Street Fighter V and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, or PUBG, for short.
The games are out now, I’m way late on this post, and more on that far below.
I haven’t played a Street Fighter game since Street Fighter II Turbo, or one of those branches of II.
PUBG, is one of those 100 person battle royale games, and from what I’ve seen, was the originator of the genre, but then Fortnite blew it would of the water. From what I have read, PUBG works better as a PC game than a console game, but I will give it a fair chance.
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PS Prices
Street Fighter V is typically $20 but has gone as low as $8 for the base game.
PUBG is typically $30, but has gone as low as $9.59.
The Plus titles games total running value thus far is $180, plus Fall Guys is a $20 game, brings the running value to $218, plus plus, Call of Duty : WWII. So we’re doing pretty great and it isn’t even October yet. I am going to be a tad annoyed if Man of Medan is the free title for October, but I would love to get it digitally. I have decided, as Man of Medan has gone on sale so many times, to just wait until Little Hope is a $15 game. Plus, it has online co-op, like Man of Medan, so the platinum will evade me again, and that’s just irritating to me. Also, I would want it digitally as well, so waiting is the route I will be taking.
PS Store
Street Fighter V has a slew of DLC!
There is a free ShareFactory theme and a free Shadow Falls Cinematic story level, that I had to download additionally. I am at 80% completion of Act 1, and it is pretty nice. For the story mode trophy, that is for the individual characters and not the cinematic story.
There are three pages worth of avatars, each for 49 cents. I treated myself to the Guile one, the proper one, not the 8-bit one, as I don’t need two avatars.
There is a $25 Champion Edition Upgrade Kit, that gets you everyone released, so that’s pretty nice and is the way to go.
$20 Capcom Pro Tour : 2020 Premier Pass
$20 Season 4 Character Pass
$15 Capcom Pro Tour : 2019 Premier Pass
$10 Capcom Pro Tour : 2018 Premier Pass
$10 Season 3 Character Pass
$10 Capcom Pro Tour : 2017 Premier Pass
$10 Season 2 Character Pass
$10 CPT Premier Package
$10 Season 1 Character Pass, it has gone on sale for $5 in the pass, and I was tempted to wait for the sale, until I was told I could just complete all of the characters stories.
So the $25 Upgrade Kit, really is the way to go for anyone who is downloading the base game.
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PUBG also has a free ShareFactory theme.
Like Fortnite and other Free to Play games, PUBG does offer exclusive and free Plus items. One of the biggest complaints I have read regarding PUBG being a Plus title, is that most people thought it was a F2P title, and realizing it isn’t.
So there is a Drop Pack free exclusive that I have downloaded along with the theme.
$10 Challenge Costume Pack
$15 Payback Costume Pack
$5 500 G-Coin package
$9 1,100 G-Coin package
$18 2,000 (+300 Bonus) G-Coin package
$45 5,000 (+1000 Bonus) G-Coin package
$90 10,000 (+3500 Bonus) G-Coin package
So that seems like things are pretty expensive within the game.
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Most of the comments are that PUBG should be free to play and it doesn’t run great on console and Street Fighter V’s biggest complaints is that bulk of the characters are behind paywalls and the online matches can be super laggy.
Ben made a good point about how both games have nearly impossible platinums to earn as they take hundreds of hours of an investment to earn all of the other trophies.
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Here are the links to PlayStationTrophies.org’s guide to Street Fighter V :
I’m hoping to earn the Solo victory trophy, but hopefully I could get carried to the Squads trophy, if I can get into a group with randoms.
I feel like I could maybe earn the Reach the Top 10 without killing anyone trophy, Kill a player by any means, I do like bows in games, so I’ll try for the Kill 10 players with a crossbow, if I can find one in the field, loot 50 items, Equip a ghillie suit for the first time, which I imagine is random where that would be. I hope my first trophy in the game isn’t jump from the airplane 101 times, but I guess it could work a a backup plan. I would hope I could revive a knocked-down teammate, wear the outfit of a dead player sounds like something I could do if I stumble across one.
Unlike Fortnite, PUBG doesn’t have couch co-op or split screen, which Fortnite and Rocket League has, so I won’t be able to get Walker Dennis into the game so we could potentially win a Duo. So I’ll try the game and see what I can do with a few rounds.
I really hope Fall Guys gets split screen at some point soon. Maybe for Season 2?
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Since the games have been out, I have played Street Fighter V quite a bit. I really want to unlock Guile, who is part of the Season One DLC. Someone on reddit was nice enough to explain that all I would have to do to earn the in-game currency of $100,000, is to finish the story mode with all of the characters, which would take about an hour. So I have done five characters’ stories, and really enjoying how quick they are. Once I have Guile, I will do a few more online matches, and maybe check out a few other trophies, and call it good. I rather not spend the $10 and get all of the characters from season one, if I can avoid spending real money.
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Walker Dennis and I have been playing Duos in Fortnite as the Marvel Universe has invaded and I gifted him the season pass, so he’s running around as Thor, hitting things. I figured, I would try to get to level 62, and earn enough in game credits to get the season pass to pay for itself, but I’m barely at level 14, and not seeing myself earn enough levels in time, but I’m also okay with not earning it. I mostly would want Storm, Mystique, and Wolverine, and those are very late game. I believe I could spend $25 or so and get everyone, but that seems like a lot.
Walker really wants Batman, and in November (once the Marvel event is over), DC comes back around for their event that will include both Joker and Poison Ivy, so I will probably be having to buy those characters too. Hopefully Batman and Catwoman come back for the event as well, as he really wants to play as Batman, as he’s all about Batman right now.
We have won Duos four times now, so we’re becoming quite the team. I mostly shoot people as he runs support and hits things with his hammer. He’s level 7, so he’s doing his fair share.
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Fall Guys, I have been earning some trophies. I have won three episodes, so that feels pretty good. I’m hoping they release a turtle costume soon. I’m at level 34, and I really want that blue mask as the Level 35 reward. Season One is the only season I will ever fully commit to, so I really want to reach level 40, and I should do it in the next 30 days. I have plenty of time. I really want every face mask they have, and I believe I only failed to buy the black one, so hopefully that comes back into the store.
Injustice, when Street Fighter V was announced, I picked up Injustice again and have completed the Joker portion of the story and next up is Green Arrow. Not sure when I will get back to it, but I am inching my way through the story mode.
Sadly, Chadwick Boseman lost his battle against colon cancer. Like most people, I’m sure, we watched Black Panther, and then I tried to play another level of the first Lego Marvel Superheroes game. Then I remembered Walker saved over my 100% completed file, so I ended up just playing a level with Tony and Cap getting Tony’s Iron Man suit back. Just having to redo everything killed my buzz to keep going forward, but if I do a level here and there, I’ll eventually get the game beat again.
I earned my 33rd platinum with Lara Croft Go! It is currently only $2, so well worth your time. I followed a guide and earned it after seven nights, of doing one chapter a night. I preferred it over Hitman Go, but I’m sure that has to do more with me connecting to Tomb Raider more than Hitman. Apparently there is a Deux Ex Go game, but it hasn’t come to PS4 yet. Once it does, and it is $2, I would be tempted to buy it, but that’s probably not enough of an incentive for Square Enix Montreal to port the game.
Hyper Scape, I had attempted to play the game a few weeks ago, and just didn’t click with it. PUGB was announced as a Plus title, and we were getting decent with Fortnite, that I figured I could commit a night or two to at least getting one kill in Hyper Scape. Then I got two kills, in two different games! I killed someone with an assault rifle (my preferred gun in Fortnite), and once I had that trophy, I committed to earning the melee kill trophy, and got that in my very next game. Then I promptly deleted the game. I keep running out of space on the PS4, and really could use an external hard drive.
Ratchet & Crank, VUDU finally had the Ratchet & Crank film on sale for $8, and I immediately bought it. That movie is literally the first hour of the game, and I can only imagine the last 30 minutes of the game. So I played one full level of the game, and on a planet to help Ratchet’s former boss’s brother on a water planet with another story planet waiting for me.
Metal Gear Solid V – Phantom Pain, I finally did enough to earn D-Dog as a companion! Which felt great, until the very next mission required D-Horse, and I haven’t gone back, but that was my main game for like two weeks.
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There is an Essential game sale going on right now and the original 2013 Tomb Raider game is only three dollars, so I bought that immediately. I’m really hoping to make it my next game I play once I have sampled the September games. It is all I think about!
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On August 27, 2020, my mother-in-law, Leslie Brannman, passed away. She was an amazing woman and I could not have had a better mother-in-law. She really was an incredible woman.
