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 On 07/28/2017 at 10:36 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
Why is it that time flies so fast when you’re gaming? I get so annoyed by it. I start a game, and by the time I look at the clock, the day is almost done. It’s crazy. I just kind of wish games were a little more compact and focused without so much content. Some of the indie games I’ve played have been really satisfying completing them to 100% in under 20 hours. But I can’t resist the call. And when a game calls me, I have to listen. Today it was all about Lego Pirates of the Caribbean.
First though, Mark and I watched Pacific Rim again. This movie really does feel like that Starship Troopers movie out a while ago. It’s shlocky and cartoonish but a whole lot of fun. Charlie Day, as the hyper active Kaiju scientist, is my favorite character in it. Then there are all the giant robot/kaiju battles. If any movie was made for the biggest screen with the loudest sound system, it was this one. I saw it in the theaters years ago, and this time on a pretty average sized tv, but it was still good; though, not as great as in the theater. I can’t wait for the second one.
So Lego Pirates. I finished the story mode pretty quickly and then went back in on free play. I got through the third movie of four collecting as much as I could find and using all the characters I’ve been unlocking in the Port. I love how you can go back to this hub area and search for new characters like you were hiring sailors for a voyage. You just fight them until they allow you to purchase them. The most important one to get was Blackbeard because he has a unique ability that can unlock many new locations in the game. It took me a while to find him though. You have to change the port to night time and then hunt around where the pirates hang out.
Free play is actually not a grind but very fun. Using all your characters, you can open new areas and find new things. One time I found a new area of an island where I unearthed a giant crab that you can ride and use like it was a giant mech. I used it in the final battle for the chapter and beat it in record time. The crab-mech was actually a two seater and each player controlled a pincher. I’m not playing it co-op though, because it’s only same screen co-op. If it had online, Mark and I’d be playing it that way.
I’m still chugging through Fire Emblem Echoes too, when I can. I like the free running through dungeons between major battles. That’s a neat twist.
I’ve also been hitting Nintendo Hot Spots for Street Passes. McDonanlds, Barnes & Noble and Hilton Hotels are all Hot Spots, and there are a lot of them around me. I bought Mii Trek with some old money I had in the system. It’s pretty cool. You use your Mii’s steps to determine how far you can search on a map and find treasures and animals. I think I’m going to enjoy it.
Well, Saturday will likely be more Lego Pirates. I’ll see if I can finish all the achievements.
I dug Pacific Rim, but I don't consider it satirical like Starship Troopers. I think that's what makes Troopers so good is it's kind of sarcastic satire on military pictures but at the same time it is earnest as well. Such a unique movie. I thought Pacific Rim took itself more seriously. Good movie though.
I'll tell you though, fucking Dunkirk was loud as fuck.
I read Starship Troopers, the book, when I was in high school and didn't really pick up on the overblown militarism. I remember it as about a guy stuck in a system he wasn't all that sure about. But the patriotism of the movie seemed clearly satirical to me, but then I read that Heinlein was actually in favor of a kind of military state, so now I'm totally confused about it. Pacific Rim was clearly just what it was, a hero flick. Totally like anime. Mark was pointing out to me all the anime references like what shows the robot designs came from.
Dunkirk on IMAX has me interested.
i definitely recommend DUnkirk in Imax.
YEah, Heinlein was a complicated dude. THe book is obviously less satirical, but I appreciate the movie as its own thing.
I need to read the book again because of all the scifi I read in high school, there's one part of Starship Troopers that's still very clear in my mind. There's a moment where one of the troopers is jetpacking over a village shooting at bugs and thinking about everything he's doing in his life. I maybe projecting my own thoughts onto it, and making it into something it wasn't. That's why I want to go read it again.
I don't remember that part, but it's been a long time since I read it too. It's funny though how certain scenes in books and movies just stick with you. I started reading MAnn's Magic Mountain one, and haven't finished it, but I always think about this part where the hero is thinking about when he was a boy and he watched his uncle shave. For some reason, that scene was so tactile it just has stuck in my head ever since.
Yea, it must be scenes related to real memories or something. For me and Starship Troopers, I think I felt disassociated from my life in high school and that's sort what that moment was about in the book.
Yeah I think most games today are way too overbloated. By the time you turn on the game console, sit through tons of company logos and loading screens, it's already been five minutes! No wonder why I can't beat as many games as I used to!
I called Pacific Rim "Anime: The Movie." It was really good, though. You just have to turn off your intelligence to watch it. But that's OK. I like how the computer voice in that movie was the same voice as GlaDOS. I don't have a favorite character from Pacific Rim so you'll have to pick one out for me.
If you like that LEGO Pirates game, I recommend trying LEGO Jurassic World, LEGO City: Undercover, or LEGO Dimensions. The Force Awakens LEGO game was good, too. I think those I listed are probably my favorites.
Mii Trek was probaby one of my least favoirte of the last batch of StreetPass games. I think the one I liked the best was Feed Mii. I haven't done a lot of 3DS StreetPass stuff lately, though. Are you going to get Miitopia?
Yea, I really noticed GlaDOS this time in Pacific Rim. She's like the robot's AI or something.
Oh man, more Lego games. I'm going to need a long break after this one. But yes, I was thinking about Force Awakens while playing Pirates and how a lot of people liked that one. Maybe that will be the next one I play.
I have Feed Mii, which I like too. I probably won't get Miitopia because I'm on a buying hold right now. I used the $2.99 for Mii Trek from money I put on my system probably a year ago.
I just finished beating Mortal Kombat XL with all characters in Arcade mode, not all of them oday (probably around 5 left when I started), and yeah; games need to stop being a time suck. Then I got Yakuza 0 from Gamefly, and I think I'll end my subscription once August 5th rolls around. Well, 4th cause Friday.
Pacific Rim was fun. I saw it once in theaters, and was upset by some obnoxious teens behind me. The gold-obsessed Ron Perlman character was my favorite.
I want to play some of those fighting games for the story they've been putting in them recently.
I was afraid for him when he was standing in front of the baby Kaiju. I knew what was about to happen.
Injustice has an ok comic book story, but MK is maybe even cheesier than the '95 movie tbh.
Pacific Rim. I like that movie because for me it's so bad it's good. I thought it was cheesy but a lot of fun, a good popcorn movie.
Blackbeard, was he the only character that could open up the black block sections? I remember one of the characters having that ability.
I thought so too. Just big dumb fun. I can't wait for PR2.
Yea, he was the only one with the power to unlock red/black objects. He cost like 20,000 to unlock too, which, at the beginning of the game, was a lot.
Yup thank goodness for the multipliers because saving 20k would take forever in Lego games.
Yea, once I started to get multipliers the studs went through the roof. I think I ended up in the billions.
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