Influencer of the Ancient Station in My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery You have helped all ponies in the Ancient Station Reaction in Action in My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery You got all the emojis!
Influencer of the Night in My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery You have helped all ponies in the Theater Night
Gardener Influencer in My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery You have helped all ponies in the Royal Gardens
Influencer of Main Square in My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery You have helped all ponies in Main Square.
Battle Buds in Costume Quest Defeated a monster in combat with a friend by your side.
Downsized! in Costume Quest Defeated BoJonn in battle.
Do the Monster Bash in Costume Quest Got the jump on 10 monsters.
Skeet Shooting in DOOM + DOOM II Kill 4 enemies in 1 shot with the Super Shotgun. Make it Work in Costume Quest Won the Autumn Haven Mall Costume Contest.
Dressed to Quest in Costume Quest Acquired 5 Costumes. Leave some for the rest of us! in Costume Quest Collected a total of over 4,000 candies.
Dozer Dodger in Costume Quest Defeated Metxel in battle.
Chompin' Champ in Costume Quest Won all prizes in Bobbing for Apples.
Shoot It Until It Dies in DOOM + DOOM II Finish off a Cyberdemon with the Pistol. Alternate Dimension in DOOM + DOOM II Find a secret level. Kill It With Fire in DOOM + DOOM II Immolate a total of 30 arachnoid enemies with the Incinerator.
Screen Wipe in DOOM + DOOM II Obliterate 50 enemies with a single shot of the Calamity Blade.
The Last Gourdian in Costume Quest Acquired the Pumpkin Costume.
All Decked Out in Costume Quest Collected all Creepy Treat Cards.
Binary Bouncer in Costume Quest Used the Robot Costume to Boost off of 15 different ramps.
Master of Disguise in Costume Quest Used every Costume Ability in battle. They'll be worth a lot someday in Costume Quest Collected all Battle Stamps.
Mask-O'-Raider in Costume Quest Completed all Quests in the game.
Sweet Justice in Costume Quest Finished the game! Short Stack in Costume Quest Found the mysterious visitor in the cliffs of Repugia.
Playin' Hooky in Costume Quest Used the Pirate hook on 5 unique ziplines.
Jeepers Peepers in Costume Quest Acquired the Eyeball costume.
Revolutionary Hero in Costume Quest Completed all quests in Repugia Birdbrain Beatdown in Costume Quest Defeated Araxia in battle.
Push it to the Limit in Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway Drive through 50 boost pads
Finally took care of the long tall grass, and the mower I got was not as ideal as I thought, and it's E-snap on pieces broke off. Still used the lawn trimmer and it got things done. That took up a good chunk of the afternoon.
Last night's stream opened with Fall Guys, and the new shorter Fame Pass is a fine gimmick and a change of pace consider how long the last season pass was left hanging around.The new skins are rather cute being themed around Hello Kitty. We picked up two surprise wins in Squads, and came close to winning in both Solo and Duo shows. The new build feature certainly presented new challenges from the demented mind of the players.
We also played the Stanley Parable Deluxe Edition last night, and the comical nature of it certainly, as going off the beaten path quickly reminded me and introduced viewers to all the nuttiness that can occur. We got half of the achievements I believe, of course there are the original infamous ones that involves playing the game for the entirety of a day and the other for not playing the game for 10 years. The new content certainly up to the par, and the fact that you can get the game to launch as The Stanley Parable 2 is a cute twist.
Plus any game that calls me a heartless bastard is awesome.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Achievements
You Can't Jump: No seriously, we disabled it.
Get Your First Achievement: Awarded for getting any of the other achievements as your first.
Click on door 430 five times: Click on door 430 five times.
Welcome Back!: Quit the game and then start it again.
Settings World Champion Set all settings sliders in the menu to all the available numbers.
For the raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Resident Evil 2 Remake over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x
Now the plan for tonight's stream is more Mass Effect, with a focus on finding side missions and avoiding the big story stuff. The reason for this is because I am grinding towards various achievements.
Overwatch's new event is clearly inspired by Star Wars with it being a 4 v 4 Empire vs Rebels theme encounter. I personally think it would've been better as PvE content. In fact, weren't we promised PvE content?!
After the stream I did do some work on the Mass Effect story commission, as I do want to finish it before the weekend.
Had some trouble sleeping, so did a video giving some thoughts on My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure's length in regards to when it was relased. It will be on my YouTube channel this afternoon
Finished the Mass Effect short story commission yesterday, and instantly got a follow request for the next installment in that series of short tales. So I now have two commission in the queue to work on (the other being WWE focused... ugh)... which means the Persona story I started on will be delayed.
Anyway last night's stream opened with My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay adventure, making it the first game I've 100% completed on box XBox One and PlayStation 4, which is a pretty unique distinction when you think about it. Still amazes me that it is basically a short game about not being racist and accepting that things change. We were able to complete the game in little over two hours. The game still has a lot of charm to it, which made for a nice easy night following the chaos that was trying to finish Resident Evil 5.
