Finally a Dragoon

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was very productive in terms of getting various  things done... and I learned that I will have to do the Savage raids of the hardest raids to even have a shot of getting a weapon that matches my current gear set. Still I managed to conquer the Palace of the Dead to now have access to Heaven-on-High... and also finally leveled up Lancer to the point we can start the Dragoon quests... which means, when we encountered Estinien he doesn't know who I am because of when this set of quests takes place in the grand scheme  of the story. Beyond that, also gained a level on Fishing and Botany to bring those up, with Botany being the higher priority in terms of quests.

Twitch Clips

• Or Was It Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III
• Ooops.... 
• That's A Metalica Song... From the Black Album...
  

For the raid last night we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

The Phillies fired Joe Giradi... and I'm not sure how that can be justified considering the half-ass team he was assigned that had consistently the worse bullpen in modern history over the past few years.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Advanced Combo #1, Waist Shape Focus Combo and Hook Combo #1

There is a new Beavis and Butt-Head movie coming out... sure it's behind the paywall of Paramount+, but the idea that franchise is being brought back is surprising!

Made sure to have things ready to renew PlayStation Plus for the next year... will also need to remember to do the same for the Nintendo Switch before the end of the month. Of course, I have this ready before learning that PlayStation Plus subscriptions do no stack so I'll have to wait to implement it

Well it's confirmed, Resident Evil 4, the game that probably set the standard for a generation is getting a Remake... I am disappointed that Code Veronica has gotten over looked... again.

Played a couple of matches of Smite as Esst, winning one and losing one. I figure I might try to get Esst to rank 10 at a casual pace. Also got in a few matches in Overwatch, working mostly on my escape skills as D.va, which will come in handy in a 5 v 5 situation in Overwatch 2.

For tonight's stream we going to be playing Persona 5 Royal, as we're probably going to going to the Cruise Ship palace as soon as possible!

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

Just Your Typical One Night Playthrough of Ghostbusters

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream featured Ghostbusters; The Video Game, and went a lot longer than it probably should for a couple of reasons... one being I was trying to get as many achievements as possible in a single play-through, and I missed out on a few 100% PKE, but I did find every single collectable item, which was something I didn't do when I played the Remastered Version last year. Now my desire to get some achievements certainly lead to me having to re do certain parts, which was frustrating... particularly with the infamous Stone Angels late in the game. The stream itself ran 7 hours, which is long for a Wednesday night for sure but hey, it is the 34th game finished this year

Still on a positive note, I did show that the online multi-player still works... now I just need to find 3 people to play it with! Also a positive is that the Xbox 360 version of Ghostbusters The Video game holds up rather nicely, and outside of textures there really isn't that much difference in how it and the Remaster look, in my opinion. On a side note, in comparison to my play through of the Remastered version last September, I actually grabbed 3 more achievements.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Achievements

• You Gotta Try This Pole!: Slide down the fire pole.
• Total Protonic Reversal: Knock yourself down with your own weapon.
• I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost!: Trap a ghost.
• We Have the Talent!: Complete the Firehouse training level.
• I'm Picking Up A Signal...: Obtain a 100% PKE scan on a paranormal creature.
• ...And You Want to Keep It?: Collect a Cursed Artifact.
• Aim for the Flat Top!: Eliminate a creature.
• I Feel So Funky: Get slimed by a charging ghost.
• The Flowers are Still Standing!: Complete the 'Welcome to the Hotel Sedgewick' level.
• Slam Dunk!: Slam dunk a ghost into a trap.
• I Looked at the Trap, Ray!: Recover 20 of your own full ghost traps.
• I Love You When You Rough-House!: The tidy arcitectural office could use some Proton-based humbling.
• Once S'more into the Breach: Complete the 'Panic in Times Square' level.
• But the Kids Love Us!: The children's reading room has a story to tell, but it will take more than your eyes to see it.
• Slime Dunk!: Trap a ghost using the Slime Tether.
• I'm a Ghostbuster, Not a Doctor!: Revive your teammates 20 times.
• Mother Pus Bucket!: Purchase all upgrades for the Slime Gun.
• Get Her!: Complete the 'Checking Out the Library' level.
• Stasis Dunk!: Trap a ghost using the Stasis Stream.
• Heat 'Em Up: Purchase all upgrades for the Proton Gun.
• You Never Studied: Keep your ears open to learn everything you can about the Civil War.
• We be fast! They be slow!: Purchase all upgrades for the Dark Matter Generator.
• Ghost Fever Grips New York: Complete the 'Museum of (Super)Natural History' level.
• Ghostbusters Drinking Game: Quench your thirst wherever possible to avoid being scared spitless.
• I've Quit Better Jobs Than This.: Some ghosts had a real blowout in the Coat Room. Clean it up?
• I Don't Want My Face Burned Off: Purchase all upgrades for the Meson Collider.
• We Have the Tools!: Purchase all available equipment upgrades.
• Somebody Saw a Cockroach on 12: Complete the 'Return to the Sedgewick' level.
• Hedgebuster: The hedge maze is a real eyesore; do some Protonic pruning.
• Let Me Guess, Gozer Worshippers: Complete the 'Lost Island Rising' level.
• Spores, Molds, and Fungus: Collect all Cursed Artifacts.
• Disaster of Biblical Proportions: Complete the 'Central Park Cemetery' level.
• We Came, We Saw...: Complete the game on 'Casual' or 'Experienced' difficulty.

