Shopping for Myself, Back to the Future and Mass Effect Andromeda

On 12/24/2017 at 10:21 PM by KnightDriver

I got caught up in the Xmas buying spirit today and went around looking for deals on games. Then I played another chapter in Back to the Future The Game and a couple hours of Mass Effect Andromeda.

First I went all over the place and found few really good sales. Gamestop was having a buy 2 get 1 free sale, and I needed a couple titles for my retro game days, so I renewed my membership and got Atari Flashback Classics Vol. 1 and 2, Torment Tides of Numenera, and Mass Effect Andromeda. That's four because I had to go to another store for Vol. 1 of that Atari collection. I almost got Valkyria Chronicles and Bloodborne for PS4 as well on that deal but for some reason my membership discount wasn't available yet because, i guess, internet was slow today. So I just got the one game. I also went to my retro store and picked up Namco Museum for original Xbox, for a title I'm going to play in January celebrating 1979.

Back at the ranch, I finished chapter 2 of Back to the Future The Game. I'm beginning to really like the story and the gameplay isn't bothering me as much as it did before. Once I used the hint system to push me along. Sometimes the solutions are a little bit obscure, but not very often.

Then I started Mass Effect Andromeda. Stunning looking game and pretty linear in the first few hours, but I'm sure, now that I've arrived at the Nexus space station, I'll be able to do more varied things now. I left off in a converstaion with a female Krogan.

Darn, I just remembered I forgot to upload my screenshots to Onedrive. I've been meaning to go more visual in these blogs. I just have to remember to stop gaming for a minute or two at the end and upload. Kind of hard to do when you are playing such an epic game like Mass Effect.

That's a Christmas Eve. Happy holidays to all here at Pixlbit.

Super Step Contributing Writer

12/26/2017 at 11:42 AM

Mass effect andromeda looked cool when I rented it, but I got tired of talking to people.

KnightDriver

12/26/2017 at 11:25 PM

So far it's been all action, but that was just the first few hours. I'm about to get to the chatty parts.

Ranger1

12/26/2017 at 01:17 PM

I really need to hook my 360 back up and play Mass Effect.

12/26/2017 at 11:04 PM

Mine is hooked up at home, home but it just collects dust. I do so much gaming at my friend Mark's place, that there's no time for anything else. I keep thinking of ways to bring the old consoles over there though, but there's not enough room.

Halochief90

12/26/2017 at 11:14 PM

I hope you like Atari Flashback Classics more than I did. 100 games on each and I played all of them for less than 10 hours, I think.

I recently picked up the entire Mass Effect trilogy for about $30. Hoping I enjoy them a lot. I love sci-fi, but western RPGs historically haven't been my thing and that includes older Bioware games like Knights of the Old Republic.

12/26/2017 at 11:24 PM

I played the Flashback games when they came out and then traded them. Now I wanted them back just to revisit some old titles. There are some gameplay issues with the ones that used paddles, as always, but I had to have them again for just a dash of nostalgia from time to time.

I haven't really taken to western RPGs either. I keep trying them though. Mass Effect trilogy is great though.

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