Portal Knights

All posts tagged Portal Knights

October 2020 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on September 30, 2020
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Games, Websites. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment

The October 2020 PS Plus Titles are :

Need for Speed Payback and Vampyr!

I knew Resident Evil Biohazard was not going to be an option as it is currently on sale, but I really thought Days Gone was going to be the scary game of the month.  I am excited to pay Vampyr, as it has been on my list and it is from Dontnod who brought us the Life is Strange series of games.  I am hoping Need for Speed Payback is fun and for Walker Dennis’ sake, can just be a game where he can drive around to his heart’s content.

.  .  .

PS Prices

Need for Speed Payback is typically $20, but has been as low as $4, for the base game.

Vampyr is typically $40, but has been as low as $12.

Which is a grand total of $16, which doesn’t seem amazing on paper.  But combine that with the $218 in savings plus Call of Duty : World War II, that brings our total to $234!  Which is truly incredible!

PS Store

Like Street Fight V the month before, Need for Speed Payback as a slew of DLC.  None of it free.

$30 Deluxe Edition

$4 Aston Martin DB5 Superbuild

$10 All DLCs cars bundle

$10 Deluxe Edition Upgrade (which is a nice concept).  Comes with the Story DLC, a NOS color, License Plate, Leaderboard Icon, 5 shipments, 5% rep bonus, and 10% discount on in-game content, plus the Platinum car pack including six cars.

$5 Fortune Valley Map Shortcuts

$2.49 Range Rover Sport SVR

$2.49 Alfa Romeo Quadrifogilo

$8 Speedcross Story Bundle (so two more dollars, gets you everything else from the Upgrade – decent deal)

$2.49 Infinity Q60 S

$2.49 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2

$4 Pontiac Firebird Superbuild; if it looked as slick as KITT, it would be an instant buy, but it doesn’t.  It looks great, but the front is all wrong for what I would want it to be a substitute for.

$2.49 MINI John Cooper Works

$4 Chevrolet Range Rover and Alfa Romeo

.  .  .

Vampyr on the other extreme only has a Hunters Heirlooms DLC for $3, two weapons : Paulinus Aurelianus’ sword, Dragonbane, who was a mythical founder of the Brotherhood of Saint Paul Stole.  The other being Carol Eldritch’s pistol, Baker, who was the secodn leader of the Guard of Priwen.

.  .  .

Reads like most of the comments are stating how it is a pretty average month of games, but most have high hopes for November now.

PS4

Need for Speed: Payback and Vampyr are your PS Plus games for October from PS4

Playstation Plus

Need for Speed: Payback and Vampyr are your PS Plus games for October from PlayStationPlus

PS4Deals

[NA] October PS+ Games : Need for Speed: Payback and Vampyr from PS4Deals

.  .  .

My YouTube peeps :

Nathan with PlayStation Access :

Adam with PlayStation Grenade :

Ben with Platinum Chasers :

Adam also makes some amazing Fortnite videos, if you are interested.  I have been enjoying his tracking of the map every week, since we’re still playing Fortnite like crazy.

.  .  .

Here are the links to PlayStationTrophies.org’s guides to the games :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/need-for-speed-payback/guide/

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/vampyr/guide/

I will probably not go for the platinums for these games, but I will at least knock out the four easy to get multiplayer trophies for Need for Speed, as those are my favorite kind.  Just attempt to play ten races, beat your own speed once, and do a daily challenge.  I will attempt to play the game proper, but once I hit a difficulty road block (pun intended!), I will probably be done with it.

Vampyr has collectibles and requires two playthroughs, one being a No Kill playthrough, and I can’t see myself playing it twice, so I will probably just play like I would naturally, and see what happens.

.  .  .

I have been playing Fall Guys on Walker’s name, as he really wants to create his own Batman with the limited suits he can muster.  I finally earned him a fourth crown, so we are waiting for the superhero top.

It isn’t Batman, but it has a cape, and that’s good enough for him.  It costs three crowns, so now we are simply waiting for it come back around in the store.  Hopefully for Season Two, they add a third row to the shop.  There are pants too, but that would be another three crowns, so the priority is top first, and then we’ll see.  It is pretty cute though.

Hopefully if they ever do more license suits like Batman, that it costs Kudos and not Crowns.  I know the Portal and Gris suits have been crowns, but those are a lot more specific, whereas everyone will want Batman.  At least do a Crown version and a Kudos version.

