So, the series finale of How I Met Your Mother was today. I just watched it. I was disappointed.
Oh, Brittany, why were you disappointed?
Well, the entire season has been more specifically about how Ted finally meets the mother and everyone else meeting her beforehand. Along with this, the season has spent a lot of its time getting people excited and in love with Barney and Robin being married and being together. I love Barney and Robin together, and I know a lot of other people do to. So how come in this finale, did they decide to break them up? Oh, I'll tell you. It's because it was easy... It's easy to fall back on the Ted with Robin thing. Very easy. Why? Because they've done it time and time again. Ted and Robin have had flings countless times in the series. Why not just do it again for the finale?
Except one thing... I hate Ted and Robin together. The only time I've probably liked Robin was when she was with Barney. They just kind of gloss over the fact that "Hey, the mother gets sick and dies! Let's spend a total of a minute to maybe a minute and a half on that!" I mean, there was so much more they could have done with that... What kind of sickness (probably cancer, but still)? How did it effect everyone? What happened to Ted when she finally passed? I would have been happier with a depressing episode of how the mother died after Ted had finally found the love of his life. Instead... I get How Ted Got Robin After The Mother Died.
I would have also been okay if Barney and Robin had gotten back together after their divorce when he had a kid and really changed. I think that he would have been even better for Robin and since Robin can't have kids, perfect for her because she says she doesn't want kids. But come on. She was depressed when she found out, so she obviously wanted kids on some level, and sure... she gets kids with Ted, but... they're teenagers by this point. They're not ever going to view her as mom while Barney's kid still had that chance. Sure, maybe that's not the point, but it would have been better that way.
The entire thing was just a huge disappointment. The entire time I was watching this show, I never once hoped "Ted should get Robin in the end". I really wanted him to just give on her. For real give up on her too, not just say he is.
I just really need to get this out there, because the amount of disappointment I feel is just overwhelming and needs to be vented somewhere.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Final Fantasy X - Yuna Quote
This is possibly my favorite quote from the game. I'm not sure though. There's something about it and the quick flash of images of all the characters and knowing she's referring to Tidus with the "dreams that have faded" part.
Final Fantasy X - To Luca!
So I got Final Fantasy X HD Remaster. I think it's gorgeous. The facial animations are a bit weird sometimes though, less emotion really. I can get past it since I love it so much and everything else is beautifully smoothed out and has added detail. If you don't see it, pop in the PS2 version and you will, or find a video of the orginal PS2 if you don't have it; you'll really see the difference.
Since I don't have a PS3, however, I get to play it at my boyfriend's house when I'm over. This is sadly only about 2 days out of the week normally because of his current school schedule and the fact that my parents would go insane if I said, "Hey, I'm staying the night at Kevin's, see you tomorrow!" Since I have to live with my parents for now, it's best to try and keep them happy. He's ever so loving and sweet though and lets me play it, for the most part, as much as I want. It's a bonus that he's never played it before and doesn't really know anything about it, so there are some things he finds interesting and sometimes he just gets sassy in a kind of funny way about stuff, like Wakka's strange shoulder guard thing.
But my time is still limited to playing for short period of time while I'm there because it feels wrong to go over there an play for 6 hours and not really be all cuddly and loving like I love to be. With this concept of balancing my time with my favorite game and my time with my boyfriend in mind... I don't really know how. I'll be trying my best at it though with breaks during the play time to talk with him and be cute to playing and talking with him a bit less.
Now, I've also been trying to play while getting as much done in a short period of time as possible, which I'll probably slow down on a bit once I get past Luca. My goal yesterday was to stop when I got to Luca, but I got a bit further than that. I'm right before playing in the Blitzball touney with Tidus and I suck at it. Like serious, if you have any tips for how to win or become decent at blitzball I'd be grateful if you left them in the comments. I'm awful at it and the rules are so boring to read.
It was a good day playing yesterday though! Trying to explain the Sphere Grid is difficult though because I skipped the tutorial because I know how to use it, but explaining it to my boyfriend who kept asking questions was difficult. I didn't think it was that complicated, but maybe it's more difficult to understand than I thought? Maybe I'm just bad at explaining it, I'll probably try again next time I'm there.
Anywho, I forgot to get Valefor's second overdrive while I was in Besaid and was a little down about it until I read that I can go back and talk to someone twice, I think, and get it. I also missed an Al Bhed Primer and worried over it for several minutes while I tried to figure out if it was one I could go back and get later (it was). I know there are some you can only get while you're there, but I think all of those might just be the ones at Home. I need to double check.
Playing Final Fantasy with someone around who has never played one is very interesting. Especially if they're someone who asks questions that can be difficult to answer if they're interested in the story and you don't want to completely ruin it for them. My boyfriend keeps asking about the ending and how "defeating"
Sin works if Sin just keeps coming back and there's just so little you can really say before you start spoiling it, but you don't get to most of that until pretty close to the end anyway. I keep telling him he'll just have to wait. He didn't pay attention to the part where they showed Seymour, so he doesn't realize just how important he is yet. It's funny how he misses little things because he's doing his own stuff in between cutscenes and significant moments in the game.
