My Favorite Video Games of All Time

For a lot of us gamers, the one question we sometimes get asked that gives us a lot of trouble is, "What is your favorite video game of all time?" I personally can never give an answer. There are way to many games that I've loved over the years to pick just one.

I've put a lot of thought into, and I believe I can list my personal favorite games by category, Action, Adventure, RPG, Puzzle, MMO, FPS, RTS, and Movie Game. Most of my choices are not necessarily the most popular, or the ones believed to have the best gameplay, graphics
, ect. But my personal favorites. For each ones I'll explain why, and maybe give a few other honorable mentions of each category.


~Action~


Favorite Action Game: Super Smash Bros. : Brawl

I grew up playing the previous two versions of the game, Super Smash Bros, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. This version is basically the ultimate of the series. Everything that you love about Super Smash Bros. to the max! I love pinning my favorite Nintendo characters against each other. There are so many different things you can do in it. It's just awesome. My only complaint about it, is that the online is pretty laggy sometimes, but other then that, this game is perfect.




~Adventure~


Favorite Adventure Game: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

This was probably my easiest choice out of all the categories. Again, I grew up on it. I've played through it 5+ times. I was so close to completing the game 100%, but there was some gold skultella's I couldn't find. It has a great story set in the kingdom of Hyrule, with many exciting locations to venture into. I loved the combat in this game, the items, the mini games, the puzzles, the temples, it's all just amazing. I know this game is on a lot of peoples lists as one of the greatest games of all time. It certainly deserves to be. A perfect game.

Honorable Mentions:

-Minecraft



~ Role Playing Game ~


Favorite RPG: Diablo 2

I really had to think about this category for awhile. Then, eventually Diablo 2 came to mind, and I was like "Duh". Diablo 2 is without a doubt my favorite RPG. When I was fairly young I played the first one. I played counless hours, dungeon crawling, gathering loot, trying to earn the gold bordering on battle.net by killing diablo on all difficulties. It was a lot of fun. Then eventually a friend turned me onto the sequel. All of my love for the first was amplified with this. The game has so much re-playability which is ideal for all RPG's. 7 different characters with the expansion, tons of unique locations to explore, lots of epic loot, this game has it all. The multiplayer is great. It's a lot of fun trying to go kill Diablo with a group of people. I have had countless hours of entertainment from this game. And soon with Diablo 3 coming out (hopefully soon) I look to rejuvenate my love with the franchise.

Honorable Mentions:

-The main Pokemon games
-League of Legends


~ Puzzle ~


Favorite Puzzle Game: Tetris

This one was actually fairly easy to decide. Tetris is just to addicting to go to long without playing it. I find myself losing track of time every time I play this game. When I go on a 15 minute for work and I play this game, I tend to sit there for 20-25 minutes sometimes just making lines (don't tell my boss). It's so simple of a concept, make lines, get points, but it's incredibly fun. Out of every game I have ever played, I think I can honestly say that Tetris is one of, if not the only game I have ever completely mastered. I hate to tut my own horn, but I can just keep going on and on. My personal record for lines in a single game of Tetris is 359. Mind you, this PR was from the pro version of Tetris, where you can't save a piece and stall forever by rotating it a million times, trying to get it in a certain spot. I'm not one to keep track of my points score. How far I get means more to me then how many tetris' I get. Tetris I think will always be my favorite puzzle game, or at least it will be tough to beat.

Honorable Mentions:

-Portal
-Bloons Tower Defense
-Crayon Physics Deluxe


~ MMORPG ~


Favorite MMO: Runescape

I know what you're thinking.. "Really? This kid's game is your favorite MMO?" This is no kid's game, however, a lot of kids play it. Runescape often gets a younger crowd for the simplicity of it, and the fact that its free. For that, it's given a bad reputation, which is unfair. The concept of the MMO is simple, level up skills, go fight in pvp areas, venture off on quests. I think that's part of why I really like it so much. I personally played it quite a bit in my day. I haven't played it much recently for awhile, however. My MMO hunger has been wanting something more, I still do. I've played Everquest, Ultima Online, Warhammer Online quite a bit as well, but none of them have really kept me playing. I don't really know why. They are all great MMO's and I've had a lot of fun playing them, but for whatever reason, I don't play them anymore. To my future of MMO gaming, I look to Star Wars: The Old Republic. This game looks amazing. It combines my love of Star Wars with what a good MMO is. I played Star Wars: Galaxies, and just loved emerging myself in the Star Wars universe. There's so much depth to it. But back to Runescape, so much adventure and was had in this game, enough to proclaim the honor of my favorite MMO.

