RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY THOUGHTS

   Video game movies never live up to what the game were, everyone knows this. Yet when you see they are doing a movie for a game you loved, you get excited and want it to be as good as the game. You have a great story and characters. Everything is laid out for you to make a awesome movie. And everyone once in a great while you get a good one, the first Silent Hill for example. This movie...is not one of them.

2010'S THE CRAZIES REVIEW

   I just got done watching the movie The Crazies from 2010. It's a movie that I was always interested in seeing, but never took the time to watch it. Really surprised that I missed it in the theaters since it is a movie right up my ally. As I sat at home flipping through movies on Amazon Prime, I came across it and thought, why not finally watch this movie. My wife and brother in-law had not seen it either, so seemed like a good pick to throw some popcorn in the microwave and sit back watch and enjoy.

SPIDER-MAN INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE EARLY VIEW (NO SPOILERS)

   I was lucky enough to get a early viewing of the new Sony animated movie Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse. The movie is coming out 12-14-18. My friend got passes to the early showing through PlayStation. I have been looking forward to seeing this new movie ever since I saw previews for it last year, and the fact that it is based around Miles Morales was a big plus.

VLOG 54-MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LITTLE ROUGH!

YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND VIDEO PROJECTS

   I have really been trying to get my YouTube channel Solis64 going. I know that the best way to have a successful YouTube channel is to focus on one subject, such as video games or cooking. My channel differently don't focus on just one thing. It is a little all over the place with the different things I do. Might be a good idea to try and just do one thing, but I like make a bunch of different kinds of videos. Considering that I will most likely never be but mediocre, I think I will stick to what I am doing.

GEARS OF WAR 4 DOMINATION

MY TOP 5 PICKS OF 2014 PART II-VIDEO GAMES

 

 Back again for Part II of my 2014 top 5 list. If you missed Part I, you can find it here:

MY TOP 5 PICKS OF 2014 PART I-MOVIES

   In Part II I will be doing my top 5 video games of 2014. As before, I will also have some honorable mentions. Its been a pretty good year of gaming for me. Playing some good games on both my X-Box ONE and my PS4. So with out any further a dew, here is my top 5.

BUSY WEEKEND OF FUN AND SURPRISES

   My weekend started Friday night after work. On Thursday I got my permit for my Class A licence, so to celebrate that my cousin Brian and I went out for some drinks Friday night. That was really nice cause him and I have not gone out for a drink in a long time. We talked about our week and some problems we was having at our normal watering hole called Spanky's. Sometimes you need to blow off some steam with a good friend and a good drink, and that Jack and Coke did the trick!

EPISODE 148: SORRY YOUR'RE FROM UTAH

We had a third with us this week in the form of Patrick’s Cousin, Brian!  As you will see from the episode, he added a lot to the conversation and made this one of the best episodes possibly ever!  Don’t worry, he’s only related to Patrick by law, so they’re nothing alike.

I JOKE of course!  The show wouldn’t be the same without Patrick and his personality!  But I am serious about how good this episode is.  We had so much fun that we didn’t realize we hit the two hour mark!

EPISODE 147, SHE SWALLOWS THOSE PELLETS

   As you know I do a video game podcast called Knights Of The Video Game Table. Our latest show just went up! I have deiced to start also posting our shows on my blog. Hope you enjoy this episode called, "She Swallows Those Pellets". 

Episode 147 She Swallows Those Pellets

BIOSHOCK STUDIO IRRATIONAL GAMES IS SHUTTING DOWN

   After 17 years studio head Ken Levine is shutting down Irrational Games. He is planning on starting a smaller and more entrepreneurial endeavor at Take-Two. He plans on focusing on more narrative-driven games that are released digitally. Sounds like he wants to makes games similar to Telltale Games after there success with The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us.

  "IF WE'RE LUCKY, WE'LL BUILD SOMETHING HALF AS MEMORABLE AS BIOSHOCK."

MY VIDEO GAME WTF MOMENTS PART 2

   At the beginning of the year I did list of my WTF moments which can be found here: MY VIDEO GAME WTF MOMENTS PART I. Well after another year of gaming and thinking over the long list of games I have played, here is part 2 of my WTF video game moments. This post does contain spoilers for the games. If your planning on playing the game, you have been warned.

