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The first part of my Top 50 Final Fantasy tracks. Originally going to be Top 25, but since there are so many awesome tracks by Nobuo Uematsu, extending it to 50 was hard to resist. I could have gone all the way to 100, but I feel 50's enough.

A few other things to clarify:

1. This is MY list and I don't declare it as the official top 50 Final Fantasy tracks in any way. These are the 50 tracks that I feel are the best of Final Fantasy. You are free to agree/disagree/comment on my list, but please don't whine about Track A being so high up or Track B not being on my list at all. Remember that only 50 tracks + 20 honourable mentions out of roughly 700 tracks were able to make the cut.
2. There are video clips within several tracks, so you're not just looking at the game logos for every single track.
3. The video release dates are as scheduled:

#50 - 41: 14th January -- UPLOADED
#40 - 31: 15th January -- UPLOADED
#30 - 21: 17th January -- UPLOADED
#20 - 11: 20th January -- UPLOADED
#10 - 1: 25th January -- UPLOADED

Incase YouTube decide to take down my videos for any reason, the full list is right below:

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Honourable mentions:

Town (FFI)
Ahead On Our Way (FFV)
Lenna's Theme (FFV)
The Phantom Forest (FFVI)
Phantom Train (FFVI)
Save Them! (FFVI)
Forever Rachel (FFVI)
The Fierce Battle (FFVI)
Searching for Friends (FFVI)
Gogo (FFVI)
Epitaph (FFVI)
Barret's Theme (FFVII)
Force Your Way (FFVIII)
The Castle (FFVIII)
Vivi's Theme (FFIX)
Decisive Action ~Search for the Princess~ (FFIX)
Jesters of the Moon (FFIX)
Song of Memories (FFIX)
Rose of May (FFIX)
Passing Sorrow (FFIX)

50. Freya's Theme (FFIX)
49. The Decisive Battle (FFV)
48. Electric De Chocobo (FFVII)
47. Grand Finale (FFVI)
46. Matoya's Cavern (FFI)
45. Fanfare (FFVI)
44. Doga and Unei (FFIII)
43. Vamo' Alla Flamenco (FFIX)
42. J-E-N-O-V-A (FFVII)
41. Kids Run Through the City (FFVI)
40. Hunter's Chance (FFIX)
39. Into the Darkness (FFIV)
38. The Forested Temple (FFVII)
37. At the South Gate Border (FFIX)
36. World Crisis (FFVII)
35. The Birth of God (FFVII)
34. The Decisive Battle (FFVI)
33. Crazy Motorcycle Chase (FFVII)
32. Overture (FFVI)
31. The Dreadful Fight (FFIV)
30. Ahead On Our Way (FFVII)
29. On the Other Side of the Mountain (FFVII)
28. The Man with the Machine Gun (FFVIII)
27. Theme of Love (FFIV)
26. Holding My Thoughts In My Heart (FFVII)
25. To Zanarkand (FFX)
24. Locke (FFVI)
23. Celes (FFVI)
22. Opening Theme (FFI)
21. Kefka (FFVI)
20. Edgar & Sabin (FFVI)
19. Aerith's Theme (FFVII)
18. Overworld (FFIV)
17. Shadow (FFVI)
16. Tifa's Theme (FFVII)
15. Still More Fighting (FFVII)
14. Battle Theme (FFVI)
13. Opening ~ Bombing Mission (FFVII)
12. Main Theme (FFVII)
11. One Winged Angel (FFVII)
10. Anxious Heart (FFVII)
09. Dancing Mad (FFVI)
08. Terra (FFIX)
07. Terra's Theme (FFVI)
06. Prelude (FFI)
05. Aria de Mezzo Carattere (FFVI)
04. Clash on the Big Bridge (FFV)
03. On That Day, 5 Years Ago (FFVII)
02. You're Not Alone! (FFIX)
01. Ending Theme (FFVI)

*** Please take note that this review goes in detail about the game itself, most especially at the end, so if you haven't played the game yet, I suggest you look away now. ***

Everyone should know what Spore is by now, but to the unlucky one who hasn't even heard of Spore, this is a game that lets you create your own creatures and seeing it evolve through five stages as well as designing buildings and vehicles for your own cities. That's the basis of the game and while it was a brilliant idea and the game is very creative, there are several flaws which sadly bring the game down. That doesn't mean it's a bad game, however. This is a game any computer gamer should have a look at, most especially the Creature Creator.

