Journey to the Savage Planet and other notes

Tonight Iceman and I wrapped up the last remaining achievements were able to get in our long play-through of Journey to the Savage Planet, we ended up needing a guide to find the last few plants and creatures. We also did some extended chatting on Fantasy Hockey, Baseball and considering what will be the featured game on Wednesdays.

Starting next week we'll be playing Sea of Thieves, now played it years ago, so I'm hoping we'll be able to get a tutorial to remember how to play. Of course when I played it, it was on PC.

Tomorrow night we're back to Mass Effect with side quests and possibly the Bringing Down The Sky 

For the raid we went over to zonesama for some retro TV shows

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

• Your Friendly Neighbourhood...: Execute 10 consecutive grapples without touching the ground. You're like some kind of arachnid-man.
• The Answer is 42: Fully decrypt and watch the tower origin transmission.
• Who Is Teratomo?: Collect and read every Alien Explorer Log.
• Zoologist: Scan all the creatures on AR-Y 26!
• Botanist: Scan all the flora on AR-Y 26!
• Turdball Wizard: Consecutively bounce on 5 different Springy Egg Sacs. It's like an ethically-iffy bouncy castle!

Work was alright, and it appears we may night be having the usual holiday down period which will be very good for me if that's the case

Still working on the Rooster Teeth commission request, I was hoping to finish it during the afternoon, but now I'll be up right till 4 AM to finish this.

And on that note good night!

 

 

Mass Effect and other notes

Tonight's stream of Mass Effect saw more bopping around the Galaxy and doing the side mission, as we're putting off doing the main story missions as long as possible. Thankfully as we level up, running as an Adept-Bastion has meant Shepard can take more hits with a stronger barrier and there are quicker cool downs. We still came across a few extra side missions, so we can start with those next time we play... and chances are we'll do Bringing Down The Sky as the first major story thing in the game.

Next time Mass Effect will be featured will be on Thursday

Tomorrow's stream will feature Journey to the Savage Planet with Iceman as we look to find the last remaining things to 100% complete the base game.

For the raid tonight we went over to lilmoolah_ who was playing Cyberpunk 2077

Work was solid tonight, and I got some insight on the people running to replace George Santos

Currently in the middle of writing a Rooster Teeth story to fulfill a commission request, and I certainly have the attitude of 'lets just get it done and get paid'

Got a Christmas card from my pops, and we talked for a few minutes for the first time in six months. It was what it was.

Good night

Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

 Got a very late invite to go over to my brother's mother-in-law's place for Thanksgiving dinner and I didn't see the message until like 6 hours after he sent it. He was kind enough to bring me a plate, and I was able to give my niece her present for her birthday last month.

We started the stream early and ran for 5 hours, as we got a lot done in Persona 5 Tactica (as proven by the achievement list for tonight. Near as I can tell we are close to finishing the the second kingdom arc, and what is impressing me about this story overall is that it seems to have the same vibe as Labrys's story in Persona 4 Arena, which only makes sense to me with how everything revolves around Toshiro coming to terms with things the way Labrys did.

Next time we play P5T will be on Saturday, as we'll start early-ish on Friday night to continue and knock out a lot of stuff in Horizon Zero Dawn

For the way we found someone else playing P5T in the form of neperrati, they were still in the First Kingdom portion of the story

Persona 5 Tactica Achievements

• Take That Treasure, Kidd!: Inflicted Shock on enemies with Ryuji 20 times.
• Dance, Carmen!: Inflicted Burn on enemies with Ann 20 times.
• Close-Quarters Offensive: Performed 100 melee attacks.
• Bewitch Them, Milady!: Hypnotized enemies with Haru 20 times.
• Novice Craftsman: Fused weapons 10 times. 

 Currently working on a commission request based around Rooster Teeth... and it's really paper thin in terms of plot because there's really not much I can do based on the characters I'm tasked to use.

I did take advantage of sales to nab a few things dirt cheap on the gaming side, including  the upgrade to the complete edition of Terminator: Resistance, the DLC for TMNT_ Shredder's Revenge, the upgrade to the Special Edition for Dragon Ball The Breakers, as well as Resident Evil 3 (Remake), XIII, Flashback and the 360 version of Alan Wake

Also did some grocery shopping, getting more fruits and vegetables... too bad the instacart shopper picked some things that were expired.

Good night!

Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

We started Persona 5 Tactica today, and while it certainly takes a while to get going because of the long opening, this game continues all of the usual charm that I've come to expect from the Persona franchise, The fundamentals are clearly easy to learn but really tough to master, as I'm a complete novice when it comes to tactical based RPGs. The music and voice acting is top quality I fell.

Unlike everyone else, I elected not to the do the DLC story first because I wanted to understand how to play the game, because even on Safe Difficulty, I feel like I have to be very mindful of what moves I make.

We'll continue Persona 5 Tatcia on Monday's stream!

Our next stream will featured Horizon Zero Dawn as I decided not to continue playing Starfield, because at least with HZD I feel like I'm engaged with the content!

