Technical Difficulties Won't Stop The Saboteur

Only 2 videos this time. The reason for this is because these videos should have been uploaded with the second half but due to a rendering mistake it could be uploaded then. I did record an hour last night but due to technical difficulties I couldn't render them. I set them to render out over night but my computer crashed after it rendered 2 videos. In those 2 videos the voice over volume ended up being to low so I could not upload those either. The videos i uploaded today also do not have any voice overs since audacity decided not to save the audio file! After all of that im still going. I will have more videos tomorrow.

Playlist consists of 15 videos as of this post.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Dubbington1221

A Pikachu Riding an Articuno - Pokemon Snap Review

Yesterday, I asked the viewers of this blog to answer a poll on what video game I should review. A LOT and I mean A LOT of you guys wanted me to review Pokemon Snap, so as promised, I sat down last night and played Pokemon Snap for a couple hours to get it back into my head.

Before I start this review, I want to say, 'WHERE THE HELL IS THIS POKEMON ISLAND!' It sounds so cool! And why haven't I seen this in a normal pokemon game! It could be like, the Battle Frontier. And have rare Pokemon. Okay. Now on tho the review...

When I first started the game up, I felt like I was going to watch an extremely fun movie. And that is what you feel when you start a N64 game up. So I start the game up and you see this intro with your character walking in a forest of some sort. Then Mew (The 151st Pokemon) races by you! You rush to take out your camera. Then you get several 'booty' shots. But I got bored and just wanted to play the game so I skipped to the title screen. So I clicked New Game and it told me to put my name. What did I choose? Only the coolest name in the world! Dylan. And from there you jump right in and it shows you the basics in the beggining of th first course. Gameplay as simple as that is a great way to start off a game. Thus, going to effect the final review. Hehe.

But yeah. You then take pictures of Pokemon. Simple, right? Ehh. Not so much. These Pokemon MOVE. I will tell you that. By later on in the game I am jamming in my old joystick to catch up with the Pokemon moving around. It may sound like I hate it, but actually, I like it. It adds a challenge to the game and makes it more fun.

Then after every run, you have to submit one picture of each Pokemon to Proffessor Oak. And if they are good, you are going to rack up a lot of points. If it's a crappy back shot or a far left corner picture, you are going to lose some points. So try and get the best pictures possible.

One thing that I love about this game is the catchy music. Sure, it may be old, but it's fun. It fits the game perfectly!

Now here is a flaw. If you mess up, as in miss a secret area or get a bad picture, you have to go through it all again. Which is annoying and just plain stupid. I won't really spoil THAT much, though. ;)

So let's get the final word. A classic. Nothing but. Great fun, certian flaws but whatever. My favorite part is the fact you can get secret shots such as a surfing Pikachu or a Pikachu riding an Articuno! And then the final level. Oh my god, it is so much fun.

Rating - 9.0/10.0

Come on! Take out that old Nintendo 64 and re-play that game. And remember to post your thoughts on the game in the comments below!

Welcome Back to The Saboteur

Playlist for the Lets Play

This set of two videos should have been more but i failed a few times in the time that i play so i decided to edit my failings out. That left me with about 30mins of footage. You are probably saying to yourself "Wouldn't that mean you should have 3 videos?" usually you would be right. But a rendering mistake on my part left me with an 11 min video. Which you might know are not allowed on youtube. So i have to re-render the video out tomorrow and then post the two new videos. Good news is that there will be videos tomorrow. Bad news is it will only be two.

Playlist consists of 13 videos as of this post.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Dubbington1221

Hax Progress

(EARTHBOUND)
I just found an entire ROM editor for Earthbound/Mother 2. With this little sucker, I can edit everything, including event Flags, text, PSI names, and even tilesets for specific areas! I have also found another program to edit PSI animations. The page for these downloads is located here.
Some examples of the use of this tool can be found here.
((LONG LIVE THE STARMAN SUPER DUPER!))

*Quick post for today, but I couldn't think of anything else.*

Last time on The Saboteur

Playlist for the Lets Play


In this set of videos we escape from Nazi Germany to find that France is being invaded by the Nazis. Today, tomorrow and Thursday may not have me recording since today I had to work, tomorrow I have english stuff to write and Thursday (and every Thursday for 3 months) i have an SAT Practice class (AHH mom made me take it) But Friday and the weekend are free for me to do a nice chuck of recording!

Playlist consists of 11 videos as of this post.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Dubbington1221

Tanks! You're Welcome

No it's not a typo.. it's a play on words, you'll get it later :p

My current main character in World of Warcraft is a Death Knight Tank by the name of Raevn (Terenas EU). I had played every raid role except a tank previous to this character (previous mains included a Combat Rogue and a Holy Priest) and created her with the intention to tank. Things went well and I felt as if I picked up fast on tanking (being that I had tanked before in Ever Quest it wasn't totally new to me). I had a lot of fun raiding in a guild alliance of three guilds. However, that alliance eventually fell apart due to drama in one of the guilds and that left me with not much of anything left to do on my tank so I started leveling up an alt, a caster dps (something I hadn't played before), Landriana (Terenas EU).

I played this character a lot and basically focused on her until she was 80.. I did so many PuGs (as DPS was much easier than tanking) and once I reached full Tier 9 had nothing else to do on her being that I play casually and am not in a REAL guild (my guild is just for friends and my alts). That left me with only one thing to do: go back to farming heroics for Emblems of Triumph to get my DK in full tier 9.

But there was one problem.. I was rusty. I hadn't played my tank in so long I lost all confidence in myself as a tank, and being that my tanking meant PuGing I was even more weary.

I had seen as a DPS how pushy everyone was with the tank "Pull!" "Go! Go! Go!" and instantly leaving the group if one tiny mistake was made. DPS no longer respected aggro and expected that they should be able to go full out straight from the pull with the tank having no issue at all.

I actually really like this post on the EU realms Guide: Don't Spank the Tank because I can sympathize A LOT with this guide.

I decided the best way for me to build confidence was to just tank, except even though I didn't need much from them, I would tank the new Ice Crown 5 mans in normal mode. My belief was that most the people in normals were probably there for the first time and would be a bit more forgiving, patient and lenient. I queued for Forge of Souls and got my group.

I must have actually been really lucky that day because I ended up getting an entire group of people totally new to the instance (a double edged sword to be honest, but I was feeling nice that day) the only people who knew it were me (the DK tank) and my husband (on his hunter).

While it sucked that I had to explain everything and mark the mobs that needed to die first it at least meant I wasn't going to have some asshole to keep yelling "go!" at me. I got to take my time when I felt like, wait for death and decay to come back up and I felt relaxed.

The instance over all went pretty well except for the Devourer of Souls, sadly despite repeatedly saying "DO NOT DPS DURING MIRRORED SOUL" one of the dpses went right on and killed our healer (who also happened to be standing in the purple crap). Luckily enough my husband and I were so out geared for the instance it didn't make that big of a difference.

When it was over the others wanted to continue (of course, they had a well geared tank and the quests), I was still feeling nice and in need of the tanking warm up so I went ahead.

Another instance of going at my own pace, explaining bosses (and in some cases) mobs (the 4-packs before the tunnel in PoS). It went well.

We decided to press on to Halls of Reflection, and explained fights. As usual someone asked if we would fight the Lick King. Personally, I liked how when I first came I had no idea how the story would pan out. It was like a rush running from the Lich King at the end and then thinking I had to tank him. Therefore I make it a point to NEVER ruin how that instance ends for anyone. I just winked and said "You'll see.."

The waves went rather well considering that is usually pretty hard for people when they first come, but the line of sight trick kind of eats half that fun. It was late for me so we employed it as generally people prefer things easier.

Before we could run up the hall to the Lich King though one of our group members had to leave, and that is when I was pretty much floored:

 

It felt really nice to actually have someone appreciate the extra effort that goes into teaching tactics to players and thank you for tanking. Generally people are pretty abusive to their tanks and this was a welcome change. It made my transition back to playing my tank a more enjoyable experience. ♥

Unnecessary Blogger: Anex

I figured it couldn't hurt to at least introduce myself as the other bloggers here have done, rather than just bombarding you with blogs from "that Anex person".

So here I am, introducing away.. as you may have already guessed my name is Anex. No, it doesn't mean anything.. it's just a name that I have had since I was 13 in regards to my online escapades that came from a dream where this was my name (long story, maybe one day I'll share).

A 25 year old girl gamer, I'm a member of the world renowned PMS clan since 2005 and in the Rhythm Game division as an expert vocalist for Rock Band. I'm also a member and assistant general manager of the sponsored Rock Band team, Team Cena. I've been gaming since I had a Nintendo Entertainment System.. my first "FPS" was Duck Hunt. I've played many games over the years and nowadays have focused myself a bit more on certain genres.

I currently run my own blog called Unnecessary Blogage  (my personal gaming blog) which tends to be a bit more sporadic and varied than what I will be bringing here to The Lost Cake.

You can expect blogs from me about my gaming adventures mainly in regards to World of Warcraft and Rock Band as this is where I mainly focus myself. That doesn't mean you won't find things outside of those games as I do play other games on the side even if I don't invest myself as fully in them. I generally will write pretty soon after playing to keep the emotion I had during the experience in my writing, which means my entries can be VERY silly or really angry depending on how I felt. I do also have a tendency to use some mild language and will try to forewarn ahead of time in case some readers are a bit more sensitive to it.

I hope you will enjoy my contributions to The Lost Cake! ^^