After a breaking from games for a while, I've felt like playing something. Not sure what, if anything, I want to commit to, so I've been briefly revisiting some old favorites I've had on my mind, and trying out some titles I've been interested in, through demos or...other means
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.
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I always mean to play the Assassin's Creed games but I never seem to get to them. Luckily my theme for the month, The Renaissance (16th century), fits with the setting of this game, and I already had it probably as a free download from my Games with Gold membership.
Now that the PS5 and Xbox Series are out, I figure it's a good time to reflect on my favorite games their predecessors brought during the past 7 years. I figured since these consoles came out in 2013 and I was there for the PS4 day one, I would list the thirteen games that stuck with me most. Some of them I played on PC or Switch, but I'm including them anyways so long as they're offered on either or both of these platforms. I would include Switch and Wii U, but these days Nintendo consoles feel distinct while PS and XB feel like mostly the same console with a handful of exclusives separating them.
Of all of Nintendo’s game series, the Paper Mario titles have probably had the most ups and downs. On one hand, you have what many consider to be one of the best RPGs ever made! And on the other end, you have what others, including myself, believe to be one of Nintendo’s worst games! Ouch! The newest game in the series, Paper Mario: The Origami King, came out earlier this year, so I thought it might be fun to rank them.
Welcome back to a very different episode of Nerds Without Pants! Why different? Because this time we’re turning the camera onto our lovely listeners to learn how they have been coping during the Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour. We also get a lot of game talk in before having a Star Wars mirror match in the cage.
Yes, I'm alive. Busy and burned out at work and it's not even June. More about that at the end. I've been gaming more these days, so I actually have something to blog about for a change. And yes, true to form, they are all "late to the party" games that I'm sure everyone else played ages ago.
Ok so before I tackle the final three teams in the NFL card cataloging I need to write out this blog entry or else I will be doing it at 9pm local time while watching bad wrestling (WWE). Also AEW > WWE Raw/SmackDown and it is not even close. So here I am and let’s get started before I get sidetracked and end up decided I need to find a better way to catalog my cards.
I got both my personal monthly quest games played today, Doughlings for my 70s Breakout-Like game, and Uncharted 2 for my Metacritic pick game. Then for Game Pass quests, I played Worms W.M.D. .
I've actually been playing a lot, thanks to the Genesis Mini (even booted up the SNES Mini to play Secret of Mana yesterday), GameFly, and Yakuza, so I'm just going to dump brief takes on all the games I've been playing.
I did not forget to write a blog for today, nope nope nope…yeah so I forgot but it is still Monday here in breezy Southern California so here is a recap of stuff I’ve been playing.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! Hey I’m typing away in the morning, I haven’t done that in a couple of days. It’s a breezy Southern California day and while I am waiting for my Brita Water Pitcher to clean some water I thought we would do our usual and catch up…from a safe distance.
Hello Pixlpeeps! I just got done yelling at my TV because as my NBA 2K game was ending my HDMI cable decided to cut in and out and I didn't get a good shot off and lost the game. So many cuss words were used. Anyways here are some freebie games that are available. Take advantage of it and add them to your library. Have a good one...AND WASH YOUR HANDS!
Not a fan. I dont' like sneakin' in games. I'm no Gollum. But I did a lot of sneakin' the last few days in several games: Fable Anniversary, Alien Isolation and theHunter: Call of the Wild. I am so done with that.
Today I played EDF Insect Armageddon and Kingdome Hearts III. Then I thought I'd share my plans for media in April.
I got the 500 Carriers achievment in EDF 2025 and began season 3 of TellTale's Batman. There are new Game Pass rewards quests and tomorrow new free Games with Gold. The achievement leaderboards have also reset for the new month. I was first among my friends in March. I'm not sure how much I'll really try for it again in April, but it's fun to pretend I'm going all out.
So I just got back from getting a Whooping Cough shot at the local CVS and I celebrated with a sausage breakfast burrito and I found a new jersey (more on that on Friday…the jersey not the burrito….but the burrito was good). Anyways Happy March 10th or what Twitter is calling it Happy MAR10 Day. I saw that there was an announcement for Mario Lego sets, which seems cool but I kinda want to see a game where Mario is treated like any other Lego Property. Can you image how fun a SMB in Lego would be? Anyways since today is MAR10 I didn’t play any Mario licensed games but I did play…
I just can’t stop. I’ve got 49 games in my all-time list to build my library from, and I go another page on Metacritic to get more. What’s up with that? It's listomania. I think I’ll stop at games with a score of 90 and then search some other lists to get older games. This current list includes games rated at 91, so I’m almost done.
Here’s a continuation of my list chosen using Metacritic’s "All Time Games" as a rough guide. I went through page two and made the list below. One failing in the Metacritic list is that it only goes back as far as 1996. I’ll need a list that includes 80s and early 90s games eventually. For this list, I’ve put my preferred console(s) next to each entry.