Favorite Composers who have songs featured in games, anime, and movies

1. Koichi Sugiyama (Dragon Quest)

2. Nubuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy series, Blue Dragon)

3. Motoi Sakuraba ( Star Ocean series, Eternal Sonata)

4. Chopin (Eternal Sonata)

5. Itzak Perlman (Hero soundtrack)

6. Akari Kaida & Yoshino Aoki (Breath of fire III, IV)

7. Tsukasa Masuko (Shin Megami series)

8. Nobuyoshi Sano (Ghost in the shell series, Drakenguard, Tekken)

Favorite Bands that have songs featured in games and anime

1. Etro Anime- (Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga)

2. Home Made Kazoku- (Bleach, Eureka Seven)

3. Angela Aki (FFVIII)

4. Shing02 (Samurai Champloo)

5. Utada Hikari (Kingdom Hearts)

6. The Black Mages starring Nubuo Uematsu ( 90% of Square Enix games lol)

7. Koda Kumi (Final fantasy X-2)

8. BOA (Serial Experiments Lain)

9. Hata Motohiro (Itazura Na Kiss)

10. Orange Range (Bleach)

The black and white put to D&D

I always had a problem with the black and white people put on dungeons and dragons players, I myself have played the game for many years I dungeon master for a small group of my friends and I'm proud to say I play the game, and until god proclaims that he wishes me to stop playing then I will keep playing. I am a devoted follower of god I always will be, I'm a good man I try hard to do the right thing but face it we will never be perfect, but the people that blacklist dungeons and dragons cause they think its evil or that it will stray you from god piss me off to no end, I consider myself mellow for the most part but this is not one of those subjects. People this is the real situation with the game, it is just that a fu**ing game live with it. It pushes the people who play it, it makes them use there imagination, it makes you use your mind to find out and solve problems from a point of view that is not your own but that of the character you play, it works your math skills to work out you attacks and you abilities. And that is just the player the game master has far more to do then the player coming up with missions and enemies they have to fight or find a way to find and destroy before they destroy all that is good for a good group, and find a way to take over for a evil group. This is the way the game is, it won't limit your choices as a player as long as you have a good GM you choose what to do and how to do it and deal with what happens and what happens if you fail.

Why I can't get into MMORPGs.

The people. The end.

Okay, okay, I suppose I ought to elaborate. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are plenty of great people in the MMORPG universe, and I'm sure just about any fan would claim that they've made countless friends playing WoW or EQ or whatever. Fine. I can acknowledge that. Maybe I'm just unlucky, and haven't found these people.

Of course, maybe my standards are too high. I'm a console RPG nerd. I love Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Shin Megami Tensei, and so on. I like to be immersed in a fantasy world while I game. It definitely does well to kill my immersion when I'm constantly bombarded with other players saying stuff like "goldz plz," or "seling armr plz buy" or what-not. I can say right now that if I picked up, say, Final Fantasy XIII, and was met with the NPCs begging for gold and items, and conversing in broken, garbled english, I would be horrified. I guess I'm just spoiled. Then again, it likely doesn't help that I mainly play games to AVOID contact with people.

To jump topics somewhat, the success of WoW has made things hard for a gamer. There's an absurd influx of MMORPGs, to the point where you can hardly browse the internet without stumbling over a dozen or so shiny new MMOs. I know it's a popular genre right now, but seriously. The sad thing is, that although they all may have somewhat different visuals, or some other gimmicky selling point, they're all fundamentally the same. Grind grind grind. Grind grind. Grind. Reach the level cap... And... Well... I don't really know. It's not like there's an ending or anything. I just don't get it. Bah!

N00BS

This post is about game noobs. those who pretend to be into gaming but quickly are exposed when asked anything of real substance, or those who boast of their skills only to be pwned by an actual gamer thus not only exposing them as a noob, but a noob who is too noob to know he/she is a noob and thats the worst kind! If you don't want to be a noob, or at least want to not get awkward looks from actual gamers when in a casual outing coversation and what have you, here are some tips to help you on your dragon's quest to acheveing max level, and not being a noob and having thine hits reduced by 1337 by real gamers.

1. Learn about developers, Atlus woot woot, sony, microsoft, especially at least the CEO's or leaders of developers such as those from Nippon, Bandai, Tecmo, Team Ninja, Working Designs, Sucker punch, Naughty Dog, Rare, Capcom, Ubisoft etc.

2. Learn about those behind the game, music, art designer, voice actors, script writers etc. Shout out to Nubuo Uematsu, Koichi Sugiyama, Yoshino Aoki woot!.

