Omg Crisis Core is sooooo pretty. *__* ZAAAAAACK--!! *___*

[beckerbell]

→ Oh, my god. MY LIFE, THIS IS MY LIFE.

→ Also, I laughed inappropriately hard at this one. Oh, god, I think I might be a nerd.

→ New trailer for the fourth Layton game and, holy shit, I think I might be in love with Layton's new girlfiend and (as the first commenter said and I could not agree more) her awesome as hell parkour, omfg. Also,

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[beckerbell]

Well, really, there's no way I'm going to finish any of these games in a timely manner, I'm pretty much just plunking away at each of them, so you have plenty of time, if you want to play along. Like months of time, I'm pretty sure.

I really, really like Crisis Core so far, but I can tell I'm going to get sucked into sidequest hell with this one, because I can't resist them and they're shiny. Plus, I really want to get the guidebook for this one, except I have to wait until the Dissidia one comes out, which isn't until the 1st of September, which isn't that far away, but I'm wondering if I shouldn't put CC on hold until I can get it.... And I'll get Dissidia any day now, so then it'll be FIVE games and I've got this whole comics thing that's still eating me so--

W-well, yes. You've really got time, so I would encourage you to pick up whatever game most interests you at the moment. (Though, I'll be curious to see if you play the second Layton game in English or Japanese.)

(What I SHOULD do is just power through one of these games to make it easier on myself, but I really like the option of having several different games to choose from, depending on my mood.)

[tammaiya]

So much choice! *flail*

... I kind of want the mega enormous CC guidebook before I start playing it. Maybe I'll wait until I'm in Japan at the end of the year for that one.

And hm, how about you primarily focus on one and swap to the others you're playing when you're not in the mood for it? I mean, not sure how much that helps, but maybe mentally establishing a priority ranking system will mean less confusion.

[beckerbell]

I'm thinking I'm going to focus on getting the Layton game finished first because it's the shortest and I haven't been spoiled at all for it, which I want to keep that going. And I think I could knock it out in a day or two if I really put my full focus into it--except, do I really want to do that, considering the next Layton game won't be out for a very long time?

On the other hand, Layton movie coming up at the end of the year, so I'll get my fix sometime next year. (Want that RPG game SO BAD though omg.)

I'll keep plunking away at CC and CT, though, I'm hoping that being able to steadily blog about them will keep me focused on them. (I'm envious of how fast you get through your games, though. :< )

[tammaiya]

Yeah, that makes sense. That chocobo game only took me 30 hours to completely pwn all the minigames and get all the skills and everything. So it was good to feel all accomplished and stuff. And when you're just challenging minigames, you can do it while watching TV or whatever at the same time, too.

I'm envious of how much you can blog about your games? I'm not sure if that balances it out. I've been useless at that lately. I just want to take some time out to do an LJ post listing all the things I'm up to at the moment-- things being watched, played, studied, etc. And to do some proper game blogging.

[beckerbell]

I really want to play that FFCC game (Echoes of Time, I think?) just because I know it would probably take me less than 20 hours to finish it and it's great to feel like WOOHOO! I GOT A GAME FINISHED! but... yeah, my heart isn't on that one. It's on these long fuckers over here. orz

One thing I've found about blogging is that you'll never get as much done as you want and I can't say I'll come back to it later. If I don't do it within two days, I let it go, otherwise I just get more and more and more backed up. Start small? Just keep a WordPad file open on your desktop at all times and tab over to it when you have something you want to say?

There's always going to be more you'll want to blog about, so if you don't feel like writing it at the moment, eventually you will, y'know?

[tammaiya]

haha, yes. Well, the chocobo game came out about the same time as FFCC:EoT and I had them both sitting around being sequels to short cute games I really wanted to play, but at least I've knocked one of them off now! God, I have SO MANY Squeenix DS games I want to get through, though. orz There's one that curiously and unusually never even came out in English that I even own a legal copy of that came out last August.

Yeah, too true. Unfortunately extensive blogging is just impossible at the moment, because even university and time constraints aside, I suspect I have a maximum word limit for the day or something and I need to funnel that into big bang for the next 17 days or I haven't got a prayer of finishing in time. D: I AM TIRED AND WANT TO SLEEP BUT CANNOT BECAUSE THIS SCENE ISN'T FINISHED.

[beckerbell]

I swear, they release all these awesome games in batches--it's crazy how many games are coming out in this short time frame that I really, really want to play. Including KH 358/2 tomorrow. orz After that, things settle down for a bit, I want to say. Though, DQIX and Scribblenauts aren't too far off....

Do you have a notebook that you can jot notes in? That's usually what I do, that way I can carry it around with me and just cross stuff off as I write up blog posts about it. (Though, I write blog posts as I go when I'm reading comics, but that's different from playing a game.)

That's less than three weeks, though! YOU CAN DO IT! o/

[tammaiya]

asdfjsklfjsd god I know. It's partially due to timing things around conventions, I suspect-- a lot of stuff came out in Japan a few months after TGS last year, so they had their demos and promo stuff available there in preparation.

