More Big Rumble Boxing Fun

Good morning everybody,

You know when people call your to ask you something and they know what answer you're going to give them... why do they even call in the first place?

By the way, that's a great screen shot isn't it? Looks like Drago is pointing to where Rocky should go as the Italian Stalion is making a turn.

Anyway last night's stream saw more fun with Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions, as we covered five arcade towers, and the more of these I complete, the more I see how BRB:CC is probably adding a ton of lore to the Rocky Universe while giving some filler on what has happened between Creed II and Creed III (if that ever gets made). Perhaps the one arcade tower that has the most consequence was the one for Benji, which basically acts as a set up to Adonis' own towner, which we did on the first night of playing this a few weeks ago.

But in terms of added lore, Ivan Drago's tower certainly adds a lot in terms of his downward spiral, and how he did cross paths with Clubber Lang... and damn near killed him as a result of Drago not being able to get over his loss to Rocky. If the BRR:CC is considered canon, then it certainly fills a big 'what happened to...' aspect when it comes to one of Rocky's more memorable opponents.  

Not all of the actions for Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions happened on stream, as I went back to it off-stream and used a second controller to tackle four achievements, and finally realized what the Unblockable Move is... but holding triangle, a character will throw a punch that will tear through the opponents guard. Since I'm damn near constant offense any way, I didn't realize what it was when I accomplished the 'One Step' achievement!  

Now the way I figure, there are eight more arcade towers to tackle... so if I split them four and four we can get two more streams out of BRB:CC... and I tackle one at Champion Difficulty and use an alternate attire when using Wheeler, we could 100% complete the game. Then again, I might make the Champion Difficulty attempt it's own separate stream using either Rocky or Scraps. Who knows.

Anyway... following the stream we sent the fun over to Juwan313 who was also playing Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions over at twitch.tv/juwan313!

 Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions Achievements

1. Nothing But Bums: Unlock all Boxers
2. Oh Mama: Beat Vick "Underground" Rivera's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
3. Honor To Beat You: Beat Leo "The Lion" Sporino's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
4. Redemption Arc: Beat "Pretty" Ricky Conlan's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
5. End of the Beginning: Beat Benjamin "Benji" Reid's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
6. Broken Man: Beat Ivan Drago's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
7. Pound For Pound: Win a match without using Basic Attacks
8. I Didn't Hear No Bell...: Win a match after being 3 Knockdowns behind
9. One Punch: Pierce an opponent's Guard with an Unblockable Move 10 times
10. One Round At A Time: Pierce an opponent's Guard with an Unblockable Move 20 times 

Twitch Clip Links

•  Don't Think He Can Go Past That 
•  Apollo Is Alive?! Out... It's a Cut Out.... 
•  Just Like The Movie! 
•  Big Uppercut From Clubber... Is Not As Big As This! 
•  Countered And Knocked Him Out!
  

Also, forgot to give a big thank you to LvStrkr for resubscribing to my Twitch channel. He's been subbed to the channel for 31 months! Big thanks dude!

Speaking of my twitch channel, followers now have access to five free emotes just for following the channel... and if they just do a basic subscription to the channel (Tier 1), they get access to 5 more!  

There was an issue regarding how banning works on Twitch, in for a brief period, it was removing people from following the channel if they were banned. I don't see the problem with that, as that's how it's supposed to work in my view... but there are real idiots out there who've been using the Banned function as a meme... like someone can request someone else to be banned as a joke, which undermines the purpose for banning someone! On my twitch channel, the only people who get banned are those who break the rules I have set!.

My off-stream progress for Final Fantasy XIV saw more progress on side stories than the main story quest, as I had a number of raids and dungeons to do that were open in my journal. I have to say that I still struggle with noticing random tagged AOEs from enemies in the raids, and recognizing what happens when is a bit of bother on those times I do get tips or insight on what's happened. That I am digging the Sky Pirates story arc as it has me primed with a show down with Diablos, and the Alexander quests seem to be a series of mini-raids from what I can tell.... which makes me think their is one huge one that links them all together coming at some point.   

