The thing I remember about the Toy Story world is that the mall was HUGE! And it was a mall full of nothing but little toy store sections (baby, video games, etc.). It kind of reminded me of an old store we used to have in the Dallas area called Incredible Universe. It was an electronics store with little mini stores in it for video games, appliances, computers, etc. Anyway, I just wonder what the business model for that big Toy Store world mall is? If Toys R Us can't make it anymore, I wonder how that one does? :)
Savage Halo Cars' Hearts Anniversary
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 On 04/11/2020 at 10:00 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
A lot of jumping around from game to game, as usual.
Journey to the Savage Planet: First I liked the trailer for this, then Major Nelson mentioned on his podcast that he's been replaying this over and over; so when it appeared on Game Pass, I was excited to play it. I got sucked in. It's sort of a perfect game for me. It's got humor, lots of exploration, scanning everything in sight, some shooting and some platforming with the aid of jet pack assist and grappler, not to mention the various local fruits which have special powers. I really adore the game. I love being a kind of field work naturalist.
Halo 5: I played, for me, a rare match of multiplayer 4v4 to get 10 kills for a Game Pass Quest. I felt I did pretty well. I can hold my own in there. I tried to play Warzone mode but there weren't enough players to fill out 24 spots. I was kind of surprised. I thought Halo would be pretty well populated still.
Project Cars 2: Games with gold freebie. It's a total sim racer, not my thing at all, but I wanted to try it. Neat thing about it, you can race with pro gokarts. I did that for a complete championship of 4 races. I don't know if there are real pro gokart raceways, but they rendered some in incredible detail. Despite just driving karts though, I was terrible at it. I only just started getting some of the controls down by the end of the championship. Then I tried a junior race where you get in stripped down forumla 1 cars. I don't know if this is real either. I wish, as a teenager, I'd had a chance to race those cars. Anyway, I did a bit better but I really handled them like a drunk driver. I know I'd do better in a real car. Some of the controls there didn't seem to make much sense. Why do I have to keep the gas pedal down to make the emergency brake bring the back of the car around, doesn't momentum mean anything in this game?
Kingdom Hearts III: Well, I went back to the Toy planet and looked up a walkthrough to see how to rescue the rest of the toys. All I got was a whole lot of crazy secrets and collectibles and a very confusing direction to a store I couldn't even find. I finally gave up and quit. Why can't you just ask a character in the game for information. Every game should have something like that. Hey Goofy, answer my darn questions instead of just repeating what you think of Buzz.
Fable Anniversary: Another Games with Gold freebie I wanted to revisit. I so love the environments and general aethetics of Fable. I wish I could live this protangonist's life in the guild hall. Physical workouts all day and study in the library at night. Then when you're old enough, you pick a quest and complete it for the golry of humanity and the realm. I like that kind of life. Oh and clearing the yard of sparrows, those dirty things. ha ha (just kidding).
Well, inspired by Fable, I'm going to get some exercise tomorrow and try and make it a regular thing.
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