MyNameIsAtticus
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Today's game is some more Ghost of Tsushima. I haven't been neglecting this in the background, unlike some other games i've picked up (*cough cough* Final Fantasy 14 *cough*). I have *though* been wandering around doing side stuff. I namely did the quest that gets you the blow darts. While doing the quest i saw this dock with a sign that showed a guy bowing. I did that but nothing happened so i'm not sure what i missed.
On the subject of this quest, what's with every Stealth Action game having a Poison and a Berserk "dart" option? Like every assassins creed game has one. This game has one, i wouldn't be surprised too find out Hitman has one. I guess it must be a staple of the genre, and i guess i'm not complaining either. It really makes stealth interesting with some more offensive actions.
I also stumbled on one of these duels which was really fucking gorgeous. The duel was a bit of a challenge and i struggled to keep up with the guy's strikes (and i had a migraine so that was working against me), but after i finally beat it i wandered around and just took in the sights of the arena. It was really pretty. Marshlands with fog honestly i feel are a little underrated.
Afterwards i went and freed another settlement and found this little waterfall before getting off, it's a cozy little place so i think Jin would appreciate getting a rest here. It almost reminds me a little of uncharted with it's Jungle's and everything. Honestly i sometimes see bits of other games in this and i think thats really cool.
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Today's game is some more Minecraft (Attack of the B-Team). I've started moving into a larger house from my small little shack. It was chill building it. I didnt have any grand fancy plans or anything. I just spaced out and built whatever i wanted. It was nice. I think that's the chill of older minecraft. Not too put newer minecraft down but it has a *lot* more going on i feel like so it's easier to get distracted and get pulled out of a sort of "zen" moment you get going while building. Or maybe i'm thinking too much on a block game. That's a possibility too.
I built my home over a ravine so it can just take those stairs down whenever i need too mine. I need too extend the walls down i think to prevent anything from coming up stairs but after that i think i'm very pleased with this house. It's got a nice feel too it that i can't put my finger on. Maybe i'll put the tinker's construct forge and the Altar down in the basement too. I'm not sure yet whether that's definitely what i want to do, but i do need somewhere too put them.
One of the last things i did before getting off was move everything out. Moving out of shacks like this always makes me nostalgic because i build them like this because of the old tutorial world on console edition. It feels like something of another goodbye until i see a shack like that next time. I moved my bed out and placed it down in the new home.
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Today’s game is some more Halo 2. I managed to nab one of my friends to join me this time and we played through almost the entire thing in one sitting. Genuinely I think the only thing left for us is the Great Journey.
It’s weird in a way in retrospect. When I first started Halo (something I detailed when I started posting these) I wasn’t very good. Granted I was playing legendary but still. Levels took upwards of 30 minutes to do. And now look at me, certain levels I can clear sub 6 minutes. It’s really fascinating to see how I’ve grown. I only wish there was a way to solidly chart my skill level.
Something I just found out for the first time today was that Sentinels? Apparently they can scoop up your tank and crush you. No idea they could do that. Usually I shoot them down before they get that far but this time I didn’t get so lucky I suppose. It’s funny to me that I’m still learning new things, and ironic I guess following my last sentence about how good I feel I’ve gotten.
One of the last things of note I wanted to leave with (I’m trying to stick too a 3 screenshot policy when it comes to Halo to try and limit myself and see what I can prioritize) was this waterfall. It caught my attention because driving past in the tank I noticed it makes noise. It’s a little thing I know. But little details like that are really what makes this game special to me. And besides, it’s been a while since I talked about game water that caught my attention.
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Today's game is **Halo 2**. All my friends have been busy with their fancy shmancy Tomodachi Life 2 that they bought. So i've been left alone. So what better to do when left alone than play Halo 2? I played the first 3 levels, and when i got too the 3rd one i decided too take the Gauss Hog up too the roof and ramp off it too get on the Scarab with it. It ended up taking multiple attempt but i pulled it off. I ended up getting it all the way too that T-Shaped hallway before getting stuck. Leaving Sgt. Stacker behind i went on my own and killed the last Elite that was blocking my way.
If you notice i'm playing at a low resolution, that's because i decided too play at the OG xbox resolution. I even went in and limited the FPS too 30 FPS. I have a old VGA monitor i would have even hooked it up too but currently i don't have a GPU that can do VGA nor do i have an adapter. I do think i want too see if it's possible too get an ancient one on my system though just too use with that monitor for retro games.
I'm gonna keep this short because it's Halo 2 and i've said lots about it before, but it really is a pretty game. It feels like a balance between CE and 3. CE is stellar gameplay, while 3 is all hype epic moments. This strikes a nice balance of both. It does feel as if it loses a bit of CE's "Acid trip" feel, but i think that serves too accentuate CE's vibe more and make it unique. 2 Feels as if it's trying to be an epic movie and i love it for that. It embodies what i think of when i think Xbox.
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Today’s game is _Stardew Valley._ And late. Way later than usual. I _know_ I hit that upload button after typing a whole bit about how I respect concerned ape. So either I’m losing my grip on reality or something stopped it. So just this once I I’ll give myself a pass because I genuinely don’t know why the hell it didn’t get uploaded (though, to be honest I’m debating if I want to even leave the limit I imposed on myself. Everyone seems to enjoy it regardless of that).
Me and some friends played Stardew last night. One of my friends even got married. This is his first time playing Stardew so I helped him along getting the whole thing happening. Between what Penny likes and getting the Mermaid pendant. I even bought him a bunch of Melons to grow for her. It’s almost like seeing myself learn to play the game again. It’s entertaining.
I set up a shed too on my farm and filled it wine kegs. This is my “Keg Shed”. I make wine here and that’s it. I’ve also got a preserve barrel Keg though for my Fish Farm. So between those two I’ve got a pretty solid source of income.
Finally, and this is the part that makes me know for sure I did this last night, since we’re in winter I got to see everyone’s winter outfits. I hadn’t seen them until then but I like Haley and Shane’s.
That brings me to my other point. I have a lot of respect for concerned ape. He’s been doing this for around 10 years. That’s a hell of a commitment. Compared to my screenshots I’ve only been doing this for a little less than 2 years. I supposed he makes a living off it so it’s different. But still. It’s respectable that he continues to update it.
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Today’s game is _Minecraft_. Specifically _Attack of The B-Team_. Growing up I had a specific fondness for this mod-pack after seeing a YouTuber I liked play a whole series of it. If I had to pick 3 mods/mod-packs that caught my attention before I owned Minecraft this would probably be at the top, followed by Digimobs, and then Pixelmon (for a while I also had a soft spot for Hexxit too).
I actually set this up as a server for me and my friends. It took a little more work since it’s Minecraft 1.6.4, but I got there. The first issue I ran into is Java 8 wouldn’t work. _Then_ the server wasn’t loading the right world type. I ended up figuring out I was launching the wrong jar file. I was launching Forge, while I needed to be launching BTeam.jar.
