I gave both games we received for August through the PS+ program. I played both for a night each.
I did not get that far in Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered. I did play it on Normal difficulty, and I got the point in the fifth mission where I am by myself. Which I really like playing Call of Duty games with the squad. Once I am by myself, my lack of skill is very well obvious. I choose to skip the Russian level, the game provides plenty of warnings about skipping it, and from what I looked up online, it does seem like something I rather not experience myself.
Fall Guys, though, was super fun. I played during the very first night of release. I only had two matches where I was disconnected from the server. I stayed up like 30 more minutes than I should have, but I really wanted to reach level 6. The game is super fun and the individual games are easy to learn. I do prefer the ones where I am playing solo, and not as part of the team. The team challenges, I just feel like I am being carried by the team, or I am barely contributing to the team.
I resisted buying the DLC with the costumes and some game credits, it was $10, but I like the idea of just wearing what I earn myself from the game.
Once they add split screen playability, I will probably go back, or if I read they have turtle costumes, I’ll dedicate some time to playing it, but I definitely enjoyed myself and who knows, I might go back. I have been making a new cycle of games to play, and my list is pretty deep.
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I finally reached player level 20!
It would have been so much nicer on the eyes, if I had earned it with my 3333rd trophy, but that’s okay.
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I also earned my 32nd Platinum trophy with The Council!
I really enjoyed the game. The game does take an odd left turn toward the end of Episode 4. Then it seemed to get back into its great historical fiction in Episode 5, but then it recommitted to the twist.
Not to spoil anything, but I made the poor decision to not to listen to my mother, and regret the ending I earned. Playing Episode 1 again, the game really does a great job of making a point to listening to Louis’ mother. So it really is on me that I chose to quit listening to her late into the game.
I really was loving the game, but some of the shine came off with the twist. It really reminded me of how much I was enjoying Dean Knootz’s Sole Survivor. I was really enjoying the mystery of it all, and then it took this science fiction twist that I was not expecting. Except, apparently, that is Knootz’s style, it that again was on me for not doing my research on the author. So only I would have found that to be a twist. But at the time, it just felt like a cheat.
I don’t feel cheated with The Council, but I was so enjoying the fictional history element of the story and it was a shame to see it go away.
I really liked the story base game with RPG elements, and I hope other company’s borrow the idea for their own games.
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My next game I am hoping to focus on is Uncharted 4. That was my plan until Lego The Hobbit went on sale for six dollars, so I bought that along with the four DLC (two dollars each), for a total of $14. So I will attempt to play that first level tonight, and then I will complete Chapter 9 of Uncharted 4.
Typing about Lego games, Walker Dennis earned his second platinum! He stuck with it and earned the platinum for Lego Dimensions. We did not have to grind the puzzles like I was worried we were. His last trophy for the searching for a relic puzzle, but earned it during the final mission. I thought we were going to have to grind the Portal level of the main story, but we did not have to do that.
Though we are going to have to grind the game, as Walker really wants to have the dance party mode unlocked, and we need 480 gold bricks and we barely have 215 right now. I really thought we were going to earned it by beating the game, but it was not that easy. So we will keep playing and figure it out.
My plan for us is to play the 80s Ghostbusters level, Mission Impossible Level, and the Goonies Level, that way, he will have all of the trophies for the game that I have, and then we will tackle Fantastic Beasts’ six levels, and that should give us a slew of gold bricks. From there, who knows how we will tackle it. I am tempted to replay all of the story missions to gather up minikits, but mostly to rescue people, as those would be easy to earn gold bricks, and we will get closer to earning all minikits in the game. But we will have to play the game loads more, so that should be a fun time together.
Each hub world has around 28 gold bricks, so really, we just have to play five of those to earn 20 gold bricks each, and that will give us 100 gold bricks, so it is really only a matter of focusing and committing to the game.
The August 2020 Free PS Plus Games are going to be :
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered and Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout!
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (a clunky title, but it explains everything you need to know) was released only back in March 2020, and already a free game.
Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout is following Rocket League’s success by having its launch be part of the PS+ initiative. The game is very much inspired by Takeshi’s Castle, like a very colorful and crowded version of TBS’ Wipeout.
I’m pretty excited to try these games out. CoD MW2 CR comes out today, Tuesday, July 28, and Fall Guys launches on August 4. Hence why the announcement came early. I’m going to play Modern Warfare 2 on Recruit difficulty and try to get as far as I can in a night. Fall Guys, I’m really hoping has couch co-op as I think Walker Dennis will love playing it as well.
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PS Prices
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered is currently a $20 game, and has gone as low as $15 in the past.
Fall Guys has no previous pricing, and I supposed we won’t know what it retails at until September, so I will have to remember to recalculate the running total for the October announcement as the game would still be free by the time the September games are announced.
Our current running total is $165 plus Call of Duty WWII Digital Edition, and I would add Fall Guys, but we’ll know the price of the game eventually. So adding $15, our new total is $180. We’re almost at $200 and not even into the fourth quarter of the year.
Since CoDMWCR is only the campaign, it was not given any DLC.
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Reddit reactions have mostly been comments about how this is the fastest turnaround for a game’s release to being a Plus title ever, at four months. People seem to be really excited for Fall Guys, so that’s nice. We will all be getting in on the game at the ground floor, and the lobbies should be super full.
I stayed up a little too late to beat Rise of the Tomb Raider! Such an amazing game! I got to the last campfire and it said there was no turning back from this point and it was still around 11:45pm, so I figure I could give it another 30 minutes, at the most. Then I woke up around 2am this morning with mega heart burn, and that usually puts me in a wide awake frame of mind, so I finished two tombs, earning the Tomb Raider trophy, and that felt pretty good too. I may try to buy those last two guns in the Supply Shack, but first I need like 50 more coins, and I might finally get back to The Council. Just in time for one of our PS+ titles to come along too. So that all timed out pretty nicely. If either Tomb Raider came (Shadow or 2013) goes on sale below $10, I’m buying those games, no matter what! I had such a great time!
Though I do worry that Rise may have perfected any kinks that 2013 had, but Shadow should be everything that was great in Rise, but more of it, right?
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Walker Dennis has gotten really into Lego Dimensions again. He’s also gotten into Doctor Who, right when it can’t be found anywhere besides HBO MAX. Which I really wish Roku would just make a deal with HBO Max and make it so we can watch the app not on my phone but on our actual TV. Philo no longer has Doctor Who either and Amazon Prime Video has BritBox, but that’s an extra $7 a month that I rather not spend.
I bought Walker another Doctor Who disc, so once it comes in, we can have two Doctors on screen at one time, so that should make him pretty happy. He’s been pretty obsessed with watching Twice Upon a Time where the First and Twelve Doctors meet. I overrode the Simpsons TV toy tag so we already have two TARDISes (?).
If we play a level a night, we should be able to earn Walker his second Platinum, but sometimes our nights gets away from us, but it would be fun to earn that trophy with how much he loves that game. We have to finish five levels and then do 25 puzzles of each type : Searching, Painting, and Weather Powers, and I would have sworn we have done the work for those, but those are the three I’m concern we will have to keep completing the proper Portal 2 level in the main game. But hopefully we earn one of those during the next five levels, as I’m concern the game is glitched, but 25 does seem like a lot, so we must be close.
I finally got around to completing what I wanted to complete in Star Wars Battlefront II, so here is my article.
Call of Duty WWII was pretty fun. I was enjoying the first two story missions and could see myself going back for more. The multiplayer was nice, I got my first ten kills, and got a trophy, and felt I experienced it enough.
Star Wars Battlefront II on the other hand, I had a lot more fun with. I am no good with the spaceship missions. I completed two of the story missions, it starts with some space battles, and then we land into another ship. That was when I wanted to try multiplayer. I did all of the arcade modes for the training of it all. Then I did all of the multiplayer options until I won one of each for those trophies. Some of them took much longer than others, probably because I was on their teams, but I feel like I was getting better at it, as I was playing.
Both games are off of my PS4, which freed up a bunch of room.
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I’ve been playing a slew of games again.
Lego Worlds, I have completed the first three tutorial levels, and explored an icy world. Walker Dennis has really taken to the game, he spends a lot of time on the Monster World.
World of Warships : Legends, I’m not sure what made me stumble across this game, I was searching for something else, and saw this free game. I looked into it for the USS Arizona, and if I bought the Firepower Deluxe $30 combo pack, I could get a slew of great upgrades and ships, including the USS Arizona. $30 is way more than I want to spend on a free game, and we could earn in-game currency to buy it, but that specific currency is a very slow earn. Which I completely get, as there is a $30 combo pack that needs buying. I played for a decent amount, I unlock Standard battles, which would be the PvP aspect of the game, but I really enjoyed the PvC aspect. It felt like a team effort, and I wasn’t being shown up by veterans of the game. I was able to pull my weight, which I appreciated. The game looks amazing, and the learning curve is not steep at all. Unfortunately, there were two games where we were being blasted out of the water, were down to two ships, and neither ship was even playing. Which was irritating, but it was good experience.
That’s You, I was reminded PlayStation Access played this game and I recall how I bought this game for 25 cents at the GameStop in Missoula. Walker Dennis was nice enough to play with me. I went for some easy trophies, and we had a pretty decent time. The game was over in like 20 minutes or so, it was very fast.
Lego Dimensions, I got the Scooby Doo and Shaggy team pack, with the Mystery Machine. There are 27 gold bricks in the Scooby world and I was able to get 25 of them. The two I am missing is a dumb car racing one, and another is a dumb flying one. I tried so many times, and then I remembered I have a backlog of games (that I’m adding too, all of the time!), and just gave up. 25 out of 27 is pretty good, I’ll write. Such a fun world and I loved how it got me using characters I haven’t used in forever. I was clearing the underwater gold bricks and ended up using Slimer, Evan Hunt, and a Cyberman. There was a Portal gold brick and a Ghostbusters good brick as well.
It really made me want to put aside some more money and buy more characters, but I need to start saving for a bigger item, I think.
36 Fragments of Midnight, is a game that is currently 89 cents, and is on many lists for easy platinums. Which I am super annoyed by, as clearly, I am not going to be able to earn this easy platinum. I can get up to 29 fragments, and then I fall apart. Either the map is too big and I’m not used to it yet, or I’m rushing it as there are two timed trophies. One is to beat the game in ten minutes and another is to beat it in six minutes. But I clearly cannot even get the final seven fragments, but I keep trying. It really is a pleasant platformer and a real mellow experience.
King’s Quest, I subscribed to the King’s Quest subreddit, even though I mostly only like King’s Quest IV with Rosella. I heard she was in the PS4 version, but in the later chapters. Like, The Council, the first chapter of five, is free. So I downloaded it, and I had a really great time with it. We play as King Graham, voiced by legend Christopher Lloyd. He’s retelling his earlier adventures to his granddaughter. If the collection ever drops below ten dollars, I’ll buy the rest of it. Wallace Shawn is another voice actor in the game, and they worked in his great scene from The Princess Bride, with the poisoned cups.
Grand Theft Auto V, I started playing this again an obvious reason I will get into below, and having a pretty good time again. I have been playing the Kifflom mission with the Epsilon Program. It is the last non-story trophy I believe I will earn. I’ve been waiting to start this quest and it feels good to do it, it is very long. I am about to do the five miles in the desert mission, so I am pretty close to completing it. While wearing the robes for 10 days, I bought the helicopter pad, stole a helicopter, and flew around the map and finally earned the sight seer trophy.
Walker Dennis has been really into Back to the Future, watching the trilogy, taking a day break from it, and then starting it all over again. That first movie really is a perfect movie. We’ve been playing in the Back to the Future world in Lego Dimensions and I even took the time to find a Ruiner in GTA V and bought a red vested suit.
So that has been a lot of fun. Walker started the TellTale game and has gotten decently farther into the first episode than I did, earning a few additional trophies. So now I want to at least catch up to him on my own file, so I have it on my list to at least play and complete the first chapter. It is very different than the other TellTale games I played, there is a lot of back and forth and exploring and going back to areas. It isn’t as straight forward as the Batman games. But now my playthrough should be much quicker now that I know where to go.
For the big sale that is happening, I did buy The Council, and keep wanting to jump right into it, but I put these games first to get out of my system. I also bought Metal Gear Solid V Definitive Edition, so now I feel like I can properly say I’m a fan of Rob from PlayStation Access. Not a super fan yet, as I would need to have bought Skyrim.
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We were treated to the big PS5 presentation on June 11.
The system looks amazing, but I really want a classic PlayStation black edition, or another limited edition. The white is nice, but I feel like it is going to be a real dust collector.
Thanks to PlayStation for hosting their own presentation.
Below are my Top 10 game moments from the presentation! I’m just going in the order as presented.
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GTA V is going to join the ranks of Resident Evil 2 and Skyrim, and be on as many consoles as possible. PS4 owners of GTA V will be given a million dollars for GTA Online each month until the PS5 is releaed. As I enjoy free money, either real or digitally, I figured I’ll take advantge of it and play the game. I want that Kifflom trophy, then I will do one additional mission, and then probably put the game onto the back burner until next month.
Interesting choice to start with a PS3 game, but I think it was a good transition from the PS4 to PS5.
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I am fully committed to waiting a solid year for Black Friday 2021 to buy a PS5 (or have that be the earliest I will buy it) as I want it to drop a $100, as there is now it will be released between the $300 to $400 range. But seeing Spider-Man : Miles Morales, oh boy. I want a PS5 so much! I know waiting a year is the right play, plus all of these amazing games will be a tad cheaper by then, but gosh, this teaser looks amazing!
People keep saying it is going to work like Uncharted : Lost Legacy, where it is a smaller game, using the bigger game’s engine, but improved graphically, and a bold new story. So I am here for this! I really should add Uncharted 4 to my list of games to reinvest time into.
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I deleted Call of Duty WWII and Star Wars Battlefront II, as I needed room to play all of the games I was inspred to play. One of those was Ratchet and Clank, which I plan on playing for at least a level, after I have completed my current fun with GTA V.
I’m also a fan of the title, Rift Apart, such clever word play.
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I’m not sure what Stray is about, but it looks super intriguing. Developed by BlueTwelve and published by Annapurna Interactive are bringing us the game, and I’ve been wanting to do a deep dive into other Annapurna Interactive games after really enjoying What Remains of Edith Finch. Donut County, Ashen, and Kentucky Route Zero, all look pretty interesting. They also published Flower and Journey too, so a name I should trust.
Seeing the robots in this game, inspired me to reinstall Detroit Become Human, so I’m going to at least play another chapter of that game. My main focus right now is playing chapters of games, and just having a fun time with it.
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Sackboy A Big Adventure had a very fun opening, as I was like “Tony the Tiger, the Game?” Then I saw the zipper on his chest, and I knew we were in for a good time.
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Kena Bridge of Spirits, looks like a lovely platformer in the same vein as Rachet and Clank. It looks amazing. Ember Labs is the developer and publisher of the game.
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Miles Morales is my clear favorite of the list, but my very close second will have to be, Goodbye, Volcano High. It just looks super interesting, and I just want to know more about it! It is being developed by KO_OP.
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Solar Ash gave me real RiME vibes. This game is also being published by Annapurna Interactive. The game is being developed by Heart Machine, so no connections to RiME, besides my initial reaction to it.
