Culdcept Revolt, Fallout Shelter, Forza Horizon 2

On 09/30/2017 at 10:25 PM by KnightDriver

First thing I did today was trade in Hey! Pikmin and put the money towards Culdcept Revolt coming on the 3rd. Then I played Fallout Shelter while Forza Horizon 2 installed and then nothing but FH2 the rest of the day.

Culdcept Revolt for 3DS looks to be more of the same gameplay of the other games in the series: Culdcept (PS2), Culdcept Saga (originally called Culdcept II for PS2 in Japan before it was touched up for Xbox 360 in America), and Culdcept Online for PC, which I didn't play. It's a fantasy card game and a board game, and Mark and I really got into it on Xbox 360. We still joke about the card named Aspidochelone, a whale, because it sounds funny. I love the card art in the game (sort of like those Boris Vallejo fantasy/scif book covers), and the gameplay is really fun. I'm sort of disappointed there isn't any street pass content for it, but you can play online. I probably won't do that though. There is a single player story mode in the game, and I'll be playing that. I'm excited. It's been ten years since Saga.

Fallout Shelter finally let me play it. It wasn't signing me in for a while, but today it worked. This is like the base building part of the XCom games. You build rooms underground to provide supplies for people who come to your vault door. I was getting into it, but when Forza was ready, I had to go do that. I'll use Fallout Shelter as a break from other games.

Forza Horizon 2 is everything FH1 was and more. It's set up very similarly but the world is bigger and you can cut through fields all over the map. And the multiplayer is blended in with the single player so seemlessly, you sometimes forget what mode you're in. Multiplayer races show up on the map and you can join in right away. Then it's all real players. I did that several times and played until I got beat up so much, I wanted to go back to single player. Mark was also playing at the same time, and we challenged each other to constantly. The location isn't Colorado but France. There's just a huge fleet of cars available, but I stuck to classic American Muscle cars this time. You can stay in your favorite car and do all the main championship races to advance the story. Unlike the first game which made you change cars almost constantly. I could probably go very long on all the adjustments they made in this game, but I'll try and stop now. I'll be playing this a while, and there'll be other blogs to cover other details.

That's a day. Probably more FH2 tomorrow. We'll see.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

10/02/2017 at 05:40 PM

I like the word "Culdcept" but not really my type of game.

I'm gonna buy the new Gran Turismo I think. THe new Project Cars got good reviews, but Gran Turismo will have VR support.

KnightDriver

10/02/2017 at 08:14 PM

Culdcept is a really weird word. I had to spell it for the Gamestop employee, it was so foreign to him. I don't think it's an actual word.

I got a sense of what VR might be like switching to cockpit view in Forza. I was worried the stuff I learned in the game would carry over into my real life driving. So far, not.

10/03/2017 at 09:56 AM

ha ha, I worry about that with racing games too.

10/03/2017 at 08:19 PM

I still won't play Carmageddon for that reason.

goaztecs

10/03/2017 at 11:53 AM

Hey Fallout Shelter. Eventually I will give it a try. I liked the Star Wars version but didn't get deep into it. Since I need catching up on what's going on here I'm assuming you finished Hey Pikmin, but I'll find out as I go through my backlog of blogs.

10/03/2017 at 08:10 PM

Oh yea, the Star Wars one. I want to play that. Fat chance it comes to consoles though.

I didn't finish Hey! Pikmin. I wanted to but I got caught up in the Etrian Odyssey V demo and the I had the chance to trade it for Culdcept Revolt and went for it. One day, when I have some cash, I'll get it again and finish it. I liked it, just not as much as games like Etrian Odyssey or Culdcept.

PixlBit