Finished The Milkman Conspiracy last night in Psychonauts, now I'm in a woman's head trying to put plays together in a specific order that will allow me to fight a phantom on the catwalk. I think I know who the phantom is ... but I stopped playing, cause I didn't feel like trial and erroring last night. You have to produce the right plays on the right stage for everything to fall in place. It's a fun puzzle, but not something I wanted to do last night.
Well I promised it, so here it goes... I plan on showing off a lot of games. I figure 12 a day at 28 days would be meeting my threshold, plus my thoughts on the games themselves. I plan on doing a better set up with my camera with other games and experimenting with different ways to take pictures so let me know if 12 is enough or if I should just sprawl my mountain of wii games across my living room!
Recently, I posted a question in the 1up Facebook group asking if anyone had played Firewatch. I got back a lot of "it was too short" and "it was boring" answers. Then a friend who tends to like the same kinds of games that I do posted that she'd played it and it was one of her top games for 2016. So I took the leap and bought the game. And thoroughly enjoyed it. But it got me to thinking about what people look for in a game. Everyone has their own reasons for liking and disliking a game. I tend to go more for story-driven games and games that invite exploration, which is why I enjoyed Firewatch so much. The length didn't bother me, it actually meant that I had a pretty good chance of actually finishing it. And I didn't mind the fact that it was linear at all. Linear doesn't bother me. Games that do bore me are games that are pretty much just shoot the crap out of everything that moves (most FPS games) and fighting games. Yet I know people who love those types of games. And it's OK, just because I don't like them doesn't mean they're bad games, it just means I personally don't care for them.
I feel like as a month, I could do without February. It's cold in Chicago and it is this time of year when I start to get tired of it being cold and feel that Spring could step it up a bit. February 2017 now stands between me and my Switch, but since I have no control over time no matter how much I whine, I'll have to embrace little February to make the most of it.
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Date: 02.02.2017
Fire Emblem iOS.
Hey folks. Got another batch of games I’ve reviewed recently over at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many as you can and maybe even post a comment or a like or two. I’d really appreciate it. Especially please read my PAX South articles, as I took a lot of pictures. I thought about participating in the blog a day thing in February, but it’s just easier for me to write a few big blogs a month instead of little ones every day, especially with all the other stuff that’s going on. Plus they’re doing road construction in my alley this month sometime, and they may kick off the internet who knows when, so there’s no guarantee there either. But I’ll definitely try and read all of your blogs every day, and comment on them if I have anything intelligent to say. OK, on to the reviews.
Dammit, my messages overfloweth. I love it but it makes it difficult to read and respond to every one. So I if I don't respond don't assume that I didn't read your blog because maybe I did. LOL
I’ve been fat for as long as I can remember. I think I was skinny until about 5 or so, and then I just…ballooned. The funny thing is, I’m not sure why that happened. My father was super strict about sugar and junk food (because he hated fat people and was secretly disgusted by my mother and I), and I don’t think the food my mom made was really unhealthy. I didn’t like going outside to play even as a kid, so maybe that had something to do with it, but I don’t know exactly why I was as fat as I was growing up.
About a week ago, I went to my local arcade, Pinball Gallery, to play a pinball machine that was released in 1967, the year I was studying for January, Derby Day by Williams. I took a picture shown below:
In this post, I'll give a rundown of what I've been playing since the beginning of last fall, or at least the highlights.
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Date: 02.01.2017
Dragon Age Inquisition.
I forgot today was the first until a few minutes ago. In my defense, I've slept most of today because of a migraine.
My wife is an addict! She is addicted to yard sales. The Saturdays that I do not work at the Box Factory I Still have to get up early and Chauffeur my wife all over the county so she can buy junk at yard sales. But really, I'm glad my wife is a yard sale addict. When it comes to clothes and purses and shoes and now, Baby clothes, she will buy all that she wants at yard sales and at Huge reduced prices! So I am really OK with it.