ACCENT CORE!!11!

Sometimes I wonder why am I at home sitting in front of my computer idling.
Sometimes I wonder why am I listening to my boring lecturers droning nonsense in school.
Sometimes I wonder why am I walking away from Bugis Junction, away from ACCENT CORE?!

Just days ago, I was feeling tired of dagaming (the haircut thing as a lame cover up). I really felt tired, burnout after 3 years of it. I don’t feel like killing and I don’t feel like wasting money either. In CVS2, I keep seeing the same people, the same shit, the same characters and the same tricks. I can’t picture myself throwing tokens like a Johnny anymore for CVS2. Furthermore, I find GGXX’s elements way more interesting than CVS2.

So maybe I instinctively channeled everything to GGXX. The feeling of waiting for AC stinks badly. I won’t do a writeup over it. It’s really sad to watch SLASH videos to keep myself updated to SLASH so that I can play in Singapore instead of Accent Core.

In the end, I felt jaded. It’s a really sian feeling. As Thursday, another day of hoping for AC, passes, I walked home and started wondering if I should even come on Saturday. Weak as I might sound, but I feel this is needed. The money to entertainment value just don’t cut it anymore. Why should I even go then? Play CVS2? Join the competition? **** TKA, I thought, I will quit until AC comes.

Maybe TKA heard me. lasthope is leaving?! Oh no?

Friday I was geared up for a new beginning prepared to stop going to the arcade until AC arrives. After the whole 8am-6pm session in school, my phone’s battery went flat. Upon arriving home, I charged my phone (a rare occasion) and saw “1 Message Received”. I nonchalantly opened the message, thinking it was probably my mum asking me if I’m eating out, or my friends asking me if I’m eating out.

What I saw shocked me. My heart was leaping out of my body, my desire to kill returning and my fatigue vanished. “AC IS HERE!!” was the message. At first, I thought it was a trick. This can’t be true. A day ago I said I won’t go to arcade until Accent Core arrives and the next day it just…pops out? I mean it wasn’t there a day ago! I’m not the sort who believes much in coincidences no matter how many times I have been hit by the taiko factor.

I turned on my MSN on my computer. zer0kage immediately messaged me “Hey I heard AC is in bugis”. I didn’t believe him but he pressed on and linked me shik’s post in AS.com. Could this be true? How can this be??! It’s too much! How can AC be here?! Waahhhhhh!

I really wanted to go. If it wasn’t for the time (9:30pm+), I would’ve rushed down to bugis and took the bus instead of walking. Thus, my new ‘beginning’ came to a close…wtf. I tried to keep myself under control and make the most of my time. I started re-watching my collection of AC videos to refresh my memory on what AC would be like. I started re-doing AC combos on Slash (if possible).

The next day was the saturday I told myself not to go bugis. I went at around 12 to see prinny and jae. Inserting a 50c coin, I press the start button. The ugly ‘Here comes a new challenger’ screen is gone, replaced by a new more ‘yandao’ one. The character selection is extremely refreshing and very well done. I have seen it in videos, but to be able to see it from a player’s perspective is totally different.

Maybe it’s just my excitement, but AC felt extremely smooth and great -> That was an understatement. The hype lived up fully to my expectations, if not more. It’s so great I’m dying to get a PS2 version of this and spread to my friends. Every combo I do felt great, even when I miss. Even though my tatami CH’ed and I missed the follow up, it felt really great when the victim flew to the end of the screen and bounced back. Of course, completing a combo never felt better.

The background rework was another key improvement. It’s no longer dead boring. It’s alot cleaner than before and it combined with the new particles makes it easier (imo) to see everything that is happening. The voice rework coming out of the speakers is again different from watching a video. Everyone sounds more aggressive and fiery adding a lot more feel to the gameplay.

I was incredibly hyped, hyped enough to participate in the CVS2 competition. When I returned, I half-regretted participating, because once the competition was done, around more than 15 people are gathered around the single solitary GGAC machine. It was incredible. I didn’t get much of a chance to play but watching them play was still good. I brought $10 extra with me but by the end of the day, I only spent $6. Well, that’s what you get when you don’t feel like getting in the way of others to hog the machine. What a nice guy I am

At midnight, I played a few games with kuni, acm and axel before leaving the arcade. My muscles ached as I walked home, getting a nice cool drink to finish the day. What a day!

Now TKA only needs a 2nd machine and we’ll be on our way!

A new breath of air, PSP modded – DJMax Portable 2

It’s been 2 weeks since school started, probably also the same time I declared I stop putting gaming as the central of my life. I will still dagame, but significantly less now in every way. Most especially fighting games. I’m rather tired of it honestly. My skills have dropped an incredible amount recently. I think it’s mostly because I don’t even feel like playing anymore. Heh, it’s called a burnout. How long it will last is unknown like all burnouts. It’s damn stupid okay: I don’t even do fancy stuff to kill scrubs anymore. I just pick blanka and practice RC like a Poh.

