Been awhile since I’ve posted some good cat pics. Today they proved to be quite photogenic, moreso than usual in the sense they let me take pictures of them without moving too much. 😛
OverlordTomala Plays: MGSV: The Phantom Pain
First video of the new year… only took me three months in. :v: :melon:
From the creators of Myst and Riven yada yada yada
It seems Cyan is wanting to start another project:
The video doesn’t seem to show much other than it’s a puzzle type game (Cyan’s specialty) with some nice looking graphics and a creepy voice. Of course unlike their last games Cyan wants to make this a VR exclusive title because so many people play VR… That’s the reason, right? Obviously there are waaaaaaaay more VR gamers than those zombies that stare at their multimonitor setups with drool rolling down their faces.
The team has developed what Miller called a working “experience,” similar to a demo, that will be shown later this month at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in an attempt to garner interest and financial backing. It features the Mead-based company’s signature puzzle-solving gameplay, he said, in a world built from the ground up to be experienced through a virtual reality headset.
Well, that leaves me out. There aren’t enough games out to justify me getting into VR, plus I’m still pretty miffed about Obduction’s poor optimization for AMD GPU’s as well as overall optimization (broken LOD’s). Plus if I take into consideration how the last Kickstarter took place, and some of the more dramatic moments I’d rather not mention during their update posts, I really am reminded that I should play other games instead. Heck, I’ve been playing Quite a bit of The Phantom Pain lately, and that’s an NVidia Gumworks title.
That said I wish them no ill will. I would like for them to succeed and return to their former glory, but it seems unnecessary to leave people out if they can’t afford VR. Plus I would think they would make money if they developed a non VR version of their game. As it is Cyan’s core fanbase consists of about 7 people who still have use to run a Pentium III setup. :v:
The Republic of Chia
I just think it’s funny to hear of a country banning a letter of the alphabet because it’s a “subversive and intolerable character”. Now all I can think of is a campy superhero cartoon where N is public eNemy #1. :v:
I’m not dead!
Made it to my destination, first thing we did was grab some big ass burgers which are great for absorbing the amount of alcohol we planned to partake in tonight.
It was pretty cold this time around, in fact there was some snow on the drive up here. It rained for most of our wine walk, ended up back at our hotel. We’re staying at a casino, and I passed the one armed bandit machines, apparently they were made by Konami. I had a dream the other night about wanting to murder a horde of pachinko machines but was held back by a friend. Tonight I had the urge again, but remembered this was the real world after all… and things like that don’t make me break out in a metal rash.
Late Night Open Thread
I managed to finish Wolfenstein 2 today, add that as two Wolfenstein games conquered for 2018… To celebrate I had a small livestream of me failing at MGSV:TPP. I recorded a bit of it, and if I can find anything worth saving I’ll have a video. :melon:
On another note I will be headed out on the road tomorrow, so I probably won’t have time to post anything. I’ll save it all for Saturday when I return, assuming I don’t have a hangover. :trollface:
Vacation Time Bitches!
I’m taking some time off to relax. Will be heading out of town in a couple days to meet with some other people for a wine walk. Will bring my laptop and tablet, though if this goes anything like last year I’ll probably be too buzzed to coherently sit up at my computer and blog. I will try to take pictures, perhaps more Stoned Troopers. :trollface: And who knows? Perhaps I’ll have time to produce some video related content! Or maybe even stream! :O if I could figure out wtf to play…
I’m The Phantom Pain in everyone’s backside.
Benn continuing to progress through The Phantom Pain, so far I haven’t been a complete failure at it, and I haven’t modded my game to cheat so there is that. In fact apart from stealth I’m really good at outrunning bears, horses and other animals, and depending on my mood punching my enemies into a bloody mist. What I’m NOT good at is smoking cigars.
I should look up instructions for replacing the cigars with watermelons as I find those to be much more soothing. :melon:
I think I’ll take a break from it, now that I’m getting the hang of modding I feel like I can step back and look at something else to do.
Sunday Evening Open Thread
Every so often Yutram and I will gather together to watch the internet together in one place, our cinema. As per tradition once we’re done doing most if not all of our viewing duties we will wreck the place, and by that I mean I ragdoll myself and Yutram moves stuff around. Apparently I thought sitting on a watermelon would make it hatch into… something.
And every so often there is a random ritual that must be performed. In this case we wished good luck melons to the Enchantress Motifa.
Of course, before all of this I was having fun running around and creating fun sleepovers in MGSV, I had my R&D team get on some extremely important gear for my horse.
The Metal Gear Series is serious business yo. :melon:
OMG METAL GEAR MODS
I’ve mainly been looking at mods for MGSV today. It’s been awhile since I last looked into the modding scene but browsing the Nexus gives me some fun results to play with, as well as useful. Like removing the parade of splash screens you have to skip through before getting to the menu. :zorak: Sadly I haven’t found any watermelon based mods yet, but I think I’m off to a good start. I also installed a really brutal CQC mod that causes your enemies to explode blood upon punching them, and of course a particular model swap.
This was brought to my attention by a certain someone (you know who you are :trollface: ) and of course by law I am required to install these types of mods. For the melons told me so. :melon: That said I’ve progressed a bit lately, already on my first mission after being re-introduced to Mother Base. My mission: Kill a guy. I’ve already done it a couple times, but I keep having to start over because I keep getting sighted and I want to do it as perfectly as I can. I did find a mod that lets you fulton recover basically every person you mark on a base, but that seems a bit overkill for my first playthrough. :v:
I’ve also found some mods for Metal Gear Rising, including a weaponless mod and a tweak to run the game above 1080p. So at some point I’ll have to replay it, I’ve contemplated it for awhile now. Considering MGR takes place in the year 2018 and features someone who wants to Make America Great Again I feel that I’m required to partake once again… eventually. :melon: