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Letterpress – Winning strategy

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I've recently returned to playing Letterpress & I am off to a good start winning nine games on the trot. I've taken a lot of advice from Jochta's recent post on UGVM.

Control corners.
Always put an S on a word if there is one.
Variants like _ed and _er are counted as different words.
Look for endings like _ing.
Once you have control of the important letters and a corner build out into the board and take off unused letters one or two at a time to limit your opponent.
Leave Q to the end if there's no U as you know your opponents can only play QI or QIS with it.
Try and play an anagram (or nearly) of your opponents previous word.
Never leave common letters uncoloured with a close score as your opponent will almost certainly be able to polish them off. 

New Game – Dishonored

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Got bored of playing GTAV online, so I played a few hours of Dishonored yesterday, I only really wanted to install the game but ended up getting sucked in, the mirrors edge style viewpoint takes a while to get familiar.

The stealth-based gameplay is very enjoyable but I keep wishing for a Splinter Cell style radar to show me where enemies are, I need to get better at hiding behind obstacles & peeking out to see where the enemies are? I could of course go charging in & attack but the stealth is so much more enjoyable.

In other news fourth time lucky for my PS4 pre-order with a Killzone bundle from Sainsbury’s on order, wobblegate is getting discussed quite a bit & the white light of death has been reported on a few consoles. Glad the US are getting their machines early so they can beta test the machine in case of any issues.

GTA V – $500K Stimulus Package

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Apart from the UGVM PMG session I have not really touched the game. I'm still thinking about if I should play the single player or not but for now I am ignoring that & focusing on just the online part of the game.

Thanks to the $500K stimulus package from Rockstar, I went shopping for an apartment & purchased 3 Atla St, Apt 57 Downtown Los Santos, Los Santos for $223K.

It also comes with a 10 car garage which I have started to fill up already.

I did not want to venture into the online world without really getting to know the controls & have a good feel for the game. So I started an invite only mode which is essentially a private mode (this is initiated from the single player section of the game, by pressing start & going to online).

I have done a few single player missions which reward you with a bit of cash & some experience points. Simeon keeps sending me text messages on vehicles he wants me to get for him but when I get these vehicle's I am not sure where to deliver them? I need to practice more on how to best evade cops. At the moment I am driving back to my garage & that seems to get the cops of my back.

Not quite sure what else there is to do, certainly not much for the single player so will venture out into the online world to fail miserably at racing, crash when flying a plane or helicopter & miss all the checkpoints when doing a parachute jump.

Devil’s Attorney – Better Call Saul

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Devil's Attorney is a freebie I picked up off the App Store at the weekend with no in-app purchases or adverts. It's very well made & has a great intro song, you play an attorney who is at the start of his career & takes on cases to gain money. You can then use this moment to upgrade your apartment, which is turn boosts your skills.

When you take a case the game then goes turn-based & let you use your action points to play any of the skills you have & choose either the opposing attorney, witness or evidence to attack. I love the humour in the game, the turn based action is very enjoyable. Using the money you earn to purchase items for your apartment will increase either your Materialism, Decadence or Vanity unlocking new skills you can use in the courtroom.

Remember Me – Completed

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The last few chapters of the game give you a few unexpected story twists which I liked, equally there a few boss fights that will make you really stop & think about what strategy or s-pressen skills to use. The last boss fight proving very difficult with it's three stages took me a few attempts before I figured it out.

Remember Me vs Batman Arkham Origins and most gamers would choose Batman but what Remember Me does well is that it works with no issues at all. No bugs, crashes or corrupted saves. I'm still waiting for WB Games to confirm they have fixed the corrupted save issue before I attempt to play the game again.

With my PS4 pre-order now cancelled (Yes!! I have changed my mind again) I have the next 12 months to start working on my current backlog & look at the games I have missed this generation that I really should play. Next on the list though is a return to Fallout New Vegas & Old World Blues DLC.