Showing posts with label Metal Slug 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metal Slug 3. Show all posts

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Today's Notes 8/15/21: Weirdness After The Stream

Good morning everybody,

Last night got real interesting after the stream when a car went speeding around the corner in front of my house, hit the curb that leads to the area behind my home, hit my fence then ricocheted off to hit another fence of another person's home on the opposite side, then a tree resulting in their car flipping over. Thankfully, the driver survived and since it happened super late there was no one out on the sidewalks. Got the case number from the police officer that arrived on the scene... but fuck me, this was not something anyone should have to deal with.

Anyway last night's stream of Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee certainly saw a lot of roaming around as we battle away along route 15 to get to Fuchsia City, but we didn't tackle the join straight away, instead we knocked out one side quest that lead to Eevee learning another special move so it can move heavy objects and then went to tackle 'Pokemon Road', which if memory serves me right was a bike only path in Pokemon Blue, Red & Yellow back in the 90s. We caught a variety of Pokemon, Rapidash being the biggest find before finally taking of the Fuchsia City gym, which were all poison type Pokemon, which meant the use antidotes was certainly required, but none of my Pokemon were knocked out.


Afterward, found the special technique that allows Eevee to basically surf on the water to finally start capturing some water Pokemon, but then I remembered the Power Plant, and after looking it up because I couldn't remember how to get there, went to capture Zapados. The Power Plant is filled with electric type Pokemon and does have the potential to battle wild Electrodes since they look like Pokeballs. But since we were going after Zapados, that was certainly a battle against wild Pokemon, and a legendary one at that. Eevee weakened it before I swapped them out for Charizard who barely hanged on to deliver the final blows.

Capturing Zapados proved to be quite difficulty, because aiming with the joycons is virtually impossible, even using Ultra Balls, Zapados had a red ring meaning capturing it would be a challenge... so we went through about maybe 70 Ultra Balls and probably 50 regular Pokeballs + a bunch of berries before finally capturing it. I'm guessing the level of difficulty was justified because Zapados apparently does not flee, it's just a matter of sticking with it to capture it


So with all this done, I now have a better understanding of what it's going to take to capture Moltres and Articuno, and my attention will turn to the Seafoam Islands next week with capturing as many water type Pokemon I can find and battling my way to the next 

Of course we got clips for you to enjoy from the stream!

 And since it's Sunday that means we have a highlight reel of all the stuff we did on Twitch this week, which includes Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, Overwatch, Chrono Cross, Metal Slug 3, Smite, Tom Clancy's The Division, Star Trek Online, Triple Play 98, WWE Crush Hour, Street Fighter V and Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, plus some of the Just Chatting segments!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 569 kcal. The exercises for today were Double Combo #2, the Left Right Step Combo and Advance Combo #2. Kind of odd that all the missed movements I had occurred out of the South Paw stance. We're up to 88 out of 100 for the Karen's Best Friend Achievement, which I should accomplish I think by Thursday.

Also, Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was streamed, so we got some clips of it too!

I joked about it, but I was successful in tracking down a copy of South Park's Chef's Luv Shack for the PlayStation, meaning I now have the trilogy of PSone South Park Games (South Park & South Park Rally). With all three games in my collection, I figure this Friday night (August 20th) we'll have a South Park night featuring all three games. If anything I can joke about about how these are the games that Matt Stone and Trey Parker want people to forget existed.

With the start of a new week means we're playing Overwatch tonight, I don't think we'll have Mayhem as an option tonight since I know it was in the arcade mode list on Saturday, so this will most likely be a quick play only stream tonight.

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


Thursday, August 12, 2021

Today's Notes 8/12/21: Slugs of Metal

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream started off with my just chatting about stuff of interest from work, such as the stuff involving public charter schools, and the big reveal that I now have all three strategy guides for the Xenosaga trilogy, plus the Art of Xenosaga Episode 1. Flipping through them was a big reminder of just how hard the first game of the trilogy was based on what I remember. Still having the strategy guides will be a big help. 

Onto the games we played last night, first up with Metal Slug 3, a game I have played before, but this was the Xbox 360/Arcade version of it. We manage to knock out two achievements and finish the game in about an hour (give or take). It did take over 50 continues, so if this was being played in an actual arcade, at 25 cents per continued, it would have taken over $12.50 to finish the game. 

Metal Slug 3 Achievements

  1. Save President: Save President in the mission.
  2. Mission All Completed: Complete all the missions.

For the next part of the stream, we loaded up Smite, and did three arena matches, using Athena, and happened to get teamed with players who recognized that I was using her Confound ability to pull enemies towards me to be ganged up on. It was pretty cool, hell, I had a ton of assists which was something I pride myself on when using Athena. So that was really cool.

At the 9 PM hour we switched over to The Division where Iceman and I mostly focused on the Underground. Going through the missions that seem to be randomly generated. Since we're playing this casually and going through it to find items, it was a stress free run. And we both managed to get the same achievement too!

Tom Clancy's The Division Achievements

  1. Objectively Experienced:  Complete each of the 6 different mission objectives in the underground.

So with all that said, you can bet we have a lot of clips from last night which I'll list next. 

Something that did come up was Gears of War 3, and when we will play that, because Iceman does have a rotating schedule, so we might try and sync that up with his days off so we could get in full sessions instead of partial ones. So we will get to Gears of War 3, it's just going to end up a floating game where it might bump other things around.

Also when we raided Kalenal's stream (twitch.tv/kalenal) the subject of Final Fantasy 14 being free to play up to level 60 came up, and know that they play it, Oldish plays it, PandaSweet plays it, it's certainly tempting to consider. My big concern would be where to fir it in, and I could easily just pair it with Star Trek Online to make an MMO night, start with STO then jump to FF14. It is something to consider. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 418 kcal. The exercises for today were Defensive Combo #1, Double Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #2. The progress towards the Karen's Best Friend achievement is now up to 81 out of 100.

Messed around with adding an 'on-screen' chat box where anything typed in the chat will appear on a designated area on the stream. This is will help with adding proof of trolling / spamming done by idiots. Also adjusted the end of stream screen to show credits of anyone who subbed, donated, followed or kicked in bits.

For tonight's stream, with it being Thursday, we'll be playing Star Trek Online to do the endeavor quests before checking out something else from my game library, maybe something from the PlayStation 2 era. We could try to continue Lupin the 3rd: Treasure of The Sorcerer King, or maybe something else completely! Who knows?!

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