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PSN Totally Digital Sale – Ends February 5, 2020

Posted by John Klein III on January 23, 2020
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[NA] Totally Digital | Ends 2/5 8am PT from PS4Deals

Thanks to redditor neocarleen for posting the titles with their very handy PS Store links!

This is a sale that favors indie developers and there are plenty of games for under three dollars.

I bought Real Farm and REUS as they were only 74 cents each, with a PS+ subscription.

I also bought Octodad : Dadliest Catch as it was $3.74, and I am just going to buy games on my wishlist if it is under four dollars.  I had a policy of any games under five dollars but that threshold was being met to often.

Elle and Rosie looked like they had a fantastic time playing the game!

Looking into it, the game does have two player couch co-op where up to four players can play as each limb, so Walker Dennis and I may try this together, just without the giant overcoat.

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11-11 Memories Retold is $7.49, which I have been interested in since reading an article about the game in GameInformer.

Dear Esther : Landmark edition is $4, and I think you would get that much out of the game.  I started the Commentary Track playthrough and the first several audio files were interesting but I was pretty done with the game by that point.  A great looking walking simulator.

Alphabetically, Deployment is the first under two dollar game.

Drowning is a relatively quick platinum, and probably worth the $1.49.  I liked it, I wished it had an additional chapter as it was getting very interesting.

Flower is a nice enough game but $5.24 is probably too much, and I would recommend waiting until the Journey Special Edition is on sale again and get Flower and flOw that way, and it would most likely be only a dollar more.

Fractured Minds is worth the dollar, as it has a great story behind the game and a percentage of sales goes to a great cause.  I wrote about it before :

https://shadowandflamewithmagik.com/2019/11/18/fractured-minds/

I would never buy a modern day Leisure Suit Larry game, unless it got amazing reviews, but $26 seems way too much!

Life is Strange and Life is Strange : Before the Storm Complete Seasons four $4 is a great price, that is like buying four episodes and getting the fifth for free, dollar wise.  I only completed the first episode of the original Life is Strange, and I really should head back in one of these days to finish it.

The LIMBO and INSIDE Bundle is $9, which might be a tad high, it all depends on if you want to view getting LIMBO for free and I am not sure if INSIDE is a nine dollar game.  I enjoyed INSIDE much more than LIMBO, and INSIDE is nearly a two hour game, and such an interesting adventure, but nine dollars?  That part I am not sure about.

Mafia III Season Pass is $15, adding three additional chapters to the game.  If I took to Mafia III, I might consider it worth it, but I did not get that far into it before getting distracted by other games.  I should try to get back into it.

Ninjin : Clash of Carrots is $4, and I definitely bought it for under two before, so you should probably wait for that price to come down again.

Oustlast 2, I got as a PS+ game in November 2019.  I did not take to it, but I know people love the franchise so $8 for a horror game people like, might be up your alley.

Overcooked was a PS+ game in May 2019.  It was fun, but I am not sure if it was $6.79 worth of fun.  Maybe if you had a friend to play with, it is probably a lot more enjoyable.

If the Oxenfree Bundle : Game + Dynamic Theme + Avatars was under $5.59, I would jump at the chance, as the game looks super interesting.  I am just buying way too many games, but I also love a deal.

Everything I see anything regarding Persona 5, I feel like people should know that Personal 5 R is coming out and they should wait for that.

Elle of PlayStation Access fame is a huge fan of Return of the Obra Dinn, and that game is $15, which is a tad steep for me.

Rogue Aces was a PS+ game in February 2019.  I also did not take to this game, so $5.84 seems high to me.

Slender : The Arrival was used during PlayStation Access’s Christmas Maze, and it looked interesting and $5 is probably the perfect price, and that is at 50% off.

Now that I know games can and will eventually drop to 75%, I am super willing to wait until that happens.  Plus, I did not really get a feel for what the game was like, but it was super fun to watch!

We were given Sonic Mania as one of the PS+ June 2019 titles, and I was tempted to get the Encore DLC then, and now that it is $3, I am tempted to get it again.

I have Surgeon Simulator A&E + I Am Bread combo on my wishlist, and $7 for two games seems like a deal, but after seeing gameplay of I Am Bread, I am pretty hesitant to purchase it.  It may not be my type of game.

The Bridge was a PS+ title in October 2018.  I did not get that far into the puzzles, but I definitely would type that I got $2 worth out of it.

Nathan of PlayStation Access said The Swapper was a good game, so I added it to my wishlist, and $4.49 sounds good, and that is at 70% off.  I am willing to wait for a bit to see if it comes down anymore.

Rob of PlayStation Access talked so highly of Thomas Was Alone, that I added that game to my wishlist as well.  $4.99 is a good price, and that is at 50%, so I wonder if it will ever drop to 70%?

I clearly adore the PlayStation Access team.  I could not work in a game that Dave recommended.

Uncanny Valley is a very interesting game that we got back in January 2018 as a PS+ title.  It requires multiple playthroughs to 100% the game, so I bet I got $5.19 out of it.

People absolutely rave about Undertale, and $12.74 is probably reasonably priced, but that is also at 15%.  It will eventually get to 50%.  I can be a very patient gamer.

If I were to ever buy Unravel, it would be as the combo bundle.

We also were given What Remains of Edith Finch as a PS+, way back in May 2019, and I definitely got $8 worth of entertainment out of it.  Such an amazing experience!

Yooka-Laylee gets a lot of love too, and that game is $10 at 75%.

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I should state that next week, we find out what the February 2020 PS+ games are, so you may want to hold off on any purchases from this deal and the Games Under $20 deal, though one would imagine none of the games on either list would be named as one of the titles, but that is also why I do not buy more than five dollar games towards the end of the month.

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I did not take to Defunct, so I would save your 23 cents for that game.  I read it was like playing a Sonic game, but I did not get vibe from it.  Well, besides that the main character rolls around, but I did not take to the game mechanics.  If the game was all downhill, that may be fun and then it added anti-gravity to the game and after earning a few trophies, I felt like I had played enough.

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Shiny – A Robotic Adventure I would highly recommend, and especially at 23 cents!  It is a platform game, and besides Level 12, I enjoyed it a bunch.  I stayed up way too late one night and just knocked out all 21 levels, which was highly irresponsible as I was the worst the next day.

I was told on reddit that some of the trophies have glitches and I can confirm that.  I collected everything in Level 3, and did not die once, and I did not earn the trophy for Not Dying in a Level.  So that was disappointing.  Another gripe I have about the game, was once you replay a level, all of the collectibles come back.  I was really hoping only the collectibles I had not collected would be present, which is probably a bit much to ask for.

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Walker Dennis keeps just getting better at Spider-Man PS4.  He just completed Act 2 and I am highly impressed with how much he is able to accomplish on his own.

I am currently stuck on the Kingpin fight of Amazing Spider-Man 2, and regretting playing on Super Hard mode.  I have seen videos where I am supposed to take out the goons prior to taking on the Kingpin, I just have to commit to doing it.  I already know that the upcoming Electro and Green Goblin fights were nearly impossible on Easy, so I am dreading playing those as well on Super Hard.  I am definitely never attempting anything beyond Normal as my first playthrough.  And now, I am sort of in a position of not wanting to replay hours of the game on Normal and having to recollect those comic books again.  Especially the flying ones.  So I am mostly disappointed in myself.

I have been making a point of playing a level of Lego Batman 3 first, collecting the red brick and the character token for Bat-Mite in each level.  I believe I am currently on level seven?  That sounds about right.  I love how fast the levels are and how they made it so you could skip segments if you have a character like Man of Steel Superman who can fly ahead and do whatever it requires for that section to be completed.  I also miss how the Lego games used to let you pick a subsection of the level to play, and to tell you where the collectibles were in each mission.  Lego Dimensions must have been the transition game that handed off different mechanics to the next generation of games.

