What We Played #153: Killzone Shadow Fall, Thief & Trials Fusion

Killzone: Shadow Fall is still helping to keep Tuffcub off the streets and has been aided in that task this week by the “rather bombastic” Battlefield 4, the “isn’t half bad” Thief and the “infuriating” Knack. The latter being “difficult and the checkpoints are the most ridiculous I have ever encountered”.

Definitely not helping protect the public from our beloved TC are a bunch of PS Vita titles: Final Fantasy X-2, MUD and TxK. In particular he’s “loving” the “really, really good” TxK. He also tried the PlayStation Plus game Hotline Miami. “Ignoring the fact it looks absolutely terrible it is just plain awful. One hit kills, silly controls and just the worst thing I have played in many years.”

The always polite Dom has been trying to rapidly make his way through Final Fantasy XIV but has become resigned to the fact that it’ll probably take him months at his current rate of progress. I do wonder if it might be a certain other game that got plenty of mentions last week that is slowing him down.

I’ve also become addicted to Trials Fusion and trying to beat everyone on my friends list! This has meant I’ve seen a lot of TSA riders with Jungleman80, RTSHIP and Blair putting up a serious fight!

I’ve also just started Lego: The Movie with my son Noah who is loving it – he doesn’t really get progression yet, simply wanting to reply the same levels over and over!

Aran’s been too busy to play anything other than MLB The Show 2014 which he calls, “a fun game that has quite the depth to it” and is finding that it’s not just pitches but also the game’s wealth of stats that mostly fly over his head.

Going to the length of contracting mumps to give yourself more time with a controller could be a sign a dedication, desperation or merely desperate luck. Not sure which of those was the case for DanToo but he’s now in the position of having plenty of time to lay in bed playing videogames. He reports that it hurts to eat but I see that as one less gaming distraction and it’s not like laying down uses much energy.

He’s played snatches of inFamous Second Son and Killzone: Shadow Fall “for which the checkpoint saving is appalling and extremely frustrating” as well as Thief and Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry but is yet to be completely convinced by the PlayStation 4. I put that down to being delirious through illness and not having played Warframe.

I’ve also managed to play about 37 seasons on that Football Chairman game, making it all the way up from Non-league C to winning the Premier League, a total of 7 promotions and 1 relegation. But now I’ve mismanaged my finances now and I’m in huge debt so I’m giving up on it and starting a new save on Football Manager instead. Hopefully I wont get sacked as much as I did last time.

Blair has played a little FIFA 14, “the charming and stylish puzzler” Hitman Go and some Elder Scrolls Online. Something else has been preventing him playing much of any of those, that something being obvious if you read about Dom’s gaming above. Yes, he’s sunk the majority of his gaming time this week into Trials Fusion “which is brilliant with a true sense of challenge”.

Are you all still leaderboard-chasing in Trials Fusion too?