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.
Thanks to Pac-Man 256 and Burnout Paradise Remastered, I got to PSN Level 17!
Thanks to PlayStation for hosting the trailer!
Pac-Man 256 was a fun game, I got obsessed with it over a course of two nights. I am committed to the idea that I will never eat 16 ghosts, my record is 12 and that took a lot of work. Such a fun game though! It is usually around two dollars but I am sure it will be a dollar again.
I will probably also never get the east 256 dots in a row as there are small empty spaces that really mess up the flow.
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Burnout Paradise Remastered was a lot of run. I have no idea how to access the Cagney DLC and it seems to be overly confusing to me. I can create races but I cannot create challenges or any other side content.
Thanks to DerfsonicGaming for having such a nice video showcasing the Legendary Cars.
I got the trophies for the legendary cars but along the way, got a slew of other trophies as well. I will go back to it but I wanted to give the new November games a try. I do like how the Dukes of Hazard car default is not orange but orange is the very next color option in the customization wheel.
As much as it bugs me that it looks more like the 2008 KITT from that reboot, there is no denying how great that car is in the game. The DeLorean is amazing with its hover mode and Ecto-1 is a lot of fun too!
I need to get better at the main game or concentrate on the Big Surf Island and have those skills translate to the main game. Or do a little bit of both.
I really wish there was a way point system in the game as I am having a bit of a problem memorizing the map but I eventually get to where I want to go.
Looking at the trophies, I should be able to earn my B Class License by winning 24 races. I can start a Road Rage with the pure intentions of going through a repair shop. I can start a race with the intentions of driving through a gas station (which I thought I have done but must not have) for another trophy. I should try to get a 180 degree Flatspin but I do not know how to spin while still in the air. The game could be more clear on the directions as I still have not found a control scheme to figure out any tricks or button layouts. I should be able to do 10 Road Rules as well and it looks like we get two different trophies for that? That is pretty nice.
I believe I have unlocked at least three cars so I should do each of those cars’ Burning Routes. I also need to drive one of these cars through a paint shop to change the color.
Winning 51 total races unlocks the Carson Inferno Van, so that could be another goal. Then I have to do a Road Rage with the van.
Gosh, there is a trophy for simply inviting a friend to Burnout Paradise that I really should get on top of. There was a trophy for playing a Freeburn Challenge but there is one for completing it and I am not sure why I did not complete it. I think I was trying for the Ecto-1 (Manhattan Spirit) trophy of blaring the siren during a challenge but maybe the other person stopped the challenge? Or I messed up and dropped out of online mode, which is probably what actually happened. Then there is a trophy for completing 10 Freeburn Challenges.
The game is so open ended that I could just play for hours and enjoy the map or I can have some direction as I go about it. I will probably take the advice of finishing a race and looking at the map for the next closest race.
I need to find all of the events Paradise City has to offer and find all of the car parks, I believe I have found at least five of the 11.
There are some obvious trophies I should go for like driving 750 miles, that once I have, I can reevaluate where I am in the game. I also have to ride for 50 miles on a bike, so that should be easy enough to do.
Oh, I see what the problem with the Cagney Update is. I have to be the room creator to create an Online Stunt Run and I am trying to create the mode when no one else is in my lobby. That must be what is happening. I will definitely try again. I just need to trick someone into joining my lobby.
I am probably never going to get the “meet at the stadium” trophy as I do not even know where that is!
The Party Round DLC is probably also beyond me.
I will also have to play around with the online Cops and Robbers DLC to see if I can even do any of those.
I simply like having trophy goals for the sheer direction it provides.
Finally, there are the Big Surf Island Trophies.
I should still be able to smash 15 total billboards (of the 45) and land 5 mega jumps (though I am sure I have failed most that I have attempted thus far). At the very least, I should be able to find all of the events on the big island.
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Thanks to Markiplier for hosting the video.
I am embarrass to write this but I only made it to the 23 minute segment of Mark’s video. Now that I see I am close to finishing the chapter, I should try again but I wanted to play until I died.
Outlast 2 is not for me, I am pretty sure of this. I was enjoying it until I got hit for the very first time. I thought for sure there would be some dialogue or something between me and the town folk, to set up the threat but that did not happen. There was a tall cloaked figure and the just hit me and kept on moving. Then I got to the segment with two guys citing religious dialogue and got straight murdered. At least I got respawned closed by.
I probably played for 45 minutes, I wanted to earn some trophies so I ran the microphone feature on the camera as I crawled around and got two trophies from that and felt like I experienced the game.
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Nioh, on the other hand, is more my type of game. I was no good at Bloodborne, and felt like I was just being punished for being no good at it. Nioh is very similar but has one important difference. The stuff you die with, you keep when you respawn. Which is really all I need. I would die and then just learn to parry and to wait for their attack and then swoop in and attack them. I went with the dual swords (like Leonardo!) and battle axe (mostly for Elle from PlayStation Access) and I am really enjoying my time in the game. I escaped the Tower of London, and completed the tutorial. I am currently in the first area and I am learning to appreciate the prayer shrine but I do not have to keep going back to it in order to secure my items. I am currently at level 6, and I know there is a trophy for getting to level 10. I already got my first trophy for escaping the Tower of London but I think I will keep playing until I hit a real wall.
That wall may just be Onryoki, the game’s second boss.
Thanks to PrimaGamesVideo for hosting the tutorial.
I could get to the second stage of the fight but then nerves got the better of me, plus it was thirty minutes pass midnight, so that was not helping. I am currently level eight so my plan is to run around, build up my spirit animal (Kato, the fire fox), level up to nine, and then take him on again. If that does not work, level up to ten, and try again. I am hoping the two stat increases help with the boss fight but worst case, I earn a second trophy and I realize I am not quite ready for Nioh.
I have been thinking of picking Bloodborne up again, now that I think I understand the game play mechanics. I know I was giving the 100% run way too much thought and I should just play the game.
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Walker Dennis has been really wanting to play Lego Movie 2 again, and he bounces between that game and Lego Dimensions. Watching him playing made me want to play Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 again and we were so close to beating the main story that it was silly to keep putting it off. So I essentially abandoned my goal to keep playing Rocket League for the Strangers Things event, and dedicated last weekend to playing LMSH2.
We finished the main storyline, completed another Gwenpool mission, and the Guardians of the Galaxy DLC, along with several races and side adventures. I keep thinking of not going for the platinum but we have the platinum for the other two games but it seems like so much work! I am committed to earning all of the DLC trophies and I will see how I feel about the grind at that point. I will also commit to getting the Gwenpool missions completed as well. Those side activities can be a bit of a pain but that is why I am trying to space those out between bigger tasks but looking for small statues can feel pretty defeating when I cannot find them easily but there are not that many of those types of collectibles. I will eventually get everything. In fact, I am pretty sure that is what inspired me to create a rotation system to begin with, it break up all of those small activities.
I think Walker Dennis is trying to tell me he wants to play a new Lego game and we really should look into Lego DC Super Villains now that the deluxe version has come way down in price and is usually $40 instead of $75.
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I still have plans of starting Uncharted 4 and this all might time out nicely towards the end of the month, pending on how LMSH2 goes. I have to give some thought to a new game rotation and see what excites me. Here is what I am thinking now :
Nioh, but probably not for much longer LMSH2, for the DLC and Gwenpool missions, for sure. Pac-Man 256, I sort of do want to unlock all of the powerups and I can catch up on all of my podcasts while doing it, which could be a nice relaxing game night. Burnout Paradise Remastered, I am glad I was making this list as I had already moved on in my mind but I would not mind trying to get a few more trophies with this game too. I think, besides the Cagney trophies, I have all of the DLC ones I am going to get but maybe the more I play, the more the game opens up as well. Uncharted 4, maybe?
I would not mind starting Sniper Elite 4 as I do enjoy my time with the game, every single time. My last mission I failed to do one of the main objectives as I should have read the description for the airplane bombing better as the mission was over after that. I thought I could lay waste to the place and then do the final objective but it makes sense that was not an option. So I sort of want to redo that mission.
So five games, that could really work. Two of those games will be fun relaxing games, which is something to look forward too. Sniper Elite 4, I have a personal problem stopping the game at a reasonable time and splitting the gameplay into two night sessions, but that is completely on me.
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.
Gabe Gurwin writes that: Bronze trophies are worth 15 points, silver are 30 points, gold are 90 points, and platinum trophies are 180 points.
So I knew once I got the platinum for Late Shift (which still hasn’t happened), I was for sure making it to Rank 16 but that was probably going to take a while before I got back to that game and then another round before I beat it.
