So I'm gonna be doing this week's TL;DR by myself because Martina has a cold
and I don't and I still have energy.
I don't feel good...
Bye Ducky, go away, I'm gonna talk about fun stuff.
-What are you gonna talk about? -VIDEO GAMES!!!!
-I like video games. -Yes you do. You go over there
and you go lay down somewhere else.
So a couple weeks ago when I was sick with a migraine Martina did her own TL;DR
on her favorite animes, mangas and manhwas
and I wanted to contribute, but I couldn't because I was sick.
NOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED!!
So I'm gonna be talking about my favorite video games,
what I grew up with and how they changed my life into the wonderful beardo that I am today.
So I'm gonna start off by saying that I'm not really an Xbox player,
I've never owned any Xbox stations or any Xbox games
I always found that Xbox was more along the lines of
first person shooters and sports games and that's not really my cup of tea.
I'm more into JRPGs and stuff like that.
It really started back when I was 16 years old and I played a ton of basketball back then
like I thought I was gonna go pro because I was so good.
But then I wound up breaking my ankle and I had to sit for 6 weeks
and I thought what the hell am I gonna do for 6 weeks--
so I got a PlayStation.
And with that PlayStation I got Final Fantasy VII and then my whole life changed.
This was the first JRPG that I've ever played and I just absolutely fell in love with it.
I played it, I beat it all, I put in 100 hours for the first time I played
and then I played it 3 more times.
I beat the game four times! Putting in 100 hours each time at least!
I even got Aeris to level 100 with her final limit break
before the end of disk one. That's how hardcore I was.
I am a level grinder.
I will get everyone to as high level as humanly possible
so I can just beat the rest of the story line very easily.
I don't see nothing wrong~
with a little game and grind~
From Final Fantasy VII, my love of Final Fantasy grew
so I wound up playing FF8, FF9, FF10, and FF10-2
Couldn't play 11 because that was online and I'm not a fan of online games.
Played FF12, I've played 13, 13-2 and I'm finishing up 13-3 now as well.
I've played both Final Fantasy Tactics and then I went back and played
FF4, 5, and 6.
I like Final Fantasy.
In fact, before coming to Korea, one of my dreams--
because I noticed that I love to play the games--
but the dialogue and the storytelling is sometimes quite stupid.
So I thought that maybe one day I'd move to Japan, I'd learn Japanese,
and I'd start working for Square Enix
and then I'd fix all their terrible dialogue.
And I'd fire their voice actors because FF10--
Whoa Titus, you are annoying.
It's still a fun game. It's my second favorite Final Fantasy.
After FF7, I really got into Metal Gear Solid as well.
I think I've played just about every single Metal Gear Solid
except for the virtual mission things that aren't real story lines.
I haven't played Revengeance yet but that's next on my hit list.
Outside of that, one of my favorite games of all time was Shadow of the Colossus.
I pretty much played that whole thing in one sitting.
I didn't step away from the TV until I had finished the very last boss.
Seriously one of the most beautiful games I've ever played in my entire life
and if you haven't played it yet, they have a remastered version for the PS3
Definitely pick that up because it is just--it's just gorgeous.
More along the lines of JRPGs, I really also got into--fairly recently, Ninokuni.
Last year I played that all
It had all of the charm and all of the wonder and the magic.
I'm pretty sure it's partly created by the people at Studio Ghibli
and I love all Studio Ghibli movies as well so this definitely had that feel for me.
One of my favorite video game experiences of all time.
Very similar to Ninokuni, I also wound up playing Dragon Quest 8.
This was definitely Martina's least favorite game that I've ever played.
*Hums Dragon Quest battle song*
Did you explain why I don't like it?
because I was writing an essay for university for one of my final year courses
and all I hear is:
*Hums Dragon Quest battle song*
Oh no! The Metal King Slime ran away.
See, I was a very good university student
so I made sure that I finished all of my essays as soon as the topics were handed out
because I was very diligent so I could spend the rest of my time playing video games.
Fix your glasses
Thanks
I don't really play that many racing games either.
The only racing game that I really got into was Burnout Revenge
that was super fun
Only because I didn't really care about winning the game as much as
knocking people into cliffs and making them explode in slow motion
in ripito fifito sipa slow motion.
Man I wish I knew that song when I played that game when I was younger.
One racing game I am very very serious about though is Mario Kart
Seriously you will never ever ever beat me in Mario Kart
Give me Toad and you're done for
I am god tier level Mario Kart player.
