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September 2019 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on August 29, 2019
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For back to back months, I am getting a free digital copy of a game I already own!  Also, I’m getting a sequel/follow up to a game that I will need to do the homework for before playing the other game.

Last month, we got Detroit : Become Human, but a much better version than I owned, which is a follow up to Quantic Dream’s Beyond : Two Souls.  September brings us . . . Batman : Arkham Knight and Darksiders III!

I already own Batman : Arkham Knight and I got Darksiders II : Deathinitive Edition as one of my first free PS+ games way back in December 2017.  I only played it past the first boss and a little bit of The Foundry.  If I remember correctly, I was up against some monster (not a boss) who just kept killing me so I will have to figure out how to get pass it or straight murder it.

Forge.  So I’m going to have to finish at least my first playthrough of that game before jumping into its sequel.

Darksiders III came out in November 2018 and is already a free game ten months later.  OnRush came out in June 2018 and was already a free game by December 2018, so Darksiders III isn’t setting a record but it is something to note.

I had to look up Darksiders 1 Warmastered Edition (as I’m going to own the series, pretty soon).  It is typically a $20 game but goes as low as two dollars, so once it gets under five dollars, I’ll snatch it up!

Which I’m hoping it goes on sale in September.  I’m also hoping Arkham Knight’s Season Pass goes on sale too.  I might have to just spend the $20 and buy it in October if it never goes on sale.  So Rocksteady has no incentive now to put it on sale.

Darksiders III is still a $60 game, but has gone as low as $36.  There is a Season Pass for $20, which includes the two DLC levels : The Crucible ($7) and Keepers of the Void ($13), as well as a Digital Deluxe Edition that is $80 and a Blades & Whip Edition that is $100.  The Digital Deluxe Edition is the game plus the two DLC levels.  The Blades & Whip Edition is the Deluxe Edition PLUS 1’s Warmastered Edition and II’s Deathinitive Edition, so three games, plus all DLC for $100.

Batman : Arkham Knight Is now a $20 game that has gone as low as six dollars.  The PlayStation store has a slew of avatars that I’ve downloaded all of them.  The $20 Season Pass makes all of the DLC available.  DLC included a Batgirl level (A Matter of Family) that is seven dollars.  I really liked it, it wasn’t too short, plus it gave me the option to do AR Challenges as Batgirl, that I didn’t even attempt but probably should.    All of the character DLC levels make it so you can play as the character in the challenges.  The other DLC are :

Nightwing’s GCPD Lockdown, two dollars
Catwoman’s Revenge, two dollars
Robin’s Flip of a Coin, two dollars
Red Hood Story Pack, two dollars
Harley Quinn Story Pack, two dollars
Seasons of Infamy, ten dollars

When asked if the DLC is worth purchasing, the general answer is that the Seasons of Infamy DLC is the only one truly worth it but for ten extra dollars, I might as well get everything.  Especially if I can wait until the Season Pass is as low as eight dollars, then everything becomes a steal at that price!  The story DLCs are already priced at $20 so if you buy the Season Pass for $20, all of the other costumes, maps, and Batmobile variants are just free, in a way.

There’s a Premium Edition for $40.

There are various costume packs as well :

New 52, free
Flashpoint, unavailable
Batman Inc, free
Original Arkham, free
First Appearance, one dollar
Bat-Family Pack, two dollars
Batman Beyond, one dollar
Noel, free
2008 Movie Costume, free
Dark Knight Returns, one dollar
A PS4 Exclusive set of the 66 Batman costume and Batman 3000 costumes that were “free” but not available but are now available and I just purchased theme and have the download already queued to my PS4!  That was super exciting!  I wasn’t even going to do the Arkham Knight store as I owned the game but I wanted you, dear reader, to have all of the information!

When I try to purchase the Flashpoint costume, I get a message that states I can get it if I buy the Season Pass, which used to be the message I got for the PS4 exclusive sets.  I can’t wait to get home and play as 66 Batman in the 66 Batmobile!  This is going to be a blast!

There is even variations of the Batmobile!

Original Arkham, two dollars
Robin and Robin theme Batmobile, two dollars
2008 Tumbler, two dollars
1989 Movie Costume and Batmobile, two dollars (I had to buy this one too!)
Rocksteady Theme, free
Prototype Batmobile, two dollars
Riddler theme, one dollar
70s Batmobile, one dollar
Batman v Superman costume and Batmobile, free
66 Robin and Catwoman, plus Batmobile, two dollars (that I also had to buy)

There are challenge map packs:

WayneTech Track Prack, two dollars
Five Crime Fighter Challenge Pack, two dollars each ($10)
A Locations from the three games Crime Fight Challenge Map, free

Maybe one day we’ll finally get Arkham Origins on the PS4, then I can finally play that game.

So, by my math, all of the DLC came to about $51, so $20 for the season pass seems worth it but I’m not sure about the Premium Pack for $40 being worth it but I’m sure it goes on sale too.  It does, it usually goes for $14, which is also a great deal, if you didn’t already have the game or getting the base game for free come Tuesday.  The description essentially just says it is the game plus season pass, it that all works out in the end.

There is an Arkham Collection that is on sale that has the three proper games for $24, down from $60.

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I have also been inspired to finally work on those darn Riddler Trophies that I was finally down to eight of them.  I am now down to two and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get them as I just can’t get the Batmobile to work for me.  If I could just get ten more seconds, I think I could do both of them.

Thanks to PowerPyx for hosting this video and all of the Riddler Trophies videos that I used to get to this point!

The final two are those dumb races from one platform to the trophy.

7) 2147 x 1492 to roughly 2160 x 1670 at the 3:24 mark.

31) 3258 x 2136 to roughly 3030 x 1155 at the 22:04 mark.

Luckily, but maddening, the two locations are relatively close to each other so I know the route back pretty well, and it doesn’t take that long to attempt again but it just feels so defeating!  Especially with the forced Riddler exchange.  Like, just let me repeat my attempt with a simple “repeat” option like in a Lego game.

So that’s what I’ll be attempting to do every few days or so!