Graphics:

While many games today have high-quality graphics, the graphics in Spore aren't top notch and they don't have to be. Although the graphics are equivalent to a 2004 game such as World of Warcraft, for what Spore is, it has the right graphic quality since making them more like what other games are right now would take away the charm of this game.

Controls:

There's nothing unusual about the controls compared to other computer games and there's nothing wrong with it either. The only real issues with the controls that come to mind are the difficulty of manoeuvring around in the Cell stage and entering/leaving planets and systems in the Space stage.

For the Cell stage problem, if your cell creature doesn't have the right parts as well as the current pushing it to a certain direction, you're going to have problems moving around. This is of course bad and a tad frustrating when there's a bigger cell creature swiftly swimming to your direction and killing your creature within seconds.

The problem with the Space stage is how you have to keep scrolling or holding down Home/End key to enter or leave a planet or system when it should be much simpler by entering/leaving instantly as soon as you command your spaceship to go. Despite those two minor but still annoying issues, the controls are still good.

Sound:

The sound in this game is very good. The sound effects are well done and the voices of the creatures are brilliant. The voices of the creatures depend on the type of mouth they have and it works well. In addition, there are voices for baby forms of creatures, which add a cuteness factor to them, but sometimes, it's hard to help but think they sound like a squeaky toy for a pet dog.

The music is also worth mentioning. The ambient music you hear in the game gives out a great feel to the objectives in Spore. The most notable track in this game has to be the one on the main menu, which is the sort of track you'd have in mind if you were in space. So overall, great sound production.

Gameplay:

Creature/Building/Vehicle Creator - Designing your own creatures is what everyone will think of whenever they think of Spore. The ability to create your own creatures, buildings and vehicles is amazing. For creatures, you can either make up something completely weird or make it based off something you like (e.g. your favourite Pokemon). This is a lot of fun and you may end up making lots of creatures and they don't have to be made for the main game. You could show off your creations to your friends or the world wide web by uploading videos and pictures.

There are four types of buildings used in Spore, which are city hall, houses, entertainment and factory. The city hall is the main building of each colony, entertainment buildings are to make the citizens happier and the factories are to produce items, spice and such, but decrease the happiness in the city, so you have to place the type of buildings correctly in each city of yours.

For the building designs, you're given a nice variety of parts to use for the buildings, but you can only design the outside of buildings and never get involved with the inside of them, so it's not as detailed as The Sims where you design the whole of your house with the base, the furniture, whoever lives there and such. Even so, the ability to design your own buildings for your species is still very nice.

The Vehicle Creator is another great feature in this game. You can design land, sea, air vehicles and even spaceships. Again, there's a good variety of parts to use for the vehicles and it's rather easy to design them, unlike LittleBigPlanet where you have to build your own vehicles from scratch, but can be designed in any shape or form as desired. How the land, sea and air vehicles are designed only matter in the Civilization stage and afterwards aren't that important. For the spaceship, it doesn't matter what parts it's given since there are no Health/Speed benefits at all, so the player is free to design their spaceship at their own will.

Cell/Creature/Tribal/Civilization/Spac e stages - The Cell stage is the start of the main game where you are a small creature hunting for food to get bigger, but along with that, there are bigger cell creatures out to get you. However, as you get bigger, they appear smaller, making you say "Who's the tough guy now, Vinnie?" to the ones who tormented your own creature. Apart from the manoeuvring issue, the only other problem with this stage is how short it is. This stage can easily be finished within half an hour, or possibly less than that. This stage is interesting overall, but could have been longer.

The Creature stage is one of the best two stages out of the five. Here, you control your own creature around the place befriending or killing other species you come across. The choice to like or hate the creatures is up to you, but some creatures may insist on attacking you when nearby. This stage is rather short if you advance to the Tribal stage as soon as possible, but there's still the opportunity to explore the whole place, which is interesting to see which creatures by who appear and most of all, the creatures that appear in epic form to kill everything in its path.

The main issue with the Creature stage is the lack of ability to view the whole map. Without seeing the whole map of the place, it can be difficult to know where you're going and which creatures are located where. The ability to view the full map would have made it much easier to navigate around the stage, but sadly, the Creature stage doesn't support this. Still, it's worth playing this stage to see which creatures you come across, whether it be something Maxis made or one of the friends you added to your list.

