Playing MLB The Show 19 and One Night Stand

Posted by John Klein III on October 11, 2019
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Plus, a slew of other games!  I have been in a real gaming mood as of late!

I gave MLB The Show 19 a fair shot.  I had a pretty fun time with the few days I decided to play the game.  I finally got decent with hitting the ball but I can’t seem to hit it in a way that causes the outfield to not catch the ball.  The only time I can go to the bases is when I hit a home run which I was able to do twice.  I was going to commit until I made it to the Arizona Diamonds, and I might bounce back to it but I sort of got in the mood to play a slew of other games.  I was able to create a character, and I made him from overseas, so that was two trophies right there.  During training, I played an entire game without skipping anything so that was another trophy.  During my season, I tried my best at a challenge but failed that so I got a trophy for failing which I figured I would do.  So I am currently at 14% progress rate in terms of trophies, so that felt pretty rewarding.  Maybe once I get pass a few other games, I will come back to this.

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One of the games I got was flower for the PS4.  Buying it gave me versions for PS3 and the Vita, which was nice.  I bought it has it was under four dollars and I thought it was one of the free games already.  What I was thinking of Journey, also created by Thatgamecompany.  So look forward to flower being one of the free games in November!  I could see that being the case if we were still getting PS3/Vita games but I cannot imagine them giving flower away with only one other game.

I am missing four trophies for the 100% (but not Platinum, so the pressure is off) and those are that I did not bloom 10,000 flowers, I did not brighten all of level 6’s city, I got hurt a bunch in 5 when we cannot get hurt even once, and missed maybe a few names towards the end of the Credits (and bonus level) as I thought I had time to turn around.  I might try to get the credits completed and bloom 10,000 flowers at the same time but I did not care for 5 and 6.  All of the other levels, I could easily go around their maps but 6’s highway forces us to go at high speeds and only once I did accidentally get back to the start of the level and could not recreate it so I am done with those two levels.  71% is not too bad for that game.

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20904351/sony-ps5-playstation-5-confirmed-haptic-feedback-features-release-date-2020

Earlier in the week, the PS5 got announced for Holiday 2020.  I keep seeing people write that it will be Christmas 2020 but there is no way it is not in stores by Black Friday 2020, so get your calendars ready for November 27, 2020, if you will be one of the Day One owners.  Even if it was only $300, I do not see us owning one until maybe 2021, at the earliest.  I see most people speculating that it will most likely be $400 for the basic model and $500 for whatever the Pro or larger memory drive is.  $500 seems reasonable and I love how they are so forth coming with all PS4 discs and digital copies will work on the PS5 right out of the box, which is nice.  I also like the idea of how the controller is going to be slightly heavier with more tricks to it, such as when driving a racing game, you can tell once you are on a smooth surface and when you move to a more bumpy surface, like dirt and such.

So I am mostly looking forward to getting PS5 games through the PS+ subscription program.  So once we get that system, we would have a slew of (I am sure) basic or indie games for the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Instant_Game_Collection_games_(North_America)

Back in October 2013, the first few games for the PS4 through PS+ were : Hotline Miami, Contrast, and Resogun.

People rave about Resogun and Hotline Miami but I do not believe I have heard much about Contrast.

The next three games were : Don’t Starve, Outlast, and Dead Nation : Apocalypse Edition and I’m familiar with Dead Nation and I have heard of great things regarding Don’t Starve and Outlast.

Even the next two games, Thomas Was Alone and Mercenary Kings, well, I have never heard of the second one, but Thomas Was Alone looks interesting.  These have been the games from October 2013 to May 2014.

There are other noteworthy games but we do not get to a blockbuster game until December 2014’s Injustice : Gods Among Us – Ultimate Edition, for the PS4.

I am also looking forward to the big name titles of PS4 to start being free through PS+ as we are already sort of in that era now with Detroit : Become Human, Batman : Arkham Knight, and The Last of Us Remastered (more on that below!).

I have already committed to never buying Horizon Zero Dawn and Witcher III, as those will become free eventually, I imagine.

I have already committed to buying Burnout Paradise Remastered if it is not listed as a free game in November.  I had no idea that game has Ecto-1, the DeLorean, and 2008 KITT!  Plus the Dukes of Hazzard car too but I am not as attach to that one.