This is a fun experience for me because I'm very uncomfortable having people watch me play games unless it has happened a lot. My brother has been around and watched me for years, but I've always known he's better but he never judged me when I didn't do as well as him at something. He accepts that I'm really good at some things and really bad at others (platforming). I don't expect this of other people and while I know Kevin wouldn't make fun of me or anything if I wasn't good at something, it's easier if he watches me do something I know for a fact and confidently that I'm very good at, like Final Fantasy X. So, hopefully this will make him watching me play other games easier in the future or playing certain games with him.
I know this post is full of personal accounts with the boyfriend and me, but it was a very nice fun time and I wanted to share! I'll try to keep most of my posts more focused on the content in the game in the future, so please excuse that!
Announcement Time!
I'm making an Al Bhed Primer guide! This is mostly for me to have quick and easy access to. Most guides (I'm looking at gamefaqs) I've found don't do a very good job about telling the location of the primers but squiddo does. I'm borrowing their pictures for the locations and writing up my own descriptions (mostly) to help better understand where they are, and I'll be posting it as a page on this blog! Feel free to use it if you want, most people probably won't need it by the time I'm done with it (which will hopefully be later today) because there are so many others out there. I may consider putting it on game faqs as well since it'll be a little more indepth than the current one that's listed.
I'll also be continuing to blog about my various experinces as I play Final Fantasy X, so there will likely be lots of posts like these to come.
Since I don't have a PS3, however, I get to play it at my boyfriend's house when I'm over. This is sadly only about 2 days out of the week normally because of his current school schedule and the fact that my parents would go insane if I said, "Hey, I'm staying the night at Kevin's, see you tomorrow!" Since I have to live with my parents for now, it's best to try and keep them happy. He's ever so loving and sweet though and lets me play it, for the most part, as much as I want. It's a bonus that he's never played it before and doesn't really know anything about it, so there are some things he finds interesting and sometimes he just gets sassy in a kind of funny way about stuff, like Wakka's strange shoulder guard thing.
But my time is still limited to playing for short period of time while I'm there because it feels wrong to go over there an play for 6 hours and not really be all cuddly and loving like I love to be. With this concept of balancing my time with my favorite game and my time with my boyfriend in mind... I don't really know how. I'll be trying my best at it though with breaks during the play time to talk with him and be cute to playing and talking with him a bit less.
Now, I've also been trying to play while getting as much done in a short period of time as possible, which I'll probably slow down on a bit once I get past Luca. My goal yesterday was to stop when I got to Luca, but I got a bit further than that. I'm right before playing in the Blitzball touney with Tidus and I suck at it. Like serious, if you have any tips for how to win or become decent at blitzball I'd be grateful if you left them in the comments. I'm awful at it and the rules are so boring to read.
It was a good day playing yesterday though! Trying to explain the Sphere Grid is difficult though because I skipped the tutorial because I know how to use it, but explaining it to my boyfriend who kept asking questions was difficult. I didn't think it was that complicated, but maybe it's more difficult to understand than I thought? Maybe I'm just bad at explaining it, I'll probably try again next time I'm there.
Anywho, I forgot to get Valefor's second overdrive while I was in Besaid and was a little down about it until I read that I can go back and talk to someone twice, I think, and get it. I also missed an Al Bhed Primer and worried over it for several minutes while I tried to figure out if it was one I could go back and get later (it was). I know there are some you can only get while you're there, but I think all of those might just be the ones at Home. I need to double check.
Playing Final Fantasy with someone around who has never played one is very interesting. Especially if they're someone who asks questions that can be difficult to answer if they're interested in the story and you don't want to completely ruin it for them. My boyfriend keeps asking about the ending and how "defeating"
Sin works if Sin just keeps coming back and there's just so little you can really say before you start spoiling it, but you don't get to most of that until pretty close to the end anyway. I keep telling him he'll just have to wait. He didn't pay attention to the part where they showed Seymour, so he doesn't realize just how important he is yet. It's funny how he misses little things because he's doing his own stuff in between cutscenes and significant moments in the game.
This is a fun experience for me because I'm very uncomfortable having people watch me play games unless it has happened a lot. My brother has been around and watched me for years, but I've always known he's better but he never judged me when I didn't do as well as him at something. He accepts that I'm really good at some things and really bad at others (platforming). I don't expect this of other people and while I know Kevin wouldn't make fun of me or anything if I wasn't good at something, it's easier if he watches me do something I know for a fact and confidently that I'm very good at, like Final Fantasy X. So, hopefully this will make him watching me play other games easier in the future or playing certain games with him.
I know this post is full of personal accounts with the boyfriend and me, but it was a very nice fun time and I wanted to share! I'll try to keep most of my posts more focused on the content in the game in the future, so please excuse that!
Announcement Time!
