Today's Notes 7/22/21: She's Poison... Poison Running Through My Veins!

Good morning everybody,

First happy birthday to my younger brother Leo!

Last night's stream lead off with Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid and the questionable match making continued as I ended up facing dudes well beyond what I'm capable of hanging with. We won a few matches here and there, included a couple by folks who quit out right. Or probably were victims of the wonky game servers, as I got booted from a match as well. No achievements unlocked, but we do have a couple of clips.

Twitch Clip: Power Rangers Battle For The Grid 7/21: Happy With That Win

Twitch Clip: Power Rangers Battle For The Grid 7/21: Win With Chun Li's Super

Twitch Clip: Power Rangers Battle For The Grid 7/21: I Don't Know How I Won

Out attention then turned to Space Jam: A New Legacy, the beat 'em up brawler that is free to play... and it's really mediocre. Nothing really stands out about it, some of the voice samples used for Lebron James, Bugs and Lola Bunny (no relation - haha Tiny Toons references!) are a bit repetitive . There is a nice variety of enemies but hit detection can be really wonky. It does have 3 player local multiplayer, but the lack of an online mode does stress the fact this game was an after thought. In all honesty, they should've made an over the top NBA Jam style basketball game. Anyway we did beat the game, so it counts for the tour. Now we did get some achievements out of it

1. Clipped His Wings: Defeated The Brow
2. Best of the Best: Defeated White Mamba
3. Hoop Star Completed Space Jam: A New Legacy - The Game

And of course there are some clips as well.

Twitch Clip: Space Jam: A New Legacy 7/21: Lola In Action

Twitch Clip: Space Jame A New Legacy 7/21: What's Updoc?

Twitch Clip: Space Jam A New Legacy 7/21: Taking Down The White Mamba

Next our attention turned to Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, where it certainly was struggle just to clear arcade mode! We started with Guile and Sakura for a combined effort run that went no where.... but then we stepped away, came back and set things up to use Poison, a character I know how to use in Street Fighter X Tekken, but not in SSFIV. So it was basically me trying to figure out what worked and hoped for the best. Now I don't know what it is with SSFIV, but it's difficult spike in its arcade mode can be down right ridiculous. I'll also stand by what I said that Seth, along with Gil in Street Fighter III is incredibly cheap in what they can do.

That said, upon clearing the arcade mode with Poison I did rather like her 'ending' where she basically has all the Final Fight Alumni along with Ken & Ryu within her rock & wrestling promotion.

Now I did try my hand at some online matches, but I basically got bodied (LOL)

Of course we have a few highlights from this as well.

Twitch Clip: Super Street Fighter IV 7/21: Rival Battle - Sakura Vs Ryu

Twitch Clip: Super Street Fighter IV 7/21: Poison Vs Rolento

Twitch Clip: Super Street Fighter IV 7/21: Poison Vs Seth

Lastly we did do some The Division stuff, but without Iceman who was unavailable, so I just messed around on the Docks and tried one of those endless waves. Managed to clear 3 waves before things went south for me. No achievements were unlocked.

But we do have a few moments

Twitch Clip: The Division 7/21: Clearing Wave 8

Twitch Clip: The Division 7/21: Wave 9... Does Not Go Well

During the stream my mail arrived late (at 7:30 PM Eastern which is very strange) and so we revealed the latest additions to the collection. First up is Spice World for the PlayStation, mostly because it was cheap and if I can mess with the audio settings it would make for a good gag game to stream. Next Virtua Quest for the PlayStation 2, proving that Virtua Fighter, like Tekken and Mortal Kombat, tried to expand on the popularity of the franchise. Lastly is Young Justice Legacy for the PlayStation 3, I have played the Steam version, but tracking down a PS3 copy that actually has online multiplayer means we could start a session and see if anyone join. Or just go through the whole game solo which is more likely.

Also did a little just chatting stuff... so...

Twitch Clip: Just Chatting: Considering How To Stream Spice World For The PlayStation

Twitch Clip: Trying To Understand Why Space Jam: A New Legacy Isn't A Basketball Game

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 533 kcal. I was running a bit behind today, so we didn't do anything extra. We're now up to 89 out of 100 for the Evan's Best Friend achievement. If we can keep the 3 points per day, we'll knock this out by Monday which of course is what I estimated we would earlier in the week.

For tonight's stream, we'll be leading off with Star Trek Online and then messing around with some games from the PlayStaiton One era. Nothing major or seriues unless something really grabs my attention!

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