Nimble Quest

From the people who made Tiny Tower, which can be an addicting game, they have now made Nimble Quest. They took something very simple and have made something really cool, fun, and enjoyable to play.

All they did was take the old classic snake game where you can't touch the walls, yourself and you eat to get longer which makes staying alive even harder.

In Nimble Quest you do grow but you add Heroes. You start out as a Warrior, skeleton, Mage, and many more Heroes as I have yet to unlock them all. As you progress through the stages, when you kill the enemies, a Hero will appear. All you have to do is touch him and he joins your party. I didn't count bit it looks like at least 20 different Heroes are available to get.

Once you get a Hero you can start off the round with that Hero and work to level him up. Each level increases his abilities and they, can go up 3 levels. I haven't figured out if me leveling up one person is level 1 in the game if I pick him up while playing with another Hero but I'm assuming they are.

So as you can imagine, the party gets longer and longer with the more Heroes you acquire. They do have health and you collect gems to help upgrade abilities along the way.

So if you didn't figure it out yet, this game is a small RPG. Only you never stop moving and kill everything on the screen to move on to the next level.

It's such a simple brilliant idea that they have come up with that I'm really enjoying it. I keep wanting to play it more and more. I've got a ways to go but I definitely want to unlock all the characters in the game.

Controlling your party with swiping which way you go really does make playing it more enjoyable. Just be careful to watch out for the slowly appearing enemies as I've numerously died from one spawning that I didn't see.

They do have an Arena section for online and I played it once but not sure how all the ranking will be. Some people already have some outlandish scores that I know I will never beat. I did create a clan name that all you have to do is type that name in and it looks like it puts you in that clan. Doesn't have any restrictions to keep people from joining anyone's clan. So if you want to join one, join mine for starting out, you can switch later very easily. Mine is called "Hobbits". That should be easy enough to remember.

Assassian's Creed 2

A friend bought me this game for my PS3 a long time ago and I never played it.  It took me two weeks to talk myself into playing the game and I finally started it last week.

It's definitely different than most games I've played.  One of the biggest things is the controller.  Starting out I really don't like the placement of how they make you press buttons to perform actions in the game.  Yes, I'll get use to it as I go along from repetition but I just hate they way they did it.  So that gives me a bad vibe for having to play through the entire game with that in mind.

Some of the buttons don't work but I think I have to learn more skills before I can really say it's not working as some things are starting to work where they didn't at first.  So I'll bring this up on my next post on the game I make.

The graphics are pretty descent but the white lines from the machine, which do remind you that it's not real, to me, takes away from the game some.  It's how they point things out, where to go and grab stuff from the white lines that look like it is computer made. It's pretty hard to find spots where you need to go as well. If its in the middle of the building, you might have to walk around the bottom to find the entrance, go on the roof and find it or a combo of climbing around just to get to the objective. I hope that gets better as I go along through the story.

I've only played it once so far for about 2 hours. Made it to the point of getting Assassins outfit and that's where I stopped.

Kingdom Rush Update on iPad

They released an update for Kingdom Rush on the iPad about 1-2 weeks ago.  This is still the best tower defense game I've ever played and always enjoy going back to it. 

In the new update they released a hard mode and two new boards to play on.  Glacial Heights and Ha'kraj Plateau.  Neither of which are easy to beat and it has taken me this entire time to beat them.

I started out playing the new maps and finally got 1 star in each of them.  I looked at the achievements and noticed one of the new ones was to beat the campaign on hard mode.  Since it had been awhile since I've actually played it, I started working on that.  I flew through hard mode.  It almost seemed too easy.  Was enjoyable going back through and beating the entire game again.

So then I went and started back to working on the new boards that released.  I focused on Glacial Heights first then went to Ha'kraj Plateau.  On both boards it took me using the gems in the game to buy a bomb that blows up everything on the screen to actually win them both.  They are very hard to beat but it is so much fun to play.

If you don't have this game, it's one you should really considering buying.  It's well worth the money.

Yu-Gi-Oh! on Xbox 360 is a Plus now

I was happy to see when they brought Yu-Gi-Oh! back to the Xbox 360 again but I never realized they added a Plus to it.  So I'm definitely a little late to the party posting about this but since I just found out, I gotta say something.

I loaded it up just the other day and had a huge update.  Couldn't for the life of me figure out why it was so big.  I haven't played it since they released it back out so I knew it would have an update but didn't think it would be that big.

So it gets done and I go to play.  Win my first match and the cards that popped up, I was like, I don't have that card, I've never seen that card on here before.  I was confused.  Went through a few matches and realized the players decks had changed as well.  I was thrown off for sure.

So jumped online and sure enough, when they released it back out, they put out a bunch of new cards for it.  I might have all the achievements but now I have a reason to play it to earn more cards to make more decks to play with.  So I'm a little excited for that.

Now if I could just get one of my friends to buy it and start playing it, I know I'll always have someone to play it with.

World of Keflings - Aliens

I finished this game a while ago but I bought the DLC at one point when it was on sale and decided to play it and finish them off.

Starting out on the Aliens one.  I got to the first achievement in the game after getting the lobster built and I upgraded it.  Well, I didn't read the text to well and I needed to make a 2nd lobster before I upgraded it as for the type of resources it was giving out.  So I spent like 20 minutes baffeling my head on a way to fix this without starting over.  Finally gave up, saved it and went to bed.