Twitch Clips

• I Feel So Funky...
• I'm fine... it was Egon who got nailed!
• Disaster of Biblical Proportions
  

Big thanks to Redneck_23 for the raid after his stream of Farming Simulator 19, which e was playing over on twitch.tv/redneck_23!

For last night's raid we dropped in on SweetLindir who was playing Smite over at twitch.tv/sweetlindir! 

With last night's stream going a lot longer than intended, it meant I didn't exactly have much time to  look into other topics for today's blog. It does indeed happen.

Something that was trending (kind of) on Twitter was posting what cartoons premiered in the year you were born... and boy the pickings were rather slim for 1982 with things like Gilligan's Planet & The Gary Coleman Show hitting the airwaves in the United States.

For today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout, the exercises were Weaving Combo #1, Weaving Combo #2, Uppercut Combo #1 and Straight Combo #1. Workout was a solid 45 minuets long.

Kind of work related... so there is this guy running for Govenor of New Mexico named Mark Ronchetti, who was a meteorologist...but one of things he wants to claim is that climate change doesn't exist. Like seriously... dude... you were a weatherman! Clearly you've seen how the climate has changed in your career! 

SNK, the developers of the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series of games... is now owned by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. This completely flew under the radar when it happened in April, and safe to say... and while I do have a great deal of respect for the history of SNK, safe to say, I will not be featuring anything from that company going forward.

For tonight's stream we shall be playing Final Fantasy XIV, and depending on how long it takes me to get various things done, we may toss in some Star Trek Online as well!

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

A Random Night of Old Games

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream had a wide amount of variety with games from the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 era. We lead off with Legends of Wrestling, which arrived in the mail mid-afternoon, and outside of the unlock all the wrestlers code not working, it was just as mediocre as I remember. Mainly I added it for the purpose of having the completely trilogy of the series. Something of note is that my stream had a few resets which I suspect was due to an issue with Comcast.

Second game was Rocky Legends, which in many ways is the older version of Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions which we played last year... just a little less arcade like. It does have a full story mode, with various unlockables that can be earned... but Rocky Legends is a lot more grind heavy. Also of note is that the music from the Rocky films is worked in quite nicely through the game with some musical cues kicking in depending on how a round is going.

We then switched to the PlayStation 3 and checked out Golden Axe: Beast Rider... and from what I experienced, it seemed like a good game The controls are a little over thought out, and the riding of the dragon seemed a little clunky, but beyond that the game looked, sounded and played pretty well in my opinion. Would I dedicate it to a full attempt to beat it... who knows.Still, I did find it to be better than something like Bloodborne.

Marvel vs Capcom: Origins was the next game, which has the full arcade port of Marvel vs Capcom... now i played the EX Edition recently, but going back into the 2v2 style certainly was screwy, as I felt a lot of my timing was way off in regard to what I was able to do. Not to mention the Arcade port A.I. is much more brutal than the PlayStation variant. We closed the night out with a quick look at Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, which was the version of SSF2T that had the more modern look that no one really liked. If I started earlier in the night I probably would have dedicate more time to actually brute force my way through it, but hey that's a challenge for another day!

Twitch Clips

•  The Dramatic Camera!
•  Knocked Him Down!
•  A Big Dude On A Bridge
•  Shinku Hadoken
•  You Win
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on CallMeMsGalaxy who was playing Overwatch over on twitch.tv/callmemsgalaxy! 

Speaking of Overwatch, I did my 5 placement matches for Support... and went 2-3, getting placed at Silver 1724

I would be shocked by all the drama surrounding Star Wars, but lets be honest, at this point, most people are taking the roles in that franchise just to bait trolls.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 workout featured Triple Combo #1, Double Combo #2, Left-Right Step Combo and Advanced Combo #2. Triple Combo #1 was set to No Mercy Difficulty, and managed to score a new personal best on it.