I wanted to avoid what happened with Rocket League (where I could not figure out how to change cars) so I asked on reddit, and burninrubber0 was nice enough to explain that, once I can control a car, if I simply turn around and go back into the junkyard, I can swap cars out immediately.  Which is great news!  The game is routinely five dollars through Plus, so once it is not one of the free games (it is often guessed that it will be) in November and is five dollars again, I will buy it immediately.  I just have a few light caveats first.

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I would just buy it now but I already bought two games this month.

The second game was also only four dollars and earned me my 25th Platinum!

JazalGoldmane posted in the Trophies subreddit that he earned the platinum for One Night Stand I really took to the art style of the trophy.

Developed by Kinmoku, the game follows a dude who wakes up and tries to piece together the previous night.

It was a fun game and it took me two gaming sessions and two guides to get all 12 endings.

These were the two guides I used :

https://knoef.info/trophy-guides/ps4-guides/one-night-stand-trophy-guide/ [knoef.info

http://ps3imports.org/forum/index.php?/topic/10511-one-night-stand-trophy-guide-walkthrough/ [ps3imports.org

They were written just different enough that I started with knoef and moved to ps3imports

I was going to do a bigger game for my 25th trophy, or at least, make a special effort to make 25 be special to me but I guess I will hold out until Platinum # 50 to try to do it up.  I still cannot believe I have 25!

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PlayStation Access’ Elle presented a second patch of free games currently available on PS4.

I already played and adored Fallout Shelter but I had no idea of Star Trek Online was a free game!

I created my wife, as I often do when it comes to creating a character (more on that below!), so I made her a Federal officer but not from The Original Series but the newer Trek (but not from the relaunch – so confusing!).

The game takes place 30 years after Star Trek : Nemesis, the last The Next Generation film.

I am never going to spend money on the game but I was tempted to in order to get my wife a TNG style uniform from the series and also to get the classic dress outfit from TOS.  But to get both of those, I will need 2200 in-game dollars and they want ten real dollars for only 1000 in-game dollars which does not seem worth it.  It also killed my buzz over playing more.  The uniform she has now is styled along the lines of Deep Space 9 and the TNG later films with the black body and gray shoulders and color appropriate shirt.

I typed all of that when I realized I could just use a photo.

I also earned my first trophy, Lieutenant, for completing the tutorial and now I am ready to pause this game and try other games again.

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One of the other games they recommended was Destiny 2 so I gave that a shot as well.  By creating one character of each class Titan (my wife), (Hunter, Walker Dennis), and Warlock (me), I got a gold trophy for each, which was great.  For completing the opening section the very first time, I got a trophy for that as well.  I might come back to this game at one point but I liked it for the most part.

Another free game is The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, which decisions made here carry over to Life is Strange 2 but I do not own that game (I have 1 and the Prequel) so one I get 2, I will play Captain Spirit.

From the original list, I only played FortNite and Warframe.  Warframe has trophies and FortNite’s battle royal does not.  I actually liked Warframe but I only played for an hour and should spend more time with it.

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This is a long way around of me typing that I have not played any scary games thus far in October.

So I made a point of finally finishing The Last of Us’ Left Behind DLC.  That got intense towards the end!  I was right outside of where Ellie was keeping Joel safe, I figured this was the last stand and so I used all of my arrows and pretty much all of my bullets as I was going to go out in style.  There was a pause, Ellie said the coast was clear, and then three more guys showed up.  I took out two of them and then the Infected started showing up.  It was pretty fun earlier making the Infected fight the hunters and then I was on clean up so I did that again here and only had a Clicker and maybe one other Infected but I was pretty nervous.  Then the flashback, I knew was going to be intense on an emotional level but I was still just thinking about the additional battle I was still coming off of.

I played on Normal and how intense that final exchange was and how I am not ready for a Grounded mode just yet.  I was no good at that fighting game, I attempted it three times but that trophy is just beyond me.  I lost the first round of the water gun fight so I thought I was not going to get the Skillz trophy but I want two out of three and that was good enough.  I missed an additional conversation somewhere so I did not get that trophy but I did find all of the collectibles so that was nice.

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I keep wanting to play some Dead by Daylight, especially as I bought the Head Case cosmetic DLC and Ghostface and then proceeded to not playing the game for a solid month, but I do not feel like I am done with the game, I just have to get excited enough to start it again.

Maybe once I get myself prepared to attempt SOMA, I think that is what I want to tackle next.  I am pretty much mentally prepared to just start going towards the Plan B trophy (which is also where I am at in the story) while having a YouTube video playing in front of me.  All of SOMA’s trophies are story related except for the one missable trophy.  There is no platinum but I would like to 100% the game and I am nowhere near the place of missing Endangered Species but since it is the one missable trophy, I am hyper aware of not wanting to miss it.  So once I finally earn that, I will probably try to relax to the end of the story.

I also am getting ready to play my second playthrough of Man of Medan.  I will be faking a party mode (which just seems sad but I am ready for it), and making only heart choices, plus playing the Curator’s mode.  Once I start this game, I will just follow it all the way through to the end, so that is why I want to get ready for it.  Play some quicker games before I commit a week to playing a longer game.  So I want to do at least a few nights of Dead by Daylight but that desire might be holding me back to playing other games.

Another thing holding me back is that I keep wanting to play Uncharted 4, so I might make that my November game to tackle.

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On October 7, PS4 got Update 7.00 and now Android users can play the PS4 using Remote Play!  Which for One Night Stand, really was pretty nice.  Which is all I have been wanting, well, I have been wanting a Vita but this is pretty close.  I have to play with my phone vertically so it is a nice screen with the phone’s version of the controller.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/guides/ps4-android-remote-play-how-20552097

I am going to have to use this website’s instructions so I can pair the controller to my phone and then I can play with the phone horizontally and get the most out of the screen and the new app.

So I am very excited as I may no longer need to feel envious of my wife as she gets to play her mobile games while watching TV while I wish I could Remote Play PS4 games while also watching TV.  I might be able to sit through more shows even!

Seems pretty simple to pair the controller to my phone, I just have to wait a couple hours to be able to really sit down and do it.  I can already envision having to charge both my phone and controller a lot more now but I am already doing that so it is not too much of a hassle.

So maybe I can play some other games, I just have to be mindful of which games I play as there are shows like The Voice (that I already gave up on, at least the Blinds portion) and Dancing with the Stars, that I want to be able to look up and watch the actual TV for, plus be mindful of anything my wife says but I will test it out and see how it all works.  I am pretty excited about this!  It is going to be a real Game Changer by Rachel Reid.

Man of Medan Part Five

Posted by John Klein III on September 30, 2019
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I completed the ending in 20 minutes so there is a few bonus minutes at the end.

My next playthrough is going to be the party mode where I try to complete only heart choices or no choices at all!

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I spent so much time playing Murdered Soul Suspect this weekend!  It isn’t a bad game at all, I am not sure what all of the reviews got wrong.  I even figured out if you go to a previous location, the game does save, so that was one of my biggest gripes and it has been resolved already.

The demons could still have an extra second or two for me to recognize the key button combination to defeat them, or just be the same key every time, that would be nice.  Even if each individual demon had its own combination, make it so it is the same one for that demon, so on repeated attempts, I could defeat it without failing so many times!  I still want to type that I have only killed ten so far?

I just got to the Museum and I am all types of worried about getting all of the rocks for The Terror on the Tracks trophy as once we leave the Museum, we can not go back into it.  My main concern is that I have had to go back to every location at least once, so I am trying to prevent that.  My main issues have been getting all of the collectibles for the ghost stories as well as the graffiti from the ghost girl messages.  All of the other collectibles have been pretty easy to stumble across.

I also had to look up the badge system as I was noticing some items have three badges and others only one or two.  Turns out, those are how many attempts I needed to get the investigation completed.  I was thinking it was related to how I missed one or two secondary clues but that is not the case.

From the collectible guide, I am in the final stretch of the game.  I have the second and third floors of the Museum, a return trip to the Church (which I can never find on my own), and finally, the Judgment House.

If the game did not close off the Museum and if there was not so many collectibles, I would have been more casual about seeking out the collectibles and not hugging the guide so much and explore the game more freely.  Like I would do for an Uncharted game, for an example.

My main gripe now, is that the game could really use a map as I can never find the church on my own and I am just now getting the central Salem hub connecting in my brain.  The next objective is always marked for us, which is nice, but I could really use a map and a system to get me to where I want to go that is off of the main story path.

Today is the last day to get the game for three dollars and I would definitely encourage it!

Even if you are not going for the platinum (I would not blame you if you decided against it), the game is very enjoyable and does not ask too much of your time or skill, besides killing the demons but they are avoidable and I am fairly certain I could have gotten collectibles without killing the demons but I am not completely sure about that either.

I also have no idea who the killer is, I am really hoping it is not the brother-in-law, Rex, of Detective Baxter, as those are the only characters that have been established and they have barely been established.  We mostly just know our main character and the witness to Ronan’s death, plus a ghost or five that we have helped.

