In the last part of my PS4 tribute blog, we looked at the games I enjoyed on the PS4 that were classic collections or remakes. And on this one, we’ll look at the more AAA titles (well as AAA as I get anyway), as well as the indie titles on the opposite end of the spectrum. Like I said before, most of these games you can enjoy on other platforms, I just played them on PS4.
I downloaded every 2000s era game I owned digitally on Xbox and started going through them. I added a bunch to my wish list as well in case a sale comes up.
In the fall you get a lot of food with pumpkin flavors. I liked pumpkin flavored stuff before it was popular. But most of it now is just pumpkin spice. I really prefer just the plain old pumpkin flavor because pumpkin spice just tastes like nutmeg and cinnamon. Anyway, here are some pumpkin flavored reviews for you all. Please read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
So for March I have console Generation 3 as the time period (NES, SMS, Arcades, Atari 8bit, C64, Amiga, Apple II and such - you know, second half of the 80s). To limit the choices, I thought about what genres were interesting at that time to me and Beat 'em Ups came up first but more specifically Hack 'n' Slash games are really my more focused favorite. Also a limit of 20 games, although, I did make a much bigger list in case I run out. Let's get into it.
I'm a big fan of developer People Can Fly, so when I saw that this game was theirs, I jumped on board. I bounced off it a few times initially. I liked it but the feeling of the controls felt slightly off to me. I tried adjusting the speed of the analog sticks, but it didn't quite work. When I decided to really dig into this game, I figured it out.
Just a day and half of gameplay this week 'cause work, like, gotta work when they tell me to. But, I still got to a lot of stuff even though I'm trying to get more focused. To do that I looked up the top Xbox Series X games on Metacritic. Elden Ring was first with Hades second. I'm waiting for a sale for Elden Ring, so I downloaded Hades, which is on Game Pass, and I've played it before and liked it. I'll try and go deep with it this time.
Just a triplet of gaming today. My gaming buddy is hobnobbing with his celebrity friends on Zoom. Geeze. Priorities.
Got another batch of game reviews I’ve recently written over at GameDad.com, including my coverage of the first ever PAX Online. Yeah, don’t expect much. But please read it anyway along with my other reviews, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d really appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
One of my first RPGs was Ultima III: Exodus on NES and PC. Ultima, along with Wizardry, was considered to be one of the two ancestors of the video RPG genre. Eventually I was able to get a hold of the other games in the series. The entire series is on GOG, including the spinoffs like Worlds of Adventure and Underworld.
My angel faction is so rad! These winged badies can wreck demon butt and perform a mean flying circus to boot. I got them tricked out with platinum wings, diamond mind bullets and radiance shock halos. I'm taking down RAID bosses with ease in this MMO. Thing is, Darla can only play on Wednesdays, Bob on Thursdays, Jeremy on Saturday night and Tamara on Sunday afternoon. It got so tricky getting people together, I played the following three games, watched a tv episode and downloaded two new games instead.
A few weeks ago, while I was randomly looking for things in my library's catalog during work - something I do frequently when things aren't hectic - I came across Skylanders comics collections. I didn't even know there were comics for this game series. Well, I had to start reading them, didn't I, and I have at about 1 per week since then.
By the end of the day yesterday, I felt like a lumberjack luchadore. Here be the notes:
*I tried to upload this earlier but Flickr wasn’t working.
I checked my email an hour ago and it turns out someone created an Epic Games account with my email address. I changed the password and user name but I can't find a way to deactivate this account. I went to their Help page and it really is no help, and eventually I managed to send off an email about my problem and I was met with a quick reply of "Your email is not being monitored". This is frustrating. Apparently there is no way to cancel this account some yahoo made, and their help section is of no help. I also reached out on Twitter but after this experience I doubt they will get back to me. If you any you folks know a workaround I'd appreciate the advice. Anyways check your email and make sure someone didn't open up any accounts on their site.
I got a laptop I used for Steam gaming eventually in July of 2012, but I honestly don't even remember if I was gaming in 2012 or just had to get a new laptop, cause I know I played Fez and Hotline Miami in 2013, but it was mostly getting to the Batman Arkham games I'd missed otherwise.
I played three games today: Minecraft, Horizon Zero Dawn and Crimson Skies.
Well... This is something, yet here I am almost one week later. The initial wave of emotion has worn off and my will has been battle tested. And so I figured I'd give my two cents as to a justifiable review of Super Mario Odyssey. Odyssey is in fact a very fun game, but is it the masterpiece I initially thought is was as well as others? The answer to that is a no unfortunately, which isn't a knock on Odyssey.
Well, it's been awhile since the NES classic came out and with the SNES classic coming around the corner I went ahead and decided to modify my NES Classic with pretty much every NES game. Now the process was one I was unsure of, but I managed to find a way to do the job. So after a couple of hours and plenty of research later I went about doing the task. When all was said and done I wound up with over 800 games.
Man life does get busy sometimes! Sorry for not replying to comments from my June blog - it's been awhile since I have had time to just sit down and breathe.
I got myself overwhelmed with game choices again, and so I’ve got a new plan to get things under control.
I finished Halo 3 in about 5.5 hours. That's the shortest of the series yet. I was surprised by that. Seems Halo 2 is the longest so far at 8 hours.