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Dragon Quest 6 English Port Too Late for Classy Elder Gamer

Mkava — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:38:32 +0000

This is a bit random but.. hell of a classy lady in my book. Sucks to hear that she won’t be around for it, but still a sad yet heart warming thought. Gaming does tend to bridge all generations, thankfully. =)

Dragon Quest VI Arrives Too Late For Gaming Grandmother

All-Day Gaming, What Fun!

Mkava — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:21:51 +0000

Had a bunch of folks over yesterday for all day gaming. Well, sorta. First people starting getting in around 4 or so, when the event on my Google Calendar that I shared with everyone was noon to midnight+. =P Either way, people started showing up and we started playing Halo 3 while I made some awesome home-made pizza (started the dough at like 2 so it’d be ready to go in the oven at 5). Making pizza took longer than I thought but when you have two pizzas coming that are literal mounds of toppings and goodness, you can’t rush it. Either way, after pizza we really set into playing.

Tons of Halo 3 was played. Some off-and-on gaming was done by folks who weren’t playing Halo at the time. Eventually around 11:30pm we got 6 computer rigs together for Rise of Nations. 3 v 3 gets a bit hectic, especially for the folks whoever never played a RTS like RoN before. Either way, it was a lot of fun. Especially when Cody didn’t have a missile shield and everyone kept dropping nukes on his head.. even people on his team. It’s amazing what a little nuking can do the the Armageddon counter… going quickly to zero. Game 2 ended the same way but with only 4 people playing in a Free-For-All game. 30 minutes of people and most people were ready to start development of the last tech and start attacking each other. Using the turn-and-burn tactic with nukes isn’t as effective as it could be, especially when its Nuclear ICBMs and not just the normal missiles. Things seem to die in a much larger area with those ICBMs. Hrm. With everyone calling it good at 4:30am, it was a fun 12 hours plus of gaming, and totally worth it. Looking forward to the next one in probably a half month, this time hopefully on campus though. =)

I may put some photos up soon, if I can get them off my only camera (my phone…). Not too many but enough to warrant a little effort.

People who came: Zach, Cody, D, S, Drew, Sam (and his girlfriend Amanda), Joe (even though he just hung out and didn’t game much), and obviously myself. Hope everyone had fun eating my awesome pizza and playing games with friends. Even Amanda who really looked like she didn’t want to be hanging out with a bunch of geeky gamers. =D

Until next time.

Been Playing Super Mario RPG Recently

Mkava — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:36:44 +0000

It amuses that every time I start playing SMRPG again, I grind through to the same spots before I stop. The closest I have come to beating the game is always the Nimbus Kingdom, or the area right around there. I’ve never had the begrudging pleasure of taking on Smithy himself, other than some tough words with him at the beginning of the game. Seems so amusing that now I’ve started playing it again via the Wii Virtual Console (bought it back in May I think..), I may actually finish the game after first seeing it way back in 3rd grade (nearly 12-13 years ago).

That’s the biggest thing I have noticed of my gaming habits over the last few years and the last few months especially. If I have a copy of a game sitting somewhere in plain sight, I’ll finish it. I just recently purchased Halo1 for the original Xbox for 3$, after having had a copy of it for the PC since it originally came out. I never beat Halo 1, or even Halo 2 for that matter, primarily because I never had a copy on a console. On the PC, I would play for a bit and eventually get sick of it or go back to playing Pharaoh or Age of Empires II, two games I’ve put far too many hours in to even want to consider. Now that I have the original Xbox version, it seems I might actually get the whole story for Halo finally. Hell, I’m already halfway to my farthest point in the game from the PC version and I’ve only put two hours in. And yes, I’m a slow gamer who is far too patient. Plus giving yourself various requirements to beat a level (like play the game on Legendary or at least Heroic) don’t exactly speed things up. But of course, if I wanted to burn though a game.. I’d purchase a new-ish title that tops out at 10-15 hours. Amusing how the length of games have changed from the 30-50+ into the 10-15 hour mark for most newer titles.

Either way, I got my SMRPG and Halo 1 to play alongside of Mass Effect 2 (currently a rental). And then maybe after these two ancient games, I can finally go through and beat Halo 2 and the DS games I never completed. =) Finally getting my monies worth after all these years would be appreciated.

Asking for trouble, but… GamerDNA.

Mkava — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:44:48 +0000

I know I’m asking for trouble for posting this here. Just like I was asking for trouble when I posted my resume, even without the contact details. Somebody is bound to utilize this against me, but hey, that’s the Internet nowadays. You can remain as private as you want, as long as you are not willing to provide information about yourself and remove your e-identity from the WWW as much as you can. But seeing as I am a person who deals with the Internets constantly, and has this site and runs an IRC network, and for some stupid reason still has a Facebook account (at the time of posting), this isn’t too much more dangerous to post.

I have an account at GamerDNA, a site that is geared towards taking your gaming data (what you played, what games you have, achievements in gaming, what you played today, what you think about said game, etc) and the data of your ‘friends’ and mashing it all together into a place to see what the hell your fellow gamer is up to. Sort of fun, and sometimes entertaining, and in general, another social networking site but geared towards gaming as a the focus instead of stupid apps and pissy teenagers (or adults who didn’t grow up) like other fore-mentioned places.

You can find me under my normal handle/nick, Mkava, at http://mkava.gamerdna.com/

If you make an account, feel free to add me and tell me you found me via my stupid blog here at my stupid website that has my name on it. >.<

WoW subscription ran out.. So now I have time?

Mkava — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:01:45 +0000

So my WoW subscription ran out. And wow.. I still dont have all that much time. Just not dropping ~14$ a month on a subscription. And yet, I still have the urge to play. Seems its time to take advantage … Continue reading →

GoG.com PC Game Christmas Sale – Oldies but Goodies for $10 or less

Mkava — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:26:53 +0000

As I told my fellow programmers at work, GoG.com is having an awesome sale of older PC games but at extremely nice prices. Plus, DRM-Free to boot.

Games like Fallout 1 & 2, Freespace 1 & 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Sacrifice, Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete Edition, Heroes of Might and Magic 6-Pack, Earthworm Jim 1 & 2, MDK 2, Beyond Good and Evil, Stonekeep… the list just keeps going. And most of the games around 3.89$, with nothing over 9.99$.

DRM-Free means that once the game is downloaded, and can be downloaded unlimited times, and installed on unlimited ocmputers, there is no more hassle. Download it, install it using the included installer, and away you go. Plus you can burn them to disc, if you so wish.

Offer runs through January 3rd.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Years everyone. =)

GoG.com Christmas Sale 2009

GOG.com Puts Good Old Games On Sale For The Holidays [Kotaku]