Dimple Records

Dimple continues to amaze me.

In the store, they sell used sports games that are 8 years or older, for $58.99.

But I just came across an Amazon listing of theirs, and they are selling a complete Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix - Limited Edition for $23.

Moral of the story? Even Dimple knows that Dimple prices are stupid.

PS Plus November Lineup

You know that sound that elementary school kids make with their hands, when they invert their palms to their mouths and breath into it real hard to make a loud fake fart sound?

K got that stuck in your head? Perfect. That's the theme song for this next month PS Plus lineup. It's awful.

PS4
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (indie)

Steamworld Dig (indie)

PS3
Frozen Synapse Prime (??)

Luftrausers

Vita

The Hungry Hoard (?)

Escape Plan (just 3 years too late)

aaaaaand end fart noise. See? wasn't that perfect?

I'm finishing DMC this week and selling my PS3. There's no need for it anymore. 

PS Store Delayed Update

What's my motto?

Silence from Sony is a bad thing.

Or something like that.

Still no Driveclub for PS+. Afternoon is almost gone and there's still no PS Store update. Month is over and still no November PS+ announcement. It's gonna be a bad month. I can already tell.

DMC!!!!

DMC!!!!!!!Q! ohmygoshiloveitsomuch!(*&@^#!#KJB!!!
DMC!!!!!!!!!DMC!!!!!!

Indie Binging

I played Octodad for PS4, it's hilarious. Controls are so annoying that I'm just laughing because it's so impossible. Cool art, a great 2 hour romp. Now to sell it and move on.

Entwined is beautiful, it's very similar to Dyad, but it's twin stick puzzle guiding, and it's kinda tough. It takes some real focus and concentration. Cool overarching story, but as Conan O'Brien said at E3 about this game, "that's beautiful...... no one is going to buy this"

Rainbow Moon

Very little game time lately, but I gave Rainbow Moon Vita a solid try. And drumroll.....

lame.

It's a final fantasy tactics, grid, turn based, all text, rpg. I'm sure it gets great. But when DMC is effing awesome right now... the choice is made.

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Star Wars Battlefront Release Window!!

EA announced some news today.
First is that Battlefront will be first person, and is set for a holiday 2015 release. Can't wait.
They also said that Battlefield 5 will be coming out holiday 2016, but everyone fell asleep when battlefield was mentioned.

Xbox One Price Drop, again

Things are getting interesting

Microsoft is dropping the price of the Xbox One to $349. This includes their bundles. Meaning the AC Unity white console bundle is $349. Price change takes effect real soon and lasts all the way through January 2nd. This will move a couple million units for sure. It even has me going, "hmm... Master Chief Collection...."

Welcome Sadie!

Congrats man, love the name. Even as a wrinkly newborn, she is totally Fewkes all over. You're 3 for 3.

Craigslist Purchases

So you know I have a game buying problem right? Well I'm at it again.

On craigslist, I found a guy with a picture of just a table full of... game stuff. Nothing definitive, all of it trashed and dirty, but I was intrigued. He asked for 60, i gave him 50. And I walked away with a complete Dreamcast with a game, a complete SNES with a game, 5-6 sports N64 games, 10 off brand gcube, dreamcast, and ps2 controllers, and about a dozen memory cards from ps2 dreamcast ps1 ds etc. And then a gamestop branded console carrying bag filled with, you named it, weed paraphernalia.

Everything was disgusting, including the seller. He was a 200lb 5 foot nothing guy, bald in his mid thirties, dressed like Eminem, a voice like he started smoking in the womb, and both hands wrapped in gauze from, "burns" as he put it. I wanted to tell him he mispronounced "bookies" but I wanted to get out alive. He packed everything in smoke-smelling Coors Lite boxes and I was on my way.

I didn't even check the items, I just drove away. I expected them all to be broken or something. But I unloaded everything, spent over two hours cleaning every corner of every wire and console and removed the "I bang b******" sticker from the top of the dreamcast. The grime on the cords was enough to make me queasy. But it all totally works!

