E-Sports is on the rise it seems. I decided to watch the live stream of the LoL Season 3 Championship Final. It was held at the Staple Center. That is crazy and when the showed the crowd, It looked like the place was packed. It was really cool that they did interviews with semi famous people that enjoy League of Legends. There was an NFL kicker, I am pretty sure he was the kicker, for the Vikings. He talked about how he enjoyed playing the game and even watching the tourney.
I had some thoughts of things to post over the weekend, but I did not. I find myself running away from computers over the weekends and and touch them only if I am dying. So, I have already failed in my challenge to try and post a blog a day in October. I am perfectly fine with this because I am still going strong with my Metroid Fusion challenge, and I will get it to that later on.
I did want to mention Shovel Knight over the weekend. I got a Kickstarter update that had an HD trailer attached to it, and boy does the game look amazing. It is one of my most anticipated games for the rest of the year. I hope that it comes out this year. Anyways, I though that I would insert the trailer for the benefit of those who have not watched the gloriousness of Shovel Knight already.
Monday I played World Series of Poker: Full House Pro on XBLA with my friend Mad Krammer. I've been choosing tournament play because it's a shorter, elimination type game. Standard Ring games can go on forever with people popping in and out at random. I'd do ranked games but you can't bring your friends with you. You have to play alone against other ranked players. That's no fun. There's a single player mode too but again, no party, no fun. It looks like Monday nights are the only times I'm going to get with my friend anymore though. WSOP is fun, but I wonder sometimes why I'm playing a card game on a system that can render whole worlds like in Skyrim.
Hopefully you guys have checked out my latest feature, and if you have then you might know that I'm pretty stoked for Pokemon X and Y. One thing I didn't really get into was my history with the Anime. I grew up watching it, and stayed with it much longer than I should have. While I have great memories, the show was pretty sub par in the long run. I always wished for a Pokemon anime that represented the games properly. Less miraculous victories, stupid decisions, and I don't know, maybe a protagoinst who actually grows as a character?
So I managed to catch up on Breaking Bad just under a week after the series finale. I'm hating myself for seeing this show earlier. Some time during the third season, I began having the feeling that the entire series was written prior to filming. Nothing in the show felt out of place or irrelevant. In fact, the entire run seemed very lean and streamlined to me.
It's been awhile since my last update, mostly due to zombieing out often. Despite this I'm going to try to keep up with my blogs, especially this week with Pokemon X/Y coming out next Saturday. 
What’s up Pixlbit! It’s Friday and I want to cover some of the TV Shows I’m watching this season. To keep it quick, I’ll follow this format: One sentence synopsis, Pro’s, and Con’s. Cool? Cool.
Day 4. This is unprecedented and I suppose that I will have the same reaction tomorrow when I sit down and write something up. Since I have already posted a blog a day for the first three days of October I am going to try and write a blog a day. This may only end up lasting a week, but I will definitely try to make it to the end of the month. Probably the biggest reason that I would like to try this is because my thought process has been slowly clearing up as the days go by. There are two specific things that I wanted to go over today, and I will probably ramble onto a third or fourth item by the end of it.
I have been doing a little Christmas shopping already. I already know what my wife wants and I thought that I may as well order some stuff early. Along with what I ordered for her, I also picked up some stuff that I felt was a good or great deal. A 32 GB memory card for the Vita was only $45 at Best Buy and I had to jump on that. Also, classic Doctor Who has been on special throughout the year for the 50th anniversary and I thought that I would order a couple more stories. I have been working through the Black Guardian Trilogy and decided to get a couple more Peter Davison stories, Resurrection of the Daleks and The Ark of Infinity. Rayman Legumes on Vita dropped to $30 and so I grabbed that because I have been working on Oranges and have been wanting a portable platformer. I did recently get PS+ just for the Vita games. Not to waste the opportunity, I made sure that my brother logged onto my account on his PS3 and add the games to my download list. I want to be prepared in case I actually replace my old PS3.
I have decided to sit down and try to speedrun through Metroid Fusion. I am not going to try and beat the best time out there, 48 minutes, but I would like to challenge myself and see how quickly I can do it. I practically know the game by heart and the moment I step back into Samus' shoes I can remember nearly everything about the game. If I put on the song "Blue and Yellow" by the used, I am sure that I can remember the rest. I listened to that song throughout my first couple of times through the game so I am sure that it will stimulate some long dormant memories. The time that I am going to try for is going to be 75 minutes, but I fully expect it to take a couple of playthroughs, but I think that I can do it.
I am going to leave it there and will hopefully be back tomorrow.
