These are the Tech Element characters I have from this game; although, since Mark gave me all his Toys-to-Life figures lately, I still have to check to see if he had some I didn't.
Ok, I've just snapped a few new pics of my physical PS4 collection. I've got 100s of digital games as well.
Recently I reviewed Namco Museum on Nintendo Switch. So now I thought I’d go over each of the games in this arcade classics collection in more detail. So welcome to the Namco Museum! My name is Cary and I’ll be your tour guide today on this virtual tour! There is no smoking and please stay with the group!
I'm convinced now. Minecraft has been tweaked behind the scenes to make it harder.
As I'm playing Hey! Pikmin, I've been getting this kind of terror every time I come across one of those large birds. I can usually chuck a bunch of pikmin on its back to dispatch it, but sometimes I miss and the bird gulps one down, and I hear that little voice cry out. I can't stand to lose a pikmin. They're so adorable, and I don't want them eaten by a giant bird.
I've been trying to eat healthier, but it is required matterial to have some snacks on hand during long gaming sessions. Pictured below are my go to snacks for gameday.
Ok so I really wanted to get a blog out on Monday just so I could say I still wrote a blog on Eclipse Day and not use a title revolving around Bonnie Tyler or Pink Floyd. Since I was nowhere near the path I only got maybe 60% of the eclipse, which is still really cool but not as swanky as the folks who made their way to Oregon. Well I got a late start to looking for eclipse glasses, like I started on Friday. Yeah it was already a lost cause especially at Lowe's where apparently customer service is not one of their strong suits. After making some calls and roaming around including checking on Amazon (congrats to you resellers who are now stuck with tons of glasses that you were selling for $100) I went the old school method and cut up a box
In my desperate attempt to make it to the End City on Survival Mode in Minecraft, I have been beaten and battered so much that I became willing to do just about anything to get there. So I had Mark do a "Mission Impossible" on the Mansion to steal every book in there. He cut a hole in the roof and snuck in under the noses of the Vindicators to rob the library. While he did that, I dug into mines and grabbed diamonds and obsidian. Together we built the enchantment table and put the glow on our armor. Then we laid waste the Nether Fortress and pulled the blaze rods from the living Blazes as they died. Neither Wither, nor Ghast stood in our way; each felt the sting of our flaming arrows and expired.
Thought to go back to Red Faction Armageddon today but played Minecraft with Mark instead. I had a hell of a time in the Nether again. I swear they must’ve tweaked some of the gameplay because it just seems harder. The fire damage seems to rip your health faster and the enemies seem super aggressive and have some extra moves on them. I could be imagining it though.
ARMS is Nintendo’s newest fighting game on Switch. Originally I wasn’t going to get this game for a while, but I found a sale where it was ten dollars off. Doesn’t sound like much, but considering Nintendo’s first party games hardly ever go on sale, I decided to take the plunge. ARMS has a lot of interesting fighters, so I’ll do what I usually like to do with these kinds of games. Here’s a blog about each of the ARMS fighters! Nintendo has said that more will show up as DLC, so I also posted my own ideas for original fighters and existing characters, too!
Minecraft set to big biomes and reduced variety of biomes creates a much more realistic looking world. I’m trying to stay in the same seed and make steady progress towards my goal of getting into the End City. Yesterday I got my mine cart railway built and put up the Nether portal. Today I explored the Nether and built a brewing stand. Eventually I overextended myself and got killed in the Nether. I really shouldn’t stay in there too long when I don’t have anti-fire potions, but I was trying to find some way to use the fortress as a kind of base to venture out on the plains to hunt Endermen and Magma. Luckily, when I died, I had turned off auto saves so I could reload from right before I entered. It’s a little cheat I allow myself now in order to keep from quitting out of frustration. I did quit today, though, but didn’t abandon my save. I’ll go back to it next time.
I had some time today, so I got together with Mark, and we played some games. Wednesday is Games with Gold day on XBO, and the new one this week was Red Faction Armageddon. I had to download and install it though, and that took about 3 hours. During that time, I played some Minecraft.
So I'm trying to multitask right now, and maybe rip a couple of CDs to my Travel Laptop's external hard drive and one freaking song slowed everything to a crawl. The CD is in pristine shape, and every track before it ripped at the DVD drive's max speed and now this song. Blah! This really isn't gaming but hey it's something I'm doing while I'm typing this latest entry and hopefully the damn song will be finished and I can't get back to regular speeds.
Played Minecraft with Mark most of the day today. We played two different seeds. In both I got to the Nether and couldn't find the Fortress. It's kind of important to find that thing to advance to the End Portal. No, I mean it's essential. That's the problem with random generation sometimes. I really should find a good seed and stick to it, but I don't want to enter that terribly long number every time.
Jumping around quite a bit this weekend. First off, pickups. I got that new Pikmin amiibo and the NFC reader/writer for 3DS, and Disney’s Bolt for $10, all on my trade-in money. I wanted Batman Arkham Origins too but Gamestop wanted $20 for the Xbox 360 version. No way! Here’s a pic.
None ot the above titles have anything to do with one another.
So much for my pledge to be more active with my posting here. I haven't posted since my last BaD post and even those weren't as frequent as I wanted them to be. Hopefully and currently, I will make more of an effort to be more active here.
Hello everyone, I'm back again. I've played a lot of games since I last blogged, so I'll try and keep my impressions as short as possible. I also decided to split it into two blogs.
Good morning Pixlpeeps. It is Friday which means later on today after running a couple of errands I will be heading out to the local mom and pop shop to check out their stock on traded in CDs. Hopefully I find some new stuff that fills holes in some playlists and maybe take a chance on a couple of items I never heard. I do know that I will buy a new CD from Barnes & Noble because of my current project, more on that in a bit. Last week I said I would do a mini review on the Android phone I bought last week, the Coolpad Canvas and I will but I will also write about what I am doing with my small travel laptop. If this isn't your fancy I understand and if you want to check out the latest Hot Wheel pickups or what random dollar bundles I bought just scroll past the nerdy stuff. Cool? Alright let's get started.