Alex Heat

I will explain myself as I come up with explanations. Phantasy Star Online: This game holds an extra special place in my heart. It was the first online game I'd ever played (because I didn't really care about Everquest) and I made a few very good friends through it. One of which I lived with for many a year and met a bunch of good people through. Suffice to say, this game is monumentally important to me. Had I never played it, my life would be incredibly different. Final Fantasy VII: This was the game that opened up RPGs as a genre for me. Hours into disc one and I felt I could not get enough of this genre. (Joke's on me though because nowadays, I've become sick of the JRPG genre and it's constant shonen anime tendencies. ) Bionic Commando: I'm not gonna lie, most of my memories of these were watching my brother play it when I was really young, so I felt I needed to play it and beat it too. Fortunately, it's a great game that showed me that action games without a jump could be great too. Digital Devil Saga: This is my favorite Atlus game. Something about it resonated really well with me and one of my good friends (the uh, very same one that killed himself in 2012, unfortunately). I liked it enough to get not one, but two tattoos based off it (Heat and Gale's Atma symbols). Final Fantasy Tactics: My first and favorite TRPG that, much like FF7, opened up the genre to me. Not that many come out, but at least there's Super Robot Wars and Tactics Ogre. Alan Wake: Aspiring writer enjoys a game with a novelist as the protagonist. In other news, the sky is blue. Seriously though, I dug the story and enjoyed the characters a lot. It was nice to have a modern game that wasn't rah rah military chest bumping. Maximo: At the time when I first played this, I was caught up in that frenzy of 'man, Japan sure makes all the best games and the US doesn't make anything good!'. I started branching out more afterwards. Being a Ghouls n' Ghosts spiritual successor probably helped. Super Mario RPG: I got my copy as a birthday gift from my best friend when I was in 7th grade or so, so I treasure this game. It also kind of cemented my enjoyment of the JRPG genre (because I got it after FF7). Resident Evil 2: My first horror game that took me a year or so to finish because I was such a chickenshit that I could only muster the courage to play it until I got to a save point every time. Gave me an appreciation for tank controls that I still have now. Granted, I would say that I'd prefer Resident Evil 6's gameplay to it though. Ease of movement and combat is a plus.

I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy there being a story mode and giving me some incentive. I was disappointed at RR5 lacked this (dunno if anything past that did since I didn't bother playing any RR games since). 3D had a couple good songs going for it at least. Speaking of companies that have become pretty hit or miss...

I've been using one of these for years now. You know, back when RadioShack wasn't incredibly terrible. Every now and then, I'll plug in my wired 360 controller for something that needs it like Arkham Asylum or DiRT3 though, but something about it feels really off.

I noticed this too. Tekken 3 and R4 had a lot of great stuff (R4's music actually convinced me to play it since I hadn't touched Ridge Racer since the original).

Let's see...so far this year I've beaten: The Darkness II, which was a lot better than the first Darkness (though I did like it). Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which was...very average and unremarkable. Dante's Inferno. I liked it well enough, but it tried way too hard to be...well...dark, mature and edgy. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City was...an adequate way to kill seven hours or so of my time with my younger cousin who is a big enough fan of RE to endure crummier games (I am too, I mean, I beat RE Gaiden twice). Prototype 2 was also more enjoyable than the game that came before it. Even if Heller was a relatively simple minded kind of guy, I'm a bit of sucker for 'father trying to save his daughter' stories after I played Nier. Technically, I've beaten KoFXIII and Soulcalibur V, in so much as clearing story mode entirely counts.

It was from the Tekken OVA. From one of the two good scenes in the whole thing (Kazuya's twenty second fight with Nina). It's a shame! It could've been as good as Chun-Li vs. Vega was in the SF2 animated movie. Coincidentally, that was the place I heard Ultra the first time and it stuck with me until I finally went and downloaded it.

The things you hear when you watch dubbed anime OVAs.

I know that there's probably a helluva lot of people who don't enjoy beer, but it is incredibly nice to see someone else vocalize it for a change. If I ever go out for drinks with anyone or even discuss drinks, it is kind of quite to devolve into 'WHAT THAT'S CRAZY ALEX BEER IS AWESOME!'. Can't I just drink Creme de Cacao and milk or UV Blue and Lemonade forever? I think I could.

I'm pretty late to the party on it, but I picked up The Dresden Files a couple months ago since I'd run out of Noble Dead Saga books to read. Already up to book eight of...twelve, I think? I kinda wish I'd heard about it sooner because it's been a long time since I went through books so quickly. Not since middle school and I was still reading Animorphs, anyway.

Never played the game or read the manga, but it was in one of the many gamemp3s.net torrents and I like to listen to those in their entirety just in case there's something I like in there. Turns out there was!

I'm a little sad, honestly. I mean, I know stars didn't amount of anything really, but I still tried to make sure my comments were more than just 'lol thats dumb' since I always saw stars a sign that you made quality posts and weren't a huge jerk. That and I'm pretty bad at maintaining a presence on forums in comparison to a blog that I'm checking for news every day. Still, in the long run I met some interesting people that I like, so it's not all bad.

Fuchikoma already listed a couple things I would love to see: 5 hit combos being the maximum, much stronger single player content (god forbid, right?) sticking with the basic inputs for special moves (I'm perfectly okay with the SNK style QCF,HCB stuff but for god's sake, no HCBx2 motions! I hate those). Capcom vs. SNK 2's groove selection system would also be great. Maybe even just give you eight slots to make your own grooves in so you can tailor the game how you'd like.

When I initially heard about Dishonored, I was vaguely interested. When the trailer finally came along and showcased the world and all the potential therein...it was boners o'clock. I have no vested interest in steampunk, but oh sweet baby jesus, it looked so good!

Yo! I am Alex and you might recognize me from such films such as Kotaku: Weekend at Owen's, Raptr: Mystery of the Missing O and Steam. And if you don't, well, I am Alex Heat?