Good morning everyone,
Well, taking advantage of some misfortune to get other things done, and in this case, I finished up Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker yesterday evening before last night's stream. I thought the final dungeon and trial took full advantage of my struggles with being able to back out of AOE areas, and so I got wrecked... a lot.As far as the battle one on one against Zenos goes... well, thankfully since I play Bard, it meant all of his heavy damaging attacks were nearly all close range and there was enough of a tell to keep me from getting downed at all.
As far as the aftermath goes, I rather liked the post-Zenos battle stuff, with the 'disbanding' of the Scions and everyone going their separate ways knowing that at some point they will be brought back together. I'm going to suspect there will be a time-jump at some point for the next major expansion to have new looks for various characters. I am also looking forward to the first Post-Endwalker content, as it's clear Elidibs' younger-self will be involved in someway.
Overall, I've very much enjoyed Final Fantasy XIV, from when I started playing it back in October, and it took me 377 hours to reach this point... and there is still so much more to do, with all the general side quests I haven't doe yet. I will say I am surprised that Endwalker's story is shorter than the other expansions (not counting post-content), really seems like there was a lot of padding and probably stuff got cut due to COVID. Still we'll be featuring FF14 as back-up content and / or having it have it's own night on stream!
Speaking of streams, last night's stream lead off with Forza Horizon 4, mostly I was grinding for various achievements on things like Speed Traps, Danger Signs and other stuff before finally making my way to Fortune Island which looks like is going to be a fun area to do things in.
The stream also included Gear 5, as Striker and Iceman joined in to finish up Hivebusters, where we got all the collectables, all the item upgrades and got achievements for various other things. Hivebusters is a nice little story that actually explains the whole 'Hivebusters' concept of why the COG is letting themselves get captured in the multi-player mode. Rather surprised Lahni was almost the focus of Hivebusters considering how much lore she has to spout, which kind of made her a bland character. With this done, the plan will be to do chapter jumping to get collectables missed in the campaign.
For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal!
Gears 5 Achievements
- Electroblade: Killed 50 enemies using Lahni's Electroblade Ability in the Hivebuster Campaign Expansion as Lahni
- A Breath of Fresh Air: Saved Hana from the Snatcher
- The Spirit Walk: Opened up the Spirit Walk on Pahanu
- Renewed, Not Consumed: Found all Character Ability upgrades in the Hivebusters DLC
- Searching for Answers: Collected all Campaign Collectibles in the Hivebusters DLC
- Face the Creature: Defeated the Wakaatu
- Enter Hivebusters: Completed all Chapters of the Hivebusters DLC (any difficulty)
- Operation: Ride the Snatcher: Completed the Hivebusters DLC in 3-Player Co-Op (Scorpio squad, dupes not allowed)
Forza Horizon 4 Achievements
- I Feel the Need: Reach Speed Trap Hero level 10.
- Apex Predator: Reach Speed Zone Hero level 10.
- Pilot’s Licence: Reach Danger Sign Hero level 10.
- Whatever Next?: Complete every Showcase Event.
- Welcome to Fortune Island: Set up the Horizon Festival on Fortune Island.
- Hunter Gatherer: Find/Smash your first Treasure Chest.
Twitch Clip Links
- A New Personal Best and the Achievement!
- No wonder I didn't see it...
- Shoot him in the face!
- Electroblade!
- Vomiting On Me Is So Wrong!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 stream featured a 31 minute workout that involved Weaving Combo #2, Beginner Combo #2 and Straight Combo #1. The estimated calorie burn was 482 kcal.
Probably the biggest news for me personally out of yesterday's Nintendo Direct was the announcement that Chrono Cross is getting a remastered release on multiple consoles (Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Steam, PlayStation 4 & 5), that is coming out in early April. Needless to say despite how dodging some of the upscale renders look, and knowing the legal nightmare that held up Chrono Cross from being re-released after the SquareSoft to Square-Enix relabeling of the Greatest Hits release, I'm just glad it's coming. Plus that means achievements!
I'm also intrigued by Mario Strikers, as I have had fun with Mario Golf Super Rush, so this could be worth looking at. Then there is Disney Speedstorm... and what is basically a Mario Kart clone which I have to chuckle at how long Disney held off on diving into using their vast library of characters in a combat racer. I'm expecting some sort of Smash clone from Disney in the next year or so based on this.
For tonight's stream we'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV, mostly side-quests and things!
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
