MyNameIsAtticus
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Today's game is **Animal Crossing New Leaf**. My playtime has kind of been tapering off with this game, as is my usual play style with these games (you can tell because i haven't replaced the hat). I went ahead and built a bridge recently though. I didn't realize there was a ceremony though until just now.
So that means at 10:30 PM, Isabelle gathered everyone in town, and made them crawl out from bed to the bridge, just so i could give a speech.
We also had a new guy move in today. His name is Quillson. No clue about him, but he seems chill, so he can stay. I only really saw him once today though and that was it. Makes me think he's kind of hiding out.
I also started construction of the campsite. I've been hoarding Meow Coupons so hopefully this will go fast, because i'll just turn those into cash and then pay off the campsite.
All of this i got up to in about the last hour or so. I also got tired of all my screenshots getting crunched to hell because of the resolution. So i wrote another script to upscale them with (if i remember correctly) nearest neighbor. It's nothing fancy, literally it can be thrown together in like an hour. But it's super handy so my images aren't being butchered. Though now that i'm looking at it, it makes the pictures seem off. I supposed it's better than compressed to hell and back though
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Today's game is **Halo 3: ODST**. Me and my friend were going to continue Halo 4 on the Masterchief saga, but another friend ended up joining us. So we decided to do ODST. We made it pretty far in, i forgot how long this game could feel though.
We played the Uplift Reserve and our friend decided he would just jump on top of the Warthog, somehow we made it through the *whole* level like that. Surprisingly he only fell off once.
There of course was also the Time Honored tradition of killing eachother in a Halo game. I feel like it's a little harder in ODST, i'm not sure why though. I think it's the way health is handled and their not being a visual indicator for the "Shield" (Stamina in this game).
I also noticed that a *lot* of these levels, in retrospect, seem kind of speed orientated. Like i can just run through them to the end. It's not really a complaint or anything, but just something i noticed.
We ended on Kizingo Blvd, where we crashed at the very end. We decided that was a good point to end off at on the night. It was fun getting to play this. Halo 3 ODST is probably my least played game. I've got like 50 playthroughs of Halo 3 and Reach, and then ODST I have 3. Once on Legendary Co-Op, another on Normal with My Brother, and another on Normal with a friend. This will make 4th hopefully.
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Today’s game is **Red Dead Online**. I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been packing a lot to move, so you know what the perfect way to unwind is? My favorite multiplayer Fishing/Hunting/Gambling sim with my best friend.
I ended up catching this huge 14 lbs fish (at least I think that’s big for a fish). It’s a Muskie. I’m not really sure what you do with these in online but I’ve been parading it around on my horse.
Me and my friend ended up moving to a lake to fish after that, but I forgot it’s that lead poisoned lake. He thought I was doing a bit until I took him into the caves. Then he accidentally fell on me and pushed me into a pit in the caves, killing me.
The only real way to cope with my death was to go get shit faced, so that’s what I did. I went to Van Horn and just drank a ton of liquor until I passed out. Then I went on a rampage.
I kept that up for the rest of the night until the entire town was gone and i had a shootout in a graveyard. That’s where I had decided to end. Honestly quite the escalation from fishing.
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toI like how Reach handled the sprint. You had it, but you could swap it out for a different power up like the older games. It felt like a balanced way to handle it.
I can’t say I share the same fondness for the armor though. It’s more of a personal thing though. Something about the armor feels very clunky to me
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toSpeaking of the weapons. I absolutely despise using the forerunner weapons. Like. The UNSC Weapons and majority of the covenant weapons control fine, hell, I’d say a few of them control really well. But then the Forerunner weapons feel like they have no impact. It’s some sort of combo of how the Forerunner enemies are and the lack of any sort of haptic feedback.
Maybe it’s just a me thing. It did take me a while to figure out the needler actually needed the shields to be down to explode. So maybe I’m missing something
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Today's game is **Halo 4**. I continued my playlist with my friend and we started on this. Upon replaying it, i think i may have been too harsh on my initial decision against the game (though i'm not going to 100 say it for sure). I know it seems obvious, but playing on normal as opposed to legendary really makes it a bit more tolerable. Don't get me wrong, it's Halo 4, but it's come from like a 5.5/10 to a 6.5/10 for me.
Today's lag seemed extra atrocious though. It ended up being the reason i only played 2 levels. On one part seen above, the game froze for so long i got to study the closeup of a plasma grenade. Usually you only get to see that for a few seconds.
I will also add that, on retrospect. I am not a fan of the Forerunner designs in Halo 4. I'm not sure what it is but i do not like it. Too many colors I think. Something about it also just seems samey too me. I can't really tell any of it's sections apart like i could with the Bungie games. Though i may also not be the best judge of that due to my face blindness.
Like mentioned before me and my friend only did the first two levels because the lag got *that* bad. For some reason my WiFi card struggles anywhere beyond 10 feet from the router. So my signal is abysmal. I actually tried to replace it today with an AX210 which i heard works great on linux, but the card is completely dead, so i have to return it.
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Today's game is some more **Max Payne**. Today was a bit short due time constraints and just overall exhaustion (i'm in the middle of moving). I did the Jack Lupino boss fight today. I bring this up because i wanted to talk about the very allusion to norse mythology, and which flew over my head until the last few chapters.
I'm astonished i missed it because it's slammed into your face so many times throughout the story. There's the nightclub, Balder, and Woden resembling Odin (along with the name). I am glad i picked up on it at all though. It makes for a nice story, and honestly is what makes Sam Lake's works amazing too me.
After coming through the nightclub for the second time ever it's a lot easier. I know i struggled a lot to figure out all the puzzles. Like the one where you have to lift the curtains. For whatever reason max just wouldn't look at them so i knew to raise them.
And then i wanted to end today talking about this altar room. This room is always the first one too pop into my memory when i think of this game. I have no idea why, it's not difficult, or really all to impressive, but something about it is so memorable. Maybe it's because it's right before the boss fight, and *that* was difficult. But something about this room right here is what pops into my memory when i think of this game. It's probably not a interesting room to associate the game with, but it's my room.
Anyways, tomorrow i'll hopefully have a lot more free time so hopefully i can get a lot further than this snail's pace i've been progressing at.
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Today's game is **Halo 3**. Me and my Friend finished up our run. I believe last time i incorrectly stated that we finished it due to being used too finishing it all in one sitting. We *did* finish it this run though. The Covenant level seems to always be our major bottle neck, and this time was no different. It took us maybe 25 minutes this go around, though we *did* kill eachother a few times. You can piece together what happened from the screenshot above. We also always seem to have major network issues on this level though for some reason. I have no idea why but it *always* seems to happen.
I then proceeded to do it a second time with the Spartan Laser. I really like this one because Arbiter has that "Crap" look on his face. Like he *knew* this was going to happen.
There was also a random Marine we carried through the entire level. This was our little guy. Nothing mattered more too me than getting him through alive. And by god we did.
After that was the level Cortana. There's not much to say about this one. It's Cortana. The image for it really speaks volumes to be honest.
