Updated My Game List and Random Game Thoughts

I decided to finally update my "Games I've Played" list to reflect some of my more recent acquisitions and experiences.  I'm also wracking my brain trying to think of some of my favorite classic games.  This has become a lot harder than I thought it would be as I've always been surrounded by so many games.

This post is just going to be a mish-mash of random gaming related things.  Commence mashing!

1.) Fallout Shelter works really well on iPhones but works like crap on my iPad2.  I had created a very nice thriving vault on my iPad and had patiently weathered the numerous crashes and problems.  Once my vault hit 30 people it would no longer load so I gave up and decided it was time to just admit defeat.  I deleted it from my iPad and said goodbye to my 30 vault dwellers from vault 619.  It's a cool little game so I decided I would give it a go on my iPhone (I have an iPhone 5s--essentially the cheapest newerish iPhone you can buy) and found that it works like a charm!  No loading screen lockups and nice, smooth play.  If you're experiencing difficulties playing on your older iPad you should switch over to your phone.  It's a smaller screen, but you will be happy with the stability.

2.) Valkyria Chronicles has again confirmed that I am horrible at turn-based strategy games.  It's a good thing that I can save my game before every turn because I am generally doing something stupid.  I'm also enjoying swearing at my characters when they miss ridiculously easy shots.  There's no display that actually shows the probability of your shot hitting in Valkyria but it has that same futile feeling as playing X-Com and watching as one of you soldiers misses a 95% shot.  Each battle is taking me a very long time to finish and I'm not going to brag about my combat ratings.  I have one last chapter to play and some DLC to mess around with and then I think I will be giving it a rest.

3.) I feel guilt over my total neglect of Pillars of Eternity.  I bought it, fired it up and got a little into it and haven't touched it in more than a week.  It's supposed to be a really great game.  After the Divinity:  Original Sin fiasco which tops my pile of shame I'm not really sure why I opted to buy it's doppleganger.  The Steam Sale made me do it.

A few of the new characters in Shadowrun:  Hong Kong.

4.) Shadowrun:  Hong Kong is coming out soon and I'm really excited.  Yep, it's another turn-based strategy game, but I love the cyberpunk setting.  I've been getting updates from Kickstarter and the anticipation is building.  The release date is going to be announced sometime this week!