The Tribal and Civilization stages are also short with one basic objective, which is to befriend/destroy other tribes and take over the world. These stages should have had more added to them, especially when the Space stage has many things to do, while these two stages are very short. However, they are still part of the playing creature's evolution process, so it's necessary to have them here.

And last but not least, the Space stage. This is the longest stage out of them all and will take several hours to complete, but it's a lot of fun. There's a variety of things to do in this stage such as becoming allies with other empires, forming new colonies in other planets, destroying an empire, carrying out missions for any empires and reaching the centre of the galaxy. You'll start off small, but as the stage progresses, you can purchase stronger weapons, planet atmosphere tools and the ability to go through wormholes located throughout the place.

As this is the Space stage, you are able to explore the whole galaxy and discover literally thousands of planets (apparently, there's over 50,000 solar systems in this game). This is a wonderful idea, but as you play the stage, you'll feel visiting each and every planet in galaxy is overkill. Luckily, this isn't necessary to do, so you're not having to spend weeks exploring every single planet. However, the amount of star systems could have been halved to make it less ridiculous to find things. While there's the ability to go through wormholes, isn't exactly the greatest idea considering you have no idea where it takes you until you go through it. It would be much better if it said where the wormhole takes the spaceship to rather than finding out yourself.

The other big issue with the Space stage is that there's no real ending to the game. One could argue that getting to the centre of the galaxy and defeating the whole Grox empire is the end of the game, while someone else could say you haven't finished it until you've unlocked all the achievements. If you defeat the Grox empire, you're not rewarded with anything special for that and in order to beat them, you need to attack every single colony of theirs and there's hundreds of them surrounding the centre of the galaxy. Trying to defeat every single planet run by the Grox takes hours to do and it's very tedious.

This is a letdown since having to upgrade to the most powerful weapons obtainable and having to travel from star to star to star while getting brutally attacked by the Grox empire to reach to the centre of the galaxy seems to be all for nothing, especially when you're rewarded with just a special terraforming item, which isn't much at that point, unless you intend to continue the game.

A true ending would have felt more satisfying. Just seeing a short cutscene showing your creatures celebrating would have been good enough to inform you that you've reached the ending of the game, but can continue doing stuff afterwards just like in Pokemon. The endings may have not been much, but you know the main goal was to beat the Pokemon League and have the freedom to do any other tasks afterwards. If Spore had an ending like that, it would have been more satisfying.

Besides the aforementioned problems, the Space stage is still a lot of fun and worth trying.

Overall rating: 7.7/10 - This game has tons of potential, but sadly, didn't quite meet the expectations to what it should have been. It's still a good game, but has a few too many flaws, which is a shame. However, I found this game to be much more interesting than The Sims. I was never too keen on The Sims, but Spore grabbed my interest very well. If you haven't played it yet, this game is worth having a look, most especially the Creature Creator.

Just to say Happy New Year to everyone!

I'll get my new year news post up whenever I get it done.
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Here we go!

Happy new year to whoever reads this news post! For the new year, first we were going out to a restaurant which no-one in my family informed me about. I didn't even know we were going to a restaurant until my mum said "Are you ready to go to the restaurant?" Of course, I wasn't happy at all and I really hate it when they do this to me. They go and tell me useless crap that I don't even care about, but don't tell me important things until the last fucking minute! Believe me, it's not the first time they've done this. There's been dozens of other times when they do this and I really hope they cut the bullshit really soon.

Besides that, the new year here was just...OK. It was really nothing special this time round. My parents decided to not hold a big new year party, which I don't mind. They've done the exact same thing for the last 10 years now, so it's understandable they decided to give it a miss this time. However, we were home when it was 2009 and it was just our family (i.e. mum, dad, my sister, her boyfriend, my grandparents, my two aunts and uncle) celebrating here.

I'm not sure how this year will be, but it won't feel as special as 2008 for me simply because I turned 18 last year and this year I'll be 19, which isn't a special age at all. However, there are special birthdays/anniversaries for my family and I'll be there to support them.

