It has been a rough month with the corporate inspection popping in Thursday, and the week hasn’t been easy either since I came down with a sudden stomach virus. Took one day to recover and then popped in at work to help pass the inspection. Not sure if we passed or not but all things considered it could have been worse.
~Prologue~
I was listening to an interview with comic book writer Scott Snyder, currently helming Batman, who is known for putting an emphasis on horror into his stories— underline horror with a big fat red pen! The interesting thing that he said was that when working on Batman, he wanted to focus on writing smaller stories, but because of the precedent set by previous writers and the significance of the character, he feels like he can only write big stories. As I was finishing up Revelations 2, I was wondering if considering that the Revelations series was meant to be a smaller scale side story, did the precedent for the series force Capcom to go overboard yet again?
This guy really hates this game. He gave the game a try and hated it. Doesn't really get the Souls series. From what I read, he describes every Souls game experience I've had, but you eventually get over hurdles if you work enough, or learn to adapt--similar to Monster Hunter I suppose, which I also really enjoy. There's like 18,000 comments below it.
Warning: This is about #gamergate. If you really don't care about it, then ignore this blog and more on. The only reason I wanted to post this video here is because I've seen more than a few comments about #gamergate and it seems quit a few people are confused about it and/or aren't sure why it's still going on. I thought this video (released 3/26/15) was a good summary of the situation. I honestly don't participate in #gamergate arguments because I see a lot of gender politics involved with it. Now, I have no problem arguing over gender politics, but I think it, in general, takes away from what #gamergate is really about. Gender politics aren't unique to #gamergate. I just ask that those that genuinely don't know about #gamergate and want to know a little something, check out the video. It's about 20min and in my opinion boils down the issue pretty well.
Pixlbit Nation how are you on this fine Friday Morning? I’ve been stop and go this morning, which included a trip to the local Starbucks for a croissant for breakfast. While there I five folks on laptops and one random dude with an iPad and headphones. I think he was watching something interesting, while everyone else was pretending to be doing some work. I couldn’t do much there, its too noisy, and I would just feel awkward, but that’s just my opinion. Since it is Friday, let’s get some Quick Hits started, before I make my way out to find some Fish and Chips.
You can get 10% off your entire purchase until March 30th. I was thinking of using it on RE Revelations 2 Season pass. It's only a $2.50 discount but hey it's better than a kick in the head with a frozen boot.
Sorry I couldn’t think of a catchy title for this batch of reviews. Anyway, here’s another blog with links to 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. I’d appreciate it, thanks.
It’s been a long time since my last blog here at PixlBit and my involvement in the site has been more minimal than it has been in the past. There are two reasons for this.
Here is a little story. I backed Wasteland 2. I got two copies of the game when it was finally released and I gladly gave one of those copies to Snee. I have yet to redeem the other copy for myself because I know that I will never actually play the game on PC. When it comes to the PS4, I will definitely play Wasteland 2.
I missed out on playing the Klonoa series on all the platforms, and after playing the PSOne title ~Door to Phantomile~ which I bought in the flash sale for one dollar this weekend, I am thoroughly impressed by it and I want to go back and play more of them now. I usually just stick to RPGs and survival horror titles when I look for nostalgic experiences, but here I've found a jumping mechanic that I haven't quite seen before and it is really simple but pretty complex, in other words-- it's a good challenging platformer that's easy to get into but tough to master, in my case any way 'cause I'm a gaming idiot.
The 2.5D perspective is pretty interesting and feels almost like a rollercoaster type ride, like a sonic game, but emphasis is on jumping. I like it a lot. It's quite vibrant, colorful and fun! Yup! Discovered something new! 
