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On September 24th I began Final Fantasy IV.  Currently I’m a little over seven hours into the game, and already this story is a vast improvement over FFIII.  This story sucks me in and doesn’t let go.  I love it.  This is not my first play through this game, but I’m about caught up to where I was before.  I have a habit of not finishing things.  Which is why this mission has been set for myself.

So, Cecil is the protagonist, and, so far, my favorite lead for any final fantasy game.  He has his love interest, Rosa. Who is our White Mage, but gets kidnapped by Cecil’s best friend turned evil, Kain.  We have met Rydia, who is the most adorable little Summoner ever, Tellah, Palom & Porom, Yang, Edward, and of course Cid through our journeys this far.

Honestly, I don’t even feel like I’ve put seven hours into this game already.  I feel like I’m at the tip of the iceberg, and I’m sure I am.  I’ve told multiple people, I don’t care how long this game takes me because the story is already enchanting.  That is something I haven’t found yet in my journeys through I, II, and III.

As always, I will keep you posted as the journey continues!

Oh yeah… Palom and Porom…  -sniffles-

Finally!  After 38 grueling hours this game has finally been defeated!  Thank you everyone who put up with my complaining and crying about about terrible of a game it was!

Now let me tell you a story:

I have face the final boss, the Cloud of Darkness, three times now.  Count it, 3.  This first time it was clearly obvious that I wasn’t a high enough level.  So I ran around the previous dungeon and gained 10 levels.  Seriously.  It took forever.  The second time was a stupid mistake on my part.  I was only half paying attention because there was something good on tv and instead of having my white mage heal she defended.  Yeah, stupid.  So the entire party was destroyed the next turn.  After this I went through the last dungeon and gained a few more levels before facing her the third, and final, time.

This game was such a headache.  I’m absolutely certain that if the story were more involved I would have had no problem with the 30+ hours of game play.  Just the fact that a good 10 hours of that is solid grinding without actually moving the story forward says a lot for the difficulty.

But, it’s over now!  I have moved on to the greener pastures of FFIV!

Mostly this is my lack of motivation to play the game.  I’m sitting around 21 hours into the game.  I have 10 boss battles left.  That’s it, 10!  And  quite a few of those are actually in the same dungeon.  So if I sat down and just put some time into the game I would be able to finish it and move on to greener pastures.

So what’s holding me back?  What’s keeping me from continuing my quest?  The grinding!  The constant requirement to run around the world of Final Fantasy III and level two or three more levels before heading to the next dungeon.  I know where I need to go.  All the major plot points have been taken care of, but I must waste more and more of my precious time leveling before I have any glimpse of a change of beating the next boss.

I’m not going to say I hate FF3, because I don’t.  It’s impossible for me to hate anything created by Square Enix.  I can dislike it.  It can make me angry, but I will never, never ever, hate any of the Final Fantasy worlds.

The plan is to finally defeat the game by the end of the weekend.  Wish me luck!

Today I was on a mission, and not the same mission I’ve been fighting for months now.  No no.  This one I’ve actually completed…  For the time being.

See, over the last couple of days the boyfriend has been hogging the 360.  This isn’t a bad thing.  I got some writing done for GeeksofUnusualSize, played a bit of Final Fantasy III, and played some more Sims 3.  So I had plenty to do, but the whole while he was playing I wanted nothing more than to play something on the PS2.  Persona 3?  Maybe…  Most likely, but there’s plenty more also.  As my roommate pointed out while I was halfway through the mission was that I could’ve simply walked downstairs and played anything I wanted without interfering with the boyfriend’s 360 time.  I, of course, didn’t think about this.  I spend most of my time in my room when I’m home.  That’s where all my fun is.  So, after a quick jaunt to Best Buy I came home with a VGA adapter of the 360, an additional surge protector, and a new wireless keyboard and mouse.  The old one died on me this morning.  /sadface

Without further ado here are a few pictures to help explain!

This is the first view, from left to right.  The DVD shelf with speaker and black sheep on top, and the TV.  And yes, that is Family Guy on the TV.

The TV with gaming consoles.  XBox 360 and PS2.  I’m thinking about hijacking the roommates GameCube since it’s hiding away in the closet…  Wireless PS2 controller and pink 360 controller.  Along with the netbook.

Pictures three is the rest of the netbook, the DVD player which is also the surround sound for the 360 and the PC monitor showing the Sims 3

And the last picture!  The Diet Coke can and the other surround sound speaker.  The best part of this is the mirror.  I can watch the TV via the mirror while I’m gaming.  It’s fantastic!  Don’t miss the pink DS and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows on top of the PC!

So there you go!  I’m actually kind of excited about it now!  Especially if I do bring the GameCube up.  I think the worst part is I was watching Californication via streaming Netflix earlier today…  But instead of watching it on the 360 through the TV or on the PC I watched it on the 360 through the monitor.  After a few episodes I had to ask myself why.  I decided it was justified since the VGA adapter is a new toy.  lol!

So that was my Sunday afternoon.  The funny part about the whole thing is we’ll have the office finished soon, and the PC won’t even be in my room after that.  At least it’ll be easier to transport the 360 if I choose to do so.  ^_^

I’m still plugging away at this one.  With life and other games getting in the way I’m finding it hard to commit any decent amount of time to this one.  I’m enjoying it.  I’ve just made my Warrior and Red Mage both Knights.  My Black Mage is still going strong, and my White Mage is now a Scholar due to the next boss I’m going to be facing.

