Three games down and many more to go

Two posts in one day? Shocking I know!

Hello again readers I thought it was about time I actually did a general update instead of just news or unboxing posts. So I kind a caved this year and my back log of games has been growing quite quickly. Way too many new releases and sales been happening, plus you know what I’m like for buying new games. Also did not help I still have a few games from last year still play as well.

So the last two weeks I have been trying to put more time into getting some of these games clocked and its going well. I finished Lego Batman 3 on the Xbox 360 first along with all its expansions, picked this up last in the Black Friday sales and never got around to working on it. It’s one of my top five Lego games and would recommend playing it, it’s even the game that got me into the Lantern Corp and the reason why I picked up a Green Lantern graphics novel.

Same week I also completed Agatha Christie ABC Murders on the PS4, new release that has just come out. Got say I was bit disappointed with this game since it was really short, would say maybe two evenings or a day to complete it. The puzzles are not too hard and to be honest the story wasn’t that great. I like my puzzle investigating games and I probably will play it again to earn some achievements but I will not be running out to get it any time soon.

Not a bad for a week’s work to be honest, after that I did a take few days off and play some new releases but nothing with a 100% focus. I want to give full focus to games in my collection that once I’ve played I probably will trade-in. With so many new releases over the next few months, credit is always a help right now to pay for them.

This week I started Adventure Time Jake and Finns Investigations on the Xbox One. Few work colleagues had recommended me the show so when I saw this on sale for a good price earlier on the year I picked it up. It’s been sitting there for a while so I thought it was about time I give it a try and if I did not like it then it can be traded in.  Well I was quite shocked how much I did enjoy it to be honest, the game is a like Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes where you investigate the area to find clues and solve puzzles to progress through the story. Story is weird but funny and I enjoyed every minute of it and could not put it down, it’s got me interesting into watching the cartoon as well now. I would have no problem playing this again on a different console to earn some more trophies/achievements. 

Well that’s it folks for what I’ve been playing and completing, what’s next to play? well I’ve got a few games on the go at the moment. Nothing serious just yet but once I’ve got something solid I will do another blog post.

Think that’s it for this blog post and I really should go enjoy my day off with some good games. Need to keep completing some games since there’s quite a few new ones out this month. Expect a post about that soon, until then don’t forget to comment with what you been working on.

Until then have a good one folks,

~Iznic

P.S. Yes I did clock Minecraft Xbox 360 in between but I was only missing one glitched achievement so it wasn't like I did a full massive session to finish it off. Still another 100% though so that was a win. 

New Week

Morning gamers,
So I did pick up Destiny in the end and I have to say no regrets with that decision what so ever. I will not say its amazing and game of the century but it is a really good game. Good solid eight out of ten in my books, what is letting it down is the story campaign which is boring. What makes up for it is the graphics and amazing game play with friends, this is where the game shines. Playing with your friends and the time will just fly by and next thing you know you have spent six hours in the game, forgot tea and got some amazing boss fight stories for your troubles.

I also did pick up Minecraft at the same time on both consoles, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 which came out just a few days before Destiny. Love them to bits or though I am putting more time into the Xbox One version since I have a friends on there up for playing so we have a community world built.

So as you can tell I've got plenty to play with right now and let's not forgot I got Diablo 3 Ultimate Evil Edition for the PlayStation 4 sitting next to my TV. I have decided that I need to use the next few weeks to try and clock a game. My next new release is not until October 3rd which of course is Middle Earth Shadows of Mordor. Really looking forward to getting my hands on that game and from the looks of things I will have the whole of October to play it since most of my new releases got pushed back to November.



My plans until this game comes out is to try and finish the story campaign for Diablo, of course also put some time into Destiny and Minecraft. I also have the Lego Movie game for the Xbox 360 on rental so I could do with working on that and clocking it so I can send it back. Think that's a good game plan to start with this week, it's been a long while since I've clocked a game so I better set off and get started.

Have a good one folks and I will catch up with you again in the week
~Iznic

Holiday Fun

Morning folks,
It's been a few days since I got back off my holiday and just settling back down again. I thought since I've got the day off today it would be good to get another blog post up before I started any gaming.

Awesome start to the day with the announcement of Minecraft for the Xbox One coming out this Friday! that woke up me quite quickly when I checked the news this morning in bed. No doubt in my mind that we will see the PlayStation 4 any day now along with the Vita version as well. Will have to dedicate some time this weekend into making some awesome worlds, really cannot wait to get back into it since I've been holding off building anything lately.

