Einherjar

Words fail me over this video. This very video:



Johnny Cash... Drums...

Oh, and yeah the guy playing sucks... Azeman could probably sightread FC this song...
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quote System (a.k.a. Quierta by proxy)

Due to some breach of rules, unacceptable behaviour, or other reason, your account has been banned from posting messages from the Pokémon Diamond Clans forum.

The reason given for this ban follows:

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You are banned from this forum for failure to heed past warnings regarding your behavior.

You report rule breaking all the time, yet seem to have this idea that you are exempt from them yourself - you're not. It doesn't matter if you started the fight, simply joining in is just as bad, especially when you've been warned not to do so in the past - more than once.

Ban Expiration: Sep 04 2009 08:54PM GMT

Baww. Baww. Ba-wait;

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You report rule breaking all the time, yet seem to have this idea that you are exempt from them yourself - you're not.

Exemption? Since when did I give that impression? I do not comprehend. I'm more than aware I'm not exempt; the dif
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I've used this thing more over the past three days than I have at all other occurrences (I cannot spell that word for shit; gotta love Firefox's British-English spell checker) since its inception. Combined. For those keeping score at home, this is my 7th "blogging" over the past 3 days.

Why is this? No fucking clue, but it's time for a change in the name I think. Yeah, yeah, I changed it to "Do You Like My Wang?" days ago but that kind of reference gets lost on people and someone sent me a PM asking why I had a sexual innuendo title despite writing nonsensical ramblings of DS games. I promptly replied explaining how a Wang is a type of Macintosh computer and that "Do You Like My Wang?" is a song from the Freezepop album Future Future Future Perfect.

So, anyway, the new name: Einherjar. The name has a sneaky bearing on the actual content this time, as Einherjar is a weapon-item from Rivier
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As has been the case for years, there will always be someone who gets access to a game early and leaks as much about the game as they can. How much the leak consists of, depends entirely on two things: the morality of the lucky bastard, and the legal limits.

A few things have been confirmed that I do like though; forward compatibility for almost every WT/SH track, 10 minute long customs and the Matthew Bellamy rumour was confirmed (whilst I wouldn't say I like this for what it is, he's no KD after all, I would say I'd like this because it'll shut up people asking about it).

Now, for everything else other than how bland the box art is:

Over the past hour or so, I've been watching the videos on Youtube of the GH5 charts kindly uploaded by SchnackAttack69, and I'm now anticipating the UK release of this game much less than I was yesterday. The charts look crap over all for various reasons; Swe
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After spending a bit too long today on deciding what game I'd write about t some degree, I decided to do something a bit different. Since I haven't played anything I'd consider new over the past 24 hours for more than a few minutes (I tried Blue Dragon Plus... yeah, no) I decided to write about something different I tried new today; the gaming podcast Retronauts run by (I would presume) a staff member of 1Up.com (which I have never actually visited, and never intend to; I hear it's like IGN... ugh).

As is the case with most things, I first heard tell about this on SomethingAwful (big surprise there, right?) in the Gaming Podcast thread in the Games board and I figured I'd check it out since I have a lot of retro stuff myself, although I have nothing - and I do mean nothing - on these guys.

I only really listened to one "episode" (#74) but it was a celebratory episode for the approx. 20th
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Since the last game I played with a fusion system this addictive was Persona 3, I've found the Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor fusion system to be just as addictive, if not moreso (it works on pretty much the same system as P3's when it's at its base). As a result, I'm used to seeing this kinda thing at high levels (like say 70+), but on SMTDS?

My main character is a mere level 19 and I just got *bleep*in' Thor. I had to cleverly utilise the Auction system to get him though, since I didn't have a spare Heqet and there wasn't one at the auction so I had to buy a Moh Shuyuu and an Ogun to fuse into Heqet which I then fused with a Makara (which I bought at the DA for about 320 macca; I had a little under 2k).

Alas, poor Thor is just a wee bit nerfed for being accessible from level 16 onwards seeing as how he only starts with Elec Dance, Counter and Awakening... the first two aren't avai
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*sigh* Another day, another crappy blog post about a game y'all likely don't care about (I'm basing this off of GMT times, so if it's not the 23rd yet for you, not my problem). This time, I'm pretty disappointed with the game though. Maybe I'm spoiled by games that are actually, what's the word... oh, yeah, good. Maybe I'm spoiled by good games lately, or maybe it's just another shitty game that can't live up to the hype but Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a pretty bland game, and thus there isn't much I can say about it.

Yeah, yeah, I just got a great (and I do mean great) first impression from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (which I'm going to finish before I even consider touching another DS game after I'm done writing this) and I finally managed to acquire a working copy of Hotel Dusk, but I decided to spend some time doing other stuff first so as to not influence my opinion of this game.
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What is it lately with me and DS games? No idea, but I'm an Atlus fanboy through and through (I've even played Shin Megami Tensei: If..., which is a game most people don't even know exists; I don't think it's even on Neo's database - that's how unknown it is) and when I found out Devil Survivor had been localised I just had to acquire a copy for myself.

I found out, and acquired it this morning. I started playing straight away. 8 hours later, I hadn't stopped yet. It is THAT immersive. I'm not particularly far in (not even finished Day 2 yet!) but I'm loving everything about it so far; it seems to me that it takes the best from every series (Shin Megami Tensei, Persona and Digital Devil Saga) and uses them to create what I would consider to be the best DS game released to date (I used to think it was TWEWY... that cannot even come close to SMTDS in my (arguably biased) opinion).

The easi
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Since I've been ill the past few days, I've been playing an assortment of random games but none were more captivating than Breath of Fire III. That said, why the hell is this not about the PSX legend I never played before? Simple: honeymustard.

Honeymustard is a fellow SA goon and sometime recently finished their LP of Flower, Sun and Rain for the Nintendo DS. I never read the thread beyond the initial update since I thought it looked rather boring but I gave it a second chance when it was added to the LPArchive and found it pretty entertaining to read, so I went out and bought the game (bear in mind, this was like 2 weeks ago) and never actually got around to playing it... until this morning.

I found the game to be highly captivating, despite the slow start, and - even though I haven't finished it yet - it keeps getting better as the game progresses. Much like Time Hollow, it's a puzzle/m
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Roughly 5 minutes prior to the original post, I just finished a relatively unknown little gem of a DS game known as Time Hollow. I've had it since about a month after its UK release, and I finished it before and hadn't played it since. That is, until yesterday.

I was looking through the Let's Play section of the Something Awful forums, a few days ago, when I saw a post in the Sandbox Magnum Condom on the Flaccid Wang of Suck of This Forum thread (and yes, MCotFWoSoTF is its name as of late) by a goon named Graceful Graveler and it was a test post of the opening of Time Hollow. I gave it a quick skim but thought nothing of it (since I'm not in the habit of seriously reading an SSLP in the Sandbox thread), since if it was bad there was no point in reading it and if it was good it'd end up with its own thread and would undoubtedly end up in the archives at some point.

Then, sometime around ye
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