A little update

(Before you read on, I apologize for the lack of photos in this post. Also, spoiler alert.)

Hmm so I haven't been posting much lately and by that, I mean, not at all. I guess I'm not someone who can stick to updating something regularly, and it shows in how I play my games too. For that, I really mean that I'm the kind of person who would keep my Neopet healthy and bloated for a few days, then not visit for 3 years before repeating the cycle. Which is why my town (Animal Crossing) is still undeveloped...

Okay well, the main reason why I haven't been posting is because I haven't had much to post about. (Ishtaria isn't very exciting, not getting units you want is very demoralizing and puts you off. TsumTsum is cute but repetitive, not much to post there, except that I'm trying to collect all the Tsums I can. Same goes for LINE Play. Not much comments on Alphabear but ugh it's so hard to get past Chapter 4. Dota is same-old, not much besides the reborn update which is still in beta and I didn't fully explore it yet cuz it's really buggy for me.)

After all that long-winded paragraph on games I have little content to talk about, you must be wondering what content I have for this post.

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The collector's instinct kicks in

I've always been a collector at heart, as evidenced by my rather extensive, and still growing, pokemon collection. It already takes up an entire wall but the sheer number of cute things that are released every month empties my pocket every time.

However, that's not what I'm collecting today. To my utter dismay, I've inadvertently fallen into the greatest trap.

CONSOLES GAMES COLLECTING.

Console(s) game(s), with major emphasis on the s'es. So what exactly am I referring to? These culprits are namely the PS3 and the 3DS, though ultimately, I suspect, it will extend to the PSVita and PS4 as well.

The problem with the urge to fill my shelf with all the best games is that each individual component will set me back 50 bucks. Thankfully, I've mitigated the first wave of damages by forcing myself to buy games second hand. However, eventually the backlog of older games will run dry, and spanking new collector's editions will soon be my greatest nightmares.

This worries me especially because I'm gainfully unemployed.

BUT

The amount of joy one gains from just owning something is ridiculous. It's not a sentiment a non-collector can empathize with, though, and that's good, cause it's not exactly the most economical hobby in the world.

My haul for the 3DS looks a little like this now.

There are still a couple of titles missing, namely, Story of Seasons, Persona Q, Shin Megami Tensei IV, some game cases I can't find, and the whole Zelda collection. After obtaining Monster Hunter 4U, Rune Factory 4 and Tales of the Abyss in one day though, I have successfully managed to quash the urge to hunt down more games in the immediate future. Hopefully at least until I finish what I have.

On the other hand, I shamefully admit to buying quite a number of PS3 games despite my physical console gathering dust in some corner of the attic.

And with that ends this status update, till the next haul.

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So I missed Fate/Stay Night collab

SO I MISSED IT
WHY
BECAUSE
BECAUSE THE STORY MODE MADE ME GO THROUGH LIKE 10 F***KING (I don't know if I'm allowed to swear here) BATTLES FOR ONE CRYSTAL
AND I CAN'T CASH ON BLUESTACKS
SO I COULDN'T GACHA MY OP RIN TOHSAKA
HERE SHE IS!

I WILL NOW GO ON HIATUS AND MAYBE AFTER A YEAR ANOTHER OP CARD LIKE THIS WILL BE NORMAL YES SUCH A GREAT IDEA

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MIRAcle indeed

What's that? What's that!? It's MIRAcle!

So after Zynga USA decided to fire a dozen employees, shut down their China branch and murder countless Ayakashi beauties, a bunch of disgruntled developers (supposedly) banded together to form a new company and a new AGG! Of course, there's no way to know if they will actually succeed in obtaining the rights and get the game out but a teeny bit of hope is in order.

My only fear is that it will be entirely in Chinese, and I will be hard-pressed to dig up the last dredges of what used to be a second language. However, I guess this is that one trigger that will motivate me to finally start learning it properly: what a blessing in disguise.

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Groudon lands at last!

A waaaaay overdue update from me about Pokemon Shuffle since Rayquaza and Daily Pokemon events have already ended. But mainly, they've added a Groudon event, to which I'm super happy about since I now have all 3 Kyogre, Groudon and Rayquaza :D

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Squares, devil squares and cubes

One of, or perhaps the game with the cutest graphics ever that I've played must have been FEZ. I came across this game when I was looking to complete a challenge on Steam (add games to your wishlist) and without much thought, I added this game as the graphics were so adorable! A few months later, a good friend of mine bought this game as a birthday present for me along with Strata (another random puzzle game with really nice graphics and pretty good music). Well I felt bad since it was added to my wishlist on an impulse, but nevertheless I decided I would play it anyway since it was given to me in good will.

