MyNameIsAtticus
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- lemmy.world
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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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- 2d
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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.
::: spoiler spoiler
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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toYeah, this is totally on me lol. There were a bunch of ways I could have prevented this (Regular Backups, Backing Up Everything before messing around with a Live USB, etc). I guess it’s one of those lessons I had to learn the hard way. I’ve got a setup now where I have my desktop backup my Home Directory to a SSD with Pika Backup, and I’ve got a Enclosure for a HDD on the way too just to be safe
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- lemmy.world
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- 3d
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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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- lemmy.world
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- 4d
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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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- lemmy.world
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- 5d
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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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toHalo is a weird kind of magic to me. I can confidently say it’s not nostalgia because I didn’t grow up on it but it’s the first time a shooter has kept me coming back over and over and over again. Most games I can only play once or twice. I think I’d need 6 hands to count the number of times I’ve played Halo’s campaigns
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- lemmy.world
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- 6d
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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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toI can admit it’s largely nostalgia lol. Namely though I’m a fan of the different lighting, the UI, the controller controls, and the older version. It’s hard to find all 4 available for Minecraft. The best I have found so far is a 1.12 modpack that emulates Console version, which while impressive isn’t quite as far back as I’m interested in
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- lemmy.world
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- 7d
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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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toIt’s a lot of little things. The lighting is a little different, controls, the UI, the tutorial world, even some of the content available. There’s some more but those are the major ones. It’s just got a different feel to it and some different content I favor more. I still love Java, but it’s also its own thing to me
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toI was originally looking into zero-tier or Tailscale instead, but all my friends joining me got scared when I mentioned them because they “looked scary and like corporate stuff”, so I just relented. Hamachi doesn’t seem to be morally bankrupt as far as I can tell and there’s native Linux at least, so I’m not sacrificing too much. That 5 player limit though… I’m glad we don’t have more than maybe 4 people
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- lemmy.world
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- 8d
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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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- lemmy.world
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- 9d
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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
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- lemmy.world
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- 10d
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Today’s game is **Quake**. I decided I wanted to try the campaign. Since I just finished emerald I figured I’d give it a try to see if it was something I wanted to commit to. My first impressions? Gameplay is awesome. I love how fast paced everything is. I feel like a ping pong ball on meth. The levels feel a bit confusing occasionally though and I feel like they’re a bit disjointed. Like 1 feels like a standard level and then “Bam”. Knights and shit.
Graphically though? This game is amazing as fuck. I know the re-release is completely different but I love how it looks. Something really charming about it.
The water also I love. It’s a solid 7.5 on my scale. Wouldn’t drink it, but it’s neat to look at. It reminds me a bit of OoT’s without the texture that one has.
What’s my final opinion though? I like it, I think it’s best suited for me though as an Every once in a while kind of game though. Like Mario Kart. That’s not a bad thing though, I feel like honestly we need more games like that, not always vying for attention or with a complex plot. Just something you can pick up at random with the only curve being maybe a loss in skill. There needs to be a balance of both games, and I think this one kind of fills the balance of the first category.
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- 11d
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Today's game is Pokemon Emerald. It is done. My living dex has been completed (at least to the extent Emerald can cover) and i moved them all over to box on the 3DS (along with backing them up on my PC).
Completing a Living dex has been hard. Like, really hard. I think the only way this could be more difficult is if i was doing a shiny dex. You know how many Shinies i found while filling out the Living Hoenn dex? 1. And it was a shiny Nincada. The game estimates i spent 150 hours in total, so doing some napkin math that's nearly ~30000 hours too fill it out. No way i can do that.
The regi-trio weren't too bad. I just spammed ultraballs and put them to sleep until i caught the. The only bad part were the puzzles, which even then weren't too bad.
You know what *was* bad though? Milotic. Only 6 spots on that entire route is bullshit. I was just sailing up and down with the old rod hoping for it too bite. It took ages. To be honest it's making me rethink doing the rest of the achievements purely because of how burnt out i was. Thank god for ditto so i could just breed another.
After i pulled my Ditto out of that daycare though for one last time, i breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt immensely proud. I may have to do it multiple other times but this was a good challenge i think and a really good stepping stone.
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Today’s game is **No Man’s Sky**. I had a sudden urge to play this game. No particular reason, but I wanted to explore and discover. So I installed it and just messed around for an hour. A good 10 minutes of that was honestly spent just looking around though and admiring the game.
This game is basically my cozy game. Yeah. It’s got some flaws but it’s my favorite Sci-Fi Roleplay Larp. I love just collecting ships and discovering planets. It makes me feel all sorts of professional and like I’m doing something.
Like this thing, no idea what it is but I discovered it and just watched it for a bit. I was gonna take one but don’t have the space for it.
Speaking of animals, With all these updates I want one that gives them behaviors. It’d be so cool to see them hunting or being nocturnal and sleeping or something. I can imagine a few ways that wouldn’t be too taxing on the computer (I imagine)
On the topic of updates, my ship that’s constantly on fire is _still_ constantly on fire. I love that. I hope this thing never changes.
I decided the perfect way to end this session until I’m next on is on my frigate. I started an expedition and made my character cozy in the control deck. I like to imagine he can keep things operational there until I return.
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- lemmy.world
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- 13d
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Today’s game is some more **Pokemon Emerald**. I’ve been working on the Pokédex the last few days. And when I say working on it I mean really working on it. I’m trying to assemble a living Dex which is my main goal. It’s an interesting challenge, since I sometimes have to catch double. The roaming legendaries have been fun too. I found Latias today for example. I just bumped into it while trying to hatch eggs.
