I cannot believe its been over a year since I last posted. Part of it was that I wasn't playing any games because my laptop became sooo slow but now I have been slowly taking over my husband's haha. The other reason was because my mom was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer. Luckily it was only stage 1a, caught super early and she's now cancer free but at the time we didn't know that so it was super scary and monopolized all of my time. At the same time my grandpa (my dad's dad) went on hospice and has since passed so my dad was spending a lot of time with him and since I live close by I was helping out my mom a lot. I had to stop volunteering for awhile too but thankfully everything has calmed down. My grandpa was 85 so he had a full life and we all got to say our goodbyes.

So now I can start to catch up on my games! I just finished playing Still Life which is a large file adventure game from 2005. You play dual pov and try and catch a serial killer. It was sooo fun but you can't skip puzzles and the last puzzle was impossible. I tried to watch videos on it but I just could not beat it so I had to watch the ending on you tube and now I am ready for Still Life 2. I am also playing Viking Brothers 2 and its good but not as fun as the original. I also have Adam Wolfe Flames of Time in progress. I played the first act and loved it. But right now I am about to finish Graven The purple Moon Prophecy which is one of the best non CEs I have ever played. It has tons of collectibles but best of all its somewhat challenging and not cookie cutter. I LOVE it.

I hope everyone is doing good and hopefully I'll make more appearances now that I am actually playing my games! They were just stacking up and up and up and up haha xx
 

Nice to see you back again, megwoman 

I have both Still Life 1 and 2 but unplayed...         I remeber I liked Graven very much, makes me want to replay it.


Glad you mom is Ok now! Here in Sweden all women above the age of 23 (up to 70) are called on regular checks for both Uterine and Breast cancer.I had both this year and I was  healthy 

Granddad  RIP 

Welcome back, megwoman.

I replayed Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles Collector's Edition, a game that came out in Nov 2010.   I had played it when I bought it, back in the good old days when I didn't have a backlog of games, but hadn't played it since I decided to play all the games I owned.

Back in 2010, this game was cutting edge.  Nowadays, many players would be complaining that there was too much dialogue, too much back and forth, the skip and hint buttons take too long to fill, and the hidden object scenes get reused.  Although there were no helpers, the use of the medallion gimmick would have sent many players over the edge.

I've also added Queen's Garden Halloween to the done list.  I completed the first garden, and have left the game on my desk top so I can play if and when I feel motivated to complete another 5 gardens.

The next CE I'm going to play is Donna Brave: And the Strangler of Paris Collector's Edition.  I'm also playing Thanksgiving Day Mosaic.

I am able to finish more games this week because my husband is on a business trip to Germany, that lucky bastard. He's in Cologne and it looks absolutely beautiful from the pictures he's sent me. There is a gorgeous Gothic church and I hope he gets pictures of the inside. Absolutely stunning architecture. I wanted to go with him but he's going with a co worker to learn about antibodies or something bio-medical so I told him to see a bunch of cool things so one day he can take me back and show me around. And hopefully he brings me something cool back...although he's not much of a shopper..

Hi megwoman 

I've now finished:

Dead Reckoning: Brassfield Manor PE
Haunted Hotel: Phoenix PE
Zombie Solitaire 2: Chapter Two
Fill & Cross: Trick or Treat 3
Faces of Illusion: The Twin Phantoms
Dark Realm: Princess of Ice PE
Road Trip USA: A Classic Hidden Object Game

Enjoyed them all, especially the Dark Realm one.
 

Last edited by FudgeChi (November 17, 2017 10:35 am)