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout had Sway Back Combo, Hip Shape Focus Combo and Straight Combo #2 as the workouts for a duration of 31 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of465 kcal.

For tonight's stream we'll be putting a focus on Final Fantasy XIV, as we're going to do whatever we come across... it might be raids and big battles, but depends on what quests need to be fulfilled!

So on that not we'll see you over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Street Fighters, Judgment and a Fitness Boxing 2 Patch Update?

Good morning everybody,

Don't you just love it when you're first told there isn't work, then get a call asking if you can work, but when you're trying to start work the system doesn't work, and thus you lose time that you could spend working? Yeah that was my day yesterday!

Anyway, last night's stream lead off with Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact: Giant Attack, and we had three successful arcade runs that involved multiple continues being used... as we cleared it with Ryu, Ibuki and Ken. In comparison to Street Fighter III: New Generation, 2nd Impact is much harder because of the A.I. input reading, so combos and that should be landing are blocked out right. That said, I did have fun with it, even if my own endurance for going up against an A.I. in a fighting game was starting to deplete to where I was going just destroyed by Hugo.

Speaking of which, Hugo, along with Akuma and Urien are added to the roster, while Yun and Yang are separated, so they aren't sharing the same character slot. Something is real obvious with Urien who is Gill's brother... and that's the fact they share quite a few of the same animations/ So I kind of suspect, Capcom wanted to make Gill playable but not want to nerf him, so they created a new character instead.

Half way through the stream Iceman joined in as we continued Gears of War: Judgement, knocking out Acts V and VI of the main campaign, which was quite entertaining in terms of the hordes of enemies we had to deal with along with the numerous ways we got killed. Managed to get Iceman a collectable he was missing late in the game which was pretty cool. The final end boss for GoW:J is rather.. underwhelming in terms of its design, but it certain packs a mean punch.

The more arcade like nature of GoW:J really shines through more in the final two acts of the campaign, as every possible enemy is on your tail, and there is a real possibility of running out of ammo, but at the same time it is a lot of fun.

Now I"m not counting Gears of War: Judgement as being finished yet because we still have the Aftermath mission to do, which we'll cover as part of next Wednesday's stream. So one more round of fun with us as Baird and Cole, then of course Gears of War 4 will be on the agenda!

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection Achievements

1. Make an Impact: Beat Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact - Giant Attack.

Gears of War: Judgment Achievements

1. Rising Star: Attained 50 Stars on at least Casual Difficulty
2. Veteran Remembrance: Recovered 25 COG Tags during the Campaign
3. I Told You: Completed Downtown Halvo Bay
4. This One's Not Over: Completed Courthouse
5. Determined: Completed all Campaign Chapters on at least Casual difficulty
6. Blood Brothers: Completed all Campaign Chapters in Co-op
7. Proud Wearer: Equipped your first Medal

Twitch Clip Links

• 2nd Impact: Shutting Down Gill!
• Hugo was not impressed with my attempt to win.... 
• Got 'Em!
• Getting that one collectable Iceman needs
• Hello... HELLO Mister Fancy Pants!
• I'm being chased

I didn't make much headway Final Fantasy XIV's Main Story Quest last night, but I did turned my attention to some of the side quests that required doing certain Primal battles (The Diabolical Bismark and Thok Around The Clock), plus a dungeon involing saving Tonberries (Not Easy Being Green). I'm glad I picked up the boost to 70 once I was level 69, as the gear that comes with it certainly has me hanging in fights a lot longer than I normally would have. Also my clueless nature certainly showed  when I was doing The Minstrel's Ballad: Thordan's Reign... as it gave me fits in trying to figure out the pattern of the attacks that were incoming.

