Can you believe this year is already half over? What I like to do this time of year is write about the best games of the year 2014 so far. Most of the really good titles come out during the Christmas season at the tail end of the year, and the games that come out earlier tend to be forgotten. So this is where those games get their due.
Embracing PC gaming continues to be economically rewarding. Here's my haul from the Steam Summer Sale.
I finished up Shovel Knight sometime yesterday. I hope to be able to compile together a few thoughts on my first playthrough of the game. The only issue with this is that most of them may have already been said better in the reviews.
Another Steam Sale, another feed of games to add to the backlog.
Well I hope everyone here is well, I know I havent been around a whole lot but...blame my alienware laptop and the Witcher for that. There the crimnals in this affair, not me! With this laptop ive been able to do way more in the area of PC gaming then I could before. Not to mention its travel handy which I needed for my job. Nightshift can get a bit boring in the caregiving line of business. I mostly been playing the Witcher which I beat about 2 days ago I wanna say. The game was excellent and I loved it. However Im playing the sequel and there are def differences between it and the first game that Im trying to adjust to but im not excatly happy about either. Im still gonna play it and beat it, The story and characters have their claws in my skin so far that I refuse to let some differences deter me! For those who conqured the second game first, i bow to you since you made a pretty good choice compared to my situation but hey thats a video games life, things change during the course of a games line sometimes and we can either continue on or accept game over.
A ton of DRM free bundles for next to nothing. Yes they are older games but if you can't find anything on there you want to buy you're just not trying.
No gaming for me today. You would think I would have something else to do, but I really don’t. I could go hiking (tired from work – nah), read a book (did that already), see a movie (may still do that. I heard How to Train Your Dragon 2 is good but Transformers is on IMAX 3D. I may do that instead), play some music (don’t want to be cooped up doing that unless I had someone to jam with, and I don’t, band mate moved to Maine), play Tearaway on my Vita (somehow I want something more meaty to do), or hang out with friends (my only friend right now is my gaming buddy Mark and he’s busy with his girlfriend – BAH!). So I’m doing the only other thing I do on a lonely day, type this stuff at my favorite coffee shop, get wired on coffee, and try to think about gaming – or writing – or anything really.
I'm awake, I'm alive. I haven't made much progress in any game I've been playing, which is why there are no updates. (Well, I did make progress in Atelier Escha & Logy, I just have to push through and finish it.) I just bought a ton of stuff on the Steam Sale.
On the PSN new release list this week was a PSP/Vita RPG called End of Serenity from Kemco. I mentioned is in an earlier blog.
Hey ya'll! What has everyone been up to? You can tell me later. This is kinda like talking in an answering machine.
In the land of Gem Stones, you are an adventurer looking for the magical gems that will make your dreams come true. Battle each of the gem holders for possession of all twelve.
So I was browsing rottentomatoes to see what movies are coming out next month that are on my need-to-see-in-theaters list and discovered this.
So just what have I been up to in the (more than a) month since I last posted? Lots of stuff.
So now that I graduated, I did three things: Join this fine Pixlbit staff now that I have more time to write, start a book titled "365 Days of Bullshit" (which if I don't publish it will at least be available online), and use some of my grad money to build a PC. So with the help of one of my best friends, I just finished getting the last of the parts and now have a checklist of everything I bought:
Starting tomorrow is the Too Many Games Convention at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Phoenixville, PA, which is not in the city but in the suburbs. This convention is like practically in my back yard, and it's gotten bigger and bigger every year, but I haven't planned for it again, and so won't be going. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!! Let's look at what I'm going to be missing and then maybe I'll buy tickets for next year.