Honorable Mentions:

-Everquest
-Ultima Online
-Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

(Yes, I've played World of Warcraft. I wasn't impressed :P)


~ FPS ~


Favorite First Person Shooter: Call of Duty 2

This was my hardest genre to decide for. I love so many different FPS games. I put a lot of thought into it, and went with Call of Duty 2. As you will see by my honorable mentions list, there were a ton of other considerations, but Call of Duty wins for it's sheer epicness. The single player could be my favorite of any genre. This game is so action packed. Every mission you go on, you feel like you are right there in the battle. It often comes down to wire for you and you're comrades. The Germans closing in all around you, and there are only a few of you soldiers left. You think they finally have you, they're rushing in for their last strike. Then, all of a sudden reinforcements rush into save you. The game is filled with that epic feel at every turn. I estimate I've gone through the singleplayer campaign about 6-7 times. The multiplayer is pretty amazing too. Though it has a few flaws here and there (*cough* trench-gun *cough*), it's a blast. Huge epic scale 16 v 16 people, all out fire everywhere, is just awesome. So many battles within the battles arise, it's great. Call of Duty 2 is a strong nominee for my favorite game of all time.

Honorable Mentions:

-Half-Life 2
-Unreal Tournament
-Left 4 Dead
-The other Call of Duties
-Team Fortress 2
-Battlefield: Veitnam


~ RTS ~


Favorite Real Time Strategy game: Empire Earth

For how old this game is, even I am a little surprised its here. Yes, Empire Earth. 16 different ages to combat the other nation with infantry, cavalry, ships, air, tanks ect. I have a lot of history with this game. I used to play with one of my friends quite a bit. We built huge defenses that the computer opponents could never get through, and then invade with our huge armies. It was lots of fun. I still play it from time to time. However, overall, I don't play this genre very much. But I know there is still a lot of fun to be had.

Honorable Mentions:

-Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth
-League of Legends

~ Movie Game ~


Favorite Game based on a movie: Star Wars: Battlefront 2

I know it doesn't directly follow a specific movie plot line. I consider any "movie game" to be a game, if it wasn't for a movie, it would not exist. So therefore this applies. I needed to incorporate this game in here somehow, and I felt this was the best way to do it. If you hadn't figured out yet, I am a huge Star Wars fan. This game takes the huge battles from the big screen and puts them into your hands. You can go around as one of the many rebels and fight against the empire, play as a clone to fight the separatist forces, or play as your favorite Jedi/Sith and wup' some ass that way. The space fights are great as well. You can pilot the Incom T-65 x-wing and blast some tie-fighters back down to the planet in space. I really hope that some company somewhere is working on Battlefront 3. If they made a new version with new graphics, new classes, new battles, new heroes, it'd be amazing. They could use things from the animated series. There's a lot of potential with it. I really really hope we hear something at the next E3

Honorable Mentions:

-Star Wars: Rouge Squadron
-007 Golden Eye

The Conflict Within

This post is about an experience I had recently, and how it changed my life. Though, I don't know want to give specific details, I will say how I feel about it. All of this will probably make you think I'm some emo fag. I personally don't care what you think of me, but understand that these emotions are so strong.

I met someone who had opened up a whole new dimension to my life that I never knew existed. She showed me what it felt like to really love someone, the tingly feeling you get in your stomach every time you see her, and what it really means to be happy. She made me feel on top of the world. She gave me a purpose in life. She was everything to me. She was always there for me on my bad days, always there to talk and comfort me when I needed her. I would have given away everything to be with her. Every time I looked into her eyes, I saw a heavenly utopia that I never wanted to look away from. She became the goddess that I worshiped. I know that she felt close to the same about me, that I did about her. She couldn't stay away from me, and I never wanted her to leave. I know she cared for me dearly. She referred to me as an angel. This might all sound good and great, but it was all under unfortunate circumstances that I wont go into, but it made her sway back into a different path then the one she had been going down. I knew of this other path, and I felt like a huge douche for not letting her go down it. I felt huge betrayal that still haunts me. For awhile she was going down both paths. But she eventually made the decision to sway away from mine. I was devastated to say the least. I felt like I was on top of the world but then fell down into the fire. I always follow my heart. Usually, wherever it brings me, I find happiness, this time I was deceived. Ever since she said "no" to me, I've felt so dead inside. A man without purpose, and no motivation to go on. I invested so much into this love, and it was all taken away from me.

She opened up a certain part of me that I have never seen before. How much I have to offer, and give to someone. I know I made her feel so good about herself. She made me realize what kind of life I have been missing out on so far in my life. She made me so happy. I don't know if I can even consider my life before I met her, living. She found this dimension to me, and filled it. Now that she's not there anymore, I feel so empty, like an empty void. I want for it so much to be filled again. She made me realize how lonely I have been so far in my 18 years of life. She is the only one I have ever met that I really have ever had any feelings for. I am always so compassionate for what I like and believe in. Willing to support and follow it till the end. I had such an attachment, and now it's not there anymore. I feel so alone.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I feel so pathetic. And all through this, I've felt so selfish. It's all my fault. I did this to myself. I am the problem. I am my own worst enemy. I make myself feel this way. I have subconsciously developed a hatred for myself.

