Well I finally found time to blog. Here’s the new finalized cover of my book, and please, no Final Fantasy Comments.

Job, being a Project Manager sucks, I have PMS everyday (short for Project Management Shit), I get blamed for crap that has nothing to do with me and I get yelled at everyday.

Games, I wanted to talk about my 5 minute impression of Fable, a game that I never wanted to play, but fell in love with it anyway, and it helps because its my favorite word that contains my name, but in any case, during 5 min of playtime, I caught a husband cheating on his wife and promised him not to tell (+5 evil points), then I told on his wife (+5 good points). I thought about this? Is it not the reverse of real life? I consider going back on someone’s promise evil and breaking up families while it has nothing to do with you, even more evil. Games make us think, that’s why I love games.

The good month of XBLA went by, there was a good game every single week. I loved Braid, a game that got the attention that it deserved, an ingenious creation of art that made the players think. After Bionic Commando Rearmed, Galaga, and Castle Crashers, I played Samurai Showdown 2 to death. I played this game 10 years ago in the arcade in UCLA, I remembered that every battle was intense and fought to the last breath. XBLA opponents were not a disappointment. I thought about what made this game great, and why this game withstood the times and it is still the best SS game in the series, this game was not about perfecting the art of comboing, chaining attacks, super cancels, fireballs and uppercuts, overheads and hop attacks guessing, it is in fact a game of patience, of 2 hit kills, a game that really micmic weapon cutting flash. It is also a game of unpredictability, where the health item drops, when someone powerups or go dizzy, it is a game that perfectly micmics two samurais that faces each other and thinking whoever makes the first mistake, will pay heavily for it.

I want to talk about Spore, to sum it up it is a jack of all trades, master of none, it kind of reminds me of… me. Spore flows like this, Flow -> WOW -> AOE -> Dune 2 -> Star Control 2, it micmics so many games but it does none of them perfectly, but together as a package it overwhelms you with awesomeness. At the end it was love and hate for me, I loved the first 2 days I played it and when I went to the space colonization part it went downhill for me, which seemed to have been the culmination of the beginning, but it felt nothing like the pinnalce of glory it had led me to belief. It did not make sense for me to control 1 captain to fly across the galaxy saving planets from alien invasion while I built a species from the cell stage I could not deploy my underlings to save themselves. At the end, I am looking forward to Fable 2, and playing King of Fighters 98 UM over XBLA, well there’s Fallout 3. Is the PS3 permanently collecting dust next to the TV?