I also bumped into Steven in Meteor Falls. I had no idea you could find him here so that was a pleasant surprise.
That’s something I really like about these older games. I like the open style of the newer games, but with these more narrow style games It feels like it makes more nook’s and crannies to search. Kind of a little more rewarding for snooping around.
So far today has just been catching and breeding. That’s probably what tomorrow will be too just so I can finish it up. Then back them up and figure out what I’m gonna do next this hunt has been a lot of fun. My last complete Dex was Shield, and this feels like a challenge in comparison. It’s like comparing Halo 2 Legendary to Halo 3. Halo 2’s was difficult but so satisfying to do. This game’s Pokédex is similar.
Anyways, so my game-plan for tomorrow is fill out Dex hopefully and pick out another game.
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- 14d
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Today’s game is **Halo PvP**. I believe last time I talked about this I mentioned some changes I made to the map Zealot. Well, today I got to test them. My friend has a bit of a problem with camping at the top during infection. So to gently… push him away from that I put kill barrier on the camping spots. It’s all in good fun and just messing with each other. The screenshot above is from me testing the barrier during a game.
That does bring me to a point I haven’t talked about yet. I love that you can customize the game that way (at least for 3/Reach). Don’t like a specific map feature or want it slightly different? Go into forge and change things around and bam. Problem solved. Or hell, want to make a whole new map? Forge will let you do that. I think my only complaint is Reach’s forge feels limiting in the materials available.
We also did a game of Duck Hunt, which my friends asked me to go into forge with too and either delete the bombs on the wall or change the respawn time. They felt they were too overpowered as you can wipe the entire team if you detonate them.
This game mode is fun, I believe I’ve mentioned it before. It has an issue of making you wait it out though one the Duck’s win, which isn’t a lot of fun. It’s not really an issue that can be fixed though I feel like. Also, I feel like the shuffle is broken? Like, my friend can get Sniper 4 times in a row one game while another gets no turn.
We ended off with another game of infection to test my changes… and my friend who was known for camping didn’t even try to camp this round. So my prank goes untested for now. It was a good game though. I had to switch to my PS3 controller so it’s taking some getting used too but besides that it was a fun game.
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- 15d
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Today’s game is some more Metal Gear Solid Delta. I made it to the boss fight with Pain, and man. Fuck this guy. I liked the boss fight but those bullet bees were a pain in the ass. I ended up using some napalm grenades saved from fighting ocelot to clear away his bees and then mow him down with the AK.
As much shit as I’m giving it though, I kind of like it. Like. I’m given tools to fight this boss, but there wasn’t a specific way to go about it I feel like. Yeah. I could wait for his bees to vanish. Or I could light him on fire and power through him. It was kind of cool.
Ocelot’s fight was kind of where I got an idea for just how the game is though. Like. The game was serious but also kind of wasn’t afraid to dork around. Like the long cutscenes of him reloading or Ocelot fighting off wasps by spinning his revolvers like fans. It reminds me of how people talk about the Yakuza franchise. It’s serious sometimes but other times it’s just goofing off.
I have had one major complaint while playing. And it’s minute. It was this cave. My brightness was calibrated right but it was so fucking dark in here I had to raise it manually. I found a torch though that made it a little more forgiving so there’s at least that.
What more appropriate to end today with than talking about the save dialog. I like how it ends with a conversation about movies usually. It’s fun in a way that the game really gets self aware. I like it. I remember one of them was about Godzilla. My favorite one so far though has been this James Bond one.
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Today’s game is **Pokemon Emerald**. This might be the last entry for this game depending on how the rest of the Pokédex goes. I finished the Gyms at E4 today, and then went and hunted down all the Box Legendaries. It was all pretty easy except Groudon. For some reason the asshole just didn’t want to get in. After about 30 minutes though of just reloading my save I finally caught him and named him Greg. So now we have Juan the Kyogre and Greg the Groudon.
For my team I used, only about half of them were relevant to the victory. The other 3 were under leveled and just kind of served as fodder meat to use revives. The 3 relevant ones are Blaziken, Gardevoir, and Vaporeon. All at Level 80 and who all steamrolled the champion and E4.
Speaking of Gardevoir, I found my first ever one from my very first playthrough of Pokemon Emerald. It turns out when I emulated it I saved the save to Drop Box. I thought it was lost but dug it up and there it was! I backed that thing up ASAP and have it stored until I can get the Pokemon off it and moved over to Home and/or my own local bank.
So far the last few bits of my game have been filling out the Dex. For the starters I think I’ll just use a save editor to add them to my party as eggs, as no one I know plays Emerald and I don’t feel like figuring out online and multiplayer.
I’m a bit sad to be finishing this game again. It’s what I call my “Cold Water” game for Pokemon. It’s got solid fundamentals while still being good and not bland. It’s always my go to for friends wanting to get into the franchise with how accessible to get ahold of it is. My one complaint is sometimes I get lost. And even then it’s kind of like its own adventure
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- 17d
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Today’s game is **Pokemon Emerald**. I’ll give Metal Gear Delta just a little bit longer as I’m making really quick progress on this, plus it’s easy to do in bite size pieces. I have a geology exam coming up so being able to just pick up for like 5 minutes is really appreciated.
I’ve been going around exploring trying to find niche stuff to do after getting stuck on the twin’s gym battle. I found this guy who wanted me to teach him something to make his daughter laugh. I made him say Liam, which is a personal reference too in my friend group (one of my friend’s cracked up at something unrelated when one of us said the name, it’s been a joke ever since).
