There was a severe lack of sun in my life today, and what little of it was witnessed lacked any warmth. So it only made sense for me to chase a fictitious sun, with no other reward other than a couple achievements and some computer generated warmth. I also played a bit on Steam Deck while doing a couple more SFM renders. One of these nights I’ll have to check out the Steam Workshop, they have quite a few custom maps to choose from! But like many other games in my collection, it will have to wait another day. Gotta keep a healthy rotation!
Video Games
Giving My Steam Deck Some Love
Got to spend some quality time with my Steam Deck today! During lunch I progressed a little further into Grim Fandango Remastered, and managed to snag a few achievements by accident. It was a refreshing 20 minutes before returning to reality.
Then later on this evening I had an SFM render going on my main desktop, which left me with more alone time to fondle my deck. 🙂 This time I decided to revisit Cuphead, after abandoning it a couple years ago for other worlds in my library. It took a lot of slamming my head against the wall, but I did clear 3 levels, and even splurged on a couple of character upgrades! I’m pretty proud, in fact I’m proud enough to take a break and move onto something else. 😛 I might return to Race The Sun tomorrow. That one also runs real nicely on Steam Deck!
This Post Contains No Baldur’s Gate 3 I Promise
Actually managed to be productive today! Thanks to preemptive pain management, a good breakfast and about a gallon of tea I powered my way through some cleaning today. Not as much as I wanted to do, but enough to feel less claustrophobic.
Other than that I got a good chunk of animation done and played a tiny bit of Crash Bandicoot: Warped! Collected a few gems; two silver, one gold. Also did some time trials, managed to get gold status on a couple of them. I’m at 62% completion, one hour earlier I was at 58% Now that I’m a little over half way there I’ll probably visit a different game world tomorrow night. 🙂
Saturday Night Gaming
I decided to give my Steam Deck some attention today, just to kill off the rest of the battery before doing a recharge. Returned to BloodRayne after a long reprieve, and actually made it a couple levels further. The fighting seems a lot easier compared to the second game, but then again I am only a few levels in. I think in BloodRayne 2 I left off a few levels away from the end. I vow to return to it when I’m done being pissed off at it.
Towards the evening I met up with Yutram again to continue our long journey to rid ourselves of the dreaded cthulu parasites. We lost a couple battles, won some unexpected ones, saved a couple NPC’s from flames, and met my watermelon colored guardian and got a little digital shut-eye.
Now to go and follow suit. 🙂
Romping in Yakuza Kiwami 2
Last video of the year, and we’re spending it in Kamurocho!
Time For Your Fave Soda! (You Know The One)
Played through the DLC I unlocked with a hex editor last night for Control. It unlocks three outfits (one I’ve been wearing in all these shots) and “Dr. Yoshimi Tokui’s Guided Imagery Experience” that would only be on Playstation otherwise.
The DLC gives you two tapes to listen to. There’s no battle or anything, just a really weird story on each one. Listening to them makes Jesse feel better afterwards.
Tonight I can say that I’ve claimed 25 control points! I was kind of hoping to get another call from Trench before calling it a night, given the news of James McCaffrey’s passing. I was surprised to find that he played Trench! Now that I really listen to his voice I can hear it.
Another one of those voices I grew up remembering. Max Payne was one of the big games of my older childhood. I remember playing it many a night, even on laptops – before gaming laptops were a thing! 😛 So many memories with a mix of intrigue and mental scarring, the dream sequences used to give me nightmares that only seemed to go away when I wrote about them. His voice though, was a big part of that childhood. He will be missed like so much other talent we’ve lost in recent times.
Went Out For Shots
Another weekend begins, which means another chance at leveling up in Borderlands 3! We played for a few hours, completed a couple side-quests and moved the main story a bit, even made some new friends. With the Winter Sale being just around the corner we should probably consider loading up on some DLC. 😀 Maybe even some new potential adventures to have!
On The Brave Path Again
I’ve been playing a lot of old school DOOM or an assortment of indie games recently, time to take a break to play something a little more modern. 😀 I completed a couple of side quests and made it to level 10! It’s been cold today, so this was a great way to warm the place and entertain myself a bit.
You Got DOOM in my PORTAL 2!
To celebrate DOOM’s 30th anniversary, we’re playing DOOM in Portal 2!
The Inferno Awaits
Completed Episode 2 of DOOM! (Again). Finding a lot of secrets that I missed what felt like centuries ago.
There’s just something nice about revisiting these old ones, something warming in the old graphics and music. Funny enough I used to play a lot of DOOM during the holidays, though part of that might be because of it releasing 30 years ago this month. 😀 More on that later…