Entertainment-wise, this year doesn't seem to be as promising as 2008 so far. For movies, all I can name is the last Futurama movie. Nothing for music right now and for games, just Brutal Legend, Hogs of War 2 and Resident Evil 5. I'm guessing the year will pick up later since that's what happened with 2008.

One last thing. New Year's resolutions? I don't really like the idea of them anymore, but I have two. The first being to get a full-time job and the other to get my 100th flash done!

And that covers up everything on 2009 for me.

Oh, and here's Afro_Stud in Spore.

So how has my Christmas been this year? At the start, it was horrible for me. On 19th December after coming home from an evening meal at the local pub, I received an email from my friend Pokelord-EX saying he's having an operation (won't go into detail what happened exactly) and when he mentioned about the possible but very rare outcome, I was worried about what could happen to him. I mean, he's been one of my best friends for 6 years now and to hear him having to be in hospital for Christmas wasn't very pleasant.

Since I heard that, the only thing I wanted for Christmas is for him to make it through the operation and my wish came true. Everything has gone well for the operation. Pokelord is recovering from his illness much quicker than expected and should be out of the hospital for the new year. It's just a shame how this happened around Christmas time and it's his favourite holiday of the year. However, his family were able to see him on Christmas Day, so he didn't feel too bad this Christmas, but I can understand how hard it is to have been waiting in the hospital most of the time since he was there.

Me and my friends shall be visiting him tomorrow to see how he is. We were hoping to see him sooner, but time arrangements were difficult to make over the last week.

Besides the problem with Pokelord, Christmas has actually been good this year. One of the reasons for that being my dad behaving much better this time round. I didn't have to sleep downstairs on Christmas Day since my dad fell asleep in the conservatory that night.

The day itself was pretty much just another Christmas Day, but we all got together (besides my aunt, who was unfortunately unable to get here until last night), enjoyed ourselves and that's what really matters about Christmas. I know over the last two months I haven't been too happy about this holiday, but that's nothing to worry about now since my Christmas spirit has been restored. :)

For the evening, we watched WALL-E, which my dad got for Christmas and my thoughts on the movie? Although I'm not too keen on CGI movies these days and felt they lost their charm since Shrek, a movie like WALL-E is too hard to miss. The idea of a WALL-E being all alone in the abandoned Earth was a very interesting concept and the film was even better later on. I'd say this is the best Pixar movie since Toy Story.

Also, if you're wondering what I got for Christmas, here you go:

Games:

Spore
Tomb Raider: Underworld (Wii)
Wii Fit

CDs:

AC/DC - Black Ice
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy

DVDs:

Batman Legacy (1989 Batman - Batman & Robin) - lol at this boxset having Batman & Robin.
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight

Other:

£15
£15 Zavvi voucher (which is no longer accepted)
£10 HMV voucher
AC/DC T-Shirt
Mobile Phone

I haven't watched/played everything, but here are my thoughts on the stuff I've listened/played so far:

Spore - I really love this game. Not only I'm impressed at the full version of Creature Creator, but the Main game is great with its five different phases (Cell/Creature/Tribe/Civilization/Spac e). I haven't seen the Space phase yet, but I'll get there soon enough.

I have two complaints about this game, however. The first one being the lack of ability to see the whole map on Creature Phase. One night, I was trying to find a dragon species named Dragon (lol) to ally with, which I only saw once. Since then, I was just searching and searching and searching for them and didn't see them in the end. If they allowed you to view the whole map in Creature Phase and tell you which species are where, it would have been much easier for me to find what I was after. Maybe I just overlooked something, but I don't think I have.

My other complaint? Expansion packs! Shortly after Spore was released, they released an expansion pack called Creepy & Cute containing 60 new body parts, which really annoyed me since that's an extra £5 or so to get more parts for the game. And on top of that, there's going to be another expansion pack sometime next year. So that's two already! This kind of stuff should be Downloadable Content FOR FREE!! But no, this is EA, the biggest money-grabbing BASTARDS in video game history! They find so many ways to get money off people, it's disgusting!

This is what made me reluctant to get the game in the first place. I wasn't too happy with what EA were going to do with Spore by making tons of expansion packs. *sigh* I'll probably get eventually if they're worth getting, but besides the expansion pack bullshit, I'm still enjoying Spore. It's a great game and what the closeminded morons say about this game should be disregarded (besides the DRM issue).

