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 To those who know me they know I am a big fan of the XBox brand. I do love my Nintendo or Sony consoles, but simply prefer the XBox brand. As much of a fan as I am of the XBox brand however, I cannot deny E3 of 2013 was a disaster for Microsoft and its fans everywhere. It even overshadowed Sony's disastrous PS3 E3 debut. Still as bad as it was, that mess was the best thing that could possibly happen to fans. The original they showed off was about as anti consumer as a company can get in the gaming industry. However with the flood of negative feedback Microsoft got they did something unheard of..... they started listening to what fans wanted. We got everything from backwards compatibility to various requested dashboard additions.

 Ever get the urge to collect a single series and try to get every game in it? For sometime now I've had the urge to buy up every Madden game I can across all Platforms. Why Madden? I don't know actually. While I will occasionally play a football game and have some fun, I have little interest in them overall. I don't even like real football. For some odd reason though, I've just had an odd interest to buy them up. I have quite a collection of them so far and pretty much have just grabbed them when I saw them dirt cheap. I think the only one I've ever paid full price for was Madden 2001 (or was it 2002) on PS2. I'm not quite sure why, but at the time I had a really disposable income and no bills. Anyway, i'f I do go though with full on collection of the series I won't be paying over $10 for any of them.

 Ok, I've just snapped a few new pics of my physical PS4 collection. I've got 100s of digital games as well. 

 When the Switch was first shown I was pretty underwhelmed. I knew I'd get one eventually, but from the launch lineup I just wasn't impressed. I already had Mario Kart 8, and Zelda BOTW on the Wii U, so as great as they were, they weren't exactly system sellers to me. So what made me want one? E3 is what made me want one now. Nintendo blew me away at last Junes E3 so I knew I really wanted a Switch. Even through there wasn't a huge lineup of must have games out, I knew there would be here soon enough and I knew the system would be tougher and tougher to find as the Christmas season quickly approached. My dad had agree to let me put the system on his Best Buy card for me and and I'd pay him back each month, so the trick now was to find one. Well within days I found one sitting on the shelf at a local Best Buy. Sadly it wasn't to be since my dad was back home in MA for the next week and a half. He looked for one out there for me, but no luck. Fortunately when he got back, we were tipped off by a BB worker that they would be getting some for the following Sundays sale. So in anticipation, I decided to buy a few games, and accessories to ready myself for my new Switch I was determined to get. Come Sunday morning we waited outside BB for them to open so I could rush in on my bum foot to grab one. Thankfully they not only had 6 of them, but they had them with the colored JoyCon's as well.

 Today I would like to talk about stupid names, annoyances, and overused words in Gamertags/Netword IDs. If you play on anything like Steam, XBox Live, or PSN I'm sure you've come across some of these. I also wanted to touch on some annoyances in general. Now lets begin.

I tried posting the images here, but its awkward to say the least. When I tried to submit the pics filled the screen and then some. Anyway if anyone is interested, here's a link..... https://phantasystar.imgbb.com/

 Its no secret that I'm a huge Skylanders fan. I may be nearly 41, yet this series quickly became one of my favorite series in gaming. Sure its a money pit, and sure it was originally intended for kids, but these game are just so darn good. Anyway, since I began collecting a few years back I've acquired a fairly big collection. Its not nearly as good as some of the other collectors I've seen and I'm still missing a lot, however its always a work in progress and I'm very happy with it. So then, any fellow fans here that care about seeing any pics? I was about to take some today for a Facebook group I'm a part of, but wasn't sure if anyone here was interested? If so then new blog incoming with the pics :)

 Any other Killer Instinct fans here? Microsoft has done an amazing job with the series and has pretty much turned it into one of the greatest fighting games ever. If you are a fan, what will you be looking forward to in a season 4 if its eventually announced? Any characters that come to mind that you would like to see? Personally I think they did an amazing job with the original characters they added to the original cast. I also love the guest characters like Rash, and General Raam. I'd love to see more guest characters like this. A spartan from Halo maybe? Cole Train from Gears of War? I'd love to see Joule from ReCore expanded on as well and think she could be worked in. They also need to  add a lot more backgrounds. They started out with every character having their own, then they got kind of lazy and stopped making them. Anyway, I'm hoping E3 has some great surprises for this amazing series.

 Tonight I feel like talking about one of my favorite consoles the Wii. This system was mostly ignored by and even bashed by a lot of so-called hardcore gamers during its life and unfairly so. Yes the graphics couldn't keep up with the XBox 360, and PS3. Heck, it didn't even look as good as an original XBox. However, the system had tons of great games on it that could appeal to anyone. People who ordinarily wouldn't touch a video game, and those who hadn't touched one in a while even wanted to try it.

 Over the past month I came into a little money and went on a little spending spree. I probably boosted my collection by about 80 physical games and around 30 or so digital on various system. I also managed to snag a back-up Vita, a New 3DS, PS Vita TV, PS4 VR, and a Retrobit Generations. I've also boosted my Skylanders collection quite a bit as well. I've recently cut myself down to 1 day a week at work due to health reasons, so I currently have plenty of free time to enjoy my new goodies.