So I got Titanfall today with some birthday money, two copies, one for me and one for Mark. They were $8 each for XBO. I always wanted to try this game out. Well, while waiting for the install, I played a bit more Doom II and then this free-to-play game Battle Islands. Details follow.
By now you shouldn't be surprised that I get to be active only in certain months on this site. I've linked this with the analogy of me being a distant uncle who only visits the family on holidays or reunions. Nevertheless, I can never truly leave this site for becoming a gathering of users who moved after the closing of our beloved 1up and you guys are often a great friendly bunch. Considering i've been wanting to talk about some things, I think it's apropiate I continue to detail the games i've beaten so far in this (hell) year and though not as much as my last two entries, I still consider this to be a sizeable count of beaten games, going by the order I beat them since the last blog.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! The weekend was fun but it is time to get back to the week and get stuff done! The windows are open, the cool breeze is flowing and yes I am one day closer to removing the music off of my phone and replacing it with Christmas music. Yes I know its only October but hey I do like Christmas music so the moment the last kid shows up at my door saying “Trick or Treat” (they usually just stand there with a bag open and look at you) I'm going full Christmas music mode. Sorry Turkey Day, but I'm skipping right over you. When I am not plotting to do a music swap on my phone I am finishing one game and taking it off Mount Backlog
It's very frustrating to lose soldiers you've carefully customized and promoted after several victories. One mistake in a mission and you pay with lives; not just with injury, but permadeath. It makes one want to stop customizing these soliders. What's the point when they will die just after making lieutentant.
Sometime in the chaos we are left with this whirlwind of a mess. Like a votrex that took out a bunch of papers and whirled them with cows in the air.
After a long wait for Paper Mario Color Splash, I finally was able to run over to Best Buy on Friday to pick up my preordered copy. Here are my intial thoughts:
Before we start, yes, I am mildly ashamed of that title.
Well that month sure went fast! Between work and vacation, poof! Gone!
I was playing Dead Rising 2 HD on PS4 and one thing that kind of annoyed me was the soundtrack. I feel like a soundtrack similar in energy to Crazy Taxi would be more appropriate instead of the boring lounge music. Sure, lounge music seems appropriate for the setting, but setting up Spotify app thru PS4, which allows me to stream music while playing a game is just fantastic! Listening to Radiohead while killing zombies makes the whole thing more depressing, or maybe some hiphop beats or jpop tracks to freshen up the grindiness. Now if only I can figure out how to stream a podcast or audiobook on PS4 as well.
I just spent probably an hour trying to figure out why the latest Script Hook was crashing my Grand Theft Auto V. I followed everything people were writing and still the same problem. Finally it hit me (of course the huge green box in Open IV helped) that I should replace one file with the new one and boom everything works! I am a happy camper again and I can continue the solo story mode of what’s going on in Los Santos. Good morning Pixlpeeps, that is what I was doing this morning during the start of my three day weekend. After this I will probably go back and continue where I left off earlier this week. So a couple of things were brought to my attention earlier this week when checking my email:
40 hours of Dragon Questing and I finished the past and present sections of the Alltrades Abbey story.
Hey folks. I’ve got another batch of games I’ve reviewed lately at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many reviews as you can and maybe even post a comment or two here or there. I’d appreciate it, thanks!
Started the day with some XCOM 2. Made some progress on my restart of the game. I got a "Flawless" rating on one mission and I haven't lost a single soldier yet. I'm focusing on weapons upgrades and built a Guerilla Training Facility that gives rookies some skills before their first action. I'm beginning to figure out how to use Overwatch and how to move soldiers across the battlefield without getting caught in the line of fire. This game reminded me today of the board game Squad Leader I used to play. There's a lot of choices for types of action every turn and there are environmental hazards like fire. Note to self: don't take cover behind a buring car. Usually they blow up after a turn or two killing everyone.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a breezy day here in Southern California, which is freaking awesome because it will only be around 85 degrees today instead of the 90s/low 100s. I turned off the A/C and have all the windows open to enjoy this. As you can tell my Monday morning is off to an awesome start.
So I finished up with Skylanders Superchargers. I got every achievement except the one where you have to beat the game on Nightmare difficulty. I played several levels at that setting and it was fine until I hit a certain boss that seemed mostly unfair. The difficulty being just that you take much more damage from hits than other skill levels. I went through every Skylander I had and then played it again with my highest level ones first and still couldn't beat that thing. I can only imagine how bosses in the later stages of the game will be - nigh impossible. Of course, as you level up the portal, you gain abilities that help with Nightmare mode but I was well over level 70 and didn't feel like grinding a whole lot more. I did pull out all the Skylander characters I had and tried them out. That was fun. Each figure has very unique abilites that evolve as you level them up. I almost wanted to just level up all the figures just to see their special powers. Maybe with a half dozen level 20s (max level) I could handle Nightmare mode. It just seemed more work than I wanted to put into it. Maybe I'll dive in again someday when I want a serious challenge. I'm not trading in any of this stuff. I like them too much.
On Saturday mornings I like to sleep in but yesterday I decided to put off one errand because of all things I was watching an episode of The Love Boat, so because of that I am up early and then I also realized I didn’t write up a Quick Hits blog (that one I can blame on tinkering with GTA V). Since I am up, and the store I was supposed to go to is not open for another hour or so I might as well catch you good people up on what has been going on, Quick Hits style!
TV SO GOOD!:D
This month we’re getting the return of Supergirl/Superman, Flash, Arrow, and Luke Cage on Netflix. Also Walking Dead I think? I’ve been watching Once Upon A Time from the beginning so I’m still sticking with it and this time we have Aladdin joining the cast. Cool! But these are the actual shows that I’ve recently seen as well as starting Mr. Robot.