What Games Have I Been Playing?

I've been playing quite a massive amount over the last week I'd say. I've started on .hack//G.U. Vol 2. I've completed Gears of War, and will be completing Perfect Dark Zero over the next week or two. Project Gotham Racing 3 is done with, and I'm now beginning on Forza Motorsport 2. Super Paper Mario is only about an hour or two away from completion of the main storyline. I have finally after so many months brought myself to play about 5-6 hours of Final Fantasy XII. My opinion hasn't changed much. The story moves at a snail-like pace, and the dungeons are more annoying than they are fun. I cannot find myself forgiving an RPG that has me looking at the area map every once in a while because everything looks the same. Yes, .hack is similar, but at least .hack doesn't have take forever to load.

I'm looking at taking some time to complete Halo and Halo 2 before Halo 3 shows up, and I also have Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2 to complete before Metroid Prime 3. I intend to finish some amount of Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2, although I think it's unlikely I'll be playing the 3rd game, but I have already more or less completed MGS: Portable Ops for the PSP.

I have gotten quite sick and bored of DotA, just as I've grown bored of Counter-Strike. I suppose too much repetition is bad. I bid you farewell and good night.

Weird Dreams Part 4

By now, you're probably wondering why I'm writing about my dreams. My dreams happen to be more interesting than my real life at this point in time. You might not find them as weird as I do, but they sure are weird. Arguably, everybody doesn't dream straight, but there have been creepier dreams. When I was a lot younger, say 10 years ago, I dreamt of what I now know of as the backdoor passage to one of HELP's lecture theatres. That dream was particularly weird because I have never been to one of HELP's lecture theatres. I had never seen a single photo of the passage, nor have I seen it until I actually went to HELP.

Well, you might say that, hey, it's just a passage, surely there must be some permutation in my dream that led to that particular passage. Maybe. You'd never know. While I have never had any particularly prophetic dream, these dreams do often cause feelings of deja vu. A particular conversation with a friend about a very particular topic, going a very particular direction - and you know exactly what you're about to say, and what your friend is going to reply.

Where am I going exactly? I don't mark many of my dreams as particularly peculiar, since most of them I forget. But those I remember - are the weird ones.

Weird Dreams Part 3

(Why is this in another part? My short attention span.) OK, so I don't like MMORPGs. I can't stand them. I don't see how people could spend more than one or two months on a single game! But that's straying away from the point. So, apparently I play MMORPGs.

When the dream begins, my friends and I walk through the first newsagent, browse through several magazines, and then go to the cybercafe. We play for hours, then come back. This somehow repeats itself several times with foggier details. On some days, we buy drinks, on others we are somehow eating fried noodles on the way. (wtf?!)

Then comes this one fine day, when a friend of mine tells me while he's on the way back that my favourite magazine came with this CD with the expansion of the MMORPG I've been playing. I go look through the first newsagent, to find nothing. I then go to the second one. For some odd reason, I run into someone of interest. I have no idea who this someone is, but I happen to think the it's a she, and she got a copy of the magazine for me. (weird >_>). I thank her for it and move along after maybe an hour of chit chat at some drink store.

I head to the internet cafe, and then the dream ends. :P

Weird Dreams Part 2

This dream I had about a month ago. In my dreams, I happen to somehow dream up entire shopping malls. Don't ask me why or how, but for some odd reason I happen to be capable of generating an entire shopping mall in a dream. I don't go through the entire shopping mall, but I often know what is on which floor, even in my dream. (Weird, since I'm not some shopping-loving maniac or something.) Hence, this dream takes place in a familiar shopping mall. It happens to have 4 floors, but floor of particular interest in this dream happens to be the basement floor. This particular shopping mall happens to have a cybercafé on the basement floor. I will elaborate on this floor since I happen to recall a large amount of the layout.

This floor has a flight of stairs leading down to the basement. An up escalator is next to this stairs (no down escalator). Next to the staircase is a newsagent. This newsagent happens to have a healthy stock of my favourite gaming magazine.

A significant part of this particular basement floor is a pane of glass between the shoppers and the parking lot. However, there are plenty of shops along the way, among which is a game shop, several snack stores and most importantly, an internet gaming cafe.

I appear to remember frequenting this internet gaming cafe. (I have only visited gaming cafes like nine times my entire life, so no I don't have any idea why. And why in the bloody basement?) There happens to be another newsagency next to this cybercafe. It happens to survive because it sells plenty of gaming magazines also.

In this dream, I happen to like MMORPGs. I play them like ordinary games. My friends also happen to enjoy some of the same games. (Weird details, eh?)

(to be continued...)