We also messed around with Star Wars: Racer, which was the 2020 re-release of Star Wars Episode I Pod Racer for the PlayStation. With no tutorial and only being able to glance at the controls via the options menu, we jumped right into and managed to get about half of its achievements. It's certainly a fast pace racing game, with a fairly decently scaling A.I. difficulty curve. My biggest gripe is the 'pop in' effect of track hazards and turns.
Between both games and the one Rock Band achievement I got after last night's stream, 5/4/2023 is my second best overall day in terms of winning achievements, with a gamer score of 1330. My best overall day was March 3, 2020 when I had a one game gamer score of 1415, so came really close to breaking that record.
Now I did play a bit more of Star Wars Racer off-stream to extend my current Xbox Achievement streak through today, the last five achievements were not earned apart of last night's stream.
MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure Achievements
An adorable thief: Reclaim your backpack
Unicycling 101: Fix the bridge using Izzy's Unicycling powers
Mane Street Awaits!: Help Hitch in Brighthouse
Amateur Detective: Get 500 Magic Bits
Pipp Pipp Parade!: Help Pipp in Main Street
Glowing Up: Use the Magic Mirror for the first time
Sheriff's Apprentice: Get 1000 Magic Bits
Pro Herder: Help Hitch in Town Park
The Neigh-gotiator: Fulfill Marcel's requests and unlock Beach Cove
Starscout: Get 1500 Magic Bits
Where Did The Magic Go?: Race Zipp on Beach Cove
Friendship Is Still Magic: Catch and talk some sense into Sprout
W.I.N.G.S. Cadet: Complete the secret obstacle course in Town Park
Star Wars Episode I Racer Achievements
Inkabunga: Complete a Boost start
It's a new lap record: Set a new lap record
May the first be with you: Come in first place
This is podracing: Finish your first race
Don't count on it, slimeball: Taunt your opponents
Brake check: Unlock Teemto Pagalies
Beedo’s wild ride: Unlock Aldar Beedo
Mind tricks don’t work on me—only money: Purchase your first upgrade
Light speed: Reach 700 MPH
Cell block racer: Unlock Fud Sang
Start your engines: Complete Amateur Podracing Circuit
Welcome to the Dark Slide: Unlock Slide Paramita
Serv-O-Droid, Inc.: Max out your Pit Droid crew
Bullseye: Unlock "Bullseye" Baranta
Woohoo: Perform a boost
Kessel Run: Reach 1000 MPH
It's working! It's working!!: Repair your engines from "warning" back to stable as Anakin
Eat my exhaust: Taunt during a boost
Don't get cocky, kid: Complete Semi-Pro Podracing Circuit
For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal during their stream of Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal. Also Kalenal will be on vacation for the next week, they will be back on May 15th!
The plan for tonight's stream is of course to do part two of Marvel's Spider-Man's DLC (The City That Never Sleeps). Goal will be the same as last week in trying to get all of the achievements, with a special effort being put in on Screwball's Challenges and then also try and re-do some bases in the normal game to try and get more of the remaining Spider-Suits!
I need to make a note for myself to make sure to get some grape jelly... what can I say, I like having the occasional peanut butter & jelly sandwich!
My job search continues to flounder on so many levels, and I firmly believe there is a discrimination bias towards those who do not drive.
Had a bit of a slight scare yesterday related to the lack of work that thankfully got sorted, and picked up a few supplemental groceries to go with the healthy stuff I have in the fridge and freezer (also to keep me from ordering take-out!)
Last night's stream opened up with Fall Guys and we picked up a solo win in grand fashion. It was so grand that final round came down to me and two other players, so it was good time to be had! We came real close to winning both Duo and Squad shows as well, but had some bad luck in key situations. Still it was solid!
When I switched over to Resident Evil 5, first I focused on knocking out achievements related to specific weapons (the Gatling gun, stun baton and longbow), all of which was done in mercenary mode, but the fact that the achievements didn't pop when I expected should've been a first sign indicator something was a bit off.
Because when we were joined by Iceman, neither of us could send invites to get a co-op session started as Xbox had number of issues last night that didn't get resolved until very late. So we had to risk doing an open session and hoping he could join in. Thankfully that worked out and we proceed through Chapters 6-2 and 6-3. 6-2 didn't give us too much trouble.... but chapter 6-3, namely the battle against Wesker was real adventure. In fact from the minute we started the fight against Wesker to the second the credits rolled about 66 minutes, with 11 deaths, most due to the cut scenes and quick time events. We did do some bolder punching which was awesome, if not a little bit silly.
Now we're not done with Resident Evil 5 because there is still the DLC content to do, which we will start on next Wednesday's stream!
Resident Evil 5 Achievements
Crowd Control: Defeat 30 enemies with the Gatling gun.
