Happy New Year! Let’s start it right with more games I’ve been reviewing 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. Thanks!
I’ve been keeping track all year long in Excel. In total, I played 105 games for 1454 hours. That’s 4 hours a day on average; only, I don’t play every day, just on my days off from work or school. Here’s my top ten most played, all on Xbox One.
Without really intending to I wound up getting a new phone yesterday. What was wrong with my Nexus 6P you ask?
I just finished Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and holy Hela, it was an ordeal. I honestly feel drained, as if I really was with Senua down in Helheim. I paused the documentary feature that comes with the game to come here and type some comments, and it's interesting having some of my story suspicions confirmed or fleshed out a bit more clearly by that.
Well hello Pixlpeeps! We are close to the end of 2017 and the start of 2018 and what better way to ring in the new year than to talk about all the cool things I want to accomplish in 2018. For 2017 I’d like to think I did well. I listened to every song in my iTunes library (I’ve since added a ton), I’ve hit my Goodreads goal, and I like to think I cut down on game spending but what do I have in store for 2018? Let’s find out.
Same as the other day but in different amounts. I played just a few hours of Minecraft, watched the cutscenes of Wolfenstein II as Mark played them, and played for a good long time in Mass Effect Andromeda.
FF 15 has graced my presence due to my brother being bad-ass and getting it for me for Christmas.
I own a Switch now! Christmas was very good this year! I got Zelda to go with it. I’m still very early into the game and I feel like it’s so tremendously huge that a journal-like review with multiple entries would be the only appropriate way for me to offer proper impressions. So I might start a new blog series about Zelda.
I think I've finally burnt out on Minecraft and so has Mark. He got Wolfenstein II in the mail today and started playing it, and I went back to Mass Effect Andromeda.
So here I am on Wednesday night continually grazing on leftovers and a bag of chips that is within arms reach of this laptop. I’ve pushed it away a couple of times but I swear it has feet because it has made its way back to the cozy spot between my headphones on the table and the laptop screen. I have to say the Christmas Eve/Christmas Day festivities were fun. I mean you can’t go wrong with good people, good food, and some fun and games ending with some gifts. Let’s recap the events:
Got caught up in Minecraft again when I saw Mark in there working on something or other. We both worked on trading for the Woodland Exploration Map and then finding the Woodland Mansion. We got so close, but no cigar.
Well I wasn't going to buy anything this Christmas but, well, you know how that goes.
I decided to rent again. I just don't see how I'm going to afford buying stuff day one, even if I trade them in later. I think I will buy anything that's only available as a download though. They're usually smaller titles at cheaper prices anyway. So onto my most anticipated titles of 2018.
Usually at the end of the summer, I’ll have watched enough movies to write a blog about them. And sometimes, that happens in the winter, too. This is one of those winters! So here’s a blog about the movies I’ve seen in the past couple of months. There might be some slight spoilers here and there. Nothing too significant, but you’ve been warned anyway.
I got caught up in the Xmas buying spirit today and went around looking for deals on games. Then I played another chapter in Back to the Future The Game and a couple hours of Mass Effect Andromeda.
So my good luck streak on not getting sick ran out this year. I got big time sick the other day, I was running a bad fever and I felt like I was dying. I am however better today. Fever is gone and all I have left is the runny nose and mild headache. Other than that Ive been pretty good, some updates as follows
I have all three Toy Story figures from the first game. Here's a pic.
So yesterday I had a Quick Hits all typed up (well almost) and I was going to edit a couple of pictures and then upload everything…and then I didn’t do it, so here we are lying on my back, still in bed and I am trying again. I figure I will Frankenstein portions of yesterday’s blog (maybe 90%) and some new content today. So let’s get started on this pre-Christmas Quick Hits.
Finally after much effort, I got the Treasure Hunter achievement and two others relating to the underwater city in Minecraft: Xbox One Edition.
Mark and I played in the same seed maps in Minecraft: Xbox One Edition for a while this afternoon. The first seed world put us in a desert biome and there was a real struggle for resources. I finally got the Forest Map but couldn't find the Forest Mansion marked on it after making four more maps as I searched many blocks in two different directions. On my way back from one trip, I got myself killed and lost everything. I was careless because I was frustrated. Whatever, it was a bad seed anyway.
Well, it's another Xmas, and my brother arrived yesterday from Maryland to do some gaming! First on the docket is Walking Dead... we did the first two episodes of the latest game last season, but now it's time to finish up the game. After that it's time for Star Wars Battlefront 2, which I know has problems, but my brother wanted to check it out, so... And for Xmas day we have Prey and Evil Within 2 coming. Should be a fun filled holiday!