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Today’s game is Fallout 3. My network has been out all evening. So i chose to take this as an opportunity to play some Fallout 3.

First thing I did was I made my way back to the metro I got my ass kicked in last time before crashing. I got my ass kicked again though so I went back and did some questing to get better gear. Then I came back and cleared the floor.

The main quest I did was the survivor’s guide. It sent me to the grocery store, and I killed all the raiders and stole some of their brass knuckles too. Or. I killed all but one. One of them got afraid and ran away, and I felt bad gunning down (or punching down) a surrendering enemy.

After that I went through the metro like I said above. That brought me in contact with the Lyon’s Brotherhood of Steel. I helped them clear out the super mutants with my fancy new brass knuckles. The behemoth came along though and I knew that wasn’t going to cut it so I dropped some land mines and lured it over them.

I experienced another crash though as I was making my way through the rest of the story. The last thing I got to look at was this ghoul’s eyeball. I decided that was a fitting place to stop.

I’m enjoying this a lot. It feels a lot more balanced compared to New Vegas in terms of leveling and such. New Vegas I do love the difficulty though. I suppose it’s two different things.

Anyways, I’m gonna sink some more time into this tomorrow. I want to see how it compares to what I remember it being like when I was younger.

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Liberation. I finished Assassin’s Creed 3 today along with all the DLCs. My child hood self feels a sense of pride at that I suppose. It’s like this big beast I thought unslayable had been taken down.

As for Liberation, I’m fucking loving this. It shows that it’s a PS Vita game in some areas but besides that it’s really good.

I especially love the Persona System. It really contributes to the social stealth in a way I love and I wish we had gotten more. I love having specific outfits that work in specific niches. It almost reminds me of the first game and how you had to stalk enemies for information on the target. I do wish it had been used in that way more here though. It feels like the pieces are there but the final concept isn’t.

I’d love to be able to scout out a target ahead of time in one persons and then break in as another and finish the job. Granted, maybe there’s some technical limitations I’m missing here.

I got as far as Sequence 2 before stopping. I want to go back for more tomorrow so I hope I will. I’m also digging the Animus theme here. It reminds me of like a PowerPoint theme from the 2010s I remember vividly growing up.

Today’s game is Myst. It was on sale for like 2$ so I picked it up. I was wanting the fancy modern version but ME was 2$ and the same experience. So I figured why not.

I’ve been wanting to play this for a hot second for a while. I used to have a disk for my iMac G3 I could play on. I was young though and had no understanding of what I was doing. So I wanted to give it an earnest try.

First thoughts? This game is creepy and claiming at the same time. Somehow it usually feels like I’m in this serene calm place (picture above not relevant to this part), but also it feels like there’s something there (picture above IS relevant to this part). Either behind me or around the corner and it’s going to get me. It’s an interesting feeling.

I love the graphics. This early kind of FMV is super charming to me in a way even though I didn’t grow up with it. I remember loving it when I was exploring it freely when I was little too. Pair that with the soundtrack and it’s a good time. My favorite so far has been the planetarium. I always loved space growing up and this somehow scratches that feeling.

I made it through the mechanical age before having to stop. I brought the blue page back with me so and that was rather fast so I don’t expect this to be super long of a game to play.

Today’s game is Portal: Alive and Kicking. I saw this existed somewhere the other day and grabbed it. From everything i understand it’s a remake of Portal 1 in the Portal 2 engine. It’s a minute difference I’m sure, but I was bored and wanted to try it.

Honestly this is a bit of a hard thing to right about because… it’s just Portal 1. I’d like to give some introspective about how cool “such and such” is compared to the original. But honestly there’s not much to say because it’s so well put together that I can’t tell any difference.

I did actually manage to lock myself out of the door which got a laugh out of me. All I had to do was take the cube off the button and put it back on. But it was funny to see.

There’s one change I actually just remembered I actually really like. At least I think it’s a change. The energy pellet collector thing(?) will cast a light on the opposite wall, which makes placing a portal far easier. This could totally be a thing in the original though so I could be wrong.

I made it as far as Chamber 10 before stopping. I wanted to go all the way to the end but it was getting late and I had some stuff to do, so I decided it was a good point to stop. I would like to actually go back and finish this. It’s just portal 1, so it’s not like it’s a crazy long thing to finish. I do also have a bunch of stuff already on my plate though I want to finish so maybe not.

Today’s game is some more Assassin’s Creed 3. I’ve been working on clearing the DLC. I made it about half way through. So far the story has been a bit mediocre, but I am really loving the new gameplay mechanics. I think in a base game they’d get old fast but in a small DLC like this? They’re a blast because they’re these cool overpowered tools that bring up the scope of what you can do.

So far my favorite has been the eagle ability just because it’s like a grappling hook. It’s a blast to use.

I’ve also been trying to get all the optional objectives. I want to 100% the DLCs too so those are something I’ll have to work towards too. So far it hasn’t been that bad. Some of the objectives are hard, nowhere near the level of the base game though.

I stopped for today and ended up going back to the first episode to finish a few tasks I missed. I thought they’d be a pain to do but I found I could farm them all by running out of the space where they spawn and running back, then I could keep farming that for the goal. I doubt this will be of any use to anyone, but the location is the hill between Lexington (or Concord, I can’t remember, whichever is closer to Valley Forge) and Valley Forge. I found running across the River and back would force it to spawn and I could repeat that for the 5 “Save the NPC from wolves” goal.

Today’s game is Project Zomboid. We made a trip into Louisville today. It was a fucking adventure. I usually measure Zomboid sessions based on how many events could go into a Zombie TV Show. And this one was damn full of them.

After packing up the van we got everyone piled in and headed off down the road. The first stop was at a gas station where we stopped to grab some extra supplies. That’s where we had our first scare. One of our guys got grabbed and nearly got bitten. By a miracle he made it out alive. We finished fueling up and headed to our next stop.

That brought us to the military base. There was an entire horde in there and we fought our way through the entire thing. We had quite a few scares but somehow cleared the entire thing. If I had to guess we killed maybe 300 Zombies in there.

As we were looting it though the worst thing happened: The Helicopter Event. We tried to bunker down but it saw us and we had to hide out while it drew half of Louisville to our door step. We fought them off until the end of the event. We decided to stay there because it gave us a narrow choke point to hold down. Once we survived that though we finally made it to our destination.

We drove into town and found some Sheep. Just chilling in Louisville. We tried to take them home but they were too heavy and maimed some of our guys. So we just butchered them and took the meat home instead. We were starting to get tired but some of us wanted to press on. One of our players found some car keys and a working car, so they took some of the group home while the rest of us kept exploring.

Our trip ended at the Gentlemen’s club. It wasn’t originally our goal, but one of our guys unfortunately got bitten here and died. We took his stuff but with us being down a man we decided not to press our luck and turn around.

Thankfully the trip home was a lot less eventful, it was chill and we basically had no issues besides some mild traffic. I let one of our other players drive so I could mark up the road. I mark it up as we go so we can keep an eye on where the road blocks are and be aware. It’s handy.

When we finally got home we unloaded from our trip that lasted nearly 4 hours. It was a blast. I’m glad I got to take that trip because it’s some of the most fun I’ve had in Zomboid for a long while.

Today‘s game is Fallout 3. I really probably shouldn’t have started another game while I was finishing the DLC of Assassin’s Creed 3 and Pokemon Platinum. But I also really wanted to play Fallout 3 recently for some reason. I may not finish it, but that’s fine. I got my fix at least.

