So yeah, still playing far too much Animal Crack Crossing. It doesn't help when Cary keeps feeding my addiction by sending me presents on a daily basis, lol. Thank you, Cary! I have, however, been quietly amassing a bunch of other games.
I played this while my crops were growing in Farm Together, an hour here, an hour there. I think I like it.
The past couple of months I really haven’t been buying any games. You would think with the Stay At Home order I would have stocked up on some new titles but I didn’t, yet now right before Thanksgiving I am kind of on a run and there is another one I want that is going to be released in a couple of weeks. Anyways more on that stuff hopefully this Friday and for now let’s talk about the stuff I’ve actually played.
2008 was about the end of my music career, if I can call it that. We still jammed a lot but we only played one summer pool party gig. Even though the band was fading, I was still heavily invovled with various media, mostly gaming and reading. Here are five of my favorites from five different media formats.
I played a lot of this today trying to get a few achievements for rewards points. I started to really like it.
Got another batch of game reviews I’ve recently written over at GameDad.com, including my coverage of the first ever PAX Online. Yeah, don’t expect much. But please read it anyway along with my other reviews, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d really appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
Did you watch Dancing with the Stars, see Shrek the Third, play Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, listen to Nickelback and read John Grisham's Playing for Pizza? No? Well, maybe you caught some of what I took in.
I played this game in Game Pass last week. It was for rewards points, but I really liked it and kept playing. Here's the trailer.
So for the most part my week of gaming has been pretty bare. The only real excitement happened yesterday but more on that in a bit. I really wasn’t in a gaming mood even though I think I did fire up the PS4 at some point last week. I can’t remember why but I did. Like I said there wasn’t a lot until yesterday.
Just my main two games at the moment. I'm setting priorities and chasing rewards points isn't first, or even second on the list.
I’ve been up since 5:45am after going to sleep around midnight so I’m ready for my power nap all so I can watch guys on bicycles in France. This will only go on until Sunday when the Tour de France ends which is sad but I am grateful to have it because for the most part it felt normal. Random crazy folks on the sides of the road, dressed up, and having a good time felt like pre 2020. I had breakfast, and finished off my Breakfast Pepsi but I could really go for an iced coffee (not the Starbucks coffee milkshakes, but actual coffee with ice) Until I decide to put on shoes and jump in the truck I will sit here, type and see if I can remember all the Quick Hits stuff I did.
This whole time I was thinking Xbox was going to add mobile games to its Game Pass collection. It wasn't that at all. It's cloud streaming of games already in Game Pass on whatever device you want. Thing is, you need a good connection, and I only have that at my friend's place where my console is. With a console in the room, I'm not likely to play through my phone.
I tend to skip around a lot especially when the games I’ve been playing don’t really have a story mode or anything really compelling that I need to finish right away. I like to believe most people are like that but I could be the one crazy in the bunch. Who knows, but I tend to make things kind of interesting. This past week there really hasn’t been a must play game with a storyline. Actually I kind of did play one but the story was really easy to figure out but more on that game later. So what did I play? Let’s find out.
In non-videogame news, after years of talking about it (decades, really), I'm on a fitness program. For the past two months, I've been walking (almost) every morning, and I'm up to a mile and a half in 25 minutes. For the past month, I've been lifting weights about six days a week (different muscle groups on different days) and doing yoga every day. I'm down to 184 again after the past six months of stress-eating and sliding backwards, and my belly is shrinking. I'm also building muscle - I'm really proud of my calves and thighs right now. Overall I feel great. It's pretty addictive, actually, if you stick with it. Dieting has taught me to stick with it if I miss a day or two, and not get discouraged to break the routine. And like with dieting, it's nice to see the hard work resulting in differences in my body. Very proud of myself. 
Recently, Netflix launched High Score, a new documentary series on the history of video games. I thought it was entertaining enough that I wanted to discuss and review it here on this blog. So here’s my thoughts on the six episode series!
I guess a lot of people were watching American Idol and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; playing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, listening to High School Musical and reading yet another James Patterson book, but I was somewhere else (except for Pirates, I do like those movies). Below describes just where.
This is about the waning years of the Battletoads as they sit in their rockers on the porch of their farmhouse reminiscing. Each of them remembers differently, so the object of the game is to push your own memory as the true one. You do this via a casual card battle game like Magic the Gathering. After Rash, Pimple and Zit talk and come to a disagreement, the card battle game begins, and the winner moves the conversation their way. There are multiple endings that encourage replay. It's a short game. I won as Pimple and got the "Brutal Fist" ending. I won't spoil what that meant. I would've replayed the game, but the card battle system was a little too simple, and I moved on to the following five games.
I got started on Farm Together on Sunday thinking I was just going to do some maintenace and move on to the Borderlands 3 DLC, but I never finished tweaking my farm. Here are some things I did as I passed farm level 70.
It's a strategy game, a resource management sim, a shooter with a card battle minigame in a sprawling open world environment full of wise cracking NPCs. Honestly, I got kind of confused trying to get my head around all the stuff this game throws at you. So, I went and played the following five games instead.