Cattle Prod: Defeat 30 enemies with the Stun rod.
Bull's-eye: Defeat 30 enemies with the Longbow.
Completed Chapter 6 - 2: Complete Chapter 6 - 2 on any difficulty setting.
Recruit: Complete all chapters on Amateur.
Completed Chapter 6 - 3: Complete Chapter 6 - 3 on any difficulty setting.
Big thank you to MissCammi316 for the raid following their stream of Missing Children over on twitch.tv/misscammi316
For our own raid we dropped in on Tracy Doll who was playing Resident Evil 4 over on twitch.tv/tracydoll
For tonight's stream, we're revisiting My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure, and hopefully we'll have none of the issues that plagued the stream that occurred last year. Following that we'll either do Disney Speedstorm or something Star Wars related since today is May the Fourth.
Messed around with Rock Band some more trying to get a good feel for where I have to be vocally to even do songs on normal... and boy I'm no where near as good as I was with Twitch Sings.
Rock Band 4 Achievements
It's All for the Fans Turned down 3 encores or requests in a row.
Didn't do anything writing yesterday, but got another video recorded focused on my DVDs, which will be live on my YouTube Channel on May 24th. I plan to do two more videos in that series.
Last night's stream of Disney Speedstorm certainly proved the Pay to Win aspect of the game, as to get various things accomplished is certain game modes you need level up characters, but the only way to level up characters is to get character shards... and the majority of folks are paying for those the lock boxes to try and get the shards. This becomes Pay to Win because those upgrades carry over to the Ranked Races. Yes, you can earn those upgrades in-game, but it's quite clear the real drive is to frustrate players into purchasing the upgrades to try and keep pace.
Anyway, I did win a single Regulated Ranked Race as Donald in dominating fashion, and banged out quite a few levels in the Season Pass, along with unlocking a few characters (Mike & Sully from Monsters Inc, and Megara from Hercules). I think I'm going to consider Disney Speedstorm a throw too game, like on a night I'm just bounce from game to game or if I need to change plans, it's something to do.
Disney Speedstorm Achievements
EXTRA BOOST: Boost for a total of 3,600 seconds
ROOKIE: Collect 50 Medals from the Maps
For the raid we dropped in on averagesharkgaming who was also playing Disney Speedstorm over at twitch.tv/averagesharkgaming
For tonight's stream, we're starting the City Never Sleeps's DLC for Spider-Man on the PS4, seeing how things have changed, and hopefully putting us in a position to try and unlocked the remaining costumes in game.
Looking ahead, here's what I have planned for upcoming streams:
4/28/23 - Marvel's Spider-Man The City Never Sleeps DLC 4/29/23 - Elder Scrolls Online Or Something Random 4/30/23 - Overwatch 2 5/1/23 - Persona 3 Portable 5/2/23 - Persona 3 Portable 5/3/23 - Fall Guys & Resident Evil 5 5/4/23 - My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure & Disney Speedstorm
Obviously the big news is that I'm finally going to play Persona 3 Portable, outside of Persona 3 Dancing In Moonlight and the two Persona 4 Arena games, I have no knowledge of the story of Persona 3, so this is going to be cool.
Now why bring back My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure? Simple, easy completion on the Xbox side of things, plus it does give me an excuse to do part of a stream focused on Disney Speedstorm. Also I did say we would play it again because the first stream was hampered by internet issues.
Found an old snow sled in a closet, I think it belonged to my dad, I'll have to dust it off to make sure.
Got about 200 CDs broken down from their jewel cases and put into binders, and I still need to get another binder, biggest issue is multi-disc box sets, plus I'm keeping the liner notes for a lot of these CDs so that takes up extra space.
Did do some more Rock Band stuff, the default song list is, not exactly sure what achievements are exactly possible on just the singing side of things
Rock Band 4 Achievements
Don't Even Need It: Finished a song with a full Overdrive bar.
I FINALLY got the finally got the final achievement in Hades this morning! Took 96 hours to do, but this was due to the fact I was waiting for Megara to appear in certain places between runs. Hades Achievements
Complete Set: Earn all Chthonic Companions
Work has... slowed down to a crawl, and the down time has allowed me to try and find another job, but also has given way to much time to think and feel depressed about not having mom around.
I have gained weight, I'm back up to to about 242 pounds... ugh.
Well last night's stream was certainly plagued with numerous interruptions to the point it got split into 8 parts. The good news is I spoke with a senior tech at Xfinity who said they are going to be running a constant scan of the signals going to and from the modem to try and track down the problem. I was told not to reset the modem no matter how bad it gets and that I would get a call on Sunday afternoon to let me know what was being tracked.
Anyway, onto My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure... and it's a charming, chilled, laid back game. There are collectables to find, a number of mini-games, it looks pretty solid overall, controls are responsive, the sound quality is awesome, there are numerous unlockables... but it's an incredibly short game. I mean less than three hours start to finish and with getting every single trophy.
