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This was one hell of a ride, but I pulled ‘The Big One’ and am a freakin’ billionaire. Robbing the biggest bank in Los Santos was fun. And what’s even more hilarious, they literally gave me what I wanted.

I still like the game for what it is, and I’m very thankful there’s an option to skip missions I either cannot do or don’t wish to(or both, depending on how pissed I am).

My flying skills are slowly improving; not as panicky as before with the controller. Learning how to bank and fly straight. Turbulence is still a nuisance(wish I could toggle it). Though my landings still need work. These are still those slow propeller type planes. It’ll be a long while until I ‘graduate’ to flying jets.
At least, with the money I got from that big heist, I got Micheal to buy a hanger at the Int’l Airport to give him clearance of flying in and out. And with my(well, his) purchased plane, I can practice without fucking time limits. Just nice, leisurely training exercises with no stress of beating clocks and having to be fast. I can handle that.

So, what’s there to do after the main missions are done? There’s side missions, and getting 100% completion. That’s pretty much it. There’s also GTA Online, but I’m unsure about that. Maybe I will with the PC version, but only if I can host my own server and keep it private (depending if Rockstar uses a server-based system to hold player data).

Still want the PC version, though. Just hope it comes with a custom music radio option, and that feature to skip a mission. And of course first person. If not, I don’t buy it. It’s that simple. Though I have high hopes they all will. Since they’re in the console version, they should be in the PC version for sure.

Now this, is truly my first non-PC game review; the console-exclusive game series of ‘Little Big Planet’, where the world is comprised of everyone’s imagination. This third game, doesn’t seem to punish you for not playing the other two. I’m glad the devs see them as simply changes in game design instead of extending the plot of the first game.
Your blip of imagination, is what is known as a ‘Sackperson’. Going by my current imagination, it would be the size of a pea.

The game has a story, about these three entities called Titans(not the ones from WoW) that feed on imagination. They are basically your negative thoughts(and mine would be the size of planets). And now the Titans could re-emerge. It’s up to you and a helpful, talking lightbulb with clothes on to save the world.

The talking lightbulb (named ‘Newton’) teaches you the controls of the game as you play(and makes sure you’ve mastered them), instead of just throwing them all out like some games(even like GTA V).
So you can put clothes on your Sackboy. There’s several costumes you can buy for $2.99 each. I got on a Dragon Age Inquisition costume for free(really need to try out that game one of these days on my computer. Heard high praise).

Here’s my likes and dislikes so far;

Likes:
-Happy, charming atmosphere that’s made for kids(and kids at heart).
-Controls are taught to you by NPCs. And they’re taught multiple times until you learn how to master them.
-Love the themes of some of the levels. Some are even 1950’s and 60’s references, including the music.

Dislikes:
-No indication on how many lives you have until you can’t respawn and have to do the level all over again. Your only warning is a siren sound and the respawn portal is red.
-Can’t pause during cutscenes or when an NPC speaks.
-You have to really master your controls once you get the Boost Boots. It isn’t like the others where you can hold down R1.

And that’s basically it. There’s a level I cannot pass, because of the “boost refresher” either is broken or doesn’t refresh the Boost Boots in time. It’s caused me to rage very much to the point I just ragequit. Not good for a game I wanted for a long time.

(A needed rewrite from my original post. This is also the most edited post I’ve ever made)
I got GTA V today. Discovered some money I had stashed and used it. Downloading and installing took up to nine hours. That’s a lot.
Been playing for a few days now. Still getting used to the plethora of controls (such as steering and flying).

The game seems to be similar in ways than GTA IV, as in anything goes. The “safety features” that protect children and stuff, are removed. And this is the result. Such as Los Santos and China competing for “world’s most polluted city”. Just stuff to facepalm and laugh at, that would never be heard on actual TV or the radio.
And the stereotype stuff in this game, sometimes is just too much for me. I could give examples, but I would be offending people. It’s just how I feel.

Trying to understand the plot, it’s pretty much everywhere. Yet the three guys who are part of the game know this, especially Micheal, who all he wanted was to retire in a Mansion in Los Santos, with fast cars. Yet he’s also under the radar via the FIB (they faked his death and stuff). And now he’s getting mixed up in all of this. He’s lost his kids. He’s lost his wife who doesn’t love him. He’s also in therapy.

Franklin, he starts as a kid trying to make somewhat of a living reposing cars, to a sleazy boss who sells them back for double what they paid for. He’s also forced to sell dope and live on the streets, with an Aunt who doesn’t give a fuck about him. He’s getting mixed in this shit, but is willing to do whatever it takes to get paid.

And then there’s Trevor, the crazy, wild asshole. Who’s discovered Micheal isn’t dead anymore and is pissed off, because Micheal took his cut of the profits of a bank heist to pay for that really nice house, while he lives in a poor small town called Sandy Shores, far North of Los Santos.
He wants revenge, and revenge he will have.

