Month: May 2018

Well, you can pencil these in the soon column.  According to Rockstar Games and confirmed by Major Nelson, these three will be BC next week.   I own GTA San Andreas and spent a good amount of time with it.  But much like every freaking GTA game on the planet, I get stuck on one mission and then go off and play something else.  Maybe this will convince me to give it another go.  Ehhhh, maybe.  I’m still hoping for a Vice City remake on Xbox, that’s what I keep wishing for.   But good news either way, and a nice way to end the month.  Enjoy kiddoes.

Finally, it only took them all day, but here we are.  Anyway, I didn’t really do much last week.  Played some more Dig Dug (yeah I know), and I am getting closer to finishing Poker Night 2.  It was an off week for me, but that’s okay…I’ve exceeded what I wanted to do this month by far.  I feel like starting an RPG of some sort since I’m not getting very far on Romancing Saga or Y’s (sad to say).  But it is what it is I guess then.  Enjoy the sales, even though they are few and far between.

Now, that’s a lot better.  Three games in one nice bite.  Unless there is a Saints Row game I’ve never heard of, all of them are now BC.  I would expect Gat out of Hell to be a future GWG, just not this month if you catch my drift.  Also, if I remember correctly, I might have a copy of that game in my closet somewhere (another of those, bought and never played *sigh*).  Turbos looks like it might be fun as well, one of those rare 360 digital only 1,000 achievement pointer games.  So all in all, a very good selection.  Enjoy.

• Saints Row $9.99 (available also on disc)
  • Free DLC: Exclusive Unkut Pack
  • Free DLC: The Ho Ho Ho Pack
• Saints Row: Gat out of Hell $14.99 (available also on disc)
• Toybox Turbos $9.99

Looks like the new Games with Gold are being announced today.   This is pretty ugly stuff, for the second month in a row we could argue the 360 is getting the better releases.  I have no idea what they are doing offering Free DLC for a game that is Free in the GWG selection.  Not a good look.  I’m only really happy about Lego Indiana Jones 2 which I never would have bought, but I will gladly play for free.  Also, I haven’t seen any official sales yet for the 360 this week, so hopefully I will be able to post that later.  Enjoy…something…I’m not sure.

Xbox One

• Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia (June 1st-30th)
• Smite: Gold Bundle (June 16th – July 15th)

Xbox 360

• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (June 1st-15th)
• Lego Indiana Jones 2 (June 16th-30th)

Apparently, a lot of people really like this game.  This also looks to be added to the EA Access Game Vault, so that’s a good thing as well.  It’s crazy though that at the beginning of this, they would announce 3,4, even 6 in one day for XBLA games.  Now one makes news.  Which does beg the question, when am I getting Outpost Kaloki X or any game from the Worms series?  I’ll keep hoping I guess.  Enjoy.

• Battlefield 1943 $9.99

So I did actually finish Gone Home.  The speedrun for the diaries went pretty darn well as I got it on my second try thanks to doing some good notes on my own.  The guides never point to what’s going on in your own head, but my notes did.  In a weird moment, I decided to play the Xbox One version of Dig Dug and got 16/20 achievements.  It’s probably the four you are thinking of that I missed.  I might get one or two more, but most likely will not 100% it because of that stupid dig achievement (the one where you have to dig everywhere on one stage).  Its the same achievement that kept me from 100% the 360 version of Dig Dug.  There I go, spending a paragraph talking about a 35 year old game.  Moving on.

We do have some sales this week. It is a combination of “Often on Sale” and “Occasionally on Sale”.  So some of you might find something in this list that you accidentally missed one other time or not.  I’m kinda cruising this week game wise and kicking back and watching a couple of movies with my night time instead.  Right now, I’m watching Cloud Atlas.    Hopefully it comes together in the last hour because right now it’s flipping extremely fast through the various stories that make it up.  Anyway, enjoy kids.

