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...