I finally spend five real dollars on the game for 12,000 Kudos, as they added a white duck to the game, after I just said the night before how they should add a cute yellow duck.  Plus, I’m well pass level 40, so no free money was coming my way.  Walker Dennis had enough on his account, so he bought it too.

.  .  .

So I start every morning playing Fall Guys, and I start my gaming night, either finishing Walker’s leveling up, and then straight into Fortnite!  So I level Walker up once, then I level up myself after that.  It takes longer for my name, plus, then I can move onto another game while still logged in as myself.

Walker just earned the Groot screen saver, and next is the Rocket Raccoon icon, then it is the Rocket Raccoon buddy for Groot to run around together on the map.

Fortnite just turned three years old, so getting all of those challenges done, really got him caught up to where I am in the Battle Pass.  I just earned Storm’s emoji and next is her trail blazing, the part before the glider comes out.  I am two challenges away from earning 80s Storm, but I am not sure I will be able to accomplish those as the weekly challenges are becoming a tad difficult.  The two easier ones are to eliminate Iron Man three times, and get three eliminations in the Woods.  I have now defeated Doctor Doom thricely, but from the few attempts at Iron Man, he seems much more difficult.  Wolverine is finally coming up on the Wolverine Challenges this week, so hopefully he isn’t too difficult to earn.

I also got both of us Red She-Hulk, which is fun.

I have been regretting not participating in the Deadpool battle pass, but I am not sure if it was ran like the current Marvel one.  I couldn’t justify the $20 for Captain America this time around, plus Walker said he would really want it as well, so I really couldn’t justify the $40 for two Captain Americas.  I have made peace with him wanting Batman and buying the suit for him, and not doing the same for myself.  If they ever release a Riddler, that one, I may have to spend real money on.

Thanks to the Battle Pass, we have earned V-Bucks, but not enough to warrant any cool purchases, and I will definitely be saving those V-Bucks for actual characters instead of weapons or dances.

.  .  .

The game we are currently playing together, and is Walker’s new obsession, is Portal Knights, again.  But this time, he is player one, and the game is finally clicking with me.  Or I am just more committed to figuring it all out.  We have two dedicated homes; Dusty Junction, a pleasant desert island, and North Point, a deadly winter island.  Dusty Junction is the second island you visit, and Walker has really put a lot of time into turning one of the mines into a home, and it is super cute.  North Point is a place where I have built essentially a war room of upgraded Workshop, Alters, Anvil, Furnace, and chests galore.  I found out that if we built an Arcane Compass, it directs us to where Portals are.  Though it is hard to determine if we have to build down or up, but I default to building down to mostly success.  Sometimes it is just right around the corner on the surface, and those are always nice surprises.  We both have iron weapons, I play as a Warrior and he is a Mage.  We defeated the first worm boss and are trying to get to the second one, but we skipped over the key island for the second one, so we have to go back and figure out which island’s portal gets us there, but we also haven’t found the second grandbeast’s portal either, so we have time.  I am having a hard time getting yellow shards to activate the portals, but it has been a real blast locating the portals and figuring out the locations.  I really do like mining for gems, and building my staircases either downward or upward.  This time around, we are building actual bridges to take us across gaps, so that feels good to be opening up the islands.  We just have direction that we didn’t have the first time we played it, so the game is a lot better now.

.  .  .

I finally completed my fifth playthrough of Erica, so I am two hours away from earning my 34th Platinum, and I meant to go straight into my sixth playthrough.  Well, I did start one, but kept dozing off in the beginning, so I turned it off that night.

Then Rob with PlayStation Access released the Weekly Store video :

Wherein he describes a new game, Genshin Impact.  It is a free RPG, which are two of my favorite things!

I am not that far into the game, and I am committed to playing it until I have earned at least one trophy.  It looks pretty great, it reminds me a lot of Omega Quintet, which also reminded me that I had to go back to playing Omega Quintet as well.

I probably only played for about an hour or so, but I am really enjoying it.  It looks great.  I chose the lady twin, whose names are Lumine and Aether.  We have the option to changing their names, but I looked it up to see if they had canon names, which I am glad I did as the brother clearly had a defined name.  There was a moment where I was going to name her, Kristie, and be done with it, but there was a thought I had that I was pretty sure she had some fancy other worldly name, and she did.

https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Bows

I am very much still into Archers, so I looked it up and the game as three of them.  Amber, Fischl, and Venti.