I honestly thought this one would be a nightmare due to the licensing issues that had to be involved.  But I guess not and this is one that a lot of people have been asking for and that goes beyond boxing fans.  I’ve played quite a few boxing games in my life and the last one I remember was Foes of Ali from the 3do days.  Of course, it’s changed a ton since then and I’m sure this one is way more complex than I care to mess with but I’m glad about its inclusion.  Maybe there is hope for NCAA Football 14 yet.  Anyway, a couple of notes.  There are 3 discontinued achievements in this game in relation to the Rivals Gym as that was discontinued.  Also, there are two pieces of DLC that are accessed within the game itself.  I don’t have the game, but I believe they are free, just have to be downloaded separately.  Enjoy.

• Fight Night Champion $19.99 (retail disc also available)

Welp, after playing a few odds and ends over the past week, I settled into a new game which will probably be completed by the weekend.   Gone Home, now now…don’t leave me just yet.  I needed something easy this week honestly, and that seemed like the perfect one to jump into.  And since it was a past GWG, it didn’t cost me anything.  I’ve got two achievements left at this point.  The speed run achievement to get all of the journals in 10 minutes and the developer’s commentary.  I already did the first run of the journals to get an idea of where everything was last night (took me an hour to map and jot everything down), and I think I’m ready tonight to go for it (in 1 or 2 tries).

Anyway, we got some sales.  On the 360 side, it’s unfortunately a case of same ole, same ole.  It’s funny that DMC 4 and Trilogy went on sale this week because I decided to go ahead and try to sell my hard copies.  I just find myself mostly playing RPG’s and Point and Clicks/Choose Your Own Story and the occasional Strategy.  Man, I’m getting old.  Enjoy kids.

Interesting choice I do say.  I own this one as well, and did spend a lot of time on it back in the day.  Problem is 1) I haven’t touched it in years and 2)They turned off the servers for it much like they did with Paradise.  So I am glad it got to backwards compatibility but I have a feeling a lot of people are going to get all excited, play it for about an hour or two and then ignore it again.  It’s an excellent game (and I wish Paradise was really Revenge II if you catch my drift)…it’s just turn on the servers for 6 months or something, come on.  But Revenge is currently on sale so this makes for a Tekken Tag Team 2 special.  Enjoy kids.

• Burnout Revenge $9.99 (also available on disc)
  • Free DLC-Yellowcard Car
  • Free DLC-Alienware Car
  • Free DLC-Xbox Live Car
  • Free DLC-Spike TV Car
  • Free DLC-Plantronics Car
  • Free DLC-Monster Car
  • Free DLC-Dolby Car

Welp, this weekend I kept down the path of cleaning up a couple of old games in Phantom Breaker: Battlegrounds and Burnout Paradise (360).  In Paradise, I got enough for the Burnout License (the one before elite) and actually found all of the events.  I then promptly uninstalled the game.  Why you ask?  Because I took an honest look at the rest of the achievements and realized it wasn’t going to happen.  The only one that had a chance was the smashes one, I’m at 382/400.  But combing the city to find the 18?  Doesn’t sound like a good use of time.  I also used to rage quit at racing games.  Some of these races were taking 2 and 3 times if not more and I could feel it bubbling to the surface again.  I’m not single, I care about my family, so I did the sensible thing and uninstalled.

Meanwhile, Phantom Breaker I did get my character up to max level which left me with the Perfect Fall achievement (which I have attempted at least 30 times) and the one where I go through all of the stages with Furui.  I know I can get the latter achievement, so I left it on my Xbox for now.  There will be some night in the future where I can spend a couple of hours gunning for that.  In the meantime, I’ll look for a new game to play.  Anyway, enough about that we have a few sales, well we have some Assassin’s Creed games.    I wish there was more on sale, but we’ll have to take what we can get.  Hopefully we’ll get a couple of really good BC games released this week (like last week).  Enjoy kids.