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I have also become super obsessed with Nolan North’s Definitely Playthrough of Uncharted and I am currently watching his playthrough of Uncharted 2.  Troy Baker.  I absolutely love the theme song for the show, done by Droid Bishop.  I started Uncharted 1 and I got to Chapter 3.

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My wife and I also played one game of Wheel of Fortune.  I really wish Pat and Vanna were paid for their likenesses in the game, as the stand-ins make the game feel very cheap, and the game costs a decent amount of change.  The game itself is pretty good, as is the presentation, but it is a real shame the game was not properly licensed.  We have yet to try Jeopardy.

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Rayman Legends is on the Games Under $20 sale and I finally gave it a try.  Such a fun platformer!  Playing this and Shiny brought back so many great memories of how much I enjoy playing a good platformer.  Rayman Legends just looks great too, it has this really great classic feel to it and the levels are not unforgiving nor all that long.  I was playing a level of Lego Batman 3, followed by Rayman Legends, then whatever the main game of the night was going to be.

Then, of course, I bought all of these games, and then I have been too tired to stay up and have not played any of them.

2019 and PlayStation

Posted by John Klein III on January 19, 2020
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The awesome folks at PlayStation released all of our stats for 2019!

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/campaigns/2019/wrap-up/

Here is mine :

So much fun!

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.

https://psprices.com/wish-list/kv4kaZEy

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There is a $20 Games Sale going on right now!

[NA] Games Under $20 Sale | Ends 2/5 8am PT from PS4Deals

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.

Man of Medan has Multiplayer!

Posted by John Klein III on July 12, 2019
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https://www.androidcentral.com/supermassives-man-medan-has-multiplayer-eight-games-planned

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!

http://play.st/2xHhliW

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.

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https://www.comixology.com/free-comics

Comixology has three X-Men comics for free!

Uncanny X-Men 201
Uncanny X-Men 211
Uncanny X-Men 266

A total value of $5.67!

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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Spoilers!

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?

The Internet Is Just Discovering Ralphie From ‘A Christmas Story’ Stars in ‘Elf,’ and Minds Are Blown

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.

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2476313/are-the-russo-brothers-teasing-new-marvel-footage

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.

Plus, maybe more Disney+ series?

Time will tell!

I also keep forgetting about Eternals too.

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Phase_Four

Also, there is a rumored Black Widow origin film, Shang Chi, and Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

https://www.universehead.com/comicbookqueers/2019/7/5/episode-91-spider-man-far-from-home

If you want to hear Comic Book Queers Legacy’s take on the film, follow the above link!

 

Man of Medan : Dev Diary # 2

Posted by John Klein III on April 16, 2019
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Thanks to PlayStation for hosting these videos!

Part One was posted two weeks ago and Part Two was posted a week ago and I only now learned about both!  I have to step up my google searches!  In fact, I almost didn’t realized there was a Part Two!

Another great developer interviews with Art Director Robert Craig, Audio Designer Hywel Payne, and Animation Director Jamie Galipeau.

A lot of time is being put into making sure the water sounds like water and the boat feels like being on a boat.

The biggest take away is that I haven’t missed a dev diary episode AND THE GAME COMES OUT IN SUMMER 2019!!!

I knew it wasn’t going to be December 2019 but I can’t wait to spend time with the game, probably in July or August, right?

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pictures-Man-Medan-PlayStation-4/dp/B07K16Z92L/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=man+of+medan&qid=1555078571&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Amazon still has it listed for December 31, 2019 but that makes sense.

Thanks to PlayStation Access for hosting their own video!

I saw the beginning of this seven months ago but I wasn’t addicted to their channel then so I was pretty dismissive.  Now I’m all about Rob and Hollie and their is a lot of content in this video to enjoy.

I really like the design of the compass decision making interface, that looks really cool.

I wonder if the plan is to still release two games a year?  I know the game isn’t supposed to be Until Dawn’s ten hours, it will be more like five hours, and $30 isn’t that bad for what I’m hoping is a lot of content and plenty of replays.

I can see them releasing one game this year and then maybe two next year, once they know what the demand is for the Dark Picture Anthology.  I’ll be buying all four games, that part, I’m sure about.  Especially if they stay at the $30 range.

I should look into what actually is required to upload game footage as that would be very fun to make a Let’s Play video of my first playthrough.

It does feels like it is only me talking about this game and WhatCulture Gaming

Who ranks the game on their list of 10 2019 Games that will Change Everything!

I still say Man of Medan is my most anticipated game of 2019.  Still surprises me that no one has made a subreddit for the game.  Maybe once there is an official release date.

Turns out, someone has made a subreddit for the game!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ManOfMedan/

I was about to do it myself but now I don’t have too.  Though there was only two posts in there and I’m trying not to flood it with videos but the first post was from three months ago with one comment and another was from a month ago with zero comments so I’m trying to bring some life to it.

.  .  .

Well, I finally did it!  I completed my Ultimate New Game Plus run of Spider-Man PS4!  I thought the Doctor Octopus fight was going to be hard but I kept dodging and web attacking and he went down in a quarter of the time it took me to do the first time.  The first time, I just kept trying to throw things at him and kept my distance.  This time, I stayed close and kept webbing his arms and launching myself at him.

I was going to share the image getting five 100% of the game but I didn’t get all five lines to show up on the same screen.  The Main Game / New Game + / CTNS : The Heist / CTNS : Turf Wars / CTNS : Silver Lining.

I figured out how to take a picture of the PS App on my phone.  If you want to know how to take a screenshot of your Android phone, press the power button and the volume down button at the same time.  Pretty handy!

.  .  .

I’ve started the second episode of Batman : The Enemy Within.  I’m going to have Wayne tell ties and Batman be honest, if those options pop up this time around.  Batman fought Bane, and I had the option to call either Gordon or Waller.  I choose Waller as it was my first chance to try to make her happy and she said if I played ball, she will put Gordon back in charge once this is all over.  He’ll be upset but he’ll understand the situation.

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Still no word on when Lego Movie 2’s DLC is supposed to come.  We were playing some of it last night and it is still a pretty fun game.  We even played Lego Dimensions for a bit.  I still really want to get the Fantastic Beasts pack, it is affordable and it would be a lot of fun.  Plus, we have Green Arrow and Flash’s STAR Labs is a secret location and that’ll be fun to explore that area.

https://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Beasts-Story-not-machine-specific/dp/B01IG33O5K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=49PQROSBT3YT&keywords=lego+dimensions+fantastic+beasts&qid=1555081400&s=gateway&sprefix=lego+dimensions+fan%2Caps%2C258&sr=8-1

$27 isn’t bad for a new (and our final) gateway and six proper story missions and three additional trophies.  One of these days, we will own it.

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I just bought this cute German Shepard using BrickLink.  I went with seller, dmahon1983 through his site, Freedom Brick

https://store.bricklink.com/dmahon1983#/shop?o=%22showHomeItems%22:1

It took some searching before I could find someone who will sell it to me for five dollars.  Some places wanted five dollars just to ship it and i couldn’t justify that.

I bought it as I’m going to use it as Dogmeat from Fallout 4, and I’m crazy into German Shepards, because of Dogmeat.  I was at Walmart and couldn’t find any sets that even had dogs so I had to look online.  People highly recommend BrickLink and I totally see why now.  Such a handy website!

I originally got the idea after reading this subreddit

My MOC of the Sole Survivor and Dogmeat from Fallout 4 from lego

I’ve come to adore the lego subreddit.  Dark_Movie-Director even posted links to all of the pieces to make his Sole Survivor which is super helpful.

Cosmic Star Heroine, Platinum # 16

Posted by John Klein III on April 10, 2019
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I beat Cosmic Star Heroine, thus earning my 16th Platinum!