One last thing, if you want to see the Spore Creature I've made for the main game, have a look below.

AC/DC - Black Ice - I'm finding it hard to remember all the tracks on this album, but for an AC/DC album, it's pretty good and should please the bigger fans. However, I'll stick to the classic Highway to Hell and Back in Black albums.

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy - Maybe I need to listen to this album a few more times, but honestly, this is one of the most boring albums I've ever heard. Axl Rose's singing is so inconsistent throughout the album and half of the tracks on the album were uninteresting ballads. I'm usually OK with a handful of ballads in one album, but this was overkill for me. Besides the first two tracks, the album was very poor. Apologies to the GnR fans out there, but 14 years for this album to be released wasn't worth the wait at all. I'm glad that:

1. I'm not a big fan of Guns N' Roses.
2. I haven't been waiting for this album since 1994.

I'll give this album something, however. It's much better than listening to trash cans and shitty ass Disney songs.

And that's everything I've done with my stuff so far. I'm hoping to start watching through the Batman films very soon and Cloverfield along with it. For Tomb Raider: Underworld, I plan to wait until all the Christmas decorations are put away, so it'll be easier for me to use the Wii. If I complete Spore well before then, I have a few PC games to play including Left 4 Dead, Portal and Psychonauts, which I bought today (besides L4D, which was obtained on Tuesday) from Steam for a low price. :)

I hope you all have had a great Christmas!

BETTER ENJOY IT ON MY PREVIOUS NEWS POST WHILE I'M DTRUNK OR ELSE

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That's right, for this year's Newgrounds BBS awards, out of all the users who posted on the BBS, I am one of the five who made the cut to Best Poster in the awards, which is impressive since it means I'm declared as one of the best posters on the BBS (well, for this year at least). I'd like to thank everyone who nominated me for Best Poster, because I feel honoured to get this far, even though everyone else in the category is pretty much beating the crap out of me. Oh well, I'm still amazed to be there. :)

As for YouTube, NicotineAlien (AKA Armake21/Marcus Sparacio)*, one of my favourite video game reviewers along with Angry Video Game Nerd, was suspended from YouTube last week. The only reasons why this would have happened to him were either his House of the Dead commentary videos (just 20 minutes of it) or his videos showing himself playing Red Alert 3. The former would have been reasonable, but there's much worse out there on YouTube such as people uploading the WHOLE movie without any commentary and such. Sadly, I see a lot of that and YouTube don't even penalise them.

Getting suspended just for the Red Alert 3 videos wouldn't be right at all. They may be complete and utter hypocrites, but I'm sure they wouldn't go as far as taking one video showing game footage down, but leaving the entire rest. If they went after anyone who uploaded video game footage, a lot of users would have been banned from YouTube for life. And considering Red Alert 3 is published by EA, what about all the users who uploaded a video of themselves playing a track on Rock Band or created a creature on Spore? Shouldn't they go as well? Again, it wouldn't add up if this was the case.

Another recent problem with YouTube is their new censorship policy. From what I've heard, any videos with swearing in it (even if you just say damn) will be removed from Top Favourites and Top Videos lists, which to me isn't fair at all. A lot of videos are so fucking great with swearing and AVGN's videos are a great example.

Taking away honours for those videos just because there's swearing in it is PLAIN FUCKING STUPID! Why can't they just make a warning saying there's such thing in the videos. They make a warning for anything with sexual content, so why not anything with violence, explicit audio and such? Newgrounds have a fucking rating system for these things, so why not YouTube? That'll be much better than taking away honours for videos that may have deserved great recognition.

I still find this to be a joke, but what IS a bigger joke is the 19/12 blackout where everyone is to avoid YouTube that day to protest the new censorship policy. As much as I hate this bullshit, protesting isn't going to do shit. I mean, Anonymous didn't succeed against protesting Scientology, so why will this work? And on top of that, not everyone in the whole world is going to come across this campaign to boycott YouTube for a day and then there'll be people like me who know this protest will fail miserably.

Well, whatever happened to Marcus Sparacio's suspension on YouTube and the new policy, I still disagree with YouTube's decision. On the other hand, the more great people they take out and the more bullshit they do, the less reasons to keep going to that shithole. If the site was full of unfunny YouTube poops, pointless video blogs which are better off written on MySpace, lame ass AMVs, overrated fucks like Fred and pathetic events like YouTube Live, I don't see why I even need to go there ever again.