The funny thing now is I bought it all with plans of flipping, but now I'm like, "hmm, I wonder what shenmue and super metroid are like"

I have a problem

AC Rogue and Unity

Like I said in text, I'm totally dark on both of these.
I will not be playing the PS3 version unless someone has a gshare for $2.
And the only thing I know about Unity is the resolution fiasco last week. In case you missed it, a Ubi director was quoted saying something to the tune of

"we couldn't get 1080p on one of the consoles, so we are making them both 900p 30fps, to avoid console debates"
which directly translates to
"the Xbone blows and couldn't handle the full game, so we nerfed the PS4 version."

The internet did internet things and shouted out in anguish.

Within a day, Ubi PR had issued a statement saying, "no no, none of that's true, we uh.. we held back to 900p because uh... um uh... the uh... A.I. yeah... yeah that's it. the AI is so intense and uh.. what else, c'mon guys gimme something here. How about uh... lighting? sure! yeah, the lighting is so uh.. real.  and ... P consuming. Yep, no 1080p for anyone."

Bayonetta 2 Reviews

It's getting insane reviews, Averaging 91 on metacritic. That's insane.
It's just a shame that it will never be played by anyone on WiiU.
A- WiiU has a pathetic install base
B- 95% of its audience is Skylanders kids

COD Scheme Development

Our group is filled! It totally worked. It looks like this:

PS4 Sell - $15 - Donnie
PS4 Non - $28 - Phil
PS4 Lock - $4 - gtz user 1
PS3 Sell - $0 Gifting this one to my bro-in-law
PS3 Sell - $7 gtz user 2
PS3 Non - $3 gtz user 3
PS3 Non - $3 gtz user 3 again

Offers are going out, so your spot is all set up.

GTZ Drama

So with the huge amounts of Destiny and Cod shares this gen, the google search "Cheap Gameshares" has brought in a ton of new trash to the site.
And they all want to be part of the Gshare forum so they need bronzes. Well they've been going into the digital threads and buying $0.10 steam codes and uv movies, etc. To get to 10 then insist on joining the shares.
Bill stepped in and has wiped out hundreds and hundreds of these lame trades and put them all in their place. It's fun to read some of the defenses the users put up. One kid claimed he was a double amputee and how dare we treat him that way. Some of the veteran users found his PSN name, his reddit page and his facebook, and found that he's some stupid kid with all his limbs fully in tact.

Beyond, not at NYCC

Double episodes this week. And this one is really good.

So apparently Colin has always been inverted Y axis on shooters, and then he played Destiny and he was suddenly like "this isn't right." Now, non-inverted still doesn't feel natural to him, but his brain has totally flipped he can't play inverted anymore. Weird.

Oh and DriveClub is still down. What a mess.

Podcast Beyond NYCC edition

You can skip this episode. It's about 30 minutes long, has a literal restart where they play the intro song again, and features our favorite segment.... Questions from the audience. Ugh

But from it, we get gems like these...

"Umm hi.... oh wow, I can't believe I'm talking to you guys!"

and

"Um... uh..... oh man I forgot my question"

and my new favorite. Panda Musk was there with a ton of hand drawn swag, which was completely wasted on these fools. One guy gets a hand drawn 4 section poster of every character in Uncharted. When the guy tells the audience what he was given he says,

"It's uh... Nathan Drake and... a ton of the bad guys from.... the Nathan Drake game..."

Get out.

Back to Business

No entries for a while, work has me busy. Imagine that!

New posts today.

COD Scheme Continued

It totally worked, got a locked, and both non-sell ps3 spots filled.
Just one more PS3 sellable and we're golden!

Destiny Update

I sold my Destiny share
It's a solid game, and I'll definitely buy it back when all the sellables start putting their shares up for sale for $3. Super fun, but just lacked the direction (i.e. an actual end in sight) for me to get heavily into it.
I've put all my effort into Mordor.

Bombcast 10/7/14

This week is a must listen. It's terrific.

