Okay, here's the deal. I like doing top 10 lists. For some reason I got it into my head to do a series of top 10s about each year in the 2000's – because hey, that's when I truly became a gamer. I mean, I gamed before then, sure, but this was when I went from kid who plays games sometimes to kid who religiously buys Playstation magazines.
About some days later or so and just as I bought the last Humble Indie Bundle, a weekly bundle came in the form of games for an organization promoting girls to work on videogames. I was interested in the bundle from the get-go, since it had The Cat Lady and Long Live The Queen, games I had on my wishlist and l was interested in playing. The other games included Lilly Looking Through (who our beloved staff member Matt Snee reviewed), Ms. Splosion Man and two games I didn't know before called Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten and The Yawhg, which after seeing their trailers, I got interest in them. Valdis Story: Abyssal City was also on the pack as the top tier reward, but because I already had that game, I went with the first two tiers only. I just bought the pack about 10 minutes ago and there's only ONE day left, so if you're interested, go right here.
Hello Pixlbit! Lately I've just been playing a ton of Destiny. Doing a lot of bounties for the Vanguard and the Queen. Currently I'm level 26 with my Warlock and I've been stuck at that level for a while. I started a Hunter class and have her at level 23. A few days ago I started a Titan class because I didn't have anything else to do. When I take a break from Destiny, I start to play some Diablo 3. Going through different classes in that game has been passing time by.
I really played a lot of EDF 2025 today as the Air Raider. My friend Mark and I played co-op from where we left off yesterday to about level 30 on Hard before we started getting stuck on certain levels. For some reason the difficulty spikes a little bit after level 25 or so. I was under armored and lacking in really effective weapons anyway, so we returned to the beginning and started running through all the levels on Hardest difficulty basically to farm for weapons and armor.
I could have got this if I would have entered the Tourney they had cause im very very good at this game in fact I own both games.
Well, Hyrule Warriors has been released, and it’s a mix up of two different game series. It combines The Legend of Zelda’s characters and settings with Dynasty Warriors’ action and gameplay. So that got me to thinking: what other games would make good Dynasty Warriors crossovers? Here are my top five picks.
There were games galore to choose from. It was a good time to be a gamer with SNES and Genesis battling it out. Ones that made the first cut were: Wolverine [NES], Robin Hood Prince of Thieves [NES], Uncharted Waters [NES], Batman: Return of the Joker [NES], Road Rash [Genesis], Dark Castle [Genesis], Phantasy Star III [Genesis], Streets of Rage [Genesis], Warrior of Rome [Genesis], P.G.A. Tour Golf [Genesis], Ys III [Genesis], Final Fantasy II [SNES], Pilotwings [SNES], Twin Bee '91 [arcade], Duke Nukem [PC], and Secret of Monkey Island 2 [PC]. So many good ones here, but I had to revisit Dark Castle. It's lucky that I have a friend who can lend me his copy for this.
Well hello good people of the Pixlbit Galaxy! How was your weekend? Anything good happen? Did you take down that game from your backlog or find something cool? My weekend was filled with naps, football, the swapmeet, and I actually fired up a couple of my consoles. Sorry 360, I still haven’t played anything since August.
I started up an Air Raider class today in EDF 2025 after I finished my retro games and called in an Howitzer attack on some ants. It was very impressive and annihilated a whole city block. Then I spent a lot of time toolling around in a tank. It made me nigh invulnerable to spider webbing. I like that!
A big year for NES. Here's what made the first cut of probably two score games: Final Fantasy [NES], Maniac Mansion [NES], Dragon Warrior II [NES], Pinball Quest [NES], River City Ransom [NES], Sword of Vermillion [Genesis], Batman The Video Game [Genesis], Fire Shark [Genesis], Fist of the North Star: 10 Big Brawls [GB], Secret of Monkey Island [PC], Panzer Battles [PC], Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge [PC], and Commander Keen [PC]. My first choice was Wizardry: BotCF, and it's available on Steam, but I'm allergic to PCs, so I went with a game I had in my collection and haven't played yet, Pinball Quest on NES. That went too quickly so I added Secret of Monkey Island because the Special Edition trial has been sitting on my Xbox for years now.
Games that made it past my first cut of a score of games were: Dragon Warrior [NES], Romance of the Three Kingdoms [NES], Nobunaga's Ambition [NES], Fist of the North Star [NES], Defender of the Crown [NES], Super Mario Land [GB], Military Madness [TG-16], Golden Axe [Genesis], Phantasy Star II [Genesis], Herzog Zwei [Genesis], Final Fight [arcade], Sky Adventure [arcade], Tecmo Knight [arcade], and Warlords [PC]. My first choices were Herzog Zwei and Fist of the North Star, but Herzog Zwei is rare and not ported anywhere and my friend picked up Fist of the North Star for me after I started my third choice, TuboGrafx-16's Military Madness. It's available on Virtual Console and I had points left over - done.
So I traded in Destiny with it. I liked the game, but there was not enough to keep the game fresh. There was plenty of content, but what it lacked was effort.
easily the cheapest, most bullshit boss fight in Dark Souls II. Beating it is the only thing standing in the way of my platinum. I hit his bitch ass with a shot of Outcry...then 3 Flame Swathes...then 3 Dance Of Fire shots....and he still didn't go down.
For some reason I have a save file for Alan Wake on my 360, but I couldn't find the game box any where and I know I've never played it. I'm assuming it was a demo at some point, and that's what my save file is for. Any how, I have the game on PC and I'm playing it for the first time. I only got throught the first part but so far the introduction has me hooked in-- in short I love what I'm seeing.
I should tread back a bit and remind everybody that I was planning on playing shooter/horror games for fall, and I chose this game since I've never played it before as a selection. I can't say much about it except I like the story, characters, location and mystery behind the game. I'm a bit weird about the combat mechanics, but the atmosphere is enough to keep me going.
I went back and watched all of "Twin Peaks" series, David Lynch films and this game gives me those vibes, which is a good thing. It's kind of like Deadly Premonition, which I'm also playing at the moment.
A really dark disturbing little indie game. Blake will rave about it if you ask him. I bought it ages ago because, er, Blake raved about it.
Hello Friday, I have missed you. Friday is such a good day because it’s the end of the work week, and it sounds like Fried which is always good when adding it to a word like Chicken, Pork, or placed in the middle of Deep (____) Food. I’m currently listening to my iPod while typing up this blog. I’m still on the fence about a game that I either might pick up just to play this weekend, or I will hit up some thrift stores later on today. Anyways it’s a cool 77 degrees but today