I was told it is a simple process of ensuring the save files have been uploaded to the cloud, and deleting the game file off of the PS4.  Then come Tuesday, I can install the digital copy, download the save file, and it should just work out.  So here’s hoping it is that easy!  I definitely don’t want to restart that game from scratch!

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The PS4 and PlayStationPlus subreddits seem to be very happy with the game selections.

PS+ Titles for September: Batman: Arkham Knight & Darksiders 3 from PS4

Batman: Arkham Knight and Darksiders III are your PlayStation Plus games for September from PlayStationPlus

Which is super nice for a change.

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Here are my YouTube peeps with their thoughts!

Nathan with PlayStation Access

Adam with PlayStation Grenade

Ben with Platinum Chasers

Everyone seems to be very excited!

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Here is the trophy guide for Darksiders III

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/darksiders-iii/333133-darksiders-iii-trophy-guide-roadmap.html.

Thanks to AerisFlowerGirl for making it!

Here is the trophy guide for Arkham Knight

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/batman-arkham-knight/guide/.

Looking at the list again, I think I’m still pretty much just going for the Riddler trophy, Riddle Me That, which would then get me Knightfall.

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While checking for any deals through the PlayStation store, I saw a few games that were around three dollars that didn’t have a platinum, plus I’m getting Man of Medan soon, so I shouldn’t have been looking for new games anyway.  I did come across another live action game like Late Shift and The Bunker.

Thanks to PlayStation for hosting the video!

That game is, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, which looks like it could be pretty interesting.  There was even a bundle for all three games that if I didn’t already have Late Shift, I may have been tempted to get all three of them.  The game is typically $13 but can drop down to $6.49, which would be perfect for me.  So one of these days all of these games will go on sale and I’ll start grabbing them.

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Another game that I was reminded I have already is Q*Bert Rebooted.  I probably played it for an hour and I really enjoyed aspects of the Original (which I rarely played back in the day) and Rebooted was pretty fun too.  A very modern take on the classic game.

I got crushed by the Coily, the snake, 25 times (and more).  I got smashed by Ugg exactly 25 times (during another 30 minute gaming session when I realized I could get one more trophy).  I died well over 100 times and rode 50 discs.  There are other and more proper trophies in the game but I’m not really all that good at Classic and it took over an hour and a half to get maybe 200 gems so getting 5,000 gems seems like a huge time commitment.  I only came across maybe two green freeze balls.  So I feel like I got my time spent with this game that was free back in April 2018.

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So my gaming rotation is :

Batman : Arkham Knight (for those two dumb Riddler trophies)
Darksiders II
Sniper Elite 4
Late Shift (for one final playthrough)
Lego Marvel Superheroes 2
Beyond : Two Souls (for maybe one big chapter and an epilogue?)
Dead by Daylight (still have to begin watching Stranger Things)
Rocket League (for a few more trophies)
Grand Theft Auto V

My plan is to still replace Beyond : Two Souls with Detroit : Become Human and I’m not going to beat Darksiders II anytime soon but once I do, I’ll be prepared for III.

I have two more chapters of Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 of the main story.  Then I’ll fully tackle the six DLC chapters, then go back to the main story for the Free Plays and I have characters to unlock to get all ten of the Gwenpool missions, so lots more time with this game.  I’m having a blast with it but it is nice to take breaks from it too.  Pending on how long it takes to do the DLCs, I might try to knock out two at a time but I’ll figure that out when I get there.  I have having a geniune blast with Sniper Elite 4.  I usually start and finish the entire mission before going to bed.  I completed the third mission and I really should have stopped after one of several checkpoints but I kept going and stayed up way to late.  I did have a few moments where I repeatedly thought, this is such a fun game!

Nine games is a bit much but Arkham Knight shouldn’t take too long, just a few more frustrating attempts.  Late Shift is practically over, and Beyond : Two Souls is going to get replaced.  So that list will come down to seven.  Though I do have Man of Medan coming, Amazon told me it got shipped already.

I saw this tweet from Girlfriend Reviews

Shelby and Matt already completed (at least) one playthrough and I’ve been trying to avoid spoilers (so far so good).  From her screenshot, I see the game is broken down by Acts and not Chapters (maybe?) so maybe the game is a very management two or three hours?  I haven’t been able to find anyone who has written the length of one playthrough.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan review — Save your characters even if they are annoying

Skimming Dean Takahashi’s Venture Beat article, it does read like it is a shorter game, so that’ll be nice.  For $30, I’m not expecting a ten hour game but I could see five hours but with a party mode, a management three is probably the way to go.  If it is even three, Hidden Agenda was a solid two hours and I felt those hours in long playthroughs.

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/8/28/20835456/man-of-medan-review-pc-xbox-one-ps4

Austen Goslin didn’t write regarding the length of the game in his Polygon article (from what I could skim).  I also did a search for “long” and “hour” and didn’t see any results about length of time.

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https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/28/20835854/telltale-games-return-walking-dead-lcg-entertainment

To end on a happy note, TellTale Games got purchased!  So hopefully LCG Entertainment’s new ownership will mean a third Batman game!  Also, that maybe all of the games will go on sale and I can finally get Guardians of the Galaxy too!

PlayStation Trophy Rank 16

Posted by John Klein III on August 22, 2019
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Thanks to Rocket League and Grand Theft Auto V, I finally got to Rank 16!

Sorry the picture isn’t better, I should have changed my theme and then taken a picture and reverted back to the Las Vegas theme that I got for Walker Dennis and his love for Chad Wild Clay.

16 Rank
1929 Total Trophies
21 Platinums
127 Gold
407 Silver
1374 Bronze

Plus a lot of hard work and dedication!  No sweat or tears, that I can remember.

That last ten percentage was a slow crawl from 15 to 16.

I was reading this website :

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/ps4-trophies-everything-you-need-to-know/

Gabe Gurwin writes that:  Bronze trophies are worth 15 points, silver are 30 points, gold are 90 points, and platinum trophies are 180 points.

So I knew once I got the platinum for Late Shift (which still hasn’t happened), I was for sure making it to Rank 16 but that was probably going to take a while before I got back to that game and then another round before I beat it.

