Looks like the new Games with Gold were announced this morning. I’m certainly happy about the Golf Club announcement as I own the previous two and didn’t really feel like buying the next one in the series.  I know nothing about Marooners and hopefully it does not suck too bad.  The 360 games are certainly different and I’ll be very happy to try out Comic Jumper if nothing else.  I’d say it is a solid announcement and hopefully the sign of a good week.  Enjoy.

Xbox One

• Marooners (May 1st-31st)
• The Golf Club 2019 (May 16th – June 15th)

Xbox 360

• Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon  (May 1st-15th)
• Comic Jumper (May 16th-31st)

Well, I am done with the campaign side of Road Redemption and working on campaign+ (got to the last stage and just ran out of track).  Looks like the developers released another patch over the past week and my progress bar on my money is going up again.  So I jumped from 16% to 51% (and now at 56%).  Unfortunately, my progress bar on dying in a campaign 30 times has not.  I’m not too worried about it, I just wish it wasn’t stuck anymore.  I need to start playing something different, lol.

Here are the sales.  Not too many BC games, it’s quite possible that Toy Story Mania eventually becomes a BC title, but certainly far from guaranteed.  I want to purchase Red Faction 2 at that price but old school shooters not named Doom, Wolf3d, Duke don’t tend to hold up.  Maybe I will anyway, enjoy the week kiddoes.

This was announced yesterday, sorry for the late transmission.  I’m actually a little more excited that Fable II and III got enhanced graphics for Xbox One X (and i don’t even have one) but I’m glad just the same.  Ninja Gaiden has always been a hard series and this game was certainly no different.  Note, this is not available digitally at this time, but there was a rumor that it was coming back to the Xbox store, so feel free to check in a week if you would like.  Enjoy.

• Ninja Gaiden II (Only on Disc currently)
  • DLC w/Achievements – Mission Mode $6.99

Well I did finally beat the campaign of Road Redemption.  Actually happened last Wednesday, something finally clicked (or I had finally filled out my skill tree enough) and I was able to put the Assassin to rest.  Problem is as I think I mentioned, my 2 remaining accumulation achievements are stuck and won’t go past 50% and 16% respectively.  Not sure if they reset or what but they are not going anywhere.  I guess I’ll focus on beating it with other characters but that might be the end of the game for me so to speak.  Or at least one like Ziggurat where I put it down for 6 months.

Anyway, minor sale this week because of the Spring sale.  So if you haven’t picked up Cars 2 or Bound by Flame or didn’t pick up one of the other two when they were GWG, well here you go.  I wish they would make Raven BC (despite the XB1 port) because I did buy those once upon a time and I just don’t see myself (where the 360 is) taking the time to play that one.  I pretty much use that 360 to play old 360 games that will never see the light of XB1.  Like the 360 Skyrim or NCAA Football 14…that sort of thing.  Anyway, enjoy your Easter week.

Well, here is the Spring Sale, it lasts for the next week and a half.  It’s hard for me to get excited for most of this since it is a bunch of regurgitated sales thrown together.  Not to mention among the BC items, I’m not seeing any DLC or hard to get items.  But perhaps there are a few nuggets here that are worth looking at.  It might actually be more worth while to look through the Xbox One items and just try not to worry about BC for this sale.  Prices will be populated throughout the day.  Enjoy.

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Well, I used the Xbox Free Weekends to play Borderlands 2 and it was a pretty fun experience.  I actually own the game on disc but as is usually the case with me and open world games, I never finished it.  So I was able to play for a few hours, pick up some achievements and that was that.  I did also play more Road Redemption but I think the achievement counters are stuck again.  I don’t know why its so hard for some publishers to fix achievements correctly.  I really need a game at this point that just works right (and isn’t too long).

Anyway, we have some sales. Supposedly there is supposed to be a much better sale later in the week but this should suffice for now.  I don’t think Bolt has been on sale before and if you missed the last time Hydrophobia was on sale (though I think it was $2 only), this is a good time to pick it up.  We’ll see what happens later in the week but enjoy your time until then.  Take care.

Welp, I did get 2 of the 4 accumulation type achievements I had left in Road Redemption.  Total Kills and kills with a samurai sword.  Sadly, I still have not beaten the game despite getting to the last stage on a very regular basis now.  Hopefully, I will be able to shake it loose in the next week or so.  If not, I will probably move it to an off and on basis (like I did with Ziggurat) until I finally finish it off (or get the other two accumulation achievements).

Anyway, we do have some sales this week even if they are barely worth mentioning.  Full Spectrum Warrior is certainly cheap enough but I have a feeling (like I do with any of the XBO games) that we’ll see it at GWG at some point.  Maybe this is the week the Worms games are made backwards compatible.  Ha, I say that every time they are on sale and it hasn’t worked yet.  Enjoy.

I assumed this was coming, I just needed to wait a few hours.  Not much to be said on this one outside of the fact that this does have a discontinued achievement so people should not be grabbing this in April expecting to 100% it.  Since it will be digitally free in a few weeks, I can’t really recommend the disc either unless you already own it.  So enjoy :)!

• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 $19.99 (Free on April 16th!) (Also available on disc)
  • DLC w/Achievements: GRAW 2 CO-OP Collection $4.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: GRAW 2 CO-OP Collection 2 $4.99

Looks like the new Games with Gold were announced this morning. Well I can say the Xbox One side is certainly interesting.  I’ve had Technomancer (the unofficial sequel to Mars: War Logs) at home for a while now and never started it.  It’s a tough game, or so I’ve heard but its a really good freebie and if you are willing to stick with it, it should provide many hours of fun.  I’ve heard good things about Outcast too.  On the 360 side, here we go with the XBO Star Wars games again.  But the more interesting one is Ghost Recon AW2 which is not backwards compatible just yet.  I assume that will be announced later today.  Enjoy.

Xbox One

• Technomancer (April 1st-30th)
• Outcast – Second Contact (April 16th – May 15th)

Xbox 360

• Star Wars Battlefront II (XBO) (April 1st-15th)
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (April 16th-30th)

Well, I have been playing Road Redemption quite a bit now since the patch came out.  The patch helps a lot.  My accumulation achievements seem to be working again and certain aspects such as how the game handles guns have been greatly improved.  I’ve made it to the last stage a couple of times now since the patch came out and I don’t think that’s coincidence either.  Also, I spent part of Friday and Saturday playing World Heroes 2 (Neo-Geo port).  An easy completion, though I would be a liar if I didn’t say it had some frustrating moments (especially on Friday night).

So, we got some sales.   It is mostly of the Batman/Lego Batman variety and then a little Oblivion thrown in as well but nothing earth shattering.  The first two Lego Batman’s are still two of the best Lego games ever made.  (only ones I’ve seen that come close are the Lego Harry Potters and possibly Lego LOTR)  and I can’t say enough good things about Arkham Asylum.  But don’t most people have it by now?  Anyway, there are your sales and may we get another random game for BC later this week (we should have GWG too).  Enjoy.