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Good morning Pixlpeeps! I hope your weekend was excellent and you are ready to tackle this week. There really hasn’t been a lot of game playing this past weekend because I decided to clean up/organize my video game/sneaker closet. I placed all the games I played and beaten back in their cases and left the games that I want to play. I spent a good couple of hours hunting for game cases and placing the games back in their homes and this was just for the PS3 and 360 games. The finished PS4 games I had this system already in place so it wasn’t much trouble.

During this organizing binge, I found more of my old PC games and I figured why not add them to my library on my laptop. Who doesn’t want to play random games I found at Target for a couple of bucks years ago? Well when I went to install a couple of these games it turns out Windows 10 doesn’t play nice and it is a pain to get some of these dang games installed. I quit after trying my best to get Mercenaries to install. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Nexus and Mass Effect 2 had little trouble but then in my whole grand scheme to have my games live on my laptop I realized I needed the disc to run these games. Having a laptop with no optical drive means I would have to have my external dangling on the side when I want to play these games while sitting on the couch. This is no bueno so I might have to do some come work arounds to get this going. Earlier in the week however I did get some play time in.

NBA 2K15 – PS4: I have 20 games left in the regular season and my starting PG goes down with a season ending injury. If you’re keeping track at home I now have lost two PG’s, along with earlier in the year a SG, and SF to injury. I had to play a game with a lighter roster because of this and barely squeaked out a win.  I took a page from this past season and moved one of my SF to PG just like the real Milwaukee Bucks. It works out well except he gets burned by smaller faster PG’s.

NCAA Football 14 – PS3: The Central Michigan Chippewas are in the National Title Game against North Carolina. I’m debating on moving the Chipps out of the MAC because the competition just isn’t there especially if they gave up at most 14 points to a conference rival…or I can keep beating down the rest of the MAC. I’ll decide after the game.

Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault – PS3:

I bought this game awhile back because it comes with a Vita game but I haven’t tried out that game. I saw this while sorting through the games I want to play and decided to give it a spin. I played through the first level and the game isn’t bad and I spent my time roaming around the world defending a base while collecting scrap metal, which I’m assuming is what you do in a R&C game. The last one I played was on the PSP and I couldn’t get past a section because of the faulty nub.

Rocket League – Steam: I finished the season mode with my Outlaws team. RL is the first game in my Steam library that lives in the Games Finished and Currently Playing playlists. It’ll be one of the games I go back to from time to time just to mess around with. I really don’t like the basketball add-on. I find it more frustrating than fun.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – Steam: I started a new game even though I already beat it on the PSP and I own a copy of the PS3 (I added this copy to the games closet. I don’t care about trophies) I played the first level and quickly realized that there is a frames per second cap on the game which sucks because one of the main reasons to play it on the PC was to get the swanky 60 fps. I don’t want to do the work around because I don’t want to go through the hassle if something messes up I have to re-download the game.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – Steam: I also started a game of KOTOR because I lost my original file when my first X-Box decided to not work anymore (thanks crappy CD drive). I’m about 20 minutes in with my character Kenny Loggins, or K-Log. I’ll let you know how that goes.

Forza 6 Beta – PC:

 

I tried the Forza Beta and quickly realized that it doesn’t recognize my controller. Talk about a pain. I debated on buying a wired XB1 controller but do I really want to spend $30? I actually think this isn’t a bad investment considering a lot of games I play on the PC I do use a controller and it would be nice to have buttons on screen match the buttons on the controller. Anyways I’ll re-download this once the bug is fixed. Also is there a way I can change the download location of Windows apps? I don’t want games sitting on my OS drive, and I want them to live on my media drive.

A couple of mobile games

Miitomo – iOS: I haven’t played around with this in a couple of days but I went back on and I changed up my character and took a Snapchat like picture

 

I still have the ninja sword because c’mon it’s a ninja sword.

 

The final game I’ve been playing is a puzzle game/commercial for Sony’s latest blockbuster title

 This is where a screen of Uncharted Fortune Hunter would go but Photobucket is not playing nice

This game is nothing like the Uncharted games. The art style is more Disney Infinity than Uncharted but this ¾ angle works with this puzzle game.

 

There are 30 puzzles per map in this game and the goal is to complete the puzzle within a certain amount of moves to unlock a key and some gold coins. The purpose of the keys is that every couple of hours Sully will drop off a loot create (not the fun ones with shirts and toys) that has items you can use in the actual Uncharted Multiplayer game.

 

All you do is sign into your PSN account and everything gets synced. Also there are certain levels where you can collect treasure for more hard to find multiplayer items.

 

I believe each map has 8 pieces of treasure.

Uncharted Fortune Hunter is a fun puzzle game that isn’t a freemium game. You can replay each puzzle as many times as you’d like to earn a key. The majority of puzzles can be completed in one playthrough but there have been a good half dozen that I have needed to replay a couple of times to figure out the solution within the allowed moves. If you like puzzle games and are on iOS or Android give this game a try.

 

Alright Pixlpeeps, I am off, while finishing typing this blog entry I finished copying my copy of Kiss’ self titled album to my PC and now I have to cut down the tracks to send to my iTunes. Adding vinyl to iTunes is actually painless. Have a good week.

EDIT: I just realized the record I just ripped I already have a CD copy in my iTunes Library (more on my adding vinyl to iTunes rules on Friday). Ugh.

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris