Yep, some more. Seems to never end, but who wants it to. I played my routine games and several others after that.
Just a few but a lot of new downloading such as new Games with Gold, new weekly Game Pass rewards games, and my library borrowed games. I played some stuff though.
This out December 2001. It's an isometric view adventure game. You shoot things with the magic of four basic elements. It feels a bit like an action RPG like Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance except this is a single-player game and all you use are magic spells. I played as if there was permadeath, so let's see how I did.
Well, I beat the Final Fantasy 7 Remake. I don't know what I feel about it. I'm mostly glad it's over and I don't have to play it anymore. There are some great moments. But there are also a lot of shit sidequests, abject idiocy, and the story goes to some places in the end that are a little ridiculous. There ARE things I like about it, and it's not just nostalgia - there's some good storytelling here. But you have to wade through a lot of junk.
So I am currently waiting the 30 minutes post floss/brush before I can eat breakfast so here I am updating you good people on the games I’ve been playing this past week. Spoiler: it’s only been a handful of games, but I’m playing and that’s all that matters. Oh and it is a breezy Southern California morning.
Just some routine Farm Together and Lego Indy today but I downloaded and borrowed a bunch for next weekend.
I managed to get to 8 different games today. Fun stuff. Here's some details.
I've moved on from Dragon Quest 11, and am ten hours into Tales of Vesperia now. I played it originally on the Xbox 360, but never finished it. When it came out for Switch, I bought a hard copy of it, but I only dabbled in it until now. It's really a great game, and I forgot how enchanting the stories and characters can be in Tales games. The combat is a little dated now, but I have no complaints with it. The banter between the characters however, is timeless.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a chilly day here in sunny Southern California. I just finished breakfast, continued a new project and for the rest of the day I will probably be running some errands and or Spring Cleaning. Let’s get started
It turns out AirForce Delta Storm didn't work and I had to return it, but it was the first demo on Official Xbox Magazine's demo disc 3. So I played it there and everything else that was on it.
First up on my journey are launch games, November 2001. I have two and another on the way but I have to start with what I know best and that's Halo: Combat Evolved.
My friend and I played a lot of games together back in the OG Xbox years. I thought about the top 50 games we played the most. It's made up of 17 FPS's, 9 Co-op, 9 Collections, 4 Racing, 4 3PS's, 4 Action-Adventure, 1 Flight, 1 Sports, and 1 RPG. Here's the list in roughly chronological order:
Currently I am pulling the eBooks and Audiobooks from my Media drive and dumping them onto my new Books drive. It’ll take a bit so let’ catch up. I didn’t do a Quick Hits last Friday because well, I don’t know why really but there wasn’t a lot going on. I’ll talk about WandaVision later on this week. Yesterday I had a plan where I was going to update the hard drives, and then spend the rest of the day playing games. I did update the drives but didn’t get to playing games until my normal time of around 9-10 and then finish at 11pm.
Well, having beaten the main story of Dragon Quest 11, I'm losing momentum in the post game. And I started playing Tales of Vesperia, which is also a very good game. You know, I postponed my RPG blogs, cause in my next one, I wanted to talk about Lunar: Silver Star Story, and I told myself to play some of it first (I have it on my iPhone, though I've also played it on PSP, but not on the original Sega CD or PSONE). But tonight, at last, I'm here, I don't have any plans, and I think I'm going to pick up my phone and play some Lunar....
I figure that number reflects my 25 years worth of gaming since 1995. I've mastered this pastime twice over if you believe in the 10k hours to master a craft idea. Anyway, this is what I did this 2609th day of gaming.
St. Patrick’s Day is coming soon, so Happy St. Patrick’s Day! And it’s your lucky day, too, as I have more links to reviews I’ve written recently 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!
Just had time for a few hours of Farm Together today 'cause work called me in last minute. But in the morning I had thought of a better way to use those mostly cosmetic trains in the game.
I played a hefty amount today with some good results. Then I got resupplied with OG Xbox games from my friend and from a few online orders which appeared today.
I was thinking about blog ideas and it got me looking at my collection. I sorted through my demo discs which I've kept all these years, and it led me on a quest to revisit the Original Xbox. It will be 20 years in November since its release. That will make it like a classic car. I'm going to start with the demo discs of a particular year (the ones I have) and then play a game or two. I've even acquired a few new ones I haven't played before. Should be fun for my weekday gaming. So here's a demo disc I have from around the launch day, I believe, November 2001.
Games of the Decade: Expansion Pass #1/Extra Blog a Day #30
Well it’s March, which means BaD is over, it’s getting warmer, and I am here still playing the same handful of games thinking about if I should try something new or go back to the same old stuff. So let’s have a quick chat about the games I’ve been playing and not playing.