Hit a snag while playing Avadon. Focused on two companions, always took the same two out. Now one of them has run off, and I can't afford to equip someone else to go get her. And the enemies end up being a bit tough when I try to go after her, the useless third character only has a shortsword and a leather jerkin after all.

If someone can tell me Avernum Escape from the Pit is free of this brand of BS, I will happily abandon Avadon in favor of it.  Level up system is weird anyway.

Games are going out of their way to frustrate me tonight.

I created a party in Legend of Grimrock, giving my mages only one point to a skill, trying to spread them out. Need 2 fire magic points just to cast the first spell, making both my mages absolutely useless, and even unable to collect experience. This lead to the demise of my first party.

Bought a new ship with most of my cash in the story mode of Black Market to prepare for a new line of missions, only to have the next contact give me a better ship, but not the trade in value for mine. The longer I play this game, the more it seems not very well put together.

Damnit, I'm going to go read a book.

New album from the Minibosses.

Twelve minutes of Kid Icarus! Oh yeah, some Zelda and that awesome track from The Goonies 2.

Edit: Well, it's new to me, but just noticed it came out back in December. 

The new Avernum remake is out.

Just got this and Avadon for my new iPad, struggling over which one to play first. Quick! Someone decide for me!

On second thought, I'm going to play Grimrock.

Oh my god, Pacman 2.  I must have rented that game in my childhood ten times or so. So wacky, frustrating, and yet fun for what it was. I knew I wasn't going to get to the end, so I just spent my time finding all the different ways Pacman could die. Quite a few, actually.

Anger at  all those times I told him to turn around, but he didn't listen because something had scared him.
I did manage to get pretty far the one time I took it seriously, but got stopped at a door requiring four macguffins or so that I was too lazy to backtrack for.

The 2 in that title really tickles my funny bone.

I've had poor luck with a couple of games.

Fallout Tactics lags to the point it's no fun, and Jagged Alliance 2 crashes in the same spot five minutes in. Haven't tried the 1.13 fan patch for JA2.

I've been watching the iOS recommendation thread, and I had no idea there was an AAAaaaaaAAAAAAaaaAaA port? Something's wrong here.

[Mother 3]

Mother 3
The inventory system is driving me crazy. OK, so this happened. In chapter 7 I found a weapon for one of the characters not currently in the party. Only character that has room to hold it is the monkey. Moments later, cue a cutscene where the person who could use said weapon re-joins the party, while the monkey simultaneously leaves the party, making the weapon unavailable. All was forgiven though when I snuck up on a Chilly Dog (pretty much a wolf entirely composed of ice) and saw whoever did it's sprite work saw fit to give it a butthole, lol.

Towerclimb

Enjoying this immensely, and I haven't been this hooked since Spelunky was released. Seeing something new and scary has made me freak out and unwittingly jump right into a pit of spikes more than a few times.

Agh, I skipped breakfast you monster!

[Seiken Densetsu 3]

Lot of good games here.

Seiken Densetsu 3:
Sequel to Secret of Mana. 6 playable characters, choose 3 in the order you want them to join, first character is the one whose backstory is played through.
If this is 3 player like SoM, then using an emulator with net play would be a blast. Only in English via fan translation.

Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden

Retro Racing is back in the App Store.

I plan on getting it next time I pick up a gift card, it looks pretty cool.

The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare

Good concept; fucking horrible design

Dropped my iPhone for the 201st time, finally shattering the screen.

There's microscopic glass everywhere, including in my eye. 

The ending was awesome but then it got stupid really fast. Still a badass series, just really variable in story quality from episode to episode.

Yeah, I was seriously expecting them both to die, considering one was impaled, and the other blown up. With all the talk about the age of the samurai ending, it would have fit thematically.

Oh, and how weird was that zombie/meteorite episode?

I only ever got 5 hours in to Xenogears, I'll have to revisit that at some point. I've never beaten FF VI either.

I was ten hours into Mother 3 when someone dropped the Dingoo I was playing it on, bricking it and losing the save file. So it's my main priority for the time being since starting a new game yesterday.
Gonna have to check out that Backloggery site, as my backlog is huuuuge.

Searched my name and got 0% back, no surprise there.

But I searched Toady One (Dwarf Fortress,) and got 100% negative. Either everyone hates DF, or this thing is full of shit.

Yeah....it's full of it.

Sorry Baccano, I may have already watched your first episode, but I simply must watch Tatami Galaxy again.

Holee crap, I am in love with Tatami Galaxy, especially what they're doing with color palettes. I'm three episodes in, so I'm curious how/if the formula will be messed with, but I'm certainly hooked.

Just you wait 

[that's]

The right shoulder button on my PSP Go just went faulty. While holding it down, the contact is flickering on and off.

Terrible considering I just started a Castlevania where R is needed to make long jumps  

Edit: Oh my god I am such an idiot. The slowfall item uses hearts, which I was out of. I feel like such an idiot, and that's what sucks  

Wario Land 4:
Gorgeous pixels, does everything right