Does anyone else question this? This is the third month that we've done a regular "Monthly Update" with the current month in the title, although most of what I've said in these articles has to do with the previous month. And I have now just answered my own question. What I've just said would most likely then be titled "Month in Review." That is now out of the way.
So during the month of September, I really got into Dead Island. After playing L4D2 quite a bit, I remembered that I had purchased Dead Island in one of the Humble Bundles and wanted to play something else with zombies. At first I wasn't sure about the game, which needed some tweaking in the keyboard input department, but after that first questionable hour, I've managed to put in 21 hours and I only recently started Act II (~33% complete). You can expect a First Impressions article to pop up within the next week. I've put some time in on Torchlight II and Symphony, which will also get their own First Impressions, hopefully soon.
I also just entered the world of smartphones which I last talked about. I also picked up the Humble Android Bundle 2, because now I have another outlet for my gaming needs/desires. As I may've stated in my previous article, I don't see the new phone becoming my go-to for portable gaming, that will continue to be my 3DS. But, that doesn't mean I won't use if for such purposes.
For those of you interested in miniatures, Reaper is doing a second Kickstarter to promote their Bones line of miniatures. I got in on their first Kickstarter and came away with well over a hundred high quality plastic-ish minis. This time around, instead of having multiple tiers, there's the "Thanks $1" tier and then a $100 tier and the earlier you support, the earlier you will get your shipment of (currently) 140 miniatures of varying sizes. With only a week in, they are already over $1,000,000. If I didn't already have a backlog of minis that I needed to paint then I would definitely get in on this Kickstarter again. I just don't know if I would be able to swing it this time around. With hope, there will always be Bones III next year.
Lastly, Conklederp got me Antichamber because she's awesome/amazing and because we've been together now for over half a decade. I played the game for about half-an-hour before accidentally deleting my saved progress as I didn't initially know how to exit out of the game. I know now. I'll delving in that strange world again soon, probably with Conklederp watching or watching her play.
And I need to get back to playing Papo y Yo and Penumbra: Requiem, although those games are pretty similar in their execution of puzzle-platformers, so I may have to put one on the back burner (speaking of which, I need to go drink some coffee) until one is finished so I don't make myself completely puzzled out.
So that's where I am, here at the beginning of October 2013. Nothing too new or out of the ordinary, just plodding along when I'm not at work.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
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