PixlBit

So get this Pixlbit, I just realized that Thanksgiving is next week. Next freaking week. Oh the excitement is building because once Thanksgiving Dinner is over, Christmas Music is in full swing, and I will check out Black Friday deals. There is no way I’m going when the stores open because there will be yahoos fighting over $3 DVDs, so I’ll wait an hour or two, and besides the Target and Walmart by the house will be opened early so I will be happy to find a $20 game. How was your weekend Pixlbit? Anything fun, good, or exciting? My weekend was spent on “The 10” (you odd folks who don’t live in Southern California just refer to the freeway number) Wikipedia even has an entry for it. Who knew?

I spent Saturday taking a day trip to Arizona, which is roughly a four and a half hour trip from my house to our destination in the Grand Canyon State. During this time I packed the Big Gameboy (3DS XL) because I wanted to make a huge dent in Picross 3D, filled the iPod full of podcasts, and I spent the entire trip talking sports/techy toys/and other randoms with my uncle and a family friend.

 

Hello Arizona, and I’m representing!

Arizona is always an interesting trip. I forgot my phone charger so while we were waiting for a family friend to pick up some stuff, I made a pit stop at Target, and as usual I left with more stuff than I wanted to get (I’ll save that for Quick Hits or if you want a preview I’ll post in the Pick Up Thread in the forums). We spent a couple of hours in Arizona before heading back to California.

While in Arizona I visited a Baskin Robbins for the first time since high school. Yeah I still prefer Thrifty Ice Cream, even though now my favorite flavor will result in a trip to the Emergency Room. Damn you nut/seed allergy! On the way out of Arizona we spotted an odd road sign

 

Why is Los Angeles in parenthesis? Saturday there wasn’t much gaming but Sunday was a different story.

Sunday was my big gaming day because the Cowboys had a bye week, and I had a couple of games that I spent the most time with

 

NCAA Football 14 – PS3

I continued season 3 with the Old Dominion Monarchs, but I moved them to Conference USA. It is a step down in talent from the MAC, but it made a bit more sense travel wise (a little real world thrown into video game universe). I have two games left in the season and the Monarchs are ranked I believe 5^th or 6^th. I don’t think they will make the National Title game because of the one loss and the top two teams are undefeated.

 

Need For Speed Rivals: Complete Edition – PS3

 

I started this game earlier in the week, and played a couple of hours on Sunday. I didn’t realize that the game was connected to a bunch of other players so at certain points I am racing with actual people. There wasn’t a lot of this because I kept going after the various challenges to rank up and to unlock vehicles. At first this kind of bothered me because I wanted something similar to previous NFS games, but after a bit of racing I was fine. One of my favorite aspects of the game is that it feels like Forza Horizon where you can just drive around and find races, cameras, time trials, and other goodies.

One of my favorite things about games is when they can be connected to an App on a phone or tablet.

 

 

I tried the NFS App on the iPad Air, and it is useful to see your stats, where various items are on the map, and other goodies.

 

I found a lot more since I took these snapshots, and I tried the Play Overwatch feature. I really have no idea what it does, and actually give me a second to check the app to see if anything changed.

 

So from what I have seen Overwatch is just a little game where you don’t do anything and you earn SP. I started it last night, and forgot to check it. The “missions” are short and you earn fuel by either playing a special mission in the game, or play the actual game on the console.

 

The Unfinished Swan – PS Vita

 

Oh you don’t know the excitement I had when I spotted this in the PS Store, and it was free. F-R-E-E! I’m not even mad that I spent $10 on this game on the console. I’m hoping to play through the game on the Vita because I didn’t have my dizzy problems with Borderlands on the Vita, but I was getting dizzy playing this game on the console.

I played through the first group of chapters yesterday, just enjoying this game and remembering why I love it so much. I named it my favorite PS3 game last year, and hopefully now I get to finish it without having to wait a day or two between plays because I got dizzy.

 

Some things never change. I spotted the maze and then took a picture of it (the actual maze isn’t difficult but I found it funny that I took a picture of the map without thinking about it). If you have a Vita give this game a try!

 

Spider-man Ultimate – iPad Air

 

I finally finished Issue 2 of the story mode. I was trying to upgrade my Spider-man characters to get to Level 41 to play the final mission. The pleasant surprise was that I earned 25 of the premium currency Iso-8 gems. I used my newfound wealth on buying a premium portal and I unlocked

 

 Iron Spider. I also unlocked another slot for a Spider-man, which adds to the multiplier in the free mode, and you can earn XP for each character.

 

Since I played this game everyday, I unlocked a free Rare Recruit. I already had the figure in my collection so I used it to upgrade my figure.

Ok Pixlbit, today is a bit busy for me, so I will get to the blogs I have missed over the past couple of days, and reply to you good people during the week.

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris