YourHostEdge confirmed that at level five, the costume unlocks so I can go around rescuing balloons and collecting collectibles until I can get the costume and then make that my main costume.
So maybe it is a combination of being level five and needing five tokens. Now that I typed that, I wonder if adding the tokens together for five is what is throwing off the being at level five but time will tell.
I made the mistake of looking it up but this totally exists!
Look how cute that is! Funko really knows how to sell these! Scarlet Spider was a Walgreens exclusive that I had in my hands but decided not to buy it at the moment. Which is silly as I know the greatest commandment is Thou Shall Not Hesitate but I did and now I lost out.
I do own this Scarlet Spider bust
and his Heroclix
I also own a proper action figure of his but I can’t seem to find it through an image search, at least, mint on box.
It looked like this but this one looks pretty new still.
I just really liked Ben Reilly as a character and I really need to check back into his adventures now that he’s back, and he’s been back for a while now too.
His Spider-Man costume looks pretty great to me too.
I probably won’t be able to buy the game until it is around $30 but still, I’ll add it to my wishlist!
Something else to look forward too!
Here is the costume reveal trailer –
Thanks to YouTuber Caboose for hosting the video.
I like how the suit’s power is to create decoys, or “clones” if you will.
I’ve been obsessed with Fallout Shelter for so long now!
Thanks to PlayStation hosting the video!
I attempted two times prior to play this on my phone and I just didn’t get it, it felt too much like watching an ant colony and I kept feeling like I wasn’t doing it right.
I figured I’ll get it on the PS4 as it came with a free PSN package which comes with a pet carrier, a Mr. Handy, a six pack of Nuka-Cola Quantum, and five lunchboxes.
Thanks to the following link from Playstation’s website for having the contents information.
For providing what was exactly in the pack as I knew it had lunchboxes but that was about it.
Last night, I finally got 50 dwellers and I performed my first haircut and got my second one started so I can get the trophy to get ten hairstyles and then I’m done with that room.
I wasn’t even tempted to play it when Todd Howard announced at the end of the Bethesda E3 conference that Fallout Shelter was coming to PS4 but then I saw people were getting the platinum for the game already and I was like, trophies?! So I looked into and downloaded and again, had a rough start to it.
Then I got my 18th dweller and the game changed completely for it. With 18 dwellers, you get the Overseer’s Office and can start sending people on quests. Which meant the game finally became a Fallout game in my mind. I got guns and outfits and I’m finally figuring out how to maximize my vault.
Pressing X had this great series of super helpful tips for the game. They are all great episodes but the baby post was the one I found the most helpful –
As I’m not trying to get the best items or best outfits or be overly powerful in the game, but trying to make the best vault possible is something I stumbled to get accomplished. I think I’m finally got a good spot with it. The weakest weapon I have for my vault is a minimum of six, I finally got the handle on what outfits to put on people. At first, I wanted to put everyone in the handyman outfit for the plus three Agility but then I finally understood the “best room for your dweller” mechanic. So people who are operating a Power Station, should be wearing clothes with a focus on Strength. People in cafeterias should be wearing Agility outfits, and people working on RadAway and Stimpacks should definitely be wearing Intelligence outfits.
I have tried to play on my phone again, just because I get the game now but since I can’t cross play with my PS4 vault and my mobile phone, the stakes are not as high for me or my phone doesn’t feel real in my mind, there is a disconnect there. I would say, my vault on my phone got higher gear faster than on the PS4. I had three pretty great weapons rather quickly.
The game can go on forever but I’m just playing until I get the platinum, and I’m not sure if I’ll go longer than that as I’m already feeling the itch to play other games. The game really should be played for like 20 minutes and then try another game but I find myself playing for a solid hour and then having a hard time getting away from it.
I finally also got a handle on rushing a room, and when the best time to do that is. You’ll collect a resource, either Power, Food, or Water, and the best time to rush a room, which means to try to get more resources, is right after collecting from that same room. Don’t rush the same room more that the one additional time. I have a hard time keeping my power high enough, I can get my food and water fully green but power seems to be the resource I’m constantly attempting rushes with. I also don’t rush rooms if the percentage of failure is over 35% and now I’ve started only doing it as high as 31% failure rate as now I’m dealing with radscorpions, which they start appearing once you have 50 dwellers. Which knowing that, I was putting off getting up to 50 until I got them decent weapons and now, I don’t worry too much about radscorpions, pending on where they appear, it is either a prolonged fight or a rather quick one but I have to monitor the fight to cure my dweller of radiation or to give them stimpacks for their health.
I don’t get attacked by Raiders as much as I like, I’ve read that is most people’s last trophy to accomplish. They start appearing at 61 dwellers.
Which I should add, another great resource for the game is this website:
Which is a great resource to read and review, I would credit them for finally helping me click with all of the information and then Pressing X was great for the visual element.
A fun habit I’ve gotten into is timing the game so that I can send people out on a quest, saving my Quantums – which in this game, speeds up travel times – and by the time I wake up or can play again the next evening, they are at the quest and ready for me to play. Or they are on their way back to the vault and I can get them ready the next morning though that doesn’t seem to be working out for me irl. I’ve been tending to be staying up later and hitting my snooze button too many times and lose my window to play the game but still, they are there when I need them when I get to play again.
I’m finally at a place where my stimpacks are at 55 and my RadAway is at 35, which I don’t tend to need RadAways as much but now that I’m doing quests or sending one person to the Wasteland, I’ve learned I can only send them out with a maximum of 25 so I wanted to make sure I could at least have over 55 stored. I was giving my person who goes into the Wasteland like five or ten but now I’m going to start giving them the full 25 and seeing how far out they can do. That lady finally hit level 50 so now I have to take her power armor, her gun (a flame torch), and her dog and give it to another lady to start getting leveled up and gathering caps and resources for us.
One eye opening situation was sending a team out to do a quest and one of them died, like quickly, and I had to start taking the game more seriously, which is what spurred me trying to figure out what hazards I was going to come up against. I had to start gathering guns and now I can craft weapons so now I regret all of those items I scrapped or sold as I was desperate for money and for storage space. Now, I have plenty of storage space, I have 112 items and a maxed of 200 and I can easily build up another storage room. I have a tap of 65 dwellers so my plan is to open another living quarters to get that number just over 100 as I need 100 dwellers to build one of each room and from there, I’ll probably stop building rooms.
I do like how many of the trophies are for things you will do anyway, just that you need to do more of them to get more trophies like complete 60 quests. One of the harder ones is to scrap 500 items but doing quests and sending folks out to the wasteland, should help with that, I’m only sending the one person out to the wasteland at a time, besides my quest team, eventually, I might send out two, if I could get a second suit of power armor.
I haven’t built a theme so I don’t really know what that entails, I have the room to do it but I don’t have all of the fragments to make a theme much less, have enough to make all four themes so that’ll take a while too.
The collect 20 legendary weapons and outfits, should be easier now that I have stimpacks for days but I’ll want to make another Medlab so I can get more of those as 55 will go rather quickly.
I need to do better to skip an objective with my free daily pass as I’ve been sitting on the same three for days now. Two of them, I’ll eventually do, complete six quests and send five people out to the wasteland, which I could have easily done and maybe I will once I get home. I’m sort of at this awkward place where I have 50 rooms and 50 dwellers so each room has a person in it. Well, it might be like 55 rooms but I don’t have anyone in the storage rooms or the living quarters unless I’m trying to make babies, then I have people in the living quarters. I’m doing this thing where I’m having all of the babies be born from Mr. Cook but I have a hard time remembering who the original mothers were but I think I finally figured that part out. I have at least five ladies who will give him more children so I went from 45 dwellers to 50 in pretty quick succession, especially once I learned that giving him higher charisma helped with the speed of making babies so he’s always set in the training rooms.
I like the training rooms as it gives me five people who I can use to help out in case of an incident like a fire breaks out, radscorpions, mole rats or radroaches – all due to a rush failing. If I’m attacked by raiders or ghoals, my top floors crew take care of those threats. I was doing it wherein whoever was in the neighboring rooms would help with the incidents but I started noticing that they got XP from assisting with the threat. If they are training, they increase in their SPECIAL stats but were not getting any XP so they were not leveling up. Since learning that, I’ve started only using my training crew to help with incidents so that they can earn whatever small amount of XP that is, as I know I’ve started doing that for a week now and none of them have leveled up, as far as I can tell.
I can’t express how thrilling it was to get that Overseer’s Office open and started doing quests, it was so much fun and my learning curve for this game was like, super low. Which I don’t now why, as the tips and the in game tutorial seemed pretty straight forward but it just wasn’t clicking with me.