I’m roughly 10 hours in.  Which means, as previously stated, I haven’t gotten too much farther.  I think my goal of having the first 6 finished by the end of August is ruined.  Stupid sleep getting in the way of gaming time!

I am finding I have to run around grinding for leaves a bit more in this one than in the previous 2, but that’s okay.  It still hasn’t been too bad.

This is all for now.  As always, stay tuned.  There is always more to come!

This is the first post of what might be many to come involving Sims 3.  I’m introducing you, today, to the Sim versions of me and the significant other.  My poor Sim does have the unfortunate problem of being knocked up… but that’s apparently what happens when you go “Whoohoo” in the bedtime place.  lol!  This first picture you see is of our glorious brand spanking new built house.  Yes, I used the cheat for lots of money.  No, I will not be using it for any other Sims I may create.  I just thought that my Sim should be able to live in the lap of luxury that I cannot.  More images behind the cut.  I was nice and made them thumbnails so as to not take forever to load.

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The past few days I’ve been feeling a little overloaded with gaming information and games that I’m currently playing.  With E3 finally over there is plenty to catch up on.  To clarify, I will not be posting an entry about E3, you can find them everywhere.  It was a lot of information, though not anything I’m really finding myself wetting my pants over.  I’ve decided I’m trying to play too many games at once.  Between my Final Fantasy mission and Puzzle Quest I was starting to feel a little overwhelmed, and now I’ve added Sims 3 to the mix.  Even before Sims 3 I had Henry Hatsworth and Rhythm Heaven to play as well.  It’s been quite some time since I’ve felt like I’ve had too many games to play and not enough time to play them.

Yesterday I woke up and instantly wanted to play Sims 3, but I knew deep down that I needed to make some progress in Final Fantasy 3 before I sat my buttocks in front of the monitor to spend hours upon hours living the lives of my Sims.  Upon this realization I’ve decided I need some sort of schedule for my gaming.  I have previous entries about not being able to manage time for gaming around real life.  I’ve finally found a happy place for this.  Now I’m having a hard time dividing what time I do have for gaming between games.  It always seems I’m searching for more time, but I’m unwilling to give up my beautiful eight or nine hours of sleep a night for this quest.  The boyfriend has become addicted to Puzzle Quest so on the nights he comes over I’ll usually find myself playing FF3, but now I have Sims 3 to entertain me as well.  How do I decide which to play?  This question may take a week or two to really get the answer to.  This week is going to be the test.  I’ll play Sims 3 tonight, and possibly tomorrow night.  Wednesday night will be FF3.  Thursday night is typically board games with friends, but a few of them will be away on vacation so I’ll have Thursday night for whatever gaming I feel like doing.  Friday and the remainder of the weekend will probably be a little of both.  Puzzle Quest and the others will most likely be put aside until my Final Fantasy quest has been completed.  The sooner it is finished, the sooner I can play more!

On a not very related note, you can look forward to Sims 3 updates about my families with tons of pictures!  :D  I’m hoping to have the first one up before the end of the week!

And as always, stay tuned!

Now that Final Fantasy II is finally over I can focus on the next in the series.  Final Fantasy III of course!  :P  I’m playing the DS version and really enjoying the 3D graphics and additional features not previously released.  I’m not really familiar with the original for this one so I can’t really compare, but I am enjoying the experience.  I’m about 8 hours in after a week and a half of playing.  Which is actually really good for me right now seeing as how real life has been interfering more than normal.  -glares at real life-

I find it interesting that I’ve had to use spells like mini and toad to actually advance to specific parts of the game.  I’m also enjoying that I can change my class at any time.  Granted I have to start from scratch when I switch to a new class, but the more I build on it the better it gets.  So along with the characters leveling themselves their classes level with them.  Right now I’m running a group with a Warrior, Black Mage, White Mage, and Red Mage.  Yes, I’m a fan of the magic casting classes.  Though I have been told the Red Mage because a little useless down the road.  I plan on playing some of the more obscure classes as I find them.  The Scholar for example.  It just sounds like fun!

To recap, I’m enjoying this Final Fantasy game more than the previous one and, most likely, more than the first.  We shall see as I progress.  As always, stay tuned!  There will be more to come!

So I’m developing an obsession with pink electronics.  (See picture)  This obsession is extremely entertaining considering I absolutely hated the color pink when I was a kid.  Now, for whatever reason, I adore the color.  Could it be I’m finally accepting my girly roots?  Maybe?  Or maybe it’s because pink electronics are finally being release and they’re just so gosh darn cute!!  Either way, I can’t get enough of them.  My latest acquisition was the netbook.  She is currently out of commission due to idiocy on my part, but soon enough she will be back up and running at better than full strength!  I’m going to be upgrading the memory finally.

The DS was my first pink gadget acquisition, and probably my favorite.  If they release a pink DSi stateside I will not be able to resist.  The controller came second, then the phone, and obviously the netbook last.

These are just a few of my favorite things.  Sorry for the girly moment.  :P

Thank sweet baby Jesus this game is over!  I can almost guarantee that I will be saying this is my least favorite of the first six games.  The leveling system is absurd, and the story leaves much to be desired.  I could tell I was getting into it at one point, but it just couldn’t hold my attention.

I spent 24 hours and 52 minutes playing this game, and it took me 2 weeks longer than I had anticipated.  I had been planning on clearing a game a month.  I’m a little behind schedule, but still pushing through.  Final Fantasy III was started Wednesday shortly after I finished II.

I really don’t have much more to say about this game.  I’m glad I’ve completed it, but I can safely say I’ll never play it again.  As always, keep checking back!  I know the updates have been sparse, but real life gets in the way sometimes.