Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: AV on January 07, 2009, 12:09:25 PM
Title: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: AV on January 07, 2009, 12:09:25 PM
I beat World of goo, I almost beat all the levels in Orbient and I'm going to get the last star in Super Mario RPG. I want to play Okami but I know I can't beat that in a week.
I start school on the 20th so I'm getting the most gaming I can right now.
5 upper level college classes and a job or two so Wii and DS will collect dust until Summer...
Title: Re: SD card for Wii starting to be used by 3rd parties, say hello to RockBand2 SD
Post by: Pale on January 07, 2009, 12:15:12 PM
You misunderstand the product. It is a SD card with a rock band label that can HOLD 75 songs that you pay for from the Rock Band store and stick on there.
It doesn't come with 75 songs.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Pale on January 07, 2009, 12:15:36 PM
Uhmm...
This thread was something different two seconds ago.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: AV on January 07, 2009, 12:16:34 PM
You misunderstand the product. It is a SD card with a rock band label that can HOLD 75 songs that you pay for from the Rock Band store and stick on there.
It doesn't come with 75 songs.
what ARE you talking about ??? ??? ??? ;D :rolleyes: :D ;)
This thread was something different two seconds ago.
i realized that and I changed the topic
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Pale on January 07, 2009, 12:17:03 PM
Now, on to your newly edited topic...
I miss the days of college. I played so many MORE games while all I had to worry about was silly classes. =P
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Bill Aurion on January 07, 2009, 12:23:05 PM
I have too many games in my backlog period, and that's BECAUSE of classes...Now I have like half a dozen games to beat before February and March, when I want to buy another 8 or so games... =(
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: AV on January 07, 2009, 12:24:08 PM
I miss the days of college. I played so many MORE games while all I had to worry about was silly classes. =P
I would hardly call :
hazard mitigation and Preparedness Disaster Response and Recovery Leadership and Organizational Behavior Federal Government and Disasters Technical Writing
"Silly classes" They are all considered CORE REQUIRED Classes for BA in Emergency management. I would love to play Disaster day of crisis during this winter break but NOOOOOOOOOOOO NOA refuses to release that game. I showed my professor of Intro to Emergency management the trailer for that game and he laughed. I wanted to play and laugh too that way I can study and play at the same time. :o ;)
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on January 07, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
Finished skool a yeer ago. I'll be forever backlogged.
My game time isn't necessarily spent progressing through games, more like game-related hobbys.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Pale on January 07, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
Wait until about 8-24 months after you graduate... then you'll realize how silly they are. =P
My point is, I was super stressed during school, but now I long for those times. =P
And I work a relatively cushy 9-5 office gig... as deadlines approach it gets stressful and hours get longer, but even when there aren't deadlines I'm still beat when I get home.
But anyway, my backlog is huge too. Right now I'm trying to finish off Dead Space so I can start something new. I recently got about half way through Beyond Good & Evil (for the first time) and I still want to finish that. I have Mirror's Edge and Shaun White waiting for me from Christmas. I still haven't finished the story mode of Little Big Planet OR published a level of my own...
And all of that doesn't count the 15 or so sealed games on my shelf right now. That includes things like Okami, Shadow of the Collossus, Fire Emblem Cube, Final Fantasy X-2, Xenosaga 1-3, Radiata Stories, and more and more... ugh.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Stogi on January 07, 2009, 12:30:12 PM
Not really. I'm been catching up on sleep, hobbies, and business. You know, ****.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Caliban on January 07, 2009, 12:46:23 PM
No school for me anymore. I actually want to go back and do a few more courses, but I procrastinate like hell.
hazard mitigation and Preparedness Disaster Response and Recovery Leadership and Organizational Behavior Federal Government and Disasters
Sounds like you are majoring in Disaster: Day of Crisis.
How were your Tornado Evasion, Bear Punching, and Tsunami Dispersal finals last semester?
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: NWR_pap64 on January 07, 2009, 12:55:25 PM
School is for losers...
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Caliban on January 07, 2009, 01:07:16 PM
Roy: [singing] We don't need no education. Moss: Yes you do. You've just used a double negative.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: KDR_11k on January 07, 2009, 02:17:55 PM
Oh, lack of time isn't the reason I finish almost no games. I just stop caring about most rather quickly, often I just end a session and never feel any desire to play another.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: EasyCure on January 07, 2009, 03:29:49 PM
No; no school.
I'm eternally backlogged because of work and life in general (including these stupid addictive forums!)
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on January 07, 2009, 04:55:28 PM
Oh, lack of time isn't the reason I finish almost no games. I just stop caring about most rather quickly, often I just end a session and never feel any desire to play another.
Ever considered quitting gamming and becoming full-time anime otaku?
