Might as well mention my end of stuff:
Thursday: Wake up at 5 AM (that's 1 1/2 hour later than I usually wake up!), get to bus -> Port Authority -> Grey Hound -> 10 HOURS OF FUNNESS!!! -> Station.
The Bus was making good time, actually, until one of the young passangers (as in, like a 1 year old) split his head open due to not listening or something. No, not as bad as it sounds; it apparently was just a minor cut that looked worse than it actually was cause of how much it bled initially, but they got an ambulance to check on the child and they verified he'll be alright, especially since the bleeding stopped pretty quickly. This pushed us behind schedule, not only cause of the ambulance, but because at the stop the father and child were getting off at, they had to fill out an incident report, blah blah. in the end, we got there 15 minutes late. Not too bad considering honestly.
On the bus itself, I mostly played SFA3:Max. I was playing World Tour mode in hopes to unlock a few PCs...
"Wait, why am I facing Guile? Isn't he unlockable? ...I don't remember Eagle being in this game either. Wait isn't Yun from 3rd Strike which came out AFTER this?" By the time I saw Evil Ryu as someone I was fighting mid battle, it dawned upon me that SFA3:Max is essentially Super Street Fighter Alpha 3; I look at the back of the box, and sure enough, it says "4 new characters" and both Guile/Evil Ryu are even listed in the booklet, which I doubt they were for the PSX version. So, uh, yeah, screw world tour mode, I'm just gonna do quick battles <_<
BEFORE the bus ride, I finished VPDS' SG on the way there! Good thing too, cause super wanted to play it, so yeah, wrapping up loose ends!
When I got to Pyro's house, while listening to WA3 music along the way with CT and Super in the car, first thing we did was test out my 360 Mem Card...well, no, first thing I did was eat Pizza cause I was hungry, but quiet.
This is the most useless thing ever. you have to actually save your Xbox-live data account for anything to MATTER...and you can't save that, apparently, only TRANSFER it, so it meant my sister wouldn't be able to play her save files of whatever game during the weekend and...yeah, I wasn't going to be a dick. This meant I couldn't show off my SC4 Customs and what not, which made me a sad Meeple. At least we did get to show off the Pandora scene in DMC4, since Xer did have his file there. Played some SF4 and what not too.
Its also around this time that I revealed to super that I do NOT do nothing but play Dissidia, but I in fact just play 1 match a day usually just for Mognet purposes (I'll play more if I feel like it of course, but yeah.) He also was stunned to learn that I don't play Mega Man all the damn time either <_< >_>
Lastly...Eternal Sonata's Ending. I...I...cannot express this properly. I'll let SUPER handle THAT.
Sleeping...well, I was ready to go at any moment, got a couch. Xer got the other couch, CT and super got the air mattresses, OK got the closet...its best you don't ask about that last one/let OK explain his experiences with it. I'll refrain from making obvious jokes.
Breakfast on Friday, I think I mostly ate cookies and mountain dew...yeah, not a typical breakfast. Then we played random stuff, I think I started Dawn of Sorrow around now, which for the record, I got to 52.4% of the way into the game by the end of the Mini-meet, bus included!
Went to the mall, bought games and lunch there; I got Okami which is something I've been looking for a while, cause hey, its the same people who made God Hand and I hear good things about it and its cheap! Xer then talked me into buying Onimusha 3 merely by explaining the plot and noting the game was $6 (that + Okami + Discount = $15 total!) I also bought a PSP case cause my PSP is getting scratched up a bit, and I could use some protection.
We got back, we played a lot of Dead Rising...in the dark. This game is a lot more awesome than I expected, just by watching it. I had limited experience with the game, but uh, well, lets just say that if there's one thing Capcom succeeds at in the writing department, its making awesome main characters, based entirely on AWESOME reasons. In Frank West's case, just watching him pick up a mall bench within 5 minutes of gameplay and beat down a legion of zombies with it...do I have to explain why this is awesome? And that is only the beginning of it! Yeah, he so earned his spot in TvC, and is better than any Resident Evil Main (comparison adequate cause they're both Capcom games about Zombies. In fairness, RE4 Leon is pretty awesome, due to the Leon Head Exploding Suplex, and one liners, but I think Frank West still has him beat.)