Added Requiem From The Darkness: Eternal Rest (aka volume 4 of the set) to my anime DVD collection, and I now have all four volumes of the series. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout had Block Combo, Waist Shape Focus Combo and Hook Combo #1 as the exercises for a duration of 31 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 472 kcal

Fitness Boxing 2 also released a new patch update, it is now version 1.1.0.and here are thew updates

• New Instructor
  
  1. A brand-new instructor, Guy, has been added
• Voice Languages for Instructors
  
  1. Guy and Janice now have Korean voice options
  2. You can now set individual voice languages for each instructor by going to the Change Instructor in the Instructor section of the Lounge
  3. Voice Language has now been removed as an option from the Instructor section of the Settings Menu

Guy's personality makes him sound like a jerk... so I'm in no rush to use him as a trainer, as no achievements are associated with him, but is inclusion does balance the number of trainers out a bit more between male and female.. As far as the Voice Language setting changes go, it doesn't really effect me since I do everything in English, but for those who want to mix and match different languages for different trainers.

For tonight's stream we'll be hooking up the PlayStation 4 to continue unlocking stuff in Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions! Hopefully the characters I'll be using are easy to figure out quick combos and patterns.

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

To Raid Tombs One Must Be Heavensward

Good morning everybody,

Well yesterday was a day off that was not planned, as usual election times can be screwy in the world of market research... 

Anyway last night's stream was of course focused on Tomb Raider, picking up from the start of Chasm Monastery and ending by reaching the Endurance crew on Shipwreck Beach, which basically sets up the final third of the game for next Monday's stream. In terms of the focus of tonight, I did put a lot of time into trying to find the tombs, picking up three tonight. The point of the tombs is to be able to go back and find all the collectables once the main campaign is finished. Might make for a fun random night of nonsense, as I believe I have over 50% of the things found.... I could be wrong.

Now one thing that was quite obvious about tonight's stream was that I struggled with a lot of Lara's big cinematic running and jumping scenes, as she plummeted to her death quite a few times... which is funny, because in prior runs of the game, it was when she was sliding down a river and avoiding debris that was the problem,

There is a good portion about Tomb Raider that certainly lends itself to fan fiction, Lara and Sam obviously, but considering the island is filled with murderous dudes who haven't seen a woman in at least 15 years, one would think wanting to kill the first one they see would be the last thing on their mind. Just food for thought there.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Loganatf who appears to be very new to twitch, and they were also playing Tomb Raider over at twitch.tv/loganantf!  

Tomb Raider - Definitive Edition Achievements

1. Relic Hunter: 25% of all relics collected.
2. Down and Dirty: 15 finishers performed.
3. Looking for Trouble: 25% of all GPS caches found.
4. Scrounger: 5000 pieces of salvage collected.
5. Sharp Shooter: 50 headshot kills performed in the single player campaign.
6. Opportunist: 25 unaware enemies killed.
7. Picky: 200 enemies looted.
8. Epic Fumble: Forced an enemy to drop dynamite that killed two people.
9. Crab Cakes: FeeFee the crab killed.
10. Clever Girl: Purchased all skills in one category.

Twitch Clips Links

• Watch out for that tree! 
• What the hell just happened?!
• Think we got most of them with that!
• Overkill 
• Crab Cakes
  

Off-stream Final Fantasy XIV progress saw me reaching the end of Heavensward with the quest of the same name. Safe to say I loved how straight forward a lot of things were in the later portion of the chapter, as some things were being set up for the future while others were coming to ahead. The revelation that I'll be going up against Nidhogg against and this time he's possessed Estinien (the Azure Dragoon) certainly raises the stakes a bit... if I actually liked Estinien to begin with.

Some other points of interest were the post-credits introduction of the Warrior of Darkness, now is this going just a doppelganger of my character, or is it some fully voiced foe whose ass I'm going to have to kick six ways from Balamb Garden? (Yes that's a Final Fantasy VIII reference but that is my favorite game in the series of all time). There is still the matter of finding the other Scions and the Empire still causing havoc with their version of doing the 'right' thing by keeping the Primals in check.

Really looking forward to seeing where the story goes next!

