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

So I'm 18 chapters into Uncharted 2 ... 1) because I was sick in bed yesterday and woke up with nothing immediately better to do I didn't have to go to my office for through the rain/cold (rather not risk the extra sickness effect) and 2) because HOLY CRAP, THIS GAME FIXES EVERYTHING WRONG WITH UNCHARTED DRAKE'S FORTUNE.

Ok so before I get sucked into ripping CDs I need to get this entry going. So good morning Pixlpeeps and Hello Fall! Summer you were fun but hot damn it was hot this year and I am ready for cooler weather and folks going crazy over pumpkin spice everything. So here we are and I am ready to recap the fun events of the last couple of weeks that really had nothing to do with video games, except for buying a couple of cheap ones. Anyways let's get started!

Well, I'm out of work again, and so, today, since I have my school work done already for the week, I went on a photo shoot with Mark and then played some Forza Horizon. Then I heard on the Axe of the Blood God podcast (Kat Bailey - remember her from 1UP?) on my way home, that there was a Etrian Odyssey V demo on the 3DS eshop. So I'm downloading it as I write this. Oh, yes, it's done!

First of all, while Squeenix is heralding the HD cut scenes, they're just ok - still beautiful, but not near as detailed as the HD cut scenes of X and XII - which is understandable. Secondly, the backgrounds look a little old, and while FFIX had some of the best pre-rendered backgrounds of the era, they don't translate too well to being blown up in HD, so sometimes they look kinda bad.  However, what's really impressive is how good the 3D models of the characters look - and not use the main characters either. I'm seeing new details on characters that were so blurry before, and they really have a cute life to them now. For the main characters especially, they have been given new life, as their faces blink and you can see them in crystal clear detail. It's just too bad they couldn't do much with the pre-rendered backgrounds. 

I am now on the Superchargers figures. This is the fifth game in the series. It came out in 2015, which is about when I started collecting them because Superchargers didn't do as well as the previous games and Gamestop started their buy 1-get-2-free sale on figures right after the holidays. All the game starter packs were marked down too. 

is more important than how much content exists in a game. Period. 

So for some off reason my Phoenix Wright review ended back up in drafts instead of being posted. However it had to have been posted because I have comments on it. I orignally thought it was gone for good. I over shot it in the drafts section and figured it got deleted for some odd reason. I was about to be a very upset Barroth. 

Yall didnt think I beat a game for August? Well I did.....very by chance really. August has actually been a really crazy month but Ill talk about that on an update blog.

So I tried writing this on Monday but Monday got in the way, and Tuesday well, Tuesday followed Monday's path so here we are. I'm really trying to get this written today because I've hit a pretty good groove in my ripping CDs to the point where I am almost finished (yay!) and I can start getting the loose MP3s into folders so everything will be nice and neat when I move the files over to my backup and have a set for the travel laptop. Before I get more into that let's see what I've been playing when not worrying about music tracks.

yup. As soon as I heard about it I powered up the PS4 and found it in the store. Haven't played it yet, but after writing time, it will be Zidane time. One of my favorite games of all time, and I'm looking forward to it.  I waited on buying the ipad and PC version, and got this version instead for $16. I'm pretty happy about it!

Who isn't though? I have this conundrum a lot. I don't like reading self promotion blogs, and I hate writing them even more. I'd rather tell you about all the awesome things other people have made.

Here are some figures I have that aren't Cores, Elites or Legendaries. They're just special figures made to celebrate a holiday, season or what have you. 

Having finished up Destiny 2's campaign, I have a few thoughts on the game so far.  

I'm flying all over the map revisiting towns and dungeons to unlock all those locked chests. Beat my first spritnite eaten monster yesterday. He was pretty slow anyway and I kept him stunned most of the time. When he hit though it was usually a 1 shot. I had to bring two of my team back twice.

Three games I bought this year on my birthday and never got to. I am not sure i will ever finish horizon. It just hadn't grabbed me enough whenever I sit down to play.

Traded my Wii-U in. It was sad, but I got a decent haul.

More Forza Horizon today. I played a lot of multiplayer for achievements. I got in on a group to play the Playground mode which is three gameplay styles (Infection, Cat and Mouse and King). Infection has one car be infected and the rest run from it until everyone is infected. The one who lasts longest wins. Cat and Mouse is a race where there's two teams, cat and mouse, and the cats try and stop the mouse team from finishing the race (only a mouse can win the race). King is like the inverse of Infected. One is labeled King and the rest have to steal his kingship by hitting him. The one who remains king longest wins.

I decided to take advantage of a lot of free stuff on Xbox Live today. I downloaded the new Games with Gold titles, Battlefield 3 and Oxenfree. Then I went to the free section of the store and downloaded Minecraft Story Mode Ep. 1, Dungeon Defenders II, Life is Strange, Fallout Shelter (my real reason to look at free stuff), Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, Prominence Poker (by, I think, the guys who did the Borderlands themed Poker Night on XBLA a while back - same art style), and A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV (I love the retro look of it). Then I ignored all that while they installed and played Forza Horizon ALL DAY with Mark. 

Played the demo. Has a great look to it with a lot of neat details. I played the guy's quest, but after it ended it seemed like I could keep on going. I'm gonna investigate that. I'll check out the girl, Primrose, later. 

Pics. Have some.

Hey folks, guess what today, Friday, Sept. 15 is?  It’s my birthday!  Yay!  Just for fun, let’s do what I do every year and you can give me pretend birthday presents in the comments section, please.  It’s the thought that counts…literally.  Plus the attention is nice and it’s neat to see what you come up with.  And even though it’s my birthday, I’ve got some presents for you!  More game reviews and things I’ve recently posted at GamerDad.com!  Yeah, just what you always wanted, right?  Right?!?  Anyway, please click on the links and read as many as you can and maybe even post a ‘like’ or a comment or two.  I’d appreciate it, thanks!

I downloaded and played a few hours of Monster Hunter Stories. So far, I really love it. It's so colorful, like a cell shaded game, and the design is complex but not overly so, which makes it kind of perfect for a handheld game. The colors really pop and it's easy to navigate on those small screens. I like the gameplay too. Turn-based RPG, oh yea. I like. It's just the demo though. I might rent the full game when I'm finished (I'm still on "no-buy" status). We'll see. 

Well, it's been awhile since the NES classic came out and with the SNES classic coming around the corner I went ahead and decided to modify my NES Classic with pretty much every NES game. Now the process was one I was unsure of, but I managed to find a way to do the job. So after a couple of hours and plenty of research later I went about doing the task. When all was said and done I wound up with over 800 games.

Xenoblade, I will learn how to play thee this time! And DOOM? What the hell?  And Octopath Traveller looks beautiful!  I will say though, the chat log on Youtube has made me lose faith in humanity. Thoughts?