My plan, so far, is to play some more Borderlands 2 from The Handsome Collection and then pry myself away from that after a couple hours (usually very difficulty) and play Lego Marvel Avengers, which I just got with my preorder money from Halo Wars 2 (I'm going to rent it instead). But I just noticed that my first rental game on the way is Yoshi's Woolly World for 3DS. Whether it'll get to me by Saturday is a question. If it does, I'll jump right into that first. Here's some more detail on these games below.
I am not sure why I titled this the revenge of the rain.
I’m a chronic insomniac. Always have been. However, it has been particularly bad lately, and I was forced to try and reset myself. This means that I was up all night, and the plan is to stay awake until late this evening. The idea is that I’ll be so exhausted by nine o’clock that I’ll sleep deeply and wake up at a decent time, feeling refreshed.
In my last blog, I wrote about how much I love my physical media, even though it can be a pain to deal with sometimes. That got me thinking about my fabled game collection, which I’ve been talking about a lot on Nerds Without Pants, if you follow the podcast. I’m going to pepper this post with some relatively recent pictures of my game room. Keep in mind that since these were taken I have added some art on the walls, there are more games on the shelf, and there is currently a huge stack of about twenty games sitting next to the TV that need to be filed.
You should probably read my blog after watching this video, I'm not entirely bringing down the Switch but I have real concerns about the system.
Dragon Quest 7 is still not beat as of 9pm tonight.....OMG! The pacing at the part Im in is just as horrendous as it was at the beginning of the game. I wanna go back to DQ8 but Im so close....atleast I have to be close.....I have to be.....OMFG!
No, this really doesn't have anything to do with gaming, but ask me if I care.
I'm exhausted from our department's Super Media Bowl, but at the same time glad to have gone. The panelists all had great things to say that I can now relay to my non-extra-credit-getting students who didn't go depsite classes being cancelled. I understand not being able to show up to the whole thing (some students had legit excuses like test review in another class or doc appointment), but when an event meant to help you network and prepare for your career goes on from 9:30am to 4pm, you're excused from classes (I actually gave academic affairs a list of all my students to excuse them from EVERY class they had today) and given extra credit to go, why in the hell do you not at least attend the sessions happening during your now nonexistent class time? It's mind boggling how lazy that is.
Sorry for the double post, did not realize I forgot to change draft to live on my yesterday blog!
Every year, around the holidays, I go looking to see what new Halo books have been published. In 2016 I got a few and just finished the first one, Halo: New Blood by Matt Forbeck.
This won't be a long post. Ever since last night not a lot has transpired. I made it through another Monday. Listened to new episodes of The Movie Crypt, The Morning Stream and the Kevin & Bean Show podcasts. Got some sleep.
I went through my wacko gaming-by-association games today, after almost playing nothing else but Borderlands 2, and decided after all that that I should just start renting with Gamefly and stick to current releases, and be happy with that. It's easier, and makes more sense, as well as saving me money. I think the only things I'll have to buy now are download only titles and toys-to-life stuff, and I have a pretty large collection to use as trade bait for all that for a while. So here's what I played today.
Because I have the nifty new toy known as my new-to-me PS4, I now need games to play on it. Most people recommend AAA titles which is all well and good, but I'm aware of most of those. What interests me most are the offerings on PSN.
The games to get most of my attention for the last few days have been Yoshi Woolly World on 3DS and Dragon Quest 7.
I was recently watching Supernatural Season 1 on NETFLIX and hadn't noticed before how similar it is to the Witcher. Every episode plays like a side quest in Witcher 3, while the main story quest is a search for their missing father. It's a reverse of Siri and Gestalt I guess, but I never noticed it before. Every episode is a monster hunt complete with a little lore, and it all takes place in the midwest, which also works well as a background with the seemingly safe suburban and rural areas really covering up something more evil and sinister underneath, like a David Lynch film. I'm enjoying my rewatch of the series a lot. Not sure where the series goes bad? I jumped off board many seasons ago and occasionaly catch a new episode on TV here and there. The show is still great!
My uncle passed away today. Please keep the home fires burning.