Fighter of A Million Dreams

The 3 big powers have ended their conferences. Its all done, and we’re now on the way through the daily E3 shows for the next few days. So after a ton of news, dissapointing and truly shocking, its now time to give a wrap up for the 3 conferences.

Overall, my opinion for the Microsoft front, was dissapointing. To be honest, looking at Avatars, I can only say it is a complete rip off. Lips? I cue Singstar. There is seriously nothing that I find is original in this front. And then there’s the FF13 shocker. its fine though. Really it is, and to the Sony fanboys at the states about it, you should really take it in a bigger prospect, I’ll explain later.

For Nintendo’s front, fanboys are not cheering at all. neither are fans. Wii Sports resort is nice, so is Wii Music, but honestly, this is too much original that the fans want their franchises in. In an honest note, the boys would want to have their new Mario (Again in fact). But the best part somehow comes days later after the announcements. Pikmin is coming. Dead Rising has so far been confirmed at the Jap side. So I do expect lots more to come. I do wish they said something about Disaster or Project Hammer. In fact, where the heck is Mad World?

For Sony, actually, I do believe they perform the best this year. Sony took it for us, despite lots of delays on Home, yet I find the Little Big Planet presentation to be nifty and cute. The good thing was an increase on HDD space, at $399. At double storage, they got it right. Yet, sad news is that the original BC able 80GB, will also be discontinued. So, find the MGS 4 limited edition one fast before they all run out. it seems somehow that even after the calamity going on in the FF13 shocker, the Sony would probably clinch this one and make themselves the best.

So, to put it into prospect, the battle now is no longer on the exclusitivity between the PS3 and the 360, but it is now a war of nations. No kidding. the 360 is already dead at Japan, so it wasn’t surprising to know that the 360 version of FF13 won’t be playable there. Yet after seeing how Square-Enix might have to compress lots of things for the 360 version, its safe to say that the PS3 guys will still get the whole cake to eat on. The emphasis is still on the PS3, so fanboys shouldn’t have to worry. Yet I like the fact that 360 is also getting 13, but maybe perhaps on a lower scale of things. The winner of this whole war will only be the nation that sold the most copies of games, not the version. Version doesn’t seem to matter anymore, only the people who want the game will go at it.

Sounds like a healthy war, that have dragged to be a war of nations. may the best front win. owh, and Nintendo, you still made my day. "leave it to me" by Shigeru Miyamoto is classic.

Much Love, Azlil.Ash

Hahaha. I was actually searching for the press conference for yesterday’s news, and look at what happened. Final Fantasy XIII is now coming for the 360 also. So they went multiplatform. Is it a big deal? you bet it is.

For the uninitiated, Final Fantasy is by far one of the best gaming franchises to have ever been established since it first debuted in on Nintendo’s NES and SNES consoles. What happened though, was Sony developed the Playstation. From there, people decided to go that way with them considering more space to build games on. The Final Fantasy one was no different.

Throughout the years the Final Fantasy series has long served the Playstation house for so long, creating so many fans of the epic game franchise. In the end though, the bomb was dropped yesterday on the fanboys of Sony after 15 years ago when it happened to the Nintendo front. A backstab move on the company? I don’t believe so.

You see the times have changed. When people thought Sony would reign forever, they were wrong. And actually, both companies were considering how Nintendo is still the best selling console for the world. though, what should be thought of is that this happens because of the Nintendo Wii is seen as a supplement, and not really as a huge contender to the other 2. Innovation won the hearts of money, yet NIntendo still needs a really good online implementation system, and not numbers.

Back to the story though, it has come to my attention that people have cried due to exclusitivity. Some like it, some hate it, some love it so much that when they weep, they weep blood. And saying that is only underestimation.

From how I see it, I say congratulations to the guys at the Xbox 360 front. They’ve got it and they should be really happy to get the game to their console. For the PS3 fanboys, chill. It has happened before, doesn’t mean it won’t happen again. By the looks of it, Japan will still reign with the PS3 (360 was already pronounced dead years ago) and free region capabilities is something that we should be proud of.

