Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn saw a big focus on the side quests as well as pushing forward on the main story, as we learned about what lead to do the down fall of civilization along with saving Meridian, the largest city in the game. Also learned and realized I missed several items that were necessary to a side quest in getting a particular armor set, but I'm not going to stress over that.

Horizon Zero Dawn will be featured next Friday night.

Our next stream will feature Persona 5 Tactica as I do believe we are close to finishing the second kingdom, and if the Persona compendium is any indication, we're possibly close to half way finish the game.

For the raid, we visited Wilveren who was playing Mega Man 3

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• 7 types of machine overridden: Unlocked and used the overrides for 7 different types of machine.
• Learned of the ancient past: Learned of the ancient past at Maker's End.
• Saved Meridian from its foe: Helped Erend investigate Ersa's fate, and foiled a plot against Meridian.
• All machines catalogued: Encountered and Focus scanned every type of machine. 

Currently in the middle of writing a commission story based around WWE in the 2010s, and it's certainly a 'get it done' type of story.

I am laughing my ass off over how openly racist people are on Ao3 towards the pairing of Mary Jane Watson and Miles Morales 

Anyway, we'll see you tomorrow!

Closing in on the end of Spider-Man

Good afternoon everyone

Work yesterday was an hour shorter than anticipated but was productive as I got two interviews done and set up several for next week. 

I did have a rough start to today, as I basically woke up several hours ago, but just laid in bed and kept thinking about how much I'm failing at trying to do things the way mom would've done them.

Last night's stream of Spider-Man finally saw us finish Act 2 of the story, because I did so much side-content all I had were the last side-missions before doing a series of main story quests. Was rather surprised on the twist that Doctor Octavious was the one who orchestrated the big break out of Rykers Island and The Raft, which turns the in-game world into Saints Row The Third when all hell breaks loose.

Potentially I could finish Spider-Man next week, based on how quickly I find and deal with all the remaining Sable and Prisoner Crimes and Camps (already completed them in three sectors already), and then there's there is basically a blitz of the main story and doing everything associated with it.

The entire quarantine situation that happens in Act 3 does remind me of Tom Clancy's The Division and of course the real world parallel with Covid. Wonder how many other games that came out before 2020 involved more mass quarantine plot-lines.

Now there is no chance in hell I'm going to Platinum Spider-Man, because getting all the costumes is going to be too much of a pain in the ass to deal with, and it's not worth it. I'll be glad to get every other achievement however.

Marvel's Spider-Man Trophies

• Tombstone Takedown: Defeat Tombstone
• Schooled: Complete all of the Corrupted Student missions
• A Bit of a Fixer-Upper: Complete all optional projects in the lab
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: Complete all Side Missions
• The Six Assemble: Complete Act 2
• Overdrive: Complete 10 Vehicle Takedowns

For the raid we dropped in on maximilian_dood during their stream when they were playing Mega Man Battle Network over at twitch.tv/maximilian_dood

The plan for tonight's stream is of course, Elder Scrolls Online, continuing our adventures with Striker! 

For the first time I watched Duck Soup, one of the legendary films starring the Marx Brothers... it is as good as I always heard it was.

Did a few runs of Hades following last night's stream, and managed to successfully get the Thorn of Thanatos achievement, using the spear and building around Poseidon and Zeus. So with this achievement unlocked, I have only two left to get!

Hades Achievements

• Thorn of Thanatos: Get 30% bonus damage with the Pierced Butterfly

Here are this week's Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star Stats

• Punches Thrown: 7560
  
• Estimated Calories Burned 2958.24 kcal
  
• Fitness Age: 18
  
• Achievements Unlocked: 66%

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

Hanging in Iðunn’s Orchard

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream of God of War saw a couple of things, one I was using a wired controller for the session, I'm using a NACON Wired Compact Control (found here: https://amzn.to/3hOcN6E) and the reason for it is because I don't trust the battery life of the PS4 controllers. If a fully charged PS3 controller can handle 4+ hours of gaming, shouldn't its successor be able to top that? Apparently not. The advantage of having a wired controller now means no need to worry about making sure the PS4 controller is fully charged or worrying about how long the charge will last.

Anyway, what we focused on in God of War was mostly side quests, tracking down stuff for the dwarfs, finding spirits and helping them rest in piece, Nordic rune chests and so forth. We really didn't progress much on the story until the very end when we reached a new area and saw a giant of a giant laying dead in the snow and ice. Did managed to fully upgrade Kratos' health so I can be a little more reckless with going into fights against tougher opponents, but thankfully I understand the controls enough to hold my own against enemies ranked three level higher that I am.

We did get one trophy last night as well.

1. Iðunn’s Orchard: Fully upgrade your Health
   

And of course we do have some clips from last night's stream for you to check out as well

Twitch Clip: I Told You So

Twitch Clip: Here we go again on our own!

Twitch Clip: Had to be dealt with!

Twitch Clip: Rip and Tear! Groovy!

Twitch Clip: He just took a swim

Yesterday I did play a lot of APBA Baseball, basically knocking the entire month of August 1909, and as the season comes to a close, I don't think The Detroit Tigers of this game will be able to surpass the Philadelphia Athletics who have a stronger pitching staff and better offense. Granted my Tigers are like a 1.5 games behind, but alot would have to go right to see if I can duplicate history with a very weakened pitching staff.

Also did a little Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown, playing three matches and winning two of them. Always amazes me when I see nearly 25+ year old tactics with Pai work.

We picked up Rumble Roses for the PS2 yesterday, it is a wrestling game by Konami that is a bit of a cult classic that had a semi-squeal for the Xbox 360. Also for the PS2 managed to track down Capcom Fighting Evolution, released by Capcom to celebrate its arcade fighter history but got absolutely ripped critically. A bit more topical though is that we added Mega Man Legends which oddly enough was discussed this week over on The Completionist YouTube Channel and Space Jam (since the sequel is coming out this upcoming Friday). I never played Mega Man Legends before, but Space Jam is another game that I know was in my younger brother's collection that has apparently gone missing

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 500 kcal. Had a few misses mostly due to blocks which is always a pain in the butt to register correctly. We did some extra so the full duration of today's session was 43 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 688 kcal. Today marked day 369 since the start of the original Fitness Boxing in 2020 and day 211 since the switch to Fitness Boxing 2. We're up to 54 out of 100 for the Evan's Best Friend achievement.

For tonight's stream, we're gonna keep it chill as we'll be playing New Pokemon Snap, we'll be taking pictures of Pokemon as we look to level up and advance the story forward!

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