It’s looking more probable that I’ll finish Order of Ecclesia soon! I finished all of the side-quests in Order of Ecclesia last night. Now all that’s left is fighting with Dracula! I haven’t decided if I’ll do that tonight, or check out more of SIGIL for DOOM. I played a bit of it the other night and already know I’m going to enjoy it!
Rated A For Annoying
I’m a little irritated tonight. I’ve been animating a scene for our halloween projector, went to work on it tonight, and when I try to refine the animation on the models I’m using it looks like fucking stop motion. I’ll probably have to shelve this one for next year. Fucking annoying. At least I added one new video into our collection, but I wish there were at least one more.
Monday Night Open Thread
My weekend is coming to a close, but once Halloween graces us with its sweet spooky candy presence I’ll have a five day weekend for plenty more self care. I caught up with a friend I hadn’t talked to in awhile, we both talked about games we’ve finished – and also shared some spooky fashion ideas that would work in and out of Halloween season from places like Killstar or VampireFreaks. I’ve been having fun buying random things from both. 😀
Anyway… Open Thread!
Fly Me To The Moon
Order of Ecclesia and Portrait of Ruin are currently neck and neck for second place in my playthroughs of the Castlevania Dominus Collection. I’ve buffed up Shanoa enough to trudge through the rest of the game, and last night I found a few new glyph abilities! I earned my wings, and have been doing some backtracking for the unobtainable (as is tradition in metroidvanias). Tonight I found the secret exit that lead to a large training hall reminiscent of the trials you run in Circle of the Moon. After dying a few times I decided to take a break from it, but I’ll probably practice more later on the big screen. It is the weekend after all!
Autumn Reminiscing
I spent the evening wrapping gifts to celebrate a friends success in making it another year around the sun. Every time I wrap gifts for this person I keep thinking back to when we were kids. It doesn’t even feel like it was that long ago, but the crick in my neck yells at me otherwise. The weather was particularly autumn, especially tonight while wrapping. As I listened to music while crafting the care package I couldn’t help but think back to when we used to go on local adventures in forests and other wooded areas we may or may not have been allowed to go.
When I was out on a walk the other day I went by my old neighborhood, so much of it has changed. The landscaping has changed considerably, but seeing kids going up and down the street on their bikes and scooters made me nostalgic. I didn’t have a perfect childhood, and there are some things that I would do differently if I could relive it. But the few moments that were enjoyable, they would be worth experiencing again.
Late Night Open Thread
There isn’t much to say tonight. I’ve been keeping myself busy while paying attention to reality, and at the moment I really hate reality.
Open Thread.
Halloween Science!
I haven’t really looked at community made maps for spooky season for any of the games I’ve been playing, and I feel kinda bad since we’re half way through Spooktober. So tonight I righted this wrong and checked out a spooky map in Portal 2. I’d do more, but tonight is a shorter one for me.
One common thing I see in the Halloween themed Portal 2 maps is a common use of mannequins, and it makes sense. Mannequins can be pretty creepy, especially in a testing facility… or if they spontaneously combust like Cave Johnson’s lemons.
Very Xen-Like
Made progress in Half Life Blue Shift. During the previous attempt to play years ago I got stuck on a crane puzzle. There are two cranes you have to move at a control panel, but you have to stand at a strange angle near each lever in order for it to move properly. It was pretty janky, but eventually I moved on. Already had a run in with the military, taking a break from it for now. If this had cloud save capability. I’d be more inclined to install it on my other devices if it did, just to get through the game faster. Then again, Blue Shift was done by Gearbox instead of Valve.
That might have something to do with it…
Thinking With Ancient Portals
We had to take a bit of a detour from our original plan of playing the second episode of Heretic tonight, as the game crashed whenever we loaded E2M2. It was either skip ahead to episode 3, or try Hexen: Beyond Heretic. Of course we chose the latter. I was actually kind of surprised by the option for choosing from three classes, and jumping! They invented jumping! There was also the overall flow of the game. You could travel to and from certain areas via portals, not linear like Hexen or DOOM. It can get a bit disorienting at times, but we had fun for a good couple of hours.
Conquering The Bone Zone
After a long busy day I put a bunch of veggies and beef into a crockpot for a nice, lazy beef noodle bowl dinner. Aptly plopped down on the couch and returned to Order of Ecclesia. Instead of doing lots of soul searching like I would do in Aria or Dawn of Sorrow, I have to do some skeleton farming in order to level up and become stronger if I ever want to properly defeat Dracula. So far I’ve been leveling up pretty quickly by nuking skeletons with purple lasers. After I get to a better level I’ll start trying to uncover any secret areas I missed. I think there are also a few quests that still need finishing before trudging into the final battle.