Time Warner's cable guy came today unexpectedly and everything worked again ... then the cable guy left and it all stopped working again ... then many hours later after we told them what happened and troubleshooted, it was back on.
Well E3 has come and gone, and even though I didn’t get to go this year, I thought I’d still write a blog about the E3 news stories that interested me most. But first, you’ll have to put up with a little rant from me on WHY I didn’t get to go to E3 this year. Sorry.
So I'm sure I will be getting a lot of comments about all the great JRPG's that have retained the classic standard for combat on the DS and PS handhelds. But I personally thinks its BS that these games are not being supported on the console plugged into my TV. And yes this "rant" is aimed at FF15 more or less. I suppose that after 13 years I should accept the fact that this series is dead and over. The overly effeminent, feathered haired, glam-goth protagonists really don't appeal to me. But more than anything was seeing that they are not even trying to stay within the genre that gave birth to these games.
I know I havent been around a lot lately, I apologize, AC is stealing my attention for the most Part and I picked up another game tonight that might be doing that even more. I however have tryed to stay informed and update best I can even if it is from the shadows. I have like everyone lese been paying attention to E3 and while it has cleared up somethings and made things worse in other ares I cant help but feel like, it was different this year. You know how a lot of us, even myself have complained saying E3 has been quite a drag these past few years? This year....it feels different. I dont know why, I dont know if its is because of the new consoles or what but it has felt very different, for me atleast it has. I will say that Sony didnt fail me, they relieved my fears of used games and the always online crap. Im shocked though that they are taking such a different route though. Normally you would think that they would all be following suit but no, its jsut MS, being fuckheads. Im sorry, after they have acted so stuck up and anti game consumer Ive been a bit on the go fuck urself stance about them.
It has been such a crazy week. I have slept far less than I normally would. I have two equally sound theories. One is the fact that I have just moved to a far quieter neighborhood, away from the highway. It is quite possible that I need it to be noisy when I sleep. The other theory is the PS4. I joined Sony's pre-E3 conference just over halfway through. I saw all of the important PS4 related news and pre-ordered one the moment that amazon would let you. Thankfully, I did not wait until morning, because I am sure that the Launch edition would have been gone by that point. I think that the excitement of the PS4 may have interfered with my sleeping habits.
Just an FYI - I think I have blog autosaving fixed up nice and proper now. I spotted a bug in the backend that I think was causing the failure. Now if a failure happens, you'll be alerted and given the opportunity to copy-paste your work into another editor. If the save process is successful, it'll update the "Last Saved" date in the upper right hand corner. Even if you don't get the alert, you should see a last saved date/time that's very close to the current time.
Hope you get to kick back and enjoy the day on Sunday.
E3, I'm surprised. You've announced a lineup of games that actually seem innovative and don't require intelligent people to bash their heads against hard surfaces as a pre-requisite to play. I mean, there's Killzone, CoD, and Battlefield, but for the most part, I'm pretty pleased with this year's announcement lineup. These are the top 10 games that really get my oil pumping, if you know what I mean.
So I just received access to the Beta of Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn for the PS3. I applied for this months ago on their website so it’s a nice Friday surprise. My hopes aren’t too high as I’ve only heard negative things about the initial release for PC but I’m interested in checking it out. I’ll put a few hours into it tonight and over the weekend and decide if it’s worth the investment at release. I’ve never actually played a MMO so I’m sure I’ll be lost at the start but I’ll sure as hell give it a good attempt.
I'm glad you asked that question! For me, the new Smash Bros. info from Nintendo was the most exciting part of E3. The new characters have me excited. I have been anticipating it ever since the info came out that it was in development months ago. First though, a history lesson!
We all got a lot of the coverage so what is your favorites and disappointments of E3? Here is mine.
I'm only going to stick with games here, no PS4 included. But there will be some PS4 games making it on here. Some of these are based on surprise factor while others are further adding to my excitement. There are some games such as Wind Waker HD or Rayman Legends, which while I'm excited for, will not make an appearance because E3 did nothing to further this. It is saved for the games that really got me stoked to play them during this week.
So we all saw Sony kick Microsoft's teeth in on Monday. Now that I've calmed down, I want to post a more sober assessment of what we've seen. That being the biggest moment of the show worries me.