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It's 8 days 'til the release of FFXV and I still have no clue when I'll be able to get a PS4. I was hoping for a good Cyber Monday sale, but it does not appear that will be happening. Nuts! Most likely it will be around March. Tax refund time. Here's a reminder to myself of games to get eventually: Watch Dogs 2 (Check. It's good.) Kingdom Hearts 2.8 (Check. It's great!) Red Dead Redemption 2 (Delayed til 2018. Sad face.) (Edit: It was alright. Never play single player again though) Quantum Break (Part of the Dec. Humble Monthly...so, soon.) (Edit: Once I had hardware to run it, it wasn't that compelling.) Just Cause 3 (Perhaps not. I'll finish JC2 first) (Edit: Have it. It's mid.) Witcher 3 (Check. Pretty good) Nioh? (Check. These souls type games... I dunno.) (Edit: Can't beat the first boss. That said, I like it.)

Today I pre-ordered Final Fantasy XV Deluxe Edition from Amazon. Apparently connecting my Twitch account to Amazon gave me a discount on games, or perhaps it just made me aware of a discount I already had. In any case, come November 29, I should be getting the game, the Kingsglaive movie, and such in a bulletproof (maybe) case for around $80. Now I just need to get the PS4 to play it on, but I can burn that bridge when it becomes more feasible. (Perhaps I'll slow cook the bridge so it turns into charcoal first. Hmmm.) There were a few ways to go about this. Gamestop offers a limited edition PS4 slim with FFXVdx for $450, but when I saw the price of the Uncharted 4 PS4 slim bundle on Amazon for $300, the course became clear. I liked what I played of the first Uncharted. It's one I should get back to, but I've been playing Watchdogs lately instead. Updates: I played some of Soma, and like it. The robots are not frightening in the least. They try to unsettle you though wi...

 I took a long refreshing break from Minecraft, finally decided to formally announce my disinclination to continue map development, and now find myself getting back into playing the game. When I tried to boot up my latest attempt at the Axpack, I found that it was a bloated mess that crashed, even when I disabled most of the mods. So Bolz'tuit.... I'm making another one. Something far more compact, focused, and stable. It will be centered around Mekanism because I love it so and it worked this morning as the sole mods in the pack. So, here's the outline: The Essentials Damage Indicators Voxel Map NEI WAILA Treecapitator Fastcraft Obligatory CodechickenCore (NEI, Enderstorage) BspkrsCore (Treecap) Mantle (Natura) RadixCore (MCA) OpenModsLib (OpenBlocks) BrandonCore (Draconic Evolution) Selections from the Best Mekanism Extra Utilities Open Blocks Minecraft Comes Alive + RadixCore Pam’s Harvestcraft Cooking for Blockheads Bibliocraft Ruins Ocea...

It's been 11 years since Kingdom Hearts 2. A long time to be sure. It was 3.5 years between the first game and the second, but they released Chain of Memories in between.... so I didn't mind waiting. Over the next few years they released four spin off titles, then the HD remixes/collections of previous games. I appreciated them. I am looking forward to Kingdom Hearts 3 and seem to be in the minority of those who have not lost hope. Why should I be concerned about this. It's a game! I don't need it! I'm not entitled to it... Nomura and Square-Enix do not owe it to me or anyone. No one is being cheated. Let me express my thoughts in the form of code: IF it is competed and released, THEN I'll be happy to play it.  ELSEIF it is cancelled, THEN I will be disappointed,  ELSE it's none of my concern until one of those happens. I've seen people getting huffy about it. Why? How is not playing this game (or any game) right now going to negatively aff...

Thirteen hours and fourty-eight minutes: the amount of time I wasted on Goat Simulator. Did I get my moneys worth? I don't remember how much it was at the time I purchased it, but if it was $5 I paid too much. This is a dumb game, and yes, I know the Steam page even says so. So forget about Mad Max. My new gaming rubric is to overshadow Goat Simulator. This... might be more of a challenge than my previous one. Speaking of, though Half Life 2 has just eked past DCUO and Starbound muscled in, pushing Batkam Arkham Origins out of the ranking, that looks largely the same. Most of the games 13 hours and below are ones that I've completed one playthrough (Tom Braider), or multiple playthroughs but is a shorter game (Portal, American Nightmare). I know it looks bad for a Fallout fan to have logged so few hours into FO2, but that's just on Steam, mind you. The actual number of playthoughs is like 6+. Crayon physics and Shoppe Keep are larks that I didn't get all t...

A list to remind me what games I should be focusing on, for the sake of finishing some: Final Fantasy X (PS3) Dark Messiah (PC) Postal 2: Paradise Lost (PC) Earthbound (WiiU) What I'm actually playing, mostly because they are fun: Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (PC) Saints Row IV (PC) Games I can play anytime with little or no pressure to finish them, mostly because they're pretty open ended: Starbound Reigns We Happy Few Death Road to Canada Games I plan to install overnight so I can get into them once I finish something: Deus Ex: Human Revolution (although I have this one on PS3 as well... hmmm.) Soma  Resident Evil 4 I ordered some nostalgic cartoons which will be arriving shortly, The Tick (Seasons 1 & 2), Pirates of Darkwater, and Conan the Adventurer (Season 2). My kids got me into Gravity Falls, which is really good and surprisingly mature (in that it doesn't dumb things down for kids).

I mentioned that I am looking forward to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I like the games, but I haven't played many of the newer ones... and when I say newer, I mean the DS and forward. Intending to catch up some, I bought Skyward Sword and Windwaker HD, but there are so many I missed in between, I won't even attempt to catch them all. Thankful each is its own compartmentalized story with no continuity between them... well, after the first two. Here's the score: Zelda 1: Maybe 90% completed. The final dungeons kicked my butt. Zelda 2: Completed! Link to the Past: Completed! Links Awakening: 10% completed because I never owned it. Ocarina of Time: No idea... but I never became adult Link, which is probably not much. Majora's Mask: Never played. Oracle of Ages: Completed! (borrowed) Oracle of Seasons: Never played. Four Swords/Wind Waker/Minish Cap: Never played. Twilight Princess: 10% at a guess. Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks: Never played. Skyward...