*For those who don't know Marcus is, he's a video game reviewer like AVGN, but has a more serious approach and doesn't limit himself to the retro era. He reviews games from any generation, but it's mostly NES, Xbox 360 and PS3 games he reviews. Some of his most well known reviews are Big Rigs, Bomberman: Act Zero and The Ring: Terror's Realm.

Some of you know already that my uncle (well, my dad's uncle) died on 27th November. This was a bad time for him to go since not only my grandad was driving his car to see my aunt in Scotland that day, the day he died was on his birthday. I felt really bad when I heard this, and I'll be attending his funeral tomorrow.

Obviously, Christmas is just right behind the corner, but to be honest, I haven't been too excited about it this year. Is it because I'm getting older and become less interested in the holiday? No, it's not that. It's just my Christmas spirit has been torn apart by my dad after what happened last year. Let's go back to my Christmas 2007 journal:

"And that's what happened on Christmas Day for me. One thing, however. If my dad wasn't badly snoring on Christmas Day in the middle of the night where I ended up having to sleep on the floor downstairs in the living room (I couldn't sleep on the sofa since my dad already put the presents on there), this Christmas would have been very close to perfection."

I fear this is going to happen again. That day, my dad's "apology" wasn't that sincere. Seriously, I had to tell him to fucking apologise to me and when he said sorry, it didn't sound like he meant it. Sadly, he's not improved since then. He hasn't even tried to improve on his drinking habits either, so I dread the day his license ban is lifted. He did say he was going to try and improve himself, but he has failed that miserably. I'm beginning to lose faith in him as a father.

Besides that, I'm still looking forward to Christmas to see my sister again and I still hope everyone has a good Christmas. I'll try and enjoy myself, but if it happens again this year, don't expect me to be very happy.

After Christmas, I have plans to get more older games. I only have a few games in mind for the Mega Drive, but there are several to get for the PS1. For the Mega Drive, all I have in mind right now are Dynamite Headdy and Flashback (from the makers of Another World). For the PS1, there's actually a lot to get such as Heart of Darkness (also from the makers of Another World), Kula World, Kurushi/Intelligent Qube, Tombi 1 and 2 and getting back into the original Spyro trilogy.

Dyamite Headdy and Flashback I should have got during my retro madness back in August/September, but I guess I couldn't get everything at once. Kula World, Kurushi and Tombi 1 and 2 are all games I played demo versions of, but never got myself to get the full version of them and now I feel ashamed considering they're rare games now. They're usually sold for at least £30 - 40 on eBay. At least now I'm thinking of getting these games rather than leaving them for another 10 years when they could be even harder to get. Still, I played the demo version of these games and loved them. Why I didn't bother getting them during the fifth generation, I have no clue.

I used to be into the Spyro games, but for some reason, I never got the original game. I had 2 and 3, but I lost interest in the franchise. Now, I wish to get back into these games by getting the original 3 made by Insomniac. I don't care about any Spyro games made after the third one and by the looks of it, Spyro suffered a similar fate to the Crash Bandicoot franchise, which is a fucking shame since both game series had so much potential and could have been as big as Mario and Sonic if it weren't for them being handed to other companies.

(NOTE: I did have Spyro 2 and 3, but they were illegal copies, because my dad was such a fucking cheapskate back then! I'm now willing to get the legitimate copies of those games.)

I'm definitely looking forward to getting these games, but for the time being, I'm cool with Final Fantasy VII and Mega Man 9 up until Christmas. I've slowed down a bit on FFVII, but Mega Man 9, I got it 2 weeks ago and already completed it....TWICE! The second time I was on Hero Mode, so the game was harder, but I managed to get through it quickly. Now I want to try and beat it on Super Hero mode. Crazy? Maybe, but it can't be as bad as playing the Rockman No Constancy hack. I've seen some of the levels in that game and from the looks of it, it's TORTURE!!!

And that's all for gaming right now. For my 100th flash, I HAVE done a few things, which is better than nothing. However, 4 months and still at the start of working on it? Damn, this is becoming my Duke Nukem Forever. Maybe I'll get a move on with it in the new year. It won't be to do with New Years' Resolutions, because I always fucking fail them, so why bother making one for 2009?

