Expeditions Is the Ultimate Dad Game ToddMitchell, September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 If you’ve ever insisted on parking someone else’s car correctly, Expeditions: A MudRunner Game is for you. It’s a magical time for Xbox Game Pass if you like doing dad stuff in trucks. Monster and Monster’s Star Trucker recently dropped. That means you can haul cargo in an intergalactic big rig to your heart’s content. Mafia: Definitive Edition will let you revisit 1930s Illinois in fancy old cars. But I don’t know that any game has ever captured my dad heart like Expeditions: A MudRunner Game. Let’s get into it. You drive trucks decked out with every toy and gadget possible If you ever see some kind of utility truck drive by and think, “Hell yeah. What’s going on there?” You cannot play Expeditions soon enough. Last night I drove a huge cargo hauler up a mountain outfitted with some kind of pounding seismic activity sensor thing and then accidentally rolled it off a cliff. It was one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life. Drone expeditions Drones are for everyone. My whole family loves them. But I think about them a lot, and I’m pretty sure it’s because I’m a dad. Saber Interactive understands me, so they feature a drone prominently in Expeditions’ promotional art. True to the promise, you’ll frequently stop your cool truck to get your cool drone out and check out your surroundings. Flying them in-game is pretty realistic. But don’t worry, there’s still some video game magic. Real drone batteries die in like 15 minutes. This one has a pretty realistic flight range, but it never seems to need charging. You pull out vehicles that got stuck on their expeditions I’ve never actually done this one, but a lot of dads buy trucks they don’t even need, hoping that one day someone will call them because their inferior car is stuck somewhere. Even though I’ve never been involved in freeing a stuck car, I know like three different things you can try to get them out that don’t even involve towing. I have no idea where this knowledge even came from. I’m a dad, and I just have it. Expeditions has this covered thoroughly. You’ll take a cool truck to a swamp to tow another cool truck and finish one level driving two cool trucks. And, I mean…that’s the dream. You drill anchors very securely into things At some point in your life, a guy older than middle age has probably obsessed over finding a structural strongpoint in your home that would hold 500 pounds of weight so you could do something like hang up your keys. I suspect it has something to do with our biological need to provide shelter. Did you know this exists for off-road vehicles? It was news to me, and now I’m obsessed with it. In Expeditions, you can purchase a set of ground anchors to haul with you (and you’re going to want at least one set) so that if there isn’t a natural feature you can attach a wench to, you can pop one of these puppies straight into the ground somewhere and pull yourself out of mud or over some rocks. It’s automatic, and the process never goes wrong, but I still like to say something like “Oh yeah, that’s in there real good,” whenever I use one. It’s not something you can just go actually do instead Gaming for men approaching 40 is actually fantastic right now. Power Washer Simulator beautifully captures the experience of having said power washer and gradually attempting to blast the entire planet clean with it. I’ve both cut grass in Lawn Mowing Simulator and misrepresented my automotive knowledge in Car Mechanic Simulator in recent months. There are not one but two great installments in the House Flipper series right now. My wife has rightly reached the point of stepping in to offer, “you could also clean up around here if you wanted.” Expeditions captures adventures I’d love to go on but have no business actually trying, and certainly, no one would ask me to. If I visited the desert in Arizona in an off-road vehicle, local authorities would say, “Great, we’ll be keeping this idiot alive all week,” and I would not make it easy for them. Remember, this game only recently hit Game Pass, and I’ve surely already destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of virtual equipment in this game. It’s full of little chore expeditions you’ll gripe about, but you love and need them Complaints are a dad’s number one export. Ask us to do anything and we will treat it like a colonoscopy. Ever try to take something off a dad’s to-do list, though? Not a chance. They’ll protect it with their lives. It makes us feel needed. If we don’t have enough chores during the day, we start thinking about everything that hurts and how much closer to death we are than we used to be. Luckily for us, Expeditions’ gameplay is inherently struggle-based. You will literally spend half of the time trying to pull yourself out of mud, and near the beginning of the game, you’ll go through it twice to take a memory card about 30 feet. The tiny jobs are endless. Not everything has to be about saving the world, you guys. You only get vague directions and a map We don’t need your newfangled turn-by-turn gadget. Give us a good old map and a couple of landmarks any day. Part of the fun of Expeditions is knowing the spot you need to get to, but needing to choose between several ways to get there. Sometimes it’s a gut thing. Other times, you’ll just be wrong. That’s okay. You don’t have to say so out loud. You’re rewarded for noticing trees Ever wonder how dads can tell which trees are dead even during fall? It’s one of nature’s little mysteries. Dads probably think about trees for no less than 15 minutes per day–what the roots are doing to the fence out back, what it means when you see some sap, whether a certain type of bug is eating them, and who knows what else. This affinity comes into play right away in Expeditions. Trees mean free anchor points for wenches and easier climbing and recovery in rough terrain. In later missions, dads will drive the environment thinking it’s a shame there’s so much tree damage in the area because they forgot they caused it. There are metal detector expeditions They’re installed right on top of the cars. Aging men be loving some metal detectors because we might use them to find something old and rusty like us. You will obsess over car parts Or you will ignore the need for them and Google it once there’s a problem. You will drive in reverse all the time and more. Do you have to be a dad to enjoy Expeditions: A MudRunner Game? Of course not. You could be anyone who picks up dog poop and tears up the whole week’s worth of cardboard late the night before trash day. It’s a fun game that nicely captures the natural beauty of some of Earth’s most scenic locations. Then, it lets you use awesome trucks and gear to make them just a little dirtier. Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like Loading... Gaming Humor Driving GamesRacingSim GamesSimulator GamesXbox Game Pass
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Watch those tip screens, always have jacks and anchors with you, and don’t worry about buying new trucks right away. You’ll be ripping it up in no time. Enjoy! Loading... Reply