For the raid we dropped in on djparticle who was playing Splatoon 3

Persona 5 Tactica Achievements

• Lavenza's Aid: Gained the ability to fuse Personas.

Word was solid today, a few friendly folks to interview is always nice.

I'm currently working on a Resident Evil commission request, and that should be finish tomorrow... kind of over though out to use some elements of Resident Evil 3 and the chapter is turning out a bit lackluster.

Following it on a back to Back WWE related commissions requests, followed by Batman, Jimmy Neutron, Rooster Teeth, a 3rd WWE story and Star Wars tale. In a way I'm glad I'm off for Thanksgiving, and that some of these are concept that should only get around 2500 words, but of course I'll shoot for 3000 as always.

Good night!

Sonic Forces and other notes

 Hi Everyone,

Tonight we wrapped up Sonic Forces, and in less time and attempts than it took me when I first played it on Steam several years ago. In fact, I remember the Death Egg Robot giving me real fits, but what really gave me trouble was the final classic Sonic stage which had an auto-scroll portion. Now I did skip doing SOS and Bonus stages, so keeping focus on the main story wast to my benefit. 

I still stand by what I said about how the game does not live up to its concept, but this is a game that actually has a lot of content and things to unlock, as Sonic Forces was released with the idea of being a game people played daily to grind out various achievements (like collecting 10,000 Rings and defeating 10,000 enemies).

Anyway, Monday we are bringing back DuckTales Remastered to be featured next week as we count down the days to Persona 5 Tactica's release on November 17th, and we will play day of release. 

For the raid we over to abenonymous who was playing God of War

Sonic Forces Achievements

• Daily Devotee: Completed 5 Daily Missions.
• Hope: Turned the tide of the conflict.
• Bonds of Friendship: Defeated Infinite.
• Way Past Cool: Equipped a part in every slot.
• Saved the World: Restored peace to the world.

Our Friday night stream will feature Horizon Zero Dawn, of course next week it could be moved up a night to Thursday because of the aforementioned P5T.

Had a great chat with FnDanteSavage today when they called me, and we talked about life, music and games. It was great to touch base with him, and ya'll should keep your ears out, because he is going to be recording new music in an actual studio.

Work was alright, even if things were made harder because of quota requirements, and I ended up nearly losing my voice because of how people kept asking for something that basically forced things to be entered manually. 

Current commission story in progress is based around Rooster Teeth and it's more schlock heavy than a lot of other stuff I've written lately. It's about 70% finished.

Once it's done, I have  Arrow, Resident Evil and WWE related commission in the queue.

So on that note good night!

Journey to the Savage Planet and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream saw Iceman and I make our way through the DL-C1 content for Journey to the Savage Planet, finding postcards and working our way through the various puzzles to find Kronus. As a small little expansion for the main game, it certainly was bright, colorful and had us questioning our sanity. The Kronus boss fight was certainly wild, involving a few attempts to complete!

We going to continue Journey to the Savage Planet next Wednesday to try and find more things needed for various achievements.

Thursdays stream will feature Sonic Forces, and there will be a huge question of if we'll be able to finish it, but I do remember how things went a few years ago.

For the raid we we over to ZoneSama where some old cartoons like Robocop and Wheel Warriors were being watched

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

• Part of a Complete Breakfast: Get covered in Tropical Pufferbird milk...
• Little Shop of Horrors: Fed 5 Pufferbirds to a Meat Vortex. Yes, it blends!
• Kronus: Unplugged: Unplug Kronus and restore Kindred's control of DL-C1 

I had a rough day mostly due to being unable to sleep last night, which means I didn't finish the Spider-Man commission story I had on the docket, but will be working on it before I go to bed tonight.

Once that's done, I have four commission stories in the queue based around Rooster Teeth, Arrow, Resident Evil and WWE, so days will be quite busy knocking these out!

Work was  real good tonight, plenty of interviews so having the two unwanted off-days didn't bother me too much. If I can keep up the momentum I can basically negate Monday and Tuesday completely!

And on that note, good night!

Resident Evil and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight we wrapped up Resident Evil HD, finishing with a play time of just over 12 hours, which wasn't bad considering how I was making blatant use of a guide to get through every puzzle while and to have a heads up of the various dangers presented in the game. I did have some serious questions of 'how exactly did Chris' get captured when Jill, Barry and Wesker made it into the mansion at the start of the game. 

Anyway we did not get the good ending as Barry ended up getting killed by the Tyrant at the end of the game as I kept missing shots with the grenade launcher, but I did save the game where I could give it another shot at some later point. 

Would I play this game again to do the Chris side of the story and the answer is... maybe? It's kind of a tough call considering that A) Chris's campaign is much more action heavy, B) I struggle with aiming and C) he has fewer inventory slots. Still we had fun, and I will say Resident Evil is a game that people need to play at least once.