So I can send my training peeps out in the wasteland and get that one objective fixed in a hurry. Pretty much, whenever I send someone to the wasteland, when I turn the game on again, I know that person will be dead so another thousand caps to relive them and then they come back to me. Apparently they will auto return once they have 100 items but I haven’t had that happen yet. I didn’t get the trophy for the lone wanderer reaching level 50 but I’m hoping it will trigger once she’s back in the vault but maybe it has to be someone in the vault actually leveling 50 or she wasn’t one of my original folks but I believe I’ve only ever been given one dweller who didn’t start at 1 so who knows. I’ll get it eventually.
With quests, I’ve started just doing the lower ranked ones and working my way up, I was going to do it by one mission at a time, as there are like eight story quests where each one has like seven chapters per over all mission. But then that one guy died so quickly that I had them all come back and changed out I approached quests. You are given a daily quest and a weekly quest to work on but my dwellers are not there yet to take those on. We’ll get there eventually but my highest weapon only goes up to 15 damage, maybe 22 but it isn’t much.
Even if a dweller who was sent out to the wasteland got 100 items, I wouldn’t have enough space for all of those items but I’ll just build more storage in that scenario.
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This is the habit I’ve gotten into. I turn on the game, I load Vault 129 (Kitty Pryde’s first appearance!), and I quickly gather all of my resources, from top to bottom, leveling up people as I snake my way from floor to floor. My two Mr. Handys are on the top floors but I usually get to those before they collect the resources on the floor for me. When I earn my third Mr. Handy, I’m going to send him out to the Wasteland, all it can gather is 5,000 caps but I’ll be happy to get 5,000 caps every two or three days and then he’ll auto returned and I’ll just send him right back.
I had 22,000 caps and then I hit 50 dwellers and put into place my plan to open a three wide power station, one medlab, one science lab, the barber shop, and another power station (I really need more power). All of that, plus the two elevators, cost me essentially 12,000 caps. I got the trophy to increase 20 rooms to level 3 so now I’m no longer increasing rooms as with each increase, if an incident is to occur in the room, that room is either doubled or tripled the threat.
I had thought I had to leave a person in the barber shop, to be the official barber, but there is a machine that does the styling, so now I do have a bonus dweller who I might just put to the wasteland or into another room to get her experience. Right now, she’ll go to whichever room the person I grab to get their haircut next was in so that I can get the 10 haircuts trophy but after that, she’ll either be in her own official room or sharing a room or outside doing her thing.
My next floor, when I get 10 more dwellers, probably all from making babies, will consist of storage (probably a two wide), living quarters (another two wide, or whichever gives me 100 dwellers as an option, so a two wide but increase it by a level or two until the 100), another medlab, I’ll hold off on a science room and then whatever that room is that you unlock at 60.
60 dwellers unlocks Nuclear Reactor, which will replace my power generator rooms.
70 dwellers unlocks Garden, which will replace my cafeteria
80 dwellers unlocks Water purification, which will replace my water treatment rooms
100 dwellers unlocks Nuka Cola Bottler, which will replace both my food and water resource rooms
Some people take the time to destroy rooms and replace those rooms with the higher tier rooms but I imagine I won’t do that. Mainly because it is extremely expensive to do so, as I’ve been tempted to destroy my left side of the vault to put elevators on that side. I accidently clicked a new elevator on the right side and was going to destroy it but I had enough money to go all the way up and it has been hugely beneficial having it on that side. But the reaction time to get someone from the middle to the top floor isn’t that bad, plus my training rooms are on the right side so it all works out.
Typical me, I’ve become quite obsessed with this game too.
So I’ll gather all of the resources, which pretty much is in every room. I was crafting weapons and outfits but I’ve built the ones I wanted and now I’m awaiting resources to make even better weapons. I’ve made all of the outfits that I didn’t already have, I should double check to make sure I have all of the weapons crafted as the game keeps track of weapons, outfits, pets, and dwellers that are obtainable. I’ll click on people to level them up and give birth in those circumstances.
So gather resources, try to craft new weapons or outfits, I’ll add new haircuts for the next eight times, I’ll start watching for any rooms to provide a new resource so I can start rushing those, if I don’t have water completely filled up, then I’ll rush those rooms but I definitely rush food and power rooms and food almost always gets filled during a game session. Power though, if I stay in the game for like two hours, it’ll be close or fully filled.
I’ve since learned that if an outfit as luck, there is a high chance of getting caps from collecting a room, so now I’m trying to change outfits to incorporate a luck stat.
I do all of that so that I can check on my two outsiders. I make sure my quest team is ready for the quest, and then I check my wanderer, who is most likely dead. If dead, I revive them and recall them back to the vault. Then I’ll check on the vault, as a few rooms will be ready within a minute or two. Once every room has been collected again or I have dealt with any incidents, then I finally check on my quest team and start the quest. Do that and come back to my vault and recollect all resources. From there, it is a waiting game to try to earn another thousand caps and call it a night.
I play on mute as the sounds can get pretty loud and repetitive so I rely on the controller vibrating to let me know the mysterious stranger has arrived. If you click on him, you can get bonus caps.
Thanks to FlyingScull for providing the above image on DeviantArt. I wanted to find an image that had the bars at the top, they have 11 more dwellers than me but around the same happiness level of 84 to 86%.
I haven’t played on Halloween or Christmas but apparently there are special events on those days, including outfits.
I’ve also found the game to be so much easier to play on the PS4 than on my phone, I blame my giant man hands or lack of nails for that. You don’t need a huge reaction time but you do need to have the ability to press a person and then be able to move them to another room. Not being able to do that can cost you a person and reliving them can be as cheap as 100 caps or as expensive as 800 caps, pending on gear and level – from what I can gather.
Here is what my upper vault looks like –
Sorry for the poor quality, I have to figure out how to do screen grabs through the PS4 and then upload them to Twitter, as that’s how I’ve read others have done it. One would think there would be a mode within the game to take a screencap of your vault to share with the community but maybe there is and I haven’t found it yet.
I’m suffering for power and I keep adding more and more three room power sources. I finally made another three room storage to have a total of 230 but I’m at 150 items right now so I’ll probably be making another three room storage again relatively soon. I also made a three room residence so I can have up to 106 dwellers so that’s one less room I have to make going forward. I also got my ten haircuts trophy so I don’t need that room either but I’ll keep it for keeping its sake.
I keep getting attacked by radscorpions due to having to attempt so many rushes to get my energy into the green bar again. I need to make at least five more babies, to man a few more power generators. I’m trying to keep those new ones at the first tier so they can handle the threats. I definitely don’t think I’m ready for deathclaws yet so I have to get better weapons by the time I get 60 dwellers.
I unlocked Sarah Lyons so I have 51 dwellers and she’s in power armor, naturally, so she is out in the wasteland. I keep sending my one gal at level 50 which I like that idea, so I think I’ll keep doing that with my level 50 peeps as they should be able to handle themselves in the wilderness. I’m going to have to make another medlab so I can get more Stimpacks but I do enjoy how everything is finally coming together, I just need more power!
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Edited on August 24, 2018
I figured out how to upload from the PS4 to my Twitter account.
I had to had another storage unit as my three wasteland peeps did not end up dying and are rocking out there and gathering so much so I have 203 items with 300 total capacity. I really have to start getting rid of stuff but I don’t want to until I can figure out what I really don’t need. I try not to keep any outfits that I have more than four of, so I’ve been scrapping those and any weapon with a power of six and under. I keep getting low on power so I had to upgrade my power generators from tier one to tier two. I’ll have to make like five more babies and just go crazy with power generators. I just don’t want any of my rooms to go dark.
I’ll pump up my other storage unit to a second tier as well as that will give me 346 total space which doesn’t seem like much so I’ll have to either spend the additional 1500 for more space after that or make another three wide storage unit.
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Shopko has this travel mug that I can’t seem to find anywhere online.
For $12, it isn’t that bad. It is too tall for my coffee maker but I could simply transfer from the mug to the Fallout Shelter Travel Mug. Even Bethesda’s official site doesn’t have it on there. Shopko also got a magnet and an air freshener, both five dollars. I bought the magnet but I go back and forth on the air freshener.
I was slated to buy the travel mug with my next paycheck but now I really want to save up for Gamestop’s exclusive Dogmeat statue.
Forty dollars for this great looking statue seems super reasonable to me! My wife has already politely told me she won’t buy it for me, which I get, I already have twenty put aside so next payday, put another twenty aside and go straight to Gamestop to reserve it. I imagine doing it through the store means no shipping so it would be a straight forty and it looks amazing!
After that, I’ll get the travel mug.
