Started PS3 gaming this week. Booting up worked fine, faster than even X360. Got youtube running on it too, also with less issues than 360. The PSN store lost its search option but you can still buy things if you add funds to your account from another device (I'm using the phone app). Also Device Sign In just popped up yesterday and had me apply another password to my account. I guess it's Sony's way of forcing two factor identification and to ensure a robust password. Kind of annoying but I got it to work. There's some good stuff in the store I want, so I'll be testing digital downloads soon. Anyway, here's what I played this week:
I see the end of my 360 games in sight and so started putting my PS3 games in order for some serious PS3 action in a couple of weeks, probably.
Most of my gaming time has been Mad Krammer and I playing the Wizardry remake, but I squeezed in a retro game and the usual Game Pass Rewards game. I also traded some old games I don't like to Game Junkies and picked up some others. Game Junkies is becoming my regular Friday morning haunt of late.
I just can’t stop. I’ve got 49 games in my all-time list to build my library from, and I go another page on Metacritic to get more. What’s up with that? It's listomania. I think I’ll stop at games with a score of 90 and then search some other lists to get older games. This current list includes games rated at 91, so I’m almost done.
I got caught up in the sales again this weekend and picked up a bunch of five dollar games and one amiibo. I also played some New Super Mario Bros U and more of Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story.
Yeah, apparently that was in February of 2015. I for some reason had it in my mind I bought my PS4 in 2014, which would have been cool matching those 4s up, but oh well.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I know you good people are at some point going to buy some Powerball tickets. Last weekend I bought a couple and there were some crazy lines at gas stations. Heck even my little hole in the wall liquor store started getting some foot traffic. I went there because my pops in Hawaii wanted to play his numbers. Anyways I’ll probably buy one ticket today, and one on Wednesday for myself and the same numbers for my pops. When not playing the impossible odds of the multistate Powerball, I knocked two games off Mt Backlog and another two I decided I no longer want to play anymore, and continued on with some other games.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a rainy Monday morning here in what is usually sunny Southern California. The first full week of the New Year and I miss the weekend already but I am happy to get back in the workweek grove. So how are you good people? This past weekend has been good because I knocked off three games off Mount Backlog, and I am a level away from knocking off a fourth. Its amazing how close I was to finishing off games but I put them down for one reason or another, but after checking out the internets to see how much more I have to finish, I realized a couple of them can be taken out with an hour or two of work. Before I get into those games lets look back at what happened in December
Hello Pixlpeeps and welcome to The Third Annual Chris Goes All Awards Show. Since the year is almost over I felt it was time to take a look back at all the games I have played this year, and review which games were my favorites, including the important Game Of The Year. Over the past year I have played a total of 81 new games (there might have been a hold over or two from the previous year) and finished 49 of them. 60% success rate isn’t bad right? Anyways from this pool I have I have picked my favorites from 2015 and I would like to share my picks for my Games of the Year.
So, I'm a bit late to the party, but lately, I've been playing Super Mario Maker pretty much non stop. Unfortunately, while it is quite good, it's also designed by crazy shut ins who haven't stepped outside since hating hansen was relevant.
I definitely saw a lot of movies in the theater in '97. I think I was going to the theater once a week on Friday's. It's always interesting to see a movie near it's release. The theater is packed and you get to hear the reaction of the crowd. It's pretty neat. Lately I've been seeing movies in mostly empty theaters late on a Sunday, and it's just not the same. Anyway the list is kinda long so I thought I'd just list my top ten.
I played about five different video games today while my friend Mark played Minecraft. It mostly confirmed the fact that I'm not much of a platform guy or a puzzle game guy. Still, there's always something of interest to me in these games that makes me want to play them. I don't often finish them though.
Pixlbit Nation how are you doing on this Tuesday morning? I decided to skip my usual Monday morning blog because there was a lot on my plate and I didn’t want to dedicate only a bit of my attention to my latest entry. I had a project that needed to be revised and it took longer than I thought, and I got to spend the afternoon at the car dealership getting the oil changed. The only positive to this was that I had free Wi-Fi so I could keep up with what was going on in the Twitter and Reddit Universe (Their big TVs were airing reruns instead of the news coverage going on in Baltimore) so the Internet was keeping me up to date. Anyways over the weekend I spent time with just a couple of games, and the majority of that time was with one tablet game.
Good morning Pixlbiticans, and how are you good folks/little green men in outer space doing this morning? For those of you wondering it is a nice 70 degrees here in Sunny California, but we are expecting some rain this week so I need to get all my running around out of my system before then (So Cal drivers have no idea to handle sprinkles and people become crazy.) Anyways how was your weekend? Did any of you good folks decide to hit Record Store Day? I decided against going the morning of because the records I wanted weren’t worth the trip, but there was one I album I forgot to mention that would have been and that was the Lego Movie Soundtrack. Yep I thought about it, but in the end I wasn’t going to open it, and having it because it was tied into Lego wasn’t a good enough reason to make the trip to the mom & pop. I might go later on this week and most likely there will be some left over RSD like last year when I bought a bunch of 45’s that were on sale. While getting my pictures ready for this blog I noticed that my iPhoto account needs to be cleaned out because there are a bunch of screen shots of various games that are just taking up space. I’ll have to do this later on this week. Anyways I really should get started because I just got another project that needs to be started.
I took a short trip to another mall where there was another Jay Street Video Games store. I didn't find what I was looking for there, so I went to the Gamestop there and they had a buy 2 get 1 free sale on last gen games. It's my favorite GS sale, so I got what's shown below.
By now you have probably opened all of your presents and are wondering what else to do with your day. Since you can’t go to the theater to watch The Interview (topical!), why not kick back with some eggnog and listen to the Nerds Without Pants have an exhaustive discussion about some of our favorite music from the seventh console generation? And yes, I realize that I blundered when I brought up BioShock Infinite. We were almost 4 hours into recording, so cut me some slack! Happy Festivus! EDIT: You can thank Angelo for pushing to get this episode out early for you Christmas Eve travelers. Enjoy!
Well hello good people of Pixlbit Nation! I hear that E3 is done, and I’ve checked out some blogs here about it. There are lots of interesting points of view, and I dig all the excitement surrounding your favorite titles. As for myself, I stuck with my usual “Let’s watch Sony” press conference and then I was good for the show. You’ll read about more of my thoughts later on, but since it is Friday, it is time for another edition of Quick Hits! For today I want to discuss my thoughts about the Sony Presser, some spoiler thoughts on tv shows Game of Thrones, Hells Kitchen, and The Challenge, as well as my usual pickups (hint I found a local spot that sells classic plastic). Sit back, enjoy and get ready for the weekend!
Quick note: For some reason a few of my pics are sideways. I don't know why. Hopefully it will fix itself in time. Kind of like the pic sizes fixing themselves. Maybe I should just stop using photobucket. 
It’s an appropriate day to be playing Sonic, this fifth day of Christmas, but instead I’m recapping my week. I chat about Mario & Lugi: Dream Team, Halo: Spartan Assault, Skylanders: Swap Force, Lego Star Wars, Despicable Me Minion Rush, environmental design, Jared Diamond’s criticism of video games, game conventions, and complain about Halo 4… again.
Since my last lil blog that I posted about current events happening in the life of me, somethings have happened, good things might I add!