Started work on the commission request for a WWE story involving Finn Balor, AJ Styles and Liv Morgan, I got the general opening set, and I figure if I don't over complemented I can knock it out gradually over the next few days

Feeling old yet...  rumors are starting to pop up regarding what may be happening for the Power Rangers 30th Anniversary. Although I believe Jason David Frank is done with the franchise because of how his tattoos need to be constantly covered, and of course there is issues with Austin St. John that could result in him spending 20 years in prison due to committing fraud with the PPP loans.

For tonight's stream, Iceman will be unable to join us, so we'll be taking a break from Fallout 76 and focus on something else for to the evening! Thus I think we'll place the Xbox 360 version of Ghostbusters on tonight's stream.

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

Lego Batman: The Video Game is finished

Good morning everyone,

Last night we wrapped up Lego Batman: The Video Game, covering Episodes 3 for both the Hero and Villain side of the story. I can safely say a few puzzles certainly were clever, and forced me to think a bit, but a couple of things actually forced me to look up the solutions. I did find it increasingly eye rolling of how more blatantly obvious 'Free Play' mode was going to be necessary to find the mini-kits to even have an outside shot of 100% completion... so I'm going to settle for 86%... and I think I'll gradually work on the 'Free Play' version of the levels. There are a couple of smaller achievements I can possibly get as well... that aren't notoriously glitched. Of course with all the achievements we knocked out, my Xbox Gamer Score is 80,000.

 

LEGO Batman Achievements

• Kill-a moth.: Defeat Killer Moth.
• The Most Dangerous Man on Earth.: Defeat Joker, Two-Face, Riddler and Catwoman as Batman.
• Crusader.: Complete the third episode - Hero.
• Smash Gordon.: Defeat Commissioner Gordon with Harley Quinn's Hammer.
• It's the car, right?: Unlock all Vehicles (Hero/Villain).
• Scare Tactics.: Scare 5 enemies with Scarecrow.
• Oh, I got a live one here!: Shock 30 people with Joker's hand buzzer.
• Cobblepot School of Driving.: Smash all the cars in the robot level.
• Crime Lord.: Complete the third episode - Villain.
• Be a Hero.: Super Hero on every level.
• Start of something wonderful.: Shock the Joker with the Joker.
• The Destroyer of Worlds: Destroy 12 objects at once with Bat Bombs.

Twitch Clips

• Kick His Backside Harley!
• Defeating The Joker 
• Bonk Them On The Head!
  

During the stream we had a raid from Jakey1908 who was also playing Lego Batman: The Video game over on twitch.tv/jakey1908!

For the raid last night we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

Happy Birthday to PandaSweet!

Played a fairly quick Assault match in Smite last night, playing Kukulkan, nothing memorable but we picked up the win.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2  daily workout featured Beginner Combo #1, Body Uppercut Combo, Body Hook Combo and Body Straight Combo. Set a new personal best on Body Uppercut Combo since that was set to No Mercy difficulty.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For May 2022

• Punches Thrown: 49,041
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 19847.68 kcal
  
• Sophie' Contender Progress: 17/30 (56% Completed)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 93%
  

Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau introduced a bill to prevent the buying and selling of handguns in Canada, this two years after banning assault style weapons. Why can't American leadership be like that? Oh right, our political leaders, particularly Republicans are gutless wimps,

I can confirm the Game Lobby and match making for the Xbox 360 version of Ghostbusters does indeed work. Reason why I was checking is that we'll feature that version of Ghostbusters: The Video Game in next week's lineup of games.

Played some ranked Overwatch matches, and went 4-1 in the 5 placement matches for tank, giving me a rank of 2047. I am a bit frustrated because I could've gone undefeated if it wasn't for my team being too aggressive. 

Got another fan fiction commission request this morning, this time based around the trio of AJ Styles, Finn Balor and Liv Morgan who have been apparently allied on WWE TV as of late.I think I can come up with something based on a couple of clips I saw.

For tonight's stream we're going to do some random stuff I think, but I'm not 100% sure. But you know I'll be up to something, so we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Another successful night of Overwatch

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was a lot of fun, as we did a few things involving Junkenstein's Revenge plus the usual big focus on Quick Play matches. We were joined by PandaSweet and PadDes for a lot of team up action, which was awesome. PatDes is probably best known for being a big part of the Twitch Sings Community. The night ended on a stretch of 8 wins in the final 10 matches played, which is always nice. In terms of my individual performance, I have a few plays of the game, notably as D.va and Reinhardt in Quick Play matches and as Cassidy in Junkenstein's Revenge.

Twitch Clips

• Another sneaky back push
• Buckle up! 
• Well that got two!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on ErikaMonky over at twitch.tv/ErikaMonky as they were playing Phasmophobia!   