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Hitman III is coming to PS5! I really wish I was better at these games, but they are so big that I sort of get lost in all of the options, but I really should commit to playing the first game again.
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Horizon Forbidden West is coming to PS5! So I’m predicting now that at some point this year, Horizon Zero Dawn will be a free PS+ title. Which probably isn’t saying much as I’ve been predicting it for a while, but it has to be now, right?
Solar Ash is more of a bonus item, but of course, none of these games will be possible without . . .
The PlayStation 5!
I’m mostly looking forward to getting some truly amazing games for the PS4 through PS+, and then some incredible indie games for the PS5, if they run the program like they did when the PS4 originally came out, with smaller PS4 titles and bigger PS3 titles.
What are you mostly looking forward to?
YouTuber, 6BURGH Gaming, was nice enough to write the following time stamps for the presentation of the 26 games :
GTA V – 3:50 Spider-Man Miles Morales – 5:49 GT7 – 7:30 Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart – 10:08 Project Athia – 15:49 Stray – 17:01 Returnal – 20:48 Sackboy A Big Adventure – 23:10 Destruction All-Stars – 25:20 Kena Bridge of Spirits – 27:32 Goodbye Volcano High – 29:54 Oddworld Soulstorm – 31:50 Ghostwire Tokyo – 34:10 Jett The Far Shore – 36:10 Godfall – 38:34 Solar Ash – 40:00 Hitman 3 – 41:47 Astro’s Playroom – 44:28 Little Devil Inside – 45:23 NBA 2K21 – 47:39 Bugsnax – 49:01 Demon’s Souls – 52:10 Deathloop – 54:17 Resident Evil Village – 57:50 Pragmatic – 1:01:00 Horizon Forbidden West – 1:03:35 CONSOLE – 1:08:31
Both are multiplayer shooter games, but both also have single player campaigns, so that sounds pretty great.
Call of Duty WWII is available now, and Battlefront II will be available to download on June 2nd.
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PSPrices
Call of Duty WWII is the standard edition, that they do not sale anymore, so typically if someone wanted to buy this game, that person would have had to buy the Gold Edition, which is typically $60. So that makes it pretty hard to determine the proper value of this game. The Gold Edition goes as low as $19.79.
Star Wars Battlefront II is typically $20, but goes as low as $6.24.
Our running total on the value of PS Plus, is $126, so let’s just add $7 to make $131, and we’ll just say Call of Duty WWII has been a free game, going forward.
PS Store
Both games have a slew of DLC.
Call of Duty WWII
200 points for $2
2,400 points for $20
5,000 points for $40
9,500 points for $75
13,000 points for $100
C.O.D.E. Personalization Pack Bundle for $10
The Resistance DLC Pack 1 for $6 (on sale now, typically $15)
War Machine DLC Pack 2, $6 (on sale now, typically $15)
The United Front DLC Pack 3, $6 (on sale now, typically $6)
Shadow War DLC Pack 4 for $6 (on sale now, typically $15)
Endowment Fear Not add-on for $5
Season Pass $20 (on sale now, typically $50)
Gold Edition for $60
Digital Deluxe Edition for $100
There is a Premium SHAREfactory that is free, so I downloaded that.
Endowment Fear Not Dynamic Theme for $4
So the Season Pass seems to save you four dollars, and probably comes with some additional stuff.
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Apparently there is a PSP/Vita version of the game for $10
There are two free static themes and a SHAREfactory theme, so I downloaded those.
Celebration Edition upgrade for $25
Celebration Edition for $40
200 Crystals Pack for $2.49
500 Crystals Pack for $5
1,000 Crystals Pack for $10
2,100 Crystals Pack for $20
4,400 Crystal Packs for $40
So it seems like the base game is good enough.
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Here are reddit’s responses. The announcement was delayed for The Last of Us Part 2’s State of Play, and there was discussion if Call of Duty WWII was a bonus game or one of the two titles, as two years ago, Black Ops III was given away around this time, then we were given two proper titles.
Some comments are stating how the games are pretty massive, download size wise. So that’s good to know. I’m going to have to clear an additional 100gb when I get home tonight.
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Here are what my YouTube peeps are saying :
Rob of PlayStation Access :
Adam of PlayStation Grenade, he did two videos as the games were announced.
Ben of Platinum Chasers :
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Here is PlayStationTrophies.org’s guides to both games :
Lego Star Wars Force Awakens, Deluxe Edition, is finally $7.19 again, so I snatched it up. I believe the only Lego games we are missing now for the PS4 are Worlds and Hobbit. Which I guess I will buy those once they drop to under ten dollars.
Next week is supposed to be the beginning of PlayStation’s Days to Play, with loads of discounts, so that’s something to get excited about. I am hoping there are some deals on Vita games.
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In the past few weeks, I have been playing a slew of games. Well, sampling games, I supposed.
One reason not to be upset about Call of Duty WWII not being considered a bonus game, is that we were given the base game of Final Fantasy XIV for free. From what I can tell, you don’t have to pay the subscription fee until you reach level 30 or something like that. I’m not sure how much more I will be playing it, but I have been having a great time. For my own anxiety, I am trying to not fill up my duty journal with tasks, as my first night playing, I was racking up quests, but now I am level 10, and just learning how to do more things, and I am finally comfortable with the little of the map that I have explored, that I’m just taking one quest at a time, possibly two or three, if they are nearby. I made a gladiator modeled after my wife, and I think she came out pretty well.
I’m mostly looking for outfits with purple in them, so I’m hoping those will be coming soon. I need to get her some armor for her waist.
It took so long, but totally worth, but I finally earned some pants for her!
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We watched the Sonic movie, and had a very good time. We rented it through VUDU, but Walker has since fallen in love with the character, so after payday, we will probably be buying it. I downloaded Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces again. I made no progress on Sonic Mania, so that was lousy. Sonic Forces, on the other hand, I completed several more levels, so that has been fun returning to the game. I really should be playing one level of it, and then bouncing to Final Fantasy XIV, but that means closing one application and starting another, and that kills my buzz.
Except, really, it shouldn’t, as FF14 is completely online, so I am essentially starting it over every night anyway.
In our excitement about Sonic, I gave in and we purchased Sonic for Lego Dimensions.
Thanks to Lego Dimensions for hosting their own video.
Walker Dennis is way into Knight Rider again, so the above video has been nicely timed. We already had Mr. T, and seeing that the only character we didn’t own from the video was Excalibur Batman, and I found him reasonably affordable on eBay, I bought him too. So we’ve been playing Lego Dimensions again. Excalibur Batman is around $11, so don’t spend more than that, if you are searching for him.
Turns out, we barely played the Teen Titans Go level, and a few more worlds had repair spots that we never did, so I have been trying clean those up, in anticipation of getting Sonic and Excalibur Batman.
We also watched Scoob, and now I’m way into Scooby Doo again. We bought the two live action films through VUDU, and also the latest Scooby Doo meets Batman from Brave and the Bold, which was very good. Riddler is in it, and I’m all for Riddler content.
I really wish Will Forte tried to do a Shaggy impression, but besides that, I really liked how they are trying to create a Hanna Barrera Universe with the film.
I had two different bids for Scooby Doo and Shaggy for Lego Dimensions, but both went above what I was willing to pay for it. But now that the thought is in my head, after payday, I’m going to put another $20 aside, and try again. I will probably be buying the Witch’s Ghost movie, and we saw there was a full length Lego Scooby Doo animated film, so I might buy that one once I have bought the Lego Dimensions set.
I own the original Scooby Doo meets 66 Batman animated film, but I would love to get it digitally as well, but VUDU is not selling it.
Walker Dennis and I have been watching the 2012 Scooby Doo Mystery Inc cartoon on Netflix, and that series is so worth your time! Amazing how 2012 gave us some definitive takes on both Ninja Turtles and Scooby Doo.
