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July 2020 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on June 30, 2020
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To celebrate PlayStation Plus turning 10 years old, the July 2020 Free PS Plus Games are :

NBA 2k20, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Erica!

Apparently NBA 2k20 was recently four dollars, but I bought NBA 2k19 when it was three dollars, so I must have missed that other sale.  One basketball game would typically be enough for me, but I’m looking forward to playing the latest version of NBA.  Apparently 2k21 is slated to come out soonish.  Which I forgot it was announced during the PS5 Future of Gaming event.  To get back into the game, I redownloaded 2k19 and tried to get some of the easier trophies in MyNeighborhood.  Once I got my character from Preclude to the Phoenix Suns, I’m pretty sure I didn’t even play one game as a Sun.  Just having the jersey was enough for me.  Looking into it, it is a real shame that 2k20 doesn’t have a Prelude, as I saw 2k18 did.  It is a nice free DLC tutorial, but I get incorporating it into the game itself, if that is what they even did.  My gaming goal for 2k20 will be to start a new character and get him to the Suns again.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is the second sequel to the rebooted trilogy.  I have been having Tomb Raider on my mind, since replaying Uncharted 4, and wanting to watch the Tomb Raider films again, especially latest one that I have never seen.  Neither of the three films are available for streaming, but hopefully that changes relatively soon.  I added 2013’s Tomb Raider to my psprices wishlist, and I see the Definitive edition goes on sale for five dollars, but I wouldn’t mind playing Rise prior to the first game, as that’s what I have.

Erica is a game I bought when it was five dollars.  I had remembered it as I had completed two playthroughs and had been forced into making a decision I didn’t want to due to not getting the cursor to land where I wanted to in a third playthrough.  Turns out, I had only completed the one playthrough and that had occurred in my third.  So I completed my second playthrough last night, using the app, and it did seem to work out better than using the touchpad.  I’m going to complete a third playthrough and keep the game in my game rotation for the month of July.  There is only six playthroughs, so I should be able to do all six of them in July or August.  Using the app did seem to give me a few additional seconds to make a choice, but I could be remembering it wrong.

Some people are complaining about these being the games to celebrate 10 years, but it seems like a pretty decent month to me, and I’m pretty happy that Erica is getting some attention that it deserves.

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PSPrices

NBA 2k20 is currently a $60 game, but goes as low as $19.79, so maybe people are remembering 2k19’s amazing sale and not 2k20.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is typically a $30 game, but goes as low as $8.39.

Erica is typically a $10 game, but goes as low as $4.99.

Our currently running value of PS Plus is $131, with us considering Call of Duty WWII a bonus game.  So we’ll round up and add $34 to the total to make $165, and that’s us now in the second half of the year, so I’ll say we definitely have gotten our value from the service for our $45 investment.  Plus, hopefully the price doesn’t go up too much for the PS5, but hopefully it still goes on sale for either Black Friday or the holiday season.

PS Store

NBA 2k20 has the standard edition for $60, and the game is heavily influenced by microtransactions.

5,000 VC for $2
15,000 VC for $5
35,000 VC for $10
75,000 VC for $20
200,000 VC for $50
450,000 VC for $100

There is a Digital Deluxe edition for $80 and a Legend Edition for $100.

Free International Commentary so I’ve downloaded that already.

I’ve never been tempted to buy VC (the game’s currency), but you do earn a small amount with most things you do in the game.  Just not as much.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is the 20 Year Celebration edition, so it comes with all five DLC.

Erica also does not have any additional content.

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Here are reddit’s reactions to the games :

PS4

PlayStation Plus July games lineup & a thank you for 10 years of supporting PS Plus from PS4

PlayStation Plus

As PS Plus reaches its tenth anniversary, your games for July are revealed: NBA 2K20, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Erica from PlayStationPlus

PS4Deals

PS+ Free Games July 2020 – NBA 2K20, Rise of the Tomb Raider & Erica | PSN | Available July 7th from PS4Deals

Not sure what is happening with the Plus subreddit, they were trying to link to Twitter.

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Here are my YouTube peeps :

Nathan of PlayStation Access :

Adam of PlayStation Grenade :

Ben of Platinum Chasers :

Ben has a fun little intro as the announcement came on a Monday instead of the traditional Wednesday, is like three months in a row of the announcement breaking from tradition.

Turns out, Walker Dennis is quite familiar with PlayStation Grenade thanks to Adam’s great videos relating to Goat Simulator.

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Here are PlayStation Trophies.org’s guides to the games :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/nba-2k20/guide/

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/rise-of-the-tomb-raider/guide/

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/erica-na-ps4/guide/

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/erica/339001-erica-platinum-walkthrough-text-guide.html

Hey, NBA 2k20 has a guide!  I immediately checked and no one made a 2k19 guide, so I’m still just stumbling my way through getting those.

I apparently made some mistake in my first two playthroughs of Erica and did not earn Fall Out Girl, so hopefully one of the other playthroughs has me redo one of those activities, but it is pretty early on in the game, so it shouldn’t take too much and the recommended sixth playthrough is essentially play the entire game except do this one thing towards the end, so that’s when I will ensure I annoy each of the ladies then.

