Blogs - Doodling

CURRENT THOUGHT I love modders. I wish I could do half as well as any individual in any mod team. To be able to have the vision to break a game down and rebuild it in their own image is fantastic. Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there.

So whats happened since I last spoke gibberish? Well I had a little argument with a women from who I'm supposed to be claiming Jobseeker's Allowance from. She failed to mention that for the past 4 weeks I'd been trawling to my Job center, signing on and receiving benefits to the amount of £0.00. It wasn't even "you're not entitled" or "you don't get them" I'm getting benefits that equal nothing. Turns out because my mother was on Child support for me when I was a child (:S) the dates on my application needed to be re-jiggled (technical term) slightly. Blood from a Stone comes to mind. Anyway I've de-stressed from this now.

I'm focusing on video games today because I have nothing better to do.
Who remembers Ocarina of Time? Of course everyone does due to the fact that it's just been released again on the 3DS. I think only Nintendo could get away with releasing the same game. If Capcom made Resident Evil 6 exactly the same as Resident Evil 1 except the protagonist was wearing a clown nose people would get upset. There'd be Chaos. The worst game for re-releases is Sonic. We have the original Sonic game for the Mega Drive (Genesis), Xbox 360, GameCube, and DS. They all have this one annoying Buzz Word. "Collection". Lets Collect these Sonic games before they fly off to Venus. And it's worked. I've ended up for no apparent reason buying sonic games because they're on a console of which i couldn't originally play sonic. I don't know why. I seen more blue hedgehogs that REAL hedgehogs.

But they get away with it because of another word. Classic. I recently dusted off the bug chunky PlayStation 1 to play a few games I considered to be Classic. Pandemonium, Gex, Spyro, not crash Bandicoot (never really got into that "/) and Colony Wars which was a pain because we've a disk missing. Anyway I've kinda lost my point . I think classic has been confused with "made us the most money" which kinda annoyed me. Point made.

I'm still testing the water of this 'ere blogging so bear with me. Once I find my norm/interesting thing to write about I'll be clearer. I just don't know what to put? do I appear to be "bigger than thou" and start reviewing games? I don't want to sound like I know whats best for the world (like some politicians. Maybe some countries Prime Minister. And maybe that country is England) but then what could I talk about? what I did? My "feelings"? Then I tend to ramble like this (sorry by the way). My moment will come but if anyone want's me to do owt specific then feel free to tell me. I relish the directions of someone else :P You can also tell me I'm a dick and should stop writing if you so choose...

Anyway in closing I would like to say that my friend got me tickets to see a musical group called the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. They are a fantastic bunch who perform Ennio Morachone songs from western films like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Fistful of Dollars. They are very comical and play a wide range of instruments from beer bottles to pipe organs and cornflakes. I urge you to youtube them, they are very good :P Right. Skyrimming time. I used to be...

Hello World.

In a less serious note I've never quite understood the idea of blogging. I've started it several times on different websites but always ended up putting something a little bit offensive about a friend and suddenly developed a shitstorm sandwich and the whole idea fizzles out. This is a good place to blog I feel because when I say "mod" or "indie" to any of the company I keep the 1st thought is to drool a little bit then talk about cars. Why do I bother? (already got into the remarks about my friends. Good one Dan)

ANYWAY. Intro. I'm Dan. Sup? I'm 19, live in Yorkshire and wear clothes. Cool. I've only ever had 1 job and that was over Christmas last year. I was a temp at GAME and GAWD it was good. Getting to play Skyrim before it's release. Staying up till midnight to serve the rabble in the COD opening (actually that wasn't so great) and a little staff discount which meant that everyone got GAME related things for Christmas. Now I'm at home all day idly passing the time by being a gamer.

Which brings me nicely onto my next subject. Games. I don't like crap games. I know that sounds a little obvious and on looking back at my recent purchases slightly false. I like games that stand up on their own 2 feet as being a good game without the need for hyping, midnight launches or oceans of extra merch to go with it. So instantly that rules out COD. There's just something about that the grates me every time I hear about how COD is the bestestgameintheworldzzzzzzzz!!!!!! I like a game with a good storyline, good gameplay and just seems to...work. I dunno, I'm having trouble explaining it now so I'm gonna list my top 5 games. 5: Skyrim. Overhyped yes...but I feel as though I've made a connection with it and I can forgive the hype because It doesn't stop giving me things to do. 4: Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. No storyline but it appeals to my sense of rollercoasterz and I feel slightly superior watch people enjoy MY THEME PARK!! 3: Phoenix Wright Series. A story/murder/pointing finger game. Right up my alley. 2: Professor Layton series. I dunno. It's always had a place in my heart. Until the 3rd one when it made my cry and started doubting my manliness until the youtube video of that scene had literally a squillion comments of "I cried" aand 1: Homeworld 2. Picked it up for £9 in a bargain bin 4 years ago, never come off my computer. It's so diverse and the modding community has just exploded. Everything from Star Trek to Stargate and there was a navy sea combat thing once in development but that's gone off my radar. Best money I ever spent and I'm still enjoying it now.

I feel we've now been briefly introduced and I don't want to put my foot in my mouth so I will end this preliminary blog by saying I hope to carry on writing and i hope I get a few people looking at it once in a while and thinking "well he's not a TOTAL twit"

Ta Tar for Now :)