Well It's been a while since I last posted on here. Not like it matters much, no one really reads my blog anyways. Been pretty hectic the last 3 months since Christmas. I recently moved to Arizona and am currently attending UAT (University of Advancing Technology) for a career in Game Design. In general I'm trying to learn a little bit of every job in game design, but in the end I would like to be a Game Designer; IE the man in charge. I think to get my foot in the door I'm going to specialize in Audio. I have a serious love...er...obsession if you will, with music. I play guitar and I absolutely adore J-rock, so you could easily see why it makes sense that I would go into Audio Design. Seems to me though that Audio in games is severely looked over because so much emphasis is placed upon the graphics and gameplay. A lot of games Audio staff are just a last minute type situation. The big-wigs come up and say "We have 5 months to get this game out, create an OST and add some voice dubbing," or so on. So I really hope to change how people look at game music and effects. I'm striving to be like my three current idols, Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill), and of course Yatsunori Mitsuda (Various games including Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Chrono Trigger). Those are some pretty big shoes to fill but I feel if I'm given the chance I can create compositions that would be memorable to gamers. Anyways back on topic.
As for my FFXI experience as of late, it's gotten rather sour. I've lost a few friends and had something "stolen" from me. Let me start at the beginning. We have been having some issues on my Linkshell recently for the past 2 months or so. It all started when Seraphpdh (another Blogger here /welcome) got our own Server on Ventrilo Voice Chat. We thought it would be a good idea for LS events as well as our current ongoing CoP missions. The thing is, not everyone has a mic; furthermore, not everyone is playing FF on the PC. So needless to say some people feel left out. I'm really sorry about that, but there isn't much going on in our voice chats. We mostly sit there not saying a word or rambling on about random topics. Anyways, it seems thats also during this time, the LS was in a sense divided. Basically there are 3 groups, mine which consists of people I've been doing things with recently, another with a group of ppl who know each other in real life and then theres the "n00b" group, which consists of ppl under lvl 60. Well Seig's group (#2) and my group have been bickering back and forth for a while now and Seig finally came to me to talk about it. I talked our problems over with Seig and we had a huge discussion on our behavior. His friends however weren't present so he said he would talk with them about it and get them to change how they were acting. The problem was he never talked to them and they continued to act like immature children. One night I got sick of his friend Ncloud butting in and being so rude, so I kicked him from the LS. I'm normally an easy going guy and this was the first real time I've had to kick someone. I've been walked all over far too much and I am getting sick of it. Needless to say he was pissed and the next day he tried to get back at me. Seig asked if he could borrow my Scorpion Harness. I said sure, because i trusted him. Later that night i found out from another friend that it was really Ncloud and he wasn't going to give my SH back. After 2-3 days of talking to him, he reluctantly gave it back. Now to anyone reading this, make sure you let your LS know if Ncloud is in it. They need to know that he is not trustworthy, and if things don't go his way, he will retaliate like this.
Another thing that has been bothering me is how some of my friends have been acting. Seraphpdh for example has been having Endgame Fever, which isn't BAD, its just annoying. He's been spending most of his time in Sky trying to get his armor from there. So it's been difficult trying to schedule our CoP runs. Also to make matters worse, he has annoyed me the other day with his lame excuse why he couldn't take an hour or two to do CoP, but he had enough time to do Dynamis which takes around 4hrs. Anyways, I don't hate him, but he has been annoying me lately, and he's not the only one -_-. On the lighter side of things, i got 56 NIN! Also got my DRG AF2 Helm from Dynamis-Xarcabard. Tomorrow morning I am doing Dynamis-Beaucedine and hopefully I'll be getting my DRG AF2 Body ^^. Most of my time however has been devoted to Suikoden V when it comes tomorrow. I can't wait ^^. I am so excited to play it. So needless to say I haven't been on FF much, and I really have no reason to log on, except to help some LS mates out with their Rank 8-10 missions for Windurst. Also, another close friend of mine just quit: Woulfgang. I haven't really talked to her much the last few months, but it's still sad to see her go T_T Bunny Ball~
To wrap this up I must say there is much more detail to the problems we have been having, but while typing this, my post was erased and I'm too tired to retype everything in perfect detail like it was before -_-. Anyways, see ya around on game D:
Sayonara~
