At the beginning of this year I figured it would be another year of disappointment, failure, and I went into it with the same level of negativity that I've had since I was a child. Then the middle of the year, hit me hard and I thought I'd be checking out, that life was telling me that it was my time or that I had o overstayed my welcome. My God I'm so fucking happy that my friends and family didn't let me listen to that shitty voice.
This year has been a year of rebirth for me, a lot has changed and it started with me. It started with a conversation with a friend of mine named Devon Coxx, he told me " Lean on us your friends, when I was going though my own shit I shut down and I regret the friendships I strained due to it." I latched on to this idea and took it to the extreme, agreeing to every plan a friend of mine made, confiding in my inner circle opening up to people was something I was not good at, because a few people in my life told me what I was and I believed them. But I needed to change so I stepped outside me comfort zone whenever possiable, I took up as many hobbies and went on as many adventures as I could in the name of growth and distraction.
I made many new friends and I made my old friendships stronger, I used them when I felt I couldn't go on, and the ones that stayed when they saw me at my lowest will forever have my gratitude because without you, I would have never made it to where I am now. Old friends who I had thought I had lost came back into my life, once I realized I had been a shitty friend to them wallowing in my own self pity, and keeping them farther then arms length and for that I'll always be sorry, you mofos always have had my back and you deserved better. Every single fucking one of you I've learned and grown though thank you so much.
My focus shifted this year from all the bad things that happened to all the good things that were happening, I made a choice to not allow myself to be beat down like that again, to see my life as something amazing, to let go of anger and resentment that I'd held on to for years like a blanket with too many holes in it, it was time to replace my way of thinking, to one that didn't be live he was owed a thing but rather grateful for everything that I did have. But, there was something missing a hole in me that I couldn't fill with everything I'd tried to.
Then, she came into my life, we'd always been friendly and got along well at work but, I never in my life thought she'd mean as much to me as she does now. It started off a as good friendship, more physical then anything else, but quickly I realized that, she was cut of the same cloth as me, she threw things down and I picked them up, I thought she was too cool to like me in any other way then friend and I was ok with that not great but ok. Then I found out she felt the same way about me, SHE was actually nervous about us to and I could've just died of happiness. We click on every level, we get along like old friends that just get each other and it is insane to me sometimes that I had not seen this sooner. But maybe that was because I had to become what I have to truely let her in, so that Matttmar, could become a thing. I'm so thankful for you babyluv, your everything I need in a woman, strong, straight forward, fun, a touch crazy( in a way similar to me) your so fucking hot and cool, and just thank you for being you! You increase my confidence just knowing you are on my side.
And now it seems it's time to walk away from a job I've held for 7 years, my only job, really, And I find myself scared and excited for this new opportunity. I also think it's just crazy, how quickly life can change, 2016 is gearing up to be a good year for me all the cards seem like they are finally in place for me and for once I feel happy and content unafraid at what lies next because I know that with the help of my family and Friends I'm gonna rock 2016 and beyond. Cheers to you crazy mofos that make my life incredible!
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
J-Stars Victory Versus Plus (Review)
This game originally caught my eye due to the box I'm sad to admit , it's one of the few times brand marketing worked on me. This game has a bunch of anime characters shoved into one game they play slightly different, but overall the simplicity of the combat system makes everything feel samey which is this games biggest flaw.
The controls are simple there is jump, attack, strong attack, and projectile, dodge, and support, there are combos but overall they are very simple mostly being attack and strong attack combinations. Victory is handled in a unique way each team can be downed a certain amount of times between 1-3 is all I've seen the winner is the one who fills the victory gauge first, you'll find you need to keep an eye on your teammate during harder battles as they alone can be taken out and cause you to lose.
There also is a burst meter in the center on the victory gauges for each team. This gauge goes back and forward and is influenced by the momentum that your team, is getting once you get it to either end that team can activate burst which increases speed and attack, along with allowing for ultimate moves to be used. When an opponent uses their burst it's best just to dodge and run allowing the meter to run out.
Adventure mode is spilt into 4 arcs which essentially are, One piece Arc, DBZ Arc,Naurto Arch and Bleach Arch, with random characters thrown in. The overall story is a being throws a tournament for all these fighters winner gets whatever they want as a wish, teams of three are made, and they hunt down these medals, they need to bring to the god like entity. Now this here was ok it dragged on a bit but by the end it was alright didn't overstay it's welcome, cool I'm done now I thought. No. After you do this you have half a game left while you run around trying to get keys now, godamn it J-Stars why? The worst thing is after I beat this arc, I started another, besides some small dialogue changes its word for word the same as the first arc. I really don't understand why they couldn't have just let you pick your three guys from the beginning and had just the one story, 4 times of the same boring long story? Fuck that.
