#xenogears episode v

[terras-diary]

10.19.2023

reading: vampire hunter d v.1

watching: trigun (90s)

playing: final fantasy 14

my new student aide was cleared to work, yay! now what the hell am i going to give them to pass the time? ugh. plus i have to train her... i've never trained anyone before in my life.... halp

justin is going on a trip so we watched trigun tonight. we ended up watching the ship episode where it turns out they are plants and yadda yadda yadda.... it was the most memorable episode for me but rewatching it... it's literally just xenogears. just like how nge is xenogears. or maybe xenogears is nge and trigun. why is everything from the 90s like this lol. i still really liked it a lot though.

[magistera]

STAND TALL AND SHAKE THE HEAVENS.

[news-about-games-blog]

Top 100 Role-Playing Games of All Time

The latest issue of the magazine Game Informer has an impressive size list with the best role-playing games in the history of the game industry. In the 290th issue of the magazine they collected the best of their best, assigning each game a certain place.

As it became known GameNews, the list was made on the basis of the subjective opinion of the editorial board. It included projects such as The Witcher, Mass Effect, Fallout, Diablo, Everquest, Final Fantasy and other legendary games. However, the editorial board of the magazine was put first by The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Despite criticism of the fifth part of the game Bethesda Game Studios, as of November 2016, the game sold more than 30 million copies. This figure does not include the sale of the reissue Skyrim Special Edition, as well as not yet released version of the game for Nintendo Switch. The game received 9.4 points from the critics of the gaming industry and was warmly received by gamers, and also received the title of "Games of the Year" at VGA 2011 and the Golden Joystick Awards 2012.

In the top ten games, as it became known GameNews, put such games as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Mass Effect 2, Diablo II, World of Warcraft, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. It should be noted that in addition to Skyrim, the list also includes two previous parts of the series, Morrowind and Oblivion. However, they were closer to the middle of the list.

Top 100 Role-Playing Games of All Time:

100. Torment: Tides of Numenera 99. Dragon Quest III 98. Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 97. Dark Cloud 2 96. Lost Odyssey 95. The World Ends With You 94. Golden Sun 93. Pillars of Eternity 92. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together 91. Bastion 90. Panzer Dragoon Saga 89. Tales of Symphonia 88. Radiata Stories 87. Vagrant Story 86. Pool of Radiance 85. Might of Magic: World of Xeen 84. Horizon Zero Dawn 83. Xenoblade Chronicles 82. South Park: The Stick of Truth 81. Destiny 80. Odin Sphere 79. Dragon’s Dogma 78. Wasteland 77. Radiant Historia 76. Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar 75. Shadow Hearts: Covenant 74. Monster Hunter Generations 73. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 72. Paper Mario 71. Jade Empire 70. Undertale 69. Disgaea: Hour of Darkness 68. Divinity: Original Sin 67. Path of Exile 66. XCOM: Enemy Unknown 65. Mass Effect 64. Darkest Dungeon 63. Valkyria Chronicles 62. Baldur’s Gate 61. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings 60. Icewind Dale II 59. Chrono Cross 58. Tales of the Unknown Volume 1: The Bard’s Tale 57. Dragon Age: Inquisition 56. Fable II 55. Skies of Arcadia 54. Grandia II 53. Star Ocean: The Second Story 52. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 51. Dragon Quest VIII: The Journey of the Cursed King 50. Pokemon Gold & Silver 49. Xenogears 48. Persona 3 47. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 46. Demon’s Souls 45. Mass Effect 3 44. Fire Emblem: Awakening 43. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 42. Shadowrun 41. Xenosaga: Episode I – Der Wille zur Macht 40. Neverwinter Nights 39. Fallout 38. System Shock 2 37. Diablo III 36. Fallout: New Vegas 35. Final Fantasy X 34. Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium 33. Final Fantasy 32. Valkyrie Profile 31. Ultima VII: The Black Gate 30. Persona 4 29. Suikoden II 28. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars 27. Earthbound 26. Dragon Age: Origins 25. Kingdom Hearts II 24. Dark Souls 23. Final Fantasy IV 22. Everquest 21. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 20. Diablo 19. Persona 5 18. Final Fantasy VII 17. Ultima Online 16. Secret of Mana 15. Pokemon Red & Blue 14. Deus Ex 13. Planescape: Torment 12. Fallout 3 11. Bloodborne 10. Final Fantasy Tactics 9. Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn 8. Diablo II 7. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 6. World of Warcraft 5. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4. Mass Effect 2 3. Chrono Trigger 2. Final Fantasy VI 1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[safestsephiroth]