Now I believe part of the problem is that at the time of the game's release earlier this year, the show its based on My Little Pony: Make Your Mark hasn't really had the time to flesh out its world to provide anything more than a slice of life aspect... hell, the show itself debuted this year, so there's not much to go on. In fact the plot of My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure is more of a direct follow up to the film My Little Pony: A New Generation (which I have not seen, but a look at the wiki page for it gave me an idea of what it was about).
This does raise the question as to why Hasbro never had a full console game for the previous show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which was airing well into the PS4/Xbox One/Nintendo Switch era of console, so there was certainly a wealth of things that could have been utilized.
That said, the actual story of My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure is quite interesting in that the 'villain' is basically a semi-racist Earth Pony who wants to drive all the Unicorns and Pegasuses out of town and to go back to it being for Earth Pony's only. Sure he gets caught and learns a lesson about not fearing change, but I'm surprised that was the game's plot, which could easily have been an episode of the show.
All in all, I enjoyed the experience... but I will advised, only purchase it when it's on sale. It's $39.99 price tag is too damn steep and impossible to justify. For it's length, I d say nab it when its below $20.
MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure Trophies
An adorable thief: Reclaim your backpack
Unicycling 101: Fix the bridge using Izzy's Unicycling powers
Mane Street awaits!: Help Hitch in Brighthouse
Amateur Detective: Get 500 Magic Bits
Pipp Pipp Parade!: Help Pipp in Mane Street
Glowing up: Use the Magic Mirror for the first time
Sherif's apprentice: Get 1000 Magic Bits
Pro Herder: Help Hitch in Town Park
The Neigh-gotiator: Fulfil Marcel's requests and unlock Beach Cove
Starscout: Get 1500 Magic Bits
Where did magic go?: Race Zipp on Beach Cove
Friendship is still Magic: Catch and talk some sense into Sprout
W.I.N.G.S. Cadet: Complete the secret obstacle course in Town Park
Alicorn Status: Get every trophy
Now we did Play Street Fighter V last night as well... but we had to way for a 36 GB update to the game to be downloaded and installed. So we did to a bit of just chatting, turns out one of my short boxes containing comic books is only being held together by the lid... and I've only seen a few things that featured Anne Heche who passed away yesterday.
Once SFV was updated, it was during a period where a lot of the internet issues were happening, so got kicked from one player versus player match. But things settled down, we did a few 'arcade runs' (Street Fighter and Street Fighter Alpha arcade ladders) and then did a few player vs player matches, actually inning a couple... in fact I finally hit the requirements to get an achievement for getting out of the 'Rookie' category! Sow e ended the night on a high note for sure.
Street Fighter V Trophies
First Promotion!: Master Zangief sent me flowers to celebrate me moving up a league for the first time! I can't read the card with all these tears!
Big thanks to the chat for kicking in 300 bits during the stream, and also to a new follower ShootTheDeuce!
Why did the man get fired from the calendar factory? Because he took a few days off.
What do you call an alligator wearing a vest? An investigator.
Song of the Day: Sunshine of your Love by Cream
Fernando Tatis Jr popped for PEDs... well bet the Padres are pissed, but hey with him out of the lineup for the rest of the season, that does help the Phillies in the Wild Card hunt.
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For tonight's stream, well it's Saturday so you know it' going to be random. I'm not sure what that will be yet, but we'll probably bounce between a few things or stick to one thing... depending on how Xfinity is acting.
Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was different than it has been as of late, because we dedicated the night to doing theWondrous Tails, which basically just assigns a list of various Dungeons, Raids, Trials and PVP stuff to do try and complete lines on a 4X4 grid. We actually lucked out and got one line, which is very tough to do. Granted I could have re-rolled to try and get more lines, but 99% of the time just getting one is all one wants.
That said, I did discover I can use the Wondrous Tails to level boost other Disciple of Magic / War skill sets, which will make bringing them up a lot easier than I would have anticipated. In fact I already know next Thursdays FF14 stream will lead off with the Level 45 Dragoon job quest called 'Double Dragoon'.
Also did some fishing and finally acquired some Purple Script, which means eventually it will be possible to get the best possible gathering gear, but it will take a while to acquire. We closed out the night with some random PVP, and actually one a match where I lead the team in getting kills... as opposed to getting killed... HA!
Huge thanks to Coleyrado for a huge raid during the stream. They were doing a Just Chatting stream over at twitch.tv/coleyrado! They also have play things like New Pokemon Snap, Fortnite and Stray!
For the raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/YrGamerBunni! Other items they have featured games like Magic: The Gathering and Halo Infinite!
Work was a total drag yesterday... stuck on one assignment that basically went no where, while folks on another assignment were cleaning up complete all afternoon.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficult Challenge Combo #2, Block Combo and Difficult Challenge Combo #3 for a duration of 34 minutes.
