Icarus's blog: "Somantics"

Shoo.. man I'm tired.
Well, I could built jet arrays (scared to) or I could replay some of my old games
I mean- sure, I like this site, and I like you people- but anything more than 8 hours is kinda ridiculous.

...actually anything more than 1 hour aside from a long piece of creative writing is ridiculous XD

Anyway, I've got quite a few to choose from, I could try hooking up my old nintendo and try going through my old Megamans (1-3). I could always hack a copy of Powered up for my PSP or the whole collection on rom, but I don't have a USB controller for my PC.

There's also these Squaresoft PS1 classics to consider

Front Mission 3 (Giant robot turnbased strategy game!) While the idea of playing FM3 appeals to me- actually playing it probably won't.
See- I love this game, I've played through it several times.
And even if you skip EVERY cut scene and ALL diologue it takes > 30 hours to complete.
I've played it backwards and forwards, and ... if I owned it on my PSP I'd probably just play it when I was at a cafe or something just skipping through time (like I do FFT) waiting on a drink or a text.
There's actually quite a bit of tedium and tedious characters to get through with this game.

Bushido Blade II-
another one of those Square Gems where its nothing like the rest of their property. You kill bad guys with swords. ... kill more bad guys with swords- sometimes you use a spear.
There's a plot... you're an idiot and a bore if you actually elect to sit through it when you could be hacking people to bits and mocking the awful voice acting imposed on a media that just managed to compile the technology and techniques to incorporate voice acting.

Finish what I started 12 years ago- Legend of Mana-
There are TWO quests.
TWO quests that I have not completed on legend of mana. I've mastered all techniques on a great sword, built it up to ridiculous POWA, collected every encyclopedia page except for these 2 quests.
And they're not even that hard...
"Finishing" that game scares me though, like I'd lose a piece of me if I did.

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Moar PS1
I could always play Megaman Legends 1 and 2, 1 is ridiculously easy once you've played it the first time though. 2 ... I've never played through twice because the story goes NUTS and there's this one part where you have to answer trivia questions from like... a pool of 200 RANDOM questions. You're better off actually knowing the answers to the questions.
I know people that never got the part to this weapon, or spent the better part of an entire summer trying to get it.

Other things to consider:
I own several Wii games I've never loaded.
Metroid Prime 3 being among them.

I might actually listen to what everyone has to say about Other M (latest Wii Metroid title).
And its only bad news.
Voice acting for Samus (fucking heresy).
Samus is dependant on big beefy men to save her (bigger fucking heresy).
Samus is a whiner. (Biggest fucking heresy).

You didn't even know Samus was a girl till you BEAT Metroid back in the 80's
why? Either because you assumed she was a man
or because it didn't fucking matter if you were a he/she/it when you're that bad ass.
Way2bandonyearsofatheme
fuckheads.

She doesn't talk. She doesn't WHINE. She just kicks ass.

What's next Megaman ta- ... okay he talked in legends and I love that game
but what about Mari- ... he kinda acknowledges you but he doesn't really "talk"
And Li- ... ... if you give Link talking parts- I will fucking kill you. And no... we are not counting this game.

No one is.

Also- I'm not buying new hardware for a system I rarely play.

... sorry I kinda rage out and have really bad headaches whenever someone thinks about or mentions Zelda CDI.

I've got a couple weeks before I probably get a copy of Dead Space 2 for my birthday. And I thought about getting Farcry 2 for PC and seeing if there was a multiplayer story mod so I could play it with my besty, but I'm willing to bet I'd have to supe up my PC fiirst.

So let's review our choices.

Megaman 1-8 (strikes 8 because it was just a weird bastard platform reprint of Megaman X)

Megaman 1-7.
Megaman 1-3. (Because I actually have these on nintendo and ... playing NES games on something other than a controller (IE my keyboard, sucks)
Megaman Powered up. (if I want to bother hacking it or find it for... $3 on amazon)

Front Mission 3.
Megaman Legends 1-2. (Probably 2, I've replayed 1 in the last 2 years)
Bushido Blade 2.
Legend of Mana. (probably out of the question).


Metroid Prime 3??? *scratches his head* God I was disappointed by prime 2.
But 1 sure was a tough act to follow.

Or
I could just keep playing Gundam Senki 0081 and L4D2.

Discuss. No seriously, I could use some impartial mediation.