Blog a Day 4: My most focused blog of the week

On 10/04/2013 at 12:40 PM by transmet2033

Day 4. This is unprecedented and I suppose that I will have the same reaction tomorrow when I sit down and write something up. Since I have already posted a blog a day for the first three days of October I am going to try and write a blog a day. This may only end up lasting a week, but I will definitely try to make it to the end of the month. Probably the biggest reason that I would like to try this is because my thought process has been slowly clearing up as the days go by. There are two specific things that I wanted to go over today, and I will probably ramble onto a third or fourth item by the end of it.
I have been doing a little Christmas shopping already. I already know what my wife wants and I thought that I may as well order some stuff early. Along with what I ordered for her, I also picked up some stuff that I felt was a good or great deal. A 32 GB memory card for the Vita was only $45 at Best Buy and I had to jump on that. Also, classic Doctor Who has been on special throughout the year for the 50th anniversary and I thought that I would order a couple more stories. I have been working through the Black Guardian Trilogy and decided to get a couple more Peter Davison stories, Resurrection of the Daleks and The Ark of Infinity. Rayman Legumes on Vita dropped to $30 and so I grabbed that because I have been working on Oranges and have been wanting a portable platformer. I did recently get PS+ just for the Vita games. Not to waste the opportunity, I made sure that my brother logged onto my account on his PS3 and add the games to my download list. I want to be prepared in case I actually replace my old PS3.
I have decided to sit down and try to speedrun through Metroid Fusion. I am not going to try and beat the best time out there, 48 minutes, but I would like to challenge myself and see how quickly I can do it. I practically know the game by heart and the moment I step back into Samus' shoes I can remember nearly everything about the game. If I put on the song "Blue and Yellow" by the used, I am sure that I can remember the rest. I listened to that song throughout my first couple of times through the game so I am sure that it will stimulate some long dormant memories. The time that I am going to try for is going to be 75 minutes, but I fully expect it to take a couple of playthroughs, but I think that I can do it.
I am going to leave it there and will hopefully be back tomorrow.

mothman

10/04/2013 at 12:59 PM

You are supposed to save this until February.

anyway, Rayman Legumes, LOL.

transmet2033

10/04/2013 at 03:22 PM

Why February? I wasn't necessarily planning on it, it just seems to happen.

As I said at some point in the past, I saw it on RockPaperShotgun and it stuck. I no longer see origin(s), I see Orange(s). Same with Legends and Legumes.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

10/04/2013 at 06:37 PM

February is "BaD", or "Blog a Day", an old 1up tradition where we blog once daily.

that's certainly cheap for a 32 gig Vita card!

10/04/2013 at 07:21 PM

I will definitely keep that in mind when February rolls around. I do not actually expect to make it all the way through October, but if I am inspired I will keep going.

10/04/2013 at 07:55 PM

Sorry for the confusion. When you said you were writing a Blog a Day I automatically thought of BaD, Hopefully we can continue it here.

jgusw

10/04/2013 at 02:27 PM

My wife & I did a little holiday shopping for the kids last week. The worse thing about shopping so early is keeping the gifts hidden until it's time to give them out.

10/04/2013 at 03:26 PM

I do not think that it will be that difficult to hide things from my wife. I place things in plain sight and she does not even notice them. I picked up some magazine that she wanted to read and placed it in the middle of an empty coffee table. Two days later she noticed it.

KnightDriver

10/04/2013 at 04:20 PM

I've owned Metroid Fusion for years, but still haven't gotten to it. Want to play it NOW!

10/07/2013 at 12:34 PM

There is far less freedom in Fusion than in Super Metroid and Zero Mission, but that is one of the reasons that I love it. There is more of a story, but not in the Other M kinda way.

10/07/2013 at 01:03 PM

I'm so behind in all the Metroid games. I've only played several hours of Metroid Prime even though I now own most of the games. Need... more... time.

daftman

10/04/2013 at 10:42 PM

We haven't bought Christmas stuff yet but we're in the process of figuring out what to get all our family members. So much more complicated when married!

10/07/2013 at 12:37 PM

I can agree with that, my family is large enough that we have been doing a secret santa thing over the past couple of years. Now that I have to worry about Marie's small family it has gotten a lot more complicated. Now I have to worry about more than a handful of people.

NSonic79

10/06/2013 at 02:10 PM

what! Xmas! you too! why do you do this to me! It's too soon man! too soon! Octoberween is here! Too soon! Blarg!!!

10/07/2013 at 12:41 PM

It was not really my decision. My wife wanted a list. I would have probably waited at least another month before contemplating Christmas.

PixlBit