I'm making an Al Bhed Primer guide! This is mostly for me to have quick and easy access to. Most guides (I'm looking at gamefaqs) I've found don't do a very good job about telling the location of the primers but squiddo does. I'm borrowing their pictures for the locations and writing up my own descriptions (mostly) to help better understand where they are, and I'll be posting it as a page on this blog! Feel free to use it if you want, most people probably won't need it by the time I'm done with it (which will hopefully be later today) because there are so many others out there. I may consider putting it on game faqs as well since it'll be a little more indepth than the current one that's listed.
I'll also be continuing to blog about my various experinces as I play Final Fantasy X, so there will likely be lots of posts like these to come.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Video Game Reviews
I decided that I was going to make a video game review blog, because why not? I could do it in this same blog instead of making them separate, but I don't think everyone who wants to (or just happens upon it really) read all about my life in the midst of looking at my reviews or posts about video games. Not that I'd even make that many posts about my life because I think my life is kinda boring sometimes. Then again people are surprising. The url for the gaming blog is brittanysvideogames.blogspot.com if anyone is interested in it in the future; there's not anything there yet but I'm currently working on it. Oh, and as expected, one of my first few reviews will be of none other than Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD. I, of course, won't have played all of it for the review (I know this game backwards and forwards, I don't think I need to play all of it for a review of changes). I will, however play several hours, attempt to go over how I think it holds up in the new age of gaming, and what I think of the changes.
Other reviews I may throw in there may be random and not of new games at all. Why? Well because I haven't had a chance to get many new games lately. I will likely do one for each Mass Effect, perhaps Bioshock Infinite, maybe Tomb Raider, and so on. Mostly things I don't need to go back and play any of to form an opinion of it. There are tons of reviews for these games out there, but if it's from IGN the reviewer is attempting to be objective and view the game and how they think the majority of people will view it as well it seems. Maybe that's just me, but I want to give my opinion on games without thinking about how other people might feel like "Oh, that's just horrible and annoying, I wish it were different" yet I'm sitting there knowing that I love it anyway.
So, that's that. I'll try to get a few things up there soon. I have a tumblr where I did a few things that could be kind of considered reviews... kind of used loosely here. I'll be adding those first.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster Fever
And by fever I mean I'm very excited for March 18th because I love Final Fantasy X. Since this is my new first post (I deleted the old one from 3 years ago because well... let's just say it was embarrassing to read now) what better way to start than talking about possibly my favorite video game!
Final Fantasy X originally came out for PS2 in 2001, if I remember correctly, and for its time it was fantastic. It was fully voiced (it wasn't the first fully voiced game out there though, Shenmue wins that), had a great story, and great graphics. Although, some would like to argue about the voice acting because it isn't the best, I don't think anyone should let that bother them to much considering the time the game was released or they'll just miss out on a great game. Sure, this is all in my opinion, but I feel like I've been known to love great games because they're great and they have that special something that just keeps you coming back. I've played Final Fantasy X at least 5 times all the way through; however, I have played Final Fantasy X-2 more, but that's a story for another time.
Final Fantasy X gives you the main character of Tidus (or whatever you choose to name him) and his "story". Like in all seriousness they even say that in the game, but his name is never mentioned which is why you can name him whatever you want. Now if I wasn't typing, I could go on and on about different things in this game that I love, like the sphere grid. I love the sphere grid and while it would take forever to fully complete it with everyone (this is a trophy in the remastered version by the way, but maybe not with everyone?) I just simply love this system of developing a characters' stats. You don't have to worry, "Am I a high enough level for this boss?" because trust me... if you master the order system based off party members' speeds you can still defeat what seems like an impossible boss. I know this because I had my brother do it for me once when there was a boss I felt like there was no way I was going to beat (Seymour boss on Mt. Gagazet which isn't all that difficult unless you're severely under developed like I was).
Final Fantasy X originally came out for PS2 in 2001, if I remember correctly, and for its time it was fantastic. It was fully voiced (it wasn't the first fully voiced game out there though, Shenmue wins that), had a great story, and great graphics. Although, some would like to argue about the voice acting because it isn't the best, I don't think anyone should let that bother them to much considering the time the game was released or they'll just miss out on a great game. Sure, this is all in my opinion, but I feel like I've been known to love great games because they're great and they have that special something that just keeps you coming back. I've played Final Fantasy X at least 5 times all the way through; however, I have played Final Fantasy X-2 more, but that's a story for another time.
Final Fantasy X gives you the main character of Tidus (or whatever you choose to name him) and his "story". Like in all seriousness they even say that in the game, but his name is never mentioned which is why you can name him whatever you want. Now if I wasn't typing, I could go on and on about different things in this game that I love, like the sphere grid. I love the sphere grid and while it would take forever to fully complete it with everyone (this is a trophy in the remastered version by the way, but maybe not with everyone?) I just simply love this system of developing a characters' stats. You don't have to worry, "Am I a high enough level for this boss?" because trust me... if you master the order system based off party members' speeds you can still defeat what seems like an impossible boss. I know this because I had my brother do it for me once when there was a boss I felt like there was no way I was going to beat (Seymour boss on Mt. Gagazet which isn't all that difficult unless you're severely under developed like I was).
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