If you saw the new trailer for Super Mario Odyssey yesterday, then you heard the brand-new theme song, which is simply delightful. The video below is the song in full, so please listen and let your day get much better!
So another Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 for short), one of the biggest video game trade shows, has come to a close. And yet again, I didn’t get to go this year. But that won’t stop me from writing about it! So here’s my takeaway points from this year’s E3.
I saw lots of interesting stuff. I really love the art style of games like Shadow of the Colossus and Monster Hunter. It’s different than anything I saw in the Microsoft presentation and that’s what I’m looking for on my PS4, unique games, especially in a more eastern art style.
I just watched Microsoft's E3 Press Conference. There are a lot of interesting games coming out soon. One I really liked was Metro Exodus, such cool graphics and such amazing detail in the world and in the actions of your character. His gun jams, he pulls the crossbow bolt he just shot out of the monster his killed and reloads it in his crossbow. The creature animations are frighteningly realistic. I’m excited to check that one out.
Like everyone else here I've been watching all the goodies going on during E3, and for the most part it is underwhelming. I am expecting more from the biggest trade show for video games but instead I'm seeing a lot of the same games we've seen on older consoles back, and for all that is good why more Skyrim? I mean its slowly becoming Street Fighter II, with all the little upgrades, and hey its now on The Switch, and you can play it in VR. Ooohhh. I am excited over the new God of War game. I also liked the New Forza game, and of course Battlefront II. After that I was done with all the presentations. The new Marvel vs. Capcom game looked like a lot of fun but I own a couple of the previous games and I haven't been sucked into them. This game is a wait and see for me. I thought the name X-Box One X is dumb, the majority of X-Box offerings were destined for the bargain bin this time next season, some of the PS4 titles were iffy, and I fell asleep during the PC presentation. Other than the three games I liked, and the one I'm on the fence about, nothing of interest grabbed my attention.
My hype for E3 is OVER 9000!!!
So since E3 started on Saturday we have had our first 3 big conferences done. They werent terrible but they definitly werent like mind blowing awesome either. For me, EA was the weakest. I know a lot of people would probably say Bethesda was but they had more stuff I was actually interested in. EA had 1 game I have interest in. 1 game. Microsoft actually did improve this year and Im gonna get another Xbox on down the line since they are getting a few games I want.
I finished RiME, at least the story today. Total time to end credits was 5 ½ hours. I really only had one moment that made me think twice about continuing. I had to run from this giant bird and couldn’t get to a safe area in time. I must’ve replayed it a dozen times before my character kicked into overdrive and actually ran hard. You mostly trot around when you move with the analog stick and as long as you don’t stop you start to run a little faster. I couldn’t get that to kick in for me in this one specific spot and it nearly stopped me from continuing. I somehow got it, though. The rest of the game presented me with no serious problems. The puzzles weren’t that hard.
Went to the Spartan Race at AT&T Stadium yesterday. Here are my results:
I just got a handful of hours in today as I was out most of the day shooting photos with Mark. I played a bit of Minecraft as RiME installed, but it is only a 4GB game, so it installed quickly. Then I played it the rest of the time.
I don't know Pixlpeeps, typing out Friday's Quick Hits on Saturday morning while in bed might be the new thing. It's comfy, the laptop isn't crazy heavy (nowhere near as light as my old Macbook Pro) and I like the view of my laptop screen and my ceiling. Speaking of ceiling, I need to do something with it like either paint a mural or well just paint a mural. Anything else could be considered weird and/or creepy. Let's get started with Quick Hits!
Over the week I completed my Ender Dragon Quest in Minecraft. Then I kept playing, sometimes on my own, sometimes with Mark, until I got really tired of it. Now I have my rental game, RiME, and will start that sometime this weekend.
Insanely great gaming animation: https://www.facebook.com/OtakuKartNetwork/videos/754676921359379/
These are the Skylanders SWAP Force Earth element figures I own minus some variants. These are all the ones shown on the poster that comes with the game.
The other day I decided I’d role-play Minecraft: XBO Edition. I decided I’d act as Conan and try to do as he would. I tried to find a skin to download but there wasn’t one for that character.
So I had this weekend project where I rediscovered my Playstation 2 library and decided to play a couple of the games. After some tweaking the games look good and I am enjoying playing some old favorites, and some games I didn't even play. The PS2 has become a new console to me again and this is what I will probably be playing for a bit.
I was browsing in EB when I came across this for 18 dollars. I sold mine a couple of years ago for $150. It's not in the same shape that mine was in but for 18 bucks I wasn't going to leave it there.
That’s the stage I was at in Minecraft: XBO Edition earlier today. In my never ending attempt to make this game more focused, I’ve created stages of progress and named them. First I was a Caver, then a Villager, Miner and now Nethernaught. Later I will become a Scholar and then an Ender, at last. Let me break these stages down for you:
I'm curious what people think of it (Revelations1)since it's the only RE game that I just played once, but mostly because I hated playing on 3DS little screen. I'm playing on WiiU and just curious if anyone bought any of the ports and what you think of it overall? I really loved Revelations 2.
Simple question. When playing 2D games (platformers, top down jrpgs, shmups) do you prefer digital input or analogue? Poll is here: https://twitter.com/whatsacow1/status/871245972466130944
All of those things were involved in the BFD concert I went to Sunday, May 28, 2017 at the Starplex Pavillion in Dallas, TX, put on by Live Nation and 97.1 The Eagle.
It is Saturday and yes I may have skipped over the usual Quick Hits day, but I have a good reason: actually I don't, I was caught up in more hard drive spring cleaning. I think its fun to go through old files, and toss everything I no longer want into a folder that will be deleted at the end of the day. Since I did that and maybe watched an episode or two of House of Cards (by the way HOUSE OF CARDS IS BACK!) I did not do my usual Friday blog. Well it is Saturday and I am being super lazy and I am currently typing this edition of Quick Hits while still in bed