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I’ve been making some great headway and keeping with my gaming rotation.  I will have to modify it to include two new games, but it was fun during the previous cycle.  It really just helps when I have so many episodic games to play.

I finally earn the Kifflom trophy in Grand Theft Auto V, which was one of the non-story related trophies I felt I was capable of earning.  I believe I did what was necessary to earn my million dollars for Online, but clearly I never checked again.  I will sometime around July 15, when I try to earn another million dollars.  Then I will play another mission or so.  I left the game where Michael is working for a movie producer and Franklin and Trevor are doing some mission Michael is not involved in.  So I will do the Franklin/Trevor mission and another studio mission as that was fun, and call it good.

I started playing Ratchet & Clank, and kept just thinking to myself, what an amazing game!  I really want to watch the movie now, but it isn’t streaming anywhere and I really don’t want to spend more than five dollars through VUDU and I want to say it was still asking $15 for it, and it came out in 2016 and I’m probably the only one wanting to watch it who hasn’t.  Well, I guess they just announced Rift in Time, so the desire is probably coming back, but I will watch for a sale for it.

Just because I was already at VUDU, they want $18 for the Angelina Jolie two films, and $15 for Alicia Vikander’s 2018 remake.  I do like how Lara Croft has been portrayed by two Oscar winners, she deserves that.  Jolie won for 2000’s Girl, Interrupted, Best Supporting Actress, and Vikander for 2016’s The Danish Girl, Best Supporting Actress, so also fun that they both won for Supporting Actress, as well.  $33 is a bit much for those three films, I’ll say.  Shame VUDU isn’t doing a three movie bundle like they often do for other movies, but that’s probably a rights issue.

I left Ratchet & Clank on Gaspar looking for 60 brains, which was super annoying to me as I found 40 on my own, and can’t really fathom where the other 20 could be.  Then I was reading the guide, and at some point, we earn a map that makes finding the brains way easier, so I’ll have to make progress and come back.  I really liked the flamethrower weapon, the Pyro Blaster.  I have it completely leveled up to 5, so I’ve taken it out of my weapon setup, but I’m missing it dearly, but I clearly won’t use other weapons otherwise.  Well, that isn’t true, I was using Mr. Zurkon as well, who I also loved as our buddy buddy.  I do wonder if Clank is jealous or annoyed by Mr. Zurkon.  Mr. Zurkon gives these amazing quips and I also have him maxed at level 5, so he’s out of the rotation.  The game is a lot harder without my main assets, but that’s on me, I should have been balancing them more.  Turns out, in New Game Plus, I can raise these higher to level 10, so I’m excited about that possibility.

I really got into Detroit Become Human playing for several more nights than I was expecting.  I was also surprised to see Connor come back, as I got him killed in the very first mission.  My Connor, unfortunately, is not very good, he’s let Kara escape (as how could I let him capture her?  She’s the best!), but he also failed to catch the bird Android person and also failed to figure out where murderous sex robot went, which he’s upset with himself almost as much as I’m upset with myself over it.  The bird android, I get, as we lost track of him in that final stage, but the sex robot, we were doing everything possible, but I was having to talk to more androids than expected.

Kara and Alice are still save, and we got new buddy Lucifer now too.  We’ve been to the abandoned amusement park.  That mansion where we meet Lucifer was intense!

Markus has met his crew and I want to ship him and North so hard!  Turns out, she’s played by Minka Kelly, so she’s giving Kara’s actress, Valorie Curry a run for her money.  But I still like Kara more, especially as Markus keeps doing at least one thing that annoys North, but then she makes it pretty clear what she wants to have happen next happen, and I make those decision so easily, even if it annoys the rest of the crew.  Valorie Curry was on Amazon’s The Tick, so now I really want to watch that show.

I meant to keep playing even more but then I was reading up on what skills I need in The Council and it made me really want to play that game.  Seriously, I really want more people to play The Council.  The first episode is free, and I love how it is a TellTale style of game, but with a skill tree.  I love the act of finding out which skills I need, I make a list, when it comes time to pump skills into the tree, I find out which ones I really needed during the previous quest, and I raise those skills and see how it effects the next quest.  I completed Episode 2, and just having a great time with this historical fiction.  I can’t wait to jump into Episode 3!

I finally got around to playing Metal Gear Solid V : Ground Zeroes.  I thought I was doing a pretty decent job at stealth, but I would blow my cover, but I eventually got my two buddies rescued.  It got intense towards the end of it, but I figured out a path, and got her out of there.  I hate to write this, as it may be controversial, but I think I much prefer Sniper Elite IV’s stealth to Metal Gear Solid V, but I was instantly taken by Sniper Elite IV, and I will give Ground Zeroes a couple more tries and try to get good with it.

I finished Chapter Eight of Uncharted 4, such a fun game.  Here is another game where there is just a lot of fighting, and I forget that besides amazing set pieces, that the game is a cover shooter.  Like, I forget all of the combat that is required to get through, just to get to the next place.  I’m playing on Normal, and I’m sure the two lower difficulties probably has less enemies, but after completing a chapter, I usually feel pretty good with my progress.

