2020 blog post in 2021

Yeah, this is based off the annoying Olympics (the annoying "sporting event", not the much superior mountain range). 

 Started a new gamertag to experience some of the games again. Started playing Lips (man, i lost a lot of range). i used to almost be decent. 

 Seriously, it is getting harder to play games now. Unidentified long-term chest/shoulder problems partly (playing for hours at a time is much harder). Part of it is Game Pass - i now don't play as much in case the game shows up in the weekly/monthly quests. Backlog still out of control (almost filled 4 TB of drives). 

Let's see, i have a Series S i rarely use - partly because my Samsung Smart TV won't recognize it (piece of garbage, i have to recouple the garbage remote almost every time i turn it on. Why did they have to go from IR, which worked, to garbage Bluetooth?) 

 Is anybody else disappointed by the future of gaming. In my days, we would just put a disc or a cartridge in and it would work. Now every other game is some type of GaaS, or needs huge updates so often (definitely looking at you Master Chief Collection - every month another 30+ GB update). i guess i'm kind of getting a little burned out.

I'm Dreaming of a Green Xmas

Been away for a while (chest/shoulder chronic condition that still bothers me immensely), so what happened.  i finally got 200K gamer score.  i beat a couple games, gave up on more. Game Pass is not bad.  Apparently there was some kind of "pandemic" or something.  No, i don't believe it either.  

i'm sure that Santa is going to bring me an Xbox Series S for Xmas.  First launch ever without a launch title game (unless there is).  The games i was considering: AC Valhalla, Immortals: Fenyx Rising, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon.  

i also asked Santa for $120 million in cash, we'll see if that one comes through.  

Games with Achievements in 2016

One of my gaming goals in 2016 was to get achievements in 40 games.  Originally it was from December 2015 on, so i may have to check the dates on some of these.  Why 40?  i don't know, usually i would have gone with a prime number or a square or qube of a number.

E3 2016: MSFT impressions

Well, another E3 season is upon us.  Another year to be disappointed.  This year i was hoping for interested in Scalebound, Recore and hoping for Original Xbox BC.

i didn't like the unnecessary Orlando intro before the show.

There weren't many (or any) real surprises here (not just because everything already leaked).  The central theme of the show was the Play Anywhere initiative (Xbox One and Windows 10).  As someone who doesn't have a computer near capable of playing games on Windows 10, i'm not interested.

Phil Spencer walked on to the stage wearing a t-shirt with the original Xbox logo (what a tease), but it was not to be.  Dang you Phil Spencer!  Original Xbox BC would have been far more interesting to me than anything they announced/showed today

Really, MSFT

So, recently i have been thinking about the Xbox One and how MSFT handles some things.  They have definitely done some things right (like BC, now if they could do the same for the original Xbox). Let's just say i'm not a huge fan of what the Xbox ecosystem looks like going forward. 

MSFT's current strategy (the original one was so much better, even with the "check-ins") has me a bit underwhelmed / annoyed.  Why?

Best Xbox One Games

Well, my list of some of the games i thought were the worst is now up.  How about the current games i think are the best (well, based off of what i "own" and played)?  Note: my opinions do not reflect the views of anyone else, maybe even humanity in general.

Worst Xbox One Games

i saw a thread on NeoGaf (or SonyGaf) as it might as well be called.  Games with Gold has given me a wealth of titles that i would not have purchased/played.  There were some decent sales this year too. So, what are the worst games, in my opinion that i have played on the system?