Such a fun game!  Turns out, I was playing on Agent difficulty, which is Normal.  I was just minding my own business, I beat Prime Evil to complete Psybe’s side quest and I marked off the trophy on my list and realized I never earned the trophy.  I looked it up and turns out, some trophies are glitched, and most of them are the boss battles.  So I panicked as just three hours earlier, I had earned the Recruit 20 Crew Members gold trophy, which took some time.  So I was debating about regathering those folks or not when I realized the PS4 had backed up my save file when I turned it prior to eating dinner.  So all I had to do was refight the arcade boss for Dave’s side quest and get back to Prime Evil.  I was tempted not to redo the arcade but that’s how we got Dave’s best weapon and that guy is a beast once he gets that weapon.

While reading about the glitches and the advice to hard save before each boss fight, I also received the advice to lower the difficulty to Tourism, the Easy mode.  What this does is knock off a quarter of the health of the opponents as well as weakens them so they don’t hit the team for too much damage.  So I still played the same, the fights were just faster, which was nice and I had made up that hour of playtime in 20 minutes.

I really really enjoying my team of Alyssa, Lauren, Psybe, and Dave – such a great combination of characters and abilities.  I’ll put Chahn in the upper tier as well but we can only have four person teams.  I’ll probably rank Sue even higher than Chahn.

Lita the Vampire of the Mines’ trophy also didn’t pop for me, but I was prepared for that one.  All of the other trophies popped without a problem.

I still wished we could have beaten the main game boss and then had the post-game option to take on the optional bosses and quests, instead of being forced to do it all beforehand.  I get the decision though and it makes sense with where all of the characters end up after the story is over but it would have still been nice to have.

If you have an itch for a Chrono Trigger / Old School SNES RPG game, this should satisfy that scratch.

I did like how the game forces us to play with all of the characters at least once.  With 11 playable characters, there is bound to be a clear division of characters.

I’ll rank them as

Alyssa
Lauren
Psybe
Dave
Sue, his counter attack is amazing!
Chahn
Z’xorv
Arete
Orson
Finn
Clarke

Clarke is just the absolute worst but he’s a fun dancer so he’s lighthearted.  Z’xorv/Arete/Orson, I would just say are fine as is Finn, maybe there is just a clear worst character and a slew of also rans.

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I’ve decided to get back to Spider-Man PS4 as my next game.  I’m going to complete my Ultimate New Game Plus and be completely done with that game.  I’m so close, I got drugged by Scorpion and had Miles run away from Rhino, and my next mission is Heavy Hitter.  Tuns out, I only have four missions left before the end of the game.  Heavy Hitter / Step into My Parlor (the Mary Jane level) / Heart of the Matter / Pax in Bello / Epilogue, which doesn’t really count as it is the ending cutscene, as bitter sweet as it is.

The Electro / Vulture fight was as hard as I remembered, as I just get lost in the night and I can’t track Vulture or his weapon he’s throwing around.  So I’m really not looking forward to the Rhino and Scorpion tag team nor the final boss fight.  Second to last boss fight, I don’t recall being as hard as the others.  I’m not dreading Mary Jane’s level but I do want to just burn through it as quickly as possible.

I figure after that, I’ll finish Batman : The Enemy Within as that’ll be a nice plat to have and I just have to enjoy and play the game, there isn’t any side quests or hidden trophies to worry about.

After that, I’ll complete my first playthrough of Beyond : Two Souls and I’m not sure if I’ll actually beat Knack but I feel like that’s the only other game that I made a load of progress in and stopped.  Oh, and SOMA, which I might just do what I did with RiME and just have a YouTube video at the ready to get me pass any obstacles.

There might be a few Uncharted 3 trophies I can clean up just to try to get to Rank 15, my only real video game related goal for 2019.  I’m currently at Rank 14 with 70% but it took me so long to go from 13 to 14.  From there, I’ll have to look at my games again and see which one I really want to invest in.  Mostly just the Kill 30 enemies with the Dragon Sniper, RPG-7, Mag 5, and PAK-80, which is four more trophies and most likely pretty easy to obtain.

I really want to get the Lego Marvel Collection too, as Walker Dennis is way into Spider-Man and Legos and I keep wanting to play those myself too.  Which reminds me, we still have the first Lego Movie to complete too but he has been way into playing with his actual Legos than wanting to play that game, I might have to secretly play it on my own.  By the time we or I complete it, Lego Marvel Collection will have to be cheaper than full price $60.  Even buying it for $55 would be a win.

I’m very much influence by the Trophies subreddit, with what game I want to play.  Uncharted 4 keeps showing up, so that might be the next game I tackle.  I probably should mentally plan on playing at least another playthrough of Heavy Rain and Beyond : Two Souls so I can get it Detroit Become Human but I’ll probably just jump straight to Detroit and do one playthrough of that and maybe make a fun game of having one playthrough and then marathoning a second playthrough of all three games in rabid succession.

Beating Beyond : Two Souls opens up Detroit and beating Uncharted 4 opens up Lost Legacy.  Then I still have the two Life is Strange games to play.  I keep being tempted to buy Ms. Pac-Man for four dollars and to get the Season Pass of Batman : Arkham Knight but I have plenty of games to play before buying new games or content.

Hellblade : Senua’s Sacrifice also showed up once or twice and I want to get to that game too, so there easily could be my next three games.

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http://turtlesoupshow.com/episode-196-cocaine-and-crystal-death/

Turtle Soup played Walker and mine voicemail around the 50 minute mark, which felt pretty good.  I hadn’t realized my pauses were so long, maybe it only feels that way to me but it is hard to record a voicemail with a five year old but it turned out pretty well.

Thanks to YouTuber 420 Romantic for hosting the video!

Brian McKnight’s Back at One is such a great song!

 

 

March 2019 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on March 4, 2019
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With the free games only being PS4 games, it is going to be much easier to sample these games!

Thanks to redditor, Po_TatoThe3rd for making the official announcement on reddit

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witness are your PlayStation Plus games for March from PS4

We are getting Call of Duty : Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witness as the free games in March!

They gave us Call of Duty : Black Ops III for free back in June 2018.  I tried to play it, I’m not much of a First Person Shooter.  Whenever I tried, Walker Dennis really wanted to try as well.  We were equally as good but I just didn’t get a hang of it and haven’t gone back to try it.

I’ll definitely be trying these two games as I’m committed to the idea of downloading and playing them.

I’ve been sold on The Witness since PlayStation Access has gone on about it for so long, and I’m all for an open world puzzle game.

Typing of PlayStation Access, here is their breakdown of the free games :

They got Rob to host the video!

Seeing footage from Modern Warfare, reminds me that they have covered it in a few videos so I know at least a few things that happen in the game but that’s okay.  I’m way late on every PS Plus free game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfare_Remastered

The remastered was released on November 4, 2016 and the original was released on November 5, 2007 on PS3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_video_game)

The Witness was released on January 26, 2016.

Here is PlayStation Grenade’s video of the two games :

With only two games, it is probably easier and quicker to make these videos.

Here is Platinum Chasers’ video :

Call of Duty : Modern Warfare Remastered is a 5/10 Difficulty and takes around 15 – 20 hours, and no multiplayer trophies, so that’s great!  He mentions a veterans mode, which would be the highest difficulty so I’m mostly likely out of the platinum but I’ll be surprised if I can even get three trophies.

The Witness is a 6/10 Difficulty and takes 15+ hours.

Apparently going forward, new Call of Duty games are going to be multiplayer exclusive so I won’t be getting any of those, unless they are free.

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I deleted For Honor as I could not get pass Gudmundr, the level’s boss in Knight Chapter Six.  I looked for tips and all of the tips were regarding the second and third stage of the fight and I barely hit him in the first stage.  I tried to skip to Vikings but the game wouldn’t let me.  So that’s that for the February games.  I was tempted to give Hitman Season One a proper chance but the month is over and I got way into Spider-Man again.

