It’s that time of year again! It’s the Cary’s Best Games of 2018 Awards Show blog! Keep in mind that no outside opinions went into the making of this list. It’s just my own picks. And if a game is missing from my list, it either didn’t appeal to me as much, or I just simply haven’t played it yet. Can’t play all the games out there, you know!
Last weekend I was ready to sit down and tackle some Vita games I haven’t finished yet and well I had no idea where I placed my little plastic case of Vita carts. The one time I actually I wanted to play and no dice. Instead I stuck with the games that were installed on the dang thing as well as Madden 13, a game that surprisingly I did not finish. Let’s start there
This one is called "Way with Words: Writing, Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion". It's the first in a four part series. I heard all four now and hungry for more.
We talked about the novels I read last year (in two parts!) and I did most of that reading at work. At home it's tough reading prose because I have small kids and when those kids go to bed I like to play video games. But comics and manga, for whatever reason, that I can do at home and I got through a good deal.
In my plan to study a decade a month for the year of 2019, I've finished my first book on January's decade 1900-1909 concerning art. Then I finally finished up Halo: Silent Storm, a kind of return to the roots of the Halo story. I hope the same is true of the next game.
It’s one of those days where it’s gloomy outside and all you want to do is just be lazy and eat soup. Well instead of the soup I had some ice cream and I’m getting some stuff done. Friday. Hello Pixlpeeps, let’s get started with Quick Hits!
Earlier I skipped over one of the oldest books I read last year, Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis. Published in 1938 as the start of a trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet imagined space travel before we really knew what it is like and it shows, but it is a fun adventure story with some moments of deep thinking. Like Clark after him, Lewis was adept at describing in rich detail the alien vistas and creatures he imagined. Later I read its sequel, Perelandra, which in some ways is the inverse of its predecessor. Perelandra is mostly a series of deep thinking moments sprinkled with adventure bits. I don't want to bash it because it is very good at what it is doing but I do hope that when I read the third book of the trilogy this year, it hews closer to the first one.
I think I'm done with the Fortune Island expansion for Forza Horizon 4. I've gotten most of the achievements for the Island except the drift ones. I might, however, try the two time-trial achievements a few more times. These have you race the two biggest races, Leviathan and Kraken, with specific cars in under a certain time. I got very close the last time, but take a look at these things I saw at my local computer shop.
By turning the little moments of downtime at work (and also lunch) into reading moments, I got through more books in 2018 than I ever have. I've blogged about books on occasion but with KnightDriver branching out in his blogs, I thought maybe I'd do the same. So first let's hit the novels I read last year.
I got Smash Ultimate for Christmas and I’d like to say I’m really loving it and it’s absolutely great... but I just don’t feel that way. I’m not into it. I’ve played some of it, and I know Nintendo put a hell of a lot of good shit into it, but I just don’t get excited to play it. I think the thing is, I remember playing the original Smash with my friends, and I don’t really have anybody here to play locally with. That’s when Smash is at its best. I’m gonna play some more and try again, but mostly I’m just like meh.
Normally I do my Game of the Year blog first, and then my blog on what games in 2019 I’m looking forward to. But I’m going to switch it around this year like I did last time. Mainly because there are a couple of releases that are coming up quick, and also I want to try and squeeze a couple more 2018 games in to see if they’ll make my GOTY list. But don’t worry, my Game of the Year blog will go up soon after this one, like in another week or so. In the meantime, here are some games I’m looking forward to playing and reviewing in 2019. Granted there may be more as we get into the year and have Nintendo Directs and E3 announcements and such, but here’s some that I know right now.
So we're entering another year, with another round of games, another BaD, and another round of GOTY blogs.
Not a game, in case you were wondering, but an audio book. I'm blogging this year on things I've finished in all media. No more time records for games, and no more blogging on games I didn't finish. I'll just have to finish something to reward myself with writing. That's my new plan.
Well good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a nice Saturday morning and I am still in bed watching TV. For some odd reason my cable company now offers the Smithsonian Channel and I’ve been watching it non stop since the end of the Rose Bowl Parade. They have a series called Aerial America where it’s a little bit history, and just views of different parts of the country. It is an amazing show and currently I am watching an epsisode about water. It has all these views and it is amazing. Anyways as I lay here I am debating on going to the library, and checking out their offerings for today but before I do so, let’s catch up a bit.
My attempt to quicken the grind to getting enchantment buffs for my Minecraft character, Gingerbreadman, failed the other day. That's not to say it wasn't fun anyway, but my goal was frustrated.
Wow, this year went fast! 2018 was a very busy year for me, which is why you barely saw me here on Pixlbit. I've been adjusting to a new place and life is moving in a very wonderful direction (as in marriage is in my future). But I tried to still make time for games this past year, so I will share with you my gaming experiences. As usual, there are some retro games here, and it's mostly Nintendo stuff. I finished 17 games this year (not bad at all). Really excited for the new year and what it has in store. Hope you guys are too. So let's get into it. Here are the games I finished this past year.
I built a very large pen and filled it with every type of animal; well, not pandas, or dogs, or turtles - not that I didn't want those too. Mainly it was pigs, cows, sheep, chickens and horses. I kept breeding them until I had to build a bigger pen, then a bigger one. At one point I watched Mark try and breed some in the pen and it created a stampede. If you hold out wheat, you get cows and sheep rushing you to be fed. It was funny.
It is the second day of the new year and I ventured outside to take the trash out and hot damn it’s cold. Not real cold, but Southern California “cold”. It’s actually warmer today than yesterday where around this time it was 43°, and today it’s 48°. I do love this time of year because the summer it’s over 100°+ and Air Conditioning is your best friend. Anyways since this is the new year and I thought I would catch you up on what I’ve been playing. I started some of my 2019 goals early and one of them was play the games I own. Many of them are on the iPad and a couple are on other handhelds. I will eventually jump into PS4 games (probably after another long system update install) but that’s another topic for another day.
My attempts to recreate Cary's turbo horse in Minecraft have been fufilled.
Happy New Year! Let’s ring it in with some recent reviews I’ve written 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 really appreciate it. Let’s begin!
Since my refund is likely coming for the last two games that crapped out on me (AC: Origins and Sunset Overdrive), I bought Celeste for $15.99 and for $4.48 altogether decided since I'm Polish (or at least my real last name is) and already own Witcher III for PS4, the enhanced editions of Witcher and Witcher II sounded like a great deal.