PixlBit

I think it's the humor that made me fall for the Mario & Lugi games. It's also the battle system where it's turn-based but you have timed button presses to do as well.

I heard that one of the reasons Microsoft went into gaming with the Xbox was to get kids interested in computers and raise up a new crop of programmers to replace all those guys who started at the beginning of the company and who are now starting to retire. Lots of programmers started out their interest in computers through games and Microsoft knows that.

I just thought of a game that has canopies. Donkey Kong Country. Sometimes you hop from tree top to tree top.

I really want to go to conventions but they always cost something and that always keeps me away. I would love to go to PAX East in Boston and then hit Funspot just a few hours away in New Hampshire. One day.

Jared Diamond doesn't explicitly attack video games but he suggests it contributes to kids being sendentary and that it's a factor in some of them getting diabeties. I mean, he has a point. My brother-in-law carefully monitors how much his kids play video games and tries to have them do other things too like Cub Scouts, Martial Arts and Dance classes so they don't sit in front of the TV all the time. I think you have to look at the adicitive quallity of some games and not get too caught up in it all or let your kids, if you have some - I don't, get too carried away. I must have a natural immunity to it though because I usually stop a game that becomes too much of a adiction for me.

I've never played much of the GTA series. I'm not attracted to the bad boy vibe of it but I acknowledge it's technical achievements. Sometimes these lists get me to try a game I wouldn't otherwise consider. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is one I might have overlooked if not for this list. I still haven't downloaded it though. I'm on the edge about it.

So it's all timing and choice of anti-fire spells. I undstood that when I attacked him the first time,b ut I kept running out of health and had trouble getting the timing right. I left the battle to grind a bit and then got killed by lesser creatures and it made me so mad I quit. The timing is the issue. I find it difficult to execute these moves of your minions at the right time. Each time you select an action you have to wait for it to finish to start another one. Timing is a b*tch in this game. I haven't got the hang of it yet.

Boss Moltaan.

Man, I've got to get to that game! I just haven't had enough time to play it yet even though I bought it day-one.

The appearance of the Venture Bros. in Poker Night 2 makes me think, why isn't there a Venture Bros. game yet?

I gotta get back into it. I took a break after a frustrating boss, but I really want to see the whole game.

There's Earth Defense Force 2025, Fable Anniversary, Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, and Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze that I'm looking at getting.

Well, since I couldn't play Spartan Assault I went back and finished Halo 4 finally. Now I'm on the Spartan Ops missions and may do some multiplayer in that mode that used to be called Firefight and whose new name I forget. I'm not much for competitive multi, just whatever is like Gear's Horde mode.