I Think I'm Going Rental from Now On

On 02/06/2017 at 11:51 PM by KnightDriver

I went through my wacko gaming-by-association games today, after almost playing nothing else but Borderlands 2, and decided after all that that I should just start renting with Gamefly and stick to current releases, and be happy with that. It's easier, and makes more sense, as well as saving me money. I think the only things I'll have to buy now are download only titles and toys-to-life stuff, and I have a pretty large collection to use as trade bait for all that for a while. So here's what I played today.

Mucho Borderlands 2. Got past level 25 for an achievement. Mark finished the main story on his system, but I lingered over side missions. They're all fun and I don't care to end the game too quickly.

Disney Infinity 3.0 with my Ultron figure (Ultron was created in 1968). I played the Marvel Battlegrounds play set. I thought it would be just an arena but there's a story told through multiple battles against A.I. controlled enemies in various arenas with cutscenes and everything. It was short, but it was more than I expected. I used Ultron the whole time and it was pretty funny to have to fight myself as the final boss. I started working through the challenge missions and then stopped because I wanted to save some for later. I figure I might want to bring in other figures and try them out in the arena battles later. There's no online for this but fighting the A.I. isn't too bad. It's challenge enough. Then I fooled around in the Toy Box for a little while, got kinda bored and moved on to my next game.

Battlestations: Midway, a Xbox 360 title backwards compatible on XBO. This is a WWII sim game useing ships, planes and submarines. It's actually quite deep, not as deep as a true sim, but complex. It took me over an hour to go through all the tutorials. Then I jumped right into the submarine challenges because I'm thinking about Periscope this month. I couldn't beat the first mission. It's actually pretty challenging. I would approach a flotilla of Japanese ships, find the one I'm after and try and sink it, but I kept getting discovered by a destroyer and sunk by depth charges. I think I have to take it much slower and more strategicially to win. It was slow enough though. I don't think I can go that slow in a game anymore. Anyway, it was fun and easy to learn but tricky to master. The WWII ship/plane/sub designs had my ten year old model builder in me screaming for joy. I just wish I had access to the pinup wallpaper DLC that was on Xbox 360. Hubba hubba. So, decent graphics, is the short way of saying it.

By the end of the night I was pretty beat. I'd woken up at 5am to go photo shooting with Mark and then gamed from noon to eleven at night. A full day.

Well, expect some more current video game talk from me in the future. Over and out.

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/07/2017 at 12:39 AM

I'm thinking game fly might be cheaper than jumping on sales myself. I'll see if i can do a free trial through double toasted.

KnightDriver

02/07/2017 at 12:42 AM

Gamefly has a one month free trial. They also have a $10 a month for 3 months.

jgusw

02/07/2017 at 07:38 AM

Gaming from noon to eleven at night... Man, I hadn't done that in years.

02/07/2017 at 03:09 PM

That's like every Monday for me and sometimes Sunday. Mark's an indefatigable gamer as well.

Cary Woodham

02/07/2017 at 07:50 AM

I used to rent games all the time when I was a kid. But this was back in the NES and SNES days. Games cost anywhere from 40 to 60 bucks plus back then, and renting them from the local rental place only cost a buck per game (but there were late fees). So you can guess what I chose to do a lot of the time. But I stopped renting games once everything went to CD because I kept getting games with scratches on them and they wouldn't work. And it was easier for me to wait until games went down in price, then I could just buy them and play them whenever I wanted. Now, most games I want to play, I also want to own. Plus it helps that I get review copies of a lot of games, too.

02/07/2017 at 03:06 PM

I'm starting to feel like a reviewer in a way. I'm about to have all three current systems and get all the newest games for the monthly rental price. I'm going to feel so on top of things.

I've never had a problem with Gamefly's discs (I rented from them years ago). They always worked for me.

Ranger1

02/07/2017 at 11:23 AM

I don't do the rental thing because my mood changes about what I want to play too quickly, and it's just easier for me if I have a library to choose from. But I can certainly see where it would be a better choice for someone who would actually jumpp in and play a game from start to finish when they got it.

02/07/2017 at 03:00 PM

I like the idea of getting current games. I know most of them will only last me a little while. I don't finish stuff I don't enjoy thoroughly.

Nicoleb1989

02/07/2017 at 01:08 PM

I cant do rentals myself, i like owning stuff. Not to mention Gamefly is the only option now and Ive had two bad experiances with them so im not throwing anymore money at them. I hope it works out for you though!

02/07/2017 at 02:59 PM

I used them a long while ago. My complaint then was that it took too long to get my game and I always got stuff at the bottom of my list first. Well, I know what I'm getting into now. I just have to stop buying games. Too much money.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

02/07/2017 at 02:03 PM

what did you guys shoot photos of? I need to get my brother to take a new author pic of me.

02/07/2017 at 02:52 PM

We went to Longwood Gardens, the playground of the Duponts. Mark wanted photos of the orchid show there. I was along for the ride and just shot "scenes" that I may use to drop some of my toys-to-life figures into for a future blog.

02/07/2017 at 03:54 PM

Thats cool i grew up in wilmington so i know where that is. Habent been there for like a decade.

goaztecs

02/07/2017 at 09:12 PM

Speaking of Toys to Life games at the local Ross they were selling new Skylanders figures (I didn't see the name but the box is a shiny silver) and they sell the 3DS Starter Packs with a Donkey Kong Amiibo figure for $12. If you have a store nearby check them out.

02/23/2017 at 02:13 AM

Somehow I get the feeling from what I've heard that the toys-to-life genre might be going away for a while. So those figures are going to get even cheaper.

I still want the first Skylanders game for 3DS. It has the best reviews of the handheld versions. Also, I need a Wii-U because I have the game and Nintendo figures for that.

PixlBit