I have a fairly high end (albeit old) audio setup in my front room that has been neglected for a few years. I've decided to get back in the saddle again and remedy that.
I don't consider myself overly nostalgic for the time of my growing up but there are still lots of memories of those times in my head that are unavoidable. It always seems like pop culture effects one most strongly in the high school years. My high school years were firmly in the 80s, 81-86 to be exact. So when a book comes along that is chock full of 80s pop culture references, and I mean stuffed to the gills with them, I can't help but be pulled in even without a strong sense of nostalgia.
Hey guys, just thought I'd give you a little update on my life, since that's why you're all subscribed to pixlbit and paying $12.99 a week for this glorious privelege. If you were unaware you've been paying me all this time, that's technically on you and you should have read the fine print before joining pixlbit. You pay us all weekly, Nick owns your soul, and you should all be getting a diabetic puppy sometime in August.
After playing a whole bunch of Dark Souls 3 and beating it a couple times, I decided that it was time to get back to Bloodborne. Back when I picked up my PS4, I did so specifically for Bloodborne. I'm kind of a Souls addict and couldn't help but buy the PS4 so I could keep feeding my addiction. Unfortunately, I was mid-development on PixlCross and didn't have much time for actually playing games. I reached Vicar Amelia and basically dropped the game. I had to get PixlCross done and couldn't keep wasting every night of the week playing the game.
This year is flying by, next weekend is the 4th of July weekend and it will be insane at work if the weather is good. I'm a little frustrated that the park is looking shabby, but due to a serious infestation of browntail moth caterpillars and their toxic hairs, we haven't been able to mow or weedwhack much at all in the past six weeks. I'm one of the lucky people that all I have to do is get out of my car on a dry windy day and I walk into park HQ with a rash. So no mowing, weedwhacking, or sweeping at all, and I have to be careful when repairing picnic tables, painting the buildings, etc. But there is supposed to be some rain in the next couple of days, so hopefully if we bust our butts, we can have the place looking decent by Friday evening.
So I noticed ReCore dropped from 59.99 to 39.99. Since I have Amazon Prime and get so much off New games that's takes it to like 34$ something. Should I be concerned? Now I know Mighty No. 9 hasn't been what people expected of it but I'd like to think Microsoft would be on top of things and keep ReCore in check from being a complete disaster especially since its the first fall release exclusive. A lot of people have said they it dropped because it's a new IP and their worried people won't buy it at 60$. The game looked like a lot of fun, now I'm unsure!
Now that I had my original Xbox working, I was able to do what I wanted to do today: use all three Xbox systems. I played Capcom Classics Collection vol. 1 on Xbox, Peggle and King's Quest: Chapter 1 on X360, and Minecraft on XBO. Here's how it all went.
Here it is, my continuation of the last blog detailing the games i've beaten so far in 2016. Unlike the eight game of last time, there'll be "only" five here. Now, without wasting much time:
Hello hello. It's been once again awhile since I blogged. Much like dracula I shun the light and waking up past the crack of 3pm *hiss* Anyways E3 happened and I am of course pumped about the PS4. I don't know if I will get it just yet seeing as how there is NEO on the way and the crazy VR. I want the Last Guardian so badly though. Like you have no idea. Iloved Ico and Shadow of the Colossus...I've been waiting since this was announced as far back as 2009! Remember 2009? Back before we had hovercars! We walked up hills! Walked I say!
The start of the week means I am up early and while I am adding a new album to iTunes before I get the day started I might as well catch you people up on what I have been playing the past week. But first how good was Game of Thrones last night? I’ll talk more about it on Friday and it will probably be the black bars edition so you folks who haven’t seen it won’t encounter any spoilers. Anyways I need to finish this blog entry and ripping this album so I can visit the bank, and then come home and buy a couple of games I’ve been eyeing on the Steam Summer Sale. It’ll cost around $30 or so which will wipe out my music budget for the week BUT I’m getting a couple of games I’ve wanted to play.
Finding Dory was recently released in theaters, and it’s a sequel to Finding Nemo, which is one of my favorite Pixar films. So it got me to thinking about my other Pixar favorites, and also Pixar movies that I didn’t like as much. So I made a list of my top four favorite and least favorite Pixar films. Why four? No reason other than that it was harder to narrow it down to five. I had four distinct ones in each category but after that it wasn’t as clear. So I stuck with four for each.
Saturday I played some Peggle, Overlord Fellowship of Evil, Defense Grid 2 and the LocoCycle demo. Sunday was all Halo: Master Chief Collection and Minecraft. Details follow.
2016 has been a sucky year for politics and celebrity deaths. But it's been a damn fine year for RPGs.
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!
It was sitting there, mocking me, from the top of the pile of DVDs and video games piled precariously next to my TV. "you were almost done and then you forgot about me" it seemed to say. And I was pretty close to the end when I put it down and wandered off to do something else and promptly forgot about it. What was this game, you ask? Tales of Symphona Chronicles. And the game was Tales of Symphonia. It took me a bit, but I finished it, as well as knocked several sidequests that I missed in the original Game Cube version, found all the recipes, and restored the town of Luin. I also didn't realize that there's a point in the game where you have to make a choice, and that influences who is in your party from that point on. So now I may play through again at a later date with the other character, just because I can.