After that though I got it all setup. It’s nice to be playing this again. This is my ideal “classic mod-pack” and playing it’s like a rush of nostalgia.
I didn’t play long, as setting up the server ate up most of my free time but once I did get it set up I made a bee line for somewhere and started building a house too live in. Once I get back on, just having somewhere safe to live will be nice.
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Today's game is Halo. Mostly Halo 3. Me and some friends got together too play again today and i just took a bunch of screenshots. I'm gonna have too ask too be excused from the unusual aspect ratio. My friends have gotten *really* into using my pictures as wallpapers and stuff for some reason, and so i've started shooting at the same resolution and aspect ratio as my DLSR too make it a little more familiar. I try to avoid editing the photos outside of what the game can do, so this is like the most pushing it i think i'll do.
During our campaign we kept killing eachother (as is tradition for Halo at this point). Here's Chief eating the curb after i sticky grenaded my friend playing Arbiter and he hit me with a grav hammer.
I spent a while trying to hook up OBS and mix it with some pipewire stuff too. My goal was too split the clips i was taking into 3 tracks: Game Audio, my mic, my friend's mic. That way when i share clips i just trim off tracks 3-6 and don't have too worry about my friend's voices.
I bring this up because it kept me idle for a bit. But when i came back, the first thing that caught my attention was this can on the ground. I spent way too long looking at it trying too figure out if it's a can or a torn up bag. I only concluded can after realizing it said "cola" on the side. That's how you can really tell i'm addicted too the game. I've played it so many times i'm looking at trash on the ground.
I also got this screenshot i really like (and this is where the aspect ratio gets weird because they wanted some for their phones). The picture of Arbiter floating dead in a pond like this is really funny too me for some reason. I have too imagine he said something too the wrong person.
In reality this is the result of the friend playing Arbiter stickying me and me retaliating with the Grav Hammer. I may have died but i sent him flying into the canal and got a picture i like. So really i won.
The final screenshot i wanted too share for the night was this one of my Spartan getting absolutely folded in half during a PvP match. It's something Halo always feels too get right. Something about the players dying in the most absurd ways has been a constant source of humor in the games. From CE's dramatic twirl too Reach's Spartan's falling like a snake it's great too see.
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Today’s game is some more _Ghost of Tsushima_. I finished up the last of the side quests in the first area of the game, and now I’m gonna try and clear out the second one and work on its story a little. By doing that I’m hoping to have some fast mobility while doing whatever of the story is _after_.
That brings me to the screenshot. I was on my way to recover Jin’s armor when a storm followed me. I don’t know if it’s intentional but with the whole Storm and Wind motif going on it’s cool as fuck nonetheless.
While back in Azamo too I found this Samurai who’s been pinned to the wall with arrows. I took back Azamo already which raises the question of if this is new or if they’ve just left a corpse there for an ungodly amount of time. Nonetheless, it’s made a pretty cool shot (pun not intended).
One of the last things I did before returning to Jin’s home was go track down the Long Bow. This quest was a bit eh for me. The duel was definitely the best part but the actual hunt part I didn’t care for. To be honest there was one section where I had to circle around a bay to get down and it just felt very tedious.
Besides that though the duel was pretty cool and the bow is super handy. Makes shooting hats off enemies from great distance a cinch. After getting the bow.
I stopped outside a village that needed saved so I guess that’s what I’m doing first thing when I turns on the game again.
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Today's game is some more Ghost of Tsushima. I've been going around cleaning up the side activities of the first region today. I have too say, i'm enjoying it more than i thought it would. Usually 100%ing open world games feels like a drag but this wasn't too bad.
I was doing the farms when i got the screenshot. I managed to freeze at just the right time that it looked like the guy got stabbed between his legs.
I also went exploring the ocean (ignore the weird corruption at the top. Pixelfed was weird when i uploaded it). I hadn't been by the coast yet by that point so i wanted too see what was up. It was pretty. I really enjoyed just looking at it and chilling for a bit.
I followed it up too this fort that i tried too break into. I wasn't able too so i have too assume it's a story mission and i'll come back later. I still circled the perimeter though to see if i could get in. I came really close by climbing the rocks and trying too jump the gap though.
After that i went back to doing quests. All in all it was a pretty chill day. I didn't expect 100%ing it to be so chill. It feels a lot less like a soulless grind and more like riding around doing stuff for fun.
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Today’s game is Team Fortress 2. I had some friends asking me to play, and I love this game (despite its many problems), so I said sure and joined them for a game of 2fort that lasted nearly 30-40 minutes because we wouldn’t capture.
Despite the length that’s actually something I love about the game. The community itself takes itself so completely unseriously that it turns the game from something competitive to a social playground with a secondary objective. Granted, that playground is occupied by some weird ass people (to put it politely).
That social playground was my home though growing up in middle school and high school. I wouldn’t say I was lonely. But it did give me a sense of community I hadn’t felt at the time. In a way I suppose it’s responsible for me finding my way here as it taught me what having a community is like.
Enough of the sentiments though. How was the game doing? Well. I saw no bots this go around. Which is good. People were still being people though. I saw a guy create a slur for people who are green. Like straight up the color green.
I had fun with the escape plan and grenade taunting people who would round the corner to get me. At one point there were some guys with our Intel just chilling in the room and I blew myself up just to mess with them.
With my friend all being new though I saw they were struggling. So after 2 fort we spend a bit playing private servers with Bots. It really I think helped give them a chance to test the waters. I just wish it was easier to set up private games.
Those private games were what we got up too for the rest of the evening, and despite playing against bots I still had a boat load of fun with my friends.
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Today’s game is Ghost of Tsushima.
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Gonna throw this all in a spoiler block. Sure. It’s a 6 year old game but just to be safe.
The sword fight either Ryuzo is the part i remember most. It’s what really comes to mind when I think of this game. To be honest though I thought he died after the fight instead of running away.
I always end up wearing his hat after just too honor him in a way, because later in the game you can really tell he’s only doing what he is because he feels desperate too protect his family.
I also have to say that I love his arena. It’s so god damn pretty with all the lanterns.
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I think photography as a hobby has started to take over my gaming. When I unlocked roaming the castle my first thought was “wow. Lots of cool elements to play with for photos”. It’s funny in a way. I’m started sharing screenshots I took for fun and now look at me. I’m here scouting out locations in games like a photographer. I even tried to spoof cameras in Halo.
I don’t have a lot to add to my progress. But lastly I wanted to share this flower I took a picture of at the fortress grounds. They stood out to me because they were all alone in that section of the pond. I wish I had found a way to capture the feeling of serene loneliness it had. But I had to settle just for the flower itself.