I still go back and forth on Fallout 76, it sounds amazing, I’m way into the Fallout franchise, to the point where not owning it seems like an odd thing for me not to do. My issues with griefers seems to have been handled, I just probably won’t get it day one or heck, by month two (unless as a Christmas present). By the time I can own it, it’ll be well tested. I’ve been pretty loud about how all I really want for Christmas is a sixty dollar PSN card so I can renew my subscription as that thing pays for itself after the third month of free games. But if I can get the $80 game, that would be a swell present!
Walker Dennis and I have been enjoying playing LEGO Dimensions this past month. I had gotten us to the Prime Time level and something odd happen to the PS4. We started getting the CE-34878-0 error and I thought the PSN was auto updating our saved file, which wasn’t happening and this past weekend, we got our saved file corrupted. So I thought “no problem” went to our cloud save and it was barely on the Simpsons level, which is the second level. All of our progress, our vehicle upgrades, the gold bricks, everything was essentially back to zero.
At least, we’re smarter now, so I knew to quickly get to a million points, go to the Lord of the Rings adventure world, receive the red brick that provides a 2x multiplier, and that was my first goal. To get to that first million, I highly recommend getting the Knight Rider adventure world, as there are gems for days there, you can easily get to 300,000 with barely any real work, and then you either go into the Knight Industries semi truck, or you go into Devon’s mansion or the warehouse next to his office where R3 is. Jump out of either of those locations and the world resets itself and you do that three to four more times, and you get a million points/studs/gems. I go back and forth on the terminology. So I was putting that entire thing off but Walker Dennis has been eagerly wanting to get back to the Scooby Doo level, Monster Mayhem Mash Up, so again, I’m trying to beat a level a night and the levels are very long.
At least my trophies didn’t get reset, I may have lost my mind if that was the case.
We have added to our list of characters, so we had the Starter Pack of Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle and of course, we had Michael Knight and KITT. My wife got us Mr. T and his van. So we lost all of the progress we made to the A-Team Van, KITT, and the Batmobile.
Next, my wife saw that both Aquaman and Chase McCain (from LEGO City Undercover) were both priced at eight dollars. I had done my research and both are super important to the worlds but Chase gave us a new world so I asked for him.
Thanks to YouTuber packattack04082 for hosting the above video.
I still haven’t had use for Chase’s sixth costume, the farmer one. I’m sure it’ll become useful eventually.
I also had to redo getting his costumes, the farm land isn’t easy to come across in his world. I also had to redo all of the gold and the A-Team world, so that I can change Mr. T into the other A-Team members.
Thanks to TheBricksFamily for hosting how to make McCain’s helicopter.
Sometimes, it is just easier to watch a YouTube video instead of turning on the game, loading the game, putting the character on the toy pad and having the game walk me through the process. Though, doing it through the game, I don’t have to pause the screen, so that’s nice or it is easier to go back a step. Both come with the pressure of trying to assemble it quickly. I do enjoy putting LEGO pieces together and following directions, that is pretty fun.
I saw the Beetlejuice set at Walmart and I failed following the Thou Shall Not Hesitate Commandment (the greatest commandment) and didn’t buy it and I’ve regretted it since.
We bought the Marceline set, from Adventure Time, as I saw she was pretty important to the gameplay, plus she was the only one in the Walmart clearance section. Since I failed before, I was adamant about not passing her up.
Thanks again, packattack04082, for hosting another great video.
So I built her Amp Monster as well and we maxed out all of the vehicles’ abilities and forms.
And our file got corrupted so all of this had to be redone.
My wife bought the Ghostbusters 2016 story pack and that is coming shortly and I bought the Goonies level pack, mostly as it has the 4x multiplier, which stacks with the 2x multiplier, for 8x the collected gems. I let Walker Dennis build up as he saw fit during the week, but when we played together last, I had him make sure to boost all of the vehicles to get them to the point where they magnetically collect studs from all around them, which is a real time saver.
We have since got all five vehicles fully upgraded and all of their forms unlocked. We have all of the red bricks we have access to unlocked and paid for. I haven’t had a real chance to play the adventure lands with him but we have to go back and buy all of the renovations of each of the adventure lands, each one has six but we should have plenty of points to unlock all of them as we visit them.
I was holding off until the Goonies came in but Walker Dennis has been a real good sport of wanting to make progress in the game, which I’m with him on that, and I have to maintain two million points so that I can unlock the Goonies red brick as quickly as possible. I just want it to get the Rule Breaker achievement in the story missions with ease and to help increase the value of the gems in the Adventure Time world as I had gotten five easy gold bricks and barely had the rule breaker bar filled up a quarter of the way and that was with the 2x multiplier so I definitely need help there.
I also just learned that the giant (than the minifigs) lego bar that turns yellow, silver, blue, and purple, if you hit it when it is a particular color, that color gem comes out. I’ve been taking it for granted which color gem appears but I noticed it turned purple once and I’ve tested the theory. So if you see one, wait until it turns blue or purple and break them up at that time.
I’ve looked for a picture but I can’t find one, I may have to take a picture with my phone to see if I can get the right wording of it.
Walker Dennis really liked creating X-PO from the portal Gateway –
I’m at the Lego Dimensions wiki all of the time now!
At first, I didn’t bother making him and then the next time Walker Dennis saw the Voltron main area, he recognized some of the pieces and immediately wanted me to create it.
Thanks to cusman for including the instructions and the video of his first appearance in the game.
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We got another CE-34878-0 error over the course of the couple days it took to write up to this point and I performed the quick option of initializing the PS4. The full version stated it’ll take a few hours so I didn’t want to subject our son to the long wait (though I could have done it over night, I supposed). Doing the initializing means that everything is erased and started fresh, which I felt pretty confident that everything else was uploaded from a while ago, and if not, I’ll just commit to getting all of that progress again. I also knew that the bulk of my games I’ve been playing recently were through the PSN, so those games would be easy enough to reinstall.
One real benefit of doing that was that I was at the halfway mark in terms of storage, like 5GB, and now we’re at 1GB, so without Fallout 4 being on the system, I’m pretty sure we got all of that space back. I’ll slowly add my disc games again and the downloaded games, as I feel like playing them but right now, we are all about Lego Dimensions.
While waiting for Lego Dimensions to full load, and then getting the DLC (the adventure worlds) reloaded as well, I started Fallout Shelter, and it was much better on the PS4 than on my phone. I haven’t gone back to it besides playing it for that almost hour but it isn’t bad in short chunks. I should play it like I hope to play Knack, where I do a chapter segment and then play another game but instead of a segment (as there are no segments) I’ll just commit to doing it for 30 minutes or so.
My real grief with initializing the PS4 was that we still ended up with the error so now I’m not sure what to do. I’ve read that people contact SONY and get a replacement PS4 that way but I’m hoping the next big system update might fix whatever problem we’re having. Gosh, how I wished I knew what exactly happened that afternoon I was driving home when the PS4 wasn’t turned off correctly.
At least I’m being manic about uploading our saved data (which I’m sure is the root of the problem but we’ve made so much progress that I have to live with the threat of the saved file being corrupted) after beating each story mission. I have a suspicion that it is related to Chase McCain as the game seems to have an awkward pause in-between his costume changes.
The real problem with initializing the PS4 was that my son lost all of his trophies on his guest account. He didn’t seem to mind, as he’s four, but we played for maybe ten minutes and all of a sudden, he earned like seven trophies, so he’ll probably get the bulk of them back as we play together.
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We are expecting the 2016 Ghostbusters story pack to come in as well as the Goonies pack. I’m on the Phantom Zone level of the story (the Ghostbusters one), so I’m three more levels to catching up where we left off. Its been pretty fun going back as now that we have Chase McCain and Marceline, we’re able to get even more minikits than before.
With the trailers and teases for the 13th Doctor coming up, I’ve been really wanting to get back into Doctor Who so we watched the Husbands of River Song Christmas special. Walker Dennis was really into it until the ship they were on started to crash and then he got a tad scared, which is super cute. But now I really want that Doctor Who level pack, it is still over $20 but I’m not sure if I can wait until it is under $20 but I’ll give it another month. I imagine it won’t go down in price that much, due to the franchise still being very popular and the TARDIS being pretty useful in the game. Our son started calling this other toy of his “Doctor Who box” and that was pretty cute too. I can’t believe I don’t have a toy of the TARDIS, I guess I never came across one that was cheap enough or not a Christmas ornament.
I also can’t believe that from 2015 to 2016, there was no new episodes of Doctor Who, that sounds amazing to get BBC to commit to doing that. I was confused as Husbands of River Song and Return of Doctor (Rey) Mysterio were both Christmas episodes and I had to read those Wikipedia pages a couple times as I thought there would be a season in-between them but nope, there sure wasn’t.