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I was having a blast playing Rocket League online and just trying different modes.  The 4 v 4 match was intense and no wonder they nicknamed it the Chaos Run, as so much is happening at all times.  It took a long time to find me a match but once the game paired me, I was pretty worried about making sure my team won the game and we did in overtime!  I was fully committed to just selecting the option again until we won but once we won, I ran out of that lobby to try other modes.

I still need to complete my first offline season, and now I wish I had the forethought to have made sure I had used either a Dominus or Takumi for an entire season so then I could have earned Winning is Winning and Champion at the same time.  But that’s okay, I’ll play two full seasons and still enjoy the heck out of it. It would have just saved some time, but I’ll be so much better at it the second time around.

I’m still using the Cristiano wheels to try to get 50 km as I got 10 km on them so I just have to keep using them.

I’m still trying to earn items, it just takes a long time to do so.  I barely have any rare items but once I get five of them, I have to trade them in to earn a very rare item and then win a match wearing that item.  I’m also trying to earn my first painted item too.  I haven’t come across Certified Items either.

I’m still not good enough to play against non-rookie bot opponents in handicap matches.

Those are my basic trophy goals for Rocket League but even after I get those and maybe a few other trophies, I’ll probably keep this game in the rotation and just enjoy myself that night.  Such fun!

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I started Grand Theft Auto 4 with the pure intentions of just earning trophies.  So I cheated and got the Play in First Person Mode for 15 hours as I hate playing in first person mode if I have the option for third person mode.  I left the game on all night and used a rubber band to keep the right stick at an angle so the system nor the controller would turn itself off.

I played as Franklin got a slew of trophies.  I already had 200,000 for the cab company but I saw there was a side quest where I could pick a guy up and he’ll give me a good stock tip.  I only earned like $80,000 more dollars when I thought I was going to get into the millions but it was enough of a bump to earn me a trophy for using the stock exchange.  Plus, I was able to fully modify Franklin’s pistol and his personal car.  He bought the cab company and then did a private ride and maybe got a girlfriend out of it?  I don’t know, they were flirting but then the next night, she was too busy so I’m not sure what is happening there.  It was late though so I didn’t blame her.

I got the team together to do a FIB mission.  Then I thought I’ll quickly play as Trevor and get a few of his trophies but instead I did the prep work for The Merryweather Heist, which will be the next thing I do in the game.  Oh, that was after I tortured a guy as Trevor so Michael could snipe a chain smoker.

I’ll probably still try to knock out a few of Trevor’s trophies but at this point, I’m just committed to just beating the main story and I’ll see where I go from there.

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A game I am done with for the meantime is Yakuza Kiwami.  I was having a great time escaping from the funeral until I came up against Futoshi Shimano.

From what I’ve read, he’s by far the hardest boss in the game, and the other ones are more fair.  I also read the game has 15 chapters which I was looking forward to playing through all of them but I spent like 30 minutes dying to Futoshi Shimano and that wasn’t even a fun 30 minutes.

I read that the match does essentially take 20 minutes of the most boring fighting there is.  Essentially, we have to hit him, run away, and repeat.  Which is not great and I clearly didn’t have the patience to do keep trying last night.  I’m hoping the game autosaved my progress as I really don’t want to do the 20 minutes of fights that led up to Shimano but if I have to do it, then that’s just what I have to do but, for now, the game is out of my rotation.  Be more fun game!

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September 2019 Prediction Thread from PlayStationPlus

The PlayStation Plus subreddit just started accepting guesses for what the free September games are going to be.  Someone on the Trophies subreddit mentioned how they got the plat for Grand Theft Auto III and now I really want to play that game again.  It would be nice to get it free of course but I added it to my PSPrices wishlist.

There is two ways about getting the game for the PS4.  One is to buy the trilogy pack that comes with Vice City and San Andreas.  Which I really liked Vice City but I didn’t quite get into San Andreas.  Vice City, I went back too later to see if I could goof around in the world but too much time had passed and it just felt like a foreign city to me.  San Andreas had a mission very early on where I had to chase a guy on a bike while I was also on a bike (which is fair) but I just never got good enough to complete it and that left me feeling defeated.  I even tried to keep CJ on a bike to increase his speed abilities but it was never enough.

The trilogy is usually $35 but goes as low as $17.49, which seems pretty generous.  Especially as III by itself is $15 but goes as low as $7.49.  Which I wouldn’t mind getting the trilogy for $18, as three full games for $18 is an amazing price!  But if III goes on sale prior to the trilogy, eight dollars for a game I really want, is a great price too!  I can only imagine if one is on sale, the other would be too.  So it is a race to see which goes on sale first!

I would feel compelled to play Vice City and San Andreas too, and I’m way better at games now, so I’ll probably have a great time but I’m also older and don’t have all the time in the world, so these games would hold me over for quite some time.  Plus, I own them, so I can play them whenever.

Looking at the trophy guide for III :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/grand-theft-auto-3/guide/

I bet I don’t get the platinum for it but I just remember loving III so much and having a great time in Liberty City.

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We really need to move Stranger Things Season Three up our watch list as :

Thanks to Dead by Daylight for hosting their own video!

Nancy and Steve are coming to Dead by Daylight!  They are bringing a demogorgon with them and a new map too!

I can only imagine this is going to be upwards of seven dollars with two new survivors and a new killer.  If we can finish the series in time, I’m buying this day one, if not, I’ll be buying it once we finish it.  I still want Ghostface which I’ve been tempted to just buy right now but I imagine once this gets released, all of the other DLC will get discounted.  That’s what I’m hoping happens.

The Dead by Daylight subreddit is getting hyped for it too!

Chapter 13: Stranger Things Reveal Trailer from deadbydaylight

 

So nice to see the community come together for great news!

People are posting that they are coming back to the game for this, which sounds pretty legit.  Possibly, too legit!

People are hyped for Steve but of the two characters, I’ll be playing as Nancy.

I would also be okay if Alien and Ripley join Dead by Daylight, let’s get nuts!

They have also announced the nine new perks too!

Stranger Things DLC perks from the Developer stream from deadbydaylight

Which sounds pretty cool, especially once redditors were explaining the actual benefits.

