Fighting games

Today I'll be talking about what I like about fighting games.

What I like about fighting games are the faced paced, twitch reflex style fighter like Marvel vs Capcom 3, or the Guilty Gear style fighters. I especially like Blazblue and Persona 4 Arena I like the characters, and enjoy the fast paced action. I'm not a "pro" at either of these games but I feel I can hold my own in both games and as such when I get the equipment I'll be posting my matches on Youtube. This won't be for a while though as I don't have the money and I need to learn how to edit videos it'll happen eventually.

Now the type of characters I like to play. I generally find myself moving towards the speedy rushdown characters and I am very character loyal so I won't play characters I dislike like in Blazblue I can play the whole cast asides from characters like Arakune, or Hakumen, and especially Tager as I've never liked grapple heavy characters. My mains in Blazblue are Ragna, and Carl two very different characters.

In P4A I like all of the characters as I love the Persona universe and my favorite characters are Minato Arisato (the main character from Persona 3 who unfortunately didn't appear for reasons I won't spoil) and Naoto Shirogane. So being the character loyalist that I am I obviously play Naoto but in my opinion I'm better with Yosuke and Labrys.

I still currently play P4A but I haven't played Blazblue in quite a while and when I jumped on recently I couldn't find anyone which sucks, so I guess I'll have to wait for Chrono Phantasma...

New Games

Yesterday was very busy, and today was a scheduled power outage so I was a bit late on this post...but let's get started.

So new games on the new consoles I'll talk about 3 though 2 of them are multi-platform. They are Call of Duty Ghosts, Infamous Second Son, and Watch Dogs. First up CoD, this years new installment from Infinity Ward who have done the Modern Warfare series was shown off at Microsoft's reveal showing off behind the scenes footage. While it didn't show off anything particularly interesting, and oddly enough why reveal a game that's multi-platform instead of an exclusive is beyond me, But maybe they're holding back for E3. I've never been a "military shooter" fan so I probably won't pick it up. But the main reason why I chose to write about it is because we don't know anything about any of the other games on Xbox One, and I wanted at least one game for the system so I chose CoD. So what do we know? Not much. There is new customization options for multiplayer but really they should have done that years ago, and the dog companion is cool but I think people want to see actual multiplayer footage not single player. Who plays CoD for soley the single player? Not many people. But hey maybe this time it will be the Halo of single player and not be "just there"

Next up Infamous Second Son. Now I think this is going to be the system seller if Xbox One has actual good games as the Infamous series is second to Uncharted, and God of War on Playstation. Now what do we know about this game? Well we know we have a new protagonist known as Delsin Rowe with his smoke abilities, and that it takes place well after the second game. But again not much is known about the story other then that you can make moral choices much like the first two games. Which also poses the question "which route did the story take after the second games ending?" Well we won't know until more info comes in as the endings in Infamous 2 are quite different.

And lastly Watch Dogs. Another multi-platform game much like CoD will also be released on PS3, and Xbox 360 while that's cool and all whats the point of getting the new system. Well a few reasons come to mind. First, it will likely run and look better on the new system. Second, they'll likely have new features on the new systems like in Watch Dogs apparently you can use the touch pad on the controller to control the phone the main character uses which is kinda cool. And third with the new system developers and publishers will likely support the new systems more then the old ones which coincides with my first reason.

Now lets talk about the game, Watch Dogs is an open world, sandbox game much like GTA and Infamous you're a antihero vigilante named Aiden Pearce who is a skilled hacker. You can do whatever you want much like other sandbox games but in Watch Dogs the city is very much a alive and bustling city with "people". From the trailers we've seen the very much alive and bustling is very cool, and every person 'could' be different from the other. Now I bet you will probably find a few people with the same face but if that isn't the case wow that is an achievement in video games and I am looking forward to seeing more.

Future Games

As the title suggests I'm going to talk about future games I'm interested in, that have been announced and are coming to the US. First up Tales of Xillia on PS3 now I don't honestly know much about the game itself but I know the series quite well and am looking forward to the next english tales game. next up Project X Zone on the 3DS I've always been a sucker for crossovers but this one is special it has Tales, Resident Evil, .Hack(too bad haseo isn't in), Valkyria Chronicles 3(which never saw a release in the US), Megaman X, and more. Last but not least Disgaea D2 another game from a series that I adore I've spent a lot of time in the Disgaea series, its quite the time sinker, and while I never did manage to max a characters level (closest I got was 4000) the funny story, and gameplay mechanics always draw me back in.

