Well we are here, the end of another BaD and I have to say it has been a lot of fun but I will be happy to get back to the normal posting routine. I have a lot of blogs to catch up on, and I’d like to get back to gaming at night instead of taking pictures, writing down my thoughts, and uploading them here. Anyways to end BaD 2018, today’s Goals is something I started for Lent but I might just keep for the rest of the year. For Lent I gave up commenting on Social Media. Now to be more specific I gave up on jumping into “discussions” and I use that term loosely. It seems like more and more people no longer want to have an actual discussion online, and instead they want people to agree with their point of view. When this doesn’t go their way they cry “Fake News”, “Troll”, “Libtard”,”Trumpette” and all the other tags. Things I like to point out that if little kids did this, they would be put on Time Out, but yet adults get a pass. Here’s a little background on why I gave up these discussions: On Facebook (oh these things always start with those two magic words) one of my friends posted their extreme slanted point of view. When I called them out on it I was met with the usual responses because there was no substance to their argument. It ended with my favorite line to make it sound like these people have better things to do “Well I am going outside and enjoying life” or something similar aka, I don’t know what to say.
So BaD comes to close yet again. I didnt blog everyday this year, but Im still happy with what I did. Im gonna do my best to catch up. I know Im super behind. Ive had a few crazy days watching my niece and celebrating a friends bday. Im back at work for another 36 hour work week. Im still thinking on what I want my back up plan to be for my career. I need to figure something out. Im still set on being a pharmacy tech but Its safe to have a back up if life turns out differently from what you thought. Ive been pondering things about my life recently. I dont know if thats a good thing or bad but Im taking each day in stride and even on my worse days I'm finding some light to look to brighten my day.
It's a day early for me to start 1981 for March but I couldn't resist. I made a '81 music mix for my car, watched a classic '81 movie and played an '81 game, Wizardry.
Congrats to everyone for participating and thanks to those who commented!
2017 was a pretty good year for me, personally, all things considered, and a great year for video games. Nothing really changed much for me aside from getting used to my job and having things go fairly smoothly from there, unlike 2016 where I crashed and burned at work, then emotionally, then physically.
It’s not midnight yet here in Southern California and to be honest I almost forgot about writing today’s Goals blog, BUT I do have a topic that I wanted to write about earlier today but I got sidetracked (like reading and responding to your blogs, sorry) but here we go. Today’s Goals blog is making some progress in my Backlog and how I think I can do it.
As I come to the home stretch of Blog-a-Day, I was distressed to discover that Three Wonders, released in 1991, was three games! Time has caught up with me and I'm typing this up the night it needs to be posted. Three games? Ack! I don't have time for this!
As we sail off on this years bad I'll reminisce often about older Bad's I've done. It's been quite a undertaking participating in this every year and I always try to come up with some sort of interesting thing or maybe just something interesting in general.
2016 sucked for me. Not because a bunch of celebrities bit the dust or our politics got even more polarized, though that didn't help, but for extremely personal reasons I won't go into.
I've been making a list of games I want to play this year. I write down games coming only a month ahead because release dates are usually solid by then. After that I rate them by how much I want to play them. The highest rated go to my Gamefly que. Two months in and I don't have a five star, or "must-play", game yet, until now.
Strider is undoubtedly a cool game, especially for one released in 1989. It's a non stop series of action set pieces with a heavy emphasis on awesomeness! In a dystopian near future where a mysterious dictator has taken over the world (he's totally an alien entity that plans to purge the world with fire) and as the youngest and greatest of the elite Strider organization, you are sent to take him out!
For the final three days of BaD I thought I would focus on three goals for the rest of the year. I know I covered some on the Resolutions blog in December but I wanted to focus on three that I may or may not have covered, because once BaD is over, 2018 has 10 months left so why not get the most out of it. For today’s 2018 Goals I thought I would talk about Clutter both virtual and physical.
So Super Mario Odyssey's free DLC came out and Luigi's Baloon World has consumed me. I admit. I had a farewell series of blogs all posted up for this years BaD...and then it happened. Like a thief in the night...LUIGI...
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.
Williams would soon put out a classic video game, but their main interest was pinball. Firepower was a great table out in 1980.
I recently made a list of current gen games and rated them based on how excited I was for them. Five stars was a "must play" game; four stars said, "I really want to play it"; three stars just, "want to play it"; and two stars was a, "curious". There was no need to list one star games. You could say those were all the rest. So here is a list of my five star games for 2017 in chronological order.
Yeah, apparently that was in February of 2015. I for some reason had it in my mind I bought my PS4 in 2014, which would have been cool matching those 4s up, but oh well.
So this month is almost at a close but at I will have made at least one BaD entry before its over for 2018. So, where have I been, in case anyone/no one has been wondering?
Dissidia Final Fantasy was one of my favorite games on the PSP. It was a fighting game featuring characters from the popular RPG series, and there were two of them on Sony’s first handheld. I always thought it would be neat if there was a version of Dissidia on one of the big consoles, so I was excited when Square-Enix announced Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for the PS4. I’ve been playing it recently, so here’s a blog about the characters and stages you can find in it, as well as some brief impressions of the game as a whole.