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Game Chores


On 05/14/2021 at 10:06 PM by KnightDriver

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I call my chasing rewards points "game chores". I usually start with them. Today I had three achievements to get for weekly/daily rewards points and two weekly Game Pass quest games to play. I got to one of them. 

Farm Together: I now have 10 lands to buy for that last achievement. The end is in sight. 

Gnomes Garden: A New Home: I played a level late in the game really attentively and didn't add a single star to my 1-star score. It was clear to me I will not get all the levels to 3 stars without a lot of effort and time. So I decided to end it and move on. I think I might reinstall one of their previous games, or a new one I have on my wish list, and see what I can do with that. I feel like this game is a little tougher than the previous ones but I'd like to test that idea by playing an earlier one. 

Pinball FX3: Star Wars: Han Solo table: This is one of the arcade, made for digital, tables (not a real one). I'm looking at achievements now and going for the next one on the list which asks me to level up an upgrade to level 10. I'm pretty close but I didn't get it on this particular table this time. 

Lego Batman: Here's where I got the 3 achievements I needed by playing the first villain episode on free play. I got all the red bricks and superhero scores but not all the minikits. I got my achievements by doing miscellaneous things along the way like killing mind-controlled foes with Mad Hatter, power-throwing cops with Bane, and blowing them up with Penguin's exploding penguins. I unlocked 2x score, bought it for a million studs (all I had), and turned it on. I have two more villain episodes to play in free-play before I decide whether I'm going for 100% completion. I'll decide based on how much time I think it will take and how fun it will be. I don't relish watching a lot of walkthroughs for those last minikits. Tedium is not fun. 

West of Dead:  One of my weekly Game Pass quest games. I've played it before for the same reason. This time I cleared the first area before I got killed by a larger, demonic foe. This is an interestting rogue-like. It's set in the old west. You have a flaming skull for a head like Ghostrider. You battle in isometric view in real time using guns and dynamite. I'm not sure who I'm fighting in what looks like mine tunnels but they seem to be undead and some demons. I like it in small doses like part of these Game Pass quests. I'm not a fan of repetition in games. 

I'm transferring Borderlands 3 to my internal hard drive to play later on. There are a bunch of new raid boss missions and some sort of month-long event I might want to check out. Maybe the DLC I bought a few weeks ago will finally work and I can play the tiny bit of story content that was added. I'm not big on raid boss fights. I find them tedious and repetitive. Two of my least favorite words. 

I also moved Bomber Squad to my internal to add to my casual game rotation, although it's not exactly casual. I got the DLC for this game a while back but haven't played it yet. 

Well, that was a half day. Whole day tomorrow I hope. 

 



 

Comments

Matt Snee Staff Writer

05/15/2021 at 07:32 PM

Ah, game chores, I'm famiiar with those. Like cleaning out your inventory. Or finding your way out of a dungeon whose boss you just defeated. Laughing

KnightDriver

05/15/2021 at 10:22 PM

It's like, I have these games with just a tiny bit left to do in them but the task is time-consuming. I do a little bit every week and it feels like a chore but a kind of fun chore. 

Cary Woodham

05/16/2021 at 08:45 AM

I didn't know the Han Solo table was from the arcade.  Was there an arcade Han Solo table?

KnightDriver

05/16/2021 at 10:28 PM

I guess what I meant was it was arcade-style and not a real table or not a simulation of a real table. There is a real Star War pinball table, though, isn't there? There has to be. 

Cary Woodham

05/19/2021 at 08:07 AM

Oh yeah there's lots of real Star Wars pinball tables.  Data East made one of the early ones, SEGA did some, and I know there are others.

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