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During the latest PlayStation Store update video, Rob mentions new game, Erica, that I really want to get.  It is only ten dollars but I think I will still wait for a deal on it.

Thanks to PlayStation for hosting the trailer.

I just finished my sixth playthrough (second to last) of Late Shift and I’m sort of in the mood for another live action game where I get to make the decisions.  Seems like either the game just came out or it just came out and people have already unlocked all seven endings already.  Which seems way fast but maybe it is a shorter game but that seems odd for a mystery.

Interactive thriller Erica out on PS4 now from PS4

Seems like some good and honest reviews for the game.  Seems shorter than 90 minutes so all seven endings might be fast to do.  There apparently is an app too that hopefully actually works unlike Beyond : Two Souls app that would not connect to the PS4.  Until Dawn had an app but it was mostly a fun novelty to track friendship meters and to do a quiz to see which character you are. I want to say after the quiz, we got a fun fake phone call that I had to uninstall and reinstall each time for someone else to experience it.  Pretty fun.

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I got a lot done in Lego Marvel Superheroes 2.  I completed the Ego the Living Lego Planet level so I have two more story missions before having to replay them all in Free Play.  Before that, I’ve committed to just doing the six DLC levels, once I complete one, I’ll go right back in for the Free Play and trophy cleanup.  Then I will tackle all of the story missions again with Free Play.  I also got Knowhere unlocked but none of the hub activities were available besides the cartographer monitor.  Oh, and those birds showed up so I have the Arial Avenger challenge completed.  I also rescued Stan Lee twice and completed maybe five races.  I nearly lost my mind doing so, but after completing the Billboard challenge, I earned Black Widow’s motorcycle which made two races much easier to handle.  One of those races was a webslinging one that was pretty difficult but now I have the Captain Britain Spider-Man.  I also unlocked Vulture too, so that was nice.  He’s the version of Spider-Man : Homecoming.

So tonight, I’ll play Beyond : Two Souls and do the briefing chapter, which is a short video and then I’ll do whatever comes afterwards.

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I got to play Sniper Elite 4’s second mission as well.  It either seemed shorter or I didn’t have as many tutorials to learn skills with.  Mostly, they taught me how to not be spotted by a sniper and then I got spotted anyways as I couldn’t really make out where he was.  So I’ll definitely attempt the third mission next.  I’m really enjoying myself with the game.  I got to rank 6, and I also shot a guy in his foot and then shot him in the nuts for that sweet nutcracker trophy.

I think my rotation plan is working as I envisioned, but it is definitely too many games as I want to play all of the games and it is too long of a rotation before getting through the lap.  That’ll become faster now that Yakuza Kiwami is out and Late Shift is one playthrough from being done.  I do like taking a break between playthroughs as it would be a bit much watching the same film over and over again.  Though I was tempted to just knock it out that night but that isn’t the right mental state to play.  Plus, it would have been another two hours.

June 30, 2019 – S&FwM’s Sixth Birthday!!!

Posted by John Klein III on August 20, 2019
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Man, oh man!  I am the absolute worst!  Every other year, I’m way off with my own blog’s birthday!  This is by far the worst amount of time to have passed.  I had the thought a month ago but then I forgot about it as I went up the stairs and now I remembered it, but this time, while in front of the computer.

So I super apologize about my tardiness.

Like always, here’s our latest stats!

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At 6,702  views – our most popular post is still my post about Bounce Patrol.

At 1,849 views – our most popular comic review is still Avengers 51.

Best Month : May 2018, with 6,157 views

I’m still a tad obsess with getting my visitors from countries with nine views to ten views so if you know anyone in Cape Verde, Guyana, Laos (still!), plus new countries : Yemen, Mauritius, Cuba, Fiji, and Uzbekistan.

Once again, thank you, all of the visitors who have made all of this possible – I wouldn’t keep doing this if it wasn’t for the constant encouragement of visitors.  Thank you.

Thank you again for everyone who has come to the blog, even with the lack of reviews of current comics.  People still do seem to be coming for older reviews but I appreciate that the video game posts have been getting love too as that’s mostly all I can write about until I get inspired to tackle a different topic.

Thank you for six amazing years!

Comixology Free Comics August 14, 2019

Posted by John Klein III on August 16, 2019
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https://www.comixology.com/free-comics

Comixology added four new comics to their list for the week!  Not only are there four comics but they are all What if…? comics!

What If? Civil War (2007) # 1
What If? Wolverine : Enemy of the State # 1
What If? Spider-Man : The Other # 1
What If? Planet Hulk (2007) # 1

A total savings of $7.96!

I’ve actually read all four of these and they were all pretty good.

Gosh, I thought I wrote a review for What If? Wolverine : Enemy of the State but it doesn’t look like I did.  I’m really am the worst!  Such a great comic and I reference it a bunch when I think about how much of a villain Kitty could be if she went bad.

I imagine since they wrote (2007) that means there has been additional Civil War and Planet Hulk What If titles which makes sense as those two are ripe for additional stories to be told.

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Just to try to make this a bigger post, I’ll give a few updates on my gaming progress.  I’m still at rank 15.  I played some Dead by Daylight last night, once as David Cage and I did not accomplish either daily goal.  One was to be chased for 120 seconds and I got up to 90 seconds and the other is to open one exit, which I wish I was better at.  It took two minutes to match me up and then I was dead within two minutes as Ghostface just found me, I got unhooked and healed and then he found me almost immediately and hooked me again.  I really wish I had such luck or skill when I’m the killer.  I played as the Nurse so I could teleport and hit a survivor four times and only managed to hit one of them.  So I was playing pretty well last week and I picked up the game for the first time in a week and I was complete trash again.  But instead of using it as a chill game, I have decided, with this and Rocket League, that I’ll just commit a gaming night to each game instead of trying to do another game and end the night with one of my chill games.  That wasn’t doing justice to any of the games, plus it takes so long to match me that I’ve started losing interest or patience with it.  Which is crazy as I really do adore Dead by Daylight but I spend so much time waiting and then I get killed so fast, it just stinks all over.  I’ll keep playing but not as addictively as I have in the past.

