Scalebound Canceled

This royally sucks. Scalebound has been officially canceled.

http://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-exclusive-scalebound-has-been-canceled

Since the launch of the Xbox One, this is the one game I've wanted to buy since day one. It will never happen now. Such a sad day.

Tribes

I loved playing Tribes back in the day.  Right now Hi Rez has every Tribes came up for free.  Get them while you can.

http://www.tribesuniverse.com/

Tap Titans

I picked this game up a few weeks ago on my Android phone.  I usually don't use my phone for games but I've been trying to find one for when I have a min just to pass the time.  Low and behold, I found Tap Titans. 

I wasn't expecting to get into this game but it sucks you in.  It's just a simple tap the screen game.  That's all you do when you first start.  The game doesn't give you any help and you will have to learn things as you go.

It doesn't take long that you'll see the money dropped will let you upgrade your attack.  Then you'll see a new pop up after earning enough to buy your first helper.  After a little more upgrading you'll see you keep getting more helpers to help you kill Titans.  Following that you will see you can unlock skills the higher your level goes so you unlock that and you have to minimize the menu to see your ability to use them.  They have a timer after you use them until you can use them again.  Finally you'll realize you can also upgrade your helpers which each one unlocks their own abilities.

As you can see, a lot happens in the first few minutes of the game.  It's simple but it adds depth the more you play.

Fast forwarding to level 600, yes level 600, you will get the ability to prestige.  Once you prestige you unlock even more things to do.  Artifacts become available to help you, you'll figure out you can click on your character in the menu where items can be purchased for your hero.  Which you also unlockout items depending on what you do in the game and you'll unlock the tournament mode.  Which to me will drive you to play it more within one day than you would normally do.  Then you'll figure out that your helpers can get weapons to help them. 

They do add items to help you.  A fairy comes out every so often and drops a chest with a random perk to help you.  Some of these involve watching ads to get the perk.  Some are long (50 secs) to short (10 secs) ones.  It's worth the reward but you can skip them. 

They have a daily challenge to beat a boss which gives you a better reward each day.

They also have achievements which will give you diamonds by accomplishing things in the game.  Some examples are how many times you've tapped, your highest stage, how many times you've prestiged, etc...

Mentioning prestige, don't be afraid to do it.  It resets everything back to 0 and you start on stage 1 again.  However you do keep your unlocked perks so you do get stronger.  Another good reason is that's when you get artifacts.  The only other time it's when you hit stage 80 and you get 1 every 10 stages.  You get a lot more when you prestige.  You also have to prestige when you join a tournament.  Overall the main reason you don't need to worry about dropping back to the beginning is that it takes you way less time to get right back where you were.  It really does fly by when you can kill the early stage Titans in 1 hit.

The last thing I'll bring up is the friend icon at the top.  When you go in you will see your friend code at the bottom.  If you
have a friend that starts playing, get their code or have them add yours.  When they are your friend, you can invite them into a party to chat but it also puts their character on your screen.  Whenever they are tapping it also taps on your screen.  So you can get help on taking down Titans.  I've only had 2 on my screen at once and they do damage to the amount your hero does.  Its still cool and helpful.  I'm up for adding more people, so if you want to add me, my friend code is zoly40v.

Overall, this simple tapping game grows into more than just typing and they did an excellent job on this game.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamehivecorp.taptitans

Five Nights at Freddie's 4

Let me start out by saying I've never played any of the Five Nights at Freddie's games.  My kids have played all three and talk to me about it all the time.  My wife has never watched or played the game either.

So now for the setup.  We just upgraded my daughters Kindle from a 1st generation to a 3rd (the HDX model) and she has a Fire TV in her room.  Mirroring is now a possibility.  If I'm going to play this game, what better way to do it than to mirror it and have the volume turned up.

