Got a couple of things to cover here. First is E3 2009.

Microsoft: As usual, Microsoft blew me away with their presentation. The stage looked amazing, they had celebrities, and best of all, they didn't spend a huge amount of time talking about numbers.All the games looked great and the finale, Project Natal, amazed me. Whether Natal/Milo work that well now is not a huge concern to me. I just think that it's great that companies are looking into this technology and now have dev kits to play around with it. Good job Microsoft!

Nintendo: This conference was not as bad as last year, but it was close.The audience was quiet (for whatever reason), the stage didn't pack a punch, and the overall presentation was very dull. This made for a very boring press conference that could have been more exciting because they had a pretty good line up of games.
I am a little worried about Mario Galaxy 2 because it DID look just like the first one, but hopefully there is more to it than just a Galaxy add on.
I hate to jump on the band wagon and say this, but I do think Nintendo is alienating their fanbase. They have focused too much on the casual audience when they should have focused on their Hardcore fanbase and Casual players equally. Nintendo, if you were a person I would slap you to try and knock some sense into you. I miss the old Nintendo!

Sony: Sony's press conference was pretty good. Stage was well set up, the presentation was alright, and there were some great games that were shown. What was a little frustrating is the fact that the PSP Go had already been leaked, so that wasn't a shock. But Final Fantasy XIV was a nice surprise, even though it isa MMO (I might play it) and the motion sensing technology looked really good, although not as good as Natal. But overall, good job Sony!

IN OTHER NEWS...
Lost my wallet in Burger King yesterday, but didn't realise it till today. Went there to eat with Michael (hadn't seen him in a week! lol) and it must have fallen out of my purse. Luckely an elderly ladyturned it in. That's a really bad neighborhood and that wallet had my Social Security card, Drivers license, debit card, and insurance cards in it. Today has been a NIGHTMARE. But at least Michael went back and found it today.

Hope everyone enjoyed E3 and has a great weekend!

So now that I'm working my *** off full time and trying to sqeeze in time with Michael and other daily life bull ****, I have not had time to get on GameSpot. And worst of all, I'm going to miss all 3 live E3 press conferences. So no emblem for me (unless I get a family member to log me on). Please kill me.

Work is going alright, but this was my first week and they tried to make me work this weekend as well. That would have been 7 days working in a row (8-10 hour days). My manager actually ASKED me if I wanted to work that kind of sceadule and I told her no. Apperently someone forgot. But I switched hours with someone so I could have this weekend off. Can not WAIT to start school and start working part time. Don't get me wrong though, I love my job. Just don't want to work 7 days in a row and then get 2 days off and do it all over again.

Anyways, this is why I haven't been on lately. My free time, what little I have, is spent playing the new Shin Megami: Devil Summoner 2 game. It's a great game so far, although I haven't gotten very far.

Hope everyone's weekend is going well. (Wish I could have written a more well written blog, but my mind is in such a fog...sorry lol)

Dreamfall did not take long to finish, which is sad because I loved that game so very much. I did, however, order The Longest Journey for the PC last night. So I'm looking foward to getting that in the mail and finally playing it.
In the meantime I've bought Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2 and I can't wait to start playing it. It's really sad that I love the Shin Megami series, but I've only finished one Shin Megami game (Persona 3). But I'm going to dedicate my gaming time to this one and make sure I finish it.

Anyways, today is my first day at my new job so wish me luck

PS: Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

For the first time in a long while, I've started writing reviews again.
Thankfully, my writing has improved from when I first started writing.

Anyways, make sure to check out my Dreamfall and My Japanese Coach reviews (links below).


^ I gave this game a perfect 10, and I know many may not agree but this is just one of those games that hit me in just the right way and is one of my favorites.


^ This review is a couple weeks old but I still consider it to be pretty new.

Thanks for reading and don't forget to rate. Hopefully I'll post more soon.

Worst Day Ever = Thursday May 15 2009

Last week I was working a temp job cleaning fire/smoke damaged apartments in a REALLY rough neighborhood right here in Columbia. You know a job site is rough when you pass two hookers and multiple drugs deals within a stretch of 3 miles. But anyways, there were 4 apartments. Two on the bottom floor and two on the top floor, and the one on the bottom was the one that caught fire. We cleaned the bottom apartment in a day and a half and I can tell you that the mess I cleaned had ZERO to do with the fire. That was a nasty nasty apartment. Mold, stains, dirty walls, dist about an inch thick, you name it. Luckily we only clean the walls and structure. The apartment on the top floor however was kept very nice by it's owners, but very badly damaged by the smoke. Every surface was covered in black, and the walls looked like something out of a horror movie. They were a dark grey with thick black lines running down. I just stood in the doorway and thought "I do not envy the people who are going to have to clean this...", until I realised that I was one of those people. lol But even though it was hard work, I really enjoyed it. At the end of the day I was covered in soot and my fingers ached but I felt like I accomplished something.

Anyways, onto my firstday at work and the worst day I've suffered in a LONG time.
I had just gottenoff work, which was 8 hours of cleaning in a 80-85degree apartment. I was happy toget off work. Me and the lady I was working with got into the workvan and she drove us back. But on the way back we got into a car accident.It wasn't anything major, but it was enough to scare me (she lain changed, and didn't see another carthere). After that I was just readyto gohome.
I had my mompick me up in my car becausemy mothers car was in the shop and I didn'tknow my way around that side of town. So we about half wayhome, going down the interstate at 70 mph, my car starts to smoke and shuts off. This scared thehell out of me.It was 5o'clock traffic andwe had to jump out on the drivers side which was the safest place to get out because it was right next to the concrete barrier. We got it cranked up and managed to driveto town and drop it off at Herndon Chevy.We knowsome technicians down there and they are great, so I really trust them to find out what is wrong. Andthe guy said he isgoing to go over every inchof the car to make sure nothing else goeswrong.
I was talking to a woman at my temp job and she saidshehad the same model car (except it was a 92) and shehad the exactsame thing happen to her.Her'swas a coil or something like that. Whatever the case, I just want my car back.I'msure the guywho sold it to us had no idea, so I don't blamehim.

Thereis one good thingthat happened that day though. Walgreenscalled and told me to come in for an interview.Sadly I thought I wouldn't be able to make itbecause I was working my tempjob thatsame day she wanted to interview me. But the woman I was working with over heard my conversation and told me she understood and she would tell her boss I was meeting her over at the apartmentswe werecleaning. That wayhe would never know I was 2 hours late. So I went to the interview and she saidoutofall the people she had been interviewing the last coupledaysI was the best and she wanted tohire me. So I got the job even though she wanted someone who could be full time (I'll be working full time until the fall). YAY!! About time. And the job is VERY similar toGameStop, so I don't think it'll take long to get into the groove of things.

Anyways, I hope everyone hashad a great weekend Sorry for the long blog.