Well, its been a hour or so since I watched the Microsoft conference at E3. I have to say the Gamespot preshow is a bit narcissistic but hey, they aren't the reason I tuned in. Anyway, let me get to the meat of this post.
So, while Yakuza 0 quickly became one of my favorite games of all time when I rented and eventually bought it last year, the remake of the original Yakuza game, subtitled Kiwami (meaning "extreme" in Japan) really brings attention to and intensifies some of the issues I had with the former game.
Let's get the self promotion uot of the way. I'ma be on the Nerds Without Pants episode coming up, and I had a blast. Great crew, great chemistry as you know, looking forward to hearing the finished product. Maybe the longest ep they've done but oh well xD.
When Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was unveiled at E3 in 2015, I had certain expectations. As the next game from developer Ninja Theory, I naturally assumed that it would be a stylish character action game replete with skill trees, flashy combos, Quick Time Events, and mind-boggling performance capture work. What Senua’s Sacrifice actually is took me completely by surprise and, while it is nowhere near the game I was expecting, it is something truly special.
It is Saturday and yes I may have skipped over the usual Quick Hits day, but I have a good reason: actually I don't, I was caught up in more hard drive spring cleaning. I think its fun to go through old files, and toss everything I no longer want into a folder that will be deleted at the end of the day. Since I did that and maybe watched an episode or two of House of Cards (by the way HOUSE OF CARDS IS BACK!) I did not do my usual Friday blog. Well it is Saturday and I am being super lazy and I am currently typing this edition of Quick Hits while still in bed
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Happy Friday Pixlpeeps! Once again it is really windy here in my little piece of Southern California but what can you do. As soon as I finished our little conversation (where I talk and you listen) its right back to adding records to my iTunes library. I’ve been on somewhat of a hot streak this past week adding music to the library, and at the same time discovering new stuff. For the past couple of nights I’ve been going through sections of my collection and rediscovering what I have purchased from thrift stores. I found a couple of sealed singles and albums that will probably not be opened and I found a couple of albums that I didn’t know I had on vinyl.
Well at some point I really need to start looking through my media drive on my laptop because I am running out of space. Currently I have 299 GB left from a 2TB drive all thanks to Steam and iTunes. At one point I thought about having all my video living in iTunes but it looks like I will get an external for those items, and possibly another external for the .wav files of my records along with my future lossless library. I do need to start looking through the Steam library and see what games I can live without having currently installed. I’m leaning towards removing the freebie Origin games, games I finished, and the games from bundles I have purchased that I really had no interest in but they came with the bundle I liked. I am also looking at removing some of the PC games that I found and installed recently. It looks like it’s going to be digital Spring Cleaning and I need to start being more selective on what bundle games I should install
Good morning Pixlpeeps! What the hell why is so hot here in sunny Southern California? Last week it was what 70, breezy with random spots of rain, and now we’re looking at 101 today. One Hundred and One degrees! I really need to get some errands done in the morning because it’s getting warm and I really don’t want to deal with that until June. Blah! Anyways this past week I finally got around to checking out the latest Captain America Civil War flick and before I talk about my thoughts I really should check out Winter Soldier. Anyways to prevent spoilers the usual black bars will be over my thoughts because it will contain spoilers, just highlight if you want to read
Say hello to another batch of Skylanders. I couldn't resist hitting one of the last Gamestops in my area I haven't been to yet this week. I think I have about 15 Gamestops in about a 15 mile radius of where I live. This one would be number 14, I have one left.
Everything Old Is New Again?
I started the year playing a number of older games, and with the release of RE0 soon and all the other remakes this year, it seems like the remake trend is becoming more normalized? I don’t have that much of an issue with this, because older games look terrible blown out on my HD TV, and so any little help to clean up good old games is appreciated.