The game started off as a mobile game, so there is a wealth of information out there.  Except for where the chest is located on the heart shaped rock, as that’s one of the trophies, and once I recruited Amber, I was going to go to that chest for trophy, but no one has written about the location yet.

That website is pretty great, but nowhere does it reference where we recruit the characters, so hopefully I can get a chance to recruit those two before I move onto another game.

Right now, I have completed one of the three temples, and going to the second temple, it looks like I will be recruiting at least two more characters from Amber’s Knight clan.  I chose her temple first as I wasn’t sure if I was able to lose her, but I didn’t, and we’re definitely moving together to the second temple.

Gacha Gamer has been releasing a slew of helpful videos relating to the game, including this handy tier list.

He comes down pretty hard on Amber, saying she is in the lowest tier, but I have been enjoying her a bunch.  We have met Venti, but only in passing, and I have yet to see Fischl.  I want a team of Lumine and the three archers.

Gacha Gamer also has two great tips videos, but they made no sense to me prior to playing the game, so I would recommend playing for a bit to get familiar with the mechanics, and then watching those videos.  That helped me as I had a better frame of reference then.

There are 18 characters, and I believe we create teams of four; which seems like a lot of options, maybe too many, but it is a free game, so they are probably providing a lot so we spend a lot.  Though I haven’t needed to spend any money yet, so hopefully the other two characters are not behind paywalls.

.  .  .

That heart shaped trophy is titled, Unswerving, and YouTuber, Nier Zero has a video up for it!

Thank you!

I believe Kaeya is one of Amber’s friends I am about to recruit.  Looks like a lot of effort is going to be put into getting this trophy.  At least I know it won’t take ten minutes, just four.  Though I wonder if we could just swim there?  From the comment section, it looks like we need a co op partner to have the chest appear, so hopefully I can log Walker in real fast and get the chest.  Also from the comment section, the second player does not get the trophy.  I wish the map section was in the beginning of the video, but it makes sense to show it at the end.  I may have to set another trophy as my goal.

Actually, the Beloved of the Anemo Archon trophy appears to be much easier and I know right where it is!

Thanks to YouTuber R o b for hosting the video!

I was totally tempted to climb that statue last night too!  But I opted to not do so as I was way into seeing where the story was going, but I will go there immediately after starting the game.  I’m pretty excited!

.  .  .

Looking back, I do not believe I updated everyone that I finished the 2013 Tomb Raider game.  It was such a great game, Rise clearly took everything that worked there, and just made it better.  I found all of the tombs, and most of the collectibles.  Multiplayer is dead, which I thought for three dollars, I would have found a like minded player, but I play super late at night, so the chances are pretty low.  Shadow of the Tomb Raider is still new enough where the lowest price is $20, but if it ever dips below $10, I will definitely buy it.

VUDU and all of the other streaming services continue to refuse to stream 2018 Tomb Raider, so I keep checking on that.  I recall there is a Need for Speed film with Aaron Paul.  I can only imagine it is not very good, but I wonder if it is at least an enjoyable . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed_(film)

130 minute?!  ooof, that seems like a lot of time, I wonder if it would have done better with a shorter length.  I will see if I can stream it anywhere, and if not, add it to my list of films to check every Friday morning.

February 2020 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on January 29, 2020
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Games, Websites. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment

The February 2020 Free PS Plus Games are : The Bioshock Collection, Sims 4, and Firewall Zero Hour.

Firewall Zero Hour is a VR title, so that is great that we are moving toward getting VR titles, now we just need to get two PS5 titles (probably Post-January 2021) and my hunch will be correct about what Sony will be doing with the PS+ subscription going forward.

The Bioshock Collection I have heard nothing but amazing things about.  The first two take place in Rapture, an underwater domed city, and Infinite takes place in the sky.  People absolutely rave about these games.

Sims 4, I have heard of the franchise and my gal pal April adores it, I had not heard it had made its way to PS4 yet.  I wonder how it plays on console?  Also, Sims turns 20 this year, so this is like a birthday present for all of us.

I really love that we are getting game collections through the subscription.

I will probably start with BioShock 1, then try Sims 4.  One day, it would be nice to own a VR set, but I have to wait until Walker Dennis is at least 12, so six more years!