I know you can transfer the worlds over from the old consoles but I wanted a fresh slate and start a new. Good news though is any DLC packs bought will be transferable, picked up several packs early on the year when they was on sale so that's a bonus. Also the price is awesome since if you own it already you get a discount. This was posted up earlier on twitter...

"Minecraft: Xbox One Edition is £3.99 / €4.99 if you own the Xbox 360 Edition, and £15.99 / €19.99 if you don't. Out Friday!"

£3.99?! bargain! just hope the same happens with the PlayStation 4 version when they announce the date.

Anyway enough about Minecraft for now since I will no doubt be posting a ton this weekend about it. So let's talk about another upcoming game and thats Destiny which is out next week. I really do not know what to say about this game, it looks good and I did enjoy the Beta. Do I think the hype for it is bang on? no I don't, I really don't see this being the game of the century that everyone claims it is. Don't get me wrong it looks amazing and it probably will be good, but don't think its this ten out of ten.

I have it pre-ordered on the PlayStation 4 just a box standard edition but I'm really not sure if I will get it day one now. Thing is though if I do wait and then when I pick it up later it could be brilliant and I will have a long grind to catch up with my friends. Also to note I have no games other than Minecraft slated for this month and October is already falling a part with delays so I would have plenty of time to play it or to work on some old games.

Will have to think about it over the weekend, probably wise to check out what is coming out over the next few months so I can plan my spending. I know November is jam packed this year with lots of goodies.

Anyway on that note I'm going to shoot since I want to get some time on Diablo, have a good one folks
~Iznic

Last Week

Morning folks,

It’s been a while since I’ve really last posted on here but the last few months have been chaos for me. It was coming to the point getting spare time to write out a blog post was becoming impossible. It’s even made it a struggle to get game time in the last few weeks as well. 

Anyway good news I will try harder to at least get one post done each week to keep you folks up to date, plus I really do enjoy talking about games here.

So I’m not sure what to cover in this post or where to start since there has been a ton of new announcements since the last time we spoke. In the end I’ve decided to focus on what my thoughts have been this week concerning my gaming life and go from there.

Of course this week is all about GAMESCON which has pretty much all I’ve been talking about this week with the new announcements. Started off with the Tomb Raider 2 announcement about it being exclusive to the Xbox next holiday season. That really shocked me and I was floored by the news, of course with the wording “holiday exclusive” it was crystal clear that it was a timed exclusive but still shocking. Keep hearing Crystal Dynamics was scared of Uncharted being released so it does make sense to target the Xbox market while Uncharted comes out then do a second release later on for the PlayStation fans.

Also on that day another item was added to my buy list and that was the amazing limited edition Xbox One console in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare theme. I love the three colour scheme with the gold trim and to be honest it doesn’t really look like a Call of Duty theme which is probably why I like it so much. Plus the added bonus of a 1TB hard drive is a must since I found out the day that my Xbox One hard drive is at 41% full. I’ve barely got anything on it and with so many games coming out in the next few months I think I will need the upgrade.

I’ve put the order down anyway and I can decide closer to the date if I need to cancel but right now I want to upgrade. After Tomb Raider and the Xbox One the last thing on my mind this week was the World of Warcraft announcement. Think every fan has been awaiting for the announcement for the release date and finally on Thursday we had it. 13^th November we will see the release of Warlords of Draenor along with the awesome looking cinematic trailer for the expansion.

All through the video I was shouting “you cannot do that”, so many questions to be answers and could we be seeing a full alternate timeline to play around with. Blizzard could go full force with this and bring the Burning Legion into it in the next expansion, messing around with time opens up so much stuff to play with for the future expansions I just cannot wait to see what happens.

Shortly after announcing all this the physical collector’s edition was put up finally after months of waiting, everyone knew it was coming but of course we had to wait. Although we did have to wait nearly a day to confirm that collector’s box matches the rest in the series. Check it out below but I will be picking this up on day of launch.

That’s it for me today folks so have a good one folks,

Iznic

What a nightmare

Morning folks,
Sorry for the lack of posts this week with E3 being on at the start I was pretty much glued to the screen watching all the nice trailers being shown. I did plan to write some posts yesterday but then I realised my Xbox One had stopped earning achievements altogether. On Monday I noticed a problem with Tomb Raider and thought it was just the game bugging out. But yesterday I was missing about eight achievements across two different games. So spent the evening/night chatting on twitter with the Xbox support trying to find the problem.

