http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:MetroidMaster01&section=today deviantART RSS for by:MetroidMaster01 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:57:20 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/28209811/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/28209811/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:03:23 PST

So what to write about? Well, let's see what's been going on with me in the past few months.
I've started playing WoW, well more than started. I've been playing since May and at the moment I have an 80 paladin, a 60 hunter, a 36 warrior and a few other not as important alts. Oh and by the way, I'm Horde all the way.

I've also gotten into the beta for Heroes of Newerth. For those that don't know, it's a stand alone DotA. Literally. The creators of DotA are working with S2 Games to make it and so far they're doing an excellent job. I'm still waiting for them to add in Phantom Assassin though

Not too much else is going on at the moment. I'll be going on stage in about 6 months from now. Not sure where I'll be headed for that yet though. I originally tried getting a stage in Vancouver, but they were only taking 2 students, so I wasn't able to get in unfortunately.

Ok, that's enough for now.
Goodnight people of Deviantart!

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/22813990/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/22813990/ Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:31:30 PST Yea, that's about it. I got myself the CS4 master collection through means I shall not say . I havn't gotten around to trying out everything yet, but probably the biggest change was with Flash. Bones. Bones! Bones!! BONES!!!!
Can you tell? I like the bones feature XD. This is seriously going to make my animating like a billion times easier, so hopefully I'll be making some soon and putting them up.
The over-all look of all the programs is also more clean and sleek looking which is a nice bonus.
Now, I should really be getting to bed...

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/22070771/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/22070771/ Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:27:29 PST
Right so first off, I'm now on winter break (and have been for about a week now). However, even though classes are over, I've had a couple projects due this week and next. One of them I'll be submitting here. It's very close to being completed and I'm very proud of it, but I wont give away anything else. and I have been working on it almost non-stop since, well, last night XD.
Also, I've discovered a new band called Alestorm. It's Scottish pirate metal! XD
I'm also thinking of buying myself a tablet some time over the winter break, it would really help out in designing stuff.
Oh and not to mention its almost christmas and theres like a billion parties all break long

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/19650682/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/19650682/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:37:37 PDT
Super Smash Bros. Brawl, one of the most awaited Wii games ever, has been out for almost 5 months now. At first glance, everything about it seems better than its predecessors, game play, graphics, the whole package. I agree with the previous statement, that everything is better, however others say that Brawl is a step down from Melee because there is no wavedashing, the gameplay is slower etc. I prefer that wavedashing was removed, as it is not a real technique, but rather a glitch, but I wont get into that now.

The game has an excellent character selection, totaling 39 possible different characters to play as. Some clones, such as Dr. mario, Pichu and Roy were taken out, but others still remain, and there is even a new one. Ganondorf is still basically a Captain Falcon clone, as Falco is to Fox, but now we have Wolf, a third clone. Lucas, another Earthbound character was added in to accompany Ness. I actually much prefer Lucas over Ness, as his various attacks are more to my playing style. Lucario the aura pokemon replaced Mewtwo. Lucario is very good, but I will still miss Mewtwo. Roy was replaced with Ike, one of the most recent Fire Emblem main characters. I also like Ike very much, he's a very powerful character who has some pretty devastating moves, but like Mewtwo, I'll still miss Roy. The two third party characters are pretty interesting addintions, however I dont pay much attention to them. Snake is a far too over used character. And Pit...dont get me started on Pit. Let's just say that I despise him beyond comprehension.

Now for some talk on the adventure mode, the Subspace Emissary. The SSE is awesome. I absolutly love it. Great story, lots of action and a lot of pretty cool cut scenes. Destruction of the subspace warship anyone? If you dont want to play so many matches with "X" character or on "X" stage to unlock your brawlers, the SSE is great for that. It's also very good for getting hoards of stickers and trophies.

Multiplayer, which is what this games is about, is pwnsome. Get you and 3 friends playing, and you'll be entertained for a very long time. There's so many thing you can do also. For one, there's a nice selection of characters and stages. A lot of different items and new to this game, Smash Balls. Break the Smash Ball, and your character is granted some sort of very powerful ability, from driving around a tank to raining meteors down from the sky. Not to mention your own gameplay rules that you make up yourself, like DK in the middle or Capture the crate.

There's also this handy little feature known as the stage builder. Though limited in stage parts, there's a wide variety of stages that can be made. However, the stage builder I think, is one of the few bad features of Brawl. I think that they could have designed it better in my opinion.

Brawl online you say? This must be a miracle! Finally you can play smash bros against people without having to be in the immediet vicinity of each other. Yes, online play is an awesome feature, but it too, could have been better. You have two options: 1) you get your friend code, give to other people and get their friend codes. Once both have registered each other, you can brawl. 2) You play against complete strangers from anywhere in the world, you may or may not ever face them again. I'm not going to go into detail about the impovments I would have made, but I have a couple ideas.

