Fable II Done. Started Lego City Undercover

On 11/08/2017 at 10:49 PM by KnightDriver

I finished with Fable II today and then started Lego City Undercover.

I got the last achivement I can get in the game with the Murgo's Dyes one. The last of 9 dyes is in the Colosseum and you have to collect three teddy bears to get it. Two are easy but the last one is gotten by scoring exactly 1985 points in the arena battle.This seemed to be too hard to get with the character I did my third playthrough with. He wasn't fast enough or had a good enough weapon to control the flow of the battle. So I switched to my first playthrough character, the one who's like a female spartan, has all her abilities to the max, and has the best, and fastest, weapon in the game. With her I was able to control the hoards and carefully manipulate the score to hit that exact number. Then, because I had switched characters, I had to go collect the other ones all over again. Luckily I only had three to get. I had found most of them already somehow.

Mark jumped in to view the achievement in co-op so he could get it too. I tried one last time to trade for a chicken suit to no avail, so now I am finally done with Fable II. Two achievements are left on the table but there's really no way to get those now that there are so few people still playing the game who can trade for Hero Dolls or a Chicken Suit. I'm satisfied though. What a journey. I didn't think I'd get this deep into the game when I started it.

I started my rental, Lego City Undercover, after that. This is an open world lego game in the style of a 70s or 80s cop show. You're a maverick police detective out to stop crime the old fashioned way, brute force. It's entertaining. The dialog is funny and the puzzles well constructed. It's a tad easy and obsessive as you try and collect everything you can, destroy everything you can, and uncover every secret. I like it, but I feel like maybe I'll just finish the main story and send it back. Then, one day when it's cheap, I'll buy it to complete all the achievements. I'll have to see how I feel playing it next week. Maybe I'll get really hooked and have to complete it, but maybe not.

Tomorrow I'm going to make a quick stop at Jay Street Video Games to see if they have the lastest backwards compatible game, Xbox 360's Deadly Premonition. I've always wanted to check that game out.

Cary Woodham

11/09/2017 at 12:32 AM

LEGO City Undercover is one of the better LEGO games out there. There's a lot of humor and references that would definitely go over kids' heads.

KnightDriver

11/09/2017 at 10:05 PM

There's a ton of movie references, some from the 70s. Like I saw Dirty Harry in one scene.

I love the vehicles. I can barely contain myself when I drive. I want to jump out of whatever I'm driving and grab every new vehicle that passes me.

daftman

11/10/2017 at 12:20 AM

I remember playing Fable II! I don't think I ever even looked at the achievements though, but I had a lot of fun playing through the main story.

11/10/2017 at 06:40 PM

Oh, the achievements were a total blast. I started by finishing the main story, then I looked at the achievements. I think they distract me from the story the first time around. Replaying it for achievements, though, make me alert to parts of the story I missed the first time around. Like I only realized Reaver was like a couple hundred years old because of his deal with the shadow ghouls (or whatever they were called) on my second playthrough. There were many other things I picked up on too that I didn't fully understand the first time through. It's weird, because games are so long, it's hard to focus on the story. There's tons of distractions and side quests and other things to get you away from the main thread. Only on replays does it start to all come together for me.

goaztecs

11/14/2017 at 11:26 AM

I like to call Lego City Undercover, Lego GTA. There are a ton of refrences to pop culture in that game and it is a lot of fun. Just like other Lego games there are a ton of things to collect and spots to explore.

11/14/2017 at 10:01 PM

I got right into stealing cars. I'd see a good one, jump out of whatever I was driving, and take it. Whoohoo!

11/15/2017 at 11:17 PM

Oh there are some really fun cars and spots to jump in that game. It gets really fun when you start unlocking the bad guy cars.

11/15/2017 at 11:46 PM

I sent it back but I'll pick it up one day when it's cheap and really play it to complete it.

PixlBit