Finally there was *Halo*. We did the Warthog run for this all in one sitting without dying. The battle up the hill was a bit more of a struggle, but to be honest, when i grabbed the skull and carried it through it suddenly became a *whole* lot easier. Maybe it's just luck but i like to imagine the Skull gave Chief the motivation to do it. I also beat my friend's head in with the skull. So that may have helped too.
After this is Halo 4. That will be a bit later though i think. After playing Halo 4 on Legendary and Normal before, I am in no rush too get too it. Don't get me wrong, i don't hate it, but i also am not eager to play it again. Though, i suppose i'll have too in order to get closer to the last 25% of achievements for MCC.
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Today's game is some more **Animal Crossing New Leaf**. I've made it past the 3 day mark for abandonment! New record for me. What's with the hat choice? I started buying whatever hat was in the first hat slot in the store. The sombrero just so happened to be today's. Yesterday's was a newsboy cap (and so far that one has been my favorite).
There wasn't much going on in town today. Mainly just some daily stuff. I made a stop by the museum and looked though. The Aquarium is my favorite section of the museum in every game. New Horizons has my favorite, but i like the aesthetic of New Leaf. Combined with the music it's got this vibe too it i love.
Someone is moving in next to the Able Sisters. I have no idea who they are because i don't recall ever actually getting this far, so i'm excited to find out who it is. I have a few hunches but i'm excited regardless. I like unlocking new things.
I've also expanded my house and invested in two pieces of furniture. There's my Bed and then my Cactus. The Cactus is my emotional Support Cactus. Bad day? Pet the Cactus. Need a distraction? Pet the Cactus. Feelin' lonely? You guessed it, pet the Cactus.
I've also been neglecting to visit Tortimer. I'm not sure why, but now that Isabelle brought it up i've taken it personally and won't do it for even longer. I will not be bullied onto the old mayor's island. I don't care how many people tell me to go.
But yeah, that's just a quick recap of everything as of recent. One last thing though, There's also a new bridge i built. I noticed there was a lack of really any major paths over the river on the Eastern side of town, so i built a bridge too help people get across easier as my first official act of mayor. I got to open it today.
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Today's game is some more **Halo 3**. Me and my friend went through with our plans to play Halo 3 today. We almost went through the entire game in one sitting like usual. The only thing that stopped us was a crash at the very end of *The Covenant*. We still had a damn good run though.
There was The Storm, where me and my friend took the Razor Back up the lift and ramped it up too the Scarab. It looked dorky at first but then it looked badass. The game kept trying to buck me off the scaffolding though while driving so something tells me its not supposed to be up there.
During the level we ended up also getting distracted by a bag of chips on the ground and we got into this discussion me and my best friend had about Arbiter getting his head stuck in the bag trying to eat it like how a cat might get it's head stuck in a bag. He ended up drawing this wonderful rendition of Arbiter with a bag stuck on his head after, which i have asked permission to share. Whether his stature is one of elation at the chips or terror at the bag stuck on his head i'm not sure.
During the very first level one of our Marines got stuck too. I'm not sure how, but he was looking at the ground like there was something interesting down there. I like to imagine he saw a cool bug or something.
During the level The Ark, my friend controlling the Arbiter got this weird visual glitch where High Charity flashed on screen. I have to assume it was a bug, but i like to imagine it's Arbiter was thinking of home. I tried to capture it in Theater but the game won't let me go in first person in Theater mode for Arbiter for some reason. I'm not sure why.
After all that though, as i mentioned above, i had to stop on the level *The Covenant* due too the crash. It's crazy to think with Halo 3 i've reached the point i can play through it in one day. Just after this it'll be Halo 4 again and i've have completed the Master Chief Saga, which will be great. Maybe after me and my friend can pick up LASO CE again.
I’m not really surprised. I kind of saw this coming with the price and how the sales started dropping after the launch.
I was talking to a friend about it and i just got brushed off by him saying “The numbers are too large too mean anything”. It’s crazy how people like him just buried their heads in the sand
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toKOTOR i really liked growing up! Granted i played the mobile Version on a kindle fire i got for free that was going to shit…
That Backlog though is great. Almost all of those except KCD2 i have had a great time with. I even 100% the Oblivion Remaster.
The Silent Hill 2 Remaster is up there in my recommendations, though that’s more of a me thing. Alan Wake (Both 1 & 2) are some of my favorite games of all time too, just a heads up on the second one that it’s only available through Epic on PC. I know that’s a deal breaker for a lot of people, and it almost was for me if i couldn’t add it as a Non Steam Game.
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toI’m always the man in the truck guy so i get to dodge a lot of the Jumpscares lol. It sucks for my Teammates who are a lot more startled by Jumpscares, because i’m the only one of us who can actually pay attention to the Cameras. The most involvement i have (until 1/2 the team is gone) is going in and dropping cameras down for footage and stuff
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Today's game is **Halo 3**. I was bored and doing a little "Spring Cleaning" of my Steam Library, narrowing everything down to what's on hold and what i'm playing. Right now Max Payne and Halo are in the Currently Playing, while my on hold looks like this:
I had the overwhelming urge though to play the last mission of Halo 3. I'm not exactly sure why today of all days, but i found the Warthog Run Score being stuck in my head while packing today.
The entire climb up too the Control Room feels really different on Single Player. In Co-Op me and my friends are all cracking Jokes. But in Single Player it feels like you're immersed (at least to me). It's honestly impressive Halo can immerse you in like that so deeply. It's something i noticed while playing Reach on Legendary Solo. It honestly makes me want to try and play the whole franchise on Legendary solo (instead of just Halo Reach and Halo 4 like the achievements ask for)
The SMG in Masterchief's hands also looks super tiny. I know he's larger than the average soldier but it looks kind of silly when you see it.
I of course, made sure to give Sgt. Johnson a kiss on the forehead before leaving. Such an iconic character deserves it. Sleep well my Sweet Prince.
Soon after that though the heroics kicked back in and me and Arbiter sprinted to the Warthog run. I honestly struggled a little on this section, as i suck at leading my shots with the Plasma rifle. With the plasma pistol i can use the charge blast, but with the rifle i'm basically left to fend for myself in the Aim department.
I was able to make it to the Warthog run though after that and did it all in one try. The run, as usual, was iconic. This is honestly one of my favorite final levels in the Master Chief Halo games. Halo CE's is a close second but i just cannot find it in me to enjoy the Warthog physics in that game. Halo 3's at least are bearable, though i don't like how i skid to a complete halt whenever i do a jump.
i got this clip of my last few seconds of the run, which i really like how it turned out. Me and my friend were talking about playing Halo 3 *again* tomorrow, so i might play the rest of the thing (I know, i'm a bit of an addict. How many times has Halo featured on here?). Anyways, it was nice to get that out of my system, even if it did take a whole 30 minutes from me.
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Today's game is **Phasmophobia**. After moving PCs it took me a while to get it set up again on my PC. Apparently i needed the `SteamDeck=1` command to get Voice Chat to work on Non-Steam Deck devices. After that though it worked perfectly.