.  .  .

PSP Prices has the games valued as such :

BioShock Collection is typically a $60 game, but goes on sale for as low as $12 – so already PS+ pays for itself on the high end.

Sims 4 is typically a $40 game, but goes on sale for as low as $8.

Firewall Zero Hour is a $20 game, but goes on sale for as low as $10.

So let us see if we hit $45 in value just yet!

These games are combined at a value of $120 at their height, or at $30 at their lowest.  The January games were combined at either $30 at their height, or $11 at their lowest, so we are already covered at the highest so I will no longer be tracking that.  At the low end, we are now at $41, which is so close to $45.  No matter what the games are for March 2020, the subscription will pay for itself.

A visit to PSN reveals :

The BioShock Collection has a theme we can buy for $2, so if I take to the game, I could be tempted to buy that.  The Collection comes with all single player content, all DLC content, the “Columbia’s Finest” pack, Director’s Commentary (which I love!), and Imagining BioShock, featuring Ken Levine and Shawn Robertson.

Sims 4 on the other hand has so much additional content!  There are three free avatars and three free themes, but the rest do cost money.

Island Living $40
Toddler Stuff $10
Discover University $40
Spa Day $20
Outdoor Retreat $20
Realm of Magic $20
Fitness Stuff $10
City Living $40
Dine Out $20
Get Together $40
Parenthood $20
Jungle Adventure $20
Cats and Dogs $40
Spooky Stuff $10
Backyard Stuff $10
Get Famous $40
Vampires $20
Seasons $40
Get to Work $40
StrangeVille $20
Deluxe Party Edition $50
Live Lavishly Bundle $60
Vintage Glamour Stuff $10
Cool Kitchen Stuff $10
Moschino Stuff Pack $10
Luxury Party Stuff $10
Bowling Night Stuff $10
Perfect Patio Stuff $10
Kids Room Stuff $10
Movie Hangout Stuff $10
Back to School Bundle $50
Bundle – City Living $50
Romantic Garden Stuff $10
Laundry Day Stuff $10
Plus Cats and Dogs Bundle $50
Deluxe Party Edition Upgrade $10
Bundle – Cats and Dogs, Parenthood $50
Bundle – Seasons, Jungle Adventure $50
Bundle – Get to Work, Dine Out, Kitchen $50

So a lot there if that is your thing.

Firewall Zero Hour also has a slew of DLC!  This game also has eight free avatars but so much more at cost.

Characters

Contractor Jaguar $4
Contractor Lynx $4
Contractor Proxy $4
Contractor Kane $4
Contractor Nash $4
Contractor Ruby $4
Contractor Node $4

Hack Key x5 Pack $5

Deluxe Pack $20, comes with characters, camo skins, face paints, and weapon skins.

Digital Deluxe Edition $40, is the game plus the delux pack.

I have now downloaded all of the free items!

.  .  .

Most reddit reactions seem to be how most already own the BioShock Collection, which was true of the Uncharted Collection, but I do not own the BioShock Collection, so count me as being in the super excited camp.

[Video] PlayStation Plus Monthly Games – February 2020 from PS4

February’s Free PS Plus Games: BioShock: The Collection, The Sims 4, and Firewall Zero Hour from PlayStationPlus

NA | February’s Free PS+ Games: Bioshock: The Collection, The Sims 4, Firewall Zero Hour from PS4Deals

.  .  .

Nathan with PlayStation Access :

Adam with PlayStationGrenade :

Ben with PlatinumChasers :

.  .  .

Dave of PlayStation Access just last week played the first hour of the first BioShock.

So that is nicely timed.  Elle was a great companion, as usual.

.  .  .

PlayStation Trophies Guides :

BioShock

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/bioshock-ps4/guide/

BioShock 2

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/bioshock-2-ps4/guide/

BioShock Infinite

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/bioshock-infinite-remaster/guide/

Sims 4

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/the-sims-4/guide/

Firewall Zero Hour

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/firewall-zero-hour/trophies/

No guide, just the trophy list.

.  .  .

Game Updates :

In a bit of exciting news, PS4 users got the Earth 2 costume as free DLC!

It looks pretty great in the game.

.  .  .

In Lego Batman 3, I am slowly making my way through obtaining the red bricks and the Bat-Mite items (which unlock one of three character tokens in each level).

