Backlogged: June 2011

Well... what a month June was...

Looking back, E3 sucked, and not buying anything until April of next year doesn't seem to be a problem.  That's actually rather disappointing... To be honest, I sort of wanted to feel tortured for doing this.

The Wii U is supposedly going to get back the core: (Spoiler: They arn't, especially if Nintendo has no commitment with their core fans right now.)  And to play any games I want, I'm considering soft modding my Wii, and importing.  Looking at the stats tab, I think I got more hits on my blog from people just searching for Xenoblade than anything else.  I really need to do something to change that...

And once again I got nothing accomplished.  This is just becoming a giant joke...

But hey!  Duke Nukem Forever finally came out after 12 years!  That's got to count for something! Geeze, I still remember having a friend over to play Duke Nukem 64... He went home afraid.  And from what I saw on youtube, it totally sucks and isn't about shooting.  Maybe if it is cheap, I'll pick it up used.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D: I'd said I'd buy whatever the thing was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Zelda, but I changed my mind.  The CD didn't exactly seem like that good of a deal to me.  I'll pick it up down the line.  That being said... this interview doesn't give me a good feeling about Skyward Sword.

Notably there is this line:  "This game's plot is something like a school drama, you could say," Aonuma noted with a laugh. "The flying sequence at the E3 demo is Link competing against his classmates. One of them looks kind of a like a bad guy, as you saw, and he shows up in other ways in the game too, since he has a major thing for Zelda."

School in a game that isn't named Persona, and a bully who is trying to prove that he has a bigger 'sword' than Link.  This isn't going to end well.  I'm getting the feeling that I'll just go here to get my daily dose of canon destroying crap instead.

inFamous 2: Also came out, but I'm still enjoying my play through of the first one.  But I'll definitely buy it when I start buying again.

Wii Play Motion: The videos I watched looked interesting.  If I had a need for an extra controller, and if it looked like Nintendo was actually supporting the bloody thing with more motion plus games, I would look into it and think about buying it.  (However, I sort of have 6 Wii Remotes all ready... 6 Wii Remotes, 1 of which is a Wii Remote Plus from Fling Smash, 2 of the motion plus add on, 2 nunchucks 2 Classic Controller Pros (GoldenEye and Monster Hunter Tri))  I'll probably look for the base game used, and pick it up if it's cheap.

And that's all the games that caught my eye this month...

Well, tomorrow is July, and Canada Day!  I have a long weekend.  Maybe I'll actually get something accomplished.  *insert canned laughter here*

Operation Rainfall

If anyone reads my blog, there is a fan campaign to raise awareness of Xenoblade.

http://oprainfall.blogspot.com/

It's amazing what has all ready happened.  Getting Monado/Xenoblade to the top of the Amazon selling list.  I wish for the best.

I probably would have preordered it on Amazon if it was up on Amazon.ca.   I personally think it's ingenious, putting your money where your mouth is.

Hopefully when I get back from camping on Tuesday, Nintendo will have done something... I doubt it.

Going camping...

In any case, here are the games that I played this week:

Super Smash Bros Brawl

I was at my cousin's for his birthday and was playing it.  That's about it.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

See above.

Back to anger

First Pokemon Adventures now Xenoblade...

Maybe I did those stages of grief preemptively.

As a customer I'm angry because the game is in the process of being translated into English.   The Wii is going through a painful drought in North America!

But apparently changing every mention of "Trousers" to "Pants" will cost too much money.

The only thing Nintendo has done is make me question buying the Wii U when it comes out, because I can just see this crap being pulled again.

I think something is wrong with these pictures...

But I just can't place my finger on it...

Acceptance

Ah well, what happens, happens.  I can always soft mod my Wii and import.  I shouldn't have to, but if that's the reality, all I can do is accept...

And now I'm done going through the five stages of grief over some video games...

Depression

Alternate title: "Along side time exists fate, the bearer of cruelty."

Why even care they're just video games...

Bargaining

Come on Nintendo of America! Release Xenoblade and The Last Story! I'll even buy them on the day they come out and conveniently forget about my promise to not buy any games until April of next year! I'll even buy two copies! Hell, I'll even buy a copy for each of my friends!

What do I have to do to convince you to take my money?

Anger

What makes you think that anyone will give a damn about the Wii U, when you don't even release your games on the Wii?

I can see it now: here's this awesome game for the Wii U, the catch, it will never come out in North America!  And we region lock our systems because, then people might actually play games before we can allow them to!  And we're also translating all of Square Enix's games because they can't be bothered!

Denial

Alternate title: "Entrusting his future to Nintendo of America, man clings to a dim hope.  Yes, the release schedule is the means by which all is revealed." 

Oh hi, there supposed Nintendo of Europe release date schedule... well this looks harmless enough.

*Opens up link to Neogaf thread*

Xenoblade Chronicles for August 26 and The Last Story TBA.

This can't be happening...

Xenoblade is coming to North America.  A voice actor confirmed it.  Nintendo of America is just being quiet right now.  That's all.  That's right... Their upcoming game list clearly says that it's a partial list.

Games played this week

Well, this week I played quite a bit... Stuff after the jump.

Game played during the week

I really only played inFamous on the PS3 this week.  I'm working on playing through the good path, once I'm done that I'll probably do the evil path on Hard.

There were a few rounds of Smash Bros against some CPU's to try and vent frustration after what I thought was an absolutely lackluster E3.  And here I thought it would actually make me resent doing this.  Hah. 

And if you could really call it a game, I fiddled around with the Pokedex 3D each day just to get the random Pokemon each day.

I also played that free download of Excitebike on the 3DS. 

I think I watched the trailers on the 3DS more than anything.  I actually really liked how they redid, shot for shot, the Ocarina of Time trailer.

Note to self

To avoid being afraid that I had lost the USB stick with everything on it, in the future attach to the same key chain that my keys are on.

Well there goes that plan...

I picked up Volume 13 of Pokemon Adventures... and it looks like VIZ is actually going to finish the G/S story arc in the next volume in August, instead of having the end of the third chapter bleed into Volume 15...

Fun...

Wii u

Well... First things first... My Nintendo E3 Press Conference Bingo!

Pokédex 3D review

Well, I guess I have some time to kill before the Nintendo E3 Press conference.  So, I'll do a Pokédex 3D review.

I predict that by the end of it I'm going to be sick of pressing ALT+1+3+0

3DS Update

Well... it finally was released... I managed to update and then download Excitebike 3D, before it promptly crashed on me. 

Tried going back in and it looks like it's under maitnence...

We'll I'm setting my alarm for the morning to wake up and try to download Pokédex 3D in what is hopefully going to be an off hour...

Fear my indifference

I've been watching most of the E3 press conferences.  I'm feeling severely underwhelmed so far.

*Checks for 3DS update* still not here... Okay I'm watching that OK Go Video one last time...

*Checks for 3DS update again* Still not here...

These are just my meaningless impressions and thoughts on what I'm looking forwards to seeing.

Pixel hunts suck

Another post detailing what I played the previous week.

Two things

There are two things, I wanted to post today. 

The first:

Well looks like I'm going to McDonalds soon...

I still have some of the Burger King toys kicking around somewhere, back from the first movie...  And I think I still have those gold plated cards and Pokeballs too.

The second:

The eshop opens for 3DS next week.  My rules for Project Backlogged was that I wasn't going to buy any games (save for Skyward Sword, and if anything is released for Zelda's 25th anniversary).  If any are free games, apps (for example), or demos I'll take them.