We have a new friend that's joined our group, but the problem with games like these is that they're only ever 4 player. So our solution?
I messed with pipewire and merged my Mic and Discord's Output into one Audio Source, then fed that into Phasmophobia. Then i streamed Phasmophobia too my friend on Discord.
The result was all my friends could hear him through me and he could hear them through my stream. It was like having a second voice in my body.
Is it convoluted? Yeah. Is my flow chart a mess? Probably. But it was a lot of fun to setup, though it definitely needs more work. I wonder if i could make some sort of Widget to toggle it on and off per a game to make it cleaner.
Nerd stuff aside, we only played a few matches. All our games kept taking quite a while because we'd die and then the Ghost just... wouldn't show up. Nothing at all. We spent a total of maybe 2 hours playing in total.
By the last match we needed to lower our sanity, so i just took to watching my friends through the window like a creep. The player model kind of looks like Todd Howard, so just picture him watching you through your living room window at night and you get the idea.
After that wore off to bring my sanity down lower i started tossing stuff on my dead friend. Just random stuff like kitchen supplies. I thought i was probably going to die because everyone was left in the truck. But one of my other friends went back in for a photo, and the moment he did the ghost started a hunt. I was already safe back in the truck by then and we lost him.
That ended up being our last game for the night and we went back. We were going to do one more but one of our players started having Wi-Fi issues, thanks *AT&T*.
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Today's game is **Max Payne**. I continued my playthrough today with a friend who's on call. I was just kind of peeking around with the camera when i noticed the writing on the wall behind Max (literally). I probably missed it my first playthrough because i was blind, but it's kind of ironic that the writing was literally on the wall the entire game.
I also dicked around and tried to make it look like Max was playing Basketball. There's not really much too this one, i just thought it was funny to try and make him look like he was playing.
I also wanted to talk about the difficulty fix. This life right here? On my first playthrough without the fix i spent an hour struggling here. With the fix it was the same difficulty as everything else though. I highly recommend the fix to anyone playing as it's the result of a bug (and makes it far more tolerable).
Though i will say i wonder if it makes it too easy, like this fight here was supposed to be like a boss fight sort of. I ended up just hanging out up here for the most part and shooting at them with the Desert Eagle. Besides that though it's really handy to have. I stopped at this fight for other reasons, but i want to sit down and finish chapter 1 soon. Hopefully i'll find the time.
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Today's game is **Animal Crossing New Leaf**. I apologize for the abysmal compression. If i had known the screenshots were going to come out like this i would have picked another game entirely.
Me and a friend decided to play this because it got Pretendo support. For anyone not in the know, Pretendo is replacement servers for the 3DS and Wii U. I never played it much growing up, and the only reason i have a copy really is because i got it bundled with my 3DS i bought from GameStop years back. But i wanted to give it a shot because i had this itch in the back of my mind to play it. I guess i was just really in the mood to run a town of animals.
As soon as i opened my gate to my friend, he left this note for my villagers. For context, i do not have a good track record when it comes to games like Animal Crossing. I *always* end up dropping them after a day. We'll see though with this, the new year has me motivated to keep up on this and also finish my second Pokemon Platinum playthrough.
Isabelle isn't making it easy though. Everytime i try to do a mayoral duty she wants to stop me and make me do something else. It's like "Do you know how to use a shovel? You should go learn how". Isabelle, it's a fucking shovel. It's not rocket science. **Please** for the love of god just let me do my job.
Besides the government struggles though, i went down to the beach and went shell collecting for some money to pay off my house some. When i went to pay part of it off though Tom Nook was closed, so it looks like i'll have to do that tomorrow. That's all really though. I went and planted some Cherries before going off. I wanted to clean up my 3DS after a while away for a fresh install, which seemed like the right idea. Honestly i might get the parts to refurbish it. It certainly needs it, as the whole thing was basically held together with duct tape at one point, and the shell's paint is peeling.
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Today's game is **Max Payne**. I went ahead and figured out how to renable the Developer tools again and was just playing around with it. Remedy games are always the most fun to do this with because not only does it let you get out neat screenshots (like the one above), but theres some interesting things to be found out of bounds.
With having played the game before, i've taken to just exploring and watching the environment. Max Payne has some of my favorite ambient areas with the snow. I didn't grow up with it, but something about it is just really pretty looking and nice to just chill and watch. So far this has been my favorite spot to watch. It's right next to the fire barrel above and the ambient noise is nice to listen too.
I had a clip of me just sitting there watching it but i didn't realize my mic was on so i can't share it.
I went and sough out a close up of the rats wandering around the map to get an idea of what they look like up close. I did a similar thing in Halo 3 so i wanted to get an idea here too. Funnily enough they're pretty close to me, at least on a surface level. I guess at the level of fidelity you don't really need Rats to have a high polygon count.
I got as far as taking the elevator up before the game crashed as soon as i left it. I'm not really sure what the crash was because its been pretty stable so far. My last save wasn't too far off though so i just need to load it up again and take the elevator back up before continuing.
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Today's game is Red Dead Online. Me and my friend played in a private lobby and just hunted some stuff. It's honestly one of my favorite ways to spend my time playing this game. I don't think i have it in me to directly take an Animal's life, so this game kind of lets me get the experience of it without the guilt (though, when i fuck up a shot and the animal suffers i do feel pretty bad too).
It's honestly really cool. I like when games have mechanics like this that i could only describe as immersive. Zomboid is like this too with it's... well... everything. I need more games like this in my life.
After a while of hunting i got a new Jacket unlocked, so me and my friend rode into San Denis to go shopping. I like coming to this city in the winter because of all the snow. I honestly wish the game had a season mechanic. It'd probably take a lot of Horsepower to run but it'd be cool. That's probably more of a Red Dead 3 thing though, if and when it happens.
After clothes shopping we went Bounty Hunting. This is my favorite job to do just because it feels the closest to a campaign. I wish we had gotten more jobs though. I know i, and i know many others, have said this before, but Rockstar really did this game dirty by cutting it's life so short. It really deserved more.
After the bounty hunting, me and my friend went back too hunting animals until he got off, citing flu. I stayed on to get my Trader production up and running again before getting off myself.
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For whatever reason I’ve had major network issues on my end (fucking AT&T man). I’d have to assume it’s on my end because as far as I’ve heard there was no major outage, but I did get today’s out even if it’s a bit late. Today’s game is **Max Payne**. I wanted to play this January, since I assume December/January was when this takes place.
I went ahead and left it at its natural resolution out of laziness but to be honest, I might leave it like this. It doesn’t look bad at all and it helps mask the harsh jagged edges I’d see at 4k.
I also went ahead and installed the adaptive difficulty fix, and it makes a _world_ of difference. For people who don’t know, the PC version is bugged and the enemies after a bit will cap out at the hardest difficulty values because it doesn’t account for death like it’s supposed to.
I’m keeping today a bit short because I already wasted enough time trying to get this actually posted, but I went all the way to the hotel before stopping.
