Showing posts with label Black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Mavel vs Capcom, Black and the Rage of Paladins

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream lead off with Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes EX Edition on the original PlayStation. Part of the reason why because of Maxamillion_Dood (twitch.tv/maximilian_dood) posting a video claiming how it was a version of MvC that no one played... which is not true because I intetionally went out of my way to track it down to put together a collection of Japanese exclusive Capcom fighting games on the PlayStation. We went through the Arcade mode twice as Morrigan and Gambit, messed around with the Cross Over mode which actually saw Shadow Lady being used because the A.I. selected them. We also figure out a few things involving use of the 'Special Characters', who can act as counters and compensating for some of the main roster's limits. This game will be counted on this years tour as well.

We also played Black on the PlayStation 2, and it is still a good looking game from 2006, thankfully it has multiple difficulty settings... but I found it a bit odd with some of the control layouts, no sprinting (that I could figure out), and no reason sense of direction. Action sequences can be pretty epic from what I saw. Maybe we'll give it a dedicated attempt of finishing it at some point. Black does have one of the dumber starts up to a game I have ever seen with a start screen followed by a near 5 minute movie style intro of a black screen with text displaying who was involved with the music and live action sequences before the main menu is displayed.


Then we jumped to the Xbox One to play some Paladins, and we were joined by PandaSweet.... we did not exactly run into the smartest group of randoms, who were either disconnecting from matches, intentionally making selections of characters that did fit the need of the team. You don't see me get angry often, but Paladins was a bad way to end things last night.

Twitch Clips

For last night's raid we dropped in on TracyDoll who was playing Friday the 13th: The Game and Evil Dead: The Game over on twitch.tv/tracydoll!


Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Left-Right-Step Combo, Triple Combo #1, Double Combo #2 and Body Straight Combo.

With how badly Paladins went during the stream, I felt motivated to play some Smite. mostly Arena matches. More losses than wins, but at least it nothing was sabotaged by stupidity.

SMITE Achievements

  • Combo Breaker: Shut down 10 killing sprees in qualifying matches.

It's the start of a new week, which means we shall recap what we did last week which included Overwatch, Chrono Cross; The Radical Dreamers Edition, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal, Black, Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes EX Edition and Paladins!


For some reason the Mariners are taking a chance on Justin Upton in a desperate attempt to add some life to their line up. What is it with teams trying to squeeze anything out of guys who are clearly at the end of their careers these days in Baseball? 

Finished another commission story request yesterday afternoon and I get another one this morning, this time to be set in the Star Wars universe. This is going to involve some very loose interpretations of the lore.

Happy Birthday to the late Doreen Mulman, who ran the Ghostbusters Fan Forum 20 years ago. They were the first site to ever host artwork and fiction that I wrote, obviously related to Ghostbusters.

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For tonight's stream we shall be playing Overwatch! So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!


Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Today's Notes 5/25/21: Mass Effect 2, New Games & More!

Good afternoon everybody,

It's another one of those I scheduled myself for work but there is not work kind of days.

Anyway, last night we started up the Legendary Edition version of Mass Effect 2, and I'm glad to see one of the oddest bugs from the original version (where you could change who ends up on the Citadel Council between Anderson and Udina) was fixed, so there is a nice sense of continuity. While everything looks better, I am surprised things such as liquid being poured into a glass on Omega and the Citadel weren't improved, and there are some animations that are still completely awkward. Now a lot of folks were complaining that a lot of the 'ass' shots of Miranda Lawson were rumored to being cut out, but I didn't notice any changes in that regard. As far as how far we got last night, since I do go through all the dialog, we picked up Garrus and a did a lot of side missions on Omega and the Citadel. Of course we did get a few achievements last night and also we have clips.

First here at the achievements we unlocked:

  1. Missing in Action: ME2: Save your crew from an overwhelming attack
  2. Very Elusive: ME2: Return to active duty
  3. Operative: ME2: Complete a mission discovered by scanning an unexplored world
  4. Galactic Explorer: ME2: Visit 100% of the planets in an unexplored cluster
  5. Scholar: ME2: Unlock 15 new Mass Effect 2 codex entries
  6. Merciless: ME2: Make 20 enemies scream as they fall or are set on fire
  7. The Archangel: ME2: Successfully recruit Archangel

And now here are a couple of clips from last night's stream:

Twitch Clips: Tali You Know What Happens When People Threaten Shepard

Twitch Clips: Shepard's Gotta Shepard... Word Life

Twitch Clips: It's Gonna Blow!

We added several games from the PlayStation 2 Era to my collection yesterday and here's the list of them and why I went out my way to track them down.

  1. 007: From Russian With Love
  2. Death By Degrees
  3. Eragon
  4. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
  5. Finding Nemo
  6. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 
  7. Black

The two stand outs are 007: From Russia With Love because it does feature the voice of Sean Connery as James Bond, and Death By Degrees, which was Namco's attempt of trying to have a spin-off for the Tekken series.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session went 43 minutes with 2093 total motions (punches combined with ducks and other movements) performed. Estimated calorie burn was about 700. I did set a new personal best when it came to performing the Biceps Shape Focus Combo at the No Mercy difficulty. Other exercises performed were the Hip Shape Focus combo, Hook Combo #1 and Triple Combo #2. My timing felt a little off with a few different types of punches from the orthodox stance, namely on Left Uppercuts and Body Straights. We're up to 65 out of 100 for Martina's Best Friend achievement. 

For tonight's stream we'll be continuing Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition, with the big focus being on doing as much as I can before I have to pick up Mordin off of Omega. We'll probably start a bit early to make sure we can squeeze in as much as possible!

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


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