Gaming has always been one of my most faveourite pastimes. Probably one of my earliest memories is sitting aside my dad in the office (which used to be in the top room of the house), while he worked, I used to play games on another computer one of the first games I played being Robocod. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pond_2 ) (I also used to remember asking my Dad to help me on the scary levels like bosses, but come on, I was only 2 or 3)
Over the years the platform over which the gaming occurs has changed, (From PC, to Dreamcast to XBOX) but I noticed a few years ago that the type of games I tend to play stick to a handful of genres. I've played everything under the sun, mind - beat 'em ups, FPS, RTS, platformers, RPG... the lot. But I've always tended to sway towards games in the RPG, or Platformer genre, to me, these games are the most 'fun'. There are however a handful of games that have stuck in my mind as being firm faveourites, and if you ever get a chance, I highly recommend them to you. Here are my top ten:
10) Soul Calibur
An old classic in the arcades, the Sega Dreamcast port is hailed as the "greatest fighting game ever made", and by some the greatest game across all genres, so not including this game in my top 10 would be somewhat of a crime. Unlike most fighting games it appeals to both novice and the expert, the controls being simple but having hidden subtleties (the parry function always makes you look pro). There are a whole host of characters (some unlockable giving replayability to the game), each well thought out and well designed, but you're bound to develop some firm faveourites (Voldo ftw!), and well, I just had a laugh playing it really.
9) Phantasy Star Online
The first RPG in my list, and something I really wish I'd actually played online. The story goes that on the planet Coral, endless warring caused a group of people to band together and create the 'Pioneer project'; the search for a new home. Drifting through space, they finally discovered the planet Ragol, which appears at first to be an Eden, but turns out to be Hell. You play as a 'hunter' who's job it is to explore the new planet to determine if it is suitable for habitiation. The game as a whole is your typical RPG, with classes and skills to learn, levels to traverse, in this respect it is your run of the mill type game. But it was the graphics, storyline and overall concept that really grabbed me and made it memorable. Even if you only play it in the offline mode like me, it's worth a look.
8) Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Thinking it was kind of cool, after playing the demo, this Action-Adventure did not fail to impress me. In a nutshell, you play as 'fallen' vampire Raziel on a quest to seek revenge on his creator, by fallen, I mean you're no longer a vampire, but a creature who feasts off the souls of his victims. In a nutshell means that until I began playing it and noticing I hadn't a clue who half the characters were, I realised that there had been games previously that contained all the backstory to this title. (This was even more of a problem in Legacy of Kain: Defiance) Nevertheless, despite this and the shoddy graphics, the puzzles in this game actually caused you to think, and I like a game that keeps me going for a good amount of time. Plus there was a lot to explore, and areas that you'd only come across by messing around in the game world, something that was, for me, a huge reward, as I'm the sort of person who enjoys just existing in the world the people create for me.
7) Sonic Adventure
Yeah, you really have to have at least one Sonic title here - this was the first Sonic game in 3d I might add, also being a title in which Sonic (as Finn likes to put it) wasn't all 'yo dudes!'. It was probably the last too. The main story arc was playable through the eyes of six different characters, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, E-102 Gamma and Big the Cat, so you ended up seeing different story points, which all concluded at the end - I thought this was a huge incentive to play each character. There were two modes of gameplay interspersed throughout the game, Action stages (which are your basic sonicesque levels) and Adventure fields (which you explored for plot advancement, containing character power ups and puzzle solving elements). It was a game I had a lot of fun playing, although it didn't last terribly long in my hands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Adventure
6) Stranger's Wrath
The last title produced by Oddworld Inhabitants, for me this was too little of a good thing. I was really dissapointed when I completed this, because it was so short, but the actual game itself was superb. While previous Oddworld titles had you playing the underdog, this time you were playing as the top of the pile guy, which made for an interesting and fun change. Also, the developers seemed to have finally gotten the hang of a 3d world after the mistakes they made in Munch's Oddysee, this world was stunning in comparison - you really got the feel of the changing landscapes. Whereas in Munch it tended to be a little samey, in Stranger's Wrath we had first the desolate, dusty wilderness reminiscent of the wild west, changing to towering pine forests and finally a frigid snowy wasteland. This was the first title after Abe's Oddysee that I felt truly captured the spirit of Oddworld, I got shivers down my spine just looking at the place, never mind playing in it. Plus, as usual the humor, the fast paced action and the general solid gameplay returned, this time with FPS elements aswell as the usual problem solving action and adventure elements. What I also liked was the 'save the planet' message in the game, as there has been in every title so far, the end was very haunting. Definately a game worthy of being in my top ten.
5) Guild Wars
What? Guild Wars only comes 5th? I'm afraid so, there are four more games I have to place above it, but it was tough to decide if I was going to place this on position 4 or not. The second RPG on my list, this one is an MMORPG, and of which I actually played (and still play) online. I've had a lot of fun playing it, and it's probably the one I've played most solidly over the longest period of time. It seems I just can't get enough, and with the addition of the expansion packs every half a year, it just keeps on dragging me back for more. It's also great to have a game I can play with more than one friend - I love being in a team with people from college, and playing with Finn is just the best.
4) Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
My god this was a beautiful game. The first game I had played infact, that the developers had actually managed to make water look like water. The underwater world itself was lush and alive, and I liked the gameplay - as a dolphin, you had to resurface from time to time to breathe, and you replenished your life by actually hunting shoals of fish, different fish being more beneficial. You could also learn to communicate with the different 'friendly' species in the game as you went through each level, Turtles, Manta Rays etc... making them follow you and perform various functions. And while you may think this game sounds like a walk in the park, it was tough - I actually had to complete it with a walkthrough at one point after being stuck on it for several months, which is something I've never had to do previously or since. The storyline was also a strong point in this game, written by author David Brin, it will appeal immensely (and somewhat unusually) to sci-fi fans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_the_Dolphin:_Defender_of_the_Future) There really isn't anything else I can say about this game, everything was brilliant about it, it is however, a game you will play just once. After completion it's not something you can likely face again, it is a marathon to complete.
3) Xmen: Legends
The highest selling Xmen title of all time, Xmen legends is another RPG to add to the repetoire. I picked this up for about £10 thinking 'oh well, if it's not very good it doesn't really matter'. But it was the most fun I'd had from a game for such a long time. It's just great to be able to pick your four faveourite xmen and play as a team with them, and the added bonus of them having unique powers (not just standard everyone has a version of the same) just makes it all the more fun; you have to have a flying character, a character that can weld stuff, build bridges, attack close up, attack at range... plus they even had gambit chucking cards around which was great. My only two annoyances with this game was a little awkward multiplayer, the camera was a little dodgy, and the whole story revolved around a character we didn't even care about... magma... come on. But the graphics were great - I love cell shading. It just added to the cartoony feel of it all. It's so high up the list because it far exceeded my expectations, and it came to me at a time I was desperate for something I could just have fun with.
2) Shenmue
Possibly the most innovative game ever created, Shenmue cannot be classed in any of the game genre brackets that exist currently - the company had to create an entirely new one especially for it, FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment). This was down to the fact that you could do whatever you wanted, go wherever you wanted to and experience real weather patterns (as they were in Japan in 1986/7 or select randomly generated ones) and day/night. Infact, at the time Shenmue was as close to real life as you could get, the company spending around seventy million dollars producing it - the highest cost of creating a game ever at the time. Every time you play this game, it is different - you will never experience the same thing twice (save for the main storyline). You may meet entirely different people depending on where you are on which day, and you remember who people are ('Hey, there's the woman who works at the arcade, going to the supermarket'). And you can interact with virtually everything you see - feeding kittens food you snitched from your fridge at home, playing games at the arcade, catching a bus to go to your job... playing pool in the bar. All the while uncovering clues as to who the mysterious man was who murdered your father, and why he did it. The game spans over a period of about five months, from December 1986 - April 1987 - if you don't complete the game in that time your father's killer returns to finish the job... but you really do have a very long time to complete it in. Especially since you play in real time (1 day = 24 mins approx). A game that really is something very special, it was a shame to play the sequel and find it so boring - and I'm worried that the rest of the story (spanning 16 chapters) is going to go downhill.
1) Abe's Oddysee
There are others futher down the list that are probably more deserving of this number one slot - for one they will have better graphics, more groundbreaking engines or something... this is a simple sidescrolling platformer. This game however, is something really special to me. I don't doubt that this probably has the best story of any game, or at least carries a very important message along with it. It's certainly the story that keeps me coming back to play it over and over again - a slave who escapes from capture to return and free his kind, I just love the happy ending it has and the fact that it draws parallels to our own planet just chills me. Every game in the series has some sort of message about how screwed up our planet is - this one was about slavery (as was Abe's Exoddus), Munch's Oddysee showed us how terrible animal testing, and extinction of whole species truly was, and Stranger's Wrath picked up on how huge multinational cooperations destroyed wilderness and chewed up nature's resources for their own personal gain... so on the surface while these games contain a lot of humor and fun, they do have a message along with them, and I think that's why they appeal to me so much. The other titles never really recaptured the essence of Oddworld that was first delivered to me in this title though, and I think this is why I like this one the most. The other games on the list were all special, but I think this is the one that really comes out top.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
On being Female
Grr. This post is a small rant, on being female, so I'll warn you now it's not going to be nice. If you don't want to read about female... functions, please don't read this.
I warned you.
I woke up last night at 4am, there was blood everywhere. Urgh, why do these things always happen in the middle of the night - I mean can't it just be helpful and start while I'm awake so I can do something about it? No, I'd made a horrible mess everywhere, of my bed and of myself.
I mean, it's supposed to be a glourious celebration of fertility and everything, but to me it's just an inconveniance. I don't find three of four days worth of short temperdness, nausea, lack of appetite, stomach pain and bleeding particularly fun every month. One person once said to my mother 'God, haven't you learnt to control it by now?' (Yes, they were male). No, there is no controlling it; you can't control the flow of blood if you cut yourself (i.e. bleeding! not bleeding... bleeding!) it stops when it clots. It's exactly the same with a period. I wish humans had the same menstrual cycle as a cat.
I warned you.
I woke up last night at 4am, there was blood everywhere. Urgh, why do these things always happen in the middle of the night - I mean can't it just be helpful and start while I'm awake so I can do something about it? No, I'd made a horrible mess everywhere, of my bed and of myself.
