Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite Revealed

So we've all heard about it and seen the trailer. There's going to be a new Marvel Vs. Capcom game called Infinite. If you haven't seen it check it out here. In the gameplay trailer you can see Iron Man and Captain Marvel squaring off against Megaman (X) and Ryu. They do some cool combos and show off the power of the Infinity Stones, which will be featured in the game. The Infinity Stones are these gems that give the users God-like powers. They're from the Marvel universe and they're important in the comics as well as the movies. Thanos has like five of those suckers.

"Captain Marvel has the time stone, which gives her the ability to dodge attacks, while Ryu has the power stone, which bathes him in a pink light and makes his punches even punchier." (Kotaku)  So these different stones will give them different abilities to turn the tide of battle.

The game has more of a straight Street Fighter feel by the looks of it rather than a Marvel Vs. Capcom play-style. Marvel Vs. Capcom is supposed to be more like a flurry cluster of crazy attacks and combos but this looks more paced and balanced-like Street Fighter V. The matches will be played 2v2 and there won't be assist attacks or combos where other characters can do an extra attack.

I am a huge Marvel Vs. Capcom fan  but I am a little disappointed by many aspects of the game already. For one thing we know for a fact there won't be any X-men characters because of licensing issues. So that tells me already that they're going to focus more on Street Fighter, Capcom, and other non X-men related Marvel characters. Also, there's the fact that they've changed it from 3v3 in Mvc3 and 2 to now only 2v2. I prefer the triple comp teams that can be made, it adds a lot of spice and variety to the series. Lastly, the fact that there's going to be no assists in the game pretty much means its going to be a straight up normal fighting game. However, I could be wrong. It could be great!    

Its due to be released sometime late next year on pc, xbox 1, and ps4. 

Blackened Saturday, Cyber Monday Awaits

So the sales got to me and I ended up spending more of my hard earned cash money. I ended up looking up sales online for Gamestop and I found out Fallout 4 was only $10 for pc! Great deal man. I hopped the bus and trekked out there to get it. I also ended up getting a sweet Darksiders 2 shirt for $2 at Goodwill. Talk about awesome!

A few days before I got Doom and an Xbox 1 controller. I've been putting in work in Doom and Fallout 4 as well as playing Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain on my Xbox 1.

Doom is not for pussies that's for sure. The game is graphic as all hell (literally) and has so much blood, it's pretty intense. The heavy metal soundtrack makes for hectic combat against demons from the pits of hell. Great game. I'm currently on the third level. They just introduced these stronger demons called hell knights that are tough. Sometimes it'll take me 5 shotgun shots to take them out. I gotta figure out a faster way to kill them as they are becoming more troublesome and numerous.

Fallout 4 is even better though. Both games are made by Bethesda and this is probably my favorite gaming company other than Blizzard. I'm a big Skyrim fan but I never made it too far in the series. After playing Doom and Fallout 4 I'm definitely going to go back and finish Skyrim-with mods. The mods for Fallout 4 are fantastic. There's literally so much you can do to change and/or break the game in ways devs never intended. The base game is great too. I'm only in the beginning of the game but I can tell that it's something that I'm going to put some time into. Super fun. It's much better than New Vegas, which was my only previous Fallout experience.

I'm definitely adding more single player immersion into my gaming experiences at the moment. At first I was a multiplayer only type of gamer but now I find myself wanting to relax and enjoy a story without playing with a bunch of randos (randoms in pubs-public games, as I mostly solo queue). It's good to enjoy something by yourself and enjoy the depth within the game.

Cyber Monday is today. Lots of people are going to be buying things online. Not me though. I ended my Amazon Prime sub because I didn't think it was worth the $100 a year and things just aren't that interesting on that site.

However, I am still interested in buying more games!

:D 

I might pick up Warhammer Vermintide because its only $15 on Steam. I'm also still interested in Battlefield 1 but I think I should wait on that. Even if the sale on Origin ends soon it will probably go back to $40 for Christmas sales or maybe even less by then, who knows.