I really did enjoy Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, I keep thinking that she’ll probably be ranked as my favorite of the companions, they (Steven Moffat and his crew) did such a great job with her character and I really like Coleman as an actress too.
I finally got Fallout 4 platinum-ed and I had Walker Dennis pick out my next game (a traditional I’m going to continue to do, as it was pretty cute) and he selected Until Dawn.
Thanks to PlayStation for hosting the launch trailer.
This was probably my most anticipated game that I receieved for the PS4. My wife couldn’t find a copy of it to add to the Christmas bundle of games so she got it for my birthday in January. I just was able to start playing it recently due to finally getting Fallout 4 out of my system, though I could easily jump back into that game but I think it is good to take a break from it. A nice long break from it as it was all consuming.
I spent a lot of time looking into Until Dawn and it sounded like an amazing game.
What initially sold me what the Honest Game Trailer for the game –
Thanks to Smosh Games for hosting their own video.
Which, thankfully, by the time I saw this prior to Christmas, and by the time I started playing the game in May, I had forgotten most of the trailer though there were moments from that I couldn’t explain and I didn’t want to watch it again without spoiling myself. What really really sold me on it was this amazing line –
Thanks to Tumblr user, sodiumcqueen, for hosting the above image.
Emily’s “Understand the palm of my hand, bitch” was a line that captured my imagination and I wanted it to become my new catchphrase and I desperately wanted to understand the context of the situation. It is a very intense moment in the game. She’s slapping Ashley in the above scene and pending on how you got there, Mike has a tough decision to make and Ashley has an awkward decision to make after that.
So the game takes place a year after Josh’s twin sisters had died and the eight friends have come back together the following year to hang out. Things go horribly wrong almost immediately. There is a psycho who starts terrorizing them but there is an even larger more deadlier threat beyond him.
There are three ongoing mysteries in the game: What happened to the twins, who is the mystery man, and what happened in the mines in 1952.
The game has eight characters, four boys and four ladies. The boys are Mike, Chris, Josh, and Matt. You barely play Matt. The ladies are Sam, Emily, Ashley, and Jess. You barely play as Jess. At least, I barely did, as Mike, her boyfriend, was not fast enough to catch up to her and she was the first character I couldn’t save. My initial play, I ended up getting Jess killed, and like a real idiot, I got Mike and Ashley killed as I had Sam flip the switch way to early and I blew up the lodge instead of waiting one more time, so I had to replay Chapter 10 immediately to correct that. Josh also died but I fixed that by finding the journal that makes him live so I lucked into that.
Once you beat the game, you can either start a new game, or replay a chapter and continue from that point forward. I’m on my second playthrough now, where I try to keep everyone alive. I’m in the middle of Chapter 6 and I got Jess to survive through Chapter 4 so I’m well on my way, Matt is still alive and Ashley and Chris are super scared in the basement. I’m really loving this game.
Another fun aspect of the game, is you can turn on global statistics so you can see what option was the more popular decision. Of course, I’m choosing the less popular ones to mess with the statistics. The game out August 2015, so the majority has long since spoken.
The reddit page for the game isn’t as active as it first was, I imagine, but there is a loyal group of people on it.
My plan was to initially do my first playthrough, with no guidance (which I did), then a playthrough where everyone lived, a global statistic playthrough where I choose the least popular option and another one where they all die.
I’ve decided to flip the last two, as I do enjoy trophy hunting, I’m not sure if I’ll get the platinum as collectible trophies (ironically) are my least favorite trophies. Well, besides multiplayer ones, unless it is simply, log into multiplayer, successfully play the first one, or whatever Uncharted 2’s multiplayer trophies were, I was able to successfully do those two, and never went back to it.
Which were Complete One Cooperative Multiplayer game and Complete One Competitive Multiplayer game, thanks to
It appears most of the trophies I’ll end up getting with the everybody dies trophy, so that’s why I want to do that one third. I figure, by that point, I would have most of the clues and totems so I’ll make the decision about finding those and getting the three collectible trophies by that point. Which, if I’m looking at the guide correctly, would be the final three trophies and that already feels annoying to me so I probably will collect all of the clues, as I really do enjoy the story so it makes sense to get the back story of those three events.
Especially after my fourth fun playthrough with the choosing the least popular decisions.
There is a companion app that won’t work on my Samsung Galaxy S7, so that’s disappointing. The companion app for Beyond : Two Souls also doesn’t work with my phone so I sent feedback for both of those apps but I doubt anyone cares this far removed from the game releases.
Another fun thing I hadn’t realized about the game is that they actually casted known actors for most of the roles.
Thanks to Gaming Since Gaming for hosting this video.
I keep referring (for myself) to the Wikipedia page, so here is that website:
Josh is played by Rami Malek, who I apparently saw in Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 but he’s probably well known from Mister Robot and the upcoming Freddie Mercury bioflick, where he plays Mercury. He is also Pharaoh Ahkmenrah from the Night at the Museum films but I only saw the first one and I sort of recall the pharaoh character. He was also in three episodes of 24, during season eight, the Freddie Prinze Jr. season.
Ella Lentini plays both twin sisters, Beth and Hannah. I don’t recognize any of her credits.
Hayden Panettiere plays Sam, the main lady from the game. We all know her from Heroes and Nashville, amongst a slew of other projects.
Brett Dalton plays Mike, the main guy from the game. Who I immediately recognized and figured Mike was the psycho (he isn’t) or was going to betray the characters at some point (he doesn’t). I thought that as he’s Ward from Agents of SHIELD, where that’s exactly what he does, on multiple occasions. Heck, he even was a bad guy who was secretly good in the Framework, so he can’t be trusted. I’m not a fan of Ward, at all.
Noah Fleiss is Chris, who was apparently in Storytelling. Which I only really remember Selma Blair’s section of that film (the first half) and Fleiss is in the second half, and I only remember Conan O’Brien appearing in that story as himself.
Galadriel Stineman plays Ashley, who was in season four of The Middle, a show I don’t watch but that looks to be her biggest role to date.
Nichole Bloom is Emily, who I know her from Shameless as Lip’s college girlfriend, who I really liked. Lip was my favorite character on that show until they broke him and I started losing all interest in the show but it took my like seven seasons to just give up on it. She’s in Project X which Malek is also in so I might have to watch that, it was on my watchlist before but I never got around to it. Stineman was also on Shameless, apparently, but she wasn’t on the List of Characters list so it must not have been a large role. Bloom wore glasses on Shameless and that threw me off, so that disguise clearly works! She was in seasons four and five of Shameless, better in four.
Jordan Fisher is in the thankless role of Matt, Emily’s boyfriend. I mostly know him from winning Season 25 of Dancing with the Stars with Lindsay Arnold, and via that show, I know he was part of Hamilton. He must have been one of the dancers in Teen Beach 1 and 2 as I don’t recognize him from those films. He may have been on Teen Wolf after we quit watching it due to MTV’s messed up schedule around season three. he’s going to be Seahawk on the upcoming Netflix She-Ra show which I hope is good.
I don’t recognize that dude at all. Like Bow, but a pirate? I guess that is the motivation there?
Meaghan Martin is Jess, Mike’s girlfriend, who I’m hoping to see more of in my second playthrough. She’s in both Camp Rock films, but I only got like ten minutes into and lost all interest. It was at whatever minute mark where Demi Lovato is the chef’s daughter but she doesn’t want people to know she’s the daughter of the chef and so has to hide that fact. Which is dumb so I quit. Also, Demi is way young in the film and that felt weird. Martin is also in the television series 10 Things I Hate About You and Awkward, which I’ve been tempted to watch Awkward but I haven’t done it. Too many episodes and that was at season three, who knows how many seasons it is now. I simply clicked the link and there is five seasons. She also provides the voice of Namine in the Kingdom Hearts games, and Panettiere provides the voice of Kairi in those games. So there are some crossovers but not many.
Larry Fessenden, who co-wrote Until Dawn plays the Stranger. Apparently, he wrote, directed and editted a movie titled, Wendigo, that I have to watch now.
Rounding out the adult cast is Peter Stormare, as Dr. Hill. I know him from Season One of Prison Break. He’s been in a slew of films and television projects and heck, he was even the voice of Dregg in the 2012 Ninja Turtles cartoon.
I played TellTale’s first Batman game, and really want to play the second one once it is out on disc, so I was used to the play style. You move the characters and interact with the environment via pressing X or by quick time actions using the square, triangle and circle buttons. R2 to pick up things, R1 to get to the menu of clues, and L1 to put a little pep in your step. I used that mostly during Chapter 10 as I knew what to expect.
It really is such a fun game and I enjoyed it so much!
I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as NyxRising Industries though.