In the first Uncharted game, I got to the first real shoot out and died, and on easy, so that killed some of my buzz, but the game looks stunning on PS4!

We played Portal Knights again, unlocking some additional portals, and just having a great time in the game.

Turns out, something happened to my Lego Marvel Superheroes 1 save file, so instead of 100%, it is now at 0%, so Walker Dennis and I played the first three levels of the game, and unlocked the ability to free play as anyone we have thus unlocked during the open world.  So that was annoying but these things happen.  I feel no pressure, at all, to reclaim anything.  Odd thing though is that Walker Dennis is not earning any of the trophies for completing each chapter, so we really should have made him the first player but I will keep monitoring that.  Once we get some actual characters, I will see if we can earn some character trophies on his file to see if there is a problem with the game itself.

I got all of the trophies in Goat Simulator I feel like I am easily going to obtain.

So all in all, I am feeling pretty well.

.  .  .

I have to look at the trophy guides for Sims 4 and BioShock 1 to see how much I am even going to see but I really want to commit to getting 12 new Platinums this year.  My second one will be for the first Life is Strange game.  I am going to try to do a level of Lego Batman 3, then finish the night with another episode of Life is Strange.  Which should not take too long with four episodes left to do.

Playing Titanfall2 and Monster Energy Supercross

Posted by John Klein III on December 10, 2019
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Games, Songs. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment

I played Titanfall 2 and Monster Energy Supercross, the two games provided by the PS Plus Subscription Program!

Between the two, I probably enjoyed Titanfall 2 over Monster Energy Supercross, but if I was going to go back to one of them, to try to get better at it, I might choose Monster Energy Supercross.  Titanfall 2, I gave two nights, and Monster Energy Supercross, I gave one night.  I liked customizing my character’s outfit and bike, and there is a brand company called, Thor, that I really want to suit my character in, just for comic reasons.

I am not much of a guy who likes playing in first person mode, I just feel disconnected, and in this game particularly, it makes me feel like I am always crouching.  I kept trying to jump to see if I was deeper in the ground than I was, but I was on solid footing.

.  .  .

What I really enjoyed playing was most of my older games!

Under Trophy Adviser over at psprofiles, I kept having two trophies, the same one, listed for Hitman : First Season and Hitman 2.  Which happened as you can play all of Hitman First Season within Hitman 2.  Even if you do not own Hitman 2 properly, the demo is good enough.

Hitman reminded me very much of Sniper Elite 4, it is all stealth, until you are ready to attack, then it is about killing or completing your objective.

I completed the tutorial / prologue in Hitman, then I did the exact same thing in Hitman 2 for 1’s prologue.  So I earned nine trophies in the first game, then I followed that up by earning the exact same trophies in Hitman 2.

I had such a great time and I am extremely tempted to try the Paris mission.  I tried it for maybe 15 minutes and immediately realized there was a difficulty spike from prologue to first mission, or at least, the training wheels definitely came off.  But I am tempted to go back to the game(s).

I am also tempted to watch the Hitman film but it is not available on any of our subscription services, which seems bonkers to me!  Like, seriously, Hulu, Netflix, Vudu (with their free movies with commercials option), Amazon Prime, philo, and I knew it was not on Disney+, none of them had it.  Amazon and Vudu wanted to rent it to me for like three dollars, but I am not doing that.  Heck, even Roku’s own video library did not have the film.

Actually, there are two films, one in 2007 and the other in 2015, so I may have to check again, as I am not sure which one was unavailable to me.  It was definitely the 2015 one that I was able to find through Roku’s handy search option.  Handy in that it functions, unhandy that it rarely produces the results I want.

.  .  .

I also gave Detroit Become a try.  Connor died in the first mission and I did not even have the thought to restart the game, so I am only playing as Kara and Marcus right now.  I believe I am starting Chapter Five of 32 (or some high number like that), I completed Marcus and his painting owner being confronted by Leo, the painter’s son, who is clearly on drugs.

I did that last night and I already feel like I may want a break.  Which is probably just because the game is structured into chapters, so it feels like a good jumping off point.

.  .  .

I started the Journey Collector’s Edition.  I got through flOw, not really enjoying myself at all.  Maybe at first but then I kept trying to just get to the credits, and it took a while.  So, like flower, I am done with that game.  One playthrough was enough.

