Good morning everbody,
Last night's stream did end up featuring Tales from The Borderlands, and were playing the Xbox One version of the game.
Now I had recently picked up the digital version that 2K released to republish the game... however there was a problem with it. It only downloaded the first episode 'Zer0 Sum', and not seeing anywhere to download the rest, I had to crack open the physical copy I picked up last year and use that to download episodes 2-5. It's a good thing I was using the Xbox One console itself, which does have a disc drive as opposed to the Xbox Series S which doesn't. Still the headache that 2K has for not having all 5 episodes download at once was completely asinine.
Anyway, it's been a while since we played Tales from The Borderlands using the PC version via Steam, so playing it again was a lot of fun. Fiona is such a cool character and it's so obvious that she was written to have Jennifer Hale give off a Commander Shepard vibe... hell, Fiona has a similar cut through her eyebrow exactly like default Shepard does in the Mass Effect games. (Correction: Because of the similarity of their voices I confused Jennifer Hale with Laura Baily, who actually does Fiona's voice... oops!)
Then there is Patrick Warburton who does a great job as Hugo Vasquez to where you know he's a menace but you just can't take him seriously. There are lot of references to things from Borderlands, Borderlands 2 and Borderlands The Pre-Sequel such as the appearance of various characters like Scooter and Athena, so the fan service is real high. Plus the best part is, Tales from the Borderlands is a canon story, as it takes place between Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3.
The one big downer about Tales from the Borderlands is Handsome Jack with the complete 'Ghost in the Machine' vibe. I always understood why it's there, but the fact that if you want Rhys to be straight up with Vaughn, Fiona and Sasha, the game is written for them to dismiss your claims. Plus the game is not real subtle about Rhys's crisis of conscience that he has to go to through at different points.
Anyway, we got through episodes 1 and 2 tonight, and it took a solid 4 hours to clear both, because I do like to check out everything we can see. In short, I was indulging myself. Maybe I should consider the Borderlands games for the 2022 gaming tour.
Following the stream we sent the fun to Sw33ts_gaming over at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming who was playing Smite! It is funny how Hi-Rez can make a decent game like Smite, but their Overwatch clone in Paladins never got that the dedication it needed from the developers.
Tales From The Borderlands Achievements
- Welcome to Pandora, Kiddos: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 1
- My Turn To Speak: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 1
- Partners In Crime: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 1
- Not Alone in the Dark: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 1
- 2 Fast 2 Fiona: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 1
- Blood Money: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 1
- Devil on Your Shoulder: Completed Episode 1
- Deal With A Ghost: Complete Chapter 1 of Episode 2
- Till Death Do Us Part: Complete Chapter 2 of Episode 2
- A Plan Came Together: Complete Chapter 3 of Episode 2
- Funeral Crashers: Complete Chapter 4 of Episode 2
- Classic Reflexes: Complete Chapter 5 of Episode 2
- Bro or Bot: Complete Chapter 6 of Episode 2
- Miracle of Atlas Engineering: Complete Episode 2
Twitch Clip Links
- Looks Like He Had a Change Of Heart
- Fiona's Krogan Headbutt
- He's Half The Man He Used To Be
- We Caught The Eye
- That's Bro! So Bro!
- We Got The Boot Back
Work was soooo borning yesterday, as I couldn't get to speak to anyone for the assignment that I was working on, it was just a lot of dead air... which mean the hours just dragged! It got to the point where I loaded up APBA Baseball for Windows and did a simulated games between the 1986 Mets and Phillies. I posted the box score and script over at https://fredcasden.blogspot.com/2021/09/apba-baseball-1986-exhibition-new-york.html
Got an update, I should be receiving a copy of Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter EX EDITION for the original PlayStation probably around Monday or Tuesday. This will be the version of the game that was released in Japan, because finding the US version. Besides I have a modded PSOne to play it.
I received my mail-in ballot for the 2021 General Election here in New Jersey, and let me tell ya, when it comes to local elections for my home town of Camden, we don't really get any choices. Example: For the position of Sheriff there is only one option, Gilbert Wilson, there are no other candidates. For the positions of Members of Council At-Large, we are to vote for three candidates, but there are only three people via for those spots, making them guaranteed. To really stress the point, in our election for Mayor, the choices are the current Mayor Victor Carstarphen and two independents in Theo Spencer and Jennifer Huse who clearly have no shot at winning. If you want to know why voter turn-out is often a problem it's because we don't always have choices, and it we do, we get alternatives that aren't going to have a shot at winning
Took advantage of the current Xbox digital sale to add Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the Marvel's Avengers 'Endgame upgrade and Contrast. The Endgame Upgrade for Marvel's Avengers will give me justification to playing that again considering all the improvements that it should have. Contrast I have played before on PC, but it's such a good little game it is worth a another look. I've been told I would love Assassin's Creed Valhalla by a number of folks, so it makes sense to add it to line up.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes while featuring the Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Intermediate Combo #1 and Triple Combo #2. The estimated calorie burn was 510 kcal. Now i don't normally miss, but I can completely blame the miss and the fairly high 'ok' totals on a phone call that came in that distracted me.We are closing in o nthe monster Weight Puncher Lv. 3 achievement which requires a total punch count of 405,000, currently we're at 401,868.
For tonight's stream we're continuing Tales From The Borderlands with Episode 3 & 4... and if I'm feeling up for it, we may play episode 5 as well. That will mean a six hour long stream bare minimum if I choose to do that. We shall see how things play out.
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