October 2019 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on September 27, 2019
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On September 24, 2019, we had our third State of Play :

Thanks for PlayStation for hosting their own video.

The second to last item they cover was the free October 2019 PS+ Games.  They really did a great job with presenting the information as it transitioned beautifully.

We are getting MLB 2019 The Show as one of the free games.  Then they revealed we were getting . . . The Last of Us Remastered as well!  Which then took us to a new trailer for The Last of Us 2, now scheduled for February 21, 2020.  It all just came together very nicely.

I like baseball enough, so I’m looking forward to playing the game.  Like NBA 2k19, my main goal will be to join my favorite team, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and probably like NBA 2k19, once that goal has been met, I’ll put the game away.

PSN Profiles has a pretty great trophy guide :

https://psnprofiles.com/guide/8798-mlb-the-show-19-trophy-guide

and there looks to be some easy enough trophies for a guy like me to get.

The ones I will earn for sure will be :

Patience is a Virtue – Finish a game without skipping a presentation
Simon Says – In Road to the Show, reach a score of 40 in the pitch memory mini-game
Hi, Dee – Have your first encounter with Heidi Watney
Pump It – In Road to the Show, reach 10 reps in teh bench press mini-game
Hello, World – In Road to the Show, complete the new player creation
None Shall Pass – In Road to the Show, fail a challenge
Something to Talk About – In Diamond Dynasty, equip any unlocked audio
The More You Know – Complete the onboarding tutorial
Walk This Way – Record a walk in your first at-bat of the game
Yyyaarrrrgghh! – In Road to the Show, create a player who was born “At Sea”
Do It Like This – Equip an unlockable no doubt home run animation

I will attempt at least :

Big Fly Ohtani Son – Hit a home run with Ohtani on All-Star or above difficulty
Father Son Picnic – Win the Home Run Derby(R) with Bryce Harper
Lock Him Up – In Franchise Mode, extend a player contract during the season
Velociraptor, HIt the ball over 115+ mph

So not a bad list at all!  I will create a batter that can bat with both hands (though I will probably never try for the A Chip Off the Ol’ Block trophy.

Plenty there to strive for and to get the zero percent to one percent (and more!).  Looks like a slew of trophies that I would be earning within the first 20 minutes, unlike NBA 2k19 that it took a while to earn my first trophy (immediately after the Pre-Season) and then I earned the bulk of the trophies I did earn within the next hour or so.

Though some people do have some legit problems with MLB 19 The Show being one of the games.

PlayStation Plus Free Games for October: The Last of Us Remastered, MLB The Show 20
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October Ps Plus Free Games
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The main issue being . . . We were supposed to get PES 2019 as a free game, there was a major outcry as most people do not care about soccer, and now we are getting MLB 19 The Show, when most people do not care about baseball.

Which I am not really into either sport, but I was super looking forward to PES 2019 and I am looking forward to MLB 19 The Show.  I still maintain that once PES 2019 drops to under five dollars, I will buy that game and see what all of the buzz is about.

But all of this goes away as people are very very happy to get The Last of Us Remastered.

Which I started playing a week ago and really enjoyed it.  I was not as blown away as everyone else was but I really enjoyed myself.  I think I am just more of an Uncharted type of guy but The Last of Us really started clicking with me once The Suburbs chapter started.  The environmental storytelling in the sewers was amazing and I eagerly looked forward to the next section of the sewer to get more information.  From there, the game is amazing and I will commit to playing a Normal+ playthrough in October after I complete Left Behind.

Here is PlayStationTrophies.org’s trophy guide for The Last of Us.

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/the-last-of-us-remastered/guide/.

The multiplayer trophies are not as simple as Uncharted 2’s multiplayer so I will probably pass on those.

I have also stopped being a big collector guy, if I come across collectibles, I will get them, or if there are not too many of them, I will get them, heck, if all I need for the Platinum is the collectibles, I will get them.  That’s what made me commit to Until Dawn, as all I needed was the collectibles.

For the second month in a row, I am getting a free digital copy of a game I already own physically.  Batman Arkham Knight and now The Last of Us.  So Uncharted 4 should be next or Hellblade.

So once GameStop has another trade-in deal with extra money earned, I will be taking those two games for more store credit.

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MLB The Show 2019 is usually a $40 game, it is on sale right now for $30, and has been as low as $23.99.

The Last of Us is a $20 game, as part of the PlayStation Hits line, and has gone as low as $5.99.