That said, I do find it funny that the boss of Heavensward is basically a Pope-like figure whose self-righteous pious nature leads them becoming a threat for the world. Japan game developers certainly make it a point to take shots at religious figure heads... though Grandia II was the most obvious since it's main villain was Pope Zera.

Beyond that, I stumbled across  a side-story within Final Fantasy XIV involving Sky Pirates, a shot ship and Diablos. The associated Alliance Raid was a hell of a lot of fun, particularly since I used a boost from the FF14 online store to grab the max level gear for level 70 before I hit it based on my own game play (I was like 500,000 XP away... but the huge difference in damage output between what I was doing and what I saw other Bards doing was quite noticeable)

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Weaving Combo #2, Beginner Combo #2 and Straight Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes and a estimated calorie burn of 470 kcal.

For tonight's stream will feature two games, first Street Fighter III: Second Impact will be our lead off game as I attempt to beat it for the first time! Then around 9 PM or so, Iceman will be joining us for Acts IV and V of Gears of War: Judgement!

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

Tomb Raider... Or Lara Croft Falls Down A Lot!

Good morning everybody,

We're a day into November and some old concerns have popped up, a few of which are related to some local government decisions here in New Jersey... and funny enough it's election day... with Phil Murphy hoping to get another term as Governor. Considering his challenger is a Trump support, I'm pretty sure Murphy is going to win... even though a decision he made has put a lot of us in a bind.

Anyway, last night's stream featured the start of Tomb Raider, not the original from the late 90s, but the 2013 game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. I have played it before, in particular, I played the version on Steam, once in 2017 and again in 2018, both play through were streamed on Twitch. This run is using a console, namely the X-Box Series S, since it hasn't been used much as of late. 

One huge difference I feel between the console and PC versions is the fact the controls feel fighter on console. Sure I had a few deaths during the stream, but I feel they were more my fault as opposed to the game not reading inputs... so I'm a little more open to exploring and finding collectables than I was the first two times.

Graphically, Tomb Raider still holds up nicely, and I didn't waste time putting Lara in the 1930s Aviator attire to give her a look that makes sense for the adventure she's on... plus I think whenever she is shivering, it looks even colder if she's actually wearing a jacket! I do find it fun at how she can be covered in cuts, blood, mud and scrapes... then is totally clean moments later. I get why no game has really gone with the realistic wear and tear on clothing for games like this, just about every game with a female lead would be rated M for mature.

Let me also address the title of today's blog, because I joked about how Tomb Raider is basically Lara Croft falling down a lot, or as some of my regulars called 'Lara just get the shit kicked out of her'. There are quite a number of instances where Lara is falling from a great height, tumbling down a hill and so forth... and this is not even counting missed jumps or failed Quick Time Events or failed combat situations. Since the developers wanted to show Lara toughening up, safe to say that happens quite a bit.

In terms of where we left off, it's at the start of the Chasm Monastery, so a little less than half way through the game, but I do remember there are a lot of big action set pieces in the second half of the game, so I don't think we'll finish it in two nights. 

Huge thanks to Kalenal for the raid during the stream! They were playing Tales of Vesperia on Monday night over on twitch.tv/kalenal!  

Following the stream the fun was sent over to LifeWithStan who was playing Dark Souls III over on twitch.tv/lifewithstan!

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition Achievements

1. One Smart Cookie: One optional tomb completed.
2. Big Game Hunter: 10 large animals killed and looted.
3. Unfinished Business: One challenge completed.
4. Predator: 50 enemies killed with the bow.
5. Bookworm: 25% of all documents found.

Twitch Clip Links

• And that is gonna hurt even more!
• Lara 1 Deer 0
• We're The Predator!
  
• Dude you're finished! 
• We glitched through the floor! 

Volume 6 of Gungrave and Volume 7 of Chrono Crusade arrived in the mail yesterday afternoon, meaning 17 years after I picked up volume 1 of both series I finally have the complete DVD sets. Always nice to be able to fill in gaps in the collection.

