Beefing up privacy and controls

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.

Running away from the Real World

FallOut 4 has proven to be the ultimate escape from reality especially when things are not going so good.

15+ hours of full-on FallOut gameplay this week.

…not good.

Fallout 4 – Back at Yard

Killing zombies and building virtual houses is much more fun than dealing with things I “should have” or “could have” done.

Fallout 4 – Got my Eye on You

The problem with Digital content games is that you simply can’t take out the disk from your console if you want to lay off it for a while.

It took 5 seconds to delete a game that will take hours to re-install.

Fallout 4 – If only hacking was so easy

Initial Game release date: November 10, 2015

Fallen down

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.”

― Thomas Jefferson

Getting into the role

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.

 

STAR WARS™ Battlefront™- Ready for Part 2

Need to upgrade my HeadSet for StarWars