So best case, the games are $60 or at their lowest, $30, which is nearly the cost of the service, so once again, the games pay for themselves really.  Not a bad first month if October 2019 is going to be the beginning of your subscription service.

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Here are my peeps talking about the free games.

Rob of PlayStation Access

Adam of PlayStation Grenade

I will have to update this if Ben of Platinum Chasers uploads his video.

UPDATE – 10/2/2019 –

Ben of Platinum Chasers uploaded his review!

Always worth the wait! (but usually there is not a wait)

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It was pretty nice being surprised on Tuesday that the announcement came a day early.  It made sense the State of Play would reveal the games as they had everyone’s attention.  I figured The Last of Us was going to be a free game either in October (for the zombie content), November (for the free game new PS4 owners would get for taking advantage of some Black Friday deals), or December (as a Christmas present to us all).

So once those games were announced though, I immediately bought Murdered : Soul Suspect for two dollars.

The game is pretty fun, I recently completed the first section involving the Apartments.  I have a slew of trophies already which feels pretty great.  I am already at 29% of the list.

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/murdered-soul-suspect-ps4/guide/

This game as a slew of collectibles (242 of them!) that I am going to attempt to get as all of the other trophies seem super doable.  Most of them are simply, play the game, solve some extra side mysteries, collect the artifacts.

Sounds like everything is feasible to do except for the Museum, that gets locked after we exit so I will be spending a lot of time there and with the collectible list in front of me.

I am using this guide from GameFAQs.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/xboxone/761114-murdered-soul-suspect/faqs/69443/collectibles

The organization took a minute for me to get used to (it makes sense from the in-game checklist) but the more I cross off, the easier it is to read.

I am really enjoying the investigations and the overall game mechanics.

The only real gripe I have thus far, is having to kill demons.  The way it is done is pretty irriating, but I am hoping I get better at it.  It is not as simple as sneaking behind a demon – which takes timing – but then there is not that much time behind holding R2 to choose to kill the demon, then there are four options for button prompts that could be an option, a direction with the left stick and then one of the four symbol buttons.  But the kill prompt will be different each new attempt.  It can be frustrating with the fifth attempt and then having to run and hide and then attempt it again.  I will get better at it but I am also hoping there are not that many demons in the game.  There is no trophy for killing all of the demons (just the first one) but if the demon is in the room, we cannot investigate it fully.  At least, that is the impression I am under.

So I will probably main this game until I have it completed.  Or by the time October 1 comes and we get the two new free games.  Whichever one happens first.

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I have successfully completed The Season of Infamy additional missions in Arkham Knight in my Normal playthrough.  I saved Mister Freeze for last so instead of it raining everywhere, it is snowing.  It looks amazing but it is surprising how different everything looks with the snow.  It is a thick snow too, so I have a hard time navigating around so I do not think I will keep to this plan on my Knightmare playthrough.  Which I will eventually do everything in that but not anytime soon.  The only advantage of doing all of the missions there is to unlock a new costume but not having it unlocked is not bothering me like it sometimes would.

It does look pretty cool though.  We have to have 240% of the game completed to earn it.

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Overall October is looking pretty fun!

Walker Dennis has been really into playing Lego Dimensions again so I have been on my guard to make sure my games are being saved.  Especially as I am not home when he first gets there.  So he had removed The Last of Us but I had made sure I was at the beginning of the third chapter of Left Behind.  I would say that another gripe with Murdered Soul Suspect is that the saving could be more on-demand.  It auto-saves but I do not get the symbol / notification as much as I would like.  Especially after I have uncovered a collectible or completed a side quest, it would be nice to get that auto saved but now I just make sure I get it then look at the clock to see if I should go to bed.

Man of Medan Part Four

Posted by John Klein III on September 26, 2019
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Those heartbeat sections just kick my butt!  At this point, I still couldn’t tell if I was close to the end or not.

Man of Medan Part Three

Posted by John Klein III on September 22, 2019
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I really wish the characters had shoes on while they are running around that abandon ship!  So gross!  At least Alex and Julia have shoes on but Brad and Fliss really should have shoes on.

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So after really trying, I think I am done with Hellblade after the second chapter.

First of all, I had the hardest time understanding how to get the sixth Lorestone.

So special shout out for PowerPyx and their most excellent walkthrough that just made it simple for me.

I also got super stuck on the second Raven door in Valravyn’s Keep.

