It had been such a long time since I downloaded Palidin that I couldn’t remember what kind of game it was. Turned out to be a gamebook and a very text heavy one at that. The App Store has tons of great gamebooks (so I’m told) and I’ve always wanted to try one, so Palidin’s nature seemed a fortuitous discovery. Turned out to be a very conservative experience for a digital gamebook, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The developers really ran with the idea of a physical book. You swipe to turn pages that are usually filled with just text, though you’ll get a picture now and then, and sound effects enact the described action. To be honest, it’s really more of a choose your own adventure. Sure, you gain experience and levels and can get items but there’s no combat outside of choosing whether or not to fight. The game let’s you make plenty of choices but many of them lead to your death. Seems a little arbitrary. Still, the writing is decent and the story, while just a series of choices and encounters, remains intriguing throughout. I actually beat the game over the course of one day and discovered that it is but the first part of a larger story. A quick look at the developer’s website reveals that the remainder of the game is coming sometime in the next couple of months but I’m not sure if it will be a second app or an update to the existing one. I’ll play it for sure if it’s an update but I’m not sure I’ll plop down money for the rest of it. We’ll see. I should probably just bite the bullet and download Sorcery! or one of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.
Lots of goodness going on. People posting music, game deals. Get on in there Pixlbits!
Sorry I didn't have time for my final part of fighting game thingy. Yesterday I had 0 hours of sleep and today I didn't get any till at least 2. I'm super worn down and not in a writing mood right now. So, I'll write my final part on Monday. Beyond that, I haven't done much. Played Skullgirls Encore and Tekken Revolution, both which were dumb ideas to do when you haven't had much sleep. So, that's pretty much it. I hope you all had a decent V-Day. See you on Monday.
Still plenty of time to wager a guess at this week's Trivia Thusday, if you so choose to.
There were a few years where I was too busy to play anything, but about 1995, I reestablished a friendship with one of the old gang, my current gaming pal Mark, from the neighborhood of my high school years. We got right into gaming, of course, starting with the PC. We had several PC’s with P75 processors linked up to play Doom, Doom II, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Heretic, WarCraft: Orcs & Humans, and WarCraft II. It was all about FPS’s and network play mostly.
Which one should I complete first? I started both but never finished either, it's been so long I barely remember what they are about.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc!!!!! No not really, it is however one of my new favorite games!
At least, that is what we were taught in Catholic school. Despite no longer being Catholic (which I don't want to dwell on), I still think some of the stories about the saints were pretty cool.
Hello fellow Pixlbit folks! It’s Friday, I’m running on a couple of hours of sleep, and for many of you good folks, you’re going to be celebrating Valentine’s Day with your special people. I’m single so I’m going to be spending money on myself and I will probably be hitting the local mom & pop music store today along with a couple of thrift stores. Since it is Friday it is time for another Quick Hits with Chris. Today I thought I would go over my thoughts about the Olympics, Another game is knocked off Mount Backlog, and of course pickups, so let’s get this party started!
Funny, just as the same time as i'm expanding my gaming horizons and i'm trying to discover many more music, i'm seem to have mostly left movies behind. Don't get me wrong, I still love cinema as a medium, but because of not paying much attention to it since the 2013 Oscars, I still have many movies i'm eager to see, but still haven't gotten the oportunity to do so. It's also because of this, and other factors as time and lazyness, that 2013 was a very light year with movies. Still, I managed to catch some of the bigger releases and to keep track of a list of the few ones I saw, so without anything else to say, here's the movies of 2013 (from my personal best to worst):
Thanks to my street not being paved today, I am home once again instead of risking life and limb to be in the office. And that's just fine with me! I will need to dig my car out from the surround bank of snow, but I'll wait until the sun really heats things up this afternoon. Otherwise, I'm all set for the weekend. Also, it's mid-February, which means that I made it through half the month on the Blog A Day challenge! Woo Hoo!
Welp, we got some US sales figures last night. Here's my take:
I should be happy about work today. Today is the last home basketball game that I have to clean-up after. When it comes to things that have kicked my ass the most these past 3 months, it's pretty close between shitty winter weather and the baskeball season of the school where I work. After tonight, it's all over.
Love is in the air! Can you feel it!? Can you feel the love tonight!? I bet you you can! Cause if there is one holiday I can't wait for it's Valentine's Day! And omg...that's today!!!!
I have been planning blog after blog to write up and post before this and yet I never did. I didnt want this blog to be the one that my days long silence breaks but its funny how life as other plans. Im not writing to bitch about this day because I have nothing against it. That doesnt mean I love it either though. On this day in 2010 I lost My Grandfather Pops and while it was a day that ended his suffering it still hit me like a ton of breaks to my chest. It still does even 4 years later. There are days I wake up and wonder if maybe it was all a dream and that my grandmother will call saying Pops is fine but just like that reailty sets in and it becomes sadly apparent it wasnt a dream.
My xbox one is acting weird. It won't load CoD Ghost so I am going back to my 360 for awhile until the next update comes out which is pretty soon. Anyway. I was looking through my backlog and I finally was able to decide to continue Fallout 3. I beat the main game but I have all the DLC so I am doing that.
At college, I hated the sight of a TV. I wanted none of the life I’d had at home of ritual TV watching on the couch every day. I was out skiing to classes in the Winter and hiking all over the woods surrounding the school. So I didn’t even think about home consoles like the NES, which I didn’t even know existed until I started getting back into consoles with the Playstation years later.