Too many titles and one Beta

Again with this crap, too many games to play and no time to lose. And don't even remind me of those PS3 games I have. Last title was Heavy Rain which has about 5hours of gameplay, and after that I have only used the console for videos and movies. Oh well, can only blame myself for hogging games like rare item collector, but newer finishing them. Reminds me of buying Terry Pratchett's novels...

Last game I finished was Dead Island, but you can play it again after completing it though. Other games I have started but never finished (and I mean those that have a value of finishing): Dragon Age 2, Hunted The Demon's Forge, Fist of the North Star Ken's Rage(PS3), Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (PS3), Far Cry 2, Deus Ex HR. Too big list if you ask me. PS3 titles were mostly a case that I wanted to try them out, because they are KOEI titles. Both of them are kind of games that you have get used to before you can enjoy them. I didn't get past that line yet, but I'm thinking to return to. But unlikely in this year.

Luckily there is still Battlefield 3 Beta running, even if europe retail release is little over two weeks from now (28.10). And even if it is released, I believe lots of gamers are going to play the multiplayer over singleplayer more. I just hope the plot for singleplayer mode is playable, which reminds me of Battlefield Bad Company 2, which I never finished, but I don't care...multiplayer was tons of fun!

BF3 beta is quite nice game at the moment, with some bugs and glitches, but hey, what game doesn't have any of those. I have encountered couple glitches, one from alpha state and one from beta. Beta glitch was so tiny that I don't remember what it was, but I know it was there. They told that there was hundreds of bug and glitch fixes from alpha to beta, but we don't know what have changed. And now they promise to fix more bugs for retail version from all the feedback in Battlelog.

If there is bugs in retail version, they don't bother me as long as they aren't "in the way", which hasn't happened to me in alpha or in beta yet. At the moment as beta is running, I have had a blast of fun. Have only encountered couple nuts in the game, one who shot teammates for no reason and squad mates who ran straight to enemy fire without looking up if there was any threat.

And now if I would get some inspirations, I might continue to clean and make my sisters website to half ready. Till then, games are on hold...oh the horror!

Comics and Kimonos Part 1

It was around year 2000 when I first started watching animation with realizing that it was actually anime and it was from Japan. I have already seen some anime in the past, like Silver Fang: Shooting Star (Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin) and Crimson Pig (Porco Rosso). And of course those series shown on local channel, like Pokemon and Digimon etc.


First series I ever watched around that year were Excel Saga and Detective Loki (Matantei Loki Ragnarok) with my big brother. Third series was Star Ocean EX which was too romantic and dramatic for me, so I only remember about 2 scenes. Fourth and final serie after I got into the japanese animation was Puni Puni Poemi, from same creators as Excel Saga.

After these series I didn't have much chance to see more of them. Most notable series from local channels in between 2003 and 2006 were Dragon Ball Z (with english dub) and Magic Knight Rayearth. DBZ was kind of fun to watch and I even ran after school to home, because it was shown as soon as my last classes were finished. Oh the times...

My friends told me once that local channel called Subtv, showed Sailor Moon...with swedish dub. Luckily I didn't see that, but still to this day it sounds almost like horrible dream.

But now that I have "grown" with anime, I have seen more series and movies, even the newer ones. It was pretty difficult to buy or even get anime in Finland at my age. If you had even Visa Electron card, you could only do purchases at local stores and some webstores that accepted the card. But now as Electron is read as Visa at someplaces, it's too easy to get your money blown to bits.

If you are interested to see, what series I have watched and am watching at the time, belove is a link for Finnish site, but directly to the list. Some of the names may be translated to finnish, but maybe Google translator can help you out...heh.
http://www.animewatcher.net/user/65/anime (in Finnish)

Manga list will be shown on Part 2