I made sure to check out the intro for MLB's Field of Dreams game which featured Ken Griffey Jr having a catch with his dad Ken Sr. Knowing Ken Jr.'s animosity towards the Yankees for how his dad was treated, it's pretty awesome that this years game featured the Reds, a team both of them played for during their careers.
What kind of tea is hardest to swallow? Reality.
Why did the golfer need new pants? Because he got a hole in one.
Song of the Day: Chocolate by The 1975
Started work on the latest commission request for a WWE story based around the aftermath of the 2016 brand split, and I think the client will like the intro.
Got in some work on Mass Effect 3's multiplayer achievement and knocked out the Gunsmith one fairly easily. Rather pleased with the progress I've made in my goal of just looking to get 1000 gamer score on it, and I'm I'm to 885. Based just on sticking to the story, knocking out the last couple of N7 missions and doing the story plus part of the Citadel DLC... I should gain 385 gamer score.
Mass Effect 3 Achievements
Gunsmith: Upgrade any weapon to level 10.
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For tonight's stream, we're hooking up the PlayStation 4 to play My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure. Will this be a hidden gem like DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power was last year? We can only hope!
Well last night's stream was a hell of a showcase for the Capcom Fighting Collection, and I'll give my impressions of the games shortly. We did have two instance of a full network bandwidth issues... which is amazing considering we had no issues on Friday night! Also there was a couple of power outages following the stream, and one this morning. Hopefully that is not something I'm going to have to start worrying about.
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors - I have played this before, because I have the PlayStation port, so playing the arcade perfect port wasn't that much different. For all the Darkstalkers games I played as Morrigan because she is the one character from the franchise that I was familiar with because her basic set of special moves are all performed similar to the traditional Capcom shotos (Ryu/Ken/Sakura).
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge - First time playing it, this was clearly an upgraded version of the first Darkstalkers game, just with additional characters. Not much of a game play difference. This introduces Donovan and as well as a headache for me trying to understand the Darkstalker timeline when it comes to the remaining 3 games in the series. Also this Nigh Warriors also had the same 'special meter' from X-Men: Children of the Atom.
Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire - First time playing the 3rd game in the Darkstalkers series, and this does away with the usual two of three round format with a near continuous fight approach, where remaining health carries over between when someone is knocked out. It's very similiar to the the home releases of the X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom on the PlayStation.
Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge - First time playing, and the game play is the same as Vampire Savior, but the game itself seems to me more of a sequel to Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge based on the attract screen... and also the fact that Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge was called Vampire Hunter in Japan. Also of note this game was never released outside of Japan... and based on its game play, outside of the roster, nothing seems improved from Vampire Savior.
Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire - First time playing, and well, and like VH2:DR, this game was also never released outside of Japan... and the titles just makes things more confusing. Also of note, the attract screen features B.B. Hood holding Lilith by her skull, while in VH2:DR, it's Donovan holding Morrigan by her skull. So are their parallel timelines in the Darkstalkers canon over? Also, game play is the same as VS:TLOV
Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness - I have played this before as part of the Capcom Arcade Cabinet, and I learned that it was a spin off of Armored Warriors, a Capcom Beat 'Em Up, that I have played before... and was wondering if there was a connection since some of the mech-sprites appeared in the Beat 'Em Up. Went through the arcade mode of Jin, which comes across as just the major points of an mid-90s anime. Gameplay does have some major difficulty scaling towards the end of the arcade ladder.
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo - Obviously I'm very familiar with this, since I did featured the HD Remix version a lot on stream. The arcade version does have a charm to it, and we nearly had a perfect run, but as usual, but I made some mistakes at the end when facing Akuma when reaching the final opponent... so it was no different than when I was playing the HD Remix version.
Super Gem Fighter Minimix - I have played this before, as apart of the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology collection, in fact we streamed that earlier this year, and there seems to be some subtle differences between how both versions play, at least in terms of how responsive the controls felt.
Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition - I have played this version before years ago as apart of the Street Fighter 15th Anniversary Collection released on the PlayStation 2 which included Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Street Fighter: The Animated Movie. This is my least favorite version of Street Fighter II... and of all the games in the Capcom Fighting Collection, this was the only one we did not beat on stream last night.
Red Earth - First time playing it, before last night the only experience I've had with Red Earth is via Capcom Fighting Evolution, and boy does Red Earth come across as ambitious but rubbish. It's a beautiful game, but the hit detection is all over the place in that you have to be standing in exactly the right spot to get anything done. We went through the arcade mode as Tessa because why the hell not, and learned quickly that heath does not fully regenerate between fights for anyone, and if you are continuing, the enemy doesn't get it's health back.
Now there are a lot of achievements associated with the Capcom Fighting Collection, and I certainly am not going to go for all of them, there are are few I feel like would be solid to have as accomplishments, but things like beating each game with every characters, get every ending and other nonsense like that has me going 'no'. At least there are no online PVP achievements.
