Wow what a weekend...what an incredible game yesterday. I thought the Patriots were done....buried. Down 28 to 3 in the 3rd to come back and win 34 to 28...astounding. Whether you hate em or love em...there's no denying that 4th quarter was incredible. But I could go on and on... I have games to show!
Well, not really, just not sure how I want to grade some of these short answer questions. Going back and forth on a system allowing for half points or one where they either got it right or wrong altogether. I'm not taking points off for minor spelling errors, just correcting their mistakes.
You will have to pry my physical media from my cold, dead hands. My cold, dead hands, goddamn you! Of course, that’s not to say that having a huge collection of books, comics, movies, games, and music isn’t incredibly frustrating to manage sometimes, because it is. It totally is, especially when you move.
Anybody who grew up in the early '90s surely remembers Darkwing Duck, one of the great Disney Afternoon shows. Last year I found out there had been a Darkwing Duck revival in 2010 as a comic book and it was apparently very good, though it ran only about two years before its publisher lost the Disney license. A different publisher, Joe Books, finally picked up the license for Darkwing and the first thing they did was put out a giant, 400-page collection of the previous comic series. I finally picked it up after Christmas and have really been enjoying it. I'm in the second story arc at the moment. The art is great—looks like a very detailed version of the show—and the writing is spot on. I really love Darkwing's penchant for alliteration lol. If you have fond memories of DW or love colorful, cartoony comics, Darkwing Duck is a good one to check out. Joe Books has been making new Darkwing comics since getting the license, of course, and with the same creative team as before. The first volume of that just came out last month, which I'll probably grab that at some point as well.
That's right, friends. I failed to post on either Saturday or Sunday. I think my focus on those days were devoted to work (the last pee-wee basketball game on Saturday, as well as regular cleaning duties at the middle school) and other activities on Sunday (sleep, church, gaming, rest, some of Super Bowl, more sleep). I got distracted and then I got lazy. But, that rough weekend is over and I feel revitalized so my blogging continues:
I've been feeling a little creative in the past month, more than usually considering my job leaves my hands slightly sore sometimes. Plus, I've been getting this idea that I would like to buy a decent web camera for streaming while I do sketches. Not sure if I ready to let people see my ugly mug but its been a thought for a while. I've tried doing digital art streams every once in a while but sometimes it just feels like I don't have enough time for any of it.
It’s after midnight, but I haven’t gone to bed yet. That means this BaD entry counts for today, right? RIGHT?
I finally made it out of the Steyliff Grove dungeon in FFXV. I did not realize when I went into it that it was 100 floors long and filled with Tonberrys.
I've been watching BaD since it began on 1UP years ago. That said, I've never managed to complete a blog a day, even with it being in February and even with weekends exempted. My blogging has always been sporadic, but nevertheless, due to the increase in new blog it brings, I look forward to BaD and try to contribute at least one thing to it.
So I originally was gonna blog about the Yoshi 3DS port and Dragon Quest 7 but....I'm feeling sick. Ive been feeling kind of icky for a few days so Im hoping its something simple and easy to get over. Regardless Ill try to write up a better blog tomorrow.
It's late on a Friday night so this entry will possibly be a shorter one but I wanted to touch base with podcasts: the ones I listen to on a regular basis and those few occassions in which I get to participate on one.
Hey it's time for round 2! Let's get started with my next batch of games!
BaD 3
Date 02.03.2017
More on Fire Emblem Heroes (iOS)
Now that I've had some time to play some of FE: Heroes, actually-- I think the game is pretty good. It's similar in presentation and execution to earlier games in the series, the classic 2D games. I didn't partiularly care about the artwork from previews but now that I've seen it in action, I don't have a problem with it anymore. The character portraits are quite nice and detailed. The combat animations have backgrounds scenery that match the environments of the map and the music is fantastic. So far I've only completed 2 chapters and unlocked Hard and Lunatic difficulty modes as well as acquiring extra party members who arent that bad in stats, but I did have repeats. So far, the maps are bite sized, which is good because it makes the battles nice and short and I mainly have a party of 4 versus similar number of enemies max, which again, makes it easier to manage. It's perfect for short breaks of play time, and not long drawn out battles like XCOM or 3DS fire emblem. I've seen people complain about Pay-toWin cheapness, but so far I haven't felt the need to pay for anything. Its fine for a little distraction here and there and it's free. Can't really defend pay-to-win either way.
So, I’ve mentioned in my previous blogs about me doing a lot of research into YouTube. I’ve been trying to grow the audience for Nerds Without Pants, and it’s been slow going. Basically, I’m bad with keeping up on social media, which is how so many other (much newer) podcasts have grown leaps and bounds ahead of NWP. But I think we are an entertaining show, and I put a lot of work into producing it, and I want to carry that over into YouTube.
I was thinking the other day about the games that really formed the core of my gaming. Many of them are games with campaign co-op as an option. It goes back all the way to the 80s and arcade games. So here's a list of the five games that everything else revolved around over the years.