Tales from the Borderlands, Sky Odyssey and Disney Infinity 3.0

On 05/16/2016 at 12:57 AM by KnightDriver

I didn't have time to blog on Saturday so this is really about the whole weekend. Saturday I played Episode 5 of Tales from the Borderlands finally. I had the season pass and played ep. 1-4 as they came out, but with almost six months to wait for ep. 5, I kind of lost interest. Well I finally finished it. Great story, predictable, but still very entertaining. My big gripe with it was the way it chugged almost constantly on my Xbox 360. Load times were long but worse than that was very regular slowdown that came near to ruining the experience for me. I'm not sure what the issue was. Maybe this runs better on XBO or PS4. I'd be tempted to get it again to play it without hiccups.

Then Sunday started with an old game I've been meaning to get to for a long time, Sky Odyssey for PS2. This, I was hoping was a little more than just a flight sim, but it's not. I wanted some story, some adventure and lots of realistic, but not crazy realistic, flying controls. What it is is a pretty strightforward flight sim. There's a bit of adventure in that you fly over this group of islands and sight see, but I had a devil of a time with the controls. For flight sim fans I'm sure it's great, but I really don't like that much control. Flying the biplane I chose was very touchy and delicate, and more complex than I wanted. You're basically using four different buttons in combination to control the plane plus a button for acceloration. It just takes too much getting used to. I'm a Crimson Skies kind of flight sim player. Give me a little more arcady feel to it and I'm in for the long haul.

So after plowing into cliff walls a bunch of times - upsidedown - I wnet back to Disney Infinity 3.0. I picked up some more figures and the Rise Against the Empire playset piece. I had to go a little far out there to find a Gamestop that wasn't cleaned out of 3.0 stuff, but it was worth it I think. Here's a pic:

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That's Han, Rey, Leia, Luke, Zeb (from Star Wars Rebels) and the Rise Against the Empire playset piece.

I finished the Twilight of the Republic. I did just about every side mission in the playset. Then Mark and I split up the next two playsets. He played Rise Against the Empire (original trilogy) and I played Force Awakens. They both looked really great and ran through their respective stories very closely with very good voice work. We both loved being in those worlds doing various tasks that reminded me of the Lego games, the difference being, the excellent combat mechanics (thanks Ninja Theory). I was also having a lot of fun hunting down Mynocks. There's 100 of them in each playset and it's a challenge to find them all. I got 50 on the Twilight playset and I'm at 33 on Force Awakens after 3 hours. I'm feeling like I may get them all at that rate. Later, Mark and I will swap playset pieces and I'll get to play through Rise Against the Empire. It's such a shame this will be all the Star Wars content for the this game. The rest of the playsets aren't as interesting to me, but I'll play them anyway.

Monday is a day off for me, so I'll be playing some more after a few chores in the morning. I got a retro game to play first though. Should be interesting. Until then, Pixl-bye.

Cary Woodham

05/16/2016 at 02:14 AM

That's pretty cool that you said there is a Darkwing Duck motorcycle in 3.0. I remember teh first game had Scrooge McDuck's money bin.

KnightDriver

05/17/2016 at 01:32 AM

I read that Darkwing Duck almost made it in the game and got a figure. I noticed a Darkwing Duck sidekick today in 3.0. I put him to work on my farm.

Yea, there was a side quest sort of thing in the INteriors tutorial area that asked you to add Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin to the house. I couldn't find it in the toy store at first but I noticed it later when I was about done with the game. So I never actually used it.

Nicoleb1989

05/16/2016 at 06:04 PM

I was considering diving back into Disney Infinity but since its pretty much been canceled I decided to just see about starting Lego Deminsons. Its kind of sad that Disney is stopping their infinty program. I thought it was a success but I guess I was wrong. I still have yet to try or play Tales from the Borderlands.

05/17/2016 at 01:07 AM

Disney Infinity is still worth playing. Online is still up for the moment, but I've mostly played it single player anyway. I'd like to play Lego Dimensions. When there's a sale on the starter packs, I'm getting one.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

05/16/2016 at 09:54 PM

I LOVE that Rey figure. Super cool.

I like Telltale games. I usually watch my brother play them rather than play them myself, but that will change when the Batman game comes out. Really looking forward to that.

05/17/2016 at 01:00 AM

I played Rey quite a bit today. I couldn't switch to Boba Fett because I didn't find the Coin to allow him in the game 'til later on. But I found Rey a really good character in the game. She can shoot and do melee with her staff which makes her very versatile. I also finally got into the special attacks and wondered why I didn't skill that up with Darth Maul. Rey's quite a bass-ass.

These Telltale games are barely games. I find I'm doing very little in them, mostly just watching the action with a few decisions here and there. I think I would only play them for my most beloved series. Batman's a maybe though.

05/17/2016 at 01:30 AM

you're right, they're more like interactive movies, but that's ok. It would be cool if there was more choice, and I think one day they will have that, but for now, they are what they are.

05/17/2016 at 01:34 AM

I'm definitely only playing those on the new systems too. Tales from the Borderlands ran so badly on my 360.

05/17/2016 at 02:06 AM

yeah we had the same problem when my brother played Game of Thrones on the PS3.

05/18/2016 at 12:29 PM

I don't understand it because it's not like they're some graphics heavy, action heavy software. Seems just like bad programming to me, but what do I know.

PixlBit