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I’ll be playing Rocket League tonight and I’m hoping to knock out a slew of trophies or at least, make decent progress on them.  I think I’m ready to pay online some more, especially in some four on four matches, so that way, there is a higher chance of me not holding the entire team back.  I’m looking way forward to it.  I have a list of trophies I want to tackle and everything.

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I was playing Beyond : Two Souls before Dead by Daylight and finished up the Old Friends, which turned into the Nora chapter, and then I started Dead by Daylight.  I was thinking Old Friends was taking way longer so I did rush through it and that’s when I realized I need to really just mentally commit to one game.  I missed two trophy opportunities but not really as we have the option to let a character die or live and if we were killing or saving all characters, this character would be considered the final character to let live or die.  Which I’m pretty sure I’m 50/50 on that progress so I was already going to miss out on that trophy.  I did choose to let the person die and it wasn’t much of a life they were living.

The next chapter is the Briefing, and it does feel like we’re leading up to the big finale.  At this point, I do want to just get to Detroit : Become Human but I’m not trying to rush it but it might be time to put this game down.  The Mission chapter was pretty great and worth playing just for that alone, plus the excellent character work, but I’m definitely not going back to the homeless chapter and playing forward like I originally thought of doing.  I’ll save that for a second playthrough.

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I completed my fifth playthrough of Late Shift and I even experimented with making a video!

So . . . thanks me for hosting my own video on YouTube!

It looks like I can only post 50 minutes of video so if I want to put my first playthrough of Man of Medan up, I might have to purposely only do it in 45 minute chucks.

So that was a nice experiment to test out ShareFactory.

Anyway, so I wanted to make a video of my all time favorite story beat in Late Shift!  I included the part where they call Sebastian’s friend to find his location to set up the hospital scene properly.  Then there is the moment with the old man with the magazine that is cute.

But right around the 8:20 minute mark, Mark touches May-Ling’s hand and the moment with the heart monitor is such perfect writing!  Joe Sowerbutts and Haruka Abe have such great chemistry and I can’t wait for these final two playthroughs to see what happens with them in the best endings!  Hopefully the fifth one was the end of the bad ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka_Abe

I thought I was being a tad racist that the girl from Clean Bandit’s Rather Be looked a lot like Haruka Abe but it turns out they are one and the same!  I loved that video before but now it got even better!

I wonder if this is why I’ve been thinking about Clean Bandit so much lately.  The other night, I had the hardest time remembering the name of the band and had to look up Kiesza’s Hideaway as I recall the two songs being out at the same time.  I’ve been in a 90s music mood as well as a 2014 music mood lately.

Apparently she was Po in that horrible Emerald City show but I don’t recall that and the Wikipedia page for the show doesn’t even list Po so she was probably a minor character.  Shame she nor Sowerbutts has gotten more work.  He was in a movie, I Capture the Castle that I should check out one of these days.

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I’m getting closer to completing the main story for Lego Marvel Superheroes 2.  I believe I just have three more chapters and then I would have all of the hubs unlocked and I can start tackling the DLC and replaying levels for all of the minikits and to save Stan Lee.  There are challenges scattered across the world that I will also have to complete as well.

I’ve been waiting to get to Knowhere so I can get the trophy for having Lockjaw and Cosmo in the same team.

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VUDU finally got Avengers Endgame and I immediately went to the third act battle sequence which literally starts a bit after the two hour mark with a full hour of the movie left and it was as glorious, if not better, than I remembered!  We still need to buy Captain Marvel but I’m going to be spending a bunch of time with this film and its special features which include character spotlights and a commentary track that I’m going to listen the heck out of!

Playing WipEout Omega Collection and Sniper Elite 4

Posted by John Klein III on August 15, 2019
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I finally got a chance to play WipEout Omega Collection and Sniper Elite 4!

I’ll start with WipEout, which I did not really enjoy.  I was doing the first solo campaign and made it through the finish line for the first three races.  I could already tell I was not going to be good at the game.  The fourth track had an objective to come in fifth, so I already knew this might it for me.  Which it was as I was steadily eighth like I have been.  So I lost that race, I didn’t even finish it as we get 30 seconds from first place to cross the finish line.

So then I relooked at the trophy guide as I am super committed to at least getting one trophy per game now.  I saw the “Finish 10 online games” and it was already 11:45pm but I figured I would knock out ten in like 20 minutes but it took like a full hour to get the matchmaking systems and to find tracks that I could finish.  Someone even set the laps to 20 so I jumped out of that one so quick.  I did eventually get into a group of people who kept running four lap races and I finished my ten race and went to bed.

I’m not sure what it is about the game that didn’t click.  Maybe it is the speed as we’re definitely racing at top speeds as I kept hitting the walls with nearly every turn or I was not making the most out of the boost pads.

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The next night, I loaded Sniper Elite 4.  There is a tutorial that gets us into the game and then it exceeds to the next section but then the game pretty much just lets us play how we want.  Which I read is sort of how Hitman works, but SE4 has a limited amount of things to do but more space to do it.  So I should probably try to do that first level of Hitman but the trophies made it sound overly complicated but I’ll get it a proper chance again.

It was super fun to run around sniping Nazis.  There were secondary objectives, such as break three cameras and kill four Nazi officers, along with the main objective of killing the main Nazi officer.

I really got into the idea of taking the time to carry dead bodies and either throw them into the water or onto a giant stack of other dead bodies.  It takes more time but I like the clear message it delivers.

There is only eight missions, so I’ve added the game to my rotation and I’m committed to doing all eight.  Or at the very least, the second mission and take it from there.

I’m tempted to try out Sniper Elite 3, as I figured it would be a five dollar game at least point, but it seems to still go for $20 so at that price, I might as well just buy the DLC to 4, but I also will just wait until I’ve completed the main story.

So I really didn’t care for WipEout but really took to Sniper Elite 4 – which really, should be the point of the free games through PlayStation Plus.  To expose us to games we may have been tempted to buy, but probably never would.

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Walker Dennis really wanted to play as Lego Batman so I ejected the Lego Marvel Collection and inserted Lego Dimensions.  He just had a blast on the Hub world.  Once he was done, I took the chance to insert Grand Theft Auto V.