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I was having a blast playing Rocket League online and just trying different modes. The 4 v 4 match was intense and no wonder they nicknamed it the Chaos Run, as so much is happening at all times. It took a long time to find me a match but once the game paired me, I was pretty worried about making sure my team won the game and we did in overtime! I was fully committed to just selecting the option again until we won but once we won, I ran out of that lobby to try other modes.
I still need to complete my first offline season, and now I wish I had the forethought to have made sure I had used either a Dominus or Takumi for an entire season so then I could have earned Winning is Winning and Champion at the same time. But that’s okay, I’ll play two full seasons and still enjoy the heck out of it. It would have just saved some time, but I’ll be so much better at it the second time around.
I’m still using the Cristiano wheels to try to get 50 km as I got 10 km on them so I just have to keep using them.
I’m still trying to earn items, it just takes a long time to do so. I barely have any rare items but once I get five of them, I have to trade them in to earn a very rare item and then win a match wearing that item. I’m also trying to earn my first painted item too. I haven’t come across Certified Items either.
I’m still not good enough to play against non-rookie bot opponents in handicap matches.
Those are my basic trophy goals for Rocket League but even after I get those and maybe a few other trophies, I’ll probably keep this game in the rotation and just enjoy myself that night. Such fun!
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I started Grand Theft Auto 4 with the pure intentions of just earning trophies. So I cheated and got the Play in First Person Mode for 15 hours as I hate playing in first person mode if I have the option for third person mode. I left the game on all night and used a rubber band to keep the right stick at an angle so the system nor the controller would turn itself off.
I played as Franklin got a slew of trophies. I already had 200,000 for the cab company but I saw there was a side quest where I could pick a guy up and he’ll give me a good stock tip. I only earned like $80,000 more dollars when I thought I was going to get into the millions but it was enough of a bump to earn me a trophy for using the stock exchange. Plus, I was able to fully modify Franklin’s pistol and his personal car. He bought the cab company and then did a private ride and maybe got a girlfriend out of it? I don’t know, they were flirting but then the next night, she was too busy so I’m not sure what is happening there. It was late though so I didn’t blame her.
I got the team together to do a FIB mission. Then I thought I’ll quickly play as Trevor and get a few of his trophies but instead I did the prep work for The Merryweather Heist, which will be the next thing I do in the game. Oh, that was after I tortured a guy as Trevor so Michael could snipe a chain smoker.
I’ll probably still try to knock out a few of Trevor’s trophies but at this point, I’m just committed to just beating the main story and I’ll see where I go from there.
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A game I am done with for the meantime is Yakuza Kiwami. I was having a great time escaping from the funeral until I came up against Futoshi Shimano.
From what I’ve read, he’s by far the hardest boss in the game, and the other ones are more fair. I also read the game has 15 chapters which I was looking forward to playing through all of them but I spent like 30 minutes dying to Futoshi Shimano and that wasn’t even a fun 30 minutes.
I read that the match does essentially take 20 minutes of the most boring fighting there is. Essentially, we have to hit him, run away, and repeat. Which is not great and I clearly didn’t have the patience to do keep trying last night. I’m hoping the game autosaved my progress as I really don’t want to do the 20 minutes of fights that led up to Shimano but if I have to do it, then that’s just what I have to do but, for now, the game is out of my rotation. Be more fun game!
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.
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!
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.
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.
Comixology added four new comics to their list for the week! Not only are there four comics but they are all What if…? comics!
What If? Civil War (2007) # 1
What If? Wolverine : Enemy of the State # 1
What If? Spider-Man : The Other # 1
What If? Planet Hulk (2007) # 1
A total savings of $7.96!
I’ve actually read all four of these and they were all pretty good.
Gosh, I thought I wrote a review for What If? Wolverine : Enemy of the State but it doesn’t look like I did. I’m really am the worst! Such a great comic and I reference it a bunch when I think about how much of a villain Kitty could be if she went bad.
I imagine since they wrote (2007) that means there has been additional Civil War and Planet Hulk What If titles which makes sense as those two are ripe for additional stories to be told.
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Just to try to make this a bigger post, I’ll give a few updates on my gaming progress. I’m still at rank 15. I played some Dead by Daylight last night, once as David Cage and I did not accomplish either daily goal. One was to be chased for 120 seconds and I got up to 90 seconds and the other is to open one exit, which I wish I was better at. It took two minutes to match me up and then I was dead within two minutes as Ghostface just found me, I got unhooked and healed and then he found me almost immediately and hooked me again. I really wish I had such luck or skill when I’m the killer. I played as the Nurse so I could teleport and hit a survivor four times and only managed to hit one of them. So I was playing pretty well last week and I picked up the game for the first time in a week and I was complete trash again. But instead of using it as a chill game, I have decided, with this and Rocket League, that I’ll just commit a gaming night to each game instead of trying to do another game and end the night with one of my chill games. That wasn’t doing justice to any of the games, plus it takes so long to match me that I’ve started losing interest or patience with it. Which is crazy as I really do adore Dead by Daylight but I spend so much time waiting and then I get killed so fast, it just stinks all over. I’ll keep playing but not as addictively as I have in the past.
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I’ll be playing Rocket League tonight and I’m hoping to knock out a slew of trophies or at least, make decent progress on them. I think I’m ready to pay online some more, especially in some four on four matches, so that way, there is a higher chance of me not holding the entire team back. I’m looking way forward to it. I have a list of trophies I want to tackle and everything.
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I was playing Beyond : Two Souls before Dead by Daylight and finished up the Old Friends, which turned into the Nora chapter, and then I started Dead by Daylight. I was thinking Old Friends was taking way longer so I did rush through it and that’s when I realized I need to really just mentally commit to one game. I missed two trophy opportunities but not really as we have the option to let a character die or live and if we were killing or saving all characters, this character would be considered the final character to let live or die. Which I’m pretty sure I’m 50/50 on that progress so I was already going to miss out on that trophy. I did choose to let the person die and it wasn’t much of a life they were living.
The next chapter is the Briefing, and it does feel like we’re leading up to the big finale. At this point, I do want to just get to Detroit : Become Human but I’m not trying to rush it but it might be time to put this game down. The Mission chapter was pretty great and worth playing just for that alone, plus the excellent character work, but I’m definitely not going back to the homeless chapter and playing forward like I originally thought of doing. I’ll save that for a second playthrough.
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I completed my fifth playthrough of Late Shift and I even experimented with making a video!
So . . . thanks me for hosting my own video on YouTube!
It looks like I can only post 50 minutes of video so if I want to put my first playthrough of Man of Medan up, I might have to purposely only do it in 45 minute chucks.
So that was a nice experiment to test out ShareFactory.
Anyway, so I wanted to make a video of my all time favorite story beat in Late Shift! I included the part where they call Sebastian’s friend to find his location to set up the hospital scene properly. Then there is the moment with the old man with the magazine that is cute.
But right around the 8:20 minute mark, Mark touches May-Ling’s hand and the moment with the heart monitor is such perfect writing! Joe Sowerbutts and Haruka Abe have such great chemistry and I can’t wait for these final two playthroughs to see what happens with them in the best endings! Hopefully the fifth one was the end of the bad ones.
I thought I was being a tad racist that the girl from Clean Bandit’s Rather Be looked a lot like Haruka Abe but it turns out they are one and the same! I loved that video before but now it got even better!
I wonder if this is why I’ve been thinking about Clean Bandit so much lately. The other night, I had the hardest time remembering the name of the band and had to look up Kiesza’s Hideaway as I recall the two songs being out at the same time. I’ve been in a 90s music mood as well as a 2014 music mood lately.
Apparently she was Po in that horrible Emerald City show but I don’t recall that and the Wikipedia page for the show doesn’t even list Po so she was probably a minor character. Shame she nor Sowerbutts has gotten more work. He was in a movie, I Capture the Castle that I should check out one of these days.
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I’m getting closer to completing the main story for Lego Marvel Superheroes 2. I believe I just have three more chapters and then I would have all of the hubs unlocked and I can start tackling the DLC and replaying levels for all of the minikits and to save Stan Lee. There are challenges scattered across the world that I will also have to complete as well.
I’ve been waiting to get to Knowhere so I can get the trophy for having Lockjaw and Cosmo in the same team.
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VUDU finally got Avengers Endgame and I immediately went to the third act battle sequence which literally starts a bit after the two hour mark with a full hour of the movie left and it was as glorious, if not better, than I remembered! We still need to buy Captain Marvel but I’m going to be spending a bunch of time with this film and its special features which include character spotlights and a commentary track that I’m going to listen the heck out of!
