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One of the unequivical facts of gaming today is that there are not enough new Mega Man games. Heck, there are no new Mega Man games! So when I came across a game on the App Store that is an obviously love letter to the blue bomber, I really want to love it. Steam Punks wears its inspiration pretty blatantly. Sure, it has a...wait for it...steampunk setting instead of some time in the near-ish future but it's totally Mega Man. You can choose what order to play the levels in, the bosses have funny names, and you get their weapons when you beat them. The main character even jumps the same way as Mega Man, lifting his front leg. You know what I'm talking about 
I got nothing. This has been somewhat of a slow week for gaming news in general. I guess I'm still waiting on the release for Revelation 2 this month. I don't know what platform I'm playing on and I don't know if I'm going to wait for the entire game to release and buy it all at once? I'm not excited for Monster Hunter 4 anymore. I guess I could put 300 hours into a portable game, much better than sitting in front of the TV for that long. I played Majoras Mask when it released, and I would have preferred an HD update on WiiU honestly.
I guess the only interesting thing that came up in gaming this week was the inclusion of Episode VII levels in the new Battlfront coming out this year.
As for currently playing, I fired up my Kindle Fire and noticed some great games had gone free.
I'm playing through a couple of interactive story games which are actually two of the best story games I've played in a long time.
One is called 80 Days, in which you travel around the world in a steam punk type world and meet lots of interesting characters along the way. Very text heavy, but very good. Highly recommend, everybody run out and try it.
More riffing on Dragon Magazine #94, February, 1985. In this month and year Frank Herbert published his last Dune novel, Chapterhouse: Dune. I read the first trilogy of Dune books but I didn’t read all of the second. I lost steam after reading Children of Dune. Chapterhouse: Dune was the sixth book. There have been a lot of games of all types based on the Dune novels. The one I’ve been looking for is Dune: The Battle for Arrakis for the Genesis. It hasn’t been in any collections or been downloadable anywhere. You can only play it on the Genesis. Publisher Virgin Interactive is no more and developer Westwood Studios was bought by EA and then closed. So maybe EA has the rights to Dune: The Battle for Arrakis? Who knows.
Today alot of people are gonna be happy in the next few minutes. The midnight release of Monster Hunter 4, Majora's Mask and the New 3DS is tonight. I'm however waiting till Monday at the latest for my Monster hunter themed New 3DS and zelda game. I'm pretty excited to play both titles and anyone wants to hunt monsters online together just let me know. I'll give you my friend code for it. I think I've decided to not transfer my games from my 2DS. I'm pretty content with them staying on it. I still like my 2DS so I wanna keep it. It works perfectly fine and having a back up in emergency cases isn't a bad idea.
I like Psychonauts a lot. The humor is great, the artstyle is fantastic, and the level ideas are really creative. Creativity is actually the word which would best describe the game. For those unfamiliar, the game alternates between the real world and inside people's minds. Once in a mind, it will be a reflection of a person. An overly paranoid guy will imagine everyone spying on him inside his mind, for instance.
This game is a slow burn for sure. I never watched the original Alien movie, though the game makes me want to
I traded in Far Cry 4 and picked up Evolve. Currently waiting for the 3 gig update to download, so my neff is playing in offline mode. It looks like fun so far, plus a rather sizeable chunk of my friends list seem to own the game, which will be cool for assembling a team. From what I have read, randoms can make or break the experience.
I played a few minutes of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on the Internets today. It wasn't bad. The site was a bit slow though, so I stopped.
I preordered Codename: S.T.E.A.M. (out March 13th) yesterday. While I was there, I tried to by a points card for Wii. Last time I got the DSi card and it was good for Wii too. When the Gamestop saleman scanning though, it was no good. So no more points cards for Wii. I'll have to use a card to get my virtual console games or spend big money for a Wii-U. Or, I could get the games I want on 3DS. I'm considering that right now. I'll probably go Wii though.
Yesterday I went over my original X-Box games and it make sense to continue with Microsoft for today’s edition of Blog A Day, so welcome to my 360 Library. Where are my manners? Hello Pixlbit how is your Thursday treating you? I have to say so far my Thursday is going well. I took in the new episode of Arrow last night and this was the first time I actually watched an episode as it aired. Before that it was all Netflix and CW App. The one disappointment I do have is that my cable doesn’t offer the CW in HD. Blah! Anyways enough of my show based loosely based off a comic, it’s not Quick Hits so it’s all video games! Let’s get started with my 360 library.
I've never been into racing games very much, other than things like Mario Kart and F-Zero, but I loved Hydro Thunder in the arcade. That was an awesome game! Riptide GP 2 reminds me of it. Oh, it's not the same, of course, but the racing-on-water thing is and it provided me a great burst of nostalgia. The game stands on its own, at least so far, as a great racing game in its own right.
I wrote my second Under-Appreciated Awesomeness blog. You can read it here.
Today was pretty productive. We got the Sam's Club membership going so once we get settled in to our new home in March we can go shopping there. I'm really hopeing it helps us since we can buy everything in bulk and go longer without spending and worrying about food all the time. We also got caught up on comics since we took out the bill money and had some left over. We wanted to try to get caught up before the move so we weren't endlessly behind. Our comic shop knows us as regulars so we know they will work with us. The downside? I'm at work on low sleep. I'll survive, I always do. It just sucks! Normally Wednesdays are like this for the most part. I won't be on nights much longer hopefully. I told them I need a 40 hour day shift closer to our new apartment. I'm hopeing they come through and get me something or I'm job searching again. well I hope yall have had a great day!
Every now and then there is an urge to play this GBA game that I got since the last time I’ve been in Ohio. I have missed a few MegaTen games that were actually released in the US at the time I was visiting Ohio so sadly my first experience with the series was DemiKids: Dark Version. this game, along with its White Version counterpart, is in a way a gateway title to draw Pokemon fans to Atlus’ flagship series and it wasn’t that bad. If you had played another game from the series such as Strange Journey or Nocturne you’ll notice a few differences in this GBA title but you can see where the MegaTen roots would be. The reason why I haven’t beaten this game yet is one feature that turned me off: the fusion system. I love fusioning demons whenever I play these games but I suppose I was turned off by the lack of a guide on fusion. In fact I think there isn’t an actual guide in english on DemiKids fusions and everyone else is just as clueless as I am. It gets worse when the order of which demons you select for fusion comes up with a different result when selected in reverse.
I feel pretty BaD not contributing lately since everybody is going crazy with BaD. Also, I'm not very good at coming up with blog titles in case anybody never noticed. Snee is the master in that regard. I'd like to just say Random Update, but that's Tami's thing. So here's some more random crap I've been doing.