I couldn’t think of a creative title for this GamerDad.com review dump blog, so I’m quoting Bluey.  Bluey is an awesome kids show that is so good that I sometimes forget it’s a kids show.  You should watch it if you get a chance.  It’s on Disney+.  Anyway, here’s a bunch of reviews I’ve recently 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 appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

One of the benefits of working for a university is when spring break period approaches. Activity on the campus dies down so detail cleaning or special projects can be completed. The Friday of this period also is recognized as an observed holiday for staff. Since the week started, all campus buildings were put on lockdown due to safety measures regarding COVID-19 so only essential personnel are allowed. This of course includes custodians. I have vacation days but I'm bad about using them as much so to wake up on a Friday in which I don't have to go anywhere feels perfect. 

This decade may have been about the rise of mobile and free-to-play gaming, but for Mark and I, it was about bigger and better versions of games we had been playing since the 90s: FPS’s with attitude, action RPGs and reckless racing. The only new type of game we played a lot this decade was Minecraft. Here’s a year-by-year breakdown of the games we played in co-op or just in tandem.  

My other hobbies outside gaming are reading and music. I'm on a year long plan for both, each month having its own theme. I guess I'll break it down, for those who are interested. 

I finished the main game of B2 today, or nearly so, and then started the new DLC that's supposed to link up the story of B2 with upcoming B3. I haven't finished it yet but it's interesting so far. 

I get excited to get a bunch of new books and see what's coming in the theaters and in gaming for the coming month. I make a list and try and do it all. Here's what I'm focusing on for May. 

Welcome back to a traditional episode of Nerds Without Pants…FINALLY! We’re back at it this week, with all your favorite segments: Stage Select, Consumption Junction, and Chrono Crossing. We even have all three Pantsless Ones on this show, so let’s get into it, shall we?

Well it's the last day and the last batch of games I'll be able to show off. I wasn't able to get to my other tote of wii games which has another 100 games, so maybe next year I can go through that. Still I managed to go through 250 games in my collection and that is quite a bit. Anyways, enjoy my last batch of games and a few big box/special edition games.

Hows it going pixl peeps?!

 You know what I hate? Nostalgia hounds. Nostalgia can be great, don't get me wrong. When it clouds your ability to enjoy modern things that kick ass, something is wrong. Now, prog fans tend to share this mindset often. “Oh, nothing will ever top King Crimson, Rush, Yes, or Peter Gabriel era Genesis. “Doesn't have mellotron? It's not prog,” they say.

Hello Pixlbitians,

A place down the road from me had their sale games at 50% off and also tax free so this is what I picked up.

You may or may not remember that back in 2011 that a little teaser trailer for a game called Tenkuu no Kishi Rodea or  as we know it... Rodea: The Sky Soldier was shown at Nintendo's E3 for the Nintendo Wii and 3DS. This game was developed by Yuji Naka famous for Sonic, NiGHTS, and founding his own studio Prope and being published by Kadokawa who also failed to release another great Wii game Earth Seeker stateside, but that is more of a fault in Kadokawa having no American branch.  That and another problem with Rodea is that is was released so late in the Wii's life cycle. The Wii U was on it's way in 2012 and the last few notable games to come out for it were Pandora's Tower and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

I played another full day of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel continually in co-op with my buddy Mark. I bought the season pass for the upcoming four DLC packs, topped 50 hours playtime, got to 26 of 50 achievements, and begun True Vault Hunter Mode, which is just a harder difficulty replay of the game.

So here I am to deliver some of the recent news stories and other events going on in the gaming world. Lets begin!

I didn't have much exposure to the first Borderlands game. Aside from hearing "It's got mad LEWTZ!" I didn't know anything about the game. It was released about a year before I got back into gaming, so I missed the fervor that occurs on any game's release. However, the sequel was released nearly 2 years ago. And I was around to hear about it. I actually got fairly excited and hoped to play it with an old friend of mine. However, with varying schedules, it quickly fell to the wayside.

The day has finally come. No it's not the end of days and no it's not a holiday (Unless you all want to celebrate my birthday as one lol) No today is the day the Wii is finally dead. Now you may be saying, "but Jon Nintendo kicked that bucket aside when the Wii U was announced." And you would be correct. However, some games did in fact come out. Pandora's Tower made it's way stateside when the Wii U was out and that was a big deal for project rainfall fans. Granted XSeed screwed up and many people encountered game breaking bugs and glitches in the final tower, but regardless we got the game which is better than not at all.

 I thought I'd take an intermission and do something a bit different than the BrokeLeg Blog.

Okay so this is going to be a real quick opinion on what I think of the Xbox One and next gen in general. Last console generation was a long one. A really long one and it hasn't ended yet. The 360 and PS3 have not been maxed out and games are still getting released for them. How about my Xbox One???? I have a couple games for them and nothing has been released yet really. Don't get me wrong, Dead Rising 3 with hundreds of zombies on screen is epic. Call of Duty looks better I think. Skylanders um looks better and Marvel Heroes looks good too. All offered on last gen consoles.

I have finally done it.  At least I hope that I have finally quit Cookie Clicker.  There is a small void that has formed in my being and I might have to fill that with Candy Box 2.  Here is hoping that I get bored with that one fairly quicklySince half of Cookie Clicker is all about waiting to accumulate enough cookies to buy another upgrade I have spent that time with a couple of games in my Steam backlog.  The two big games that I have spent some time with are Papers, Please and Risk of Rain.  I spent about 20 minutes with Valdis Story:  Abyssal City but wanted something a little more rogue-y so I put it down.  Valdis Story left a fantastic first impression though, I really hope to come back to it soon.

One of my big Christmas gifts was the gold Zelda 3DS XL. I never had a 3DS before now, but was excited to hear about this particular 3DS, which comes with a voucher for the digital version of A Link Between Worlds. Of course, the eShop has been screwed up for the past few days, so I used some gift money to buy a couple more 3DS games I've been hankering after (on cartridge): Fire Emblem and Kid Icarus: Uprising. Playing the latter game, and the discovery that the other two Kid Icarus games are on the eShop, inspired me to want to write a blog about this unsung Nintendo series.