Marvel held a pretty epic presentation on Saturday that explains what the next few years are going to look like for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both in theaters and on Disney+.
Since I have the handy link above, I’m going to go in that order, if you want to follow along. Except I’m going to break that right off the bat with the first film as it just makes sense to go in release date order of release. I’m also going with Logo first and then my thoughts as that makes more sense to me.
Thanks to Variety for having a highlight reel of the announcements too!
It took ten years but Scarlett Johansson is finally getting her proper movie! With no Hawkeye in sight too! More on that later! She’ll be joined by Stranger Things and Hellboy, David Harbour, as The Red Guardian. I looked it up.
It only made 40 million worldwide on a 50 million budget, that isn’t ideal so Harbour is free to be other comic book characters. He deserves another shot. I haven’t heard anything about Stranger Things 3, so either people are respecting no spoilers or I’m just out of touch.
I’m a pretty big fan of Yelena’s take of being the Black Widow and I’m looking forward to how Florence Pugh portrays her. I didn’t realize she played Paige in Fighting with My Family. I must not have looked into it as I just assumed Paige would pull a Howard Stern and play herself in the movie about her life. Paige is 26 and would have gotten acting experience through WWE, I wonder what made that decision? Apparently the film is based on a documentary that I should probably watch now that I have so many questions. That won’t be answered in the documentary but still. Pugh will be one of the ladies in Little Women.
O-T Fagbenle, who I know from Harlan Coben’s The Five series (that I think about enough that we should really finish that series!) will be Mason, whoever that is. He’s also one The Handmaid’s Tale and I wonder if my wife recognizes him from the earlier show?
Rachel Weisz will be Melina, another character in the film. I imagine the film is going to be an origin story and it ends with Natasha coming back to life, right? Or a quick 15 minute origin story, she blips back to Earth and then just continues with her spy story, and then the film ends with her telling a hero that she’s alive? Those are the two easy options I came up with.
Johansson is only 34 so she must have been 24 when Iron Man 2 came out and she looks exactly the same, so she can totally pull off an origin story! I probably didn’t even need to look it up but I was curious. She’s been working since 2001’s Ghost World with some smaller roles before hand but gosh, she really blew up. I wonder what her thoughts are on Jennifer Lawrence, who is only 28, and what advice she’ll give her as they both have the same fans, I imagine.
Coming to theaters May 1, 2020.
The movie Marvel is hoping to recapture that Guardians of the Galaxy buzz with! Kevin Feige said it is going to have plenty of Jack Kirby in it, which would be the only thing I want want from it. Especially as I really don’t know the Eternals are. I’m sure Marvel will release like three trades that will be the inspiration for the film’s plot but it is pretty wide open as of now.
Richard Madden, Game of Thorne’s Robb Stark, is going to be Ikarus.
Kumail Nanjiani, who love, is going to be Kingo.
I’m not familiar with Lauren Ridloff who is going to be Makkari. My wife would probably recognize her from New Amsterdam’s Happy Place episode.
Brian Tyree Henry has been in a slew of things I haven’t seen, but he’s the voice of Jefferson Davis in Into The Spider-Verse, he’s going to be Phastos.
In a surprise announcement to me, Salma Hayek is entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Ajak! I do love me some Salma Hayek.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a page for Lia McHugh who is going to be Sprite. Which I am familiar with that Eternal as I’ve been curious why Kitty Pryde was known as the second Sprite. Just don’t pull her Tab!
I’m not familiar with Don Lee either, who is going to be Gilgamesh.
I knew Angelina Jolie was going to be in the movie, she’s Thena. Should be a pretty interesting film. I’m also not familiar with director Chloe Zhao’s work either.
Coming to theaters November 6, 2020.
I had forgotten that Daniel Bruhl is returning as Baron Zemo for the series! Now I’m even more excited! Once this is officially on Disney+, we will be subscribing to it.
Coming to streaming devices Fall 2020.
I must be way out of touch as I didn’t recognize anyone from the cast of this but I’m super excited!
Simu Liu is going to be outstanding as Shang Chi!
I’m glad that we’re finally getting the real Mandarin and Tony Leung is going to be awesome at it! I’m glad Marvel Studios found a way to properly introduce him into the MCU.
He’s Little Tony to Tony Leung Ka-fai’s Big Tony.
Coming on February 12, 2021.
We still haven’t seen Captain Marvel – I’m hoping we buy it off of VUDU next weekend. We’ve been waiting to buy it for when we can actually watch it. Teynoah Parris is going to be playing adult Monica Rambeau, which is terrific to have that plot thread picked up. Parris was Dawn Chambers on Mad Men. She’s also Detective Pamela Rose on Empire.
I’m super excited about this show as I just want more Wanda and Vision! Hopefully Vision has all of his emotions or gets them back by the end of the show’s run.
Coming Spring 2021 to Disney+.
I wasn’t hot on Loki until Endgame, then I had one of those ah-ha moments and I’ll love to see what Post-Avengers Loki is up too without all of that fun character development he got from the films that came after that. He should be pretty fun.
Coming to Disney+ Spring 2021.
Like a dman fool, I was saying how it might not be necessary to get a proper sequel to Doctor Strange but I’ve been proven way wrong. I’m glad Marvel is running with the idea of the Multiverse that was teased in Spider-Man : Far From Home.
We’ll have to see if they reveal the MCU to actually be considered Earth-199999, officially named in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z 5.
I love how Marvel isn’t making the mistake they did with the Netflix series (more on that later), and actually making sure the events of the Disney+ series matter by making sure the plot threads are picked up in the movies. I was never worried that once the characters went to “TV,” that they would never come back to films but as proof, Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) will be in Doctor Strange’s film and it will take place after the events of WandaVision.
Coming to theaters May 7, 2021.
The first series actually set in the MCU, and not just inspired by it, and it is just a fun take on the MCU! So far, we only know there will be an episode based on the idea of Agent Peggy Carter becoming Captain America. I’m sure there will be several other episodes that would be equally fun. Hopefully the original actor will do the voicework for their character like we know Hayley Atwell will.
Jeffrey Wright, Felix Leiter from the latest James Bond films, will be providing the voice of The Watcher! He was also Colin Powell in Oliver Stone’s W and Beetee in the Hunger Games films.
Coming to Disney+ Summer 2021.
This show will get me excited once they cast Kate Bishop. I’m getting myself pretty jazzed for a Young Avengers film that might be in the works. I’m also hoping with Jeremy Renner coming back to TV, that we can get a re-release of ABC’s The Unusuals as that was a fun show. It only had ten episodes but I’m reminded of that show a bunch. Mostly when I’m reminded of Renner and when I wonder whatever happened to Amber Tamblyn, She’s going to be Mariette Callows in the upcoming Y : The Last Man series coming to FX as simply “Y” which like “er” will be very difficult to Google.
Monique Gabriela Curnen being in the Dark Knight didn’t bring the show back on any streaming device but with Disney only ABC, I wonder if the show will appear on Disney+? She was Detective Anna Ramirez.
The Unusuals also had LOST’s Harold Perrineau (Walt!) and the original Adam Goldberg! Such a great show. Now I wish I can watch it all over again!
So yeah, maybe there might be something about this show that will get me to think about the show itself. Hopefully Matt Fraction gets some dollars from this, that’ll be nice.
Coming to Disney+ Fall 2021.
I loved Comic Book Queers Legacy’s idea of simply calling this film, Thour, that would have been super fun!
Natalie Portman is coming back to the MCU and she’s going to be Thor! How amazing is that!?! I can’t wait to see what she looks like as Thor!
I was going to make another difficult to Google joke but “Natalie Portman Goddess of Thunder” should at last bring some images
Yep, that worked! That makes two awesome humans who are worthy to pick up Mjolnir.
I wonder if Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgard will be in this? Maybe at least as cameos?
Also, will the Guardians show up for a fun cameo as they drop Thor off on his latest adventure? They have to address it at least for a line of dialogue.
Coming to theaters November 5, 2021!
We end with Blade! Mahershala Ali will be the daywalker, Blade! Ali is 46 to Wesley Snipps 56. Gosh, Snipps has six kids! He hasn’t been working much but has two films in post-production right now, Dolemite Is My Name and Cut Throat City.
So Mahershala Ali has played one other Marvel character, Luke Cage’s first season villain, Cottonmouth. So that’s a shame that Marvel is not only double dipping into other roles already but also, it sort of implies the Marvel Netflix series don’t really matter. I guess there is an argument to be made that nowadays, it doesn’t really matter, but also, it isn’t like Ali was a hero character being recast as another hero. But he was pretty pivotal to Luke Cage’s first season.
