Have a brief tour of The Leverler’s Tower, and watch me craft a weapon of potential destruction and stay for a six course meal!…?
Dear Mum, Met With a Contact At The Oasis!
Spent a couple hours in Der Wunderlands tonight. Made for some nice photography! Although I blinked in one of the shots…
You can see them on my Mastodon.
The Proving Has Been Proven
We had a nice summer day of about 25C today! It gave me the perfect excuse to take a break from my desk so that I can take care of other things… like fixing buttons on a shirt, indulging in some kashmiri green chai while doing some e-shopping for my pantry, and Horizon Zero Dawn on my Steam Deck! I survived The Proving after some trial and error (with a side of fucking around).
I got about an hour of play out of it, which seems to be the norm with Unreal Engine games – especially the graphically intensive ones. I wonder how long it’ll be before I play it again? It’s one of those games that I keep meaning to get back into, but can’t seem to in my endless sea of entertainment. Still, the small break was nice. 🙂
My Digital Weekend
Finished another chapter in Neon White! Also scored some gifts and advanced the storyline a bit. I wanted to have a little fun before going crazy in SFM a bit later with this piece:
I’ll start putting the video together tomorrow, should be pretty easy – should have it wrapped up and ready to can tomorrow! Then I can move onto the next thing… what might that be, I wonder? 😛
Tonight when Yutram showed up the stars were perfectly aligned for us to venture into The Wonderlands! We completed a couple of quests, were cursed with eternal fabulousness and gained a few achiev-o’s along the way. I’m hoping we pick back up on these adventures again, we were gone for so long that we forgot what needed to be done! 😛
This Story Continues Another Day
My desktop is tied up doing some SFM rendering, so I spent some time playing Lost Ember on my Steam Deck! I managed to make it to Chapter 4. Went and did a little swimming, and also found more shrooms and artifacts!
I can safely say that Lost Ember runs for about an hour on Steam Deck before having to plug it in to charge. Understandable considering that it is a very GPU intense game. Not sure if I’ll continue the journey tomorrow, or if I’ll switch to a different adventure! It’s my weekend, and I have all kinds of entertainment options!
Another Evening, Another Chapter
Just finished Chapter 2 before calling it a night. I learned about tunneling, found a few more mushrooms and relics, and uncovered more memories.
With many more waiting to be uncovered, once I find some time. Tonight I spent a little extra time on animating my current project. I should have it ready to render in a day or two! I might work on it over the weekend just to get it finished up, it’s that close!
I Found Lost Ember
Today during lunch I pulled out my Steam Deck and visited the world of Lost Ember. A world of beauty, lost souls and a mysterious past waiting to be unraveled. The game starts with an explanation of this universes life/death cycle, claiming that if you did everything right in life, your soul would ascend to The City of Light. If not, the soul is reborn as a wild beast.
You play a Lost Ember that was reincarnated as a Wolf, and you help a soul that turns out to be your Spirit Guide. Together you’ll wander the land uncovering your past life, among other collectables scattered throughout your journey.
As you explore, you start to learn more and more about yourself, and if your soul can be redeemed. It kinda gives me Aer: Memories of Old vibes, in the sense that you have a large area to explore, and memories scattered throughout. The added bonus is being able to become other animals to experience different perspectives:
Unlike the average Lost Ember, you possess the ability to transfer your soul to any living animal. Become birds to fly throughout the sky, or become smaller animals to get into small areas, or burrow underground. So far I’ve only been a little over 5 different animals, and found a few shrooms and artifacts. Definitely a cozy vibe type of game. I’m gonna be savoring this one for awhile! After all, I’m only on Chapter 2 and I always appreciate a good story at the end of the day. I have high hopes for this one!
Too Tired To Brain
Didn’t complete this chamber tonight, but I’m getting a better idea of what I need to do. I can tell the answer is right in front of me, but the fog of fatigue seems to be clouding my vision. I’ll need to return to this one when my brain is slightly more awake.
Another Retro Evening
Think I rode out the last bit of my DOS Gaming kick with some Commander Keen 2. Didn’t get very far though – kept dying in Mountain Dew. Thus ending my DOS Gaming Spree… for now. I’ll probably play something slightly less retro tomorrow. 😛
One Episode Down!
Finished Episode 1 in Duke Nukem 2! I had fun trying to figure out how to thwart the endboss with limited ammo supply, but I fucking did it! Now it’s three episodes to go, when I get around to playing again. 😛
Duke Nukem 2 isn’t currently recommended for the Steam Deck, not enough testing, and it does require keyboard input for naming saves and scoreboard; but even when DOSBox is running through Proton it has no issues with the Steam Overlay. So far this is looking like it’ll get a thumbs up! I still need to finish the whole game though, just to share more of the experience! It would be cool to see some of these games garner more attention.
One of the things PC has over Console is the ability to go back in time and play any game we feel like playing. We don’t need to dig out old hardware. Sidescrolling games are still popular today, so it would be cool to see more people checking out the retro stuff.