It’s the end of the year so you know what that means? It’s time for my “Best Video Games of 2023 Awards Show!” Keep in mind that this is my list only and no other outside opinions contributed. And if a game isn’t on this list, it either just didn’t appeal to me as much or I haven’t had a chance to play it yet. Ok with that out of the way, let’s begin!
Finally, I am Switch exclusive right now. I already have youtube running for meal times, and I'm exploring the story and news apps thoroughly. I'm also just as impatient with every game I'm playing, taking breaks and jumping around like a manic flea from game to game. Well, maybe I've found a game I will stick to for a while in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. Details below.
I was going to switcheroo last Monday but, in wrapping up my Xbox Series S, I had to do a few things and that led me to playing several games through Tuesday. I've been all Switch since then, but here's what I did to end my time with Xbox for a while.
Merry Christmas everyone! It’s that time of year again when I have my Pretend Christmas Present Party! You know how it works. In the comments section, you give me a pretend Christmas present. It can be anything you want, it’s the thought that counts…literally! And when I reply, I’ll give you a pretend Christmas present too! It’s fun when it’s fun. And I’ve got some other presents for you, too! Game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com. Just what you always wanted! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
My plan is to travel through the years in 12 increments roughly following the different periods in my life and the video game console generations.
Over the Thanksgiving holidays I played quite a few games on Xbox. I'll try and list them below, but December, which starts today, is going to be nothing but Switch games, especially the Super Mario RPG remake I got last month. I've discovered that if I don't put the Xbox away, I will never get to anything else, so into a case it goes. I have plans for 2024, so I may not use it again until next September. More on that later. Onto the last two weeks' plays.
I’ve cooked you all up a feast of game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two while you’re there! I’d appreciate it. OK after this feast you all should have nice fat and full bellies! Bon appetit!
New Switch game, new console and new retro game buys at Classic Game Junkie where they're having a pre-black friday sale. Here are some pics.
I love that feeling when a new game totally takes over game time. This happened this week with DPS Idle, a free-2-play autobattler. Who knew? It swept the field of everything else mentioned below.
2021 was just another year of the expected high sellers: COD, Pokemon, Mario, sports games and mobile game billion sellers. 52% of the market went to mobile. Interesting. Here's what interested me and my one pick if I could only pick one.
New console, Happy Meal toys and games played this week. Also OG Astro Boy episode 1 watched. Black and white and very influenced by early Disney animations. Good stuff.
With Super Mario Bros. Wonder being recently released, everyone is talking about the new power-up that turns Mario into an elephant! I didn’t realize Mario was such a University of Alabama fan! He DOES wear red all the time, though! Roll Tide, Mario, Roll Tide! Anyway, Elephant Mario isn’t the ONLY elephant in video games, so I thought I’d talk about my other top video game elephants. So let’s stomp our feet and trumpet our nose! These aren’t in any particular order or anything, though.
Hey all just stopped by to visit have been on the site in a very long time, a lot of you know me but there's also a lot of new faces, for those who don't know I'm a PC gamer and mainly on Steam,GoG, and Epic, haven't done a blog in many years and although I have been missing in action lol!! I'm going to do a few blogs, I have been playing Starfeild, Baldur's Gate 3, alot of F12023, so it's great to see alot of familiar faces, I still love pixlbit and look forward to catching up.
November in my year-long trek through the years brings me to the 2020s. Somehow I miscalculated and didn't make December the 2020s, but whatever. December can be 2023 and no other year. So what about 2020? PUBG wins the revenue war with 2.8 billion and Persona 5 Royal tops the critics charts with a 95 on Metacritic. About the only game I've played a lot on these two lists (sales and critical) is Dragon Quest XI. Here's MY list for 2020.
Not the losers of the World Series but the ones drawn by Osamu Tezuka and animated in a tv series - you know, the really important stuff. Not having the 1963 series, I watched some episodes of the 2003 Astro Boy. It's pretty good. Great animation. Sometimes a very kids oriented story in some episodes but still enjoyable to aged me. Mad Krammer just bought the '63 series, so I'll get to that soon. Anyway, gaming.
Well I hope my reviews don’t really put you to sleep! Anyway, here’s more of them I’ve written over at GamerDad.com recently. Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
A dozen games as if I played one a month that year. What would I play now? I thought I'd share the list and make a few comments.
Quite by accident I started playing this for a Game Pass rewards quest. I'd played it before for the same reason but didn't stick with it. I wondered what I was thinking because I'm really liking it now. It's currently my goto daily achievement game for Game Pass rewards. I play until an achievement pops and then move on to other games. I'm not using a guide or looking at the achievement list either. I'm just playing for story and adventure.
I read this out of order. This is the second story collection for The Witcher. The Last Wish is the first. But it's my first experience reading The Witcher.
I'll be a little more active and at least comment some of y'all's latest blogs soon but for some strange reason I just feel grateful to Scott Stapp all of a sudden.
Stumbled across another Halo book, started reading, and then realized I'd read it before, but I continued on and finished it, enjoying it quite a bit, so much so, that I looked for a continuation of the story and found it in Halo: Renegades (reading now) and Halo: Last Light, all written by Kelly Gay.