Sorry Y'all

I was originally planning on dropping the final teaser for 'Apocalypse Now' today but in all honesty I don't have the time.

Thanks to Operation Darkness and Cthulhu Saves the World I've been too busy to do anything combo video related and today will be a bust too (more Cthulhu is the only thing I have planned lol).

I'm also heading to New York in the New Year so it'll be a minute before a video goes up.

I'll make it up to the people waiting tho when I get back.

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P.S now back to Cthulhu... insanity reigns!!

P.S.S Cthulhu only post and the games I got update
http://apocryphicvisions.blogspot.com/2010/12/im-going-insane-and-i-like-it.html

Ready to Rumble!!

It's the one year anniversary of my Xbox360. I have now been a Xbox360 owner for a whole year.

During this time, I laughed and laughed some more as I played Breath of Death VII: The Beginning, conquered Puzzle Quest, smashed Puzzle Chronicles, ran amuck in 'Splosion Man, did my duty as the protector of Gotham in Batman: Arkham Asylum and played numerous on numerous games of Tekken 6 online (hence my Xbox Live Sessions series). Oh and sold my soul to Ninja Gaiden II. All this and so much more.

I must admit I have never had this must fun with a console ever and I really need to thank my wife for getting it for me.

However with this Christmas, I now have the means to actually expand my library of games thanks to some well thought of presents. I must admit, my library of physical games is pretty small. I have Tekken 6, Gears of War (which I have bearly played) and Dead Rising (which I haven't even touched LOL). I do have a decent number of arcade games on my hard-drive tho and some indie games. But as I said before, my Xbox is going to get a sharp infusion of new games very soon. Here is a preview of what's to come.

Left 4 Dead: I have heard sooo much about this game and whilst I am not a big fan of the first person shooter, it has zombies and it's horror fueled so count me in. I might even do a dual run of this with Dead Rising.

Operation Darkness: A pretty obscure rpg from Atlus, I've been playing the demo and even through I am getting pwned ALL the time I don't mind it. I love my strategy RPG's tho (Hello Shining Force series) so this with the supernatural take on the WW II genre is something that caught my eye. It doesn't hurt it is dirt cheap too LOL.

Battle Fantasia: Now I got a new proper working stick (thanks wifey!), I definitely want to get some more fighting games on my Xbox other then Tekken. Battle Fantasia is another un-heard of game but it's got some decent reviews from people who actually played it and it's fantasy which is up my alley. It's also made by the BlazBlue guys/gals so hopefully it'll have some depth and a decent combo system.

Limbo: I played the demo way back in Summer and now it's going on sale I will actually pick it up. I really like the atmosphere of the game and it's very unique. I think I'll enjoy myself with this one.

Cthulu Saves the World: OMG! Out of all the games on my list, this is the one I want the most and have waited for the longest to play. Made by the same studio behind another indie game gem Breath of Death, CStW is going to be epic. I am so ready to play it. I might even do a walk-through once I get my capture software.

Costume Upgrade for Ninja Gaiden II: I know it's not a game BUT I'm going to happy rocking new clothes as I do my solo weapon runs for the Flails, Talons and Tonfas.

Thanks to everyone that made it happen. I'm ready to rumble for sure!

P.S. I should finished 'Splosion Man or Portal: Still Alive now. LOL I was purposely playing them slowly to really enjoy them and keep me going till I got new stuff but since I got a bus load of new stuff I don't want these gems to be left unplayed *cough* Dead Rising.

P.S.S. I'm aiming for an new Apocalypse Now clip to go up exclusively on this blog before New Years Day. Tho if I get my new games early... I don't know if it'll be so doable.

Rants/ Raves Reborn

So as most people know, my other blog Rants and Raves has fallen by wayside. I just haven't had much to blog about lately and even one thing I used to blog about all the time (my music player for the month) stopped happening too. I have decided to dedicate my time instead to this blog 'Apocryphic Videos'. I've been pretty faithful with keeping this blog up to date so this can be considered my main blog from now on.

However tonight, Rants and Raves is reborn thanks to an atrocious night of online T6. Now Online T6 is a joke, I know. Hop kicks become unpunishable and low sweep moves become god-like due to lag. However it's a time killer and a guilty pleasure of mine.
Tonight through, I don't know if I'll keep playing if this trend continues. In my hot little room, I had to sit through and deny so many 2-1 bar matches to luckily get a 3-4 bar match. However each match I played was against some random scrub who really could not play for beans. Random moves, throws for no reason other then they are losing and getting desperate. It was driving me insane. On top of that, not one of these people had ranks close to mine... not even remotely. Sure it's my fault for having such high ranking characters BUT I have at least 7 online mains and not one of them got a 1/4 point tonight. To top this off, I had a scrub send me hatemail and match requests because he beat my Mokujin once. This scrub felt self important enough to insult me and then send me a friend request. I hate scrubs with a passion reserved for Sarah Palin and her supporters and to top it off this guy was drunk and not making sense at all. It was the straw that broke the camel's back. As I said, if I have night similar to this one, ApocryphicV on XBL will be no more. I'll rather play 'Splosion Man, Harms Way or Portal: Still Alive instead honestly.

Oh Raves: LOL I'm hella consistant with my videos lately so yah for me!
'The Walking Dead' was an incredible series. There were a couple quiet episodes but overall it was probably my favorite new show of 2010, hands down.

Also be on the look out for a new change on this blog. If you see EXCLUSIVE (yep all caps) it means the content is exclusive (duh!) to this blog and won't be seen anywhere else. So yeah be on the look out for that because if you are only following me on UTube you are only getting half of my visions :D

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Helping Hand: Anna's Trending Water to Hunting Swan

What?! Helping Hand is back?! LOL Yes. Much asked for, much promised here is the latest installment of Helping Hand!

Anna's Just Frame was giving me some headaches for a bit but once I figured out the exact animation to get it, it became easy as pie.

I'm been on a roll lately with vids and now Helping Hand is out I'm going to take a holiday break.

Helping Hand will be back in the new year tho with Hei's Omen Thunder Godfist tutorial.

EXCLUSIVE: White Light

So here we are... an exclusive (as in not on Youtube or anywhere else) preview of 'Apocalypse Now'. AN has kind of changed. I originally intended it to be a mostly no wall combo video but there is only a certain about of combos you can do without walls, wall breaks and floor breaks.

I have decided to include all the above in the final product and I'm pretty happy with the result. I'm of course kinda of annoyed it can't be direct captured BUT you sometimes just need to go with what you got.

So here it is.

P.S. New Xbox Live Sessions... check.
Preview for forthcoming combo vid... check.
Guess I need to work on that new Helping Hand eh?