The game over all is mindlessly entertaining and I may have forgave more of its faults had I not bought this game for $60, for that price you can flesh out the game a bit more guys.But it is very cool to see Bo BoBo fight Goku, and it did give me a bunch of different animes to check out which is never a bad thing, a friend of mine really enjoyed the Troriko one. If you can find it for $20 or less grab it if you like anime, if not pass on this mediocre sort of fighting game.
The controls are simple there is jump, attack, strong attack, and projectile, dodge, and support, there are combos but overall they are very simple mostly being attack and strong attack combinations. Victory is handled in a unique way each team can be downed a certain amount of times between 1-3 is all I've seen the winner is the one who fills the victory gauge first, you'll find you need to keep an eye on your teammate during harder battles as they alone can be taken out and cause you to lose.
There also is a burst meter in the center on the victory gauges for each team. This gauge goes back and forward and is influenced by the momentum that your team, is getting once you get it to either end that team can activate burst which increases speed and attack, along with allowing for ultimate moves to be used. When an opponent uses their burst it's best just to dodge and run allowing the meter to run out.
Adventure mode is spilt into 4 arcs which essentially are, One piece Arc, DBZ Arc,Naurto Arch and Bleach Arch, with random characters thrown in. The overall story is a being throws a tournament for all these fighters winner gets whatever they want as a wish, teams of three are made, and they hunt down these medals, they need to bring to the god like entity. Now this here was ok it dragged on a bit but by the end it was alright didn't overstay it's welcome, cool I'm done now I thought. No. After you do this you have half a game left while you run around trying to get keys now, godamn it J-Stars why? The worst thing is after I beat this arc, I started another, besides some small dialogue changes its word for word the same as the first arc. I really don't understand why they couldn't have just let you pick your three guys from the beginning and had just the one story, 4 times of the same boring long story? Fuck that.
The game over all is mindlessly entertaining and I may have forgave more of its faults had I not bought this game for $60, for that price you can flesh out the game a bit more guys.But it is very cool to see Bo BoBo fight Goku, and it did give me a bunch of different animes to check out which is never a bad thing, a friend of mine really enjoyed the Troriko one. If you can find it for $20 or less grab it if you like anime, if not pass on this mediocre sort of fighting game.
Bloodrayne:Betrayal
This game is frustrating as all hell, but you do feel pretty good every time you progress. Bloodrayne has always been a bad series to me On didn't like the first one the second one was worse somehow, so when this one was first brought to my attention I simply didn't care.That is until I saw Wayforward was making it, and that it was a 2D side scroller, that looked very cool.
I started playing this game in October as part of my Spooktober event but, didn't end up beating it till the end of November because of two reasons first my ps3 is used by my roommates as a Netflix box soon don't play it very often, second this game has a steep difficulty curve. It starts out easy enough it plays like a side scrolling brawler which I always enjoy, the way you get health is to weaken your foes then suck their blood (Which struck me as weird because your enemies are vampires) wash and repeat and you have your first levels. Then the game throws all kinds of different things at you tough platforming sections, enemies that you can't feed off of, the bosses are insanely hard until you learn the patterns and even then Damn! The worst levels are these flappy bird esque levels that make you fly around as a raven though obstacle courses that test your patience to no end. The thing that saves you from just raging is that for the most part check points are plentiful and you spawn almost immediately, which I'm always a big fan of.
The story is bland and I'll admit I barely paid attention to it at all.At one point this dude betrays you, and at the end you fight your dad, because of course that happens. Wayforward isn't really know for its storytelling abilities and relies mostly on its game play, and I have to admit for all its faults I felt like it was mostly my fault when I died. Whenever that happened it was because I didn't get something down right or I missed a ledge by just an inch, Overall this game is something you should play if you want a challenging game that looks pretty nice. OH but the concept art is grotesque like truely horrible looking.
I started playing this game in October as part of my Spooktober event but, didn't end up beating it till the end of November because of two reasons first my ps3 is used by my roommates as a Netflix box soon don't play it very often, second this game has a steep difficulty curve. It starts out easy enough it plays like a side scrolling brawler which I always enjoy, the way you get health is to weaken your foes then suck their blood (Which struck me as weird because your enemies are vampires) wash and repeat and you have your first levels. Then the game throws all kinds of different things at you tough platforming sections, enemies that you can't feed off of, the bosses are insanely hard until you learn the patterns and even then Damn! The worst levels are these flappy bird esque levels that make you fly around as a raven though obstacle courses that test your patience to no end. The thing that saves you from just raging is that for the most part check points are plentiful and you spawn almost immediately, which I'm always a big fan of.
The story is bland and I'll admit I barely paid attention to it at all.At one point this dude betrays you, and at the end you fight your dad, because of course that happens. Wayforward isn't really know for its storytelling abilities and relies mostly on its game play, and I have to admit for all its faults I felt like it was mostly my fault when I died. Whenever that happened it was because I didn't get something down right or I missed a ledge by just an inch, Overall this game is something you should play if you want a challenging game that looks pretty nice. OH but the concept art is grotesque like truely horrible looking.
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