Pixlpeeps what is up? How has the week been treating you good people? I’m excited the week is over but the sad part is that in the Pacific Time Zone it is time to move clocks up an hour. At least my random wake ups at 5am will now be 6am so I guess that is the silver lining to the whole thing. Anyways let’s get started with this week’s edition of Quick Hits with Chris.
After our TRS-80, our family's next home computer was the TI-99/4A, which my dad bought in 1981-82. The TRS-80 belonged to my mother, the TI belonged to my dad. My dad was less open to allowing me to play with his computers since he used them for work, so it was a treat to get to play this one.
Another episode of The Lower Level is up, this time with me hosting.
Hey, our new podcast is out! Joe and I are joined by Casey to talk about our most anticipated games. Of course, Casey doesn't show up until half way through, the bastard.
Hi Everybody! It's been a while since I've had an opportunity to provide an update on PixlCross and how things have been going. Believe it or not, it's been about 6 months since we "finished" the game and sent it off to Nintendo of America for certification (aka Lotcheck). Well, a lot has transpired since then and the reason for the delay is multi-faceted.
I went to preorder Ratchet & Clank today at Gamestop after gym time and couldn't resist looking at what toys-to-life figures they had. Turns out, I've now mined this store of all the Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures I wanted except one - Randall from Monsters University. See pic:
Hey everybody! I am sending a call out to my fellow XBone owners, if you have the The Divison and do not have a complete four man team hit me up. My buddy and I need two more people to work on these missions, thois game is no joke!
I have been around computer and video games for almost my entire life. My first gaming experiences I can remember were with the Donkey Kong, Dig-Dug, and Ms. Pac-Man machines at the Vekol Commissary in Maricopa, Arizona, near where I lived at the time. However, I never had an Atari 2600 at home, though my cousin in Gilbert had one. Instead, I got a lot of my home gaming fix on home computers, at least until I got my first Game Boy in 1989.
Staples in Canada is selling off all their Console games for 97 cents. They never had much to begin with but I was able to pick up 11 games most of which I already own but I can probably make a few bucks reselling. Here's the pile.
I have two things on my mind right now, Crimsonland and that $20 NES clone that I got from GameStop last week.
I'm about two hours into Zelda now. I brought the Wii U in from the living room and hooked it up to a monitor on my desk so I can kind of work and play the game at the same time. So far it's pretty cool. It isn't as beautiful an HD upgrade as Wind Waker, but it's still great game with tight controls, and I'm impressed with it after all these years.
It's been nearly 2 years since I left college. It's been over a year since I moved out from renting with my friend, and it's been nearly a year since I had to leave my job due to allergies. Since then, I honestly feel like I've achieved nothing.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! We have been in March for a couple of days and it is time to do a look back at what I played in February.
Today was a long gaming day for me. I finished all but one achievement in Disney Infinity 2.0. Mark and I played the Exploration Survival Mode on the Brave power disc and got to the end of the 50 levels. It took about two and a half hours. Luckily no disconnections occured. Then I had to play the story missions on that same disc to get all 50 sidekick items. Mark and I played about four levels co-op before I got the achievement and we both exited to do other things: Mark had to get his 90 Feats achievement, and I started the Pirates of the Caribbean Playset in Disney Infinity 1.0. But more of that after a picture of today's purchases.
So this big news of today is that Fable Legends is cancelled and Lionhead is possiably being closed. Im sort of sad about this news. I did like the Fable series, at least the 1-3 titles. I wasnt overly happy with the title they were currently making nor did the Kinect title impress. I watched a sibling play it, it was not amusing nor fun. I really wanted a new game in the Hero line but nope, not happening and it possiably might not happen ever. I have no idea what will happen to the series now. I figure Microsoft will still hold it rights of course but whether they will use it is the big question. So for now at least Its goodbye Fable. You had your faults but overall I enjoyed you.
So tonight at Midnight The Division will be on! I got my Season pass preordered and I am ready to get my Dark Zone on!
Recently, I completed the story for Dying Light's The Following DLC. And it was bizarre. Without spoiling anything, lemme say that you're given a choice and one choice (the one I chose) is a logical one despite how it arguably nullifies everything you've done in the game. Of course, either way, once you beat the final mission, you can go back to the game world and finish any side quests. I'm stuck on at least one, where I have to go into a cave full of Volitales (think the Reaper vampires from Blade 2) and kill them all. It's damn near impossible, especially in the instance where I have to fight more than two (as many as five have ganged up on me eventually). I'll probably get some help from a few friends who regularly play the game in the hope of "strength in numbers".
More co-op in Disney Infinity 2.0 today. Mark and I played Survival mode on both Assault on Asgard and Escape from the Kyln power discs. Tower defence in Assault on Asgard can be a bit of a pain after a while so we went over to Escape from the Kyln and played its Diablo style gameplay through all the story missions (I used my Spider-Man figure for this), and then tried to tackle Exploration Survival Mode (I used my Green Goblin figure for this). This mode is 50 levels long, which takes a good long time, like several hours. Problem was, we kept getting disconnected somehow and had to start all over from the beginning. The first time we got to level 36 after an hour and twenty minutes (the mode has a timer). Then we got to level 46 after two hours and got disconnected again.There wasn't enough time to try a third time, so I checked out the Stitch and Brave power disc levels.
Thank goodness February is over, huh? Nothing seems to go well that month. So we’ll start off March right with another batch of games I’ve reviewed lately over at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two here or there. I’d really appreciate it. Thanks so much and let’s begin!