When people recommend me media, and I’m into it, I tell them “I’ll add it to the list”. It’s a very long list. This is the list from july of 2014, with recent additions. There is not an order of priority.

strikethrough titles  are things I’ve already seen or no longer want to see.

Television:

Hannibal

Sons of Anarchy (season 1 down)

Kill La Kill

Gurren Lagaan

Hajime No Ippo

Season 5 of Justified (all of justified down)

Vikings (have only seen the first four or five episodes)

House of Cards

Ghost in the Shell: Arise (if that’s even a thing in English? I saw a post about it a year ago and then heard it was finished so maybe?)

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (practically current!)

The Americans

American Horror Story

Soul Eater (no thank you)

Black Butler

Baccano (SO FUCKING AWESOME)

Movies:

The Shining

Con Air

Four Rooms

Mean Girls

Sucker Punch

Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (not the hobbit)

The first two rambo movies (or first blood or w/e it’s called)

Rocky 1, 2, and 4

Taxi Driver (wasn’t into it)

Killer Joe

The Devil’s Rejects

Dark City (seen it! It’s AWESOME!)

Terminator 1 and 2

Top Gun

Prince of Darkness

Fight Club

Halloween

Nightmare on Elm Street

Friday the 13th

Skyfall

Avengers

Ghost in the Shell (the films, not the series)

Books:

The Ultimate Guide to Guys (it’s a Dave Barry book) (finished on the plane for fanfest!)

The Wheel of Time Series

Find a biography of Tycho Brahe

Every Ciaphas Cain novel past the third one.

The rest of Lovecraft’s bibliography (I’ve ready a few stories.)

The King In Yellow

Heroes of Lankhmar

The rest of the Discworld novels I have yet to read (about 2/3 of them remaining)

Most of the Shadowrun supplements

The Vampire Chronicles

The Vampire: The Masquerade novels

The Murders of the Rue Morgue

Dracula

These sherlock holmes collections I got years ago.

House of Leaves (I am not allowing myself to continue this book for my own health.)

Touched With Fire and An Unquiet Mind, both by Kay Redfield Jamison

Video Games:

Silent Hill 3 (done)

Papers Please

Dear Esther

Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions

Mass Effect 3

Xenogears

Metal Gear Ac!d

Shadowrun Returns (did it)

Yakuza 2

MUSIC:

The Sword, album: Warp riders

2017 ADDITIONS:

TELEVISION: 

the remainder of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure pt. 4

Black Lagoon (at the final episode of season 1)

Ruroni Kenshin

Read or Die The TV (at episode 16ish out of 24)

Band of Brothers

Black Mirror

Neon Genesis Evangelion (or watch the movies?)

Black Sails (Season 3!)

Brooklyn Nine Nine

Parks and Rec

40 Rock

Deadwood

Walker Texas Ranger

Haibane Renmei

The Rest Of Inuyasha (it hurts)

All of Monty Python

Madoka Magica

get caught up on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Code Geass

Tales of Zestiria The X

Battlestar Galactica

serial experiments lain

Gabriel Dropout

MOVIES: 

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

A Few Good Men

Airplane! / Airplane 2: The Sequel

American Gangster

American Hustle

Animal Kingdom

Apocalypse Now

Armageddon

Assault On Precinct 13

Bad Boys

Black Hawk Down

Blade Runner

Born On The Fourth Of July

Boyz N The Hood

Bridge of Spies

Bronson

Carlito’s Way

Casino

Casualties of War

Catch Me If You Can

Collateral

Dances with Wolves

Death Warrant

Domino

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Darko

Eastern Promises

Enemy At The Gates

Fast and the Furious (etc. etc.)