I was having an issue getting the mirroring to work with the Kindle Fire HDX and Kindle Fire TV.  Finally found a solution online that seems to be spot on.  The mirroring hangs up very easily and the Fire TV tells you to hit any button to kill the mirroring.  It doesn't work so well that way.  Since I could never officially connect the fire time, I had to unplug the Fire TV to make it reset itself.  Then mirroring would work.  After that, you need to make sure to stop mirroring on your Kindle device first before you hit any button on the Fire TV or it will hand and you will have to unplug the Fire TV again.

So we bought the game today and my kids haven't gotten past night 1 yet.  They got scared and quit.  I've never played so a I started a new game.  The screen gives you instructions on what to do and how to do it but you don't really know what's going on.  The crazy things on the bed kept popping up behind me but I stopped them.  I had about 2 hours to go on the first night without much happening.  Then when I went to the left door I heard footsteps for the first time and I pulled that door shut and didn't want to let go.  It put me a little on edge.  I did hear the footsteps run away.  So I opened the door and shined the flash light down the hall.

Empty.  Whew!

So I went back and kept checking the bed behind me to only have 2 crazy bunny things jump off the bed. 

Went to the right door, no noise, turned the flash light on and saw something move away quickly.  The squares with the words overlap where they are at so it's a little hard to see until they move and you know for sure it was there.  So after that, it was a mad dash back and forth checking everything and made it through night 1.

Night 2 didn't take very long for the pitter patter of feet to start happening.  Every time I went over to a door, I swore I was hearing something.  Every time I shined the flash light I would see something.  The anticipation was building up and I was going back and forth as quick as I could.  I finally went to the right door and I think I stayed too long holding it.  Went to the bed and looked behind me.  Turned around and BAM!  Bunny with teeth jumped out at me with a scream.  I'm not going to lie, I screamed as I was not ready for it.  Which then in turn made my wife holler and scream.  The game got me and this is what all the talk is about for FNAF games.

After I calmed my nerves for a minute, I tried night 2 again.  I was doing good checking the doors and keeping the bed clear.  At that point, my daughter was like, you really need to check the closet.  So I go check the closet, turn on the flash light and the monster is right there but not moving.  I don't know what to do.  I closed the door, opened it, flash light and it's still there.  I finally hold the door shut for a short amount of time.  When I let go and shine my flash light, a fox toy is on the floor with no monsters.  So now I'm back to checking the doors from all the footsteps and I forgot about the closet again.  Went back to closet and it was empty.  Ran back to the bed and the wife screams when the fox jumps out.  Which in turns scares me. 

Yep, we're done for the night.  Two big scares is enough for us.  Kids are scared and don't want to go bed now.  Thanks FNAF4.

Terraria

 I've been playing Terrari since the beginning of January as the game went on sale the last day of the Microsoft sales going on and my daughter really wanted me to play it. 

Terrari will remind you of Minecraft except it's not 3rd person and is a side scroller.   You mine, craft and create things in the same fashion.  One advantage this game has is whatever you're carrying will go with you to the next world you create.  So you can move stuff around if you want.  Even joining into your friends world you can do the same.

So it was a steady pace with my daughter learning how this game works.  I bought Dying Light so that pulled me away some.  The real kicker is when we were finally starting to unlock and get newer cool stuff she got hooked playing Minecraft again as she was playing online with some friends.  So I was full on Dying Light until I saw Fshguy online playing Terraria.  My daughter hasn't played with me since I started playing with Fshguy and I've completely left her behind now in the game. 

With Fshguy I've unlocked all but 3 achievements as of today.   I've gotten most of best weapons in the game. Yet he still finds stuff I don't have just because there is just so  much to find and get.  We worked on killing the temple boss and we never realized he was going to drop as many good items as he did.  We might have to go kill some more bosses to get some more good dropped loot.