3. Broaden your horizon in the genre of games you play, and casual is good, but we are talking about nerding it up with harcore friends, and yes we like causal games but if you want to not be left out of a convo with some meat, then you are going to have to deviate from mother's milk called soccer mom casual games.

4. Suscribe to a game magizine, Gamerinformer, Playstation, Xbox, *cough* Nintendo power, (no no never mind Nintendo can die in a fire.

5. Use the buddy system, Sensei student friendships in which most often hardcore gamers are willing to expound their knowledge, or just listen to them rant you can usually gather all the intel you need about console wars, and the latest genre, who is the cooliest art designer, music composer etc. (Hardcore gamers just don't like pretenders, so if you are a noob own up to it its ok we all can be born with a Atari 2600 joystick in our hands. But lets face it we were noob at some point, well some tee-hee.)

6. Go on forums beware of the vampire people and emos, alternative forms of social networking include facebook and myspace.

Anime's that should not be

1. introductory Animes that introduce a series then end going into the volume of the manga.
2. Random Anime's made some where randomly placed within the manga series.
3. Unless the original wasn't anything nice to look at, anime remakes like of the constant re-porting of FF I-VI
4. Anime's that try to hard to be deep and philosophical that by the end if the watcher makes it to the end is so frustrated and confused that it Magna Carta's.
5. Anime's that suck. (Just so we clear that up, and no it's not vague at all not by general critics consensus)
6. Making animes of games producing only 3-4 OVA episodes of it. (Seriously if you are going to go through the effort, do it right!)
7. Edited Animes. (If there is a uncut it is always better.)

Thats all I got so far feel free to add to the list.

Cosplay girls

I love Cosplay girls, who doesn't like cosplay girls? Nothing better than a catgirl eating pocki, playing ps2 nerding it up on the latest anime to hit the market. Without trying to sound to negative I do have one teensy, weensey thing that I want to say. There should be a application for cosplaying just as much as there should be one for wearing thongs, tight suede pants that say juicy on the backside, open toe shoes, or low V-neck shirts. I'm not shallow just stating the facts because we all talk about it, we think it and screw political correctness which is a oxymoron by the way, the problems have to be addressed. Much love to Cosplaying girls though and when my friend and I go to the Anime convention in Whitcita in a couple weeks, I will definitely be loving ya more still :) Nerd on beautifuls, nerd on.

The Worst Video game world to ever live in.

After much debate the rule is out on the worst game world to ever live in. Filgaia from the Wild Arms series. Not only is the world dying, half desolate, on the verge of being taking over by some awakened Demonic entity hellbent on murdering the world. After you have saved the world, bringing to its lush green, green grass, clear blue sky, all is well, by the next game, to which the chronology is not explained, it does not matter, no matter what period you find yourself in, the world is once again dying, half desolate, on the verge of being taken over by some awakened demonic entity hellbent on murdering the world. I find the western meets fantasy appealing, but does it have to be the same plot in every freaking game? You would have to pay me to live in this world like Alaska or Iran. Get's some orginality already 'kay?

Abandoned by Mother.

Earthbound. Probably of the most awesomely bizarre games of all time. I remember playing it on SNES when I was a kid. I thoroughly loved every minute of it. It was totally different than anything else available at the time, and it was chock full of all manner of quirkiness. Needless to say, I was, and am a big fan.

Cut forward several years to the age of the N64. I never was all that huge of a fan of the last relic of the cartridge era, but one game I looked forward to more than anything else, was the fabled Earthbound 64 that never came to be. I got so hyped from the few little promotional pictures that were posted in magazines, but of course, I was disappointed when the project got shot down with little fanfare. I pretty much gave up hope on there ever being another Earthbound.

Fast forward once more to just a few years back. Mother 3 for the GBA. (Mother = Earthbound in Japanland.) I was giddy as a schoolgirl. It retained the same visual style of the SNES classic, it looked to maintain the same level of off-kilter humor, and I wanted it. I NEEDED it. But, by the powers that be (That would be Nintendo.), I was again denied my fix. Why? WHY? I mean, I know back in the day it wasn't uncommon for many games to go unreleased stateside, but times have changed. Gaming is supposedly "mainstream" now. Not to mention that Earthbound has a highly devoted, fairly sizable following! There are many a website completely devoted to the series, and tons of ravenous fans. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, Nintendo opted to deny the U.S. audience one of the most original and enjoyable experiences in gaming. I've read online that when Nintendo's U.S. icon, Reggie Fils-Aime was asked about the possibility of localizing Mother 3, that he pretty much dodged the question, and seemed to hardly know of it. Look at the GBA, or for that matter the DS or the Wii. They're flooded with all manner of crappy crap crap. I don't see why they would neglect a devoted fanbase, just to release boatloads more casual party games to the masses.

