Microsoft Haven - Dragon Farm

On 07/26/2020 at 08:53 PM by KnightDriver

In Microsoft Haven there be dragons, and it's like the village in How To Train Your Dragon. Tech and dragons. Mecha dragons? I'm liking this idea.

Microsoft Solitaire Collection

I played this last night on my phone. I learned how to play Spider and FreeCell versions of solitaire. There are five different versions in the game. There are also daily challenges which I tried. I got an achievement, so that's confirmed. It was really more fun than I expected. I had to stop myself eventually because it was getting adictive. I'll play it some more in spare moments I think.

Haven, Rover Wars, Destroy All Humans Demos

Mr. Snee told me about this demo festival on Xbox. I check the games store every week and I missed this. Why do they not promote these things? Anyway, there are 70 demos in a section near the bottom of the games page in the store. I saw this lush rpg Haven that's also about long term relationships; Rover Wars which looks a lot like old Warcraft RTS games and has co-op and multiplayer; Destroy All Humans! which is a remake of the first game from 2005 that's out on Tuesday. I'm a big fan of the series and can't wait to jump in again. I actually met the voice actor who does one of the main characters at a con once. The problem with all this though was that I didn't have any time to play them once they downloaded because I was so involved with Farm Together. These demos might all expire on Monday too. Ah well.

Dragon Quest XI S

This is coming to Game Pass on Xbox so I downloaded what I thought was a preinstal file, but it was just a small file that will initiate the actual download on minute one when it releases on Tuesday [actually Dec. 4]. I hope my hard drive can fit it all.

Farm Together

Today's theme is Farm Hands. I experimented a lot with them today and figured out their range of activity and time of activity. They seem to go as far as six squares out from their post in all directions and stay active for at most 4 hours. This will cost you 4 tickets, which, if you keep cooking food in your houses, is no big deal. I'm thrilled with them and bought two. They cost 16 ribbons, which is a lot but they are useful. I made two fields of 13x13 with the farm hand in the middle square. It works great. They water and harvest everything you plant there and make things grow faster because they water constantly. It seems better than sprinklers which would cost me 72 ribbons to do that 13x13 field. I also positioned them at the farthest ends of my current holdings and placed teleporters nearby so I can check up on them. It's frickin' great! I'm never watering again. One, because the farm hands can do it, and two, because my fields are now too big to spend all that time watering them. I am knocking down quests quickly now, and I made my first million harvesting the fields I planted yesterday. Great!

Oh, and FABLE teaser at the end of the Microsoft Games Presentation!

Joaquim Mira Media Manager

07/26/2020 at 10:57 PM

DQ XI S is out in December 4.

KnightDriver

07/27/2020 at 06:46 PM

That was in the back of my mind but when I did a google search, I forgot to check the year. It was July 29, 2017 that it originally came out. Whoops. In my excitement I wished it to be out this week. Silly me. I still have the non S version on my PS4, if I can ever get to it.

07/27/2020 at 10:36 PM

If you can get to it? Did your PS4 brake, or something?

07/29/2020 at 06:10 PM

No. It's sitting here right next to me at home. It's just that I do most of my gaming at my friend's place on the weekends on Xbox. Weekday gaming has been hard to come by.

Cary Woodham

07/28/2020 at 08:10 AM

Who was the voice actor you met?

Speaking of demos, I recently downloaded one on the PS4 called Cris Tales. I'm going to try it and see if I want to request a review copy when it comes out later on.

07/29/2020 at 06:18 PM

Richard Steven Horvitz, voice of Orthopox 13 (Crypto's boss) in the Destroy All Humans series and Kaos in Skylanders.

Cris Tales looks neat. I like the past, present, future all at once mechanic. I wonder how that will work.

07/30/2020 at 08:06 AM

He was also the voice of Raz in Psychonauts, one of the Angry Beavers, and ZIM from Invader ZIM. In fact, his ZIM voice is exactly like Kaos'.

07/30/2020 at 06:41 PM

Yeah, he's got a long list of voices. He's great.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

07/28/2020 at 08:28 AM

I don't think DQ is a huge download. Not compared to other AAA games anyway. It's all cel-shaded graphics, and I think that makes a difference.

07/29/2020 at 06:20 PM

It seems it's 13.8 GB on Switch and 30 GB on PS4. I imagine that will mean it's 6000 GB on Xbox. But seriously, I'm relieved because it will probably closer to 30 GB.

PixlBit