Also we did included some Fall Guys last night, big thanks to PandaSweet and LvStrkr for being apart of the squad as I got my first win and first win with a group! That was a lot of fun.
Capcom Fighting Collection Achievements
Welcome to the Dark World: Play "Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors".
We Are Darkstalkers: Complete "Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors" in offline mode.
Those Who Hunt the Dark: Play "Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge".
Never Give Up!: In any game, use a continue for the first time.
The Chains of Battle: Complete "Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge" in offline mode.
The Demon Realm Beckons: Play "Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire".
Rulers of the Dark Dimension: Complete "Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire" in offline mode.
Unbeatable Warrior: Complete any game on any difficulty other than ★0 without using a single continue.
Hunt or Be Hunted: Play "Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge".
Seal Your Fate: Complete "Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge" in offline mode.
The Dark Lord's Ambition: Play "Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire".
When Souls Return: Complete "Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire" in offline mode.
For the Future of the Earth: Play "Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness".
Ace Pilot: Complete "Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness" in offline mode.
Gems! Gems! Gems!: Play "Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo".
Brains over Brawn: Complete "Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo" in offline mode.
Cute but Deadly: Play "Super Gem Fighter Minimix".
Chibi Champion: Complete "Super Gem Fighter Minimix" in offline mode.
Festival of Champions: Play "Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition".
The Adventure Begins: Play "Red Earth".
Collection Sampler: Play each game in the collection.
Those Worth Protecting: Complete "Red Earth" in offline mode.
Fall Guys Achievements
Victory!: Win your first Episode
Squad Goals: Win an Episode as part of a party of 3 or more players
For the raid we dropped in on TracyDoll who was playing Friday the 13th: The Game over at twitch.tv/tracydoll!
During the stream we got 300 bits from the viewers, and a resub from LvStkr for the 39th month in a row! Always grateful for the continued support! You guys and gals are awesome!
As announced during the stream, my copy of My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure will be the next game on the PS4 following Persona 5 Strikers.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Straight Combo, Body Uppercut Combo and Advanced Combo #2 for 31 minutes.
It's the start of a new week which means looking back at all the things we played last week which included Overwatch, Persona 4: Arena, Overwatch 2, Star Trek Online, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Strikers, Capcom Fighting Collection & Fall Guys!
Finished the commissioned Halo fic based around Halo 3: ODST, and it came across pretty solid I think. Granted only 1700 words, but with my unfamiliarity with the franchise beyond what clips I can find on YouTube and what I understand from the FanWikis, it's a win-win.
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I kind of screwed things up a bit to getting the Brigitte Medic skin for Overwatch by accidentally gifting a tier 3 sub... but oh well, got the skin anyway. And speaking of Overwatch things, its Sunday so we'll be playing that this evening!
Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was mostly issue free, with only two interruptions that happened at 8:48 PM Eastern and 8:58 PM Eastern. Unlike Wednesday night with Fallout 76, the disruptions were enough to kick me from Final Fantasy XIV both times... thankfully I was not doing anything in a group when that happened. From what I can tell, it looks like signal interference.
As for what we did on stream, we did the usual routine of an Alliance Raid and a Trial, that ended up being the final showdown with Elidibus at the end of Shadowbringers, which I haven't done since first playing it... so needless to say re-learning it was interesting. We hit level 90 with Fishing, so that's maxed, and we did some power leveling on Botany, we only have two story quests for Botany left to do, and with luck we'll be able to knock those out on next week's stream. I thought we could some power leveling with Dragoon, but no such luck, but that's like a long haul project anyway.
We also did some Just Chatting, and I saw that President Joe Biden is going to appease Mitch McConnell but appointing an anti-abortion lawyer for a spot as a Judge in Kentucky. Considering the path of destruction McConnell's stuffing of the Supreme Court has done over the past week, appeasing Mitch The Bitch should be the last thing anyone should do.
On a positive note, I got a $5 Dollar Gift Card from my Day Job... and we went on Amazon to see if there anything unique we could add to the collection. Turns out that My Little Pony has a full multi-console game released called My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure. It was about a year ago at this time we discovered DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power, and I have no problem going against stereotype. On a side note, isn't it odd that Generation 4 of My Little Pony (Friendship Is Magic), never got a full video game released, which is amazing considering the number of grand adventures and epic plots that series had. Actually what would have worked for a Gen 4 Video Game would have been something along the same lines of the Persona series with the Slice of Life mixed with the Adventure.
For the raid, we dropped everyone off with SweetLindir as they were playing Smite over on twitch.tv/sweetlindir!
We're coming up on two full years of daily workouts... and first Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout for the month of July featured Defensive Combo #2, Triple Combo #2 and Front-Back Step Combo for 28 minutes.
Played Some Fall Guys last night and unlocked the season pass... which actually lead to a couple of achievements. So yay! Also PandaSweet picked up Fall Guys so got in a lot of fun matches playing duos and good test of the cross play too.
