The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming / Hobbies

Campfires and Demons

I’m hoping to have this done by the end of May, hopefully. This scene was rendered tonight, and a couple renders more it’ll be done!

While my desktop was busy rendering I gave my Steam Deck some attention by picking up where I left off on last night’s Darksiders Adventure. Upgraded the sword and obtained the scythe, then proceeded to hijack an angel’s ride. I switched back over to desktop after the render finished… cloud saves FTW. I left a note to my future self as a reminder of where to continue next time I play. After two nights of grinding this one I’ll move to another game… maybe something slightly less hellish.

Gaming

Party Like It’s The Apocalypse

I keep telling myself that I’ll beat Darksiders one of these days, and thanks to Cloud Saves and the Steam Deck I’m hoping to make that happen. For the most part I remembered how to play, despite the long lapse since my last session. I did see some higher res textures on the Nexus Mods site, might consider adding those for next time I play in 4K.

I will say though; Every time I’ve played this I keep finding new things at the start. It’s like each time I play I get more adventurous.. might even play more of this tomorrow night after some animation, which btw… got a lot done tonight. 😉

Gaming

Sunday Of Play

Today was one of those days where I couldn’t settle on just one game. Began by getting one final achievement in AMID EVIL, freeing up a few gigs for my gaming library, unlocked a new ship in Whisker Squadron Survivor, played a bit of Neo Cab on my Steam Deck, and then inevitably ended the evening with BG3.

We rescued Minthara and made Astarion read a pretty yet evil book, and made a small child whole again… hopefully. Other than that we did typical adventuring and looted all of the things. It’s a good note to end the evening on.

Gaming

Chillin’ In Hades… Wait

It’s been a good while since I braved Tartarus and the other circles of Hades. I still haven’t been able to get past the third boss battle, but the ever changing dungeons make it all the more entertaining. As a silver lining I did get a couple achievements/trophies tonight; one for getting a higher kill count than the hotness that is Thanatos, and calling for an Olympian aid in my time of need. I did two runs, both lasting around half an hour each. Had to stop after awhile to give my hand a break, lots of button work on a controller… One of these days I need to finish it, especially since the sequel is juuuust around the corner.

Gaming / Open Threads

Knock Knock, Open Thread

Think after tonight I’ll give HZD a little break. I’ve already put in over 40 hours into it! Tonight I completed a couple quests, but spent most of it stealthily exploring the environment. Played a little extra tonight to celebrate finishing another SFM render, will probably do more animating tomorrow night, and pick a different game to chill with… possibly something more demonic. Tomorrow’s my Friday, so the sky’s the limit!

Open Thread!

Gaming

The Spirit Of Machines

Tonight I found a village where the humans and machines were peaceful towards one another… for awhile anyway.

Most areas of the game have machines that will make no bones about attack you, unless of course you hack them yourself. Of course it wasn’t meant to last, and I ended up having to kill the once friendly machines. The more I play this the more I wonder what plunged civilization into a second stone-age. Somehow I get the feeling a billionaire manchild might possibly have something to do with it, but it’ll be several play sessions before I figure it out methinks.

Gaming

Like Clockwork

Time traveled back to an older game and made it through another chapter. I had to take a break after the clockwork rooms, started feeling motion sick from traversing all those spinning gears. Next time I play I’ll be playing the final chapter of the game – 5 levels in total, and the first one starting with a bossfight against the Jabberwock. It’s looking like I might actually finish this one, and possibly some time this year!

Gaming

Just A Normal Game Of HZD

Sooooo I made the mistake of looking at the updated list of mods for Horizon Zero Dawn, and ended up spending most of the day immersed in Aloy’s adventures. I took over another bandit camp, caused all kinds of machine related chaos and even made it to the desert. Finding all kinds of different machines, each bigger and more horrifying than the last, and equally fun to try and figure out how to take down. I kept telling myself that I’d get back to animating after finding a stuck area, but I kept powering through it enough that next thing I knew it had been a good couple of hours, and at that point I was thirsty for more adventure!

I think after today I can say I got a good amount of adventure out of my system, enough that I can shelve the game for now and focus on my animation, and of course a different distraction. This game was just too beautiful to put down, and I’m compelled to finish it now that I have Forbidden West to play afterwards! That’s a looooong ways away though. I have other games I need to take into consideration – I’m thinking of doing something hellish tomorrow night…

Gaming

Lost In Shadows

We went about our usual Sunday adventures in Baldur’s Gate 3. We’re still adventuring the Shadow Cursed lands, but we’ve managed to survive some fights, and an annoying demonic child and his parents, or what was left of them. We also rescued a missing child with the help of Halsin, a brave Druid. Or at least the physical properties of a child… the Shadow Curse has a good hold on him, will probably look further into that next weekend.

It’s been fun not having to stress about anything for a week. I have one more day of it before I have to return to reality and chaos, trying not to think too much about it until tomorrow. Tonight is my last night of full enjoyment, gotta make it count. As it is I’ve been having fun tying up a couple loose ends, playing games longer than an hour, late nights reading and partaking of tea and snax, sharing a meal with a friend, etc.