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 On 04/05/2018 at 10:13 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
I jumped around quite a bit in my gaming today, but all along I was thinking of the type of game I most wanted to play and found it at the very end.
Pinball FX3: Attempted to beat Rangergirl's scores on the Thor table to no result. I feel like I've hit a wall and just can't get past around 50 million on one of my high scores. I suppose I have to get deeper into the mechanics to do that, but I don't really want to. I like the speed of pinball, and when you are going for score, you have to slow it down and control it as much as possible. I don't find that particularly fun. So I'll take a break for a while. Hats off to you Rangergirl, you win.
Odin Sphere: Lehfrasir: While I was on PS4, I continued the Fariyland story and beat another boss, Odette, the Queen of the Dead. There's more to the story though. I found out there's also new prisms you can find by revisiting old levels. I'll do that once I finish the story. I wanted to switch to XBO though, so I stopped.
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition: I browsed Game Pass and saw this remaster of Halo Wars with a fresh set of achievements. I played on Legendary and didn't pass the first mission. Then I played on Heroic and got to the fourth mission, the city, and got stuck. Then I switched to Normal and decided to stop for now. The game still plays and looks great. I'll come back to it again for sure. I noticed Game Pass games are also discounted about 50% for purchase. I'm fine not owning it though.
Cars 2: Returned to this and found it even better in the later levels. The races get longer and more difficult, giving me a good challenge. I'm trying all the different cars for their different abilities: some are faster, others take more damage, and others handle better. They all have funny voice work. I annoyed Mark to no end with the Francesco F1 racer. He woops it up every time you jump.
Massive Chalice: I finally hit my sweet spot with Massive Chalice on Game Pass. This is a turn-based strategy game with world management. You view the action in an isometric view on a grid like Final Fantasy Tactics or Banner Saga. Then on the world map you can control the workings of your kingdom and appoint leaders and their wives/husbands. You are an immortal and can hasten time to see births and other changes to the kingdom. Then you can stop time passing to make changes and go to battle. It's freakin' great, and I've been waiting since 2015 to play this. I wanted a tower defense, builder or strategy game and this will do fine.
Next week though I will have my last rental from Gamefly, Wolfenstein II, so I cannot avoid playing that. So many games. I've kind of given up trying to manage it all. I just go by feel now. Perhaps that's the best way anyhow.
Yeah, I try to just feel out what I want as well. I think we give too much thought to our "backlog of shame" when it comes to finishing games we're not REALLY enjoying.
I think I'll only be applying that mentality to books from now on, so I can actually read on a regular basis. I feel like a fraud for teaching at a university yet reading so little in my leisure time.
Something changed with me when I started Game Pass. I think I hit a critical mass of games. Now I have another 150 added to the 200 digital games I have and a couple dozen hard copy games. There's no easy way to organize it all. So I just go by feel with Game Pass. Although, I'm tempted to put all those games in a spreadsheet and sort them by game length. Such an evil plan. I better resist such an urge or I won't sleep.
Massive Chalice, huh? I'm gonna look that up right now
It's a Double Fine game, which usually meens good with some unique twist.
I added it to Steam to remember it. Maybe it will come to Switch eventually.
Ahem. Thor is my bitch.
I just play whatever I'm in the mood for. Since disposable income is pretty much non-existent at the moment, I'm having fun with my majorly huge backlog. I'm about 2/3 of the way through Tales of Vesperia at the moment and cleaning up sidequests before I tackle the end of the game. After that, I have no idea what will strike my fancy. My PS3 needs some TLC, so the 360 got hooked back up for the first time in over a year a couple of weeks ago. I'd completely forgotten how many games I'd downloaded and never touched through Games With Gold. It's like Christmas all over again!
Lol.
I went through all my downloaded games a few days ago and, wow, there was a lot of them. A lot of the 360 games I downloaded now work on Xbox One, so my list has topped 200. Most of them I got for free too, or for very cheap on sales.
da Ranger rules
I still need to buy Odin Sphere on PS4. I played it on PS3 and loved it but when it came out previously I couldnt get it. I had to pick a select few games around that time because my job wasnt doing so hot. I just keep forgeting to get. Yikes.
Im literally waiting for the Switch verison on Wolfenstien 2. It looks like its gonna run really well from a few videos I saw.
Odin Sphere is getting near the $20 mark. The characters eat a lot. Food boosts your levels as well as health, so pig out. It's kind of funny that way.
I can't imagine playing a bloody shooter like that on Switch. I always think of the various consoles and what fits for them. I used to try and get all the cell-shaded stuff for GameCube and play my shooters on Xbox, and JRPGS on PS2. I'm kind of doing the same even now.
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