I just got to the beginning of Act Three.  Took a minute for the first mission to start but everybody has escaped the Raft and I’m heading towards the police station now.  Silver Sable’s crew have made me priority target number one.  Which was weird when I had to go through Central Park during Act Two and seeing where their base was prior to it becoming a base.  I have all of the bases to do, besides the one Kingpin base I had to do for the story.  So I have to look at the map and see how much fun that is.  I’ve been waiting for Act Three to see what it is like with all of the criminal element still being an option.

I’ve also only completed one Research Lab and that’s all I’m planning on doing unless Walker Dennis wants to see me do another one, or he starts one that I have to finish.  He wants to see and play as Miles so those are good stopping breaks for me when I’m playing at night.  I haven’t come across one in a while.

I keep meaning to play Batman : Enemy Within but I got side tracked by Spider-Man but I really want to play it as I bought it.  It has been a full month and I didn’t even start it.  I want to finish a chapter whenever I play it and those are usually two hours but I should try to do at least an hour but I don’t want to rush through it either.

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Someone on reddit posted a link to psprices.com and it took a while but I put all 47 games I want on there to see when is the best time to buy them.  Well, 46 games as come March 5, I’ll have The Witness.  I can’t believe that even some $40 games go as low as $14.99 so if I see a game under five, I should just buy it.

Currently, Burnout Paradise Remastered is $5.99 as is Brothers : A Tale of Two Sons, and that’s as cheap as those get.  But I know I won’t be getting to either of those games anytime soon so that gives me pause.  Ms. Pac-Man is $3.99 but it has gone down to $1.99 in the past so I’ll wait for that too.  I love the game but I do worry that I’ll be no good at it on the PS4, for whatever dumb reason my brain has made up to stop me from purchasing it.  Squares for the VITA is only $4.99 and I do want to get those VITA games I foolishly didn’t download one of these days but buying a game I can never play for five dollars, seems a bit much.  Plus, once I buy one of those, I really have to consider buying the rest.  These mind games of mine!

I also knew the new free games were going to be announce so I wasn’t really being tempted by anything at GameStop but now I know the March games, I can better prepare.  I want to buy games but I’m stopping myself at price points and recognizing I don’t have time but once day, I will have the time.  Anyone else have these problems?

Maybe if I treated myself to another $20 PlayStation Card, I’ll feel more comfortable making a decision.  I have $30 in my PlayStation wallet and $30 in a GameStop gift card but I can’t commit to buying something.  What I want to do is use the GameStop card to pay for half of the LEGO Marvel Collection (Avengers and Marvel Superheroes 1 & 2) which comes out mid-March, as that game is $60 but comes with all of the season passes, so there is high value there.  Especially as I was tempted by the $65 version of LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 that game with all of the season pass content, so this is like getting two free games and all of their content for the price of one!

BUT!  We bought Walker Dennis the LEGO Movie 2 game and we don’t really need two active LEGO games.  Maybe once we complete that game, the Marvel Trilogy game would have gone down ten dollars and I can justify it then.

https://www.gamestop.com/collection/gamestop-sale

GameStop is doing their Tax Refund sale right now and I wanted to be tempted to buy two shirts (a matching large and small shirt for Walker and me) but I couldn’t get excited for the two PlayStation shirts they had at the moment.  But buy one and one half off is a good deal.  Buy one Pop Vinyl character and get one half off was also a good deal but we couldn’t find two (or one) that we wanted.  We are excited about the forthcoming Ghostbusters characters.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NSPLJPJ/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

Amazon states the Firehouse and Peter will be $30 and that seems pretty reasonable.  I just want to see how big it is.

 

February 2019 Free PlayStation Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on February 19, 2019
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So of the four free games I could access on the PS4 for February 2019, I have to say the one I really gotten into is For Honor.

Gunhouse was fun, I’m not sure if I really got into the mechanics of it.  I’m sure if I kept updating the weapons, I’ll eventually get better at it.  The art style was pretty fun and the game was overall entertaining.  I just kept thinking of playing Rogue Aces.

So then I started playing Rogue Aces and the training modules were fun but then came the tutorial for bombing a city and I was doing decently with that.  The hardest part was getting back to my base to reload.  I was getting the hang of it but it was a bit more work than I was willing to do at that time.

I did all of the work to start Hitman First Season, I downloaded all of the episodes.  I went to the demo for Hitman 2 and made sure I had the legacy pack downloaded over there.  I went back to the Complete First Season and did the initial story segment (like three minutes) and then I saw the yacht.  It looked like more of a time committed than I was willing to give on that day.

Which brings me to For Honor.  I did all of the work to make sure I was a member of the Ubisoft Club, which thankfully was one of my six passwords so I didn’t need to click “forgot password” or anything like that.  I saw in the club that I could download something for free if I had Steep so then I downloaded that game and was confused by I still couldn’t download the item.  So I had to actually play the game and access the club through Steep.  I was only slightly disappointed that there wasn’t a free item in Steep for owning For Honor.  Steep was a free game in January that I never got around to attempting.

Walker Dennis was a pretty big fan of Steep, he mostly liked seeing the guy fall down.  But he also enjoyed snowboarding and hang gliding too but the falling down was pretty rewarding.  I need to go back and attempt some of the easier Steep runs.  I got Silver in a few and Bronze in a few more but then I went back to For Honor.

For Honor has been a lot of fun!  I’m glad the fighting mechanism wasn’t as crushing as people said it was.  Or they commented that once you got it, you got it but I’m not sure how anyone would not get it but then again, I didn’t get either Rogue Aces or Gunhouse.

I’ve been doing the Single Player Knight storyline, I have Chapter Six of Six left.  Then I’ll do Viking and Samurai after that.  I’ve been playing on Normal and having a fun time.  I’m not finding all of the Observations or the Breakables, but I do want to make a point and get all of the Observables, as I like learning the story.  I haven’t bought anything with silver, but I know one of the trophies is to buy all four heroes in a class, so I will do that.  I was tempted just to burn through it with the Knights but I figure I’ll see which of the three classes I like the best.

With real money, I did buy For Honor Dynamic Theme 1, for $2.99.  I was just looking forward to my next game session and that’s when I realized I was going to be committing to For Honor for a while and I’m now trying to match my themes with my main game.  There was two of them, but I didn’t like the second one that was portraying a giant battle of the three classes.  I preferred the simple image above with one from each class.

I turned it to Easy for Walker Dennis to try it as he wasn’t thrilled with Spider-Man’s theme being gone.  Either the game wasn’t as bloody as I remembered or they turn it way down.  That or he was only hitting them with the light attack and not the heavy attack but he was doing pretty well.  Then I got uncomfortable with him playing it and had him stop after two or three minutes.

We’re in the course of moving so I hadn’t had much time to play but For Honor has been a fun game and I’ll probably keep playing it until I’ve gotten through all of the story missions.  I think, if my skills carry over to Hard, I’ll attempt Hard but I haven’t really mastered parrying yet, it feels like I do parry but I also miss sometimes too but maybe by the time I have another six chapters in with Vikings, I’ll have it down to a sweet science.

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This past weekend, we took Walker Dennis and his cousin to see Lego Movie 2 and we all had a pretty great time.  I keep having the Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi “Not Evil” song stuck in my head.

Thanks to YouTuber Chuyperron 25 for hosting the video.

My beautiful wife keeps getting the Everything’s Not Awesome song stuck in her head.

Thanks to YouTuber ToyBox 23 for hosting the video.

The third song that I really enjoyed was Gotham City Guys.

Thanks to YouTuber aranha verso for hosting the video.

Ironically, Catchy Song was not all that catchy for me.

During the film, there were times when I was thinking about the upcoming game and how would we even “play” the movie as there is a few action sequences but not that many.

We did buy the full game so I’m just waiting for Tuesday,February 26 to come out and then we have to wait for the Easter Bunny to give the game to Walker.  We did catch a playthrough of the first level and the game does look fun.

