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 On 10/20/2014 at 10:33 AM by Ranger1 See More From This User » |
I had grand plans for the weekend. I was going to be productive - get some housecleaning done, go do some laundry, get my resume finished, and start applying for jobs. I was going to go to Portsmouth on Saturday for the sea music sing, too, but that didn't happen, either.
The working stuff...well, it was the weekend. The laundry didn't happen because my town fills up with leaf-peeping tourons on the weekends during foliage season and I didn't feel like battling the hordes blocking Main St to the laundromat. And housecleaning, well, it sort of happened. I got the floors swept and the dishes done. Portsmouth didn't happen because I just didn't feel like making the hour's drive down by myself and it was too last minute to get anyone to go with me. Plus, I really didn't have money for the gas, tolls, and parking once I got there, not to mention buying a meal and maybe a beer once I got to The Press Room.
So what did I do? I spent the weekend playing games. Saturday was a marathon session of Sleeping Dogs. I was well on my way to earning the in-game gold medal for getting 200 kills in one play session when the power blinked off and made my 360 very unhappy. Made me unhappy, too. I think I started playing around 5 PM, and sometime in the very dark hours of a late fall New England night, I realized it was almost 4 AM and I really needed to go to bed.
I think I'm about 2/3 of the way through the main game. I've been having too much fun to be bothered looking it up. I roam around doing side stuff until I get bored or frustrated or run out of side stuff, and then I play some of the main story, which unlocks more side stuff. I'm dying less, which may mean I'm getting better at the combat end of things. Good thing, because if you die in a non-main story event, it costs you $15,000 to get revived. I discovered that you can get money by running over parking meters, too, which is a never-ending form of entertainment. I do feel bad when I run over pedestrians, though. I wish my vehicles came equipped with horns...
Sunday, I spent recovering from only getting four hours of sleep. I watched a few episodes of Space: Above and Beyond, caught up to the current episode of Supernatural, and napped. Then, around four or so, I decided to check out South Park: The Stick of Truth, which I bought last Tuesday at The Game Box, a little independent games and comics store about 20 minutes away. They run table top games in the back room, by the way. I still had a $20 gift certificate from Christmas, so I only had to shell out about eleven bucks. Yes, I could have gotten it cheaper off Amazon, but I like supporting local independent businesses. Anyway...I got sucked in rather quickly. I took a quick break to run to the grocery store around 8:00 for a frozen pizza, and then jumped back in. Yes, I'm having fun. I have run into a few annoying glitches where I get stuck on ladders or in walls, but nothing game breaking. The load times are a little annoying, and it seems a little laggy in spots, but not enough to ruin the fun. And much fun is being had. I shut down around 12:30 and went to bed when I realized I'd fallen asleep sitting up with the controller in my hand and Cartman was yelling at me because I wasn't doing whatever he was trying to train me to do.
It's been so long since I've spent a weekend gaming, I'd forgotten how much fun it was. And today, back to reality and being responsible. Ugh.
I got most of what I was hoping to get done this weekend completed. The only thing I missed was hanging a photograph which I'll take care of after work this evening.
I really enjoy the odd weekend just gaming though I rarely get to do it anymore. I did get maybe 3 hours in yesterday so I can't complain. Next weekend looks better for some serious game time thankfully...
Not being married and living alone, I get more free tme than most, I think. Although, the dog did let me know he was bored when he kept grabbing and playing with things like a new box of kleenex and one of the inner soles from my work boots...
My weekend was fairly productive, by my standards at least. Made some decent headway in the yearly Horror DVD-fest me and my brother've been doing the past few years and I've actually managed to get a bit better against him in Smash Bros. I still lose often enough, but they've been more competitive than usual.
A case of productivity is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. 
I never get a whole weekend to play games anymore with my wife and 2 year old son with whom I spend most of my time away from work. I'm more than happy to spend time with them but I do miss the freedom from the days when I was in college and didn't have nearly as many responsibilities and could do nothing but play games during my spare time. Even if I didn't have a family, I think I would be drawing more to try and get an art career going. Of course games are addictive, so who knows how successful I'd be. Growing up sucks lol.
Living alone and not having kids, I actually have more time for gaming now than I did at any other time in my life. Not sure the trade off is really worth it, though.
Well, I wouldn't trade my wife and son for anything in the world, but I admit it is difficult sometimes knowing that their quality of life depends largely on me, whether or not I'm happy at my job or able to follow my dream. Or play video games lol.
I told everybody I was celebrating Spooktober, and I'm suppose to be playing a bunch of horror-ish games and blogging about them, but I've been getting sidetracked by Dragon Age Origins. I'm almost done with Alien Isolation, once I am I'll do an update blog, maybe even a review but I'm not sure. If I do it'll be the second review I've ever written, I don't do those often.
Yeah, saw you online when I was playing Sleeping Dogs on Saturday. I want Dragon Age Origins, but I'd rather have it on disc. Not a ton of space left on my hard drive these days.