Of course, as many may know, the fans have released a fan-translation now, and it's awesome. But it still doesn't make up for Nintendo's lack of gumption to release what could have been a big hit in the states. Not to mention all that sweet promotional junk they made to celebrate it. I want a Franklin Badge, too. *sob*

Just stop it Ewwwie Boll!

The latest trend this side of the hemisphere is to turn games into live action movies. Has any turned out even remotely tolerable? Absolutely not. Dragon ball evolution, Street fighter legend of Chun-li just to name a couple. Why? Why ruin fan bases? Why ruin franchises by turning good games into shitastic suckfest and to slap us in the face don't even go straight to video we actually have to shell out 10$ to see these atrocities on the big screen. Bloodrayne, Tomb Raider, House of the dead, Doom, Mortal Kombat, DOA movie, the list goes on. It's n ont just Ewwwwie its others who want to make a quick buck rather than put out something that brings light to the game instead of being a repellent and making even the hardcorest fan QQ with ultimate sad because the movie industry is in bed with Nintendo in the mentality of screw whatever is actually good and what the demographic fan boys and girls would want to see and with complete disregard screw them over.

Top Ten Anime List

1. Death Note
2. Itazura Na Kiss
3. Bleach
4. Onegai Teacher
5. Full metal panic
6. Azumanga Daioh
7. Great Teacher Onizuka
8. Chobits
9. Samurai X
10. Vandread

Nintendo = Judas

Nintendo whom if anyone ever gamed back in the day on the Nes, and Snes has no shocking news took a cosmic figurative Sepiroth's Katana and broke damage limit 99999 in our backs with the Wii console. Not only does it's controller frusrate even the most docile buddist monk, in all its absurdity it is awkward to hold the thing and sorry it isn't the arguement of it taking skill, because that is a lie as soon as you find out any games tha actually require you to use it. Not only that great actual games are coming out which utilize the old Snes style remote, and the fact they would put out a Tales game on the Xbox 360 and then take Tales of Symphonia one of the only RPG's on the Gamecube that didn't suck or was underrated, its sequal is coming out on the Wii! Why because Nintendo has never given a crap about its fanbase and can go fly a kite my G rated term for every profanity hate, rage, anger what have you I steer towards that industry. Once again I have nothing against casual gamers, though hey don't make a console from a major game industry, kick a majority of its fanbase to the curve to get on with manstream media's push towards casual gaming, by which they have now gone back to bashing hardcore gamers calling us the quintessential root to all youth problems of the day. Have you seen the ratio of casual games to RPGs, FPS's, RTS's, Fighting, etc games that Sony and Microsoft have the mental capacity above Nintendo's pet rock compentence level and understand the demographic to which is best to market games for. Both Sony and Microsoft offer a better balanced ratio of its family oriented games to others, while Wii in its infinite wisdom decided they wanted to be different i.e. retarded and make their console be so blantantly targeted to soccer mom that its pitiful few *game* games are buried bloody in a sea of sharkes, and we won't dare swim to their rescue, not even for it the Wii console's undercutting price of the Ps3, and Xbox 360. Before I get to mad and go on and on about how much I want Nintendo to befall some sort of natural disaster or possible virus that could kill all their computers and game producing software, or maybe if they had wisdom just dawn on them from the mighty higher power of God, I will end with this. Nintendo you Judas, betraying Brutus backstabbing Noobs, I know I say this in vain but with your next console grow a pair and learn about what your fans care about k?

Forget the Console wars, what is up with the genre war? Between nerd brethren?

