about Poke'Mon

OK, Poke'Mon is an excellent RPG, a decent card game (with room for improvement) and a terrible Anime.
Don't get me wrong, I love the game (named my charmander AshFire), and own over one thousand cards, but the show is so insanely stupid i'm surprised they managed to keep it going for 15 seasons! Only the first three or so episodes in Indigo League (taking place in the Kanto region, main territory of the first four games) are original. After a while the whole thing starts getting repetitive, with "Oh look what new Poke'Mon Ash and company caught with the same techniques they use every time!" or, " Observe the latest absurd invention and insane exploits of the two idiots in Team Rocket!" And of course (for some series) the Poke'Rap. It gets real old, real fast. The theme songs are compelling but they promise more than the writers can deliver. An RPG centered around catching, and training wild creatures that you can fit on your belt, and card game based on that RPG can make it (that's why they made it from gameboy color in 96 to DS currently) but without major changes a show can't really go very far. pretty much the only good thing that came out of the series was popularizing the franchise and of course, Poke'Mon Yellow. I can see why the entire TV show is banned in some places since it's only redeeming value is the fact that it produced Poke'Mon Yellow (if you don't know, Yellow is the most complete version released since you don't need to trade to get some of the creatures) if they do a remake, they need to cut the Jesse and James characters, maybe turn Team Rocket into a Mafia group the likes to use explosives, make Ash a bit older, taller and voiced by a male, and add in some elements of darker Sci-Fi to add realism and to expunge the memory of the 14+ seasons from our brains! since the manga came AFTER the Anime, (unlike most anime which is either based on manga or at least written well) the manga is probably as bad as the anime. compare this to Yu-Gi-Oh!: Yu-Gi-Oh! is based on an extremely well written manga series of the same name, then came the card game, then the video game (or vice versa) it actually has a good voice cast, writers (since it's based on a good manga) and models for the characters. I give Poke'Mon video games a 9.89* rating, the card game a 6.43* rating, and the anime a  2.1* rating. the only thing keeping it out of the 1* and below category is the hardly there redeeming qualities of popularizing the franchise further than the games took it, and the fact that they always seem to make a rather compelling case for watching the show one more time every series in the theme song.

Star Wars: The Old Republic

off topic, blogger changed it's interface, which is annoying. on topic,
                                         Star Wars: The Old Republic:

i bought a brand new PC a while ago, 1TB HDD, 3GB RAM, 2.40GHz AMD CPU, pretty good deal for only 300 (i plan to upgrade it when the warranty is up). it runs World of Warcraft without a hitch. can't say the same for SWTOR. i had to download for at least two, three weeks to get the fully patched client. it takes up about 40, 50 GBs on my hard drive. i have been signed up for this thing since before it was in beta test. i was signed up to be a beta tester and didn't make the cut. oh well, i moved on. then i got an eMail in my inbox offering me a seven day free trial for the game. ok, i downloaded the main client (25GBs) and then it wanted to patch. i have DSL, so speeds are better than dialup, slower than cable internet. it took me over three weeks to get the client patches downloaded. i had to call customer support to get them to reset my trial until i had the download finished. then the real trouble started. first i get kicked from the server while designing my character. then, when i do manage to enter the game, it's so slow i have to change the settings. then i wind up with a choice: crappy, choppy graphics and readable text. or crappy and choppy graphics, and illegible text. my PC more than meets the minimum system requirements, and i have a decent internet connection. why then does this game that is supposed to be the greatest star wars RPG manage to make it feel like my PC is a windows 98 trying to run a windows vista program on maximum settings? this game is only free for a week or three days depending on how you got the trial. WoW (amongst others) is free to play up to a level cap or (for some others) completely free! i will not recommend this unless they make the game easier to play graphics wise, and free to play, as well as a smaller download/patch size. they could isolate the RPG format and use online play for PVP and dungeon/boss fights, but they probably won't for now this gets a 1.7* rating. if i had actually bought the physical copy of the game when it came out (which i was sorely tempted to do) i would have been very unhappy. the only redeeming quality is the opening cinematic's (amazing picture and sound, better than some movies) which is why i kept it above a 1.0*, but below a 2.0* this game will not be worth playing for the average consumer, or RPG lover until they start on some major patching. this game reminded me why i do my heavy gaming on my consoles! if they port it to Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 i might buy it as long as they do not charge me to utilize multiplayer gaming. when this is completely F2P i will upgrade the rating and when this has a better way of managing it's graphics i will upgrade it again, but for now, it get's a low rating. i hope that KOTOR 1&2 were better, cus now i am ticked off at bioware for this game. it might not be bioware's fault and completely EAs, butfor now, i will shy away from bioware until i find a reason not to. Electronic Arts has a bad rep with a lot of gamers so it could just be on their end.