Couple days ago I was working to get all the armor.  I realized I had miss making some items as some armor sets have more than one piece of headgear.  The wiki is also wrong as of today as it shows some armor for the PC but the Xbox One got an update so some of those armors are now in the game that you have to get.  So Fshguy comes in to put the armor he hasn't gotten yet and gets the achievement from picking up what I've made.  I didn't get the achievement.  We had no clue as to why but the relentless task of trying multiple different ways to make it pop didn't work.  After trying other accounts and they didn't get the achievement, something had to be missing.  So I went back and organized all the armor in order as the websites showed.  When I got to the very end I finally saw what I was missing.  I didn't have the sapphire robe.  Fshguy had issues that night and deleted that robe before giving it to me.  What I had was the normal silk robe that is blue like the Sapphire robe but no where near as bright and doesn't count.  I really wished I lived close by to go pay him a visit for that.  It might be worth the trip.  Needless to say once I made the robe, the achievement popped right away.  That was two nighttime play times spent trying to figure that out.

One thing Fshguy did tell me as I saw this on his review on Gamertag Nation was how to zoom in.  It's very easy to miss and I've been playing the game the entire time fully zoomed out.  Click start and then use your LT and RT buttons to zoom to your liking. You are definitely going to want to zoom in on this game to play.  Especially if you have someone playing with you on the same screen as the characters get really small and hard to see.

The game overall is pretty fun but can be a bit daunting for all you need to do.  Especially if you're going for 100% in achievements.

All that's left now is to find all the pets, corrupt and hallow most of the world.  Three achievements to go but that's a lot of work that needs to be done.  At this point in the game you will be creating more worlds.  I've been playing in 1 for the majority and have a 2nd one for getting some corrupt items that you can't get on a crimson one I have.

When all is said and done, if the achievements will pop by going in another person's world then I'll be able to really help people knockout a bunch of the achievements really quickly when I'm done.

A Post, WOW!

It has been a good bit since I've made a post on here.  Just staying really busy and when I could post here, I decide to play a game or watch a movie instead.  Can't blame me for that.

I keep picking up all the free arcade games that show up each month but I haven't gotten around to playing any of them except for 2.  Halo Spartan Assault and Limbo, which I've finished both of them.

I did finish off LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. 

Oh yea, I bought the Monopoly family back and finished Monopoly.  I did not however play and beat that other mode yet.  Guess I should do that. 

I have played a little on Pinball FX 2. 

I finished off Minecraft on both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One.  Now my daughter is hooked on Terreria so I've started playing that.  Been exploring my 1 world and I'm almost to the point of starting hard mode on that game.  Wish more of my friends played this game.  It would probably go a lot quicker on finishing off the achievements. 

I have played Titanfall some but I haven't touched it since Christmas time.  Made it half way through the game on achievements.  That's at least something I guess.

I bought LEGO Movie Videogame during Christmas along with Zombie Driver but haven't played either one yet.

What I did buy was Dying Light.  It's just like Dead Island, so if you enjoyed that game, you'll enjoy this.  Looks better by a long shot.  I'm still early on in the game but I did get to play with Ichya last weekend which made the game way funnier than going it alone.

Away from games, my laptop and printer died on me.  So ended up buying new ones of those.

Kids are always swamped with something going on, so busy with them a lot more as well.

So there's an update for everyone on stuff I'm at.  Let me know if you get Dying Light.  Would love to play online with someone versus running it alone.

Dead Rising 3 + DLC

I finished up Dead Rising 3 a few weeks ago.  I've been very busy and lazy when it comes to posting on here.  I need to get back into a habit of posting again.

This is definitely a fun game and it's enjoyable to play.  Some of the achievements add a little bit of a grind but it's not so bad that you would skip by it as it's very attainable in a short period of time.  Like 1-2 weeks of grinding out all the massive zombie kills you need for example.

The DLC in the game was definitely intriguing and add some great stories that happened during your story line for how things happened in the city.  The only downside is it's not worth the cost and I got the season pass on it.  Maybe if it was half the price, then it would have been worth it.  It's not worth $30, that's for sure.