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Every time I try to load Omega Quintet, I get a black screen, so I have made no progress on that game, unfortunately, I am hoping that playing these other games, it will do something with that game, so I can play it again. The only game that loads to black screen, and nothing comes from it.
I have successfully played the rest of the 2018 PS Plus titles that I never got around too.
Space Overlords, was simple enough. I followed a guide, and earned several trophies for planet creation, and then I completed the first level.
Another World, I was following this video :
Thanks to Achievement_King for hosting the video.
He is a far better player than me, and I got stuck around the 20 minute mark. Too much has to go right, and I don’t have the patience to keep up with it.
Laser League was fun, I successfully completed the tutorial, and did two online matches, lost both times, but I was getting a tad better at it. I was tempted to keep playing until I won one, but I was ready to move on as well. Both games, I played against computer peeps, so maybe no one is playing it anymore?
Rocketbirds 2 : Evolution was fun enough, but once I earned the first trophy, like an hour into the game, I was ready to delete it. I’m just not up to the challenge of it.
Iconoclasts was another game that I was enjoying, and it was a challenge, but now I’m stuck trying to locate a fourth key, and it is harder than I am willing to spend time doing, so that’s that. I’m pretty cut throat with these older games.
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I played the first levels of both Lego Harry Potter : Years 5-7, and Lego Ninjago. I forgot how quiet the older Lego games are, but I enjoyed Harry Potter enough. I have way too many Lego games going right now. Lego Ninjago was good too, I didn’t experience any problems, besides the second level loading immediately after the first, but that happens from game to game.
Walker Dennis does not seem to be interested in playing the PS4 as he used to, so I may have to hold off on buying any more Lego games, but I enjoy them enough to at least have them in backlog.
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I forget how it came up, but Walker Dennis wanted to play a racing game and I quickly downloaded Trackmania Turbo, for him. Looking at the trophies, I thought I could do a few more of those, and made several levels, and earned like nine trophies, so that was nice.
I also tried the online game, Pox Nora, and I did not take to it. Thankfully, I earned a trophy during the second of three tutorials, and that was enough for me.
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I downloaded the first episode of The Council, and I really had a great time with the game. If the Season Pass for episodes two through five ever drops under ten, I will definitely be buying it. There is a charm to that game that I really enjoyed. It is like a TellTale game, but with some RPG elements, and the historical fiction elements are really fun. I like hanging out with George Washington.
So, I don’t really have that many more gaming goals. Keep playing Final Fantasy XIV, keep attempting to play Omega Quintet, and eventually play Call of Duty WWII and Star Wars Battlefront II, probably try those once Battlefront II is an option.
PS+ Subscribers received Sims 4 and the Bioshock Collection of games for February. Plus Firewall Zero Hour for the VR.
After thinking I would not invest too much time into Sims 4, I invested a crazy amount of time! I made myself maxed out on playing video games, writing, playing both the violin and the guitar. I am currently working on my piano skills. During my writing days, I was earning royalties for all of the books I was writing but I suspect those may be drying up lately. I made my wife who goes out and works all day so I can stay home and work on my skills, and I used the game’s genetics option to make Walker Dennis, who came out pretty well. Pretty much my face but with my wife’s proper proportions, so we are all pretty happy. I really need to move us into a larger house as the piano is out in the yard and that cannot be good for it.
I plan on trying to stick it out and keep the game into the rotation. It really is a lot of fun. Repetitive but fun. I was getting annoyed as I was trying to write songs and it takes forever to write a song, to the point, where I have not written any songs.
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Bioshock, and I am definitely not the first one to write this, is such a fun and interesting game! I pretty much played it over the course of two nights and I defeated Dr. Steinman, and that felt like a good stopping place for the moment. I am not usually into first person shooters but this game just feels so good to play and explore Rapture.
There is an amazing Remasters and Retro sale going on right now! I bought the Batman : Return to Arkham set for five dollars as quickly as I could! I also scooped up Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 as Walker Dennis really wanted to play a Spider-Man fighting game after he saw me playing Injustice 2. UMvC3 is nine dollars and felt like a pretty good price. Infinite is way too much for this me, if I was more into fighting games, I would jump at all of the content for $24 but I can easily wait. Especially as I feel like I am already done with the game. I would be jumping right into Arkham Asylum but then . . .
The Division 2 was set to three dollars and I had to buy it! I knew next to nothing about it, except that it usually still goes for $60 and on sale, it still like $20, so three dollars was pretty worth it. I definitely got my three dollars worth out of NBA 2k19.
The one draw back is that the Division 2 is such a huge game so now I feel like I have to mainline it for a while to justify the space it takes up.
Here is Dave from PlayStation Access playing the game :
I watched a few minutes of the video and figured, “What the heck?” and bought the game.
I got to level 6 and completed the third main story mission. So I was able to unlock squads and definitely got my three dollars worth. The game is much better when you get matched with others, heck, even just having a partner made the game more enjoyable.
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Thanks to my 26th Platinum, Life is Strange, I finally got to level 18!
Such an interesting game. I still plan on making Life is Strange : Before the Storm, my March Platinum.
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Here is also a deal that Adam’s Venture Origins is only 19 cents.
I quickly picked up Erica for $5 and Monopoly Family Fun Pack for $6.
I was making such good progress on Lego Batman 3 again but that is okay, it will be there when I get back.
A lot of excellent games are on sale right now. I was surprised with how many games I already owned!
Batman : Arkham Knight, Bloodborne, Grand Theft Auto V, Lego Marvel Collection, Mafia III, Ratchet & Clank, Man of Medan, The Last of Us Remastered, Lego Movie 2, The Witness, Uncharted 4, Until Dawn, and Until Dawn : Blood Rush,
Here are the two guides for Erica. One is for overall game :
My plan is to play it like Late Shift, with one playthrough, and then play another game or two and come back to Erica.
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For my birthday, Walker Dennis got me Lego Incredibles and we burned through the story mode and now just enjoying the open world.
We unlocked Splashdown, and Walker Dennis really wanted to use his mask for his Spider-Man creation, but it was not in the creation options. So that is unfortunate and disappointing. It would have been amazing!
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When I bought Injustice 2, it did not take long for Walker D to want to fight Batman and the Ninja Turtles. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 went on sale for only ten dollars so I bought it. I forgot the Capcom games did that team-up thing so it isn’t just one character versus another, but three on three.
Turns out, one of Spider-Man’s alternate suits is the Scarlet Spider, so I am super happy about that, but one of the other ones is the black costume, so Walker D likes that. Though he has been playing as the traditional red and blue suit, which is fine.
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I treated Walker Dennis and myself to Lego DC Supervillains Deluxe Edition, so expect some updates about that game!
I would not have imagine Spider-Man being my number one game of 2019 but it makes sense. It was practically the only game I played for all of January and most of February.
Lego Marvel Superheroes and Lego Dimensions are games that Walker Dennis will play by himself, but under my name, but it makes sense a Lego game would fill up my next two slots. I would be curious what my fourth game of the year would have been but I imagine it would just be another Lego game.
I figured I would have had Action-Adventure as my main genre, as those are the games I lean towards the most. Especially third person action adventure.
Of the 365 days of the year, I gamed 314 days, and that sounds about right. Pretty easy to imagine that there were 51 nights where I just went straight to bed.
I do not own a VR so 0 hours makes sense.
36 hours of online play, which is way higher than 2018 as I did not play any online games and made a bigger point of playing more of them in 2019. I played Dead by Daylight for 18 hours last year, so another 18 is split between For Honor and who knows what other games.