I mean, it's supposed to be a glourious celebration of fertility and everything, but to me it's just an inconveniance. I don't find three of four days worth of short temperdness, nausea, lack of appetite, stomach pain and bleeding particularly fun every month. One person once said to my mother 'God, haven't you learnt to control it by now?' (Yes, they were male). No, there is no controlling it; you can't control the flow of blood if you cut yourself (i.e. bleeding! not bleeding... bleeding!) it stops when it clots. It's exactly the same with a period. I wish humans had the same menstrual cycle as a cat.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Ask me
Ask me:
Rules:
You can ask me THREE questions
No matter how crazy, inappropriate, or random they are
I will answer 100% truthfully (or as close to the truth as I can).
Found this on someone else's blog ^^ shoot away
Rules:
You can ask me THREE questions
No matter how crazy, inappropriate, or random they are
I will answer 100% truthfully (or as close to the truth as I can).
Found this on someone else's blog ^^ shoot away
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
God awful fanfiction
Ok, so I've always been a little against the whole idea of fanfiction. For me the only purpose it serves is for a quick bunch of giggles, and boy have I found some funny things over the years.
Recently I was intruiged - 'oh boy, what could they have possibly done to heroes' kind of intruiged, and going to that godawful place fanfiction.net, I discovered something really funny.
You see, they like to write characters from the book/movie/show in relationships, and sometimes the writers will show the relationship with a slash, a small x or... my personal faveourite, smooshing the two names together to make a new, funnier name. The latter is decidedly prominent for some reason when it comes down to Heroes fanfiction, with hilarious results (well, me and my sister found them funny)
My faveourite monstrosities include
Plaire (Peter and Claire. Did anyone ever point out to these people that this counts as incest?)
Mohindlar (Mohinder and Sylar, on another note. Nobody should ever describe an indian person as tasting like curry. It's just too amusing)
Clikki (I can even begin to describe why I find this funny, every time I write it I can't help but giggle. It's Claire and Niki for those of you who couldn't figure it out)
Cleter (Peter, Claude... oh god)
But yeah. This is another random journal designed to curb my ever impending boredom.
Recently I was intruiged - 'oh boy, what could they have possibly done to heroes' kind of intruiged, and going to that godawful place fanfiction.net, I discovered something really funny.
You see, they like to write characters from the book/movie/show in relationships, and sometimes the writers will show the relationship with a slash, a small x or... my personal faveourite, smooshing the two names together to make a new, funnier name. The latter is decidedly prominent for some reason when it comes down to Heroes fanfiction, with hilarious results (well, me and my sister found them funny)
My faveourite monstrosities include
Plaire (Peter and Claire. Did anyone ever point out to these people that this counts as incest?)
Mohindlar (Mohinder and Sylar, on another note. Nobody should ever describe an indian person as tasting like curry. It's just too amusing)
Clikki (I can even begin to describe why I find this funny, every time I write it I can't help but giggle. It's Claire and Niki for those of you who couldn't figure it out)
Cleter (Peter, Claude... oh god)
But yeah. This is another random journal designed to curb my ever impending boredom.
God awful fanfiction
Ok, so I've always been a little against the whole idea of fanfiction. For me the only purpose it serves is for a quick bunch of giggles, and boy have I found some funny things over the years.
Recently I was intruiged - 'oh boy, what could they have possibly done to heroes' kind of intruiged, and going to that godawful place fanfiction.net, I discovered something really funny.
You see, they like to write characters from the book/movie/show in relationships, and sometimes the writers will show the relationship with a slash, a small x or... my personal faveourite, smooshing the two names together to make a new, funnier name. The latter is decidedly prominent for some reason when it comes down to Heroes fanfiction, with hilarious results (well, me and my sister found them funny)
My faveourite monstrosities include
Plaire (Peter and Claire. Did anyone ever point out to these people that this counts as incest?)
Mohindlar (Mohinder and Sylar, on another note. Nobody should ever describe an indian person as tasting like curry. It's just too amusing)
Clikki (I can even begin to describe why I find this funny, every time I write it I can't help but giggle. It's Claire and Niki for those of you who couldn't figure it out)
Cleter (Peter, Claude... oh god)
But yeah. This is another random journal designed to curb my ever impending boredom.
Recently I was intruiged - 'oh boy, what could they have possibly done to heroes' kind of intruiged, and going to that godawful place fanfiction.net, I discovered something really funny.
You see, they like to write characters from the book/movie/show in relationships, and sometimes the writers will show the relationship with a slash, a small x or... my personal faveourite, smooshing the two names together to make a new, funnier name. The latter is decidedly prominent for some reason when it comes down to Heroes fanfiction, with hilarious results (well, me and my sister found them funny)
My faveourite monstrosities include
Plaire (Peter and Claire. Did anyone ever point out to these people that this counts as incest?)
Mohindlar (Mohinder and Sylar, on another note. Nobody should ever describe an indian person as tasting like curry. It's just too amusing)
Clikki (I can even begin to describe why I find this funny, every time I write it I can't help but giggle. It's Claire and Niki for those of you who couldn't figure it out)
Cleter (Peter, Claude... oh god)
But yeah. This is another random journal designed to curb my ever impending boredom.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
A Musing
With all the recent Heroes doohicky, there was an interesting question posed over the dinner table last night. So I thought I would put it up here :)
If you had a super hero 'power' - which power do you think you would have?
Now there is one word in that phrase that is important. Not what would you like to have, what do you think you would have. As in, which power do you think best suits your personality.
So we all began assigning powers to each other, and my sister Blythe came up with the fact that she'd have super strength. I agree with her; she's outgoing and strong mentally, so I think that power suits her very well. That and possibly the super-jump ability. ;D
We also eventually came up with Technopathy for dad. (Even though he has this secret desire to be Telekinetic) Technopathy is basically where you manipulate machines, like... say you can access the internet without a computer or make cash come out of the cash machine without a credit card or PIN.
Nikki said she'd probably have a good, but useless power, probably like being able to speak any language she heard. I don't believe that, I think she would probably have something really cool, like being able to pick up traces of people's memories by touching objects or something.
Me? I couldn't think of what my power would be, but Dad firmly insisted I would be an Empath. I guess it suits me, I do tend to act like the people I'm around a little. Ok well, a lot :)
So, my readers - what power do you think you would posess? I'm interested :D
If you had a super hero 'power' - which power do you think you would have?
Now there is one word in that phrase that is important. Not what would you like to have, what do you think you would have. As in, which power do you think best suits your personality.
So we all began assigning powers to each other, and my sister Blythe came up with the fact that she'd have super strength. I agree with her; she's outgoing and strong mentally, so I think that power suits her very well. That and possibly the super-jump ability. ;D
We also eventually came up with Technopathy for dad. (Even though he has this secret desire to be Telekinetic) Technopathy is basically where you manipulate machines, like... say you can access the internet without a computer or make cash come out of the cash machine without a credit card or PIN.
Nikki said she'd probably have a good, but useless power, probably like being able to speak any language she heard. I don't believe that, I think she would probably have something really cool, like being able to pick up traces of people's memories by touching objects or something.
Me? I couldn't think of what my power would be, but Dad firmly insisted I would be an Empath. I guess it suits me, I do tend to act like the people I'm around a little. Ok well, a lot :)
So, my readers - what power do you think you would posess? I'm interested :D
Heroes
Wow - what can I say? Well first off, I guess I've been waiting for something like this to come along for a long long time, something I could really get hooked on and obsess over; a properly good, well written TV series.
At first I was a bit worried, I'd hyped myself up over the past couple of days, but there was this niggling doubt in the back of my mind. What if I didn't like it? What if it failed to deliver? I had spoken to a couple of people about it and they had been a bit... not excited - it wasn't anything special. It was more about the 'feelings' than the actual powers they'd told me. And after the first episode, I wasn't completely converted either. I have to admit that now, however, I'm completely and utterly in love with the thing. Ok, ok, I'll stop raving. I'll give you the low down on how I feel about each character, good and bad. I'll try not to post spoilers either.
Claire Bennet - (Spontaneous Regeneration)
I'm very mixed about this character, and what I like about her is the fact that she hasn't taken over the whole series and become the focus. Which sort of says volumes on how much I actually like her. If we compare Claire to Wolverine, it'll make it easier - Wolverine was never a main character until the movies took over and made the whole sodding series about him. Claire had that potential too, and for a few episodes I was a bit concerned. It hasn't turned into an all singing, all dancing Claire-fest though thankfully.
Niki/Jessica Sanders - (Super strength through alter ego)
I don't have any clear cut reason to like this character. But the fact is I think she's awesome. It's not exactly funny when she talks with her 'alter ego' gollum-esque style, it's just sort of intruiging. I like the fact that her power isn't linear; she only has the super strength when her alter ego takes over, and most of the time she acts like a crazy woman. But she's very Jekyll and Hyde, good person who can't help doing bad things, and I just can't help but feel sorry for her :D definately one of my faveourites.
Hiro Nakamura - (Ability to bend space and time)
Which of course leads to interesting results, teleportation, time travel, and time manipulation. I really wanted to hate this character, I usually do despise the comic relief. The fact that he was Japanese comic relief aswell, well that just set the alarm bells ringing in my head; from the outset he sounded like the annoying character from an anime you just want to kill. Problem is, I just can't bring myself to (hate him that is). They got the comedy just right - he isn't always doing stupid things, slapstick manner, he's just... ace.
Isaac Mendez - (Precognition)
I'm laughing internally at myself while I'm writing this one. Everytime I see Isaac doing his whole precognition thing, I think 'he's really cool'. Every damned time. I'm unsure however, if he qualifies to be one of my faveourites, because his personality is a bit flat, his personal story just a little too cliché. However, I like him because his power is the mechanism that introduces some of the little twists into the plotline, and I like how his power expresses itself in the form of the pictures that he paints. He's on the better side of the 'unsure' pile when it comes to how much I like him, he just doesn't quite cut it to be up there at the top because I feel that he could be so much more cooler.
Peter Petrelli - (Empath/Power mimicry)
I put a slash in his power doo-dah because in the series someone called him an 'Empath', but I always thought that meant you could sense how others were feeling. But in a nutshell, he's basically a power mimic-er. He is one of my faveourites though, because without including spoilers, suffice it to say he's interesting. I don't like how the series is making him appear the most important character right about now though.
