Token Female Gamer

I’m finally feeling better, which means I’m semi productive in the real world instead of only being a computer game lump. Funny how most of my illnesses end up getting cured by playing lots of computer games, and maybe a little bit of sleep.

Since I missed it, happy belated May 4th (be with you), May 5th (Cinco de Mayo), and May Sith (revenge of). There, all caught up. =D

Game productivity, on the other hand, was high!

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April Fools Day online is great, because I get to observe without having to participate. Plus most of the online jokes tend to be funny and avoid being cruel. It also means that around mid march I start becoming suspicious of all news announcements that seems even a little strange.

Of course when April Fools Day does roll around and all the jokes are revealed, they inevitably only show up on the actual day and mysteriously vanish the next. I know this, yet still harbor a little bit of doubt, or maybe hope, each year.

Here are my top four “Let this be an April Fools joke” pieces of gaming news.

SimCity is most unplayable single player game of all time.

LucasArts gets Disneyed, I mean shut down.

Blizzard announces a card game….to play online. An online card game. Like Magic the gathering. Online. Still waiting for them to say this is a joke.

My World of Warcraft Warlock’s dps. Its a joke, sadly not relegated to April Fools Day only. Not news so much as QQ. >_<

As for ‘real’ April Fools, youTube was the clear 2013 winner. Best contest ever!

Any news items you think should have been an April Fools Joke or at least sounded like one?

The Veronica Mars thing has been so distracting I totally forgot about Pi day. FOR SHAME! So happy Pi day everyone. (Thats all I got, pitiful, I know!)

In other Veronica Mars news, the Kickstarter offered more bit parts in the movie for exorbitant amounts of money and once again they are all sold out (over $3million now). My yearly budget is very happy that I wasn’t able to snatch any of those up, but my inner dreamer is crying. ~sob~

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Was just wondering, is there a movie you guys would pay $10k to have a small speaking part in?

Puzzles and Dragons is celebrating its one year Anniversary with God Fest! For anyone as Puzzle and Dragons obsessed devoted as me, today is the day to spend some of those magic coins and get a few extra pulls on the rare egg machine, because the drop rate on Gods has been increased. But only for today, as God Fest ends on March 1st. Almost makes me want to go buy some magic coins.

My first pull of the day resulted in Venus (love her crazy skill!) —–>

Since I am of the ‘stop while ahead’ mindset, I haven’t tried again. Will probably try again later, once I’m sure my ‘already pulled one God’ karma has worn off. =P

Anyone else pull something fun?

I always try to do the whole new years resolution thing, but find, like most people, that I simply don’t manage. Mostly old habits are hard to overcome, but its also the time of year. Why is it so crazy after new year? Didn’t we just leave the crazy Winter Holiday time behind?

Well, I can say for certain that the whole stomach flu put a wrench in things and now my whole life is about a week behind. Thankfully I’m feeling all better. Now to find motivation. Isn’t that always the thing, finding motivation. Thus failed resolutions are the norm.

My usual resolution for TFG is to do more reviews and this year is really no different. Looking at my to be reviewed list, it occurs to me that maybe its time to change the name of this blog to ‘games I played last year’ since my delay time seems to run about a year. But those changes also require motivation. (Ha!) But a by line is easy to change.

Thus I shall continue onward in my quest to find motivation and finish all those darn reviews. (Double HA!)

I leave you with this awesome video of Mindstorm genius (LEGO!) Watch it! http://youtu.be/QwGM-DxJwTg

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Another 30 days of video games is completed! I even managed to get every post in on the actual day, ok more like middle of the night, despite my not having pre written that many and being super busy for the holidays. But it still counts!! Plus it was really fun. Thank you to everyone for participating.

In other ending news, 2012 is officially over, so happy new year everyone.

I am actually quite pleased with how 2012 turned out for this blog. With a total of 60 days of video games posts, 20 reviews, 80 books read, and (thanks to raptr) over 600 hours of gaming tracked, a lot was accomplished.

As for the brand new 2013, we shall see. The site could probably use a redesign, but since its unclear how much spare time there will be, I shall refrain setting my goals too high. How about a few more reviews at least? =P

Thanks everyone for reading and commenting. Its always a pleasant surprise to find out that anyone actually reads what I write. Clearly you are all being paid by me to comment the most awesomeest of readers.