I also met this guy who wanted me to teach him a new phrase. I taught him the phrase “Damp Swallow”. I hope one day to see this phrase take off.
I’ve reorganized my party a little bit too.
Why am I sharing this screenshot cropped? Well. It’s the only one I have that makes reference to Kenneth the Blaziken and I had to fish it from Discord. Kenneth was the named I picked because I had the R.E.M. song stuck in my head.
There’s also Iyu, the Gardevoir I caught at the start. The name was suggested by a friend from a show they were watching.
The final thing I wanted to mention was the humor of older Pokemon games. I feel like a lot of the older games nail implied humor. I seem to have lost the screenshot I was going to use as reference, but there’s a house with a man who mentions thinking you need a bunch of birds to fly instead of the Move. Okay, weird guess but not that weird. You go in his house though and there’s a fuckton of birds all over the place. There’s no line directly stating it. It’s great. It got a laugh out of me I feel like I haven’t felt in a while. Conversely, while I’ve enjoyed my time with all the newer Pokemon, as I think they’re _mechanically_ fine. Their presentation leaves a lot to be desired, including Humor.
Tomorrow I plan to try and beat the E4, and then work on filling out the Dex. Hopefully with the Battle Frontier and an EXP share it should be easy. Then I’ll start prepping my 3DS for the save move.
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- 18d
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Today’s game is Pokemon Emerald. I’ve been kind of wanting to play through this ever since I saw FRLG were getting released. I have nostalgia for this one because it was my first Pokemon game. I didn’t grow up with it being my generations Pokemon, but I remember loading it onto an emulator on my old phone, and having to speed run it under a week in Middleschool. I had an iPhone then, and if I didn’t speed through then the “certificate” would expire and id be stuck without and my save gone.
Anyways, because of that I’ve played this game so many times. It’s one of my favorite of the old generation of games, and setting it up under an emulator helped breathe some new life into it. I had wanted to pick up a GBA and a Flash Cart and play it that way, but I got a little impatient so this works too.
There’s not much to show in games like this, so I’ll just say that I made it past the 3rd Gym. Younger me would be proud seeing this kind of progress in one day. But because of this lack of interesting stuff today will be a bit shorter with less pictures and more talking.
Now that I’m not on a timer, I want to fill out the Pokédex. It’s been a goal I’ve been working on in the background to fill out the National Dex in Pokemon Home with all the Native Pokemon from their respective regions. I’m doing this by using a modded 3DS to transfer it all up, hopefully before the Pokemon Bank servers shut down. So far I have Platinum, Black and White, and I had started XY (But gave up as something bothers me about them so I’ll come back later)
I _also_ enabled Retro Achievements which makes this more fun. It’s like having a checklist to full 100% which is a fun experience. I just wish there was 3DS integration so I could play that way and make it truly portable. I’ll take what I can get though as this is fun. I ended off my night just by looking at the page to see what all so I can do.
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Today’s game is **Metal Gear Solid Delta**. I’ve never played a Metal Gear Solid game (well. Actually. I’ve played maybe 10 minutes of the 3DS version of 3) but I saw the remake was on sale and had been wanting to try it. I hear 3 is a good point for getting into the franchise so I picked it up on sale. I hear Delta got kind of mixed opinions from die hard fans because of some cutscene changes, but nothing too morally compromising from what I know.
My first impressions? I’ve never played a stealth game like this. The best way I can describe it is like driving a manual transmission car compared to an automatic. There’s something about the way it controls that feels very hands on and manual, down to handling camo and food.
I’m struggling to get a hang of the controls but I’m learning. This log took me a hot second because I struggled with the crouch controls. Getting knocked down by enemies when they melee me is also a struggle, as I struggle to stand back up.
Looks wise? The game is gorgeous. I had some issue with the FSR being grainy, but I switched to TSR and ran it at Native and it looks a lot better. Not perfect. But better. The water is really pretty which I’m a fan of.
Finally, the story. I’m a fan of it. There’s 3 conflicts I love as time periods and that’s the Cold War and both World Wars. Both are important to learn about and provide a fascinating backdrop. So safe to say this has my attention.
I also like how Commander Ocelot gets his shit kicked in every time we see him. It’s my understanding he grows into a role seen in future games, but here there’s something funny about him being Snake’s punching bag even though he’s a competent fighter. After he was knocked out I spent a bit just dragging him around. No reason in particular but I did get a free Mousetrap out of him. Ironic since he’s named after a cat.
Overall though this game is a new experience and I’m excited to be playing it. I’ve always wanted to get into Metal Gear Solid and buying this gave me not only Metal Gear Solid 3, but the first MGS and the original Metal Gear for the NES so I’m excited to try those too.
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Today’s game is **Alan Wake 2**. I finished my playthrough of this once again. Every time I finish it I have this kind of empty feeling. Like I’m beating it for the first time.
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Maybe it’s because I know each Playthrough is another movement along Alan’s inevitable “return” to the light. It gives each playthrough a kind of fresh feeling. But it also feels bittersweet. With the Final Draft he gets a better ending. But for now? He has to return to the start.
In a way that’s appropriate for the game. Not only is it synonymous with the writing cycle being loops and loops, but also with playing a game. Each playthrough I get closer and closer to reaching a sort of “ascension” (Letting go of the story).
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I first played Alan Wake 1 back in 2016, it was on Game Pass and my dad had rented it from Game Fly when I was little. I loved it. It stuck in my mind. Then come 2023 and the sequel releases. It builds and complements the original in such a way I can’t even begin to describe.