Nathan Petrelli - (Flight)
Bah. The character you just love to hate. I hate him, he's a bastard xD. But before I move onto the next character, there's a valid point I'd like to make about the powers in general. None of them are linear, i.e. apparently obvious how much there is to each power, there are always little extras these people can do with their powers that they continue to discover which I like. Also, none of them have total control over the power, and while some of them learn to control it better, they don't have full control over it. The thing I don't like about Nathan is that a) his power is so boring compared to the rest of them, and b) although he doesn't often use it, he sure has good control over it. That annoys me no end.
Matt Parkman - (Telepathy)
Wikipedia tells us the power is Telepathy, Matt says he can 'hear people's thoughts'. Which stopped me connecting what his power actually was for ages and ages. Silly me. Yeah, I like this character, and he's involved in some interested bits of the story, but like Isaac I think his parts are sometimes a little boring. Not however, because his character is boring, just because most of the time he's doing boring things.
D.L. Hawkins - (Phasing)
Hehe it's a male version of Kitty Pryde. Yeah, he's kind of annoying and boring again. And I haven't got much to say about him because he reminds me of a rapper. And he hasn't had much to do with it all apart from being involved in the Niki storyline, plus he's a weakling. ¬.¬
And I'm not going to do anything on Micah. So according to Wiki, they are the main characters (with powers). I like some of the other people in it, but they're aren't as important. :) so ... go watch it and see what ever the hell I'm on about ^^
At first I was a bit worried, I'd hyped myself up over the past couple of days, but there was this niggling doubt in the back of my mind. What if I didn't like it? What if it failed to deliver? I had spoken to a couple of people about it and they had been a bit... not excited - it wasn't anything special. It was more about the 'feelings' than the actual powers they'd told me. And after the first episode, I wasn't completely converted either. I have to admit that now, however, I'm completely and utterly in love with the thing. Ok, ok, I'll stop raving. I'll give you the low down on how I feel about each character, good and bad. I'll try not to post spoilers either.
Claire Bennet - (Spontaneous Regeneration)
I'm very mixed about this character, and what I like about her is the fact that she hasn't taken over the whole series and become the focus. Which sort of says volumes on how much I actually like her. If we compare Claire to Wolverine, it'll make it easier - Wolverine was never a main character until the movies took over and made the whole sodding series about him. Claire had that potential too, and for a few episodes I was a bit concerned. It hasn't turned into an all singing, all dancing Claire-fest though thankfully.
Niki/Jessica Sanders - (Super strength through alter ego)
I don't have any clear cut reason to like this character. But the fact is I think she's awesome. It's not exactly funny when she talks with her 'alter ego' gollum-esque style, it's just sort of intruiging. I like the fact that her power isn't linear; she only has the super strength when her alter ego takes over, and most of the time she acts like a crazy woman. But she's very Jekyll and Hyde, good person who can't help doing bad things, and I just can't help but feel sorry for her :D definately one of my faveourites.
Hiro Nakamura - (Ability to bend space and time)
Which of course leads to interesting results, teleportation, time travel, and time manipulation. I really wanted to hate this character, I usually do despise the comic relief. The fact that he was Japanese comic relief aswell, well that just set the alarm bells ringing in my head; from the outset he sounded like the annoying character from an anime you just want to kill. Problem is, I just can't bring myself to (hate him that is). They got the comedy just right - he isn't always doing stupid things, slapstick manner, he's just... ace.
Isaac Mendez - (Precognition)
I'm laughing internally at myself while I'm writing this one. Everytime I see Isaac doing his whole precognition thing, I think 'he's really cool'. Every damned time. I'm unsure however, if he qualifies to be one of my faveourites, because his personality is a bit flat, his personal story just a little too cliché. However, I like him because his power is the mechanism that introduces some of the little twists into the plotline, and I like how his power expresses itself in the form of the pictures that he paints. He's on the better side of the 'unsure' pile when it comes to how much I like him, he just doesn't quite cut it to be up there at the top because I feel that he could be so much more cooler.
Peter Petrelli - (Empath/Power mimicry)
I put a slash in his power doo-dah because in the series someone called him an 'Empath', but I always thought that meant you could sense how others were feeling. But in a nutshell, he's basically a power mimic-er. He is one of my faveourites though, because without including spoilers, suffice it to say he's interesting. I don't like how the series is making him appear the most important character right about now though.
Nathan Petrelli - (Flight)
Bah. The character you just love to hate. I hate him, he's a bastard xD. But before I move onto the next character, there's a valid point I'd like to make about the powers in general. None of them are linear, i.e. apparently obvious how much there is to each power, there are always little extras these people can do with their powers that they continue to discover which I like. Also, none of them have total control over the power, and while some of them learn to control it better, they don't have full control over it. The thing I don't like about Nathan is that a) his power is so boring compared to the rest of them, and b) although he doesn't often use it, he sure has good control over it. That annoys me no end.
Matt Parkman - (Telepathy)
Wikipedia tells us the power is Telepathy, Matt says he can 'hear people's thoughts'. Which stopped me connecting what his power actually was for ages and ages. Silly me. Yeah, I like this character, and he's involved in some interested bits of the story, but like Isaac I think his parts are sometimes a little boring. Not however, because his character is boring, just because most of the time he's doing boring things.
