I got it in the humble bundle but I already own it. First to comment gets it.
Its been a while since i've posted anything here. I've wanted to, I just never had the motivation to do it. I dunno, blogging just hasn't been the same since 1UP went under. Anyway, nothing really new here aside from numerous health issues popping up all in the past 2 years. Pretty much I was diagnosed with epilepsy, and have a wonderful tumor around the nerve between my toe bones that makes being on my feet extremely painful. I've had other stuff too, but I don't want to get into that. Needless to say im hanging in there even though each day seems to get more and more difficult. I thank God for those days where things ease up a little.
At last I am done hunting down Skylanders, for now. I got the last Superchargers figure I wanted and got a second copy of the game to give to my friend Mark. Along the way, I picked up a few figures from the other games that I didn't have. I'm really down to the very last few figures on my list I made last December. Here's a pic:
I have just about all I can find on sale out here in the wild for Superchargers stuff now. There's only one figure left and I'd like to pick up a second copy of the game for my friend Mark so we can do the co-op/multiplayer races. I already have extra portals from my other starter packs and the loose game is only $5. So I may make one more run tomorrow. Anyway, here's the last big haul shown below:
Another day, another set of Superchargers and amiibos. Basically I'm only buying amiibos if I can't find five Superchargers to fit the buy 2-get-3-free sale at Gamestop and only ones that I like. Shovel Knight is fantastic. I need one of me called Driver Knight. That'd be cool. I also got one Trap Team character for the same reason. I didn't have him. He's the one with the gigantic scissors.
I think this is the latest I've ever posted my monthly recap. Life has been nuts! We bought our first house at the beginning of July (it was a long process getting to that point) and we are expecting our third baby anytime within the next week, so July was a crazy month of moving in and preparing for the new baby. Plus I've had pretty frequent overtime—nice for the money but not for moving in and prepping for baby 
But I did manage to get some gaming in, as you shall see...
Hello you noodley Sky Bison epidemiology majors! How are you?
A) Delightful
B) Sarcastic
C) Aroused
D) Slightly murderous.
Monday I had to truck Mark over to the doctor and so I had some time to kill in the waiting room. I brought my DS and played some Contra 4. This game looks great. Makes me think of Contra III Alien Wars on SNES that I played years ago. You have a grappling hook that can move you up to the upper screen on the DS. That mechanic was pretty cool. The game plays great too, but it's darn hard, as most of the Contra games are. I could stand it only a little while, so I took a gander at what else I had on my old DS. I hadn't used it in quite a while. I found Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition there. I think it was given away free at the 30th anniversary of Zelda and I must've grabbed it. Well I dug in again and got really into it. You can play it solo and just switch back and forth between two characters. You solve puzzles and fight Zelda style. It was fun and it took up the time I had to wait, which wasn't all that long it turned out. I wanted to keep playing it. I put it on my backlog list just now. I think I forgot I had it. So I'll dig into it for real sometime in the future.
I'm not going to go into any great detail here but I'm loving these two games.
Earlier this morning I woke up around 5am and couldn’t go back to sleep so as I waited for my alarm to go off I watched YouTube videos on the iPad. There are a lot of recent (to me they’re new) videos about people going out and buying everything video games. Since my local Goodwill now ships off anything of value to their major distribution center to be placed on their eBay like site, it has been tough finding games that I want to add to my library. It seems like folks who are late to the party either have to pay a lot more, or have to go find stuff at Garage Sales and Swapmeets but even those are starting to become tough. Heck my local swapmeet various vendors are selling what used to be $1-4 carts now for $10-15 and even some used games going for new retail.
So what do you do when you write for a web site with a personal goal of three articles a week, and there are no good games to review? Well you review juice and yogurt. Just read on and you’ll see. Here’s another batch of games I’ve reviewed over at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read the reviews and maybe even post a comment or two here or there. I’d really appreciate it, thanks!
Half day today (Sunday) playing games after I got culture at the art museum during the daytime, but it was enough to finish the campaign in Gears of War Ultimate co-op with my friend Mark. After finishing that we went back to pick up the few Cogs we hadn't found yet. I used the XBO menu system to look up a walkthrough to figure out what ones we'd missed. It was really easy to do. Much easier than going to Mark's computer and looking them up. I had saved some screenshots and video clips during gameplay and then watched them before I left - so fun to watch replays of some wacky moments in the game. I'm really loving the XBO experience right now.
Adam didn't let me post this earlier...
I got up early enough today, so I went to see Suicide Squad in IMAX 3D. It's a much bigger action flick than I expected, so it looked great in 3D. I thought it was fine but I wondered why they had to focus so much on the one note of humanity in each of the squad members. These guys and gals are fun for their craziness. I want to see that unleashed. And maybe that's the word for this movie, the squad members seemed leashed up most of the time, either litterally, or psychologically. But it was fun; just could've been funner if it took a note from the Crank movies. That's what I was hoping for.
Pixlpeeps, I am currently in day 2 of downloading Batman Arkham Knight (I started last night but then turned off the laptop) and I just finished my cheese Danish and once it’s downloaded I’m going to play some games on Steam. Anyways how are you good folks? Friday is here, I am happy and I might have a CD Friday at the local thrift store that sells CDs 2 for a $1. They have a bunch of Christmas Albums that I would like to add to the library. Anyways let’s get started with Quick Hits
Oh boy, here we go again. I'm gearing up to play Skylanders Superchargers in a week or two. The buy-2-get-3-free sale is still going on at Gamestop, so I stopped by one today and picked up what's shown below:
I've been playing video games since 1981. And only a little less time after I started playing video games, I learned I could alter the way my games played, whether it was from tinkering with the game's programming or by using tools provided in the game itself for user-made content. I also learned how to make my own computer games, in a rudimentary fashion.
I went to Gamestop today to chew the fat and check out Lego Dimensions and Skylanders Superchargers. Both of those are high on my short-play games list. I might get to one of them as soon as two weeks from now. The Lego Dimensions starter pack for XBO was $60 on sale, regularly $90. Too much for me to spend at the moment. I have Skylanders Superchargers starter pack and a handfull of vehicles and figures, but I'd like more. They had nothing used though, so I dug into the clearance bin. I bought what's shown below for $20:
Well, uh, this was supposed to be a weekly blog huh. Guess that didn’t happen. And I guess I’m not going to promise regularity from now on either. Anyway, I have new games for you to try!
I recently picked up this game again after stopping about two years ago because I was stuck. This game is absolutely brutal if you don't know what you're doing. And if you don't have any Black Mages in your party. I was stuck on a battle very early in the game in the Dorter Slums:
So, I am just going to steal this idea... and then break all the rules. I have been thinking about my Top 5 games of all time for the past 2 weeks at this point. I have come to the realization that selecting 5 games is just too darn difficult.