I finished the second episode of King’s Quest.  Still really enjoying the game.  I had to do one full run of Episode 2, and then pretty much two thirds of a playthrough, twice, to get the other two endings.  I recall reading Episode Four might be the same way with having to create saves to save time, but I’m still here for it.  A fun game, the characters are fun, not enough of Amaya for my taste, but she was barely in the first episode as well.  I doubt she becomes the future queen, but if she is, that would be amazing.

Doing these episodic games, I was reminded that we never completed the first episode of TellTale’s Back to the Future game.  So I completed my run, and then I helped Walker Dennis complete his run.  He started the second episode and the controls seem to be a tad better.  There was a lot of back tracking in 1955 that I wouldn’t have minded so much, if when I press the left direction, Marty walked in the left direction.  Because of camera angles, or not implementing a better control scheme, I was holding down to make him to across the screen in the right direction.  It wouldn’t have been so bad, but I was running across the central area and going to the soup kitchen and the jail a bunch, and the controls could have been a tad better.

A game that has pretty much perfect controls is Batman : Arkham Aslyum.  I finished the game with locking Harley up and moving onto the Botanical Gardens.  I forgot how creepy those lunatics are, and two different ones jumps on my back and gave me quite the freight!  That’s when I knew it was bed time.  I meant to play more, but then the free games were announced I wanted to play Erica’s second playthrough and that took almost two hours, but I still had enough time to knock out some easier trophies in NBA 2k19.

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Because I had filled the PS4 with my current game rotation and to make room for Erica and NBA 2k19, I had to delete Uncharted 4, Ratchet & Clank, GTA V (which was probably the only one I really needed to delete), and Detroit Become Human.  It was fun to revisit those games, but removing those games freed up a bunch of space.  Oh, and I deleted Final Fantasy XIV as well.  I clearly was not coming back that game any time soon.  So I should have enough space now for Rise of the Tomb Raider and I will delete NBAS 2k19, once I have 2k20.  I thought progress carried over between games, but I also clearly never finished a season, so what would I be carrying over?  I just checked and NBA 2k20’s demo is not the prelude, it does not have a story mode that benefits the game, so that’s pretty disappointing.  So I will spend a night (hopefully) of running around the neighborhood to earn the Marathon Man trophy and delete 2k19 in preparation of 2k20.

I’m sure I will redownload Uncharted 4 and Ratchet & Clank again as the desire will return, especially Ratchet & Clank, as I’m sure Rise of the Tomb Raider will scratch the Uncharted itch.

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My beautiful wife got me the best Father’s Day present ever!  I am now the proud owner of a PlayStation Vita!  I’ve been wanting one for so long!  She also treated me to a 16GB SD card so I was able to fill the thing up with so many games, that I eventually had to delete a few as I got carried away with wondering how many filled up the 16GB as the first few games I downloaded, were super small.  Turns out, and I’m still getting used to the store format through the Vita, but I did claim some additional games that I didn’t think I did.  So that has been nice, and even one game I didn’t even know I had access too.  That game is Super Mutant Alien Assault.

At first, I had no intention of redownloading games I have played on the PS4 that were cross play, but then I realized how silly that was as that eliminated like 20 games, and I decided against that policy when I realized I had 20 Vita games, when I thought I only had like six.

Every Wednesday, I’m going to check psprices (I do this regardless) to see the cheap Vita games and slowly start building my collection.  Especially if the game is cross play as I like to give them a shot on the big TV before playing them on the Vita.  I bought Blasting Agent : Ultimate Edition as it was $1.19, and worth a risk.  I saw Cel Damaged was on sale for $3, but I think I can hold off on buying games until they are under $2, especially as I have so many new games I haven’t even played yet.

I did buy Demetrois : Big Cynical Adventure after reading it was a visual novel with a twist, and I think I really want to turn my Vita into a Visual Novel machine, as those seem to be perfect carry around and play type of games.

I write that but I have been playing King Oddball like crazy!  To the point, where I want to reinstall it onto the PS4 as I’ve been making crazy progress, but I’m also okay with not doing that.  Such a great game, if you want Angry Birds, but with a floating head that throws rocks using his tongue, King Oddball is the game for you!

I also been playing Sparkle 2 for a lot longer than I ever gave it a chance on the PS4.  I am mentally committed to playing it until I earned the Play for 4 Hours trophy, but I’ll probably see it to the end.

Divekick is a very fun fighting game, either we jump or we are divekicking.  I did one playthrough as the bear character and now I’m currently playing as Dive, brother to Kick.  Though I am playing with the YOLO gem, so one kick to me, and I lose and I have to kick my opponent five times, one kick per round.  It is for a trophy, and it like King Oddball, as a real “just one more go” feel to it.

Draw Slasher is not the Ninja Fruit clone I thought it was going to be, but I understand now where they make that comparison.  It is more of a side scrolling fighting game, where we are constantly swiping our sword at opponents.  Pretty fun, I beat the boss and felt good with my progress.  I’m essentially just trying out a slew of games to see what I take too.

