Sunset Overdrive

Sunset Overdrive: First Impressions

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Sunset Overdrive is a stylish third person shooter set in a world where the zombie apocalypse was caused by a new energy drink, so it basically predicted the development process for Death Stranding in much the same way the Metal Gear universe predicted how our government currently functions. It’s a blast, though it takes some getting used to. I’ve been mainly playing it with a controller, and have had to tweak a few things to my liking, but so far it’s quite the stitch.

The overall attitude the game presents you with is very reminiscent of the Borderlands, or the newer Saint’s Row games in terms of how it presents itself. The gameplay  is vastly different, but the overall tone from the characters to the art style seems to take some inspiration from Borderlands, not fearing to tell you how the world is.

The objective of the game is to kill ODers (Over Drivers, energy drink zombies) with your arsenal of weapons while grinding around on telephone poles and railings as well as jumping from car to car while performing style moves that you unlock after awhile. I’m kinda bummed they didn’t include a multiplayer mode like the one that came with the original XBox One release, as it would have been to play with or against other players, though at the time when they released it on PC they did discount it a but to make up for the lack of multiplayer… then again the game also had been out for quite awhile before Microsoft got desperate to get PC Gamers to pay attention to them again and ported half the game to PC, so all in all I’m glad I waited for a sale. :v:

As you progress through the game you’ll find more weaponry. My first present was a musket with testicles, and I recently purchased a gun that shoots records.

All in all it isn’t a bad game, for what I’ve played of it anyway. It’s kind of funny to think this was one of the exclusives that Microsoft used to try and get people to play on XBox, and I knew a lot of XBox gamers at work, and not one of them really said much about Sunset Overdrive… Then again they mainly fixated on anything Halo or Destiny related.

New Year’s Resolution: Still at 2560x1440p but with FreeSync

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Bed & Breakfast Curry

Happy New Year! I’ve been too busy to write, lots of work and real world related stuff. I wasn’t feeling too particularly well yesterday either. I ended up mostly making comfort foods like Breakfast Curry and Pad Thai, played a couple games to relax, enjoy a breakfast in bed for a change, etc. I didn’t feel as bad today; I even tidied things up a bit, moved my Christmas stuff to the pantry. I got a lot of teas, sauce mixes and soup mixes among a bunch of other stuff that I haven’t even touched yet, but when I do I’ll be sure to write about it. So far all the Asian stuff I’ve made has been from scratch. I also want to go over the packaging details, as I’ve found a few things of the Engrish variety on certain products that are quite amusing.

DOGGO

I updated The Phantom Pain recently, both the game and the mod manager. I’ve installed some mods that will make for fun future gameplay. I just felt the call to go back and Cardboard Box sled again and invite Russian soldiers to my slumber party in the middle east. I’m very close to inviting Huey to my party, and I have a special place set aside for him.

Gonna fuk sum sheet uwp.

Revisited SOTR for a little too. A bunch of my friends bought it during the steam sale, or have waited for the Definitive Edition update to roll out before playing it and I started to get a bit of the itch to go back again and play. I finished a challenge tomb, but now I’m stumped on how to get to the next waypoint. I’ll have to ponder at it awhile and return to it later.

This is what eye cancer looks like kids.

While I wasn’t well enough to stream last night; Yutram and I did spend some time together playing in Doom SnapMap. There were both great and terrible maps to play from “This isn’t half bad” to “Did they even try?” to “What were they snorting when they made this?”.

I found a new universe.

I decided to try Sunset Overdrive today. I bought it a couple sales ago but never had a chance to try it. I remember watching one of my co-workers play a demo of it at work while stress testing a TV, and it looked fun enough for me to try. I think I’ll save this one for a thread of its own, but for now if you’re on my Steam friends list you’ll see I took some porntography of the game.

I’ve also been entertaining the idea of upgrading my CPU to a 3rd gen Ryzen and my monitors to FreeSync. I got a surprise bonus check last month from work, and the extra holiday pay and overtime are going to help pay for it. The 3950x looks pretty slick, and it would bump up my current setup by 50%. Livestreaming, gaming and video rendering would load much faster, especially now that I’ve found that I can increase the amount of threads to use when exporting in Source Filmmaker. Such an upgrade would be quite beneficial, and I can sell my Dad the old processor, and they can finally get off of x58 and live happily ever after. :melon: