I haven't really been gaming all that much lately. I was usually too tired after getting home from work at the park, walking Beau, and making dinner, and then I started at the market and pretty much the same deal. Anyway, this is what I've played since the Ratchet & Clank reboot:
Like I said, I saved the best for last. These final Genesis Mini games are the ones that impressed me the most, or at least impressed me that they got put on here in the first place! Most of these games have never been on a Genesis collection before, and some have never been released at all! So let’s take a look at them!
I jumped around a lot today. I looked through a list of games in the Xbox store labeled as sims and downloaded a few and tried them out.
So this is Southern California the past week: HOT. Last week it was in the 70s, I wore a hoodie (with shorts), the windows were open and everything is good. This week, it is warm there’s no hoodie (still wearing shorts), and yesterday I broke down and turned the AC on. I fought the good fight but it got toasty. After I update you good people on my randomness I will most likely head out to the bank, maybe check out the thrift stores on the way back, and then get an ice coffee before starting the 3 day weekend so let’s get this started.
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Jumping around a lot this week in gaming.
In this second batch of games found in the SEGA Genesis Mini, we’ll look at a variety of first party and third party games. Some of these have been on previous Genesis collections, but most of these haven’t. The only other thing most of the games in this section have in common is that most of them didn’t impress me much when playing them now. But don’t worry, like I said, we’ll get to the good stuff in the next blog, I promise!
October came and went and Halloween along with it. I worked during that day as usual. Someone that I follow on twitter posted a week ago that Halloween should take place on the last Friday of the month instead of the last day. The last day usually falls on a day during the week, when the likeliest participants are either dealing with school or work or both. I'm in agreement with this. Instead, I watched how friends celebrated through social media and that'll have to be enough.
Last week I decided to connect my Switch Dock to the TV and give the Switch a try on the big screen for a week to see how I like it. I like it but this opened up another door of gaming, here’s why: I have a couple of HDMI ports on the TV, so awhile ago I bought this switcher that adds three extra slots and takes up one HDMI slot on the TV. Plugged it in, connected the USB cable to the TV’s USB to power it and I was back to a couple of years ago when I had a bunch of stuff connected. In this one slot I have my Switch, the return of the 360, and the PS4. I have those connected along with the PS3 and I’m golden but like I said it opened up another door.
Mark and I are almost done a third playthrough of Borderlands 3, this time with Mayhem level 1 activated. Mayhem mode increases the difficulty, adds more badass enemies and gives you better loot. At this point, we're both using almost nothing but Legendary gear. It's still fun to find that slightly better weapon or shield.
A couple of years ago, Nintendo made a big splash with their NES Mini and SNES Mini consoles. Now SEGA is joining the bandwagon with a mini version of their most popular console, the SEGA Genesis. But there have already been mini Genesis consoles with pre-loaded games on them, and Genesis collections on consoles, so what’s the big deal with this one? Well, mainly SEGA is making this one themselves, and they’re taking Nintendo’s approach to how they include which games will be on it. So what does that mean? Well you’ll just have to find out in this blog series. We’re going to take a look at the games on this mini console, but there are so many that we are going to split this up into three sections, one a week this month. For this first part, we’ll take a look at the Genesis Mini itself, and a few of the expected games on it. Don’t worry, we’ll get to the good stuff soon!
I finally got my Wii-U up and running at home. I've been playing in very short bursts here and there. I'm really enjoying it. The first night I left it on and the menu music put me to sleep. I think it auto shut down after a while.
*So apparently I did not hit Live so my post yesterday didn’t get posted. My bad. Anyways I’m eating breakfast and I might as well give this another go.
I have not been posting much recently. I do come in and out ever once and a while, so I thought I would come and give a quick update.
Summer is trying to hold on right now but it is getting cooler here in Sunny Southern California. I think we are at the last couple of days of 90+ before it drops and I’m ready for it. Don’t get me wrong I do love the summer but after a couple of months of triple digits, I’m ok with wearing a hoodie and *gasp* maybe pants instead of shorts. Anyways that’s just me, let’s get started.
The first dlc for Borderlands 3 dropped on Thursday, and Mark and I played it. I got the Season Pass and now I'm wondering what the dlc release schedule will be.
We are what a week away from Halloween and I still haven’t bought any candy, carved a pumpkin, or figured out which jersey I want to wear as I hand out candy. Since my neighborhood has so few people who go trick or treatin’ everyone gets a handful of candy. The neighborhood also had an event at the park last week where people were supposed to park at the clubhouse and handout candy from their trunk. I didn’t do this because it was last Saturday, and in the daytime. Anyways we have had enough candy talk let’s see what Chris has played.
I made it up to Yggdrasil and finished act 1. However what happens next I was not expecting at all.