My xbox has one of the 250GB harddrives and I'm quickly filling that up as well. Alien Isolation was two discs, one disc (the install-disc) was a 6GB install, and the other disc is the play-disc and that one is like another 8GB I think. Alien is taking up a ton of space!
My hard drive is only a 120 GB. First generation Elite, I think. I bought at as soon as the price drop hit.
Funny, I get really annoyed with pedestrians in real life (you know you're just here for the druggie "college experience," just fail already and get out of my road), so I have no misgivings about running over TONS of them in GTA.
I think South Park Stick of Truth might make it on my very short list of RPGs I actually like when it gets a price cut.
I actually did clean my apartment a bit and get back to my diet and exercise routine over the weekend, but I definitely didn't get as much done as planned. The apartment isn't clean-clean and neither is my car. It's just that now they both look less like a homeless tornado.
I'm generally a pedestrian - I lived in Maine's largest city (not all that large, by the way) for 15 years and had friends who didn't know I even owned a car, so I think I just identify with them too much for it to be fun.
Stick of Truth is like being in an episode of South Park. Half the fun I've had is just roaming around exploring all the silly things in town.
I'm a pedestrian much of the time, but I don't walk in front of cars on a 30 mph road where there isn't a crosswalk and move like molasses the way some of these kids do. I'd have no problem with pedestrians if they at least used crosswalks instead of jumping out like ninjas then slowing down immediately when I slammed the breaks for them.
And yeah, I love how they built that game with the same assets of the show.
Chores are my weekday thing for me. Weekends is always wide open although I'm thinking about becoming a gym monkey and may make part of my weekend throwing weights around instead of gaming. I've already removed Saturdays from the gaming time, but that's like most people's Fridays since I'm off Sunday/Monday.
I need to get into some sort of a routine, because now that I'm not working, every day blends into another. And I have to get my butt in gear and find some sort of income to get me through the winter.
I really hate routines, but to get things done, I really have to order my days. I keep a loose schedule and use my alarms on my phone like crazy: time to wake up, time to get ready for work, time to go to sleep. I almost threw my phone the other day though. I should ease up at little bit. I used up all five alarms on my phone.
My weekend was all work saturday for a side job I built this deck way out by Granger lake in Texas to make extra money for games ;)
And rested all day sunday so is South Park worth getting I have almost bought it quite a few times but didnt cause I dont know anything about it??
Awesome porch, Rodney. As for South Park, definitely worth getting if you like the show. It's just like being part of an episode. And it's a good RPG. I spend a lot of time laughing at all the goofy stuff. Wouldn't play it around little kids, though, for the same reasons I wouldn't let little kids watch the show.
No I definitely wouldnt let my little ones watch southpark lol!! But I might get it cause the shows freaking hilarious lol!!
my weekend was ok. mostly football and napping. And electronic cigs. And a little reading.
the e cigs are going good. Im fantasizing a lot about getting healthy again.
A healthy Snee is a good thing. What are you reading?
a book about this one night where Bach and Frederick the Great met. It's about the age of enlightenment and music and Martin Luther and the 30 years war and all this other stuff. it's awesome. Love Bach.
I'm going to bug my friend at work about the e cig tomorrow. He smokes and shouldn't and I like being annoying for laughs.
I love Bach too. I made my girlfriend listen to the entirety of his Mass in B Minor on a road trip one time. I don't think she'll forgive me for that one.
Hey it looks like we both had tourist troubles. I encountered ones that decided to park their car in a lane (that was surrounded by empty parking spaces in a shopping center) and decided to look at their map. When I honked because they were blocking the lane I got the hands up gesture with the WTF look.
You know you're having a good time playing a game when you realize the sun is coming up in a couple of hours. Also support local stores! I need to visit my the local mom & pop music store this week.
Yeah, WTF ails tourists when it comes to driving or pulling over? I hate getting stuck behind the ones that do 20 in a 45, and there is absolutely no way to pass safely. And I'm usually on my way to work when that happens, so I tend to be very impatient...
I'm a huge Shop Local! supporter. My brother owns a small independant grocery store and I know how much he depends on people shopping locally. The other part of this is, more money staying in the local community helps everyone, not just small business owners.
That sounds like a pretty great weekend! My wife played Sleeping Dogs when it first came out and it's one of the few open world games that has really intrigued me. No, I haven't played it yet but I plan to and that an improvement lol. I've hardly played any games recently, what with the new baby and all. We did get in a little LEGO Marvel Super Heroes tonight, which is good mindless fun. I've been reading a lot of comic books lately because they're so easy to pick up and put down and they library has a pretty good selection. Like everybody says, Sandman by Neil Gaiman is really good.
Yeah, I don't usually go for the open world games, so not entirely sure what makes this one different. I think it has to be the story. And the non-story stuff is pretty well labeled so you know where to find i,t and the amount of collectibles isn't too overwhelming.
I love Lego Marvel Super Heroes, except the flying parts. I'll never be able to Platinum that game because of the races where you have to fly. The controls are terrible. But other than that...being able to play as Agent Coulson was pretty awesome.
Now that's how you spend a weekend. Hopefully you can get your spook on during this upcoming Octoberween weekend!
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