I stumbled across their ten part series, The Blackwood Files, on YouTube.
Thanks to them for hosting their own video.
I saw the first episode, Until Dawn retold via found footage and I’m looking forward to watching the rest of the series and seeing how they incorporate everything. The first episode is barely 16 minutes so pending on the length of the next nine episodes, I should be able to knock them out relatively soon. I saw all ten episodes and these are all simply amazing.
You could probably safely skip to Episode 8, to get into the true elements from Until Dawn.
Then nine and ten are pretty amazing and super faithful to the game – all things considered.
Their portrayal of Chris could have been a tad better, but I like what they did with him and all of the other characters. There are several Community references which I appreciated. There is a fun silly bonus episode as well as a wrap party video that I would recommend. There is also a three hour live stream video that I think I’ll pass on at this moment, as I spent a lot of time this past weekend in the world of Blackwoods Files. I didn’t play the game as much, as this video series was satisfying that itch.
I wish it didn’t have the black background to be more work friendly but maybe I shouldn’t be looking at the site at work, which I don’t do. Lots of great information on there, especially their character pages.
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A kind reddit user, jayderaine, introduced me to this cool website –
As they were discussing in a thread how to chose which game to select in your backlog, and many said to based the decision off of the length of the game. I hadn’t realized there was a website that kept track of how long it took to finish the main portion a game, and how long to fully complete the game. Which is a fun thing to keep track of and so I took the less than ten minutes to select my current backlog and it wasn’t that bad. Plus, I’ve been needing a quick guide to which games I own as there is usually two or three of them that I forget about. So just for my own knowledge, here is the official list of games I have.
Physical Copy
Grand Theft Auto V
Last of Us Remastered
Uncharted Collection, I’m playing Uncharted 3 on it
Uncharted 4
Uncharted : Lost Legacy
Batman : Arkham Knight
Life is Strange
Fallout 4
LittleBigPlanet 3, I still need to buy the TMNT on there, as they are so cute!
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Inside + Limbo
Flashback Classics Vol. 2, I bought it for my wife’s love for Maze Craze.
LEGO Dimensions
Until Dawn
Fallout 4
Digital Copies
Thanks to the PSN Free Games, I got these added to my backlog
Knack
Beyond : Two Souls
Bloodborne
Bombing Busters
Clare : Extended Cut
Darksiders II
Forma.8
Mad Max
Mighty No. 9
Psycho-Pass : Mandatory Happiness, took me so long but I finally finished one storyline with the guy and now I’m playing it again with K for one more trophy and then I’m pretty much done with it. It got really interesting towards the end.
Ratchet & Clank (2016)
TrackMania Turbo, I love how this game keeps track of me and the other 511 Montana racers. That’s a fun statistic.
Thanks to Bethesda Softworks for hosting their own video.
It is a short trailer a minute and 34 seconds but it is glorious!
Lots of speculation going on, naturally, but answers will be given on Sunday, June 10, at 6:30pm, and you best believe I’ll be following that news that evening. What we can tell is that it takes place in West Virginia, which could be super close to Fallout 3’s DC location.
From the Fallout Wiki –
fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_76
Vault 76 was a controlled vault, so not one of the experimental ones. Which is nice for them! It was supposed to open 20 years after the great war so this could take place before Fallout 3, even! The year would be 2102 and had 500 occupants. It is referenced in both Fallout 3 and 4.
I’m so pumped as this could be my first Fallout game that I actually buy day one! I’ve been super late to Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 and completely missed out on Fallout New Vegas, which I was hoping they were going to announce a remaster of that one just so I can finally play it.
which was pretty fun and I’m sure they were getting questions galore.
The Call of Duty peeps apparently put up their own Please Stand By feed that is also pretty fun.
Apparently Bethesda did this way back when Fallout 4 came out, pretty much exactly the same way. Two weeks before E3 and with a 24 hour tease before a teaser trailer. So that’s all pretty good and fun for me.
Whenever I take Walker Dennis to Target for our quest for new Hot Wheels, we keep seeing a Fallout Wallet and these Fallout Shot Glasses –
Apparently the wallet isn’t on their website anymore but I wouldn’t mind the shot glasses now. It felt silly before but I’m all about Fallout again!
When we got our new Galaxy S7 phones back in February, my wife had me look for a phone case for mine and I thought about getting a Fallout related one but didn’t find one plus I thought it would be silly to have a constant thing related to the game, with me at all times, but now I sort of regret not buying one.
The two I’m able to find now are not available and I’m just going to tell myself that was the case then too. Maybe I’ll get a new one once the game comes out.
I’m currently playing Until Dawn and working on a post for that game but I wanted to get my thoughts about Fallout 76 while it was fresh and current.
Thanks to AT&T hosting their own video advertising their DirecTV service.
Add this to the growing list of commercials that I’m forced to see, forget, see again enough times to form an opinion on.
AT&T calls this commercial “The Break Up” and I would sure hope the guy downstairs is going to break up with this lady. This lady who is just throwing his possessions out of the window. Which I get in an 80s sense of humor but then she throws his guitar which is expensive. Which I also don’t really care about but then she throws out their cable box and that’s the part that I find objectionable.
Not only is that highly irresponsible but extremely dangerous! If he got hit by it, that’s assault. It isn’t even funny in a small way.
Wherein I’m not alone in finding the ad a poor use of television time. It also seems counterproductive, I wouldn’t want to purchase or pay for a service that thinks this is a good idea to promote.
That’s not even dealing with the race issue, which I hadn’t really noticed while watching the video. That doesn’t show African American women in a positive light.
I also don’t get how she already has digital cable after throwing the box away? Did they already have digital cable so the box was no longer needed?
People are also commenting on what if it was the man throwing her stuff out the window and how that would have been received. Probably not worst but it would have been different as I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it portrayed that way. It is almost always woman throwing man’s stuff out – usually justified in more than a thirty second ad but throwing an electronic item out the window should never be allowed. Like pouring bacon grease down any drain, it shouldn’t happen under any circumstances.
Who is this commercial directed towards? Young women who just suffered a horrible break up? That seems pretty niche.
Hulu has been playing this commercial for what feels like forever –
Thanks to Ancestry for hosting their own video.
I’ve seen it enough to where I wasn’t paying attention to it, to paying attention to it, to taking it for granted, to forming an opinion to now wanting to learn more about it.
My main thought was, how do you grow up German and turn out not to be German? How does that work? Your father tells you, you are German and that’s how you self-identify. But who told him? His father, who was told by his father? So I thought of poor Kyle and his family and how at some point, someone must have tried to dodge their family history and said they were German and your life is the story you tell, so that becomes fact.
I finally had a moment of free time that I thought I’ll just google “German Ancestry Commercial” and I found this very helpful blog post –
Kyle has his own blog, which is pretty cool. Of course, he writes about the experience and there are other posts about the commercial and his opinions on it being aired. I like how one of them, he apologizes for being obsessed with it. Hey, I completely get it, you are on television and probably seeing the commercial a bunch if he is using Hulu. Might as well ride that 15 minutes as long as you can!
My wife has mention how much she wants to treat me to an Ancestry DNA test for Christmas, ideally, she wants to get everyone’s done, like our nephews and both sides of our family and really get this done. Which we know how silly it would be to get our sisters DNA tested as it should be the same result.
What I want to do is get mine, my wife and our son’s DNA tested and see what story develops from that. We can branch out from there. I’ve been really tempted to get an Ancestry account started. Especially when they were airing Who Do You Think You Are? but Ancestry is $44 a month for the full membership or $199 for six months (I wonder why they don’t do a year, besides it being $300 and that doesn’t look great on a website). I wonder how that account works. Does all of the hard work stay on there, but you don’t have access to it after your membership expires but you can renew it and just pick it right up? I imagine that is how it has to be.
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My father was adopted so I didn’t know anything about my grandfather, besides he named his son after himself – which is always bizarre to me. What is even more bizarre is that my father named me after himself but I put a stop to that nonsense with Walker Dennis. No reason to keep the legacy of a dude who didn’t even keep his own son and yet we are continuing the family name. My father didn’t have an easy life, he still doesn’t, and his adoptive family were not a treat but they took in this boy and gave him some opportunities but besides a seldom reminder of how hard he had it, it isn’t like we talk about his family. Real upstate New York farmer types around the Syracuse area.
We were filling in Walker Dennis’ family tree for his baby book and I asked my mother for some additional names, as it asked for more than just two generations – which is pretty cool – and she offers up my father’s mother’s name, which I didn’t even think we had that information.
My sister has since had a third child, Erin, that we have to update the baby book with.
My son and I are deep into season two of Knight Rider. He’s a big fan of KITT Rider. I finally came across the Lego Dimensions Knight RIder Fun Pack at GameStop.
