Can you believe it’s May already? Anyway, I’ve got another crop of game reviews blooming over at GamerDad.com, so here are some links and things to those reviews. Please click on and read whatever you can, and maybe even post a comment here or there. I’d really appreciate it. Thanks for reading!
Went to Jay Street Video Games as is becoming my habit early in the week. Traded a few and bought a few. Here's a pic:
Hey guys. You like games don't you? Of course you do! You're all over-sensitive geeks who put measure your self worth via mindless consumerism! So have some more shit to spend money on!
I hooked up my slim PS2 today to play Neo Contra. This is a top down twin-stick shooter. I suppose it's in the Contra series. The best thing about it was the opening cutscene which was so full of over-the-top action that made me laugh.
And we are in a new month! Good morning Pixlpeeps, I kind of forgot this was a new month until I created a folder for this entry’s pictures. It is a new week which means an update on what I have been playing this past week as well as a review of what happened in April
It took Best Buy only 2 days to get a replacement to me and this one showed up in fine form. After seeing what it is supposed to look like the first one was missing a gasket that goes around the entire screen holding it in place. How that made it through QA I have no idea.
Started off Sunday with Scrabble for PSOne. This is a good TV version of the board game. Everything works fine. You have a tournament mode to play against A.I. characters and solitare in case you don't have anyone to play with. I played some tournament mode for a while before I got kind of bored of it. Get it, board? Yea, that's dumb. Anyway this was good to have way back when but now I have Scrabble on Xbox Live where I can play online. Yea, I don't need this anymore.
So, here is the deal. I want a new 3DS XL. I aslo want a Neo Geo Pocket color. I have the money now for the Neo, but I would have to wait a few weeks for the XL. What should I do?
Here is a trailer video for those wondering about the game.
Well, I finished AC China chapter last night on the Vita. The game is a nice break from the console version of other AC games. Everything is simple but, that does not mean the game is easy. I had a few restarts through this Chapter of the game. Now on to the next chapter on the Game card, India.
Last night, I finished the behemoth that is Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, in terms of its story mode and most (but not all) side missions. It lasted a little longer than I would've preferred but as an AC game in the current mode, it's quite the winner. It doesn't change a lot of the trademark mechanics although there was some nice additions to traversing buildings with the hookshot-like device (thanks for the fast travel points) and some of the more hated kinds of missions (follow some goobers as they have a conversation) have been trimmed down or made easier. I really was invested in the story line concerned the sibling assassins and thought they were great characters. I liked how both controlled differently: Evie is suited for stealth (my style) and Jacob is more confrontational and aggressive. Some of the side missions from famous dead white European males (Charles Dickens, Karl Marx) were incredibly dopey but not impossible.
Happy Friday Pixlpeeps! It is a breezy and cool Southern California day and this is weekend number three of music festivals in my little piece of So Cal. The past two weeks were all Coachella Music and Arts Festival and this week it is the country music version, Stagecoach. We always joke that the first two weeks its camping in tents and the third week is camping in RV’s. I might spend some time out at the local mom & pop music store today just to get away from the folks and who knows maybe find some new stuff to add to the library.
