New plan of attack

Hello everyone, I know it isn't Friday and I am a few days late. Just want to say I am sorry but things have gotten very hectic in our household since Elliana was born. Last weekend went by in the blink of the eye and I didn't even get a chance to blink. 

This past week my wife and I decided to build cornhole boards and sell them. We got an order from a friend last weekend so we started that. Over the week it rained and stormed so it was really hard to get some painting done but we got it done. 

This was the finished product and they loved it. It was a project I enjoyed doing for them. They wanted United States Coast Guard. 

Past this project I want to continue building more boards and create more works of art with wood for people which will also help keep my wife home.

To the gaming portion, RocketLeagu is a very addicting toy car / soccer game. This game doesn't look like it could keep someone up till 3 in the morning but it did exactly that the first night I played it. There are different settings and different styles of play. I stayed on the 3v3 normal and 3v3 ranked. I didn't seem to see a difference in the two so I played ranked more often and had some great games.

Next up is the Witcher and gta. I got about 2 hours into the Witcher before a friend wanted to play gta with me. Gta just released some DLC content with new cars, clothes, guns and more. Gta is a game I can go to just to unleash mayhem. Get a car and go light up some fools crouching in on my territory. Or I can just get in my sweet vehicles and go for a ride.

That's it for now. Follow me on Twitter to stay updated.

E3 late post

Hey everyone, sorry for the late post. Having a kid really changes around my schedule. I planned on releasing this post two Fridays ago but got behind with kid stuff that I didn't have a chance. This post was also supposed to debut last Friday but again, got caught up on baby situation. Now the post is ready to go up and man am I excited for the stuff I want to talk about.

First up, I think Microsoft killed it at their conference. I love both consoles...and Nintendo but wit the "FREE" backwards capabilities Sony just can't compete when they make me buy/rent their older games. It's a good idea and worked until Microsoft unleashed their hailmary.

A few things I am excited for from E3 are many upon many games that were unleashed and unveiled. Fallout 4 Pipboy edition is a must have. I think they are sold out at the moment but do periodic sales. Follow Bethesda on twitter for updates on when they are selling pre-orders again. The gameplay that they showed really brought the wow factor and a bit of "oh man". The "oh man" is up first, why did we change the VAT system from freeze time to slow down time? I loved being able to use VATS, pause and  analyze the situation I was in and determine what I needed to do next. Slowing down time won't let me have the time needed to choose my next moves out in advance.

Plus side? Dog, yay, we get a dog. Hopefully this "Companion" does better than many games ave tried in the past...i.e. getting stuck in a wall, can't go around an obstacle or just plain getting lost and are lost forever. I have high hopes though because Bethesda makes really good games and Fallout is one of the best series they have running.

We are finally getting a release for The Last Guardian. Now I can finally stop hearing the internet rave about this game that never came to be.

Kingdom Hearts 3. Wow, this game just looks stunning and is in the top 5 games I loved from E3.

Yet....another Call of Duty. I do have to say I like Activision COD a ton better than Infinity Wards version.

This has been a very successful year at E3, so many good things came out of there and I can't wait to get my hands on some of them. A few are even coming out this year. /squeee

I was at work mostly for the broadcasting so I am not up to speed on many of the other items coming from E3.

That's it for now folks. Follow me on twitter to get updates on what's going on. @the_gaming_dad

Movie time and slight gaming, Child of Light

On Friday, my friend bought me a ticket to see The Avenger: Age of Ultron. Wow is that such a great movie. This movie is AAA worthy to be seen. It really leads up for the next series in Marvels Phase 3 plan. I won't go into spoilers too much but I highly recommend going and seeing it.

Outside of awesome movie stuff we are coming into the closing weeks of our pregnancy. It won't be long now. Abby wants for our baby girl to be born on May 15th but I have a feeling she will be coming May 9th. So we shall see when she comes and you will be the first internet people to find out!

To the gaming. My gaming time has been a little lack of luster this week since next week is my last week of schooling for this semester and exam review and exams are here. I took two of my exams this morning and have my final class next Thursday. I am taking my summer classes off to help my wife take care of our child and I will be going back in the Fall hopefully. Let's talk about school another day and get back to the gaming side of life. This week I have been playing a bunch of LoL and Borderlands: 2 still with my friends. Playing these games with friends makes them better because you get to joke with them and have great moments not found in single player games. It is a great way to share in the fun.

Last month with games for Gold on the Xbox One was a game called Child of Light. After reading my blogs and my future blogs you will come to find out that I am not a big fan of indie games and usually steer clear of them. A few days ago I decided to give this game a try and have really enjoyed my time with this game. The movement is side scrolling with a combat similar to a mixture of Final Fantasy 1-10 and the newer gameplay of 11+. Combat is turned based but on a bar at the bottom. Using the firefly pal I was able to "slow" down my enemies "Face" bar so mine would move faster. It has been quite a blast so far since it made me think about my moves of defending and who  I needed to freeze to take a win in the battle. There is a bit of voice acting in the game but it is heavily based in text. The sentences are in rhymes so they are nice to read and have a little pizzaz added to the menu. If you haven't tried this game out yet I would suggest giving it a shot even if you do not like indie games. This game gives me hope and will be the first of many indie games I will play.

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