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toI’ve thought about it a few times. Honestly the main thing stopping me is forgetfulness and the fact that shooting photos of people is my preferred subject, and I most of my friends I take pictures of probably wouldn’t be chill with the pictures floating around somewhere they can’t see lol. I have messed with macro and stuff though, so maybe I’ll do it then
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Today's game is some more Ghost of Tsushima. I spent all day today just enjoying the world and exploring. I was reading through my Photography text book and read people's eyes are drawn to brighter colors in pictures, so anyways here's a bright picture (and a not so bright subject matter).
This brings me too my first point. The early stealth kill animations are really brutal. Like, i have a pretty high tolerance too stuff like that but hearing the *crunch* as Jin stabs the guy is a whole other level.
While i was doing the mission where you save the Blacksmiths too i had this one guy die with his leg up in the air. I hadn't seen something like this in the game so i thought it was funny.
That brings me to my next point about this mission though. I thought it was a bit too long for being in such a small area. It felt like just running around the small space back and forth. It really dragged it out.
I had wanted too finish off the night by getting too the end of Chapter 1, but i hadn't realized it went on so long. I'll have to continue tomorrow because i genuinely ran out of time with how much there seems left to do.
One final subject i wanted too touch on is that this game makes me wish for a Robin Hood game. A lot of the "Tales of Tsushima" Remind me of some of the Robin Hood stories and really make me wish there was a video game version.
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Today’s game is some more Ghost of Tsushima. Finally managed to figure out why my screenshots weren’t uploading. One of them was _just_ barely over the limit for what Pixelfed could handle. I compressed them and I’m working a compression algorithm _into_ my bash script for uploading so we’ll see if that helps prevent the issue from happening again.
I went and freed Azamo Bay today. I don’t think I did this when I played when I was younger so it’s a new experience. I kind of like the sandboxy stealth missions. Throw me into an enclosed area any day and I’ll have fun doing stealth.
I also realized I like these duels the game throws at you. I only remember the one when you storm the castle but I’m really liking these other ones. Especially when you have a form to use against them. It’s satisfying to tear through them like butter.
I also did one of the shrines. When I first played I actually did all of these, so doing these again was a bit nostalgic. Puzzle solving to figure out how to get up was refreshing in a way. I _need_ more platforming like that in my life.
I ended the night by literally riding off into the sunset. I ended up waiting around to capture this photo. It feels a little more authentic than if I used the time adjustment feature. Plus I try to avoid editing as much as possible (though I do like to show the odd few artsy projects I’ve done).
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toFair enough lol. Carpal Tunnel runs in my family so I can relate a little to your issue. The lack of dual input has honestly been a bit of an issue for me too because I could have OBS bound to the DEL key to save the last 30 seconds. Then the moment I hit it, it locks up controls until it manages to switch back. Absolute nightmare when trying to play infection. I wish there was a way to bypass it. Maybe something with steam input. Idk
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Today’s game is Halo. Specifically Halo 2. I originally had Ghost of Tsushima planned but for whatever reason my Bash script didn’t upload the pictures. _Luckily_ I actually took these during an experiment with ReShade and Gamescope to take pictures that mimicked a DLSR. These are the “unedited” versions. Though for anyone curious this is the edited version of the other ones.
Speaking of Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer, this is the first major brush we’ve had. One of our players hasn’t been able to play it due to crashing for some reason. Recently he upgraded though and we’re good. Now I can finally offer my opinion on this.
This isn’t specific to Halo 2 but i really like how CTF doesn’t have a timer in the older games. It really lets you live in the level and feels like it’s almost its own space. It can drag out for a while and I love that.
What is specific to halo 2 is the vehicle selection for bloodline. Hornets are here now so a teammate can swoop in, grab you, airdrop you in and pick you up again. Is it broken? Probably. Fun as hell? Definitely. It made me feel like a spec-ops or something as I dropped in, took the flag and took off.
Ultimately this match lasted around 40 minutes of us just fucking around and making peace and war and everything in between. Now that this is really an option it makes me want to look at forge game modes. See what the community has come up with. That’s more of a tomorrow thing though I think.
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Today’s game is Mario Kart 64. I got my Steam Deck back after loaning it out too a family member in need, and the first thing I did too get it back too my usual “loadout” was install Mario Kart 64 (And Halo). Specifically Spaghetti Kart (as usual).
The first goal was to find a balance between performance and battery, as is standard for the Steam Deck. That is at least until i remembered “oh yeah. This is an N64 Game” and just cranked it down to the default.
While playing it, it got me thinking about my childhood. Especially how psyched I’d be as a child to see me playing Mario Kart 64 on a handheld device. Growing up I’d always seen those “portable N64” or “Portable Wiis” (my favorite had to be the Kill Mii by Shank Mods. Younger me thought a Wii in an altoids tin was the coolest thing ever).
And here I am, years older and I’ve got a fucking computer I can shove in my school bag now that can play not only retro games but also newer releases. It’s just interesting to think about in a way how things have changed.
I don’t have much to add because today has been busy, but I figured why not end with more retrospective today? When I started doing these screenshots it was just to share some screenshots I had taken over the years. And now it’s blossomed into a whole slew of things. It’s gone from 1 Screenshot, to 1 screenshot and a write up, and now Multiple Screenshots and a write up. And not only that but it’s led to me getting into photography as a hobby. Like DLSR and everything. Doing these has led me to new hobbies I don’t know if I’d gotten into without all the support. So in a way I just kind of wanted to say thank you.
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Today’s game is **House Flipper**. It’s free to keep on steam apparently (no idea why but I assume it has to do with the sequel or remaster or whatever it is they’re doing). I’ve always wanted to dabble in this game but could never justify the price. It always felt like something I could dick around in for an evening and have fun but not sink a serious number of hours into.
Anyways. I painted the starting house. It was a chill experience. The painting is maddening though. Super tedious and slow. I ended up putting on some music and later got my partner in call with me and we chatted while I flipped houses. It was all worth it though in the end for that lovely purple wall.
I did end up putting the door on backwards by accident though. So that was a mistake. I’m too lazy to fix it so I hope I live in a good neighborhood and no one tries to rob me.
Today’s screenshots will be a bit short, which I think ties perfectly back to my introduction. Do I think this game met my expectations? Yes. After I completed what I wanted to do to the starting house I felt kind of aimless. Like. What else could I do? Go do another job? I know some people adore the kind of game where you do the same thing over and over again and I respect that. But I don’t think I’m that kind of person. I think ultimately this is a game where I dick around for a few hours and have fun for an evening before doing something else.
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Today’s game is **Ghost of Tsushima** again. I thought I’d get burnt out in this game, I rarely go back in for a second playthrough of any game. I usually just play through a game once and then move on. Ghost of Tsushima (GoTs) though weirdly drew me back in. Which I think is interesting.
On reflection there’s nothing outstanding about its story. This isn’t to be a jab at it. I still really enjoy it. But there’s not much that i remember fondly and going “Wow. That was such a cool section”. For sake of avoiding spoilers, I’ll say there were 3 sections like that. Despite that it is a well constructed story and I love it for that.
