The first four were the casual games I'm working on, then the new Game Pass quest games as they downloaded, and finally some games new to Game Pass I wanted to try.
Got a new batch of game reviews blooming over at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
Thanks to the Xbox app I can remember what I played several days before.
Hello everyone! So if you're like me, you tend to not replay lengthy games because there are so many new games that I want to beat and time is of the essence. BUT there are so many games that I've beaten that I would LOVE to play again. So I thought why not have a whole month dedicated to replaying games? I'm totally making this up, but if you would like to join me, replay one of your favorite games this month and tell us about it and why you love it so much.
Well good morning Pixlpeeps! I’m going to make this short because there’s errands I need to tackle (I’m doing them so I can get ice coffee and a donut) and I would like to read what you good people wrote, plus I really didn’t play much this past week. Let’s get started.
On a lark, I chose a horse to win the Kentucky Derby today. I chose the one with the most humorous name to me, Soup and Sandwich. This horse was 26-1 but it challenged first place for the first half of the race. Then something happened and it quickly sank all the way to last place. That's $100 imaginary dollars down the drain. Gaming made up for it but, for real, I wasn't upset. It was really a very entertaining joke to me. "Go Soup and Sandwich. . . nope, dead last. Haha!".
Good evening Pixlpeeps! Ok so I had some work stuff today, and it went faster than expected but after that I took a crazy nap because my body is catching up on some lost sleep. For some odd reason I’ve been waking up at 5am, going back to sleep at 6am and finally hitting my alarm when it goes off at 7:12am. Odd week. Anyways it’s late yet here I am writing about the past week’s stuff.
Microsoft Rewards wanted three achievements from me so I dove into my casual stuff to get them. I only got two achievements because I'm somewhat far along in the games I played today which means achievements take longer to get. As I get to the last few achievements in a casual game, I just play it for a short time to make some progress and move along. Today, I got really into Lego Batman and never did get to my Game Pass stuff or my main game, Torchlight III. Sometime later this weekend I'll get to them I suppose. So here's a breakdown.
One of the most recent downloadable titles for from Square Enix is one of their 32-bit classics, SaGa Frontier. Originally released on PS1 in 1997 in Japan and in early 1998 in the US, it was one of the first games after FFVII that I bought for my new PlayStation. It certainly didn't have quite the razzle-dazzle of FFVII, but it had a style I really liked. Unlike a lot of other Square classics, SaGa Frontier never got a re-release as a Greatest Hits title or a PS1 Classic, though it was popular enough in Japan to be included on their version of the PlayStation Classic. It seemed destined to be lost to the ages, until now. SaGa Frontier Remastered is now available on the PS4 and the Switch, which is remarkable when you consider that when it was originally released, Nintendo and Square weren't on the best terms, as well as PC, iOS, and Android. I chose the Switch version.
I’ve been doing a sort of buffet style gaming this past couple of weeks where I would pick and choose random games, play them, drop some, keep others and just got rid of others. Nothing too crazy but it is what it is.
Basically, it's Darkest Dungeon on PS4 and Torchlight III on Xbox One, but I also played a single 9 inning game of MLB The Show 21 and got my Farm Together lands down to 14. I also downloaded Path of Exile, a free-to-play action RPG to play sometime in the future. You can stop here or read on. You choose your own reading adventure.
I’m really excited about the upcoming release of New Pokémon Snap. The original was a special game to me, and I’ll explain why in this blog. The mainline Pokémon games are great, but I haven’t played any of the more recent ones because I feel they are all pretty much the same game. Now, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Why fix what isn’t broken? And with every new generation of Pokémon game comes a new generation of kids to enjoy them, and while they may be the same game to me, it’s new to them. While I haven’t played a new mainline Pokémon game since Black & White, I still like the Pokémon settings and characters and do enjoy a lot of the spin-off games. So in this blog we’re going to take a look at some of my favorite Pokémon spin-off games in honor of the upcoming release of New Pokémon Snap!
Actually, not so much rage but annoyance deleting. Maybe the first vax I had today had something to do with it. In any case, I ripped through a bunch of different games and deleted most of them off my hard drive after only a few minutes of game time. Might as well list them. I like lists.
I am surprisingly still playing Dark Void, a ten-year-old Xbox 360 game. I warmed up with some Gnome's Garden.
I had to work today but at the right time, so I was able to visit my friend's place and my Xbox in the late afternoon. I knocked off a Xbox rewards quest and a Game Pass rewards quest before diving back into my attempted completionist run of Dark Void.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! Ok I think I’m back to a regular schedule again. I’m waiting to hear back from a client about a project so while I’m here, you’re here, let’s here together….here.
Xbox weekly rewards, Game Pass rewards, Games with Gold games, they make up my routine right now. I managed to finish all the weekly rewards and most of the Game Pass ones. I already have over 10k points but it's fun to keep going with it. I'm getting points on my phone now during the week as well, so they add up quickly. Here are the details.
