Here's my "waiting for a car repair" blog about the 2011 games that I played relatively close to release date in order of Metacritic rating for that year. Also, I'm just noting the system I played the game on, not all available systems.
Let’s ring in Spring with some game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
I played a lot on Xbox Series S this week, but also used my DS, Swtich, PS4 and Retron 3. Gaming breaks included watching another episode of Mighy Orbots, Return of Ultraman, and Dragon Ball Season 2. Also saw a variety of short youtube videos.
I got several Batman Gotham Knights comics recently and found them loaded with game ads from that time, early 2000s. Here are the pics:
Well hello there! I don’t like to toot our own horn too often, but this may be the best episode of Nerds Without Pants of the year. Is Stage Select a banger? Not even close. Is Video Game Cage Match one for the record books? Fraid not. But Consumption Junction is a blast, and hopefully you think so, too!
I guess I celebrated Mario in a way by playing my randomly sampled game, Super Smash Bros. on Wii-U. I randomly rolled the Wii-U and the number 3. The game was number 3 on Metacritic's list of best Wii-U games.
I played a hefty amount today with some good results. Then I got resupplied with OG Xbox games from my friend and from a few online orders which appeared today.
It's a strategy game, a resource management sim, a shooter with a card battle minigame in a sprawling open world environment full of wise cracking NPCs. Honestly, I got kind of confused trying to get my head around all the stuff this game throws at you. So, I went and played the following five games instead.
I'm getting really into Xbox My Rewards quests. It's informed everything I've played this week so far. Today I added about 500 points. I think the points can be worth about $1 per 1000. Hey, it's better than achievement points. Of course, most of the quests ask you to get achievements in certain games. Here's what I've played in the last two days.
I'm going to make what will, again, probably be my only BaD contribution.
A shitload of new games and ports were announced for Switch at the new Nintendo Direct, including classic final fantasy games (FF12 on a handheld!), a new Luigi's Mansion, and even a streaming version of the new Assassin's Creed. In addition, there are new ports of Cities: Skylines, Civilization 6, and even Wasteland 2 for god's sake. Personally, I bought Final Fantasy XV - Pocket Edition, originally a mobile game I played on my iPad, but it choked on my Air 2, so I wanted it on Switch where I'm sure it runs better.
It dawned on my the other day that my retrofest plan was based on my life, and that I should tie it in to a kind of autobiography. I have resisted this up until now because I always cringe thinking about it. I'm not particularly happy with my life as it is so far. But, it's a good writing exercise and I'm beginning to think of myself as a writer, so here goes. My autobio for these years.
A bunch of stuff here. I finished with Disneyland Adventures, dug into some DKC games, popped in some GameBoy games into my SNES GameBoy Player, and roamed the post-apocalyptic landscape in Fallout 4 and Wasteland 2. DETAILS!
The Speed Rumbler, 1986, is basically Mad Max. You live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland plagued with car gangs, one of which has kidnapped your family. You have 24 hours (actually 24 minutes, I think) to get them back. You do that by driving and shooting your way through six top down stages, and it starts off pretty well. Your car drives a little stiffly but it's manageable. There are a lot of bad guys to shoot, both in other cars and on foot, as well as other hazards like exploding barrels and boulders. You can also free prisoners from little standalone jails for bonuses and power ups. If your car takes too much damage, it will catch on fire and you need to get out of it ASAP. It's cool that you can go on foot even if you're probably gonna die. If you can survive and make some forward progress, a new car will be dropped off for you. It seems like a missed opportunity, however, that you cannot jump in an empty enemy car. You'll just die and instant deaths is one of my big pet peeves with this game. Okay, you're very vulnerable when not in your car; that makes sense. But there are enemies with instantly kill your car no matter how much life you have. That is super frustrating. Continuing that theme is the time limit. You have to beat the game in 24 minutes, which gives you 4 minutes to beat each of the six levels, and the game makes this a hard limit. If you hit 4 minutes before reaching the end of the level, you gotta start it all over. So doing well on earlier levels does you no good in the later levels. You get no time bonus.
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!
I've been playing video games since 1981. And only a little less time after I started playing video games, I learned I could alter the way my games played, whether it was from tinkering with the game's programming or by using tools provided in the game itself for user-made content. I also learned how to make my own computer games, in a rudimentary fashion.
I went back to the same used media shop and they did not have anything new on the shelf. I think that I might make more regular stops, just to see if they get any new NES or even SNES games in. Gamestop has been offering Retro classic on their website at competetive prices, and they still had Crystalis in stock. So, I ordered that and a first-party NES controller. I still don't have the means to play the games, but I am still looking into the clone machines. The Retron 5 sounds appealing to me, I like the idea of playing my GBA games on the big screen.
This is blog suicide. Who in their right mind would publish a new blog in the middle of February? Well, I had some thoughts that I wanted to get down and out, but don't have the patience to wait until March.
I haven't had any inspiration to write over the past few months and it is kinda bumming me out.
Aside from some shitty weather and some much-needed vehicular repairs for my truck, 2015 ended about as good as any year.