I think what really draws me in is the world. The natural environment just feels very alive and I think there’s something wonderful about that. I feel like a lot of game worlds you start to see the seams quickly. And as of late I really have started to notice a sense of scale with them. I’ll go “hey. Wait. If this was realistic there’d be a lot more space between these two regions”. With this I don’t get that a lot. There was maybe one example, and even then I’m not too sure on it.
That example is the quest where you’re helping the widow. In the background of the house where you start the quest I’m like half convinced I saw the fortress where your uncle is held in the opening.
Moving on from sentimental talk and instead talking just what I did, I saw this bird flying around and followed it after doing the mission where you help the widow. I didn’t think it’d lead me anywhere, I just wanted to see where it goes. The answer _seems_ to be really nowhere. It just flies aimlessly it seems. I stopped and snapped a picture of it I liked.
Bird watching really took it out of me, along with the widow mission (I got stuck on the inn fight for too long) so I stopped there. I have stack of Geology work that’s built up, so this game feels like I’m slowly _chipping_ away at it. Anyways. Puns aside. I’m not getting a lot of time to play it I feel. Hopefully soon I’ll get to sit down and binge it.
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toI love saying protagonists humanized. I feel like it’s easy to make a protagonist that’s just a bland stand in for the player. But to make a protagonist that’s feels like they actually breathe and live in the game world and not just cutscenes and dialog? There’s something really neat about that I love
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toYotei lost a lot of interest from me when I found out it won’t be on PC. I do have a PS5 I bought second hand from a friend but really that’s just to play my old PS4 games and some occasional PS5 releases. With the 80$ price tag I’m really thinking I’ll skip out on Yotei. Which is a shame. I was excited
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toIt makes me happy to see me inspiring others to pick things up. It’s something i always hope to do when I post these.
I know things are rough right now for a lot of people, both socially or even just mentally, but even just giving people suggestions of things to try that may be within their options (like older games they may not have known exist) is something I’d like to do (though I bet it’s probably a bit weird to hear me say because I play a bunch of newer-ish games).
I’m not really sure what the point is I’m trying to make, but im happy too motivate people to try new things.
You are right about my friends too. I probably don’t give them nearly enough credit but they’re a large reason I’ve managed to keep from getting into a slump myself. Even just waking up in the morning and seeing someone say “Hey, you guys free for Halo?” or saying “anyone want to hop onto Zomboid tonight?” really brightens my day and helps me feel a little less alone or burnt out. I doubt any of them will see this (and I’m going to go tell them I appreciate them after this) but they’re definitely an unspoken motivator for me
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Today’s game is some more Ghost of Tsushima. I finally got my controller issues resolved! Turns out all I had to do was set the Steam Input to “Default” in the game config. For some reason it seemed to default to disabled there. Now it works perfectly with my trusty PS3 controller.
I wanted to talk about little details in this game. Like how when I was riding through a field Jin leaned down to touch the grass. Really small but cool detail I liked. It also helped to make him feel a little more human because if I was in that situation I’d totally do the same thing and try to grab it.
I also wanted to briefly talk about the photo mode. I’ve been getting into photography recently with a DLSR I bought used, and I have to say this has my second favorite photo mode I think, right after Alan Wake 2.
It does make me wish though for a photo mode with a fake DLSR. I know it’s really niche to want but I’d love to toy with it a little.
To end off the night I wandered off in search of a hat. I didn’t find one, but I found this lovely hot waterfall area with a Haiku. With all Jin had been through in his time frame I thought he deserved a nice break so I sat him there and let him do a Haiku before chilling there until tomorrow. Where I think I might pick it up again now that my controller isn’t giving me issues.
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toLASO is definitely one of our major road blocks, I’m doing it Co-Op (because iron skull) but we’ve been maybe working on it for half a year? Haven’t made it past level 4 of CE. Another major block is the multiplayer achievements. I keep putting of Skunked in hope they make it where it can be done in a custom game, but I know I’m probably only shooting myself in the foot there
The reaction time is definitely what I was considering too. Especially because with Reach some players have sprint. So you can close that gap a whole lot faster
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Today’s game is some **Halo PvP**. We got a small lobby together today, and I specifically wanted to try and clear up some last few screenshots in my journey to 100% the MCC. 8 brought myself up from 79% to 80% with today and made some damn good progress.
Me and my friend also were looking at playing Halo infinite. And that got me thinking. I vastly prefer Reach’s armor. And I wondered why. Then I got thinking about why. After looking at Reach’s, I think it boils down to how much customization I have.
I _love_ the armor core system, I think it’s a cool idea and makes each armor a little more personal feeling. Like it’s actually _your_ armor. But I’d prefer if it was more of an outfit save slot than a generic base to work off of. It just _feels_ far more limiting with its implementation (though factually speaking I’m not sure if that’s true). Then there’s the colors. Infinite has some pretty colors but I hate being limited to the Color options. I’d love to just be able to have my go to Orange and Grey armor.
We also did a game of Halo 2. And this one was kind of interesting as I feel like the skill gap was a lot smaller than with something like Reach. We won 3-2. I’d love to see like a mechanical breakdown to figure out how and why it happened (or if it’s that my friends are just better at 2). And, comparing this to Reach? We’d wipe our friends on the other team in Reach. Just completely steam roll them.
In fact, that’s what we did during a game of Assault. We came fresh off some games of Halo 2 thinking “it seemed pretty balanced. I bet it will be during Reach too”. Nope. We wiped them 3-0. I felt a little bad so I put us on a game of odd ball to end off the night. I knew that was something that we all stood a pretty good chance in.
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Today's game is **Mario Kart 64**. It's been a while since I played this, and today I had a *killer* sinus headache from whatever fucked me up the other day. I couldn't sleep, but I didn't want to just sit around doing nothing, so I booted this up and played some time trials.
Why time trials? I like just driving around and taking a look at different aspects of the game, and when you're having shells hurled at you every so often, it's a little harder. Like one thing I noticed here were the lights were flat 2D textures on the ceiling. I'm sure some people are going "Well duh", but I'm always driving so fast I never notice that kind of stuff, so it's kind of a fun detail for me to notice.
There's also this river in Frappe Snowland, which I just stopped to look at. It made me wonder where it went when we don't see it. I know at some point it wraps around and we jump over it at the start, but I feel like there's a whole bunch there we *don't* see, and it got me wondering. There's a free cam in the decomp I was playing, but I didn't want to ruin the “illusion," so I left it be. At least for now.
I also wanted to talk about this track's music. I feel like "snow" music falls into two categories: cheery and slow, almost sad tracks. Almost always, I feel like it's the latter. This one falls into cheery, though, which is a plus from me.