Happiest of 2013 everyone!

We all know what the answer to this is going to be right? Yeah, my current favorite mini game is the new World of Warcraft Battle Pets system, which is the perfect mix of challenge, simplicity, and collecting; a quite distractingly fun mini game.

But its been pointed out that the list is a bit MMORPG heavy. Thankfully one of my all time favorite games, Animal Crossing, is basically a collection of mini games.

The overall goal in Animal Crossing is to decorate and pay off your house; the mini games are the means by which to earn money. Fishing, harvesting fruit, digging up fossils, catching bugs, and selling turnips are some of the main ways to earn money in the game and each is its own fun little mini game.

What made the entire game so brilliant is that it wasn’t as simple as catching fish and selling them for profit, the game also tracked which fish were caught (or bugs, or fossils) and totally encouraged completing the entire collection. There was even a museum that would display donations, but only one of each.

But catching bugs and fish was quite tricky. The game was set in real time, meaning it used the console’s internal clock to simulate the real passage of time (one day in the game was twenty four hours long). Bugs and fish and fossils were also based on real life versions, which made the museum quite a learning experience.

The game also simulated the seasonal nature of these animals. Some fish could only be caught in the spring while others were only found in the winter, some preferred the lake, and others were only found in the ocean.

This meant that completing a full collection of fish or bugs was quite challenging but in the end really fun.

I might not like it in real life, but fishing in Animal Crossing was awesome!! It is certainly one of my favorite mini games of ALL TIME!

I enjoyed the first 30 days of Video Games so much that I decided on another run. December seemed like the perfect time, as it’s a holiday heavy month. I haven’t managed to pre-write as many as I hoped, which would have given me a bit more holiday time. Will just have to see how it goes. =)

Since I couldn’t find a different list, I had to come up with my own selection this time. The topics are all over the place, but in the end I chose them because I was interested in answering them.

Here is the list as it stands:

31) Favorite Playable Race
32) Favorite Boss Encounter/Raid
33) Preferred Universe to inhabit
34) Favorite skill
35) Favorite scary moment in a game
36) A sequel that was awesome
37) Good or Evil
38) Favorite dungeon crawl or level
39) Achievements, to get or not to get
40) Favorite quest
41) Favorite pet/mount/companion
42) Favorite personal character name
43) Favorite Mini game
44) Favorite reboot of a classic game
45) Favorite combat strategy
46) Favorite art style
47) Favorite game adaptation
48) Game that made you feel the most heroic
49) Sci-Fi or Fantasy
50) Favorite morally ambiguous game
51) Game you love to hate, don’t get, wonder why anyone would buy
52) Favorite weapon
53) Male or female
54) Finish a game or not? How long to do you give a game before you write it off?
55) Multiplayer or single player
56) Instanced or not instanced
57) Best character progression
58) Favorite secondary character/random character/minor character
59) Picture of your game setup
60) Top ten games from your gaming history that you would recommend to someone else

Feel free to answer along with me. I always love to hear what everyone else’s picks are! <3

Ah the annual day of turkey and football, also known as Thanksgiving Day. Probably my favorite holiday of the year. Mostly because of the great food and fabulous people; the football is really just something that also happens. It did mean managing my Fantasy Football lineup as well as cooking a bunch of food.

How has my lineup been doing? Kicking ass! My team is currently in second place as of the end of week 11 (last weekend).

My Gaggle of Ganders Team in second place!!

One of the reasons my team has been doing so well it because of Doug Martin. Not only has he been a pretty consistent scorer, but he busted out on week 9 with 251 yards rushing and four touchdowns, earning a total of 48.99 points.

My other ace in the hole is Rob Gronkowski. He is an incredible tight end and just racks up the points. Sadly he broke his arm this past weekend, yet still managed to score two touch downs. Will be a huge loss for my team to have him out for pretty much the rest of fantasy football. =(

The good news is that his replacement, while not nearly as good, did just fine today. Jason Witten manged some points, which is more then most other TEs. But my teams big contributor for the day is New England’s Defense, with a whopping 25 points!

Been a good day, good food, good people, good defense. Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving! <3