Mark and I played the entire campaign in co-op today. We didn’t get that achievement at the end though. I'm not sure why. Then we spent a lot of time hunting orbs. driving cars through stunt rings and battling security forces. It was a lot of fun.
Something I haven't really mentioned that has been going on over the past few days is my marathon of all the Jackass movies. So far I've done 1, 2, and 3, as well as Bad Grandpa. It's been long enough since I've seen them all that they felt new again.
Got a proxy server error just now. So here goes it again but in abreviated form since I'm running out of time.
I saw Justice League yesterday. Then I played a little bit of Forza Horizon 4 and then Assassin's Creed.
I'm down to four achievements I can't make any headway on, so I'm quitting until December's DLC drops.
Forza Horizon has change of seasons, rain, snow, and a day/night cycle, but no extreme weather. Wouldn't it be nice if a Sharknado blew through sometimes?
Yes, the obsession with Forza has begun and it is now the number 8 most played game for me this year and rising fast. I've just passed level 50 with no real end in sight. I've never seen a map screen more full of races and other points of interest. New ones get added as I complete challenges and as the seasons pass. Then there are the multiplayer events called Forzathons that happen every few hours or so. When it pops up, you head to the location on your map and suddenly, seemlessly, you are in multiplayer surrounded by other players. As a group you go off to complete various challenges within a set amount of time. This game has endless variety, it seems.
Reflecting on what I played this week as I wait to see Hotel Transylvania 3 [posting this later. Already saw the movie. It was good. I love seeing old SNL comics doing the voices like Adam Sandler, Molly Shannon and David Spade]. I hit the retro first with PlayStation games. Later I'll mention catching up in the Banner Saga series and then getting sidetracked by Bomber Crew while waiting for Banner Saga 2 to install.
So over the past few weeks I’ve written several articles about Nintendo Labo at GamerDad.com. But since these articles were so spread out, I figured I’d bunch links to them all here for easy access for people who want to read them all. So dig in and check out all about Nintendo’s creative cardboard folding video games on the Switch!
I started getting obsessed with this list of games I can play on XBO and PS4. Through various free giveaways and backward compatibility, I have a lot of choices. So I looked up all their play times and listed them from shortest to longest. Part of doing this is to compete on the achievement leaderboards, if possible; but it's also to knock a bunch of stuff off my immense backlog list.
I'm honestly a little upset I didn't get one in 2014. I just would have liked to have a Playstation FOUR in Twenty-FOURteen. Oh well.
Jazz Jackrabbit headed to GBA this year, but I still remember playing it on PC at the neighbors'.
Well today is Fat Tuesday which means, this Friday I need to start remembering that I can’t eat meat. Hello McDonald’s Fillet O’Fish and other meals that are similar OR I can just fast until Midnight and then hit the local In-N-Out at 12:01. Either sound fine with me. Anyways since this is day 2 of Versus week I want to cover a genre of gaming that just recently ended for a franchise I kind of liked, and that is the Toys To Life craze. Remember a couple of years ago when Skylanders started this, everyone went crazy and soon clones appeared? Yep I think Skylanders is still going strong while the other two big names are now out.
1. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris: I finished the main story. I started looking for collectibles. The environments are really gorgeous in that top-down perspective that reminds me of Diablo a bit. The gameplay reminded me a bit of God of War even though it's mainly shooting and not hand-to-hand or chainblade-to-hand fighting. So I searched down some collectibles until I realized you had to get all the challenges in an area for an achievement, not just the collectibles. That requires a lot of replay doing things like only using a certain weapon, or beating a boss in a certain amount of time. I was tempted but didn't go for it. Maybe later.
If you don’t remember Excitebots: Trick Racing on Wii, you’re not alone; very few picked up this wacky racer, dooming any chances of an Australian release (sorry, mates). After finally giving it a second life on the Wii U’s eshop late last year, Nintendo has decided to bring the series to Switch in a hot new direction.
I don't think my body cares about the fall backwards, spring forwards time change anymore. I woke up at the same time I normally do: 30 minutes before my alarm. During this time I question why I wake up that early, read Twitter while listening to the local news, and maybe a quick scan through Reddit. That is how I welcomed in spring forward. Good morning Pixlpeeps! Since I got that out of the way, how are you good people? I got some gaming in this past weekend while debating on playing something new on the iPhone/iPad. Let's check out what I played this past week
So...yes. I've already missed out on the past 4 days to write another post. I'm not proud of it. So I'll cover what's happened since then.
You guys haven't heard from me in awhile, and that's because I went back to college this past fall in order to get my Master's. So I've been pretty busy. Still, I was able to beat a bunch of great games this past year. I was able to beat 16 total games. Some of these are retro games, others are new, and most of them are Nintendo games. That's me! So let's get into it.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! So the past couple of days here in sunny Southern California it has been toasty, with the temperature hitting low 90s, and last night it dropped because we are getting a lot of wind and the local news folks said today it will be in the 70s with a really good chance of rain. Oh you crazy weather. So how are you good folks? Anything big going on? Are you all caught up in the Overwatch Beta that folks on Facebook have been talking about? I downloaded it yesterday after having to download the Battle net application. Why do I need so many apps just to run games? Coming in as a console gamer I figured everything ran through Steam but it is just like consoles in the PCMR where there is Steam, GOG, Origin, and Battle net. There is probably others that I haven’t run into yet.
I revisited an old arcade favorite in reduced form on console, finished Disney Infinity 1.0 and got back to good 'ol blood and guts FPS action. But first, a picture of my D.I. 3.0 figure I got today:
You get three blogs in one today. It's just how long a gaming day I had. I guess, when I grow up, I won't have time for all this. I hope that day never comes, maybe.
