I haven't been playing many games. :( Although I have decided next month, besides Mario, I'm going to buy Senua's Sacrifice. I think that game is RELATIVELY short, so maybe I can get through it. It really piques my interest, so.... Mostly I've been obsessed with my projects again after a month long or so rut when I did nothing, but now I'm working hard. Since I don't have much to talk about when it comes to games, I thought I would summarize the projects I'm working on below, and let you know what they're all about!
So I figured you good people needed a break from my ramblings about whatever freemium game I was playing on my phone, or how my basketball team was doing in NBA 2K16 (I refuse to buy 17 because my team is so much fun to use and I don't want to start over) but I have a somewhat decent excuse as to why I was absent for the week: I was in Hawaii! I went back for a little over a week (like one day over a week) because we were house sitting/watching over my younger cousins and their little dog while their pops was donating bone marrow. I got to spend some time with my pops, my sister, and while my sister was at her club volleyball practice, my pops, his girl, and I watched WWE's Money in the Bank Pay Per View in the parking lot, on my phone (I do love technology) but more on the randomness of my trip later. Monday is reserved for What I Played, and let's get started.
Recently I reviewed The Disney Afternoon Collection. It’s a compilation of Capcom’s NES titles that were based on shows on The Disney Afternoon, a block of Disney cartoons that aired back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I really loved watching The Disney Afternoon as a kid, and I also enjoyed the NES games a lot, too. In fact, many of the games on this collection are more memorable to me than titles like Mario! They could’ve called this the Cary’s Childhood Collection! So I thought I’d go into more detail and share my memories of each of the NES games on this collection, and the cartoons they’re based on.
So this is the usual morning routine: I wake up an hour before my alarm goes off. I have that extra hour in case I wake up late, which has happened, and I am not rushing to get things done so I can get going with my day. During this hour of just laying in bed, I have the local news playing, and I am on the iPad reading Twitter, checking Facebook, and maybe looking through Slickdeals. Over the past 24 hours I have had to use the “Hide All” feature on a couple of friends and this is why. Over the past year or so I have called people “Political Bandwagoners” because all of a sudden they have become so into politics this is all (most) that they post. Just like sports bandwagon guy, political bandwagon guy is just as annoying, and is only around for the ride until something else comes along.
So in my attempt to get back on track for this month, yesterday I went back to listening to my 50 tracks a day on iTunes to the point where if I did the math correctly, to make up for my week of not listening to any new stuff, and to hit my goal of 1,500 tracks that I listened to for the month, all I would have to do is listen to 60 new tracks a day. Not bad. Also I am back to moving my DVDs to digital and I am back to blogging on Monday and Friday. Wooooo! Anyways let's get started!
I've been listening to a lot of tunes lately, and thought you guys might enjoy some of them.
Started Pre-Sequel today. My first impression (on this second playthrough) is that it is way less aggro than Borderlands 2. Enemies say less ultra violent things. There's even an option in the settings to tone down the gore. I don't think that was in B2. The game is a little bit less chatty overall. However, it still makes me chuckle frequently. I can't help thinking about the difference in developers in this regard. 2K Australian toning down the violence from the Gearbox, based in Texas, USA, developed B1 and B2. My friend Mark perfers B1 and B2 over Pre-Sequel, but I like it just fine.
Pi Day! Boston Market has a pretty good deal. So do pizza places. Actual dessert pies I'm sure do as well.
So...yes. I've already missed out on the past 4 days to write another post. I'm not proud of it. So I'll cover what's happened since then.
Pretty much played Doom all day but I stopped a few times to look at what was going on in the community section of Xbox Live. Then I played some more Darkest Dungeon.
I put off gaming for a week and just spent my free time reading and watching tv for a change. I live in Southern California and we're in the middle of Summer and heat waves make it miserable to play games indoors, especially PC games, since I don't have AC, preferably, and I spend more time outdoors anyway during the summer anyway.
Xenoblade Chronicles X
I've put about 50 hours into the game and forced myself to take a break. I can't remember the last time a game kept me immersed and unable to quit since maybe Witcher 3. I would not compare the two in any way aside from the time sink they both require. I don't even think some of the bad reviews for X were wrong. It is definitely built around old school level grinding, but it is oh so perty though. I feel like I've barely scratched the surface and I still need to understand the depth of combat and weapons options. I also want to play more of it, but a good break never hurt any game. I think taking a hiatus from a good game makes it feel fresh and new again when you pick it up again.
Well, uh, this was supposed to be a weekly blog huh. Guess that didn’t happen. And I guess I’m not going to promise regularity from now on either. Anyway, I have new games for you to try!
Happy Friday Pixlpeeps! I hope the week treated you well and you are ready to enjoy the weekend. I can’t complain, other than the crazy day where the weather hit 124 degrees, it hasn’t been bad. The AC units got a checkup and everything is good, and I even managed to sneak in a day at the gym (it was a surprising 88 degrees when I walked to the neighborhood gym). I don’t think I’ll have that same luxury later on today but the quick drive over shouldn’t be a problem. Let’s get this edition of Quick Hits started!
Hi everybody! Blake here with a quick update, as he is wont to do. I'm trying to blog more often, hopefully it sticks this time. So what have I been up to?
A brief rundown of games I've recently bought or played after finally upgrading to Windows 7.
I started watching Occupied not so much for the series itself, but to practice my very rusty Norwegian. By the middle of the first episode, I was hooked. Occupied is set in a near future where the new prime minister, a member of the Green Party, has started building a Thorium reactor for green energy and has halted all fossil fuel production. This is a big deal, Norway is one of the top non-Arab oil producing countries in the world, if you didn't know that already. The EU, faced with the cutting off of their closest source of fossil fuels, decides to step in and force the Norwegians to turn the oil and gas production back on. They do this by allowing the Russians to persuade, by use of the threat of full-scale military occupation, the Norwegians. They take over all the oil platforms in the North Sea, and maintain a large presence in Oslo to make sure the oil keeps flowing. They claim they're there to “help” the Norwegians and supposedly, they'll all go home again once gas and oil production levels reach and are maintained at the earlier rates.
2015 was an interesting year for gaming, the year the 8th console generation started to push out the 7th gen, where almost every game was coming onto one of the newer consoles and last gen ports becoming fewer and farther between. Yet when looking at the games everyone else was voting for each year, we noticed something. The real best games released received very few, if any, awards from other outlets. So we at Pixlbit decided to give the actual best games to come out this year their own commendation! So if you missed any of these this year, be sure to check them out and see what you missed out on!
It's official. I am addicted to Facebook. Specifically, reading and posting about politics. Which ... is the worst way to be addicted to Facebook. Also the least satisfying. And most contentious.
Think about it as the last year for a hundred years you will have a date like this: 12-12-12. I'll do this like the previous year: I'll list a favorite one I experienced in that year, and one I missed and most want to experience now
I knew very little about Hogan’s Alley back in its heyday. Judging by the mean-looking gangster fully armed with a gun and grimace on the front cover, I figured that the game must have been some 3D action title featuring all sorts of wanton violence that my impressionable mind just couldn’t handle. However, as the years passed I eventually learned the facts of this game’s less menacing purpose.
