woke up late, shamefully not from work but due to watching too much anime -__-. and i missed my tutorial which I was supposed to present... haiz.

attended AI tutorial and game dev. didn't absorb much. played my ds after lessons till I had to go home for family dinner. continued playing ds after dinner till midnight and here i am typing on my blog. i need to start work.... i need discipline! RAWR

currently im playing "the world ends with you". It's quite fun, and I liked the progression of the plot and battle system, as well as the whole theme and concepts. Daniel peeped into my screen while I was playing and said it was a bore, but I thought it was pretty fun. I guess different people have different likes. Just because he said it was a bore doesn't mean that it's a lousy game right? And Sheng, always wanting to display his "broad otaku and gaming knowledge", yeah I know he plays games more than me, but honestly I don't really listen to his opinions because I think he doesn't know how to appreciate many aspects of games. In fact, I think there are many people who don't. I have yet to find someone who truly appreciates game/anime music in club. I think my collection of BGM , although quite pathetic has already outstripped everyone elses' because simply, they think it's a bore to have no vocals(most of the time). They only know how to go "OMG IT'S ONE WINGED ANGEL SEPHIROTH ROXXORZ" which I truly think is overrated. It is a magnificent track, and for that scene in the game it was the perfect match. But again, it is too overrated in the sense. When I try to show some people game music that I felt was even better than that, like Kingdom Heart's "Destati", they just end up uninterested. Heck, it wasn't even 30 seconds into the BGM before they asked to change songs.

Soundtracks are not just about the lead/ending songs. I feel that one should also listen and try to appreciate the tracks that are played throughout the game or anime to get a feel of how the person or situation was portrayed, to really FEEL how it is like to be in the game. I have listened to countless wonderful soundtracks throughout my life as a gamer and an otaku(a bit la), and I really find it distasteful when people only compare how good games and anime can get through their graphics and how "entertaining/boring " it is. Whatever happened to people who could appreciate the novelty of their battle systems? The plot, how they planned the sequence of events, character development, the combination and customization of teams and inventories? Nowadays, all people can think of is just "power levelling", which has become the epitome of Maplestory, a game which I have already quit.

I was a mindless grinder once, and deep down inside I suppose there is still a part of me that willingly grinds just to level up, just to unlock every single bonus, get every single extra ending out there like any typical fan. But I would like to think I'm not so superficial. The hours I spent training on my Bishop in Maple, I also took the time to check out their BGMs, trying out their quests, admiring how they have done their pixel art so well, the concepts they have tried to take in, towns and jobs they created. I love everything, the entire process of creating games to make them so enjoyable for people like me. So it saddens me to find people like those in club who do not fully appreciate such things, and still aim to create games with that kind of attitude. Even if I am not qualified with my lupsup skills to create games, and that they did in the end, I would still think that way.

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