Finally beat the first of the two bosses and started on the last one. I wasn't expecting to get anywhere because I was completely out of MP items and nobody had much MP left. I was relying on criticaI hits to give me 0 cost skills. I got 3/4 of his HP off and thought I'd be able to tough it out when he completely healed himself up again.
I finally broke down and got a turntable to play those old vinyl records and then I got a couple pieces of vinyl to play. I picked up a CD from the library and got the last game in my current gaming play list. That'll be it for games, except for must-have day-one stuff, until I finish my playlist. See picture of all below.
Pixlbit Nation how are ya? I am exhausted and I am excited that today is the start of my weekend. I’ve been having some odd sleeping patterns where I would wake up at 5am. One morning I woke up, thought it was 6ish when I usually get up and it was 3am. THREE AM! It’s a tad bit insane but hopefully it ends so I can get back to a normal sleeping pattern.* So what are your plans for the weekend? Anything fun? I am going to hit the weekend Swapmeet because Swapmeet Lady said she would have some new products. Let’s get started with this week’s Quick Hits.
And it's pretty good. The SOFS update took my favorite game of last-gen and injected it with new enemy placements, a new npc/final boss, and all the DLC. I thoroughly enjoyed Eleum Loyce in Crown Of The Old Ivory King...it was the only piece of the Lost Crowns Trilogy I'd yet to play. Easily my favorite of the three.
In my last blog post, I talked about how game publisher Konami and it's superstar producer, Hideo Kojima, were in the midst of some sort of breakup, resulting in corporate restructuring and Kojima's probable departure from the company once development on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is complete. This also resulted in the cancellation of their highly anticipated game Silent Hills and the removal of its teaser, P.T., from the PSN store (Konami also took the extra step to ensure that it cannot be redownloaded once it is deleted from the PS4 hard drive even if it's still in a user's library, so don't delete it if you ever want to play it again!). While we don't know much about Konami's future plans in regards to game development, at this point it seems that they will focus more on their mobile and/or pachinko businesses, which apparently have much more room for growth and profitability, but less room for growth in the business of being loved and admired.
Upon finishing up Bloodborne I dived right into Shovel Knight, and finished that game up almost instantly. I was excited for Shovel Knight to finally be on the Vita, but I found myself playing it on the PS4. Typically when I enjoy games on the Vita, I have the volume turned down, but not so when I play on the PS4. This meant that a lot of the music from Shovel Knight got stuck in my head. That soundtrack is so good. Anyway, I finished the game fairly quickly and went trophy hunting until I let frustration get the best of me.
A place down the road from me had their sale games at 50% off and also tax free so this is what I picked up.
I was going to play some more Skyrim today, but I had a hankering for some Uncharted. I was going to play Uncharted 2, but I hadn't played the first one since I rented it around the time it came out; so, I started playing it figuring it would go pretty quickly. Surprise surprise. It took me all day to get to Chapter 17. It's a great game but not without some controller throwing.
Work's been keeping me busy and very tired. We had our annual bird watching festival the last weekend in April (was that really just a week ago?!) and most of my time was spent getting the park looking decent for that and getting the plumbing issues sorted out so we could open the bathroom building in time for the festival. I can now say with no hint of uncertainty: I do not want to be a plumber when I grow up. I replaced the tank bolts in two toilets, replaced the tank to bowl gaskets for both of them at the same time because the old ones fell apart as I was wrestling with getting the old bolts removed, and fixed a couple of leaks from various valves. I was less successful up at HQ - the leaky sprayer in the kitchen sink was a pain to remove and then getting the parts to plug it off permanently was problematic at best. I thought I had it fixed, but when I checked for leaks today, the bucket I put under it was half full. It'll be back under the mouse-infested sink tomorrow. Could be worse, could have had a toilet explode and embed porcelain shrapnel in my forehead like the maintenance mechanic last week. Who knew plumbing could be so dangerous?
I had this mostly written, got called away to do something and never got back to it. I'm too tired and lazy to incorporate it into a new blog, so enjoy it for what it is.
I frequently take a break at work and head off to Value Village which is a Goodwill type thrift store about a minute's drive from the office.
Well Happy Star Wars Day Pixlbit Empire! Since it is May The Fourth I changed my Facebook Profile Pic to my Star Wars version of Game of Thrones (how good is this season?)
I played two games, both number five in their respective series today: GTA V and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Most of the day was GTA V, but I got in a few hours with Skyrim before the day ended. I didn't thnk I'd stop playing GTA V either, but the issue that's bothered me in other games in this series reared it's ugly head again and that's the shooting.
Ignore the click-bait title; this is just another batch of game reviews I’ve written lately over at GamerDad.com. I hope you get a chance to click on the links and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two. I’d appreciate it. But you just gotta read this blog if you want to find out who is marrying Farmer Man Cary, and who the heck is this guy, anyway? And just what is my beef against the Angry Video Game Nerd? Oh, the drama! You just have to click to find out!
This week I made a new games list I want to follow for a while. It includes a lot of stuff I've never played and a few I've already played. I own all of them except for two and they are Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. I got SMG1 on Friday for $20 at BestBuy. This and some other stuff are shown below.