To be honest, although I am not as hooked/addicted as I am to some other games, I did enjoy what I've played of it and would recommend it. I have yet to complete the game though, so I may not be the best at talking about it. Still, I will share about my journey in FEZ. This post will just be a short introduction to the beginning of the game though.

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P&D day x+3

sorry this took quite long.
I had a bit of trauma after screwing up uniform gatcha beautifully.
Five rolls and no 5 stars :( I was going to screenshot and show it but I didn't log in for three days to p&D..... Well today, my post isn't really going to be about P&D but more about probability.
I was always surprised by the fact that chance of you rolling at least one 6 after throwing dice 6 times are only about 2/3. Well, at least I knew it wasn't certainty but I was thinking it would be close to one.
This is strange nature of probability. I am writing this because I found someone online complaining about other gatcha game.
He apparently had 10% chance (game kindly released statistics!) of getting 5 stars and he rolled 10 times. He didn't get a single five stars and complaining about how the game is cheating him.

He made two simple errors.

First of all, chance of him getting not a single five stars 34.8%. WELL that is quite significant enough. There is nothing really ridiculous about it! The chance of that happening is more than 1/3! It is not something that is so surprising even if it does happen.

Second of all, even if chance is low, it can happen. Even chance as 0.00001% doesn't mean, it won't happen, especially when the sample size gets bigger! To quote some chances, you have about 1 in 2 million chance of getting strike my lightening, 1 in 8 million chance of winning lottery! Such a small chance but they do happen!

Unlike people tend to think, 10% is not that big chance. 5% is even smaller chance. Everyone all should realise that when we are doing gatcha in any type of mobile games, the odds are not in our favour! Far from it. As the players, we should always remember doing gatcha in mobile games are almost similar to playing games in casino but odds are just worst and your incentives are not as great as the casino!

In general, I do not know what is the probability of getting five stars and above in P&D, my guess is that it is quiet significant! (for non god-fest limited monsters it might be as high as 20~30%) (some say it is 2% for 5 star god fest limited and 0.2% for 6 star god fest limited but I seriously doubt that chance.... it is too low to be true, I believe) But again I can't make estimate with such a small amount of data!

Though I have to agree that gatcha is what makes mobile game mobile!
So let's roll roll roll! But let's not curse the game but curse the chance (or your luck XD)!

ps. But seriously f**k you Gungho!

sky's ocean

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Pokemon matching and catching!

Recently, besides my regular playing of DotA 2 and Ayakashi: Ghost Guild (which the latter has stopped all events and new content is about to close down on 30th April, hence I will cease activities on it too). As a large amount of my game time had been on AGG, I had to look for other games to take up my time instead and thus I started playing Million Arthur and Age of Ishtaria (stories perhaps for another time).

Coincidentally, Pokemon Shuffle was newly released in February 2015. However, I neglected my 3DS for a loooong time, and turned it on at about late March to find out that there was a new free-to-download game!

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Enough TCG mobages! Where are them RPGs!?

      

So I've been talking about a bunch of mobages, but they're all card-collecting TCG games, and they're too competitive; and they take too much checking-in; and they sicken me with the sheer RNG required of gachas. So-! I decided it would do me some good to give them a rest and try something more relaxed.

For once, I want to choose my own pace, so I turned to RPGs and shortlisted a few pretty candidates.

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P&D day X+2

Well today was more attempt for Hera!
I tried with Kali and I think it was quite good attempt but I really lack Kali friends to attempt multiple times. :( Other than that I am farming gems from coin dungeon one by one and clearing challenge dungeon.
I believe if I work hard before uniform gatcha I can collect like 30~40 gems.
That means I can roll up to 8 and maximum 20 times if I do cash.

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P&D day x+1

Damn I am really sorry but I am not in a right mood to write proper one!
Well lucky nothing much happened to me today in P&D.
Except that I died a lot a lot of times attempting to clear Hera!
Oh yeah, I am reconsidering whether to role for uniform Gatcha.
I am starting to think that godfest might be better idea!
I will talk about this further tomorrow!

sky's ocean

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Good Bye Ayakashi Good Bye Mira!

Ayakashi Ghost Guild is the mobile game that I have been playing for longest!

It is probably one of the older card collecting games.
Basically, player becomes one of the agents of the ghost guild. You fight with a lot of daemons (consisting of three different types. Divina, Phantom and Anima) and you have chance to make them your own daemons either through summon or negotiation involving various events.

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P&D day x

I can't remember when I started playing this game!
But well I will keep a journal daily from now on. I will update at 10:30~11:30pm daily.
So today, I will just introduce what I have in box and few of my teams.

