Hello, Destructoid ! I would've posted a blog sooner, but what with the whole birthday love going around I'd figure I'd wait. As it turns out I was right. Also, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY NIERO! Now that I got that out of the way, as the title of this blog entails, as I was browsing YouTube out of boredom an hour ago, I found the entire soundtrack for BlazBlue Continuum Shift and gave it a listen and its AWESOME. I (unfortunately) never played Calamity Trigger myself, but I plan on getting Continuum Shift ( read:not be an idiot ) Here's some of the music I found for your listening pleasure Enjoy




Sounds like something outta Guilty Gear XX





Classy, with a dash of Im'ma beat yo ass




Play this in the background, and your urge to troll will increase tenfold



Hope you liked it and Thank you for allowing me to waste your time !

Note: I know this is decidedly Hazama focused but can you blame me he seems badass !




Micheal Jackson would've been proud

Blastoise is like a TANK.





These are NOT my words, I swear


Tanks have armor, Blastoise's shell is like armor

Tanks are slow, but Blastoise is slow ON LAND

Tanks are feared for their raw,destructive power. Blastoise is feared for the fact that he's a

GIANT MOTHER-LOVING TURTLE

And to top it all off, THEY GOT CANNONS MOTHER EFFAS !
These reasons are why Blastoise is the best Pokemon ever. Do no dispute these facts, for they are SCIENCE !


To apologize for the Tank picture




P.S I'll set up a proper C-blog later to make up for this

Here's to one year, and many more

Sh!t, it has been a while since I did one of these, my last one was *checks last entry* Sweet Fudgemonkeys, in August. Oh well, better late than never I suppose. I haven't written a c-blog in such a long while because I haven't had anything smart, witty and/or funny say, and I'm still kind of anti-social. But As I've seen the site grow over the last year, I really didn't get involved until 2 months ago. Since I feel like I'm in a reminiscing mood, I could give you a recap assuming you haven't clicked on something else, so, WIGGLY SCREEN EFFECT ACTIVATE !

I found Destructoid through GameTrailers when they started to post Hey Ash Watcha Playin' on the front page. After seeing the episode on Left 4 Dead, I was sold on it and kept watching. I noticed the website's address at the bottom of the screen so I typed it in and the rest is history right ? Nope there's more to my origin story than that, and here it is. I originally used to frequent 1up.com because I freakin' loved the place and it will forever hold a special place in my gaming heart for one reason : Greenspeak made me care about video games again. I say this because I was at a point in my life that I was starting to grow away from the medium and was a little embarrassed to admit that I liked games. I was about to pack it in forever, but my brother showed me the Greenspeak article in either GFW or EGM ( can't remember which one), I don't remember the gist of it, but it was both hilarious and insightful.

It single handedly reignited my love of gaming and got to start frequenting their website until...The Day of Reckoning. It was around this time last year, and when I found out about UGO buying 1up, I kinda got scared, and rightly so. I learned of the layoffs and it meant no more 1up FM or 1up Show, which I was using to cope for the loss of GFW Radio ( which was awesome, and if you find a torrent I highly recommend you download it ). I'm still kinda hurtin' but *slaps self in the face with a trout* , okay starting to get a little emo, needless to say, I found Destructoid's Podcasts and while not as good as GFW Radio, were awesome in their own way. More on that later.



Good Night Sweet Prince


Now for a list of reasons as to why I stay here:

Friday Night Fights: This stretches back to the start of my stint here, hell this is how I got the bulk of my friends list on PSN. Now that I've graduated participant to host, shit is just even more fun. Funny little story from last night: I was playin' Modern Warfare 2 with the gents and Elsa, I was in a random fervor because Black Nexus wouldn't stop doing "Marco Polo" whenever he sniped me. When I finally killed him I said "You just got Falcon raped". Thankfully Y0j1mb0 wasn't there to hear it or he never would've let me live it down. They made fun of me for the rest of the night. Its stuff like that is why I love you guys.

Podcasts: As you've probably already figured out, I loved the old 1up podcasts and have been looking of a good replacement. Podtiod is good ( Especially 129 ), but Failcast is just awesome because they focus on the community...and bash Necros which is hilarious, same with 321GoCast, and please come back Retoforce GO! Sorry for not being in-depth, lost my train of thought

IRC: Is the shit, and you should all try to get in because some of the shit that goes down in there is awesome and Hilarious.

Well, as you can tell, I'm running out of shit to say, so I now leave you with some Queen




PS: Thank You for allowing me to waste your time !

What's Poppin' DToid ? For those who don't know I'm FalconReaper. For those that have been wondering where I've been, I'll get back to you guys. For those that don't care, why the heck are you reading this when you could be doing something more worthwhile with your time? Oh, right, reason why I've pretty much been invisible on the c-blogs for over a month, I failed 12th grade English. I pretty much fail for mentioning that, I mean how can you fail one of the easiest subjects in the school curriculum? Laziness on my part, also had to go to summer school, blah, blah, blah. OK, I'm getting sidetracked.

In the one month span between my last blog and now, a lot of shit went down. Namely, the release of Dtoid favorite BlazBlue, which is awesome and started something of a Renaissance for fighting games as of late, the impending release of Marvel vs Capcom 2 on PSN, and me having an epiphany about what I want to be doing for the rest of my life somewhere down the line with a movie worthy heartfelt moment with a family member crammed in for good measure. Also, my brother got a MacBook Pro and a free iPod Touch. And since he needs it for school, he let me have his computer for the next year. But I've also been playing a shit ton of games at that, and now that the random life update is over on to the more exciting gaming update.