Hope you all got something cool for yourselves. If you haven't get something nice today. You've earned it sport!

'Tis the season

FPS gaming event at Fire and Dice

     Today was the first time I've ever gone to Fire and Dice for an event that was not a Smash tournament. It turned out to be super fun! My friend recommended that we go because he saw that they were having an fps (first person shooter) gaming event on meetup.com. This is the first time I've ever gone to an event that was posted on meetup and it turned out to be a pleasant experience.
     We got there around 4:30 pm (it started at 4) and there was only like five dudes there plus the three guys who run Fad. We started things out by playing some Call of Duty Black Ops II, a super good game that I've played quite a bit despite not really being much of a first person shooter fan. We played zombies and it turned out to be pretty lame. We only lasted 8 rounds lol. Not sure how that happened but once we started playing four player free for all that was when the real fun started. Because there was so few people we all got our own monitor and xbox 360 to play on, and we just played in a local lan connection game. I really shine in Black Ops II because of the Mtar, a super good assault rifle that I annihilate with. My friend won the first game by a couple kills but I wasn't far behind. I think he won again the second time. The third time I tied the game with him. And the last match we played I won by a good couple kills. It was truly satisfying defeating my friend and these random dudes I just met because my friend is a super good fps gamer that destroys most people at shooters. He's the kind of guy who's born to play shooters. He should play Call of Duty, Counter Strike, or Team Fortress 2 competitively for money, he's that good. He was once a part of a competitive Team Fortress 2 team but he's no longer doing it for some reason
     After we played Call of Duty me and my friend threw down for a large pizza with one of the guys and we ate. Not the best pizza in the world but it certainly filled our stomachs. Then we played Gears of War III horde mode. It was kind of exhausting because unending hordes of monsters isn't really my thing but in the end it turned out to be pretty fun. It was the second time I've ever played Gears of War III and I don't think I quite get the duck and cover mechanics the game has to offer. However, we were only playing on casual mode which was pretty easy. Starting around the 26th round things started to get increasingly more difficult. Keep in mind that there are only 50 rounds in total. In the end we only made up to the 30th round, which had a boss fight. At that point I was very tired and disoriented from playing so much xbox that I wasn't really trying. But it was a good experience and my first time playing horde mode on Gears.
     Later, we went to my friends house and played the Overwatch beta. I find Overwatch to be very energetic and in your face but its also kind of a cluster-fuck if you don't know what the heroes do and how to play them. I'll have to play more of it at my friends pad when we hang out. I really like the game and the whole idea of heroes having their own special abilities and ways to play. That differs heavily from other shooters except maybe Team Fortress 2, which created that idea in fps gaming. We can see today that Call of Duty tried to do something similar in Black Ops III but I don't think they pulled it off very well. It's just another generic Call of Duty really.
     Lastly, playing so well in CoD today made me realize that I'm pretty good at shooters. I should play them more often on PC. I'm interested in playing more Team Fortress 2 for sure because my friend still plays that a lot. In fact, we used to play it a lot while talking on our headsets. Also, my brother is in the beta for Overwatch so hopefully he'll let me use his account to play it. First person shooters can be a blast sometimes. It was a good day off from work! If Fire and Dice continues to do more events like this I would definitely be down to go if I'm free.