I really wanted that first trophy of online and I made my person and I forgot how much GTA V wants us to really time commit to levels as I did a race, and then the game wanted me and my two new friends to do a drug run.  I was a much better driver than the one guy as he had us off the road and into a neighborhood and I had to get us back on track.  Then it seemed to finally release us from the crew and we were off to do our own stuff.  So I chose to just play the main game, to make sure my file saved.  Which it didn’t, I had to redo that level where Michael’s family left him again but it barely took ten minutes.

So now I’m tempted to try to add GTA V to my rotation and get the game finished.  And it really doesn’t take long to take a disc out and get a new one placed in.

Now I also have one more trophy in common with most of the players I play with in Dead by Daylight as I’ve seen the Off The Plane trophy on so many player’s trophy lists.

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Girlfriend Reviews did a review of Yakuza 0 which apparently I’m easily convinced by this channel to play games, and I did watch it thinking I might end up playing Yakuza Kiwami.  Which it totally did!

For those who don’t know.  0 is the prequel to Yakuza 1 that was remade for the PS4 as Yakuza Kiwami.  Kiwami was a free game back in November 2018.  The same month we got Burly Men at Sea (which I platinumed) and Roundabout (which I really enjoyed but hit a point of what I could do).  Bulletstorm : Full Clip Edition was the other big game but I still haven’t attempted that game.

I finished the Chapter One, which didn’t take too long, and started the first part of Chapter Two.  I really enjoy the saving format as it seems I can save whenever.  It does an odd thing of saving the game, and then it saves to the system, as two separate steps, which I rather it just did the second step at the same time, behind the scenes.  I guess I take it for granted that is how it works when we save games now but who knows.  The whole process is done in like ten seconds but I just try not to save too much but I have this habit of saving after every fight.

I feel like I’m just hitting square and then triangle, but I’ll learn other combos as I level Kazumi Kiryu up.  I figure since I’m adding games to my backlog, I’ll add this one too, but I predict there will be a point where I just can’t get pass and it’ll go back into the backlog but I’ll wait to see what happens.  I’ve earned three trophies in that two hour gaming session so that felt pretty good.

I’m currently at Level 15, sitting at 96% completion before level 16!  I’m so close but I really need to start earning silvers and gold trophies, or perhaps just one more platinum.

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eEGT06FrWFU6VBnPOR9lg/videos

Girlfriend Reviews keeps making a joke about face reveals but I feel like their icon and banner on their YouTube page pretty much shows Shelby’s face but maybe I’m missing the joke.

I looked over the list of 36 videos and there are a few videos where I could be tempted to play the game.  I have a goal to play Detroit Become Human.  I’ve earned a trophy on Borderlands 2 so I feel good with that and I got stuck on that one level so that will stay in the backlog.  I should rewatch the Arkham Asylum video as I don’t quite recall it though I know I’ve seen it.  I would love to treat myself to the Return to Arkham combo set but I’m hoping out for Arkham Origins to be added to the collection.  I’ll eventually get around to playing Last of Us, and I’ve been tempted, since I’m making a now ridiculous (still a word I can never spell without assistance) game rotation, to just throw Uncharted 4 onto that list so I can go 4, Lost Legacy, to The Last of Us.  I read recently Last of Us 2 is slated for February so I should probably make that decision now.  Not like it matters, I won’t be getting the sequel anytime close to the game’s release.  Plus, now that I got Detroit for free, I’m tempted to wait until they give Last of Us for free so I can return the physical disc to GameStop for credit.

Which, I really am tempted to just get digital copies now.  I told Walker Dennis that he can play Lego Movie 1 whenever he wants as we have it digitally and he’s really taken me up on that offer as he’s been playing it for a few nights now.  I can’t get him to want to play Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 but I need to get back to that game myself.  I did tell him that once we platinum that game, I’ll get him DC Super-Villains, so he’s excited about that.  I did tell him it will be a while.

I’ve been sort of regretting now getting Man of Medan digitally but lesson learned.

The only God of War game I own is the remastered III but I really don’t know how I feel about having essentially two games on my trophy list, both of them not platinumed.  Though it would be the same case if I ever got Return to Arkham as I already have Asylum and City in my trophy list.  Plus, it is a silly reason not to play a game.

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So my game rotation currently looks like this:

Late Shift (three more playthroughs before the Platinum)
Lego Marvel Superheroes 2
Beyond : Two Souls
Sniper Elite 4
Grand Theft Auto V
Yakuza Kiwami

with Dead by Daylight and Rocket League being my chill games that I rotate between.  Though lately, I’ve just been playing a full game session with one game.  Especially as Dead by Daylight takes so long to match me with other survivors.  As a killer, I have no problems getting matched but it be like that sometimes.

Walker and I got a slew of additional trophies in Rocket League but we might be finally getting through all of easily achieved ones and now we’re in the grind.  I do want to complete one season to earn three trophies, I just have to commit to doing it.

I tried to get the play online with a friend, after I set up my wife’s account to connect her to the PlayStation Network, but minus Plus.  We were able to get one trophy for playing online with a friend on the Championship field but we can’t get the basic play online with a friend, I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong there.

So six games, with one going away in the third round.  It is silly and I’m sure two of those will drop off soon too but time will tell.

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Beyond : Two Souls, I got the Master Stealth trophy for completing The Mission without being seen.  Such an intense level!  It ends very dramatically as well!  The next level is Old Friends and I didn’t see any trophies attach, and it might be a short mission too but that is what happens with one mission a round.

Plus, doing it this way, gives me things to write about, so that’s a big win for me!

Seven levels left with maybe an extra level if I have the DLC, I’m not sure if I have it or not.

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For Dead by Daylight, I did get the trophy for Adept Ash and for completing the generator on the steam boat and living to tell about it.

I’m not usually this trophy focus, but I really want to get to rank 16.

So those are the games I’m currently playing.  To get GTA V on my PS4, I had to delete Deus Ex : Mankind Divided and Uncanny Valley but that’s okay.  I have had those games for a while and I’ll eventually get back to giving them a property play.