But Ali is a great actor so it makes total sense that Marvel will want to keep working with him. I’m just having a silly knee jerk reaction.
No date for when the film comes out but oh boy, what an amazing late of TV and Films!
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PSPrices notified me that Late Shift was under seven dollars. Apparently the game has gotten below five but I had recently gotten paid and I figured I’ll treat myself to a new game.
I was going to do eight playthroughs, one blind, and then follow the guide and do the official seven endings but then I figured, why not just do the seven endings as the game is an hour and half each time and I’m pretty limited in my time I get to play. I don’t really regret it, I’m three playthroughs in and having a great time. I’m breaking it up with other games as I broke down and made a list of five games to play so I’ll have a nice rotation. The third one was my favorite until midway through it. So I’m hoping the order of playthroughs is worst to best.
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After watching how much fun the PlayStation Access crew had playing XCOM 2, I figured I’ll get it a shot and recreate my family, plus Spider-Man, Santa Claus, Dr. Peter Venkman, and Kitty Pryde.
So I played with the tutorial and then did the first mission. We lost the forced character, which was lousy that I couldn’t immediately play with four created characters but then I was thankful that I only lost the one soldier, and it wasn’t one of my characters. There is perma-death, even on the easier mode, so I was being super careful. Maybe too careful as I had forgotten we were on a deadline with only so many number of rounds but right at the last round, my wife was able to disarm the bomb. She eventually got seriously wounded and can’t fight for the next 23 days. So now I’m worried about sending any of my people out. Like a f’n coward.
I earned the tutorial trophy last year when I first played it during June 2018 when it was a free game through PS Plus. Looking over the list, I probably should be playing on Normal and I’ll see if I can change the setting or I can at least start a new game as I bet it would only take an hour to get back to where I currently am.
I saw that there is only one online trophy and all I had to do was start and finish a match so I did that. I went with a super basic team and two people didn’t want to just give me the trophy so they dropped out. Then the third person went ahead and fought me. It went a tad longer than I thought it would but it was pretty fun to get a little more experience with the game.
I wanted to get a more official team line-up photo but I couldn’t select any of my three created characters so that killed my buzz for creating more people as well as continuing that playthrough. It might be another year before I play again.
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With this rotation idea, I finally started Batman : The Enemy Within, and it is so good! I took Catwoman to the Batcave and tried to romance the heck out of her! It really is all I wanted to do and I’m so glad I got back into the game. Alfred seemed supportive. I’m probably going to upset Gordon as I did warn her the police were coming. I’m not sure if he’ll get the chance to yell at me as I also took the heat for Catwoman stealing Harley’s laptop and Mr. Freeze put me in a tank and froze me. I have two more chapters but I honestly don’t know how I’m going to get out of this.
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So I have two chapters before the platinum for Batman and five playthroughs before the platinum for Late Shift and now I’m in my head about a very silly thing. My last three platinums are for Lego Movie 1, Lego Marvel Superheroes 1, and Lego Avengers, so it would look pretty cool if I got Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 instead of how it will be spaced out with two games in-between it but I’ve also made my peace with it. LMSH2 is such a massive game and I’ve taken long enough breaks from it now that that’s simply the prize I have to pay. Plus, it is a silly thing and I’m not even sure who else would even notice that. Or they will see my list and see how I snuck in two quick games. Though I’ve been having Batman : The Enemy Within on the backburner for way too long! Foolishly long!
So I’ve completed my two Inhumans chapters, there was a silly Minikit I should have been able to grab in the first of the two missions, but Crystal was too close to the platform and it started rising up before I realized there was a free floating minikit. But that’s what Free Play is for. I’m nowhere near the platinum for this game, I realize.
While exploring the underwater city, we noticed there was a race for the Homecoming suit, so I got that for Walker Dennis. It took longer than I was thinking it would. The races for no reason are much harder in this game with how the controls are. I’m not great at flying races and I had forgotten how bad I was at swimming races from Lego Dimensions. But they made it super easy to restart races so I kept pressing Circle and eventually got it.
I keep falling into the trap of trying races when Walker is also playing and the split screen is not productive for racing.
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Referring to romancing, I’ve finally committed to playing Beyond : Two Souls again as well. I completed The Dinner chapter. Jodie put on a fancy dress, made a nice Asian Beef dish, and then she and Ryan totally made out.
There were two chances for Aiden to ruin the night, that lasted way to long, to the point where I felt tempted to do something destructive to get out of playing as him, but it eventually timed out.
Next is the Night Sessions chapter. It started with a young Jodie so I can’t imagine it will be too long.
Looking at the chapters list, I think I’m finally at the half way point.
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KITT has finally come to Rocket League so for two dollars, he can be yours too! Now I’m just waiting for the Rocket League : Game of the Year Edition to go on sale so I can snatch up the game proper.
Thanks for Rocket League for hosting their own video!
I can’t tell if the license plate is red or is that just the light from the back making it look that way? Also, there is a clear red stripe going around KITT that shouldn’t be there but I guess a sleek all black car wouldn’t look as exciting against other cars.
Apparently, KITT doesn’t have a Super Pursuit Mode, any voice work from William Daniels, nor any of the iconic sounds. It would be cool if we at least got the sounds. Even cooler would be if we got KARR! But it took them four years to get KITT so we probably have to wait a long time before we get that. The game came out in July 2019, so we’re in their anniversary month right now. Now it all makes sense.
Actually, PSPrices has been blowing up my phone with discounts! The Game of the Year edition is currently 50% off so I scooped it up so quick as $13 is quite a deal, down from $25! So hopefully we’ll start playing that tonight or tomorrow.
There is an entire summer sale going on right now through the PlayStation Store.
With the deals, I should get at least one of those Batmobiles and then wait on those five Hot Wheels cars, at least three of them are bundled together.
The Witcher 3 Complete Edition and Fallout 76 Tricentennial edition are heavily discounted too. Though both games are pretty well discounted most of the time anyway, so don’t pay full price for those two. One day, I’ll have both of those as well.
In all of my excitement, I went ahead and bought the three Batmobiles for six dollars.
So the only other cars to tempt us are:
Triple Threat for $6
Gazella GT, MR11, and FAST 4WD (three cars I don’t recognize by name)
Bone Shaker $2
Twin Mill III $2
For the grand total of ten dollars!
But now I only have $14.15 in my PSN wallet so I’m going to have to put ten dollars on there just to get back over my $20 goal. I should treat myself to a $25 card and have plenty of future fun to be had.
We were able to start playing last night and we got super addicted to playing and I stayed up late and started chipping away at the trophies! Such a fun game! We’ve heard 32% of the trophies and I got at least one trophy per DLC except for Champions Field. I thought I was going to get the trade five rare items for an ultra rare but I only have one item and it isn’t trade-able so I’m going to have to play a bunch more. But I’m going to have to as one, it is a super fun game, and two, it is going to take a long time for me to drive 50 km.
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The reason I don’t have as much money in my PSN card is because Dead by Daylight had some more items for sale, namely both Ash Williams and Leatherface for half off which made them both combined for six dollars. If I had deep pockets, I would have just threw all of my money towards the DLC but like my gaming goals of buying my wishlist once they are only a certain price, I’ll start with the cheapest options and work my way up. I should just say heck with it and treat myself to Ghostface as he’s who I really want. Maybe once I’ve gotten my moneys worth with Rocket League, I’ll jump back to Dead by Daylight.
I can’t imagine I can properly pay two multiplayer games but maybe I’ll do it like I do my main games and make one my chill game one day and the other the chill game on another night. That’s probably exactly how I’ll end up doing it. I’ve spent so much money on these games, I better commit to playing them!
I bought Michael Myers and have barely used him, and I’ve only used Leatherface the first night I bought him. I’m a bit of a stickler for using the dailies to direct how I play. So I’ve had several survivor tasks so I’ve been bouncing between Ash and Laurie from Halloween.
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I thought I wrote about Friday the 13th : The Game before but it doesn’t appear like I have. Dead by Daylight has some lengthy wait times, both during the matching phase and then for the final lobby portion. So I’ve taken to looking at my fellow survivors’ trophy lists. We can’t see the killer, for the surprise element I’m sure, but when we play as the killer, we get to see all of the survivors. I never think to check out the killer’s trophies after the game though. Unless I’ve earned a trophy, then I follow all of those peeps who made it possible.