And in a way I guess I feel like I too am trapped in a loop. I never really find myself able to let go of the game. Every once in a while I feel this longing to go back to Bright Falls, go back to Alan; too _Return_.
To avoid getting too deep and personal about the game though, I played with making a Postcard! I took this one and thought it was funny. Certainly it isn’t a post card I wouldn’t mind getting in the mail.
I also love that There’s also Saga’s Mind Place. I love this. The game takes it, sets it up as this safe space. Then at the very end it rips it away from you as a safe space. As if a metaphor for the way the Dark Place works its way into your head, it works its way into the players own safe space.
To avoid over explaining points I’ve probably already gone over though, I’ll cut today off a little early. I love this game. It’s as close to perfect I feel a game has ever come and it’s left me planning a playthrough of the original (and maybe the final draft _again_). With the recent news about Remedy being up in there, I at least can say I’m thankful to have gotten a chance to play this. It really is one of my favorite experiences in gaming.
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Today's game is Alan Wake 2's Lake House DLC. I finished it up today, and holy shit it was good. I'd say it was as good as the main game for me. It took the core of the game and did some neat things with it that really upped all the aspects in different ways i feel.
For example, these guys. I fucking loved and hated dealing with them. Typically i don't like invincible enemies, but these guys being thrown into the game where i feel like you're expected to kill most of the enemies was amazing. I was *almost* a little disappointed when i got the black rock gun.
Another aspect i like is that we're seeing the aftermath of Alan's work. We only really see Alan effect the story first hand at the end. Until then we're just following his trail and playing Catch up. In a way it's fitting for the story of Estevez.
Speaking of Estevez. I want more of her. The DLC took her from a "pretty cool character" too "I need more". I wouldn't mind her getting her own game. It's certainly something i could see Remedy doing too.
Another aspect of this i liked was all the themes going on, i brushed a lot on them last time so i'll mainly cover one here, but i like how it's kind of a warning against trying to control and define art. Art is this free and almost mysterious force we can't really define. Try as we might with experiments or definitions, art just can't work like that. To attempt to control that on a level would only lead to catastrophic events.
Another aspect i liked was the whole "The Marmonts were monsters begin with" idea. Really cool and human angle i liked. I especially liked the boss fight too. Mainly the cutscene before though. I don't think we've ever seen Taken on Taken violence. In a way it's almost scarier because it doesn't feel natural to the rules the story has setup. In a way that itself is fitting too the unnatural story the Marmonts created through their tampering with forces they shouldn't have.
Once i finished the DLC that's when i decided to do the screenshots. I thought it would be best with all ideas fresh in my head, plus after telling Rudolph Lane goodbye i needed a moment. In a way it really highlights how the story is the "monster". No one escapes, not even the characters from the first game. And in a way, it's not the dark presence doing it this time, it's the story itself doing it.
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Today’s game is Animal Crossing New Horizons. I’ve been busy today so I just laid in bed and played this. First thing of note is fuck this guy. Like, I can’t get him out of my camp. He’s been there like a week and I don’t know why. He won’t leave. I don’t know if there’s something I’m missing or what. Anyways. Fuck him (not really though).
My bridge I started is coming alone okay ish. It’s almost 200,000 bells so I’m finding it hard to actually pay for it. Usually I’ll pop in, fish a little, harvest fruit, and then drop them in the sales box and pop off. It makes me around 10,000 Bells daily so it’s a nice steady pace. I do wish it was faster though.
I’ve also got a carrot cake I’ve been keeping on my floor. It’s been there like a week but I don’t think I’ve shared it. So this is like the formal “Floor Carrot Cake” announcement. I guess it’s part of the decoration now.
I ended the day just by chilling on the beach. Honestly I think the design is what this game nails perfectly. It’s got the perfect beach noises and feel. Same with snow. It’s got that sparkle and crunch snow has that I feel like a lot of games don’t. Anyways. I kind of just closed my eyes for a bit until I had to put it away to charge. The sounds were nice.
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Today’s game is some more **Alan Wake II**. I got to the lake house DLC today, and holy shit, I love it. There’s just a lot of things going on that are amazing. It’s like playing Alan Wake 2 again for the first time.
Namely, there’s these guys. Idk what their deal is, I’m completely blind here, but when i encountered them I fucking ran. Didn’t even try to fight them.
It’s like, taken. Yeah. I can handle those fine. I have experience with those. Then I just get these paint things thrown at me and it freaks me out. They’re tall, gangly, and unnaturally human looking compared to the taken who still feel and look Human.
There’s also this talking painting. After reading some of the lore documents lying around I have an idea of what its schtick is, but I’m not gonna say any theories ahead of time.
And then the themes. There’s a bunch here I’m seeing. Like ideas of autonomy in the pages, or a meta commentary on what I think is Ai Generation through the machines designed to endlessly mimic Alan’s writing, or even just art kind of being a constantly growing thing you can’t really stop no matter how you try to contain it. But the one that really stood out to me is this guy, who’s one of the writers from the beginning.
I ran into him as I was snooping around, fresh off the Typewriter Machine Room. I talk to him and he’s dissecting Alan’s writing in way’s that aren’t what we know Alan’s stuff to actually be about (at least that’s how I understood it). He talks about the Shadows and stuff being about capitalism, when in reality we know the meaning is, albeit a little more personal to Alan, but also a weapon to fight the dark presence. That led me to two conclusions.
