It would seem that the generous folks at Dreamworks decided to let us diehard Transformers fanatics get an early glimpse of the teaser trailer before it’s July 4 theatric debut. FilmForceIGN dropped the official word earlier today, which not surprisingly, sent thousands of online users flocking to the official Transformers site. Can you say, high in demand? I’ve been trying to get a peek over the past 10 minutes and can’t get past the first 5 seconds. All I hear is “Seven… Six… Five…” before it just stalls. Nothing else. You’d think they would of made it a downloadable file… and have mirror sites… you know, somethign that’s just more accessible and practical? I mean, what genius decides to offer a teaser trailer in Flash format? Hello?!!? *flicks off Dreamworks* :p

Interesting tidbit, this movie is coming out on the same day Spiderman 3 debuts. I think a lot more ppl will be putting their cash out for the next Spidey release — or they may end up doing what I plan to: seeing one right after the other.

*sigh* STILL no luck… WTF???? I wanna see the trailer!!!!! *stomps feet and pouts* Guess I’ll go and play some Street Fighter Anthology or watch the original Superman flicks in preparation for my second viewing of Superman Returns. Hasta.

Oh — and I realize that I haven’t been talking too much about the site. Some of you think I probably don’t care anymore or that this is just the early signs of someone that’s ready to fold his cards. Rest assured, I’m still VERY much into this site, but it’s great to take some time off, relax and persue other interests. Although July will undoubtedly be a slow month, we’re just one step closer to a very important month… a month of anniversaries and such. Yeah, that would be ours… GotNext’s 2nd year online. Yay. So who’s ordering the cake and ice cream? O_o

Does anyone have a game that they’ll defend to the death against anyone, they just love it that much? I do, and that game is Final Fantasy 7.

I don’t care about how bad the graphics are now (recall that they were state of the art at the time), how antiquated the battle system seems in comparison to games like FFX, FFX-2, and FFXI (which I have not and will not play, btw), how MIDI-ish the music sounds (I love the music!), or that there’s no voice acting. Final Fantasy 7 is just, overall, a kickass game, and it, to an extent, revolutionized RPGing for consoles.

The reason I bring this up is because I was sitting at Candice’s house last night with her and Mangas, racing chocobos to get GP to go to the Battle Square and get BP to get Omnislash (I know…I know.) and Mangas, who has indeed played FF7, was teasing me about how bad the graphics and sound were (like it’s my fault, right?). And Candice and I automatically went on the defensive - like someone had personally assaulted our personality.

Does anyone else have a game like that? Cuz, I mean, I’ll defend FF8 and FFX to an extent, but FF7 I’ll argue with people over hours at a time. FF7 got me into Final Fantasy and RPG’s as a whole, and essentially changed the entire direction of my life (or else I’d have probably gotten that Naval Academy appointment I wanted, but you know, I was too busy playing Final Fantasy 7 to care about homework).

Another one is Bust-a-Move. I don’t care how crappy an arcade game it was, it’s AWSOME. And there’s no way you can talk me out of it.

But yes, that’s my question - what game do you love to the point that you’ll defend it to someone who isn’t going to be convinced? It could just be an awsome game, or it could be the game that got you INTO gaming, or it could be something that just amuses you, or it could be a combination of graphics, sound, storyline…whatever. Which one?

(Tasha certainly likes asking questions, doesn’t she?)

It took me a while but I finally found my way to the latest Dragon Quest and man this game has restored my faith in the RPG. It’s an amazing ride. Simple, expansive, and gorgeous. I just hit the 50 hour mark and, having procured the godbird, think I only have a bit to go. Action is turn-based and simple, but fun — the key point to all of this. There are sidequests, item fusion, and hidden monsters for those of us who love to power level. The last time I spent this long on an RPG was Makai Kingdom, a noticeably lower grade title, but one that I loved and played for more than 100 hours (so I could beat that huge battleship hidden boss).

I’m taking my time with this one as all I have really to look forward to next is Disgaea 2 in Aug. and a couple RPGs in the fall. Speaking of Disgaea 2, I sat down for a bit with the Japanese version and despite the language issues, I was pleased with the interface. It’s typical NIS goodness. I’m excited to see how they will expand the dark senate and what some of the dialogue will be like (the ridiculous accents and dialogue are a key for enjoying NIS games!). Plus, the attack animations are freaking insane. Overall, I have to say that Disgaea 2 is my top “must-have” for 2006.

Web site: http://www.nisamerica.com/games/d2/

Also youtube has some boss fights and other videos of D2 is action.

…eh - you know the rest. I’m talking about Superman Returns. Just saw a special pre-midnight screening and I was quite impressed — definitely going to check it out again this Friday — I expect the theater in Stonington, CT to be PACKED. Don’t worry, there won’t be any spoilers as I know many of you probably won’t be seeing it until later tonight, which marks its true official opening. I just wanted to acknowledge that I was much more pleased with this film compared to that disappointing performance that was X-men: The Last Stand.

Edit: As promised - here are some shots of the new wheels based on my previous posted the other night:

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Body Harvest was a N64 title that was developed by DMA Design, assisted by Nintendo and published by Midway right around Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s debut. Despite featuring unimpressive first-gen graphics in a second-gen era, BH packs enough unique (at the time) gameplay ideas, huge areas to explore, plenty of challenge and fairly solid controls to earn a very treasured place in my heart.

However, I have a lot of reason to believe that Body Harvest helped inspire the creation of Grand Theft Auto 3. How’s that, do you ask? You’re a thug in GTA and a time-traveling space marine in BH…how could those be related? The comparison is not the main character or the setting, but instead the gameplay ideas I mentioned above.

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