With the fix I installed I was mowing through enemies like a lawn mower, it was a good feeling after already being exhausted by that level the _last_ time I played
It makes the game far more enjoyable so I’d suggest it for anyone wanting to play (unless you want the adaptive difficulty of course)
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Today's game is some more The Darkside Detective. I was in call with a friend and finished it up today with him. I really enjoyed playing this, and i'm thankful i was gifted it, i don't think i would have tried it other wise.
Overall for the game, Most of the puzzles were pretty straightforward. There was one i struggled with and it was the Christmas one. It was pretty open from the get go so i had trouble figuring out what all to do. Even then though there were maybe two hole puzzles i got stuck on.
The bonus one after that was pretty quick and straight forward which i liked. It gave a much needed breather after the difficulty of the last one and i got it done fast. I liked the puzzles in it, and the humor was great too.
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I liked having to assemble the sausage rope. It's a stupid joke but i thought it was funny and got a good laugh out of me.
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Honestly a lot of the writing in general is really good. There's one character who's meant to be the Nepo bigshot Cop, and i like that they made him not only a dick, but a horrible person too. It really makes you feel a lot better about not liking how much of an asshole he is. It also makes you feel good about destroying his car.
The game ended with a teaser to the sequel, which i think I'll pick up eventually because i really liked this game. It was a lot of fun and a good time. For anyone that likes point and clicks I'd say it's at least worth checking out.
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Today's game is The Darkside Detective. I had gifted a friend a copy of OneShot, and he ended up enjoying it so much he gifted me this as a little game exchange. He said he thought i might like it. Turns out, i really enjoyed it. It's a basic point and click but a lot of fun.
It's humor reminds me a lot of Welcome to Nightvale meets Douglas Adams. It's like a mix of Nightvale's seriously funny absurdity and Adam's laid back funny absurdity. I really like it. Not to mention it features Douglas Adams himself as an NPC in a chapter, so that's an instant plus from me.
Gameplay wise it reminds me of Ace Attorney's investigation stages. I do wish it had an overarching story like those games (i haven't beaten this yet, but i'm on the last case and not seeing one), but that's not really a slight against it's quality. More so a "Oh, it would be cool".
I played this in call with the friend who gifted it to me today, and I'll probably finish it up tomorrow doing the same. It's a lot of fun, and honestly after Undertale it kind of makes me want to replay Ace Attorney again.
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Today's game is **Baldur's Gate 3**. We managed to get our group together and go free the Druid guy. We started out taking a long rest to heal after last time. Only, our game bugged out and we started off with everyone asleep like this...
One of our players sleeps naked after selling *all* his belongings, so just a heads up that Little Zorvak is there behind the black box, but here's a better view of the party roasting their head.
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After that we snuck in and poisoned the goblins. I also managed to wipe out most the people in the upper area by being a sneaky fighter and kicking their shit in with a Axe. The only one that proved to really be an issue was the two guys with like 20 HP, and even then we picked them off pretty easily.
Heading in, i snuck through and looted the treasure room and then bought a better axe before we jumped into combat. My friends though stated combat without me though. That's something i kind of like about this, how you can split the party and go off and get up to your own random antics. My character and Zorvak usually get up to our own B-Plot, like when we were chasing the Chicken while the other two were hunting gold.
After making our way inside and through the building i snuck into the rafters before getting into a fight with the big guy. It was handy to have set up because i could hold it as a choke point against the enemies as they all climbed up. I also set up a few things of grease through out the fight to mess them up.
After the fight we were gonna get off because our rogue's WiFi crashed, before we did though i stuffed our Mage's inventory full of random shit while he was finishing a cut scene. This was the result after he emptied it.
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toI ended up getting it through other means I’m not sure I’m allowed to mention (though I own an Xbox copy too), but a friend who checks these had a Steam Key from a while ago I guess that he just forgot to use it, so I guess I got a moral and legal copy. It’s a shame about Below Zero, I doubt I could pull luck like that again.
I hope the base building goes well! It’s definitely a therapeutic experience just sitting back and building
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Today's game is **Subnautica**. After hearing the news about Krafton i was really disappointed. This was a big game to me when i was younger, and i've kind of been trying to figure out how to play this without budging on my morals. The answer seems kind of obvious, but it was hard to pull off for me for some reason.
Anyways, i just wanted to make sure everything worked, yknow? So i just loaded up a creative save and made a little base for 40 Minutes. The one above is the "Bedroom" i made. I'm a big fan of water and so i put lots of windows in.
I also built a observation sphere to just watch from. The screenshot doesn't really capture it, but the view was gorgeous. Almost pitch blackness with glowing things in the sea, it was really pretty. I like seeing the pretty side of this game highlighted. I always hear from friends about how scary this game is, but also sometimes i feel it can be beautiful.
I also built this central living quarters with a fish tank. I had trouble getting the fish in until i realized i had to actually build a door to get in, so that was an embarrassing struggle.
By the point i was finished it was already getting late, so i decided to relax before my new years plans (Wii Sports, as is my tradition). I just sat in the dome and chilled, while listening to the soundtrack and other music. It was a chill experience. It's a shame i won't get to experience it with the sequel.
I don't want to end off on a sour note about something negative, so i just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! It's been crazy to think I've made it this far in my screenshots. Even if this isn't the Second Year mark, i'm thankful to have gotten to do these, it's a blast getting to play these games and sharing them with others.
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Today's game is **Minecraft**. I got a bunch of friends together for a modded Server and we've been playing on it all day. It's fun to have something so lively to play on. I set it up on a little mini PC i shoved in the corner. It runs surprisingly well. On top of that keeps the power bill down.
I added Tinker's construct too it for myself just because i adore the tool system. As such it was the first thing i did before even a house. It's really handy to have access too the advanced tools it gives you so i wanted those ASAP.
I set up a smelter first, then sprinted off to a Mesa too get clay. I like to melt it in the smelter and pour it on bricks to get my blocks for the Forge. From there it's easy.
Due to the lack of a house, i frequently got into fights with the local population. One of the mods i have added bosses that spawn every once and a while. I have mixed feelings, because they're cool, but way too OP. I want to see if i can tone them down in the settings.
Speaking of way too OP, Ice and Fire. It was added at the request of a friend and god do i get frustrated by this mod. It feels like it's sole purpose is to fuck me over in as many ways as possible. it's like "Here's 8 fire dragons, and then here's some Sea Serpents too kill you while you try to get your stuff back. And then here's some sirens, then a pixie steals your sword". I ended up messing with the config to make things more tolerable so there's at least that, but damn, the dragons are OP as fuck.
I also added a shader pack for myself. I'm not usually big on these as i feel like they make the game kind of fuzzy and crank up the bloom, but this one i kind of like just for the way it makes the ores glow.
I ended off for the night by helping a friend get acquainted, before hopping off to start prototyping a machine too make train tracks for Create Steam and Rails. I automated it pretty well so i'm excited to show that off next time i play.
