So, I replaced the stick, added an extra spring to stiffen it up, and swapped out the buttons.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Non FFXI News
Got my order of joystick parts today! Which means... SE fightstick mod time! Been waiting for this, because I didn't care for the stock Madcatz SE fightstick much. Joystick felt too loose, and buttons didnt feel right.
So, I replaced the stick, added an extra spring to stiffen it up, and swapped out the buttons.
So, I replaced the stick, added an extra spring to stiffen it up, and swapped out the buttons.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Meh
I'm so bummed. So I've spent the last few hours playing SF4, and losing a bunch. I started playing a new mode that was implemented last update patch, called championship mode. It's a new ranking system that is based on 'grade points' as apposed the the old system of 'battle points'. The difference? You earn grade points by competing in 'mini-tournaments' which consist of fighting 3 round: a 1st round, a semi-final round, and final. The further you get, the more points to get. Once you win the final round, you're the champion of that 'tourney' and you start all over again.
What originally impressed me about this system was that there was no penalty for losing. If you lose, you gain less grade points, but you still gained! In the ranked matches with battle points, you'd lose points for every loss you had... I hated that. With championship mode, no more losing points, they're yours to keep! Whoohoo! Another way of looking at it, for those of us that are rpg fanatics, is that you get xp for playing. The more you play, the more xp you get, and then rank up.
Now the ranking system goes like this. There's 4 (maybe 5) tiers, and in each tier there are ranks A-E, E being lowest and where everyone starts out. All was well when I started, winning some, losing some, but it was fun. I've since ranked up enough to move onto tier 2, and now getting raped :/ Each 'tourney' now consists of 4 rounds, and the quality of players have gone up exponentially. The farthest I've gotten is to the 3rd round, then I lose. More often than not, I lose on the 1st round... and you get no points for that... sadness. At least in tier 1, you get 1 point for losing in the first round :( Maybe I'll blame my losing streak on the dualshock 3 and not having a joystick :(
Hmm, in other news... I've played through Valkyria Chronicles twice (once with the New Game+ option) and A ranked all missions but the Hard mode skirmishes. Bought 2/3 of the dlc, and beat those. Selvaria's missions was way better than Edy's story, way better. Played Godfather 2 and beat it. Though not the greatest game, it had some fun moments and I was able to get the game for cheap since a friend works at EA, and actually worked on the game.
Still no itch to play FFXI, and I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever come back to it. I've been enjoying my time away from it. The freedom that comes with that is priceless. I don't have to worry about logging in at any given time, then committing to hours on end to doing some event. I get to be freeeeeeeee (and slack) =D. It gives me a little more freedom to be spontaneous on how I spend my day. If my friend calls me up asking to hang out, I don't have to think twice about it due to some event scheduling. If I feel like watching a movie, tv show, playing PS3 with a friend, same deal. I do miss hanging out with AP'ers though, and miss doing this
I hope someone else has kept the /dance going in my absence. If this pic is any indication, maybe Con has! I'll keep my grubby little fingers crossed. Another thing I missed is that I don't listen to as much music as I used to while playing FFXI. I always had my winamp going and my game music off, and now not so much. I still somewhat keep up with trance, but I haven't been listening to much else in term of different genres.
Tune of the Moment: Gareth Emery - Exposure
What originally impressed me about this system was that there was no penalty for losing. If you lose, you gain less grade points, but you still gained! In the ranked matches with battle points, you'd lose points for every loss you had... I hated that. With championship mode, no more losing points, they're yours to keep! Whoohoo! Another way of looking at it, for those of us that are rpg fanatics, is that you get xp for playing. The more you play, the more xp you get, and then rank up.
Now the ranking system goes like this. There's 4 (maybe 5) tiers, and in each tier there are ranks A-E, E being lowest and where everyone starts out. All was well when I started, winning some, losing some, but it was fun. I've since ranked up enough to move onto tier 2, and now getting raped :/ Each 'tourney' now consists of 4 rounds, and the quality of players have gone up exponentially. The farthest I've gotten is to the 3rd round, then I lose. More often than not, I lose on the 1st round... and you get no points for that... sadness. At least in tier 1, you get 1 point for losing in the first round :( Maybe I'll blame my losing streak on the dualshock 3 and not having a joystick :(
Hmm, in other news... I've played through Valkyria Chronicles twice (once with the New Game+ option) and A ranked all missions but the Hard mode skirmishes. Bought 2/3 of the dlc, and beat those. Selvaria's missions was way better than Edy's story, way better. Played Godfather 2 and beat it. Though not the greatest game, it had some fun moments and I was able to get the game for cheap since a friend works at EA, and actually worked on the game.