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Recently I started playing the new Strider. It was on PS+ at some point for PS4 and I finally fired it up. It's pretty cool. Rather than a level-based game, it has one big world divided up into several different districts. The auto map is super useful. It fills out as you explore, of course, but it also lists all kinds of useful info, like save points, different kinds of doors and breakable gates, items, powerups, and your current objective. There are also secret things to find that don't show up on the map, like concept art and enemy info. It's not the kind of game you'd really invest yourself in exploring every nook and cranny, unlike the portable Castlevanias, for instance. It's more a fun game you can breeze through, and I can certainly appreciate that. It's a Metroidvania-lite, I guess.
How is everyone doing!? Good I hope. So I took advantage of the flash sale the other day and got a nice little haul.
Steam to me right now and in the last couple of years has been brilliant.
I started the day by picked up 9 Miis by stopping by three different McDonalds on my way over to Mark’s place. I got 4 at one place, 5 at another and none at the one closest to my apartment. I don’t know what’s up with that one McDs, but it never gives me Miis. It’s not a problem though because there are four other McDs I can choose from on my drive to Mark’s place.
Didn't think that 8.3% alcohol content on two beers would hit me so fast when my friends also baked me some pizza rolls with it. But hot damn, those Breakfast stouts. They kick in when you literally haven't eaten all day and just ran about 3 miles in about 24 minutes. Those $140 Saucony shoes I was fitted for DO help.
Is a really good RPG but I'm quite shocked it is rated 12. While the game doesn't have bad language it does have some strong sexual context and some of the bosses are down right sadistic. I mean cruel, unforgiving, and all sorts of messed up in the head. Don't get me wrong I know final fantasy titles have had their share of crazy. However half of Bravely Defaults boss fights are humans instead of monsters. Half the boss fights I've experienced were the ones that give you more jobs to use along the way. I've fought some boss monsters but more humans if anything. I really wasn't expecting this from Bravely Default. Don't get me wrong, I love this game. Dan would tell you it's all I play recently. I'm just taken aback from how it has such adult themes to it.
I put Film Snob on the shelf for now. The last film I watched and just thoroughly enjoyed was GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY on blu-ray. It's so colorful and pretty to look at.
TV Time
I don't know what is happening with the Walking Dead nowadays. Rick Grimes goes from normal to psychopath on a flip of a switch and just openly talks about killing people because their bad people? During the preview for next weeks episode one of the characters asks if he's doing it all on purpose for whatever reason? I just don't know? I guess that's what the show is. Everything changes in a second. I actually missed a couple of minutes of the show last week and didn't notice that one of the characters was killed? He was barely mentioned this episode too. I was pretty shocked by last weeks Flash episode too. I couldn't believe they killed a character off the way they did. I saw the twist coming but not the actual death. I hope they keep that stuff up. Once Upon A Time starts off good at the beginning of the season and towards the end and the middle kind of goes off on a tangent, but still fun to watch. Last week we had a lot of Maleficent dragon so it would have been hard to top that one week later. An Ursula very special episode? Not quite. I also started watching Penny Dreadful. Its quite dark and gothic and it's very ME. I'll keep watching.
Games
(Hyperdevotion Noire PSVita)
The Secret World got an update where they made it easier to level classes so you can get through areas a lot faster and see the whole story of the game if you are solo player. I've been diving back in to see if this is true. I've also been playing Hyperdevotion Noire on VITA and it's pretty good, not great, but good. It's like Final Fantasy Tactics or Disgaea but with chibi art style and it look really great on the VITA screen. I've also been playing Atelier Shallie on PS3, and honestly, I think I've found a new favorite genre. The game revolves around crafting, and requires you to make everything in the game, from items to weapons to armor and it also has JRPG turn based combat that is actually very good. I like the story too. I got Dino Crisis 1 & 2 to dig into on VITA as well as Gravity Rush and then Breath of Fire IV and Klonoa 2.
Good morning Pixlbit, how are you doing? How was the weekend? Get a lot done or did you spend a lot of time hanging out with Netflix? This past weekend I took another game off of Mount Backlog, and played a couple of other games. There really wasn’t a lot I played this weekend other than the usual casual couch games on the iPad but let’s get today’s blog started and catch up!