I'll definitely be looking forward to a 4th if the put one out but for now, if you're in a zombie killing mood, this game will fulfill your needs.

Batman Arkham City Update 2

Well, finding all of Catwoman's trophies in the game plus finishing off the Museum helped me get over 400 trophies.  I was able to find Riddlers hideout and got my achievement.

I was trying to perform one fighting move that catwoman has for an achievement.  Once I get that, I will try some of the fighting parts but that will be it.  I think I'm pretty much done with this game for all the achievements I'll be able to get in the game.  I'm not going to run through it all over again for 2 more possible achievements.

Batman Arkham City Update

I did finish off the Harley Quinn DLC.  It didn't take too much to finish it off.

So I've been running around the city trying to find all the riddles.  I need 400 in order to unlock The Joker.  My biggest problem was that no ? were showing on my map.  So I've been using this guide from over at Games Radar.  You can bring up each section of the city and below that picture, they show another picture of The Riddlers riddles.  They matched them up by numbers so you can compare to yours to see what you're missing, then look on the map to see where it is on the map.  It is helping me find tons of riddles I've missed.  I've cleared out most of the city and realized I didn't have hardly any in the Museum.  So I almost got done with it last night but I couldn't figure out how to get into the back room from the front side.  I might have to leave, go out and around to the back of the building and come in that way if I can't figure it out tonight.

Once I have those, I'll be with in 10 of having the 400 I need.  Actually, just realized, I have to go get Catwoman and go back into the Museum to get 2 or 3 tropies setting in there for her as well so it'll cut my numbers down some.

After that, I'm still missing quite a few in the Steel Factory.  So I'll go there to finish up getting to 400 riddles.  I'll be glad too as the one screen that I don't have hardly any on is where you have to perform actions in order to get the riddles.  Some are probably doable but I just don't want to have to deal with that.  I'd rather just run around and find riddles.

Once I finish that up, the debate is on for where I want to beat it on New Game + and go for Perfect Knight Day 2 or just be done with the game.  I'm trying to finish up games before the Xbox One comes out and this would let me be done with this game.  I might try some of the fights to see if I can't earn a few of the combat ones but that would be all I would do.  Guess I could go for all the catwoman riddles as well just to add a small 10 point achievement.  I will at least go over 1K with all the achievements I will have gotten.

Would you go for finishing the game all over again or just let it be and move on?

Batman Arkham City

Went back to Batman Arkham City yesterday and finished finding the catwoman trophies.  Also found another Batman trophy as well.  When I got those, hostage #5 appeared and I was able to finish that off.  I still need to find more so that I can unlock The Joker so I can fight him to beat him for an achievement.  I'll work on that next.

I did get the Harley Quinn DLC at some point when it went on sale so I played through the entire DLC but at the end I started working on the achievements to knock them out.  I got all but 3 so I'm running back through the DLC again to finish them.  I found all of Harley's balloons before I went to bed last night.  So knocked out that achievement.  The last 2 I have left are to attach the blast sphere to 4 different types of objects, including people.  If I would have read up on that achievement before just running through I would have knocked out that achievement on my first run as I accomplished some task differently so it never counted for what I needed to do in certain spots.  After that, I have to finish disarming the alarms in under 3 minutes.  Gotta love time based achievement.  8(

So I'll try to finish that up tonight and finish the riddler off.  Then I'll be able to start working on running back through the entire game again if I feel up for getting that achievement.

Assassian's Creed 2 Free on Xbox Live

It's up free today.  Grab it before the month ends.

Alan Wake

I bought this game again as i bought the 2nd DLC like 2 years ago and never could find a copy to borrow.

Overall it was fairly easy to beat but getting through it without dieing got a little frustrating.  Mainly the tornado section where you have to jump and land on moving objects to get up.  Once I got by that i was able to finish the rest easily enough without dieing.  Had a couple close calls but as long as u

You run and use your flares, all will work out.

