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Started the day by downloading the Games with Gold games. I got Gone Home: Console Edition, but I couldn't get Rayman 3 HD because it still said 9.99 when I looked up the price. It should say "free" on that screen. I tried it again at the end of the day, but it was still wrong. I'll see if that's been fixed later in the week. 

First thing I did today was trade in Hey! Pikmin and put the money towards Culdcept Revolt coming on the 3rd. Then I played Fallout Shelter while Forza Horizon 2 installed and then nothing but FH2 the rest of the day. 

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. 

I should've gone back to Battlefield 3 today, but that game kind of depressed me. So many realistic people gunned down in the street. I kind of didn't want to see more of that. So I tried out a bunch of stuff I got for free at one time or another in my virtual game collection on XBO. 

I played some Minecraft today with Mark. The online was seriously laggy after a while, so I stopped. I literally got a message that I had been killed by a Creeper but I was still alive, I just couldn't interact with anything. I thought I had just been disconnected but somehow I left my body and it got blown up. It was a weird moment. Like I was in a dream where I didn't know that I had died. It kind of feels like my real life at the moment. That was the last straw though, so I left the game. 

My next Gamefly game rental will be Yooka Laylee. I've always wanted to play the Banjo Kazooie games but never got to them. This will be a similar game from Rare, so I'm excited to try it. 

Had to take Mark to the doctor, so I got my business stuff done in the morning and headed over there a little early to play some games. Then I played the Etrian Odyssey V demo in the waiting room for 90 minutes. Afterwards, we got some pizza and played Minecraft the rest of the evening. 

Minecraft: I quit out of multiplayer because it was seriously not working well. There was a several second delay on just about everything you did; if I killed a cow, got an achievement, or did anything that resulted in a item drop of any sort, it would hold up. Way too annoying. So I played single player for a while and tried to dye things. Still can figure out how to dye my leather armor in the inventory. I've tried just about everything I can think of. My last resort is to make a cauldron and dye it in there. I've never tried that before, but it should work. Then I got really bored playing by myself, so I switched to the game I bought today, Halo 3: ODST. 

Had some time to wait while my roommate got ready for a day out. Turned out to be quite a while and I got a lot of time in with Etrian Odyessy V demo. 

Split the day pretty evenly between Forza Horizon and the new Minecraft on XBO, the Better Together update.