to play more of The Adventure of Link, I play some of The Sims 3. I still don't like the indirect controls, but I do like how I can actually travel along with my character as he goes to work or to stores and other places. My character is a bit weird. He prefers to be alone, but he's in the political career track. He lives a pretty basic life. Wakes up, goes to work, comes home, sleeps, and the cycle repeats. He eats and does other activities now and then, but for the most part he saves that stuff for the weekend when he's not polishing podiums.
Well, that's all the progress for the challenge I made today. I wish it could have been more. So, until tomorrow, have fun playing whatever it is that you play!
The Adventure of Link is really kicking my butt! I tried and tried today to get farther in the game, and I barely progressed at all. Here's how it looks right now: Number of Start Overs: 27 Attack: 3 Magic: 4 with 5 Magic Containers Health: 5 with 5 Heart Containers
Spells: 3 Shield Jump Life
Items: 2 Candle Handy Glove
If it wasn't for the urge to complete the challenge, I would have given up playing this game long ago. So if I keep thinking that I will have accomplished a great task if I finish this game, then I will push myself forward and stick with completing this game. Right now, I am at Northern Palace, where I start every time I die. I am on my way to try and complete the second dungeon. It shouldn't take but another day (or two) to do. And then I have the rest of the planet to explore.
During my time taking a break from the rage-inducing game that is The Adventure of Link, I worked on my playthrough of Pokémon FireRed. I even recorded around fifteen minutes of gameplay for my YouTube channel. Right now, the longer first episode is being saved as I type this. I will then post it to my channel and put the video here as well for viewing. It is pretty rough, I did hardly any work in editing (all I did was add a caption to show my finger getting in the shot). And there's no commentary, because I couldn't stop coughing long enough to talk. But at least there will be something other than text and video game pictures in this blog.
As for where I am at in that game, I am only just a little bit farther than where this video ends. Unfortunately, I take a lot of time preparing for my Pokémon journey. I have to decide which Pokémon I want to get. Since my starter is Charmander, I think I will stick with a Flying-type team. And since I am on a deadline, I won't be trying to catch them all. Just the ones on my list. And here's the list:
Of course, the legendary Pokémon are optional. I don't have the time to try again and again in order to get them. But the other eight I definitely want. It will be difficult, because I am limiting my self to a Flying-type group, but the move sets of their other types is what will propel me to victory. My goal in this playthrough is to simply become the Pokémon Champion and see the ending credits.
Finally tonight, I played Osu! multiplayer this evening. It was fun. It's been a while since I played multiplayer. I mainly play osu!mania mode. I am currently ranked #1,120 in the U.S., and #23,053 in the world in osu!mania. The other modes I am not as good at. I simply don't play them enough.
Osu!: #45,907 U.S.; #425,637 World
Taiko: #6,034 U.S.; #107,388 World
Catch the Beat: #12,083 U.S.; #161,265 World
My goal in this game, at least in osu!mania, is to be in the Top 1,000 in the country and Top 10,000 in the world. I have more than fifty Top 100 scores in songs. And a few of them are Top 10 scores.
I received my copy of Gran Turismo 4 in the mail today. I didn't check to see if it worked. At the price I paid for it, it would probably cost more to ship it back than it did to actually buy the thing. I will check it when I receive Xenosaga III. But until then, I am not even going to bother connecting my PS2 to the television.
And with that, I am out of things to talk about. I am hoping to make some more progress with The Adventure of Link. I may have to do some grinding to be ready for the boss. It's not even the bosses that I have to worry about. It's all those enemies before the boss that kill me before I can reach the boss. Those are the ones I have to grind beforehand to beat. The less time it takes me to kill them, the better.
So, until tomorrow, have fun playing whatever it is that you play!
Because today was Independence Day, I got the day off from work. So instead of seeing fireworks, I played Sonic Unleashed all day. Fireworks wouldn't have really been fun anyway, because it has rained all day!
Anyway, with all this time today of having nothing other than gaming to do, I managed to finished Sonic Unleashed! I was getting frustrated by the end of it, because I was so close to completing it, and I kept being denied the win. Dark Gaia was like "You shall not move on to the next game! You must fight me...FOREVER!!! Muahahaha!"
In the end, I won, the world was saved, and I said goodbye to my furry friend Chip.
So, one game done. Only 304 more to go.
I have also chosen which game I will be playing next. The winner is...
That's right, The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. This game is one of four featured on The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition. I have never really played much of this game before, because I have no idea how to play it. The only Zelda game I have ever finished is Spirit Tracks, and that took me forever to do. I am thinking of employing massive help during my time playing this game. I feel a little bad for my Zelda game friends, because they are about to be bombarded with questions.
Luckily for them, I will begin playing this game tomorrow. So they have until after my work is done tomorrow to leave the planet. Otherwise, I will use all means of communication necessary to bother them with my endless flood of "Can you help me get past this part?"'s.
That also is enough time to suggest a different game for me to play. If the rain lets up, then I should be done working at about noon tomorrow. So, just leave a comment on what game I should play, and I will change over to it.
I am preparing a video with my thoughts of Sonic Unleashed. But if it falls through, be prepared with a blog post dedicated to my thoughts of the game. The reason I am not writing about that tonight is because I have to be up at 5am tomorrow morning, and I am starting to get tired. But make sure to watch out for it.
Well, I am headed to bed. Actually, I have a personal life blog entry to type. After that, then I'm going to bed. So, until tomorrow, have fun playing whatever it is that you play!
