Rogue Blob Heroes: Gears Farm

On 08/21/2020 at 09:42 PM by KnightDriver

What's a rpg/action platformer/brawler mashup where you also harvest resources like? It's just like Rogue Blob Heroes and its Gears Farm expansion. Thing is, I got annoyed that while I was away jumping and slashing my way to fame and fortune, my farm was getting raided by vacuum goblins sucking up all my juicy fruit. It drove me so nuts, I rage quit and played the following five games instead.

Heroes of Might & Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff

A 2001 PS2 game I have. It's a curious game. You appear riding a horse in the wilderness where you can run into random encounters. Once in battle, you have the troops you were given, mostly peasants at the start, and move around a grid in turn-based combat. The combat takes place automatically when you are in range at the end of a turn. I kept dying even on easy. I'm not sure how you gain more troops or win these battles of attrition. It seemed too much trouble to find out, so I stopped. Ah well, onto the next PS2 game in my collection tomorrow.

Streets of Rogue

Part two of my game session is always playing games that give me Game Pass rewards points. I only had to install and boot this game to get the points, but I played it for a while to see if I'd like it. It's prettty neat. It's a pixelated top-down view rogue-like. The tutorial showed me how to attack, hack computers and unlock doors. In the first level there are a lot of NPCs runnning about that don't confront you, but suddenly I was told to leave a room by a NPC, and when I didn't, I started getting attacked. I attacked back and soon a soldier showed up and shot me dead. I wasn't sure what was going on there. Well, whatever, it was interesting.

de Blob

I love the concept of this game. You are a blob that has to give color to the world ruled by colorless tyrants (can I do that in real life?). The issue was, though, that the controls drove me crazy. The blob sort of sticks to surfaces and won't unstick easily by jumping. It takes some getting use to, but I never got used to it. I only had to resuce 20 or so villagers for rewards points, so I stopped there.

Gears 5

I put in another couple hours into the campaign and managed a second achievement towards the rewards points goal of three. I was playing the desert area where you drive around with the skiff. I got the Jack robot ability to create a shield in front of your character. It's my new favorite tactic, and I used it as much as possible. I have until the 31st to get the third achievement.

Farm Together

I took my farm hands off harvesting crops and made them take care of the animals. Now I hardly do anything but monitor them. I'm like a middle manager now. I just show up to make sure the work is being done, then I watch the stats and wait for the quests to be completed. It's kind of hilarious in comparison with my friend Mark who uses no farm hands at all on his enormous farm. He prefers to do all the harvesting himself. I find that really tedious after a while. I spent one season just lying in bed watching the harvest numbers come in. I'm also planning my rail line for when I get the train station at farm level 60. My farm is at level 50.

Cary Woodham

08/22/2020 at 08:39 AM

I have de Blob on the Wii. I stopped playing it because it froze up on me too much. I give a game the 'three strikes and you're out' rule when it comes to freeze ups. If a game freezes up on me three times, I stop playing it. Just don't have time to restart over and over again at the last save point. Way too buggy of a game. Hopefully they fixed it in the rereleases.

By the way, I can't remember if you said you have Netflix right now or not, but if so, have you watched the High Score video game documentary series yet? I'm debating about writing a blog about it later.

KnightDriver

08/22/2020 at 08:45 AM

I haven't had any glitches on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions I've played. I actually got farther in de Blob the previous time I played it. I still like the game. I just got to get a handle on how de Blob jumps and moves across buildings.

I do and I just saw the preview for that series the other night. I would've clicked it, but I was watching with my girlfriend, and I didn't think she'd be interested. Now that you reminded me, later today I'm going to click it and watch a half-hour or so with my friend Mark and see what it's about.

Yes, do write a blog. I might do one too if I get into it.

SanAndreas

08/22/2020 at 08:00 PM

I used to play PC-Hack a lot, and I still play Nethack every once in awhile (despite the name, it's offline). The most random stuff happens in roguelikes. Sometimes it's good, sometimes not.

08/22/2020 at 09:54 PM

I kind of like these Rogue-lite games recently. You can die but keep some items to begin with again. Void Bastards was one of those.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

08/22/2020 at 11:06 PM

Streets of "What the hell do I do in this game?"

08/23/2020 at 09:25 AM

I certainly missed something, like the goal of the game. ha ha. It's like that sometimes, where I barely listen to the story and just basically mash buttons and try and wreck the place instead of paying attention and learning the game.

PixlBit