Saturday, June 25, 2011

Project Diva Arcade

This will be one more arcade game to be played in the arcades this vacation. However, the upcoming tests and exams are in the way of the vacation and just like last year, there may be tests every week so we’ve got to keep studying. There were IT Free Training videos I already watched and learnt from but then the learning was at the beginning starting the Terminal Server thing whose configuration was still incomplete. There were other things about the OSI models in which I took some interesting notes I got the attention from. Well, each run is short in rhythm games in the arcades but it is expensive and takes more money than other arcades games other there by costing around $1 to $3 and this game costs $2 per run. Sure there are many songs to play and choose from but it’s risky to play this game again and again and again. I played this game, Project Diva Arcade for the first time but I chose the one-song run and that was a waste of $2 as I don’t want to risk myself failing the stages in rhythm games. What’s important to avoid failing is the Life Bar and the Stage Completion requirement bar. The bottom bar depends on how well you do and the Life Bar on top is that you must pay the first attention to. These two bars are the top priorities in the game but unfortunately, my timing wasn’t right although it was meant to be synchronized with the music. Also, some parts can be tricky but the controls are right with right button size and alignments. It is way smoother than playing this on the PSP but it has high-definition visuals and changed features. It is one whole game featuring the songs from the PSP versions because it can be updated and is running on the new Sega PC based arcade machine that scores and other kinds of data can be recorded online with the usage of the network connection. It’s not bad but there are two problems with rhythm games in the arcades. First is that the room can be noisy even if rhythm game genre is the most important in terms of volume and speaker setup so that players can pay more attention but then having too loud of the volume of some rhythm games can cause another different problem. Second is that there should be some kind of game genre filtering on the arcade room as well as walls that form another room of the arcade center.

Before this, I bought another 3200 MS Points Card from Game Store and there was a 250GB HDD being displayed as well. The price wasn’t bad but too bad I still have to prepare additional money to buy that HDD. Even other people will have to buy that thing as well in case their console is running out of storage space. Well, there’s one more 3200 MS Points Card to buy before spending the remaining points of certain Xbox Live Arcade games. What I planned at home is to take an existing 16GB USB Flash Drive as I still haven’t bought that HDD yet to store certain games that are bought using those MS Points Card. The calculation will go as 14GB but trying to download games like that will take a long time which can be tedious for the console itself. I guess that other people had already bought those games before I did or perhaps they are replaced with the Kinect powered games being on display on the stores.

Then there’s some newspaper in June 24th saying that things were getting way too bright in the morning. I guess the summer had already started but this is way worse like that photograph may be next year’s warning example. The palette of the place may change in color and things may be a lot hotter than ever that they may burn without warning. My thoughts are that this is the late first anniversary of the Eschatological Pranking Day that happened in late May to warn the people of the upcoming end. Indeed, this new Clear commercial has been showing us the examples of how our hair will be screwed if there are way too much hair-fall and dandruff that spell disasters on it.