Cephiros, The One Winged Angel

For some of you, this might be the first post you’ve seen me write. For those who actually go to my main blog site. I know there is great time span between this post and my last post. I’ll blame it on one thing and one thing only, GTA IV. Finished the game last night and clocked in about 40 hours so far. I can’t remember the last time I clocked that much time on a game in such a short period of time.

There many achievements I need to unlock. In addition, I have many side missions to finish. I haven’t gotten my feet wet with the multiplayer aspect of the game. Oh yeah, this was the first GTA I’ve beaten. Playing the others were fun for awhile but soon I got regardless if I cheated or not.

However, this story captivated me through out the whole game. Out of all the in game choices to keep a person alive or kill them.. Well, I only killed one person. I think the Niko Bellic that I played hasn’t lost his soul completely to crime and money. One day he will overcome the tragedy in his life.

So what is to come to my gaming life since I beat the game? Well, I am going to continue playing this game while playing others. I really need to finish Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix. Yes, I first started playing it for easy achievements but it’s not that bad of a game either. Oh yeah, I might finally brave the XBL frontier for some GTV IV multiplayer.

Until next time…

Just for the record. I’ve never beaten any GTA game that has been released before the newest one. I’ll do the missions and I’ll advance the storyline but so after I usually lose interest for some reason. The very same thing might happen with the newest one but I doubt.

I really like the hero/anti-hero that is Niko Bellic. He is not a parody like the main character in the other games. I have not started a killing spring. My main source of killings are from missions. Yes, I’ve stolen a bunch of cars and I try not to run anyone over. However, accidents do happen.

I have not delved into the multiplayer just yet. I will try it. It has over 16 modes I believe with a mix of co-op and such. I doubt that I will ever reach 1000/1000 on the achievements but I will be able to pick up a hand full. I’m really not that much of an achievement whore even though I have the Avatar: The Last Airbender. *looks sheepishly*

On that note, really loving Avatar: The Last Airbender. Waiting for the last few episodes of the very last season. However, that is a topic for another post, another day.

So, I did not decide to download the First Album DLC for Rockband. I’m simply not a Judas Priest fan. This week DLC I have really decided just yet. It is one Smashing Pumpkins song, Zero and Two Mother hips songs. It is not part of a pack so each song is 160 MS points or 2 bucks basically.

I’ve been trading my old PS2 and DS games on Goozex. It is a video trading community. Each game has a point value assigned by supply and demand along with when it was release with other date involved. It is a much better resource to trade and receive games. Once you have the points, you request a game. If you have the trade credits then you are matched with a seller. Each trade credit is $1. Overall, I’m very happy with this program.

April 29th, 2008 - Grand Theft Auto IV came and I purchased it after work. I decided to go with the special edition which came with an art book, soundtrack cd, lockbox, keychain, and bag. It was $90 bucks but I feel what was included made it worth it.

So last post, I said I had some problems that I needed to resolve on my blog. Well, I found a neat little Wordpress plugin that helps you back up and upgrade your installation with ease. Glad to say that my blog is running Wordpress 2.5.1. My security plugin says that everything is perfect.  Also, I found a somewhat working Livejournal Crossposter plugin. I don’t know if I will ever try the Myspace one. Maybe not until it transfers all of my SQL database stuff into it so I don’t have to.

Been watching tons of Avatar the Last Air Bender. We’re on Season 3, waiting for the disc 3 from the DVD to be released. It happens to be my birthday when it does, May 6th.

Anyways… that’s all I have for now. Oh yeah, my gamertag on Xbox Live is CephirosMatsuri