COD Scheme Updated

I went ahead with operation CoD RipOff without your permission. Don't worry, I'll pay for your share. Here's the post I made on GTZ today. Let's see how it goes..

LinksALefty wrote:

Group 10
PS4 Sellable - $19 - Captain_Skaggs
PS4 Non-Sellable - $15 - LinksALefty
PS4 "Locked Spot" - $4 -
PS3 Sellable - $9 - LinksALefty
PS3 Sellable - $7 -
PS3 Non-Sellable - $3 -
PS3 Non-Sellable - $3 -

If anyone is interested in discounted PS3 slots, let me know. I'm going to pay the difference for myself, my brother, and my buddy Skaggs to make sure the group works. I will host this group

Cross your fingers!

COD Scheme

I totally called it, and now the COD gshare page is effed up. 13 groups, 2 filled and 11 with only a ps4 sell and non sell. Who buys on ps3 anymore anyway?

So I have an idea. What if you and I branch off? We each pay 5 bucks more for our sell/nonsell slots, and take the price off the ps3 spots, enticing the few PS3ers to share with us?? I'd get railed to death on GTZ, but it could work. May be the only way to avoid having to pay the full 35/25 or some garbage. 

Think it over. Let me know.

Driveclub Debacle

Sony botched this one pretty hard.
Driveclub came out yesterday. And as you know we're all supposed to get it for free with PS Plus. Yet when the store was updated, no free version was available. Thousands of tweets and comments to Sony and... nothing. No word. No explanation. Remember my motto, silence from Sony is bad.
Then today, like 2 hours ago. They finally released a statement that they didn't wanna overload the servers. So they're holding back the free version until an undisclosed time.

Flashback. Feb 2013, PS4 is announced with Driveclub and that it would be on PS Plus day one.
DC delayed at launch, and now, a year later, their promise is no good. It's very possible that the only reason people HAVE ps plus was for this game.

COD Cross-buy!

Advanced Warfare will be cross buy. This will make our gshares super cheap!
Let me know what kind of slot you want and I'll be sure to reserve one for you. Otherwise it'll end up being a cluster like Destiny, where 20 groups had a sell/nonsell filled for PS4, but no one wanted to pay for a PS3 sellable. There were about a dozen unfinished groups for that game.

Remote Play

Remote play totally works! It's so cool. I mean I def prefer on the tv. But wow, lag isn't too big an issue. I just hate the L2, R2, L3, R3 placement. They've gotta make an attachment to the vita to give it the extra buttons.

Smash Tactics

Super Smash Bros for 3DS came out on the 3rd of this month. Like 4 days ago. It sold a million copies over the weekend. One million. Oh that's not enough. It's up to 2.8 mil worldwide now.
So Nintendo's plan worked, keep the WiiU release date a secret until they blast sales on the handheld.
And then today they announced that Smash on WiiU comes out Nov 21st. Those tricky Japanese.
So it totally worked. Except that, y'know, there aren't even 2 million WiiU's out there... soo....
But this also means my Amiibos will be here by thanksgiving. Woot!

Chinese in the Conference Center

You may have heard, but they are having foreign speakers talk in their own language now at conference. The first guy to do it spoke in Cantonese. I know it's completely diff from Mandarin, but still cool. In the conference center they get subtitles, at home we get an english voiceover, which is kinda lame, I'd rather hear the chinese.
Still it's way better than having them struggle in English. They deserve to talk how they want.

Decisions

Traversal in Infamous is just soooo freaking fun, that I find myself going back to that over Mordor most of the time.

Mordor is kinda like a Dark Souls that you and I would be into. And it really is great. I'm gonna play it to death. But when presented with both, I lean towards SS. The story is initially more compelling, and smoke dashing and hovering is just about the best thing ever. Plus I like how bright it is. Which is ironic to say that Seattle is the bright and sunshiny place.

Destiny Impressions

I played some more Destiny, and man, the whole thing is just saying over and over, "this would have been 11/10 if...."

It looks really good, it plays and handles great. Fighting is fun, but to no real end. 