When I come back tomorrow I'll talk future games on the new consoles.

Xbox One

The Xbox One had quite the disastrous reveal, what with Microsoft putting hardcore gamers in the backseat, and casual TV, and being the center of the living room taking priority many people say the PS4 is going to win the console war. Now I'm not a Microsoft fan boy anything but that. I actually prefer Sony and Nintendo. But there is hope for the new Xbox they have to have an awesome show at E3 showing off their amazing new games and revealing that the 'possible scenario' of always on and DRM aren't as bad as we thought or don't exist at all(I kinda doubt it). If their new IPs are system sellers like the Wii U's upcoming smash bros, or PS4's Infamous, Then they may stand a chance in the new generation. But if Microsoft's E3 show isn't up to the challenge, Xbox One may not do to well.

Survival-Horror

And I'm back a little late this time.

This time I'll talk about survival-horror or just plain horror games. I think horror games are quite rare nowadays with Resident Evil being more action than horror and Dead Space 3 having more human looking enemies kinda makes it less creepy its hard to find legit scary games nowadays. But if you look back to the old Resident Evil's or Silent Hills. Or in the right places on the internet you'll find some creepy stuff like the really popular Slenderman or Amnesia. I may not name off a lot of horror games as I've just recently found I enjoy horror games but for some reason I can't stand horror movies. I don't know what it is about them but I just can't watch horror movies and feel scared, but Dead Space 2 freaks me out I think its the atmosphere and how immersed I get. If anyone reads this feel free to comment I want to hear your opinions.

Action-Adventure

Action-Adventure in my opinion is a very broad term...it covers many different genres and thus is a little hard to say specifically what games I like from the genre but special mentions go to the Uncharted, Tomb Raider, and any hack and slash game like Devil May Cry or the Dynasty Warriors series(two completely different types of hack and slash but whatever they're fun). Action-Adventure was my favorite genre growing up and I still have a soft spot for a good adventure but recently I find the Adventure side has taken a back seat. The only mainstream Adventure game as of late was the reboot to Tomb Raider and the new Metro but I burned myself out on shooters a long time ago. Which is a shame Adventure games have a lot of potential like the sense of discovery from Xenoblade Chronicles or the need to survive in Tomb Raider both of which were amazing. So tomorrow I'll talk about survival-horror and the few games that are actually scary.

JRPG's

Now onto JRPG's I play a lot of RPGs ranging from the Tales series (which my blog is named after) all the way to the Disgaea series. Currently I don't play many RPG mostly because there haven't been any I'm interested in but I'm looking forward to Disgaea D2 and Tales of Xillia whenever it comes over to the US. I may do a video about Tales of Graces and the .Hack//GU series in the future. Tomorrow I'll talk about the action-adventure games I play and am looking forward to.

Fighting Games

I currently play one fighting game mostly and that is Persona 4 Arena. But I used to play Blazblue, and Marvel Vs Capcom 3. While I won't cover them in they're current form I will if Blazblue's sequel is released in the US, and if Marvel Vs Capcom 3 ever gets patched. I don't think I'll be playing injustice anytime soon mostly because of how the game has developed online as a mass zoning game (zoning for those that don't know is when a character attempts to keep out another character with they're move set rather then attack  head on). Now for future fighting games I will play Blazblue Chrono Phantasma if it is brought to the US and I'll also play the newly announced Guilty Gear Xrd. For Guilty Gear fans I highly recommend looking up the trailer as it is very awesome and shows off the new VERY GOOD 3D graphics.

Start of blog

Well I just started this blog so I guess I should say what I'm going to do with this blog. First this blog will be about gaming. Second I'll be attempting to post videos here and on youtube currently I don't have the means to create video content so that will be a future thing. Lastly the type of games I'll be covering. I'll be covering just about anything I am interested in and my interests are kinda all over the place but for the most part I like playing fighting games, jrpgs, action-adventure, and survival horror. I'll be attempting to post at least once a day and once I can create videos I'll post more often.

So lets get started.