It really did feel like a company’s first game.  I still do not quite get the trophy, flOw, that one can earn in Flower, besides just being a callback to the earlier game, but one earns it by going through a cave in flower, and there were no caves that I could see in flOw.

.  .  .

Journey, on the other hand, was a really fun experience!  I ended up meeting two other players, neither of whom wanted to sit still for 20 seconds to help me get that one specific trophy, but that was okay.  The game did not feel that long, once I completed it.

I do like the idea of playing and completing a game within an hour, it just feels fulfilling and gives me that sense of accomplishment.

.  .  .

We got Walker a Lego Advent Calendar this year, so I am seeing new Legos all the time, and I have been tempted to get back into the Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 game, at least complete the DLC.  So my plan is to play the DLC, do it again for the Free Roam, complete a main map objective, my current one is to find the frozen SHIELD agents and I have two more of those to find somewhere on the main snowy New York hub, and then complete a main mission in free roam, collecting all of the minikits, obtaining the hidden character, and saving Stan Lee.  That is my plan for the rest of the month.

I suspect Santa is the 24th item in the set, but Walker Dennis really wants him earlier.

.  .  .

The Ghostbusters Afterlife trailer was released!

Thanks to Sony Pictures Entertainment for hosting it!

It looks amazing and is immediately a must watch situation!  It just feels like a legit movie.  My buddy, Greg, pointed out that with Paul Rudd’s character’s comment about how there has been no ghost sightings in 30 years, it completely erased the 2016 film or at least, placed it into a much larger Ghostbusters multiverse.  Which I would be all for if that means we can get more The Real Ghostbusters content!

That moment when they are watching news footage from the 80s films, is all I wanted from the 2016 film.  Simply acknowledge the origins, say something about no ghost sightings in 25 years, maybe even take place in Chicago, to explain away why the origins cannot be present for this film, plus why the technology has to be built from the ground up.

It is going to take a while to get to July 10, 2020, but once we get there, it is on!  Well, a week after that!

Walker Dennis is already wanting a Ghostbuster cake for his seventh birthday next year and whatever Lego Ghostbusters house comes out of this film.  Which, now I am not even sure if we will get a firehouse but we better!  They probably will make rerelease one just for the funs.

.  .  .

Wonder Woman 1984’s trailer also came out!

Thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures for hosting it!

Gal Gadot is like, beautifully cast as Wonder Woman!  And sure, Chris Pine as Steve Trevor is clearly some wish fulfillment but it will be great to get him back in the film!

That wonderful song you hear under the trailer is a remix of New Order’s Blue Monday.

Thanks to neworder for hosting their own video!

The original version’s video is a tad too trippy for me!

This film comes out a month earlier from Ghostbusters, June 5, 2020.

A month earlier than that, is Black Widow releasing on May 1.

Which reminds me, I have to start prepping my 2020 in Film post.

I keep trying to figure out which trailer I like the most of the three but I cannot commit to the full thought.  Like, of the three, I really am most excited to watch Ghostbusters, as I really want a stellar Ghostbusters film.  Black Widow and Wonder Woman 1984, are going to be amazing.

So I would rank them as : Ghostbusters > Black Widow > Wonder Woman

Sadly, Wonder Woman loses points because I am dumb and cannot let go how much of a shame it is that DC cannot keep a cinematic universe moving correctly.  Well, at least this film works inside of a larger universe, even if that larger universe is probably (and rightfully) not going to be leaned into too much, if at all.

WordPress has been trying to inform me that “Ghostbusters” is a misspelled word, so I had to add it to the dictionary.  Silly WordPress.

PSN End of the Year Sale 2019

Posted by John Klein III on December 4, 2019
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Games. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/grid/STORE-MSF77008-ENDOFYEAR19SALE/1

If I had twenty more dollars in my PlayStation Wallet, I would get so many more games!

I bought the following items :

Thanks to PlayStation for hosting the launch trailer!

I bought Ninjin : Clash of Carrots for a dollar,

Thanks to Dead by Daylight for hosting their own trailer for the DLC.

Dead by Daylight : A Nightmare on Elm Street Chapter for four dollars.  Walker Dennis has really been taken by the idea of Jason vs. Freddy, that he has talked about it so much that now I want to play as Freddy.

Thanks again to PlayStation for hosting this video as well.