For instance, I did not take to Atomic Ninjas, there is a lot of depth and abilities to the game, maybe a few too many, and I’m just plain not good at it.  Like, I felt good at the beginning of the tutorial, but then it goes on for like six additional abilities and then I try it for real, and I just end up bouncing around the area and shoving people into fire.

I sort of want to buy a 32GB SD card, but those things are so expensive but I just want to have access to all of my games.  Which is silly a the PS4 has clearly trained me to only keeping like six games at any given time.

Blasting Agent : Ultimate Edition was fun until I got to the second boss fight.  It took so many tries, but I did it, and felt I got my $1.19 out of it.  It also served as a cautionary tale to maybe not just buy every dollar game out there.

I really want to get Uncharted : Golden Abyss, I rather not spend $15 on it, but I think I might just be getting to the point that I want to play one of the best Vita titles out there.  I also saw there was Batman Origins Blackgate for the Vita, and I sort of want that game too.  Hopefully with people’s interest in the Vita since that one moment in The Last of Us Part 2, sales for games will start kicking in.  I saw there are already two company’s who are going back to developing games for the system, so hopefully that is a new trend.

I’m still no good at 36 Fragments of Midnight, but I feel like it could be a perfect Vita game.  Usually I tuck Walker Dennis in at night, then I sit and play on the Vita until he falls asleep, which has been nice as there were a few nights (too many, to be honest), where I started getting sleepy myself, and either dozed off or became to sleepy to hang out with my wife.  Now I am pretty alert and ready to hang out, so it has been worth it.

The Vita has a tutorial to learn more about its function, Welcome Park, and there were trophies associated with it, so I gave that a try.  I’m no good at that jigsaw puzzle, but I’m never good with those where we are missing a piece and have to move all of the tiles along to form the puzzle.

I’m hoping Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross go on sale, they were on sale in March or so, and if I knew I was getting a Vita then (it was still a dream at that point), I would have bought them when they were $5 each, instead of $10.  If they had trophy support, I would just buy them right now, but they don’t, so I’m holding out for a sale.

So a lot of gaming stuff is happening around me and I’m super excited for July!

Playing Uncharted 4 and Dirty Rally 2.0

Posted by John Klein III on April 20, 2020
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Sorry for the late review of the April Games.  My beautiful wife got me God of War for Easter and I wanted to try the game to include in this post.

Uncharted 4, I already knew I was going to have a great time.  I wished I had finished Chapter 7 when I initially played it on disc, as my checkpoint was not saved and I had to restart the entire chapter.  I believe I refound all of the treasures, but time will tell on that.  That was on me, I knew I should have finished the chapter, but never got around to it.  I am committed to playing the game until I finished it.  I have a pretty length game rotation shaping up.

DiRT Rally 2.0, on the other hand, was not a bad game.  Once I stumbled onto changing the car angle to the more traditional racing style – so that the camera is behind the car, I had a better time with the game.

https://gameplay.tips/guides/3877-dirt-rally-20.html

A nice redditor provided me a trophy guide for the game, so that was nice to have some direction.  I earned the following trophies : Adaptable, CAUTION, Don’t Cut, and A Household Name.

So I feel like I got to sample the game enough and feel pretty good about it.

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Right now, Sony is currently giving away the Uncharted Collection and Journey for PS4.  Even if you redeemed Uncharted Collection back in January through PS Plus, they made it so you can claim the digital code separately, as once you claim the games, you have them forever.  It ends sometime early in May, so you may want to do it now.  I added copies to both Walker Dennis’ account and my wife’s account.  Might as well, as one never knows.

Announcing the Play At Home Initiative

The games are part of PlayStation’s Stay At Home Initiative, and they donated ten million dollars as well to independent developers.  The games are available until May 5.

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God of War has been an amazing experience!  We are currently chasing a boar, after killing the second troll.  So I am pretty early in the game, but having a blast.  I keep thinking about how I need to be a better father.  There are all of these instances were we see Kratos trying or wanting to put his hand on Atreus’ shoulder, or his back, in support and to show some tenderness, but keeps hesitating.  Some heart breaking things.  Of course, I am playing at night, so I wake up with the best intentions to tell Walker Dennis how much I love him, and show him instead of just hoping he knows.

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I have not had a chance to go back to Life is Strange Before the Storm, but I will get back to it eventually.

Walker Dennis got Minecraft for Easter, for the PS4, and we had a fun time playing that for an hour.  I could have really used a tutorial, but I was able to stumble my way across how to build things.  I bought him like $20 worth of DLC, but did not see any of it load, so hopefully the next time we log in it is there.  Most DLC I have purchased on my Plus account, shows up on his account, so I am really hoping Minecraft is not an exception to that rule.

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I did get to play a good chuck of our Lego games.  I am committed to playing these games on Walker’s account, but he is not as dedicated to trophy hunting as I am, so I had to start new saved files on my own account.

