I'm actually kind of dry for first impressions. I don't feel like doing one for Devil Survivor Overclocloked, since I had only played it once so far and I have a first impressions outline for two or four I haven't fully developed (and some I may won't....). In that absence, i'm going to instead post short but to the point recommendations for Web Games, otherwise known as Flash Games (even if some of them are not made in Flash). They are pretty much games that you can play instantly on a brower (as long as you have Flash and/or Java installed of course) on websites like Kongregate and Newgrounds, and they are a staple of millenials like me. With that said, let's begin with:
Platformers are easily one of my favorite genres. They're simple, yet offer so much fun stuff to do. So I thought I'd give a list of my five favorite, 2D or 3D included.
Anyone who has listened to the last episode of my podcast (thank you so much, btw) knows that I've had initial bad experiences with the Alien franchise. How appropriate that I decided to make my first playthrough of Alien: Isolation public through Twitch.
Tommarrow is Fat Tuesday but I won't be getting drunk or wandering the Quarter. I will be at work and that is totally cool by me. When I moved to New Orleans the very first time when I was a kid in 1987, Mardi Gras for me was like discovering that some cities have a second Christmas. King cake, parades, beads and doubloons, purple, yellow, and green decorations everywhere. Now I'm grown and have sadly lost the Mardi Gras spirit. Now its all about rowdy tourist, traffic being a royal pain because the city has half of the major avenues blocked off for a parade. No parking to be found and if you do it will cost you a fortune. I still love king cake and my current means of making a living swings on the success of Mardi Gras so I just have to take it in stride.
Well maybe not but since I'm trying to play off Monday's child is... it will have to do.
Yesterday was pretty much PS4 day for me as I downloaded another PSN+ freebie in Transistor, bought Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- and Rayman Legends on sale for a total of $34 and played a demo of How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition. Also watched trailers for Tomb Raider and the Temple of the Osiris and Knack, which I decided against getting.
Well Happy Monday Pixlbit! I hope you all had a good weekend and for many folks are in Day 3 of their 3 Day Weekend. Blog a Day is back on and I am here to let you good people know two more games came off Mount Backlog last week, and I am currently working on another, which hopefully I will finish either today or tomorrow. How are you good people? Anything fun, or exciting happen this past weekend? After we last spoke I went to the local fair and did my usual of walking around looking at all the exhibits, looking for the mythical vendor who sold trading cards for super cheap (I decided against buying $1 cards last year for some crazy reason), eat some bad fried fair food on a stick, and I threw in a new thing I wanted to do this year, ride a camel. Yes the animal with a hump that likes to spit. I figured why not, the last time I rode one was when I was in like 4th grade, so let’s do it again.
Since I'd purchased the PS3 version for my son last month, I figured I'd go ahead and drop the 5 bucks for the PS4 version. Surprise, surprise - there's really no visual difference. I spent about 10 minutes playing through a portion of the tutorial prior to my eyelids involuntarily lowering, so I turned it off and ended up falling asleep on the couch.
You know how to do a folksy dance, right?
Retro weekend lasted about an hour. I tried to play Metroid, and I tried to play Mega Man. I downloaded them on my Wii from Virtual Console, used my classic controler, and just couldn't handle those crazy platform jumps - drove me absolutely nuts. I didn't even got past the very first screen in Mega Man. But, you know, I'm glad I got these games and experienced them, even if it was for only one screen. I loved the presentation of both and even admired the controls, which were obviously carefully worked out. These types of games are just not cup of tea, sad to say.
What was the last movie you saw? Was it good? Rate it out of 5. No spoilers.
Shortly after the Squall, it started snowing and hasn't really let up since. I got lazy and stopped training. Stupid of me. There's 80” of snow out there, and not much is packed, I hate road running, and there's no room on the side of the road. And I'm an idiot for not going out anyway. The White Out wasn't nearly as much fun as the Squall...
Part 1: I originally wrote this as a note on Facebook in December.
So I'm a week behind, wanna make something of it? I'll catch up this week at some point.
I'm later than usual with this blog. I couldn't find a decent camera to take pictures. Oh well, it's better late than never. I did good in 2014. I didn't buy a lot of games. Got too many digital games though. There were some decent sales this year.
In less than 5-6 hours, the weather in my area will go from lovely sunshiney skies to freezing rain, followed by sleet and then possibly at least 3 feet of snow. It blows my mind when temperatures change so dramatically in the course of day (as it did yesterday when it reached 68 degrees only to plummet to 25 at night) but that's the nature of winter weather. I dread this time of year because of all of the damage that snow/ice-storms can do to my life. Obviously I'm worried that it might hurt my truck in some way. It can also affect the roads, which cancels work and the ability to travel. Last year this time, I lost 15 days of work due to repeated snow and ice storms; in some cases, I was unable to get out of my fucking parking lot (no way in hell will anyone clear the snow and ice out of that area) so I couldn't leave if I wanted to.
As much as I belly-ached about Valentine's yesterday, it was mostly in jest. I had my own fun with the love of my life, food. Mmm Little Ceasar's. Funny how what's a "cheat day" for me now is totally within my calorie limits. It's just the carbs that get me. Why do I do these things? Because I want a six pack just once in my life. I know that's genetic, but I do think I'm genetically ok to get one should I lose enough body fat. The running is definitely helping as I actually lost weight after Friday's binge and was one hundred and ... wait for it ... 69 pounds on Valentine's Day! How appropriate.
I forgot to mention yesterday. I got a Spot Pass Special Mii and guess who it was. Reggie! Yes, it was Reggie Fils-Aime's Mii and he was there to plug the new 3DS. What was he playing? Majora's Mask of course. I wonder if he's actually playing it or some intern has his 3DS and plays it for him.