Destiny PS4 Graphics

It looks almost EXACTLY the same from PS3's beta to PS4. Honestly, that's not so much a knock on the PS4 as a credit it is to the PS3. I'm amazed at what that thing can still do. Now I still haven't seen mordor, but so far I think Second Son is the only one that "can't" run on a PS3.

Amazon buys Twitch

I forget if you saw this before you left, but Amazon bought Twitch for about $2 quinjillion. Give or take.
I don't get Amazon's angle here, other than to put it behind their Prime paywall which would anger the world.

October PS Plus Games Delayed

Kinda lame (entitled gamer lame), news. September is a 5-tuesday month. So we're stuck with Joe Danger all month right? I have been waiting eagerly for the October PS Plus preview.
Today they announced that they WILL announce the October line up on october 1 with games to be available Oct 8. So our free games are not only delayed another week, but we don't even know what they are. Except for Drive Club of course, but I have a feeling that will be more of an extended demo only having a few tracks and cars because we're getting the "PS Plus" edition (i.e. the dwarfed edition)

Super Smash Bros 3DS Reviews

Jose reviewed Smash for 3DS, I immediately groaned and said, "ugh he probably gave it a 10"
Scrolled down and it got an 8.8, which actually makes me want to play it more. That and Little Mac has an alternate costume in his pink-hooded jumpsuit from punch-out.... so i basically have to.

Shadow of Mordor Reviews

The reviews are coming in and they're good.
Some are a bit too excited, Joystiq giving the only 100, IGN also high at 93.
The majority are hovering around the high 80's. And then ever bizarre Destructoid at 60, though they are the minority.
Average right now is 85,

Oldies but Goodies

With all my new retro acquisitions (Castlevania NES, Metroid NES, and Metroid Prime 2 Gamecube) I had a retro night while Destiny finished downloading. It was a blast, some of those games are so good. Both Metroid Primes on gamecube run at 60fps. 60! Way back in 2001. Games today can't do that.

Mordor approacheth

You need to spend all your free time talking to Jenni, Ash, and Jayce. So if you want me to handle the Mordor download, let me know. I don't know if you've paid for it already, but I can if you need to.
I'm sure the host won't just hand over the login info to me, so it may take a PM from you.

Resogun is HOT

It took a few plays to figure out just what I'm supposed to be doing with saving humans (still not totally sure), but man Resogun is tight. Nothing new or grand, but a cool new take on Stardust. I beat your high score already (which was probably set by Ash by accident). So eat it!

Second Son Updated Thoughts

Played some more Infamous, looks incredible. Love the smoke travel. It's too cool.
Still hate the movement for exploration, but it works in battle, being able to zip around everywhere.
Just had the first decision... so dumb.
1- Turn yourself in.
2- Kill everybody you love.
Come on. There's gotta be a better middle ground than that. It's not even a moral choice, it's just asking if you want to be the ultimate villain or unlikely hero.
I'm still less than 40 minutes in.

Destiny Locked Spot

So like I mentioned, I bought a locked spot on gtz for $5. But something's fishy, it's from a dude who hosted a share and said he'd use the locked spot and sell it later. Which is totally fine, but I worry he doesn't know that you can only have one locked spot at a time. If you try two, it CAN work, but only if you are never playing the game at the same time. Like if I bought Uncharted 4 locked, we could both download it, and whenever I'm not on I could say it's all yours pal. But with someone on GTZ? Forget it.
So I called him out on it, to see if he's trying to keep his share and sell off half. Stay tuned...

Beyond Episode 361

Destin was in the ER3C for this episode. He's spent too long on Unlocked to know what a successful podcast sounds like.

Colin is playing Destiny and describes the game really well in that it's solid, but just completely empty. He can see how everyone is burning out on it. There's just nothing to do. He jokes that they fired the writer after the opening scene, cause that's literally where the story just stops.

Worst PSN name of the week: DancingBoy411

NES adventures

And just as quickly as profit is made I have blown it.
Pended a deal for some NES classics, Castlevania and Metroid
30 shipped for both, i like to think I'm getting a good deal as those are usually about 20 each

Thief Flip

The deed is done and it worked like a charm. Thief showed up one day, and the next someone bought it on Amazon for 10 bucks more. I love dumb people

PS4 is HERE!