I have changed a few things of mine. I modded my PSP to 3.10OE-A so that I can…do stuff with it. Sony has apparently created an incredible console, limited only by…Sony. Wallpapers, mp3 player, flash player, wma player, the ability to play PSX games…all these could’ve been what sells PSP but Sony decided against it. It pretty sad actually. The recently updates are basically preventing you to mod your PSP. Sony is smart at marketing though. They allow you to play PSX games on your PSP provided you have a PS3 and use its download center to download PSX games (paying money of course). Kinda futile to those who already modded their PSPs though.

DJMax Portable 2 was a pretty nice upgrade from the first. Right now, the songs are as impressive as the first: 50% is to my liking, the other 50% sucks balls. There is now a 5 button mode as well and now you are able to link up with your friend and play through a network. Pretty cool huh. For free too *cough*.

Having modded my PSP, I rummaged my room for my secret stash of PSX games. I finally found it and picked one of my favourite FF of all time: FF6. After that I shall play FF5 and maybe even 4, just for the sake of completing time at least once. I have played FF6 at least 7 times, this probably my 8th. FF6 is so rich with information that have nothing to do with the story; so filled with secrets. It brings me back more than 6 years ago when I first saw Edgar’s godly jockey mask when he’s using his tools. So many things in that game. However, I’m not going to rant on why I love FF6 more than any other FFs here. Maybe next time.

Right now, I’m simply going to run around my old blogs and put up more pictures so that I can identify with my old accounts easily.

The roads of the kings beckons me.

Guilty Gear Accent Core in 1 month.

…And still no signs of it in my local arcade. TKA stinks. I guess this is what happens when there is no other arcades competition with it? Before AC comes however, I will be giving out GGXX Slash for PS2. If anyone wish to have it, please contact me

Back to school…

So it’s back to school. This semester it has been a rather horrible start, since for some reason I am not getting the Web-Based Games module I opted for and proceed straight into hell with Programming Hardware Shaders. Oh well, it isn’t too bad I guess.

On an update, I managed to get an original copy of DoW, since v1.2 is so good I MUST try my skills online. My results were pretty bad though…in fact, I die all the time. Watching replays of other Eldar players helped a bit though. I guess I have to get my tactics right first before Automatching. If I haven’t mentioned already, v1.2 is a great patch. Eldar support platforms are FINALLY useful, Orks got a pretty decent buff, Chaos is easily top tier now, SM nerfed, Necrons nerfed and Tau fixed to being a more ‘fair’ matchup. Oops, I forgot IG…for some reason they got nerfed pretty harsh. In fact, the only buff I remember was their bunker damage.

Azumanga Daioh

I actually downloaded Azumanga Daioh due to my curiosity. Azumanga is a downright mindless show. It is stupidly funny. Not many people can appreciate the art of stupid comedy though. It’s mindless in a funny way. However, it is just a series of these (mindless) girls’ 3 years in high school. Still, it’s stupidly funny. One who cannot stand stupidity must keep away from this show. To me, although the show was mindless and dumb, there is nothing ‘lame’ about it like an Anthony Chong.

Although my school timetable is slack, I am still keeping myself busy doing tons of stuff. There is so much to do…so little time. Most I can afford is probably a day to work. Right now, everything is going a-okay.

More games…

The new DC patch is finally out after like 6 months of waiting. It’s an awesome patch, and the changes are significant enough. Flayed Ones at tier 1.5, defilers beasting better than vanilla DoW, zerkers get a fear, reapers buffed, vespids at tier 1…the list goes on. My only gripe about this patch is that they made our overpowered boring SMs into lousy boring SMs. Chaos is finally getting all the limelight now. They are now incredibly fun to play than before.

I just got my copy of CivCity: Rome before I could get my Caesar 4. I loved these mindless (okay not really mindless) city builder games. CivCity looks like what I could expect from Caesar 4 though…so I wonder why people are taking sides between CC:4 and Caesar 4.

I’m a bit torn between getting a new random handheld game or CnC3. To be honest, DC is beasting so much now I rather play it than CnC3. Plus I’m a little sick of RTS these days, so I went and paid a visit to PoP:WI. PoP is still kinda screwy. My majority of deaths don’t come from enemies or trap; they all come from me pressing the wrong button and wall walked horizontally into the pit of doom instead of vertically onto the ledge.

Meanwhile, my projects are going on full steam soon, but thankfully I’m used to it.