I'm going to review Arkham Knight spoiler-free tomorrow for Plus10Damage if no one called dibs. Expect some gushing. Damn game is huge and gorgeous. I am going to mention some of the iffy launch problems and DLC surrounding the game, as well as some game-related flaws/shortcomings, but mostly I'm gonna gush about it.
I'm fighting the good fight saving villages in Minecraft from the blight of zombieism. It's no easy task. There are a lot of things you need to do to get that cure made. Mark and I had to start from scratch in a new world full of vulnerable villagers. Here are the things we did.
It's been another busy week in a busy summer. So much so that I took today off just to relax. So far, so good on that front. As to what I've been up to, well, here's the rundown in the usual format.
I'm now a level 19 Paladin Adept at the moment. I have only one Butterfly request to do before the story moves along but I'm not ready to do that yet because I want to try and reach Expert Paladin level before that happens
Good morning Pixlbit! It is currently a “cool” 90 degrees here in Sunny Southern California as we wait to see if thunderstorms hit my little section of California. Surprisingly it isn’t humid and unlike yesterday the sky isn’t blanketed with clouds. So the weekend was spent playing through the rest of the main story of Batman Arkham Knight and a couple of other games sprinkled in. Let’s get this party started!
That's how episode 3 of Tales from the Borderlands played, all two and one quarter hours of it; constant stutters, stops, and freezes. No outright crashes, but jiggy jaggies all the way through. It actually got me killed in one segment where I couldn't target a flying object because the animation kept stuttering. Oh! And load times. Why are there so many longish loading moments in a game like this? It's not pushing state of the art graphics or masses of gameplay mechanics. It's a long cutscene with some interactive moments. It should run smooth as silk. It was a great story though. The writing and voice acting were all top notch even though the mouths hardly ever matched the dialog. I tell you, somthing needs to be done about the programing in Tell Tale games. Telling great stories can be practically ruined by technical faults.
So I'm at a weird place right now where I want to gush over Arkham Knight, yet respect you all to much to spoil why the story to this game is so incredible and made me ignore all the shortcomings of the PC version. So instead I'm going to rank all the Batmans we've seen hit the silver screen.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198189447891/games/?tab=allI woke up this morning to the news that Yes bassist Chris Squire has passed away after a battle with Leukemia. I will now have his riff from Roundabout going through my head in his honour,
I just finished reading volume 1 of the original TMNT comic. What a fun read! I am now a firm fan of TMNT and will be checking out the games when I get a chance. At the end of this volume, which came out in 1990, there was this video game ad, and since I have to save any video game ad I come across, I scanned it. It's an ad for the 1990 NES game, Phantom Fighter, a ninja fighting game based on the Japanese film Mr. Vampire. Here's the scan:
I just bought Tales of Hearts R for $14. Lots of other stuff good too. :)
Do you like your music experimental, yet somewhat accessible and melodious? Well, you're in for a treat. Leprous are the prog voice this generation needed. So far they've four albums. One of those albums is pretty good, while the rest are nothing short of masterpieces. The music is weird, polyrythmic, and varying in influences. Yet it's all brought together by the wonderful vocalist who has one of this generations best voices.
Pixlbit Nation happy Friday! The weekend is back, the summer is in full swing, currently it is a hazy Friday morning, and do you folks have anything fun planned? I’m going to spend time with the Air Conditioner, and maybe some naps with maybe a trip to the weekend Swapmeet. I wonder if Fake Lego Lady has any new products. I was there last weekend and she didn’t show up. It was also in the low triple digits for our temperature. This week I’m hoping she’s there because I saw online that there is a set of Flash minifigures and that would be a nice addition to the collection. Enough with Fake Lego talk, let’s get this edition of Quick Hits started!
So I just heard this compilation of 30 Rare games will be available August 4th. I'm real excited and I think I'll get an Xbox One finally to have this, but I'm wondering, will it be available as a digital download? I've looked all around and I can't find out. I'm seriously considering going all digital downloads for games on the new systems. It'll save space in my apartment already crammed with games, plus I'm ready. I bucked the idea of digital download for games for a while but now I don't think I care anymore. It's just the way the world is going, and I just want to play the games. I don't care if I can touch them or not.
Hello, and welcome to the Aperture Science blog! In case you’re wondering, this is not Cary writing this blog. I’ll let you guess who this is, but I’ll at least give you feeble humans a clue: the cake is real, and is at the end of this blog. I’ve used my highly advanced computer brain to hack into Cary’s blog to let you all know that I’ve captured Cary and taken him to my underground test chambers, where he will be performing tests for the rest of his insignificant life. Don’t try to send someone to rescue him, my turret factory is up and running again, and any attempts to free Cary will end in futility. Although I have to say that my new test subject may end up more annoying that that one moronic core with the British accent. For instance, right now Cary is jumping up and down next to me, telling me that I’m going to be in some kind of new LEGO game. I have a bad feeling about this. Anyway, I am graciously going to let Cary take over this blog for a while, as he has some game reviews he wants to tell you all about. That will give me some time to prepare his first tests. Enjoy!
Besides Horror, Sci-Fi is my next fav theme in media etc, and then followed by maybe Fantasy. As far as media goes, I'm pretty happy to be watching Penny Dreadful, Wayward Pines, and Walking Dead whenever it returns. As for Fantasy, well I'm pretty satisfied with new Game of Thrones episodes each week and now I have the glorious Witcher 3 to play through as well as Devil May Cry 4 Special Edt.
I bring Sci Fi up because it seems to be the subject that is missing from gaming, TV, film. Recently the SyFy cable channel, once host to really great Science Fiction shows until it turned to shit, except for maybe Alphas and Warehouse 13, has very quietly returned to Friday Night Science Fiction show line-up, with the third season of Defiance, which I think is actually pretty good and there is a new alien race introduced that look like something out of StarCraft II.
While I definitely see the PC Master Race peoples' point, I have to say it feels damn good to have a console again. Especially one that gives me free indie and sometimes newer retail games every month. I mean I pay $50 a year for those "free games," but considering how much I've gotten out of them, I'd say that's a steal considering new games are $60.
Got Batman to work. My Nvidia video card setup was totally wack with SLI turned off. Now Batman runs smooth as a dream (almost).
Musically this year seems like the end of a lot of things for me. Most of the 80s groups I followed either became too pop for me or just got less interesting. I think the only two albums I listened to that year was Prince's Batman sndtrck and Pete Townshend's Iron Man musical. I even remember carrying a copy of the Iron Man musical with me to a field at school and reading the liner notes. Grunge may have begun this year with Nirvana's Bleach and Soundgarden's Louder than Love. I got both these albums along with Rush's Presto today. See pic below:
Monday, Mark and I beat the Ender Dragon in Minecraft. That was a crazy, crazy time. First I used the Eye of Ender to locate the underground stronghold that houses the End Gate. Then we had to get 12 Eyes of Ender to put in the End Gate to activate it. Then upon entering it we realized there was no way out except to die or beat the Ender Dragon, which looked really formidable. You have to destroy eight crystals put on high pilars of unbreakable Obsidian first. They heal the dragon. Then you go to the central nest and the dragon attacks you. Well, the dragon, and his Ender Men henchmen, are always attacking you, but now it flies right down and lands. Now is the time to attack it.