I really wish I knew which 91 games I played in 2019 were as I have a hard time imagining I played even 50. We were given 24 games through PS+, so that’s 24, then I imagine I easily played another 25 games of my own choosing, so 50, but what were the other 41 games? Of those 25, I know I tried a slew of free games, but I still find it hard to believe I played 91 different games. Would be pretty impressive, if true. But if I start questioning that stat, I probably have to question them all, and the rest seems pretty accurate.
Except for the 14 hour longest gaming streak, I am not sure how that would have even been possible. I barely get to play for an hour and a half on most week nights, and on the weekend, I cannot imagine we played more than three hours at a time. It is just too much time spent in front of the television. Shame it does not give me that date for that.
Actually, there are two numbers up there for the PS+. One states at least 24 games was given but I downloaded 34 monthly games so there are ten more games right there!
I saved up to $60 on games and DLC, with just being a PS+ subscriber, so that literally paid for itself right there.
Sunday Evenings makes as much sense as any, the evening makes perfect sense. Maybe of those missing 51 nights, none of those were Sunday nights?
12 Platinums this year! I now have 26 Platinums, as I was trying to make a bigger point of earning platinums this year. One a month, not too shabby! I already got January’s plat taken care of with Lego Marvel Superheroes 2! What a grind towards the end! Those missions are very long!
On my list, I have Lego Marvel Superheroes 1 and Lego Avengers, and then I squeezed five plats in-between them, before getting Lego Marvel Superheroes 2. I wanted them to be a tad closer to each other but I was pretty burnt out on Lego at that time. Walker Dennis really wants to be there with me when I play Lego Batman 3, so I am not sneaking and getting any of those free plays done as I am using that time to play other games.
Those other five games were : Batman : The Enemy Within, Late Shift, Rocket League, Murdered Soul Suspect, and One Night Stand.
I might have to purposely pick some quick (but respectable) platinums to get at the beginning of each month. I definitely have four pages of Wishlist items over at psprices, so I should be able to widdle that list down to at least three pages this year. That is my main gaming goal for 2020.
I just treated my wife to the Wheel of Fortune / Jeopardy combo for $13, down from $40! She does love a good trivia game.
That is three games right off of my wishlist already! That was nicely timed. Eight more games and I get to three pages.
We were given a pretty cool set of Avatars and a cool 2019 Wrap Up Theme, so please check out your own stats and download those free items! And please feel free to share your own achievements!
The sale ends on February 5.
Since I am obsessed with taking the lists that redditors are so nice to compile, and put those in an Excel sheet.
One game I will for sure buy, is the Return to Arkham set, just whenever it is below ten, I will buy it. It gets as cheap as $5, but I really do not want to spend $20 for it. But I will buy it next time it is even $8. I just really want it after Walker Dennis started his own Knight game under his own game. I help him with the boss fights or any really complicated section, but he has been doing a lot of it on his own.
He just started Spider-Man PS4 as well, and he is having a blast there.
Looking at the sale :
Batman : The Enemy Within is totally worth if for five dollars.
Arkham Knight at $10 and the Premium Edition is $20, both worth it.
Conan Exiles for $20 is too much.
Dead by Daylight : Special Edition, totally worth it at $15, BUT! Be prepared to spend up to $20 for buying your favorite characters.
I want Doctor Who Edge of Time, but it is a VR game. I have added it to my wishlist if it ever goes super cheap.
Ghostbusters Remastered is $18, which is too much for me, especially for a one play game.
Grand Theft Auto V is worth $15.
If I had not just bought Wheel of Fortune / Jeopardy, I would be tempted to get Hasbro Family Fun Pack – Conquest Edition, as it comes with Monopoly Plus, Risk, Urban Assault (?), Battleship and Scrabble. Which I do have that 3-in-1 Monopoly combo on my wishlist but all of those games are right up my wife’s alley! Next time, game, next time! The cheapest it has been is $12 and it is $14 right now.
Injustice 2 Legendary Edition is typically $15, and I would buy it if I was done with the first game.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes looked super fun during PlayStation Access’s Christmas Maze, but no one would play with me, but $6 seems worth it.
So much fun!
Knack at $10 seems a bit much, but I still have to finish my copy.
Mad Max at $10 is worth it. Such a fun game!
Mafia III, I should really go back to it, not sure if $10 is worth it but I bet you would get ten dollars out of it.
PlayStation Access is huge on Outer Wilds, which is $20.
I have yet to play Rayman Legends, but I own it but five dollars, any game is worth it at that price. I am redownloading it as I type this! So I will play some of it soon.
Risk for $6 but I might as well just get it in the Hasbro pack.
I am sure I have the basic version of The Surge, but the Augmented Edition for $14 might be worth it. I did not get that far into it.
The Wolf Among Us is $5, but I (and others) suspect it will be a free game sometime before the sequel comes out.
TitanFall 2 Standard Edition is totally worth it at $8, I still have not got pass the first mission but it is definitely a quality game.
Trackmania Turbo for $10 is not bad, Walker Dennis played the heck out of that game.
Unravel Yarny Bundle is $11 and on my wishlist. I have enough active games unfortunately. But each game is essentially five dollars, so that is a good deal.
For my taste, WipEout Omega Collection is way too much at $15. I just did not take to it.
XCOM 2 is probably worth $15 to a lot of people who love the game. I did not get too far in my copy.
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Once again, and I will keep typing this as often as possible, the bulk of those titles I have opinions on above, the majority came with my PS+ subscription, I would never have sampled even 75% of these games.
Gosh, there are two games right at $1.04, Defunct and SHINY – A Robotic Adventure. I do like the idea of me buying the cheapest game on the list, just to see what it is like.
Defunct as a Platinum but no PlayStationTrophies.org guide. SHINY also has a Platinum, but also no PlayStationTrophies.org guide. Dang it! At least Defunct has a PSNProfiles guide but all video, so that is also disappointing. That is the problem with these cheaper games.
whoa whoa whoa!
I was going to just move onto Adam’s Venture : Origins for $2.54 but hol’ up a minute!
With my PS+ subscription, both Defunct and SHINY are 29 cents each! For 60 cents, I can get two games! I imagine they worth at least some time, unless they are just complete garbage. I will have to do some additional research.
Looks like both games have Complete Editions that come with avatars and themes, which I do like me a theme, so that kills my buzz a bit. Metacritic for both games states that they are playable, if not each having their own short comings. I may have to think about it some more.
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I am okay with missing out on the avatars and Shiny has two themes, one is constantly at $3 but the other gets as cheap as 49 cents and Defunct only has the one theme and that also gets pretty cheap, like also around 50 cents, so I am just going to buy those games for super cheap! Probably will not get the platinum for either one, unless the collectibles are pretty easy, but that is okay.
Sorry for the late post, having days off at the beginning of the year threw off my writing schedule.
The January 2020 PS Plus Games are . . . Uncharted the Nathan Drake Collection and Goat Simulator!
Games I have definitely played before as I am a huge Uncharted fan and Goat Simulator was one of the few games I had for the XBox 360. I was so confused by it but playing it now with Walker Dennis, it has been a lot of fun! I am not sure if it was the system or the controller, or the game itself, but I just felt lost with it.
I have the Uncharted Collection on physical disc, so now I am just waiting for GameStop to have another double credit deal with trade-ins so I can get some store credit.
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PSP Prices states the Uncharted Collection is typically $20 and goes as low as $8.
Goat Simulator is typically $10 and goes as low as $3.
So either the games are $30 at their peak or $11 at their lowest sales. I am going to track this to find out when the Plus subscription pays for itself. We are half way there or barely a sixth of the way.
Uncharted Collection has no DLC whereas Goat Simulator has a slew of DLC!
There is a DLC Bundle that is typically $20 or goes on sale as low as $5, which I am definitely tracking as that is a good deal for all of the DLC.