So I kept seeing all of these players who had Friday the 13th : The Game as a game they all have played. Which makes sense as they are both horror mutliplayer games, where a group of people (counselors vs survivors) are against a killer (Jason v Multiple Options). I like how the counselors can actually fight against Jason, though it is super complicated to actually kill him, but at least we can take the offense instead of just hiding and working generators. That being typed, I still prefer Dead by Daylight.
My other problem is that we can’t choose to play as Jason, it is a random draw. We get to chose our counselor and which Jason we want to play, but it is a 95/5 chance of playing as Jason. Once we see Jason in the opening scene, at least one can tell if they are going to be Jason if he matches. I barely even saw the first Jason option and when I did, it wasn’t me.
I must have played 30 matches as a counselor and I finally unlocked Deb. She might be my favorite at the moment. I unlocked her at level six.
I should say I have never seen a Jason film so I just learned she is from Jason Goes to Hell, The Final Friday. The ninth film in the franchise. She’s Jason’s 92nd victim.
I was playing so much I was tempted to get the costume DLCs, as they are only two dollars each and there is only two of them. One is the bathing suit and one is a fun costume option.
Then I got to finally play as Jason and now I’m done with the game for a bit. We were so close!
Deb’s costume is a bunny costume! That’s when she won my heart!
But not my two dollars. Who knows, maybe I’ll stop being a fuddy duddy and just spend the four dollars but I also have plenty of time as well.
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So my break from Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 and my addiction to Dead by Daylight also led me to playing Warframe and Apex Legends, as I kept seeing both of those games on people’s trophy lists. Which makes sense as people who like multiplayer games probably like free multiplayer games.
I didn’t take to Apex Legends, I’m no good at shooting people, but it was fun running around. I got the jump master trophy and felt like I had done by part.
Warframe, I had a much better time with, and I could see myself playing a few more nights with it. Sort of like how I’m given these PS Plus games, I feel like I can pick them up and drop them at any time. Like, I didn’t earn the games, so I didn’t have to fight for them, or they are not as real to me, if that makes any sense. But I’m learning that they are a lot of fun. I have committed to the idea of playing a game until I get the first trophy and then seeing where I land after that.
I also hadn’t gotten to the online portion of Warframe, but I did the tutorial and the first real mission and earned the Rank 2 trophy, No Longer a Rookie.
I have been seeing a lot of GTA V trophies but I rather not take the Lego Marvel Collection disc out and replace it with GTAV and then sit for three minutes as the game loads. Maybe that can be my next physical game I play. I should at least try to beat the main story as well as complete the online tutorial, as that’s the trophy I see most people have earned, and I can at least do that much.
Girlfriend Reviews also just did a video for the game so it is just on everyone’s mind, I supposed.
I’ll add my voice to the news that Supermassive Games has announced that The Dark Pictures Anthology is no longer a five game franchise. There will be . . . eight games! I can only imagine their preorder sales have been incredible and they just are fully committing to making these games. I’m going to preorder as many as I can!
I’m intrigued about the multiplayer games, playing the game with someone else sounds like fun. I’m not sure how that would work as I could never commit to playing for five hours, even in the middle of the day on a Sunday.
I’m hoping it isn’t like Beyond : Two Souls where there is only one ongoing save file so you had to either play solo or with a partner. I want this to be like Portal 2 where there will be options to play single, multiplayer or party mode. Which now I’m trying to think if Hidden Agenda had different tracks, I want to say it didn’t but that game was super short at barely three hours, a length of a full length movie these days. Five hours feels just a tad long to be in front of the system, at least to this 37 year old. If I was in college, then heck yeah, but I got adult responsibilities now and barely no time to play as it is.
I really want to platinum this game so I’m really hoping I can do that and not be held up by the multiplayer mode. In that case, I guess I’ll have to figure out how to operate without any sleep the night before.
Sounds like the second game must be in near completion mode as the third one is filming soon. So maybe they can make two games a year work?!
The fourth and fifth games are in the game design mode and they have story concepts for games six, seven, and eight. This is such an exciting time!
PlayStation has a little more information on the game too!
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Thanks to Dave and Rosie of PlayStation Access for hosting their video containing multiplayer gameplay!
They even got to experience a real life ghost ship! So lucky! Poor Dave, at least he had Rosie there.
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For July 2019, the PlayStation Plus games were changed from Horizon Turbo Chase and PES 2019 to Horizon Turbo Chase and Detroit Become Human.
Which is unfortunate as I don’t own the Special Edition of Detroit but I did get the regular edition for Christmas. I was also really looking forward to playing PES 2019. I was really hoping Konami was going to pull a NBA 2k19 and make their game $2.99 to take advantage of the hype and disappointment loads of people felt. As I would never buy the game for $30 but if it was $3, heck yeah! Especially as PES 2020 is coming out in September and then, no one is probably going to buy 2019, except for me, once it is way cheap. I can hold out, of that, I’m sure.
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Thanks to YouTuber TN_Spicyapples33 for hosting his video of the San Francisco cup!
I’ve only played and completed the San Francisco cup of the World Tour. This is a pretty fun and relaxing game. I can see this becoming a nice chill game to play after completing a night’s worth of playing whatever my main game is. The tracks do not take long and once you understand how the rubberbanding works in the game, I rarely stressed about winning. The only playful stress I had was trying to get all of the coins and come in first place to earn the Super Trophy. Whenever I grabbed all the coins, I wasn’t in danger of coming in second but when I came in first, I often didn’t get all of the points so I had to do some replays.
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Before I can start a playthrough of Detroit, I really want to complete my first playthrough of Beyond : Two Souls. It is silly but that’s just what I want to do. Except I’m not really doing it. I finished the Separation chapter and I started the Dinner chapter. And that was a week ago.
Still a fun game but I’m just addicted to playing Dead by Daylight right now.
My goal is to play a level of Lego Marvel Superheroes 2, then play Dead by Daylight, and then the next night, play a level of Beyond : Two Souls, and then chill (if that’s even the word, as unwind sure isn’t!) with Dead by Daylight.
Instead, with some nights I only get to play for like 30 or 45 minutes, I’ve just been playing Dead by Daylight and completing my dailies (or trying my best!). I’m still no good at it but I’m learning and feeling like I’m getting better.
In Lego Marvel Superheroes 2, I completed the first Inhumans story level and it seems I have one more but making nice progress in the story as well as doing the side content.
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Over on the Spider-Man side of my life, Walker Dennis is still super obsessed with Spider-Man!
The excellent team over at Insomiac added the two new suits from Spider-Man : Far From Home!
The Upgraded Suit
and Night Monkey!
So much fun!
The suits look great in the game too! I started The Heist DLC on Ultimate New Game Plus mode but I just did the first mission as I have other games to make progress with.
I can’t believe I’ve never done a review for 201 or 211, that can’t be right but it must be as they don’t come up when I did a search.
201 is the amazing Cyclops vs Storm issue. 211 is an incredible issue from the Mutant Massacre story. 266 is Gambit’s first full appearance. I have never read 266 but 201 and 211 are some of the best comics!
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We got to watch Spider-Man Far From Home on July Fourth and the theater was barely full, people must have been out of town or something silly.
Such an amazing time!
Like with Endgame, this at the end of the post and there will be spoilers but also, nothing else but Far From Home commentary so you should stop now if you haven’t seen the film!
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Such a spectacular film!
Jake Gyllenhaal did an outstanding job as Mysterio! My favorite scene of his has to be after he’s given the glasses and he’s alone in the bar and there is that half minute of silence and then the entire bar explodes with applause. So great! I sort of want to rewatch the entire movie again just for that one moment of stillness.
I thought before the movie was how does Mysterio trick super spy Nick Fury into thinking there was a multiverse? I mean, there could still be one but with Fury’s resources, how does one fake one? Then the post credit scene, we finally figure out how Mysterio did it. It wasn’t Nick Fury! Though how Mysterio still tricks everyone else working for Not-Fury, I’m not sure. Also, who is that agency? Is it a side SHIELD? Seemed like a missed opportunity to use the Agents of SHIELD team. Or are these guys just private soldiers of Fury’s? But then how does he pay those soldiers? Or are they all human agents of SWORD from Fury’s actual appearance in the film? We really need to watch Captain Marvel.
I got the word “Night Monkey” spoiled for me with the costume reveal but it was a minor spoiler but that was all I got spoiled by, so that’s nice. We also saw it the day after it came out, so that helped too.
We finally got Ned Leeds and Betty Brant together! So great!
Martin Starr was amazing as always and they got JB Smooth too! Such a fun combination.
Peter Tingle, and I kept waiting for it to be called his Spider-Sense.
Nice how the three Lego sets were all actually in the movie proper, that was great. We still only own the Hydro-Man set but we’ll probably snatch up Molten Man, if we can ever find it again.
