Well i will say first off i'm not much of a blogger but I will try to write here when I can :). Anyways I guess since this is my first blog I should get some introductions out of the way.
I know there are many of you with strong opinions against EA but hear me out! On the surface, when you hear the name EA, you immediately think of annual iterations and watered down, mainstreamed products for mass marketing appeal. Delve deeper than that and look at the Developers under EA's canon.
I have reached that point in the Tomb Raider reboot where I cannot take it anymore. This game is boring. Ignoring any comparisons to the past games it is not technically doing much wrong. Controls are tight, weapons (especially the shotgun) feel good, and the graphics are stunning. Yet these are not ingredients to good game design, they are garnishes. And that's why Tomb Raider is such a bore: Gameplay elements are either outclassed by another game, don't really work right, or too easy.
In celebration of the release of Kreig, all this weekend if your playing Borderlands 2 online there will be and increase in premium Bandit gear. Also there will be more badass bandits to be found in Thousand Cuts, The Eridium Blight, and Lynchwood to drop the goods. I also noticed more premium Bandit gear in the vending machines. Personaly I'm not a big fan of Bandit brand stuff, but if your using an Assassin or Gunzerker some of the gear can be a good match. Just don't let yourself become a meat bicycle! Laters.
Well, graduation day at my alma mater is today,so here's a bunch of pictures I took in college, and some videos.
I'll use the first line here to let everyone know this blog is (mostly) depressing, So fair warning.
I was in the Goodwill store today poking around for used games and I found a copy of the Witcher complete with the 78 page manual in mint condition for a fiver and no tax because they're a charity.
If you go to any store that sells video games, chances are that most of sports titles are heavily, heavily discounted. Sure, the most recent Madden or NBA title will go for $60 at launch, but given how many football and basketball titles have been released over the years, how much more, really, can you do with the genre? It's not like the rules of the sport have undergone drastic changes, and aside from roster updates and tweaks to the career mode, there's not much else you can do.
I recently logged on 1up to see that 1up is ending. Crazy to see a site that I used from 2004-2007 suddenly end its course on the internet. My first profile on 1up and my 2nd profile on 1up. I wrote my departure blog on 1up and soon discover many former 1uppers on Pixlbit. I decided to join them and register for Pixlbit today (5/10/13). I joined a previous site called Foxkei (another 1up refugee site) back in 2010ish, but only used the site a few times since then. I can easily blame my usage of Facebook during 2007 til now, but I won't. I feel I need to write about video games again and I truly miss it. I still think about the great days on 1up and still read an old blog post I wrote when I was younger once in awhile. That's why I am on here now.
You may have noticed that things around PixlBit have been a bit quiet lately. Though life has been generally crazy, I do have some big changes going on in the backend of the site. I've made a few stealth updates since the last Changelog post I've done and this new one is going to be a doozy.
So, tonight was shit. There was a new nightclub opening where I live, well, by new, I mean the only one. Having finished my music assignment early, I decided to head out. Two of my friends were already there, and had rung me up drunk telling me how great the place is, so I was genuinely excited. I got to there at quarter to 11, and it was full. Not only was it full, but the retards let too many people in, and with 30 people in front of us, 60 people would have to leave for us to get in. Oh, and this place closes at 3am. Fuck that. So after waiting there for close to an hour, we decided to go to our usual friday night place, but due to the other place opening, they were closed, as they didn't think they'd make any money. By the time we'd walked there and figured that out, all of the other venues weren't letting anyone in. So, I'm back here with you lovely people, as dry as a Muslim cunt and as bored King Robert was by that pig (GoT reference). Anyway, let's talk about games!
It was honestly a bit anticlimactic an ending given how many years I left it right up to the end, only to get frustrated by the time mechanic when trying to collect the last few masks, but I do feel a weight has been lifted in some strange way. This was THE game that always bothered me the most that I hadn't finished, but today I got all five masks and finished it with the final mask you get for completing certain tasks at the end. Unfortunately, that mask makes the final confrontation way too easy, but again, so glad to have it done.
As our survivors sit and talk someone mentions a fact no one has asked for some time. THat someone being the chronocally pesamistic Nick, " We heard a radio broadcast that led us to Sacramento. When we finally found what and where it was, it almost killed us. Now we are following the instructions that were left with it. Is anyone else beginning to have doubts about any of this. It seems that every time we call for help on a radio, we end up in hordes and special infected that would rather turn us into a meal rather than see us escape. How do we know now that we aren't being set up yet again."
I preordered Muramasa Rebirth today for Playstation Vita, out June 25th. It's a port of Muramasa: The Demon Blade that came out on the Wii in 2009 with some extra characters and levels to play. I also hope there will be a upgrade to the graphics although this game looked great anyway and probably doesn't need much of that.
Well guys last time I posted a section of my game room. Lot of people were asking to see the rest of the room, so I got my rear end off the sofa and took pics lol
What makes a song epic? I can't really say; it just has that epic feel. It evokes that sense of "Wow, this is epic!" You know what I mean, right? Here are a handful of my favorite epic themes in video gaming. There are so many more, so feel free to share your favorites too. If you haven't heard these ones, be sure to give them a listen, and get ready for epic!