We didn’t mean to spend the entire weekend in Resonite… but here we be! Started off by showing a friend the world where we found the VHS tapes and player, then watched them take it apart to understand how its coded, then we ended the evening by visiting a record store, with working records! I saved some to my inventory to play in my digital home. Found some oldies, new stuff, game soundtracks, and all kinds of other crazy stuff. I’m liking the amount of variety this game offers.
Collisions and a Movie
I’m finding almost anything is possible in Resonite. At one point we took a train down to Black Mesa, then a friend of a friend showed up and sent us on adventures in their TARDIS, then we traveled from world to world and accidentally had a movie night together. We watched The Blob, and found a whole bunch of other movies for next time!
One thing I’ve noticed traveling between different worlds in Resonite is a severe lack of collisions for world objects and fixtures. There was a hotel we visited earlier that had NO COLLISIONS WHATSOEVER. You could walk through walls, fireplaces, desks… why? The only thing fun about it was listening to one of my friends rage about it.
More World Exploration! (Resonite)
We had a small Resonite get together earlier this evening. We explored a few cool worlds, worlds that I would probably enjoy even more in VR. I wish I lived in an area where VR Headsets could be demoed in person. I don’t want to invest hundreds of dollars into a VR Headset if it’s just going to nauseate me. We found a few cool party worlds, a relaxing spa/bath world, a desert oasis and more! I felt like a kid in a candy story as we took turns choosing what worlds looked the most interesting or the most cursed. We all had a good time. 🙂
Early Evening Open Thread
Not feeling well enough tonight to focus on a post, so this one is up for grabs.
Open Thread,
The Revolution Is Over… At Aperture
One of the main reasons I always preferred PC Gaming to console is the modabillity of games, when applicable. An XBox or Playstation version of Portal 2 doesn’t go nearly as far or as hard as the PC Version, where the modding never really stopped. We get to enjoy mods like Portal Reloaded, Thinking with Time Machine, and Portal Revolution! I managed to finish it tonight, it was a wild ride and it did an incredible job replicating the humor of the original base games. I’ll need to go back and grab the achievements I missed after giving myself a break from it, but overall I had a wonderful time playing!
Stay tuned next for a completely different game… probably.
Total Eclipse Of The Home
Been playing around in Resonite on and off. Today I spent it decorating my digital home, added a working bouncy castle and a couple of other things, nothing major. Then met up with a friend this evening to check out some avatar worlds. Then we went back to my home and made an eclipse happen. It was a fun hour to kill. Maybe next time we’re in we can have a little get together to watch some YouTube vids together. :O
The Things You Find At Aperture…
Made some progress in Portal Revolution! Currently on one of the Test Chamber 6’s. Just finished my latest climb to the surface after solving a previous Test Chamber 6 the “fun way”. I’ll need to remember to go back and see what the “boring way” is.
The modders behind Portal Revolution have an optional pack you can purchase on Steam that transforms the test cubes we all know and love into a more squeezable looking counterpart. I figured that I’ve been enjoying each session in Portal Revolution enough that I decided to buy it during the more recent Steam Sale. Plus, since it’s a Source Game/Mod I can add the cube model to my growing collection of SFM models and materials! It could make for a good stress ball, or stress cube?
The Path Of Shart
Last weekend we didn’t play Baldur’s Gate 3, but we made up for it a bit tonight by making our way through Shar’s Trials. I got some good footage! We’ll see how long it takes before getting around to it. I’m recording in HDR, and the software that I use doesn’t support it yet. I’ll either have to convert the videos to SDR manually, or wait for support. Either way I have plenty to keep me busy while waiting for implementation. More games to play, more projects for me to go back and forth between.
First Impressions Of Deus Ex: The Fall
A few years ago I decided to pickup Deus Ex: The Fall during one of the many Steam Sales. It is one of the most negatively reviewed games on Steam, but for a few bucks I figured someday it would pique my curiosity. It received a lot of flak for being a port of a mobile game. As a result the graphics aren’t exactly polished, and the game itself leaves off with a “To Be Continued” message upon completion, as repeated in the many reviews I’ve read. So, how bad is it?
Deus Ex: The Fall takes place in the same universe and timeline as Deus Ex: Human Revolution. You play the role of Ben Saxon; a mercenary in hiding after some shit goes sideways. After going through a basic tutorial in the form of a flashback your friend and partner Anna Kelso in a safe house. Both of you are augmented, and there is currently a Neuropozyne shortage; something augmented beings need to prevent cybernetics and other body augmentations from being rejected. Saxon has to set out to find a supplier, or even an alternative that isn’t quite legal yet.
The graphics aren’t really anything to write home about. Granted, this is a port of a mobile game that was ported to PC minus the microtransactions. There is no jumping, which is weird for an FPS, and the NPC’s are slightly more diverse than the original Half Life. As I walked through Panama city I found multiple NPC’s that were identical all the way down to the shirts they were wearing. Other than that it handles quite similarly to Deus Ex: HR. It offers the same options for combat, multiple dialog choices and reading material like in the previous games… making me wonder why I didn’t choose to play those instead?
As I read in the reviews, this game only has about four hours of gameplay total. So this will be another one that I’ll be taking very slowly, just to savor the few dollars I pissed away to be able to play and tell a short story about. 😛 I’ve already left a note for my future self so that I’m hopefully not too lost.
The Hunt Was Strong In This One
I traded getting pummeled by an annoying corrupted spirit for running trials and other adventures in Horizon Zero Dawn. Killed 10 Frostclaws, made it to Level 58 and have most of the trial awards. It would be nice to get that wrapped up before continuing the main story line. We’ll see what happens on the next playthrough. 😛