Archive for August, 2009

Guild Wars 2

August 21st, 2009

I just saw the trailer for Guild Wars 2 and the first thing I said to myself and to my friends was “Giggity” :-)

Personally I am not that big of a fan of MMORPG’s but for some reason the Guild Wars franchise has been an exception.   Maybe it’s because Guild Wars was the first MMORPG that I gave a chance.

There were some good and bad that was in the first one.  I personally liked that whenever you left any major city you were playing your own instance instead of having other players on the server take your kills and such however I heard that this was changing so and it’s not that big of a deal.  The BIG plus was the use of henchmen and heroes, with them we didn’t need a full team of players to go around the game… heck I finished the last dungeon with only henchmen as heroes were not part of the game at the time.

The bad that came with the game was the small things… you couldn’t swim was one thing… but it didn’t matter as you couldn’t jump into the water either.  However they have changed the controls so you can do that so it’s a big plus.

Now I have played other MMORPG’s like WoW and City of Villians and while both had their good and bad points I just got bored of them… WoW looked a little too cartoony and CoV’s dungeons were all the same…  But look at how pretty GW2 is… again I say “Giggity”

Kei

Archie gets Engaged… or does he?

August 20th, 2009

Archie

So the big pop-culture news yesterday was that Archie asked Veronica to merry him in issue 600 of the popular comic.

I personally would have chosen Betty, but that really doesn’t matter.  I am just thinking of the reason why Archie chose Veronica over Betty and how this storyline will unfold.

The one which I think will be the best story but probably won’t happen because of its readership is;  Archie is in it for the money,  simple  as that.  He doesn’t love her, heck he probably doesn’t love Betty either.  He just wants the money so he and his stoner, best friend, Jughead can get the bling, get the ladies, and get all the hamburgers they can eat.  I hope Veronica pressures Archie to get a pre-nuptial before they tie the knot.

The second way I think this might go, and the more realistic way for the comic would be:  It’s a bad dream.  That’s right, the perpetual slap in the face to all the viewers straight from shows like Dallas to the Family Guy.  It makes sense… this is all a bad dream that Betty is having.  Then when she wakes up everything will be normal.

Of course there is option X which could be anything.  I guess they could go with even bigger twists like:  Veronica will dump Archie and marry Jughead.  Or she and Betty could become legally bound or Married depending on the state that they live in.  Or maybe Reggie will come out and kill off Archie during the wedding ceremony… ANYTHING can happen.

Just before anyone starts saying I have something against Archie and his franchise I don’t.  In fact I still remember getting the digest’s when I was younger, shopping with my mom at Safeway and getting her to buy them for me.

Kei

K-On Stuff

August 19th, 2009

I haven’t made a YouTube video post in awhile so the following are K-On PV’s that I found during my downtime at work.

Decade / Shinkenger

August 18th, 2009

Shinkenger_VS_DCD_by_Toku_JusticeI really don’t know why… but I really enjoy the Japanese Super-Sentai series.  Maybe it’s because I enjoyed the North American Power Rangers shows when I was younger which used footage from the older Sentai series and just replaced the voice tracks and actors.

In a way I see Super-Sentai as the more refined and for older viewers version of Power Rangers.  I guess I enjoy it, in a morbid way, when the monsters start killing civilians and you see blood and bruises after the battles.  It seems more real as people and rangers die in battle.

Anyway… because of the latest Super-Sentai, I have now been exposed to the world of Kamen Rider. I had always known that it had existed but I never watched it for some reason. But they gave me a reason to watch it this time as there was a cross-over with the two shows.

Like with most of the Kamen Rider series you do not need to watch the previous one as they are in completely separate worlds/realities whatever you want to call it.  What makes Decade unique is that Decade travels to all of the worlds.  You see Decade fighting with or sometimes fighting against that world Kamen Rider.  The only thing that I am unsure of is if they brought back the original actors to portray the other Kamen Riders as I never watched the previous series.

In closing I will say this… I think it is a safe bet that if you like Super-Sentai you will like Kamen Rider…

Kei

Haruhi season 2 update

August 17th, 2009

HaruhiS2

I just finished watching episode 9 of the 2nd season of Haruhi, or should I call it episode 3-G, and I have to say I am currently disappointed.

I haven’t read the Haruhi novels in completion so I only have to assume that this arc was covered in that but did they really need to make it 7 episodes?

I don’t like giving away spoilers but I think i can in this case, If you don’t want to be spoiled then I suggest ignoring the next paragraph and skipping to the next.

Basically they had the SOS Brigade stuck in a time loop and repeated the same two weeks over 15,320 times… they showed the last 7 loops. They were almost identical so the first time you see the loop you think that you were watching the first episode of the arc.

I personally think they could have pulled off the same effect with three or four episodes.

Don’t get me wrong… I still love the series but by doing this it may have lost some newer and less “die-hard” viewers.

I can only hope that the rest of the 2nd season is not a waste.

Kei