So of course while I'm laying in bed, I'm always running stuff through my head and the game was stuck in my head.  It finally clicked and I remembered I could destroy it.  Destroying it and rebuilding it should take it back to the original lobster.

So 24 hours later when I got to play it again, sure enough, I did just that and it worked.  Built a 2nd one and have both resources now.  Whew!  Close one.

So when the chicken came up, I built a 2nd one real quick before I did any upgrades.

So working towards finishing off Aliens and I'll move onto whatever the next DLC I got was next.

Dead Island

I bought this game a while ago and was playing through it then I got pulled away by other games.  A friend of mine got it out of the blue so I went back to playing it so I could play with him.  Needless to say I've been playing mostly this and last night I finished the game for the 1000 points.  I'm not buying the DLC to finish it completely so I'm done with the game.

When I first started playing the game, it was really hard.  Everything you do,  you take at a slow pace.  I mean, why wouldn't you, there are zombies showing up everywhere you go.  Actually completeing the game for first time through is going to take you a while to do.  There is an achievement in the game where you have to finish Act 1 with all 4 players.  Which is the last achievement I got.  After replaying that Act 1 for four times now.  I've gotten pretty good at this game.  It doesn't take that long to get through the quests that are given to you.  I even run more and take out the zombies easier.  Mobs are still hard as you just have too many to swing at and can't get them all.  Even so, this game at a fast pace is still fun to run through.

Part of the fun this game has is you get to mod weapons.  You have to find the blue prints in order to be able to make them.  They are scattered around the entire island, so you need to look for them everywhere you go.  Upgrading them changes the look as well so don't just leave them at level 1.  Max out the level of the weapon.  One you will really see change is the Hot Rod mod where your big knife will turn an orange glow like it's on fire.  It does some pretty good damage.

The game does have some glitches but I'm not going to linger on it.  I just wanted to mention to have a 2nd save of your save file as when you connect to someone or they connect to you online, if it freezes up, there is a possiblity that you could lose all your inventory for your character or lose that save file comletely.  So be careful when you start playing online to get your achievements or even with your friends.

There are a few guns in the game that you can make or get from someone who has them that are glitched guns.  I have an assault rifle that never runs out of ammo and kills everything in 1 or 2 shots.  I have shotgun that has lightning bullets that come out and destroys anything it hits.  I also have an unlimited sniper rifle.  So if you want to make the game easy, get your character to level 20 and you'll be able to hold these guns if someone gives them to you.

If you're looking for a good zombie game to play and you like open world, I would recommend picking up this game.  You will definitely enjoy it the more you play it.

What My Weekend Involved

Well this weekend was a result of what started last week. Last week my wife noticed water coming out from under the wall in the hallway. Come to find out it came from our bathroom where it came out from under the toilet. So I got this bladder to try to blow out the clogged pipe outside the house I found.  Tried for 2 days and it wouldn't go down. I was leaving for a business trip the next week so I needed to get this fix ASAP. So one friend suggested the water department and I called them on Friday. I meet the guy at my house and there is nothing in the pipe. It cleared itself out. He could tell it was backed up though. So he got a truck over and pushed a ton of water into the pipe. Nothing came back and it all went through, so looks like the problem is solved. So the weekend goes fine outside of the toilet in the 2nd bathroom gurgling some.

So Monday I leave and my wife tells me she had to plunge the toilet to get the water to go down and through the week it keeps gurgling filling up and going down.

So I get home Thursday and go check the pipe to see if its backed up. Sure enough it is. I call the water department again and the same guy comes out. He sees it is backed up and gets two different trucks to come out. One to flush it out and the 2nd one that brought a camera to put down the pipe. They pushed the pipe all the way down almost into the sewage part where it's not in the pipe anymore. It's still not going down in the water so they pull it out and finally get it cleared out to put the camera down in it. So they put the camera in and through three bends and a belly in the pipe only seeing one spot where the heavy rain is draining some water into the pipe bit it's not clogged up. They start pulling it out and when they almost pull it out of the hole they see roots in the line. The clog is right there almost where it starts. So guess what, it's over 12 foot from the curb, I have to fix it.

That's an expensive plumber bill so I make phone calls and try to figure some things out. One of my friends says he can help me fix it if I dig the hole.  He used to be a plumber so he knows what to do. Needless to say I was digging a big hole in my front yard Friday afternoon.

So I dig down and I find this.

I've got more than just a root problem. The pipe isn't even in the hole. It's half way down. It's amazing this wasn't a problem when the house was built 8 years ago. So I call my friend and I've got to dig it out so we can put in a new piece to fix the problem. So I dug it out until I couldn't see at night anymore.

The next day once I got back from running some errands, I finished clearing it out so we can work on it.

So my friend comes over, we go buy the parts needed and he gets it fixed so the slight angle is fixed and the flow is good.  Didn't have any leaks coming out either.

It's to dark to work on it so after church on Sunday I went to filling in the hole and I put rock salt around the new section where the pipe is connected to kill any roots from trying to grow into it. I didn't realize how many rocks I dug up until I went to fill up the hole. At least I got it all filled back in and will see if me digging the grass up with dirt under it will help it grow back faster.

So now it's all done and I spent around $100 to fix the problem. Bought a shovel, small spade, gloves, pipe, connectors for pipe, glue, cement glue and gave my friend some money for helping me out. Especially since he brought the saw to cut the pipe up where me buying a hand saw would have taken a lot longer. I was very grateful for his help.

So good luck to anyone out there who does this themselves. It's a good weekend project and I've been sore since Friday.