D.L. Hawkins - (Phasing)
Hehe it's a male version of Kitty Pryde. Yeah, he's kind of annoying and boring again. And I haven't got much to say about him because he reminds me of a rapper. And he hasn't had much to do with it all apart from being involved in the Niki storyline, plus he's a weakling. ¬.¬
And I'm not going to do anything on Micah. So according to Wiki, they are the main characters (with powers). I like some of the other people in it, but they're aren't as important. :) so ... go watch it and see what ever the hell I'm on about ^^
Friday, April 06, 2007
Easter Holidays
Well, after much griping about the fact that 'everyone apart from us' had broken up for Easter already, here we are. Boy am I glad to be 'away from it all' too - over the next couple 'days I'll be writing to you from sunny Manchester, having been shipped over to my dads house. There's two main things I'm most excited about in this Holiday. GuildWars, and the TV line up.
I love spring, we see the return of House (series 3) and Dr who ('new' series 3) - basically the only two things I can honestly say I follow on the television, as I'm more a 'infront of computer' type gal, I never can mind much to watch on Tv. But, since Finn introduced me to House I've been hooked, and Dr.Who? Well, lets just say being a fan runs in the family.
After being a little annoyed at missing the first episode of Doctor Who last week (due to a number of things, but mainly due to forgetting entirely), I finally caught up with it last night. My main first impressions were that of being well... impressed :) I think that finally, I'm getting accustomed to the fact that David Tennant is our 'new' Doctor, and new assistant Martha isn't as terrible as I thought she might be, heck, I even quite like her. But that's all down to good writing, the first episode into our new series was pure brilliance. Exactly what I look for in DrWho - I'm hoping it carries on like this. More on DrWho later on this week.
The new series of House started off well - we saw the man himself back on two legs, running, being actually happy for once after the season finale last series where Cuddy put him under treatment to cure the whole leg thing. But after only three episodes I don't get why we've had to go back to square one. Hopefully it'll all unfold as the series progresses, but it's beginning to get on my nerves just a little - what is with all this 'let's not allow House to have his own way because he's better now, oh look he's going down hill lets let him behave as he did before with all the crazyness'. It's as if the writers thought they were going to lose House's character by having him fixed, and got scared, so they put him back into the whole 'grumpy old cripple' act again. Hmm. Another thing that irks me is that, while she didn't before, Cameron is actually annoying. Before she did 'good ethics', now it just seems out of selfishness and 'hey I wanna hog the limelight'. Still gotta love the way Chase is crap though ;D
One more thing in brief - there have been some really cool GuildWars updates recently. But I'll talk about those later ;)
I love spring, we see the return of House (series 3) and Dr who ('new' series 3) - basically the only two things I can honestly say I follow on the television, as I'm more a 'infront of computer' type gal, I never can mind much to watch on Tv. But, since Finn introduced me to House I've been hooked, and Dr.Who? Well, lets just say being a fan runs in the family.
After being a little annoyed at missing the first episode of Doctor Who last week (due to a number of things, but mainly due to forgetting entirely), I finally caught up with it last night. My main first impressions were that of being well... impressed :) I think that finally, I'm getting accustomed to the fact that David Tennant is our 'new' Doctor, and new assistant Martha isn't as terrible as I thought she might be, heck, I even quite like her. But that's all down to good writing, the first episode into our new series was pure brilliance. Exactly what I look for in DrWho - I'm hoping it carries on like this. More on DrWho later on this week.
The new series of House started off well - we saw the man himself back on two legs, running, being actually happy for once after the season finale last series where Cuddy put him under treatment to cure the whole leg thing. But after only three episodes I don't get why we've had to go back to square one. Hopefully it'll all unfold as the series progresses, but it's beginning to get on my nerves just a little - what is with all this 'let's not allow House to have his own way because he's better now, oh look he's going down hill lets let him behave as he did before with all the crazyness'. It's as if the writers thought they were going to lose House's character by having him fixed, and got scared, so they put him back into the whole 'grumpy old cripple' act again. Hmm. Another thing that irks me is that, while she didn't before, Cameron is actually annoying. Before she did 'good ethics', now it just seems out of selfishness and 'hey I wanna hog the limelight'. Still gotta love the way Chase is crap though ;D
One more thing in brief - there have been some really cool GuildWars updates recently. But I'll talk about those later ;)
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Quiz
You are...(looks)
[ ] tall
[ ] in between
[x] short (yes, I'm a short ass :( )
--
[ ] blonde
[ ] redheaded
[x] brunette
[ ] black-haired
--
[x] blue-eyed
[ ] brown-eyed
[ ] green-eyed
[ ] hazel eyed
[ ] gold eyed
[ ] grey eyed
[ ] with glasses
[ ] with contacts
[ ] with braces
[x] with freckles
[x] with piercings
[ ] with tattoos
[ ] and have long hair
[ ] and have short hair
[x] and have mid-length hair
Your favorite color(s) are?
[ ] red
[ ] pink
[ ] yellow
[ ] black
[x] green
[x] blue
[ ] gold
[ ] white
[ ] silver
[x] purple
[x] brown
[ ] orange
[ ] indigo
Some things you've done/played include...