I did a fully unarmed build this time. I usually go for guns but this time I wanted to use my fists to punch stuff. It’s lead to some pretty good results, like in the opening it’s really easy to knock out NPCs you aren’t supposed to. For example, Butch here I pummeled into the floor before doing the G.O.A.T.

First thing I did was of course head for Megaton. I disarmed the bomb and collected the house, then got fresh on the trail of Liam Neeson. I stopped for a moment to get a picture to show off my guy, Player Name, and went on my way.

My quest to find Qui-Gon Jinn took me into the metro. I rooted around down there for a while and pummeled some Mole Rats to death. I was about to heal up and head out to find the Player’s dad again, and then the worst tragedy to befall someone in a Bethesda game struck: my game crashed.

I took that as a sign to take a breather. I had been playing for about 2-3 hours now and I should have been getting some air (plus taking care of some work I had to do). Tomorrow I’m gonna try and clear out the DLC of AC3, as I do actually want to keep playing this. It’s been a blast and I know if I add something else to my plate something will get dropped which I want to avoid.

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed 3. I have finally done it. I 100% the Base Game. I thought for sure it would be about the same as revelations was. I was wrong. It was a whole lot more work. I’d say the 2 worst parts were the Encyclopedia of the Common Man and the 100% Sync. The Encyclopedia namely involved just a lot of waiting around which was horrible. I got it though. And I’m finally ready to move onto The Tyranny of King Washington.

Which I finally started today actually. It’s interesting getting to play this. I built up this image of what the game would be like in my head when I was younger but never got to play it. Getting to play it now is interesting. It mainly reminds me a lot of Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare, with the whole alternate time line shenanigans.

I’m hoping Haytham shows up but my hopes aren’t very high. Just something about the way he’s briefly mentioned and moved on from makes me feel like he won’t really have a role here which sucks. But is also understandable with how short it seems to be. Doesn’t appear to be much space to cram him in. Still. I hope I’m wrong.

Anyways. I ended my play session today by getting the first wolf ability. I honestly think it’s kind of cool. Obviously not something that fits in the base game, but having the ability to turn invisible and take out enemies is honestly really cool. I’m a big fan of mechanics like that so I’m glad to have it. Tomorrow I’ll have to try and get more used to it because it’s a lot of fun to use.

Today’s game is Salt. This initially was going to come on time but Lemmy was giving me issues signing in. So I had to wait.

Anyways, Salt is a game i believe has featured in here before. The only way i can think to describe it is Windwaker meets Oblivion. It’s a lot calmer than either of those two though. From what I gather the objective is to sail island to island beating bosses. It’s nothing amazing but it manages to be a somewhat cozy experience that has managed to find its way in.

The game is really pretty notably. My favorite scene so far is just sailing the ocean at night and looking at the stars. It provides a relaxing landscape to just chill out and sail too. I like it too because there’s not anything aggressive on the sea to worry about.

It does have the issue of becoming a bit mundane, as there’s nothing out there as I mentioned. But it’s not the worst thing in the world. Especially when you have friends.

Anyways. I wanted to feature this because I took a detour today from my “projects” to play this and wanted to share. I’ve always wanted to play this after I saw a YouTuber play it when I was young, so getting to share it here is also very cool. Anyways. I’m gonna go lie down now as whatever was going on with Lemmy had me up late to check

Today’s game is some more Halo PvP. I took some friends with me into 8v8 lobbies. We had a friend who’s never played a PvP lobby before and was confident in his skills. We weren’t sure he could but didn’t want to dampen his enthusiasm so we joined him for some matches. Kudos to him, he did pretty good. Nothing crazy but he did well for having only stuck to a private lobby before. It makes me feel a shred of pride, knowing in a way I’m partly responsible for training him to be that good.

Besides that, as always with Halo it was a blast. The round was at a stalemate the entire time and both sides barely kept up with each other to achieve a draw. We nearly got a push at the end but failed to make it in time. The entire game I got to dominate with a sniper too which was awesome.

We switched to 4v4 after that and we were dominating in that one too. We admittedly may have gotten a little too cocky though as we stopped killing the enemy team really and started chasing each other round. Like for example I stopped sniping to run from my friend with the Energy Sword who was chasing me with it. I got a few kills while running but they were less strategically planned and more so “oh shit. There’s an enemy in my way. I better kill them so I don’t get killed”. I feel like that’s what really captures the magic of Halo for me. It doesn’t just come out like a generic shooter. It has a cohesive balance of cool and moments of just fucking around with friends. It’s a blast.

Our last game that’s worth mentioning was fairly quick. I got to dominate with the sniper again in the watch tower and held that position almost all game. Our opponents were fairly skilled but they made the mistake of not watching for grenades.

I suppose our commupance though was due anytime. The next two matches after that we got absolutely destroyed by the enemy and it was as funny as it was frustrating. Still. That’s how public PvP games go I guess. I’d like to get friends together for a private PvP lobby again soon. So hopefully that’s something that will happen.

Today’s game is some more Halo MCC. I went back and finished the Backrooms mod with my friend. It definitely wasn’t what I was expecting. I’ll spoiler things for anyone that might want to check it out, because it’s like a short 25 minute romp that’s free. But:

I also finally tried out the Trench Coat mod with my friend. The mod is basically the idea that one player controls movement and the other aiming. I think our version was bugged because I controlled aiming, shooting, and grenades, while my friend controlled everything EXCEPT aiming.

The mod was interesting. It created this unique challenge where it felt hard, but didn’t feel impossible or even remotely challenging. Like, it was a constant battle but I only died once or twice.

Unfortunately this was the last mission we did for the night because my network decided it loved the idea of crashing out on me. And even now it seems to be giving me issues and not uploading my last image. Tonight I finished the 100% objectives in Assassin’s Creed III as well. Hopefully I’ll be finishing that up tomorrow and starting the DLC. I’ve never played them so I’m excited.

Today’s game is Pokemon Platinum. I did the whole Distorted World quest. I have to say that this is by far one of my favorite areas in the game along with the northern snow region. I love how it makes use of the camera angles. It’s a lot more impressive I feel for a 3DS Game. On top of that I love the theme music for the place. There’s something super calming about it yet so eerie.

I also love how they setup Giratina’s entrance. Like. It’s still a children’s game, obviously. But I wasn’t expecting a full on jumpscare of Pokemon Satan lunging at the camera. It threw me off a little bit. I also love how it comes out of left field almost. Normally it’d be bad but here it gives off this effect that things have gone so so horribly wrong and now there’s this force that doesn’t belong here that’s loose. At least to me.

I returned to the overworld after catching Giratina, which I named Gigi, and went on to Sunnyshore. I didn’t start the gym because it was late but I love the city. I feel like it got dealt a bad hand in terms of pacing because it felt small to me last time I played. It’s wedged between 2 of the biggest parts of the game which is unfortunate. I’m really digging the Solar Panel flooring.

Tomorrow I’ll hopefully finish the Pokemon League and then I’ll try and finish the Pokédex. I’m close. Like Half of it is full so I should hopefully be close. I’ll have to see though. I also have to do the event Pokemon which could take a bit.

Today’s game is Halo MCC. I played some 8v8 PvP with a friend. It felt good to be back playing Halo. Halo to me is that game that just feels right to play. I could come home and turn it on and it’s like this deep seated feeling that everything will be okay, because I’m in my place. I think it’s fascinating that a game can produce that kind of effect.

TF2 is like that too. But Halo seems to have captured my heart more recently, with the benefit of my friends liking it.

