Well, almost. It's a week before Christmas, but I don't have the same excited feelings I once had about Christmas. My memories of Christmas past haven't all been great, but they make me appreciate the ones I have every year. Every year, I'd be excited to go to a cousin's house, or a relatives, or family friends and be able to be around so many people close to me. It doesn't seem like we're even doing anything this year, so I'm not as excited about Christmas this year. I am; however, happy in my own way. My sister's home and I get to spend so much time with my immediate family.
Anyways, I've been continuing work for the game projects I've been assigned to doing music for and the latest track I did for Camera Obscura seems to be really liked by the team, a lot. This scares me, because it was a track for the 2nd last area of the game. I still have one more track to do left, and it's for the last area! What am I going to do to top what I did before? Though I can't preview the song or anything yet, I can say that's it's a cross between a Waltz, a baroque period invention, a romantic period melody and play style, and modern electronic music. Yup, I'm strange like that, but it sounded right in my head and turned out great as a result albeit the midi-sounding instruments. I've worked a little on the Street Fighter Mix, but I still have some left mainly because I don't have a structure for the last 3-4 character themes to work with. This means I'll have to do it all by scratch...ugh. But I definitely want to finish before the end of this year. The mix has rendered me unproductive in terms of quantity, and the quality doesn't really make up for it.
I need to improve my blog, create my portfolio site, and start creating those indie games of mine, but I don't think I'll be able to do it before the end of the year. It seems like my New Year's resolution for 2011 has mostly failed aside from completing games which I've been doing very well at, haha. What I haven't done after completing the games is doing the write-ups, which was the whole point of recording the games I've played. I'm planning to focus my last 2 weeks of 2011 to improving my blog and doing those write-ups.
So, continuing from the last post I made, I've bought quite a bit of games. After those purchases, I promised myself I wouldn't buy anymore until I've completed at least half of what I've gotten so far. Well I failed, haha. I went to the newly re-established Roseville Galleria mall this past weekend just to check out what changed and just to go out for a bit of fresh air since I'm always home working. I dropped by GameStop and went through the games and Hyperdimensional Neptunia was there as a new copy for $30!
I'm not crazy about getting the game, but I've been keeping an eye on it throughout the year as the general price online was $70-$90. It's an RPG that makes a lot of references, parodies, and jokes about the game industry. I mean, the world that it's set in is called "Gamindustri". I couldn't help it and bought it, and I'm not sure if it's worth it yet since I haven't played it. I checked up online again and there's stores selling it for $60, but there's another store selling it for $180. Why is it so rare/expensive? When I bought it at GameStop, it was the last copy! Weird. I also bought a used copy of Madworld for the Wii (finally) as it was only $7 and the condition of the disk was pretty good for a used game. I played the first mission last night and "snap" the game is ridiculous. The whole game is black and white so the red blood is VERY noticeable. It's very violent for sure, but I didn't expect the F-bomb being dropped every 5 seconds in the game. For $7, I guess it's a good game to play if you want to release some RAGE!!! Hahaha.
Steam Winter Sales started today, oh dear...That means buying more games, haha. The site was so imploded today that it couldn't even start. The servers are getting raped by millions of patrons buying and downloading games right now. There's also a drawing for an epic giveaway at the end of the event where the grand prize winner wins...ALL GAMES ON STEAM! That's too nuts, not even I'd want that. Still, the objective event thing is back for the winter sales which means I'll be playing Steam games for the next 2 weeks. I beat Crysis 2 last night on PS3 and I have so many games on it that I'm not sure what to play next, but I guess I'll switch around and play a bit each night before fulfilling those objectives on steam each night. I may not be looking forward to Christmas this year, but I look forward to playing games every night for the next two weeks.
Have a Merry Christmas Everyone! And a Happy New Year.