Still no itch to play FFXI, and I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever come back to it. I've been enjoying my time away from it. The freedom that comes with that is priceless. I don't have to worry about logging in at any given time, then committing to hours on end to doing some event. I get to be freeeeeeeee (and slack) =D. It gives me a little more freedom to be spontaneous on how I spend my day. If my friend calls me up asking to hang out, I don't have to think twice about it due to some event scheduling. If I feel like watching a movie, tv show, playing PS3 with a friend, same deal. I do miss hanging out with AP'ers though, and miss doing this
I hope someone else has kept the /dance going in my absence. If this pic is any indication, maybe Con has! I'll keep my grubby little fingers crossed. Another thing I missed is that I don't listen to as much music as I used to while playing FFXI. I always had my winamp going and my game music off, and now not so much. I still somewhat keep up with trance, but I haven't been listening to much else in term of different genres.
Tune of the Moment: Gareth Emery - Exposure
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Life without FFXI so far
These post are pretty few and far between... /slacks.
From the sound of things I'm not missing much in FFXI, and so far I'm not missing playing it much either. It's been a little over a half a month since deactivating and I'm getting by just fine without it. I've been keeping myself busy with other stuff~
I'm mainly playing PS3, and still trying to keep up with TV shows. PS3-wise, it's been a transition from Killzone2 > Street Fighter 4 > Valkyria Chronicles, with some CoD5 Nazi Zombie mode thrown in there randomly when my friend wants to play. Been a while since I've focused on console gaming, but I find it more relaxing now since I don't have to worry about keeping my hardware up to date. Games will continue to run no matter what on PS3, whereas I used to routinely upgrade my vid card in my PC >.>
Street Fighter 4 has been pretty fun and had a lot more replay value than I thought. I'm semi-obsessed with collecting trophies on the PS3, and there's plenty for SF4. They made me want to play through arcade repeatedly with each character and unlock them all. Then there's Time Attack and Survival mode where I just had to keep playing to unlock all additional 8 colors for each char, which also awards trophies~ =D And lastly there's online play, which for any game adds a ton of replay value. I started to try my luck with ranked matches, which use a point system to track how well you do. For the most part, it's fun trying to get my rank increased... though it sucks losing since you lose points too! At one point I got up to 2300 battle points, then went on a big losing streak due to changing characters from Guile to Rufus. As much as I like winning (with Guile), it was getting a little boring and it was nice trying someone new... even if it cost me a bunch of points D=
But lately I haven't played much of SF4 due to picking up Valkyria Chronicles at GameStop for $29.99. It's a steal at that price, but the downside I ended up supporting GameStop which I've grown to dislike in recent years. One of the reasons is due to this one of it's policies that sometimes sells used games as new. I've known that practice existed a while ago, when EBGames was around, when I knew someone that worked there. He used to barrow games from them and then reshrink wrap them and sell as new. I've suspected this practice has carried over to GameStop after the two companies merged, and now seems like it's kinda public knowledge now. Shady GameStop. I also hate how everytime I go into the store I get harassed about trading in my used games or how I should pre-order a game with them. If I wanted to be hassled about buying something, I'd go walk onto a car lot! I just want a game, leave me alone! And I find it strangely suspicious that everytime I go in there to buy a game, and this happens to my friends too, that they always seem just to have 'one last copy'. Are they trained to say that!? I can recall that at least the past times I've asked if they had a game (FFXI WotG, ToA, FFT for PSP) they said it was the last copy.
But anyways, Valk Chronicles was a good buy and turned out to be more fun than I expected. Although I'm still working on it, I do hope that they do make a sequal to it. It has a very anime feel to it (no surprise they eventally made a series out of it), and put a new spin on strategy RPG. Guess I'm a little more open to shooter RPGs after playing Fallout 3. One complaint I have against the game is that I think it's pretty easy. On most levels you can get buy without very much strategy. Most of my losses were my own fault trying to get the level done in as little turns as possible. But if you take your time and not worry about beating it fast, it's near impossible to lose a map.