Thanks to Gamer’s Little Playground for hosting the video.

It is a more complicated game than Lego Dimensions but it also seems like instead of having characters with abilities, we’re just making items that do those abilities.

I keep thinking about how I don’t feel like I myself am ready to move onto a new Lego game as I feel like I still have Lego Dimensions goals.  So also for Easter, I want to get him the Fantastic Beasts story level, as that’s the last story pack he’s missing and I like the idea of owning all four of the portal variants.  Then I want to get him the Beetlejuice fun pack as I still regret not buying it at Walmart that time I could easily have bought it.

So funny how Walker kept talking about Lego Dimensions during the film.  During the Gotham City Guys song, Beetlejuice showed up and Walker couldn’t help himself but comment on it.  He was just so excited during the film.  We are definitely buying that film when it comes out.  It will definitely benefit from a second viewing as there are so many references that it is hard to notice them all in one viewing.  Also, the story itself needs to be watched again knowing what we know at the end.

Walker’s favorite scene was the one when we learned Rex Dangervest’s proper backstory.  Massive Spoilers when you click the video.

Thanks to NATE 28 MeMz for hosting the above video.

But his favorite moment was seeing the Back to the Future DeLorean and the TARDIS.  He was so excited that I missed the Terminator reference and the Hot Tub Time Machine reference.  At least I got to see Bill and Ted’s Phone Booth.  I looked for the above video myself but then I noticed the sequence in another video Walker was watching and that boy knows how to find videos on YouTube.

There was no direct references to Dimensions, which I figured there wasn’t going to be but characters from the game show up in the movie like Gandalf.  They do quickly address the Lego Batman Movie in an exchange and we’re back to the film.

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I also committed to not playing Spider-Man on the PS4 during our move.  Walker got into the spirit of things and agreed to pack up his Legos, including his Lego Dimensions figures and bases.  We kept the game out and the box is accessible but he seems committed at this point.

But Walker has really gotten into Spider-Man these past few weeks.  I did buy him that Carnage Lego Set so now he has a Lego Miles Morales.  I also bought him the Titans Heroes Miles.

Now I’ve been regretting not treating myself to the Titan Heroes Scarlet Spider but if I come across one, I’ll snatch it up now.

We’ve been wanting to rewatch Spider-Verse for a while now.  We’ve been getting by on watching Sunflower by Post Malone and Swae Lee.

Thanks to Post Malone hosting his own video.

Then we added “What’s Up Danger” by Blackway and Black Caviar, to our playlist too.

Thanks to Viral MEDIA for hosting the above video.

Now Walker goes around saying “Hello Danger” all of the time, no matter how many times I correct him about the actual song title.

So he wanted to play Spider-Man PS4 and I didn’t have a problem with that.  I had forgotten that we left Spider-Man in his underwear so we laughed about that and then Walker changed the suit to the Infinity War suit.

Sort of nice that we live in this age where I can did a search for “Spider-Man only scenes in Infinity War” and get a supercut of just that.

Thanks to YouTuber Something Something for hosting that video.

Walker was happy to not have to sit through a two hour movie for seven minutes of footage.

I can’t believe Lego Movie 2 was nearly a two hour film, but Walker had a great time and never got fussy.  Unlike Aquaman that had him either restless or bored during portions of it in the middle of the second act.  He’s excited for the next Spider-Man movie, as I told him we’re getting two this year, Avengers Endgame and Spider-Man : Far From Home.

Thanks to TomScott1703 for hosting a video of all of Spider-Man’s scenes from Civil War.  I wished I thought of that two weeks ago when Walker was bored through so much of Civil War just waiting for Spider-Man to show up.  But once he does, he’s in that movie for a fair bit.

He didn’t want seem to want to watch Homecoming but did watch Amazing Spider-Man 2 and was with it for most of the time.  I’m hoping to get the Toby Maguirefilms for Easter as Amazon has the trilogy on BluRay for $30, and it comes with digital codes!

https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Trilogy-Limited-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B06XZ588HB/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=spider-man+trilogy+bluray&qid=1550611914&s=gateway&sr=8-2

The first Garfield movie is also only ten dollars on Amazon, both BluRay and with digital code

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008QZ5PY2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

So it’ll be nice to get both of those and be caught up on our Spider-Man collection.  If not, I’ll probably buy it some time later as after Easter, it is safe for me to buy myself inexpensive items until November.

I’ve been thinking of Easter a bunch lately.  My wife just wants the second Fantastic Beasts film on BluRay, Crimes of Grindelwald, as she missed out on watching it when it was in theaters.  Plus, she has the first one and I think it’ll be cute to get her that one while Walker gets Fantastic Beasts for Lego Dimensions.  It will be a theme Easter of Fantastic Beasts and Spider-Man and Legos.  I’m sure we can find eggs of all three of those.

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Walker was just swinging around on my New Game Plus file and noticed backpacks on the map.

Thanks to Sick Critic for hosting the above image.

I’m not sure what made him want to find them all, maybe as he has his own backpack and can relate to Spider-Man on that level but he wanted to get catch them all.

He has a Hot Wheels backpack but I can see us buying him a Spider-Man one for Kindergarten.  It is odd that a poor high school and then college student could afford to buy 55 backpacks but we just have to go with that.

In 30 minutes, I had found 27 out of 55 of them, but I also had to find the satellite towers too to make it easier.  I wasn’t going to activate the satellites and leave the map as hazy as possible but here I am activating them and getting backpacks.

Walker is also taking my phone and taking pictures of the contents, even though the images are not going away anytime within the game.  So I’m going to have 55 images pretty soon on my phone.

The very first one we found was the Spider-Plushie one and from there, he wanted to see them all.  I had already found the menu from his first date with Mary Jane, as that was a story moment.

Here is Walker’s picture of the plushie.  I have 26 other images of various success rates.  The clock used to be on the wall until I took all of the nails out of the walls.  Now it just sits there.

One fun aspect of this is that Walker knows how far away 27 is from 55 and is appreciating the amount of work it is to get all of these.

One of these days, I have to fight Shocker and change the night mode to day mode, it would make finding the backpacks easier.  But instead of doing that, I played For Honor instead.  There is a game store a block up from FEAST that has a spider-plushie in it but it is closed at night so we couldn’t see it in the game.  Which is super fun to see stores keeping regular hours in the game.

Thanks to redditor TerraFlaeKSFL for taking the selfie and telling us where it is and the name of the store, Gamer’s Paradise in Chinatown.

Look what I found in Chinatown 🙂 from SpidermanPS4

Which I hadn’t really thought about but it makes total sense that FEAST would also be located in Chinatown with Martin Li owning it.

I did have the thought of just loading the finished file or any of the DLC files so Walker could see all of the contents of the bags but this way is more rewarding and fun.

Walker wanted to see Spider-Man hang upside down so we had to find an overhang to make that possible and then Walker wanted me to hold him upside down and take a picture of him looking at Spider-Man being upside down but I couldn’t both hold him and take the picture.  My wife tried her best but by the time she was in a decent position, I was losing my grip and the tv picture didn’t show up well in the photo either.  We just have too many boxes but we’ll try it again in our new place.  It was sure cute at the time though.  Of course, I had him in the position and then he had the thought to have a picture taken.  He’s a heavy 38 pounds right now and I’m not getting stronger as he gains weight, which I thought would be the case but I have to start lifting weights as I don’t want these days to be numbered.

Now I really regret not taking the extra 15 minutes just to do the Shocker fight.  It was pretty hard the first time around, I died several times, as it took me a while to figure out how to web sections of the wall and throw them back him.  The auto-saving was pretty generous but I’m not sure if that holds true for New Game Plus and Ultimate mode.  I did do so much better with the Kingpin fight, but Shocker is really the first boss you come across in the game.  Then the game takes a break for an hour before the next big showdown.  Maybe I’ll try it tonight if I can find those other backpacks.

