Xbox weekly rewards, Game Pass rewards, Games with Gold games, they make up my routine right now. I managed to finish all the weekly rewards and most of the Game Pass ones. I already have over 10k points but it's fun to keep going with it. I'm getting points on my phone now during the week as well, so they add up quickly. Here are the details.
Games of the Decade: Expansion Pass #16/Blog a Day #15
Launch into a new adventure!
Not a fan. I dont' like sneakin' in games. I'm no Gollum. But I did a lot of sneakin' the last few days in several games: Fable Anniversary, Alien Isolation and theHunter: Call of the Wild. I am so done with that.
I met my baby nephew, Patrick, while visiting my brother and sister-in-law Sunday afternoon. Pat is adorable like you read about and I think he's in good hands. I wasn't there for long: maybe 90 minutes tops before they had to leave for family pictures. I'll see them again this coming Sunday when the baby shower drops. My brother and sis-in-law tried for adoption for 4 years and they lucked out with this little guy.
Well it's valentine's day everyone and as a special gift I got a box o' games! HO HO! You thought it was a box o' chocolates! Bad jokes aside... here is today's batch!
If you're American, you probably know by now that your Country is maybe not doing so well. If you're a woman, you now have no control over your body. If you're a scientist, you have no control over your tongue. And if you're a Muslim... well, you're no longer American.
This is going to sound coming weird coming from me. On 1up, I was that idiot who would whine at everyone who liked Dead Space, proclaiming that it wasn't scary and therefore wasn't a valid form of horror. If you learn anything from this blog, let it be this: 19 year old Blake was a fucking idiot. He didn't like Mass Effect. His favourite game was books. And he totally thought he was better than you as he meandered his way through his first year at college.
So Uncharted 4 came out today. I can't afford it since I have like 12 bucks in my bank account until next week (yay car registration) so I'll have to wait a bit.
To say the least, 1985 proved to be a very good year for Nintendo. They successfully launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in the U.S., introduced the Super Mario Brothers, and quickly won the love and devotion of many youngsters getting into console gaming for the first time. It wasn’t long before Nintendo became a name synonymous with high quality video game entertainment.
As per usual, my plan to blog more often is thrwarted by a number of things: work, exhaustion, distractions, shitty weather, napping and high school basketball. None of these things are interesting (no matter how I try to prove otherwise) so I won't waste time with that. Instead, I'll talk about Dying Light, which has dominated my spare time in both its campaign and The Following DLC.
Hey all. So, I got my PS4 today and I wanted to discuss my early thoughts on it. First of all, I don't like the power button. Second of all, I like the controller -- so far. I also like the silver light on the top of the unit. I don't know why, just looks nice. But that's about it for hardware. Let's talk about software.
Walmart has this great bundle that includes 3 games and 3 months of PS PLUS for $400. I've linked to it below. I just ordered it with Batman, Madden 16, and Alien Isolation. I should have it by Wednesday!
It was good while it lasted. For the majority of the previous year I've had the responsibility of cleaning the 5/6th grade building for the school where I work and when an employee came back from her maternity leave at the beginning of the semester, she was assigned that building and I found my workload lessened. I was happy.
Well I've been thinking about this a lot after one of my anime reviewers decided to up sticks and go on to something bigger and better so I figured "New Year, why not?"
Anyone who has listened to the last episode of my podcast (thank you so much, btw) knows that I've had initial bad experiences with the Alien franchise. How appropriate that I decided to make my first playthrough of Alien: Isolation public through Twitch.
In less than 5-6 hours, the weather in my area will go from lovely sunshiney skies to freezing rain, followed by sleet and then possibly at least 3 feet of snow. It blows my mind when temperatures change so dramatically in the course of day (as it did yesterday when it reached 68 degrees only to plummet to 25 at night) but that's the nature of winter weather. I dread this time of year because of all of the damage that snow/ice-storms can do to my life. Obviously I'm worried that it might hurt my truck in some way. It can also affect the roads, which cancels work and the ability to travel. Last year this time, I lost 15 days of work due to repeated snow and ice storms; in some cases, I was unable to get out of my fucking parking lot (no way in hell will anyone clear the snow and ice out of that area) so I couldn't leave if I wanted to.
This game is a slow burn for sure. I never watched the original Alien movie, though the game makes me want to
And it was one hell of a ride. I'm all done with the main campaign, I've liberated every outpost, conquered all fortresses, liberated the bell towers, and killed countless people. I have a few collectibles and trophies to mop up, but that will all be handled at a later date.