Anyways. 8v8. I love this game mode because it’s so large it feels like there’s always something to do. One minute you could be charging the enemy base. Get blasted. Then be fending off an attacker at your own base. It’s so full of action, I love it.

I found out for the first time ever that you can drive the elephant. I assumed there just wasn’t a way too drive it. It’s really cool that you’re able too, because I’ve always loved sort of mobile fortresses in gameplay. So having one in Halo is awesome.

I ended off with a 8v8 Assault game on Rat’s Nest. Not my go to map for assault but it was still great fun. I should really play social games more often to get that full 8v8 action, because I miss out on it when playing with my small group.

Maybe I’ll bring them along even to join me. We will absolutely get our assess handed us, but 90% of the experience is chilling and having a blast with my friends so I’m just happy to have them there with me.

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed 3. I’ve been putting this off for a while. Mainly because all I’m really doing right now is finishing the last 20% of my last save. It’s mostly tedious work, collecting the damn feathers and stuff. But I’m making good progress. The collectibles are almost all done. And thankfully they’re no where near as bad as say, Unity.

While grabbing a view point I approached this lake and noticed this game’s oceans are uncomfortably barren. Like not in a bad way. It looks fine for a body of water in a Xbox 360 Era game. But there’s something unsettling about an open flat field of blue water. I kind of like it to be honest.

Another thing I like, this Waterfall? Had a chest behind it. Love me some hidden chest waterfalls. There’s something so satisfying about checking behind a waterfall to find a chest or like a cave or something. I hope there’s a few more because I’d love to find them.

Anyways, to end things off because there’s only so much I can talk about with collecting collectibles, I wanted to talk about this field. Absolutely horrid for parkour, obviously. But I love fields like this. There’s something about it that feels perfect for the setting that makes it feel like a perfect fit. If only there was a way to make it a good parkour area too

Today’s game is Halo. I admittedly didn’t have much I did today. I ended up booting Halo to play campaign. I figured I could grab some of the loose stragglers I have in terms of achievements for fun. I accidentally booted it up without Anti Cheat though. And that’s when i remembered “Oh yeah. I have mods”. I ended up spending all day just exploring them.

Like the one above was an incredibly faithful yet imaginative recreation of 2-fort. It was cool. I wish I had friends playing with me. But it did inspire me to see if I could do the same in Forge. Probably not. I imagine my skills are lacking and forge is less free than full on modding. But it’d be a fun challenge that I’d love to try.

Another map I played was one that was a tiny Halo Ring. I expected like a quick recap of a single level or an entire series of them. But nope. This thing was a full on recap of the entire campaign, ending in Chief’s escape.

I thought it was really cool that it denied my expectations like that. I guess I had just expected less and it delivered more.

The last level I looked at was this backrooms one. I went through it but I didn’t realize it was going to be horror. I don’t mind horror all that much, but If I’m going to be playing a Horror Halo Map I want to do it Co-op with my usual Co-op buddy. They aren’t nearly as tolerant to Horror as I am and I think it will make it infinitely more amusing.

I ended up just cutting it short because of that. I really didn’t want to spoil myself for the rest, as I still enjoy getting scared by horror. I feel like that’s the major appeal of horror. To get scared by it (at least on a surface level. On an analytical level it means a lot more to me). Or at-least for me that’s what the appeal is. So I think I’ll save it for later. I fully expect to be coming back to this though, and may even make it a screenshot.

Today’s game is Mario Kart 64. You know what I had? A bunch of cool stuff about Pokemon Platinum I was going to share. My flash cart though isn’t a fan of taking screenshots when the screenshots Archive was made on the 3DS and I switched it back to my DS Lite. So basically all the ones I took were gone. Thankfully, I was uploading some stuff to my Jellyfin server and was playing Mario Kart 64 while waiting. So I have that to talk about.

Namely these hills. I was playing time trials and got distracted looking at them. I’ve never stopped to look at them really before outside of with freecam I think. It’s just interesting. They’re striped, despite the main ground not being so and it being something the player would probably never notice. Then again, if it got added I have to imagine someone noticed it. Maybe someone was driving past during play testing and thought they were sparse.

This one is a lot less interesting but I was playing Yoshi Valley, and I realized the fall is super fucking long. Like a good 5 seconds of Toad just tumbling down the side of the wall screaming for his life. It’s comedic, though I have to imagine it’s pissed someone out there off before.

Anyways. I just ended up tossing the time trial idea out the window when playing and gazing at the world. These Penguins have always been super satisfying to me for example. Just a thought I had when I stopped and looked at them.

I wish I had gotten those Platinum Screenshots. But this was interesting to think about and write down and share. So I guess it worked out in the end. Maybe they’re buried somewhere on the card. I’ll have to look later.

Today’s game is Minecraft. “What is that monstrous monolith” you might be asking? Well. That’s my Childhood Minecraft world I built with my sister way way back on the earliest version of the Xbox 360 edition. I’ve been wanting to back this up for a while before that thing bit the dust. Let me tell you. It was a nightmare. I first, had to transfer it to my Xbox one. Thankfully I had already done that back in 2018. Then I had to transfer it to Bedrock edition. That butchered it a little. But that’s fine. It’s still mostly the same.

That’s where everything went to hell. My first idea was to simply just copy the save to a USB Drive, because surely that’s a feature Mojang has, right? Nope. Not at all. My next idea was to go back to Xbox One edition and see if I can back it up there. Also nope. I legit couldn’t figure out where it is in my library. I have a digital copy and from what I understand Microsoft didn’t yank it away. I have to assume I misremembered and i just had a physical copy.

So after all that I had to try some sketchy app called My Files Explorer. Thankfully it let me at the world files and back them up. Then I used something called Chunked to convert it to a 1.8.8 world. With that at least 2 of my childhood worlds were secured. Unfortunately the rest are all still stuck on the 360.

As for the world itself, it’s a lot less amazing and more so just sentimental. I have a cat pit I built to keep my pet cats. I know. I was far from a creative kid. On the plus side I gave them a TV so they wouldn’t get bored.

For the other world me and my sibling built a castle. A rather big one im proud of I might add. I remember this wall took nearly a week of building. I felt so damn proud when I finished it. Then I started building an outer tower I never finished.

There was a stable here with the first ever redstone contraption I built. It was a red stone gate on the stable. It’s sloppy. Messy. But I was damn proud of it when I first built it. It’s hard to believe this is where I got my start messing with things like that. Just an hour ago I was trying to wire up a Channel to my Jellyfin server to “recreate” a tv Channel for example.

It was weird visiting all this again. I was young when I started it. Now I’m more than old enough to have a kid of my own. It’s surreal to think about. Maybe if I ever have a child I’ll pass it down to them and see what they do with it. It’s a fun thought.

Today’s game is Minecraft Legacy Console edition. All this Pokemon and Assassin’s creed I’ve been playing lately has left me wanting to play something a little calmer. I remembered the PC decomp of Xbox 360 Edition and booted it up with a world and just took it easy.

I found a horse and accidentally locked myself into the tutorial. I know it’s mundane but there’s this calm, almost amused sigh that comes from locking myself into for a few seconds. For anyone not familiar, when you see something new the console editions will give you a pop up saying “Hey. Here’s a new thing. Press A to hear more and Press B if you already know about it”. It does this for every world. I used to be running and jumping around so much that I’d press A. The issue is it locks the A button so no more jumping. That whole experience to me is just nostalgic in a way. Like if you ever visit an old game console and remember a flaw it had that you have to deal with again? Same feeling.