Dining Out : Main Street Eats

Posted by John Klein III on August 11, 2019
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East Helena has this great restaurant that we like eating at on Sunday mornings.  Our only problem with Main Street Eats is we can’t take home one of their menus nor is there menu on their Facebook page.

https://m.facebook.com/chefwerks/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0

So last time we were there, I took these pictures, on the DL.

So not the best quality, sorry about that, but I keep losing these pictures in my phone’s gallery.  So I’m making this post for easy access.

If you go, say hello to Linda!

August 2019 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on August 2, 2019
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The free games coming to PlayStation Plus on August 6, 2019 are : Sniper Elite 4 and WipEOut Omega Collection!

I had not heard of either of these games besides with broad strokes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper_Elite_4

Sniper Elite 4 came out on February 14, 2017, which is very romantic.  We play a solider in Italy 1943, sniping his way out from behind enemy lines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_Omega_Collection

WipEOut Omega Collection is a trilogy of games that were package together and released on June 6, 2017.  They are a futuristic racing game that from my reading, are pretty intense to master.  This game is also VR-Supported.

Maybe the September 2019 games will feature Inpatient to tie in with Man of Medan’s August 30 release.  I was also hoping PES 2019 would have been free this month.  I will keep tracking it.

WipEOut feels like another addition to the racing games that we seem to be getting recently with TrackMania Turbo, OnRush, and Horizon Chase Turbo.  So that will be fun to play with Walker Dennis.  Sniper Elite 4, I imagine like Modern Warfare 4, I will play until I become clearly no good at the game, so we will see if I can get pass the first two missions or not.

WipEOut is a $20 game with no DLC and Sniper Elite 4 is a $60 game with a Deluxe Edition bundle at $90, so these two games definitely pay for your subscription with WipEOut being even more of a bonus.  It also has a season pass for $35.

There is no free DLC which is unfortunate but there are seven DLC packs including levels, characters, and add-ons.  Three levels that are included on the trophy lists are:

Targer Fuhrer for $10
Deathstorm Part 1 : Inception for $7
Deathstorm Part 2 : Infiltration for $7
Deathstorm Part 3 : Obliteration for $7

So four levels for $32 so the season pass might be worth it as the main game plus the season pass comes $95, or just buy the Deluxe Edition at that point.

The other DLC is :

Urban Assault Expansion Pack (Character) $8
Night Fighter Expansion Pack (Character) $8
Cold Warfare Winter Expansion Pack (Character) $8
Allied Forces Rifle Pack (Add-On) $4

At least the prices are consistent.

According to PSPrices, Sniper Elite 4 gets as low as $17.99 (it is currently $15.32 on Amazon (75% off!) and WipEOut Omega Collection gets as low as $5.99.  18+6=24, so in that regard, it is not the worst month to start your subscription either.  Two more months with games priced like that and all of the other ten months is just bonus.  This is the first month I had the thought to compare the cheapest listed price, which would be good to do going forward.

If I really take to Sniper Elite 4, and I can’t imagine that I will, who knows, maybe I will add the Season Pass to my PSPPrices Wishlist.

The Deluxe Edition goes as cheap as $26.99 and the Season Pass as low as $14, but if it is anything like the Arkham Knight Season Pass, I bet it is super rare when it goes on sale as Arkham Knight as not dropped below $20 in a full year that I have been watching it.

Unlike Dead by Daylight, it does not appear that any of the level packs have ever gone down in price.

I was reminded about 11-11 Memories Retold and I have added that to my wishlist for 56 items.

PES 2019 is still $30, which I doubt it will drop below its lowest amount, $24, any time soon.  We will have to wait and see what happens once 2020 comes out in September.

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Here are Reddit’s take on the announcements.

PS4

PlayStation Plus Free Games for August 2019 (US) from PS4

PlayStation Plus

PS Plus Games for August 2019 : Wipeout Omega Collection & Sniper Elite 4 from PlayStationPlus

Both subreddits seem to like it, besides that both games are two years old and several people already own them.  Also, that WipEOut is extremely hard to master.

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Nathan of PlayStation Access :

Adam of PlayStation Grenade :

Ben of Platinum Chasers :

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Here are the trophy guides.

PlayStationTrophies’ guide for Sniper Elite 4

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/sniper-elite-4/guide/

PSNProfiles’ guide to WipEOut Omega Collection

https://psnprofiles.com/guide/8321-wipeout-omega-collection-trophy-guide.

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Both seem to have simple trophies that I am sure I will obtain early enough but time will tell.  I’ve been tempted to go back and play some of the earlier games we have received to try to get at least a trophy in my list to knock down some of these zero percents.  The next games on my list is Deus Ex : Mankind Divided and Uncanny Valley, two games that I sort of became lost within the first 30 minutes.  When I was thinking about doing this, it was a week ago and I had forgotten I was due for two free games so I might attempt those two games after the August games.

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I have earned my 21st platinum with Batman : The Enemy Within!

The platinum screenshot is yet another lousy black screen so that was not great.  At first, I was notified Spider-Man’s file was updated and I thought the platinum was overwritten but it eventually popped later and it was all black.  The game ends with a title card and I thought that would be the ideal time for the trophy to trigger but it did not happen.

Such a fun game, I am not sure if I am ready to pick which one was better than the other.  I wished Catwoman had more to do in Episode Five.  Especially after I betrayed Joker to ensure Waller freed Catwoman.  I told Selina that I loved her instead of asking her to come back to the Batcave.  I thought both would end with the same result.  Instead, Tiffany was in the Batcave and the entire time, I was thinking I should have invited Selina instead.  I have since been told that Selina never comes to the Batcave so now I do not have to replay Episode Five.  When I saw Waller next, I was super agreeable with her, in comes our earlier deal to free Catwoman was still on the table but Waller never mentioned it.

Then when I was getting the concluding cards, I was told I did not free Catwoman from Waller, so that was frustrating.  I am not sure what I was supposed to do instead but any interest in correcting that path is gone as I have a slew of games I want to play.

I was working on Vigilante Joker and when he turned on Batman on the catwalk, that got intense and quick!

