Well folks I was going to do both of these anyways as part of a series of Hudson series of unique titles you may not have played. And while I wanted to do it in alphabetical order, I didn't want to seperate between these two games due to alphabetical order. And because they are both fairly similar I didn't want to do two very similar, but seperate reviews. So today on Bargain Bin Buys I present a special 2 for 1 review! This week we have Kororinpa: Marble Mania & Marble Saga: Kororinpa. Both of which cost me only $10 each!
This week for a bargain bin game is a little something different. To talk about this game is to talk extensively about it's deeply engaging gameplay...not in a traditional sense. No this is more about the dream of creating a game. Giving you the tools to create a Shoot em up style game is probably a dream most of us have wanted to do. Well with this weeks game you certainly could do so. This week I present to you- Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy. A game I bought for $4.00
This is something i've wanted to post for a while and perhaps have entries once in a while. Ever since setting a Backloggery account on December 2015, i've been focusing a lot in beating games and honestly, I think i've beaten more games in the past few months than I had ever done last year and even past years for that matter. My best hope is to have atleast 20 or more games finished by the end of this year. I was going to dump every game in one single blog, but because it's gotten pretty lengthy, I decided to do two-partner. With that said, let's get to the games by the order i've beaten them:
Years ago I had picked up this awesome little game called Wolfenstein: The New Order. I loved it so much I played through it three times back to back to back. In fact, it was the first game I ever got a platinum trophy in... That is all well and good, but that is not what I came here to say. Tucked inside the case was a code for the DOOM beta, I redeemed the code for kicks and thought nothing more of it.
Of course, my last blog was pretty terrible. I know I promised some great stuff in there, but this one is going to blow your socks off.
It's hard to believe it has been so long, but I haven't blogged since May of last year! Not that I didn't like this site or that I stopped playing video games, I just have felt really critical of my writing skills and have had no urge to write whatsoever. Perhaps partly because I am playing more games right now than I have in years (but mostly because I can't sleep at the moment), I finally have a new blog!
May was my best month so far this year for getting things done, though one of these was in the works for quite a while.
Destiny is all the rage these days. I know we have a number of folks here on Pixlbit who are playing it. My wife was particularly intrigued and so we picked it up from Redbox tonight to see what it was like. And it seems like a really cool game. Very pretty, even on old hardware (PS3 in this case), and the feel of the gameplay is really good. But for our situation there is one glaring flaw: NO LOCAL MULTIPLAYER. Perhaps this wrinkle was common knowledge but neither of us had heard about it and surely the folks at Bungie threw in all the options. After all, their Halo games support local, LAN, and online multiplayer. Why should Destiny be different?
This won't be a review, as I don't feel very compelled to do a full write-up on this almost offensively short single-player. But something started bugging me as I neared the end yesterday afternoon:
I wasn't interested in Killzone until recently. I purchased Killzone Shadow Fall when I picked up my PS4 and my intrigue grew. The setting is a fairly standard good vs evil thing, but it's interesting enough for me to pick up earlier Killzone games to see what else the universe offers.
Go grab it guys, before Sony fixes it up:
A bit of warning: I have Far Cry 3. It's one of the games that's on my backlog list. One of the many, many games. I'll get to it eventually. I promise. Really, I will. Don't harass me anymore!
If you plan to venture through the lands of Dark Souls II, you’d best be prepared with the reflexes of a tiger and the survival skills of a Cub Scout troop leader. The adventure won’t be easy, but it can be made bearable with a few tips and tricks from the grandmaster himself (which is me, if you didn’t know). Throughout this gratuitously grandiose guide, I’ll be giving a few tips based on the environment and exploration, combat, items and item management, and online portions of the game, so grab a nice blanket and get comfortable, because this is going to be one hell of a ride!
I'm not one for blogging, but since I'm sitting here at the computer with writer's block, I figured I would go ahead and spew out some random things to power through it. This is going to be some quick hits type content here, yo, so hold on.
Back in August, I made a bunch of random Metacritic score predictions for upcoming games. Now that most of them are out, I say it's high time to check back and see how I did.
Having largely been left off of the (very small) Armored Core bandwagon, I was surprised that with a little effort I got sucked completely in to the series’ complicated underpinnings when I reviewed Armored Core V over a year ago. From Software has expanded on its last entry and brought us Armored Core: Verdict Day, which corrects a few issues while adding an entirely new complicated system you can dig into. The problem is, this new system has definitely pushed past the series’ tenuous status as accessible by humans using a controller and there’s not enough other new stuff to differentiate it from its predecessor.
So word is GTA 5 will have in game cash transaction meaning you will be able to pay real cash for ingame cash for the online game, so is this a bad thing in my opinion yes this means people will be able to buy up realastate and cars stock etc with out actually earning it. The game and its economy have been designed and balanced for the vast majority of players who will not buy extra cash. There is no in-game paywall and nothing that should disrupt the balance of the game. You don't have to spend real money to attain the cars, guns, clothes, flash and style of a high-roller in Los Santos, but can if you wish to get them a little quicker. The economy is balanced differently from the single-player economy, and cash earned in one cannot be taken over to the other. Most players will earn cash much faster online than in story mode.