I ended up finding this island where I built a shack. Night settled and I hunkered down. Zombies break doors on normal in this one so I locked myself in and rushed to finish the roof to stop spiders. When day came I found a few bones and tamed a dog I found from skeletons who burned up.

Finally after all that I built a bed and lit up my little house. The cobblestone in the floor is from when I dig a stair case down to mine stone. I didn’t light it up so a creeper spawned down there. I panicked and just barricaded it up to protect myself. After all that I felt like I had accomplished quite a bit and decided to get back to Pokemon Platinum. While waiting on friends to catch up to me I was farming the Pokédex so that break was well needed

Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I’ve crawled my way all the way to the 7th gym today and stopped there. I spent a lot of time though working on filling out the Pokédex. There’s a ton of evolutions I can nab currently for the Dex that I’ve been training. I got some friends to play back to back with me so this really works out great as it gives them time to catch up to me.

On the subject of the main screenshot. When checking out the lake it got a a giggle out of me because all the Magikcarp flopping around. I really liked this one region where they were all clustered up. Like. Horrible that it happened to them but also really funny.

One thing I’ve noticed I like about Gen 4 is the Professor. Not to shit on the other ones but I really like him because he feels involved in what’s going on. I feel like all the others only really show up every once in a while. Meanwhile here we see him like out and about in the events of the story and stuff. Like when he went to see what happens at the lake.

Anyways. I’m at the snow gym now. Not a lot besides that has happened. I’ll probably spend tomorrow farming Pokemon for my Pokédex though. It’ll be nice to have them for my Dex ahead of time so I have less to farm post game.

Today’s game is Project Zomboid. Me and some friends got back on our world and even got a new person on. I took the chance to blacksmith them a weapon and even build a fancy new materials cabinet. I asked them what they wanted and they said a machete, so i tried to make one for them. It was a little more of a headache finding the materials, but i did eventually get there.

More excitingly, i tried making one of our characters a set of plate armor. I mixed things up a little bit but the whole thing came out pretty coherent. They said they liked how mixed up the parts are because it makes them feel like an “apocalypse knight”, so it looks like i wont be returning to the forge.

We had started to run low on food, so we all piled up into the mom van and took a trip to raid the local neighborhood houses. I ended up nabbing a deepfreeze i found too and loaded that in the backseat. I found we were running low on fridge space, as while our chef is low on food they insist on keeping raccoon heads in the freezer. As they are our main food person we have no choice but to comply.

Finally, we returned home for the night. We’ve been talking about making a trip into Louisville which would be interesting. Our new player was sure it “can’t be that bad” so we’ll have some fun seeing their opinion i suppose. We had everyone log off after and i went back to my Pokemon Platinum.

Today’s game is some more Assassin’s Creed 3. Admittedly I was originally going to do some more Pokemon Platinum, but the SD card I was using with my FlashCart failed me. it’s my fault. I should have known better than to trust the cheap no-name Chinese SD card that was giving me issue after issue. Nonetheless though, I was able to save my save file so all is good.

Since I had none of those screenshots though, I was left with not a lot of options. I ended up settling on AC3. It’s been my background project for a little bit. My original plan was to play it to 100% from the start, but it turns out my Save File got backed up. So instead I’ve been running 2 saves. A 100% Save where the story is already complete, and a story save, where I’m just worrying about the story. I love this game, not enough to play 100% twice on it though.

Anyways. First off, I’m playing the remaster and I feel like it looks like shit. Like, I know it’s a 360 game but the black colors don’t look black. It’s like the gamma is high or something. I’m wondering if it has something to do with me playing it on an SDR monitor but I’m not sure.

Gameplay wise though. It’s assassin’s creed 3. After having played the OG and Ezio saga though compared to this, I see why those games are so praised for the Parkour. Like this isn’t bad, but 1-Revelations felt so hands on. Each action felt deliberate.

Here Connor kind of feels like he goes up and that’s it. It’s not bad but the Ezio stuff was amazing to control. I see now why it’s so heavily praised.

Anyways, I will admit my story playthrough I was doing got sidetracked by reading the index before bed. It’s something I love about these games. It feels like they wear their setting on their chest and they’re proud of it. I love it. Like. I don’t know many other games set during the colonial war that will give you a run down on some minor general, including life and death after the events of the game. It feels special. I don’t remember if they do it anymore (specifically I mean shadows) but I love it here.

Anyways. Reading all that kind of turned into my reading before bed, and it put me to sleep a little bit. I think it’s the nostalgia. I used to stay up late on School Nights in the living room playing this game. I specifically have a fond memory of laying on a fold out bed on a couch and playing the Mission where you chase down Lee with the sound off so I don’t wake my parents. Basically though, I have a lot of nostalgia for this game. Getting to view it through this lens of having since become an adult and building my own life is surreal, and I’m glad I get to experience it.

Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I was actually going to play Assassins’s Creed 3 (the other game I decided to commit too as a project), but I ordered a flash cart (DSPico) so I could play the game on original hardware. I don’t want this to be considered a “review”, but for anyone curious it has been serving me well. I have had a few hiccups but I suspect it’s the cheap no name microSD card included with the cart rather than the cart itself.

Anyways. So. All these screenshots were taken on official hardware which I think is pretty cool. They’re not the source images unfortunately. I found when I tried to upload those they’d get smeared because 1) they were BMP files and 2) they were like 480p being upscaled to whatever resolution my phone was. So I wrote a bash script that would convert them to JPEG and then upscale them to 1080p with Nearest Neighbor upscaling to preserve the pixel art.

I spent all evening messing around in the swamp basically to catch Pokemon. I caught everything except the other daily Pokemon. I did catch Yanma though which I think is the one that was available today. I’m not sure who the others are though so I’m trying to go in blind. Even though I’m trying to be on a deadline I thought It’d be fun to stick to a blind playthrough.

Currently I’m parked outside Crasher Wake’s gym. I tackled him once and got beat on his last Pokemon so I’m gonna try and do some grinding to beat him. My battery on my DS is fried so i can’t take my DS on the go (it dies in like 30 minutes) which makes it a little harder to grind exp. Thankfully I have a replacement on the way though. Tomorrow I’m gonna tackle the gym again. And maybe also track down false swipe. It’ll be handy to have that.

Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I actually slowed down to do the math on what all I need to play to complete the Pokédex for everything. I cut FRLG out because it’s on switch. I probably won’t buy it, and especially any time soon with the price, but if I want to commit to the challenge of a Native Gen 1-7 Pokédex (or more appropriately now Gen 2-7) it’s probably something I’ll have to do to make it by the deadline I set for myself. Anyways. So. I’ll need to do:

• HGSS
• Platinum (Already working on)
• XY
• USUM

Since I already did Emerald a while ago, that lets me knock out ORAS too, though I love OR so maybe I’ll go back and play it. I’ve also done BW so I don’t need to worry about that, though if I have extra time I want to try and squeeze B2W2 in, I think it’d be fun.

Anyways. I did a competition. I entered Dillon (my Bibarel) into it. She was doing great until nds-bootstrap’s menu crashed and I had to restart. Besides that though great. I think she would have won.

I honestly don’t ever mess with the contest mechanics. Usually I skip them but I’ve been wanting too for Platinum for some reason so I thought I’d give it a try. Still don’t have an understanding of what it is I’m doing but I’m having fun.

I got the 3rd gym badge too. It gave me a bit of trouble but I got some TMs and had a way better time. I like looking at the case, especially because tapping on the badge makes a fun little metallic sound.

