Greetings and salutations to all! It's been a long time since I've been truely active in this place. Heck, until recently, I hadn't written a review since September 2017 (2017?!)- that's well over a year! Why the long wait? "Time" and/or "writer's block" are my go-to responses these days. Actually, I think it's always been my go-to reason. Be that as it may, I'm happy to finally have something to contribute to PixlBit again. Speaking of which, my review of Dragon Warrior is now up on the site. Consider it an early celebration of the upcoming 30th anniversary of Dragon Quest in North America later this year.
How have you guys been? Did you have a good holiday?
It is almost the end of January which means BaD is coming back and to be honest I have no idea what I am going to write about. I thought about just posting random pictures and have you good people of Pixlbit think there’s some kind of connection but really it was just me posting random pictures. As funny as I think that would be I won’t do it, and I’ll probably do something else. Anyways we’ll worry about that February 1st. Ok so I’ve actually been gaming a bit the past couple of weeks, especially after I had a dream where I used my 3DS as a basketball and broke it. Odd but I blame it on the cough drops. Like I said on Friday I had some stuff come up so I didn’t upload my blog then but I will give a quick run down of what I played, and what I played after that, so I do kind of have a plan. Let’s get started!
I was musing about BaD and how long we've been here on Pixlbit now. I don't quite remember what year 1up fell to pieces and we made our new home here, but I don't really miss 1up much anymore. I found I've made friendships on Pixlbit that the more busy 1up probably wouldn't have allowed. There are less people here, but Ive gotten to know people better.
I swear Star Wars The Old Republic MMO has the ugliest graphics of any game ever.
A couple days ago, Mark had The MEG and we watched it. Fun movie. Totally rediculous but not as wacky as Sharknado. Effects were pretty great. Jason Statham was good. I spotted a woman who was in one of the John Wick movies as a badass martial arts villain. The love interest of Statham's character was in Pacific Rim. I don't know what else to say about it. Popcorn movie. Get it while it's hot.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I haven’t been on this site this past week because I’ve been battling a cold and had a family emergency. All is well on both fronts, although I still have a stuffy nose, an occasional cough and my ears are still plugged, otherwise I am good. I had a blog typed up on Monday but never uploaded it, so I might be lazy and just upload it next Monday. Anyways let’s get started with Quick Hits.
Well, January is nearing it’s end in this new year, and that means one thing - BaD! Now, I know we’re all busy and it’s tough to be a BaD enough dude or dudette to blog every day, so if you can participate in any way at all, go for it! This includes BaW (Blog a Weekend). Last year I blogged about the most significant games to me during my life, but this year I’m gonna feature games that - although I might not have loved them as much as some of my favorites - I still played them a lot and very much enjoyed them.
Hey, guys, I'm just curious who is thinking of doing Blog-a-Day next month. I had a blast with mine last year playing through that PSP Capcom collection but I've been so swamped this year that I haven't even thought about it. By this point in January I usually have at least a whole week's worth of blogs ready to go but I don't even have a theme. I'm not sure I'm going to participate this year and that makes me sad. But I remember that participation was pretty low last year as it was.
This past weekend I went to San Antonio for PAX South. I wrote an article about it as well, so please check that out at GamerDad.com as well as some other game reviews I’ve written there recently. Please click on the links in this blog and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. Ok let’s begin!
I finished two books: America 1900: The Turning Point and Decades of the 20th Century: 1900s. Among other things, they gave me an idea for a video game to play.
We've talked about novels and those books with visuals. Now there is just clean up. Early last year I read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, which tells the development stories for a bunch of games like Destiny, The Witcher 3, and Stardew Valley. I love stuff like this and the book did not disappoint. Definitely look it up if you're into the real world side of game development. Something I actually did blog about last year is Empires of EVE, a history of the first few years of EVE Online. I've never played that game and have no real desire to, but the history of what happened was still remarkedly compelling. The second volume is supposed to come out this May and I am excited to see what happened next.
Saturday and Sunday I try to wake up a little later than usual but for some odd reason I was up at my normal time. I don’t know what it is, but I was up, and I started planning out my weekend before I dove into another book. Anyways here I am a couple of hours later catching you good people up with my what I am doing before I head out to the local library to see what new offerings they have in their little store, before I check out the thrift stores down the street from the library and see what new CDs they have because I’m always on the lookout for more music to add to the library.
Late to the Party: As always happens after I finish a game that I've spent over 100 hours immersed in, I really hadn't been able to settle on my next game to play yet. So I booted up the 360 for the first time in months (mostly to see what was available as the current Games for Gold download), and cycled through what I had stashed on the hard drive. I frequently download the free games and then forget about them, so I went through and deleted a couple that I'd finished and knew I was never going to play again, and then decided to give Borderlands a try. And surprise! (please read in a sarcastic tone), there was an update. Oh, yay. So it did its thing, and I tried to get the game to play, and it made it as far as the Gearbox logo screen and froze my 360. OK, I'm used to the occasional freeze, usually when playing LEGO games, so I shut down the console and restarted and tried again. Same result. Hmm... Off to the internet; Yup, update breaks the game on the 360. Solution found, third time's the charm. However, I can't play the game online, which I'm mildly disappointed about. Now, I'm not normally into FPS games, but Borderlands is fun so far. I haven't made it very far into the game and I die a lot, but fun is being had. We'll see how far I get and if I continue to have fun before the whole FPS thing gets to me.
Heard a bunch of Charles Ives because he was active in the first decade of the 20th century, the decade I'm reading about this month.
Since I'm in Limbo as far as my Adobe Suite stuff, I decided to release my Life is Strange 2 review as a text review. http://www.pixlbit.com/review/1037/life_is_strange_2_episode_1_review
So I bought a 64 GB storage card for it. I've so far managed to load over 40 games to it (combination Vita, PSP and PS games) and I still have 12 GB left.
I got myself some accessories for Xbox: a keyboard, a headset and a web cam. Here's a pic.