Backlog - Bargain Bonanza Edition

So now that Steam's Summer Sales 2012 ended, I figured now would be a good time to update my backlog, now that it's expanded needlessly greater yet again. I'm going to have to figure something out to play through these faster.

I've definitely made some progress from the last backlog, but at the rate of me getting new games, I'm not getting enough done at the moment. >_>; I may have to completely drop Diablo III considering I haven't had much luck with profiting from it.

Promo - Romalian Codex

Recently, I was talking with a friend of mine about some things like what we do now, and I brought up this blog into the topic. So after giving him a link to this site, it seems like I have inspired him to start a blog of his own, as he has some opinions to share about the things that he has experienced much like myself.

His interests are in RPGs and anime, much like myself, but perhaps more in those specific fields than I, since I seem to have been expanding my interests to games of many other genre recently. He also uploads many videos on YouTube, doing things like the Top RPG VGM, where you can listen to his favorite tracks from many different Role Playing Games. So if RPGs and anime are your cup of tea, then you may want to check out his site, found here.

http://romalian.blogspot.com/

Slayers - Post Viewing Thoughts

I had finished watching all five seasons of Slayers finally. I certainly do feel like I missed out on something epic in my childhood. I knew the show existed, and I was interested, but just wasn't able to convince my mom to rent the tapes since I was already watching plenty of anime back then as well. Some of which are similar, but also doesn't quite compare to Slayers in terms of the events that occur. By that I mean, most of the other fantasy setting anime will have the protagonist grow from being an inexperienced fighter, to a competent combatant. Lina however, is already pretty strong from the start, and does grow in strength for sure, but growth was not a big factor in the story; at least not as much as the other fantasy anime goes.

Rumble Fighter - Return Bribes

I just got an E-mail from OGPlanet with some freebies that they're bribing me with to come back to play some Rumble Fighter. Certainly is nice of them to actually offer some Astro/Cash items that are actually permanent instead of those time activated things that only last for 30 days or something. The OGPlanet I knew back when I was still playing wouldn't do that, but maybe things have changed during my absence? There seems to be a lot more things in the game now too that I don't recognize either.

Pardus Rant - War in Artemis

Oyyy... This is like... what, the 5th war that the Federation has been in out of all 5 wars we've had on this server? I was thankful that we didn't have this 5th war during Christmas season like how we had the previous 2 years, but still, I was hoping that we can sit by the sidelines and watch a war between the Empire and Union for a change. This time, I'm not even in a fighter ship either, so I'm having to pick up the slack on traders while everyone else is out there, getting war medals.... or getting killed. Whichever. Regardless of me mostly staying within FHC, I've picked up a shield and packing some missiles in case I get attacked, or to participate in ambushes or something, if I'm available. It certainly does hinder my trading capabilities though with how much space these equipments take up.

Poll - Trafficing

Here we are with another poll result, this time providing an additional stat on where people find The Code of Truth from.

How did you find this blog?
Google search - 9 votes
Linked by a friend - 2 votes
Locke Trufeld's profile - 2 votes
Other - 1 vote
Other searches - 0 votes
Linked from another site - 0 votes
Random blog link - 0 votes

Steam Summer Sale 2012!

Oh snap, Steam's Summer Sale has begun, and there are so many things on sale now! If you haven't seen some of my reviews for Steam games, particularly Terraria, Sequence, Just Cause 2, Gyromancer, Duke Nukem Forever, and Space Pirates And Zombies, now may be a good time to check them out, in case you find some of these at the best sale prices that you would find them in. I had plans on doing a review for Beat Hazard, Recettear, Chantelise, Bastion, Gratuitous Space Battles, Trine, and more, but it seems my schedule has been too busy for that at the moment.

It seems like they will put games up on even greater sales every 8 hours or so, and by community vote as well on what game should go on sale. Hooray for democracy? Well, if you see a game that you want, might as well vote for it to go on sale. Maybe it'll get that nice 75% off discount within a few hours after voting. If your wishlist is a decent size, you'll surely want to be keeping an eye on Steam until July 22nd, when the sale ends.

Well, I know when I'll be doing another Backlog Update post.

Edit: Well, it seems like Steam has also just added an achievement system for this sale as well, although a bit more community-based than it is about collecting newly added achievements within some Steam games. For all those achievement-hunters out there, some of these might be some easy things you can do to add more bragging rights to your Steam account. You can find the details on the right side, right below the poll for what game should go on sale next. 

Feesh! - Firion 5

So just as I've wanted, here are some more pictures of Firion. This time on a 5 MegaPixel camera as opposed to 3. Not the 8.0 MP I wanted originally, but this should do for now.  

Edit: It seems like uploading pictures directly from the phone using the Blogger App automatically resizes the pictures to the "Medium" size setting it seems. Sounds like a reasonable feature, but not sure if I like it entirely. I will re-upload them in the original size if I get some requests.

Review - Patapon

Patapon for the PlayStation Portable is a rhythm game... but not quite like the other rhythm games out there. It certainly has some RPG elements, but it is still very different from Sequence that I have reviewed before. So what makes this game special, and how does it fare against the other games out there?

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Finally, my new phone arrived! I got the Samsung Galaxy Nexus off of Amazon at $49.99 as an existing Verizon member, and it is amazing so far. Glad I didn't get a 8 GB iPhone 4 at the same price at Best Buy, which the rest of my family did.

Making Money on Jokeroo

So I've had a link going to Jokeroo.com in my list of Cool places links for quite a while. During this time, they've undergone quite a few changes in how much they pay out to their users. At first, they started at 10 cents per reaction and Facebook likes you gave, up to 5 max per day each. Then, they reduced it to 2 cents for a while, and just recently, brought it back to 10 cents per reaction, but removed the Facebook like option it seems. Regardless, they also seem to have added another requirement for cashing out the money you have accumulated on your account by having to have contributed a picture or video that gets approved on Jokeroo. So I decided to upload a few things that I have slapped together real quick.

KoL - PVP Season 2

Kingdom of Loathing's PVP Season 2 has started! ... Which came with your hippy stone fixed so you're not forced into PVP's new set of minigames, which is good and bad. It was bad for me because I had some PVP fights banked for when the new one started to get a head start on the flower picking minigame, but the game only gave me 10 PVP fights after breaking the stone again. x_o;

Anyway, this season seems to be more balanced and active than the 1st season, encouraging people to ascend into other signs for a change.

What does the Counter say about the Page Views?

The Code of Truth now has over 9000 page views! Thank you all for the support!

Poll - Diablo III Classes

Here are the results for the last poll regarding Diablo III.

What is your favorite class in Diablo III?
I don't play Diablo III. - 8 votes
Barbarian - 2 votes
Wizard - 2 votes
Monk - 2 votes
Witch Doctor - 1 vote
Demon Hunter - 0 votes