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Today's game is **Undertale**. Last time i played i mentioned not really being motivated to play this due to seeing it when i was younger. Now that i've been going through it though i'm picking up on a *lot* of humor i missed when i was younger. Like a joke in the bar about wearing a collar, or a reference to leaving a line (he left a literal Line with his number on a rod), before saying he wanted to make out with a fish. Anyways, so i admit there's still more this game has to offer me.
Speaking of the game's offering, there's the combat. I keep feeling as if i keep getting stuck quite a bit. It's honestly a good marker to take a break, but i can't help but feel it's dragging the game out a little because ever 2 hours i'll hit a room that's roadblocking me from getting out.
For example, the Papyrus "fight". besides it taking me a while to actually figure out to spare him, i also was struggling too keep up with the second half where it gets serious. It was a genuine struggle, and reminded me way too much of flappy bird for it's own good. After a few attempts though i managed to make it.
The health is a challenge too sometimes. I need to be stocking up more, because with how little healing objects i have i'm being reminded of my Fallout New Vegas run, fun times were had all because i couldn't manage my stimpaks for shit.
The latest roadblock i've hit is right after having a meal with Sans. I snuck past Undyne and i'm stuck on a group of enemies that *always* seem to be able to kick my ass. It's a challenge. I'm going to attempt to try and get past them tomorrow though if i get the chance.
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Today's game is Starbound. I guess we're on a Indie Pixelgame binge now. First OneShot, then Undertale, and now this today. And not only did i play this today, i bought a friend a copy of OneShot and sat in call with him while he played it. So i guess this is just the kind of mood i'm in. I should play Stardew to round it out.
We played this too just relax. as i had been up all day helping move heavy stuff and wasn't in the mood for anything too complex. So i just booted up a save with whatever workshop stuff was leftover.
I ended up making a Lamia (from a mod i assume is from my friend) named Rima. I actually kind of like her design. Something about the green of her scales and hair I'm a fan of. I kind of want to try writing Lore for her but can't come up with anything.
I took her down to the planet to explore while waiting on my friend, and i don't know if it's a mod or what, but there's these winged dragon things that kept killing me. By the 5th death i just went and did the tutorial, which i avoid like the plague due to being drained by it.
After doing the crystal boss fight, which thankfully wasn't too long, we went and fixed up the ship. The entire fight honestly was more of a social hour. I like the mechanic of climbing up and down the rungs to hit the switches, but me and my friend had did this so many times by now it was second nature. We were talking about Sci-fi during it.
After this my friend had to go to bed, and i probably should too (is this what getting old feels like?). We took a group photo together at the outpost though to commemorate this save, just in case we never touch it again.
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Today's game is **Undertale**. I'm sure everyone and their mother knows this game so i'm not going to go too in depth about it. I had originally picked up and dropped this game so many times though. Growing up i watched a playthrough and kind of spoiled it for myself, so i figured "Hey, i know like everything about this game. I don't really need to play it". So i never did. I did pick it up though for 2 dollars, just in case. After playing OneShot though, it made me really want to give this another try, so i did.
I'm having a lot more fun than i had expected with this. I think it's a combination of just age (so being able to appreciate some of the jokes) and time (so i don't remember it as clearly).
I ended up naming myself Link as a stupid joke. I saw the name picker and it was a RPG and just couldn't help myself. I wasn't really sure what to pick to begin with so i figured "why not".
The "combat" definitely lends itself to my enjoyment. I'm enjoying how diverse the Act options are. Trying to figure out which one to use is like a puzzle in itself. And reading context clues is a fun game for me (ironic considering i suck at it) so the game play has a lot to offer me despite already knowing the twists and such.
Anyways, so Undertale is my new "Currently Playing" game until i either get bored, burnt out, or suddenly hop tracks over to another game. All of which are likely for me to do. Still, i would like to stick with it.
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Today’s game is some more **OneShot**. I binged this game *all day* today, and honestly i was a little sad at the end. It did a really good job of making me feel connected to the characters, and on a meta level it did its job well.
I was so attached I played through it to get all the achievements. That’s 3 whole playthroughs. One for the First Playthrough, the second for NG+, and the final in Memory Mode too get the last few.
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I’m convinced that in a meta way, this game is about us (the player) giving a sort of humanity too the games we play, such as this one. I kind of saw Niko “taming” the World Machine _(the process of basically letting a robot in more grow beyond their programming and gain free will)_ as a sort of reflection of us doing the same. When we start to view these characters as human (the first step in the process) do they break free from their programming and become alive.
And beyond that, in a way, the first playthrough was the player “Taming” Niko. By the end of it we’d sort of developed a bond and connection to him and almost saw him as human. By Solstice this allows him to metaphorically think beyond the capacity of the loops
Of course, this doesn’t work to people without attachment to the game, but that’s at least how I looked at it without any deeper insight.
And after doing a memory mode playthrough, I kind of find this even more reinforced as it’s a “recording” of Niko, not the real thing. Maybe it’s just me, but knowing the real Niko isn’t there made the whole thing feel soulless. This recording isn’t tamed, it basically has no free will and in lore is just destined to repeat the same actions over and over.
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The artwork for NG+ was gorgeous too. I’ve honestly considered using it as my wallpaper. The only thing stopping me is a lack of 16:9, so for now I extracted the wallpapers from the built in “PC” and upscaled it instead for use
All of this, kind of points to me being in love with this game if you couldn’t tell. I just can’t bring myself to believe it’s over, and I can’t delete it. It’s hard to believe this game inspired such affection from me. Only a little bit ago I knew little to nothing about it, and now I’d say this game has earned a spot on my top games of all time.
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Today's game is **OneShot**. I've heard praise for this game over the years for it's story, i didn't know much about it outside how good i have heard it is. And holy shit, this is amazing. I am so glad i went in blind. I have a nostalgic soft spot for games like this from the 2010s. Chiefly, The game Doki Doki Literature Club **(A horror game that i doubt needs much introduction)** is what got me into programming (I saw a playthrough and went "wow, that looks cool. i want to make one). So anything with meta elements are instantly going to get points from me.
I want to start with the basic foundations and praise the music, because it's bittersweet, it does an amazing job of making me feel soothed while also feeling unnerved. The entire time i felt like i was being watched. And the Artwork? Absolutely gorgeous. I'm not usually big on things that replicate pixel art (i feel like it's become the go to), but the color choice and art style is amazing. Give me glowing blues on a dark background and i'd die for you.
The particular part where you give Maize the sun i'm particularly fond of, it's really well done since you're told that the sun is super important, so of course you'd be hesitant. But also, they're dying, so you're left with the choice Do you do the human thing and grant their last request or keep the Sun safe. Ultimately you do have to give the sun up to progress, but it's not made clear.
I completed my first playthrough all in one day, but i want to go in for another. I hear theres a new game+ along with something called "Solstice" so i want to try that. I don't want to start thinking *too* deeply until i finish whatever solstice is, but i got the vibe the message was about how we kind of give meaning too all this and build a bond with this world that ultimately isn't real, and that act in itself is Human. We see it reflected a bit in the game. We kind of see this in a non meta way with everyone going out of there way to aid Niko on their quest and bond with them.