What Games I've been Playing

Super Punch-Out!!



Three of the Toughest Bastards I've ever faced

I've never been much of a boxing fan myself ( mostly because when I tried to go against my brother, I typically wussed out), but you don't really need much knowledge of the sport to have a ton of fun with this game. It basically improves upon the formula, without changing what made it great in the first place. More crazy characters? Check. New Gameplay Elements? Check. Hard as Hell ? You'd bet your Lobster Milkshake on it, pal ! With a challenge popping up as early the 2nd half of the Minor Circuit, I was impressed and frustrated with the amount of patterns needed to topple the opponents and if you are lucky, this might happen



Owned.


Golden Sun

One Word: Epic.

I love this game. Its as simple as that. Its got every thing you want in a great RPG. It has a good story, good characters, an awesome battle system, great music and it looked great to boot. One of the best parts was the Djinn System. You see, the Djinn are these elemental spirits that give you all these sweet powers and could be mixed and matched to make different classes and magic. Short form : they're basically a cross between Pokemon and the Espers from Final Fantasy 6. I say this because they have to be found throughout the world and they also let you use summons, some of which are awesome like Thor. Yes, you can summon the frakking Norse God of Thunder to waste your enemies.

OK, I'm obviously playing much more than this but my memory is drawing a blank, so I'm stopping, hope you appreciated the read and Thank you for allowing me to waste you time.



Also, does anyone else think this sounds like Japanese Death Metal with English lyrics?

As a worthy opponent

Howdy. For those of you who have been keeping tabs on me (that would only be two or three of you), I've decided to forgo this week's Boss Files( My C-Blog Series) in favor of re-honing my skills ( or lack thereof ) in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix. In the past, I've battled both Haxan and Y0j1mb0 ( with limited success ), and now that I've got a few victories under my belt, I felt that it was high time to see what Destructoid has to offer. I'll be taking any and all challengers of all skill levels under a few conditions :

1. You need to have a PSN ID ( 360 red-ringed)

2. You gotta have the game ( obviously )

3. If you want to challenge me, send me a message through PSN. My PSN ID is FalconReaper ( spelled like this)

Those are the only conditions I've got for my challenge. I'll be available from 7-9 pm EST and all day on weekends for the month.

That's all for the challenge and I'll see you on the battlefields !


Pic unrelated, but awesome in my book

P.S Thank you for allowing me to waste your time !

Hola. There comes a time in every gamer's life where they gotta admit they're afraid of something. I myself am no different. In fact, I think I might as well be the biggest coward I know, because I (figuratively) almost shat myself when confronted with Bald Bull ( See last entry), and now I got a few new problems of my own.

To be honest I could tell you guys how Mr.Sandman gave me trouble in Super Punch Out !! or spend the next hour and a half bitching about how Aran Ryan is the biggest douchebag I've ever had the displeasure of going toe to toe with, I'm gonna get nostalgic on everybody's asses this week and recount an experience I had with one my favorite games of last year Dead Space. ALSO, SPOILERS

You know I'll be honest with you guys, the Survival-Horror genre of games has never really been my can of soda. I myself am more accustomed staring my enemies in the eye and pray they don't shove weapon down my throat ( or other less wholesome and more painful orifices if you catch my drift). The other, less retarded reason is the fact that I don't take sheer balls-to-the-wall mind fuckery very well, which is the main reason why I've avoided the Silent Hill series like the plague. Okay, the exposition been going on for too long, let's get started.

The set up for the Dead Space monstrosity I'm talking about tonight kiddies goes as such. You are Engineer Issac Clarke ( a clever reference to two of my favorite sci fi authors). You've been told by your incredibly bitchy computer expert that The Necromorphs ( the undead monster things that are on the ship) have created a habitability change that's good for them and bad for everything else. The origin of the of: the Food Storage container in the Hydroponics deck of the ship. She has you go back to the godforsaken Medical Deck of the ship and create a poison the kill the organism that moved into Hydroponics. When your about to do that, you run into friendly neighborhood psycho Doctor Challus Mercer. Think Father Grigori from Hal-Life 2, except crazier, and not trying to help you, oh and he also sicks a mutant Necromorph after you.

Boss: The Hunter


To be perfectly honest, I first felt sorry for the dumb freak of nature. It's basically the result of Mercer's tissue regeneration experiments and the Necromorph infection hitting a live human being ( as indicated in the audio log where you hear the poor bastard screaming in the background), but that still didn't give it the excuse to try and gut me. As you can probably tell, it has the ability to regrow its lost limbs when dismembered. This is the first time the game tells you that running the fuck away is a viable option for survival this time ( as well as using the "idiot button"). It not a conventional battle in he sense that you fight it, but more like it stalks you for the whole level while you try to do your objectives.



As annoying as this sounds, try doing it while there's no oxygen, got multiple enemies on your tail, and have limited health. After being chased for a bit, you pretty much get the idea to lure the thing to the cryo storage room and freeze it solid, but Mercer being the resourceful bastard he is, thaws it out and sends it after you again. Soon, you'll just be saying fuck it and try to kill it...like this



Yeah, you're gonna gonna kill it by disintegrating it with the shuttle's test thruster, thus killing it faster than the stupid thing can regenerate. The end result of it is a pile of ashes and a power node for your troubles.

That's It for now. I managed to get all of my exams done (aka 12th grade is hard ) so you are gonna be seeing a lot more of me around here in the near future

P.S Thank You for allowing me to waste your time