The biggest day away though was the mid-credits scene. Someone had the genius idea to bring back J. Jonah Jameson AND to have JK Simmons come back and portray the character!
I mean, that voice, that face, that’s everything I want! I imagine they had him bald to separate him from the Tobey Maguire movies and I’m fine with that.
Though, as big of a shock as it is to state Peter Parker is Spider-Man on a popular news outlet, I still don’t feel like it is that big of a deal. Right? I mean, the Stark Foundation can help settle this misinformation. Sure, it’ll follow Peter Parker for a while but if the Stark Foundation or SHIELD can just say it isn’t true, have a nice Skrull appear as Peter Parker standing next to Spider-Man, I just feel the stakes are not that high. It makes for a terrific ending but I don’t anticipate Peter being hounded by the police or Interpol. Especially as the next movie won’t be out until 2021 at the earliest. Funny how we don’t know the next slate of films but it’ll probably come during or right after San Diego Comic Con or D24.
Plus, if Peter is just going to be under the employ of the Avengers or Stark, then he’ll be fine. Sure, he’ll have to go to a different school or getting his GED through the Avengers, but he’ll be okay.
But such a great ending!
Also cool that they actually got Peter Billingsley to come back from the first Iron Man movie. And I was reminded that Billingsley is Ralphie from A Christmas Story! Apparently he was also an executive producer for Iron Man but not for any of the other Marvel films so I wonder how that came about?
Apparently he is friends with Jon Favreau so that explains so much! Favreau is so deep in Disney’s pocket that I can only assume now that he is a majority shareholder in the company. He ought to be with how much money he has made for Disney and Marvel!
Marisa Tomei and Favreau were also great in the film too! Such fun chemistry together.
Always great to see Cobie Smulders in these movies.
Zendaya got a lot more to do in this film and she was super fun. I really like seeing her and Holland together. Also, super realistic how swinging around New York City has to be extremely terrifying!
People are saying the four Elementals are based on Spider-Man villains, which makes sense with Molten Man and Hydro-Man but I don’t remember even seeing the Earth/Sand Elemental. Was he only shown on screen during that exposition map scene? People say the Wind Elemental is Cyclone, which sounds like a stretch as well as he’s mostly just a dude who whirls. But I completely get that if two of them can be identified as Spider-Foes, then let’s label the other two as well.
So much fun that opening montage of our fallen heroes! Makes sense the world at large just assumes Captain America is dead.
That’s another thing, with two years between films, we’ll most likely get Peter’s subplot resolved in whatever next film he shows up in.
Apparently the Russo Brothers are teasing that on July 19th, there will be an announcement at San Diego Comic Con.
Apparently D23 is named after Disney 1923, the year the company was founded. That Expo is to be held on August 23, so expect big news to continue.
We know to expect Black Panther 2, Captain Marvel 2, Spider-Man Home Run, and one day, Avengers 5. Plus, Fantastic Four and X-Men announcements.
I’m not sure if I really need Doctor Strange 2, I feel like the character, much like Thor (and Superman), works better in a team environment or on special guest star status. But who am I kidding? I’ll still watch his movie, I will just have to remember to do so.
Oh, and Deadpool 3 has to happen too? The jokes that movie will have to address will be fun to watch.
I bought NBA 2K19 and was pretty happy with the purchase but it also only cost me three dollars. So I’m sure I’ll get some play out of both PES 2019 and Horizon Chase Turbo.
Horizon Chase Turbo is a racing game straight from the 90s (and apparently a free mobile game, that we all learned from E3 2019, we all love), and PES is either your preferred soccer game, or it is the game that is not FIFA.
I know of PES as it is PlayStation Access’ Rob and Dave’s favorite soccer game as they have plenty of videos regarding the game.
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Referring to them, here are my peeps’ YouTube videos.
PlayStation Access
Smart to have Rob do the video. Now that I think of it, when was the last time I heard Dave do a voiceover? It seems to be either Nathan, Rob, or Elle these days.
Never a good sign when playstationtrophies.org doesn’t have a trophy guide for a game.
I’ll probably play a tad of Horizon Chase Turbo and then just go down the list for PES 2019 and see how I take to the basic trophies before tackling the ones that require time.
On the PlayStation store, there is a “Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 PS Plus Member Bonus” that is free and I’ve downloaded. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t stay anything of what it does. For Horizon Chase Turbo, there is a demo we can enjoy but I can just wait the few extra days and just play the game.
The games would usually cost us, $20 for Horizon Chase Turbo and the Standard Edition for PES 2019 is $30, so $50 total. PES 2019, like NBA 2K19, also has coins you can buy for in-game purchases but I’m not going to do any of that.
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In other games, my casual break from Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 is still going on. I’m at the part where I have three chapters to choose from and I’m just going down the proper order, so I need Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Daredevil to help me out in the Noir hub. I do have the x2, x4, and x6 multipliers on, so that feels like a real victory.
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While looking over the PL Plus Specials (I though it had a name but it has a nice pink and purple banner), none of the two dollar games jumped out at me. What did though, was Dead by Daylight, which was a free game way back in August 2018. I figured I’ll attempt to play it as I’m not much of a horror guy but I didn’t even attempt to play it and I really took to For Honor.
Since there isn’t a single player mode, there were no simple trophies to get but I’m committed to at least get the “reach level ten” trophy. I’m still not very good at being either a survivor nor a killer, but I’m having fun playing it.
My answer to the question of, What is your favorite horror franchise?” is always Halloween! And part of the sale is Michael Myers, so I bought him, as he’s typically eight dollars and on sale, he’s four.
Thanks to GameSpot for hosting the trailer!
Halloween DLC comes with both Michael Myers and his sister, Laurie.
The DLC, that must have been free at the time (it could still be, I’m not sure now that I own it), was the Lullaby for the Dark. From the trophy guide above, it says it is free, so it must always be free.
Thanks to YouTuber CaptainABSea for hosting the video! And for having a clever screen name!
Looks like they have four videos regarding the game so I’ll try to watch the other three! Turns out, they just read it from the bio page but I was like, I really want to play as the Huntress now!
The DLC also comes with survivor, David King, as well.
The guide recommends playing first as Nea so that’s what I’ve been doing.
The nice part is that the games don’t last that long, especially if you are as bad at it as I am. I’m lasting a tad longer, but not by much. Also, as the killer, I’m the ideal guy, as I might spot a survivor but then they can get away.
So in order to try to get gud, and to sample different aspects of the game (and to get my money’s worth), I’ve been doing three game of Nea, David, Laurie, and then two games of Michael Myers and the Huntress. They call him, The Shape, in the game, which is a little fun.
Also, I like it mentally as it gives me something new to do as well, playing this way.
I made a list of “doable” trophies so I’m trying to try to get as many as I can or at least, get one trophy, and see where we go from there.
I’ve been making a point of giving whomever I play with a thumbs up on the total screen, as that feels good to do, there isn’t a trophy for “earning 100 thumbs up” but I figure it is nice to do anyway.
The game also added Ghostface from the Scream franchise and I’m sort of tempted to get him, as Scream would probably be a close second on my list.
Peter David’s run of X-Factor (any of them, really) is really great and I liked the detective agency angle that the third volume had.
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I finally finished NBA 2K19’s prelude within the proper game and I’m finally a member of the Phoenix Suns. I haven’t played an actual game as a Sun, as I’ve been running around the Neighborhood earning trophies, but it feels nice to finally start feeling like I’m accomplishing something in the game. I then tried to do the story mode in MyGM and I was not ready for all of the reading. It definitely is 90% reading, so know that as you are going into it. I lost the Summer League bet as I thought I’ll take a chance an sim the tournament. We won the first round but lost the second so I didn’t earn that trophy and I just feel done with the game at the moment. I’ll probably jump back in eventually but a break is needed.
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I picked up Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 again and that feels good to be completing story missions again. I finally unlocked all of Chronopolis, I haven’t explored everything yet but at least the green barriers are gone. I immediately went and completed the race to unlock Scarlet Spider and I did Spider-Ham’s mission to unlock him.
Apparently, we already had the x2 multiplier Gwenpoole pink brick, so I’m not sure when that happened. So all of that time I was saving 800,000 studs, I could have have had 1,600,000 studs if I had just turn that on from the beginning. I would have sworn that it wasn’t there earlier but that’s okay. I now see I can buy all of the multiplier ones, so I’m going to have to save up again to buy those but it should be easier once i get the x4 multiplier, which turns into an 8x multiplier as these bricks stack.
