Daredevil, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Storm and Thing. These are your starter heroes in the new free to play MMO game based on the Marvel Universe called “Marvel Heroes”. I’ve been playing this game since it launched yesterday and I haven’t quite formed a final opinion about it just yet. How could I since I’ve only played about one-third of the game so far. MMO is kind of a weird category to put this game under because an MMO typically entails having a large sprawling world with deep customization features and epic storylines and community driven game play. This game does have a great epic story, by heavily borrowing from the canon of Marvel comics and its heroes and villains how could it not be epic. The game lacks the large open ended world in favor of a more fragmented level design divided by chapters similar to “Diablo III” or the recently released action RPG “The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing,” which I recommend you all run out and buy if you like that sort of game. Marvel Heroes is better categorized as an action RPG, because it’s very similar to the simplistic left-click, right-click, click-click-click-click game play style of the Diablo and Torchlight series.
I’m aware that writing a countdown is a cheap and easy way to generate page hits and drum up popularity for your blog. You don’t have to go through the effort of crafting a narrative, and errors in grammar or diction are less noticeable when digested in bite-sized snippets of opinions and description. That having been said, let’s do more of the countdown! This time I will be writing about the sad sacks from 110-101, those guys that couldn’t quite crack the seemingly important yet completely arbitrary TOP 100! Haha, losers. No, I'm kidding; don't feel bad for them. They often possess many positive qualities, and are certainly sentimental favorites for many. Without further ado…..
Kind of turning into one of those ghosts around here, been busy lately. Thought I'd post a few thoughts on some games I've been playing though.
I hope you all are not as busy as I am. I been coming home from work later than usual and after that I have two kids to deal with. As for gaming, I am currently downloading State of Decay. I am really stoked to play it! I haven't played any games in 3D yet. I had a HDMI cable that can display 3D. I had to just move some cables around. I am excited to game more now that I haven surround sound and this badass new TV. I will let you know my thoughts. I did though watch Dredd 3D. It was a cheap movie so I picked it up. I am impressed! The 3D effects were incredible. The movie I thought was so so.
Bill stops and looks at the wastelands that was once a thriving metropolis. Zoey look over at Bill and asks:
I cancelled my preorder for Muramasa Rebirth and bought Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask for 3DS to play on my family trip to Ohio on Friday to see my niece graduate high school. It’s the perfect thing for being stuck in a car for seven plus hours. Also, it makes me look slightly more mature to my family than playing Shadow Wars, Etrian Odyessy, Fire Emblem or Luigi’s Mansion, all of which are gamer games. It’s like I’m saying, “Don’t mind me, I’m just a casual gamer like yourselves. No hard core gamer to worry about here.”
I was actually wanting to see his new Avatar: Last Airbender vlog, but he had this posted instead.
Gamespot gave The Last of Us an 8, and a bunch of ignorant, entitled buffoons who haven't played the game think the reviewer should lose his job because they have a pre-conceived notion of how the game will turn out. Well, so much for gamers being mature.
I haven't been around here on PixlBit much in the last two weeks or so. My wife and I moved over the weekend and had been packing everything up before that. Busy busy busy. Work has also been very demanding lately, so my plate's been pretty full. On top of that we had to wait two extra days to get our internet up and running because Verizon lost our initial order. So, as you can imagine, I haven't had time to play any games during all of this, other than a few on my iPhone. I got sucked into one called Dungelot that's basically a casual roguelike. Each floor of the dungeon is a 5x6 grid of tiles and you tap to uncover them, revealing...sometimes nothing but more than not you'll find a monster or a power up or treasure. One of the monsters holds the key to the next floor and you can move on as soon as you find it, though the reward for clearing the floor is often worth the trouble. It's game over when you die but you do keep the money you found and it can be used to buy permanent upgrades for your character, making it easier to get a little farther the next time. There are quite a few more wrinkles to keep things interesting, including different playable characters to unlock, like a vampire and a dwarf (you start as a paladin). I've enjoyed it a lot overall and it's great for playing in little bursts of a few minutes, which is about all I've had recently.
