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I just watched Microsoft's E3 Press Conference. There are a lot of interesting games coming out soon. One I really liked was Metro Exodus, such cool graphics and such amazing detail in the world and in the actions of your character. His gun jams, he pulls the crossbow bolt he just shot out of the monster his killed and reloads it in his crossbow. The creature animations are frighteningly realistic. I’m excited to check that one out.

I finished RiME, at least the story today. Total time to end credits was 5 ½ hours. I really only had one moment that made me think twice about continuing. I had to run from this giant bird and couldn’t get to a safe area in time. I must’ve replayed it a dozen times before my character kicked into overdrive and actually ran hard. You mostly trot around when you move with the analog stick and as long as you don’t stop you start to run a little faster. I couldn’t get that to kick in for me in this one specific spot and it nearly stopped me from continuing. I somehow got it, though. The rest of the game presented me with no serious problems. The puzzles weren’t that hard.

I just got a handful of hours in today as I was out most of the day shooting photos with Mark. I played a bit of Minecraft as RiME installed, but it is only a 4GB game, so it installed quickly. Then I played it the rest of the time.

Over the week I completed my Ender Dragon Quest in Minecraft. Then I kept playing, sometimes on my own, sometimes with Mark, until I got really tired of it. Now I have my rental game, RiME, and will start that sometime this weekend.

These are the Skylanders SWAP Force Earth element figures I own minus some variants. These are all the ones shown on the poster that comes with the game.

The other day I decided I’d role-play Minecraft: XBO Edition. I decided I’d act as Conan and try to do as he would. I tried to find a skin to download but there wasn’t one for that character.

That’s the stage I was at in Minecraft: XBO Edition earlier today. In my never ending attempt to make this game more focused, I’ve created stages of progress and named them. First I was a Caver, then a Villager, Miner and now Nethernaught. Later I will become a Scholar and then an Ender, at last. Let me break these stages down for you:

Mark and I got the “Map Room” achievement done today in Minecraft: XBO Edition. I jumped into his world and helped him sort out his 9 completed maps and where they should go on the wall. Once he placed the last one, the achievement unlocked. Then I removed one and replaced it and I got it too. I don’t consider it cheating. I did spend an awful lot of time building a Nether Subway system and mapping 4 of the maps in my own world.  It was just a matter of time. Wandering around and mapping is not all that interesting. Figuring out novel ways to do it, like the Nether Subway, is. This isn’t the end though. There is still one more achievement I want.

SWAP Force was the third Skylanders game and featured figures that you could split in two and swap parts to create different hybrid characters. Since there are more characters than in any game so far, I have cropped my photographs to full Super Pananvision 70mm, or 2.2:1 ratio.  Yea! Just like Laurence of Arabia.

These are in order of release date, earliest to latest. Click the hyperlinks to go to the official pages.