Xenoblade Chronicles

*Insert very loud swearing here*

So the day before I start this, Xenoblade is announced, it's actually being translated!  Of course it's only announced for Europe right now. 

Please don't skip North America...

Shulk for Smash 4?

3DS Pedometer

Dear Nintendo:

The 3DS pedometer function gives 1 Play Coin for every 100 steps. 

The recommended daily step count for the average adult is 10,000 steps.

The daily play coin cap is set to 10, meaning 1000 steps.  This is in the user manual.

Also from the manual: the amount of play coins allowed in the system at one time has a cap of 300 for no particular reason.

You want people to carry the 3DS wherever they go.

Do you see a potential problem with this?

Sincerely,

Saber

P.S. If I want a game themed pedometer, I’m sticking with the Pokéwalker.  It is a lot smaller and much more practical to carry around.  Plus it doesn't stop giving me Watts until I reach 9999w (199980 steps).

Project Backlogged

I’m going to be blunt here; I spend a lot on video games.   I play a lot.  In my collection I have 338 games spread across 6 systems (PS2, PS3, GameCube, Wii, DS, 3DS).  This isn’t counting PC games, or Game Boy Advance games, or the original Game Boy games that I still have kicking around, and haven’t been sold at garage sales against my will or knowledge.   In the first three months of this year, I have all ready bought 56 games.

I’ve decided that this has to stop.

My problem is that I keep on buying; however I don’t complete them, so I have plenty of games that just sit there and collect dust.

While waiting in front of EB Games for it to open to buy a 3DS, I realized that this was pointless.  I don’t need to buy games as soon as they come out.  If they are good, they will be able to remain good down the line when I do pick them up, at a reduced price.  I mean, this hobby is freaking expensive!

On an impulse I decided to create Project Backlogged.

Project Backlogged is two things.

The first, for a whole year, from April 1st of 2011 to April 1st of 2012, I’m not going to buy any video games.  And while that may seem like a joke based off of the dates, I’m serious.

The second, this will help me go through the games that I want to finish, or play again, as I’m going to review the games as I go through this.  Hopefully, this will help as motivation to get through what I couldn’t finish the first time around.

Strap yourselves in; this is going to be a long and bumpy ride.

A few notes:

1. I should have more games; however I was a giant idiot, and sold my N64 and Sega Genesis and their games before I had a job for more money to buy more games.

2. Okay, there are 2 games during this period that I will buy...

·                     The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Nothing gets between me and Zelda... Of course, since we haven't gotten a release date yet, (only a vague release period of 2011) and the standard Zelda delay, I doubt this is going to be a problem...

·                     If anything is released for Zelda 25th anniversary, going by both the Metroid Prime Trilogy, and the Super Mario 25th anniversary, it is going to have a very limited run.  I'll buy it, however I won't play it until this is over.

Everything else that interests me get’s put under the “What I’m missing” tag.

3. In the event that a console breaks.  (Wii, PS2, PS3, DS, 3DS) it will be repaired.

Testing 1 2 3...

Well, here is the first post of the blog.  There isn’t much here right now.  I'm just messing around with everything to see how things work, and I'm trying to find a design that I like.  Don't be alarmed if things suddenly change...