Playing all these has made me realize though, I don’t really care for how ‘Meta’ the newer games are. Like, I enjoy them and respect them. But there’s an aspect to now I feel like where they feel almost self aware they’re an RPG and give you easy access to EXP grinding. Like the raid battles and stuff. I’m not necessarily saying it’s a bad thing, but I guess it feels a lot less diegetic to me. It makes it feel a lot less like the journey the older games had to.

Anyways. I just wanted to talk about this since I made some progress. As I’m writing this I’m running around the woods looking for a Clefairy. So basically I’m really enjoy playing this, so I hope I’m not going to let this go to the bin

Today’s game is some more Old School RuneScape. I finished the Goblin Diplomacy quest today and started on the Slayer quest stuff. That’s what brought me to the giant pig monster thing above.

The game makes you do a lot of walking. It’s an interesting perspective. I’m someone who every once in a while will try and play a game without fast travel, but here I’m definitely feeling the lack of it. I had to make a 5 minute walk 5 times for the Goblin Quest for example to finish it. It’s tedious, but I will say, making me work for it has given me an understanding of the land I’m not sure I’d have otherwise.

Speaking of said creature, with all the walking the quest had me do it was amusing to essentially have the game throw one last walk at you. The creature spat acid in my eyes, and that knocked me out. Because of that I had to backtrack all the way back to the creature.

And you want to know what I found out? I’m not even a high enough level to kill it. I tried to get a few strikes in but it knocked out 2/3s of my health so I ran away. I guess I found my next major goal before the dragon slayer quest as I’d like to complete as many quests as I can.

Today’s game is Pokemon Platinum. Admittedly, I was going to keep playing KoTOR, but after hearing bank is shutting down, I want to try and meet the deadline to complete the Pokédex in all the games. I think having that deadline will be a fun challenge, and I’m considering transferring them all to Pokemon Home (I’m not sure what all that will require though so it’s more of a “that would be a fun thing to do” scenario).

Since my main goal is to complete the Pokédex, I’ve mainly been running around in the woods nearby the flower area. There were few Pokemon there I’m missing and once I nabbed them I had moved on to the next area.

The next area of course being the gym. I went through it 3 times now. And I want to just say: Fuck Gardenia and Especially her Turtwig. The Turtwig keeps one shorting a level 30 Pokemon which is complete bullshit. Anyways, I gave her a few more attempts before deciding this is a tomorrow thing. I need to come back with more strategy.

Speaking of more strategy, that’s what I love about the older games. Don’t get me wrong, I love some of the newer stuff but the older stuff feels so much more hands on and challenging compared to it. And I love it for that.

Anyways, I know this isn’t the most glamorous of game choice, but it matters to me so I thought I’d use it today, especially because it’s the only game I captured due to being out for a D&D session, so not a lot of time today.

Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. Today I went and did the Goblin Diplomacy Quest. I will admit I expected it to be a lot shorter than it was. Unfortunately I was wrong as it had me running back and forth looking for little items I admittedly should have had on hand.

The biggest thing I struggled to find was the onions for the dye. The lady said I could find them by the cow pens. I thought there would be a field with onions in it. But nope. I get over there. Check every field. Nothing. I double check every field thinking maybe I missed something. Still nothing. Turned out it was in a little field behind the farmer’s house.

The Redberries were a little easier. As I was harvesting though this wizard guy came up to me and asked me to move some bodies around for him. I don’t know about you but if a wizard asks me to move some unspecified bodies around I’m doing it no questions asked.

It ended up being a bit of a chore because I was having a hard time recognizing the labels. Luckily I got them though. I scored some Zombie armor for my work too which is nice. I probably won’t use it but it’s nice to have.

Anyways, after all that I make my way back to the goblin village. Orange Dye in hand. And you know what they tell me? The orange “clashes” with the skin. They want blue. I decided then that was a good point to end off for the night.

Despite all my complaining I did rather enjoy the quest I did. Sometimes fetch quests like this are fun. I rather enjoyed it. Tomorrow I’ll try and finish it because I can’t imagine blue dye is that hard to get.

Today’s game is Knights of the Old Republic. I played this like back in 2018 when it was on Game Pass and made it to the academy. Unfortunately I believe it was pulled from Game Pass (one of the reasons I never went back to it and one of the many reasons I avoid game pass now). Because of that I never got a chance to finish it. Fast forward about last year and I bought a copy. Now fast forward to now and I’ve really been wanting to play an RPG. I’m not sure if that will scratch that itch but this seemed the most appealing to me so it’s what I went with.

My guy is named Riblet. There’s not any particular reason behind that, I just looked at him and thought “yeah. He kind of looks like a Riblet.” So that’s what I named him. I made him a soldier. I remember on my last save I went with Scoundrel because I thought they were cool but I also really struggled in combat. So hopefully here I should do a little bit better.

The combat is fun. I like the concept though I do feel like it’s a lot of “stand there and trade shots until one party wins”. Not bad but definitely nothing amazing.

Admittedly after crashing on the planet I didn’t do a whole lot. I spent most the time trying to figure out how to get down to the undercity. I wandered into a bar, watched an arena match, wandered out, fought off some debt collectors, then wandered over to an elevator where I got yelled at followed by me trying to enter a military base. So far a lot of wandering around blind. It’s been a lot more fun than I was expecting. Hopefully next time I play though I’ll actually be able to find my way underground.

Today’s game is QBJ3. I wanted to play this again today because I felt a bit lost on what to play after finishing control. I didn’t feel like starting AC3 (which I have installed). And I didn’t want to sit through an upwards of multiple hours worth of a download. So I played this again since it was installed and I wanted to try it again.

Quake I’ve found is difficult for me. This is the third time I’ve played Quake overall and the second time I’ve played QBJ3. Something about it, even on easy, gives me difficulty. I think I just struggle with the floatier movement but I’m not 100% sure.

Anyways, graphically I just wanted to take a second to appreciate this. It really is impressive how an engine from so long ago has been pushed to this point. Though, I don’t know how much is the original engine. I know I had to install some mods for the game that I’m not 100% sure how it changes the game. Just a surface level understanding is all.

Anyways. I was wandering around the lobby and fell into this pit that tossed me in an arena with a bunch of enemies. It scared the shit out of me because one minute I was in a beautiful brutalist lobby, and the next the walls are all fleshy and I’m fighting off enemies.

This is where that “difficulty with quake” comes in. I spent nearly 30 minutes killing these enemies that should have been a cake walk (a Quake Walk if you will). I did persevere and beat them though. And I felt like with that, along with 2 other levels was a perfect experience to get my fill of this mod for today.

Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. I went through and did the stronghold of security today. I completed control, and wanted to do something a little lighter so this is what I chose to do.

I hadn’t realized the Stronghold was the kind of thing where you just run through and hope not to get swiped at. I assumed you had to level up to do it, but nope. Still though those extra levels came in handy. Gave me a few extra points to avoid getting swiped at.

Getting over there was a bit of a pain in the ass because the count wouldn’t teleport me for whatever reason. So I had to make the tedious walk all the way over there to start the dungeon. I at least benefited because I got some stuff i can sell for a decent amount of money (like poison)

Anyways, to end off I headed to the exchange. I wanted to pick up a Mithral Scimatar as I’ve been making my way down the Steam Achievements as a “Things to experience in OSRS”. I don’t think holding a Scimitar is really that big of an experience, but may as well do it for consistency sake

Today’s game is Control. I went back through the Ashtray maze today and got a series of photos i really like. I did a lot of stuff with lines and light which i really like how they turned out. I’m just gonna quickly dump them here because there’s not a lot i have to say about them other than “I think they look cool”.

Anyways, Reflections. These reflections are so damn sexy. Like, i legit spent a solid 5 minutes playing with the photomode and checking out the reflections. I think Control has to have some of my favorite reflections i’ve seen in a long time. It makes me want to see how Alan Wake 2 fairs… I’ll hold off on another playthrough though. For now at least. I’ve done quite a lot of playthroughs of that game and i should work through other things in my library.

I finished the Foundation DLC today and started the AWE expansion. I didn’t get far but i primarily wanted to talk about Hartman. They fucking nailed it with him as an enemy. I love how he’s this sort of Dynamic Threat you can’t fight off. You can only really ward him away for the time being. Getting in that elevator especially was terrifying because it traps you in there and you can’t do anything as he inches closer and forces the door up. My experience with Alan Wake had me really going “I wish i had a fucking flashlight right now”.

Anyways, the DLC appears to be short so i’ll probably make quick work of this game and then move on to the next game in my backlog. I might try a few sidequests though that catch my attention.

Today’s game is Old School Runescape. I got approached by a wizard who asked me to solve his maze. I love mazes so i figured why not. I have to admit though it threw me for a loop with how trippy the walls are. It made navigating it difficult. I managed to make it through though with around 60% rewards left so not too hard.

Honestly, that brings me to my main point. I love how Runescape isn’t really grounded. They’ll just throw shit at you and i love it for that.

I’ve spent the last few days just running quests and trying too get my levels up. I hope to take on the Dragon Slayer quest next. After that though i’m not really sure what my next goal is. Maybe i’ll travel somewhere i havent been yet.

Anyways, a lot of these quests have kept me hovering around Lumbridge. I neglected a lot of my earlier skills so these are perfect for leveling up everything i had ignored.

That’s probably all i’ll end up doing for the rest of the evening. Tomorrow i think i’ll go back to control. I finally caught up to my save last time i played and i don’t want to let that go to waste.

Today’s game is some more Control. I started the Foundation DLC today for the second time. Let me tell you, i forgot how much this cube puzzle pisses me off. I tried to do it once i got far enough that i could. Went and tracked down what i thought was all of them, then spent maybe 30 minutes trying to place them correctly. Only to find out i was missing one. I don’t know if it got knocked off the cliff on accident or what but i couldn’t find it. I had just given up and decided to move on though.

Seeing the Nail is really pretty. It’s one of the most memorable parts of this DLC to me because of the area surrounding it. It gives a really pretty view. If i remember correctly too, as you progress it will get taller which will be fun to watch.

I ultimately didn’t get as far as i would have liked with this one. As the enemies somehow feel harder. I suspect it’s the melee guys now being there to close the gap. So it means a new threat to deal with. I’m trying to avoid touching the difficulty settings though so i’ll try something else instead to get through. Maybe a different weapon loadout.

Today’s game is some more Control. I went through and finished it for the second time tonight. It’s definitely just as good the second time. Especially the credits. I think a lot of the feelings i felt that it felt a little rushed are still there. Like, it felt like we were in the middle of the action, then bam, climax hits. It doesn’t detract from the experience but it does feel like it’s a surprise though. Then again, for a game like this i’d say it deserves to lend itself a bit of realism.

As you can see i’ve also gone and done the mold questline. This was a lot of fun, though with the color settings of my Monitor at the time it was a pain in the ass to navigate. Still turned out to be a fun time though.

I like the detail that Ahti during the nightmare sequence is the only one not “washed out” by the Hiss. It’s a cool detail that he’s not affected and also helps to make him pop out.

And finally, i wanted to just stop and admire the reflections again. These are really fucking good. Like, i didn’t realize game reflections could get this good. I was able to see reflections in Trench’s Glasses. His glasses. That’s a really good attention to detail. Albeit it comes at a performance cost obviously. And these TVs? also perfect. I love the detail it adds. Sometimes it makes me forget i’m playing a game.

Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. I ended up buying a month of the subscription. Just a month. To see how i like it. So far i’ve been loving it. I went and did the Waterfall quest and it was a blast. I climbed this mountain, got washed down a river, went and saw these weird ass Gnome guys, went and saw more weird ass Gnome guys in a cave this time, went into a cave, went into another cave hidden behind a grave, and then went into a 3rd cave with a puzzle at the end where i had to stuff a cup full of some ashes. Overall: Wild time.

The dungeon actually killed me on my way out which i didn’t mean to happen. It took my necklace that let me teleport and my rope. So i had to rush to the grand exchange and replace those 2 things before I could get the back and recover my stuff. Got everything back with 20 seconds left to spare.

After that me and my friend got together and stormed the Mansion where a vampire had been living. I’ve been wanting to do this quest for a long time so it’s long overdue to kill that vampire. We went in and took him down and turned in the quest. I even got to go up a combat level thanks to it.

Today’s game is some more Project Zomboid. I dedicated today to upgrading my forge and building weapons. I’ve been kind of collecting everything i need off and on in the background so thankfully I’m already mostly covered. I’m glad i made all those supply runs to the local houses and have been marking them of one by one as it’s built up a nice reserve of supplies to get my level up.

The first weapon i built was a small knife. Nothing crazy, but i thought our group chef could make good use of it. Or at the very least use it as a weapon.

After that i wanted to build a mace for Cable. It turned out to be way more of a setup than i expected. I had to build an advanced forge first, which while i had the supplies for i was a level short and needed to haul them all up there. After that i needed a Metalworking punch, which i also needed to track down. Finally after all that… I needed a handle which i forgot to grab. I went and stole one from another tool we weren’t using.

The result was this Mace i made for cable.

I went ahead and delivered it too Cable, along with a book on growing Hemp just for the resident pothead that i found for him. Left them both right on the bed for him to find next time he’s on.

After that i went to go check on the Chickens because I’ve been a little worried ever since we lost the chick. Thankfully they’re all fine though, and they even laid some eggs which i went ahead and harvested.

Today was mostly a nice little break from Control. I hit a road block I’ve been struggling with and so this gave me a much needed break.

Today’s game is some more Old School Runescape. I went and did some quests to farm money. Mainly this one where i go treasure hunting for this wizard. It was a bit janky but that honestly made it charming in a way. Following the series of maps and the orb blindly was a lot of fun.

I took people’s advice and started farming levels on Chickens. I was at that for roughly 30 minutes before getting sidetracked and trying to cook them next.

I ended up deciding to get a better weapon. From what i had gathered Scimitars are the superior weapon in this game, so i went to this desert place to find one. It was a bit of a pain because i had to pay a toll to get in (I didn’t realize i could go around at the time). But after all that i realized i couldn’t even afford it.

After that i went to the Grand Market and put some stuff up for sale that i stole out of NPCs houses. It sold rather quickly and i bought a Scimitar there as i found out it was a whole lot cheaper than buying it in the desert place.

And all of this brought me full circle to farming cows again to gain exp. By the time i’m done i think the cow population will have been decimated. All this to kill a vampire and a few other enemies that have been giving me trouble

Today’s game is Control. I went through the ashtray maze today. I had wanted to get a portrait of Jesse with the headphones and everything on, but i had a friend asking about the game and was focused on getting a small clip of this segment to show to him to convince him to try it. I had missed my window. From what i hear you can replay it in the AWE DLC so i’ll settle for it there.

