Dashed Expectations

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I've almost beat Metroid Prime 2 (on the final boss) and I've returned to Minecraft now that I have a new computer.

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Everyone go buy Way of the Samurai 4 on PSN

It's like Saints Row 2 with swords, it's beautiful in every way.

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That's the plan Mecha.

Speaking of Xseed published games, started a fresh file on Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.

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Azure- Failing his spy class training since the days of Old F6.

I've been playing MLB The Show 12 for at least a solid two-three weeks straight. My Blue Jays franchise is going extremely well.

Starting rotation began w/ Matt Garza/Ricky Romero/James Shields/Livan Hernandez/Scott Kazmir, but Livan quickly proved to suck all kinds of ass so I traded his lame ass self to the Yankees and put in the bomb rookie Kyle Drabek(who had performed well in 10 innings of relief of Livan) in his place. Garza was also sucking, so I traded him for Cole Hamels, who was on a hot streak...but I quickly found his style didn't gel with mine and he went on a cold streak, so I finally send him to the Mariners and got a guy I really like to be my ace, Felix Hernandez. So now my rotation is, in order, Felix Hernandez/Ricky Romero/James Shield/Kyle Drabek/Scott Kazmir. None of them have losing records and their ERA is all pretty nice, though Kazmir and Shields' flirt with a bit high for me, and Shields only posted his first walk after 89 innings. Kazmir also has 11 wins, which is pretty neat.

Bullpen is really solid too: Takashi Saito has performed admirably as a closer by blowing no saves, but he's also only had 15 chances, while Hideki Okajima didn't allow a run for almost 22 innings. Right now my bullpen has Carlos Villanueva and Andrew Brackman as long guys, Jon Rauch and Hideki Okajima as Middle Relief, Aroldis Chapman and Kyle Farnsworth as Setup Men and, as said, Saito at closer. Okajima/Rauch started the hottest, but Farnsworth has gone hot now while Okajima solildly cooled. Aroldis Chapman is also doing better after a rough start.

My lineup is what has to be considered All-Star, though, as I trot out Hanley Ramirez, Juan Rivera, Brian Roberts, Jose Bautista, Kendrys Morales, Carlos Beltran, Chase Headley, Travis Snider and Mike Napoli out as an AL-DH RHP rotation, with Swisher in Snider's place against lefties: My bench is solid with Swisher/Snider, double catchers and good pinch hitters J.P. Arencibia and Francisco Cervelli and great defensive(but bad offensive) infield utility man John McDonald.

Bautista's year has been particularly special, batting over .400 through 78 games(Currently .433), crushing in 20 HRs and leading the league in RBIs with 78(Second place has 61). Morales also went on a hot streak, managing to squeak his way over .400 with a .418 so far, and Mike Napoli just came off a surprise 4 Home Run game(EXTREMELY rare) in a game where I hit 9 of them total. We've also got some decent base steal totals from Roberts and Ramirez, with the amusing statistical anomaly of Roberts not having a single HR, and a lot of guys hitting some good RBI numbers and averages.

Right now I'm 57-21 with an eleven game cushion over the Red Sox, 14 over the tied Yankees/Rays. Other division leaders are the Indians(44-34, 3.5 ahead of the White Sox), The Athletics(47-32, 9.0 ahead of the Mariners), the Phillies and Mets(Tied at 41-37, 4.0 ahead of the Braves, 5.0 ahead of the Nationals, 7.0 ahead of the Marlins), the Brewers(46-33, 2.5 games ahead of the Cardinals, 6.5 games ahead of the Cub) and the Diamondbacks(1.5 games ahead of the Rockies, 3.0 games ahead of the Padres, 3.5 games ahead of the Dodgers, 5.0 ahead of the Giants), with the Wild Cards held by the Red Sox(36-32, 3.0 ahead of the Yankees/Rays) and Cardinals(43-35, only half a game ahead of the Rockies and then 2.0 ahead of three seperate teams, plus 2.5 ahead of the Dodgers).

This has been a Ruki gaming update about a game about a sport nobody else will care about. Ezcept Conan.

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Playing Skyrim, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, and Soul Calibur V, with occasional moments of either Minecraft 360 or Beat Hazard.

Still been playing Halo: Reach. Though I now have 3 months of Xbox Live Gold thanks to a card that came free with the console, so I'm just playing online multiplayer a lot.

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Which modes have you been playing? My roommates and I haven't played in a while (at this point we'll probably wait for 4's release, playing in the meantime all the games we bought through the Steam Summer Sale that we still have yet to play and/or finish), but when we did, we generally played SWAT (No radar, no overshield, and weapons limited to pistol/DMR), Grifball (get the ball to the enemy's goal, weapons limited to Energy Swords/Gravity Hammers), and the occasional game of Infection (defeated players on the "human" team join the "zombie" team; humans are limited to pistols/shotguns, zombies Energy Swords). We would occasionally play other modes, but those are the ones we generally stuck to.

I'm pretty much trying out as many modes as I can to see what they're like. My favorite ones right now have to be Infection, Team Swat, and Big Team Battle (8 on 8 with vehicles involved). I still haven't tried every mode, though. Right now I'd like to try out Multi Team (4 teams of 3 fighting each other).

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Try Grifball. It's fun, especially since last time I played, they had created some new variants where you can sprint or use the jetpack. I'm not good at the jetpack one, preferring vanilla Grifball and Evolved (you get the evade ability, though if you're holding the ball as use it, you drop the ball). I usually let my teammates do the scoring, preferring to just whip out the Gravity Hammer and start going to town on the enemy.

I've tried Grifball, it's really fun. I usually let my teammates do the scoring, too, though I tried scoring once and I came really close. I managed to avoid my opponent's attacks by jumping around a lot, which helps since having the ball with me increased my running speed. I'd rather go to town with the Gravity Hammer, too. Not sure why they even gave you an Energy Sword, when the Gravity Hammer is the same thing, just with a slightly wider range.

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I believe the Energy Sword swings slightly faster than the Gravity Hammer. It's also got this difficult to avoid lunge attack to it. Though with the hammer it is possible to perform some sort of jump with it if done right in order to get a lot of air, but I cannot pull it off.

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Oh, that gamed looked pretty cool from videos but I can't say i'd buy a console for it.

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I've heard Shadow Complex does metroidvania impossibly well from something someone said on one of the Two Best Friends Play side videos.

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I've been working on Persona 4 for the past month. I recently encountered Shadow Teddie and I'm not sure life will ever be the same for me again.

I played P4 a while back, but my friend recently got it.

Though its sad because hes spoiled a lot of it for himself already.

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Playing Pokemon Yellow. I'm going to become a pokemon master!

That was my first Pokémon game ever! I remember playing it when I was 5.

........I kept using Thundershock on Brock's Pokémon, thinking that it would eventually work.

Then I got to Giovanni. Pikachu was the only Pokémon that I trained. You do the math.

I should get another copy someday, just so I can actually beat it properly.

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Just search craigslist till you find a good deal, twas what I did and now I'm on my way to the Pokemon Leuge!

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I've been switching between FF6 and A Link To The Past. Two games I have never played until now.

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