Which, of course, he loved.
Which, also of course, started making me want to see how it played in the official game. My lovely wife found the game on Amazon for $40, down from like $120 when it first came out, so for Valentine’s Day, we got it for him as a gift. It was going to be an Easter present but I couldn’t wait that long, plus, I was hoping we could get some sets for Easter. He’s really into Ghostbusters now so I’m hoping to get one of the sets for him so he can get Echo-1.
We bounce between Classic Knight Rider on the NBC app, Real Ghostbusters on Netflix and 2008 Knight Rider whenever he points to it on the NBC app. I can’t get a feel for his routine when it comes to the new show. I read that it gets the feeling of the classic show, after the 13th episode but we’re on the fourth episode so we’re never going to get there.
Luckily, I found this video when we got home from GameStop –
Thanks to HappyThumbsGaming for hosting the video.
That way, my son didn’t have to wait until we got the game to build KITT. That would have been pretty unacceptable. I knew there must have been instructions somewhere online for it. The packaging tells you how to build Michael Knight, not like one couldn’t figure it out on their own.
When he was carrying around the box the mini-figures came in, he really wanted the other two versions of KITT that can be made with his pieces. Which, if they were like three dollars each, I would totally buy so he could have all three running around.
One is Goliath, the truck Garth (Goateed Michael Knight) and another is an airship –
Still a super missed opportunity the show never had Garth drive KARR, probably would have happened in the fifth season. Seems like an obvious choice but maybe too obvious? Would have been a cheap episode to do as well, it really writes itself!
In the game, Walker Dennis really don’t like KITT not being in his proper build but we need him to be a truck sometimes (for tolling purposes) and a jet (for flying purposes). So I usually transform him back.
Walker Dennis is really obsess with Bad KARR and wanting to see him in the game.
Thanks to kwingsletplays for hosting the video that contains the KARR storyline.
The game is super fun and as soon as it instructs you to place the characters on the gamepad, you can throw Michael Knight and KITT on it and paly from the very beginning. It olds seven pieces and we have six with those two and Batman, Gandalf, and Wildstylez, plus the Batmobile so its pretty fun having all the characters on the screen at one time.
We haven’t played in a while but I’ve been having an itch to do it. And it doesn’t take much time to swap one game disc for another, I’m just lazy about not wanting to do it.
As I couldn’t find any real information on the Knight Rider world, which makes sense as how many people were super excited to buy the fun pack but I wanted information and only really found the one FAQ.
(T)he requirements of the Knight Rider World. You’ll need characters that can or have access to the following – Dig, Intelligence, Deflect, Disguise, Mini Access, Diffndo Spell, Drones, Swords, Smash Red Demo objects, and the TARDIS
So the most important characters will be Hermione and Mission Impossible’s Ethan. They will get you access to half of the gold bricks.
I also know at some point, you’ll need the Goonies pack and the kids are helpful towards some of the gold bricks too.
There is an air race that I can’t seem to get activated. I could when I had Michael Knight jump through it so maybe I need a flying character that doesn’t require a vehicle as KITT Jet can clearly get me up there but then nothing. Which lead to me really putting studs towards him.
So Hermione and the Mission Impossible set are on my short list, up there with the Doctor / TARDIS / K9 set. I wanted the Scooby Doo one but then I ended up buying Walker Dennis a Hot Wheels Mystery Machine so he’s good now.
In game, I’m pretty much stuck on the Simpsons level, not stuck, just not made any progress but clearly I don’t have a lot of characters as I’m missing out on several items that need key characters. I got KITT pretty powered up, having all three builds unlocked. That was a high priority and I’ll probably stick to unlockables for the Knight Rider World to dedicate what I purchase next, except for sweet deals I come across, which I haven’t come across any. I thought for sure it would be happening with the news that the game isn’t being supported anymore.
I’m hoping to buy a slew of items while they are on sale or on clearance before they become rare collector items.
As we like Arrow, I would love to get the Green Arrow figure for the game but he is a costly fellow, just like Supergirl, another one I would like to own.
My wife would like to get all of the Harry Potter folks and the Lord of the Ring sets, so those would be nice. Walker Dennis wants the Ghostbusters ones as he’s all about the cartoon, Slimer, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. He really enjoyed the movie, not as many ghosts or Slimer as I remembered but that film really holds up.
Back to the Future, I’m a fan but my son would just want the DeLorean figure.
Portal 2, my wife and I loved that game. I wished GLaDOS was an option.
Doctor Who, I really enjoy the idea that all 12 (13 with the War Doctor) Doctors are represented whenever the Doctor dies. Shame they can’t update the disc to include the new 13th Doctor.
Ghostbusters, as long as we get an Ecto-1, one way or the other.
Mission Impossible, just because Ethan Hunt is required for several of the Gold Bricks in the Knight Rider World.
The Goonies, I like the film enough but we need the Skeleton Organ for one of the gold bricks in the Knight Rider World.
Team Packs
Scooby-Doo, for that sweet Mystery Machine
DC Comics, as I want my son to have a Joker to the Batman (that’s how they get you).
Harry Potter, for my wife
I wouldn’t mind a Teen Titans Go! for Raven and Beast Boy but they are not a high priority.
Fun Packs
The Three Lord of the Ring packs (Gollum / Legolas / Gimli)
The Lego Movie Bad Cop just for the police car.
DC Comics, I’ll want the Wonder Woman, Superman and Bane ones but I’ll be fine with Cybord and Aquaman too, especially if they are pretty inexpensive.
Ghostbusters, Stay Puft with Terror Dog (is that what they were officially called?!) and Slimer
Harry Potter, for Hermione Granger, I would just pass on the Team Pack, if it was up to me. Which it is as my wife isn’t even watching us play and Hermoine checks a lot of boxes. I’m sure Ron would have been planned for Year 3, if they were given the chance.
It looks like a big list but really it boils down to Doctor Who, Hermoine, and Mission Impossible. From there, I’ll have to see which characters I’ll still need for the gold bricks.
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I do like how they have a Powerpuff Girls Team Pack and a Fun Pack so you can get all three of the girls. Tricky to not just throw them all in and just not have a vehicle but that’s how they get you to buy two of them.
Teen Titans Team with Raven and Beast Boy and the Fun Pack with Starfire would be fun, once we got the Lego Batman pack with Robin. Without Robin, that team doesn’t quite come together in my mind. Shame there is no Flash representative, especially with Supergirl and Arrow having figures. I’m sure he would have been part of the third year.
Other fun ones would be A-Team for that sweet van and Back to the Future for the train.
Looney Tunes would have been nice for me but Walker Dennis doesn’t have any real conncection to them. I should work on that. I tried to get him into Tiny Toons but starting with the pilot wasn’t smart on my part. I’ll try again if it is still on Hulu after we get done with Ghostbusters, if we ever do. Season One has 75 episodes alone! Though I’m ready to jump out once they become Slimer & the Real Ghostbusters.
Kong and Godzilla would have been fun, though I wonder how that would work in the levels themselves. Probably just much smaller?
We probably would have eventually gotten all of the Arrow-verse sets.
Probably would have added the Hobbit to our wishlist.
Year Three would have been ambitious with Willy Wonka (for some reason?), Matrix, Planet of the Apes, Jaws, Jetsons, and the Flintstones. I just found out that Hot Wheels made the Flintstones car so I have my eyes open for that. I doubt I’ll ever see it while he’s still interested in Hot Wheels. Which I hope he never outgrows that hobby.
There is a severe lack of information on TMNT Legends. The main thing I was looking for was which characters cause Focus Meter Down. Once a character’s Focus Meter fills up, it is that character’s turn.
That website is nice enough to reference that April and Movie Casey Jones have the ability to reset opposing character’s Focus Meter, or as the game calls it “Focus Meter Down.”
As I’m trying to get better in the game, a constant grind but I’m committed to it at this point, I was looking for a team that solely caused Focus Meter Down. So I turned to my pals at reddit for assistance.
A reddit user, Sh3Si was a huge help in compiling a list!
The ones I remember are April (basic move), Spiderbytez (basic move), Casey Jones Movie (basic move), Creep (basic move), Slash (5th move AOE – Area focus down) and Larp Raph (2nd move, 5th move AOE – Area focus down). All Classic Turtles do guaranteed focus down on basic move BUT only against their respective class advantage.
and fellow user, Rockho9 added these two –
Bebop classic also has a focus down for his basic, and OG Donatello has one for his 2nd move
I knew April and Creep, and that’s when I had the thought that if I could get three more, I had a pretty decent team there. I do like that these characters have the ability attached to their basic (first) move, so when I click the button when the game just does my fighting for me, it can happen automatically as the game focuses mostly on first moves. When I have a character I’m trying to level who has an Area of Effect (AOE), that’s when I control the game as it just speeds up the process. Having a team of more than one AoE character just makes me so happy. As soon as I unlock a character or a move with AOE, I level that move as high as I can for the most damage.