Then finally, I wanted to talk about Rainbow Road. I ended up sitting idle for a second while helping someone with something, and I ended up realizing that the Chain Chomps move. It's a little detail, and I'm sure others have seen it. But I never noticed they moved along the course. I always assumed they stayed in the same general area. I suppose it makes sense though.
Also wanted to talk about this track's music. In the past, I've talked about the length, but I think the music deserves a mention too. With the length, it feels like a long, winding victory lap. And the music reflects that. You've got your metaphorical "hands" in the air, and you're driving down the road celebrating. Once you get so far ahead of the other bots, I feel like they stop mattering, rubber banding or not. I think that's kind of what makes this my favorite Rainbow Road. All the others feel like they're trying to be hard and a challenge, but this one just kind of decided to be a celebration of all you've done. And I think that's kind of cool in a way that it accomplishes this.
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Today’s game is **Stardew Valley**. I got my friends to join me some more for our farm. We are currently at 6 members (one of our players didn’t get the memo we were playing and refunded it thinking we had given up playing), so no change unfortunately in player count. We’ve made a lot of progress though.
Near the end of Summer I was already getting Married (I picked Haley). I set things up right with gifts, the cart, and even the Luau to get there.
This would be the third time I’ve ever gotten married in Stardew Valley, which is weird considering I have almost 25 different saves spread across my Switch, my PC, and my phone.
I even managed to catch the Crimson Fish, which brings me to my key talking point. I like how the game has these clearly defined routes for each of the money making paths. It really makes it fun to kind of pick out one method of making money and reach the pinnacle of that. And then later you can add another into the mix, or even do them all.
Stardew valley I feel like is made up of a bunch of really simple moving parts but they’re so well oiled and all add together to make something really fun to play. Not to mention the support from the developer over the years. It’s crazy to think. I remember playing this game in middle school. Now I’m in college, I can drink, and I even have a job. And after all these years the game still is supported. It’s respectable.
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Today’s game is some more **Halo**. Today I felt a little experimental. You might notice that the aspect ratio is 9:16 rather than 16:9. I in fact did not crop it but went through the effort of setting up my monitor that way to get experimental with portrait screenshots. I’ve done Landscape for 619 Days, so mixing things up seemed like a good idea.
To start things off we did a game of Assault in Halo 3. With Halo I feel like there’s sometimes a “perfect” combo of map and game mode, like Zealot and Infection. Or Beaver Creek and CtF. Or Blood Gulch and CtF. And this feels like one of those situations. It’s a pretty basic setup. You have the “Stronghold” and you have the “invaders” who have to invade it. It makes for an amazing setup though. Especially because the Invaders have such little space before they breach the walls. So it feels like you’re always on your toes while still having the inner walls to work with.
Speaking of Beaver Creek we also did that with CtF. The way this map is done it feels like it could work with Assault too, but with the routes above and on the ground it really feels like it was made for CtF. I personally prefer the above route. Crouch out the side door and up the ramp and then across to my own base with the flag.
It was nice to get to socialize again after being out sick since like yesterday. Really Halo feels like the perfect social game on top of the PvP. Hopefully if I’m feeling better tomorrow I can really sink my teeth back into something like Final Fantasy 8
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Today’s game is Ghost of Tsushima. I was originally planning some more Final Fantasy 8, but I came down with something that made me sick and really wasn’t in the mood for a RPG with how much strategy it can involve sometimes. I’ve had this installed for a bit so I opted to play this instead. Its combat requires a lot less thinking and I already know the plot from borrowing it from my local library and playing it all in one week (seriously, Libraries are great).
The thing that was most memorable to me was this games grass (that and a few story moments). The game has really pretty grass physics that make me just want to sink into the grass and lay there. The color grading on the game also is gorgeous. The colors are like a sort of pale but vibrant shading that I’m in love with. It reminds me of early spring.
My favorite section of the game are these Hotsprings. They really were memorable to me my first playthrough years ago, and upon playing again I love the way the smoke sits on the water. I don’t know if it was a problem with the PC build but the shadows really seemed to dislike the water there though.
I made it as far as one mission because my controller (an old PS3 DualShock) doesn’t want to play nice with the game for some reason. So I can’t sprint. That leaves me only with walking which makes getting around a lot slower. I sunk some time into the mission where you’re hunting the Archer’s prodigy and then got off to try and fix the bug. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it fixed because it’s causing issues and I’d love to play this simultaneously with FF8.
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Today’s game is some more **Halo: Reach**. With our new friend joining us we did some more games. Namely starting off with Capture the Flag on Blood Gulch. Me and one of my friends on my team managed to sneak in the back of the enemy base with the teleporter and grab the flag while they were distracted. We snuck around the top of the ridge and he covered me with the Sniper Rifle. It was a really profound moment of teamwork for me which is what makes me love this game so much. It felt like we were on the same wavelength for that brief time.
With Blood Gulch I also wanted to mention how I love the warm color pallet. Especially if you’re in the red team it’s like camouflage sort of.
I also was playing around with Dark table and made this edit to see what I could do with a JPEG (I normally work with RAWs in editing software). I don’t think editing will be standard for my posts, but I did want to share this one.
We also continued the campaign a little. We had more than 4 though, and initially I thought we could get upwards of 8 players through the Alpha Ring Mod, turns out though I was wrong (partly) and that’s only Local from what I understood, which is why we made the switch to multiplayer, so everyone could join.
Tomorrow I think I’m gonna sit down and try to play some more FF, as Halo I think after needing to reinstall needs some more config. Namely the AA seems a little worse than before. I don’t know if that’s an issue with the game or my setup though. I’ll have to look into it.
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Today’s game is **Halo Reach**. I bought a friend a copy of the game while it’s on sale so he could join us for the campaign. So now we have a full 8 person roster for the campaign to pick from.
I’ve already talked about this game a lot, and I had a suggestion from someone to talk about things besides mechanics. And so far I don’t believe I’ve talked about the Art, both music and the design. So i chose to focus on that.
I’m a big fan of the art style with its soft and almost muted feel. It helps set it apart from Halo CE-3. The muted tone also really helps set the tone. It feels less bombastic than something like what Halo 3 is.
With Nightfall especially it makes everything kind of have this nice cool and dark tone while still being playable and not abhorrently dark. Plus i love the way things like the Jackal’s shield have a kind of soft glow to them.
Halo’s music is amazing too. It’s the first time a video game made me go “wow. This doesn’t feel like a side piece to a video game. It feels like its own thing”. It really makes it feel unique. Plus the way it’s not constantly playing helps keep it from getting old. Winter Contingency alone with the opening motif has definitely cemented it for me as one of my favorites.
Finally, I didn’t want to end off without talking a little about me messing around with my friends. This _is_ Halo after all.
The entirety of the thing we kept killing eachother. It started when I got in a ghost and gut blown up by my friend who stole the wraith. In retaliation I air striked him and took the tank out. Our other friend joined in by running me down with a Ghost. This kept going until we quit and ended with a well placed sniper shot to a Forklift that killed all of us.
