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Flood Day Gaming


On 09/02/2021 at 10:12 PM by KnightDriver

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Today the flooding shut down work so I played. I caught up with my general and Game Pass rewards quests, bought a new game, and dove back into Minecraft for a bit. 

Limbo: Game Pass rewards objective was to die 10 times. Easy, but I didn't try to die. I tried to survive. I gave up when I got to the spider. Not sure what I was supposed to do to get past that. 

Haven: I just had to boot it for the GS rewards but it wouldn't drop so I kept playing anyway because I needed three achievements for the general rewards. I'm starting to like this game a little bit. It's a pretty simple exploration game on an alien planet full of floating islands. What is it with floating islands? I can't think of one real place in the universe where physics would let this happen. I guess they're attractive to look at artistically. 

Twelve Minutes: It's viewed top-down as your character returns home and has to relive the next 10 minutes or more over and over again. Each time you try and figure out how to avoid getting hurt which resets the sequence to the beginning. It's also a murder mystery. Kind of interesting. I played to get a single achievement for a rewards quest and then stopped. Not my thing really but it was neat to see the situation change depending on what I did in the apartment each time. 

Solitaire TriPeaks Flowers: Bought this for $3 just to kill time while downloading games. It seems pretty good for a casual game. You play solitaire for completion, time and streaks (which are clearing cards of the same suit - I think). You can unlock wildcards to help you and other effects. There are daily challenges and possibly other features I haven't checked out yet. So far so good. 

Art of Rally: Cell-shaded rally car racing. Played for another rewards thing. Top-down view, or isometric maybe. The handling was a little bit more like a simulation, which means unforgiving, so I didn't take to it. 

Minecraft: I thought both I and my friend were done with this, but new methods have been devised and new successes achieved which finally make this more fun again for me. I've discovered what I like best about this is enchanting items and using them. I've found a relatively fast way to start adding magic effects to tools at the beginning hours of a session. In one game we played, I managed to get the loot effect on my sword and pickax (called something else I forget now for the pickaxe). This doubles resources gotten by both and makes things much easier. Other effects make your sword more powerful, the pickaxe more resistant to breaking and the bow more effective. There are many other effects and it's fun to mess around with them all. So, I'm still knocking around in this game whenever my friend has created another world for me to join. 

I am looking forward to Forza Horizon 5 out on the 9th though, and will definitely be playing that day one. I've got to finish Psychonauts 2 as well. I got a lot of progress done in that game last week but haven't finished it yet. 



 

Comments

Cary Woodham

09/03/2021 at 07:51 AM

I played Limbo a long time ago on Xbox 360 and I don't think I got very far either.

I'm playing a lot of Psychonauts 2 as well.  How far are you in the game?

I went to Dave & Busters a few days ago and thought of you because I saw a Minecraft Dungeons arcade game!  I didn't play it, but maybe I will next time I go back.  I did play some other new games, though, like a Hungry, Hungry Hippos machine that was so huge you had to sit on the back of the hippo to play it!  I also played a new Pong game where the paddles and balls were actually physical pieces and were moved around by magnets I reckon.  Also played Centipede Chaos, which I had been wanting to play for a while.  That one has mushroom stools you sit on to play!  And a new Rampage game based on the movie.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

09/03/2021 at 05:24 PM

Are you gonna write a blog about Psychonauts 2? I haven't tried it yet. 

Cary Woodham

09/04/2021 at 07:36 AM

I don't think I will write a blog about Psychonauts 2.  Lest I spoil it for anyone.

KnightDriver

09/07/2021 at 06:39 PM

I got farther the time I played it years ago. But it's not my type of game anyway. 

Well, last time I was fighting enemies in, I think, a hospital parking lot? It's been a few weeks now since I played it. Other things have gotten in the way of returning to it. I hope I can get back to it soon. 

I'd love to check out arcade games but my friend is not too mobile anymore. I found several new arcades in my area recently but it's hard to get him to go. A Minecraft Dungeons arcade game sounds fun. 

Matt Snee Staff Writer

09/03/2021 at 05:23 PM

i was worried about my Mid-Atlantic peeps. Seen some bad pictures. Funny though... stuff like that makes me miss Philly and New York. 

I haven't tried Psychonauts 2 yet.  In a perfect world, I'd go back and finish the first one. But there's just not enough time. 

Cary Woodham

09/04/2021 at 07:37 AM

I named the original Psychonauts my Game of the Year back in 2005, and seeing how much story you need to know for the sequel, I would say you should make time to play the first one.  HOWEVER, I do understand the difficulty of finding time to play ALL the games out there.  I'd love to play Monster Hunter Stories 2, but there's no way that's going to happen.

KnightDriver

09/07/2021 at 06:47 PM

The farther you get from Philly the worse the flooding got. Luckily I'm pretty close to Philly but just west of me, where I work, there was bad flooding. The water treatment plants shut down and people out there have to boil their water for a while. I'm glad I don't have to do that. I now have something new to think about in a crisis, unsafe water. Yikes!

I played maybe 2/3rds or so of Psychonauts. I even tried to replay it recently but didn't get very far. This new one plays much better. The action and fighting is pretty good and there's no BS platforming that stops me cold, never to return. However, Minecraft is keeping me from finishing Psychonauts 2 and Forza Horizon 5 is out this weekend. Ah! Rats, will I ever get back to it? "But time / keeps flowing like a river / to the sea." - Alan Parson's Project. 

 

SanAndreas

09/05/2021 at 01:18 AM

Man, that flooding sucks.  It seems like Hurricane Ida hit the Northeast as hard as it hit Louisiana and Mississippi. I hope you are safe, along with a certain gray-haired gamer in Mississippi. We even got a couple days' worth of rain from Ida here in Arizona. 

KnightDriver

09/07/2021 at 06:49 PM

Where I was wasn't too bad but areas around my work got hit pretty good. They have to boil their water for a while until the water treatment plants get running again - glad I don't have to do that. 

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