Dragonshorn

As if anybody cares…

But, during last two weeks a lot has happened.

No! Two last weeks were boring, and only few interesting things happened. I’ve passed driving license exam, and soon I’ll get my driving license. I’ve also written some exams at my university, but currently I don’t care about the results.

I don’t think there is anything to add right now. See you later.

Oh my God. Golden Sun, one of the greatest RPG series on portable systems of all time, will be back, spring 2010. Camelot, Nintendo – you made my day. That is all I have to say about it.

Video from E3 conference:

Every time new Pokémon game (main branch, of course) is released, I just have to play it as soon as I can. Although Pokémon Diamond was released two (three?) years ago, I couldn’t play it until now (for obvious reasons – lack of DS).

Even tough every Pokémon game is basically the same as the rest, the gameplay itself  is so good and fun that I don’t care about it. Catching and training Pokémon is just as fun as the first time I’ve played Pokémon (my first game on Gameboy Color was Pokémon Yellow). And with the improvements each version makes, game becomes more and more addictive.

The only problem with Pokémon franchise is the amount of new Pokémon they create. First two batches (250 species from Red/Blue/Green/Yellow and Silver/Gold/Crystal) were fine, but recent additions are just plain… just stupid. It seems that they slowly run out of ideas, and new Pokémon are just weirder and weirder.

Despite this, I find Pokémon one of the best RPG series on handheld consoles, if not the best one. So, excuse me, I’m going back to my DS. To play Pokémon, of course.

With Nintendo DS Lite!

I’ve recently bought myself NDS Lite, since my old GameBoy Advance broke (control pad isn’t responding anymore). So, after saving my money for two months I went to local game shop and bought it, since the price was quite low.

I’ve also got myself few games and R4 Revolution card to run homebrew. From short testing and playing Pokemon Diamond, Phoenix Wrigth and Castelvania I must say, that the console itself is great and games are fun to play. Homebrew Moonshell turns NDS into very good MP3 player, and additional applications (such as EBook Reader, Visual Novel player) made me left my PocketPC at home lately.

Concluding, I must say that I think I’ve made right choice, buying NDS instead of PSP.

See you later, I’m returning to Pokemon.

My winter break was short – too short in my opinion – but I don’t feel I wasted it. I’ve had my share of sleep, I’ve played enough computer games (but I haven’t finished Drakensang yet, so I’ll play more), and I did what I had to do.

Tomorrow I start new semester, and I’ll have new subjects – Mechanics, new portion of Mathematical Analysis and “Measurement uncertainty and Laboratories”.

And I’ll have less time.

Yes, it is! Again…

After 3 years, I’ve come back to Magic: The Gathering trading card game (because I found someone who will play with me). And, I have already spent too much money on it.

I’ve bought 3 boosters and full 60 card deck (and I want to buy two tournament packs to build another one). Deck I bought is “Army of Entropy”, from Shadowmoor Expansion, and I must say it’s quite good (but I have to make some modifications to it, of course).

For some time, I thought that classic, fantasy cRPG genre is in agony, if not already dead. Until now – thanks to the developers from Radon Labs and makers of german PnP RPG system, The Dark Eye.

Why I bough Drakensang? Not because of it’s graphics, since they are quite outdates. Not because of RPG system that game is based on. Just because of one thing, that appeared in all reviews I read – that the game has similar feel to my beloved Baldur’s Gate. Were the reviews right?

I’ll tell you later, when I finish the game.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!

When I was reading first Windows 7 Beta reviews and benchmarks I told myself – this is too good to be true. Take it with a pinch o salt.

But now, after installing it I must say: OMGOMGOMGOMG! The system is installs very quickly (even from external DVD drive), boots very fast and works like a charm. Of course, I had one BSOD (after updating graphics card driver), but this is only beta (and I, as a good beta tester, will send error report to Microsoft).

For now, Windows 7 won’t replace Vista as my main OS. For now.

I’ll post more, as I test Windows 7 Beta.

Finally!

Yesterday Microsoft started giving away Windows 7 Beta. Of course, nothing went like it should, so after some time, Microsoft pulled back downloads, and didn’t repost it until morning (GMT+1 Time Zone).

After Microsoft reposted it, everybody was trying to get a serial for it (and a legal way to download). Fortunately, I managed to get my CD-Key after several hours, and my Windows 7 32bit iso file is downloading right now.

I’ll post some more details after I install it tomorrow.

Akane’s got an upgrade – I’ve recently bought dual core processor for her – an AMD Athlon 4850e, 2×2.5GHz. But, as I’ve got mainboard with overclocking capabilities (and temperature guard), I’ve set it’s clock to 2.7GHz, and it seems that (on stock cooler) it’s very stable.

Also, I’ve tried to install TV Tuner (old, BT878 based one), but it seems that Windows Vista couldn’t find any drivers for it. So, my next computer related investment will be new TV Tuner.