Finally, I am Switch exclusive right now. I already have youtube running for meal times, and I'm exploring the story and news apps thoroughly. I'm also just as impatient with every game I'm playing, taking breaks and jumping around like a manic flea from game to game. Well, maybe I've found a game I will stick to for a while in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. Details below.
This was on my short game list, and it was on sale for $3, so I bought and played it. . . three times. I enjoyed it, especially going for achievements, which is why I played it three times.
Well good morning Pixlpeeps! Before I grab some breakfast let’s go over what I did and didn’t play this past week. I got a new toy this weekend so I didn’t spend a lot of time gaming but more on that on Friday, but for now let’s get started.
In the early 80s, a little company called Electronic Arts was born. Back then, they were a genuinely good publisher/developer that came up with a lot of innovative new games, before they became the bland corporate machine we've known them as for the past 20 years. One of the first few games ever released by EA was a little gem called Archon.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! This time last week I was in an airplane heading towards San Francisco to start on a mini adventure with my brother. This past week was a fun road trip where I flew up to the bay, filled a moving truck, slept for maybe 6 hours and then drove down from San Francisco to Las Vegas to help my brother move into his new house. It was a little over 600 miles but it was fun, and I’ll tell you more about it in a bit but first since this is a combo blog let’s start with gaming.
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been over five years since I helped PixlBit ring in Final Fantasy’s 25th anniversary with an exhaustive retrospective series, but here we are. Even though I missed the actual 30th anniversary of my favorite game franchise, I couldn’t let that milestone pass without doing something to show my love for this epic saga. To that end, I submit to you, our dear readers, my ordered ranking of the fifteen main games in the series. Naturally, this excludes spinoffs like Final Fantasy Tactics and direct sequels like Lightning Returns, and this is very much my list and in no way is PixlBit’s definitive order. But hey, everyone loves a good list, right? Each game features a quick paragraph reprising some of the information from the FF Retrospective, and a more personal take on each entry. I hope you enjoy!
I started PUB G recently courtesy of my new roommate Mike. Goddamn, really? 2 Mikes?
I can't remember if I mentioned it but for the past couple of weeks I've been waking up a half hour early to watch Dog the Bounty Hunter. I usually wake up 45 minutes before my alarm goes off, but now I've become use to waking up just a bit earlier so I can watch a show from the early to mid 2000s. Now I could just record the episodes but there's no fun in that, plus I like to open the windows and get that cool air flowing and watch as the sun comes up, right when Dog usually tries to help the guy they were talking trash about in the beginning of the episode. Also I like to watch because every so often I recognize the area they are in. Its fun to say “I know that spot” especially if that area has changed.
Who isn't though? I have this conundrum a lot. I don't like reading self promotion blogs, and I hate writing them even more. I'd rather tell you about all the awesome things other people have made.
So I am at the point in Lego City Undercover where I'm debating on whether I should just go ahead and finish the game to 100% or move on to something else. See I am cleaning up little things in the game, collecting random items in story mode, and looking for the remaining five or six minifigures in the city. I could finish this if I want to put in the extra couple of hours but is it worth it? On one hand yeah because I like finishing the Lego games, but on the other side I am kind of over playing Lego City Undercover. I don't know which path I will take so we shall see next week.
So this is week two for Coachella and I refuse to leave my house because the Coachella kids suck at driving. Let's recap last week: the family went back to Hawaii and I decided to go out because to run some errands and do my usual of check out what's going on a Walmart (you did this to me Target when you decided to close your doors at my favorite store) and I ran into these folks. We had rich guy in Porsche (I'm in the Porshaaa camp, because I've always said it this way and one of my former professors who restores them also said this was the correct way to say it) who was going super slow in the fast lane, while on the phone, another guy who decided that the intersection was the perfect time to change lanes, and my personal favorite guy who doesn't understand the concept of a four way stop honks at you because you took your turn and didn't let him skip. Granted I live in a small town and a lot of the Coachella kids probably look down on it because they're from LA, SD, or any other big city but common sense on the roads people! It's not that hard. Anyways let's get started.
It's the penultimate week of bad. Only 8 more days of February! Insane it's gone so fast. Anyways here's today's games!
Good morning Pixlpeeps! In about two minutes or so I have to flip over a record I’m copying to my computer so I will have to stop for a couple of minutes. Well that was fun, anyways I did some sorting over the weekend and I have five square slots in a shelving unit reserved for lp’s and out of the five I have either copied over, sealed copies, or already have the album on CD. I also have maybe two stacks of 20/30 ish on the floor that have yet to be copied. I’m excited because almost all of my vinyl will now be digitized. The one part I am not looking forward to is the shoebox full of 45s. Anyways the record talk is reserved for Friday’s blog entries and today is all about video games.
You’re a kid, and now a squid. I can’t get that out of my head, but this simple phrase is one piece of the whole pie that makes Splatoon so great. Nintendo’s internal EAD team has tackled third person shooter elements in their other series like Zelda and Kid Icarus, but doing a full third person shooter with a multiplayer focus is a different beast entirely. This new IP from Miyamoto’s magic toy box is not only one of the most original shooters out on the market today, with its creative visual style and deceptively simple gameplay, but it's also one of the best multiplayer titles on Wii U right now.
Happy Friday Pixlpeeps! It is the day before Halloween and I have decided to not carve a pumpkin this year. I like creating a design and then carving it but the clean up and having to gut the dang thing really sucks. So are you folks dressing up for Halloween? I’m going to do my usual of wearing a jersey and calling it a day, besides I hand out candy, make sure random little kids don’t walk into the house (this happened one year, when a kid knocked and then walked past me turned around and waited for candy. He had to have been maybe 3 and his parents got a kick out of it). Speaking of candy I really should go buy candy. That’s another thing I should have done while at Target a couple of days ago. Anyways lets’ get started with another Quick Hits with Chris!
I cannot believe the summer is almost over and autumn is almost upon us already! I have been MIA for a few months now again (seems to be a habit of mine) and I just had the sudden urge to post somewhat of an update to say “Hey world I am still kind of here”. I really have not had the time to honestly blog or I have been preoccupied with other things I am trying to finish up and push through or watch.
Turns out I remembered wrong in my 1991 blog. I was still in New York in 1992, but that summer, I returned to live in Pennsylvania. I had a few credits remaining to finish the college I had left early in '90, and took them at a school in my hometown. I took pottery in the first semester and was told I should stick with it. I still remember the homage I did to Dante's Divine Comedy: a maw swallowing many small human figures. I still have one piece I did, a rendition of the American Indian style meeting house (I forget the exact name for it) we had at the summer camp I went to in my teens.