Lego DC Supervillains, I fought Poison Ivy and reconnected with Harley Quinn.
Lego City Undercover, this game takes a little longer to do the Special Operations, which is the traditional Lego level.  Plenty to do on the open map, but I wanted to play the game until I got the first mission completed, and will do so until I got the second mission.  So I am set up for the next time I play.
Lego Jurassic Park, I got through the first level and like City Undercover, there is plenty to do on the open map.  Which now that I typed this, most Lego games have that transition from one level to the next, but both of these games feels like there is an activity we do prior to starting the next level.  Whereas the recent games, feel like we are merely following the trail, and getting to the next level.  Which I don’t mind, but I do sort of like incorporating the earning of the next level, plus it gives me a little more time in the game.

So that’s what I have been up too.  I am not sure when I will stop playing God of War to get to Life is Strange Before the Storm, but I might just hit a wall of feeling that I have played the game enough and start craving playing another game.

I have also made a list of games that I have gotten through PS+, and I do want to start chipping away at these past games.  These are the 12 games :

In Space We Brawl
99 Vidas
King Oddball
Absolver
Extreme Exorcism
Space Overlords
Knowledge is Power
Another World
QUBE Director’s Cut
Laser League
Rocketbirds 2 : Evolution
Iconoclasts

I keep having this nagging feeling that I want to buy a new game (which is dumb, as I have plenty of a backlog of games), but playing these games should satisfy that inch.  My plan is to simply go down this list and earn the first trophy and commit a night to the game.  Which I type that, and I have not been able to game for the past two nights, which is starting to nag at me as I really do enjoy my time to relax.

April 2020 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on April 1, 2020
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I meant to do a post about games I am playing during the Coronavirus but I have been working four tens for the past few weeks and I knew the announcement for the Free PS+ Games was coming soon, so I have been drafting this in head for a bit.

The April 2020 PS+ Games are Uncharted 4 and Dirt Rally 2.0.  PlayStation Access accidentally revealed these last week, and now we know it was probably Nathan who did it, as he provides the narration in the video below.

I already own Uncharted 4, so I am going to wait for another bonus credit deal at GameStop and I can turn in both the Uncharted Collection and Uncharted 4 at that time.

Dirty Rally 2.0, seems to be a game that no one has taken the time to create a guide for, which seems bonkers to me.  I will at least play it until I earned one trophy.

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 PSPrices

Uncharted 4 is typically a $19.99 game, but goes as low as $9.99.

Dirt Ralley 2.0 is typically $59.99, it is currently $39.99, so hopefully no one buys it this week!  It has been as low as $17.99.

So the games together are a value of $28, at their lowest.

Our running total was $61, so another $28, makes $89, so PS Plus is definitely paying for itself.

PS Store

Uncharted 4 has quite a few items on the PlayStation store :

You can buy points for the mutliplayer.

300 Points, $2.99
500 Points, $4.99
1,500 Points, $9.99
3,200 Points, $19.99
6,500 Points, $34.99
10,000 Points, $49.99

A slew of avatars, that are all .49 cents :

Harry Flynn
Orca
Knot
Katherine Marlowe
Victor Sullivan
Nathan Drake (which you may have already as it was part of the Player Appreciation package).
Sam Drake
Elena Fisher
Zoran Lazarevic
Charlie Cutter
Victor Sullivan (Hero)
Sam Drake (Hero)
Nathan Drake (Hero)
Elena Fisher (Hero)

Pack 1, $1.49 (including both brothers, Sully, and Elena)
Hero Pack $1.49, which includes Cutter and the characters from Pack 1’s hero version)
Villain Avatar Pack, $1.49

Themes

Fire, $1.99
Shipwreck, $1.99
Ink, $1.99, which I bought, as it was the only one that featured Elena.

Dirt Rally 2.0 DLC includes :

Vehicles 

Subaru Impreza, $1.49
Fully Loaded Rallycross Pack, $1.99
Fully Loaded Mini Pack, $1.99
Fully Loaded Ford Pack, $1.99
Citroen C$ Rally, $1.49
Ford Fiesta Rallycross (STARD), $1.49
Sea Ibiza RX, $1.49
Renault Megane R.S. RX, $1.49
Mini Cooper SX1, $1.49
Peugeot 208 WRX, $1.99
Volkswagen Golf Kitcar, $1.49
Opel Manta 400, $1.49
Lancia Delta S4 Rallycross, $1.49
H2 RWD Double Pack, $1.99
Ford Fiesta Rallycross (MK8), $1.49
Lancia 037 Evo 2, $1.49
Porshe 911 SC RS, $1.49
SKODA Fabia Rally, $1.49
Ford RS200 Evolution, $1.99
Rnault Clio R.S. RX, $1.49
Peugeot 206 Rally, $1.49
MG Metro 6R4 Rallycross, $1.49
Seat Ibiza Kit Car, $1.99
BMW M1 Procar Rally, $1.49
Peugeot 306 Maxi, $1.99
Peugeot 205 T16 Rallycross, $1.99
Subaru Impreza (2001), $1.49
Starter Car Upgrade, $0.99
Car Variety Pack, $3.99
Opel Kadett C CT/E, $0.99
Porsche 911 RGT Rally Spec, $1.49
Audi S1 EKS RX quattro, $1.99
Ford Focus RS Rally 2007, $1.49
Ford Focus RS Rally 2001, $1.49
Ford Fiesta RXS Evo 5, $1.99

Maps

Greece Rally, $3.99
Sweden Rally, $3.99
Finland, $3.99
Monte Carlo, $3.99
Bikernieki, Latvia, $3.99
Wales, $3.99
Estering, Germany, $3.99
Killarney, International, South Africa, $3.99
Yas Marina Circuit, $3.99
Lydden Hill, UK, $3.99

Various

Colin McRae : Flat Out Pack, $9.99, which includes 40 challenging scenarios, 12 new breathtaking rally routes through Scotland, and two vehicles.

