Hey folks. Last weekend I went to PAX West in Seattle, and as promised, here are my articles about it over at GamerDad.com. I took lots of pictures and played lots of new games, so please check them out and maybe even post a comment or two here or there. I’d appreciate it, thanks!
is active again, I re bought a PS4 today as birthday present to myself. I went ahead and just got a standard model because the Slim isnt super different from it nor will I be getting the PS4 Pro anytime this year. Im just gonna wait till I buy a 4K TV which might not even be till toward the end of this year or beginning of next year. So I probably wont pick one up until Summer 2017. That will also give it time to see how it truely plays out and if it will be even worth the upgrade. Anywho though, I only have a few digital titles and I bought the new Star Ocean today for 33.00 bucks by price matching Amazon at Best Buy.
For my next day-one purchase, Dragon Quest VII [3DS], Sept. 16th, and the one after, XCOM 2 [XBO], Sept. 27th, I think I might trade in everything to defray the cost. I don't exactly mean everything though. For DQVII I think I'll trade in all my previous 3DS games. Why, because it seems like I'll never get to them at this rate; and anyway, they will still remain in my backlog, and if I do manage to get to them, I can pick them up again pretty easily. As for XCOM 2, I thought I'd trade in all my XBO and X360 games. I am keeping some of them though. Ones I think might be hard to find later or collections. Like, I think I'll hold on to Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Rare Replay because they have so many games on them and some of them are not far off on my backlog list. Wolfenstein: The Old Order too maybe, and Shadow Warrior; although, I watched my friend Mark get frustrated with that one. I think I'll have a lot to trade even with some hold-backs.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I hope you folks in the US had a safe Labor Day and for the folks outside of the country I also hope you had a safe Monday. Since we had a three day weekend there was a lot of free time to get some work out of the way, play some games, eat lots of food, and then regret eating lots of food. Currently I am giving some TLC to a couple of neglected devices
. . . with more Defense Grid 2 and Minecraft. Can I ever get away from these games to play something else? I hope so because I'm just about to get the last achievement in Defense Grid 2. And Minecaft? Well, something new always comes to me about how to play that game. I almost feel like I should banish it temporarily to get other games finished. Anyways, here's how it all went down.
In my continuing mission to add more storage space to everything I bought a 128 GB microSD card yesterday (119 GB formatted) because my 32 GB was coming to the end of it's lollipop.
I beat the main Quest line, I havent beaten the whole game but I did go ahead and fight the final story mission that isnt DLC. It was...quiet easy, even on Normal mode. There was only one point where I was like"OH SHIT WE MIGHT DIE!" which was the second half of the mission. Overall, the ending was not very strong which of course was probably done like that on purpose because they probably knew that the final DLC was gonna be the last part of the story for the game. Now Im not going to go jump in and finish the story DLC. Im gonna go to previous save before I beat the final mission and level my character up and continue more side stuff. I need to be level 20 for the final section stuff and im 3 levels behind. Its kind of boring not being able to interact with people, especially Cullen since he was my chosen romance for my human rogue on this playthrough. The only thing they do is say a few lines of dialogue now. So advice to any one who hasnt gotten this far or played DAI yet, dont even consider doing the final quest for the main story unless you intend to jump right into the DLC story stuff. Its boring, you cant recieve kisses anymore from your lover and dialogue is limited to like 1 to 2 sentences with companions. Other than that, I have enjoyed the game. It has kept me quiet busy these last couple of days. Its a lot of fun and I do plan to do a few more playthroughs.
Just played some Defense Grid 2 today with Mark. We played the campaign levels co-op to get gold medals. I have two or three left now. I wish you could toggle the speed during co-op matches. These 35 wave battles take a good long time to complete at 1X speed. I changed the default speed in the settings to 2X but it didn't seem to affect online play. In single player, you can crank it up to 3X speed which is very nice. Defense Grid 2 is a somewhat laid back experience, which is all I could handle today anyway.
My plans sort of fell through on Saturday to do something other than veg in front of a TV, so I vegged in front of a TV. I got some quality time in with Skylanders Superchargers and a smattering of other games before and after.
I ended today thinking, this is the last of my great gaming binges. It may not be, but I kind of feel like a change is happening. This weekend I have plans for other things, and next week I'll begin a new schedule; although, not a new job - yet. I'm not sure how gaming is going to fit into it all, but we'll see. Anywho, here's a breakdown of today's gaming.
Not Another Walking Sim?
A lot of negativity and skepticism over the direction of ResidentEvil 7 is not unexpected. I don't particularly enjoy walking sims myself,not much action for my taste, so I'm actually pretty lukewarm on the idea. However, sometimes coming in at the height or tail end of a genre or trend, aka Horror Themed Walking Sims, can make for better games.
It wasn't all fun today as I helped Mark (who's wheelchair bound btw) build some shelving and move some cabinetry around his apartment. But then it was all fun. Mostly the same as yesterday. Defense Grid 2 and Minecraft.
I don't have much time at the moment. I just wanted to say hello, complain about how work is hampering my ability to blog, and give a brief gaming update.
I finally figured out how to add the funds from my nintendo card to my 3DS. Felt kind of like an idiot when I realized how easy it was. Bought the Origin Island DLC for Fantasy Life, Luxor, and tried getting Super Mario Bros 3, but my battery was low and it wouldn't let me buy it. That's just stupid, by the way. I haven't been able to finish downloading anything other than the DLC for Fantasy Life because I haven't been anywhere with wi-fi since I bought the games.
Mostly too down to really say much but I'll say this, I do like a bit of permadeath when playing Minecraft. Set the game to not regen health, hard difficulty, survival mode and don't allow yourself a respawn. The game lasts, for me, around 25 minutes to an hour before something terrible happens and I die.
Trying to ease my mind again today as I wait for a call to work. It was play-food and tv-games on the XBO. The play-food was a chicken parm grinder, fries, and a diet Dr. Pepper. And the XBO tv-games were Defense Grid 2 and Minecraft, just like yesterday.
Well, this was the last Monday that I'll treat as a Sunday. I'm going back to a Mon-Fri schedule next week to research jobs. Good thing is, I'll have a normal Sat-Sun weekend for a while. So what did I do to try and relax after a very crazy week? First, I almost got into a car accident. A little carelessness can go a long way towards ruining your day. Luckily, it was just a slight bump with no damage. Second, I played Defense Grid 2 and Minecraft with Mark - again.
On Friday Night while taking what is now a monthly trip to GameStop I saw that they had a couple of copies of The Division on PC and it was on sale so I bought a copy hoping that it would be my go to game of the weekend
Troubling times for me this week, so I kept it simple with Minecraft and Defense Grid 2.