I also did Agent Venom’s sidemission to unlock him, which opened up my first Gwenpoole misison which is going to be the next thing I do in the game. That way we can earn Carnage and proper Venom. Then I have everyone I need to do the Free Play version of the level, so I might as well do that to unlock the Lizard.
I saw ahead that Carnom is an option to unlock after beating the symbiote main story mission. Carnom is the combination of Carnage and Venom, and Walker Dennis is going to lose his mind once he seems that as an option.
Walker Dennis really wants to get cut-in-half Spider-Man Deadpool so he’s currently saving his money for him. He saved up money to buy cut-in-half Peter Parker Venom so he’s maybe learning the value of a dollar.
Walker D also has saved up his dollars and bought Spider-Claus off of eBay.
So that’ll be coming to us from China and will be here around July 19.
Michael Rosenbaum concluded his two week Smallville run of episodes and listening to them all really made me want to watch some Smallville episodes. Now I’m hooked all over again! I asked on reddit for some Bottle Episodes, as I couldn’t remember any and got a few suggestions:
Season 5’s Lockdown
Season 6’s Static
Season 7’s Traveler
Not really bottle episodes but it gave me a start. I’m going to watch the one where Lionel and Clark switch bodies, Season Four’s Transference. I also snuck Season Two’s Precipice.
I’ll probably bounce around some more and watch more Lois episodes and maybe end on an Alicia Baker marathon of her three episodes.
Season Three’s Obsession
Season Four’s Unsafe and Pariah
She’s mentioned in two other episodes and as a photograph in two other episodes, so I might try those as well. I was also thinking of watching the six episodes Tom Welling directed as well. Michael Rosenbaum directed Season Six’s Freak, so I should add that to the list too.
I rather bounce around along themes instead of watching every episode. Or start with Season Four when Lois shows up but that’s still a lot of television to watch.
Erica Durance was so great as Lois as was Sarah Carter as Alicia.
We finally earn my 20th platinum with Lego Avengers! So that gave me the perfect break to try the June games. Of course, Walker Dennis immediately notice there wasn’t anything to do in Lego Avengers so we started Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 and he walked around snowy Manhattan and Wakanda. We got a few gold bricks and some studs but I’m putting that game on hold for a bit.
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Sonic Mania took me right back, I especially love how SEGA title card and saying “SEGA.” I immediately had a smile on my face. I earned the trophy for setting a bridge on fire. I got to Flying Battery, the fourth zone of the game, and I couldn’t figure out what to do next. I just kept going around the same circle and I couldn’t buzz through any walls either. I’ll have to start the level again and see if I just went in the wrong direction or I’m clearly missing the right path. I’ll watch a YouTube video and see what I’m missing.
Thanks to YouTuber Tony StrongStyle for hosting his walkthrough of both zones and the boss battle.
I got stuck at the 50 second mark and the far right one takes us lower, I just didn’t commit to it.
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Once hitting that road block and having another game to try, I stopped Sonic Mania and attempted Borderlands 2. I knew there were two characters that had high level requirements, Zer0, who earns a trophy once he’s level 31 and Salvador, who has to be level 25 to earn a trophy. I left Walker D play as Zer0, as I wasn’t sure how violent the game got.
Walker thought he looked the most like Spider-Man, and that was enough for him. We haven’t found that sword yet. So that made me choose Salvador, and that was fine with me. We ended up with two play sessions, I doubt combined it lasted an hour even. We earned the trophy after completing the first mission, which was nice. Walker essentially just wandered around as I shot snow beasts and then he’ll catch up as we reached a new area. It was pretty fun actually. We got to the first city and met our first human quest giver, Sir Hammerlock. While there, we could modify our suits and Walker found a way to turn Zer0 to have red tones so now he looks even more like Spider-Man. I opted to not change my outfit.
On my own, I got Salvador to level five, earning me a second trophy. I’m currently on the Best Minion Ever quest. I can kill Bewn no problem but his brother, Boom seems impossible while he’s in his tank (Big Bertha) blasting at me while two dudes are constantly being respawned. I also kill running out of ammo and dying, so that doesn’t encourage me. I seem to knock his health down to half but then his health refills and I die again to repeat the process. I might not be waiting until it reloads. I should try again before calling it quits.
The opening song though, is simply amazing!
Thanks to YouTuber EzE for hosting the opening!
The song is “Short Change Hero” by The Heavy, an English band.
It is so great and got me hyped to play the game.
I’m not sure if Walker’s progress with Zer0 is tied to his non-PSN-account or when it is time for me to play as Zer0, do I just carry on at his level 3 status? I’m going to have to take the time to test that.
Pretty fun game, I just hit a road block and couldn’t figure out how get pass Big Bertha.
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We are currently in the middle of PlayStation’s Days of Play right now! So many great games are on sale.
I had to take a chance on NBA 2K19 as it is typically a $60 game and it is only three dollars so I had to buy it. I did wish that I downloaded NBA 2K19 Prelude first, as it is free and would have scratched that itch. But my progress in Prelude carries over to NBA 2K19 proper and I’m a huge fan of that, so I have to get my three dollars worth out of NBA 2K19. Prelude (that I keep wanting to type as, Preclude) has its own trophy list which I was jazzed about. I’m not very good at it, mostly doing D+ work but I get into the Cs and I’m definitely capable of getting into the Fs. I’m hoping more practice helps with that. My character is a Power Forward as I grew up a huge Phoenix Suns fan (I’m from Arizona) and a Charles Barkley fan, so that’s who I wanted to model myself after. Turns out, I have no idea what a Power Forward really does. I’m constantly losing points for being out of position but I stay in the paint under the basket so I have no idea. Hopefully the proper game tells me more about how to be a proper Power Forward.
I’ve started the game and I just got to the game after the Indiana State Fair. This game has already gone in ways I would never have expected and I’m having a real blast playing the game. I’m no good at it and I really need to learn how to make baskets on the courts and off the courts as I didn’t do well in the game on the side of the barn nor the fair game. I really want my character to start being a team player and to date that Nikki character so I’m hoping I get to make more decisions in the game as I’ve been able to make one or two dialogue options and I’m hoping for more of that.
My goal is to get him on the Phoenix Suns or stay with the Indiana Mad Ants until I can do so. I’m not really sure how seasons work or once I pick a team, if I can change teams. I imagine I can’t so I’m just going to hold out and get Phoenix Suns worthy. Two teams are interested in me but I see the Suns are starting to get interested. I also need a Phoenix Suns hat for me IRL. And to learn when the NBA 2019-2020 starts. Apparently the Suns have had a rough nine years of not getting to the playoffs but maybe they can do it this year. They have also never won the National Championship either in their 51 year history.
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What I’m mostly excited though, is the free Fallout 76 demo that is available right now!
Thanks to GameSpot for hosting the footage! This is the full Bethesda conference but you can stop watching it after the 20 minute mark. So mark to lead and address Fallout 76’s rough start and get it out of the way. Great idea of make all of the DLC free (thus far).
This week, there is a free trial, on the PlayStation Store it is under the Demos, that we all get to play! So that’s what I’ll be doing tonight! I’m hoping the progress I make carries over to the eventual day I buy the game. Pending on how I take to the demo, I might have to move this up my wishlist and no longer hold out for dog companions to be added.
Human NPCs are being added as is a Battle Royal, which seems interesting.
I got confirmation progress made in the demo will carry over and I’ll find out if trophies pop in the demo tonight. Which I checked and they do not, which is unfortunate but I also understand that they want us to buy the game too.
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Another another thing we’re excited about it Ecto-1 and KITT coming to Rocket League!
Thanks to Rocket League for hosting their own video!
Ecto-1 is out already and for two dollars, I’ve already bought it. KITT will also be two dollars and out on July 22. I already bought the DeLorean from Back to the Future.
The trailer is filled with hype that can barely contain itself!
I want the Game of the Year Edition so that’s usually $25, I was hoping it would have gone on sale during the Days of Play but it also makes sense it wouldn’t have with the current promotion. I’m hoping it will go on sale even just for a tad by the end of July but either way, I’ll be buying it soon. I currently have $14.82 so I have enough for KITT and I’m really hoping to get a $25 PSN card for Father’s Day then I can for sure get it but it might be Mid-August before I do as I’ll just buy a ten dollar gift card every payday until I have the $25 but then I’ll be sweating my PSN Wallet until I get it back over $25 again. but that’s on me and my anxiety. I have this plan in place so I can just keep buying two $10 PSN cards and be back on top within a month. I just have to work for what I want is all it really comes down too.
I can’t find any pictures online so I had to take one myself.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 