Aselin's FFXI Notepad

M e r r y C h r i s t m a s !

Another year, another Christmas.  I wish everyone have  a Happy Holidays.  Stay warm and stay safe.

With Final Fantasy XIII release in Japan just days away, a TV special was aired on December 12 if going by the date that I got this.  This video includes:

• Interviews with the cast and people behind FFXIII
• Behind-the-scenes look at FFXIII
• And, as an added bonus, a music video of the title song for FFXIII at the end of the TV special

It’s all in Japanese, and as much as I’d like to subtitle it, my Japanese isn’t that good to do so.  I can pick up several words here and there, but that’s about it.

I am pretty excited for the game and hopefully it’ll be better than FFXII.   I am also providing the song that I got off the video found here: FFXIII Title Music (So-so quality) (24).  It has a few clicks at the beginning and end, and cuts off pretty quickly.  Thus, it is all the more reason to get the soundtrack when it’s released.

Other merchandise that I’m tempted to get is this: FFXIII PS3 Collector’s Edition Console.

Anyway, enjoy the video, even though I know this is a rare post on my blog in quite a while.  Also, if interested in signing up for FFXIV’s beta program, the link is here.  Beta sign-ups have started for the upcoming FFXIV MMO.  I already signed up and I’ll see if it’s enough to make me jump over to it.

Since I haven’t logged on much onto FFXI lately, I’ve been rather bored with the game since I have no endgame LS and not a lot of friends left, and at the same time my decision on what to do now is still in limbo.  Therefore, to give you an idea on how bored I am with the game as of late, this is a part of the conversation I had with a friend today on Skype IM.

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Yes, yes I know: July updates are long past due.  Please forgive me on that, but there is a reason for the delay that I’ll reveal soon-ish.

I’ll most likely merge July and August stuff together in the posts to follow.  I am using my screen shots folder as a guide since they’re categorized by month and day.  That above is from July 11, 2009.

My LS, Weekdays, had a bunch of Cashmere items– cloth and thread– leftover from our Bahamut v.2 fights but no Goldsmither in the LS high enough to make the Manteels.  It was decided by the sacks to craft them into Sha’ir Manteels and hand them to our members at 100 points each.  Honestly, it is a nice trade off.  For 100 points one earned in the LS, you get in return probably the second or third best Bard body there is without having to pay 4 million Gil (the current average price on Bismarck server).  Myself and a few other 75 Bards in the LS were picked to get the first ones crafted.  Again, thank you to Weekdays for the Manteel; it’s been one of my most wanted Bard body armors I’ve wanted since it was released.  My interest in it waned a little when Salvage was introduced and after getting Kirin’s Osode.  With this, it’ll tide me over until my Marduk’s Jubbah is completed.

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If ever wondered why in a lot of my screen shots I don’t look like my original character model, Hume F 4A, then that picture above pretty much explains everything.

A little over a year ago, I found that DAT mod for my character on FFXIDATS.com.  Now, I am not that heavy into DAT modding, though I find a lot of them to be anywhere from impressive to just plain… weird.  I’ve been black hair, brown eyes for four out of five years in this game, and since I’m the kind of person that gets bored easily with one thing if it’s gone on for so long, I decided to change it.

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