I'm sure this sounds like a jumbled up mess, but i'm trying to avoid thinking too deeply until i can sit down and really think after beating it. But basically, i really love this game. It's one of *those* games that stick with you after you beat it and kind of leave you with an empty hollow feeling that makes you ask "now what?" the last game to do that was *maybe* The Last of Us Part 2? I'm still mixed because i've been putting off finishing my grounded run though.
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Today's game is **Team Fortress 2**. For those who weren't here last year (in which case, welcome), or who just missed it, i play Team Fortress 2 every Christmas Eve. I used to be quite addicted to the game and it overlapped with Christmas Eve, and by year 3 i noticed i had accidentally made it a tradition, so i just keep it up.
I... have not played in a while. In fact i think the last time i played was last christmas. It's not a lack of love for this game, in fact i still do give it a special place in my heart for running on my shitty Dual Core 6GB of DDR3 RAM Laptop. But I just can't find it in me to play now, i spend a lot of my "Multiplayer" time playing with my friend group, and the bot problem also killed a lot of motivation in me (though i hear it's been resolved).
To warm up though i did a practice match with bots. To no one's surprise i'm sure i had gotten really rusty. I usually play Demoknight and could barely keep up like i used too.
Still, i wasn't going to let that stop me from having a good time, so i hopped in a public lobby and played around. Almost everyone there was pretty chill.
I say *almost* everyone because there was a guy there screaming about how "Race mixing is a sin", but everyone kind of clowned on him and he ended up getting pulled from matchmaking, so hopefully Valve did something.
I went into another match and this one you had to feed a Nutcracker gifts like a game of Skulltaker in Halo. It was a fun game mode. Though i felt a little lost on the map. I ended up switching to plain Demo and carpet bombing the drop point which was fun.
The final match was a game of Push the Cart. It was really close but honestly by the end i had started to get into the groove of it again. I had used the Scottish Resistance to set up traps and held the cart for like a solid minute. We ultimately lost, but damn did i feel proud.
I ultimately might go back into it for another session with my friend (who joined me last year), though i can't say the same adoration i once had is there. I think it's kind of been over taken by Halo. It's weird going back though.
While i was playing i was thinking of a quote from Ben Folds (who i had actually seen live recently). He had described Christmas being like a "Rhyme", and honestly that's the same feeling i get from this. It's like revisiting an old family home that hadn't changed much. Maybe there's a few new faces this time, some of the people from last year are gone, and the walls are a different color, but it's still the same.
Anyways, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday! It's an honor to get to celebrate a second one with the community again.
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Today's game is some more Red Dead online, me and my friend setup a private lobby, which is *awesome* because it lets us play without Hackers (thanks to the individual that suggested this, it's really handy). It's also led me to the conclusion that *all* my bugs with this game are caused by hackers. The fish are all back, i'm not being disconnected every 30 minutes, and my Horse isn't randomly blowing up.
I went fishing and caught this huge ass Gar that was 16 lbs. I couldn't figure out what to do with it so i just carried it around for a bit until i swapped it for a gator pelt. I had wanted to cook it though. Sorry fish.
While i was looking at what i could do with my fish, my friend rode to catch up to me. He ended up tripping on a log though hidden in the snow. That got me thinking about how impressive this game is, that even a log hidden by snow can trip your horse. It's just a crazy level of depth to appreciate.
Me and my friend also went Gator Hunting to get supplies for our Trader. They're surprisingly easy to hunt since they lay there.
We also got attacked by a Panther of all things. I had to put it down because it was right by our camp and attacking us, but i fucked up the shot and it bled out. Man did that make me sad. I have an unreasonably large soft spot for felines.
We stole a train to end off our day and just drove around the map until one of the waterfalls. I ended up lassoing a police officer who shot at me though and dragging him behind the train. I tried to pull him up to at least make the death painless... but wasn't able too. So this random officer ended up being meat crayoned into the ground.
To end off we stopped at this waterfall which is gorgeous, before we got off to go play Halo 2 (we're working on a normal playthrough right now). I think it's a lovely and far brighter place to leave off the game.
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Today's game is **Baldur's Gate 3**. We've spent all evening just working on gathering Exp to have a little more breathing room when it comes too the quests we're going to do. We ended up jumping the Bugbear and the Ogre to get some experience, which is where the screenshot above is from. We went and warmed ourselves by the fire before getting off.
When we started the combat i hung out on the roof and just shot arrows into them. I figured by the time they were able to make it through my party members they would already have enough arrows in them to be killed, i was right.
That's something i really like about this game, it has a lot of tiny little moving parts (such as being able to jump onto roofs and such) that all add up to make it feel like one of the best D&D games. It kind of makes me wish we got some sort of "Dungeon Master" tools to make our own campaigns, but then again, at that point just run D&D with some friends i suppose.
We also went and did the Harpies, i made quick work of them with my arrows, i ended up being lured by the very last one though. Luckily our Barbarian threw a Shovel (i think?) at it and killed it. I've started doing this thing where I'm collecting corpses and storing them at camp. I just want to see how long it takes for my friends to comment on it. So far i got the Harpies, the Dark Druids, and some goblins and skeletons. That chest has to smell absolutely rancid.
We left off as mentioned above after fighting the Bugbear and Ogre. After all my friends got off i messed around with the photo mode a little bit to get that photo in the main screenshot, here's the "unedited" version.
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Today's game is **Red Dead Online**. Me and my friend hopped on to play a little, as we do every winter season. We love this game a lot, but we also can only tolerate it for so long with all the Hackers in the game. It seemed to not be *as* bad this time at least, but still i'm hesitant. An example is this fucked up horse we found. The road into Saint Denis was just covered like this.
We found another one of these in Valentine too where it's eyeballs were flying out of its skull and back in again. Luckily this was the worst the hacking got.
We ended up going to Saint Denis like mentioned above and hanging out. I love visiting this city in the winter with all the snow because it looks gorgeous. It's a really scenic sight that i wish the story got.
We ended up fishing for a bit in the lake, but werent catching anything. We stuck around about 20 minutes before bailing.
Instead we headed over to the swamp. there still wasn't anything to catch unfortunately, but me and my friend just had a chill conversation and sat and relaxed. I bought some swamp lures to use and he bought some bait. We stayed like this until my network crashed and we decided to go play Halo together.
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Today's game is some more **Halo: Reach**. Me and my friends did our usual PvP night. We got a 7th player so now we're one step closer to 4v4 nights. We did Odd Ball and i got this double kill of two of my friends. It reminds me of a renaissance painting of some sort, with it looking like he's holding my other friend and mourning him.
Speaking of the other players, One of our player was newer though, so i tried to go easier on him. I still wanted to have a little fun so i used the Armor Lock just to mess with him a bit. It never really occurred to him that the EMP blast was knocking out his shields though, so i kept wiping him out again... and again... and again... I ended up feeling a little bad so i told him "Hey, when i use Armor Lock don't get close".