A good portion of my off-stream Final Fantasy XIV adventures involved side quests associated with Idyllshire, a city that was abandoned but is now thriving (sort of) under goblins who took it over, and are gradually setting up a community... meaning a lot of quests involved running around, making deliveries, taking out monsters and such. It is a charming little series of side quests, even if when one is done three more pop up... but that is why they are side quests!  

Anyway, I did progress the Main Story Quest up to The First Flight of the Excelsior, and I have to say the apparent death of Iceheart aka Shiva was glorious, but very ambiguous since she fell to her death providing covers for everyone heading to Azys Lla, which is the next huge major chunk of the story.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Intermediate Combo #2, Advanced Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes and a estimated calorie burn of 490 kcal. As of today we now have 80% of the EX achievements unlocked.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise EX Achievements

1. Monster Weight Puncher Lv. 4: Reach a total punch count of 450,000 HITs 
   

Oddly enough the requirements for Monster weight Puncher Lv. 5 is only to reach 495,000 HITs, I wonder why it isn't an even 500,000.

For tonight's stream we'll continue Tomb Raider using the X-Box Series S console as we work our way through the island!

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

Overwatch On Halloween

Good afternoon everybody,

Update on the healing of the tooth is that the hole where it used to be is even smaller, no noticeable pains at all... so hopefully everything just rolls neatly with it. I do know the bone growing to fill in the gap where the tooth was is gonna take about 4-6 months to settle in, but as long as I don't have to deal with the dry socket possibility I'm happy.

We had a great night of Overwatch last night, getting in the last matches needed to unlock the Roadhog skin associated with this years Halloween Terror event. Also big thanks to Reaper, PandaSweet and Speedy for joining in a lot of matches! I can't think of the last time I had a four stack going into a match from the start... actually I can, it would've been Halloween of last year with Kalenal and I think Mech being in the team with myself and Panda!

In terms of Plays of the Game I picked up four two as D.va and one each as Reinhardt and 76. Game modes saw a bit of Junkenstein Revenge including a couple of attempt on the Expert version of it, with the second one being successful with little to no damage on the door. Once of these days I'm gonna try the Legendary version of it to see if that cane be done. Also tossed in a couple of Mystery Hero matches, but for the most part it was Quick Play matches for the night.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Lunar_Princess who was playing Resident Evil 4 VR over at twitch.tv/lunar_princess!

Twitch Clip Links

 Quad Kill As Rein!

Oh boy! That was lucky! 

Some how surviving as baby Dva 

Off-stream Final Fantasy XIV Progress... well big news is I defeated my first first 'Extreme' Difficulty trial, and yes it was 'The Striking Tree (Extreme)'. After learning what to do during Saturday night's stream, going into with understanding of the orbs, the adds and AOE dangers, I certainly felt more comfortable. That said the tanks were also real new to it, so they both learned on the fly and were able to adapt. Sadly, one support player left part way through, but thankfully FXIV will try to find someone to fill the role.

Big thanks to Kalenal for showing me just how over powered a level 80 Red Mage can be against the likes of Ifrit, King Moogle, Garuda, Shiva, Leviathan and Titan, as three of them were tied to 'Face them on Extreme' quests. Also got some extra insights into the abilities and how these fights should go normally! 

Main Story Quest progress saw things picked up from 'In Search of the Soleil up to an 'An Illuminati Incident' and over the course of these session I faced the sky whale primal, learned that the next huge major story point is gonna involve entering a sky city  and oh yeah... Y'shtola has been found, the first of the Scions to turn up since everything went topsy turvey at the end of A Realm Reborn! 