Got to say they was helpful but in the end I found the problem, seemed my achievement app had broken. Everyone thought it was a delay since it can take up to 48 hours for an achievement to pop which shocked me since up to this week it's always been instant for me. I looked into it and there are few cases where people would have 100% requirements listed under the achievement but still unlocked. It would then unlock randomly days after at any point, mine did not have that. The requirement bar did not budge from 50% even though I did the requirements more then once. Anyway I got it working again this morning by doing a full factory reset, pain in the ass since I now have to reinstall everything again. Hopefully I've not lost too much in the ways of progression as well but achievements are working again.

Down side is though I got to re-earn them all again since they did not unlock and that's annoying because I got two luck achievements yesterday in Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare that I had been trying for months for. Argh!! such a pain! oh well hopefully my next matches will turn out great again.

So folks I will be doing some E3 stuff hopefully this afternoon/evening once I've caught on my jobs that I missed yesterday, until then have a good one folks.
~Iznic

New PVZ DLC Zomboss Down

Morning folks,
Just currently enjoying my morning cup of tea and reading up on what I've missed in the gaming news lately when I discovered that Garden Warfare had a new DLC added the other day.

Bit shocked to see Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare has got it's second free dlc out already, been weeks since I've last played. Anyway Zomboss Down adds a wild west theme to the game with eight new characters along with a new map for Gardens and Graveyards (cheering about that one).

Looks pretty sweet and the Xbox 360 edition has had some new achievements added for it, hoping Xbox One has had the same done. Something else to add to the play list for the next week and if they added new achievements they could really help towards my challenge of hitting 160,000. Be nice to have a new map into the rotation for Garden and Graveyards, it's quite a small list and gets a little old now again when you do a marathon session. Anyway check out the trailer below to see the new stuff in action.



Pharaoh Sunflower looks awesome and probably be the first character I will want to unlock.
~Iznic

Calming Down

Morning folks,
Well the mad March rush of new releases is finally coming to a end and the bank balance can now stop crying. It's amazing how the start of the year is turning into a new Christmas for the last couple of years. There is still a few games coming out for me over the next two months but a lot less compared to what just come out and more weeks in between releases so there should be time to clock games and trade them in.

Hopefully you all had a great week and have been playing quite a few games, for me I was working on South Park Stick of Truth all weekend. In fact Monday morning I finally clocked the Platinum trophy for it which now brings me up to six for the year so far (twenty is my goal for the year. So not doing to bad so far with my challenge with my friend. Anyway back to the game and I got to say it was amazing, if you love the show you really need to give it a try. It's a really long episode is the way to sum it up and I recommend to do all the side quests because is so many gags you will laugh at. Got to say it's on the list for Game of the Year so far.

With that out of the way I'm now working on a few games, well I am and I'm not. Not really got stuck into anything just yet, still trying to do the Xbox One Achievement Challenge for Titan Fall and get level 50 by the end of the month. Last night I hit level 34 so I'm close but I'm really running out of time and in fact I need to do roughly five levels a day just to hit it.

Really doesn't help that I keep getting terrible lag and rubber banding in the game though. In fact I lost connection several times yesterday and it ruined one amazing game for me. Would say it's my connection but I've checked it and nothing is wrong plus it seems I'm not the only one. Just hope they can sort it soon because its making the game unplayable sometimes.

Fingers crossed with that anyway so other then that I am starting inFamous Second Son, picked it up the other day along side Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls. Only done say an hour max but so far it's pretty sweet, graphics are amazing and the game play is not too bad. Will hold judgement off until I've got into it a little more then I will tell you guys what I think.

So that's it for me this week folks, Titan Fall and inFamous will be taking over my game time. Not sure yet what I will do after those two but expect a post soon with what I've done. I do have a few more posts in the pipe line just need to write them up, hopefully I can get one or two up later but until then have a good one folks.
~Iznic

Assassin's Creed Unity

Morning folks,
Few days ago a "leak" came out about the new Assassin's Creed game and showed off two screen shots from the ALPHA. It revealed the game was for the next generation consoles only and that another game was in the works for the past generation. Also it it revealed the setting for the game being France in the 18th Century. The leak was posted up on Kotaku which you can find here, there is a quite a few screen shots to check out plus the logo (See below)

Leaked Logo thanks to Kotaku

Anyway last night was the final reveal from Ubisoft and it was confirmed that the leak was real, the new game is called Assassin's Creed Unity which takes place in the French Revolution. Check out the teaser trailer below ...