Overall, Brawl is an absolutly excellent game. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a Wii. Though there are a couple things which could have been better, the positive things about the game outweigh it. One main thing I would have liked to see is at least one more Metroid character. I don't count Zero Suit Samus as a second one, as its the same character as armoured Samus. Perhaps Dark Samus(who I have a moveset for so she wont be a clone) or maybe Rundas. Nevertheless, I will keep on brawling until the next Smash bros.

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/18302183/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/18302183/ Tue, 13 May 2008 09:04:18 PDT Once this class is over (approx. 12:30), I'll be done with school until late august. And, at 1pm today, is the college's end of year carnival-type thing called spring fest, so I'll be there this afternoon.
Over the summer I plan to brawl a lot, at right now I just remembered that I was supposed to post a review of brawl a week after it came out, but I guess I kinda got distracted by...brawl XD. I would also like to get a job this summer, so I can donate to the buy-me-a-new-computer-fund because the one I have right now drives me crazy because it's so old and slow, which makes it really hard to work on photoshop, illustrator and such. I cant write the review right now because I'm too psyched to get home and be free for the summer, so I'll do that later,
Anyways, I'm off to get more praise from my classmates XD.

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/17242845/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/17242845/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:52:58 PST Speaking of blizzards...
I havn't heard much news about Starcraft 2 in a very long time. The Zerg were supposed to be shown shortly after new years, yet it's March and all we have is the bio for Jim Raynor.
I havn't had much time recently to be working on my own art projects because of school, but in one of my classes we are doing a cool project with the pen tool in illustrator, so I'll probably upload that once it's done. As for my own stuff, I have a couple ideas that I would want to put to the test, so hopefully those will turn out good.
Anyways, I'm off to work on this project. I really hope I can get brawl tomorrow, or at least monday. It's going to be epic. Oh yeah, and after about a week of brawl-ing, I'll write something up with my comments on the game.
Seeya around people.

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/16745474/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/16745474/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:06:26 PST In the course I'm taking at college we use these programs all the time and normally, I probably would have been able to get it off the computers, but they are extremly protected and access to things like that is hard to get unless you are a true professional in hacking, which I'm not.
Now that I have these, I'm going to start making things in them whenever I get the chance. I am currently working on something right now, just talking a short break.
The next step is to get a completly new computer of my own, because right now I have to use the computer my mom uses also, plus its like 4 years old and only has like 512mb RAM...I really need a new comp. After I get that, I want to get one of those drawing tablets so I can photoshop things easier.
Well, back to my little project for a bit then off to bed.

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/15568397/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/15568397/ Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:03:50 PST =============================================
On saturday the 17th of November, I bought Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East. It is the third part in the Heroes V games. The first two being the original Heroes V and it's expansion, Hammers of Fate. Heroes V has nothing to do with the other Heroes of Might and Magic games, other than sharing a similar title. Anyways, back to what I was originally talking about, the Tribes of the East game. Although this game is a continuation of Heroes V and H5: Hammers of Fate, it is not an expansion, it is a stand-alone product, so if you're new to the series, you can simply buy that game to have all of the features from the two previous ones, plus the new ones from this one. There are quite a few new features added to TotE such as: The Orc faction, aka the Barbarians, and an alternate upgrade for creatures of all factions, plus it includes the Dwarven faction from Hammer of Fate, totaling to 84 new creatues that were not in H5. But thats not all, there are also many new artifacts for your heroes to collect, as well as artifact sets, meaning, if you get a complete artifact set, you will have one powerful hero on your hands. Of cousrse, this wouldnt be heros of might and MAGIC without new spells too, there are 8 new spells. Now, less about all of this, and more about teh newest faction, the Orcs. In this game, orcs are creatures that were created by the wizards to be used as slaves, they are a combination of human and demon blood. They have such creatures as: goblins (imp+human), centaurs(nightmare+human), warriors(horned demon+human), shaman(succubus+human), slayers(a mix of multiple demons+human), wyverns(which arent related to orcs, but have a relationship with them), and cyclops(possibly devil+pit fiend+ human..they're really big). Those that were just listed are just the basic orc units, each of them has 2 possible upgrades that they can be promoted to. As with each other faction in the game, the Orc heroes have a racial ability as well. For them, it's the powerful Bloodrage ability. When ever an orcish unit(except wyverns) inflicts damage upon the enemy, kills and enemy stack, or casts a spell, they obtain "rage points". Once so many rage points are obtained, the corresponding creature recieves a bonus of sorts such as: inclreased attack or defense, double attack, boost to initiative, increased HP and no enemy retaliation, of course, there are more than this, but this pretty much covers it. The opposite applies if you just let your units sit around and do nothing. If an orc unit is told to wait or defend, it will lose rage points, becoming weaker. If you really do not wish to go straight ahead and attack someone, the easiest thing to do, is to simply move them a little bit, resulting in no gain or loss of rage points. One of my new favorite units is the cyclops. He's big, very big, carries a tree trunk as a weapon and smashes things with it, what more could you want? I also like the mauler (an upgrade to one of the units, but I'm not saying which), he has a flail-like weapon, with the end being a large metal ball (good for smashing stuff). He's a very good, well rounded unit. Quite durable and sometimes attacks twice. All in all, this game is awesome. If you like strategy RPG's, you should definatly get this game. Btw, it's a PC game incase anyone was wondering.
Anyways, I'd better stop myself..I could keep going on for a while, but I need sleep and have college tomorrow, so I'll seeya all later!