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: WuTangTurtle on January 07, 2009, 07:16:44 PM
Ever considered quitting gamming and becoming full-time anime otaku?
Ooooh how much does that pay ;D
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Ian Sane on January 07, 2009, 07:45:41 PM
I've realized that to complete my backlog I would have to effectively be able to retire to sit down and do it. Not that I couldn't do it in my free time or if I had a really good sized vacation. In those situations I can't do it because that time feels precious and finite. If I have a week off work I want to make the most of that week and while I likely will play games in that time it won't be my focus. The fact that I have to go back to work however is what makes that time appear to be valuable. If I win the lottery and can retire at a young age then free time ceases to have any real value and I could dedicate weeks to just playing videogames and I wouldn't feel like I was wasting my time.
So, yeah, I hope I win the lottery soon. ;)
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: TofuFury on January 07, 2009, 07:57:07 PM
I just started on my Grad school work this week. I only have one class, so it shouldn't be too bad to juggle a full time job, grad work, and gaming. My villagers in animal crossing just wont see me as much.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Halbred on January 07, 2009, 08:07:43 PM
I don't even want to talk about it. My backlog reaches far, FAR back in time, its tendrils grasping even my Dreamcast. Wii and PS3? Least of my problems.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: AV on January 07, 2009, 08:21:13 PM
hazard mitigation and Preparedness Disaster Response and Recovery Leadership and Organizational Behavior Federal Government and Disasters
Sounds like you are majoring in Disaster: Day of Crisis.
How were your Tornado Evasion, Bear Punching, and Tsunami Dispersal finals last semester?
My professor for Intro to Emergency management is pretty cool and I showed him the trailer for the game after class. He thought it was cool and really wanted to play it. We talked about in class how media always want to over hype the duties of an emergency manager and how much power we have and that its all action. My future job will probably be an government Bureaucrat of some kind, with no or little action. He is a great professor we watched a clip of "Volcano" and talked about how crazy that movie is, another day we watch an old school PSA for Duck and Cover. We showed some videos of new government propaganda and how its nicer. I wouldn't be surprised if he would bring in a Wii to show off Disaster Day of Crisis if the game ever came out. He isn't surprised it never released in America and totally understands Nintendo's fear of negative spin by media.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: IceCold on January 08, 2009, 03:25:32 AM
Ever considered quitting gamming and becoming full-time anime otaku?
Ooooh how much does that pay ;D
Alot actually. Let's see, you get the monthly social anxiety, plus the seasonal bonus. Work overtime doubles your depression. And then when you'd like to retire, your pension is jail time for the inevitable rape to slake your need for lust.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: KDR_11k on January 08, 2009, 06:49:24 AM
Ever considered quitting gamming and becoming full-time anime otaku?
But most anime is crap and the rest isn't enough to waste much time.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: AV on January 09, 2009, 02:47:19 AM
i just beat Super Mario RPG yesterday afternoon.
I very much enjoyed it. Smithy was a real challenge, unlike that damn Clulex which is damn impossible. I hate how the game lets you save before the boss, but your deep inside that level so going back to the normal hub to do stuff will take forever. Screw it I beat it, I'm done with the game for now. Maybe later in future I'll go back and collect stuff. Maybe.
I'm at the last two levels of Orbient. I mean last 2. Final level 4, and Final level 5.
I'm becoming obsessed with it. SO CLOSE TO VICTORY! The game has like 60 levels......
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: DAaaMan64 on January 09, 2009, 03:48:53 AM
I miss the days of college. I played so many MORE games while all I had to worry about was silly classes. =P
lol I think my prgram is the exception to this then.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: vudu on January 09, 2009, 02:10:49 PM
Or maybe you just don't know any better (yet).
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: AV on January 09, 2009, 05:36:30 PM
i got all the damn cresent moons, and beat all 50 levels. Orbient is 100% finished. WOW that was difficult. That ending was wtf crazy.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Nemo on January 12, 2009, 01:00:34 AM
I'm too backlogged to entertain the idea of catching up before school starts again. Plus, I'm working 30 hrs/wk during "vacation."
My strategy is to just play one game at a time when I have the chance for as long as I enjoy it, probably until I beat it. I don't like pressuring myself to finish a game... it's more stressful and less fun that way.
Title: Re: Are you guys try to catch up with games before school starts again for 09 ?
Post by: Pale on January 12, 2009, 10:06:52 AM
I had a good weekend of gaming. Finished off the main story of LBP, then finished off the MGS set (which is totally awesome). I still have to collect all the items and 'ace' all of them though.
I then finished off Dead Space, which was very interesting. Found my friend's name in the credits which was cool.
Then I started Mirror's Edge, which so far, is really freaking fun. I'll probably finish this one quite quickly.