We (hopefully) will play some more tomorrow. I know I’ve played Reach a bunch but it’s one of my favorites and I love playing it. I do hope this playthrough doesn’t fall in the bin with the other games I’ve started and dropped.
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Today’s game is **The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark** (which I’ll just be shortening to The Darkside Detective). I played the first one back in January after me and my friend did a game exchange. I gifted him Oneshot (which I absolutely fucking loved) and in return he gifted me this. I loved the original and he ended up gifting me the sequel (unfortunately there’s Oneshot 2 I could gift him).
This game is definitely more of the first one. The humor and art work both feel the same. This one kind of has a more poppy kind of feel though to the aesthetic. Though. I will admit I was in the first case only and that was because it was a 2 hour ordeal for me.
That’s my main gripe about this game. The puzzles feel far more abstract than the last one. Like. There was a cup of coffee introduced at the start and I had to take something all the way back from the end of the level just to dunk it in the coffee. There was no indication the coffee would do that. Legit if I didn’t have the thought “may as well try the coffee” I don’t think I’d have found it.
This game really reminds me of L.A. Noire if it was a Point and Click with a Supernatural spin to it. Especially this second one which had the explorable world segments returning from the first one. With how much time I spent on it really felt a little more explorable. The original just kind of felt like “go here. Solve this set of puzzles. Then go here and do these”. The sequel is far more involved.
After the first level was done I was ready to clock out. My friend told me this one is just weirdly long so we’ll see if that’s the case. I hope not because I like this being the kind of thing I can pop on and clear in an evening or two.
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toI try to brush on story when I can, admittedly though I’ve been a little hesitant on story though too because back when I was doing my Last of Us Part II run, I made a big fuck up and assumed information I thought was common place was common place. Turns out it was not common place.
Presentation was really good. I love the Cold War aesthetic, and it doesn’t feel like it’s just stereotyping it too “here’s some Soviet imagery”, though some things like the Gravure Models on the walls kind of took me out. For acting I’d say it felt a little stilted at times. That’s not a major mood killer for me, but there were times it just kind of felt like they were reading off a script. With Art Direction though for this game, absolutely love it. I especially loved the sort of muted coldness the mountains had, a thought I can’t make up my mind whether I liked it better with the Nostalgia Filter or not.
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Today’s game is Final Fantasy VIII (technically the Remaster). I picked this, IX, XIII, XV all up recently with a sale. What’s with the sudden interest in final fantasy? I’m a big fan of Symphony’s. I think they’re a highly under appreciated and really important form of Public Art that’s slowly vanishing (Seriously, if it’s in your budget go check out your local Symphony. They might have something that interests you). Earlier this year I took my friend to see Distant Worlds at our local Symphony for his birthday. He’s a big Final Fantasy fan. Especially XIV.
I’m sure where people can see where this is going, i heard Not Alone and was moved too tears (for IX), I saw the opening too XII and was interested, and XV I saw you get too push a fucking car and was sold (not even joking). So then you might be wondering “what about VIII?”. Well. I remember when I was little I always heard the “Squall is Dead” theory. Suffice to say I remembered that while picking some out and it piqued my interest in picking it up. Is it a stupid reason? Probably. But It sold me.
As for the actual game, I have mixed feelings. Combat only seems to run at _around_ 15 FPS for me. Which isn’t great. I’m not a big “I need 60 FPS at _least_” guy. But 15 FPS is way too choppy. I was legitimately starting to feel a little sick. Overworld seems fine though.
Setting wise though I love the setting. Academy settings are really interesting to me and this seems to have that covered. Tying back to the “Squall is Dead” thing, it does actually make me wonder how the hell things escalate (even if he isn’t dead). Because I want to know how we go from “Academy” to “Holy fucking shit. He just got impaled with an iceberg 2x the size of his own head”.
Anyways. I got Ifrit, named him Greg, and I’m planning to settle in for a longer play session tomorrow. I’m not expecting a long game, especially because I’ll be making use of the boosts to avoid spending too much time grinding experience. I’m hoping I enjoy this and didn’t waste 5$.
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Today’s game is some more Metal Gear Solid 3. And specifically the last entry. I spent all day playing a Fox Hound run today. Got up at 9 and just spent 12 hours perfecting the entire run. Whole thing came out around 2 hours and 40 minutes. Because of how I tried to perfect it. With 9/20 injuries and 4 health segments lost.
The biggest challenge was The Pain. His arena didn’t have a lot of wiggle room and I didn’t have much ammo it grenades to knock away the bees. Thankfully it went by a whole lot quicker once I remembered the grenade camo and brown face camo. I hid under water and dodged grenades. Then came out, lobbed a few, and went back under. After that all the others were pretty easy. Though I had an issue with The Fear coming down and eating and recovering stamina. I wasn’t keeping an eye on time so I kept having to reload because I wasn’t afraid of going over the 5 hour limit.
The sorrow thankfully was easier after i realized I could stun the ghosts with a kick or a gun shot to save some of my precious health. Waded through there and got out in a few minutes.
After that I dealt with Volgin, and then came the _real_ boss fight. The chase. It was hard getting through the chase segment because I was at the bare minimum health so a stray shot would take me out. I used the Cold War camo to at least keep enemies off my back and took them out. After 5 ish attempts I made it.
And with all that, I was done. I did The Boss’s fight, took her down pretty easily with a combo of QCC and AT Camo + Tranq Gun. Then got out of there and finished the run. After all that? I have to say it was an amazing challenge. It felt weirdly well balanced. I was expecting something on par with Halo 2 legendary. But it was closer to Halo CE. There were some challenges, but for the most part it was a fun battle. I feel pretty well accomplished
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Today's game is some more Metal Gear Solid Delta. I finished my second play through (The No Kill One) and finished up the last few collectibles. The last thing left for me is to do a Fox Hound Run. This run served to get me all the camo i'll need. Hopefully with these tools at my disposal i'll only struggle with the bosses, but we'll see.
I went ahead and did the Tsuchinko title too while i was at it. As you can see by my stats, they aren't great. So Foxhound i expect to struggle with the sightings part. Thankfully i won't have to look around for any collectibles this go around so i may be able to just crawl through all the areas without issue.
During the entire chase with the Shagohod i was taking pictures (and partly through the boss fight). I wasn't sure whether Tranq rounds would kill anyone if they crashed so i had too tank the hits. Thankfully it didn't do too much damage.
On retrospect off my second playthrough (picture unrelated, i didn't have any to represent what i mean) i like how all the parts of the game feel like they're constantly utilized. Like, there's a bunch of little details in all the boss fights. Like the end? Wait for the rain and he'll fall asleep. Or the Fury you can smoke grenade him to chase off his Wasps apparently. It's little details like this that are what made this game stand out too me. It's really impressive to a degree i wish i saw more. And the story was phenomenal too (though i already talked about that).