I wish we could get a third series but with TellTale no longer being active, that is not going to happen.  Maybe one day I will treat myself to their Guardians of the Galaxy series, if it ever drops below ten dollars.  I believe it is usually only 15, but I also read that it is not very good.  If I ever get in a mood for another TellTale game, I still have Back to the Future to play.  Walker Dennis has not mention it in forever but I see it in my list of games every so often.  I will eventually get around to it.  I should move it higher on the list as I did pay money for it.

With this Platinum, I am so close to Rank 16!  I thought for it sure it would take a full year to go from Rank 15 to 16.  I think buying Rocket League and getting so many trophies so quickly helped with that.

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Typing about treating myself.  PSPrices notified me that The Bunker was now only an six dollar game, down from $20.  I was super tempted to do it, but I do not really have the spare money in my PSN wallet but I am also three playthroughs away from completing Late Shift.

Looking at the link, I am so tempted to just buy it but I will hold out for another sale.  Or if I can be treated to a $10 PSN card but I doubt that will happen.  It would be nice though.

I do believe the Platinum walkthrough is purposely going from worst to best as the first four seem to be getting a tad better every time.  I am not sure how much more I can let horrible things happen to May.

Completing both Batman : The Enemy Within and soon, Late Shift, and getting into a routine of playing a different game a night, caused me to think I should try to play some of my backlog and see which games I enjoy and which ones might benefit from a second impression.

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https://www.comixology.com/free-comics

Comixology is offering four new free comics, for a total savings of $7.96.

X-Men 2099 # 1
Star Wars : Lando – Double or Nothing (2008) # 1 (of 5)
Ultimate Iron Man # 1 (of 5)
Agents of Atlas (2006-2007) # 1 (of 6)

I can only imagine Lando is to tie in with our recent purchase of Han Solo’s Landspeeder.

Usually when I am building a larger set, I like to watch something that connects to the set.  We still had not watch Solo so I figured now was the time to do so.  It was not a bad movie, but like Rogue One, I did not feel connected to it.  Maybe it was because I was assembling a Lego set, maybe because after the opening scene where Han is driving his Landspeeder and then once it is off screen, it is never mentioned or shown again, I was not invested.  I liked that it was a space opera’s take on a heist film, and I liked Donald Glover as Lando.  He is barely in it outside of maybe three scenes?  Like any good heist film, there was a double cross and things went wrong, maybe that was my problem?  It was a little too predictable or by the numbers.  I might have to watch it again but I am not sure when I will have time to do that.

Walker has been really wanting the Lego Iron Man Hall of Armors set.  He saved up all of his money, and his lovely grandmother helped as well and he finally got it.  He was so happy!  While looking and discovering we no longer own any of the Iron Man movies.  We sold them a while ago to Hastings, in order to get the BluRays one day but that day never came.  Walmart still wants twenty dollars for the first Iron Man BluRay + Digital copy, and VUDU wants $15 so we will probably eventually get it for $15 through VUDU.  I was hoping to be teased with an option to get all three films through VUDU for a price cheaper than $45, but maybe once Endgame comes out, that deal will come back.  I want to own a copy of Endgame so much!  I just want to rewatch that film!

WatchMojo had a great Top Ten Moments from Endgame that numbers 4-2 made me swell up all over again.  Such a great movie!

So we watched Infinity War again, as Netflix got Captain America : Civil War, right around the time we were tempted to buy it and so we did not buy it.  Now it is off of Netflix and we do not own a copy of it so Infinity War was it.

Before that, we watched Lego Avengers Resassembled, a fun Lego-ized sequel.  It is barely twenty minutes so it was over before I knew it.  Which made sense, as at first, I thought it was going to be a full hour and I was not prepared for that but then I was not prepared for the credits to happen when they did.  They packed a lot into that short run time.

I’m pretty sure X-Men 2099 is a fun plug for Jonathan Hickman’s Powers of X series.  I did read House of X 1, it has Lockheed in it!  If I can get my act together, I should do a review for the issue.

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During the summer, I have Wednesdays off and we saw Sherlock Gnomes, the 2018 sequel to 2011 Gnomeo and Juliet.  We found a YouTube video that had the first movie running in an edited style.  There were two fun Sherlock Holmes references in the film that it did not seem anyone else caught up but it was 95 percent children, but I liked it.  One was an obvious Hound of Baskervilles and the other was a sequence of events that led to Sherlock Gnomes falling in front of a created waterfall that was super clever.  They also used Irene Adler pretty well too.  I totally figured out who was behind it but then there was a late film twist I should have saw coming.

They used Elton John’s music as it is a Rocket Pictures production and the same company produced Rocket Man, so it all makes sense now.  Pretty clever way to use your own music, I say.

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I completed the maybe five minute chapter of Beyond : Two Souls titled, Night Session, but when it was over, I checked The Mission, and that seemed very detailed and I wanted to play other games, so I am super slowly chipping away at this game.  The Mission has a sole stealth trophy for never being detected so I am going to have to work towards that.  Poor Nathan Dawkins, so much is taken away from him and William Dafoe does an outstanding job playing him.

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Finally, I am slowly making progress with Dead by Daylight!  I was able to finally survive with my level 15 Laurie, so I got the Adept Laurie trophy.  I also got the Skillful trophy by getting one of Ash’s perks to rank three.  I got him to level 15 as well but I cannot survive a match as him.  I do not survive may matches anyway.  I have gotten close twice but then I die as the gates open, which is highly annoying!

We got Bill Overbeck from Left 4 Dead as a free DLC, which was super nice!

I am also super addicted to TydeTime’s YouTube channels that cover the game, pretty much whichever characters I use for the daily, I end my night watching videos that cover that character or characters.  It looks like he has since moved on from the game but he left behind hundreds of videos.  I have yet to see one video twice, even when I let the next one auto-play.

I am still just loving this game and I need to get better at it.  I am sure I will not be able to get any of the Adept Killer trophies as I can barely kill one survivor every five games.  I just recently discovered the strategy of patrolling the generators around the basement so when I find a survivor, I can hook them in the basement and knock off anyone who is foolish enough to try to unhook them.

I really enjoy both his gameplay videos as well as his discussions and other produced videos.