Let’s start the year off right with more links to reviews I’ve posted at GamerDad.com lately. As always, 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. OK let’s begin!
Currently the time I spend to play games is currently filled by two games, Telltale's Batman, and Disney Emoji Blitz on my phone. I'm playing both for two completely different reasons but those are the two that get the nod over everything else currently calling Mount Backlog home. Good morning Pixlpeeps, as I sit here typing away before I get to eating breakfast I thought it was time to update you good people on what I have been playing. As you already know there are two games I'm playing consistently but there might be a game or two sprinkled in for flavor. Let's get started!
So Microsoft is on a roll with canceling exclusives to it system. While I wasnt really all that sad at seeing Fable Legends go Im pretty down about Scalebound. Scalebound was one of the exclusives that had me hooked at first glance. I love Dragons, if you do something with dragons I will most likely give it a shot. Apparently Scalebound went through developmental hell and since it missed milestones they decided to cancel it instead of sinking more into it. It was one of the very few exclusives for Xbox that I was excited for this year. Now its gone!
So today, Mark and I started with Diablo III: U.E.E.. I did bounty runs, while he power leveled characters for the Dream Team achievement. He got it and now has 100% completion of the game. I'm at 55% on the 500 bounties achievement, my last. Then we started the complete Borderlands run on XBO with Borderlands 1. It's backwards compatible and we both have it digitally, so we just installed and played. More below.
Hell Pixlbit friends: I made it past the place I was stuck at in Metal Gear. I kept getting taken back to previous levels by jumping in back of a truck. Well, I just didnt jump in back of the truck after about three times. Hahahah, I couldnt help getting in back of the truck, it's like telling Mario not to collect coins!
Yes, it's the final achievement, 500 bounties, and I'm going for it. Today, Mark got it, but he had the time during the week to do that. I'm at 50% as of today. Mark has still to get the Dream Team achievement to get 100% completion, so he was following my level 70, paragon 101, Witch Doctor and power leveling. At Torment V difficulty, I have to be a little careful, but so far it's been fine. I think I'll notch it up to Torment VI tomorrow - more loot, more XP.
A Hind-D! Colonel, what's a Russian Gunship doing here? The iconic voice of David Hayter in Metal Gear Solid asking the Colonel about a Hind-D is one of my favorite cutscence of the game. In fact the Boss Fight with the Hind-D is one of my favorite Boss Fights of the entire Metal Gear series.
Another year in the bag! 2016 broke new ground in the "Whaaaaa-! It's already over??" category. Somehow I managed to play some games in there, so let's take a look. First up are all the games I beat this year and then how many I bought or somehow acquired (don't worry, I don't list those specifically). Be sure to stick around for the Golden Hippo Awards after that!
Im two hours into my play through of Metal Gear and I've made it to the second Boss Fight.
Took a damn year to get the ONE trophy I needed to get Platinum in Arkham Knight (Brutality 101, where Batman performs 15 different moves without stopping or getting hit), but yesterday it finally happened. ... And it was a bit anticlimactic in all honesty.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! The plan for today is to either go watch Rogue One which starts at 2pm or save that for Monday and just do some small errands today like look for a new external CD/DVD drive for my laptop. Heck I could do both. Anyways this is the first Quick Hits of 2017 so why not do a little recap of Christmas with the peeps.
Games: Time is precious, and I just don't have the desire currently to spend much of it on video games. I am become kasual! No more ambitious lists of what I will play in the new year, as they never come to fruition anyway. Will stick to one or two games at a time and probably only play a few hours on the weekend. And only what games interest me at the moment, not what everyone says is the hot new shit. So....
You guys haven't heard from me in awhile, and that's because I went back to college this past fall in order to get my Master's. So I've been pretty busy. Still, I was able to beat a bunch of great games this past year. I was able to beat 16 total games. Some of these are retro games, others are new, and most of them are Nintendo games. That's me! So let's get into it.
It's been a busy couple of weeks with the holidays, so much I meant to get accomplished, so little I actually managed to do. Things like send out Christmas cards, clean my house, visit my niece and her two little ones, write a Folk Friday Christmas music blog, etc. Or blog at all. Anyway, been busy, still busy, but not as hectic, so new blog entry.
Metal Gear was first released in Japan for the MSX2 Home computer in 1987!
Good morning Pixlpeeps and 2017 has that new year smell. Currently as I type this latest entry I am on hold with my insurance. Let me just say I H-A-T-E automated systems because this company has the worst one. It leads you down a path where you think you are getting somewhere only to be shut down with a “due to a high volume we cannot accept your call” Seriously WTF is this? Why did I just sit through five minutes of prompts, horrible voice recognition software, and eventually just typing it in, or yelling “Operator” just in hopes of talking to a real breathing person. Hopefully a person in the USA and not some random country (I'm looking at you former piece of s**t phone service.) I need to take my mind off of being on hold and listening to the worst musak on the planet.
Thank God for Jim Sterling, and Open World BS.
I never realized how much the Metal Gear Solid games were so influenced by the first two Metal Gear games. After playing Metal Gear MSX port it was uncanny how many items and gameplay was carried over to the MG Solid series.
I got a $250 year-end bonus from the market. Usually, I'm very responsible and use that money for bills or stash it away in my savings account. But not this year. With The Last Guardian finally released, I was bad, fiscally irresponsible, and totally selfish. I bought a PS4 and two games yesterday. Neither of them was The Last Guardian, but that will be a purchase I make in the near future. I bought a used system from The Game Box, a local indy game store. They're really good about making sure what they sell is in good working order and have a 90 day warranty on every used system they sell. I really wanted a new system, preferably a bundle, but I also wanted to buy local. I was reassured by the warranty and I've been a good customer there since I discovered them four years ago, so I gave up on the visions the scent of new electronics, squared my shoulders, and made my purchase.
Mark and I both finally got the last hardcore mode achievement in Diablo III: U.E.E.. That's for getting any hardcore mode character to level 70. We played lots of nephalem rifts to get the last 20 levels today. It's really the best place to gain levels. I played a Wizard and he a Warrior. In our previous harcore mode match, Mark, a Demon Hunter, had died at level 50. So rather than go it alone with my Crusader, I restarted as a Wizard and Mark created a Warrior (This was our arrangement when we played the game on X360). Well, on normal difficulty, I was so overpowered by the time I got to level 50, that I barely had to do anything as demons just dropped around me. It was still fun to let loose with my powered up magic laser. I felt like Marvel's Cyclops.