Tonight's stream saw us return to Cyberpunk 2077 as we started up the Phantom Liberty content. Its story certainly opens with a bang, having to go to the new Dogtown area, which is compact. The President and Songbird characters are kind of interested, plus the secondary characters like Jacob and Taylor seem like they might be comic relief Some of the new elements like stealing cars is kind of fun, but the roads to get out of the area are pretty damn narrow.
There are new achievements and new side gigs, so we'll certainly pad the gamer score a bit. The big question of if the DLC is worth its' initial price shall be determined by the hours of play time we're able to get out of it.
Cyberpunk 2077 Achievements
All the President's Men: Save President Myers.
Arachnophobia: Defeat the Chimera.
For the raid we went over to twitch.tv/tinflix who was playing Counter-Strike and Civilization V
Our next stream is scheduled for 5 PM Eastern on Sunday with Overwatch 2
Phillies certainly held off today in their double-header against the Mets, which is a bit concerning since they have to play in the Wild Card round of the playoffs.
Finished the Resident Evil story commission that took some inspiration from Resident Evil 3, and now I have three wrestling / WWE related commissions to do. But at least the fourth story in the commission queue is based on Watch Dogs.
I have posted nearly all of my commission story over on Archive of our Own, and it's become increasingly interesting to see which stories are constantly being read.
Recorded a new Headcanon episode for my YouTube channel that will premier in a couple of weeks, giving my thoughts on why Dolph Ziggler was never considered a main even start... and it basically has to do with an unique series of events that occurred.
Well, thsoe are all my notes for note for tonight!
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's stream saw the start up of Life is Strange 2... and yes it's not the first time I've played it, as I played the Steam version back when the game's 5 episodes were originally released a couple of years ago and unlike the first Life is Strange game and Before The Storm, I wasn't too keen on play LIS2 again..
The first thing I wanted to touch on is the fact that the developers of Life is Strange 2, DONTNOD, didn't even want to make a sequel to Life is Strange... and boy does it show from the very start, with how they went out above and beyond in shoehorning in every possible political reference they could think of into it. Some of it can be avoided, but a lot of it thrown right into the face of the player.... and needless to say, it's one of the biggest reasons why have such mixed opinions on it. You see what made the original game, the prequel (Before the Storm) and the latest entry (True Colors) great and memorable is the fact the story and characters came first and any other references and commentary on society was no where near a priority to shove down players throats. Folks can find something to love about the other three games to great animations, artwork, fan fiction and more.... while Life is Strange 2 is basically the bastard child of the franchise.
Then there comes the problem of the main characters, Sean and Daniel... neither are particularly likeable, in fact Daniel can be down right insufferable at time.... while Sean is just a wet blanket. The choices you make as him to try and make the best out of a crazy situation never truly seem to matter because unlike the other three games where the it feels like every plot points you reach seems natural because of the choices you make, in Life is Strange 2 the story feels like its happening despite anything you do or don't do.
That said, for this play through we are trying to go for a fully 'moral' story to get Daniel to be a 'good kid' and less of a brat, and the ending with Cassidy, because I already screwed up going for the Lyla variant of the Redemption ending. We knocked out episodes 1 and 2, getting all the achievements for each one, and so the goal for tonight's stream is to get episodes 3 and 4 done. There is no chance we'll be able to tackle episode 5 until Monday's stream.
After the stream ended we sent the fun over to ErikaMonky (twitch.tv/erikamonky) who was playing Sid Meier's Civilization VI. That is a game I seriously need to dedicate a couple of nights too because I've been meaning to play it but I keep putting it off. Anyway, we met ErikaMonky during the Twitch Sings era, and she super cool. She doesn't stream often, but you are guaranteed to enjoy her broadcasts!
Life is Strange 2 Achievements
Sketchy: Start any drawing in Episode 1
Sidetracked: Find optional collectible #1 in Episode 1
Bear Aware: Find optional collectible #2 in Episode 1
Bonus Miles: Find optional collectible #3 in Episode 1
Ranger: Find optional collectible #4 in Episode 1
Room Service: Find optional collectible #6 in Episode 1
A Long Road Ahead: Finish Episode 1
Trail Angel: Find optional collectible #5 in Episode 1
Dillydallying: Find all optional collectibles in Episode 1
Back in Time: Find optional collectible #1 in Episode 2
Draw the line: Start any drawing in Episode 2
Family Business: Find optional collectible #2 in Episode 2
Bad Santa: Find optional collectible #3 in Episode 2
Heirloom: Find optional collectible #4 in Episode 2
Teenage Angst: Find optional collectible #5 in Episode 2
A Private Journey: Find all optional collectibles in Episode 2
Small Town Blues: Find optional collectible #6 in Episode 2
Free Spirits: Finish Episode 2
You might notice on the achievement list that the order for the ones for episode 1 seem weird, that's because we got the last two achievements after finishing the episode, using the collectors mode.
Also, I completely forgot "The Adventures of Captain Spirit' mini-sode, which was the 'demo' / teaser for Life is Strange 2 was a thing, which gives the backstory of Chris and this father to put their entire situation in episode 2 into its proper context... but it wasn't completely worth diving into on stream since all it really does is determine if Chris is wearing eye-paint in the main game.
Work itself was kind of odd yesterday afternoon, mostly because of how my assignment changed just minutes before I was about to start... don't get me wrong, having to do a straight up normal raw research study is much more preferable than trying to get through gate keepers to reach extremely busy professionals... but that meant the sample size was going to be a lot smaller.
Did pick up The Artful Escape, so we'll do a stream featuring that in the near future, probably next Saturday night
Messed around a bit with Smule, and boy do I wish it had a PC version because i wouldn't mind subscribing to it to be able to do open seeds on so many songs!
Overwatch Season 30 Competitive Match Results
D.va - Watchpoint: Gibraltar - 9:30 - Loss - 0-3
D.va - Numbani - 16:03 - Win - 3-2
D.va - Hanamura - 10:00 - Loss - 1-2
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured Body Straight Combo, Triple Combo #1 and Uppercut Combo #1 with total time length of 31 minutes and a estimated calorie burn of 429 kcal
For tonight's stream, as indicated earlier we'll be continuing Life is Strange 2 with episode 3 and 4, with the intention of locking in Cassidy as Sean's love interest. Hopefully we can get all the right choices done to make sure we get the desired ending of the entire game.