THE WALKING DEAD 400 DAYS

   I'm so behind on this post it's not funny. I wanted to post this back in July when I first played The Walking Dead 400 Days. I guess better late then never right? And the fact that season 2 has not came out yet just means that I still have time.

   400 days is a middle story between season 1 and 2 of Telltale Games The Walking Dead. Choices you make in 400 Days will effect things going into season 2. There are 6 stories that happen within 400 Days each taking place during the days after the outbreak of Walkers. Some of the choices made in season 1 will carry over into 400 Days.

   Starting you off at a truck stop off the Georgia highway called Gil's Pitstop. On a bulletin board pictures of missing people are posted. You will play as five different characters, Vince, Wyatt, Russell, Bonnie, and Shel that can be picked from the bulletin board. Each story is there own, but will connect in the end.

X-BOX ONE UNBOXING

   Just picked up my X-Box ONE from GameStop. Did a video about the unboxing. I also picked up Deadrising 3.

PLAYSTATION 4 UNBOXING

   Just picked up my PlayStation 4 from GameStop. Did a video about the unboxing. I also picked up Killzone Shadow Fall as my first game!

DEAD ISLAND DREAMING!!

   The other night I had a interesting dream. I dream't that I was in the middle of the video game Dead Island. Luckily for me, I was one of the immune. I was myself and not another one of the characters. I fought to keep a bunch of survivors alive while we waited for help. Everyone that I was trying to save stayed inside a locked up building where they would be safe.

NINTENDO THEMED SHASTA SODA

    In the late 80's and early 90's in the mist of the the NES's success, Nintendo did a lot of different things to promote and advertise there video games and characters. One of the ways the did that is by teaming up with the soda making company called Shasta. They came up with four different flavors in 8 oz cans that featured four different characters from the Mario Brothers universe. You could also have a chance to win Nintendo prizes from the cans.They were out for a limited time, but very much missed by fans that grew up with the original Nintendo.

MY VIDEO GAMES OF 2012

   Last year I did a list for my video games of 2011, and now with 2012 done and over with, I had to do another list. In 2012 I did not get as many games as I did in the previous year, but still got a pretty good amount. Between there not being to many games that came out that I wanted and the fact that money was really tight last year, I got pretty much what I wanted. If you want to read my 2011 list before this one, here is a link to that post- MY VIDEO GAMES OF 2011 

   Two of my favorite franchises came out with games last year, Silent Hill: Downpour and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Both game were really good. While Downpour was not your normal Silent Hill game, well at least to me anyways, it was still a really good game. Still had some great scares and a good twist at the end. I did think that monsters where not your typical Silent Hill monsters. But I was told that the monsters in Downpour where suppose to be based on the main characters feelings. That would explain what was called "The Void" in other world. 

REGULAR SHOW EPISODE VIDEO GAME WIZARD

   Episode 19 of season 3 of the cartoon Regular Show is entitled Video Game Wizard. In this episode the two main characters Mordecai and Rigby enter a video game tournament called the Game Inferno Tournament. This episode is based off the movie The Wizard that came out in 1989 starring Fred Savage. The title alone gives it away as a reference to the movie. 

   After playing video games and Rigby playing so bad that Mordecai wanted to watch TV, they see a commercial for the Game Inferno Tournament. As they show the prize, the Maximum Glove, Rigby is all excited to enter the tournament with his best friend. That excitement is short lived when he finds out that Mordecai had already signed up for the tournament with there other friend Skips. Rigby from then on would try to get Mordecai to change his mind and pick him. 

MY VIDEO GAME WTF MOMENTS PART I

   One thing we all know when playing video games is that we all have that "What The Fuck" moment. It's going to happen, whether it comes from a ending you did not see coming, a favorite or main characters death, or just maybe a good scary that made you say "What The Fuck"! I thought I would give a few of mine that are not in any order. I will have this as a continuous post, cause there are so many WTF moments in my personal gaming past and future that made me want to write a series of blog post. If I can find videos that show what I am talking about I will put them up.This post does contain spoilers for the games. If your planning on playing the game, you have been warned.