[ ] soccer
[ ] cheerleading
[ ] dancing
[ ] lacrosse
[ ] field hockey
[ ] hockey
[ ] football
[ ] softball
[ ] wrestling
[ ] gymnastics
[ ] track/cross country
[ ] basketball
[ ] baseball
[ ] golf
[ ] chess
[ ] playing in the mud
[x] playing music
[ ] hiking
[ ] kayaking
[ ] camping
[ ] horseback riding
[ ] marching band
You are sometimes...
[ ] annoying
[ ] talkative
[x] shy
[x] sweet
[x] funny
[ ] mysterious
[x] serious
[ ] bubbly
[x] spazzy
[x] paranoid
[x] fun-loving
[x] laid back
[ ] strict
[ ] hyper
[x] nervous
[x] weird
[ ] get in a relationship that you are pleased with and then just fuck it all up leaving yourself alone and friendless once more
The music you like is?
[ ] rap
[x] rock
[x] pop
[ ] country
[ ] hip hop
[ ] r&b
[ ] slow jams
[ ] Christian
[x] classical
[ ] techno
[ ] oldies
[ ] the 80s
[ ] punk
[ ] Metal
[ ] reggae
[ ] Goth
[x] Latin
[ ] 90's Grunge
[ ] musicals
The pets you have are?
[x] cat
[x] dog
[ ] lizard
[ ] snake
[ ] ferret
[ ] spider
[ ] rabbit
[ ] fish
[x] bird
[ ] hamster
[x] little sister
[ ] other
You're mostly labeled as?
[ ] goth
[ ] emo
[ ] prep
[ ] punk
[x] hippie
[x] nerd
[ ] ditzy
[ ] hyper
[ ] happy
[ ] everything
[x] I hate labels! I'm just me!!!
[ ] have no idea
You eat?
[ ] dessert every night
[ ] no meat
[ ] diet stuff
[x] healthy foods
[x] junk foods
[ ] a lot of carbs
[x] ice cream
[x] lots of meat
[x] salad
[x] seafood
[ ] exotic dishes
[ ] Mountain Dew
A typical friday night...
[ ] mall with your friends
[ ] partying
[ ] doing my homework
[ ] watching movies
[ ] going to the club
[x] staying home
[x] playing videogames
[ ] babysitting and getting $$
[ ] hanging out w/ my friends
[x] hanging out w/ your boyfriend/girlfriend
[ ] working while your friends are out having fun
Currently you are...
[x] in a relationship (<3)
[ ] single and lovin it
[ ] crushing
[ ] single and looking for someone
[ ] just broke up... and so sad about it
[ ] just broke up... and its not affecting you much
[ ] just broke up... and you're wayyy happy about it
Online, you use:
[x] lol
[ ] sup
[ ] rofl
[ ] lmao
[ ] wb
[x] ty
[ ] j/k
[x] <3
[ ] ttyl
[ ] g2g
[x] xD
[x] ^^
[x] T_T
[x] x_x
[x] ^_^
[x] o_O
[ ] TOT
Hehe ^^ I liked this quiz, I stole it from my sister's journal.
[ ] tall
[ ] in between
[x] short (yes, I'm a short ass :( )
--
[ ] blonde
[ ] redheaded
[x] brunette
[ ] black-haired
--
[x] blue-eyed
[ ] brown-eyed
[ ] green-eyed
[ ] hazel eyed
[ ] gold eyed
[ ] grey eyed
[ ] with glasses
[ ] with contacts
[ ] with braces
[x] with freckles
[x] with piercings
[ ] with tattoos
[ ] and have long hair
[ ] and have short hair
[x] and have mid-length hair
Your favorite color(s) are?
[ ] red
[ ] pink
[ ] yellow
[ ] black
[x] green
[x] blue
[ ] gold
[ ] white
[ ] silver
[x] purple
[x] brown
[ ] orange
[ ] indigo
Some things you've done/played include...
[ ] soccer
[ ] cheerleading
[ ] dancing
[ ] lacrosse
[ ] field hockey
[ ] hockey
[ ] football
[ ] softball
[ ] wrestling
[ ] gymnastics
[ ] track/cross country
[ ] basketball
[ ] baseball
[ ] golf
[ ] chess
[ ] playing in the mud
[x] playing music
[ ] hiking
[ ] kayaking
[ ] camping
[ ] horseback riding
[ ] marching band
You are sometimes...
[ ] annoying
[ ] talkative
[x] shy
[x] sweet
[x] funny
[ ] mysterious
[x] serious
[ ] bubbly
[x] spazzy
[x] paranoid
[x] fun-loving
[x] laid back
[ ] strict
[ ] hyper
[x] nervous
[x] weird
[ ] get in a relationship that you are pleased with and then just fuck it all up leaving yourself alone and friendless once more
The music you like is?
[ ] rap
[x] rock
[x] pop
[ ] country
[ ] hip hop
[ ] r&b
[ ] slow jams
[ ] Christian
[x] classical
[ ] techno
[ ] oldies
[ ] the 80s
[ ] punk
[ ] Metal
[ ] reggae
[ ] Goth
[x] Latin
[ ] 90's Grunge
[ ] musicals
The pets you have are?
[x] cat
[x] dog
[ ] lizard
[ ] snake
[ ] ferret
[ ] spider
[ ] rabbit
[ ] fish
[x] bird
[ ] hamster
[x] little sister
[ ] other
You're mostly labeled as?