Either 1) This was The Writer’s basically saying parallels ≠ Commentary, so my AI comparison might not be meta commentary, or 2) it was them commenting on how we can kind of find our own meaning in other works of art, even though they may not have been intended. Of course I suppose both can be true as well now that I think. Far from a formal opinion (if I meant it to be so I’d have quotes) but it was just something I was thinking about.
I know this is just “I’m noticing details” but that’s part of what I love about this game, so I’ll stop with this last one and just point out I love how Estevez’s jacket gets paint on it. It’s a neat detail.
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Today’s game is **Alan Wake II**. Did you know these guys were on the front porch? Because I didn’t. 4 playthroughs in and I had no idea these guys were here until I went back in the house and saw one of them walking out front. I thought I was seeing things at first or it was some sort of Easter egg, but I found them out here and they were just chilling (or in the guy in the towel’s case, he was literally chilling)
I also went hunting for the cult stashes. I found this one specifically that I had to break out algebra for. Out of everything I’ve ever had to use Algebra for I didn’t expect it to be this.
I also wanted to stop and praise the Mind Place/Writer’s room. Because I fucking love these. Legitimately, I love games that have like a little “pocket space” you can enter. Fable 2 had one and I loved that. Alan Wake does something cool with there’s where the sound from outside leaks in which is really cool. While I was doing the deputies boss fight they were shouting idle lines and they were leaking through. Spooky shit.
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And finally, 4 playthroughs in. I met the mayor. I had no idea this was him. Which is ironic with how obvious it all is. To be honest this game does that a lot. I really like it.
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I’m going to start the Lake House DLC next, at least if I understand how you access it correctly. I stopped right before then, so hopefully I’ll head on to that and finish the game again. I love this game, but I’ve picked up a game that I’ve been wanting to play since it released a while ago and I’m excited to get to it. I also want to replay the original Alan Wake now too after hearing The Poet and The Muse on the Jukebox.
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Today’s game is some more **Animal Crossing**. I was gonna do Alan Wake 2, I swear I haven’t dropped that like everything else lol. But I came home at like 9 from a showing of Iron Lung I went too, and for some reason my internet just decided it didn’t want too anymore today. I tried resetting it. I tried unplugging it. Nothing. I was tired and just wanted to relax, so I just said fuck it and played Animal Crossing.
First thing is that I finally caught the fucking tarantula. This asshole has been terrorizing me outside my house for like the last week. I choose to believe it’s the same Tarantula because this one seems to have a vendetta against me. I caught it though and put Asshole The Spider (Ats for short) here in the Museum. A fitting punishment I choose to believe.
I also complete the Pachy which is nice. It’s the first bone set I’ve done so it’s a little milestone for me. I’d like to dedicate myself to filling out the compendium of this game, so that’s my main goal right now. Fossils I think will be the nightmare, we’ll see though
I also got a lovely “handmade” bottle crate stack from Sherb that I used as a table for my Squid. I put it next to a cute DIY table I got from Whisp.
I ended the night by fishing a little bit. Looking at my compendium I’m only really missing a goldfish which I can’t seem to catch. I had caught another carp and just decided to try again tomorrow.
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Today's game is **Ultimate Chicken Horse**. It was on sale, and me and one of my friends had a blast during one of the previous free weeks, so we convinced some of our friends to pick it up with us with it on sale.
Returning to this game with more than one person was already an improvement. It feels like things actual become a challenge quickly. I'm not really sure how to explain the game to people who don't know, so my suggestion is to watch the trailer or gameplay footage. I'm sure it'd do a far better job than i could.
We end up working against eachother to fuck each other over. Honestly, this game might be tied with Mario Party in making us distrust each other. Like, most actions i take are less to advance me and more to screw over my friends who i think are gonna try and screw *me* over.
We also tried a custom map. This one was appropriately called "Saw Hell". There used to be a lot more saws. It honestly made a unique challenge of us working together to clear things before trying to fuck eachother over. Ultimately it made the fucking over a lot more uneasy, because we couldn't trust they'd keep being friendly.
Ultimately though, i think this game while fun isn't a Multi-hour kind of game (and ultimately why today is kind of short). It's good for like an hour every week or so, and honestly, i think that's okay. For 6$ on sale it wasn't a bad choice. It was a good time with friends, and taught me a lot about trust.
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Today’s game is some more **Halo PvP**. I decided to mix things up a little in picking my screenshots. Usually I just take screenshots and tie them to the text somehow. This time I wanted to do something different. So instead I loaded up 3 different games I played and picked 3 Screenshots from each of them (there’s a few extras too, but I won’t use those). I’m not sure if it will result in anything to different but I wanted to try it.
One of the first games we played today is Jenga. I really like this custom game mode. There’s something super satisfying about seeing cards parts whizz past your head and narrowly missing you. There’s something just as satisfying about hitting your own friends with vehicles too.
With this game mode I can’t even feel a little pang of disappointment at losing. The fall to my death is cathartic even in a non weird way. It’s like combining that with Reach’s satisfying physics makes a nice combo.
There was Forklift sumo we did too. This one for people who don’t know, is basically just as it sounds. Kick everyone else off and be the last person standing in your forklift.
There’s something satisfying about this one too with the janky ass Forklift physics. As soon as we all get in we charge for each other. Sometimes we’ll even end up in little clusters. And get caught on each other.
The best part though is when you’re fighting someone and you both go over the edge. Like, yeah, you lost. But you took someone else with you. And with the janky physics that’s something to feel proud of.
Then finally, there was social games. What’s there to say? It’s social games. We got our ass kicked and had fun. We did 8v8 which was a good time. It was on Rat’s nest which felt a bit small for it though.
