Month: March 2019

I assumed this was coming, I just needed to wait a few hours.  Not much to be said on this one outside of the fact that this does have a discontinued achievement so people should not be grabbing this in April expecting to 100% it.  Since it will be digitally free in a few weeks, I can’t really recommend the disc either unless you already own it.  So enjoy :)!

• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 $19.99 (Free on April 16th!) (Also available on disc)
  • DLC w/Achievements: GRAW 2 CO-OP Collection $4.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: GRAW 2 CO-OP Collection 2 $4.99

Looks like the new Games with Gold were announced this morning. Well I can say the Xbox One side is certainly interesting.  I’ve had Technomancer (the unofficial sequel to Mars: War Logs) at home for a while now and never started it.  It’s a tough game, or so I’ve heard but its a really good freebie and if you are willing to stick with it, it should provide many hours of fun.  I’ve heard good things about Outcast too.  On the 360 side, here we go with the XBO Star Wars games again.  But the more interesting one is Ghost Recon AW2 which is not backwards compatible just yet.  I assume that will be announced later today.  Enjoy.

Xbox One

• Technomancer (April 1st-30th)
• Outcast – Second Contact (April 16th – May 15th)

Xbox 360

• Star Wars Battlefront II (XBO) (April 1st-15th)
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (April 16th-30th)

Well, I have been playing Road Redemption quite a bit now since the patch came out.  The patch helps a lot.  My accumulation achievements seem to be working again and certain aspects such as how the game handles guns have been greatly improved.  I’ve made it to the last stage a couple of times now since the patch came out and I don’t think that’s coincidence either.  Also, I spent part of Friday and Saturday playing World Heroes 2 (Neo-Geo port).  An easy completion, though I would be a liar if I didn’t say it had some frustrating moments (especially on Friday night).

So, we got some sales.   It is mostly of the Batman/Lego Batman variety and then a little Oblivion thrown in as well but nothing earth shattering.  The first two Lego Batman’s are still two of the best Lego games ever made.  (only ones I’ve seen that come close are the Lego Harry Potters and possibly Lego LOTR)  and I can’t say enough good things about Arkham Asylum.  But don’t most people have it by now?  Anyway, there are your sales and may we get another random game for BC later this week (we should have GWG too).  Enjoy.

Well this might be two games that almost nobody asked for.   AirMech Arena is actually a free game but unless you really like real time strategy games, this is going to be a bear to play.  Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway is a first person shooter by UBISoft that was just trying to get some FPS fans to buy it because they were bored with Call of Duty and the other games they were trying to emulate. I would say enjoy these two games but you probably won’t.  So just enjoy your weekend instead.

• AirMech Arena FREE
• Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway $19.99 (disc copies also available)

Welp, I finished Danger Zone.  Went through all four tiers and got my ten platinums.  Without trying, I had six platinums with regular play, and then I had an excruciating Saturday night where I got 3 and couldn’t get my fourth.  So naturally, I woke up Sunday morning and got the last one in about ten minutes.  Why I stay up when I’m obviously tired is never a thing I seem to figure out.  As to what’s next, I might play some Road Redemption (recently received a patch which was supposed to fix the achievements).  We’ll see.

We do have some very deep discounts this week. Basically if you didn’t have the base game or DLC for Deus Ex, Kane & Lynch 2, Sleeping Dogs, Thief or some of the Tomb Raider games, here is your chance to get it as cheap as humanly possible (without giving it away).  I think I have everything for Sleeping Dogs (and also the X1 remastered disc) but I’ll double check on Deus Ex for sure.  Maybe Thief will go BC this week with the way they are pricing everything.  Most likely it will just be a random game or two.  Enjoy (after the –More–).

Continue reading “BC Deals with Gold for the Week of March 19th, 2019” →

Well, I believe that was the last Castlevania game that had not made the backwards compatibility list. In fact, I’m struggling at all to think of a Konami game at all that is not BC.  Perhaps Track & Field or something utterly out there (like Lucha Libre AAA) but that’s about it.  But that’s how it is these days, the # of games that are not BC are down to really random titles for the most part.  Here is hoping that the next random title is Gun or the Two Worlds’ games.  Enjoy.

• Castlevania: Harmony of Despair $14.99

Well, I finally finished Lego Batman 2.  I had not played on Monday and Tuesday and it was actually one of my better ideas since it changed the way I was looking at a couple of the puzzles (and then easily solved them) and I finished the game last Friday.  By far the hardest part was probably the mini-kits on Level 13.  Lego games do not allow for precise shooting and that level requires it.  So it took about 10 tries before I finished the level.

So, I have started a new game in Danger Zone.  I needed something where I could really turn off my brain and in this case, crash cars.  I finished Tier 2 last night and while the game has its share of problems, I’m enjoying the experience.  I already have over half the achievements, (8/13) and could see myself getting all of them.

Anyway, we have plenty of sales this week.  There are two very interesting ones (that are also backwards compatible) you don’t tend to see on this list.  Cars: Mater-National and Toy Story 3.   I’m particularly interested in the Cars game even though I know its not very good.  1)My son loves the Cars series (he has watched each movie about a dozen times), 2)It’s apparently very easy achievements, and 3)It shouldn’t take long, most people estimate it takes under 10 hours to finish.  But of course, I tried to get him interested in Lego Batman 2 too and that didn’t go so well.  We’ll see I guess.  Enjoy your week and hit the -More- for the titles on sale.

Continue reading “BC Deals with Gold for the Week of March 12th, 2019” →

Sorry, I did not post this late last week.  In my defense, the Major doesn’t usually post news like this on Friday night. Furthermore, this game is currently free on Xbox Live for everyone. A word of caution (though it might be fixed now), the Xbox.com link might not give it to you for free, but if you buy it on your machine, it should work out for free just fine.  Just be sure it says as such.  But this is great news, and a worthwhile freebie.  Enjoy!!

• Crackdown 2 (Currently FREE, normally $19.99) (Also available on disc)

Reminder, the first Crackdown is also still free if you have yet to grab it.

Lego Batman 2 has slowed considerably.  I have finished the first ten levels as far as mini-kits go but I maybe foolishly started counting up what I had left and I’m missing one or two things so that got me all paranoid thinking there is a glitch or something.  I’m about 93-94% complete, and it looks like when its said and done I’ll be right around the 99% area.  So, as a result I didn’t play last night at all (watched a movie and went to sleep) and I’m not exactly jumping up to get back into it as it were.  We’ll see, maybe that will change and I will be 100% by the time you listen to me next week.

Here are the sales we have for this week. Nice to see the Kingdoms of Amalur DLC on sale though I think 50% off would be a smarter option. The rest is mostly rehash unless you really have been waiting for Meet the Robinsons. Hopefully we will get another couple of BC Games this week, that always brightens the mood.  Enjoy!