For the raid we dropped in on lilmoolah_who was playing Baldur's Gate 3

Starting tomorrow, we'll be starting up Sonic Forces, a game we did feature on an all day Christmas stream a few years ago, but that was the Steam version, this time we're playing the Xbox one, so we'll be seeing some achievements popping!

Resident Evil Achievements

• Trust Him: Save Barry from Lisa Trevor.
• Where the Magic Happens: Break into the laboratory using Jill.
• Sorry About the Wait: Save Chris from confinement using Jill.
• Alpha Team's Finest: Finish the game using Jill.
• Like Taking Candy from a Baby: Finish the game on Very Easy difficulty or higher.

Monday was the firs day in a few weeks without any work, but I was told something should be in place on Wednesday. Surely hope so.

Knocked out a Spider-Man / Captain Marvel commission story and I think I was probably able to do more to fix the MCU version of Carol Danvers but actually giving her a personality.

Current commission story in progress is based on The Reign of the Supermen film, and I can safely say, I hate the design of Superboy in it. Because I still have some comics from actual Reign of Supermen story arc, I remember how Superboy looked and acted, and he wasn't considerably short or puny when compared to other characters... the movie makes him look like a kid, which wasn't the case at all when the character debuted!

Anyway, once that story is finished, I'll have another Spider-Man story to do followed by one focused around Rooster Teeth.

And on that note, good night!

 

Cyberpunk 2077 and other notes

Hi everyone,

Had a bit of work tonight, as we had this multi-state assignment focused on issues regarding protected land in the United States, and boy did opinions vary from state to state... one would think folks would have a unified outlook on things like that, but nope!

Tonight's stream of Cyberpunk 2077 saw me focusing a lot of some side quests and realizing that having a car in that game is necessary because there is a lot of traveling to do. Sure I can fast travel, but that's no fun. I did feel like I got a better handle on the combat system, even if I forget that taking cover is actually a smart thing to do in this game, but on the other hand I discovered I loved rushing down enemies with a katana! On a side note, the skill tree system can go suck a dick, because it makes no sense to me what so ever.

Didn't do a formal raid last night but I went over to twitch.tv/bestibunni to say hi, since catching their streams have been tough for me lately. 

Went through one of mom's closets to throw to get some more stuff thrown out in the trash... it's been nearly 7 months since she's passed and it hurts like hell doing this. Wish my brother would actually take the initiative and say he's coming over to want to go through her things before I finish my half-hearted approach to it.

Knocked out the shot story commission request for a story based around Rooster Teeth which turned out rather well I think. Picked up another commission request to do a story based on Halo and to somehow make it work involving Cortana's replacement called 'The Weapon'. Going to need do a bit of research.

Out next stream is scheduled for 9:30 PM Eastern on Thursday night over on twitch.tv/fredcasden, now I believe episode three of TellTale Game's The Expanse series comes out this week, so if it does, we'll do that and pair with Texas Chain Saw Massacre. If we have the same problems we did with Episode 2, we'll just continue Cyberpunk 2077 and hope the next Expanse episode is ready by Saturday.

So on that note, have a good night everyone!

Cyberpunk 2077 and other notes

Hi everyone,

Work tonight was pretty solid, not as good as Monday night, but was solid, at the very least I didn't have to talk to heavily loyal Trump followers, which was a good thing. I did interview a person who was 99 years old who was still fully invested in what's going on in the world.

Tonight's stream of Cyberpunk 2077 was real interesting a I got a little more comfortable with the combat mechanics plus reached the big story point in the game where Johnny Silverhand gets inside V's head. I have to say I'm not too keen on Keanu Reeve's performance so far, because otherwise I'm going to start thinking he did this role for the pay check. Jack's death was really well done I feel, as it followed a big plot point and a nice action set piece.

I kind of feel like I'm going to have to do a lot of open world stuff in this game to make sure I can over power and brute force my way through situations.

Cyberpunk 2077 Achievements

• Right Back At Ya: Kill or incapacitate an enemy who threw a grenade at you.
• The Lovers: Steal the Relic.

For the raid we went over to twitch.tv/misscammi316 who was playing Smite

Did a fair bit of writing today, finished the Resident Evil short story commission where I really put a twist on the character of Rebecca Chambers at the expense of Richard Aiken, but the later was not really an important character in the games anyway.

Got another short story commission request on something related to the YouTube Channel for Rooster Teeth, so I'll have to figure out that.

Also started work on the third chapter of my Persona 5 Alternate Reality series, where I'm really going all in on using some characters from Persona 4... which is funny since I never play that game, but I know enough about characters like Chie, Naoto and Yukiko from the spin-off games to get an idea of how to use them for the plot.

I thought I had a second job interview this week, but it's not till September 7th.... fuck.

Out next stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden is scheduled for 9:30 PM Eastern if there is work (which we always hope there is), and we're going to hold off on Resident Evil 6 this week as Iceman has to work late, so instead we'll continue with Cyberpunk 2077. 

So on that note, good night everybody!