Cannot lie I was hyper yesterday when I saw the news and I had to stop myself from jumping on the spot. I'm looking forward to see what's new and how the story is going to fold out with the Templar's, plus I'm very excited to see what the second game could be. Will it be in the same setting or a completely different one, so many questions right now and lets not forget what awesome collectors editions will they do this year. Although it's going to be expensive year if there is two games this year.

Anyway soon as more gets posted up I will do more updates but for now Arno the new Assassin will have to wait, graphics look amazing by the way.
~Iznic

Day One and Two

Good morning folks,
I thought it might be cool to try and keep the blog updated with my gaming progress towards my 2014 goals. So here is my first two day entries for the new year and what I've got planned for the next few weeks.


DAY ONE - 1st January 2014
I was hoping to get quite a bit of gaming done today but that went out the window since I got lots to catch up on. Of course it did not mean I didn't get any gaming in, I finally clocked Ryse Son of Rome on the Xbox One. I was just two chapters short from completing so I went for it and this is my first game clocked for the new year, plus my first clocked Xbox One game.

Got to say I really enjoyed it to say how many people keep putting it down, I would not say it's triple AAA but it's a brilliant game. Graphics are outstanding and it would be a game you use to show off the Xbox One. Story is ok and bit predictable in some plays but enjoyable, kept me going anyway and the controls was good. Personally I did find some of the fights a nightmare but I've never been been amazing with these type of fighting games.

 
So anyway I did earn 280 gamerscore for finishing off which I was pleased about and was shocked to find I'm now sitting on 700/1,000. Think I might go for the full 1,000 now since I'm so close, it will involve playing through again on Legendary which I think will be hard for me. Plus quite a few achievements are tied into the multiplayer but I do have a few friends with this game. Seems a doable 1,000 to me plus the fact I still want to play the game, not often that happens.

Other then that I never got around to jump onto anything else for today, was hoping to get some gaming done on the PS4 but that won't happen since of the time.


DAY TWO - 2nd January 2014
Complete opposite to yesterday and pretty much zero gaming done today, I did sneak in a quick small mission on Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags (PS4) on the morning but that was it. Got a funny feeling that the weekend will be the same since I got lots to do plus I'm going to be out a lot as well. But it wasn't all boring, I did sit down and plan out some of my games for my goals. I have a lot of games I want to platinum or 1,000, not just going out and finding the easiest games. Although I was shocked to see that I could get 10 platinum trophies with just Lego games this year (Hobbit and Movie are out this year). I don't care what people say I love the lego games and one of my favourite series plus they not easy to get, amount of time you have to input for the collectibles can rival a good RPG.

Anyway but yeah I got list forming of some great games I want to work on, not a lot future games on the list since no announcements yet but of course that can change when they come out. Might post up the list later once I've finished writing it out.



So that's my first two days of the new year and has I said I will try to post up each day or merge them together like this. My plans for the next week is to finish off Lego Marvel on the PS4 since the story is finished, just the huge grind of collectibles and challenges to do. Also I'm working on Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags PS4 as well for the story, really want to know what happens next in my favourite game series.

Right I better shoot since I've got lots to do, have a good one folks.
~Iznic

Happy New Year

Evening folks,
Well it's a brand new year and things are slowly starting to get back to normal for me, it's great having some time to actually write a post out for once. 2013 will go down in the history books for one of the busiest Christmas's I've ever worked. But you not here to hear about that so let's talk about games, well this year I've decided to go all out and do a few challenges.

For the last two years I've always set myself a goal for the PS3 with a friend from work, get x trophies or mostly get x platinum trophies and this year is no different. Originally it was meant to be ten new platinum trophies but after five minutes I could already work out what they was and realised I would have them by the summer at the latest. So I've made it a little harder and set it to twenty new platinum trophies, no pressure of course (trying not to panic).

Of course I did joke about setting some stupidly hard goals to go along side this and here they are, first up ten of those platinum trophies must be on the PlayStation 4. Might be a little hard since I cannot even name ten games yet for me, not to mention how hard they are to get the platinum. Then the cherry on the top, to finally reach 200,000 gamerscore on the Xbox. Yeah I bet you laughing with me since I barely get 17k gamerscore a year and I'm talking about a 45-50k increase. But where is the fun without a little challenge! so bring it on 2014 and let's get the gaming started.

Readers set yourself some goals, have a laugh and a great new year!! I will update again very soon but until then have a great day and new year.
 ~Iznic