Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes and other notes

Tonight we wrapped up the achievement hunting in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, going through and getting the minikits and citizens in peril via Free Play mode. I still find it funny that Supergirl only becomes available after basically 100% completing everything else in the game. Total time spent completing Lego Batman 2 was about 30 hours.

Now we did do some bonus gaming with WWE 2K16, getting a few achievements in that this evening. Took a while to get comfortable with the controls but once we did we put it on Legend Difficulty.

Next Saturday we will be starting Persona 4 Golden... just over a year after we started Persona 3 Portable. P4G will stay on Saturdays only until we finish Borderlands 2.

Tomorrow night we're playing Overwatch 2

For the raid we visited IntergalaticPants who was playing Baldur's Gate 3

Loaded up the fridge with groceries today... and picked up something from Checkers... but they got my order wrong, ended up with a large coke instead of a small sprite and a milkshake instead of a cheesecake sundae

Watched parts 1 and 2 of Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, and being very familiar with the original story and how it was told in comic book form, I can safely both films are a disjointed mess. Not to say there aren't great moments and I enjoyed both film to the point I'm looking forward to seeing the conclusion when part 3 comes out.

Finished the Star Wars commission request and next up is the first of two back to back Fairy Tail stories. Will get started on that before I go to bed

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Achievements
My Hero: Rescue all Citizens in Peril (Single Player Only)
City Slicker: Collect all the gold bricks (Single Player Only)
Minikit Hero: Use all the Minikit vehicles
Team Building: Unlock all characters (Single Player Only)
Girl Power: Unlock all female heroes and villains. (Single Player Only)
The End: Get 100% (Single Player Only)

WWE 2K16 Achievements
Playing Dirty: Win a match via dirty pin.
Now that's Hardcore!: Hit an opponent with a foreign object or put them through a table. (Single play)
Oh! My!: Put your opponent through the announce table via OMG! moment. (Single play/Exhibition)

Alan Wake Remastered and other notes

Tonight's stream of Alan Wake Remastered ran close to four hours because I was trying to find the chests, pages and coffee thermoses , but we did knock out two chapters, with only dying three times. I fully forgot about how between chapters the inventory resets, which makes conserving all the ammo almost pointless. If there is one thing that bothers me about this game is that it none of the awkward animations that some characters have, in particularly with the character of Barry.

Alan Wake Remastered will return next Friday night!

Our next stream will feature Asura's Wrath with the goal being to finish it along with as much of its DLC as possible before we move on.

For the raid we went over to weirdtiffz who was also playing Alan Wake

Alan Wake Remastered (PS4) Trophies

• Follow the Light: You were enlightened by a dream.
• Let There Be Light: You have restored power.
• Float Like a Butterfly: You avoided getting hit -- with style!
• Nordic Walking: Unlike Stucky, you enjoy incontestable health benefits. Namely, you're not dead.
• Bright Falls' Finest: You finally managed to make that phone call.
• Under a Thin Layer of Skin: You disobeyed the park ranger's instructions.
• Finders Keepers: You have discovered five of the hidden chests.
• Paging Mr. Wake: You have discovered 25 manuscript pages.
• Missed by a Mile: You managed a slow-motion dodge 20 times
• Park Ranger: You survived Elderwood National Park. 

Work was solid, couple of interviews were done, couple of real jerks tried to damper it with rude language.

Knocked out the RWBY x Justice League crossover story to fulfill commission request, next up is a Spider-Man commission story which should only take a couple of hours to write... more or less.

Did some grocery shopping today, picking up as much healthy alternatives as possible... but I forgot the salad dressing!

Good night!

Asura's Wrath and other notes

 We continued Asura's Wrath this evening, going from Episode 10 to 15, plus doing the glorified FMVs that were DLC chapters 11.5 and 15.5, which adds context to the story, but at the same time, really has some questionable choices. Really enjoying the game, and in terms of  the base game achievements we have nearly 50% of them, of course there is the question of how many achievements we'll get as I did see there are some tied to difficulty settings and game play modifiers.

Funny thing, apparently screenshots of Asura's Wrath are forbidden on Facebook... go figure, but not on tumblr.

Next time we'll play Asura's Wrath will be on Saturday, where we'll go through the rest of the game and the extended story, with luck we may even do the Street Fighter crossover stuff.

Friday's stream will feature Alan Wake Remastered

Asura's Wrath Achievements

• View of the Valley: Continue to stare at the hot spring attendant's assets.
• Like a Fish: Consume more alcohol than you should.
• Sometimes I Feel Like...: Find all the peeping Doji at the hot spring.
• Denied: Get scolded by your former master in Episode 10.
• They Don't Stand a Chance: Defeat 50 enemies while in Unlimited Mode.
• Shut Up, Augus!: Interrupt Augus' monologue.
• Heads Will Roll: Completely lose it in Episode 12.
• Rebirth: Complete Part II: Rebirth.
• Rebel with a Cause: Do what you think is right in Episode 13.
• Can't Touch This: Perform 50 counterattacks.
• Taking Out the Trash: Defeat 300 enemies with heavy attacks and/or lock-on fire.
• Unstoppable Force: Defeat 100 enemies while in Unlimited Mode.
• A Cry of Anger: Activate Burst 50 times.
• Quick on the Draw: Achieve 70 EXCELLENT synchronic impact rankings.

 For the raid we went over to zonesama who was featuring Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire

Work was solid tonight, no real complaints

Finished the wrestling related story after last nights's stream and started work on the RWBY x Justice League commission, and counting that I have 10 stories to write to earn extra income this month. 

I really hate how long the Amazon Prime reward codes for Dead by Daylight are... and too bad the developers of that game don't have a way to link an account to just have the redeem kick over.