Year One Pass, $19.99
Seasons 3 & 4 Pack, $11.99

There is also a Game of the Year Edition for $59.99.

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Here are reddit’s responses to the news :

[Video] PS+ April Titles: Uncharted 4 and Dirt Rally 2.0 from PS4

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and DIRT Rally 2.0 are your PlayStation Plus games for April from PlayStationPlus

PS+ Free Games, April 2020 | Uncharted 4 & Dirt Rally 2.0 | PSN | Available 4/6 from PS4Deals

Some seem annoyed that now everyone owns the entire Uncharted franchise, minus Lost Legacy.  Some predict Lost Legacy will be the free game in a few months.  Almost like a movie is in the works, or something?

Then poor Dirt Rally 2.0 seems to be a real head scratcher.

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Here are my YouTube peeps :

Nathan with PlayStation Access :

Adam with PlayStation Grenade :

Ben with Platinum Chasers :

Ben’s video finally made it to the top of the list of results for “PS+ April 2020 Games.”  Usually I have to do that search and add “Platinum Chasers,” to the search, so hopefully that means people are finding his excellent videos and he’s moving up the list.

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Here is the PlayStationTrophies.org guide to Uncharted 4 :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/uncharted-4/guide/

Here is the link to their list of trophies for Dirt Rally 2.0 :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/dirt-rally-2/trophies/

Looking at the list, I am hoping I can at least earn one of these :

Antilog Engaged, Purchase your first FIA World Rallycross Supercar
That’s Dedication, Complete 3 Weekly Community Events
Eat my DiRT, Complete 20 Custom Events
Clown Car, Complete 50 Joker laps
CAUTION, Don’t Cut, Complete a stage without damaging your car (I doubt it though)
Qualified, Complete Your first AI Challenge
Adaptable, Complete a stage in Dry, Overcast, Rain and Wet conditions
Fine Tuned, Create and save your own tuning setup

I imagine I will at least earn Qualified and Adaptable, those would be my main goals.  I am not great at racing games, or races in general, if I have learned anything from the Lego games.

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There is currently a big April Spring Sale going on right now :

Spring Sale – US PSN (Ends 4/28) from PS4Deals

I bought Walker Dennis Lego Jurassic World, as the base game is $5.99, the lowest it goes, and the three DLC plus game came to $10, so that was a pretty good deal.

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In Batman Arkham Asylum, I got to the point where I have to leave the Asylum, to chase down Warden Sharp.  Then I got distracted by the big March sale and my new games.

Walker Dennis and I completed Lego DC Supervillains, on his account.  I earned trophies like every other session, so I have to play on my own.  We completed the six bonus missions, so now we have full access to the open map, so he’s excited about that.

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Slender The Arrival was pretty cheap, like three dollars, and I saw there were like four trophies we could earn during the simple Prologue, so I bought it and earned those trophies.  Maybe in October, I will really commit to playing the game again.

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I bought Walker Dennis Lego City Undercover, and we completed the Prison Island mission, which is essentially a complete homage to Shawshank Redemption, which I really appreciated.

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Walker Dennis has been at home as his school is closed until April 10 (hopefully!), and he just loves the Goat Simulator game.  My wife was kind enough to buy a $20 gift card and now he has the DLC collection.  I was hoping she was going to buy a $25 card and I would have gotten five dollar credit, but she outsmarted me.

I really enjoyed the MMO and the Payday DLC.  Zombies is alright, I am not much of a zombie guy, and Space seems to be the one Walker Dennis really enjoys the most, and it is the one I earned the least amount of trophies in.

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My wife and I have started really playing Jeopardy on the PS4, and we are having a blast.  I do not forget how smart she is but I am reminded of how smart she is and also how competitive she gets.  I definitely enjoy Jeopardy over the Wheel of Fortune game, but we have been playing that as well.

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I treated myself to Joe Mad’s Battle Chasers Anthology, that collects the first nine issues and has a slew of extras :

The reviews state that the spine of the trade is pretty weak but I did not have any problems with my copy.

During the March sale, Battle Chasers Nigthwar was around eight dollars, so I snatched it up.  I like how it purposely takes place in a different area, so you do not have to read the collection, but it helps to get to know the characters better.  The game gives little hints at previous adventures.  I am at Junktown, and just having my butt handed to me.  Most of my team is Level 12, and I get the impression I am probably two levels below where I am.  But I really wanted a RPG, so I am trying to not forget the game and come back to it as often as I can.  The main town has a mission where I have to clear out all of the slime, the same city that had the spider problem, and I am clearly supposed to be level 15 for that.

