I played as much of Half-Life 2 as I care to this month. After that I tried out Pillars of Eternity and then went back to chasing rewards points, which let me to playing several other games; all this over a couple of days I call my weekend: Thursday evening and all day Friday. This will change (to what I’m not sure) next week as I switch to a M-F work schedule. So on to details.
I missed the first two days of BaD. I have an excuse. I was sick; chest colds are terrible things. So this is a three-in-one covering what I played last week.
I’ve started a row on my bookshelf for a games library. I used metacritic’s all-time highest rated database as a guide. I went down the list and picked games that I wanted to play again and ones I’ve been desperate to play for years. Here’s the list I made from page one.
I got caught up in the sales again this weekend and picked up a bunch of five dollar games and one amiibo. I also played some New Super Mario Bros U and more of Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story.
Break out the tin-foil hats and buckle up, kids, because Nerds Without Pants is taking you on the conspiracy theory train! That’s right, we delve into all manner of rumors, speculations, and outright lies regarding video games. We hope you’ll join us for this jam-packed Stage Select topic, and then stick around to see who comes out on top in the steel cage when Half-Life 2 goes toe to toe with Halo 2!
This was on my short game list, and it was on sale for $3, so I bought and played it. . . three times. I enjoyed it, especially going for achievements, which is why I played it three times.
Hello everyone, I'm back again. I've played a lot of games since I last blogged, so I'll try and keep my impressions as short as possible. I also decided to split it into two blogs.
I tried really hard at the Map Room achievement in Minecraft and came up empty but I learned a few things. Then I played a little bit more of Prey.
Well, I had too much sugar this week and last night was faculty/staff appreciation night at the basketball place on campus, so I used getting in free as an excuse to spend $9 on a couple hot dogs and some bottled water. Then today, feeling like garbage from having stayed up too late and negating all the workouts I did Tuesday through yesterday, I made the executive decision to order and eat an entire ... I'd say medium pizza and have hard root beer before my therapy appointment at 4pm ... which was after teaching 4 classes straight from 9am to 1pm. Needless to say, I had to get some water and was offered and accepted a couple Ibu profein at said appointment. Basically, I had a hangover without ever getting drunk. I still feel like shit.
I got back into Netflix to watch an episode of the Skylanders Academy cartoon, watched highlights from The Game Awards on youtube, and played a heck load of Doom, all on my XBO. It all worked very seemlessly without crashes, slowdowns or other issues like what was the case on Xbox 360. Online multimedia on a console has finally been fully implemented. I'm happy about that. Now, on with the details.
I'm kind of happy I'm only working part time at the moment. Life is pretty busy right now. Beau takes up a lot of my time, but in a good way. He's still moving his crate all around the cottage while he's in it, so I've taken to calling him my mini seismic event. I make sure he gets at least one hour plus walk a day, but I think I may have to try for two. He has boundless energy. But he also likes to snuggle up on the couch and he lets me get plenty of gaming in, when I have time to game. Oh, and tonight at the market, I had a customer who was a dead ringer for Gordon Freeman. I wanted to ask him if he'd ever played Half-Life in the worst way.
By now you shouldn't be surprised that I get to be active only in certain months on this site. I've linked this with the analogy of me being a distant uncle who only visits the family on holidays or reunions. Nevertheless, I can never truly leave this site for becoming a gathering of users who moved after the closing of our beloved 1up and you guys are often a great friendly bunch. Considering i've been wanting to talk about some things, I think it's apropiate I continue to detail the games i've beaten so far in this (hell) year and though not as much as my last two entries, I still consider this to be a sizeable count of beaten games, going by the order I beat them since the last blog.
So, I am just going to steal this idea... and then break all the rules. I have been thinking about my Top 5 games of all time for the past 2 weeks at this point. I have come to the realization that selecting 5 games is just too darn difficult.
Here it is, my continuation of the last blog detailing the games i've beaten so far in 2016. Unlike the eight game of last time, there'll be "only" five here. Now, without wasting much time:
Well, so much for the "Cleaning up My Vita" idea. Over the past couple weeks I have been trying out a lot of my PS+ games, but if I am not feeling them within 30 minutes, I delete them. I know that it could be percieved as being a little unfair, but I should know early on if I am going to like a game or not. Let's see if I can remember some of the games that just weren't for me. A Virus named Tom was one of them, and Flame Over, Nova-111, Shutshimi, Nihilumbra, Actual Sunlight, Rocketbirds, and Nidhogg come to mind. I also played through Organ Trail once, they made some design choices that made me think the iOS version was better. I have also added to my endless Vita backlog. Recently, I have downloaded Helldivers, Risk of Rain, A Boy and His Blob, Tachyon Project and Axiom Verge.
Years ago I had picked up this awesome little game called Wolfenstein: The New Order. I loved it so much I played through it three times back to back to back. In fact, it was the first game I ever got a platinum trophy in... That is all well and good, but that is not what I came here to say. Tucked inside the case was a code for the DOOM beta, I redeemed the code for kicks and thought nothing more of it.
For the past couple of weeks now, I have been thinking about replaying Half-Life 2. This in turn got me thinking about gamses that I revisit on a regular or semi-regular basis. That is what I wanted to talk about today, games that we come back to and replay. Hopefully I will also have reason why I replay these games.
A brief rundown of games I've recently bought or played after finally upgrading to Windows 7.
Just finished this book today. I liked it. It tells the story of a crisis that happens after the Covenant/Human war where Elites and Humans have to cooperate on a mission to the Forerunner Ark. The Ark is like the mothership of the Forerunners. It's where the Halo rings were made and managed.