Played the opening of Onimusha 3...
If ES's Ending is the bad kind of fucked (again, I'll let someone else handle that), Onimusha 3 is the GOOD kind of fucked up. So Nobunaga is the Japanese Samurai equivalent of Bison spliced with Dracula, we have some random useless dude in history whose a NINJA SAMURAI fighting this monster we're apparently never going to see again.....
Then suddenly we're in modern France, shooting zombie skeleton samurais. Then said Ninja Samurai comes out of nowhere due to MAGIC BULLSHIT, slices the Zombies, the French Guy we met (whose name is Jean) gets teleported into the past, and sudduenly gets a LASER WHIP due to a MAGICAL GAUNTLET that spontaneously appeared on his arm. He's also still speaking French to the Japanese Samurai he meets...
Oh, right, those Japanese guys all speak English. Then he meets a Tengu Fairy, who suddenly not only makes Jean speak English, BUT makes him COMPLETELY AMERICAN too. He had a genuine french accent while speaking french, you see, but when he speaks English, instead of "English but with a french accent", he becomes your typical californian action hero.
I could go on, but it was ridiculous in that laughable way that made you go "Yeah, there is no way they're taking themselves seriously in this game", much like RE4, or at least, they were only PRETENDING to take it seriously, while on the side lines, they were laughing their asses off.
I tested Okami out too, whose opening is ludicrously long though with a few neat scenes, which is sad cause I just wanted to make sure the game worked, and my mem card is filled...yeah...
Oh yeah, played Barkley throughout the day too! Actually, I was playing Barkley WHILE watching Dead Rising! Managed to finish Barkley. TAKE THAT MICHAEL JORDAN.
Saturday Morning, we had French Toast, to make use fo the Challah I brought...Xer doesn't fail at this it seems nor does CT, so the lack of Shale wasn't as major as we thought. I also learned that 2 loaves was WAAAAAAAY too much for just 7 people let alone 6. Xer showed off God Hand, which as expected, someone wanted to borrow after watching it (This is ALWAYS the case, without fail; God Hand is just that awesome.) Watched more Dead Rising, played some Tekken 6...
I can safely say that Tekken 6 is an improvement over Tekken 4/5; my issue with the agme, if you can call it that, is not having played Tekken in a while and too use to applying Soul Calibur fundamentals which uh, yeah, doesn't work. Still, seems like a decent fighting game overall.
Also watched Xer and CT duke it out in SO3!!! Xer, you are forever to be scorned for letting Roger win a fight
Oh yeah, previous day, I learned that KoF12 is pretty crappy; why WHY SNK would you alter Iori to be something he's completely not, and downgrade characters to act like old school selves instead of their more balanced, familiar modern selves? I hate Kyo's fireball, I want those Rekkas
Xer didn't get the chance to show me the GOOD modern KoF, to remind me why the series didn't suck so <_<
We went to get Italian for lunch, I had Raviolis, saw a cake that was just too awesome to pass up and hey, its vacation, SPENDING MONEY TIME, so I bought it, ate it, god damn that was good. Then I had to leave, we wanted to go to Dairy Queen but it was closed.
Get to Greyhound station, I tell Pyro to wait there just in case I have to go somewhere else...
I run to the desk to check my ticket only to see the following signs:
"All buses are cancelled for the tonight"
...I basically go "SHIT" cause I learn there won't be another bus until at least 12 PM Sunday, and uh, I want to be home for the Hannakuh Party on Sunday,which that would make it impossible. Thankfully, one guy there told me Chinatown Bus still is active, and if I'm willing to shell out another $35, they can take me directly to New York at 12 AM...
Well, I do exactly that (
oh, yeah, Pyro, thanks for that $5 cause of the stupid "cash only" and I only had $34 on me shenanigans), except its 12:30, not 12...ok, what's a half hour, right?
...apparently, bus didn't get there til 10 of 2, so uh yeah, I was bored for a while, bus station got a bit crowded, but ultimately, got on bus fine (though my mother was being paranoid about taking such a thing), I got to New York about 9 AM, subwayed across New York to Time Square, to Port Authority, get on Bus at 11 to get home...
Then I wait at bus stop for a good half hour cause my sister didn't listen to my parents and uh...lets not get into that.
All in all, I had fun <_<