I want to be at least at the level of the main threat, which I believe was level 13 for the slime, and most enemies at Junktown seem to be level 12 to 13.  I have four members and I know I am supposed to recruit two more members, one I am very familiar with and the other seems to be unique to the game, as I do not believe I saw him in the comic.

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I started Life is Strange : Before the Storm, and I barely started it.  I downloaded the bonus episode four, and I am still in Episode 1, Chloe has gone downstairs, and I have the fourth graffiti to still do.  My gaming goal is to finish an episode, getting all of the graffiti at the same time, then play Battle Chasers until I level up, and go back and forth between the two games until I earned the Platinum for Life is Strange : Before the Storm, and make serious headway into Battle Chasers Nightwar.  I really just want to fill my team with all six characters, and see what clicks.

I feel a tad bad for Calibretto as he was one of my original three with Gully and Garrison.  I recruited Knolan, and he was a level higher than my party, so I sort of knew then that I was below where I should be.  I believe I am close to getting Red Monika, as the notes around Junktown are referencing a red hair assassin, so that is pretty exciting.

Knolan has a group heal, and that’s sort of what I need.  I am still learning the mechanics and finally understanding the merits of using the overcharge battle system, so I have my team hit once, then on their next or third turn, use an attack or heal, that uses up mana (or overcharge) points, and that, I preserve my mana for when I really need it.  Which has taken me hours to finally click with the system.

A fun game, I enjoy it, besides the long time it takes to load into the game, but even if I can just load into the game, and complete a few battles on the map, those are less battles I have to do later to level up.  It is a bit of a grind fest, but I am here to try for it.

Junktown is such a bigger dungeon as well, with lots of options.  I have yet to find a second portal within it so that I can finally save time, as I keep having to leave, go back to the village, rest, and go back.  I have committed to stop buying revive potions, as they are expensive and i might as well just die and use the 80 gold to auto return to the village and make my way back to Junktown, going through minor villains, who are not minor at all.

I do like how, with lesser enemies, I get the option to engage in the fight or just move on.  If we engage, then we do not earn any xp, but do earn materials and gold.

I like the fishing mechanic as well, but I clearly need better bait and a better fishing rod.

I am clearly just in the beginning of the game, going up against my first real hurdle in it.  I will get there eventually, but unlike with Arkham Asylum, I want to commit to this as I have not beaten it before.

Also, owning Nightwar, makes me less incline to purchase other games in the Spring sale.  Though seeing Waking Violet for only $2.09 is pretty tempting, even if I just do a few of the puzzles, but I am resisting that urge.  Plus, I have these Lego games I can be playing as well.  So I really do have plenty of games to play.

Now that my wife is playing on the PS4 (she has really taken to the Switch with Mario Odyssey and Toad Treasure Tracker), I am tempted to buy a few more games for the PS4 for her and I to play, such as Uno or Trivia Pursuit Live.  Uno is $4.99, and Trivia Pursuit Live is $5.99, so those are pretty good prices.  We used to play Trivia Pursuit on PS3 a bunch, back in the day.  Which was a Tuesday.

Playing Goat Simulator and the Uncharted Collection

Posted by John Klein III on January 9, 2020
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Sorry for the late post, having days off at the beginning of the year threw off my writing schedule.

The January 2020 PS Plus Games are . . . Uncharted the Nathan Drake Collection and Goat Simulator!

Games I have definitely played before as I am a huge Uncharted fan and Goat Simulator was one of the few games I had for the XBox 360.  I was so confused by it but playing it now with Walker Dennis, it has been a lot of fun!  I am not sure if it was the system or the controller, or the game itself, but I just felt lost with it.

I have the Uncharted Collection on physical disc, so now I am just waiting for GameStop to have another double credit deal with trade-ins so I can get some store credit.

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PSP Prices states the Uncharted Collection is typically $20 and goes as low as $8.

Goat Simulator is typically $10 and goes as low as $3.

So either the games are $30 at their peak or $11 at their lowest sales.  I am going to track this to find out when the Plus subscription pays for itself.  We are half way there or barely a sixth of the way.

Uncharted Collection has no DLC whereas Goat Simulator has a slew of DLC!

There is a DLC Bundle that is typically $20 or goes on sale as low as $5, which I am definitely tracking as that is a good deal for all of the DLC.

The Bundle includes :

Goatz (Zombies)
MMO Simulator
Payday
Waste of Space

So five dollars is pretty good for all of that content.  I would never spend $20 for it.  I am a very patient gamer.

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Here are my three subreddits’ opinions on the games.  Seems like most are upset that if you wanted the Uncharted Collection, you would have owned it by now, which I agree but I am also a guy who wants God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn, as well as Witcher 3, but will probably never buy those games for myself, not at least, not in the near future.