I also mentioned that i was continuing my Reach: Legendary Solo run. It's been a hell of an experience. Exodus took me a while and i ended up having to skirt around everything.
I ended up hiding and dodging from all enemies i could to avoid combat, so the Jet pack really came in handy here because it let me platform around everything. There was that one section with all the brutes that i just went under and then jet-packed up using the scaffolding. Then the end section i stole a tank, wiped out the enemies and jet packed into the room with the final button i had to hit.
I also did Nightfall again for the Forza Firefight medal because why not. It ended up being fun to just do it on normal and sneak around, beating up enemies.
I ended up doing the forklift skip to save on time, but i forgot there was a forklift at the very end of the level so i accidentally drove a forklift from start to end. I somehow made it through all the enemies and i felt like such a bad ass by the end.
I think i want to try and wrap up my legendary run tomorrow, so i can clean it up nicely with Shadow of Mordor. Then i think i'll go back in to Silent Hill f to finish the last 2 endings. I took a breather on that because love it as i do, 5 endings is crazy, especially with the endings not seeming to be persistent, so i can't just load up a save before the ending to get another.
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Today's game is some more **Shadow of Mordor**. I ended up beating the whole game today. I was going to go ahead and try to 100% it, but now that there's no narrative left to consume all that motivation kind of drained away.
Still though, what i got was awesome. I've been sick today while playing it but still had a blast. Rocking up with your warchiefs to fight your rival was absolutely awesome. One of mine fell in battle but he was back later, which is weird. But you wont hear me complaining.
My Nemesis i guess ended up being some poor random guy i didn't even recognize. He gave this big speech about how he'll beat me this time and then i was just trying to figure out who he is.
After the boss battle to end the game i faced off against an orc i was tracking named Luga the Friendly. Turns out his name was a big fucking lie. Dude was *not* friendly. I tried to go up to him and dude attacked me. I wanted to brand him and make him a war chief but i accidentally killed the guy instead.
Afterwards there wasn't much left for me there so i rode out of there on a Caragor to go do other stuff. The caragor mounts in this game are awesome and an absolute life saver. Makes getting around quicker and safer.
I ended off by starting the Bright Lord DLC, but i wasn't feeling it by the second tower. It's got some cool ideas, but i just couldnt get invested in it.
Overall, if i had to describe the game i'd go with "Short". It felt over before i expected it to be. I think i might pick up the sequel at some point if i can just too experience it, i've heard it expands on everything in a better way.
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Today’s game is some more Shadow of Mordor. I unlocked Caragor mounting today and legitimately I’m so happy. I have a soft spot for anything vaguely feline and the Caragors are no exception. So to have some sort of semi pacifist option to keep them alive is so nice. I’ve stopped killing them and started going out of my way to keep them alive now.
I ended up doing all the War Chiefs too. I worked especially hard to get one called Maku the Funny all the way up to War Chief. This guy is honestly my personal favorite so far. I doubt Shadow of war will let you carry troops over, but I wish it did just so I could have Maku.
Outside of Maku, I spent all day just hunting War Chiefs and officers and bringing my guys up. It made me feel like I was in that one scene from The Two Towers movie where they’re chasing the Uruk-hai.
The game really likes to make me visit this one specific fort over and over. Most troops seem to spawn here. My guess is because it’s got a high population density compared to the rest of the area, so the chance is higher there.
Now that I’ve got my army setup, I think next I’m going to work some more on the story to get through that. The branding system has made stealth a lot easier because I can brand a few snipers before leaping into combat. Then I have some coverage.
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Today's game is Shadow of Mordor. I got to what i thought was the final boss fight today after finishing up Gollum's quest line. It was a lot of sneaking around and taking out enemies. I'm kind of noticing each quest giver kind of fits into categories of some sort. With Gollums being Mainly Stealth, That other Ranger guy being Combat with a little stealth, and Ratbag being a tutorial on the Nemesis system.
After fighting the Black Hand and failing too beat him a few times, i managed to take him out with a well placed combo attack and some arrows to the skull. Here is where i thought the game would start wrapping up and we'd move over to Shadow of War. But nope, i guess this is only the halfway point. Because the game opens up a whole second area to play around in, that is uniquely, very green. It provides a nice contrast to the previous area which is only slightly green.
I also unlocked this fancy ability which is basically an AOE to give me some breathing room. It's kind of situational i feel like but i'm thankful to have it. It lets me get through Ghul fights a lot quicker and easier without them ripping out as much health from me.
Before i left to the new area i gathered up the last tower i was missing (i was only missing one) and then headed on. I didn't know how long the quest would take so once i was out of the cutscene i turned it off there. I'm thoroughly surprised to find out the game basically doubled in length. I had expected it to end there, but surprisingly not. I'm excited to explore the new area, especially with all the bodies of water i now have access too. It will be interesting to explore.
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Today’s game is **Batman Arkham Origins**. I was originally going to play this after Shadow of Mordor, but that game has some weird bug where if I Alt Tab the entire game crashes, and my headphones kept defaulting to a profile with *really* low spec audio whenever I open the game. The only way I could find to change it back was to alt tab and go to settings. I’m sure you can see where this is going.
Anyways, so I picked this which I had installed. The entire opening I kind of got side tracked looking at all the details. There’s a letter to Calendar man from Harley Quinn (I presume) in his cell. I had first played this game like 2013, on PS3, at a younger age. So I was more than happy to sprint past all these details at the low resolution to the next fight to beat the shit out of some thugs.
Speaking of beating up thugs, definitely my age has lended me some more skills when playing these. I’m sure having played Asylum and City full to completion helped, but I was blowing through the predator encounters in this one.
I remember being particularly stuck on the encounter on the outside of the cruise ship for a while. This time? A few Batclaws to knockout some thugs and a few stealth attacks and I’m on my merry way.
I ended up making it all this way to the a huge ass block of ice with people in it I had never noticed before. I’m wondering if there’s any lore to it. Unfortunately though my controller died before I could get a closer look. It seems these days I’m trading one error for another. Either a dead controller or no Wi-Fi. Still though, I made it pretty far.
I was hoping to get to the Deathstroke fight before the end of the night but that doesn’t seem to be happening. Hopefully I can get Shadow of Mordor sorted out tomorrow, but we’ll see. Some friends were wanting to play Halo now that I have the Wi-Fi back up so that may be what I end up doing instead. Maybe I’ll try to juggle both?
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Today’s game is **Halo 2**. I’m currently without Wi-Fi (I had to figure out how to upload the screenshots from my hotspot via a tether because wireless was dialup speeds), so I decided to give Halo 2 a try with the CRT filter. It turns out I had the resolution wrong, but I fixed it. After playing it for so long at HD resolutions with a modern OLED flatscreen, It’s really helped to change my perspective to see it from the original intended viewing (or atleast a emulation of a CRT).
I went through the “Players Choice” playlist since I’m not sure I’d have the time to do _all_ the levels. So it took me through the 2 in Mombasa, 1 on delta halo, and the finale. Honestly not a bad selection of levels.