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/14094045/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/14094045/ Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:18:41 PDT Well, as i just kinda said, i have wii internet, or as i like to call it, wiinternet! it work great, but it doesnt support flash, so some things i cant view.
Anyways, im off to download ocarina of time!

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/14062253/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/14062253/ Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:40:30 PDT I bought my Wii at a flea market on the 25th of July for only $250. It didnt come with WiiSports or any other game, just a Wiimote and a nunchuk attatchment. Then I decided to pay the guy and extra $30, so I could get Twilight Princess. I can assure you all, just because this was bought at a flea market for a lower price than in stores, doesnt mean it doesnt work very well. It's quite the contrary, it works perfectly, and I would know because I've put it through a, shall we say, intense testing period.

----SPOILER WARNING----
I had played through and beat Twilight Princess in no less then one week. Although its a totally amazing game, I admit, it has one major flaw...it was WAY TOO EASY! One of my favorite boss battles was the one against Morpheel, where you have to swim, latch onto its eye with your clawshot and slash it to smithereens. Another favorite was going up against Zant. Now theres a boss battle with lots of variety. And as for Ganondorf..well...for being the last boss and the weilder of the Triforce of Power...He doesnt deserve the honor of being the last boss.
The Cave of Ordeals was fun, but all you get is fairy tears and the option of getting fairies at the spirit fountain things.
My fav item would have to be either the double clawshot, magic armour, the ball and chain or bomb arrows. Least fav would be the oil lanturn.
Favorite moment is right after you save Colin from the boar rider guy and Epona gets up and her hind legs while ur on it and theres a nice shroud of twilight behind you. Another is when Midna gets blasted by light and you have to save her, I only like this part for the music. Least favorite would be when you gotta steal the Sol from those evil floating hand things that never ever die and In the sky temple place, right before the boss, you gotta clawshot across a bunch of verticaly possitioned platforms, and you have to get on at just the right spot, or you wont be able to get all the way across.
----END OF SPOILER----

Well, those are my thoughts on Twilight Princess. Now, the next step in enjoying my Wii: getting it to connect to the internet so I can download some old scholl games. Step after that, get Metroid Prime 3: Corruption...the only things is, it comes out on my first day of college, so I'll have to get it somehow, not quite sure how yet though...

Well, seeya around!

Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention above...I'm turning 17 in 10 days!!! W00T!!!

]]> ~MetroidMaster01 http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/13464024/ http://MetroidMaster01.deviantart.com/journal/13464024/ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:44:18 PDT 1. this is my first journal!
2. im graduating high school this year, prom is on wednesday!
3. monday is my girlfriend's an I 6 month anniversary!
4. im going to college in the fall, taking publication design & hypermedia technology (man, thats a mouthful)

I'm gonna be real busy over the next week, then the 3 week following that I've got nothin' cuz in on vacation, so I wont be around until I get back on the 21st I believe is the day. There is also little chance that I will submit any more deviations for quite a while, cuz in the summer I dont draw much unless I really want to...yes I know, I'm a slacker and a master procrastinator. It's like I always say "procrastination is a way of life", and its true, cuz when I procrastinate and leave stuff to the last minute, I'm under pressure and work better. I'm also very happy about monday (look above to find out) because its out 6 months, and the thing thats really cool about that particular date is that its the 25th (think what day is six months back on the 25th) and her birthday also happens to be on the same day as out 3 month anniversay. Wow, I really did get perfect timing didnt I? Lets see what else is new?.......Ahh I know. Over the past couple of weeks I've been working with RPG Maker 2003, and making a game, its going pretty good, but I need alot more charsets, chipsets and whatnot.
Well, anywho, I think I've said enough for tonight.
Seeya around!

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