Fall Guys Achievements
Household Name: Reach lvl 25 fame during a season
Star of the Show: Reach lvl 40 fame during a season
Fall Bae: Share a hug with a Fall Guy
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For tonight's stream we'll be resuming Persona 5 Strikers. I might take a more grind approach this go-round as we're dealing with the Second Jail, but I saw there were achievements / trophies associated with unlocking skills by playing with each characters. So that should be fun.
Last night the plan was to feature the Road Rash Trilogy of Games on the original PlayStation, which includes Road Rash, Road Rash 3D and Road Rash Jailbreak... things didn't totally go as planned.
Anyway, we lead of with Road Rash, a game I have played before on an IBM PC back in the 90s that used Windows 95. Needless to say I have fond memories of that version of the game, in fact I still have the CD-Rom for that version! Anyway, playing it's PlayStation cousin was really cool, in fact it felt natural to play in terms of what buttons did what, and nothing felt over thought out. The biggest gripe I have with it is how loud the engine sound effects are, and the general lack of audio settings in the game's option menu. It was great seeing the different FMVs for when you win, lose or wreck your bike, as they really strike a great done.
This game certainly holds up very well for being over 25 years old, but it did take some adjustment getting use to seeing when objects would appear ahead of you so that they could be avoided. It's not much of a problem on the Thrash Level 1 or Level 2, but one Level 5 when using the fastest bikes in the game it's real noticeable at how little time you have to recognize realize and react. I wouldn't mind seeing a remaster or remake of it, hell all Electronic Arts would have to do is look at what they did with it and duplicate it with some nice 3D models
Then we went to play Road Rash 3D... and it didn't work. It would load up, show the PlayStation Logo and get to the menus to navigate. But when going to do an actual race, it would not work, it got stuck on an infinite loading screen with no clear indication it was going to actually load the race I intended to play! I tired it on both my PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, and no dice. I would have tried in a PlayStation One, but I need to find the correct power cable for it, So disappointed that we couldn't check Road Rash 3D out, but that's the risk of old games, sometimes they work, sometimes they don;t... but from what I saw from the controls, it looks like EA was over thinking how to use every button.
However, I couldn't leave this alone, and since I needed an excuse to test a PSOne Slim I recently acquired to possibly handle games that are region locked to outside North America, I hooked it up and guess what... it was able to fully play Road Rash 3D. So at some point we'll do a PSOne night and will featured this particular game.
Anyway, we were able to play Road Rash: Jail Break, and boy is this an ugly game to look at with muddied visuals that really makes it hard to see what's coming. The controls are very similar to Road Rash, and the game-play handles pretty well. But there is no stand alone Race Mode, it's all tied to the game's campaigns. There are time trials which are kind of fun, but wanting to just play a racing game without having to worry about story progression or stat keeping is annoying. Still I probably had more fun seeing all the different ways I could crash as some of the rag doll physics were incredible to look at
Following the Stream we sent everyone over to DaWorstGamerEver 25 (twitch.tv/DaWorstGamerEver25) who was playing American Truck Simulator. I've known him since High School, he's a real good guy and I hope you'll check his streams out when he's live!
We have a new art piece from DaemonsW0lf (www.darkwolfcreative.com / twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf), and all the instruction I gave was for them to have fun and surprise me. What they came up with was an incredible portrait of The Bunny looking bad ass and geared up to be in Tom Clancy's The Division.
We added another Funko figure to the collection, from the My Little Pony Vinyl Collectable Series, Dr. Whooves, who was basically an in-joke of working in the 10th Doctor into My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic without having to go through the BBC. It's a nice little figure that goes with with the similar Rainbow Dash figure I have in terms of book-ending Funko Row on my desk shelving.
Picked up two Custom Game Cases for South Park: Chef's Luv Shack and WCW Vs The World from www.customegamecases.com because I really really hate having loose games. If I can get a proper case for them I shall pursue that.
We have six new additions to the collection. Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne and Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga II, which complete the collection of games from that series for the PlayStation 2. For the PlaySation 4 we've added ZOne of The Enders: The Second Runner - Mars, Tales of Berseria, Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition,and Tales of Zestiria. Am somewhat kicking myself, because we added Tales of Berseria a few months ago... oh well, guess the 2nd one will remained sealed! We also have Tales of Vesperia for the Switch, so that will remained sealed as well. `
Finally caved in and messed around with Smule this morning because breaking out The Bunny last night for a few minutes was a reminder of how much I enjoy Twitch Sings. Now Smule may have a huge song library, but there appears a lot of alternate arrangements for everything. The biggest gripe I have is that since Smule is only for mobile devices, it makes it really awkward to hold my phone to balance the camera and sing at the same time. Anyway here are the links to some stuff I did this morning.