I don't lose, that's it.
-That's a lie. -Shut it!
You're supposed to be sick!
Another game that I take very seriously is Super Smash Bros.
except I only got into it with the Gamecube version,
I didn't play the Nintendo64 version.
And then I really got into it for the Wii because they had Snake in there
and I played with Snake all the time and I was incredibly cheap
except I only lost when I played online
because they got all the kirbys!
I played against three different kirbys!
And by three, I mean three!
and they would all suck me in and they would walk off the cliff
and they would spit me out and they'd fly away and I wouldn't be able to get back
and they were so cheap!
Also when it come to Super Smash, I don't play a lot of fighting games.
The only other game that's I played a lot that's really for fighting is Marvel vs. Capcom 2
again, I'm pretty much god level at that.
Get me Cable, Guile and Rogue and you're dead.
Dead do you hear me?! You don't have a chance
Remember when we went to Japan and you played against people live and they killed you
No! I beat them in Japan as well!
Nobody beats me at Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Nobody.
I do play some games with Martina as well.
We really got into Super Mario Galaxy together.
Of course I'd be Mario and she'd be the little star thing that would get all the star bits
and freeze all the enemies for me.
That was one of our most precious bonding moments for video games.
I never really got into Zelda but I do want to get into it more.
The only time that I actually played it was for the Nintendo DS
for the Phantom Hourglass. I loved that game.
I never played any of the older ones.
But now with the Wii, I'm really waiting for Hyrule Warriors as soon as I'm finished playing Child of Light,
which is a super fun game as well.
I'm probably gonna get into the Windwaker HD remake because I heard that's a really fun game too
Another very big game that Martina and I play together is Katamari.
We played it for PS2. We played it for the PS3. We played it on the PS VITA as well.
We love that game, we play it together all the time.
BAAAAA~
In fact you might notice the references that we make to Katamari in our 'How to Eat Ramen Like a Pro' video
because it's a really big factor in our lives.
In fact, for the cosplay convention that we just went to,
I really wanted to dress up as Katamari
but I didn't know how to pack a gigantic ball in a suitcase like that
so maybe next time, if it's like a local cosplay convention, I'll do Katamari.
I have to be the King of the Cosmos and I'll wear those tights.
In fact we like that game so much that we actually play the soundtrack when we drive to work sometimes.
*gasp* I forgot about Skyrim!
It's not really a JRPG.
Martina got me that game for my birthday a couple years ago and that's how I spent my birthday.
We didn't go out for dinner or anything she's just like,
"Here's a game, play it' And that's all I did for my birthday
and it was really great. It's probably one of my favorite games ever.
Again, I'm a level grinder so I haven't actually advanced at all in the main story line of that game.
I'm level 100 in alchemy, one hand wielding, dual wielding, blocking, destruction magic,
speech craft as well.
I don't even know about the main chants or anything, I just level grind a whole lot.
Anyhow, so that's it for this week's TL;DR.
I'm gonna talk about a few more of my favorite games in our blog post
so make sure you click on the link here if you'd want to geek out with me over video games as well.
I know it's not as popular as the manga and anime topic that Martina did last time
but I'm sure we got a few gamers here that who are interested as well.
In fact the next major tattoo that I plan on getting,
I'm planning on getting a whole sleeve from here down to here,
full of my favorite video game characters and also some comic characters
so I'm not necessarily sure who I'm gonna put in there yet
so if you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear what you think.
Or if you have any favorite video games that you grew up with, let me know
because I'm sure there are a whole ton that I forgot.
Those are the main ones that stuck in my head
but let me know and then we could all squeal together over our favorite video games.
For the TL;DR that Martina did by herself about animes, mangas, and manhwas,
we had an amazing comment section there.
It felt like we were with our people.
I think we had something like 70 thousand million billion comments
about everybody's favorite animes.
Martina wound up asking you a question about a manga that she couldn't remember the name for,
the answer was Black Alice.
Thank you to the 7,000 people who gave that answer.
If you want to have a gigantic reading list that will last you for the rest of your life,
make sure you check out the comments for both the blog post and the Youtube video
because there are so many awesome recommendations
from people who are really passionate about the topic as well.
Now if you don't mind, now that I'm done filming I'm gonna go back to playing Child of Light
which is a really really gorgeous game. Like wow.
That is some beautiful artwork there.
So I'm gonna stop talking because I wanna go play.
Goodbye. I'm gonna stop.