Yet Another Game Released With Servers Down

You would think after Doritos Crash Course that another game directly behind it would come out with you connecting to servers to play be down on the day of launch.

Well it has and Spartacus Legends has come out with servers down.  Why? Why would you put out a game and not have the servers online to connect to?  How idiotic can you be.  Im tempted to just delete it and not ever play it.

If its not on by nighttime for me to connect, I probably will.

Kingdom Rush Frontiers

For anyone that missed this game last week when it came out, don't hesitate to go get it.  I loved the first one and its the best tower defense game I've played on the iPad.  They only improved on it with the new Frontiers game.

It has its funny quirks in it like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Aliens, etc...  It's always cool to see that type stuff in a game.

Im still working on finishing it.  To me its harder than the first but a friend of mine already beat it before i did.  I've been trying to 3 star everything though and he hasn't so he pushed through quicker than i did.  Im closing in now and beating it on expert is not going to be easy.

All the new towers and upgrades are really neat.  They did a great job on them.

It still looks as good as the first one, so no quarrels there.

This game is $4.99 in the App Store.  You can grab it here: 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kingdom-rush-frontiers-hd/id598581619?mt=8

Jeremy McGrath's Offroad

This game was on sale last week so I picked it up as it looked like an easy arcade to complete and I was in the mood for some racing.

The game is ok but it's not no top of the line game you just gotta have.  Hit one glitch where I got stuck in a spot that I couldn't get out of.  Luckily they have a reset button for when that happens.  I did flip a couple times but this game does not show any damage and the flip was not impressive.

In about 1 hour and 30 minutes you can unlock all but one of the achievements.  The last achievement you have to drive for 1000 miles in the game.  I tried doing a spin and letting my truck just spin around all night but it kept going wide and it got stuck.  Going to have to get that 360 turn going better or pick a track with a little more so it won't get stuck.  If you want to do it by driving it all, I think I had around 120 miles after the 1.5 hours of playing.  So around 7 to 8 hours to finish it up that way?  Ill stick to rubber banding the controller while its plugged up and earn it that way.

Backtracked to Eternal Sonata

Talking with the wife other day and she said I needed to finish all my games before we got it.  That's going to be a hard feat to accomplish considering all the games i own that i haven't even played yet.  She said to start on the oldest so I pulled out Eternal Sonata.  

Took me a little bit to get the game of playing and get back i to the story where I left off but now I'm enjoying again.  Actually popped 2 achievements the first 2 days I played it but none sense.  It's a low scoring game and it takes a 2nd play through to get all 1k in the game.  I don't think you can get over 340 on your first run.  It's that or less depending on how much you find and do in the game.

Im still playing some GOW just to mix it up some but will see how long or how many I get through before the year ends.

Carmageddon on Android

This is awesome.  They actually got the money to port this over to the android platform. I played this game way to much back in the day.

Looks like the promo is free for today only so get it while you can.

Doritos Crash Course 2

How about that, they put out a Doritos Crash Course 2 today.  Just over 300 megs and when you get into the game, it downloads more content.  What's even better is, it says the store is down and try back in a hour.  You can't even play the game.  What a bunch of crap that is.  So now its linked online and I can't play offline at all if their stuff is down.  Way to go Doritos, you screwed up right off the bat.

Gears of War Judgement

How about that, I won a copy of this game from Microsoft Expertzone.  Guess I'll get to play the new GOW sooner than later.

I did start it last night and I was told the controls are different.  At first it seems the same but then I realize it didn't.  Trying to get the hang of the grenade toss now and those subtle differences they made for doing those actions quicker instead of having to select it on the D pad like in the past.

Animal Crossing 3DS Coming in June

I'm sure a few people will get this.   I know my wife will want it.

"Animal Crossing-flavored Nintendo 3DS XL bundle costs $220, arrives this June" http://feedly.com/k/15mxRrs