I still don’t think like 3ROD. That’s too major of a hardware problem. you won’t see me get my 360 before my PS3, that’s for sure. But I would really like to see what the powerhouse is going to bring to the masses. If you ask me, something is really fishy here and our answers will probabbly be answered tomorrow.

Much Love, Azlil.Ash

It struck to me yesterday when i was enjoying my KFC during lunch outside of office. While having the snack plate, and cheated a bit with a cheezy wedges, hehe, i was rudely disturbed by a young man, who wanted to collect donation for a house.

Now in Malaysia, this sort of thing is really commonplace. You can see people coming up to you asking for donations for certain houses, associations, the special people, so on and so forth. Though common, I can attest to this.

You do not disturb people with other matters when you are eating.

Honestly where the hell is manners? You don’t talk about stuff like that on the table. You don’t talk about saving the world, giving help. You talk on the things that makes you feel being with people in the world. Being with your loved ones, having a great day with each other. But you see, this is what happens in the cultural society today, where people beg for "help" I’ll explain later on that.

Another thing that makes me ponder also is the people who sell pirated CD’s. I wouldn’t mind if they decided to have a booth (but still, if u kena tangkap, your problem) to sell, but to approach at others in makan stalls? Do people not know what it means by rudely disturbing others good time with their meal? Food is to be enjoyed to the maximum point of its taste, using ur brains to feel every single flavor, and not to be interrupted by the next Dark Knight movie or whatever. That’s purely crap.

Regarding the "help" i said, you see the thing is, there is actually no reason for the houses to find and beg for charity. There is so many other channels (cue government) to request money from. In fact, if you do realize it, the people who lived in such houses by far live even better than most of us who work like hell to get money (cue drum set). There is a scenario, where they believe that the money has really ran out, but if u asked me, special people are also people. With proper education, a job to help around not just in the house, but also as a small business, there shouldn’t be any begging for charity. For example, the states are great enough to utilize the orphans as people who may well do business to gather money for their house. The girl scout’s cookies worked, why shouldn’t it do for us?

Begging is really the easy way out isn’t it? Then I guess its no more charity then, it is defined as forced to cough up cash. If you see it in people, the eyes, the face, most of those people who do pay, are the ones who have in their mind "get away from my meal". But the collectors don’t care, because they want to force you.

I said no yesterday. Not only that, upon adding a few more words that he did not listen to at all, he immediately followed such a scripted way of talking. And his facial expression does not show at all that it is hard to approach to someone to talk to. What are you looking for kid?

In the old days, those who were lazy were the ones who were not anywhere in possession of wealth. Those who did something, they earned and lived well in their life.  As for me, I wouldn’t know what else is there left for me to say on what gives on these certain types of people. I would like to suggest that they do stop begging and provide a service for people. There are lots of services in this world that we can relate and work together to build a better economy and a harmounious surrounding. Over there where we will see charity, and ikhlas. That is true charity.

Hope the world grows up with me on this.

Much Love, Azlil.Ash

Blink blink and its nearly 21 years since I’ve arrived on Earth. Wow, I’m gonna be an adult already in 1 month’s less time. Creepy? Scary? hardly considering that I don’t feel like I’ve grown up much.

But I wanna point out that I do feel a certain level of getting up from the norm. Perhaps my gf, life and its events makes me think on the qualities I grew up with. Changes are imminent yet certain, but this seems to be much like how we want to be better than others. Perhaps?

The ride has been slow, and it too has been fast. I’m bracing on to a new world, or is it actually defines it so? That we don’t really have to be 21 to signify ourselves as adults, but rather at any age possible, we may already be an adult, or still a child. Perhaps at heart or at mind.

I ponder what may happen in the future. At least, get big for it.

Much love, Azlil.Ash.