So also big thank you to Illumi Nati for their terrific walkthrough as I am sure I would never have made it out of the chapter without their two videos as I also had a hard time figuring out how to get through the fourth door.

It might have been that I was playing way too late at night to really figure out the rooms but also, I know myself enough to know this, I am no good at environment puzzles.  This has been true for both RiME and SOMA in the past.  And like those two games, I am going to pause on Hellblade as I was trying to go from Valravyn’s Keep to Surtr’s Domain and set my future self up at that region’s first Lorestone but I was getting lost on my way to where that path separates or something dumb on my part and I am only fairly certain that I am out of Valravyn’s Keep and actually in Surtr’s Domain but I will come back to this game.

I just know once I am solely relying on a walkthrough video and playing along with the video, the game is not meant for me at that time.  I will come back to it eventually, especially as I own the disc but now is not that time.  Maybe if it becomes one of the free games through PS+, that might take some pressure off of wanting to complete it.

Hellblade has eleven chapters and I got to three and earned two trophies so I feel like I got a good enough exposure to the game.

All of a sudden I had the thought that I should eject Hellblade and put Uncharted 4 in but what I need to do is the Arkham Episodes I just bought (picking back up with Red Hood’s story pack) and then finish The Last of Us’ Left Behind.  I would like to do a New Game Plus on both The Last of Us and Left Behind but still on the Normal Plus difficulty (I think I am ready to admit that anything more difficult than that is not for me).

I did like the fighting in Hellblade, I could be better at the blocking but I was getting the hang of it.  It is not that complicated really, there is plenty of warning of when to block, it was mostly a matter of getting the timing down.

I am also thinking of doing a fun October gaming series of posts where I look at my horror games and try to play a different game a night and uploading a video of my gameplay and see how that all goes for me.

The games I know I have that are horror or suspense centric are :

Dead by Daylight
The Last of Us
Friday the 13th
SOMA
Man of Medan
Darksiders II
Beyond : Two Souls
Bloodborne
Claire
Uncanny Valley
LIMBO / Inside
forma.8

Which is a lot more games than I was expecting when I was having the thought last night.  I was mostly thinking of playing Dead by Daylight, Friday the 13th, Man of Medan, and finishing Beyond : Two Souls.  Which Beyond : Two Souls, like SOMA, is more in the science fiction slash horror genre.

I wonder if that is why I did not take to Bloodborne either, as that game is very much about letting the environment guide us to our next location.  I might just be at a place where I need a tad more linear route.

I do like making lists and trying to organize things (like into a list) so I will have to see if my PS4 can even handle all of these games being loaded onto it.  Though, once I try to tackle Man of Medan, like The Last of Us, I will just start and finish the entire game and not bounce in and out.  I have really been missing Dead by Daylight, so that is why I thought playing it in October would be a perfect fit.  Plus, I bought Ghostface and the Head Case DLC and have not even started the game to see those additions.  I have been told the Stranger Things DLC is out and it is twelve dollars and that is before the different outfits for Steve and Nancy, and I have not looked into how much those are.

We are on the sixth episode of Season Three and Nancy has yet to wear her stripe shirt but Steve has not been seen out of his Ahoy outfit so I will definitely want that outfit as that’s Steve for me right now.

I am also been loving Season Three of Stranger Things since episode four.  The kids and teenagers are coming together and the adults are making progress and nothing feels wasted or like filler.

If those costume packs for Friday the 13th would drop to a dollar, I will buy those and probably play that game during October.  I might start off with Dead by Daylight, play that a bunch and then settle in for some Man of Medan and maybe SOMA, at least figure out where i left off and make it to the next base in that game.

Making that list and sort of intimidated me and now I want to be more realistic with my goals.  Especially as I need to consider the free October games (which I can only imagine one of them will be horror specific) and, oh yeah, my desire to buy Murdered : Soul Suspect too.  Which I really like that title, it seems like the right amount of silly.

So maybe a week’s worth of Dead by Daylight, Murdered : Soul Suspect, then into Man of Medan for my second playthrough, where I play the party mode (but by myself like a sad person) and choosing either all hearts or all brain options.  The heart options is listed before the brain one so that decision has been made.

I strive on direction and over-planning so this all feels very satisfying, if not very nerdy.

.  .  .

I have to write these thoughts down as this is irritating me so much.

Big Brother 21.

Nicole, Cliff, Michie, and Holly were our Final Four.  Nicole and Cliff had the opportunity to vote out Holly or Tommy.  With some nonsense they made crazy deals to keep Holly to maintain their final four deal.  But they did it in such a way to insult and to make Michie and Holly work hard to be in the Final Four.

