I really like the Bayonetta character as well as Corrin and Cloud, but it is disappointing Shovel Knight will not make it into the game. I wonder if he was one of the characters that were not "realizable" for some reason.
What was the Top 5 requested characters in the U.S. anyway? I think Bayonetta was a very European choice. lol
SKU, now there's a term I hear a lot at work. I'm sure the Home Depot employees get tired of us yelling SKU CHECK at the top of our lungs when an item is not labeled.
Has McDonald's done Skylanders toys? They have to have.
I was thinking about the fact you brought that up in your blog when I read KnightDriver talking about it. Too bad I missed the ones in DFW area, I believe I was working. I commented on your GamerDad post I think, as Professor Carlton or something stupid like that. lol
I don't really like grinding achievements that much. To me it feels like the game telling me how long I haven't been outside. I still remember when I got a trophy in Melee for playing a ridiculous number of hours of the game. lol
As I mentioned, I'm jealous you got a Nintendo event near you and got to go (especially to be randomly surprised by one!). That's cool your buddy has Skylanders as well now.
JustinBailey, a reference to Australian slang for bathing suit. Learned that around the time Metroid Prime/Fusion were released from Electronic Gaming Monthly. Those were my first Metroid games and I hadn't realized Samus was a girl until then, despite playing plenty of Super Smash Bros. on N64 and owning Melee.
No, but others do. I really should have packed my lunches. To be honest, I really just constantly forget my lunch or to pack the night before since I have to wake up at 4am for my job and am usually rushing out the door to make it to the meet site in time (meet site being a nearby Home Depot 10 mins from my house from which I take a van to whatever Home Depot or other store we need to inventory that day). Also, the breakroom where people with packed lunches go is kinda sad and silent but that doesn't excuse me for being stupid and not just using the dollar menu and getting salads these past two months. C'est la vie.
I wonder what else you could do to generate revenue for the site. I'm all for giving to a drive to keep the site up if it ever comes to that, but sounds like it wouldn't. I'd honestly give to you before Wikipedia, though I might give Wikipedia $3-$10 just cause.
Pixlbit Staff gets paid $95/hr, right? Cause I'd totally like to be Pixlbit staff.
Since there are 5 bolded sections here, I'm gonna comment on one bolded section every day. Two today, since I didn't see this yesterday. By the way, it's actually getting warmer in Texas far as I can tell if you can believe it. Since it's Texas, you probably can, but still. I kinda wish we got white Christmases here. And then after the holidays were over it all melted, cause it's a bitch to deal with when you actually have to drive and work. I'm hoping Bill Gates provides the world with a weather controlling machine soon, like that one in the Cowboy Bebop movie. Of course, then crazy people with machine guns like Fey Valentine could just force the weather control people to make it rain ....
Two Games Off Mount Backlog
6.0% is pretty high for a Platinum trophy completion percentage. Arkham Knight is still trolling me since I have one thing left to do (complete however many different combat moves in a single free flow, I think 15?) to get Platinum on the main game. I keep having to address an attacker or getting hit and it ends up breaking my streak.
NFS games are great for racing fans like myself though. Always loved playing as the cops. Planting spike strips in the road in GTA V took me back to my first NFS memories on PSX and PS2, despite the roles being reversed since I was the bad guys. I've actually been thinking lately how many games have a driving element to them and whether I'd want a dedicated racer, but the more I play other games with cars and races like GTA V and Arkham Knight, the more I get the itch for a real racing game.I actually talked about how satisfying it is to press R2 on the DualShock 4 in the podcast I recently did with Blake, Casey, and Jamie. lol
I didn't know the game allowed you to change how the car handles, but that's great. I hate the cars that turn way too hard in GTA V. I also have a hard time controlling cars in sim games like Forza or DriveClub. I don't get too mad at prodcut placement, since it's how games get funding. I know Jagermeister and Monster are essentially the official sponsors of heavy metal in America at this point. They promote every heavy metal show I've been to since 2008, but to be honest it's been a while. I'd still imagine it's about the same now though.
Yeah, I might wait until this game goes on sale or see if The Crew is dirt cheap yet, but I love NFS so chances are it'll be the arcade racer I get. I just can't get in to sim drivers. I can't really get into sim anything, to be honest. I play games for craziness, reality needs to keep work at work. 
Your description makes Knack sound like a game I'd love to play, but I remember seeing negative reviews? Maybe I am misremembering. I do love a good 3D platformer though. Man, you're just all about bringing up genres I've always loved and have a craving for in this blog. lol I miss the N64 days when farting would create a new 3D platforming game to try.
And damn, after that endorsement and I think it's pretty cheap now, I'll have to at least play a demo or rent the game.
What Chris is Currently Playing ...
The Order 1886 is one I was really looking forward to, but got turned off to by poor reviews. I'm interested to read what you think when you get deeper into it.
I need a sports game as well, but since I really don't care about rosters and all, I just want a fun game, I'll just buy some dirt cheap one from a couple years back on my PS4. Unless of course one of my teams wins a championship this year. I'm still salty about the fact Dirk has never been on a sports game cover to my knowledge.
Is Simpsons: Tapped Out free to play? I've been thinking of getting a new phone and if I do, I'll play it.
By the way, you can get Mariah Carey's Christmas album on Google Play for free. Something tells me you already blogged about this goaztecs, but worth mentioning.
Also, I just downloaded Shadow Complex for free, can't wait to play it.
Thanks for the heads up on Worm Forts, SquadLeader!
There was a Cracked article a while back by a former military guy about unrealistic portrayals of the military in movies. He said one thing they get wrong is there's a lot of waiting in combat situations and he described one time everyone laughed at this dude who farted when they were all cramped together in some stairwell waiting for orders.
Pokemon by the same people who did Tekken and it looks like Tekken with Pokemon? That's what I honestly was hoping Pokemon Stadium was when I was little. Sign me up. I really should get a Wii U down the line.
I had Pokemon Blue as a kid and always said "well water beats fire, so what's this obsession with Charizard?" But he does look cool. I remember that holographic Charizard card being so coveted, yet it seemed everyone eventually found one in a booster pack but me.