I've been slacking on TV. I've been keeping up to date only on a handful of shows right now, although I've downloaded others so I can catch up later. I've lost interested in Terminator and Dollhouse and at least 5+ episodes behind on both. For me, a needs to either be story driven or character driven to keep me interested enough to keep watching and both of these shows in my opinion are lacking both aspects. Story driven meaning that there needs to be a central underlying storyline across the episodes. Self contained episodes are fine, but a shows also needs a main storyline. If they don't have that, at least make the character(s) interesting, like House.
Terminator I'm just downright annoyed by John Connor's character. He's just so whinny! Storywise, I lost all interest. There doesn't seem to be any focus and nothing that I would care to keep watching for. I heard that the series does pick up so I'm building my queue so I can get around to it later. I do hope it gets better. Dollhouse also was a bit of a letdown. I've like past Joss Whedon stuff, Buffy and Angel namely, and am a fan of Eliza Dushku, anyone heard of Tru Calling? Didn't think so, it didn't last too long >.> I'm only 3 episodes in, but I don't care enough about either the story or the characters at this point. But I'm still downloading those too.
That's enough rambling for now, until next time <.<;
Tune of the Moment: Nadia Ali - Love Story
From the sound of things I'm not missing much in FFXI, and so far I'm not missing playing it much either. It's been a little over a half a month since deactivating and I'm getting by just fine without it. I've been keeping myself busy with other stuff~
I'm mainly playing PS3, and still trying to keep up with TV shows. PS3-wise, it's been a transition from Killzone2 > Street Fighter 4 > Valkyria Chronicles, with some CoD5 Nazi Zombie mode thrown in there randomly when my friend wants to play. Been a while since I've focused on console gaming, but I find it more relaxing now since I don't have to worry about keeping my hardware up to date. Games will continue to run no matter what on PS3, whereas I used to routinely upgrade my vid card in my PC >.>
Street Fighter 4 has been pretty fun and had a lot more replay value than I thought. I'm semi-obsessed with collecting trophies on the PS3, and there's plenty for SF4. They made me want to play through arcade repeatedly with each character and unlock them all. Then there's Time Attack and Survival mode where I just had to keep playing to unlock all additional 8 colors for each char, which also awards trophies~ =D And lastly there's online play, which for any game adds a ton of replay value. I started to try my luck with ranked matches, which use a point system to track how well you do. For the most part, it's fun trying to get my rank increased... though it sucks losing since you lose points too! At one point I got up to 2300 battle points, then went on a big losing streak due to changing characters from Guile to Rufus. As much as I like winning (with Guile), it was getting a little boring and it was nice trying someone new... even if it cost me a bunch of points D=
But lately I haven't played much of SF4 due to picking up Valkyria Chronicles at GameStop for $29.99. It's a steal at that price, but the downside I ended up supporting GameStop which I've grown to dislike in recent years. One of the reasons is due to this one of it's policies that sometimes sells used games as new. I've known that practice existed a while ago, when EBGames was around, when I knew someone that worked there. He used to barrow games from them and then reshrink wrap them and sell as new. I've suspected this practice has carried over to GameStop after the two companies merged, and now seems like it's kinda public knowledge now. Shady GameStop. I also hate how everytime I go into the store I get harassed about trading in my used games or how I should pre-order a game with them. If I wanted to be hassled about buying something, I'd go walk onto a car lot! I just want a game, leave me alone! And I find it strangely suspicious that everytime I go in there to buy a game, and this happens to my friends too, that they always seem just to have 'one last copy'. Are they trained to say that!? I can recall that at least the past times I've asked if they had a game (FFXI WotG, ToA, FFT for PSP) they said it was the last copy.
But anyways, Valk Chronicles was a good buy and turned out to be more fun than I expected. Although I'm still working on it, I do hope that they do make a sequal to it. It has a very anime feel to it (no surprise they eventally made a series out of it), and put a new spin on strategy RPG. Guess I'm a little more open to shooter RPGs after playing Fallout 3. One complaint I have against the game is that I think it's pretty easy. On most levels you can get buy without very much strategy. Most of my losses were my own fault trying to get the level done in as little turns as possible. But if you take your time and not worry about beating it fast, it's near impossible to lose a map.
I've been slacking on TV. I've been keeping up to date only on a handful of shows right now, although I've downloaded others so I can catch up later. I've lost interested in Terminator and Dollhouse and at least 5+ episodes behind on both. For me, a needs to either be story driven or character driven to keep me interested enough to keep watching and both of these shows in my opinion are lacking both aspects. Story driven meaning that there needs to be a central underlying storyline across the episodes. Self contained episodes are fine, but a shows also needs a main storyline. If they don't have that, at least make the character(s) interesting, like House.
Terminator I'm just downright annoyed by John Connor's character. He's just so whinny! Storywise, I lost all interest. There doesn't seem to be any focus and nothing that I would care to keep watching for. I heard that the series does pick up so I'm building my queue so I can get around to it later. I do hope it gets better. Dollhouse also was a bit of a letdown. I've like past Joss Whedon stuff, Buffy and Angel namely, and am a fan of Eliza Dushku, anyone heard of Tru Calling? Didn't think so, it didn't last too long >.> I'm only 3 episodes in, but I don't care enough about either the story or the characters at this point. But I'm still downloading those too.
That's enough rambling for now, until next time <.<;
Tune of the Moment: Nadia Ali - Love Story
Saturday, March 28, 2009
It's Time ...
After another month of re-evaluating where I stood with FFXI, I've decided to deactivate my account for a bit. It's been a month since my last post and, if anything, my feelings about FFXI got worse. I was less inclined to do stuff this month than last month. I've only really logged in to do Limbus. I think I really decided half way through March, but wasn't 100% sure about it until now.
The thing is, I don't have anything against the game, it's just that I don't have the urge to play as I used to. There used to be a time when I would think about FFXI alot... an almost unhealthy amount. I'd be at work looking things up on wiki, thinking about what I would do as soon as I get home and get online. I'd have FFXI on the brain most of the time... and now, nothing. No motivation to play whatsoever.
One reason that might be to blame for the lack of motivation is increased PS3 time. From previous posts, I mentioned games I was playing, then early this month was Killzone 2. I played it alot for the first two weeks, even to the point where I got a game medal for being in the top 3% of players that week X.x (recognition goes to the top 1, 3, 6, and 10 percent weekly). But I've gotten to the point where my play time has significantly been reduced, but still no urge to play FFXI any more.
The other part of my time is split with TV now. I'm pretty far behind in shows and I find myself just watching random shows and random episodes here and there of whatever is on. I find that more appealing that FFXI still =/ Sadness. I'm hoping that will change as summer rolls around and TV shows are on break.
At the moment, I'm thinking 1-2 month break would be nice... gives me time to possibly start missing the game, and maybe enough to draw me back to it. That should be around the May/June time frame. When that time rolls around, I'll re-evaluate things once again. Though the timing might be bad, as my goal for this summer is to move out and buy my own place... and I forsee the search process taking some time... we'll see.
As always I'll be on AIM still... and probably PS3 =P
The thing is, I don't have anything against the game, it's just that I don't have the urge to play as I used to. There used to be a time when I would think about FFXI alot... an almost unhealthy amount. I'd be at work looking things up on wiki, thinking about what I would do as soon as I get home and get online. I'd have FFXI on the brain most of the time... and now, nothing. No motivation to play whatsoever.
One reason that might be to blame for the lack of motivation is increased PS3 time. From previous posts, I mentioned games I was playing, then early this month was Killzone 2. I played it alot for the first two weeks, even to the point where I got a game medal for being in the top 3% of players that week X.x (recognition goes to the top 1, 3, 6, and 10 percent weekly). But I've gotten to the point where my play time has significantly been reduced, but still no urge to play FFXI any more.
The other part of my time is split with TV now. I'm pretty far behind in shows and I find myself just watching random shows and random episodes here and there of whatever is on. I find that more appealing that FFXI still =/ Sadness. I'm hoping that will change as summer rolls around and TV shows are on break.
At the moment, I'm thinking 1-2 month break would be nice... gives me time to possibly start missing the game, and maybe enough to draw me back to it. That should be around the May/June time frame. When that time rolls around, I'll re-evaluate things once again. Though the timing might be bad, as my goal for this summer is to move out and buy my own place... and I forsee the search process taking some time... we'll see.
As always I'll be on AIM still... and probably PS3 =P
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