I have this pain in my heart that follows me. It doesn't matter where I go, what I do, it's always there. It reminds me of what I have lost. It hurts so much. I can't remember how many times I've cried since she turned me down. I've had to suppress a lot of it. Every time someone asks me, "How's it going", I think about how things are, and I feel so overwhelmed to the point I want to breakdown and cry. I reply that "I'm all right", and choke on my tears.

Every time I remember, sorrow fills me. I had so many good times with her. The realization that I can't ever have any of those again, its become too hard to comprehend.

It's been about about a month after she turned me down as I post this, and I still, to this day, love her, and it's killing me.

An Update on MightyFalcon

So, I haven't posted anything in over a year. I've been meaning to for some time now, but have either forgot or, haven't had any motivation to, till now.

This post will basically be about my real life experiences in the past year, and maybe a bit about the future.

I'll first go back to when I was still in High School, senior year. It was pretty easy in reality, but my grades certainly did not reflect that. All of High School really, I only did what I needed to, to get by. I had no motivation to do any real hard work on any assignment. There were a select few things, that inspired me in English to express myself, but other then that I didn't care that much. I knew as long as I graduated, I would be fine. C's were just fine with me. I did a lot of day dreaming, a lot of thinking, a lot of philosophizing, but it wasn't usually about what was being talked about in class. My grades were definitely not one of my biggest priorities, but still, I did learn a lot. There was a certain maturation process that did happen the last year of high school. I don't really know what it was. As far as non-academic things in High School, there was just The Aaron Lecheler Fan Club. A lot of fun times were had. Though I am disappointed that we didn't get in the year book. I remember I made a poster, and hung it in various places in the school. I remember last seeing it in the silent study hall room. I don't know whatever happened to it. I hung fliers everywhere too, which to me, was hilarious. I stuck it in the most random locations. On the pillars in the cafeteria, all over the hallways, over other advertisements, in the bathrooms, on the marker boards in teacher's rooms. I still have the sign up sheets for it that were used on the days where people signed up for co-curricular activities, I know we hit the 100 mark. I loved how we had a certain professional look we had to it. We even had teachers join. Hell, even the bus approved. It was great. I'd say the ALFC was the highlight of my high school experience.

Looking back on it all, it wasn't that bad. Do I sometimes wish I could go back and do things differently? A little bit. In the fact that, I wish I had been a bit more sociable. It was but one rite of passage we young people take in the early stages of our adult life. There would be more to come.

After I graduated, I really wanted to get a job right away. Well,.. that didn't happen. I procrastinated a bit. And I got really sick a couple of times, they through me off big time. I got a pretty nasty ear infection that lasted 2 weeks, along with a couple migraines. Through the couple first months nothing that exiting happened. After that point, I finally sent my first resume into walmart for the first time. Walmart had been a place where I thought would be good for me. It's somewhat close, and my mom had all ready been working there. It was away from the fast food industry, which is something I'm trying hard to avoid. I never got a response from them within the 60 days that they said they would. At the time, walmart was doing a remodel of the store, I figured it was part of the reason. I never sent in my resume to anywhere else. For that next month or so, I pretty much just gamed. My sleep schedule was so messed up. I wasn't going to bed till like 5-6am and not waking up till 4-5pm. It was pretty crazy. I was uber lazy. Then at a certain point, I sent my resume to a bunch of places, Target, Ace Hardware, Hanson's IGA, Woodmans, Dollar Store and also Walmart again. It wasn't long after I sent my resume back to walmart again, I got called to go in for an interview. I was so excited. I could finally get off my ass and do something. I prepared myself as much as I could for the interview that was going to take place. I looked up a bunch of help videos and tips online. Going into it I felt really good. I was ready to take on whatever question they were going to throw at me. When I first sat down with my interviewer, I was pumped. I don't remember the first question exactly, but I knew I answered it pretty well. Then things kind of went down hill.. She started asking me pretty much the same question over and over again, just phrased differently. I got a little scared. I didn't want to just say the same thing again and again. So it took me a bit of time before I answered her. I was having a bit of a breakdown. But I did the best I could. The interview I remember only last about 15-20 minutes, and only asked me like 10 questions. I thought I did horrible. She said they would contact me again if they wanted to set up a second interview. I really didn't think they would, but to my surprise they did. The next day, I got called up and the second interview was set to go. This interview was the complete opposite of how the first one went. Going into it, I was pretty nervous. I thought they were going to ask me the same questions again, and I didn't know how I was going to handle differently then before. But luckily, they didn't and I pretty much owned. I did awesome. Afterward, I was pretty confident I was going to get the job. The job they told me I was applying for was the position of Stockman. One who returns karts to the store, as well as help customers carry out large items, such as TV's and furniture. I was willing to take anything they would have offered me. Later, I did indeed get the job, and there were a couple more meetings to get paperwork signed, and a urine test to see if I was a druggy. I passed everything, and I've been working there for the past 5ish months doing 32 hour weeks.