I actually have near freakishly good recall for the kinds of things I think while I'm playing games-- I just need some kind of cue to jog my memory, and usually a walkthrough is good enough, because if I know what happens in what order I can remember how I felt about it. It starts to get a little more dubious after about two years, though. XD BEHOLD MY ABILITY TO REMEMBER TOTALLY USELESS TRIVIA! \o/

The problem is mostly time-- I have so MANY I want to say things about that I haven't yet and no time to write about any of them, not helped by how long my posts get when I finally do.

[beckerbell]

Yeah, a lot of stuff gets released around cons and stuff, but... well, at least they had the grace to release all these games before the new fall TV season starts, because that would have just been one giant mess if I'd tried to juggle everything at once.

I suspect you also want to blog about every little thing and that overwhelms you to the point that you just don't do it? I know that I get that way sometimes and eventually just have to force myself to write something short. If it goes longer, great. If it doesn't, well, maybe what I had to say wasn't actually that interesting. I force myself to take the pressure off--I'll get done what I'll get done.

Though, at least you're writing fic. :/ I have this whole long epic planned out in my head, but can I convince myself to actually start it? Of course not. orz

[tammaiya]

Oh man, yes, especially on top of the comics. I actually have heaps of TV I need to catch up on and the urge is slowly starting to take me, but I refuse to watch anything other than what's being broadcast because juggling uni, big bang and games is all I can handle and I KNOW me, I'm too obsessive, if I start trying to watch a TV show I'll just sit down and watch the whole damn thing in enormous chunks to the exclusion of sleep and anything else I'm meant to be doing, so I'm stockpiling things I didn't watch when I should've and it can all wait until I have free time, at which point I'll hopefully still be in the mood. orz

Yeah, I definitely have that problem. It's really hard for me not to do things in chronological order with games, I dunno, for some reason it's really hard for me to leave stuff out without twitching, but then it takes so LONG....

It's kind of an either/or choice with fic and blogging, you can do a lot of one or a lot of the other but you can't do both together. :/

[beckerbell]

I've been kind of letting TV slide, despite that I'm really interested in it right now, too. It's just... the summer seasons are all right, but there's no show that really excites me like the fall season does. So I'll wait until other things die down/that starts up to get into them. Because that's it exactly, we need to learn not to pile too many things on at once or we'll just overwhelm ourselves.

It's really hard for me not to do things in chronological order with games, I dunno, for some reason it's really hard for me to leave stuff out without twitching

This is going to get a little self-indulgent, especially since I'm not sure how much our situations really mirror each other. Sorry about that in advance. XD

I used to have this same problem with comic reading, I felt I had to read everything in order and, pretty much every single time, it killed my passion for the genre. I'd go back and force myself to read the mediocre ones, the ones I wasn't that interested in reading/talking about, and after about a week, I was just... bleck. No more.

So, this time I forced myself to go straight for the stuff that I was interested in, no matter if it was out of order or not. It was hard to fight the urge at first, but once I did it a few times... I found that I was really enjoying it now. There were always going to be more comics, always going to be more games, so it didn't matter so much if some of them weren't read/played/blogged about in order because it wasn't a chore anymore. I did just what was fun and that brought my energy way back up.

I don't know if that's something you can try for yourself, but maybe think about it? You don't have to blog about a game in order, you can always go back and fill things in (or not) later.

Okay, done now, promise. XD Except to say that I TOTALLY KNOW THAT FEELING. I can't do blogging posts and reccing posts at the same time, either. One or the other. :/

[tammaiya]

There's a lot of merit to that suggestion. I've tried it before and failed at it, but I think (when I have time for blogging again) I need to try it again and be more strict on myself.

Also, you know another tragedy of my life at the moment? Lack of items. This is partially lack of item space because I never renewed my account after it expired (or changed the icons it chose by default-- how can this and my dragon quest slime icon be my only gaming icons?! TRAVESTY) but is mostly because I don't want to buy new icon space before I actually go and make icons for all my new fandoms. Which I have not so far done because I am a. lazy and b. busy and c. just really lazy. orz

[beckerbell]

It took me a few years to really learn to do it, it just bothered me not to read things out of order, but I ignored the impulse a few times and it just... got easier eventually. Though, it's understandable if you can't.

OH GOD TELL ME ABOUT IT. I want to make so many icons! And a new layout! And a new moodtheme! But I am so laaaaaaaazy! I've been slowly replacing my icons, but I still want, like, to just delete everything and start over.

(Except no one makes good Kabuto icons that I can find. T__T)

[tammaiya]

I don't HAVE icons for so many of my fandoms. Even ones that are sitting around not in use. It's TERRIBLE. I have no Okami, no DQV, no Star Trek, no Merlin, no Suiko Tierkreis, no ABYSS, for christ's sake. Srs, wtf. And when I do have icons they're often very limited. Like my one NCIS icon.

[beckerbell]

I knoooooow. I have no Tierkreis icon. No DQV icon. I have ONE Abyss icon, which is of Dist giggling, but no Jade/Dist, no Natalia, no Asch/Natalia. I have NO FFXII ICONS. I don't have a Sephiroth icon! I don't have a Layton icon! I don't have an Odin Sphere icon! I don't have more than the one Decade icon!

BUT I'D HAVE TO MAKE THEM MYSELF AND IT'S SO MUCH WORK....