Flags of our Fathers

Full Metal Jacket

Fury

Gangs of New York

Gattaca

Ghandi

Glory

Gone With The Wind

Good Morning Vietnam

Goodfellas

Green Street Hooligans

Hackney’s Finest

Hamburger Hill

The Big Sleep

Ichi The Killer

Ill Manors

Jarhead

John Wick

Jupiter Ascending

Kickboxer

Lady Snowblood

Legends of the Fall

Letters From Iwo Jima

Lincoln

Luther

Mad Max 2 and 3

Matchstick Men

Mission Impossible -> entire series

Literally Every Monty Python Movie

My Brother The Devil

Once Upon A Time In America

Platoon

Rollerball (the 1975 one, specifically)

the ruroni kenshin live action movies

Scarface

Schindler’s List

Sexy Beast

Speed

Starred Up

Suicide Club

Taps

The Color of Money

The Conspirator

The Deer Hunter

The Hurt Locker

The Hustler

The Jerk

The Krays

The Last of the Mohicans

The Lavendar Hill Mob

Summer Wars

The Naked Gun (the whole trilogy)

The Rock

The Score

The Thin Red Line

The Girl Who Lept Through Time

Wolf Children

The Boy and the Beast

Tokyo Godfathers

The Untouchables

The Dirty Dozen

The Sting

The Wolf of Wall Street

Top Gun

Tremors - 1-5

Unforgiven

Wall Street

War Horse

We Still Kill The Old Way

We Were Soldiers

Young Guns / 2

Zatoichi

Zero Dark Thirty

Gettysburg

The Raid 2

Patton

White Men Can’t Jump

The VVitch

Crimson Peak

Cloverfield / 10 Cloverfield Lane

BOOKS: 

A Court of Thorns and Roses

all of the Gentleman Bastard series

allllllllllllll of the mage rulebooks

Declare (by Tim Powers)

there’s so many I’m fucking forgetting but my library website is down atm

VIDEO GAMES:

Shadowrun: Hong Kong

Tales of Symphonia

Tales of Berseria (top priority?)

The Banner Saga (the second half.)

The Banner Saga 2

Bleed

Borderlands 2

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Breath of Death VII

The Bridge

Child of Light

Chroma Squad

Cthulhu Saves the World

Darkest Dungeon

Dead by Daylight

Deadlight

Dear Esther

Dishonored / Dishonored 2

DOOM

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Dying Light (half done)

Final Fantasy IV

Final Fantasy V

Final Fantasy IX

Final Fantasy X (game design commentary playthrough)

Freedom Planet (finish the second half)

Gone Home

Homeworld Remastered Collection (got to the Ship Graveyard years ago. Let’s beat them both!)

Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire

ICEY

Killer is Dead (1/2 done!)

The Last Remnant (1/4 done!)

Mark of the Ninja (3/4 done?)

The Masterplan

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Nihilumbra

One Way Heroics

Party Hard (the DLC) (looooooow priority)

Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds

Punch Club

Rogue Legacy

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell

Shank

Shank 2

Shovel Knight (1/4 done!)

The Stanley Parable

Sunless Sea (one run down!)

This War of Mine

Thomas Was Alone

Undertale

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

Valkyria Chronicles (reached the final boss fight on PS3 and gave up. Now I have pc!)

Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War: Soulstorm

Wolfenstein: The New Order (half done)

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Ys: The Oath in Felghana

MUSIC:

alexisonfire

billy talent

blessthefall

from first to last

the red jumpsuit apparatus

the used

underoath

versaemerge

real friends

benny benassi

daft punk

fireworks

[magistera]

“Celebrating my daughter's birth... may all the dreams, courage & love in the world be yours...”

-  A Distant Promise

[magistera]

[magistera]

but just you and i can find the answer and then we can run to the end of the world

[magistera]

By ourselves, we are lonely, so we try to draw together to live. That's what it means to be human. That's how people live. A single hand cannot clap.