Today's Notes 5/22/21: Mass Effect, Mortal Kombat & More!

Good afternoon everybody,

No I didn't sleep in today, well, not by much, got up around 11:30 AM and have just been taking my time today.

Last night re-wrapped up Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, getting a bunch of achievements along the way. Now I did come across a couple of glitches, one that involved actually hitting an enemy that fell through the floor and the other that result in enemies after being killed spazing out in the air. All in all, in comparison to glitches found with the 360 and PC versions of Mass Effect, the Legendary Edition had a lot fewer. Perhaps my biggest issue so far is the audio mixing regarding dialog of some characters, Garrus and Kaiden, being very low regardless of surroundings. And here are the list of achievements we got for finishing the first game in the trilogy.

1. Charismatic: ME1: Use Charm or Intimidate to resolve an impossible situation
2. Council Legion of Merit: ME1: Complete Virmire
3. Paramour I: Establish a romantic relationship in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3
4. Meritorious Service Medal: ME1: Complete Ilos
5. Medal of Honor: ME1: Complete the game on any difficulty

The remaining achievements for Mass Effect are mostly associated with using biotic and tech powers which means playing as and Adept and Engineer and spamming the hell out of the abilities both use, so that would be two separate runs, and maybe one will be a BroShep / Paragon only path. And of course there is the insanity achievement, which is something I never could accomplish on the PC version.

Anyway, here are some clips from last night's stream!

Twitch Clip: The Shoty Is So Over Powered Against The Husk... We Even Shoot 'Em Through The Floor!

Twitch Clip: Achievement: Charismatic

Twitch Clip: Should Have Picked A Different Rock

Now we'll start up Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition on Monday's stream, and since I never played the console version of it, it's going to be a real challenge for me.

Following last night's stream, I did put in some more work on Mortal Kombat 11, getting one achievement.

1. Tower Champion: Komplete 125 Towers

This means I'm about half-way towards the the Master of Time achievement is is to complete 250 towers. Also will be using Sonya Blade a lot off-stream as I'm working on getting her victory pose via the tower method, but that has a separate set of requirements that are a pain in the ass to get.

Staying on the subject of Mortal Kombat 11, we'll be going through the story mode for tonight's stream which means there will be blood and gore and such. If all goes right we should get the two story achievements associated with the story mode, and probably to make sure that happens, I might just knock down the difficulty setting to easy.

And still on the subject of Mortal Kombat as a hole, I managed to track down a copy of Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero for the Playstation. Easily one of the worse games I've ever played, I figure I can get one stream out of it.... why just one stream? Because I know the controls are so jacked up that it would probably take me 4 hours to get through the first two stages.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was really production going over an hour with 45 minutes being apart of the daily exercises. We're up to 56 out of 100 points towards Martina's Best Friend Achievement. 

Currently in the process of trying to find replacement cases with artwork for a bunch of PS1 games I currently have in a CD holder. Why? Because I would actually like to have all my games in one spot and looking nice since I've been going out of my way to clear out old junk! Besides, finding games complete in case or in box from the late 90s to mid-00s is not exactly easy

So with that said, we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!