Gathered a few achievements in Tomb Raider, getting into places the devs made it hard to get into and also doing a little bit of backtracking to get a couple easy achievements. Next time I visit Lara she’ll be awaiting me in the cistern. The last time I was here I had fun shooting at Pierre while was underwater, I flooded the room and he chose that as the opportune time to strike. I wonder if I’ll be lucky enough to recreate that moment in 4K, it was such a glorious moment!
Video Games
The Cozy Gaming Weekend Continueth
Another rainy day where I play more than one game! I finished another Chapter in Control, and learned more about the projector and Jesse’s backstory. During my travels I found a couple jukebox tokens. Next tine I might try the challenges again, in the meantime the Underdark called me back into its void.
Last night I forged some badass armor, and tonight Yutram found some lightning robes that work well with my character. I gave the mushrooms some head (Nere’s) and collected a few fancy titles that will probably never be used on me again. They even threw me a psychedelic dance party.
It was a fun couple hours of adventure. Between yesterday and tonight I think I’ve had my fix until the next weekend. Today was perfect day to play, mostly because we had electricity. We lost power for a couple hours this morning – fortunately for me I slept through most of it. The wind was bad enough that it did wake me up a few times. Everything was up and running though once I came to life. Even did some video work! More details on that at a later date. Today was more of a chillax kind of day. Might do something a bit more productive tomorrow.
Chill Weekend Open Thread
Kicking the weekend off proper with more BG3. Finally killed the Forge Boss, and officially made a new friend at our camp!
It wasn’t entirely an evening for BG3. I made time for Whisker Squadron Survivor, haven’t checked on it in ages and they’ve made a LOT of changes since my last visit. They added a boss battle in Zone 5 on any map, unavoidable cursed choices and challenges. I’ve already completed all the easy ones, one hard, and I think one medium… Oddly enough the medium challenges are harder than the one hard challenge I unlocked.
Smol = Big Adventures
You know it’s getting serious when I’m looking at mods to make for a better experience! So far I’ve up’d the framerate, installed an HD font pack, and HD texture pack.
I found the recipe to become smol, but it makes the adventure all the bigger. I only wanted to play a little bit tonight, but with the modding and tinkering I ended up getting sucked further into Wonderland than I had originally planned to. I’ll give another lady protagonist some attention tomorrow, though it has been fun going on Alice’s adventures!
Surprise Balduring!
Couldn’t resist doing a little more Balduring tonight. I have an extra day off tomorrow, and luck brought Yutram and I together to make it all the way to the Forge in the Underdark. We fought and won a battle that we were sure we would lose, even with a party of six. As usual I made a recording, should make for some nice footage when I get around to it.
I don’t think I’ve gone into detail about this particular character. She’s a high half elf Rogue Spellsword – loosely based on my Skyrim character, traveling with her best friend – a Drow Monk and any of the other characters that want to tag along. We were discussing future character ideas for different runs. One of our other friends got the game for his birthday recently, and it would be fun to make something to troll them with. 😛
Crossing A River Of Glitches
We had fun trying to get through the river of darkness with six characters. Last night when we made my companions glitch out of existence. They were still alive, but they were invisible and immovable. When I summoned the boat it did the same thing to my friend’s companions. We ended up sending two of them back to camp, made our way across in the boat, and then regrouped afterwards. Other than that little snag it’s been fun playing with a party of six.
We called it a night after biting it in a battle we had no chance of winning. This is where our heroes will rest until the next upcoming weekend. It’s back to cycling other games to keep things fresh. I was actually thinking of doing a theme this month for my gaming posts. Since it’s Women’s History Month I’m thinking of prioritizing my playtime for games where there is either a female character, or games that grant the option to play as whatever you want. Baldur’s Gate 3 is pretty versatile in that regard, and it also gives me an excuse to binge the Tomb Raider Remaster if I so choose. 😛 She was the first woman I ever played in a video game, so it’s only right I give her some screentime. Of course, more lady protaganists have appeared since the 90’s! So you can guess that I’ll be covering them also!
Back To Baldurin’
It’s been an eternity since we last played Baldur’s Gate 3, or two weeks… same thing.
We had issues for a couple weeks figuring out how to get mods working, and then once we got it figured out a patch broke the script extender used to play with mods. But eventually it all got ironed out in time for my weekend! So Yutram and I went down down down by the river for a few fun hours of adventure. It was fun as much as it was buggy. By default you can play with a party of up to 4, but thanks to modding we up’d the count to 6. It makes fighting slightly more chaotic, and tonight we learned that sometimes when initiating a cutscene it will leave two of your party members behind and render them unusable. We ended up having to backtrack to a slightly older autosave, we didn’t lose MUCH progress, but it was enough for us to call it a night.
Despite the bugs I did level up my character to lvl 6 and earned a couple achievements. We’re planning to go Balduring again tomorrow if everything lines up. It was soooo nice to finally be able to play together again!
Jetpackin’
Yesterday was a digital trip down Memory Lane. Today I opted for something more modern and more disturbing… but I did unlock the Jetpack! I mostly went around looking for chests to open using my new found ability. I’ll probably do something a little less mind numbing tomorrow… maybe Portal Reloaded.
Saturday In The Shadows
Had a very zen evening tonight. Made a large pot of Japanese Curry and some rice, drank some green tea and played Aragami in the living room while getting intoxicated on the epic aromas wafting from my cauldron. Made it through Chapters 8 and 9, survived a boss battle and earned four achievements!
It took me awhile, but I did nail the captain after about 100 retries. In order to defeat him you need to destroy a light barrier switch that protects the Captain, then you have to backstab him and repeat the procedure two more times. You are then treated to an epic battle cutscene. I went from gritting my teeth to being proud af to just get through the damned boss fight. It was so intense that I almost thought I would beat the game tonight! But alas, three more chapters will have to wait for another time. My eyes feel waaaay too shot for me to continue. Time to finish off the rest of my tea and call it a night.
Down The Wavy Corridors
It’s been a couple months, but I moved the plot along a bit in Control tonight. I started the Prime Candidate Program; only died a few times, and I learned a bit more about Jesse in the process. My next task is finding a way to rotate a large platform, that’s where I decided to call it a night. More photos can be found over at Mastodon.
This is one of those games that doesn’t seem to get much discussion at work whenever we decide to converse about after work activities. It’s mostly Nintendo games and Final Fantasy I usually hear about, maybe a few COD games from a couple of the dudebros. Although I do have one friend that’s really into the Remedy Cinematic Universe, we have a lot of fun talking about Control and other Remedy titles. He was too young to experience Max Payne, but I’ve shown him some vids. Even back in the early 2000’s Remedy knew how to make a bone chilling experience.