When I started up Night in the Woods last night it kinda hit a sad/senstive spot for me. The main characters granddad had passed away. My grandpa died on Valentines day 8 years ago. It definitely hit a note for me, which isnt bad by any means but I just couldnt believe on the anniversary of his death I played a game that would hit a little hard in the feelings department. Ive long since accepted he is gone but I cant help but think of him on Valentines day.
On this day, I played three different games on Xbox One and PS4. They were: Minecraft [XBO], Gears of War 4 [XBO] and Pinball FX3 [PS4]. They were all very enjoyable. Details are given below.
So I mentioned yesterday that I would be discussing some Switch stuff, but I felt I left off my Wii U games I bought over the year as well. Of course it's not very astonishing stuff. Only about A couple games which are as follows: Darksiders: Warmastered Edition- This was like $10 or something when I bought it and it's probably the weakest performing Darksiders game to date. The game has severe slowdown despite touting 60fps, there are various points where my game froze or crashed, and yet somehow I still found myself enjoying the game just as much as I did when I had it for my PS3 before selling it. I got Paper Mario: Color Splash- Agame as awesome looking as this severely underwhelmed me. I wasn't against the card mechanic. In fact, I gave it it's fair shake. More often than not I found myself with more cards than I wanted, making me ditch a bunch to get ones that I did. The story was decent, I had a good chuckle. The overall game like I said looks amazing. There were also some moments that had me consult a guide to try and figure out certain things. Overall, it's a far cry from the fantastic first game. I also got the SteamWorld Collection which consists of both SteamWorld Dig & SteamWorld Heist...two fantastic games that I really enjoyed. SteamWorld Dig is like a DigDug/Spelunky style games as you dig further and further down to reach the end. SteamWorld Heist is a turn based RPG that's a bit unusual to explain. It's a turne based, movement based, strategy shooter rpg...if you can make sense of it...It's a darn good game! I also got Runner 2 and 3 free Wii U download titles in Cube Shift, Humanitarian Helicopter, and Daikon Set. They were free so I figured "eh why not?" None of them are remotely deep and Humanitarian Helicopter doesn't even work...oh well.
So here we are, Thursday and well last night I thought about getting a Switch, but at the end of the night I didn’t. I am probably going to wait to see if there will be some kind of sale for President’s Day, but today’s Versus is will I go with Physical games or make the jump to digital only. Now the PS3/PS4/360/3DS XL/PSP/Vita I have dabbled with digital games and for the most part they work fine but if I do go with a Switch I’m leaning digital full time, so here we go with today’s Versus.
2004 was a rough year for me. This was my freshman year of high school and the promise of change was quickly and repeatedly met with disappointment. I still count it as one of the worse years for me, personally, along with 2013 and 2016.
Sorry I've been among the missing. I've been recovering from one of the worst cases of the flu I've ever experienced and the pneumonia that followed it. Good times!
So my Versus topic today was blog or no blog. Now here me out, I was going to be lazy and maybe skip a day of BaD and make up for it on the weekend or maybe double up on blog or get around to writing right before midnight. Well it’s 10:43pm here in Southern California, it smells like rain outside and I decided to write this blog. Why? Because I like taking part in this community event, even if it’s just a little entry.
Today was a pretty normal Wednesday. I actually got to sleep in since I didnt get woke up till close to 10am. I only had to watch mt niece for 2 hours and she was good, a small handful since she was tired. I didnt get to game which is normal on Wednesday and Thursday since I really dont have the time during the day. I do have my Switch and 3DS with me at work and Im gonna try to get some games played and maybe finished. Im still only sitting at 1 game finished for my 4 in Feb.
I jumped around quite a bit today with games and consoles. Here's the breakdown.
As you all know I'm a Wii game collector of sorts. One need only see last years BaD series to know that I'm a bit of nutjob. As such my Wii game collection has in fact grown since then. How much so you may ask? Well I bought a lot of shovelware that's how! What are the categories Johnny!?
Jazz Jackrabbit headed to GBA this year, but I still remember playing it on PC at the neighbors'.
So its no secret Im a huge Dynasty Warriors fan. Heck I love the whole Warrior type series whether its Samurai, Dynasty, Hyrule, etc. Ive been particularly excited for 9 because of the big change they implemented and thats pretty much each chapter battlefield is like one big open world that you can essentially tackle anything missions wise in any order. The formula isnt perfect by no means but for a big change its pretty well done. The game has lagged some but I can honestly say it hasnt been no where near as much or bad to ruin the experiance. Im only on the second chapter for Wu's storyline but I am enjoying it immensely. A great V day present for sure. The only thing Im sad over so far, is its no longer has multiplayer. DW 9 is stricly single player and while I get why I have always enjoyed playing these games with someone else. I was hoping to play it with my sister again like old times since we both now have PS4's. Hopefully multiplayer is brought back on down the line.
In which I am warped into an air traffic control tower and questioned by Steve McCroskey.
So, I've recently been ebaying and going through Amazon to pick up Gamecube games. Now I already have a pretty decent collection. I've got Super Mario Sunshine, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Chibi Robo, Sonic Mega Collection, and Super Smash Bros. Melee etc.. Now I did of course sell some my gamecube and some other games way back when. Gone are my DK Bongos and Donkey Konga and Jungle Beat games. And I also sold my Metroid Prime 1 & 2 games as I picked up the trilogy on Wii.
Well today is Fat Tuesday which means, this Friday I need to start remembering that I can’t eat meat. Hello McDonald’s Fillet O’Fish and other meals that are similar OR I can just fast until Midnight and then hit the local In-N-Out at 12:01. Either sound fine with me. Anyways since this is day 2 of Versus week I want to cover a genre of gaming that just recently ended for a franchise I kind of liked, and that is the Toys To Life craze. Remember a couple of years ago when Skylanders started this, everyone went crazy and soon clones appeared? Yep I think Skylanders is still going strong while the other two big names are now out.
Way back in 2013 I made a wild prediction that the Playstation Vita would be killed off sooner rather than later. And I was right.....kind of. I don't know, what happened with the Vita could have been seen as me being wrong, but it was in a unique spot. It kept getting ports, mostly of indie games, but Sony couldn't care less about making games for the handheld. Most publishers ignored it as well and no games were really pushing the hardware after Killzone released. That was a weird handheld.
Over the weekend I relaxed and play Monster Hunter World. So far I got to Rank 8. I feel like ranking up happens quite easily in this one since I feel like I went up 3 ranks after doing 1 or 2 quest a piece. I figure it will slow down once High Rank gets reached. Im also wondering how G Rank will happen? DLC or a second release later on. There is a ton of armor I want, too much to make eith so little space to keep!
On this my 8th blog I am going to conclude my trip down memory lane with the final flashback. This of course being the Genesis Flashback. And boy oh boy...have I heard some things. While I myself have a perfectly fine working emulator on my Xbox, ATGames pulled a whoopsie on the Genesis Flashback. Many reviews sight glaring emulation isssues with horrible sound inputs, graphic and input delay, as well as an uninspiring user interface.
Happy Monday Pixlpeeps! For this week’s theme for BaD I thought I would try something different. I am going with the theme of Versus. For me Versus is not going to be a fight but more of a compare and contrast. It’s nothing fancy, a couple of pictures, some information and maybe some opinions. I’m currently going with the subject of Lego but I might change it at some point if inspiration hits (usually in the shower) but today we are starting off with the Lego set 4504 from 2004 Versus Lego set 75105 from 2015, the Battle of the Lego Millennium Falcons.