Anyway, that's about it. The only other thing I can think of is this kid's stupid news post.

Summary:

- My uncle died 2 weeks ago and I'll be attending his funeral.
- Christmas may or may not be good this year depending how my dad behaves.
- I'm after several games.
- 100th flash is still in the works.

ENJOY IT A WHILE IT ALSASTS

Once again, I was away in London for the weekend. I have to admit, not as much happened this time round, but as long as I took the time to see my sister for her to feel more at home down there, it doesn't matter. What matters is that she's fine. :) Her boyfriend's also good, although their flatmate hasn't been there for a while now. :(

Anyway, what did happen while I was there? On the Friday, I was on the coach to get there, which I didn't mind considering I was getting the train back today/on Monday, but what did concern me was a mention about the coach driver and drugs when the passengers had an unexpected second stop. Usually on that coach trip, there's just the one break, but this time, we had two due to some reason with the coach driver and drugs. Maybe I misheard the announcer on board since I only just turned my MP3 Player off, but I certainly heard something about drugs, so I didn't feel so comfortable after that. However, I was OK and nothing bad happened to me on the coach.

On Friday, all we really did was watch Futurama: Bender's Game and myself finishing off Metal Gear Solid 4, which the former I brought with me. We all enjoyed the movie, although it was the second time seeing it for me. However, that's good since it's a brilliant movie and I could care less what others think about it. I love this movie for two reasons:

1. The use of medieval settings, which the Futurama crew haven't done before, except for a scene or two.
2. This movie has to be Mom's finest moment. I mean, this just showed how truly evil she is and I actually enjoyed seeing her as the main antagonist for this movie.

And MGS4, like I said, I finished off this game while I was there and I was happy to since I no longer have to worry about any spoilers. Luckily, I was only spoilt by one thing rather than the entire game and this game had a shitload of stuff happening, it was amazing. After seeing how this game ended, I feel there shouldn't be a MGS5 since after all the events in MGS4, what else is there to talk about? I don't think there's anything else that needs to be explained in the MGS franchise. Despite that, I'll accept spin-offs, which make little to no contribution to the main story.

On Saturday, we went out to Central London to go shopping. I only needed to go to HMV and Zavvi to see what CDs were there, although I only got stuff from HMV since I had my vouchers to spend. Plus, I didn't want to go on a spending spree right now since I'll need to focus on Christmas shopping now. Anyway, the CDs I got were:

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Falconer - Falconer
Finntroll - Nattfödd
Sonata Arctica - Silence

The rest of the time there was spent watching some episodes of Father Ted, Kung Fu Panda and playing Little Big Planet. Although I've seen all the Father Ted episodes, I enjoyed rewatching the episodes we saw over the weekend. Kung Fu Panda was surprisingly good. I admit, I thought the idea of a Kung Fu Panda wouldn't work at all, but I was wrong. The idea worked well with the situations and the movie had many humorous parts, which made the movie very enjoyable.

Lastly, Little Big Planet is awesome! Being able to design your own levels is brilliant. I'll admit, I didn't do much on the level designing since making a really good level must require days to make, so the most I did on a level design is making some stupid vehicles with rockets that always lose its stability as soon as you start running it. XD Since I sucked at level designs and have to unlock more stuff by playing the story mode as well as getting stuff from online levels, I mainly went on levels created by others users online. Most I saw were brilliant and my favourites out of those I played were either levels with vehicles or those playing a musical tune (e.g. Terra's Theme from Final Fantasy VI). This is certainly a game to get if you own a PS3 or you intend to get one someday. I'll definitely get this game whenever I get a PS3 for myself.

And that's about it for my time in London. I just got back today and I'm already missing them. I'll be seeing them again when they come up here for Christmas, so I can't wait until them, despite not actually looking forward to Christmas Day this year.

Summary:

- I heard something about the coach driver on drugs, but I might have misheard the coach announcer.
- Me, my sister and her boyfriend watched Futurama: Bender's Game.
- Finished off MGS4 and loved it!
- Bought some CDs from HMV.
- Watched some episodes of Father Ted and Kung Fu Panda.
- Played Little Big Planet. Amazing game.

Oh, and one last thing. To all the Americans, how's your free Dr. Pepper?