Tomorrow i'll attempt foxhound. I'm hoping with the faster time i'm expecting i'll just plow through it so i could get it all done in one day. With the moss camo i'm expecting to be able to crawl through most areas, and if that doesn't cover everything i have the other Camos at my disposal thankfully.
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Today is some more _Metal Gear Solid Delta_. I beat the end peacefully tonight (as in I didn’t unload a sniper round into his forehead while he was conked out in a wheelchair), and I even got his camo, which by the way is super fucking handy. Whoever it was that was surprised I skipped his boss fight, you were so god damn right.
His sniper made the fight against the fury (which I forgot to get a picture of) so much easier. Literally, I just pinned him to the wall by firing bolts and unloaded into his forehead until he dropped unconscious.
After that it’s been an easy steam roll through everything. I accidentally unlocked Snake’s “nightmare” which I need to do. I did it once but had to prepare for a photo shoot I’m doing tomorrow and accidentally closed game before a save point. So now I need to do it _all_ over again. Shouldn’t be too hard though. Just tedious.
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Today’s game is _Metal Gear Solid Delta_. With my second Non-Lethal play through I’ve wanted to look at this through a new lens, since playing it again offers foresight I didn’t have before.
My first observation has been I’ve gotten a _lot_ better. Before where I struggled I’m now crawling through areas without so much as a sound. I’m sure part of that can be lent to all the camo at my disposal. But it really is an interesting observation.
I made my way all the way to the pain this time. He was _way_ easier. Just headshot him with the Mk. 22 a bunch and he goes down. I even got the missable food item I didn’t have before which is nice.
I’ve found a few ways to cheese the stealth too. Mainly there’s this board here I can hide under and get a 90% Camo Index. I’ll just stay under there and no one even notices me. It’s great.
I’ve stuck to normal mode for this as I think it provides a balanced challenge for a no kill run and plus it will serve as I nice practice for when I work my way up to Fox Hound.
I want to try and clear all the way to The Fury tomorrow. I think if I could do that, it would be a great landmark to make it too.
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Today's game is **Stardew Valley**. Me and some friends got the idea to play a big lobby with around the 6 of us just to see how it went. So far it's gone well. I stole someone's furniture and moved their house to a random corner. Then i sold all my Parsnips just to grow potatoes. I wanted to see how far i could get just growing them.
I've been mostly making a living fishing all day. So far we're on the 13th and i've got enough for a Chicken Coop. Next time we play i plan to have it built. Maybe even pick up a few chickens if we go that long.
The game is interesting as in all my saves, i feel like it becomes a social game in multiplayer. Like, just run your chores and chat in voice call. It's really fun. Plus when you interact you can have some fun experiences. Like fishing next to each other or helping to meet the coop goal.
Single player it's fun too. I can't help but feel it doesn't have a lot of replay ability to me *personally* once i get out of the early game. By summer it just becomes the standard checklist for me.
We ended just on the egg hunt. It was tired and none of us wanted to tackle it. On retrospect i'm thinking i should have picked a different game though to write about today because this game is definitely proving a challenge to talk about.
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Today's game is Metal Gear Solid Delta. I finished the story today and I now want to go straight into another play through followed by playing all the others. As I'm writing this I'm listening to *Way To Fall* which I think speaks volumes to how much I enjoyed this. I don't know what Konami's deal is but when they get a good game developer they *really* get a good game developer.
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Namely there was the final boss fight with The Boss. After the high action boss fight with Volgin, this boss fight hit the landing really well. With the tone it was setting I felt like it needed to hit a landing of being somber and sad, which after Volgin would be hard I felt. It was definitely aided by the escort section though. It provided an apt buffer to set the mood.
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In a lighter mood though during the boss fight I wedged a Dart in her forehead and that was there for the entire fight. I thought it was funny it stayed there for the entire fight and she just left it.
My overall rank ended up being Crocodile, which I assume is a C grade. I want to try for Fox Hound, so I'm running through on Normal again in New Game+ to get all the Camos and stuff. I'm hoping that way I'll be able to pull it off. With the requirements Fox Hound has I'm a bit hesitant to attempt it until I feel prepared.
The game also gave me a Camera! It's a novelty but I fucking love this thing. Honestly I think I like it more than Photo Mode. Having something tangible to point and shoot is really handy for shots. I got this one I really liked of this guy opening his mouth.
On my second play through I got all the way to the start of Snake Eater where you meet Eva, so suffice to say I'm making good progress. I think with Extreme difficulty the challenge will stem from the boss fights mainly so that's something I'll have to overcome. I'd like to do that one peacefully too, but if I *have* too then I think I'll stick to just a single Peaceful run.
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Today’s game is Mario Kart DS. I _was_ planning to play Metal Gear Solid Delta and even finish it. My computer had other plans. To cut a long story short, the boot partition just decided it felt like being full today. No reason why. I couldn’t empty it though try as I might. It owed to fun issues like: not being able to log in, not being able to update, _and_ booting right into emergency mode. Somewhere in the 5 hours I guess my eyes glazed over and I accidentally deleted my home directory. Not to worry though. As some fucking genius made an app called [PhotoRec](https://www.cgsecurity.org/) and I was able to recover them from a live partition. Christophe Grenier. I don’t know who you are but I could fucking kiss you man. Everything is a little out of sorts but a few hours and I can fix that. The worst part will just be reinstalling things. Which I can do.
Anyways. So. Mario Kart DS. I picked this because it was either this or 7. I wanted to give this a try so I picked it. My First impressions are that it’s a very basic modern Mario Kart. Is that a bad thing? No. Not at all. It laid the ground work for a lot of what we have now. And especially Wii. But I also think that means there’s not much of a reason to return to this one if you didn’t grow up with it.
The track selection is pretty good. Delphine Square was pretty on the graphics. And of course there’s Waluigi Pinball. My personal favorite is DK Pass purely for the theme. But there’s some other good tracks too I have yet to unlock.
Maybe it was just my character choice but I did find myself struggling a lot though. Especially on this desert track where it felt like I was sliding fucking everywhere. The drifting especially I had trouble with.
Ultimately today was definitely me trying to make the best of a bad situation. For future reference _definitely_ do backups. I’m a fucking idiot for not doing so. The lack of screenshots today is also on me because my Screenshot Archive on my DS was **of course** filled to the brim too. That’s why today is a little barebones. I would have had a full cup had it not been for that.
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Today’s game is some more **Metal Gear Solid Delta**. I cleared all the way to the sorrow today. I’ve started getting a _whole_ lot better at the gameplay too which makes it a whole lot more enjoyable.
Namely I wish I had known the lab coat makes me invisible to non-scientists. It would have been so handy _before_. I thought it just made me harder to detect in lab settings.
The sorrow’s fight was amazing too, it at first had me a little scared because I didn’t realize it was coming up. After seeing The End’s ghost floating upside down though it cracked me up and I couldn’t take it seriously.
