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 On 05/01/2021 at 10:58 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
On a lark, I chose a horse to win the Kentucky Derby today. I chose the one with the most humorous name to me, Soup and Sandwich. This horse was 26-1 but it challenged first place for the first half of the race. Then something happened and it quickly sank all the way to last place. That's $100 imaginary dollars down the drain. Gaming made up for it but, for real, I wasn't upset. It was really a very entertaining joke to me. "Go Soup and Sandwich. . . nope, dead last. Haha!".
The Outer Worlds: Downloaded it as a weekly Game Pass quest. Unfortunately, it gave me the points just for booting it. I've played it some before and it didn't take but this is a very cool game and I want to give it another shot, just not today.
Farm Together: Got another land. 13 to go.
Vala: Vicious Attack Llama: Reinstalled it to play co-op with my friend but it turns out to be hot-seat co-op. I haven't played a game that way since 2004.
Gnomes Garden: A New Home: Finished all the levels. It ended with a "to be continued" screen so I guess the next one will be number 6 in the series? That's a lot of nearly the exact same type of gameplay. Turns out I like this endless resource management challenge. Why ask for innovation or change, just give me more. I will be still going for the completionist achievements in this one though. I'll be trying to get three stars in all the levels I didn't get them, which is a lot this time. This fifth game is a bit tougher than the previous ones. I thought I said don't change anything.
Pinball FX3: I played more of Circus Voltaire trying to get high scores in various modes. I'm getting good at trapping and I try and trap almost every shot now. It seems to be the thing to do. It feels like cheating but it's how the pros play. It's still not easy.
Armello: This is a Game with Gold freebie this month. It's a turn-based RPG card/board game thing, the story being described as Game of Thrones with animals. It's super cool and I was hoping my friend and I would play some head-to-head but it turns out to be very complex and I wasn't up for that today. I may return to it sometime when I want to deal treacherous back-stabbing death to anthropomorphic animals hell-bent to murder me.
Lego Batman: Turns out this was a Game with Gold freebie this month, which is why it suddenly appeared in my library. No funny business from Microsoft hiding my purchases like I was worried about. It's lucky I didn't get it for $20 a few weeks back. Anyway, I was only going to play a few levels and ended up finishing the whole game. I think I'm going to replay on freeplay and try and get all the achievements.
This game infuriated me at times. Some levels are confusing in the way they lay out a puzzle to solve. Lots of head-scratching and even one viewed walkthrough had to be made. The platforming is occasionally sloppy as well. Your character easily falls off ledges, gets shoved off cliffs, and misses their target platform because of a lack of sense of depth obscuring the exact location of platforms. I swear the system changes my position slightly in mid-jump. But other than that it's pretty fun. There are a lot of DC characters, some of which I never knew about like Man-Bat and Mothman. I unlocked a lot of the data files to read up on the character's back story and facts about the DC Universe. I've even gotten my friend playing it too so we're sharing solutions to levels as we go. It's the next best thing to actual co-op gaming.
That's a day. Tomorrow's a nudder.
Someone should name a racing horse "Turbo Horse."
While Cirqus Voltaire is my favorite real life pinball game, my favorite video pinball game that plays like real pinball is Big Race USA. You should look that one up sometime.
Yeah the earlier LEGO games were pretty rough around the edges. They've gotten a little better over time. My friend described LEGO games once as "They're not good games, but they're fun games."
I would totally bet on Turbo Horse.
Mr. Turbo or just Turbo would be cool.
There's something appealing about hunting down all those minikits. I was also thinking about how the games, originally, had no dialog or even hardly any text anywhere in them. Everything is done symbolically like furniture build directions from Ikea. haha
The Outer Worlds is great. I got it on Switch. It actually runs better on Switch than people said it did.
I used to live a few miles from the Pimlico Racecourse in Baltimore, which is the home of the Preakness Stakes.
I played a few hours of it a while back. I forget why I didn't continue with it.
Now I'm thinking about all the triple crown races. Which ones are they again?
The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Bmore, and the Belmont Stakes on Long Island.
My mom watches both of days of coverage of all three Triple Crown races. She doesn't care about gambling or anything, but she really loves horses and likes to watch them and hear the trainers' stories.
I've eyed Outer Worlds. It seems interesting to me, and its always on sale.
I'd like to play a good horse racing game. Except for that 3DS one, whose name I forget at the moment. . . Pocket Card Jockey?, I haven't found another good one not on PC.
Lego Batman is quirky but it's the first of the fun Lego games so there's some pull your hair out moments. I got lucky on the one section where if you're playing single player you have to hop on a slide, I think grab some studs, switch to the other character and then grab the minikit that pops up.
What frustrated me was the opening stage in the garage during the free play. I couldn't figure out how to get into there without dying until I realized you can drive the car through the toxic waste. I think this was before I got the Toxic Waste character.
Interesting. There are some weird ways that a minikit appears. I haven't found that one yet.
I didn't even notice that garage area in my first playthrough. Then I ran through the toxic stuff with a toxic immune character and couldn't figure out how to get to the minikit. Duh. Just follow the symbols as a clue. It's like directions for building Ikea furniture. My friend had to tell me to get the cars though.
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