Speaking off off-stream stuff, joined Sw33ts_gaming during their stream of Overwatch over at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming along with ChiefBeef for some additional matches, picking up two more plays of the game, one as D.va and one as Brigitte.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured the following exercises Triple Combo #1, Body Straight Combo and Uppercut Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 426 kcal

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise Achievements

1. Janice's Contender: Train with Janice for over 30 hours
   

Since we reached the 30 hours for Janice's Contender, we're now going to switch over to using Karen as the trainer. Based on time spent using Karen before we're at 14/30 hours for the Karen's Contender achievement. Other achievements in progress see that I'm at 325/365 consecutive days for One Year's Hard Work, 325/350  Stamps for Unparalleled Stamper and 449,780/450,000 HITs for Mosnter Weight Puncher Lv. 4. Safe to say we're gonna reach that last one tomorrow!

For tonight's stream we are going to be playing Tomb Raider, and this would be 2013 game that was developed by Crystal Dynamics. I have played the Steam version before, so this time I'll be playing the console version using the Xbox Series S. 

So on that bomb shell we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Dragons With A Side Of Quests

Happy Halloween everybody,

Extracted Tooth Healing Update... keeping foot bits out of the closing gum where the tooth was is at times easy and other times hard...

Anyway last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was kind of slow paced at first as I wanted to focus on finding all those quests that had plus signs, which indicated it unlocks something, like access to Beastman quests, extra dungeons, harder versions of major boss battles, extra types of skill sets (Blue Mage, Gunbreaker) or various features (like a stylish).

And we ended up doing a few dungeon runs that were kind of cool... but then there was that hour spent attempting to deal with 'The Striking Tree' which is the Extreme version of the battle against Ramuh (aka the primal with the epic beard)... and one thing I realized is that the FFXIV level scales every thing, so abilities I was learning above level 50 can't be used in the fight. We came very close to beating him twice in tn that hour... and I feel like I learned enough to get an idea of how to stay out of danger... just as long as there is a good shot caller!

In terms of the Main Story Quest, well I wrapped up the remaining level 54-55 quests from "A General Summons" to "The Song Begins" which basically ends the big Dragon war on Ishgard with the defeat of Nidhogg where some big plots points were revealed. One being that the mortals betrayed the dragons was the true history of events, Two being that Nidhogg was blinded during those events when was seeking revenge, Third, Nidhogg's eye was that Hraesvelgr... which raises the question... if Nidhogg was blinded in both eyes, and one of the eyes is with Estinien ... where is Nidhogg's other eye?

In terms of off-stream progression following the stream, things continued to The Vault dungeon, and the introduction of Hilda who has a very cool design... and it has become real obvious a good portion of Heavansward story line is actually a different version of the tried and true JRPG 'go after religion leaders' trope. Which makes sense, because just look at the world today, religion is often the thing keeping people apart in many instances... at least that's how it always seems to me.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Kalenal who was also playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

Twitch Clip Links

• I got nuked! We came so close!
  
• That is Hudson... My Chocobo
• Defeat The Krakken!
• Putting Down Nidhogg! 
  

After over 15 years finally got a lead on Requiem From the Darkness Volume 4. The series was a bit of a Horror anthology, and the DVDs are really tough to find. Would be nice to complete the entire set.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Double Combo #2, Left-Right Step Combo and Advanced Combo #2 for an estimated calorie burn of 550 kcal.

It's Sunday which means it's time for this week's Twitch Bits... and this past week we featured Overwatch, Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions, Gears of War: Judgement, Street Fighter III: New Generation, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Final Fantasy XIV, Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds, Devil May Cry & Resident Evil CODE Veronica X!

For tonight's stream, and with it being Sunday, Overwatch is on deck, as we celebrate Halloween for the third and final week of the Halloween Terror Event. I still need 9 points to get the Roadhog skin, so that will be my focus for sure!

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

May Buffy Slay Evil Vampire Residents That Make The Devil Cry

 Good afternoon everybody,

Well last night's stream was all over the place... in what turned out to be a triple header of PlayStation 2 games.