NA January PS Plus Fre Games Are The Nathan Drake Collection and Goat Simulator. from PS4

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Goat Simulator are your PS Plus games for January from PlayStationPlus

NA | January’s Free PS Plus Games: Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Goat Simulator from PS4Deals

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Here are my YouTube peeps with their opinions :

Elle with PlayStation Access :

Adam with PlayStationGrenade :

Ben with PlatinumChasers :

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Here are PlayStation Trophies excellent trophy guides :

Goat Simulator 

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/goat-simulator/guide/

Uncharted Collection

Drake’s Fortune

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/uncharted-drakes-fortunes-ps4/guide/

Among Thieves

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

Drake’s Deception

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/uncharted-3-ps4/guide/

Trophies are not earned on Explorer mode, which is the easiest difficulty.

Reading the titles, I like how the naming convention is kept through to Uncharted 4, A Thief’s End.  The titles are either Drake or Thief related.  Or Golden Abyss related.  I was tempted to get a vita for like $133 through Amazon but then I was given roughly that amount for Christmas but that particular one was sold and the next inexpensive one was around $200, which is way too much for me to spend.  Maybe Christmas 2020, but I doubt it.

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I have been very tempted to start Uncharted 1 and 2, on Easy mode, just to relive the adventure, and just have a very chill time with the games.

In the meantime, I have been playing a slew of games over the holiday!  Just bouncing all over the place!

With the announcement of the games, I started Uncharted 4!

I was having a real blast, I think I am on chapter six?  They are at the auction, I know that at least.

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My beautiful wife got me Injustice : Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, Amazing Spider-Man 2, and TMNT : Mutants in Manhattan.  I have plans to play Mutants in Manhattan next.

Injustice is the first game, so once I beat the story mode with that game, I will probably trade it in for the 2nd one as that is the one I want, and I only want it for the sweet Ninja Turtles, so I can wait on that.  It is not a bad game, I am trying to learn the button combos but I do end up just button smashing or doing the five combos I am comfortable with.  I am also playing on Super Easy mode, as the trophies unlock with that mode and I am no good at fighting games.

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Walker Dennis and I have really been enjoying Amazing Spider-Man 2.  He is playing it on Human (Easy) mode and I am playing it on Super Hero (hard) mode.  I am doing the boss fights for him but I am very impress with how much of the game he is able to do on his own.  When I am playing his file, I am definitely dreading doing these fights on Super Hero mode.  The Black Cat one was hard until I saw a video where a guy kept just dodge attacking her, and that really helped.  But there is a Kingpin fight that I am already dreading.  Walker Dennis is on his way to fighting the Green Goblin and I just completed the Black Cat fight, and on my way to Kraven.

The only problem with the game, is that the Web Threads DLC is no longer available.  Sony Support tried to unlock it for me, as I really want it and seven dollars is a pretty good price for it.  They told me to ask Activision but I cannot get into the Chat Queue with them, or I can, and then I miss it as it goes from 24 individuals ahead of me to it being my turn and I have missed it in the five minutes I did not check my phone.  So that has been rather irritating.

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My wife was also very generous and got me a PS Store Gift Card and the first game I bought was Lego Batman 3 Deluxe Edition and Walker Dennis and I are having a huge blast with the game.  I was being a bit of a pill about not buying people until we had a million studs to buy the x2 multiplier, which is my usual policy with Lego games.  Then he bought a slew of people and then I put a stop to that until we could buy the x4 multiplier.  Then he had a play date and I had enough time to get enough studs to buy the x6 multiplier and now we have money galore!  We have also stopped playing for a bit but that is okay.  We completed the entire story and have to do free play for levels four and on.  The game is super fun and I could not pass up the deluxe edition for nine dollars.

I really need to get back into Lego Marvel Superheroes 2, but free play has been feeling like a chore, as I keep having so many levels to redo.  I think I have 11 left, as the game has 20 levels, so I am finally on the other side of it.  They are very long levels it feels like.  I just rather play all of these other games but once I settle down and sample these games, I will get back to it.

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Anodyne was a dollar game during the Holiday sale.  I bought and got to the first cave and I have no idea what to do next.  I have walked all around it and found two cards and unlocked the doors I have found but now I am not sure what to do.  I have to watch a walkthrough.  I got the one trophy for finding the mop (the main weapon of the game), so at least I was able to do that.

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I also saw in the Holiday sale, 2064 : Read Only Memories, and was reminded we were given that as a free game way back in October 2018, the same month we were given Friday the 13th : The Game and The Bridge.

I got through the Prologue and some of the first chapter, it is an interest point and click game for sure, and it has a charm about it.

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So that is what I have been up too.  I keep thinking about what the next big game sale is going to be, but honestly, I have plenty of games to play that I do not need any more, which is super fun to be able to type.

I set up Walker Dennis with a PSN profile, so now his trophies will be permanent, as he really wanted to play Portal Knights under his own account, so I had to create a yahoo account for him.  It is a real shame he had to lose all of his other trophies but we will just play those games again and scoop up some easy ones for him.

I completely forgot that we also got Walker Dennis the Fantastic Beasts pack!  We got two chapters in, and then I bought Lego Batman 3, so we have four more chapters to go!  I know there is a secret STAR Labs from the Flash television series, we just have to find it.

We also watched the movie and it was a pretty decent time.  I just felt disconnected but I am glad we watched it as the game probably would not have felt complete without the original reference.  It was fun watching it and trying to anticipate what would be adapted.