Well good morning Pixlpeeps! I am typing this up real quick so I can make a run to the Pharmacy to pick up some meds (not for me), grab some breakfast (for me) and maybe check out Treasure Hunt or Five Below, depending on how I feel. I really want an ice coffee and hash browns. Hell maybe I’ll just go to the grocery store and buy stuff to make for breakfast. Damn we’ll see.
I got through the main campaign of Skylanders: Swap-Force the other day. This is now my second completed game of 2020. Of course, I’m not done with it yet.
At the beginning of every year I like to write a blog about the games I’m looking forward to in that coming year, so here we are again with games I’m looking forward to in 2020! Now keep in mind that these aren’t ALL the games I’m looking forward to. More will be announced at E3 and such I’m sure as the year goes on. And there are some games that I’m looking forward to that have been announced, but I’m not sure they’ll really come out in 2020, like Breath of the Wild 2 and Metroid Prime 4. But you never know. But here are a list of 2020 games that I’m PRETTY sure are coming this year and I’m looking forward to them.
This decade may have been about the rise of mobile and free-to-play gaming, but for Mark and I, it was about bigger and better versions of games we had been playing since the 90s: FPS’s with attitude, action RPGs and reckless racing. The only new type of game we played a lot this decade was Minecraft. Here’s a year-by-year breakdown of the games we played in co-op or just in tandem.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is going to be a warmer than usual day here in Southern California, but for right now I have the heater going but eventually it will be turned off and I’ll let some of that mid 70s breeze on through. So what have I been playing? Well I haven’t started Gears of War yet, so there’s that, but I did entertain my younger cousin, a second grader who plays nothing but Fortnite with something he’s never seen before…a console. His mind was blown that you could play games on TV and I let him play some Nintendo Wii.
I finished the last two episodes of Life is Strange 2 today and got a lot further in Skylanders Swap Force. I'm going down the games I have currently installed on Xbox and clearing stuff off the hard drive as I finish them. Swap Force just happened to be next in line.
Hot damn three in a week? This is crazy yet here we are. Good morning Pixlpeeps, new year, me still trying to improve, and improving means getting back on a regular schedule here of posting, replying (still need to work on this) and reading. Since you’re here, I’m here, let’s get started with 2020’s first Quick Hits…it should be quick because we’re only three days into the year.
I played through episode 2 and 3 of this today. I'm honestly not a big fan of these TellTale style games because there's not a lot to do in them but watch and choose paths in the story, but I found myself moved by the end of episode 2 and torn by tough decisions in episode 3. It's really well done for what it is.
1055 hours, January 1, 2020 (standard calendar)
Near Valley Forge Park
Pennsylvania foothills, Planet Earth, Sol System
As I'm writing this, its a little after 10 p.m. so the year/decade is about to wear down. I'm at home, warm and cozy, drinking some PBR and will probably bring in the new year by playing some games (mostly likely Gears 5 from the looks of things). I got home yesterday after staying with my parents and family for 6 days for the Christmas week; it was great, lots of good food, lots of time spent with my adorable 10-month old nephew and I got some decent gifts, most of which were practical but only a few could count as toys (The Making of Alien by J.W. Rinzler, Changes by David Bowie on vinyl, Led Zeppelin's 4th album on vinyl).
Happy New Year! Let’s ring in 2020 with some games I’ve recently reviewed 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 really appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
Wow two blogs in a week and one of them isn’t rambling about what random toys I found, I’m doing pretty darn good (psst that’s on Friday). Good morning Pixlpeeps! I am sitting here in clear skies Southern California, where yesterday was gray, gloomy, and I was cursing at tourists who have no idea of where they are going so they stop in the middle of the road to make up their mind. That’s what I get for living in a place where in the winter people love to show up. Anyways today is the last day of 2019 and I thought I would do my yearly Resolutions (Goals) recap and what’s on the menu for 2020. Sound fun? Let’s get started!
Hey there, guys. It's that time of year again. I have really dropped the ball this year on blogging because I've been so busy, but I promise I will be more prolific next year (I'm already planning on participating in BAD 2020). So, as I do every year, I'll briefly mention the games I was able to beat this year. As many of you know, I'm a huge Nintendo fan, so these are all Nintendo games (or on Nintendo consoles), and some of them are even retro games (I'm fervently collecting SNES carts). In 2019, I was able to beat 18 games!
I got the end credits in 16 games not from 2019. With the glut of games available for nothing (or almost nothing) these days, I’ve gotten very impatient. If something stops me in a game or annoys me too much, I just move on. So the ones I completed were either short or engaged me so well I was willing to push through the annoying bits.
These are the 20 games I played published this year. I only finished 3 of them but I enjoyed all of them in whatever time I had to give them. Here they are in chronological order.
Welcome to the 7th Annual Chris Goes Awards Show, but since it’s the end of a decade I’m going to skip some numbers (it worked for the iPhone, it’ll probably work here) and go for the my best of the decade. A little disclaimer here: I can’t remember what I played during the early part of the decade but there are games that stood out to me so I’m going to call them the Best of the Decade. Sound good? Let’s get started!
While waiting for Jedi Fallen Order to install I played through The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. Then I played Jedi Fallen Order for a good long time and finally a few hours of DQXI to finish things off.
I played enough Borderlands 3 today to happen upon the random robot needed to the last achievement I needed. Then I changed my build and hunted with Mark for shield drops.
Since 2019 is, for all intents and purposes, over, I am posting my top 10 games of the year for 2019.
Good afternoon Pixlpeeps! Earlier this morning I was out and about because the battery in the truck needed to be charged up while driving so in between my stops at Treasure Hunt and Walmart I made a drive around the town for 15 minutes. Now I do this because before Christmas I thought the battery died when I was leaving a store and the good people of AAA said weather can be a factor especially since it’s California Cold (it was 50° with constant rain yesterday). I am here to catch you good people up on what went on during Christmas.
I attacked the remaining achievements for the DLC in Borderlands 3 today. Then I loaded up Dragon Quest XI and started a new quest.
Not much to report in my little corner of the world. I was supposed to buy a used XBox One from a kid who comes to the market, I even had the cash in my pocket for a week, but he never showed. When I asked him how much he wanted for it, he said $50. I think he rethought it, but I was planning on paying him $100, because I thought it was kind of a low figure and he's a nice kid. Oh, well. Jason's little brother is selling me his for $100, and I can pay him in installments instead of all at once. So yeah, there's going to be an XboxOne in my near future.
Mark and I finished the Borderlands 3 DLC the other day. Then he gave me a new controller and the last of the four arcade replicas that Hallmark made. I made a quick vid of the festive Skylanders at the arcade.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, PixlFriends! I hope you spend the next week surrounded by loved ones!