So I finally decided to get my stuff out of the spare room and turn it into a play room for my Coopa. But in order to get my stuff out, I had to do a bit of renovating to my Man Cave in regards to storage. It turned out really well, so I decided to share it with you all (Plus, you get a sneak peek into where I normally play games!).
Hey guys! I've been playing some games, as I tend to do, and I thought I'd let you know of three that I four that were just released on Steam that you absolutely should pick up!
I'm sure there are tons of people that are simply besides themselves over this announcement from Lionhead Studios. Fable(2004) is being released for the Xbox 360, with remastered graphics, 1080p support. Achievment support, and The lost chapters will also be included all set for a Holiday 2013 Release.
Lionhead Studios has been teasing a game for a couple days now, and have finally revealed what it was.
The update side of my blog might seem kind of dead next gen wise. Im honestly sick of reading and looking at anything about the next gen systems. Its a constant swing back and forth and quite honestly its making me sick. I mean, literally making me sick. I feel like puking up each time more BS pops up. I jsut want E3 to get here so everything will come to light about the systems and I can finally stop seeing rumors and other BS about them. I however did read 2 interesting things that I can share and not feel sick. Apparently and while it is not a fact or anything a lot of price analyst*I think thats the name used for them* See to think that while Xbox 1 will be at least 400 and over they seem to predict the PS4 will have 1 model price at 350. I know that you cant trust this sort of thing right off but I kind of hope the PS4 does start at 350. I know, Im prolly dreaming but its nice to think about. The second bit of new is the Wii U Basic model is possiably being discontinued. It might only be Gamestop doing away with the basic model but everyone seems to be speculating that during E3 Nintendo will announce another model price set to go along side the deluxe. Maybe a White Deluxe set? Idk, but when I read about it I was a lil shocked. If they truely are doing away with the Basic they might just drag down sales more for the Wii U. The Basic is the cheapest price set and sometimes, especially in todays time go for the cheapest verison of things. If the Wii U will build a bigger game library the sales would increase for it. Im hopeing with E3 Nintendo will do just that.
This is a follow up from my last one about the SNES.
Basically, just because the system is discontinued doesn't mean that you'll never be able to play those fun games! Here, I'll show people many different ways to play the games of yesteryear.
First and foremost, there is emulation. Just in case you don't know, an emulator is a computer program that imitates the hardware of a video game console. In this case, it lets you load rom files, which are copies of games. So basically, you can play those games on your laptop or home pc. Although, legally it is against the law to emulate any game that you don't own a physical copy of. Now, I won't/ can't point you in the direction of where to get these things off the internet, but you can get anything these days by googling it, now can you? 
This past weekend, I attended Project A-Kon with a few of my brothers. A-Kon is a long-running anime convention in the Dallas area. I did enough stuff there to consider it ‘blog-worthy’ so here are a few blurbs and things about the event!
So here is a poem I wrote for a special friend (not giving a name cause you should know by now :P) She told me to post it in public after giving it to her so here.
So if you're wondering where I was, I had a job opportunity with Moxie Pest Control selling year-long contracts door-to-door. Yesterday, after having studied the manual cover-to-cover, buying a new belt, and getting pumped for the opportunity to earn $20,000+ in a summer while I psyched myself up over the weekend, I sold two accounts, which I was repeatedly told was a great first day.
Less than 6 days remain. Looking forward to visiting some of you in your towns. Let's meet up and do nothing together. I'll be Jerry. :D See you on Sunday and remember, if someone has chopped down all your trees, dug holes all over the place and sold your furniture to Tom Nook it wasn't me.
I bailed on saving for a PSVita the other day and instead went and picked up Bioshock Infinite and God of War Ascention brand new at Gamestop for $40 each. Happily the saleswoman didn’t try to convince me to buy the used versions. In fact we got into a long, and genuine, conversation about games and comics, not the usual Gamestop BS where the salesperson chats you up and then tries to get you to preorder something. I’ll gut the pig that does that to me next time. Kidding! I’m a friendly guy. I like pigs too. When they’re bacon of course. Kidding! I hardly ever eat bacon.