What I Played This Week (9/20/2020)

This week was the end of Seattle’s skies being filled with unhealthy amounts of smoke, but before that happened I got fed up with the smoke, and covered my window with cling wrap and blue tape so I could use my Air Conditioner again. That only had to last for a couple days before the smoke was finally gone, I then took it all down and the windows have been open ever since! I will be moving this coming week, so next week’s list might just be the 3 mobile games I can play while sitting on the floor in between taking boxes between locations. Or maybe there won’t be a post next week, who knows.

Titanfall 2: Titanfall 1 was the reason I bought an Xbox One, I played a LOT of that game. Titanfall 2 is the best FPS of this generation, and might be the best game of the generation. The campaign is full of fun and interesting ideas, and the multiplayer is the best version of the Call of Duty formula of multiplayer, with customizable classes, perks, etc. Even in 2020 I can still find matches on Xbox. Running and jumping through great maps and double jumping into a giant robot still feels great 4 years later. I yearn for a Titanfall 3 with a new awesome campaign and great multiplayer maps, but I worry that the success of Apex Legends means that my dream of a Titanfall 3 may never come, and for that I am sad. I’ll just have to keep playing Titanfall 2 until that day comes.

I, Zombie: I tested this little game back when I was a little baby Functional Certification Tester for Xbox. I think this might have been one of the only games I got every achievement in while I was testing it. I remember enjoying my time with it, going back to it now and playing it when I could be doing something else (unlike when I was working and playing this game was all I could do for 8 hours a day over 2 days). The game is a puzzle game where you play as a little zombie and your goal is to turn all the characters in the level into zombies. Some of the humans are soldiers with guns, some are civilians, and some are scientists. Every person you turn is able to be controlled with 3 commands: Attack, Follow, or Stay. The puzzles revolve around figuring out which person you can turn first and when to send your zombie squad into the guns of the soldiers. The levels are either scored on how fast you complete them, or how many zombies you managed to save when you finished the level. The game was a joy to test when I had to do it, and it was well worth the $1 I paid to see if it was actually good.

Assassin’s Creed Origins: After playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and other similarly structured open world games I have found that for an open world game to be interesting to me the actual world must be interesting to actually be in. Breath of the Wild (the best open world ever made) makes exploring the world the core loop of the whole game. AC Origins, on the other hand, has a button that just lets you auto-pilot to your destination, or as like to call it the “skip exploring” button. I haven’t had any drive to do things other than make my camel automatically bring me to the objective, do the thing, then go back to whatever NPC gave me the mission. Outside of actually doing the objectives I have not thought about the environments more than “this is where the camel brought me”. Also this game is like a thousand hours long, I do not see a world in which I finish this game, but I might come back and slowly work through it 1 mission at a time, but who knows.

Hades: I started Hades yesterday, now that it is out on the Switch. I have gotten to the second boss once, which felt pretty good for just a couple hours of playing. All of the weapons that I’ve tried have been great. I just unlocked the spear, but haven’t done a run with it yet. The writing is also great, I am expecting some sort of twist but I’m excited to try it out. Supergiant make great games, and Hades is no exception. 

Hotshot Racing: Tried this out again briefly, nothing new from what I said last week. Game seems fine, but I don’t think I’ll play much more of it.

Hearthstone: Won some, lost more. Sitting around 7300 in Battlegrounds. Haven’t played much constructed except to finish quests. It’s still good, but I didn't play much this week.

Mini Metro: Did the dailies every day this week. I got into the top 10% 3 days, the Saturday Daily didn’t give me an actual ranking but 10th got 1482 and I got 1455, so I’m going to give myself 11th that day. Mini Metro continues to be excellent.

Egg Inc: I prestiged for the first time since picking Egg Inc back up, prestiging earns you another currency called Soul Eggs, each Soul Egg increases the value of the regular egg in every farm. This prestige took me from 1.3 Million Soul Eggs to 3.2 Billion soul eggs, increasing my earning bonus to 958.118Billion%. This game loves big numbers, and so do I.