The Bundle includes :
Goatz (Zombies)
MMO Simulator
Payday
Waste of Space
So five dollars is pretty good for all of that content. I would never spend $20 for it. I am a very patient gamer.
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Here are my three subreddits’ opinions on the games. Seems like most are upset that if you wanted the Uncharted Collection, you would have owned it by now, which I agree but I am also a guy who wants God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn, as well as Witcher 3, but will probably never buy those games for myself, not at least, not in the near future.
Trophies are not earned on Explorer mode, which is the easiest difficulty.
Reading the titles, I like how the naming convention is kept through to Uncharted 4, A Thief’s End. The titles are either Drake or Thief related. Or Golden Abyss related. I was tempted to get a vita for like $133 through Amazon but then I was given roughly that amount for Christmas but that particular one was sold and the next inexpensive one was around $200, which is way too much for me to spend. Maybe Christmas 2020, but I doubt it.
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I have been very tempted to start Uncharted 1 and 2, on Easy mode, just to relive the adventure, and just have a very chill time with the games.
In the meantime, I have been playing a slew of games over the holiday! Just bouncing all over the place!
With the announcement of the games, I started Uncharted 4!
I was having a real blast, I think I am on chapter six? They are at the auction, I know that at least.
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My beautiful wife got me Injustice : Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, Amazing Spider-Man 2, and TMNT : Mutants in Manhattan. I have plans to play Mutants in Manhattan next.
Injustice is the first game, so once I beat the story mode with that game, I will probably trade it in for the 2nd one as that is the one I want, and I only want it for the sweet Ninja Turtles, so I can wait on that. It is not a bad game, I am trying to learn the button combos but I do end up just button smashing or doing the five combos I am comfortable with. I am also playing on Super Easy mode, as the trophies unlock with that mode and I am no good at fighting games.
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Walker Dennis and I have really been enjoying Amazing Spider-Man 2. He is playing it on Human (Easy) mode and I am playing it on Super Hero (hard) mode. I am doing the boss fights for him but I am very impress with how much of the game he is able to do on his own. When I am playing his file, I am definitely dreading doing these fights on Super Hero mode. The Black Cat one was hard until I saw a video where a guy kept just dodge attacking her, and that really helped. But there is a Kingpin fight that I am already dreading. Walker Dennis is on his way to fighting the Green Goblin and I just completed the Black Cat fight, and on my way to Kraven.
The only problem with the game, is that the Web Threads DLC is no longer available. Sony Support tried to unlock it for me, as I really want it and seven dollars is a pretty good price for it. They told me to ask Activision but I cannot get into the Chat Queue with them, or I can, and then I miss it as it goes from 24 individuals ahead of me to it being my turn and I have missed it in the five minutes I did not check my phone. So that has been rather irritating.
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My wife was also very generous and got me a PS Store Gift Card and the first game I bought was Lego Batman 3 Deluxe Edition and Walker Dennis and I are having a huge blast with the game. I was being a bit of a pill about not buying people until we had a million studs to buy the x2 multiplier, which is my usual policy with Lego games. Then he bought a slew of people and then I put a stop to that until we could buy the x4 multiplier. Then he had a play date and I had enough time to get enough studs to buy the x6 multiplier and now we have money galore! We have also stopped playing for a bit but that is okay. We completed the entire story and have to do free play for levels four and on. The game is super fun and I could not pass up the deluxe edition for nine dollars.
I really need to get back into Lego Marvel Superheroes 2, but free play has been feeling like a chore, as I keep having so many levels to redo. I think I have 11 left, as the game has 20 levels, so I am finally on the other side of it. They are very long levels it feels like. I just rather play all of these other games but once I settle down and sample these games, I will get back to it.
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Anodyne was a dollar game during the Holiday sale. I bought and got to the first cave and I have no idea what to do next. I have walked all around it and found two cards and unlocked the doors I have found but now I am not sure what to do. I have to watch a walkthrough. I got the one trophy for finding the mop (the main weapon of the game), so at least I was able to do that.
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I also saw in the Holiday sale, 2064 : Read Only Memories, and was reminded we were given that as a free game way back in October 2018, the same month we were given Friday the 13th : The Game and The Bridge.
I got through the Prologue and some of the first chapter, it is an interest point and click game for sure, and it has a charm about it.
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So that is what I have been up too. I keep thinking about what the next big game sale is going to be, but honestly, I have plenty of games to play that I do not need any more, which is super fun to be able to type.
I set up Walker Dennis with a PSN profile, so now his trophies will be permanent, as he really wanted to play Portal Knights under his own account, so I had to create a yahoo account for him. It is a real shame he had to lose all of his other trophies but we will just play those games again and scoop up some easy ones for him.
I completely forgot that we also got Walker Dennis the Fantastic Beasts pack! We got two chapters in, and then I bought Lego Batman 3, so we have four more chapters to go! I know there is a secret STAR Labs from the Flash television series, we just have to find it.
We also watched the movie and it was a pretty decent time. I just felt disconnected but I am glad we watched it as the game probably would not have felt complete without the original reference. It was fun watching it and trying to anticipate what would be adapted.
Part One was posted two weeks ago and Part Two was posted a week ago and I only now learned about both! I have to step up my google searches! In fact, I almost didn’t realized there was a Part Two!
Another great developer interviews with Art Director Robert Craig, Audio Designer Hywel Payne, and Animation Director Jamie Galipeau.
A lot of time is being put into making sure the water sounds like water and the boat feels like being on a boat.
The biggest take away is that I haven’t missed a dev diary episode AND THE GAME COMES OUT IN SUMMER 2019!!!
I knew it wasn’t going to be December 2019 but I can’t wait to spend time with the game, probably in July or August, right?
Amazon still has it listed for December 31, 2019 but that makes sense.
Thanks to PlayStation Access for hosting their own video!
I saw the beginning of this seven months ago but I wasn’t addicted to their channel then so I was pretty dismissive. Now I’m all about Rob and Hollie and their is a lot of content in this video to enjoy.
I really like the design of the compass decision making interface, that looks really cool.
I wonder if the plan is to still release two games a year? I know the game isn’t supposed to be Until Dawn’s ten hours, it will be more like five hours, and $30 isn’t that bad for what I’m hoping is a lot of content and plenty of replays.
I can see them releasing one game this year and then maybe two next year, once they know what the demand is for the Dark Picture Anthology. I’ll be buying all four games, that part, I’m sure about. Especially if they stay at the $30 range.
I should look into what actually is required to upload game footage as that would be very fun to make a Let’s Play video of my first playthrough.
It does feels like it is only me talking about this game and WhatCulture Gaming
Who ranks the game on their list of 10 2019 Games that will Change Everything!
I still say Man of Medan is my most anticipated game of 2019. Still surprises me that no one has made a subreddit for the game. Maybe once there is an official release date.
Turns out, someone has made a subreddit for the game!
I was about to do it myself but now I don’t have too. Though there was only two posts in there and I’m trying not to flood it with videos but the first post was from three months ago with one comment and another was from a month ago with zero comments so I’m trying to bring some life to it.
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Well, I finally did it! I completed my Ultimate New Game Plus run of Spider-Man PS4! I thought the Doctor Octopus fight was going to be hard but I kept dodging and web attacking and he went down in a quarter of the time it took me to do the first time. The first time, I just kept trying to throw things at him and kept my distance. This time, I stayed close and kept webbing his arms and launching myself at him.
I was going to share the image getting five 100% of the game but I didn’t get all five lines to show up on the same screen. The Main Game / New Game + / CTNS : The Heist / CTNS : Turf Wars / CTNS : Silver Lining.
I figured out how to take a picture of the PS App on my phone. If you want to know how to take a screenshot of your Android phone, press the power button and the volume down button at the same time. Pretty handy!
