Yesterday I met up with a friend of mine, who I haven’t seen for just over 6 years and he contacted me to see if we wanted to meet up since he moved back in the area. Like me he was an avid gamer and we always talked about games, so he was a really close friend. I was curious how much he had changed over the years. So I went over to his house, and we caught up on what we have been up. Luckily he was the same person he was when he moved and was still a gamer. When I went to his room the first thing that caught my eye was this . . . .

Honesty the amount of ps3 games he had was four times the number I currently have and he almost has every single ps3 game released to date. He told me hasn’t played them all and I noticed that some had their plastic wrapper on. The reason why he brought so much games is not for the fun of it but for the trophies and achievements he could gain and show on his profile. We got into a bit of an discussion with me taking an opposite view that games should be played for the interesting story, characters and fun of it.

Ever since the xbox 360 and ps3 was released every single games on these consoles have trophies and achievements for playing the game and meeting certain criteria. One way it is good because if you are a trophies/achievement fanatic such as my friend. It will make you play the games fully to gain 100% completion which can mean value for money and games have a longer life. But I find some of the conditions for achieving certain trophies/achievements pointless, but you need them to achieve full completion. However I am the type person that only play games once unless it is really good, and I only buy games that interests me. Since more and more games have some kind of good or bad element to it, especially on RPGs they make players want to play again. There are some games out there which I find pointless and that it is a waste of time and money. So I ask, are you the type of person that play games for the fun of it or just for the trophies/achievements?

Despite only having this blog for a couple of months. I am starting to realise the effects of having a personal blog. There are a lot of work initially for setting up a blog such as choosing a design, organising blogroll, and what categories you may need for your blog. However for me there is two main problems, first is what post should I write for my blog and maintaining a constant blog update.

Having decided that this will be a blog devoting to all things otaku, I find it hard to write post entries relating to this topic. The reason is that whatever I write there is bound to be another blog somewhere who would made a post ages ago. Since there are millions of blogs around the world,  so it is hard to think up some original post. Which can lead to having a writer block of what to write. I have tried to look around what other blogs have done in the past when they first started out. They were more or less the same, such as what figures they brought, anime they watch, or make a post on what other blogs have reported. This has lead to me not motivated in my blog, which can lead to the second problem for me.

I really admire the people who maintain a constant blog update, because it really takes alot of time and effect. Which can build up readership and there is less chance of having abandoned blogs. What I find is that the only way you can maintain a constant update is by reporting news that has already been reported somewhere else, such as anime news network. Also if people have made comments on your blog it is always a good thing to reply to those comments, to gain a loyal readers.

If all else fails you can always start flaming other blogs, which I do not intend to because I not good at it.

Welcome to the start of what I hope will be a entertaining blog. Since this is my first entry on this blog, I am relatively new to this. The reason why I have decided to start this blog is by the influence of other blogs and I wanted to contribute to this exciting community. I wanted this blog to look different but with my lack of skill and knowledge of web design, I have gone for a plain look, hopefully I will be able to evolve this blog to something better as time passes.So what will this blog be relating to, well it will probably be your average anime, otaku and japan relating stuff. Looking around there are many similar blogs out there, but the main thing for me is that I would hope to enjoy writing and sharing my views on these topics with readers around the world.

I have been watching anime since 2003 and there have been some memorable ones and some that I wonder why the hell did I watch ones. Around the same time I have been reading blogs relating to anime. So I have a bit of knowledge in anime and blogs. Since I am beginning to waffle and boring you I will stop right here.

I hope you enjoy reading this blog.

later KC (Kaphillca)