Season's warnings, PixlBit community! I thought I'd bestir myself and write a quick blog.
Are there any songs in video games that remind you of Christmas? Well I have some, and I thought I’d share them with you. So here are ten of them. Have a listen and get into the video game Christmas spirit!
I played several turn-based strategy games today, and boy did they frustrate the heck out of me: XCOM 2 and The Banner Saga. What's the point of leveling a character just to watch him/her die in the next few battles? Mistakes are fatal in these two games.
I used to see him on here long ago and his artwork. I think he was working on an RPG at the time. Did he ever finish it. Does he still come around? I've been curious about the game.
Good afternoon Pixlpeeps! About an hour or two ago I was at Jury Duty. This was my week for duty but the first three days I was on Standby and like many (all) of us who were in this were hoping that we would go the entire week without stepping foot in a courtroom. Of course on Wednesday Night we got the call to show up on Thursday morning. The jury pool was broken up into two groups and my group went to a courtroom. I don't know what happened to the other group but I'm hoping they got to go to a courtroom as well instead of sitting in that jury room watching Home and Garden TV. Anyways we spent the rest of the day getting interviewed by the judge, and then by the lawyers. The questions were simple and straight forward, and one of the questions was “Have you or anyone you know have been a victim?” There were some really rough responses. The people were obviously excused and then there were the folks who were trying to get out service. There were a couple of folks who were just grasping at straws and just wasting everyone's time. These were the folks that truly angered me. Here was a person who could lose their freedom and for one selfish reason or another tried to use some truly flawed arguments to get out of service. One person wasted what totaled to be an hour out of two days using such flawed logic that there was a low sounding groan in the courtroom.
I'm thinking of changing my approach to games. So far, my method of playing games has been largely this: play the campaign, then go for achievements. Well, I may revise that to this: decide on an attitude to take (a role to play), and play the game faithfully to that, done. No more chasing some list that dictates what is the ultimate challenge in a game.
I got back into Netflix to watch an episode of the Skylanders Academy cartoon, watched highlights from The Game Awards on youtube, and played a heck load of Doom, all on my XBO. It all worked very seemlessly without crashes, slowdowns or other issues like what was the case on Xbox 360. Online multimedia on a console has finally been fully implemented. I'm happy about that. Now, on with the details.
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.
Not really sure what it is about zombie genre that draws me in so much? It just does. I think it's the overwhelming feeling of near death at any moment that drives my interest, that false sense of security. Atmoshpere and sound design also add to immersion I guess.
Anyway, I DL the latest RE7 demo and it still feels too scary. I can't imagine VR, because RE in first person already gives me anxiety and it might be the first RE game I skip out on. They added new endings apparently. The Outlast 2 demo gave me a bit of anxiety as well. I guess playing late at night, in the dark with headphones on is not a good idea. My heart was racing too much. I had fun watching people play live on Twitch, so I might do that this time.
What I love about RE7 demo is that it does feel like a refreshing take on the series. I really enjoyed ZombiU for doing the walking sim with zombies and added a roguelike mechanic. This game gave me anxiety too, so I only played it a bit at a time. RE7 feels like a tradtional RE1 game where you have to investigate every corner of a room or backtrack to find clues and study them in order to make progress. It feels like old RE, but new. It's a house full of mysteries.
My friend Mark just told me about this remaster of Bulletstorm coming in April. It's being published by Gearbox and will have new modes and levels. Best of all, if you preorder it, you'll get to play as Duke Nukem! They recorded all new dialog for the campaign with the voice actor John St. John, the original voice of Duke Nukem. This feature puts this in the must-play category for me and I'll be preordering it sometime closer to the release date.
Pixlpeeps what is up? I hope you folks are ready for the weekend because I am. I am ready to tackle something fun (at least I think it is) and right after I finish this latest entry for Quick Hits with Chris, I am off to the local store to pickup a new external hard drive that I found that is relatively close in price to something I found on Amazon but I don't have to wait. Anyways how are you good people? Here in sunny Southern California Fall has decided to hit us hard, and by hard I mean its really windy outside and I think it's 59 degrees. For you folks with actual seasons that's probably nothing, but for folks here are dressing like it's either snowing (North Face and Ugg's with their ice coffee) to the odd (the guys with beanies, t-shirt, gloves, and shorts...WTF) to folks like me (hoodie or a hockey jersey and some jeans) Anyways I do like this weather because listening to Christmas Music about it being cold, and snowy while walking around in shorts is kind of odd.
All right folks. I imagine some of you may have gained some weight after last week’s Thanksgiving feasts. You might have a little bit of a belly or whatever. Well, I’ve got a workout regimen of game reviews for you to read that’ll make you super buff in no time! If you click on the GamerDad.com review links and maybe even post a comment or two, you’ll be really strong!
So over the Thanksgiving Holiday I really didn't play much in terms of console games because I was spending time with the family, usually in front of the television watching sports (I see what you did NFL Schedulers having the Cowboys play the Indians on Thanksgiving.) When I did try something non tablet based I ended up having to reinstall the game, but more on that later on. Anyways let's review what I played during Thanksgiving.
Played mostly Doom today and cooled down with some Minecraft. I should've switched to PS4 and played some No Man's Sky, but I was waiting for Mark, who had to reinstall Doom, to start up again so he could try out the map I made in Snapmap mode. I was going to go back to Doom when the reinstall finished, but it never did. For some reason the last 25 GB or so slowed down to a crawl. Anywho, here's a breakdown of what I played today.
Happy cyber Monday! I'm done my shopping for the week. I went to Toys R Us late on Sunday, but didn't get anything. I was looking at Lego Dimensions Story, Level and Fun packs but aside from the Midway level pack, I didn't really feel strongly about any of the rest. The Level Packs were marked down $10 from $30 and that didn't seem all that special either. I'll get it later when I start playing the game. Onward to the week's gaming.
What do you call Thanksgiving day shopping since stores like Target open at 6pm? I bought some stuff on both Thurday and Friday, but mostly Thursday. Since last year, I've been heading to the shops after Thanksgiving. I usually arrive there way late for the real crowds, like 11pm, so it's kind of nice to look through what's left without getting trampled.
Dishonored, Definitive Edition, AND the first episode of the new Hitman game. I was a fan of the early hitman games, and these are pretty well-reviewed, so I figure... why not? I almost bought Setsuna, but it was still pretty pricy. I'll wait for a more drastic sale on that.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and for my peeps in other countries I hope Thursday treated you well. Turkey Day was fun because I got to eat a lot, spent time with the family, and watched The DALLAS COWBOYS BEAT THE HATED WASHINGTON REDSKINS. Yes that deserved to be in all caps. So a couple of days ago I talked about why I was absent from here for about a week and today I thought I would share some pictures I took. Surprisingly I didn't take as many pictures as I thought I would but hey I still got some cool shots.