A friend and fellow venter of a problem that needs to be addressed within our nerd subculture. Is this whole genre war between gamers. I use to be a fighting hardcore gamer, I probably would have done more well in school if I spent more time studying homework then I did remembering various game's command lists, on several console controllers. Breath of Fire III that sparked my love into becoming a hardcore RPG gamer, though I played earlier ones the age old final fantasy, chrono trigger, Dragon Warrior, Secret of Mana just to name a few on the Snes, oh and a big shout out to phantasy Star series on Sega. I have my biasm towards other Rpg gamers, though we RPGers don't go around like other genre preference gamers saying "Oh RPG's are the only real games that take skill, and are better blah blah etc." FPS gamers are elitist thinking Halo is like the one ring to rule of the others. Sports gamers are easily convertabile to broaden their horizens from Madden and NBA live, to other games, they can be somewhat elitist but not as much as RTS gamers. OMG PC gamers are so gamerist if I can coin the term to console gamers, and how dare you if you play both. PC gamers are like oh look at meh wit my uber micro, i pwn n00bs and even more so RTS pc gamers think RTS is the whole genre that takes skill. Personally I find RTS boring, right on the same lime of simulation gaming where you spend more time watching the game play itself than anything. Yet these elitist who seem to go around and sow discord and start civil wars saying this genre is better than that and we hardcore *insert genre* gamers are the true gamers and our *insert genre* are the only games that require skill, well tha is just ignorant and though sometimes it can make for healthy debates it is actually just found to be nothing less than GTFO out the subculture if you are going to cause probs kthxbi. We are gamers we should all stand united at least we can come together against fake gamers, or us hardcore types against the ever betraying Wii for kicking us all to the girl and whoring themselves out to scoccer mom and casual gamers, though I personally have nothing against causal gamers, for nintendo to just pull a Julius Caeser and cater 98% of its games to many games that just suck by causal standards even and dont get me started on that damn remote nunchuku. Well elitists this post is telling you to STFU and GTFO because we more tolerable types understand the beauty of all game genre's whether we enjoy playing them or not. We can have our friendly biased views without slinging mud and stepping on toes (RPG gamers Woot Woot!) What do you think is this unfounded or true?

The Nerd Uprising

The nerd uprising trend over these past few years has been astounding. Not only is it cool to be a nerd preferably anime or game nerd, but now we have even the worse kind of people who were quote unquote enemies of the nerd now wanting to be nerds which all nerds no the worse nerd is a pretender nerd. The pretender nerd is barely a casual gamer, someone who by the recent trends of bringing back retro games, and also turning them into live action movies, they can name drop megaman, or centipede, pong, tetris (like who doesn't know tetris) and now suddently think they were all into gaming, though exposed when they think retro is the psone games, we were high on nostalgia of up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right , B, A, and jamming on our Atari 2600. Back then we nerds quite often hid ourselves in underground basement table top games of D&D and Magic the gathering, playing on the best layout of the indestructiable black and white gameboy. We were nerds like being a nerd was the prohibition, we smuggled and hid our lifestyle, trying to fit in not all don't be offended I am speculating bringing light to those of us who rather enjoyed the somewhat exclusivness of our subculture. Now our subculture is on the uprise, and now even the girls who didn't give the nerd the time of day and instead went for the media glorified a**hole dangerous adventure type, now finally understand the media glorified a**hole type, even after feeble attempts of training is still the media glorified a**hole type who will someday be the cubicle number cruncher or at his or her level of compentence ends up the mail clerk to the nerd they picked on K-12. Not juse video games no, the rise in popularity of japanimation now called anime is throuoghly exciting as well. For me my first anime exposure was now becoming a live action movie, Blood the last Vampire, and the infamous Akira (KANEEEEEEEDA!, TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) still to this day no one has offer a satisfactory explanation to this movie, you know its bad when wikipedia just prattles on in the plot to the likes that reveals they can't even unravel its obscurity. So this blog is dedicated to us nerds, noob nerds, uber nerds, and all that inbetween. We are on the uprise, the beauty of the now media glorified nerd is fantastic, we no longer have to pretend to talk about mainstream games, or sports when "The outsiders" come 'round the corner. We can be our dorky, goofy, nerdy, card playing, roleplaying, cosplay wearing (Cosplay girls yes onegai and a big arigatou to that trend uprising, yet that is another post tee-hee) We can play our video games and geek out in all its vast array of entertainment. Now all we need to do is settle this warring states period within our subculture, I will get to that in a later post. What are your comments about our now prescribed coolness and adoption into the world?

Magna Carta (The term shall be coined)

Whether or not you heard of the game, on ps2 there was a JRPG that came out called Magna Carta Tears of blood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reith_(Magna_Carta). This game both I and a friend played, though it had horrible reviews, the reviews for once were sound. The game was beautiful graphic wise, great storyline, it was appealing in every aspect, except one---It's combat system. A system of button presses that at first seemed innovated and fun, but as it went on and got more complex by which even your random encounter wins and losses staked on the painstaking, frustrating combat by which you can only control 1 of the three at anytime party members at a time, the timed button presses literally sapped all the other enjoyable aspects of the game, thus we coined the term "Magna Cartaed". Basically for a game to be "Magna Cartaed" it must fall within the criteria of being awesome in every way except one, and that one thing breaks the entire game from ever being enjoyable to play. So with this first official posts, makes some replies and list and discuss some of the games you played, or seen that were "Magna Cartaed".

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