I also got this kill on the hunters that felt so god damn therapeutic after dealing with their BS in Legendary my first playthrough. Maybe I’m just hyping myself up but damn does this game do a good job of making you feel like a bad ass sometimes.
During outskirts I managed to keep the marines in my warthog alive until the end which was fun. I’d never been able to do that until now. They were always sniped by one lucky Beam Rifle shot or something. This time though when the marine said he didn’t think he was going to make it, I made damn sure he did.
I ended with the Great Journey as I had mentioned earlier. Honestly I think this was one of the most interesting to see with the CRT filter. It almost felt like seeing a VHS tape recording of the game with how the colors looked. And the way the landscape kind of blenders together really added to it too.
Someone suggested something that can overlay a CRT Shader without hooking into a DLL which I’m tempted to try. I’d be fun to continue my CE playthrough like this.
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Today's game is Halo Combat Evolved. Me and a friend have been going through it on Normal (Our last playthrough was on Legendary) and during it we lowered the resolution down to 720 x 480 (what, i believe the original Xbox ran on).
We ran through Guilty Spark like that, after that my friend was dreading the library though so he called it stops though. I went and figured out how to setup ReShade with a CRT filter for it too enhance the experience. obviously not the same as just playing the OG but it was an experience. I have a copy on Disk so at one point i'd like to get all the hardware to play it, but for now this was an amazing experience.
Looking at it this way was like playing a new game almost. I could understand how this was the "forefront" of graphics at the time. On the pictures there's scan lines, but in the actual gameplay it's very soft and glowy. It really contextualizes how the original game was supposed to look. I kind of want to go through Halo 2 like this too, but i think the better option is to get a disk copy and play it that way.
I only played Two Betrayals like this because i had to disable Anticheat to play it that way and i didn't want to play that far without my friend but it was a fun experience to play it this way. I wish i could play it that way with him with Anti Cheat. I wonder if there's something i can do with VK Basalt instead of ReShade.
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Today's game is some more Shadow of Mordor. I continued the main story and did the quest where you blow up the big ass statue of Sauron. I ended up just letting Caragors out to handle all the work at most turns, as i could just Load a few arrows into their skull and move on.
I also got up too killing all the Warlords. This one was the first one i killed, and honestly, i feel a little bad. The guy didn't really want to fight. Just wanted me to drink. Unfortunately he's also serving the Dark Lord so... he's gotta go.
Another one of the Warlords i took out i just jumped down and stealth attacked. This guy's life goal was to crawl into a pile of corpses apparently. Weird goal, not sure i trust him in the local cemetery, at least he seemed to mostly be a good sport. He certainly didn't make me chase him like all the others at least.
This guy was the last one minus Ratbag. I went ahead and took him out and then moved on with the story. Overall it wasn't as big of a challenge as i was expecting. The hardest one was where i had to execute 5 of his followers, and after that i just ran and hide and then waited to stealth attack him (after letting a Caragor out to soften him up).
I'm hoping to get more promoted because i'd like to try and do it again. Just to see how many i can take out for the fun of it. It'd be a fun challenge. After that story mission though i got off. It seemed like a good mid point to stop.
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Today's game is some more Halo PvP. We did a match on Capture the Flag and it was awesome. We usually only have 5 players, but we decided to do CTF and offset it by putting two of our skilled players together (Me and Another player), then one skilled player and some of the more beginner players together. It surprisingly was really well balanced. We were in a stalemate for half the game, and even after my team scored we still only won by one point.
We also did VIP on Halo 3, which i was going to pick for the main screenshot, but this is how it come out after capturing it and... i think the fog makes it really obvious why it wasn't my main screenshot.
We ended with Infection on Zealot (the reliable option), as always, it was a blast. I got zombie 4/5 rounds, and my teammates kept feeding themselves too the survivors who were camping out on the roof. It was still a good time though. I had a blast just hanging out and chilling with them even if i got destroyed in the post score.
We did all of this while waiting for our last guy to join us for Baldurs Gate 3. After the Zealot round he joined VC, so we dropped out and ended for the night to go continue BG3 (we got our asses kicked by some spiders and then fought some Living Trees, then i kicked the shit out of a squirrel thinking it biting me was a druid).
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Today's game is **Project Zomboid**. Build 42 finally got a multiplayer version and me and my friends hopped on as soon as we heard the news. I messed with the settings a little to make things easier so we have a bit of breathing room to get comfortable with the changes.
We ended up deciding to camp out at a farm. We each took a different farm house, and one of my Friends took up Farming, another took up raising Animals, and i took up exploring and crafting... and god dammit we're just playing Stardew Valley.
I also made a sword and helped clean out the rest of the neighbor hood for my friends. I don't know how i didn't think of this before, but a versatile weapon crafting system like this is perfect for this game. I The arms system i especially love. I can make my friend a Mace for example (and did). I could either give it a Short Handle or a Long Handle. I did the same with my Friend's axe i gave him. I gave it a long handle and put an axe head on it. I love this crafting system because it let's your weapon customization feel a little more personal. It kind of reminds me of Tinker's construct from Minecraft. The only thing i wish could be added was some unique options for combining parts. I'm not sure what that could look like but i think it would be interesting too see added.
I also went out and helped my friend tend his cows. One of them is pregnant i think so we get to look forward to handling that. We had a bug where one of them got stuck in the fence too, so i had to enable admin commands to pick up the cow, and move it. I couldn't figure out how to disable the commands though so i was stuck with being able to lift a cow like it's a pebble i guess.
Build 42 is a lot of fun though. I'm glad it's got a multiplayer build as i personally get the most fun out of MP. The QOL changes 42 brings is nice and it just overall feels way more responsive in things like interactions or combat. I really like it.
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Today's game is some more **Baldurs Gate 3**. Me and my group got together to play again and cleared out the gnolls that kicked our ass before. I was surprised we made it because me and another party member got penned in away from our support classes. We held our own pretty well though. I cleaved the two blocking us and our Barbarian got the sole survivor of that.
After that we went to handle Karlach's quest, which we did far better on. Our mage dropped a chandelier on them and lit them on fire, then with my new great weapon mastery i swooped in and decked the floor with them. Me and our Barbarian tag teamed the big guy with the sword in two hits and then i got a lucky through with my chest i lug around to toss at people.
Someone got left alive on the roof somehow though, so we went up there and i just shoved her off. Somehow she got a lucky strike on our Rogue and killed her. We brought her back though, not before i shoved a bunch of severed hands and other junk in her inventory though to weigh her down to mess with her.
Afterwards we went back to camp and took a long rest before one of our players had to get off for the night. Right before we got off though i took a swing at our mage after saving and it devolved into us slaughtering each other. I took a swing at Astarion for making me waste a Scroll to revive a player and then got into a armor-less brawl with our barbarian. After one person was left alive we finally got off for the night.
I’ve been listening to CE’s soundtrack regularly recently. it’s aesthetic and story are just so unique and an amazing thing I’ve never really seen replicated. Not even the sequels manage to nail it’s unique vibe, though they’re amazing in their own ways