It is awesome. I hooked it up right away. It's much smaller than I thought it would be.
Controller feels cool, will take some getting used to
The PS4 interface (no XMB) is pretty bad. No organization. It's just a freaking mess
Strider is the greatest game. Why did no one tell me it was this cool!
Second son so far is alright. Looks great (will probably look dated by the end of the console generation cause they tried a bit too hard on the faces). But it has that infamous floaty jump and awkward movement that I really wish was gone. Maybe I'll get used to it
Played resogun for 6 seconds, just long enough for my controller to talk to me and I freaked out, that's so awesome.

Bombcast

Bombcast from this week was almost a word for word copy of last week's for the first 2 hours
Destiny is meh
The wrestling game is garbage
They got into some good convo around Microsoft buying Mojang for 2.5 Bil. They said some stuff I hadn't thought of, like how kids today are gonna grow up and talk about Minecraft the same way we talk about Mario 3, or Zelda Ocarina. But man, Microsoft is gonna market the crap outta that thing and will easily get their money back in no time
Dan actually knows what pears are, and has eaten one. Brad was worried he meant pear jelly bellys, but it turns out its and actual fruit. Though he does eat the jelly bellys too.

TGS Updated

So while Sony themselves were a bit lame, more came from TGS than I first thought.

-MGSV 20 minute gameplay demo (I don't watch those) and a vague release window of somewhere in 2015.
-Kojima revealed a new MGS collection.................... of Clothes. Dead serious. Oh and a foxhound branded ps4.
-Bloodbourne trailer and release date of Feb 6
-COD gameplay, but I skipped that too, cause I wanna head into this one completely dark.
-Vita.... gets a random jrpg called Tales of Heart R. pass. But vita is also getting God Eater 2, i may play that one.
-PS Now beta opens on PS3 today. I'll have to check it out except for the fact that MY PS4 GETS HERE TODAY!)*!U&*(!$ AAHAHHAHA!&#)&$BS
-A final fantasy xv trailer did come out and it looks...interesting. The art is a bit more grounded than previous FF's. Like they're dressed normal (for japan) and driving around in cars, not chocobos. But it's free combat, not turnbased (hooray!) It has a cool mechanic where you are tied to your sword, for example, if you get to a tower and don't wanna walk all the way up, you throw your sword and disappear, then when the sword lands on top you reappear there. Hopefully it's a mix of the old RPGs with whatever mess 13 ended up being though. Graphics look good, but still not that, not mind shattering, but really good.
-And then a ton of other throw away news (3ds non-nintendo games, thomas was alone port, garbage)

Amazon Haul

Remember the Amiibo problem? I had 26 bucks of amazon cred, and amiibos are 13, but shipping and tax turns it into 20 real quick.

Well amazon sent me an email for a free trial of the amazon fire tv, their roku. I accepted and it put the $100 item in the cart and a -$100 at checkout, well i realized this would satisfy the $35+ needed to get free shipping and popped in the two amiibos (link and samus), and bam. Got it all for free with no shipping. (After the 26 promo i had and the free fire rental) 

Today was a good day

TGS Sony Conference

Sony's presser at TGS was so bad. Nothing. I think there was a Yakuza prequel teaser and that's it.
No Kingdom Hearts, no FF15, or any other JRPG. If you go to IGN they don't even have any headlines up, even they couldn't milk anything out of it.

Beyond Episode 360

Colin is gone to Japan, so it was Greg, Marty, and Daemon. Daemzero was extremely quiet the whole time, like he doesn't know what to do on an actual weekly podcast anymore.
The worst PSN name of the week: StankPantyPuddin

Monney makin'

So I have to admit, it's uber lame to have essentially zero texts all day. But on the plus side I haven't had to charge my phone in like a week. So I have that going for me. I may just cancel my texting plan altogether. You shoulda left sooner, I'd have saved so much money.

Donnie Text

This blog will just be all the texts I'd normally be sending you just in blog form.