Well, I’ve been waiting for R&C2 for months. Nov 11th… It finally came…Yet, I do not have the game. Why? Software Etc, my local branch of gamestop/electronic boutique. I made a special trip out during my lunch break today. They first said “We don’t have it yet.” When I asked further, they looked it up on their computer and said that it was in the back in a box still. I asked if they could get it out for me and they stated “No.

Bored… I don’t feel like playing any of the games I have here. Hmm.Well, I guess I could play some more Unreal. Perhaps I should play the demo for R&C2 more. I hate when I’ve finished all the games I think I have time for, right before a new one is released. Hmm. It’ll be post-work tomorrow before I can play it too. :(In other news, I wonder how many people have heard of any of the songs I toss in my “music” section.

Another game polished off, this one not long after I bought it. It helped that it was only about a 11 hour game. It has a Hard mode which I’m not sure if I’ll try and finish. All in all, despite how ancient the game is, it was fun. I paid all of $10 for it, and managed 11 hours. About par for rpg games I buy. (90 cents per hour.

I upgraded!Here’s the modification in the stats for my systems.Lain:Athlon 850mhz -> Celeron socket478 2.4ghz256mb PC133 -> 256mb DDR2700300watt non-p4-approved -> 300watt p4 approvedShuttle AI61 motherboard -> Shuttle AB60N mb3com 3x59x lan card -> built in intel lan cardYamaha XG sound card -> Realtek AC97 lan card.(ok, so the last two aren’t really upgrades… I hope to put a SBLive or some better sound card in eventually, but at least the Yamaha isn’t in my system anymore to crash it whenever I plug in the speakers)Ruri:Athlon 500mhz -> Athlon 850mhz256mb PC133 -> 384mb PC133HP-OEM Asus K7M -> Shuttle AI61 motherboardNo cdrom drive -> 40x IDE drive for ripping cdsThe final results?

I was really excited about apple iTunes. I thought that they could be a reliable source for buying e-music online. Well, it looks like they’re not going to be the source for me. I bought one cd from them this week. Bowling for Soup - Lets do it for johnny. I immediately burned a music cd of it for my car. Well, I upgraded my computer 2 days later, figuring that the LBA couldn’t have changed much since the last generation of motherboards, I was wrong.

You may or may not know that I have way too many games. I frequently start a game, and go half way, or most of the way through it in the first few weeks I have it, then never quite finish it. ZOE was like that. I had 3 hours finished on it, and just stuck it on the shelf when I bought my Gamecube, thinking that it was probably a 20 hour game and I’d finish it later.

I bought FFX over a year ago. I had it darn near close to finished (although I didn’t know it at the time) and was at the final “serious” boss. (there’s two non-serious bosses afterward that there is just no possible way to lose on, like the final battle in FFVII)I lost my memory card. I had about 68 hours in the game at the time.(Not only that, but my Dark Cloud 1 game was on there.

It looks like I’m never going to even post anything to this if I stick to personal things I’d tell any of my friends. (look how much has been posted so far!) So I think I’ll start using it as a place to review games.I managed to finish this in about 30 hours. I suspect someone who is good at the game could play it start to finish in 8 hours though.

Looks like I have a live journal now, Yippee!Although, I probably won’t post to it much, as I have so many other sites to maintain.Quite an interesting system. Looking forward to playing with it more in the future.– Kaz