Tonight's stream of Sea of Thieves saw Striker and Iceman join in as we replaced part of the quest we were working on last week to finish it and then we continued on to the next chapter, tracking down Captain Jack Sparrow. We also found a underwater treasure haul and got a ton of loot! All in all a great time on the high seas!
Tomorrow night we're resuming Final Fantasy XIII picking up on Chapter 7
Big thanks to IntergalaticPants for the raid tonight!
For our own raid we dropped in on zdleague who was playing Bend and the Ink Machine
Work was okay tonight as we were trying to close out an assignment that is focused on things up in North Jersey, ran into too many folks who didn't speak English.
Currently working on a Resident Evil related commission request, which is going to end up more plot heavy than anything else as I need to write out Nemesis and Mr. X
Saw the new skins coming to the next Overwatch battle pass and the Moira one looks really cool. And if they are doing a Cowboy Bebop crossover, I may be really interested in that.
Sea of Thieves Achievements
The Sunken Pearl: You completed 'The Sunken Pearl'.
Captains of the Damned: You completed 'Captains of the Damned'.
Last night's stream featured Dragon Ball Z: Budokai on the PlayStation 2... and we went through the entire story mode to unlock every character, so that meant doing the World Tournament mode to end up unlocking Hercule. A lot of the inputs for many of the characters is the same, which meant a lot of tactics I ended up using ended up being the same for all the characters I played as. Visually, the game does hold up fairly well for being 20 years old (it was released in November of 2002), the sound mixing is pretty damn solid as well.
Now since we were going through the story mode to unlock every character (mostly for bragging rights), let's talk about how unbalanced it is. By default, you end up mostly playing as Goku thought all of his big fights (Raditz, Vegeta, Recoome, Ginyu, Frieza, Android 19 and Cell), before switching to Gohan as the focus in the Cell Games portion of the story mode. There is one opportunity to play as Piccolo, and it's for his first encounter against Imperfect Cell. The only opportunity to play as other characters, mostly more fights as Piccolo and Vegeta are avaliable when going back into the Story Mode for 'extra content', seeing some things from a different angle or 'What if' scenario, such as the infamous Cell absorbing Krillian scenario.
Of course Dragon Ball Z: Budokai is probably most remember for being one of the many Dragon Ball properties that had issues with its music because the original composer plagiarized the works for others. So when the game was re-released in a HD Collection with Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 in the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 era, all the music was changed.
Big thanks to Kalenal for the raid, they were streaming Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal!
For the raid last night we dropped in on Phanir who was playing Dragon Ball FighterZ over at twitch.tv/Phanir!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Uppercut Combo #2, Body Hook Combo and Body Uppercut Combo.
Yesterday, over on The Game Theory YouTube channel, the content
creator Mathew 'MatPat' Patrick probably said some of the most elitist
bullshit possible by trying to say he has not contributed in any way to
ruining the plans of Game Developers while also saying that 'Let's Play'
content creators (like myself) aren't the real fans of many of the
games he covers because don't dive deep into the lore like he and other
'theory' channels do. Now in that video, he said he was contacted by a
developer who 'jokingly' asked if he had an inside source at their
company because one of his videos was way to accurate as it related to
something they were working on, while also pointing out that other
developers admitted to changing plans because of things said on his and
similar channels. The results some time can be completely different than
what was clearly intended or make the game worse... and MatPat has the
balls to say they shouldn't have done that, that the developers
should've just let him be right about his theory.
So that all
said, let me explain something to MatPat, as someone who has done their
fair share of theorizing on different things I enjoy, expanded on lore
with my own personal head cannon to predict where things could go... it
is the job of the creators of the video games to try and surprise the
vast audience of gamers who want an entertaining experience, regardless
of the genre. If the developers feel you are a hindrance to their
efforts because of how accurate you happen to be, and feel that they
have to change their plans, then guess what, it is your fault. People
saw it with the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, they saw it with
Bendy & The Ink Machine, and they saw it with Hello Neighbor.
One last thing on this topic, if MatPat had the balls to claim credit for spiking interest in some of those games that I mention, then he should accept the blame when developers feel like they have to subvert expectations beyond what they intended to try and get to their end goal.
I gave Civilization VI a try last night, and boy... it's no where near as good as Civilization V... or even Civilization IV. I found the interface and changes to be extremely clunky and not as natural to figure out as compared to earlier entries in the series. Guess we won't be featuring that on a series of streams any time soon.
It's the start of a new week, so lets recap what we did last week with the Twitch Bits vid, which features Overwatch, Mass Effect 2, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal, & Dragon Ball Z: Budokai!
For tonight's stream it's of course Overwatch as we'll messing around with it. If I'm able to get into the Overwatch 2 Beta this week we'll try and dedicate a night to it, depending on if things line to where we can feature it.
Last night we returned to the Kingdom Hearts franchise with Birth By Sleep, which was originally released on the PSP... which does amaze me. This being my first play through of it, I'm going to the casual route of it for all three campaigns. Now we did start with Terra, and the way I figured we got through half of his story (we've gone to every world up thru Disney Town....
Now the combat is a little different, certainly seems more hack & slash that Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2, but there is a special place in hell when it comes to the mini-games. Now the other biggest complaint so far is the voice acting for Terra which is just terrible, Ventris' design just being the use of the Roxas assets... on the flip side, Aqua looks down right awesome, and the voice acting for the Disney characters is really good. I was able to instantly recognize Leonard Nimoy's voice, even if I felt i needed to confirm it was his voice since he did work for Birth By Sleep later in his career.
Anyway we did get a couple of achievements to begin the journey.
The Journey Begins: Clear the prologue, "The Land of Departure."
Pursuit of Truth: Clear the Mysterious Tower episode of Terra's story.
Defying Darkness: Clear the Disney Town episode of Terra's story.
Now I did notice that most people have not played Birty By Sleep as part of the 1.5 + 2.5 Collection for Xbox consoles.... which means even the basic stuff are mostly diamond tier. So it'll be cool to rack up a few during our journey.
We added 'The Thing' for the PlayStation 2 to the collection, it's considered by John Carpenter for the canon sequel to his film of the same name. It certainly will be a game we may check it out come October... you know messing around with spooky games. Maybe... who knows!
Was great to see FnDanteSavage streaming last night as he started a play-through of Bendy & The Ink Machine.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 432 kcal. Was feeling alright enough to do some extra, so the complete session went 43 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 624 kcal. In terms of achievement progress, we a re now up to 6 out of 10 for Karen's Trainee and 4 out of 10 for Karen's Buddy.
For tonight's stream, we are continuing Kingdom Hearts; Birth By Sleep and we'll see about finishing Terra's campaign. The areas seem to be getting larger as the story progresses, we'll see if we are that lucky!