First was Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds, originally released in 2003 to fairly-good reviews, it is a third-person beat-em up with puzzle elements. You get to play as Buffy, Willow, Xander, Spike plus Sid the Dummy, and there are various behind the scene unlockables like interviews with the members of the cast that actually did voice work for the game... of which Sarah Michelle Gellar is not one of them. The likenesses are pretty on point, a fact James Masters pointed out with him being pleased with how Spike looked. The controls are responsive when brawling but the use of long range weapons like a crossbow and the wonky camera makes it a chore to get through.Now the plan was to play this the entire stream... however the PS2 had some issues and I was not about to go through the entire 2nd level again!

So the second game we played with the PS2 version of Resident Evil: CODE Veronica X. Originally released on the Dreamcast in 2000, it is the TRUE Resident Evil 3... for those who don't know, Sony bitched to Capcom about wanting a numbered game as the next Resident Evil game on the PlayStation.... so what became Resident Evil 3: Nemesis was slapped together using a lot of assets from Resident Evil 2. The PS2 port came out in 2001... and one could say it's been a good 20 years since I first played it... and re-learning to use the tank controls took a lot of effort. Now I'd liked to think I was making progress but a puzzle just stumped me and I was wasting ammo taking out enemies that spawned back into areas I covered already trying to find a solution for the Hawk Medal. and I refused to look up the solution for it after trying everything I could think of and rechecking areas several times for items I have missed!

The final game we checked out was Devil May Cry, originally released on the PS2 in 2001... and it was originally intended to be a game in the Resident Evil series, but it's mechanics for gameplay was so different it got turned into its own things. There is a bit of a learning curve with reading the enemies tactics to realize how to counter, and there are Resident Evil like puzzles and camera angles which. Since I was playing the PS2 version, I have to say it's visual still hold up nicely when compared to it's HD counterpart on Dteam.

How would I know that?

Well after the stream we sent the fun over to spacepiratezod who was playing the Steam version of Devil May Cry over at twitch.tv/spacepiratezod!

Twitch Clip Links

• Well we're dead... 
• What the Puckery Is This?!
• According to Buffy... Just what a girl needs... 
• That Did Not Take Long...
• Get Off Me!
• Open The Shutters 
• We Done Did The Thing... Poorly 
• Am I Supposed To Just Run? 
• Strike A Pose Dante! I Have The Power!

 I did notice looking at clips that the game audio was being captured and displayed a few seconds ahead of the footage... for me the audio was in real time to what I was seeing while playing    which wasn't noticeable on the clips from Wednesday night.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out lasted 28 minutes with the following exercises: Uppercut Combo #2, Body Uppercut Combo & Body Hook Combo for an estimated calorie burn of 420 kcal. My weight is currently at 245 lbs.

Managed to find a copy of Gungrave volume 7... still need to find volume 6 though.

Actually started to plan out a schedule for what games to feature on which days for this week, Sunday night Overwatch, Monday & Tuesday Night: Tomb Raider Definitive Edition, Wednesday night Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact & Gears of War: Judgement, Thursday Night Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions, with Friday and Saturday still up in the air, one of those nights will be for Final Fantasy XIV.

Let's talk about work, on Thursday Night I was asked if I could start earlier than normal since it was expected to be a short shift... so with that in mind, I figured things would be done by like 1 or 2 PM... nope... I still ended getting in the full hours in because we got real close to closing out an assignment. Thing is, with how the day went I could've started at my usual time and worked till my usual time because of how things were going.

Last night's off-stream Final Fantasy XIV progress saw a focus on advancing the plot to A General Summons which sees a return to the focus on the issues in Ul'dah after a lot of major revelations was revealed regarding why the dragons are on a rampage and why there will be no peace, plus explaining an instance from earlier in the game where one enemy turned into a dragon. Also started putting my attention onto the Quest Plus stuff to unlock content and features... why means at some point I'm gonna have to do things on 'extreme' difficulty.... five buck says folks like Kalenal will get a kick out of me trying to keep up with the props on things like facing Shiva. 

For tonight's stream, I think we're gonna mess around with Final Fantasy XIV, just to get more ground covered as it relates to knocking out side quests and stuff.

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