I grade based on feeling and enjoyment. Meaning these are obviously subjective. I tend to find so-called "objective" views of things to be boring because I think one's enjoyment of something is based on a lot more than such strict things as the "rules of storytelling." It's how I can still enjoy some things even if they are ripe with many flaws.
I also only went down to "5" because I don't know what to say about anything lower than that. Once again it's based on my feeling and shows with scores lower than 5 are shows that I have no particular feeling about except that I felt they sucked on different levels.
5: These are shows I felt were just plain lame. They don't have much redeeming value and I found very little to enjoy in them. There may have been one or two enjoyable bits in them, but overall I'll just forget about them pretty quickly.
6: I found these shows to be decent...barely. They're a bit below-average and I probably thought the concept had potential but couldn't fully realize it. I didn't feel like I completely wasted my time watching these and might even watch a few of them again years down the road just to see if my opinion had changed (and sometimes it does).
7: These are shows I felt were good but nothing really special. Mostly average, maybe sometimes a bit above. I liked them but don't dwell on them and don't think about them very often.
8: These are the shows that have potential to be a favorite of mine. Not a "top" favorite, but a favorite nonetheless. These shows are often unique, or have very solid writing with great or interesting characters. They're not always the best but I thoroughly enjoyed them and would watch them again without a problem.
9: These shows are great! Many of my 9's find themselves into my list of top favorites. Gripping, interesting or fun storytelling, great characterization, often times the music and animation are top notch which add to the experience. An all-around excellent package that I can really sink my teeth into. These shows are always good to remind me why I became an anime fan.
10: I don't throw around 10's easily. 10's are special to me. Special in many ways. I consider them masterpieces for different reasons. No, they are not perfect. Nothing is perfect. But as I've said before, it's all about feeling. These shows give me a special feeling. I've found myself deeply connected to the characters and the story and just about every other aspect of the show that you can imagine. Some of these may flawed, but I've found myself so gripped that I easily brush them off, or I may even come to like some of said flaws. But that's the power of a 10. It switches me over into a whole new level of enjoyment.
Oh also, I've thought a lot about this lately, I think it's funny how easily Nintendo slipped back into 2D for a lot of their IP's, or never even left the perspective for some. That's just awesome and although Sonic Generations was good, they could still do so much more. Hell just let Nintendo develop a Sonic game, it'd seriously probably be incredible. When it ain't broke don't fix it, Nintendo do a great job of being consistent with some of their long running games and make quality 2D games to this day.
It's just sad how the Sonic CD engine is kind of taking up some spotlight lately, because Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was a disaster to me in terms of physics/controls. They should have just used this awesome engine.
Supposedly they released Sonic remastered using that engine on the iOS yesterday or something and it sounds incredible. Insane debug modes, playable Tails and Knuckles, making the physics act like Sonic 2 or 3+S&K, adding in unfinished stuff and items, and just all this crazyness. I guess they're working on giving that treatment to Sonic 2 now and there's like a bunch of unfinished levels that never made the full release apparently, never even knew about that stuff until recently. Most people think those will be accessible in this release, here's a near finished one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie7tg9JzJFg
Very cool, I'd love to see these get a PC/console release.
But yeah seriously, Generations was solid, but it was still a chore to get through the "Modern" Sonic stages, and the 2D ones were still just way too "busy" to look at, I can't really recall what any level looked like at all anymore. Who cares if it's cheap and easy, use the Sonic CD engine for another full game and it'd be the best thing ever.
That's true though, the 3DS has a pretty solid lineup at this point from what I've seen and heard. I'd totally go for an XL personally, those look great. Most of the ports sound like slight upgrades as well here and there, like the N64 stuff. But beyond that, definitely a lot of good stuff for it. Forget if you played any of the Fire Emblem games? I think that one might be hard to get pretty soon or already is, sounded like it had a low print run for some reason when everyone knew it was going to be big.
And yeah there's a good dozen or two Wii games I need to get now, I'm sure the Wii U will be the same eventually and I probably said it before, but the gamepad thing to me looks a lot less intrusive than motion controls, lol.
I'm defending Sony a lot but in the end yeah, they haven't completely "wowed" me at all or anything either, just... sounds like the OBVIOUSLY better choice here.
Nintendo is a no brainer at some point though yeah, with their onslaught of IP's. At this point I've definitely accepted the fact that they're just weird though and not really traditional consoles anymore, but yeah haha.