[ ] goth
[ ] emo
[ ] prep
[ ] punk
[x] hippie
[x] nerd
[ ] ditzy
[ ] hyper
[ ] happy
[ ] everything
[x] I hate labels! I'm just me!!!
[ ] have no idea
You eat?
[ ] dessert every night
[ ] no meat
[ ] diet stuff
[x] healthy foods
[x] junk foods
[ ] a lot of carbs
[x] ice cream
[x] lots of meat
[x] salad
[x] seafood
[ ] exotic dishes
[ ] Mountain Dew
A typical friday night...
[ ] mall with your friends
[ ] partying
[ ] doing my homework
[ ] watching movies
[ ] going to the club
[x] staying home
[x] playing videogames
[ ] babysitting and getting $$
[ ] hanging out w/ my friends
[x] hanging out w/ your boyfriend/girlfriend
[ ] working while your friends are out having fun
Currently you are...
[x] in a relationship (<3)
[ ] single and lovin it
[ ] crushing
[ ] single and looking for someone
[ ] just broke up... and so sad about it
[ ] just broke up... and its not affecting you much
[ ] just broke up... and you're wayyy happy about it
Online, you use:
[x] lol
[ ] sup
[ ] rofl
[ ] lmao
[ ] wb
[x] ty
[ ] j/k
[x] <3
[ ] ttyl
[ ] g2g
[x] xD
[x] ^^
[x] T_T
[x] x_x
[x] ^_^
[x] o_O
[ ] TOT
Hehe ^^ I liked this quiz, I stole it from my sister's journal.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Demons of Procrastination
No, of course I'm not avoiding doing my coursework *whistles*. But when you have inspiration, your motivation to do work plummets like anything. I don't want to be typing up my physics coursework right now, I want to be creating my new race I thought up the other day.
An old friend of mine had an analogy to go with this feeling, since she had always (and still does to my knowledge) wanted to write and publish a novel. I still ask her how her writing goes from time to time, but she was one of those who didn't like sharing her work until the whole thing was finished. Which could have been years in her case. Eventually she finished a novel and sent it round to a few people, but... well. Let's just say I only struggled through the first couple of pages out of loyalty, but after gently hinting (and it was very gently mind) that dialogue ought to have been intersperced with a little more description, and that punctuation was pretty important (so that your sentences didn't run on like this one and go on for ever and if you were reading it aloud your breath would be failing right about now and you'd end up sounding like a dying vaccuum cleaner you get the picture the end amen), she decided to scrap the entire thing. I believe she is writing a second attempt at a novel, but, y'know. Hats off to her; it's something I haven't managed to do.
Anyway, she had this analogy. As your inspiration increases, you school work production tends to decrease, and vice versa. I think this is actually pretty accurate (she even drew me a graph so that the scientific bit of my mind could comprehend it), I mean, I never feel like working when my mind is so full of other ideas. I don't want to loose them, and so I waste time writing them down when I could be doing 'useful' work.
This leads me onto another point, this time insightful. I have always been a highly imaginative person; I love creating, but these days instead of playing pretend or drawing pictures I have to channel this energy into more 'acceptible, adult' forms. (Or else just be classed as weird, which happens anyway I suppose). So hence I find myself writing music, writing stories, daydreaming too much and wishing there was an easier way to capture my ideas instead of having to write it all down in boring black and white text. Once on paper, my once brilliant ideas just seem so stupid I never do anything else with them.
Enough said I suppose, another post about nothing in particular. Just a ramble and a waste of time :)
An old friend of mine had an analogy to go with this feeling, since she had always (and still does to my knowledge) wanted to write and publish a novel. I still ask her how her writing goes from time to time, but she was one of those who didn't like sharing her work until the whole thing was finished. Which could have been years in her case. Eventually she finished a novel and sent it round to a few people, but... well. Let's just say I only struggled through the first couple of pages out of loyalty, but after gently hinting (and it was very gently mind) that dialogue ought to have been intersperced with a little more description, and that punctuation was pretty important (so that your sentences didn't run on like this one and go on for ever and if you were reading it aloud your breath would be failing right about now and you'd end up sounding like a dying vaccuum cleaner you get the picture the end amen), she decided to scrap the entire thing. I believe she is writing a second attempt at a novel, but, y'know. Hats off to her; it's something I haven't managed to do.
Anyway, she had this analogy. As your inspiration increases, you school work production tends to decrease, and vice versa. I think this is actually pretty accurate (she even drew me a graph so that the scientific bit of my mind could comprehend it), I mean, I never feel like working when my mind is so full of other ideas. I don't want to loose them, and so I waste time writing them down when I could be doing 'useful' work.
This leads me onto another point, this time insightful. I have always been a highly imaginative person; I love creating, but these days instead of playing pretend or drawing pictures I have to channel this energy into more 'acceptible, adult' forms. (Or else just be classed as weird, which happens anyway I suppose). So hence I find myself writing music, writing stories, daydreaming too much and wishing there was an easier way to capture my ideas instead of having to write it all down in boring black and white text. Once on paper, my once brilliant ideas just seem so stupid I never do anything else with them.
Enough said I suppose, another post about nothing in particular. Just a ramble and a waste of time :)
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