The mandatory system update 5.0 for PS4 rolled out a number of new features included better user control over child accounts. It seems much easier to monitor your child’s gaming activity now.
In the meantime, Uber announce “more information about how you can control what we collect and how we use your data, including location information .”
These are all common sense issues that are now only being implemented because of mass dissatisfaction from user groups, a bit like 2-factor authentication being deployed after a breach.
It’s about time
the meantime, I added two new titles to my Games Library. The award-winning Metal Gear Solid V and a horror set named Amnesia: Collection, which contains both The Dark Descent and A Machine for Pigs. Both titles are free to PlayStation Plus subscribers and make the membership fee actually financially viable for the year.
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
I have followed many multiplayer sessions of Metal Gear Solid over the past 24 months but actually playing it was epic and jaw-dropping. Amnesia had a weird notice at the being of the game.
“Do not play this game to Win”
Amnesia Collection – Scary Stuff
What the bleep bleep?
Anyhow, the two titles will get moderate attention from me after the Star Wars Beta session this weekend.
Giving the player free-roaming options in a massive Open World is the ultimate gameplay.
FallOut 4 is an old game but now dominates my game time, typically 3-5 hours a day throughout the night. I’m still only level 15 and backtracking to farm some of the earlier areas and chapters in the game.
This has triggered poor eating and almost no exercise, binging on peanut butter and jam sandwiches is not a good thing. I recognise the fact that I’m just trying to escape the “End of month, Run out of money” Blues.
“If you want something you’ve never had You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
Spent the past few days really getting into the Fallout 4 role play. My character is pretty young but I’ve developed enough to explore the landscape without dying every two minutes.
Fallout 4 landscape is massive
I’ve figured out how to Platinum Trophy hunt in Life is strange without messing up my choices.
Life Is Strange™ Taking pix all over the place.
My StarWars Battlefront re-training is pure fun after I figured out how to get the free DLC content with $6 ultimate version. It caused a hard drive issue with 2 instances of 40+ GB taking up valuable space. My disk version is now redundant and can be archived.
Still, I’m running a horrendous Kill Death ratio of 10% in multiplier mode but it feels good practising with offline AI enemies. Map knowledge, weapons and skill access is critical to success. Most players I’ve joined have weapons I haven’t even tried out much less mastered.
Anyhow, my primary objective is just to be ready for the Part 2 Beta.
I put down Star Wars Battlefront after 129 hours, 25 minutes and 53 seconds of game time, ending with 5,321 kills and 7,505 deaths.
Now, after over a year of retirement, I’m coming back for Part 2.
I was kinda fooling myself into thinking I could just be satisfied with watching from the sidelines, clearly, the Dark Side is too strong to resist. I’m be joining the Public Beta on 6-9 October and no doubt there will be over 5 million players doing the same thing.
EA Public Beta is a bit of a nonsense as the company probably has an army of professional gamers, developers and streamers willing to test at any time. I guess the argument is to load testing the server network but I suspect the real motivation is to hook players into buying the game, pure “try before you buy” marketing.
