Chillin with RJ, Again!

It's been far too long since an update, so here's a video post.

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Browsing through some old vids and found this short clip of Jason shredding, enjoy.

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elephnat especial bideo number one

Anybody into Airsoft?

Anybody into Airsoft? Got some really sweet gear that we're trying to sell, these things were treated like babies and the vest wasn't even used.

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Heaviest Rain

A few days of hair raising moments and shouting at the game, I finally finished Heavy Rain. The game sets you up controlling three characters on the trail of a serial killer that kills children by drowning them with rain, hence the title. From start to finish, the game has a certain lethargic feel to it which, well, gets you down. But overall the story is pretty good and the action sequences feel like they're taken straight from some Die Hard fight scene. I've never really felt that way about "fights" inside a game before but in this game, I was always tense and gritting my teeth from every blow. My biggest regret is putting down 60 bucks for what you can really beat in a day. There's some replayability with it since there's multiple endings and some bonus clips you can unlock but the whole storyline won't change, there's no character building mechanics, and it's just a singleplayer experience. My only hope is that maybe they'll release some episodes as DLC with other characters kinda like Rockstar did with GTAIV.

Thoughts on WKC

I was able to finally get through White Knight Chronicles over the weekend, and I can't help but feel utterly disappointed with that game. It had some neat ideas and the online mode offers alot of replaybility, but all in all it feels pretty underdeveloped, which is amazing because the game was conceptually announced in '06. The game does offer some deep gameplay (which is of course the hallmark of any good JRPG) but it all seems too focused on the Online mode. Since the online mode carries over the exhaustive combat system, skills, and rather bland quests, the game just falls short of delivering any kind of solid positive experience.


The true heart of any decent RPG is having likeable characters that interact in an engrossing story. Kinda like a Reading Rainbow vibe. Unfortunately, the character you create doesnt talk at all, Leonard (the main character) felt more like a tool to move the story along rather than an actual dude, Eldore was just too much of a fake Auron for me to pay attention to, and Yulie kinda revolved around Leonard which didn't really offer anything for me. What does this all mean to you? If you enjoy a good RPG story and characters, move along. Another gripe with the game is the combat system.


At first, I really liked the real-time combat but throughout the entire game, I only ever used 2-3 different attacks, maybe a Combo if I wanted to see some Devil May Cry action, and spamming the White Knight transformation. For having so many different types of attacks, none of them really felt as useful as just finding the one that dealt the most damage possible. Status ailments, debuffs, buffs all were kinda short lasting and not really needed.


I have to say that the online mode is probably the only portion of the game really worth taking a look at. There's a unique Georama Hub that you can create which is essentially a small Town for others to connect to and queue up Quests, gather materials, sell/buy items, and just act as a central lobby. There's a crafting system to go along with the harvesting, recruiting NPC's into your town to add beneficial attributes, and I'm sure other crazy stuff for the online mode that I haven't even seen yet. If you enjoy a pretty deep online experience from an RPG, then by all means take a look at this game, but beware of the shoddy singleplayer mode and non-varying combat mechanics.