All I want for Christmas is You

     I want to first say Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Hanukkah. I know that this time right now is precious time for everyone to be with their loved ones, family, and friends. There's a lot to be happy about this Holiday season, especially if you're a gamer. While I do find the commercialism of Christmas to be shallow, this is our American culture, and damn, does it feel good to be us! While the shooting today has taken the media's attention, we must realize that these isolated incidents shouldn't bring us into despair.
      Anyways, I've always been a Christmas fan. When I lived with my mother in Wisconsin we always never really had a lot of money, but we still got great gifts for Christmas. I remember as a kid getting things like a Playstation and Gamecube. Good times. Nowadays I can buy whatever I want but its still the thought that counts when you buy gifts for people, not just the fact that you bought them stuff. What am I excited about this Christmas? Well there's a lot really. For one thing I'm extremely stoked for Starwars The Force Awakens. I've already made a plan to see it the first or second week that its showing. Most likely 2nd or 3rd week given my luck because of my work schedule. I'm super stoked because of the Starwars Battlefront III game is kind of being promoted super heavily because of the new movie. The game isn't as good as I thought it was at first, but I'm giving it a second chance and I'm enjoying it more. Looks like it wasn't money just down the drain. I would say that this is like 'thee' Starwars Christmas. Everybody and their families will be at the movies watching it this Christmas. Not only that, but they will be playing the new Battlefront III game as well. This feels like a very Starwars Christmas. And it feels awesome!
     I'm also looking forward to new game releases and game sales, particularly online sales through Steam. The main game I'm looking to pick up is Xenoblade Chronicles X for the Wii U. That's one I think all my friends with a Wii U should pick up, especially because I've seen gameplay from streams on Twitch and it looks and plays amazingly well. The game features mechs (giant robots) in stereotypical Japanese anime fashion that you get to pilot and fight in. That's really all I'm looking forward to generally. Everything else are titles that won't be released for a while in the near to distant future. Some games I'm interested in are already out but I haven't bought them yet because I don't want to spend all my Holiday dollars on myself. I've got a family back in Wisconsin and a family right here in California, and I want to make sure I get all of them thoughtful/cool gifts this Christmas.
     Some of the things I'm interested in that won't be out till later next year is World of Warcraft Legion. Super stoked for the demon hunter class. I don't think I have enough time for WoW but why not test the waters and wake up earlier in the day just for gaming? Haha. Also excited for Pokken Tournament on the Wii U. It's a Pokemon fighting game similar to Street Fighter or Tekken. It looks amazing visually and I'm excited for the Pokemon character roster. My main will probably be Pikachu. The one that I'm excited most for is Overwatch. I finally got to play it today at a friends house. My second match he had me play the engineer and he told me the basics and I went 20 and 4! It was amazing, especially because I'm usually terrible at first person shooters, mostly because of bad eyesight I would say. I miss that small fleck or blur of an enemy player across the map and suddenly I'm dead. I'm a Blizzard fanboy so I will probably play the heck out of Overwatch. The beta is pretty good right now, and the game seems pretty balanced. I gotta say that all the heroes play differently, making for a unique FPS experience. This isn't your Battlefield, Destiny, Titanfall, or Battlefront III. This is like Team Fortress 2 except more specialized with the class types. It's pure amaze-balls.
     The rest of the stuff I was interested in is already out on sale on Steam and online. One thing I dislike about being a PC gamer is that all of our content is online, I still have a mentality that I should have game boxes and cases and CD's. I really love my Starcraft II Legacy of the Void Deluxe game box and all the stuff it came with. Talk about cool. Anyways, so I was still interested in Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain, The Witcher III Wild Hunt, Ark: Survival Evovled, Warhammer Vermintide, Undertale, Rocket League, and Garry's Mod. I'll probably end up getting Undertale when there's the Steam Christmas sale. I've heard nothing but good things about it. It seems like a nice different pace for an rpg game. I was also interested in maybe buying an Xbox1 with my older bro this Christmas but it depends. We don't really need it but it would just be cool to have for the online experience on a next gen console. I've already become a good online gamer with a lot of friends and the talking through headsets and all that, I just do it on my PC. PC is really the ultimate gaming machine, especially my computer because its pretty nice. But these new consoles are pretty good as well, although they will never replace my computer.
     Lastly, even though Christmas is still almost 3-4 weeks away I'm already wondering about what my schedule for work is going to look like. I'm hoping I'm off on Christmas but I'm sure if I don't request any days off around that time I'll probably get a pretty solid and righteous schedule, like my shift I got on Thanksgiving, it was only 12 pm to 4 pm. Not bad for a major holiday. I enjoy working at my current job. The people are great and I feel like I can even call some if not most my friends. Hope you're all having a great holiday work season. Gotta save up for all those gifts. Make this Christmas a good one. Happy holidays to you and yours.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Street Fighter IV Ultra, and Other Cool Stuff