This was one of my favorites:
"I wonder how Americans are gaming at home. Whenever I'm playing a game, I never feel like I want to watch TV, so the ability to switch between the two makes no sense to me."
Seriously, how much more of a slap to the face can that get? Why the fuck would you care about switching to watching TV or playing something simultaneously on the fly? What the hell? lmfao, wtf?
You looked into any of this Xbox One coverage? Did that really just happen?
- Xbox... "One", wow.
- Give it a wood finish and it's a toaster from the 80's, hilariously awful design
- Win8 like UI, ads, that's right, pay a service to get ads
- Advanced Kinect, can detect your heartrate, etc. Greaaaaaaaaat
- Mandatory installs for every game, mandatory online once per day for "checkups"
- Ledger/fee for playing used games
- Evolved achievements/gamerscore, etc. Greaaaaaaat
- Xbox TV, can't imagine the price on this and XBL going up
- Halo TV series... pointless
And game announcements for multiplatform games we already knew were in existence and were coming.
Mind blown. Worst console reveal I've seen in my life.
Just gotta remap and move some files now... but yeah this is hilariously fast, lol. I see some suggest leaving the OS on the other drive for a week or so before formatting it, guess I might do that to be safe. Maybe throw Linux/Wine on another drive too for good measure, lol.
I can't remember if my other PC was OEM, but I figure so since it never came with a Windows disc lol. I'd guess I can probably still get the motherboard in a new case anyways and go from there.
The tournament has only kind of just begun, but i suspect it will go down the normal route of it being a clusterfuck. I don't get the sense that it's going to be a very long tournament but I could be wrong. It just doesn't seem like coming off the last arc that the tournament is going to be the only thing going on in this part, but it has been pretty funny so far.
I haven't actually seen that that much of it but what I've read so far I like. You do mean current manga arc or the current anime arc? The current anime arc in the manga just ended and a new one started.
I kind of don't see it as big of a split as some arcs are and totally see it as more of a continuation of the last arc it was in, kind of like impel down/marineford.
Wow, across the US and a good success story lol. It's gotta be even harder now though I imagine... I'd hate that distance for sure and would want to fix it asap, sounds like you're working on it though heh. Sex jokes with the family? That's... awkward lol.
So not gonna lie but I'm really interested/excited in taking apart my old PC now actually. Didn't give that a thought originally but after building this new one and modifying it a few times already, this was really fun. So I think I might just buy some of the same stuff again and see if I can salvage it and transfer things over, then someday it could be a living room PC or something.
Got the SSD in so hopefully the migration goes well. Funny enough my 1TB WD external was acting funky lately, my PC is usually in sleep mode and that was messing with it I guess... made weird noises sometimes (didn't sound like bad spins though) and would take awhile to detect. Did some research and I don't know what to expect, maybe it was the PSU or USB hardware within it failing, but I took it out and threw it in my tower, along with a 500GB one that also... gave me issues before, lol. It often sounds like these WD's have more success in a tower though outside of their enclosures, that's sad. For now I think I'll just dedicate one to Steam, and another something else that's not too important and easy to recover in case. I was already wanting to open that one up anyways, now I only have two externals hooked up and was able to free up more cable/plug space lol.
So do you install or use the SSD for anything, or just dedicate the OS to it?
Pretty proud of it at this point haha, I redid some cabling and I think it looks awesome now. It is pretty tight and I only have room for one more sata connection on the motherboard, and just one more connection to the PSU... not sure how you can add more of that, but I'm good to go for awhile now. http://i.imgur.com/ak0IA5Q.jpg
Finished - http://i.imgur.com/Jfaf5Tu.jpg, the GPU is pretty snug against one of the sata connections (had to use the flat side) but I think that'll help it be in firmer since it was a tad wobbly http://i.imgur.com/SIaZI2w.jpg
This is the backside... which already looked this good so I didn't pull this one off lol - http://i.imgur.com/4gCloGB.jpg
Rosie helped - http://i.imgur.com/Kdg75HX.jpg
I probably should have mentioned it (maybe you saw it), but Torchlight II was on sale the other day for a day... I grabbed it, lol. Been curious about it ever since I played Diablo III. Sounds a lot better. Not huge on these dungeon crawlers, but they can be fun for a week or two. Can't argue with $6... lol
Planetside 2 is free to play, might check that out sometime.