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I got in the Driver’s seat and another guy hopped in the Gunner’s. One of my friends joined me in Passenger. We didn’t get very far though as I hit a box and we flipped over.
Me and my friend kept moving as we didn’t feel like there was time to stop and fix the car. We ended up getting demolished right as we rounded the corner though. And that basically sums up the entire game. We got our asses handed to us.
After that everyone split off to go do our own things for the night, and my headphones were almost dead. I actually invested in a semi nice pair of wired ones just to stop that issue. I’m just waiting for this to be how I find out my PC’s headphone jack doesn’t work. Anyways, after that I played some more Alan Wake 2 and then cleaned up my old Hard Drive. I have a super old one that’s an absolute mess I’ve been cleaning out. So that’s been my “project” these last few days
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Today’s game is some more **Animal Crossing New Horizons**. You know what I’ve come to realize? The switch’s Wi-Fi card? Absolutely horrible. Like. My signal fluctuates from 1 bar to no bars. If I hold it high enough I _might_ get 2 bars. So that’s ruled out multiplayer for the most part because my signal is so bad me and my friend get disconnected after like 2 minutes.
I did something revolutionary today though: I went outside, to my friend’s house, and we played local multiplayer. Experience was far better. We went and looked at his aquarium together.
I have to say, having to actually hang out with a friend. I see why this really took off during Covid. It felt like actually hanging out in a museum with my friend, and with the photo mode it kind of feels like I’m making memories.
I also bought a wet suit and went swimming. It’s a cool concept. I like it. Honestly I like the ocean in general. You know what I don’t like? This damn net. I know there’s technical constraints but damn do I want to just swim onward forever.
I also got Sherb. He’s nice. I want to pet him. He was reading a picture book like all day. No shame to him but I don’t think he can read. Which honestly raises some concerns about the infrastructure on my island. I think I need to establish educational facilities so people can learn to read and stuff. Poor Sherb shouldn’t be limited to picture books.
Finally I unlocked Harv’s island. I wasn’t sure what this is but I wasn’t expecting a photo studio. I took a picture and left (I didn’t want to be rude and just fuck off without taking a single photo). I didn’t have time though so I went home.
That was kind of all I did though. After discovering the multiplayer it’s felt like a lot opened up to me, and getting to finally swim was a nice step too. I think my next step will be to earn money to finish the local bridge I’m building since we don’t seem to have taxes. I’m just not sure how to do that really as I only have 30,000 Bells in the bank.
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Today’s game is **Quake**. Specifically QBJ3. I saw someone talking about this and decided I’d give it a try. I’d never played Quake before this. But I saw someone talking about the modpack and thought it was pretty so I tried it. I even bought a copy of Quake 1 for it.
I really like the modpack. It’s got some some amazing artistry too it, maybe jumping headfirst into it for an evening of fun wasn’t the best idea though. I think I’d appreciate it more if I’d actually played Quake 1 before.
I played 1 map where you’re escaping from prison which was a load of fun. It went on a while though so I stopped and tried a different level.
Next I tried one called “Penis day at the Gym”. I have no clue what the hell I played but it was fun. I got a laugh out of me slipping on a banana peel to my death. I also found something called a Brutalist Butt Plug.
The final one I played I can’t remember the name of but it had something to do with a house. Design wise it reminds me of Silent Cartographer in Halo CE. I think it’s my favorite to play. It had a lot of wide openness the others didn’t.
I do think that openness works against it though too, as it maid it harder to hit targets. That ended up causing me to stop as I was fighting a group of enemies I just couldn’t get past.
I really liked this modpack, ultimately though I think it was more so a fun evening for me to mess around. When I decide to set my mind to it though I’d love to come back for an evening and finish a bunch of the levels.
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Today's game is some more Alan Wake 2. I finished up Alan's half of the story today. I have to say i'm sad to leave it once again. Don't get me wrong, i love Saga's story. But damn, Alan's story has some high highs and stellar ideas. Meanwhile Saga's story is more so constant.
This time around I sat and watched the entirety of Nightless Night for the first time. It was amazing, it legit had me checking if there were post credit scenes. I love that remedy did this. They absolutely did not have to make a short film for the game. But they did anyways. And not only that but they made a really good one too.
Speaking of the theater before i leave it, One of the shadows spawned in his seat backwards which made me laugh. I had to stop and look at it.
As i was heading out i stopped to grab some collectibles, and you know what i ran into that actually *really* unsettled me for the first time in a while since first playing this game? This shadow barrier at the edge of the dark place. It makes this humming noise and you can't see what's out there. There could be nothing, or there could be the worst thing ever. It freaks me the fuck out. I love it.
After that things went by pretty fast. I made way to the studio and grabbed the photos before dropping them off, and bam, I'm with Saga. That means soon I'll be playing the DLC which I'm excited to do. I want to get to that tomorrow hopefully.
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Today’s game is Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I’ve been checking in on this one daily. Did I maybe sort of promise to stick to New Leaf regularly? Maybe. Did I break that promise to myself? Definitely. Am I going to stick with this one? Probably not.
Anyways, I’ve been having a lot of fun with this. Shocker. I know. But I’ve grown especially fond of catching fish to display in my house. I have this squid in named Sammy. I fear Sammy’s enclosure is too small for him, but I don’t have anywhere else to put him other than sell him. And I refuse to do that.
I got both the shops constructed which is great. I ended up getting them both placed, before finally deciding to just Time Travel, as I decided I’d have more fun that way.
