I just want to say last night I successfully played along with Jeopardy while playing Grid Autosport including getting the Final Jeopardy question right: “What is the smallest state in area that borders a Great Lake?” The answer was Indiana. I thought it was drop the controller worthy. Speaking of Grid Autosport
I spent another day chasing achievements in Minecraft with Mark. This time I joined his world and we got really close to finishing the tasks required.
So Overwatch officially launches tomorrow, and much of the gaming world will be rejoicing. I on the other hand, am pretty indifferent, because I hate playing online first-person shooters. In fact, I don't really like first-person shooters at all. I tolerate the odd one here and there if it's one of the only worthwhile games during a console launch (Resistance: Fall of Man), or if the story or setting really grabs me (Bioshock), but other than that I can't stand them. I always hated Golden Eye, and Halo, and Destiny, and whatever else my cool friends were playing because I just don't enjoy them enough to get good at them, and that really becomes a problem when the only modes are online multiplayer.
My friend Mark told me about these six new achievements added to Minecraft this week and so I dumped all my other gaming plans and got back into it. I thought it would go quick but it sure hasn't. I got half of them done after 15 hours of gameplay and I'll be at it again on Monday to try and get the last three, which are much harder.
Please, go the way of Sega and die. Stop making hardware, you're fucking shit at it. Just make games and for the love of fucking god stay away from the internet.
Howdy, folks. Since a lot of long-dormant 1UP alumni are coming out of the shadows, I figured I'd hop on that little bandwagon. When in Rome (or Baltimore)....
This is just a bunch of stuff I did but didn't blog about.
I just looked at my last post, and it's from the beginning of February. Holy cow, where does the time go?
Where it not for the occasional allergy attack which ruined my Saturday morning, the close to this past week wasn't that bad. Aside from the sleep patterns that get to get more crazier and unpredictable (some days I'll get a nice 7 hours, some days it'll be 4-5; I tend to take short naps at work - but not in any of the classroms, mind you. 
), work is managable. It's also taken on a flavor of positivity as there is now 3 more school days until the year is concluded and next week, I'll transition to summer work and day hours. It'll be nice to have a schedule that's more normal.
This game really got me hooked right away. I was surprised at the way it captured the rythm and flow of combat, giving attacks a little resistance and kickback just like the weighty weapons in 3D Souls. The atmosphere is fantastic. The music is very gloomy and atmospheric. Again, a plus. The boss fights are a real bitch. There are different weapon builds. There are NPCs. It's great! What I appreciate about the game is that it lets me use a shield at least. I couldnt really do that in Bloodborne, but thats a different game, yet I feel like Salt&Sanctuary is very much a sequel or prequel that could fit in between big Souls games just like they try to do with 2D Arkham Batman and 2D Assassins Creed. Oh, and the game encourages exploration and each new discovered area has new tricky and strange enemies to mix things up and keep everything fresh all the time. It's very good! GOTY candidate perhaps?
At least on My Nintendo. I'm going to run out of space for platinum coins soon. I used a bunch coins (I think gold ones) to get 30% off the Metroid Prime Trilogy. But I'm not inspired to buy anything else at the moment.
Happy Friday Pixlpeeps! Once again it is really windy here in my little piece of Southern California but what can you do. As soon as I finished our little conversation (where I talk and you listen) its right back to adding records to my iTunes library. I’ve been on somewhat of a hot streak this past week adding music to the library, and at the same time discovering new stuff. For the past couple of nights I’ve been going through sections of my collection and rediscovering what I have purchased from thrift stores. I found a couple of sealed singles and albums that will probably not be opened and I found a couple of albums that I didn’t know I had on vinyl.
Last year I read X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga trade paperback and really enjoyed it. Last week I got the Days of Future Past TP from the library, started reading it, and discovered that it chronologically follows right after Dark Phoenix. That's a cool bonus for me but I was surprised to find out that most of the book has nothing to do with the titular story. I'm halfway through and the stories seem very insular, unlike Dark Phoenix where everything led to the moment of Jean Grey's death. They're not bad stories, just unrelated. I really liked the first issue in the book because it was basically a recap of all the X-Men comics up to that point. Cyclops was monologuing about everything the X-Men had been through and how he and Jean fit into it. That culminated in Cyclops taking a hiatus from the group to deal with his issues. Since I've read only Dark Phoenix, it was cool to get an overview of everything else that had happened.
Yesterday I picked up some things at Gamestop. First was the Disney Infinity figure Fear for the Inside Out playset. It was on sale for $10, cheaper than the used figures. I think I can start the Inside Out playset with Fear, but we'll see. I couldn't start the Force Awakens playset with Darth Maul, but that's a character not in that story, so that makes sense..Here's a picture of Fear and the rest:
Well, I finished up Axiom Verge over the weekend. I am currently in gaming limbo at the moment and not sure of where I want to go next. I have started up a second playthrough of Axiom Verge, but am not sure if that is really what I am feeling at the moment. I thought I was in the mood for Ratchet and Clank, so I downloaded it the other day, but haven't booted it up yet. I started Shadow Complex, but had to quickly put it down because I misjudged the amount of time I had. There was some sale a couple weeks back and I picked up Tomb Raider for cheap, but am not sure if I am ready for that game at the moment... these are the moments in gaming that I hate. I have plenty of games that I want to play, but I am not sure where to start. For the time being, I will probably just keep plugging away at Axiom Verge.
Well at some point I really need to start looking through my media drive on my laptop because I am running out of space. Currently I have 299 GB left from a 2TB drive all thanks to Steam and iTunes. At one point I thought about having all my video living in iTunes but it looks like I will get an external for those items, and possibly another external for the .wav files of my records along with my future lossless library. I do need to start looking through the Steam library and see what games I can live without having currently installed. I’m leaning towards removing the freebie Origin games, games I finished, and the games from bundles I have purchased that I really had no interest in but they came with the bundle I liked. I am also looking at removing some of the PC games that I found and installed recently. It looks like it’s going to be digital Spring Cleaning and I need to start being more selective on what bundle games I should install
I was so worried about rumors of online shutdown for Disney Infinity that I didn't play my backlog game today - today being Monday - so that I could try and get the online required achievements. There were only two. One was for knocking out another player, so Mark and I jumped in a predesigned arena map and killed each other once each for the achievement. The other was for playing 10 matches in any game in Flynn's Arcade. I didn't get that one because all the games there require four online players and there were no randoms to be found. I may try one more time on a Saturday or Sunday next week just to see if there are more players those days, but I have a feeling I'm just not going to get that one - and it'll be the last one I need. As it stands now, I have all but two achievements left: the one I just mentioned and the one for getting 75 Feats. Feats are like achievements just within Disney Infinity. I'm not sure how many I have yet but after playing almost three full playsets and all the Hub tutorials, I should be close.
So the second set of Yokai Watch games are coming here on September 30th. There will be 2 verisons like Pokemon. One will be called Bony Spirites and the other Fleshy Souls. They will have certain Yokai specific to each verison and thats really all thats known about the games. We are also getting Season 2 of the show and more toys. Im really happy about this news, I highly enjoyed the first game and the anime show I also liked. Im watching it as we speak on Netflix so if you have that, I recommend giving it a chance.