Upgrades are kinda pointless until you hit the super highest and most rare levels. Picking different classes is super pointless. No change in weapons, no change in story, no change in anything. It just changes what your melee LOOKS LIKE. That's it. Still a one hit kill, still using the left hand in some fashion. And I know that people were dogging on the voice acting... and they're totally right. It's Call of Duty syndrome where they think getting a famous name will make us think it's great, but a boring voice is a boring voice. Guilty spark woulda been cooler. It just ends up being the most expensive 7 ever.

These Penny Arcade comics sum it up just... terrifically. 

Fun Fact

This marks the 28th post on this "blog"
Our entire run of Link's A Lefty only made it to 27. Sad days.

Shadow of Mordor Impressions

Remember when I said you're going to love this game? Well it's still true, but maybe even more so. Some initial impressions, no spoilers of any kind. Pure mechanics.

1. There's a rumor that this was supposed to be an Arkham game at first, and you can totally tell. The counter-tap tap tap-counter combat, the dazed enemies and "finishing" moves, all exactly pulled from Batman. Same over the shoulder view, same cape sway. I mean. Even the nemesis system coulda totally fit in with Joker's and Penguin's gangs. But all in all, that's okay. Because I love batman combat.
2. Assassin's Creed creators are trying to stir crap up because they think they stole AC elements. I call BS at this. The only thing that is even close is the "leap of faith", but even that I wouldn't have associated had they not called it out.
3. Combat is actually better than batman, and it's not the same animations. It's really hard, and extremely satisfying. You can go "wraith" mode and its kinda like a ninja gaiden powerup where you move so fast it looks like there's multiples of you. You're gonna love the combat.
4. It's M, and very M. Not an Asher game. Too much blood, and too violent. This is immediate, as soon as the game starts, horrifying things happen. No Asher.
5. Graphics, does it look good? In a word? Sure. But not great. It's kinda like the MK series where they try to overly detail a face and it just ends up looking like when an amateur draws a human portrait with a pencil. Too many details so it looks muddled. That kinda thing happens. Still think it'll look similar on PS3. That said, it doesn't look so bad that it detracts in any way.

All that said, it's just very very fun to play. People are already forgetting about Destiny.

Velocity 2X

This...

game...

is so...

FREAKING AWESOME. I played the first four missions, totally the same so far (I haven't gotten to the part where you get out of the ship yet) but it's just smoother, looks better. I'm way impressed, I smell another plat... and lots of anger. Music is so rad too.

Phone Battery

I'm not kidding. I have charged my phone a total of one time since you left. And even that was just to show the phone some affection. It didn't even mean anything to me.

Beyond Episode 362

Altano in the ER3C, and Colin and Greg, it was a good show. They totally did the classic restart the episode about 20 minutes in. I never noticed how often it happened until you brought it up.

Last week Greg read an email asking if Drive Club would be the big hit that would move 10 million more PS4s. He was laughing so hard while reading it at how dumb it was that he was in tears and couldn't even get all the way through it. He brought it up again this week because no one wrote in to defend it. Usually there are hundreds of tweets, but they said they got a whopping 5 emails saying Drive Club should be okay. 

Mordor Gameshare

Thanks for the login info. I got in and finished the first 7 gig download. The rest is done when I try and start the game (think DCUO) where the other 20 gigs will finish.

Playstation Plus October Line Up

Solid line up.

PS4:
Dust: An Elysian Trail (think Muramasa Rebirth basically, pass)
Spelunky (And cross buy on PS3 and vita, super stoked)
Drive Club (Our nerfed PS plus version with 11 tracks and 10 cars, which is honestly more than any number of tracks or cars I've used in Grid and GT5 combined, so I don't care. Definitely will play cause it looks sooo dang good.)

PS3: (not that you care anymore)
Arkham Asylum (rad)
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (meh)

Vita:
Pix the Cat (cross buy with PS4 and PS3, a flashy looking arcade game inspired by pacman ce)
Rainbow Moon (cross buy with PS3, finally, now I can play a JRPG for 7 seconds and remember why I don't like JRPGs)