Delayed

Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't put up a post yet but I have a great reason why. On Thursday I became a daddy!!! So since then I have been extremely busy and sleep deprived. I promise there will be a significant post on Friday to make up for this past Friday. Thanks everyone! I'm a daddy!

The weekend is here

Hello! It is Saturday and I know I am late in updating the blog. I meant to have this post out yesterday but got caught up in making banana bread last night so we could have banana bread french toast this morning and was it yummy. We got the recipe out of the Disney cookbook our friends gave us when they got back from Disney.

This has been an exciting and busy busy busy week. On Monday, I decide I wanted to have an outdoor hobby. So we got in the car and went to Bass Pro. Got my fishing license there and a fishing pole with tackle. Got home and put it together. Of course my first attempt would have the string wrapped around the pole which meant I had to take everything off the line and start back over. I enjoyed it because it was a learning experience on how to put it together and take it apart.

Next up on the list of long this I did this week was school......NOT. I finished my exams a few weeks ago and enjoyed coming home after work on Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of going to class and sitting there for 3 hours. Gave me more time to spend with my wife and game.

The biggest thing that happened this week was my buddy has had an itching to get back into WoW and decided to send me a 60 day time card to join him and said "let's have some fun". He is such a good friend because he knew I wanted to get back in and have a collection spree going. I love WoW because it is a game I can let sit for four months and come back to it and it gets better each time I log in. Now all I need to do is find time to play the game. I think I have played a total of one hour since he gave me the card just because we have been so busy this week entertaining guests and getting ready for this baby to be born.

Outside of WoW, I fired up my PS4 for the first time in a few weeks because I wanted to get into an RPG setting. Dragon Age: Inquisition is the best place to go for this feeling. I created a new character who is a female two handed warrior. This character I decided to actually get into the role-playing aspect such as giving her my own background and why she was at the place in the beginning. With all of my other character I always choose the best answer that gives me the most likes from all of my companions. This character is going to be a bit sly and has a beeper and darker past with a bit of wit about her. She will probably lose dialogue points with a few people but you can't please them all.

Before I go I want to point you in the direction of http://www.operationsupplydrop.org/. These guys and girls are great fro raising money for our troops. Today and tomorrow is their 8-bit salute where they are doing a fundraiser so go and check them out. There will plenty of people streaming for this so you can not miss it.

Also, for more updates follow me on twitter @the_gaming_dad and I will answer any and all question. Have a great weekend. Baby Daddy OUT!

Part 1 ends where part 2 begins.

This week has been exciting, nerve racking, and stressful all rolled into one. I had exams this week and that means my second semester of college is done. Granted I am on a 5-6 year plan due to financial reasons and lack of time to go full-time but I don't regret it. I know that when I finish I will be able to reach a point in the working field I wasn't able to before without a degree. So here is to the end of this semester.

Also, within a few more posts I will probably become a daddy. My wife's expected due date is May 26th but I have a feeling she will go into labor today or within a few days (just a feeling). I am super excited to be a daddy who is also a gamer and trying to micro manage my time.

Gaming this week has been almost nonexistent because of cramming for exams but between studying and pulling my hair out it has been mostly League of Legends. Typically, I play against bots to learn a champion and feel really good about myself but this week I thought I would test my Lux play skills against real opponents and I wasn't disappointed. I was mid against a Kennan and his minion push was a bit better than mine at the beginning because my first skill is only a trap/stun for poking him. Once I was able to get my second skill I was able to poke him much harder and make it more difficult for him to minion push. I went 17-0-25 for 26 minutes of the match. At the last few minutes the entire enemy team decided they wanted to gank me. No teammates in sight I tried to run while sending a few stuns and slows their way. Alas, I couldn't hit them all and they catch up to me and end my no deaths :(

This was it for this week. Not much went on but next week expect to find more twitch streams and videos on youtube. Speaking of streaming you can follow me on twitter @The_Gaming_Dad to get updates on when I stream, post videos, or am playing on my computer. Congrats to those who finished college this semester.

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.

Follow me on twitter @the_gaming_dad to keep up with news and streaming times.

Monday!

Quick update.

This weekend has been a busy one. I didn't get a single chance to play any games. My mother-in-laws birthday was today and we spent most of the weekend preparing for her birthday and spending time with her.  Yesterday I ventured out of my comfort zone and tried duck legs and can I tell you they were amazing. Picture the texture of a fairgrounds turkey leg with the flavor of a chicken. Oh man was my mouth watering. I think I will try alligator next. Streamed for about an hour earlier playing Borderlands: The Pre-sequel and still enjoying it. What should I stream next? Let me know @the_gaming_dad on twitter.

Mortal Kombat X review

This has been a very busy week and weekend. Last week, I picked up Mortal Kombat X and gave it a playthrough. My experience with it was outstanding. Playing Mortal Kombat 9 for a while and coming over to X was a huge change. The graphics and replayability skyrocketed through the roof.

Throughout the week I played the storyline, towers and versus online. 

STORY LINE:

It came no surprise to me that they picked X up from where 9 left off. For a new Mortal Kombat fan they do a good job making it accessible for them to pick up and play however playing through the previous games will help with background and references throughout the game. Mortal Kombat story lines are my favorite part of the game because I am terrible playing against a person. The stories replayable factor goes down significantly after the first playthrough unless I wanted to see how fast I could beat it.

TOWERS:

One of Mortal Kombats major components are their towers in which a player starts at a first fight progressing through a number of fights. Each time the player advances the opponent gets stronger and harder to beat. This mode is where I found my self more often than not because I could start at an easy opponent and work my way up to a harder one instead of being thrown straight into the fires of Versus mode.

VERSUS:

This mode is for the players who like to test their skills all around the world. Fighting games are not my specialty and it is clear after I jump into the ring with a few fighters. I won 1 games out of 8 but slowly got better and understood when to attack and when to block. The game is like a faster version of chess where one piece is moved and is countered by the opponent. It felt like I got countered most of the time.

During my playing time with Mortal Kombat X I noticed how beautiful the game has become for a fighting game. The rain actually made the clothes wet and water rain down the players faces. There wasn't any blocky hands or faces in this game. 

I am always up for a challenge so give me a heads up on twitter if you want to play @the_gaming_dad and I will stream our match.

I give Mortal Kombat X an 8.8/10

Mortal Kombat X

Disclaimer report: Fighting games are not my forte and will never be my forte so if you watch my twitch channel you will probably see me die...and die...and die again many times. 

I will probably win 1 out of 20 matches against real people. I never really got into fighting games because I loved the fantasy games and role-playing games. They gave me more variety and didn't have to button smash to win. Fighting games were tough because I like to plan my moves ahead of me and fighting games never really give me that chance. The decisions are always split second on whether to block, punch or grapple someone and it interferes with my order of playing. This is one reason Final Fantasy 10 will forever remain one of my favorite video games of all time.

Even though I am terrible at fighting games I always loved the Mortal Kombat games for their story and gameplay animations. "GET OVER HERE" has an immediate familiarity to it that any gamer will recognize even if they do not play fighting games. This is about as far as I can go this week on the game since I purchased it mere minutes before making this post. 

Most of this also consisted of me playing LoL and going 10-0-20 with Lux (Lux is an amazing character is used correctly) against people. It was a snowball effect that made the game amazing. I am always up for playing with fans, Add me, Baldorax.

That is it for this week. Look forward to a beefy post next week as I do my week review of Mortal Kombat X.  So follow my twitch stream @the_gaming_baby_daddy and follow me on twitter for updates @the_gaming_dad