about not having a dangly dong is that my cat doesn't jump up and swipe at it.
Played a bunch more of Saints Row Gat Out of Hell on Monday. Mark and I completed another of the three tricky Salvation challenges. This is the one where you have to be a good flyer and pick up as many falling and rising souls as you can within a time limit. I learned better use of the "x" button for slowing yourself down and the left trigger for hovering. There's only one more Salvation challenge left and it's the hard one right in the middle of the industrial island where smoke stacks are in your way. We'll get it though.
Hola, everyone! If you've read any of my more recent blogs, you would know that I've primarily been writing about board games. Since I've been doing so much of that recently, I've decided to start a humble board game blog called It's Made of Meeples!
I have reached the Master or in some cases Hero level in 9 of the 12 lives. I just finished Tailor last night. It was fairly boring but I did it anyway. I'm working on Hunter right now, honing my bow skills. After that I have Cook and Alchemist to go.
I’m bummed that the weekend has ended already. I would have gotten more stuff done (probably not) and maybe tackled other games on Mount Backlog but alas the weekend is over. Good morning Pixlbit. I’m currently sitting in day three of a Heat Advisory where on Saturday it hit a warm 118 here in Hot as Heck Southern California. I “escaped” the crazy heat by visiting the outlet stores a half hour away from here where it was a cool 106 but there was a breeze. I spent the maybe 30 minutes sitting outside and it was kind of nice
The value of co-op/competitive gaming isn't something that I thought I could be a part of until I got involved with Halo LAN parties in college. The joy and sensations I got from those long nights (usually once a week; most of these guys were law students) would be something I would pursue in the future. These days, I game alone and rely on a decent internet connection and like-minded randoms to fill that void. It can go wrong and ugly from time to time.
Well another summer is almost over, and I watched a lot of summer movies in theaters this year. So I thought I’d write a blog with brief impressions on them! Keep in mind that there MIGHT be some slight spoilers here and there, but I’ll try to keep them to a minimum. So grab your popcorn and see what I watched this summer!
Hey guys. It's been almost a year and a month to the day from when I last blogged. I haven't gamed much in the past year, but I have watched a load of shows:
Don't think I read much in 1996 unless you count sheet music. Read a bunch of that stuff for bass. I did notice that George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones came out that year. I guess I gotta check it out since it's such a huge monster these days.
Okay guys, so since I have internet again, I was thinking of getting a weekly podcast off the ground with anyone who wants to join me. I was thinking of a 3 person thing as that seems to work well enough for other podcasts. Now, what I'll need from you:
I cannot believe the summer is almost over and autumn is almost upon us already! I have been MIA for a few months now again (seems to be a habit of mine) and I just had the sudden urge to post somewhat of an update to say “Hey world I am still kind of here”. I really have not had the time to honestly blog or I have been preoccupied with other things I am trying to finish up and push through or watch.
1996 in gaming. Ah yes. The N64 came out. I didn't get one that year though. I was still mainly on PC playing shooters and strategy games. Somehow I also had a Playstation, SNES, Genesis and NES. How I got all that stuff, I don't remember. I had little money and had to have gotten them cheap second hand. It was the day of flea markets where you could get stuff cheap. My friend and I went to them most weekends to pick up anything gaming related. The internet ended all that. Thank you internet. NOT! Below is a list of the stuff I played most.
I can't seem to find a comprehensive list of interactive books/fiction anywhere. App store is horrible for listing/curating games. Pixlbit has some good recommendations, so I was just throwing it out there.
Aside from the Telltale games, what are some of the better Graphic Novel/Adventure type games?
Her Story (iTunes/Steam)
Oo yeah baby, I'm celebrating 1996 this week. Here's just a few albums that I remember most.
Was Bat-Mite or Bat-Dog considered Batman canon at one point since they were in the comic books according to DC's history of Batman account for the 75th anniversary of the character online? If comic books themselves can have different canons involving the same character and general universe, why not media inspired by them?
I got totally obsessed with Saint's Row: Gat Out of Hell today. Mark and I played co-op most of the day. We beat the main objective and then began mopping up other challenges.
On our Domain network here at work they have blocked all sites related to gaming. However by switching to the off-domain staff wireless I can still get through. This may change once they discover the hole. Oh well, I may have to wait until I get home.
Good morning Pixlbit! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. I decided to camp out in front of the TV, in hopes of trying to play through some stuff I own, and I did a little bit of that. I would have gotten through a whole lot more if random napping, and having a mini marathon of Ray Donovan Season 2 and random episodes of Archer didn’t get in the way. I didn’t knock out any games from Mount Backlog but I did manage to squeeze in some playing time with some 3DS Mii games and made some progress in a couple of other games.
Played some Worms today because it came out in 1995 on PC. I wanted to give this game another chance because last time I got really fed up with it. I got into it enough to buy it on Xbox Live and play the tutorial and several of the challenges. Then I tried to find someone to play with online but no luck there, so I went back to the challenges and got annoyed by the A.I. always getting the perfect angle on me with ranged weapons. Shooting at range in this game takes a lot of trial and error since there's no guidelines or anything to tell you exactly at what angle to shoot. That's fine though. I enjoyed it enough to return to it sometime, hopefully with a real person to play against.