The job itself is pretty easy, but in the easiness itself, it becomes hard. It's incredibly boring, and you're mind has a tendency to think all the time. You do the same tasks over and over again. Going down this row of kart corrals, then return them, then the next.. Especially doing it over a 9 hour stretch, sometimes I feel like I'm going insane. But I get through it.

Well there you have it, all the above was basically what I've been doing in my life on a very simple level. There's a lot more in depth things I could get into, but I'll save that for future postings.

Religion

Note: This blog post is controversial, and if you are easily offended, please don't read it.

Religion, in my opinion, is taken way to seriously. By all, Christians, Arabs, Jews, The Dark side of the Force, it's just way out of hand. I mean to a point, what purpose does it serve? I think it's a good thing to take bits and pieces out of a religion, such as some of the commandments, like thou shall not steal or what have you, but even still those are just simple morals which should be known and practiced without even knowledge of it. There are a lot more downsides, then upsides to religion. It might cause you to be somewhere you don't want to be and doing something that might not even matter, like praying, instead of doing something you would enjoy, or do something that matters. And then there are those extremists,.. If someone questioned it, your religion, something that you heavily believe in, and have put so much time into it throughout your life, how far are you willing to go to sustain what you believe in? Would you kill for your religion? It happens all the time in the middle east. Arabs and Israelis, have been murdering each other for the longest time, for what they think and believe to be true. I know that most people probably wouldn't go that far for their religion, but it is still happening.

It's not like you absolutely have to practice a religion, there is an alternative. There is science. Science, in my opinion, is the answer. It's the only way anything will ever be proven, and it will be the key for the next step of mankind, like it always has been. Any God, if they exist, has not contributed anything this far, I don't think one ever will.

Is it Christmas?

Ever wanted to know if today is Christmas? Well,... Then look no further! One website will all ways have the right answer for you.

Is It Christmas?

Best Flash Game,.. EVER

There are tons of different flash games on the internet, some good, some bad. But some stand out from the others. This particular flash game that I am going to talk about, is the best the internet has to offer. BLOONS TOWER DEFENSE 3! It's so simple yet, strategic, that it's just awesome. For people who have never played the game before, the purpose is to pop as many balloons as you can without them traveling fully through there designated path. You can pop them by using a variety of different towers. The towers can be set anywhere besides in the path. Each tower is especially useful in certain situations. For example, the tack shooter shoots in all directions, so the best place to put one of these would be in a corner, or a rounded area. All towers can be upgraded with money, that you get from popping a balloon or winning a round. You have to go through 50 rounds to beat the game, but you can go even farther if you wish to. With each passing level you will have to pop even more balloons. It can be played on easy, normal, or hard. The harder it is, the more money you have to pay for towers. You can play the game here.

Now that you know about the game, let me explain why this is the best. It's the only flash game I've played that has ever required any thought, with most you are just trying to rush through to the end, and beat it. With this game, you can't really do that. In order to win, you need be smart in how you place your towers. Obviously if you placed a cannon way to the side, you wouldn't pop as many balloons if you would place it in the middle of the map. It's also great in how much variety there is in this game. You have the option to buy whatever you want, at what round you want, how many you want and upgrade it how you want. There are so many strategies you can do. One that I was thinking of, was to buy a ton of freezing towers and then buy a crap load of towers that can pop frozen balloons. Visually, the game is all right, pretty decent for a flash game. It really is a great game. I would highly recommend at least giving it a try. It may be just monkeys popping balloons, but it really is one hell of a game.

5/5

www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Tower-Defense/Bloons-Tower-Defense-3.html

The U.S. Government...

Before I say anything, I want to claim that I am a proud member of the United States of America. I love my country, my nation, my home. I support our army, navy, marines, air force and everyone else who helps protect the United States. I also love our form of government, democracy, however, I cannot say I love the people who run it. So much of their decisions and votes, in congress, are based on power and greed. If it means they get to stay in power longer, or will get more money in any way, if they vote on a certain law or decision they will be all for it, which in my opinion, is why our economy is in such a bad shape. They don't look at how it will help the country, or how it will benefit the people. Almost everyone in Congress is an asshole. But, I think things will get better. Now that our president to be, Barrack Obama, is heading into the white house, he is going to set new people of who is in his cabinet. I'm not saying all republicans are greedy, but with new people running our country things will be done in a better fashion.



Take a look at this link, it will explain things a lot more in depth
http://www.g-r-e-e-d.com/GREED%20I.htm