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I’ve started the second episode of Batman : The Enemy Within. I’m going to have Wayne tell ties and Batman be honest, if those options pop up this time around. Batman fought Bane, and I had the option to call either Gordon or Waller. I choose Waller as it was my first chance to try to make her happy and she said if I played ball, she will put Gordon back in charge once this is all over. He’ll be upset but he’ll understand the situation.
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Still no word on when Lego Movie 2’s DLC is supposed to come. We were playing some of it last night and it is still a pretty fun game. We even played Lego Dimensions for a bit. I still really want to get the Fantastic Beasts pack, it is affordable and it would be a lot of fun. Plus, we have Green Arrow and Flash’s STAR Labs is a secret location and that’ll be fun to explore that area.
It took some searching before I could find someone who will sell it to me for five dollars. Some places wanted five dollars just to ship it and i couldn’t justify that.
I bought it as I’m going to use it as Dogmeat from Fallout 4, and I’m crazy into German Shepards, because of Dogmeat. I was at Walmart and couldn’t find any sets that even had dogs so I had to look online. People highly recommend BrickLink and I totally see why now. Such a handy website!
I originally got the idea after reading this subreddit
So of the four free games I could access on the PS4 for February 2019, I have to say the one I really gotten into is For Honor.
Gunhouse was fun, I’m not sure if I really got into the mechanics of it. I’m sure if I kept updating the weapons, I’ll eventually get better at it. The art style was pretty fun and the game was overall entertaining. I just kept thinking of playing Rogue Aces.
So then I started playing Rogue Aces and the training modules were fun but then came the tutorial for bombing a city and I was doing decently with that. The hardest part was getting back to my base to reload. I was getting the hang of it but it was a bit more work than I was willing to do at that time.
I did all of the work to start Hitman First Season, I downloaded all of the episodes. I went to the demo for Hitman 2 and made sure I had the legacy pack downloaded over there. I went back to the Complete First Season and did the initial story segment (like three minutes) and then I saw the yacht. It looked like more of a time committed than I was willing to give on that day.
Which brings me to For Honor. I did all of the work to make sure I was a member of the Ubisoft Club, which thankfully was one of my six passwords so I didn’t need to click “forgot password” or anything like that. I saw in the club that I could download something for free if I had Steep so then I downloaded that game and was confused by I still couldn’t download the item. So I had to actually play the game and access the club through Steep. I was only slightly disappointed that there wasn’t a free item in Steep for owning For Honor. Steep was a free game in January that I never got around to attempting.
Walker Dennis was a pretty big fan of Steep, he mostly liked seeing the guy fall down. But he also enjoyed snowboarding and hang gliding too but the falling down was pretty rewarding. I need to go back and attempt some of the easier Steep runs. I got Silver in a few and Bronze in a few more but then I went back to For Honor.
For Honor has been a lot of fun! I’m glad the fighting mechanism wasn’t as crushing as people said it was. Or they commented that once you got it, you got it but I’m not sure how anyone would not get it but then again, I didn’t get either Rogue Aces or Gunhouse.
I’ve been doing the Single Player Knight storyline, I have Chapter Six of Six left. Then I’ll do Viking and Samurai after that. I’ve been playing on Normal and having a fun time. I’m not finding all of the Observations or the Breakables, but I do want to make a point and get all of the Observables, as I like learning the story. I haven’t bought anything with silver, but I know one of the trophies is to buy all four heroes in a class, so I will do that. I was tempted just to burn through it with the Knights but I figure I’ll see which of the three classes I like the best.
With real money, I did buy For Honor Dynamic Theme 1, for $2.99. I was just looking forward to my next game session and that’s when I realized I was going to be committing to For Honor for a while and I’m now trying to match my themes with my main game. There was two of them, but I didn’t like the second one that was portraying a giant battle of the three classes. I preferred the simple image above with one from each class.
I turned it to Easy for Walker Dennis to try it as he wasn’t thrilled with Spider-Man’s theme being gone. Either the game wasn’t as bloody as I remembered or they turn it way down. That or he was only hitting them with the light attack and not the heavy attack but he was doing pretty well. Then I got uncomfortable with him playing it and had him stop after two or three minutes.
We’re in the course of moving so I hadn’t had much time to play but For Honor has been a fun game and I’ll probably keep playing it until I’ve gotten through all of the story missions. I think, if my skills carry over to Hard, I’ll attempt Hard but I haven’t really mastered parrying yet, it feels like I do parry but I also miss sometimes too but maybe by the time I have another six chapters in with Vikings, I’ll have it down to a sweet science.
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This past weekend, we took Walker Dennis and his cousin to see Lego Movie 2 and we all had a pretty great time. I keep having the Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi “Not Evil” song stuck in my head.
Thanks to YouTuber Chuyperron 25 for hosting the video.
My beautiful wife keeps getting the Everything’s Not Awesome song stuck in her head.
Thanks to YouTuber ToyBox 23 for hosting the video.
The third song that I really enjoyed was Gotham City Guys.
Thanks to YouTuber aranha verso for hosting the video.
Ironically, Catchy Song was not all that catchy for me.
During the film, there were times when I was thinking about the upcoming game and how would we even “play” the movie as there is a few action sequences but not that many.
We did buy the full game so I’m just waiting for Tuesday,February 26 to come out and then we have to wait for the Easter Bunny to give the game to Walker. We did catch a playthrough of the first level and the game does look fun.
Thanks to Gamer’s Little Playground for hosting the video.
It is a more complicated game than Lego Dimensions but it also seems like instead of having characters with abilities, we’re just making items that do those abilities.
I keep thinking about how I don’t feel like I myself am ready to move onto a new Lego game as I feel like I still have Lego Dimensions goals. So also for Easter, I want to get him the Fantastic Beasts story level, as that’s the last story pack he’s missing and I like the idea of owning all four of the portal variants. Then I want to get him the Beetlejuice fun pack as I still regret not buying it at Walmart that time I could easily have bought it.
So funny how Walker kept talking about Lego Dimensions during the film. During the Gotham City Guys song, Beetlejuice showed up and Walker couldn’t help himself but comment on it. He was just so excited during the film. We are definitely buying that film when it comes out. It will definitely benefit from a second viewing as there are so many references that it is hard to notice them all in one viewing. Also, the story itself needs to be watched again knowing what we know at the end.
Walker’s favorite scene was the one when we learned Rex Dangervest’s proper backstory. Massive Spoilers when you click the video.
Thanks to NATE 28 MeMz for hosting the above video.
But his favorite moment was seeing the Back to the Future DeLorean and the TARDIS. He was so excited that I missed the Terminator reference and the Hot Tub Time Machine reference. At least I got to see Bill and Ted’s Phone Booth. I looked for the above video myself but then I noticed the sequence in another video Walker was watching and that boy knows how to find videos on YouTube.
There was no direct references to Dimensions, which I figured there wasn’t going to be but characters from the game show up in the movie like Gandalf. They do quickly address the Lego Batman Movie in an exchange and we’re back to the film.
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I also committed to not playing Spider-Man on the PS4 during our move. Walker got into the spirit of things and agreed to pack up his Legos, including his Lego Dimensions figures and bases. We kept the game out and the box is accessible but he seems committed at this point.
But Walker has really gotten into Spider-Man these past few weeks. I did buy him that Carnage Lego Set so now he has a Lego Miles Morales. I also bought him the Titans Heroes Miles.
Now I’ve been regretting not treating myself to the Titan Heroes Scarlet Spider but if I come across one, I’ll snatch it up now.
We’ve been wanting to rewatch Spider-Verse for a while now. We’ve been getting by on watching Sunflower by Post Malone and Swae Lee.
Thanks to Post Malone hosting his own video.
