Happy Monday Duders - Far Cry 4, Wrestling, Big Reveal for Next Month 01/26/15

I want to start of the blog by saying that this was an extremely light week for playing games for me. I had a lot of adult responsibilities, like watching the Royal Rumble, and I plan to have a blog in a couple of days with my thoughts on that event. I know how many people feel about it and I have to express my opinion in some way. I’m also debating on whether to start doing a blog each month where I talk about the WWE PPV and give my opinions on it. (Let me know if anyone at all would be interested in reading that even if no one will it may be therapeutic for me)

A Real Man's Man is my pick to win the Royal Rumble every single year...

I know that a million other people do that but I've been watching wrestling for a very long time and I think I am the most qualified person in the world to offer a wrestling opinion having no previous experience in writing about wrestling, talking about wrestling, and/or actually wrestling. FUN!

I hope you guys had a chance to play more stuff than I did because I really only played like 2 games this week and barely had time for either one. I have something planned for February though that I think is super cool, I’ll get into that more in the conclusion though, I really think those of you who actually read this will enjoy it. Here we go:

THE LAST WEEK IN GAMING

1. Far Cry 4

THOUGHTS: I actually started playing FC4 back when it was released and have around 15 hours into it as of right now. I went back to it earlier this week because I never completed the story but really want to so I thought what better time to jump back in than while I am waiting on Bayonetta 2 andDying Light to arrive; both of which were sent by Gamefly. I was only able to, maybe, play another hour of Far Cry this week and it saw me complete absolutely ZERO story missions which were my sole purpose for going back in the first place. I killed a couple of tigers, did one tower, and ran over a merchant while riding an elephant.

We all love @vinny!

VERDICT: I love Far Cry 4. I’ve played the entire time on PC with my GTX 780 and haven't had a single issue. The freedom you have in that game still boggles my mind and the world seems so alive. It’s so cool to drive up a few minutes after a random guy has been mauled by a tiger or to see something ablaze following a firefight that happened while I wasn't even around. The series has become one of my favorites and I can’t wait to see where they take it next. If you haven’t played 3 or 4 then I suggest you remedy that immediately.

2. Defiance

THOUGHTS: Why? I really have no answer. In a week where I had so little time to play games why in the world would I go back, yes I said “go back”, to Defiance. In my defense, I played this game on 360when it released a couple of years ago and actually enjoyed it. It wasn’t good, believe me, but it was a serviceable shooter that had ties to a terrible SyFy television show that I actually like. I saw it was on Steam for free and decided to give it a shot. It is now free to play though so just understand that going in.

I downloaded it and played through the tutorial then turned it off and uninstalled it. I was hoping in some way that I would get some bonus for having played the console version but that didn’t happen.

VERDICT: Defiance isn’t a good game but the show is bad and dumb in a good way, so, don’t play the game but try out the show.

THE WEEK AHEAD

This section actually has a purpose this week… YAY! Since the next blog in this series will be on the second of February I am announcing that next month will be, FEBULOVEARY!!!!

I honestly could not come up with a better name than that, and I tried, I sat for at least 3 minutes on Saturday and tried to think of something better but that stupid name kept making me laugh so I went with it.

FEBULOVEARY (I know that name is really stupid) will be all about things that I fell in love with in gaming and I’m going to start by this week playing games on consoles by the first company that I fell in love with, Nintendo. I’ll have the story of when I got my first NES system next week and why I can’t stop buying Nintendo consoles.

Here are the games I plan to play this week: (Most of these, if not all, will be played on my Wii U)

• Bayonetta 2
• Punch Out
• Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
• Mario Kart 8
• Super Metroid
• Super Castlevania IV

I know that's a lot of games for me but I really want to dive in and play a ton of stuff to kick off the big FEBULOVEARY event and what better way to do that than with a bunch of cool Nintendo stuff. I hope you awesome people enjoy it because I plan to do more of these themes maybe every month from here on out. I’m thinking it will help me to prioritize what I play a little bit better and lend some cohesiveness to this blog series.

OPINION TIME

Since I felt that the blog last week was a little on the negative side with the Evolve drama I wanted to do something a little more positive this week. Over the last couple of days I have been thinking about the differences in how I looked at games when I was younger compared to how I look at them now. I always want to lean more to the positive side of gaming since it’s something that I do for fun. I don’t want to look back at games that I loved before and say that they suck now just because it seems like it is uncool to like that particular game or because it doesn't look or control as well as current releases.

I fell in love with certain games not because they are products of the era or time that I played them in but because they were well crafted experiences that spoke to me. I play retro games occasionally and instead of looking at them with a critical perspective I just try to sit back, relax, and enjoy them.

As another reason to check out the blog next month I am going to be going back and ranking my favorite games of all-time and each week I will reveal them until I get to the last week of the month where I will make known my favorite game. This isn't a list of games that I think are the best technically or the games that everyone should feel the same about that I do, no, these are simply my Top 10 favorite games ever.

So what I would love for everyone to do, along with leaving me your feedback on the entirety of the blog, is to let me know in the comments what some of your favorite games are.

As always have a Happy Monday Duders and thanks for reading.

The Royal Rumble itself was bad/awful/terrible/the worst but man that title match was fantastic.

Bayonetta 2 is awesome, and is the second best game on the Wii U.

Apparently all of Vinny's issues with Far Cry 4 were due to him streaming. Once he stopped it worked perfectly.

My favourite games are God Hand, Vanquish and Kirby Super Star in no particular order.

I said on Twitter last night that the title match is maybe the best WWE match I have seen in at least a year, since Bryan vs Bray at Rumble last year. That match was incredible and so was the title match last night...

I'm going to start Bayonetta today and I'm really excited.

Vanquish is super cool and Kirby Super Star is a really great game. Good choices... I've never played God Hand, should I fix that someday?

Every time I try to stream something I always end up with some weird issues...

Thanks for commenting. I really appreciate the feedback...

@jbg4: God Hand is really cool game. Probably the best combat system in a game ever. It's on PS3 for 10 bucks.

Always bet on Lucky Clover.

I'll definitely give it a shot. I always noticed it but never tried it... it would be cool game to talk about on the blog at some point in the future.

Also, I noticed that because of the blizzard RAW is basically just showing the top matches from the Rumble last night. That's really interesting that they're doing that.

@jbg4: I wonder how edited the crowd will be. When Bryan was eliminated and at the end the boos were almost deafening.

it seemed to be pretty much the same... I actually really enjoyed the segment between Lesnar and Reigns. Heyman was pure gold as usual and did more to help build up Reigns in 3 minutes than the WWE has in a couple of months.