I turn 40 later this year so to show that I'm truly on my way to cranky curmudgeon status, I'll start off by saying how much I hate winter weather season. My house is the kind that usually keeps cool during warmer weather so trying to heat this place makes my electricity and gas bills go up (honestly, that I spend more time gaming or using my tv rather than freeze to death outside also contributes to that). After this month, it should start to get warmer so I'll be happy then.
I played a bunch of stuff, chasing Microsoft Rewards points and playing one co-op game.
Before I get things going I’d like to update you good people on what I have been playing…spoiler it’s the same couple of games. Yeah I’m boring like that where I’ll casually play some stuff and then go about my day. Actually I should do a combo blog because I have other things planned for Friday (if I actually write out what I want to share) anyways let’s get started
I'm getting caught up in the holiday sales. I'd better reign it in after this weekend. Here's some of the damage below. Also, I've been playing Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story on DS. So far it's great.
I'm quite behind in blogging the games I've been playing. Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure is one I started months ago. I've been playing it in between bigger titles. It's also on my list of short games to play. I enjoy the casual game now and then and this is a pretty good one, especially if your a fan of Pixar movies.
Late to the Party: As always happens after I finish a game that I've spent over 100 hours immersed in, I really hadn't been able to settle on my next game to play yet. So I booted up the 360 for the first time in months (mostly to see what was available as the current Games for Gold download), and cycled through what I had stashed on the hard drive. I frequently download the free games and then forget about them, so I went through and deleted a couple that I'd finished and knew I was never going to play again, and then decided to give Borderlands a try. And surprise! (please read in a sarcastic tone), there was an update. Oh, yay. So it did its thing, and I tried to get the game to play, and it made it as far as the Gearbox logo screen and froze my 360. OK, I'm used to the occasional freeze, usually when playing LEGO games, so I shut down the console and restarted and tried again. Same result. Hmm... Off to the internet; Yup, update breaks the game on the 360. Solution found, third time's the charm. However, I can't play the game online, which I'm mildly disappointed about. Now, I'm not normally into FPS games, but Borderlands is fun so far. I haven't made it very far into the game and I die a lot, but fun is being had. We'll see how far I get and if I continue to have fun before the whole FPS thing gets to me.
Happy New Year! Let’s ring it in with some recent reviews I’ve written over at GamerDad.com! Please click on the links and read as many as you can and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d really appreciate it. Let’s begin!
I played all 50 games in this collection. Then I focused on the ones with achievements attached. Some of those I didn’t think much of first time around, but once I was tasked with an achievement, I found the fun. I’ll begin with just the arcade games I have something to say about. There are 14, total.
Well, I was informed I was let go from my full-time adjunct position on Monday. While I was still searching for jobs lightly in May "just in case" when I was told it looked as though I'd be coming back for Fall (faculty hiring freeze, uncertainty on the part of administration etc. all played a role I won't go into), it still came as a bit of a surprise given the circumstances and the way things were communicated to me.
Pixlpeeps, Happy Friday! This is my favorite time of year because this is the one day I can justify eating a steak and a slice of pumpkin pie covered in whipped cream for breakfast and people think its normal. This is good times and after I finish writing an update here I will go back to eating something crazy. Anyways last night my cousin and I decided to venture out an hour after stores that opened because we wanted to avoid the crazy folks who go nuts over deals over TVs, computers, and other high ticket items. Instead of those items I wanted some small stuff and I knew there would be mountains of this stuff so we could take our time, avoid the rush, find some cool stuff, and calmly stroll out of the store without any issue. So this is my kinda recap of what I call Dark Gray Thursday Night!
Who isn't though? I have this conundrum a lot. I don't like reading self promotion blogs, and I hate writing them even more. I'd rather tell you about all the awesome things other people have made.
This originally started out as a post on Captain N's blog, but it turned into a blog in itself.
So confirmed in news recently was the announcement by Nintendo that the SNES Classic was coming. After a successful limited run of the NES classic which came packed with 30 games for $60, the SNES classic will come with 21 games and will run for $80. It's set to be released on Sep. 29th, 2017 so prepare to visit Nintendo's website everyday to see when you can pre-order yours because if you know how the NES Classic went down...just take a look at ebay prices...ouch. However, you may probably have an SNES emulator of some kind already on your computer... and well...you probably won't need this anyways.
So unlike May I actually beat a game this month. Im officially caught back up but I might try to finish a second game since May wasnt a good month. I have probably talked about God Eater before on here. If I havent I have no fucking clue why not. Regardless though, this game is fucking fun and worth a playthrough. They rereleased this bundled with the second game but you can buy it on PSN for $19.99. Personally I say its worth the $20.00 but I know not everyone likes the monster hunter type games. Let me atleast say this game is way easier to jump into than Monster Hunter. Its beginner friendly and single player friendly. The story for the game can be beat completely by yourself. Other then maybe achievements, there isnt anything special to use the multiplayer for.
My hype for E3 is OVER 9000!!!
So in my attempt to get back on track for this month, yesterday I went back to listening to my 50 tracks a day on iTunes to the point where if I did the math correctly, to make up for my week of not listening to any new stuff, and to hit my goal of 1,500 tracks that I listened to for the month, all I would have to do is listen to 60 new tracks a day. Not bad. Also I am back to moving my DVDs to digital and I am back to blogging on Monday and Friday. Wooooo! Anyways let's get started!
Jesus Christ 2017, calm the fuck down. It's only fucking April and you're giving us awesome game after awesome fucking game. I mean jesus. I'm going to talk about just some of the amazing games I've played this year.
I'm into chapter 3 in Bravely Second right now and basically I'm playing through it just to see the story.
I began today's gaming by playing Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel solo for a while and avoiding the final boss fight with the Empyrean Sentinel. I went to play the Holodome DLC instead. It's just a large arena and you have to survive five rounds and then one more crazy hard round. I just did one because I dislike arena fights unless I have friends in there with me.
I think I'm about half way in the main story for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. I've been doing side missions along the way. I like doing all the side missions. It's not a completionist thing, I just like hearing all the stories and being sent to all the locations in the game. However, I did start to get hung up on trying to open all the chests that require 40 moon stones. I did five of them and thought the sixth one was going to be the last for an achievement but there are actually 10. I went for this last time I played the game and got to within one of getting it. This time, I backtracked three different times to open moon stone chests that I had found but didn't have the moon stones when I found them. I finally realized I was getting really obsessive about it and just stopped. Maybe I'll come across that one I never found, but it's not important. The story, the environments and listening to all the dialog are my main interests.
Started Pre-Sequel today. My first impression (on this second playthrough) is that it is way less aggro than Borderlands 2. Enemies say less ultra violent things. There's even an option in the settings to tone down the gore. I don't think that was in B2. The game is a little bit less chatty overall. However, it still makes me chuckle frequently. I can't help thinking about the difference in developers in this regard. 2K Australian toning down the violence from the Gearbox, based in Texas, USA, developed B1 and B2. My friend Mark perfers B1 and B2 over Pre-Sequel, but I like it just fine.