Time to talk about the likes and dislikes;

Likes;
-Los Santos is beautiful, compared to the grainy, polluted graphics of GTA IV.
-A way to “cheat” myself out of having to complete an undesirable mission for failing three times, yet still completing. 🙂
-In most scenarios, I can drive safely. Those scenarios are going to a mission or just leisurely driving around.
-There’s still a Classic Rock station (Los Santos Rock Radio), straight from GTA IV. And it has a lot of good 70’s and 80’s music.
-Able to drive anywhere I wish without having to do the main questline to unlock sections of the game (unlike GTA IV).
-The game world is pretty huge.
-Of course, high praises for the First Person view. It’s my favorite.
-Random times where there’s a speeder with a cop car behind them.
-You can save anywhere you want, using your ingame smart phone.
-Realistic, believable physics that you can feel with the vibration of your controller.
-Get a wanted level, and the light on your controller flashes red and blue. With no wanted level, it’s based on who you’re playing (Franklin = Green, Micheal = Blue, Trevor = Orange).
-You don’t ruin the main storyline if you play as just one guy. Eventually, missions for that guy stop showing up, encouraging you to flip to the next guy and do his.
-You can go golfing, with its own GUI. Not something you could do in GTA IV.
–No annoying cousin named Roman that bugs you every five minutes, asking to hang out to go bowling. (which of course THIS is the biggest praise)

And the dislikes;
-AI traffic ‘intelligence’. Going on a Red light, passing you while you wait at a red light, sitting on a green light, going really slow for no reason, crashing into other cars, swerving into you for no reason…..just like real life it seems.
-Super sensitive steering controls, with no real options of setting them to be easier.
-Forced street racing mission I couldn’t skip. Thankfully I fucked up so much that the game allowed me to skip and still got paid. All it did was unlock optional street racing missions, which I won’t be doing.
-No way to set your ingame smart phone to use non-military time.
-No way to turn off challenges for most modes (like the shooting range and flight school) to do these at your own pace (and not make me nearly break my controller in two…)

Finally, the neutral stuff:
-I find it somewhat funny of when you have a passenger in your vehicle and if you hit something(and this passenger is saying something to you), the dialog of the NPC stops for two seconds then continues where it left off.
-Proof there’s no “ZoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMmmmm-bah” button that Dad3 has been famous for, that he can use as an auto-drive. It’s all him with editing the video to go super fast and adding his voice after it.

And so there you have it. I still like it. Not as much as I did with the forced challenges of practicing. “Well, you landed! That’s good.. but it wasn’t fast enough!” *MISSION FAILED*
Wouldn’t that want to make you want to throw your controller down?

I’m unsure if this is a prequel, a sequel, or just its own game. I’m going to guess the 3rd thing.
So… inFAMOUS First Light. What is it? The plot is simple to understand. There is a group of people who are called ‘Conduits’. They can adsorb liquids, gasses, and neon. They can use this to bend time to their will and move super fast, go up walls, and stuff like that. So, they have superhuman abilities.
The public fears them, so the government locks them up in special containment units, scattered around the four corners of the globe, to begin the long process of learning to cope with this new power, and how to control it.

You play as ‘Thach’, who, several years ago, discovered she too has these powers (she can use neon). Her parents attempt to inform the authorities to control her new power. But your brother is the only one you can trust.
In the initial playthough, you discover heartbreak of losing your brother to violence, and then use your neon powers to tear the city up. Of course, you still do get captured and thrown in one of those containment units. Here you’re forced to relive those painful years of your life.

So here’s what I liked and didn’t;
Like…
-Shooting bad guys with the power of neon.
-Able to run right up buildings.
-The plot is easy to understand.

Dislike…
-Too many buttons to remember at a split second.
-The game world is rather tiny.
-During the initial part of the game, there’s a race you must do to continue with the questline.

Neutral;
-The proving grounds are punishing for beginners. I didn’t even pass the first rescue one in the easiest difficulty.

Overall, it’s a game worth playing, and it’s free for PS+ users.

So, this game. It was featured on Dad3’s channel. He had fun with it. Myself… well, I’m a lot more picky than he is when how a game grows on me. And all I see is a rash on my arm.
And like this rash, the plot of the game… I don’t get its existence.

So you’re this guy who escaped… something, and went to a ship. Why are you on the ship? Why? Maybe your player character is as clueless as you are.
You explore this large dead ship. There’s no enemies. No killing. There is however a device called the “swapper”, that can make four clones of yourself.

In this side-scrolling puzzle game, you use these clones to solve quite difficult puzzles. There are lots of obstacles, such as evil blue and red lights. Yes, lights are your enemy. Curse you, lights! So you do have “enemies”.
Blue lights keep you from placing a clone there. Red lights keep you from swapping with that clone.
There is also these strange messages as you pass through the many loading-free levels of this game, such as “HELLO?” and “WHY MUST BRAINS BLEACH?” .. just a lot of weird shit. Or is it alien language trying to communicate?

So it seems the game does indeed have a story. And that’s all I can say that hasn’t been said. Overall, not really my kind of game. It feels too much like Portal, as in the level of difficulty trying to solve puzzles. Though I will say, it doesn’t suck and definitely worth a try.
Plus, it’s Single Player.

This is a series I never gotten into. I was never into side-scrollers (even though I’ve played my share, like Donkey Kong Country on the PSOne). But seeing how I’ve grown desperate to do nearly anything with this PS4 until I actually give it the purpose that I bought it, by buying GTA V, I’ll try anything once (as long as it’s free).

So this demo puts you in the shoes of three adventures; Amadeus the Wizard, Pontius the Knight, and Zoya the rogue/hunter. They see this strange floating, glowing crystal called the Trine that is bringing them again on another glorious adventure.

Controls are pretty straight forward. Your X is jumping, L3 is moving around, and R2 with R3 is that class’ special ability. And when you get all three, L1 and R1 can cycle through the classes. It seems similar to The Lego Movie game’s style, that each class can only do their abilities. Except, the game believes you’ve learned the controls of all three classes by now. It doesn’t really “hold your hand” per se.

So overall, the game is fun. But I just don’t see myself buying it. Too much in the form of remembering what I’ve learned, and the strengths/weaknesses of the classes. Nice demo, though. Was worth the download.