Guys! Who's getting this? I hope it's good. Cant' wait!
Not the game series, but serious gaming burnout. I must've played a dozen games and quit them one after another about an hour in. Each one annoyed me in a different way, but mostly because I'm kind of stressed out right now with various deadlines associated with school and my job. I also played a bunch of tower defense. That's always something I go to when I can't get into anything else. I'll list the titles.
I got lazy on Friday, and then again on Saturday, and one more time on Sunday so the Quick Hits didn't get written. Instead I will just combine the pickup portion with today's What Did I Play blog because that's how I'm feeling today.
So, Destructoid do this thing where once a month the community would all blog about a chosen topic. I thought we could do something similar. So, once a month I'll post a theme, and if you're interested in said theme, you can blog about it! Hopefully it'll help bring some community and fun!
I’ve cooked up a buffet of game reviews for you to feast upon for the Thanksgiving season. You should all have nice fat tummies by the time you read all of these reviews I’ve written recently at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many of them as you can and maybe even post a like or comment or two. I’d really appreciate it. Dig in!
Well, as I said I finished Mario, so I bought and preloaded Skyrim for the Switch, and have been playing it since it unlocked. I've played it in bits before but never really sucked the marrow out of it, but having it in a handheld form makes it easier for me, cause I prefer that method of playing games most of the time. I created a High Elf Mage, but I'm too lazy to post the pic here. I've done one dungeon so far, and am thinking of heading off to the College of Wizardry next, to supe my guy up. I like using magic in games. Lately I've been using fire magic on the bad guys. I cook them until they drop. Poor bastards.
So, because Gamestop doesn't take figures used anymore, there aren't bins and bins of them at crazy low prices like there used to be. So I've been very choosey at the current price of $15. I've only got what really caught my eye, and Imaginators in general aren't my favorite. So I only got two regular figures not in level packs.
So at the start of this year I made a goal to beat 12 games this year. I didnt really set any rules because I felt like that might stress me out over it and while I had moments of small stress it was nothing big. For the most part, this wasn't a complete it thing. This was a finish the main story and done. Yet I'm quite proud of myself and feel accomplished. I made this goal for mostly to avoid the weight goal*didnt really lose anything in that department*. I wanted a year to avoid making some goal I knew I'd focused on for a few months and than fall off the wagon. However smaller reasons were I was hoping it would help me beat new games so I didnt keep buying and putting on a back burner when something else came out. This goal accomplished just that. I beat several games that were released this calendar year alone.
Skylanders Imaginators. These were the figures I got for the XBO version of the starter pack, which I got on some sale (I'm not doing these by element because I have so few of them). I was kind of burned out buying figures by the time this game came out, and they were still at full price. So I only got what I really liked. However, I did get all the level packs that came out in NA so I wouldn't miss any. I did splurge there a little. Those things can get scarce as I found out trying to get them for previous games. But I'll get to those later.
I played almost all of The Turing Test on XBO on Monday and a lot of Deadly Premonition today.
Recently a friend of mine found out that I like to play video games as a hobby. He plainly told me that he thought it was immature for a grown man to be playing video games. I told him that most gamers today are adults. This led to a serious discussion about this topic. Here are some things which he said and my arguments against them. I'm posting this because I want your guys' thoughts on this topic.
So next week is Thanksgiving and I do like this time of the year because tons of food, family get together, and of course Black Friday shopping, on Thursday (sorry retail folks). This year is no different with the exception that the local Target has closed down and my only close option is either Toys R Us and Walmart (I really don't want to drive too far out of laziness). Over the past couple of weeks I've been waiting to see the latest offerings from the various stores to see if something appeals to me just enough for me to want to drive to the next town to hit the Target, or if Walmart and or Toys R Us will have the things I want. Thanks to sites like Slickdeals and Cheapassgamer and apps like Flipp I am able to view the Black Friday ads early and plan out what I want. Now I'm not buying a lot but there are a couple of things I want to get along with on the fence stuff
Well, I beat Mario. It was very enjoyable. I loved exploring Mario Worlds again, and the game is very very clever. That said, I don't have a lot of memories of the game, it's like it was consumed and that was it, leaving nothing. I liken it to eating something very sugary that's very enjoyable but afterwards you're still hungry. It's a great game - but it doesn't quite have the magic of Mario 64, even though it DOES have magic. I loved playing mario levels that weren't corridors, and it felt really fun to peak around corners and explore and find stuff. Sometimes I think though they should take all the cute characters and tell heartfelt stories and make them feel like real beings the way they do in Zelda games. I think if there were more heart, it would be more memorable. But I did love it, and am glad I beat it cause the ending is good and there's some nice surprises when you're done.
To those who know me they know I am a big fan of the XBox brand. I do love my Nintendo or Sony consoles, but simply prefer the XBox brand. As much of a fan as I am of the XBox brand however, I cannot deny E3 of 2013 was a disaster for Microsoft and its fans everywhere. It even overshadowed Sony's disastrous PS3 E3 debut. Still as bad as it was, that mess was the best thing that could possibly happen to fans. The original they showed off was about as anti consumer as a company can get in the gaming industry. However with the flood of negative feedback Microsoft got they did something unheard of..... they started listening to what fans wanted. We got everything from backwards compatibility to various requested dashboard additions.
So I finished playing Deadpool in a span of 2 days. I really grinded it out today.
These are all the other variants from Skylanders SuperChargers that aren't legendaries or holiday/seasonal themed ones. I only have a few of them. I never meant to collect any of the variants anyway. They just entered my collection kind of by accident. So here's some Power Blue figures I have.
Skylanders has always done a few holiday, or season, themed variant characters. I think they are some of the best ones too. In retrospec, I should've started my collecting with just the holiday/seasonal ones. I would've spent less money and had a nice manageable collection to play the games with. As it stands now, I have bags and bags of these things. Ah well, lessons we learn. . .
It is Friday and I am here in front of my everyday laptop while listening to music off of my travel laptop. Before starting this entry I was ripping my CDs I bought yesterday to the travel laptop and while I had it open I might as well listen to some tunes on it, rate the tracks and add them to their respective groups. After I finish here I'm going to open up iTunes on this laptop and then copy the ratings to the travel laptop. More on this crazy later because it is Friday and it is time for Quick Hits.
I just have two legendaries from Skylanders SuperChargers. Here they are.
I'm drinking wine and listening to loud music, one of the supreme joys of human life. It's still a bit warm outside and the air conditioning is on. Boo. I've mostly been working on my book which is coming into shape nicely. In other news, I'm up to the Ruined World in Mario, which looks like a Dark SOuls level. Hmmm. I imagine ghosts are around. We'll see.
In the three weeks since Ingrid was born I have begun to notice changes in my gaming habits. I downloaded Wolfenstein II in the hopes that I would be able to finish up a portion of it before I had to return to work... ... ... After finishing up the introduction, I cannot wait for the Switch port.
I finished with Fable II today and then started Lego City Undercover.