All of this work just so Cliff could maybe possibly be in Final Three, in the hardest way possible?

None of this being neccessary if they just voted Holly out, and kept Tommy so that those three could work together to take out Michie.  Instead, Cliff really thought Michie was going to vote out his showmance of the summer to keep an old man around.  Like, no amount of handshakes would convince me to vote out my in-house make out buddy to keep an old father figure type in the house.  In what world does that make sense?

Nicole’s disbelief that the showmance decided to stick together is also ridiculous.  She knew this would happen and Cliff voting to keep Holly and her voting to keep Tommy and forcing Michie to break the tie, that would have been good Big Brother TV.  Or just voting Holly out would have been an amazing Big Brother move.  Instead, they allowed Michie and Holly the honor of being the showmance that has gone further in Big Brother history than anyone else.

That is, if you are being generous that Danielle and Shane from BB14 (Dan’s second season with Britney) were a showmance while in the house, but they did date after the show but it always felt one sided to me.

Like, I get not wanting to ruin a Final Four deal.  But I also get that there is only seven more days in the house and if they kept Tommy, Michie would have been mad for four days, they would have voted him out and then boom, no more hurt feelings in the house.

Cliff was super smart to tell Michie that Cliff was going to taint the jury against Michie.  Though once Tommy showed up at the Jury House, the jury would have been tainted already but the jury seems to understand Michie is playing a dirty game and respecting his commitment to it.

Michie is definitely not going to go down in Big Brother history has one of the best players but he’ll be on a list to be considered for most winning player but his legacy is not going to last.

Once again, if Michie wins, and I think anyone sitting against him, will win, his tactics would not work in any other season, like most winners could not repeat their tactics to win another season of the show.

Now poor Nicole has to keep moving rooms so that the showmance and bone in every room now as she feels like a complete idiot.

Which would not have happened if they just voted to keep Tommy.

I am still hoping for a Nicole / Holly finale as that is what Jackson Michie deserves.

Man of Medan Part Two

Posted by John Klein III on September 19, 2019
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Here is my second hour of Man of Medan for your viewing pleasure!  I should look into seeing if I can add audio to these but then I run the risk of waking up my sleeping wife and son but it might still be nice.

I never did get good at the calm heartbreak mechanic.

.  .  .

In my tour to avoid playing any of my current games, I started playing Hellblade : Senua’s Sacrifice.

https://www.ign.com/wikis/hellblade/Lorestones

I’m using IGN’s Lorestones Location guide to find all 44 of those so I don’t have to do a second playthrough just to find one or two that I missed.

They are giant rocks so I imagine they are hard to miss.  From reading ahead, it seems like only one of them is off the beating path so that’s good to know.

I only played for an hour so I got to Valravyn’s Keep.

The game is very interesting and looks stunning!

Melina Juergens, who portrays Senua, really put in a lot of work!

https://twitter.com/juergensmelina?lang=en

I decided I will start following her through Twitter.

I am not playing with headphones but I will find a pair to get the full experience.

A fair warning though, the subtitles only really do the main story script and a few of the other voices, so if you are hard of hearing, you might be missing out on some of the atmosphere the game developers were creating.  My family is sleeping when I game so I have to have the subtitles on but I played with the volume at ten and got most of the experience.

I kept getting creepy vibes from the game, and I’m sure that is all due to the outstanding audio work that went into the game, plus the visuals.

.  .  .

I have committed to the idea of buying Murdered : Soul Suspect on Wednesday.  I imagine the chances are super small to get it for free as one of the October free games.

October 2019 Prediction Thread
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I did put in my prediction that we will get Murdered : Soul Suspect and Inpatient.

Man of Medan Part One

Posted by John Klein III on September 17, 2019
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I am not exactly sure why I haven’t written in so long, just busy I guess.  I have completed Man of Medan and I had a great time with my first playthrough.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan Trophy Guide & Roadmap

I did not look at PowerPyx’s Trophy Guide list until my third night of playing but it was mostly just a curious glance at it.  Once it seemed like it was going to spoil anything, I looked away.

It was a very fun game, and I’ll post four more videos of my playthrough.  It takes around four and a half hours.

I’m disappointed that I’m not going to get the platinum for this game as I can’t commit to playing five hours with someone else online.  So that sort of kills my buzz for the overall game and really makes me want to hesitate before preordering New Hope as I could clearly wait it out until the game drops ten dollars.