I also bought the Journey : Collector’s Edition for five dollars.  I had three other games I was going to choose from but once I found out that the Collector’s Edition comes with Flower (that I already owned) and flOw, I could not pass it up.  Plus, it is rarely under five dollars.

The other games, and if I can be gifted a PSN card prior to December 23, when this sale ends, I wanted this games :

RESOGUN     $4
PaRappa The Rapper Remastered     $4.49
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture     $4.99

So three more games for nearly $15 sounds like one heck of a deal!  But I definitely do not have the time to play five new games so I can, and probably should, just let the other games pass until the next amazing sale, but gosh, it would be nice to just get the games now and have a pretty fun backlog to eventually work my way towards.

I want to be impulsive and just get all of the games and treat myself but then I get in my own way and think better of it.  I have a few weeks to think about it, and maybe get at least one more game.

.  .  .

I have played the first four levels of Ninjin, and it is pretty fun.  I need to get Walker Dennis to be my partner, and I bet it is more fun with a second player.

.  .  .

http://www.campbell-dean.com/obits/preview.php?id=1044&p=&search=

On December 2, 2019, my buddy Greg’s birthday, I found out my mother’s twin sister, Denise L. Skinner, passed away, unexpectedly.

The news has left quite the quake for myself and my extended family.

She was a very sweet and kind lady.

She was also quite the author, and wrote two books!

https://www.amazon.com/Built-This-Community-Denise-Skinner/dp/1932077251/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=denise+l+skinner&qid=1575408814&sr=8-1

The other book is a prequel to Built This Community, titled, Need for Rabbit Blood, that does not have a handy link on Amazon but you can copies from third party distributers here :

https://www.isbns.co.tt/isbn/9780615124827/

Both books have quite a charm to them, if you like stories involving small town communities and the politics that come with those.

I just keep thinking about legacies and how she did what I want to do and at least wrote a novel so her name lives on.  One of her final wishes is to have a memorial bench in her favorite park, which is an idea I may want to look into for myself.  I just really want to be remembered.  At least I have our son, and this blog, so he has something to look at to see what my silly thoughts were on various topics.  I know it is one of my motivations to start a podcast, just to leave some content in the world.

I am going to miss her a lot and regret not reaching out more often, which is classic me.  If people would be cool if a five minute phone conversation, I would probably reach out more but I do okay with texts but I can do more.

.  .  .

On a lighter note, the trailer for Black Widow’s movie has come out!

Thanks to Marvel Entertainment for hosting the video!

May 1, 2020 seems like forever from now!

I love that she has two hero costumes and David Harbour as Red Guardian looks amazing!

.  .  .

It has been a while since Comixology has updated their Free Comics section.  I suspect they have quietly stopped providing free comics.  Which is a real shame.

.  .  .

Lastly, the free games for December have been released!

I spent the other night splaying Ninjin, and last night I played a bit of Titanfall 2.  I did the training and I am in the middle of the first mission.  I have BT Prime and was doing well enough with the L1 attack but then too many opponents came up and it was after midnight, so I went to bed to try to handle it even better.

Which is another issue I have with the end of the Year sale.

I was thinking of making a game rotation of Titanfall 2, Monster Energy Supercross, Ninjin, flOw, and Journey; and that seems like plenty of games.

I had committed to playing the 2019 PS+ Games I had not gotten around to.

Walker Dennis and I really were taken by Portal Knights, it really is a Minecraft like game, with more emphasis on the adventure story but there is a creative realm we have not explored yet.  We have visited the first three worlds and a Christmas world, and just arrived at the fourth world.  I am not sure if we completed everything on those four worlds but I did not see any more Orange mission markers, so we moved onto the next one.  Though there is a trophy for completing everything in the first world, and I did not earn that one so there must be other things to do.  He really likes to make tunnels and really took to the second world which is a desert planet.

I completed the first course of four races in Amplitude.  It is a rhythm game where we pilot a spaceship along musical tracks.  It was fun and I earned three trophies but I probably will not go back to it anytime soon.

Fallen Legion : Flames of Rebellion is a fun RPG style game where an interesting battle mechanic where it is turn based but instead of top down, it looks like a side scroller, and each of the action buttons is an individual’s attack button.  We have a group of three fighters (Square, X, Circle) with the mage having triangle and arrow keys for his moveset.  The story is pretty interesting, I visited the first four hubs and I might actually try to get back to it again.

I still have Hitman : First Season and Detroit : Become Human to sample, so my game rotation is going to be Titanfall 2, Monster Energy Supercross, flOw, Journey, then Hitman, and Detroit.  So I really do not need more games taking up my time.

Games I regret not spending more time with?  Sniper Elite 4, Dead by Daylight (especially as I have Freddy now to play with), Lego Marvel Superheroes 2, Mad Max, and maybe a few more trophies in Beyond : Two Souls, but I am ready to move on from that game.  I will eventually work my way back to Mad Max, but I think I have made up my mind on not buying those three extra games.  I just had to write it all out for me to see I probably should not do it.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and RESOGUN have been free games through PS+ so I know it is safe to buy those two, and that I will not be getting them for free anytime soon.  PaRappa The Rapper Remastered may be a free game but the chances of that might be slim, right?

I may move up Hitman and Detroit, as I do want to at least have played the first mission/chapter of each one prior to 2020.  It has been fun to play a new game a night, and I have been able to play every night, which has been nice too.

All of this and I may get TMNT : Mutants in Manhattan, Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Injustice 2 : Legendary Edition for Christmas (my only game requests as two of those are physical only games, and Injustice 2 has TMNT in it as well).  Maybe I will get only one of those, and I would be happy with any of them.

The only games my wife has bought me that I still have not gotten around to, at least attempting, is Uncharted 4 (which I can now that I have played 3), Lost Legacy (which I will after 4), and Life is Strange : Before the Storm, as I am waiting to finish the first game for that.

I imagine we will probably get Uncharted 4 for free in 2020, along with Witcher 3, and Horizon Zero Dawn.  Those would be three big games for 2020.

Witcher 3 prior to April, when Cyberpunk 2077 comes out.

Uncharted 4 sometime before May, when The Last of Us 2 comes out.

Horizon Zero Dawn at the beginning of a quarter when memberships are to be renewed, would be my best guess for that title.

So much to look forward too!

.  .  .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_video_gaming

Looking at the few titles coming out in 2020, I am not crazy hyped for any of them at this point.

The Last of Us 2 would be nice but it would have to come way down, to like $30 before I am tempted by it.

If they had a third person mode to Cyberpunk 2077, that would get my interest.  But still, it would have to come down in price.  As Outer Worlds patched in a third person mode yet?  I need someone to tell me when that happens.

One of my problems with Titanfall 2 is that I feel so short in that game, and it bugs me.  It does not seem to be much difference from standing and crouching.  Anyone else have that problem with first person modes?

Final Fantasy VII Remake would also have to be $30 and I am still willing to wait until the complete saga is out and getting that remastered version, which I may be tempted to spend $60 for that.  Is there word of that even happening?

Marvel’s Avengers, might be a game I am willing to pay for during this next calendar year, but I need more characters added to that roster, and I would not want to buy them one at a time, so I may have to wait until the Collector’s Edition comes out.

The Dark Pictures Anthology : Little Hope is slated to come out next year and I will buy it but for $20, no reason for me to preorder it.  Especially once the Curator’s Cut has been recently released for everyone.  I was slightly concern if it was never released, like Until Dawn’s preorder DLC.

So five games that I am interested in and mostly Avengers and Little Hope are the only ones I can see myself actually buying.

I keep wanting to type it as “New Hope” but it is Little Hope.  Which makes more sense for a horror game.

Are there PS4 games that can come out to die in with Avengers?  It would be nice if they could remaster the PS3 Captain America game, as I always wanted to play it but my PS3 died and I missed out on that game, Fallout : New Vegas, and Batman Arkham Origins.  Remaster all of those, please!  But also release them on PS4 and PS5!

Little Hope’s PS+ game would have to be The Inpatient VR title.  It did not happen with Man of Medan but it has to happen eventually right?  Well, not until they start adding VR titles to the monthly games.

I sincerely hope that is the plan going forward.  2 free PS4 games, 1 free PS5 game, and 1 VR game, at least for the end of 2020 (as there will not be that many games for the PS5) and maybe the bulk of 2021?  Then 2022, for some anniversary or something, 2 PS4 games, 2 PS5 games, and one VR title?  That would be my personal goal for Sony.

Though I do not plan on seeking out a PS5 until at least Christmas 2021 unless it goes on a crazy great sale for 2020 but I cannot imagine it being $300.  I would have to at least get the 1TB as I need as much of that now as I can get with the PS4.