Good night folks!

 

Starfield and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Starfield was interesting, as the game is very detailed and massive, and I can tell already I'm going to mostly keep it on Saturday nights since that is the largest night of the week for streaming. I certainly spent a lot of time looking around for loot and stuff which is probably going to turn my play-though into a slog. Since we're playing it via Game Pass, I'm going to give it the direct casual approach approach. It is a gorgeous game, and the sound mixing seems spot on.

Our next stream slated for 9:30 PM Eastern on Thursday will feature RetroMania, and we'll see if we like that game enough to want to dedicate serious time to it

Starfield Achievements

• For All, Into the Starfield: Enter Space for the First Time
• One Small Step: Join Constellation

For the raid we went to twitch.tv/zonesama for some retro TV watching 

Work was solid, we had a fairly interesting assigned focused on things in New Jersey even if my patience was really tested.

Got a commission story based on Arrow done, and it didn't turn out as well as the previous one, but i got bogged down with some few other things that cropped up. On the plus side, I'm fully caught up on commissions, so I can probably work on the Persona story unless something pops up

Recorded  two videos for my YouTube channel, one being my casual review of Day of the Tentacle while will premier in January, and the other thoughts on the RWBY / Justice League crossovers.

And that will do it for today's notes!

Good night!

Day of the Tentacle, Smite and other Notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream opened with Day of the Tentacle and it was pretty much a sprint to the finish, even as I was taking my time and making sure I got nearly every achievement in the game, missing two that are not very obvious. I have a lot of positive things to say about the console port of this game, and it makes me wonder why Lucas Arts and Disney has not done remasters of other games from the Point and Click era of the 90s. Obviously I'll be doing a review of this game for my YouTube channel. Question of what will replace it in the weekly line up is up in the air at the moment.

Now Day of the Tentacle didn't fill the entire stream, as we loaded things up with Smite for the first time in a while, winning a couple of matches and losing a couple, playing as Athena, Baset, Discordia and Cupid. We will not talk about the Assault match which was a 3 versus 5 waste of time and downer to end the stream on.

Wednesday's stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden will start around 9:30 PM Eastern, but Journey to the Savage Planet will be on hold as Iceman needs to work late, so we'll either start Starfield or RetroMania

Day of the Tentacle Remastered Achievements

• Voiding the Warranty: Try to put something metal in the microwave
• Master Plumber: Flush 50 objects through time
• Energy Conscious: Turn off the television
• Rap Sheet: Forger: Try to sign the contract yourself with the quill pen
• Behind Every Great Man Is a Quality Roadie: Red makes a super battery with only a little help from Hoagie
• Rap Sheet: Adventure Gamer: Pick up 45 things that don't belong to you
• Flush: Acquire a diamond
• That Should Have Worked: Hoagie uses battery with Chron-O-John instead of plug
• Number One: Power Hoagie's Chron-o-John
• Music Appreciation Award: Reach yesterday without turning the stereo off
• Yesterday's News: Defeat Purple Tentacle yesterday
• Mental Patience: Play the whole game without skipping a cutscene
• ...Take on the Words!: Sit through the end credits

SMITE Achievements

• Objective Stealer: Deliver the killing blow on a map objective where enemies did more damage in a qualifying match.

 For the raid we went to www.twitch.tv/EcoNstinct where Fortnite was being featured

Watched Justice League X RWBY Part 2 today, and it was a fun continuation of the first film, but it certainly made quite a few references to things in the later seasons of RWBY I didn't know about, which means I'll have to watch and catch up. There was one minor bit of disappointment in that the second film didn't fully commit to Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Blake adapting things to the DC Universe as things ended up favoring them using their standard abilities in the films climax.

Knocked out an commission story based on the Arrowverse today, and got an instant request for a follow up, which is awesome.

I certainly got something in mind for Halloween, just need to get the pieces together for it.

And on that note, good night!

Journey to the Savage Planet and other notes

Hi everyone,

Well the Phillies crushed the Marlins tonight to go on to face the Barves in the Division Round of the Playoffs... in a rematch of the same Division Series from last year. It's going to be interesting follow

Tonight's stream featured Journey to the Savage Planet, and following some issues in me being unable to hear Iceman and invites not working, we were able to get into a lot of exploring and finding the resources needed to unlock new gimmicks to help reach new areas... when we weren't figuring our own ways of getting around stuff. Looking forward to the next time we play it, which is slated for next Wednesday.

Journey to the Savage Planet: Employee of the Month Edition Achievements

• Return To Sender: Retrieved your own loot box. Death is no excuse for leaving behind Kindred property!
• I Want To Go Home. Eventually.: Marked your first fuel pod. Momma, I'm coming home!
• That's all people really want to do...: Kick 10 Pufferbirds in 45 seconds. It's why you bought the game. We get it.
• We came, We Saw, We Kicked Its Ass: Crack Cragclaw with a Co-Op partner. Teamwork really does make the dream work.
• Cragclaw Defeated: Cragclaw down. Break out the garlic butter! 

For the raid we went over to twitch.tv/zonesama during Cecilia Littlewing's marthone of retro television 

Our next stream is slated for Thursday night at 9:30 PM Eastern with Cyberpunk 2077, continuing doing stuff related to Phantom Liberty

Work tonight was okay, got a solid interview done right off the back before it became mundane and mind numbing in the final hour.

Finished the Watch Dogs commission story requests and got started on the WWE commission request straight away, trying to make it different from another similar is going to be a challenge. Also in the queue are commission stories based on Spider-Man and Resident Evil

Picked up a birthday present for my niece, as well as some sweatpants and the 2nd Justice League / RWBY crossover

And on that note, good night!