I also found this fun reference on the table when escaping. I thought it was a cool nod to the magazine and it was cool to find.
I have a feeling I’m getting close to the end. All the loose ends started by the game are closing and pretty soon I’ll be fighting Volgin I assume. I’m thinking about a second play through. I kind of want to 100% it like I did Silent Hill 2 (and plan to do for f)
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Today’s game is **Sea of Thieves**. Me and some friends were talking about playing this the other day. We even got a new guy on to join us. We didn’t do much of anything, it was kind of a clusterfuck, in a good way.
We tried doing an Ashen Fort but our Galley Cook got a little too into his job and tried to cook the boat. By setting it on fire. So we kept having too rush between the fort and the boat and save it. Eventually we ran out of supplies and had to turn back.
That’s what’s partly fun about this game. You can’t kill eachother but you can fuck each other over in other ways. It creates some hilarious moments, especially when you buckle down and actually put team work to the test.
After the fort we accidentally sailed right out of bounds, and got thoroughly terrified because we all forgot the water turns blood red there and couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. We had to hit the anchor to do a 180 and book it out of there. Only once we were clear did we go “ohhh. Yeah. We went out of bounds. Okay.”
After all that though we made for port to end for the night. A total of 1 hour spent in burning a ship and panicking over blood red water. It was a hell of a way to spend the night, and we talked about doing it again.
Though, one thing that rubbed me the wrong away about returning is for _some_ reason personalized audio for my headset is locked behind a paywall? And not even a cheap one. It’s fucking 20$. 20$ for a sound profile for my headphones is ridiculous.
Gripes aside, it was fun even if that soured my mood. I hope to play again soon, and maybe get more done this time.
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Today's game is **Halo 3 **. How many times have I played this now? Too many to count. I think this game has created a monster. I may not have been born playing Halo, but I will certainly die playing it.
I dragged some friends along to play the campaign. We were originally going to play Halo 3: ODST but someone was lacking it and one of our other players were on Xbox, so it narrowed the choice down to a single one. Halo 3.
Because of how much we've played this game we were basically able to navigate it on Normal like the back of our hand, minus that singular time we got lost and discussed how messed up It would be for an Elite to eat a human corpse.
We ended up half of the time just gunning *each other* down, like here where my friend went over the waterfall.
Being able to just dick around I think is part of what makes this game great. Like, yeah, you *could* play the game, or you could blow each other up or just fire at the same wall for 5 minutes straight and still have fun. It's sown a new kind of trust in me learning to trust my teammate *won't* blow me up at the last second for shits and giggles. We should make leaders play Halo Co-Op just to learn to trust each other a little better.
On a side note, I had a whole setup with OBS and an image grid for taking screenshots, but you know what I discovered? My monitor I bought purely for editing photos for my side hobby of photography? It has a fucking image grid built into it. Asus, I'm sorry, I assumed you were the Roseart of the Monitor world, but you are better than I thought. Rest assured I *will* be using this new image grid a *whole* lot more now.
We only made it as far as the second level, partly because the second level took 30 minutes just to get past purely because we made it a big slaughter fest, but I hope we'll be returning to finish this save. Maybe if I do this right I can get the last of my Halo 3 achievements besides the 3 hour legendary and LASO
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Today’s game is some more Minecraft Legacy Console edition. It updated today which makes me thankful because it seems to have stopped the crashing bug I had been having. Now my friends are crashing, which _is_ bad, but not as bad as me crashing because they can just rejoin me without any progress lost.
My friends have been building this pyramid base in the jungle. We’ve started messing with eachother though and I’ve been specifically just hiding for another friend living with him to find. For some reason it drives the guy crazy that I’m in his walls. I’ve had a few good hiding spots. I hid:
Under the water in a door
In their walls
Against a tree using a skin really well camouflaged
In their walls _again_
And under their bed
It’s all in good fun, but I’ve been having a good time just messing with this friend. No destructive griefing. Just hiding and watching him.
I also built a sky bridge connecting our bases. I need to build a path connecting to our other friend that just joined too, but for now it’s a start.
I ended off tonight by building one less obnoxious but harmless prank on my friends. I built what I call my “sky pillar”. A giant egregious pillar in the sky just out of their “space” but within eyesight. I built a cozy little home up there.
It took a while to get the supplies because it was a lot of wood. The bridge made it easy though. Just hop onto the tree, chop it down from the top down. Start over from a new one. Super easy. I meant to get a screenshot of the pillar but got side tracked once I heard them look over and go “what the fuck is that”. It’s wood. So if they _really_ want it gone it can be burned down but it looks like it’s here to stay for a while as they’ve grown fond of the sky pillar.
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Today’s game is **Minecraft Legacy Console Edition**. You might be thinking “You mean Xbox 360/PS3/Wii U/etc.?” But nope. Someone has made a port of it to PC. I will admit I only scanned the source code, and while it looked clean it’s not an endorsement of this being clean. Either morally or malware wise.
Besides that though it’s nice. The game includes multiple mashup packs. I tested it by playing the Halo one which was fun. I just flew around looking at what I recognized.
The game does have a major bug though, and this might just be because of Proton, but it crashes randomly (and very cleanly). The app just decides “nope. We’re done” and closes like that.
Multiplayer works too. It’s only local though so you need a way to share it over the internet like hamachi or Tailscale. Once that works thought you’re set. Me and my friends were playing a world and built this little cabin.
We ended up getting off though after we kept crashing at a specific point. It just seems we couldn’t escape this night like some weird Groundhog Day (or night).
I’m hoping the developers are able to clean this up as it’s mostly functional but has a few major flaws such as the crashing. I saw people online saying their saves don’t work either but besides that worked really well. It even has a Render Distance slider unlike the original.
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Today’s game is some more Metal Gear Solid
3. Today is gonna be quick because I basically had to backtrack after getting forward a bit because of some save issues. But despite that I realized this game has a lot of cool ass secrets that actually affect the game.
Like I went off the beaten path and found a sniper rifle. Completely out of the way. No message pointing me there. Just a completely random sniper hidden.
::: spoiler Spoiler
What really is cool though is what it’s used for. If you have it the game basically gives you a clear line of sight to take out The End. You don’t have to fight him later that way.
That’s what I ended up doing. I popped a cap in his head and he blew up. I feel a little bad because it’s my first playthrough. But also having just found this completely on accident I had to do it.
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I also wanted to bring up the stealth. It’s really grown on me. Having to use the camo and slink around feels really good. I do feel like I lack any good ranged stealth weapons (suppressor broke fast) but it does make it satisfying to to a CQC Takedown. Just crouch up behind them and take them down.
Anyways, after discovering that secret today I had to share it. I love when games have secrets like that and this is no exception
I fucking love Tinkers so much. Legit it’s the first thing I always go for. And the older version with the drying racks? Great. I wish they were in newer versions of Tinkers