Now this does raise some questions... how come the RIAA has no issues with Smule but had major issues with Twitch Sings?! Is it because some of the leadership at the RIAA have ties to Donald Trump who was trying to use the office of the President of the United States to target Jeff Bezos? All signs point to yes that was indeed the case.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 491 kcal. The exercise sets for today were Weaving Combo #1, Intermediate Combo #2 and Advance Combo #1.
For tonight's stream we are continuing Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee.. we have eight gym badges and our next destination is Victory Road. Could we possibly finish this game tonight? We shall see!
Over on twitter, one of my favorite fan fic writers Drace Domino asked the question, "In your opinion, what franchise has produced the biggest roster of intensely fuckable characters? Not your favorite one, not where your personal waifu lives, but the property that’s been the biggest hottie factory over the years". For me this is an impossible question to answer when I really sit down to think about it, but I'll through what I came up over the past hour.
Being straight up, as some know I spent a large part of my free time from 2004-2020 writing fan fics based around the world of pro wrestling with Kristi, and so I can easily say that the Professional Wrestling as a whole probably would be at the top of the list, since promotions typically will hire performers who have certain looks and appeal to bring in an audience. Hell a lot of people are upset at the WWE because they are turning NXT back into its intended purpose as a developmental show to help bring along the next wave of men and women that people will find appealing to watch and grow attachment too instead of being a 'super indy', but that's beside the point. The fact is sex appeal is a huge part of pro wrestling.
But going beyond that, let's talk about Star Trek where you will find a wide variety of characters that can easily fit the build of Drace's Question. Hell the original series alone basically had a 'babe / hunk' of the episode to various degrees, but then you factor in the Animated Series, the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise...and then look at things beyond the shows. The Starfleet Academy PC game in the mid 90s certainly delivers with the characters of Faith Gage, Maggie Horn, Vanda M'Giia & Jana Akton. Now go look into the comics particularly when DC and Marvel there is a treasure trove of characters to pull from, but let's stick with the Starfleet Academy vibe where you got T'Priell, Kyethn Zund, Pava Ek'Noor Aqabaa & Kamilah Goldstein,
But since we're moved in the realm of comic books with this, Marvel and DC Comics basically built up their their respective empires on the look and appeal of the men and women in the illustrated publications for close to 100 years now. From Superman to Wonder Woman to Harley Quinn to Nightwing to Spider-Man to Rogue to She-Hulk to Luke Cage, you really have no shortage of characters that one would consider doing the deed with, or imagining getting it on with others within their respective universe. Hell just look at the rosters of the Justice League and X-Men in any given year since the 1980s and you know there's a whole lot of fans figure out who's banging who.
But consider that Marvel has had a history of cross overs with Capcom, and this topic easily considers everything from the Street Fighter franchise, the Darkstalters franchise and so on. Hell fighting games in general have always been built around how characters look in addition to the game play. Consider how over the top the designs for many of the characters are in Street Fighter, and the backlash that came when Mortal Kombat 11's characters were 'tone down' in comparison to MKX and you realized just how much things like that matter to the core audience. Then you look at franchises like Dead or Alive whose entire premise is based around how fuckable the entire cast looks to be.
Then you got things like RPGs, JRPGs in particular... and big topic of interest whenever a new Final Fantasy game is announced is what will the characters look like, and hell folks had a fucking field day with the boy band looks of the Noctis and his buds in Final Fantasy XV, but then you go back and realize there were a lot of fuckable characters in every FF game, Tifa, Yuffie, Rikku, Lighting, Squall, Cloud, Tidus all instantly come to mind. Hell just look at Chrono Cross, a game I'm currently featuring on my Twitch channel and realize that a good chunk of it's cast, male and female, folks would find fuckable. And let's not forget about Kingdom Hearts which combines the Final Fantasy aspect of things with Disney's beauties.
Disney has done more than it's fair share over the years, and everyone can easily find just about every character, male or female getting the Rule 34 treatment. Hell Frozen basically became a huge money maker for Disney based solely on Elsa's looks alone, but just go back to the 90s with the Disney renaissance of that period, from Aladdin & Jasmin to Eric & Ariel to Belle & The Beast, Disney knew what they were doing, and they weren't the only ones. Example: Everyone mocks the yellow jumpsuit attire of April O'Neil in the 1987 TMNT series now a days, but when you realize that outfit design showed off her figure combine with the fact in the first story arc you have Michelangelo basically copping a feel on her and that just speaks for itself.. Then you got My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the very existence of its spin off Equestria Girls which is mostly based on the fact Hasbro realized what their audience included
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Overwatch, and that's a tough one where it certainly has a wild variety of characters but it's a real small sample size based on the game and it's expanded content in terms of books and comics. Hopefully that will be expanded upon in Overwatch 2.
Seriously, I could go down this rabbit hole all day trying to answer the question, because I didn't even go deep into Mass Effect, RWBY, Doctor Who, the Arrowverse... or just your typical anime with the likes the of Dragon Ball!
Anyway, this was a fun little thing to write as it certainly got me thinking!