When I was playing, my main priority was listening to J. Jonah Jameson’s podcasts and barely cared about collecting backpacks or landmarks (public or secret), I just did them for the costumes and moved on.  Oh, and I cared about getting the newspapers too.  Turns out, you store them so even if you don’t see all of them, they are in your collection, you just have to manually look at all of them to get the credit for all 53 newspapers.

Comixology – Free Comics – February 7, 2019

Posted by John Klein III on February 7, 2019
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https://www.comixology.com/free-comics

Free Comics that Comixology are offering this week :

Solider X (2002 – 2003) # 1
Darkhawk # 1
Cosmic Powers (1994) # 1
Sleepwalker (1991 – 1994) # 1

Darkhawk and Sleepwalker would be two comics my buddy Greg would have loved back in the day.

It looks like Marvel offers free comics every month but that changes as well.

I’m not sure what Cosmic Powers 1 is but it also came out in 1994.  Thanos is on the cover.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Cosmic_Powers_Vol_1_1

Such a great creative team!  Ron Marz, Ron Lim, Jimmy Palmiotti, TOm Vincent and Ken Bruzenak.

Thanos killing people, looking for a distraction.  Classic Thanos.
Solider X, I actually read and recall it being pretty good.  The art is rough by Igor Kordey but that’s what the title required with its realistic take on war.  I remember liking the supporting team of Irene Merryweather (skin change and all) and Spider-Man’s Robbie Robertson being added as well.
Shoot, Deadpool killed her in Despicable Deadpool 292.  Well, that’s unfortunate.
Well, at least Stevie Hunter is alive.
At least as of X-Men Gold 9, she was elected to Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District in the House of Representatives. 
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No real gaming updates.  I’ve downloaded all of Hitman Season One, I had to quit the prologue and downloaded the rest of the chapters within the game as well as the legacy pack.  I haven’t started the Hitman 2 demo to see if I can play One in Two but I believe I have all of the parts necessary but I’ll confirm that tonight.
We’ve been grabbing minikits in Lego Dimensions and having a good time there.
I threw five dollars for the preorder of Lego Movie 2 at GameStop so we can get the special Emmet and Stuck Star set.
Walker Dennis is super excited and probably just pay for the whole thing next payday.  He knows it is an Easter present so he should be chill about the wait time.  Well, as chill as any five year old that knows a present is coming but I hope he sort of forgets about it.
So this might mean we are done with buying Lego Dimensions items if he can move onto the next game.  I’m not sure if I’m ready to move yet but I could easily be ready for it as well.  There are several other Lego games I want to get.  It could be fun to get a new (but not to us) game after getting the Platinum in a game.  The GameStop clerk told me that there will be an upcoming collection of Marvel Avengers, Superheroes 1 and 2, which I can only imagine will cost way too much, especially as the Deluxe Edition of Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 is still a $75 game.
That’s the one I want but I also wouldn’t mind buying Avengers, playing the heck out of that one and seeing the latest game come down in price as time goes by.  Lego games are massive time sinks which is what makes them so much fun.
In Spider-Man PS4, I got to play for a little bit, and I’ve decided I’m just going to do the main missions, and not even bother with the towers or anything else, unless I come directly across the tower or the crime.  I really like how not having the towers activated means the map has holes in it.  The police don’t bother me and crime still shows up as a red dot.  I think I’ve done two of them, thus far.  I’ll probably have to go back and do the Financial District as that’s where the Ghostbusters house is but I’ll wait until Walker Dennis tells me he wants to check that out.
In the game, we just celebrated Aunt May’s five hear at FEAST and I’ve met Mary Jane and the Demons, so I have a very long way to go.
My plan is to take a slight break from Spider-Man to try out the free PS Plus February games, I just have to find the time to do it.

February 2019 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on January 30, 2019
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They announced the free games for February 2019!

For Honor (PS4)
Hitman : The Complete First Season (PS4)
Gunhouse (Cross-Buy with PS4 and Vita)
Rogue Aces (Cross-Buy with PS4 and Vita)
Divekick (Cross-Buy with PS3 and Vita)
Meta Gear Solid 4 : Guns of the Patriots

Not a bad line up, games I haven’t really heard of besides in passing.  I’ve never been much of a Hitman guy, the games seem complicated with all of the options one has for stealth kills but I’ll give it a try.

I was trying to hold out until someone was nice enough to link to the games respected pages but that doesn’t seem to be happening.  Easy enough to do through the website though.

Got to store.playstation.com
Click PlayStationPlus (under Featured)
Click Free Games (also under Featured)

You can’t select all but you can add them separately and then purchase all at once.

According to this thread:

ps+ free games for February from PS4

Fellow redditor RingmasterJ5 is telling people a handy trick :

RingmasterJ5

RingJ5

154 points · 1 hour ago 

PSA: By owning Hitman Season One, you can upgrade all the levels into Hitman 2’s engine for a major visual and slight gameplay upgrade, but the process is somewhat obscure.

  1. Redeem the season on PS+.

  2. Download the main “Hitman” app that it comes with, the level files shouldn’t be needed.

  3. Launch the game.

  4. When prompted, redeem the “Legacy Pack” on the main menu.

  5. Download “Hitman 2 Prologue” for free on the Playstation Store, along with all the “Legacy Pack” files.

And that’s it, feel free to delete the original “Hitman” app.

I’m sure it makes more sense once it is live and available to do.  It just seems a tad complicated.  Like, how is that demo able to hold so much information, usually demos are barely the size of the demo but it must work as others are commenting that it works.  Also, the trophies are available for the first game, through the demo, which also sounds odd.

But by doing this, you get to play Season One with better graphics, so it might be worth trying.  I’ll attempt it and see how it all goes.

There is some discussion regarding how the Season One has more content than if you do the above trick, which is what I can only imagine was the way.  I haven’t heard of a company that just lifts a game and dumps it into the sequel, besides Pac-World having the option to play basic Pac-Man in it.  From another thread, all of the main levels from 1 are in 2 but none of the bonus content per level is there.  So I might just stick with the proper Season One game for the proper experience.

My plan is to pause Spider-Man and attempt the four games available to me.  For Honor doesn’t sound like my type of game, it has a single player campaign but it is mostly a multiplayer game.  Gunhouse is a tower defense game, which I’m pretty sure I’ve never play so I’m not sure that’ll be for me.  Rogue Aces sounds like a fun airplane fighter game like the old Red Baron game on PC.  Which I only got to watch my father play and he wasn’t really good at it but refused to let me play.

But this is the same guy who was upset that I was able to play with relative skill the 7UP Spot game from back in the day and he couldn’t.

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As usual, here are the videos from my peeps.

PlayStation Access

I’m surprised they went with Nathan for this video as Rob is such a Metal Gear Solid fan but Nathan only reviews the two PS4 proper games so that’s that.

PlayStationGrenade

I do like how his videos are mostly reviews of the games.  Hitman was his 2016 Game of the Year, so that’s pretty impressive.  The Complete First Season means that it comes with additional DLC and a few costumes too.  He makes all of the games sound pretty fun actually.  Gunhouse is about saving towers full of orphans against insanely designed bosses.

These two videos went up so fast!

Platinum Chasers

On the trophy side of things : For Honor is a 5/10 Trophy Difficulty, but I’m just going to stick with the single player mode as I don’t really do Multiplayer.  There’s a few glitch trophies too.

Shame Hitman doesn’t have a Platinum but that happens from time to time.  I like that it is a 3/10 difficulty, as I’m a tad concern with the stealth elements.  I do like using stealth in both Spider-Man and the Batman Arkham games.

Gunhouse doesn’t have much information except that only five people completed the trophy list.