Then we added “What’s Up Danger” by Blackway and Black Caviar, to our playlist too.
Thanks to Viral MEDIA for hosting the above video.
Now Walker goes around saying “Hello Danger” all of the time, no matter how many times I correct him about the actual song title.
So he wanted to play Spider-Man PS4 and I didn’t have a problem with that. I had forgotten that we left Spider-Man in his underwear so we laughed about that and then Walker changed the suit to the Infinity War suit.
Sort of nice that we live in this age where I can did a search for “Spider-Man only scenes in Infinity War” and get a supercut of just that.
Thanks to YouTuber Something Something for hosting that video.
Walker was happy to not have to sit through a two hour movie for seven minutes of footage.
I can’t believe Lego Movie 2 was nearly a two hour film, but Walker had a great time and never got fussy. Unlike Aquaman that had him either restless or bored during portions of it in the middle of the second act. He’s excited for the next Spider-Man movie, as I told him we’re getting two this year, Avengers Endgame and Spider-Man : Far From Home.
Thanks to TomScott1703 for hosting a video of all of Spider-Man’s scenes from Civil War. I wished I thought of that two weeks ago when Walker was bored through so much of Civil War just waiting for Spider-Man to show up. But once he does, he’s in that movie for a fair bit.
He didn’t want seem to want to watch Homecoming but did watch Amazing Spider-Man 2 and was with it for most of the time. I’m hoping to get the Toby Maguirefilms for Easter as Amazon has the trilogy on BluRay for $30, and it comes with digital codes!
So it’ll be nice to get both of those and be caught up on our Spider-Man collection. If not, I’ll probably buy it some time later as after Easter, it is safe for me to buy myself inexpensive items until November.
I’ve been thinking of Easter a bunch lately. My wife just wants the second Fantastic Beasts film on BluRay, Crimes of Grindelwald, as she missed out on watching it when it was in theaters. Plus, she has the first one and I think it’ll be cute to get her that one while Walker gets Fantastic Beasts for Lego Dimensions. It will be a theme Easter of Fantastic Beasts and Spider-Man and Legos. I’m sure we can find eggs of all three of those.
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Walker was just swinging around on my New Game Plus file and noticed backpacks on the map.
Thanks to Sick Critic for hosting the above image.
I’m not sure what made him want to find them all, maybe as he has his own backpack and can relate to Spider-Man on that level but he wanted to get catch them all.
He has a Hot Wheels backpack but I can see us buying him a Spider-Man one for Kindergarten. It is odd that a poor high school and then college student could afford to buy 55 backpacks but we just have to go with that.
In 30 minutes, I had found 27 out of 55 of them, but I also had to find the satellite towers too to make it easier. I wasn’t going to activate the satellites and leave the map as hazy as possible but here I am activating them and getting backpacks.
Walker is also taking my phone and taking pictures of the contents, even though the images are not going away anytime within the game. So I’m going to have 55 images pretty soon on my phone.
The very first one we found was the Spider-Plushie one and from there, he wanted to see them all. I had already found the menu from his first date with Mary Jane, as that was a story moment.
Here is Walker’s picture of the plushie. I have 26 other images of various success rates. The clock used to be on the wall until I took all of the nails out of the walls. Now it just sits there.
One fun aspect of this is that Walker knows how far away 27 is from 55 and is appreciating the amount of work it is to get all of these.
One of these days, I have to fight Shocker and change the night mode to day mode, it would make finding the backpacks easier. But instead of doing that, I played For Honor instead. There is a game store a block up from FEAST that has a spider-plushie in it but it is closed at night so we couldn’t see it in the game. Which is super fun to see stores keeping regular hours in the game.
Thanks to redditor TerraFlaeKSFL for taking the selfie and telling us where it is and the name of the store, Gamer’s Paradise in Chinatown.
Which I hadn’t really thought about but it makes total sense that FEAST would also be located in Chinatown with Martin Li owning it.
I did have the thought of just loading the finished file or any of the DLC files so Walker could see all of the contents of the bags but this way is more rewarding and fun.
Walker wanted to see Spider-Man hang upside down so we had to find an overhang to make that possible and then Walker wanted me to hold him upside down and take a picture of him looking at Spider-Man being upside down but I couldn’t both hold him and take the picture. My wife tried her best but by the time she was in a decent position, I was losing my grip and the tv picture didn’t show up well in the photo either. We just have too many boxes but we’ll try it again in our new place. It was sure cute at the time though. Of course, I had him in the position and then he had the thought to have a picture taken. He’s a heavy 38 pounds right now and I’m not getting stronger as he gains weight, which I thought would be the case but I have to start lifting weights as I don’t want these days to be numbered.
Now I really regret not taking the extra 15 minutes just to do the Shocker fight. It was pretty hard the first time around, I died several times, as it took me a while to figure out how to web sections of the wall and throw them back him. The auto-saving was pretty generous but I’m not sure if that holds true for New Game Plus and Ultimate mode. I did do so much better with the Kingpin fight, but Shocker is really the first boss you come across in the game. Then the game takes a break for an hour before the next big showdown. Maybe I’ll try it tonight if I can find those other backpacks.
When I was playing, my main priority was listening to J. Jonah Jameson’s podcasts and barely cared about collecting backpacks or landmarks (public or secret), I just did them for the costumes and moved on. Oh, and I cared about getting the newspapers too. Turns out, you store them so even if you don’t see all of them, they are in your collection, you just have to manually look at all of them to get the credit for all 53 newspapers.
Solider X, I actually read and recall it being pretty good. The art is rough by Igor Kordey but that’s what the title required with its realistic take on war. I remember liking the supporting team of Irene Merryweather (skin change and all) and Spider-Man’s Robbie Robertson being added as well.
At least as of X-Men Gold 9, she was elected to Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
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No real gaming updates. I’ve downloaded all of Hitman Season One, I had to quit the prologue and downloaded the rest of the chapters within the game as well as the legacy pack. I haven’t started the Hitman 2 demo to see if I can play One in Two but I believe I have all of the parts necessary but I’ll confirm that tonight.
We’ve been grabbing minikits in Lego Dimensions and having a good time there.
I threw five dollars for the preorder of Lego Movie 2 at GameStop so we can get the special Emmet and Stuck Star set.
Walker Dennis is super excited and probably just pay for the whole thing next payday. He knows it is an Easter present so he should be chill about the wait time. Well, as chill as any five year old that knows a present is coming but I hope he sort of forgets about it.
So this might mean we are done with buying Lego Dimensions items if he can move onto the next game. I’m not sure if I’m ready to move yet but I could easily be ready for it as well. There are several other Lego games I want to get. It could be fun to get a new (but not to us) game after getting the Platinum in a game. The GameStop clerk told me that there will be an upcoming collection of Marvel Avengers, Superheroes 1 and 2, which I can only imagine will cost way too much, especially as the Deluxe Edition of Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 is still a $75 game.
That’s the one I want but I also wouldn’t mind buying Avengers, playing the heck out of that one and seeing the latest game come down in price as time goes by. Lego games are massive time sinks which is what makes them so much fun.
In Spider-Man PS4, I got to play for a little bit, and I’ve decided I’m just going to do the main missions, and not even bother with the towers or anything else, unless I come directly across the tower or the crime. I really like how not having the towers activated means the map has holes in it. The police don’t bother me and crime still shows up as a red dot. I think I’ve done two of them, thus far. I’ll probably have to go back and do the Financial District as that’s where the Ghostbusters house is but I’ll wait until Walker Dennis tells me he wants to check that out.
In the game, we just celebrated Aunt May’s five hear at FEAST and I’ve met Mary Jane and the Demons, so I have a very long way to go.
My plan is to take a slight break from Spider-Man to try out the free PS Plus February games, I just have to find the time to do it.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 