April O’Neil
Spiderbytez
Casey Jones (Movie)
Creep
Bebop (Classic)
are not the worst team, I just don’t have Jones nor Bebop in the third tier yet so they are maxed out at level 30, whereas the others are at 45/44.
I do finally have a team of five that can get to level 46 – Baxter Stockman, Nick Raphael, Rahzar, Stockman Fly and Shredder, so once I commit to getting them to level 46 and higher, I can progress through the story mode, so I’m finally at that point. I’m just letting the first one naturally hit 46 as once that happens The Gauntlet is going to be even harder for me. It really isn’t a bad team, Stockman has two awesome AOE attacks, Nick Raphael is a beast now that he has his fourth tier move where he attacks back, Shredder has a decent AOE and he and Stockman Fly are healers so that’s to two healers in that party. Rahzar has a move that gives him critical attacks, if his health stays up, which is pretty often and for a couple rounds.
I have Baxter to the fifth tier so he has all of his moves available now and he is platinum now so that’s pretty great. Raphael will get within 15 days as will Rahzar, I’m not sure if they’ll get platinum-ed as that requires 10,000 T-Coins which is a lot of T-Coins (but I have those) it is the platinum shards I’m lacking but there isn’t any rush with that.
I’m almost got enough silver shards to take Snakeweed from Bronze to Silver, so that’ll be nice too.
Ludia keeps denying me Classic Shredder as a Tournament prize, it looked like they were heading in that direction with running all of the Classic Turtles, which finally gave me Classic Raphael (I’m still missing Michelangelo as it takes 70 DNA to unlock him), then they did Classic Bebop and Rocksteady. So I thought for sure either Krang or Shredder was next. Instead, this week, is Bunny Bebop, which makes sense as Easter is coming. I’m set to get him to the second tier, so I’m not really complaining about that. Bunny Rocksteady should be next week, which will get him moved up to the second tier as well, him or B.U.N.N.I.E.S. a variant of mousers, which will be nice as I haven’t unlocked that character either. Hopefully from there, we get Classic Shredder but I’m doubtful.
I’ve definitely have stopped playing the game that much. I barely play it in the morning, just making sure I get my one Tournament fight in, and at night, I blaze through the daily challenge to get the Nick Raphael DNA card and another Tournament fight as I really need to stay in the third tier of Samurai to get enough Bunny Bebop DNA, but staying in the third tier isn’t a problem for me as I have enough people to stay or get back into that tier.
So I’ve become addicted to Fallout 4 like I was on jet!
Thanks to Betheseda Softworks for hosting their own video!
I’ve also really gotten into reddit! I’m subscribed to the TMNT Legends page, the PS4 page, the Lego Dimensions page and two Fallout related subreddits – Fallout and FO4.
I really wish there was a way to hide the right side bar on the Fallout subreddit as it is very busy.
I was impress when I found that Tea had its own subreddit and now I try to click on all tab to see what else is happening in the world of reddit. I was hesitant to subscribe to PS4 as I thought it would just explode in my feed but reddit does a good job of keeping my updated on the other subreddits.
Are there other subreddits worth subscribing to or other Fallout related subreddits worth exploring?
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I’ve downloaded the Fallout Shelter game app and that was fun during a lunch break but I don’t think I can fully commit to how massive it seemed to be. So I uninstalled that.
I also downloaded the Fallout Pip-Boy app and uninstalled and now it is back on my phone again, now that I got the hang of it. I thought it was going to be more of an aid but now I like it for how it keeps track of my progress and I’ve gotten used to how not-in-sync it is with my current game, when it is in offline mode.
I do wish there was a way to mute the Pip-Boy app.
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My started my male character, as myself, and a week later, I started really regretting not making a female playthrough. Especially with how many men are in the game, and how great it would be to have the Black Widow perk as (once maxed out) having 15% more damage being done to dumb male Raiders and such, that will come in handy. So over the weekend I created a sarcastic female character based off of my wife. I’m going to have her join the Brotherhood and be strictly a melee character.
If you are going to go along with a melee character, I highly recommend these two websites –
Of course, I recognize that I’m in the super minority who are just now playing Fallout 4 for the first time but from what I’ve seen on reddit, I’m definitely not alone.
I just adored Fallout 3 and I passed on Fallout New Vegas though now I wished I did play that one.
Within the first two hours of playing, I got a security baton, skipped going to stupid Preston and Concord and attempted to follow the road to Diamond City, knowing that I was going to end up passing through Cambridge and Paladin Danse. Which is pretty much as far as I wanted to get, and I was pretty impressed I was able to get there relatively find. I got a tad lost on my way there as I meant to memorize the map better but I got there, and that’s what counts. I also want her dressing in different outfits and not using stimpacks as much. She’s going to be more of a napper, like my lovely wife. She used to be quite the sleep tank prior to our son coming along. From there, she’s going to strictly be a Brotherhood member and I’ll do all of those types of missions. She’s also not going to be building as many settlements, if I can help it.
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My male character was mostly just forged through a very organic playstyle. I’ll take perks as needed or as I learned which ones are necessary. Right now, in the main storyline, I’m at the part where I am supposed to be going to the Glowing Sea and meeting Virgil. I read that I should be using weapons that do more than 50+ damage and I finally got a few (like two! a shotgun and a rifle). I’m also super late to crafting and weapon modification.
I also just learned that I can check on the current stats of my settlements so now I’m trying to make all of those people happy and/or not disappointed in me, so that has changed my game play.
I am also in the middle of the Silver Shroud mission and just loving that costume! I was just having him wear the Vault 111 costume with various pieces of armor but now I’m all about costumes.
I also was just going to use Dogmeat but after having Valentine as a required companion, I’m trying to make up for lost time. I have his perk, Piper’s perk (who I really liked her), and I finally got MacCready’s ultimate perk. I plan on getting Hancock next.
As I really like a list, I’m just going down this list here –
So that makes Hancock next but I was hoping to finish MacCready and move on to Hancock but Hancock won’t come with me as I haven’t activated the Big Dig side quest so I’ll do that when I get home. So I plan on ditching MacCready for Strong (as I haven’t come across Cait as I haven’t entered the Combat Zone yet either).
So I’ll use Strong until I get access to Hancock. Which might not be until after I get Big Dig done, Pickman’s Gallery, and Silver Shroud completed.
I naturally joined the Minutemen, but never had Preston join me, which was a mistake in hindsight. I should either use Preston or Strong, I’ll think about that. I’m still tempted to go with Strong but time will tell.
Joining the Minutemen was nice as it had me running around the map. Preston gave me two missions/settlements to check out that are deep south and one to the west and the other to the east. I already had my butt kicked going down and to the left on the map screen as I needed to check out all of those police stations for Valentine so I’m hesitant to go to the Glowing Sea at the moment.
I have also started doing some of the Railroad quests as I read that the Railroad and the Minutemen do not conflict but then I read that you have to choose one fraction at the end to success (maybe?), which makes sense so I’ve decided I’ll do a pure Railroad playthrough on a third time and an Institute one on a fourth. Ideally, I’ll just create a hard save whenever that becomes an option and just continue my Minutemen to Institute as I can’t imagine having to do a pure vanilla playthrough skipping both Minutemen and the Brotherhood and going strictly to the Institute. The Railroad is super easy to ignore.
I also don’t think I have four playthroughs in me though, especially as I have so many other games I really want to be playing. I mostly set up my wife’s game so that one day I can come back to it. I had the idea of jumping between both characters but I know I’ll get frustrated doing that with the lack of progress.
That’s the thing about Fallout 4 is that I meant to stick with the main storyline, as I really want to get my son back!, BUT, it is super hard to not to get distracted and help out people as I come across them. For my wife’s playthrough, besides Brotherhood storylines, I want to keep her on track of the main story.
What really ruined Dogmeat for me, was that I kept losing him as I would be looting a room, he’ll get in the way and I’ll accidently tell him to stay and I’ll be almost out of the building before I realized I lost him at some point. I was in that adapted vault, on my way to rescue Valentine and I successfully speech checked myself out of there and was up and out of there. Then I noticed Dogmeat wasn’t around and I had to go back through that vault, had to kill that one guy and his buddies (and getting his sweet tux!) and had to go down two floors and there was Dogmeat, just being a good boy. I’ll come back around on him but I really wanted MacCready’s broken headshot perk and that’s what got me down the companion route.
