A third chance at adventure

 Hello world!

Once again, it is me, px, here to revive our dead blog after 4 long years. From the time between then and now, I think my list of games would have changed quite a bit. Let's review from the previous times!

In 2015, I said

Currently, on mobile, I am playing Million Arthur and Age of Ishtaria, on PC, DotA 2 and FEZ, on 3DS, I have Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Pokemon Y and Omega Ruby, etc (and more). Maybe in a future post, I will share my progress and thoughts on them. Also, I have to save up to buy games, so I tend to play free-to-play games unless I really want a particular game (thinking of trying Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate since it has really good reviews and are recommended by friends)

In 2017, I said 

I have already moved on from most/all of those games. I guess it's not a surprise. Right now, I do have a bunch of games I play on and off (some I pretty much just claim log-in bonuses only (and very, very occasionally play)) These include Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage, Love Live! School Idol Festival. Some games that I play more regularly would be Otogi: Secret Spirit Agents, Granblue Fantasy and Shadowverse. In the past two years, I've also played some really amazing games, like Stardew Valley and World's Dawn.

Reading these, I realised that I do still play some of these (it's an on/off cycle), but mostly those in 2017, such as Starlight Stage, Granblue Fantasy, Shadowverse, and Stardew Valley. Perhaps, it is because these games receive regular updates that bring me back to them again and again. 

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Undertale - First impressions

I regret to start with: I have no screenshots for this post. For some reason, my steam screenshot key didn't work.

So I've played about 40 minutes of Undertale, and I have to say I am a little disappointed. Hmm, that is to say, not as much in terms of story since I've barely started with the introduction. My opinion is largely formed from the gameplay, and it's kinda putting me off from playing any further.

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There may not be any more 100% original ideas...

...but it doesn't mean that ideas are no longer good. In fact, repeated ideas often mean that they are successful - hence repeated. It could also mean that the old ideas have a new twist!

So there's this quote here said by Mark Twain.

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”

So using non-original ideas are not necessarily bad or cliche. In particular, I'm going to talk about two games I've briefly tried recently - "Jawns" and "Tricky Towers".

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Sup.

cwk30 here... and I am clearly late to this thing 😶 2 years late to be exact 😅

I game on mostly PC and Android. I have a ton of (freely gotten) games in my Steam Library.... My most commonly played PC games would be:

COD Black Ops II
DOTA 2
Battlefield 2
My Colony (I WILL DO A FULL POST ON THIS AMAZING GAME pls wait patiently)

Some games that I used to play... and probably will go back to playing once I find time:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Mirror's Edge
GTA San Andreas
Just Cause 2
Urban Terror
Battlefield 4
Kerbal Space Program
Minecraft

...Upon inspection, I realized that most of my games are really really old. ...I guess I like the old games more. With the exception of BF4. BF4 costed me a bomb.... and I end up playing BF2 more than BF4 orz.

Most of my PC games are FPS, or at least played in a First Person POV. I mean.... what else would you use a mouse for O.o

On Android, my device is currently a 128GB Mi5 Pro. I'm a gadget boy - and trust me when I tell you that Xiaomi is value for money for their specs 😻 (I WILL BACK THIS UP IN ANOTHER POST pls also stay tuned)

Games that I play on Android:
Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage (I have played this on/off for like ~2 years... and I am the kind of person that doesn't play a mobile game for long! This too deserves a dedication post)

--Seems like I only play this one game..--

Games that I used to play/play randomly when the feels kick in:
Love Live!
GTA San Andreas (yeah this can be played on mobile also)
Otogi SA
BanG Dream
Shadowverse


That's all for now... I will come back to this when the feels kick in. In the meantime please enjoy this amazing song from this amazing game:

It may sound a bit raw in the beginning... But if you watched the anime, and have half a heart, THIS SONG HAS SO MUCH MEANING. IT REPRESENTS THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF THIS DUO!!

Okay I will chill the hell down and sign off here.

....(But I will be back to convince you to play idolmaster:CG)

-cwk30

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A second chance at adventure

Hello world!

I am px and a contributor of this site although I haven't contributed at all recently. In fact, no one else has contributed since my last post, but maybe we will be more active in taking about our latest games. This is a quote from my very first post:

Currently, on mobile, I am playing Million Arthur and Age of Ishtaria, on PC, DotA 2 and FEZ, on 3DS, I have Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Pokemon Y and Omega Ruby, etc (and more). Maybe in a future post, I will share my progress and thoughts on them. Also, I have to save up to buy games, so I tend to play free-to-play games unless I really want a particular game (thinking of trying Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate since it has really good reviews and are recommended by friends)

I have already moved on from most/all of those games. I guess it's not a surprise. Right now, I do have a bunch of games I play on and off (some I pretty much just claim log-in bonuses only (and very, very occasionally play)) These include Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage, Love Live! School Idol Festival. Some games that I play more regularly would be Otogi: Secret Spirit Agents, Granblue Fantasy and Shadowverse.

In the past two years, I've also played some really amazing games, like Stardew Valley and World's Dawn. I'm a little busy with schoolwork these days, so I won't be posting all that much. I will be back to elaborate more next time!

px

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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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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 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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