14 months to the day since my last blog post and I'm back!

crickets chirping

To be expected I suppose. A lot of people from my heyday here are gone so I'm not sure who or if anyone might actually read this but I'm gonna just roll on.

A lot has happened in the past 14 months that I won't bore you with but the main thing that has happened during that time is that I've stopped writing. This was always something I enjoyed doing especially here on GS writing about video games and the ancillary things surrounding that world. I've just been so busy with the other stuff in life that this has fallen by the wayside but in accordance with my 2013 resolution I'm going to start writing more... and away we go.

I spent a good amount of time gaming in 2012 so that didn't change.

The first three months of the year were spent with Skyrim. Loved that game and it came at the perfect time in the year for me when I'm barely working and can completely let a game like that completely take over my life.

Mass Effect 3 followed Skyrim and I loved it. They really tightened up the gameplay and I wasn't one of those people who freaked out about the ending. It was what it was. Stop your damn crying.

Spent the summer back playing WoW after the scrolls of resurrection craze ran through my workplace and suddenly we had 8 people starting new chars and leveling the hell out of em.

Fall was spent with Madden. Really loved the new physics engine. Hopefully it was the first in a line of improvements to come in the future.

The game that really completely took over my life for a month or so was Forza Horizon. Loved everything about it. It would be my vote for "Most Fun Game of the Year".

Since then I've started playing Star Wars: The Old Republic. Its good but not great but it really scratches my Star Wars nerd itch. The way they're ripping off the f2p people is almost criminal.

For the last week of my life or so I've been completely enthralled in Far Cry 3. It's like Skyrim Lite with Guns in the Jungle! It doesn't bog me down allowing me to pick up every blade of grass, berry, piece of bread or grain of salt. I get to go nuts and with all the ways you can play it its unllikely that two people playing the game will have the exact same experience. Absolutely loving it.

Not my best work but I hope to keep plugging away, getting better and back to writing more thoughtful posts on a more frequent basis.

Hope everyone is well.

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