I’ve been stopping and taking in the Hotline calls this playthrough too. One thing i noticed was Trench is awfully close to Max Payne. And i don’t just mean that in the way they share a VA/Actor. I mean it literally. Wife is gone (either dead like Max or Gone like Alex Casey), similar tone and habits, wielded a gun, works for a government agency of some sort (NYPD for Max and FBC for Trench).

Something else i missed in my first playthrough were some of the control points that are way out of the way were made by Ahti. I was in a hurry and missed that they were all made out of Cleaning Supplies which i thought was a cool detail.

Anyways, i was a bit short on time and went through the Ashtray maze today. That’s where i left off. I want to actually finish this tomorrow and start the DLCs too. So that will hopefully be tomorrow.

Today’s game is Control. I went Anchor hunting today and did that whole questline. I can’t believe i had never done it up until that point. I would have expected me to easily have a run in with that location considering how accessible it is.

Nonetheless, I escorted the guy out. Then went back, found out i needed the levitate ability, progressed the story far enough to get it, then went all the way back to get it.

With this playthrough i’m not rushing through as much either. As such i’ve found so many references to Alan Wake that i just missed on my first playthrough. Such as this page with a narration by the man himself. There’s also a Coffee Thermos and a few pages describing people going through events similar to Alan’s Dreams.

I also found out i can pick up the projectors. There’s nothing interesting about this, i just thought it was cool. I feel like a lot of games would just tie the projectors down rather than rendering a whole extra thing for rotating them and such. It was pretty cool.

I made my way through the whole Ordinary AWE site and i’m about to head over to the Research wing to mess with the projectors. This was about the point i remember last time getting too before the last “push” and finishing the main game. So i may very well finish it tomorrow and move back to the DLC.

Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. I was left with an urge to play today, so I booted it up and decided to focus on a task instead of my usual wandering.

My first idea was to do the quest where you kill the Vampire. Only. Problem. Turns out I’m far from a high enough level to pull it off. The guy is like level 20, and I’m level 6 (4 at the time of attempting it). So obviously I was gonna run into some issues.

I did the first thing I assumed I could do and went to killing things. I found this farm full of Goblins and just started mowing them down until I got low on healthy. Turns out the goblins are Semi comparable fighters. I went until I got to 2/10 health.

I then went on to try and slaughter some cows to gain experience. Because surely the cows won’t fight back. Plot twist, turns out they do and I got my ass kicked by them too after killing 4 of them. I didn’t have food so I’ll have to run into town.

Finally. After that I went to the pond in the main picture. I meant to kill some ducks, but they were just too harmless to kill I felt like so I left them be. I doubt they’d offer much EXP anyways. So I’ll just stick to healing and killing cows for now.

Today’s game is some more Control. I was playing around with Aspect Ratios trying to see if I could get some interesting ones to work with in Photo mode. Unfortunately the highest 4:3 the game supports is 1600x1200 I could use gamescope to jump up to 8K 4:3, but that was lagging my game even if I dropped the resolution majorly. I decided to just have my fun with 1600x1200 and then stick to 16:9.

I also figured out how to get a good balance of Resolution w/ Raytracing. I capped it at 30 FPS. But a stable 30 FPS is more than tolerable for me, so I’m more than happy sticking to that.

My first thought was “Damn, these are some amazing Reflections”. My second thought was “Damn, somethings are a little fuzzy”. Still, not too bad as far as I’m concerned, especially getting to see those amazing reflections on windows and stuff. It brings it really high up in quality.

The Physics simulation is pretty too with all the shattering glass. I spent a little while trying to get a good shot with the glass and I got this one which I rather like.

Anyways, enough about graphics. Let’s talk about Ahti. I love the guy. Genuinely he might be one of my favorite characters to come out of a Remedy game. Something about this Janitor with an air of mystery and power is just so fucking cool. Plus his role in Alan Wake 2 is even cooler. I just hope he doesn’t get too tied up in everything to the point it starts being like marvel movies where you need to watch another franchise to understand the other. Granted, for that I think we’d need like a “Ahti the Video Game” or something like that, so maybe I shouldn’t be too worried.

I made it to the research department and got sidetracked playing with the camera mode before my time for the day was up. I’m hooked on playing this again so I’ll definitely be playing some more tomorrow because I missed this game.

Today’s game is Control. I’ve been wanting to pick this up and play it again for quite some time. I decided now was the perfect time for a second playthrough (along with finishing the DLCs).

I will admite i’ve spent quite a lot of time finagling the graphics though. I really wanted to try it with Raytracing as i hear it’s awesome with that and wanted to judge for myself. Unfortunately my RX 7600 XT just doesn’t seem up to the task unless i drop the scaling down low, and even then i still only get like 30 FPS at 720p and it’s all a messy smear. So not really worth it for me all just for some extra pretty rays.

I love getting into Remedy’s games too, and finding these references and inside jokes. For example The Neighbor of The Beast like right out of the gate. It reminds me of the logic behind noticing certain numbers as a pattern in real life, only hear it’s intentional. Almost like it’s the game gaslighting you if that makes sense.

Playing this is making me really miss Alan Wake 2’s Photomode as well. It was just a natural evolution. Here the controls are a lot less fine, such as the major F-Stops being like 0,5 > 0.7 > 1.0 > 4.0 > 5.7 > 8 > 16. I would love to have a F11 there. Legit love to default to that because 11 is such a nice number. There’s also just a lot less fine tuning for color grading and such.

I remember the game being short, so i got the the Telephone and decided that was a perfect point to stop for today. Especially because i gave the game another hour of play time than i should messing with Graphics and RT/FSR

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Revelations. I sat down and just played through the DLC in one sitting (and 100% the rest of the game, i’m not gonna talk about that though because it was nothing special). The DLC was honestly nice. The best way i could describe it is a Walking sim with a little Parkour and Puzzle mechanics. I know it doesn’t sound exciting, but after back to back combat with AC, it was a nice break to have. Plus the landscapes in it were gorgeous sometimes.

I did get trouble with one achievement which gave me one of the biggest struggles i think i have with one in recent memory. The thing was giving me a headache so i just went ahead and used a glitch to do it. I love performing glitches like that in games so honestly no value lost for me. Still though, after an hour i was honestly considering throwing in the towel for 100% just because of that.

The whole tragedy of Clay was really sad too. Like, the base game made me feel for him, but getting to see his rough upbringing and the way he died, it sucks. Being forced into the Animus until you go insane and die is a horrible way to go if you ask me. And the fact Lucy was supposed to help him and just didn’t.

After this i don’t think i’ll go straight to AC3. I have played 4 Assassin’s Creed games Back to Back. AC3 i plan on just picking up where i left off, so it won’t be too bad, but still. I really would like to try something new between the games. Maybe i’ll do Myst. Playing this really left me wanting to play Myst.

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Revelations. I went and finished the main story. The Main Story makes me just feel the need to ask, why are the main games like 13 sequences? Like, i love the long stories but i find these games with only 9 sequences to also be perfectly serviceable. It definitely helped a lot with playing them back to back and feels a lot less like there was a crunch too.

Also from what i understand, Brotherhood and Revelations were smaller games meant to keep up the annual release of the franchise until 3 was finished. I wish they had kept doing that if they insist on the yearly release. Give us some direct sequels that are smaller in size and scope and give the “big” sequel more time in the oven. I can’t help but feel like having one studio dedicated to an individual release so we get one release a year is hurting the games.

I also wanted to mention that i loved the whole segment with Ezio and Altair. Followed by Ezio talking to Desmond. I love that it’s doing all the weird ass time stuff without messing with time travel. Plus i loved Ezios speech to Desmond.