     The other day me and my friends hung out and naturally we ended up going to Gamestop on my suggestion. My original idea was to pick up Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the new 3ds xl but I also had Street Fighter IV for Xbox360 in mind. My friend told me that the Ultra version is better and comes with like 44 characters in the game. I had to get it. We went back to my friends pad and played the game and it was super cool. It has a bunch of characters that I don't really know about but I can always learn more or play the arcade mode to get an idea of who and what kind of people the characters all are. Some of the characters look really cool and interesting. A lot of the female characters have sexy outfits too. I'm a beginner at fighting games so I tend to stick with Ryu, the original classic Street Fighter character. But I also love Chun-Li, she's pretty cool with her kicks of fury. There's literally so many characters to learn how to play, and thankfully the combo list is right within the game and easy to get to. I'm such a novice at fighting games but I really want to learn. Think about owning people online in Street Fighter, it would be amazing. But right now, I know if I tried to play online I would get annihilated.
     Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is a completely different kind of game. It's an action rpg but some of the stats and abilities you can get on gear make a lot more difference than say just upgrading your equipment for better defense or damage like in most rpgs. Today I played a lot with my brother, just doing easy star one quests, getting to level 6. It was pretty fun, probably the most fun I've had playing my 3ds since I got Super Smash Brothers. I'm tempted to try playing the game online right away but I don't want to completely suck and waste my time. So I'll learn more about the game and play solo and just do local play with my brother until I learn the game a bit more. There are so many different kinds of monsters, it's really crazy. There are so many bosses as well. The bosses are all tough motherfuckers man! In fact, out of all the quests me and my brother did today, we ended up only doing one boss fight and it was tough. Right now, I have my character, named Figuero (my name if I was a dark lord of the Sith) uses a 2-handed katana that does hella damage. It's a pretty good weapon but because its 2-handed its slow, but thankfully it hits hard. Interestingly enough, every time I watch streamers play this game on twitch, usually everyone in the party is using 2-handers. Maybe 2-handers are just the best weapons in the game? Not really sure but my brother is using a sickle and shield because with the shield you can block attacks. With a 2-hander you can't block unfortunately but you can still dodge roll to get out of the way of attacks. Another great thing about this game is the fact that its not just a great multiplayer game that you can play online on the 3ds. It also has a great single player campaign as well. There's actually stories and stuff and its such an old school style rpg that you actually have to read everything! I'm so used to just hearing the characters say stuff than reading. It is refreshing to actually read stuff in games again. Reminds me of when I was a kid, playing games like Final Fantasy and Xenogears, my two personal favorites from when I was young. I can see myself putting in a lot of time into Monster Hunter, especially once I start playing it online.
     During the same day I picked up those two games we also stopped at the local record shop. They have this deal where you buy 10 CD's you get a free CD that's $7.99 or less. My friend got Slayer's Reign in Blood so I was able to use that as credit for my 10th CD, thus earning myself a free CD. So I got this album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny called Question and Answer, which I believe is an old Ornette Coleman song. The album features Dave Holland on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. Haven't listened to it yet but judging from the song titles like All The Things You Are and Question and Answer, this is more of a traditional jazz album.
     And lastly, if that wasn't enough we also went to Goodwill. We looked around and my friend got this Pokemon book that has information on tons of different Pokemon for 50 cents. I myself got a shirt with a cartoon looking guy playing bass, and it says jazz bass New Orleans on it. In addition, I got an Angry Birds shirt. Both of these shirts were purple, the colour of swag. It was a fun day. As I walked into my house, my friends were blasting Slayer-Angel of Death. Good times man.