I didn’t get to play anything today, but I did animate an entire scene this evening. Progress! I’ll have to go back and refine it when I come back around to render it, but all in all I’m happy with it. Nothing that I can really share yet, perhaps after some more refinement. If I have time tomorrow I’ll start preparing the next scene, might be busy doing other things.
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Despite the heatwave I managed to have fun today in Okami, grabbed the gaming laptop and played outdoors in fresh air! Something about the aroma of grass, a gentle breeze from the fan and the music and visuals of the game made for a peaceful day and a peaceful weekend overall. I stopped in Kusa Village for now, until I pick it up again anyway. I’m thinking of doing some DMC5 during lunch tomorrow, with mods of course. :v I’ll be jumping back into working in SFM tomorrow night, after finishing some other obligations of course. :v
We had a nice warm summer like day today. No aroma of fire (though the fire situation is still pretty bad). Had a good breakfast, tidied up a bit, did a little shopping, and a little tea and gaming. I’ve played what I could of Bright Memory. Then pretty much played Okami for the rest of the evening, wanted something zen today to counterbalance the suck. I made quite a bit of progress already, it’s amazing how fast you can move when you know where a lot of the stuff actually is.
Hopefully everyone else is having a good weekend, stay safe!
It’s been awhile since I tried tackling Thinking With Time Machine, but I was in something to wake my brain up a little. If you’ve never played it’s a Free Portal 2 mod that you can download through Steam, and I recommend it! I mean it is free so… why not? I’ve also been watching my TF2 and L4D1 and L4D2 servers getting traffic. left 4 Dead 2 had a content update recently and that one has been especially busy. I had to run an update on the server yesterday and I couldn’t because people were still connecting on their client.
There was also some Source Filmmaker today. Yesterday I actually rendered something to incorporate into the video, and now I’ve been working on the main scene where we’re all chillaxin’ in our new digs.
This was probably one of the more Source related evenings I’ve had in awhile, not that I’m complaining or anything.
Metal Gear Solids 1 2 and classic Metal Gear were released on GOG today, so if anyone wants to get a digital copy it appears to be available. From what I’ve read it isn’t a remaster, just the original PC releases. I’m not sure if they have been patched or not, but if needed I do know of a fan made MGS2 patch. Still, it would be nice to have a remastered edition just like Capcom did with their games. Konami is just letting Fox Engine is go to waste on pachinko machine animations…
I’m going to wait and see if it releases on Steam, if push comes to shove I’ll buy it on GOG. I’m getting them one way or the other.
I’m on the second part of my weekend as of now (split days off this week). I pretty much spent the afternoon/evening relaxing, updating the Left 4 Dead 2 server with the latest Sourcemod and Metamod after running the latest content update in for friggin’ ever. I have plans to check out all the new stuff they’ve added another time when I’m not alone. Tonight I played a little bit of Okami, and I found out that my save was overwritten from my Linux test via the Steam Cloud. Now I have to start over again, which I’m not really too upset about. Okami is a bigger game than it looks, and it’s nice to get a bit of a refresher. I would have played it under Linux tonight, but the last time I tried to run it the game would lock up at random points. I’m hoping that gets sorted in a future Proton release, as the game runs perfectly otherwise.
Now comes the part where I get to be unconscious on my own terms, probably my favorite time of the evening.
I did a double take when going through my RSS feed this morning. After all these years the PC versions of MGS1 and MGS2 will finally reappear, along with other older classic titles from Konami’s catalog.
This ‘re-release’ is in all likelihood intended to make older Konami games playable on next-gen consoles. Given the somewhat limited backwards compatibility of the PS5, we can expect this practice of re-releasing to become more commonplace, and hopefully PC gamers can also reap the benefits!
The first PC releases for both games were pretty buggy (though thanks to a fan patch improves the port immensely). The cutscenes in MGS1 were broken, and MGS2 had some graphical issues when running vanilla. It would also be nice to have more modern resolutions, the highest resolution I could achieve in MGS1’s PC port to go was 1024×768 with no patches or tweaks like I can find for MGS2. Perhaps in the future we might even see MGS3 and 4 officially come to PC! Think of the possibilities!
I wonder what modding would be like, if at all.
Been binge watching ZeFrank lately. He has some of the best nature documentaries I have ever seen, funny but oddly educational.
In case you haven’t heard… this happened.
Microsoft’s priciest video game acquisition, a $7.5 billion purchase of Bethesda Softworks parent company ZeniMax Media, shocked the industry on Monday. The deal puts Bethesda, one of the industry’s biggest publishers and owners of some of the most successful gaming series, under the Xbox brand.
Does this mean that all future Bethesda titles like Elder Scrolls, DOOM, Wolfenstein are going to be exclusive to only Windows and XBox? There would be a lot of franchises that would become exclusive under one platform… if I were a Playstation gamer I would be a little worried right about now. I know the article makes light of Microsoft not being interested in exclusivity anymore as they used to be… but this is Microsoft, and while I may use their products when needed, it doesn’t mean that I trust them.
Zune is all I have to say.
Today was a grab whatever the hell is around the house and make breakfast with it kind of weekend. I made strawberry banana oatmeal with dried cranberries, and tangerine chipotle cashews… it sounds weird but it was a nice sweet/zesty flavor combo, especially with the brown sugar and maple syrup.
Mainly focused on household stuff today; like clean bedding, sewing a garment that was losing a pocket, spending moneys on evil birthday things for two months worth of birthday friends (you know who you are 😛 ), etc.