Anyways, i found a way to get ahold of the DLC for this and play it, so i want to do that. I only have a little bit left at this point to 100% though so i think i want to do that first. The main struggle has just been getting 7 Master Assassins. It’s a lot of waiting around here for them to level up. Admittedly if i was going to do this though i should have done it earlier. This one is kind of on me i feel.

Today’s game is No Man’s Sky. With the new update with the creature fighting i wanted to enter Orbo (pointed at above) into the arena. I haven’t actually done that yet though because i got side tracked helping a friend with his main quest. I did get to do some other stuff though.

I namely got to make a base for me and my friend to camp out in. What was extra nice was that i had my ship that i built so i could take shelter there until i built the base. One of my favorite things was just sitting here and chilling while waiting on the processor to run.

After my friend set off on his own, i took Orbo out too a moon and decided to actually acquaint myself with the new mechanics. Only, i hadn’t realized how stream lined they were. I noticed the evolution mechanic namely and decided to push towards that as my goal for the day.

My only guess to get the stuff i needed was the store on the Space Station. Turns out though the evolution stuff wasn’t there. So, that ended up being a waste of time. Before next time i think i’m gonna do some research into how to get my hands on that.

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Revelations. I’ve been kind of achievement hunting all day. I noticed there weren’t many outside the DLC, which i was planning to play anyways. So i figured i’d give it a try. It’s been a fun experience, and relatively easy. The biggest challenge so far has been one called Lightning Strikes. It needed me to kill 5 people with the hidden blade in 5 second. The challenge was getting it within the window.

I also went and gathered the games ultimate armor set (or whatever you want to call it). The parkour to get it was fun, and the hunt wasn’t too bad. But big complaint: the mask looks fucking dorky. I wish i could remove it. Maybe i can. I might be entirely wrong. I couldn’t find a way though.

I also went through the Memory Seal for Sequence 6. I mention this because i wanted to talk about the mission that leads right into it. It ends with Ezio getting to take a picnic with Sofia. I really liked this, because as far as the Main story goes through it’s the first time i feel like i get to see Ezio just stop and take it easy. It really put into perspective how much he’s grown from the Suave playboy in AC2. It’s just something i thought was interesting.

After finishing up that mission i got booted back into the Animus Island thing. I decided that was a perfect time to take a break. As far as i know this boots into the next mission which is in the cave city thing (as far as i remember at least). I thought when i got on next it’d be a perfect opportunity to finish the last Desmond Mission.

Today’s game is Project Zomboid. It was just me and my friend who plays Cable on today. Our plan was originally too just finish working on the back end of the log wall we were building, but jerry accidentally smashed a window and got a laceration. He got it cleaned up, but he was in immense pain.

I went to go find painkillers, and that’s when i found out we didn’t have any… So i took Jerry around the Neighborhood and found this Hospital. I ransacked it a bit and even found a van key even to let me haul stuff home. I got more than enough medical supplies to last me a while. I even stocked up on stuff for bullet wounds in case we have any mishaps messing around.

While Jerry was searching, Cable made dinner, which was ready when Jerry got home. Cable doesn’t usually handle cooking because usually he’ll start a fire. Surprisingly this time though he didn’t. The Pasta even didn’t make Jerry depressed, which is a new record.

For the entire next hour or so, we spent it renovating a room into a medical room. We laid down tile, and i put up a metal cabinet to keep all out supplies in. Then i had to go get planks to put together a bed.

When i went to gather planks for the bed i had found out one of my Chickens had died, it was the chick. I did the only thing i really thought of and buried it. It was a chick so it’s not like it could really feed us, and it had been dead for a while and i hadn’t noticed.

After that i went and finished the bed and stopped playing for the day. I didn’t want to play too much without our other players after all.

Today’s game is Majora’s Mask. I’m not sure why but i just wasn’t feeling up for anything, and went digging around for something. I guess at some point i had set the Recomp up and went ahead and this sounded better than nothing so i launched it.

This is only my second brush with this game. The first one was around 2017, when i played the Remake on my 3DS. I 100% that one and it was one of my favorite games at that time.

Playing through the original is kind of like learning too read it in different handwriting. It’s not bad, just slightly different. One of the main things that was “different” was the Astral Observatory. The way i remember it on the Remake, everything was a pinkish hue. Meanwhile in the OG it has a kind of trippy rainbow effect i can’t really describe, except as being akin to the Bowser Levels in SM64, which is an aesthetic i really love.

I am absolutely sure i’m not treading any new ground here either, but i love the Timer mechanic. Going back through this created a hectic moment that would have normally been forgettable.

I had gotten cocky and just killed time until midnight to get to the top of the tower, what i had forgotten was i needed the Land Plot to get up there. When midnight hit and i only had 5 minutes left. I was scrambling to the plot to try and get it sure i had failed something. Thankfully i had grabbed the Moon’s Tear before leaving the observatory, but if i hadn’t, it would have ended my run all because I was too cocky. It was an incredibly memorable experience just for that last minute rush it created because of my own ego.

Anyways, i may play more soon. I think i was just in a bit of a slump today and nothing sounded good. I have an old CRT Monitor and i think it’d be cool too hook it up too that, so maybe that’s something i’ll do next time i play.

Today’s game is some more Assassin’s Creed Revelations. I just kind of spent today dicking around in the game world. I did do one sequences, but i was more than content to just run around and take in the sights. I did also commit to completing a few optional objectives too. Like, i saw an achievement for Gliding onto a zip line. I did that. It was a lot of fun trying to scout out a location like that. I love achievements like that because they don’t feel lazy, and they force you to try something new. I think my favorite achievements that had a good balance of this was Uncharted 4. Took everything and balanced them perfectly too make an experience that was a pleasure to 100%.

one of the missions I did do had me running after these guys on the boat, and that made me think of how i love these linear parkour courses the games throw at you. I think i mentioned this last time too but i love having these because it really puts your experience playing with the Parkour engine too the test. It makes for a really fun experience.

The sequence ended with the usual Altair sequence the game gives you, and i noticed during it that they reuse music from AC1, which i thought was nice. Plus the throwing knives are a oneshot kill it seems. It seems they were dedicated to making it feel fairly faithful to the first game which i love. I also love that it gave us old Altair. I know he’s basically just Desmond but with a greying beard but it suits him. I rather like it.

Today’s game is some more Minecraft (Attack of The B-Team). The server i’ve set up has been thriving. Today for example we got everyone building pixel art as a sort of group activity. I will admit the design is not my own, i followed a guide i saw online and painted it with canvas blocks. It was fun building it though.

Another player did Kirby, and someone else was doing Album Art. They aren’t pictured there though as they did it after this screenshot.

You’ll also notice the three statues of our players being crucified. We may have taken a joke a little out of hand and made statues of some players being Crucified. It’s all in good fun and has spawned it’s own server lore though.

Right next door too we build a Walmart Super Center. I was only helping so i’m not sure what the plan with it is, but i assume the hosting player wants to sell stuff. I’ll have to wait and see though.

Anyways, on a more personal front one of our players has started a reign of terror with Luggage from Tinker’s Construct. The things make this annoying ass scuttling noise. I kind of like it though because it tells you when he’s close. You can be there minding your own business then suddenly you’re flooded with luggage.

There’s been a ton of other stuff too, that there’s just not enough time for me to go over (such as Bernie here), so i may very well follow this up with one tomorrow or another day soon. I’ve never had a Server so full like this and it makes me excited to share it.