Friday, July 7, 2023

Duke Nukem Forever is... interesting

 Hi everyone,

So update on my ankle first, near as I can tell its certainly a sprain as I feel it from the left side of left foot up to the top of my foot. I have iced it down and soaked it in cold water periodically through out the day.

Work was really bleh... and with my ankle and left foot bothering me, I certainly was distracted to say the least.

Anyway, tonight's stream ended at 1:30 AM, as we started up Duke Nukem Forever, and the call backs to Duke Nukem 3D is great, I can really get a feel for just how chaotic and idiotic the trip through development hell was, because there are some game play elements that mesh together. I do appreciate the humor, even if it's was dated by 2011... but hell I'm old, and Duke Nukem was a character I was familiar with in the early 90s. I was surprised the number of actual puzzles through out the game so far, Near as I can, we reached the halfway point of the game if a look at the chapters list is any indications, as the last major thing we did was defeated the Queen Bitch segment..

So I was debating on if we'll continue the game next week, and we will, playing it on the lowest possible difficulty and with the number of times I died and seeing how the check point system works means as long as I learn from my mistakes we can make progress.

Duke Nukem Forever Achievements

  • Turd Burglar: Find and steal a piece of poo
  • Drawrings: Doodle something on the whiteboard in SP
  • Sunday, Black Sunday: Shoot down the blimp above the stadium
  • One-Eyed Freak: Defeat the Cycloid
  • Nobody Likes a Whiner: Knock out the talent at the talk show
  • Flagon of Chuckles: Drink a beer in SP
  • Juiced: Take steroids in SP
  • Substance Abuser: Drink beer while on steroids or vice versa in SP
  • Extermination: Kill 50 aliens
  • Annihilation: Kill 100 aliens
  • Sticky Bomb Like You!: Put a Trip Mine on a live alien
  • Natural Disaster 3x: Kill 3 aliens at once
  • Pit Champion: Defeat the Battlelord in Las Vegas
  • Dead Useful: Kill 10 aliens with environmental explosives
  • Nuclear Devastation: Kill 250 aliens
  • Trapper: Kill 10 aliens with Trip Mines
  • FBT: Get knocked down 10 times
  • Not Bad for a Human: Defeat the Alien Queen

For the raid we dropped in on tracydoll during their stream of Friday the 13th: The Game over on twitch.tv/tracydoll

Got some writing done on the next commission request... sure it's a WWE related one, but hey at least I got it started!

Our next stream will be Friday night we a schculed started time of 9:30 PM Eastern, as we'll be starting up Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales!

So we'll see you next time over on twitch.tv/fredcasden


Overwatch 2 and other notes

We were joined by PandaSweet for many matches in Overwatch this evening, and I branched out a little playing as a wider variety of character...