The standard PS3 videogame price in Europe, if you buy it in a videogame store like most people do (and I used to) is about 70 euros. That can be considered quite expensive. Now, let's check, for example, www.gameseek.net, an online videogame store from the United Kingdom.
As you can see, in most European stores the game will cost 70 euros. Now let's check out that site I mentioned before, Gameseek, and check the price for the same game... As you can see, the price is £38, approximately, either for the PS3 or the Xbox 360.
Now let's type "38 pounds to euros" in Google, to make the convertion from pounds to euros. The result is...
This means a difference of 70-42=28 euros, which means you will save 28 euros, a really huge difference, as you can see. Of course, you have to add the mailing costs to that, but still the difference will be around 20 euros per game.
Manny Pacquiao has once again proven himself as worthy of being considered an all-time great after completely outpunching Joshua Clottey in a very one-sided fight at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
Still, merit must be given to Joshua Clottey for surviving the onslaught from such an admirable opponent, as his head barely suffered any punches, and the powerful body punches landed from Pacquiao weren't enough to break his guard. Also, in the last rounds, Clottey was still able to land some good punches, specially his powerful left uppercut, that worked very well between the arms of his opponent.
In second place: if the highly anticipated Mayweather VS Pacquiao fight happens later this year, I will be very curious to see how the undefeated American will be able to cope against Pacquiao's high workrate, not being a big volume puncher himself. At first my opinion about this possible match-up was that Mayweather would eventually win on points, but after watching this fight, and how relentless Pacquiao is, maybe I'll give an edge to the Filipino. Let's just hope Mayweather beats Mosley on May 1st and the two fighters get over their drug testing issues so this great fight can happen.
Ok, besides videogames, another one of my passions is sports. And one of them is boxing. Because next Saturday there will a big, quite anticipated boxing fight, I though I'd say something about it. So here goes, I'm going to tell you why I think Manny Pacquiao will be the first man to KO Joshua Clottey.
It's true Clottey has never been knocked-out, and everyone must admit he does have a great chin. But has he ever faced someone with such great speed and power combined as Pacquiao? Looking at his record, we can see he fought great names like Margarito, Judah (not-so-great name, but I think it counts...) and Cotto. While he was never knocked out, the truth is he lost to an inconsistent Margarito (with plaster or not...) and a mentally weak Cotto after his first loss. The same Cotto that went on to be "easily" knocked out by Pacquiao after dragging himself around the ring for the second half of the fight, until the ref finally decided to put a stop to the massacre.
My prediction is that this fight will be an exact replay of the Pacquiao VS Cotto fight. The early rounds might be balanced, and Clottey may even win one or two rounds, but as time goes on, Pacquiao's speed and, specially, his tremendous, huge, workrate, will make a difference. That will cause Clottey to start taking some big punches from the 3rd or 4th round on and never recover. Clottey will then probably adopt a defensive posture, diminishing his workrate even further, which will cause him to lose rounds. Eventually, probably near the very end of the fight, the referee will have to stop the fight.
And well, that's my opinion and my prediction for the fight. You're free to disagree if you want to! I just want comments and more comments! Actually I had a few replies to the previous post, and some of them were interesting, but they're not here on the blog because they were posted by users of a forum where I suggested people to read my article about Final Fantasy... Anyway, I'm thankful for the feedback and I want to keep writing good stuff so this legendary blog becomes more and more popular!
As I said, I'm not the biggest fan of old games, they just can't keep me as interested as modern games, with all the evolution in graphics, gameplay and music. Still, this must be a great game, because it still kept me playing for a while until I started losing and finally lost interest. But don't judge me, I still got to the part where Cecil turns into a Paladin, I just can't get as immersed in the storyline and the characters as in modern games!
Final Fantasy X-2 was the first sequel to any Final Fantasy game, because normally each title has it's own independent story, but this one was the continuation of the story of Final Fantasy X. Unfortunately, the game just sucked. It seemed more like a Barbie game than Final Fantasy, as you had to control three girls around, change their clothes while you fighted, and instead of following a linear storyline, you could go anywhere in your big ship and perform different missions, but it just didn't work. Many of the missions were pointless, the story was weak, and the game was obviously just an easy attempt to make some money out of the naive fans who asked for this sequel. It just seeemed like a rip off from the movie Charlie's Angels, and was simply too girly to work.
Final Fantasy XII came with even bigger expectations than X-2, because XI was an online game and the number XII meant it belong to the main franchise. While the game has it's good points, with huge cities and environments to explore, it fails on crucial points, which used to be the strongest aspects of Final Fantasy.
Yeah, I know you probably expected this one to be at least in the Top Three, but it's not. Everyone seems to consider Final Fantasy VII the best in the series, and after playing IX and X, I had to see for myself. The result was not a major disappointment, but I don't think this game is the big deal everyone made it to be.
After having played most of the modern Final Fantasies, and reading not-so-good opinions about this one, I didn't expect much from it, just wanting to have a good time playing it. Still, it surprised me in a positive way, as the story develops in a very interesting fashion, the plot is not overly complicated, each character has its own unique personality, the graphics are great for it's time, it's a very pleasing game. I specially found the Laguna flashbacks a very funny part of the game, which gave the adventure two different tones, and an extra bit of mistery.
The first Final Fantasy on the PS2, and one of the best games ever released for the console (the last true FF in my opinion). Awesome graphics (specially FMVs), awesome story, maybe the best in the series, awesome characters, awesome battle system, awesome minigames and sidequests, everything about this game was awesome! The plot had some really great twists, the ending was maybe the best of the series, I loved the Sphere Grid System, because it gave every one of your characters a different functionality, and only towards the end of the game could you make everyone be anything, the option to change party members during battle worked very well, the summons were stunning, almost every point of this game is near perfect!
This one seems to be overlooked by people many times, and I don't know why, or maybe I do: because after VII and VIII, they're so used to RPGs that they fail to see that everything the previous two had, this one has even better. It was my first Final Fantasy, and it gave me a wonderful experience from the beginning to the end. Hironobu Sakaguchi seems to agree with me when I say Final Fantasy IX is the best Final Fantasy ever.
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