After that I went clothes shopping. I find it funny how sassy the player character looks. They look good and they damn well know it.
After dressing myself up I went and looked at the aquarium. Honestly that’s my favorite part of this game. Just the aquarium. Bugs, Art, Fossils? Nope. They can all screw off (nicely), I want to look at the fish dammit. I like how the lighting of the water looks and just like staring. The music that plays there is nice too. Really calming.
I ended up just propping my Switch up and watched them while I did some homework. It was chill. I actually ended up ripping the entire OST and adding it to my Jellyfin to stream.
That’s kind of all I got up too. I wanted to update on what I did last time, try and build up a habit and all that. I’m gonna try and binge Alan Wake II tomorrow, I wanted to marathon it to see how far I get.
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Today’s game is some more **Halo**. I’ve actually been challenging myself to not do Halo for these just because of how much I do it (plus I’ve been busy adoring Alan Wake which helps). I made an exception today partly because I just wanted to relax with friends.
We did a forge game today that was Rainbow Road from Mario Kart Wii. I think our general consensus was that while this one had merit, the Halo physics just made it not fun to play. It was too faithful of a recreation to work with the physics.
We also did a game mode titled “Get out of my House” where we had to fight zombies off out of the “house”. It was fun, it definitely felt like it favored the defenders though which was a major issue.
Of course, while we did have fun with Get out of my House, we decided to wash it down with something we knew was a good time. Hence that brought us to Zealot infection. I don’t need to say much about this one. The map is basically perfect. The only issue is the roof top area is very easy for people to camp on, and I think I have an idea to counteract that in forge.
I ended up losing by 4 points. it was a pretty close match all around, so even if I didn’t nab second place I think everyone else would have been dangerously close.
That brings us to our final match. Just some slayer on Oni Sword Base. It’s like the White Bread option. It’s reliable, fun, and is just good however you do it. I got payback for the last match and won by 5 points.
That’s about all we got up too, there was a Halo 3 match we did too but that went by so quickly there’s not much to talk about. Tomorrow I think I’ll play some more Alan Wake 2. I have something I want to try out so I’m eager to get back to it.
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Today’s game is some more **Alan Wake II**. I was playing with lighting and portraits to practice some stuff we had gone over in my Photography class. I got this one of him illuminated by the projector light I really liked.
There was also this one I grabbed on the stage of Door’s talk show, I got it to contrast with the warmer lighting of the other one. Kind of get a matching pair of that makes sense.
Speaking of Door’s talk show, or more so the area around it, when I exited I saw this sign that said OD Diner. At first I thought it was a reference to Alan’s addiction problems, but if I remember correctly he just had a drinking problem.
Then I realized, “duh. It’s Oh Dear Diner dumb ass.” It makes sense because it’s a dream world, which is random neurons firing off. So obviously it’s his brain (or more so the dark place) reusing his memory of the Oh Dear Diner.
I also got the privilege of discovering my PS5 controller I bought purely for PC gaming is now deciding it wants to drift. In this elevator I got stuck moving to the left. I adjusted dead zones to help a little but honestly it’s just a patch, and not even one that worked well.
Honestly, it’s kind of on me, it’s taken quite a few falls. I’ll have to see about sending it in. If not, then there’s a fancy new steam controller on the horizon that hopefully is within my budget.
Because of said Stick Drift I stopped in the theater. I’m gonna try and adjust the dead zone a little more to make it more tolerable, so we’ll see if I can do that or if I should start looking into my warranty.
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Today’s game is _Animal Crossing New Horizons_. My friends have been begging me to get a copy so I can play multiplayer with them. I finally caved. I refuse to spend anywhere near full price though for this game so I did some looking around and managed to find it going for a much more reasonable ~40$ USD in my area. Which is a great deal for me. Now I don’t have to borrow my friend’s digital copy and he can join me.
When my friend joined me, we were wearing the exact same clothes and the exact same eye and blush. He had to start over so this is all his starting stuff, so the coincidence that we both match is hilarious to us.
He kept getting disconnected though, which brings me to my first point. Maybe it’s my network, but this game has poor multiplayer as my friend keeps getting disconnected. We ended up only playing for around 40 minutes before lost him and we decided to quit.
I kept going for a bit, but I ended up fishing to max out Blather’s tent. Honestly, I forgot Blathers was even there. I had put him there like a month ago when I was borrowing my friend’s copy. But I check in and wander around for a bit before accidentally entering Blather’s tent.
Anyways. I gave him like 5 fish and saved. It didn’t feel like there was much else for me to do except wait. I didn’t want to time travel so I guess I’ll pop in tomorrow and see how things are doing with him.
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Today's game is Morrowind. I wanted to try mixing things up a little and had gotten this last december so i decided to dick around for a bit in it. I ended up being a little surprised by how much i enjoyed all the reading it needs. I mean, don't get me wrong. It's incredibly tedious and annoying sometimes, but it comes with satisfaction upon finding your way around with the journal and having to navigate in an almost realistic manner.
I ended up reusing my Daggerfall character Nazita for it, even though with the timeline it doesn't really work timeline wise. I made her a Rogue, though i'm not a fan of daggers so i've been training the longsword skill so i can use those instead in combat.
Speaking of the combat, I can't say i'm a fan. Maybe there's something i'm missing but it's definitely a lacking point of it. I just find myself jabbing at the enemies until either one of us drop dead.
Graphically though? I find it to be really pretty. I really like the water especially. I'm not sure what comes from OpenMW and what comes from base Morrowind, bur at a core level i think it's pretty.