So once I have Hancock and have successfully completed the Silver Shroud plot, or first the plot and then Hancock (either way!), I’ll get back onto doing the main quest again. Well, I may do all of those missions he originally sent me to complete but with him, and then go on the main quest, I’ll see how I feel. His perk isn’t super interesting to how I play though.
What I should do, and this might change my overall playing now that I’m typing this, is recruit Codsworth or X6-88. Codsworth gets me Robot Sympathy which grants +10 damage resistance against robot energy weapons. X6-88 grants Shield Harmonics, which is +20 energy resistance. Both of which I imagine I’ll actually need.
Danse grants 20% more damage against Feral Ghouls, Super Mutants and Synths.
Deacon grants 20% more sneak attack damage which I could use now that I really have taken to sniping dudes from a distance.
Preston’s perk grants 20% extra damage and 20% damage resistance when facing three or more opponents but that doesn’t sound great as I’m rarely up against three people at one go.
So maybe I’ll grab Codsworth when I get home and home in the game (natch!) and attempt the Glowing Sea and see how that all goes for me. Though I believe I read somewhere that I need Valentine to complete that task so maybe the game won’t let me. I just really need to drop MacCready so I’ll ditch him and grab Codsworth and see how it goes from there. I’ve read that he’s amazing in fights and a real joy to have on the long road.
I really wish there was a way to have a bicycle in the game. I know it’ll be silly to have the Sole Survivor conducting drive-bys while on a bike but it’ll make me less incline to use fast travel. Which I rarely used unless I get encumbered, which happens a lot more that I’m carrying anywhere from five to six weapons. What I should do is drop the missile launcher, fat man, and mini gun and that’ll save like 100 pounds. It was also nice traveling with Valentine as he could hold those three weapons without any real effort. MacCready can only hold so much.
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Whenever my son sees me play, he really wants me to save the baby and to drive one of the cars. If only I could do both!
I sort of got spoiled about the son and that has sort of made a disconnect from my super desire to fast track to Shaun but then I read something else recently that makes me question the thing I originally read.
Him wanting me to drive a car makes me realized how much I want a bike in this game.
My son watching me play always makes me want to just get to Shaun, as well. He mostly just sees me walking around as I don’t want him seeing too much, head shots are fine unless they slow down the graphics and do a super bloody kill – and I’ll never get that Bloody Mess perk as I don’t really need to see people get super killed. Which is what I like about the laser guns as they just turn people into goo. I mostly save the Righteous Authority for Super Mutants as they seem to need the extra firepower.
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It sounds like people have a blast on their PCs with mods but mods seem to really break the game, or potentially seem like they can break the game but that’s just me. They make for good images and awesome settlements but it doesn’t feel “real” to me.
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I also don’t have much interest in playing on Survival mode as that just seems stressful and I really depend on being able to save my progress on a time. I can only really play at night, once my son and wife are sleeping, for maybe an hour or two if I’m lucky.
I do like my guns and building up my settlements as much as I can. I doubt I’ll ever platinum the game so unless I can get one of my settlements to 100% happiness, which is one of the hardest trophies from what I’ve read, I haven’t had much interest in crafting or preparing anything 100 times. I got the build 100 items and that came naturally. I’ve been using stimpacks for all of my healing needs, besides straight sleeping the pain away, so I haven’t been preparing dinners or such.
One perk I highly recommend putting points in is the Strong Back, as being able to fast travel while encumbered is amazing! I also maxed out Action Boy as that become necessary. Now that I’m better with sniping on my own and shooting from the hip or at least aiming, I don’t need as many action points, I mainly use VATS to reload and get a free shot again. Then I try to get two or three more shots in VATS and I go back to self aiming.
Using a shotgun has helped too as once they are that close, they go down pretty quickly, if I haven’t sniped them prior to that. I used to really move my 10mm gun too before the foes overpowered it. But I still like having it be my main weapon as I leave Sanctuary and once it doesn’t one shot kill someone (or even two shots) I switch it out to my mighty rifle.
My current favorite guns are –
Markman’s Harden Combat Shotgun
Mighty .50 Sniper Rifle
Suppressed Advanced 10mm Pistol
I want to like the Markman’s Powerful Pipe Bolt-Action Rifle, and next time I play, I want to change whatever it is that limits it to two shots to anything else as I’m dying out there between reloads. I forgot how much I hated the earlier guns that had only two shots per round.
I’m bad about really knowing what those perks that deal with guns are and which guns apply to which ones. I guess, worst case, I should place one skill point into each category and be done with it. Some seem to be pretty straight forward and maybe I’m allowing myself to be more confused than I should be but I should look into it some more.
Referring to looking at things, I really wish there was a way to quickly look at my character from the front. I seem to accidently do it from time to time but I think that hurts my chances of trying different outfits as it doesn’t really matter what it looks like from the back as most chest plates cover the same spots, so I used to stick with the highest protection and moved on. I do like to wear a proper set but now that I’m more laxed about outfits, maybe I can mix and match now. Though I’ve become quite taken with the Silver Shroud costume. I do know I’m going to want a hazmat suit and power armor for the Glowing Sea so I know to not be too attach to wearing the costume forever.
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Another thing I want to do, and maybe I will with my third playthrough, or try to do it with my wife’s character, is to run the border of the map. I just now came across the northern most border when I was tracking distress signals and it reminded me how much I enjoyed walking the border of Fallout 3. Heck, I might just do it during my male playthrough and I’m leveled enough to actually handle whatever comes my way.
I do like how there isn’t a level cap in Fallout 4. Knowing and hitting the 30 level cap in Fallout 3, meant I had to very focused on how I wanted to handle my perks. Knowing that I can eventually get all of the perks I could possibly want, is pretty relaxing. Though, of course, there is something to be said about getting some perks before others, such as the super important tetralogy of obtaining locksmith, hacker, scrounger and fortune finder, as you’re going to want to be able to unlock every door and computer you come across and when you do get those doors open, you’re going to want to be able to find items in those boxes, such as caps or (not) junk.
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Now that I think of it, it probably isn’t really that hard to go straight to the Railroad, used the same website I used before to get the code to unlock their door, as I wasn’t really keeping track of it as I figured it was Classic Fallout (3) and the password was just going to be an option that I clicked on. That should be simple enough.
Getting to the Institute will be the harder thing to do and I think the easiest will be to use my idea mentioned above and just create a second file where I do those missions and be done with it.
I really wish I hadn’t started the railroad quests in my Minutemen playthrough as now they are just staring at me. I mostly started them as I wanted the experience points and that they don’t conflict with the Minutemen but I’m not going to be able to realistically complete both quest lines in one playthrough.
I also didn’t know about radiant quests until I finally looked up if Preston will ever stop giving me quests and marking my map and it turns out, he never will. So that has made me also want to stop and just concentrate one faction at a time.
Just for my own reference, here is that website for the Railroad –
Which takes a while to actually do and I wish the arrow that points to the letters pointed right at the letter but it is pretty easy to tell after making the mistake twice.
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Overall, Fallout 4 is an awesome game and I’m super addicted to it and I don’t see an end to it in sight. An end to the main quest, the side quests, nor my enjoyment of the game.
Though I do want to try the Free March 2018 PSN games a tad more to see if I want to keep them loaded on my main screen or not.
I knew when my wife asked me for which games I wanted, that it was a mistake to ask for both Grand Theft Auto 5 and Fallout 4, as both are giant open world games. That’s why I wanted an Uncharted game (or all three – Trilogy, 4, and Lost Legacy – and my incredible wife got me all three!). At least with GTA5, I knew I wasn’t going to do that many side quests or look for hidden items or do special jumps, I stick to the main story as much as possible. I had to stop as Franklin (and others) dropping n-bombs got a tad much, especially at the beginning of the game. That has seemed to have stopped once I’m able to play as Michael. I pretty much stopped right after unlocking Trevor and completing a few of his missions. I don’t quite recall what prompted to stop that and play Fallout 4, I think my wife was asking me if I had tried most of my games and I popped Fallout 4 in and haven’t really taken it out except for the times I’ve played the Knight Rider world in Lego Dimensions. Which now that I think of it, I haven’t played Lego Dimensions in a long time!
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I got the benevolent leader trophy:
Taffington Boathouse, and it turns out I did give them a bar of a level 3 quality and the other guy was in the garden. So I had done the proper groundwork, probably a month ago. Then I forgot about it.
Turns out, they were at 97 happiness so I just sleep there for 24 hours and waited I believe three additional days (just on their couch, they were happy about it). And finally the trophy popped!
People 2
Food 6
Water 13
Power 3
Defense 32
Beds 4
Happiness 100
Something else to look forward too!
