I have no idea what they are. Tried to google geese with orange beaks but apparently not specific enough. Maybe Tami knows.
I love classic video game compilations, but you hardly see them anymore. Most video game companies now just sell their classics separately for you to download. I guess that makes them more money, but in a way, it’s also kind of sad. Luckily, SEGA just released a collection of some of their 3-D remakes on the 3DS. SEGA also sells these remakes separately on the eShop, but now you can play nine of them on a cartridge. So since I like to go over games in classic compilations, here are all the ones you can play on the SEGA 3-D Classics Collection. I’ve even reviewed a few of them a couple of years ago that were released separately, so when I come across those, I’ll make a link to my original reviews in case you want to read further!
I didn't have time to blog on Saturday so this is really about the whole weekend. Saturday I played Episode 5 of Tales from the Borderlands finally. I had the season pass and played ep. 1-4 as they came out, but with almost six months to wait for ep. 5, I kind of lost interest. Well I finally finished it. Great story, predictable, but still very entertaining. My big gripe with it was the way it chugged almost constantly on my Xbox 360. Load times were long but worse than that was very regular slowdown that came near to ruining the experience for me. I'm not sure what the issue was. Maybe this runs better on XBO or PS4. I'd be tempted to get it again to play it without hiccups.
So just as I begin playing Disney Infinity 3.0, they cancel the whole series. In fact, Disney is cancelling their whole games division. That's just crazy! D.I. was beating Skylanders for Pete's sake! Well, it seems toys-to-life stuff is dipping in sales across the board and they're getting out before it gets worse. I for one, am still crazy for toys-to-life stuff, so here's what I picked up today:
Good morning Pixlpeeps! What the hell why is so hot here in sunny Southern California? Last week it was what 70, breezy with random spots of rain, and now we’re looking at 101 today. One Hundred and One degrees! I really need to get some errands done in the morning because it’s getting warm and I really don’t want to deal with that until June. Blah! Anyways this past week I finally got around to checking out the latest Captain America Civil War flick and before I talk about my thoughts I really should check out Winter Soldier. Anyways to prevent spoilers the usual black bars will be over my thoughts because it will contain spoilers, just highlight if you want to read
I'm actually pretty happy about this. I enjoyed what I played of STO on PC when it first came out and there is loads of content added over the years, so I'd be interested in popping in again and going through it all. I just get tired of unloading and reloading the game onto my PC all the time. It is supposed to be F2P and coming this Fall.
Started off with Metal Slug 2 on Monday. This one has an Egyptian theme. It's also about twice as long as the first one. It's full of fun stuff like getting turned into a mummy in the early stages. You fly a plane, drive a tank and the screens scroll up sometimes; lots of little improvements and the same great music and graphics. It also has the same great difficulty. This one has continues but they are not infinite. At some point you get a game over screen (I never counted the deaths), but the game does save your progress but only up to the beginning of the chapter you are on when you died. So if you have a tough time with the level end boss, you may find yourself repeating the whole level several times. This is what happened to me in chapter 5 (I think there's 8 chapters). I just wasn't up for any more today. I tried using the classic controller, it's suported, but I went back to the Wiimote for somet reason I forget why right now. My mind is completely blotted out with the next game I played all the rest of the day.
So Uncharted 4 came out today. I can't afford it since I have like 12 bucks in my bank account until next week (yay car registration) so I'll have to wait a bit.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I hope your weekend was excellent and you are ready to tackle this week. There really hasn’t been a lot of game playing this past weekend because I decided to clean up/organize my video game/sneaker closet. I placed all the games I played and beaten back in their cases and left the games that I want to play. I spent a good couple of hours hunting for game cases and placing the games back in their homes and this was just for the PS3 and 360 games. The finished PS4 games I had this system already in place so it wasn’t much trouble.
Played through the whole of Metal Slug 1. I love it except I don't love the arcade, quarter munching, game mechanics. They throw at you impossible waves of bullets and bombs so you die and have to put in another quarter to continue. I don't have to put the money in, but it's still frustrating to die so much. I never did get really comfortable with the Wiimote ( the classic controller wasn't supported) but it was ok. I downloaded Metal Slug 2 on virtual console for Monday. I can use the classic controller for that.
Disclaimer: Some of my earliest memories are of playing the original Kingdom Hearts. Needless to say, the series is incredibly important to me and I have a strong opinion on it. Despite this, I will attempt to remain as objective as possible during this review.
I saw Captain America: Civil War on Friday with Mark. I'm not a huge fan of the Avenger's movies but they're fun. This one was pretty good. I liked Bucky, Winter Soldier, the best. He has the best look and fights very agressively. I liked every fight he was in. Yea, he's troubled, being partially mind controlled and all (not a spoiler if you know the comics) but I actually like him better for it because he's more human than these mostly pristine do-gooders (Iron Man has his flaws, sure, but he basically has good intentions). I didn't like how they left Bucky though. No spoilers, but it was a boring wrap-up. I wanted to see more of him riding motorcyles.
(Sort of.)...And I realized I have not posted in quite a while..I have been in and out of doing what I usually do..Helping out around the house and getting some chill time in with my other hobbies..Also trying to keep stress under control...Been alright most of spring..Summer is near though..I may have to try and actually get to a sort of posting format..Got plenty of pictures and things I could post..(And still more I could generally upload via dA and whatnot..)Having more of a mental map for a format would hopefully speed things up..Unfortunatly a cookout is tomorrow..Celebrating my mom's birthday..While i'm thinking about it though..Here's a fun little picture..
Good morning Pixlpeeps! So the past couple of days here in sunny Southern California it has been toasty, with the temperature hitting low 90s, and last night it dropped because we are getting a lot of wind and the local news folks said today it will be in the 70s with a really good chance of rain. Oh you crazy weather. So how are you good folks? Anything big going on? Are you all caught up in the Overwatch Beta that folks on Facebook have been talking about? I downloaded it yesterday after having to download the Battle net application. Why do I need so many apps just to run games? Coming in as a console gamer I figured everything ran through Steam but it is just like consoles in the PCMR where there is Steam, GOG, Origin, and Battle net. There is probably others that I haven’t run into yet.