No, that's not a typo. This is a game reviewed by me from 10 years ago. I was a much different person convinced that I was going to be a video game journalist. So convinced in fact, I wrote and self-published my own reviews and magazine called "The Black Reviewer". Yeah, the name was bad in retrospect. Nevertheless, I wrote many reviews for myself back then and this is where my passion for writing (and subsequently fighting games) really started. The following is from one of my favorite reviews that I ever wrote. It is almost completely unedited with the removal of one small detail. Unfortunately, everything else is the same include the really terrible typos amassed throughout. So with that...um..enjoy? I think?
That's right, Video Games have struck again. These electronic demons have forced most young children to bring guns to school, as we all know. Studies have shown, after all. And this week, it happened again. A kid brought a gun to school. What caused it? What monstrosity was it this time? Grand Theft Auto V? Call of Duty? Mass Effect?
I received this as a gift awhile back and decided to try it out in the spirit of the season. I can't quite get the knack of it yet. Actually, I had a hard time with the first one as well and never got far in it. Bashing zombies is fun but I never really seem to make any progress in the actual game.
It’s that time of year again. All the holiday game releases start bunching up, so I have to eat a can of spinach, transform into Super Cary, and start reviewing games like a madman. So you may see these game review list blogs more often for the next couple of months. As always, please click on and read as many reviews as you can and post comments on them, too. I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.
As the survivors approach an abandoned amusement park they see where there has been fresh signs of life. Could it be survivors or maybe even their own band of survivors? As our tired goup walks through the park they see a Ferris Wheel tha has been used lately. Bil looks up and says well someone had to be let down from here, any guesses as to who? Francis says "I bet it was the stupid kid that was always wanting to ride something." Louis says " I bet it was Rochelle as she was always thinking ahead and thiought she could get a better view as to what was coming next". Zoey says " I think it was Coach because he wanted to prove he could still do things even at his weight." Bill says" I think it was Ellis because he was the only one young and stupid enough to put everyone at risk by going out on his own." I say we just get through this place and move forward, Francis says. if you look around you will see that several battles have been waged here and I really don't want to be a part of any others. There came a haunting laugh from behind them which sent chills through them all. As the group turns to look they see the lille girl that had followed them, heped them? or tormented them for most of there trip. As the group leaves the park and sees the gate to their final destination, the sound of gun fire erupts around them. Bill recognigezs the sound of military weapons and leads the survivors to an abondoned building. It is only then Bill realizes that the gun fire came from the other half of their own group they left in Sacramento. He couldn't figure out why they would shoot at them until he realized they were wearing radiation suits. Bill looks over his travleing companions and says " I hope the radiation is gone now because it's time to give up the suits." Zoey takes his arm ans says "What if it's not?" Bill looks at Zoey solemly and says "Then the radiation will kill us rather than the survivors." Bill removes his suit and starts to the door, With guns on him Bil cries out " We are the survivors that you left in Sacramento, we are not infected, can we all join up now?" A single shot rings out as Bill falls back into the building. THe Hormonal Loille Bitch is watching closely as Lucy Ann runs to Bill's side. What happened here and by who's orders?
At this point I am sure that you are getting sick of hearing from me. I know that I will eventually run out of things to say, but for now I still feel like writing. It is quite possible that I may keep it up all month and write a blog a day. I am doing pretty good so far. It is October 3rd and I am working on my 3rd post of the month.
This apparently is not working out so well. I am actually starting this thing for the third time at this point. I did not like where I was going when talking about upcoming games that excite me, so I started over. Then I started to talk about problems with commenting on bigger sites, but what I was trying to say was not coming together nicely.
I always hear these horror stories about playing games online. If you play any of the big online shooters you are bound to run into some foul-mouthed little kids. I have played Halo online on and off for the past 3 years, but have only experienced these kids a couple of times. Even the brief time that I spent with CoD was not too bad. My bad experiences with gamers online always seems to be in the comments section on the larger sites. After reading an article and some of the comments sometimes I feel as though I have someting to add to the conversation. I think that it has finally sunk in today that I do not have a single thing to add to big sites. People can be extra vicious and rather than letting a stupid comment slide or ask for clarification, they attack. Apparently any comment that might appear to be anti-microsoft makes you a Sony fanboy and vice-versa. Since it was a hot topic, you comment about Dragon's Crown's artwork. If you like it you maybe were labeled a misogynist. This is what ends up being my problem with the bigger gaming sites. The communities can be toxic and quite uninviting. In the end, I have deleted my IGN account and I will only be frequenting the larger sites for what they do best, news.