First up today was Super Mario RPG (Wii virtual console). I played this up unitl the first major boss, Mack, and beat him. I really love this game. I almost played it all day, but I decided I'd play up until a boss every weekend for a while. I guess it's so I can fit in some 360 gaming with Mark. I kind of like the idea of playing a game just up to a major boss and then doing something else. It breaks up the game into nice chunks that give you some time to think about it afterwards.
This game's battle system is turn-based but you can do some real-time actions like pressing a button a the right time to block or make your attack stronger. I love all the dialog in this game and all the characters. The first character you team up with is Mallow, which was funny because I had looked up Mallow's history a few months ago. He's a prince of this sky kingdom where everyone is a cloud, but he grew up with toads, so he thinks he's a toad. He has weather related special attacks and I used his lighting storm to damage multiple enemies at once as often as I could. I'm going to really love playing this game every weekend for a while.
Then Mark and I watched The Delta Force 2 action movie, staring Chuck Norris. This was a much better film than the first one. Maybe they had a bigger budget or a better director, I don't know, but everything was very well shot and there was a great variety of stunts and lots of Chuck Norris's hand-to-hand fighting. This one exploited another hot topic of the 80s, the drug trade between North and South America. The acting was much better in this sequel. The bad guy was excellent. Things blew up real good near the end of the film and I actually called it seconds before it started. That's not to say this movie was overly predictable, it wasn't (at least, as much as an action movie can be unpredictable). I felt the movie had good drama and pacing. I was pretty interested in it the whole time and only made wise-cracks a few times (the first movie was a full on MST3K laugh fest). The frequently used one-liner in the movie was, "always the hard way" deliverd by Chuck Norris's commander. My friend Mark liked the first movie better (the most used one-liner there was "I'll see you when I see you") for it's shlockiness and more b-movie quality, but I think this sequel is a much better film.
3. Diablo III (Xbox 360). I leveled my Monk up to level 43. Along the way I was trying to find more dyes for a challenge. I was also looking into other challenges such as the campaign ones that require you find every dungeon and every lore book in every Act of the game. I just wrote down the ones I didn't have yet for memory and started scouring the world for these things. It's a fun game that never really gets boring.
Always the hard way Pixlbits, just like Chuck Norris.
Ah man, I just realized, I haven't been thinking of the Delta Force movies, I've been thinking of the Missing in Action films. Now those you have to watch to complete the experience!
I watched the Missing in Action movies a couple months back. They're not that bad. 
The wiki page on Delta Force 2 said some of the criticism of it was that it was too much like Missing in Action.
Mario RPG is great. Have you ever played Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door? That's an even better Mario RPG!
Oh yes. I played almost all of Paper Mario: Thousand Year door just about a year ago. Fantastic game!
It occured to me this week, that with these great RPGs, and all the other great Nintendo games, I now understand why someone would only play Nintendo games. They have great games in every genre.
LOL, All three Delta Force movies were on TV late last night on some local channel up here. I only know because I fell asleep early on the couch and then woke up again at 1:45 this morning. when I'd been flipping channels before I fell asleep, The Delta Force was on and when I woke up, 3 had just started.
So you've watched DF2 like the way some people attempt to teach themselves languages by playing lesson tapes while they're asleep. Have you suddenly decided to do things "always the hard way" and, like Chucky, throw a captured villain out of a plane without a parachute and then go catch him in mid-air; or climb a shear cliff to get to a house when you could've just walked up a mountain road?
No, not yet. And the way I sleep, I doubt anything penetrated my brain.
Probably for the better.
Was the second Delta Force flick the one where Chuck Norris defeated drug dealers or am I thinking of another film.
I like the Super Mario RPG games, of course the only one I really played was the one that came installed on my 3DS XL, but I really like that game. At some point I should finish it or at least continue on my journey in the game.
Yes, he has to stop a drug lord in South America.
I didn't finish Dream Team. I got stuck on one of those two screen spanning mini-games.
I've kinda tried to do that boss a day thing by beating a world in Rayman Legends every day. I might just hop all around though. Seems to be fuin for me.
I've been doing weird things in games lately like not caring about the main quest and just messing around, or just doing one boss at a time. I think I'm getting out of my need to try and complete things. I just don't care about that much at the moment.
Super Mario RPG is a great game. I've been wanting that one for awhile, but the SNES cart is rather pricey and it doesn't work with clone systems.
I have no hope of getting the original cart for anything reasonable. I'm wondering if it's available on the 3DS e-shop? I kind of wanted to keep playing it all week long.
Yeah. It's expensive. To think that I used to own it way back when makes me sad. We got rid of so many great games for idiotic reasons. I don't think it's on the 3DS Eshop. I probably would have noticed if it was. 
I've lost a lot of stuff too. You just don't know what it's worth until years later.