The Mind Of OverlordTomala
All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads0

Sunday Night Open Thread

Yesterday was spent getting the new hardware in place, and today was spent installing software and dialing things back to my liking. I haven’t had a chance to do any gaming, will probably have a bit of time for that tomorrow though. Though now that I have several terabytes of NVMe storage I can finally set a good chunk aside for games that would perform slower on spinner drives.

I’m sure I’ll set a little time aside for gaming tomorrow, it’ll be my last day of self enjoyment before having to return to the hole to earn the hole, to earn what they claim passes for a living. Gotta make my last day count!

Open Thread!

Gaming0

Intense Pals

Did my final Palworld stream!… on current hardware. Tomorrow I’m going to tear into the system, everything is pretty much backed up and ready to be migrated over. The gutting will start tomorrow after some shut eye and a good breakfast. We once again had a nice long stream. It actually lasted longer than expected, but we did finally encounter a challenging boss. 😀

Gaming0

Neva Say Neva

Last night I decided to give Neva a try on my Steam Deck. It’s an indie sidescroller made by the same team behind Gris. Neva tells the tale of a young wolf cub with antlers named Neva, who a young woman named Alba cares for after losing Neva’s guardian after a battle with darkness. The two run through a world threatened by darkness, with Alba helping pave the way for Neva,

You play through four different seasons, starting with Summer. Each area is two parts. You have the option of playing Story Mode, for those who just want to enjoy the story. Then you have a more classic Adventure Mode where dying is possible, though so far it hasn’t been too difficult to play. The visuals and the atmospheric music were a great way to end a late evening. 🙂 If I finish this I might have to check out Gris! I’ve heard about it but never had much of a reason to look for it, given I have so much to climb on Mt. Backlog as it is…

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming0

Happily Out Of Place

We had fun doing another live stream! This time we lasted for almost three hours. A friend shared a visit while we were jogging around the various islands and committing crimes.

Also lined up a few videos for release this month! Starting this weekend! Finished doing the subtitling and making the thumbnails. Now to call it a night.

Blogospheric Naval Gazing / Computing0

Storage For Days

Before moving everything over to the new system setup I decided to play musical chairs with my mechanical hard drives. I’m retiring two 2TB’s and a 4TB that are showing signs, and it’s a good idea to get things onto new drives before they give up the ghost. So far I’ve gotten two of my video scratch drives onto one new drive with room to spare, and now I’m working on moving over my Audio Video libraries from the old 4TB onto a new 4TB. I foresee it doing file transfers while I sleep tonight, but I don’t mind the additional heat this time of year.

I just looked at the label of one of the old drives I finished emptying, it has a manifacture date of April 2012. Though the drive itself only got about six years of usage. Overall a good run given that these are enterprise drives.

Gaming0

Back In The Stream Life Again

Did my first live stream of the year! I’m sure you can guess what it was… Other than some optimized lag from the game itself the stream seemed to perform smoothly. Had people coming and going, not many people watched, but that’s ok… that means most people didn’t see what crimes we committed. The stream lasted a little over a couple of hours! I’m pretty proud we held out that long. I’d like to make this a regular thing. 🙂

Open Threads0

Sunday Night Open Thread

Blah blah blah I played Palworld! I also worked on some video projects as well, nothing too big. I might deploy one of them this upcoming weekend. So far I only have a couple videos that are strictly gameplay footage… might buy me some time to work on some with animation in them. We shall see.

Until then… Open Thread!

Gaming0

Chessvania

I’m getting close to the end of 9 Years of Shadows. So far I’ve activated all elevators, found all the missing people and secret bosses. I still have a couple collectables to find before I head off to the final boss. Might grind away at that on my Steam Deck later on before calling it a night. Pretty sure I’ll be leaving a recommended review for it once I’ve finished.

Gaming0

My Steam Replay of 2024 (Abridged)

2024 was a busy year for my gaming habits. I made an effort to try new things, as well as revisit the old in hopes to conquer my ever expanding backlog. In 2023 I nabbed 398 achievements, which I thought was massive and unlikely to go over that. My mistake! My controller usage decreased significantly, last year it was at 53%. I blame that mostly on the three games listed in the overview. 😛

The spider graph does an amazing job describing my year of gaming. Lots of metroidvanias, the occasional boomer shooter. I do like that it threw in Ninjas and Cats. Yep, I see nothing wrong with this.

Even though my controller usage was down a considerable amount. I did make good use of them with these games when playing in front of the TV (except the Castlevania Advance Collection). All of these games feel best with a controller, although Horizon Zero Dawn actually has a good keyboard/mouse layout. In HZD I had no problems swapping between peripherals.

My Steam Deck usage was also down quite a bit last year, only scoring a 13% of usage vs the 25% I had in 2023. I didn’t really need to travel with it all that much, but it was nice to use on those hot sunny days when the weather made the indoors feel uncomfortable, or those cozy evenings lying under a blanket. Metroidvanias have pretty much become my addiction on Steam Deck.

Now that I’ve looked over my year in review, and also having gone over all the games I finished last year. I can now put full focus on the craziness that is going to be 2025. I wonder what games I’ll finish this year? I’m sure at least two of them will be Metroidvanias. 😛