I ended up just walking all the way to Gnisis to join the Empire and got the quest where you have too get the land deed. I ended up just stopping there though after heading into the mine and then turning back. I thought i had to go there to handle the Land deed morally, but apparently not.
Overall i think if i have to pick an Elderscrolls game that's got overwhelming depth to it while still controlling a little weirdly, i'd have to pick Daggerfall. I still think Morrowind has a lot going on for it that i love but i think i prefer how Daggerfall looks, plays, and sounds.
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Today’s game is some more Alan Wake II. I already made it through the hotel today. I always forget how fast this game goes by. It definitely is a good length, but damn does it leave me wanting more.
Speaking of the Hotel, while in room 666 I had noticed the furniture in there (as in the stuff in the shadows) is all Pitch Black. With how much detail the game has I have to imagine this is intentional, but intentional or not this is still really cool to get a glimpse at.
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Another thing I started thinking of is that with each “loop” that ends with you meeting scratch, the accompanying media form is the ritual in mention.
Like the hotel is a Stage Play, and the play is the ritual, the theater is a movie with it being its own ritual, and the subway, I believe at least, is a book. Which is why it’s so hands on with Alan and is a little less Meta.
It’s the ritual “Leading” Alan on because he’s being called there and being jerked around by others. It works with the dark places loops too because the whole story of Return is a ritual leading him on too. So it’s the whole “Loops within loops”
It’s a bit sloppy thinking, I know. I haven’t thought much on it until now (and maybe I’ll think more on it and realize I’m completely wrong), and I’m sure everyone else reading this is either thinking “duh, but I guess I was so enamored with Dream New York I guess it took me 4 playthroughs to notice.
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Final thing I noticed, but Max Payne dies with his right side facing Alan and the light, while the right faces the shadow. I think it’s intentional camera work. And I think it’s a cool detail, since Alan is meant to represent the light.
That’s really all though. I could talk more about the Art pieces in the hotel. But I’ve done that in the past. I did noticed they’re all kind of surface level, referring to water, dreaming, or writing. Which I thought lent to a dream like quality to them. The kind of random shallow shit your brain might come up with while dreaming.
Anyways, _thats_ the last thing I’m gonna touch on. I swear. I have some cool ideas for photos with the theater so I’m excited to do those next time I play.
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Today’s game is **Project Zomboid**. I got me and some friends back on the Build 42 Multiplayer and we had some fun. We ended up chilling this session, and I figured out how to get on the roof of the house I made my home and just chilled. It was nice.
The game changed the lamps to Sodium Lamps (or at least I believe it’s a change) which I’m a huge fan of. Not going to go on any sort of tangent about old sodium lamps being better or anything like that, but having the orange light definitely helps place it in the time period and lend to the aesthetic of the game.
When day broke I went ahead and headed to find food. I’ve been cooking and smithing for everyone In the little colony we set up. It’s nice. Honestly I like multiplayer because you get to setup these pockets of civilization and rebuild. It’s really cool. I like being the black smith and making people weapons.
We ended off our session after me and my friend got separated by a horde near the bridge in Echo Creek. We thought a cliffhanger would be a fun personal moment to end off on. He got safe and hunkered down in town, but besides that, that’s all I know. I need to remember that I want to add the amputation mod too in case one of us gets bit. It’ll add a degree of realism I feel like, and I like having a “cure” option even if it’s far from ideal.
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Today’s game is some more Alan Wake II. Now that I’ve had proper time I’ve noticed a few interesting details I wanted to point out. Like for example, Alan when he uses the health kit will actually pull a bandage out of the health pack. Which I think is a really cool detail.
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I also love how “in your face” the graffiti is about the plot twist. It really adds some depth to the reveal, and going back through on the Final Draft, it makes you stop and think “how the hell did I miss this?”
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The graffiti also just straight up looks cool. Which I like.
The game also makes Alan descend into water a lot. Which I’m pretty sure is an intentional nod to him “diving deeper” to escape the dark place. It’s a really cool attention to detail I really like.
And finally, I just wanted to show off how pretty this game is. Nothing special about this piece, I just wanted to show off the sort of eerie beauty the dark place has. I just want to wander the streets at night wrapped in a nice rain jacket.
I forgot how fast Alan’s section goes. Honestly, this game goes fast, which is both good and disappointing. It really left me wanting more after my first playthrough, and still to this day sometimes I feel like my heart kind of never left this game. Kind of poetic in a way. It’s like I traded places with Alan. Maybe in a way that was intentional in the writing. Probably just me being weird though
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Today’s game is some more Alan Wake II. Today is going to be a bit brief because I just got back from a party where I was to semi-official-ish photographer.
I do want to briefly bring up how much fucking detail this game has. I love it.
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I love how the ending is so in your face the entire time you wonder how you missed it.
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The game is just packed with details too. Like the signs in the Dark Place all have messages that can apply to Alan. Or of course there’s the Street signs.
Then of course just the street graffiti is great. It also is jam packed full of details and nods to the first few games. It really makes you feel like this is a dream. I half expect it to change when I turn around.
I didn’t want too be all nerd details though and wanted to get a little Artsy.
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I wanted to use the shadows to draw the users view to Alan’s head behind the bars, kind of like his bars are all in his head.
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That was the last of what I really got up too. Like I had mentioned I was wiped from what I was up too. I still got a little of this in (and even tried to do some extra practice. Which I like how it turned out
I’ll have to tell one of my friends to pick it up. He’s been holding off due to the price so half off will be great for him