E3 has been good for me this year. I've seen a lot of great things announced. I just hope I can afford it down the road. My job situation isn't bad atm but job searching isn't going so hot. I do have hours which I pray are around for a few months. Anywho here's what I enjoyed most:
By hooking up my old PS2 again. I actually did it so I could compare Persona 3 FES with it's very stripped down PSP counterpart. P3P. It wasn't until I got it all hooked up that I realized both my PS2 Persona 3's (Original and FES) sold ages ago. I'm losing it I tell you.
Wow...10 years ago this past march I started blogging and interacting on the World Wide Web with other gamers!
Good morning Pixlbiticans! Monday is back, I’m not too happy because I felt that the weekend rushed by but it happens so here we are. I can’t complain, Monday has its charm and I am excited to start a fresh week even though the local weather gal said it was going to be 113° today so I need to hurry up and write down this latest blog so I can snap a couple of pictures before it gets way too hot…oh and I guess today is the big start of some conference about video games. I’m one of the folks who never actually wanted to go to E3. A couple of times I had the opportunity to, but standing in line to play a demo for a free shirt never appealed to me. I’d rather watch the Playstation presentation, and then either praise or complain about it on Twitter (for you folks who follow me on Twitter, I apologize in advance.)
This is going to have to be done in three parts. Sorry for the length, but it's impossible when you're playing retro arcade games. You can rip through so many of them so quickly. They were designed to be played in less than five minutes at a time. What are modern games average play time, ten, maybe fifteen hours (not counting phone games of course)?
So this is sort of a new series, I've been thinking a lot about games that I played when I was young. Some of these games however got left behind and haven't been brought back from the grave, at least not yet. So how about it? Join me in discussing some games that would benefit a comeback.
Some swag this week. No games yet, but there's always time for that last minute. We'll see. Pics below:
I figured since my gaming career is on hiatus until Metal Gear Solid V comes out (it would be Batman, but I still only have outdated PC and PS3), I'd take this time to shed some light on other areas of my life, like some of the other bloggers around here.
Pixlbit Nation, Happy Friday! The weekend is back, and I’m ready to spend the next couple of days playing some games, enjoying the air conditioning (its 100 degrees here) and maybe take a trip for CD Saturday/Sunday. So do you folks have planned? Anything fun? So this past week has been good. I knocked out one game off Mount Backlog, making some good progress in a couple of other games, and maybe snuck in a picture or two. Let’s get started with Quick Hits With Chris!
So I haven't blogged like, since BaD finished. That's mostly blammed on real-life, as the university life is no roses and i've been constantly busy with lectures, works and the ocational exams. However, I would have also made a blog in the past 3 or 4 months, but the real blame is on me for being a lazy fuck that spends the rest of the time on Tumblr and Steam. Luckily, except for some MIA times, i've been actually active on this site, commenting on blogs and all that jazz. Now i'm free; I finished my first university semester, i've just taken a holiday visit to my homecity and i'm actually planning in reviving my series of First Impressions I did over BaD and also link here some interviews I think everyone should read (although I need to mention Gamergate is very related to those....).
So I just backed Koji Igarashi's new game, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on Kickstarter. I swore to myself I wouldn't do it, not because I don't believe that he'll be committed to finishing the game or that it won't be great, but there is a slight chance that disaster could strike and I'll be out a hundred bucks and get nothing in return. I chose the $100 tier mainly because it came with the Ayami Kojima illustrated slipcase. She is the brilliant artist who did a lot of the designs for Symphony of the Night and some of the other IGA-produced Castlevania games, so I forked over the extra dough to get it. It also included the soundtrack by Michiru Yamane, who also worked on many of the beautiful Castlevania tracks. They, along with IGA himself, are the "holy trinity" behind some of the best Castlevania games, and the fact that they are all involved in this new game is a dream come true--once I visited the Kickstarter page, it was an inevitability that I'd pledge something. In fact, I really wanted the art book from the $150 tier, but I wasn't sure exactly how nice it would be (size, pages, etc.), and I figured if the game was a success, I'd just be able to buy it later. Anyway, hopefully I'll be very happy in 2017 (when the game is scheduled to ship).
If you've frequented any of my blog posts in the past, you may have noticed one or two occasions where I defend dumb, mundane gameplay as a form of leisure from real life, or at least to break from more challenging, or long form video games that require more skill, strategy and tactics to overcome.
Guys, I fucking loved Bloodborne. I gave it a 10/10 here, and said I might love it as much as Dark Souls. Well, unfortunately opinions change, and while I've been able to jump back into Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls 2, I can't do the same with Bloodborne.
Good morning, Pixlbit Nation! Forgive the excessive mid-week cheeriness, it's my weekend.
Yes, I'm getting into more of my music game this week with 1987. The rest of the media is just coming along for the ride.
Being the huge SMT universe fan that I am I was very interested in this game from the beginning. I also loved Radiant Historia and I'm currently playing Awakening. This is yet another reason I need a Wii U.
So you've read the title and are thinking about murdering my face for suggesting that we clone a video game. God forbid we clone a game when we could just make sequel after sequel of it. But here's the thing: licenses are tricky, and sometimes the games we want are on godawful consoles we don't want to buy. So without further ado, lets look at some games that should absolutely be cloned.
Took a trip to Longwood Gardens today with Mark to take some photos. When we got back, I set up my PS3 and downloaded Namco Museum Vol. 4 for the game, The Return of Ishtar, the sequel to Tower of Druaga. It was $5.99. Then it was going to take almost half an hour to download, so I switched feeds to my 360 and started playing Minecraft again in Mark's created world. Well, it was 11pm and time to stop before I checked in on my download. I installed the game and booted it up just to see if there was some kind of opening scene. It looks like it will be something like a side scrolling beat 'em up with swords. Of course, I didn't have time to actually play it. This Minecraft just carries me away.