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Well I'm officially starting to get seriously ready for school. My classes start on Feb 6th (of which I'm taking Biology/Human Anatomy and Beginning Microsoft Word) and I'm getting excited to get back in school and start getting on with my life. I've spent too much time away I think, but now I'm getting back on track. I was surprised I had so little to take, I thought there were more classes for prerequisites I'd have to go through, but it seems my time at Mt. Hood wasn't wasted after all, all those biology classes I took there really counted for a lot here. As it is, once I finish my Bio/Anat and Microsoft class here, I'll need to set myself up with 50 hours shadowing a radiology tech at a hospital and then take a math assessment test to find out if (most likely I will have to) take some more math classes to get up to par before signing up for the Radiology program. Even though classes here are so cheap, books still run the gammit of being expensive to ridiculously expensive. I only had to buy 3 books, 2 of which were used and it still cost me 200 bucks :P I'm kinda nervous what this will do to my bank since recently I gave up two working days for school, so now I'm only part-time and I'm thinking that may have not been the best decision on my part. I certainly had to give up working Wednesdays cause I have school all through my work shift, but I could've kept working Thursday, but I figured I might need it off, but now after having it off, I realize that I could work that day and still go to school. May end up asking my boss for some Thursday hours if she can spare it.
Other than getting ready for school, I haven't been up to much here at home besides video games. I've got FF11 up and working and have been fooling around with that. Originally I made my character a white (healing) wizard, which worked out okay because everytime I'd fight, I always had good magic to heal myself, but white wizards sacrifice doing a lot of physical damage for their healing skills and in the end, it just working out the way I wanted, so I changed her (I went with a female character) into a Monk. Monk's have no healing skills, but goddamn can she dish out the damage now. I have to say the game is a lot more fun now that I can kick the holy hell out of a lot more monsters than I could before! Speaking of Final Fantasy, I recently finished part 6....
Final Fantasy 6 Review: Arguably one of the greatest games in the Final Fantasy series, part of it's popularity is probably due to it being the first FF game that SquareSoft actually advertised on TV and in comics. It still never broke the RPG genre out of it's "underground" status, but it turned a lot of people in the early 90s onto Final Fantasy. It was the first game in the series to offer up more plot rather than the traditional "the elemental crystals are in danger, we must save them", the plot taking shape in the form of a power hungry government bent on destroying it's people and the world in order to control it (sounds VERY familiar, doesn't it?). It was also the first game to ditch the class system altogether. There were no knights, no monks, no wizards of any kind. Instead, the game gave us a variety of characters each with his own special ability like one characters ability to give massively physical damage by entering a "Blitz" combination into the controller, another was able to mimic the attacks of monsters by using a "Rage" attack and another had multiple attack/healing commands by being able to "Dance". The magic system was wonderful, throughout the game you encountered beings made completely of magic, when dead, they gave their power to you in the form of "magicite" crystal shards. Each magicite had a certain number of spells a character could learn by fighting enough times. So, any characters that I didn't use because they were physically weak, I could train them on all the magicites so they became powerful magicians, hell even my physically overpowering characters got their fair time training to use magic. I won't bother reviewing the graphics and sound because once again, it's an SNES game, though I would beg to argue that it's graphics were better than it's sequel Final Fantasy 7 for the Playstation, but I'll save that debate for when I review FF7. Loaded with 9 characters and 3 secret characters to find and play as, as well as a ton of secret weapons, armor and magicite to find, not to mention the game goes out of it's way to load a special background scenario that you can find for all 9 of your regular characters, I'd say this game is the one anyone that has any interest in the RPG genre should start out with. Despite it's being 15 years old with 3 systems that came out with more advanced Final Fantasy games, it does a great job of standing up to the test of time.
Sincerely,
One long winded motherfucker
Well I'm officially starting to get seriously ready for school. My classes start on Feb 6th (of which I'm taking Biology/Human Anatomy and Beginning Microsoft Word) and I'm getting excited to get back in school and start getting on with my life. I've spent too much time away I think, but now I'm getting back on track. I was surprised I had so little to take, I thought there were more classes for prerequisites I'd have to go through, but it seems my time at Mt. Hood wasn't wasted after all, all those biology classes I took there really counted for a lot here. As it is, once I finish my Bio/Anat and Microsoft class here, I'll need to set myself up with 50 hours shadowing a radiology tech at a hospital and then take a math assessment test to find out if (most likely I will have to) take some more math classes to get up to par before signing up for the Radiology program. Even though classes here are so cheap, books still run the gammit of being expensive to ridiculously expensive. I only had to buy 3 books, 2 of which were used and it still cost me 200 bucks :P I'm kinda nervous what this will do to my bank since recently I gave up two working days for school, so now I'm only part-time and I'm thinking that may have not been the best decision on my part. I certainly had to give up working Wednesdays cause I have school all through my work shift, but I could've kept working Thursday, but I figured I might need it off, but now after having it off, I realize that I could work that day and still go to school. May end up asking my boss for some Thursday hours if she can spare it.
Other than getting ready for school, I haven't been up to much here at home besides video games. I've got FF11 up and working and have been fooling around with that. Originally I made my character a white (healing) wizard, which worked out okay because everytime I'd fight, I always had good magic to heal myself, but white wizards sacrifice doing a lot of physical damage for their healing skills and in the end, it just working out the way I wanted, so I changed her (I went with a female character) into a Monk. Monk's have no healing skills, but goddamn can she dish out the damage now. I have to say the game is a lot more fun now that I can kick the holy hell out of a lot more monsters than I could before! Speaking of Final Fantasy, I recently finished part 6....
Final Fantasy 6 Review: Arguably one of the greatest games in the Final Fantasy series, part of it's popularity is probably due to it being the first FF game that SquareSoft actually advertised on TV and in comics. It still never broke the RPG genre out of it's "underground" status, but it turned a lot of people in the early 90s onto Final Fantasy. It was the first game in the series to offer up more plot rather than the traditional "the elemental crystals are in danger, we must save them", the plot taking shape in the form of a power hungry government bent on destroying it's people and the world in order to control it (sounds VERY familiar, doesn't it?). It was also the first game to ditch the class system altogether. There were no knights, no monks, no wizards of any kind. Instead, the game gave us a variety of characters each with his own special ability like one characters ability to give massively physical damage by entering a "Blitz" combination into the controller, another was able to mimic the attacks of monsters by using a "Rage" attack and another had multiple attack/healing commands by being able to "Dance". The magic system was wonderful, throughout the game you encountered beings made completely of magic, when dead, they gave their power to you in the form of "magicite" crystal shards. Each magicite had a certain number of spells a character could learn by fighting enough times. So, any characters that I didn't use because they were physically weak, I could train them on all the magicites so they became powerful magicians, hell even my physically overpowering characters got their fair time training to use magic. I won't bother reviewing the graphics and sound because once again, it's an SNES game, though I would beg to argue that it's graphics were better than it's sequel Final Fantasy 7 for the Playstation, but I'll save that debate for when I review FF7. Loaded with 9 characters and 3 secret characters to find and play as, as well as a ton of secret weapons, armor and magicite to find, not to mention the game goes out of it's way to load a special background scenario that you can find for all 9 of your regular characters, I'd say this game is the one anyone that has any interest in the RPG genre should start out with. Despite it's being 15 years old with 3 systems that came out with more advanced Final Fantasy games, it does a great job of standing up to the test of time.
Sincerely,
One long winded motherfucker