I had fun, but I’m distracting myself with other games before attempting a second playthrough.

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In much more fun news, the season pass for Arkham Knight finally went on sale!

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1018-CUSA00133_00-DLCSEASONPASS000

So I have to sneak and treat myself to a PSN card as I barely have eight dollars in my PSN Wallet.  But buy a card, I will!  I am so jazzed to get to play the Arkham Episodes and play with the various costumes and variants of the Batmobile.

I read a tip to save Mr. Freeze for last so that it remains snowing in Arkham, and that sounds like a fun thing to do in my Normal playthrough.

There is a pretty massive sale going on the PlayStation store that is good through October 1.  I would caution to wait until the free games are announced on September 25, if you are buying any games over two dollars.

Thanks to PlayStation for hosting the launch trailer.

I type that, as I am tempted to get Murdered : Soul Suspect, as that is two dollars and I was tempted to buy it at Shopko one time when it was ten dollars.  It might make for a great October free game, so I am going to hold out.  Plus, I have Arkham Knight to keep me occupied.

There are two other two dollar games I was tempted by, Toro and Yasai Ninja, but the reviews for those games are bad.  Like, not even playable bad.

.  .  .

I also started and completed The Last of Us!  I was looking over Girlfriend Reviews videos and I sort of do a mini-marathon every weekend, as I wait for the new video to drop.  I came across The Last of Us video again and figured I’ll finally play the game.

So now I have played all of the games that Shelby has reviewed that I could.  Well, technically, I have not played Detroit : Become Human, but that’ll be nice.

I pretty much played The Last of Us straight through.  I played on Normal, so I got the Normal trophy as well as the Easy Trophy.  The game as a slew of collectibles but the only one I made a point of collecting were the comic book ones.

I did start Left Behind (on Normal) and did the first chapter but now that Arkham Knight is now on the table, I’m going to take a slight break and do those missions before coming back to Left Behind.

I could, looking back, have taken breaks between the seasons but I was told the game wasn’t horribly long, so I figured I would just play it straight.  Plus, I was really getting into the game.  I don’t think I love it as much as others clearly do but there were moments like in the sewer when Joel and Ellie were with Sam and Henry, and we come across what should have been a safe zone, and getting all of the lore, that I was recognizing what great the game really is.

I also got the trophy for crafting one of everything, that didn’t include all of the melee weapon types, just one of each of the five categories.  Melee Weapon, Shiv, Health Pack, Molotov Cocktail, and Smoke Bomb.  I barely threw any bottles or bricks.  I also got a lot better with stealth, something I usually don’t tend to be in games.

I’ll commit to playing a New Game Plus on Normal but after Left Behind, and probably do a full rotation of my games as well, just like how I am waiting to do another playthrough of Man of Medan.  Like, Late Shift, I want a decent break between playthroughs.

.  .  .

I did take a slight break inbetween The Last of Us and Left Behind to play The Witness.

Thanks to PS4Trophies for hosting the guide for how to get the Symmetry trophy.

It was bugging me so much that I had The Witness at 0% when I legit gave it a proper go when it was a free game back in March 2019.  Which I knew I really didn’t give it a proper go, more like 30 minutes but I had not committed to fully giving the free games a fair chance back then.  Then I kept thinking about it and I decided to really look into how long and complicated was earning the first trophy in the game really was.  And it wasn’t all that hard at all!  I think I just got lost in the game’s world, like a maroon, and with the aid of the above video, within 20 minutes, I had earned the trophy.  So that is one less thing on my silly mind.

I was also convinced to play while watching Dave and Rosie play the game during one of their live streams.  I’m not really sure why I was so dismissive of their live streams in the past, I’m sure it was mostly how long the videos were, but now that I have an hour lunch break again and realizing I can watch 30 minutes a night, I can commit to watching these.  They are so fun and I love the team so it makes sense I’ll love them in a long format too.  I can be so silly sometimes.

So that has been what I’ve been doing for a week or so.

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.

.  .  .

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
byu/sensual_manatee inPS4

Batman: Arkham Knight and Darksiders III are your PlayStation Plus games for September
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Which is super nice for a change.

.  .  .

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!

.  .  .

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.

.  .  .

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.

.  .  .

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.

.  .  .

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.

.  .  .

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.

.  .  .

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!

.  .  .

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.

.  .  .

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!

.  .  .

September 2019 Prediction Thread
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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
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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
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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
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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!