Rogue Aces was more popular Vita game and has a platinum.  I’ll play this one and it looks kid friendly too so I’ll see if Walker can handle the controls.

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According to this website :

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/gaming/755831/PS-Plus-February-2019-Free-Games-Good-and-Bad-news-for-PlayStation-Plus-users-this-Feb

Following the announcement, a representative for Sony told Polygon that after February 2019, the monthly PlayStation Plus lineups will consist only of two free PS4 games.

Which is a real shame, as I was hoping to at least get two games from the early PS4 days of 2013/2014 as I’m sure there are plenty that can be offered.

It is nice that the PS3 is going out with a bang with Metal Gear Solid 4, which I played and got pretty far (I bet I wasn’t even half way through) but I just couldn’t connect with it.  Now, I’ll be all for playing it and giving it a proper try.  I’m hoping playing these games will give me a great appreciation for different genres.  I can be more than just the action adventure gamer that I know myself to be.

Also worth noting, is that the cloud saves of games is being expanded from 10GB to 100GB, which seems pretty nice.  I wasn’t nowhere near my 10GB but now I don’t have to worry about it at all.

.  .  .

I’m getting old dad status and haven’t gotten much further in Spider-Man.  I’m still in the middle of Silver Linings, I just got the mystery investigation started.  So now my map is open, so I’ll knock those out and any crimes that come along the way.  Getting the map cleared unlocks the Into the Spider-Verse costume.

Which I wouldn’t mind completing the game in that suit.

Also, Insomniac released two new Fantastic Four themed suits, and for free too!  I would have gladly threw another ten dollars their way to get a proper DLC pack with further content like levels but getting it for free is fantastic!

Walker Dennis isn’t a fan of either of them, as he prefers the classic red and blue or the underwear costume.  So he’s an odd duck.

Once again, thanks to Polygon for such great pictures!  I wish I could play them together on the same line but WordPress seems to be fighting me on that.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/8/17831834/spider-man-game-ps4-costumes-comics

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I also got him a Lego Spider-Man playset that came with the Spider-Mobile and Green Goblin!  Target had the shelf tag listed for $20 but then it turned out to only be $10.

Now he really wants Miles as he’s a huge fan of Into the Spider-Verse.  Which most likely the BluRay + Digital Code will end up in his Easter basket too.

The only set I saw that came with Miles also came with another Peter Parker Spider-Man and he really doesn’t need two.  Actually now that I have both pictures next to each other, it looks like a modified Spider-Man, which is nice.  I guess one of them can be a bad Spider-Man, that’s what we did when he ended up with two Captain Americas from the Titan Hero line.  So now his Avengers can fight Thanos and Evil Cap.

I get why they want to make sure a person gets a traditional Spider-Man but if I wanted to get my son a set that features Doctor Octopus too, then we’ll have three traditional Spider-Mans and I want to say the basic suit was the same in all three sets.

Both of these sets are $30 each, which is disappointing but they each come with two vehicles so I can see the value there.  Miles by himself is $12 so I might as well get a set that he comes with.

Then again, $30 and then we’re done with Legos for a while, so that’s not a bad deal either.

.  .  .

I’ve been having to come to work early, so I haven’t been allowing myself to stay up late.  I’ve been feeling pretty good as I’m waking up feeling refreshed and not groggy at all.  But I’ll find a balance again as I’ve been missing my gaming time but I’ve been so tired come 10:30pm these past few nights.  So Tuesday/Wednesday nights are no longer going to be game nights for me.  It was a pretty good run though.

.  .  .

Walker Dennis has gotten all of his Lego Dimensions characters he’s going to get for the time being.  In a short span of time, he got Emmet, Green Arrow, Starfire, and Marty.  He still has 66 gold bricks to spend, which makes me want to get him a few more characters but it’ll have to wait until Easter, as he really has plenty of content to play with.  He really wants Benny and Unikitty to complete the Lego Movie set and he really wants Doc Brown as he’s a huge Back to the Future fan now as well.

Heck, even Chad Wild Clay and Vy Qwaint (and Daniel too!) got into the Back to the Future rhythm so that time out perfectly.  I’m not sure why they went that route but they sure did.  Once Joseph Banks showed up originally, I shook my head as he was a clear ripoff of Doc Brown but then it all paid off.

I also showed Walker the time Marty and Doc Brown showed up on Jimmy Kimmel, which is a tad awkward to watch but Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd were great sports about it.  It made me want to rewatch Interstate 60 which I’m always up for rewatching but also overdue in rewatching it as it has been a few years.  Too many years.

Such a great cast and written and directed by Back to the Future co-creator, Bob Gale.  I actually got to see this at a panel at San Diego Comic Con in 2002, my last year attending it, I got to see test footage of Doc Ock’s arms as a lead up to Spider-Man 2.  Gosh, 2002 was a different age.

Yes, that’s Amy Jo Johnson’s back.

Great commentary track too with Gale and Marsden.

PlayStation 2018 Year in Review

Posted by John Klein III on January 25, 2019
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https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/campaigns/2018/wrap-up/?PXP=7b02ed12d24255d099 c65eb7bf809dfe8af069c26058d9a7a867e460988ef445

WordPress used to do a Year in Review until they stopped for 2017 but PlayStation does it and I love seeing my stats!  I’m addicted to checking out the stats of the blog.  I just like seeing the numbers.

You could click on the link but I’m going to provide the information with some commentary.

In 2018, you played 46 different games

Which doesn’t feel right but I must have attempted several games.

My top games were Lego Dimensions (428 hours), Fallout 4 (211 hours), and Fallout Shelter (131 hours)

Lego Dimensions, I definitely share that time with Walker Dennis as he plays solo sometimes.  Also, like his Kindle usage, he doesn’t turn it off so there will be times where he starts the game and then leaves the game on so he can play with his Legos and tries to incorporate the screen into his play or uses it as inspiration.  But still, I imagine it is a legitimate 400 hours.

Top Genre :

Action Adventure, 18 Games, 231 Trophies, 600 hours

Which makes sense, as that’s my go to genre

RPG

I’m not sure what RPG is relating too, I waited to see if more stats were going to load but they never came.

Did you know?  Players made a total of 119,919,423 home runs in MLB The Show 18 last year?

I wasn’t one of those.

In 2018, I clocked in 1,065 hours in gameplay. 

Which seems like a lot!

All of that time was spent locally, I have zero hours in online play and in VR.  As I don’t play multiplayer nor do I have a VR headset.

Longest gaming streak was six consecutive hours

Which I’m not sure when that would have been as I can’t imagine playing for more than three hours in a row.

I played 313 out of 365 days

Which makes sense as I usually try to play at night but I took off 52 days.

My prime gaming hours is the daytime

Which doesn’t sound right at all, that must be Walker playing after school.

My prime day of gaming would be Saturday

Which does sound right as that’s when I get to play with Walker or I get to sneak in some gaming time by myself.

Did you know Kratos was slain 924,757,695 times in God of War last year?

I’m hoping to eventually play God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn at some point this year.  HZD’s complete edition is usually $20, which is right in my price range.  I just want to put a dent in my backlog before taking on another massive game.

I earned 495 trophies in 2018

Which is super impressive!  I love me an open world but there are times when I realized I spent more time in the world doing side stuff but that usually doesn’t amount to many trophies.  But I like to think of myself as more of a casual trophy hunter.  I’ll get the ones I want or am close to but I won’t necessarily grind for one, such as find 100 newspapers or something.  Especially if collectibles are super hidden.

Trophy Breakdown : 8 Platinums, 40 Gold, 107 Silver, and 340 Bronze

I really did try my best to get Platinums this year and I’m impress with the ones I did.

Did you know players drove a total of 7.3 billion miles in Gran Turismo Sport last year?

I wasn’t one of those either.

I downloaded 55 free games through PlayStation Plus last year.

