Today's Notes 6/11/21:Variety Is The Theme

Good afternoon everybody,

Well if its a work day where I'm scheduled to work but there isn't enough work to cover everyone and if I'm posting in the afternoon, it means no work today... damn it all. I may complain about some of the assignments we get (who doesn't) but I do enjoy my day job.  

Last night's stream started with Star Trek Online, where we returned to just doing the endeavor quests, which surprisingly completely involved just being on the ground. Did learn that that Elder Worms count as 'Captain' level enemies on Nimbus III so that was something. 

Following the STO segment our attention turned to playing some old PlayStation 2 games. First was The Bouncer, which despite some issues (probably with the disc), we were able to check some stuff out with it, and I was amazed with how well it still looked for a game that is 20 years old. Say what you want about SquareEnix these days, but back when the company was still SquareSoft and new hardware became available, they took full advantage of it. And I may have directed a tweet at SquareEnix last night busting their chops about The Bouncer deserving a remaster.

Next our attention turned to Ready 2 Rumble Boxing Round 2, and good lord, playing it on it's default difficult was impossible. Made by Midway Games (the people behind Mortal Kombat0, R2RBR2 certainly plays like an arcade game. Even knocking the difficulty down to easy still resulted in times where I got my ass kicked. I was surprised there was a limit on continues when doing the arcade mode, like why was that a thing? Anyway, I'm surprised the Ready 2 Rumble Boxing is a dead franchise these days, as it seems to me it would do real well on the Switch as an over the top game similar to ARMS

Finally, we closed out with Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution, and since I still had my save file from 15+ years ago, and one thing that was made obvious was that Pai was my main. Trying to remember how to playh VF4: EVO was a lot harder than I thought, but we made some progress with it. Now with all the talk as of late regarding Virtua Fighter 5 getting a PlayStation 4/5 exclusive remaster, I do want to point out that VF4: EVO still is a gorgeous looking game for being as old as it is. Would be nice if Sega did a re-release of VF4: EVO on modern hardware.

Anyway here are some clips from last night's stream

Twitch Clip: We're A Queen Slayer!

Twitch Clip: We're figuring stuff out here!

Twitch Clip: Damn... Damn... Damn!

Twitch Clip: What The Hell Just Happened?

Twitch Clip: It Broke Something!

Now we did add something huge to the collection last night, a PlayStation 4, along with The Last of Us Remastered, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition, God Of War, Spider-Man: Game of the Year Edition & Titanfall 2. The PS4 will mostly be used for the exclusive games which will start seeing their prices come down to where grabbing them in bulk will be real easy. Not sure when we'll hook it up as I 'll need to move a few things around to find a good spot for it.

I continued to put in a lot of grinding for my APBA Baseball 1993 Season, as you could tell with all the Box Scores posted yesterday. Last night was pretty rought as my Phillies went on a major losing streak, but we still have a sizeable lead

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session went 40 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 606 kcal. Also unlocked a couple of in-game achievements , the first being Laura's Trainee which was to perform 10 daily workouts with Laura, and the second was Grand Fit Fighter, which is to earn 90% of all achievements. We're also up to 6 out of 10 for the Laura's Buddy achievement 

For tonight's stream, we'll be playing Trover Saves The Universe, which was gifted to me last week by long time friend of the channel LVstrikR. We'll use the Xbox Series console for it (Since at the moment I'm currently charging that controller). 

And on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!