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Mobile games, mobile-ges, mobages

After surfing the net a bit, I just realized that the term I've been using for mobile games, 'mobilege', is actually an anglicized version of the Japanese term mobage (モバゲ). I always thought the full version, mobairu ge-mu (モバイルゲーム) was just shortened to mobairu ge, literally mobile-ge, but apparently not! It's even shorter than that!

I'm probably going to use the more popular mobage term from now on then, I guess! 

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DotA 2 Heroic Effigy Creation Tool

Ahh, so I think I discovered the Heroic Effigy Creation Tool a little late. Most TI4 compendium owners probably have created their Effigy by now.

Upon receiving the blocks of triumph as a gift for purchasing the TI4 Compendium on time, my friend had instantly created his to be a statue of Spiritbreaker, but I didn't want to create my statue so fast as I just couldn't decide what I want hero I want it to be. Thus I left the blocks untouched in my inventory, until recently when I looked at my items and realised I still haven't created an Effigy.

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ファミ通App FamitsuApp No. 022 Serial Code Giveaway

Since I somehow got an extra magazine, here's some free serial codes. First come first serve, but if the requester does not reply after code has been sent for 24hrs, I will reissue the code to the next person until it has been confirmed to be used.

View the full post for the list of available game serial codes! If you are interested in the particular code please comment and leave a method of contact for me to send the code to you, or send an email to the blog's registered address (take note that I don't check the mail normally so your comment for notification is important). If requested, I will also screen the comment afterwards, thanks!

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ファミ通App FamitsuApp Magazine No. 022

This is the first time I've actually bought Famitsu's monthly mobilege magazine, and only because I wanted a single serial code within for one of the games I'm following right now.

Attractive serial codes aside, I did enjoy the magazine very much. It contains a number of introductory articles, interviews with developers, and updates on upcoming and running mobileges that usually rotate to give each game its own spotlight now and then. Through reading it, I think I feel more inspired to pick up more games!

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A bug bit me

It's not life threatening!...

I'm not sure if this is an isolated case, but I've begun to notice, with DESPAIR, that the battle screen occasionally goes out of whack and I am left with something looking like this!

The screen just slides to the left or right indefinitely and nothing I do stops it. Eventually I can only select my monsters and hit whatever is targeted by default.

Hopefully it is just my device. Such a bummer :(

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Progress, or not?

So I've gone ahead in AoI, clearing the first and second chapters of dungeons. When clearing maps, we earn points to use in purifying particular chapters and making it easier to clear subsequently. They serve as permanent upgrades like increasing ATK or HP for that level.

Strangely, by this point, the entire battle mechanic has already become routine! I don't need to think to execute those combos, and thankfully the game seems to follow some rules of physics eg. the armored monsters have high def, the big monsters are heavy, etc. so strategy shouldn't be too tough to figure out.

What does irk me, however, is the lack of information on possible drops or returns from the dungeons. It would be nice to know so I wouldn't miss out on anything!

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Age of Ishtaria - First impressions

Okay so I just downloaded a new mobile-ge titled Age of Ishtaria by Silicon Studio. It doesn't appear to be a very old game, having only been localized at the end of last year. I have quite high hopes because of px's recommendation after the demise of AGG; I need more games to occupy my free time! haha

Anyway, on to the game!

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An adventure

Hello world!

I am px and a contributor of this site... I was dragged into this by Littlebyte when I suggested that she could make a games blog to write about the endless list of games that she wants to play. Well, to be honest, it does seem fun to talk about what I am doing in these virtual worlds. However, I am not very good at games, though I love playing them, so I'll just be writing about my opinions and game adventures (less review-ish and I'll try to give tips but they'd probably be common sense and common tips that can be found in other parts of the net).

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Do I need title?

I will just write general introduction(?) and my taste of games!

I am just not very fond of IT stuff so I do not know whether to chuck this intro but I am sure px or littlebyte will help me. 

So I am sky's ocean and I must highlight this point but sky's is sort of adjective describing ocean so supposedly if you want to shorten it you must call me ocean not sky! But I guess I am fine with sky also. Oh and I happen to be Korean who speaks English so I can play game both in Korean and English! (though not Japanese) 

I think I am quite picky with games I play.

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Twice the charm

Okay so I decided to post a second post to celebrate successfully changing the font size!

Unfortunately the comment box is still big as hell, and I want smaller line spacings, but I guess I can be a bit happy for now!

...It would be nice if someone commented (,,◕　⋏　◕,,)  it is quite lonely here

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First post

Although this is the first post I'm a bit too lazy to say anything useful so this will have to do for now!

First I need to invite all my guests and contributors :)

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