So if you are wondering how many free games there were, it was 55.  Well, I didn’t get the PS3 games and I missed out on some Vita games.  Now I wished I did purposely download the PS3 ones as one never knows if the PS5 will have backwards compatibility (hopefully it does!) and maybe we’ll get to play these older downloads again.  I know I want to play my X-Men arcade game again and Scott Pilgrim too.

I saved $24.99 in sales and discounts

I’m not sure what this one is in relation to as the only thing I bought was the Spider-Man : The City that Never Sleeps DLC but maybe I bought something else but I’m not sure what it would have been.

Did you know there were 28 free PS4 games last year?

I did as I got all of those!  Including Call of Duty : Black Ops III.

2018 Summary

January 10 Games 46 Trophies 47 Hours
February 6 Games 31 Trophies 64 Hours
March 7 Games 10 Trophies 50 Hours
April 3 Games 18 Trophies 65 Hours
May 8 Games 22 Trophies 41 Hours
June 9 Games 28 Trophies 75 Hours
July 6 Games 35 Trophies 176 Hours
August 6 Games 18 Trophies 187 Hours
September 8 Games 15 Trophies 107 Hours
October 8 Games 109 Trophies 82 Hours
November 6 Games 74 Trophies 91 Hours
December 8 Games 89 Trophies 79 Hours

Those over 100 hours months must have been Fallout Shelter related!  I was obsessed with that game.

Most of those trophies have be bronze trophies but it does seem like a lot.

I wonder what same six games I was playing?  Lego Dimensions, Fallout Shelter (I stopped playing that back in September), and whatever my main game must have been.

Knowing these stats might be coming, I really should attempt those free PSN games.  I wish I could get more of a breakdown of what I played per month but I do like seeing the information in a table.  I wished WordPress had a table mode as it bugs me that the lines are not fixed in place.  I had to retype it in Excel to get it in a table format.  It looks so much better now.

Like, what happened in October where I got over a 100 trophies?!  Those must have been some generous games.  That must have been Uncharted 3, right?

I had to go to my PSN Profile Page to get some answers, not many but some.

Games and when I last played them:

Marvel’s Spider-Man, January 24, 2019 (when I wrote this), Platinum in 3 weeks, 3 days
LEGO Dimensions, January 23, 2019, Platinum in 5 months, 1 week
Beyond : Two Souls, December 24, 2018 (then I got Spider-Man)
Heavy Rain, December 15, 2018
SOMA, December 11, 2018
OnRush, December 8, 2018
Uncharted 3 : Drake’s Deception Remastered, December 8, 2018
Roundabout, November 24
Burly Men at Sea, November 21, 2018, Platinum in 2 weeks, 23 hours
Batman : Arkham Knight, November 19, 2018
RiME, October 29, 2018, Platinum in 8 months, 2 weeks
Hidden Agenda, October 21, 2018, Platinum in 5 days, 23 hours
Ghostbusters, October 18, 2018
Fallout Shelter, October 14, 2018, Platinum in 2 months, 3 weeks
Sparkle 2, September 8, 2018
Foul Play, September 5, 2018
Trackmania Turbo, June 22, 2018
Until Dawn, June 17, 2018, Platinum in 1 month, 3 days
Grand Theft Auto V, June 9, 2018
Trials Fusion, June 7, 2018
XCOM 2, June 6, 2018
Ratchet and Clank, May 12, 2018
Psycho-Pass : Mandatory Happiness, May 11, 2018
Fallout 4, May 5, 2018, Platinum in 4 months, 5 days
Might No. 9, March 8, 2018
Bombing Busters, March 8, 2018
Knack, February 15, 2018
Grand Kingdom, February 9, 2018
TellTale’s Batman, January 20, 2018, Platinum in 2 weeks, 1 day
Crash Bandicoot, January 15, 2018

Hidden Agenda was the main game in October, along with RiME, Ghostbusters, and Fallout Shelter.  Four games that were pretty generous.  Games usually start off with loads of trophies but a few give more at the end too, which makes sense on both sides.

I’m a Master Adventurer, with 46 Games, 1065 Hours, and 495 Trophies

Here is what is coming to PlayStation in 2019!

Days Gone

Resident Evil 2

Sekiro

Kingdom Hearts III

Anthem

Concrete Genie

I’m not slated to play any of these but Days Gone does look good.  I’m just not much of a zombie guy.

. . .

Like I wrote above, I got the platinum on Spider-Man, and I’ve 100% The Heist.  I’m still having a great time.  I must be towards the end of Turf Wars, as my percentage is in the 70s.  Using The Heist, I used the Black Cat costume exclusively.

It just made sense.  I wasn’t sure what I should wear for Turf Wars until I unlocked the Mark One armor, then I’m just using that:

For Silver Lining, someone on reddit commented on how the White 2099 costume looks like it could be a Silver Sabre costume:

So that works for me.  Maybe too red now that I’m looking at it.  I’ll start off with it and see how long it lasts.  I was thinking the Armor Mark One suit would be an even better Sabre uniform but it is too late now.  I have so many trophies while wearing the other one, I want to break it up.

Thanks to polygon for hosting the images.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/8/17831834/spider-man-game-ps4-costumes-comics

Such a great gaming website.  I used them a lot for Spider-Man and Fallout 4.

I like how they include the Silver Lining costumes as it seemed like once the game came out, some websites hadn’t updated with the DLC content or they stopped at Turf Wars.

Having the Heist focused on Black Cat, and having a Black Cat provided costume, it just made sense to combine the two for the DLC.  Since I was already having that thought, I wanted to one a main suit for each DLC.

. . .

Walker has gotten Marty from LEGO Dimensions and we are having a great time cleaning up the minikits and rescue characters using the DeLorean.

My beautiful wife got him Starfire, and we’ve been using her rainbow abilities to get other missing minikits.

I had to make a list of all of the time traveling options we need to still do.  During the level proper, I forgot to access the secret Dance location so we still have to do that.  I also got him the Green Arrow exclusive pack, he didn’t unlock anything we didn’t already have but we like Arrow and I got him relatively inexpensively.

We also won a bid on eBay for Emmet for seven dollars, including shipping, so that concludes our LEGO Dimensions shopping.  I might wait two months and get him Fantastic Beasts in March and maybe one more item but we have plenty of content at the moment.

So Walker will be happy, we told him if he really wanted Emmet, he would have to pay for it.  He has five dollars and I’ll probably do that bad parent thing of pretending to take the five dollars and then sneak it back in.  His mother keeps his wallet at all times, so he’ll never know one way or another.  Sometimes he’ll ask how much money he has and then I’m reminded of how much he has but he rarely wants anything that isn’t a dollar or two.

Now I really want that Supergirl figure but unless I’m just given $60 for no reason, I doubt we’ll ever get her.  She does have a few abilities we are still missing.

https://lego-dimensions.fandom.com/wiki/Supergirl

She has Ice and Freeze Breth, powers (only two others have it, Blossom and Superman), Invulnerability (something that has yet to come up but would have helped during Portal 2 moments), and she can turn into a Red Lantern, but that’s not something I’ve seen that we need thus far.  She can construct LEGOS which is an ability Buttercup has and I don’t quite remember seeing when we did the Powerpuff Girls World but we must have.

I just checked eBay again and the cheapest I saw was $49.99 and the most expensive was a $70, some are combining her with Green Arrow for well over a hundred dollars but luckily we’re no longer in need of both.

The Teen Titans Go world has a Sonic race that was the first one of those I saw.  Starfire did pretty well until it got to a loopy loop section and I gave up.  There is a jumping race that Lego City world has that I tried several times and I’m just 20 seconds too slow so I’ll have to come back to that one eventually.  I’m not sure which character is the best for acrobatic races but it isn’t Robin.  Though I’m sure they are all the same and it is all operator error.  Though there is a difference with character’s swimming abilities and some vehicles are noticeably better at flying too.