It appears my Fantasy Baseball team had a solid week as we won 6 out of 10 categories, mostly thanks to pitching. This week my team batted .276 (69/250) with 32 runs scored, 6 Home Runs and 29 RBI with 4 Stolen Bases. In 47 innings pitch, my team won 5 games with 3 Saves, 53 Ks on a 2.30 ERA and a WHIP of 1.02.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #2, Uppercut Combo #2, Double Combo #1 and Front-Back Step Combo.Kind of funny how I woke up super early today for a longer workout as opposed to yesterday when I woke up so late I only felt like doing a light routine.

Played a little Smite off stream, picking up a couple of wins as Eset and Ra in a couple of quick Arena matches. 

Also messed around with a bit of Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl, going through the Arcade mode and doing a perfect run to earn its related achievement. For it I used Garfield, and I figured out a few things. Tried to do some online matches but there was no one appearing in the casual Quick Play.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Achievements

• Avatar State: Complete an Arcade run without losing a single stock

Dabbled some more with Persona 4: Arena, and I think I figured out a few things playing as Elizabeth, who has a particularly difficult super to do since it's a counter, meaning for it to work she has to be attacked. Also I looked into it, and the story mode for P4A does look like it has many of the same gimmicks as the BlazBlue games where it has a visual novel approach with multiple endings.

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• Trained in Seclusion: You spent 30 minutes in Training in one sitting. Now take it to the streets!
• Perfect!: You had a perfect victory in Arcade Mode or online.
• Die for Me!: You performed 30 Fatal Counters in Arcade Mode or online.

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For tonight's stream, we're looking to finishing Lego Batman: The Video Game, we have Episode 3 of both side of the story to complete along with the two bonus stages. So this should be a lot of fun.

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

Nick's All-Star Brawl and Persona 4 Arena... Surprised Me

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream was a triple header which lead off with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, and I have to say it's not bad. There is a great variety of characters and representation of Nick Toon characters, although the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Characters and Garfield stick out because those are franchises that were not original to Nickelodeon. The stages are kind of a mix bag, I really dislike the ones where there is an extremely zoomed out camera. I did go through the entire roster to get an idea of how everyone plays, some characters have some very unique gimmicks, I probably enjoy Michelangelo the most just based on first impressions.

Second game was Persona 4 Arena, and of course I'm no stranger to the cast of Persona 4 in a fighting game as they made up a large part of the BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle roster. Since I'm not familiar with the events of Persona 4, any references to things from it are of course lost on me. Still P4A has perhaps the best Fighting Game Tutorial I've ever seen as it really lays down the basics with no bullshit . We went through the arcade mode on the game's default settings and I have to say the difficulty was pretty solid for a casual gamer like myself. I look forward to seeing if its story mode has the visual novel aspect.

We closed out the stream by playing some Smite, focusing on some of the weekly goals, which involved playing Egyptian gods, so we did a few matches as Eset and Neith, and picked up a few wins. It was a really good.

• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Achievements
  
  • I Want an Award!: Compete in your first local battle
  • I Only Know How to Give 110%: Compete in 10 local battles
  • Getting to Know the Family: Play at least once with all standard brawlers in a local battle
  • I'm Ready! I'm Ready!: Complete an online quickplay match
  • Rise and Shine: Clear Arcade with 1 brawler

• Persona 4: Arena Achievements
  
  • You know the Midnight Channel?: Tuned In
  • School's Out: You've aced all the tests.
  • Per...so......na...!: Have you burned your dread? Or reached out to the truth?
  • Calm Down.: You suffered a Persona Break in Arcade Mode or online. It happens to everybody...
  • Champion!: You completed Arcade Mode with one character.
  • They Call Me...: You've created a Title for your online matches.

• Twitch Clips
  
  • Hmm Bacon...
  • We Won An Online Match! 
  • That was close!
  • Taking Down Shadow Labrys 
  • The second I realize I got into trouble...
  • Snapped it Off For Two! 
    

For the raid we dropped in on Starvexia who was playing Minecraft over on twitch.tv/starvexia! 

Off-stream I did log into Gears 5, to nab the two achievements that were decommissioned. Hey Easy achievements are easy.

• Gears 5 Achievements
  
  • Homegrown Hive: Completed a Featured community built Escape Hive
  • I Made It All By Myself: Created and published an Escape Hive

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive Combo #2 and Defensive Combo #1. I kept it light today because of when I woke up (which was at 2:50 PM lol)

A new week has started, but let's look back at all the games we featured last week, which were Overwatch, Lego Batman: The Video Game, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Star Trek Online, Persona 5 Royal, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Persona 4: Arena and Smite!

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For tonight's stream we're kicking off the new week with Overwatch! So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Another massive night of Persona 5 Royal

Good afternoon everyone,

Well last night was another massive stream based around Persona 5 Royal, caused mostly because when I know I don't have to get up the next day and I get raided, I will extended the stream, thus the stream got extended multiple times. Now we did have to go through all the time to git towards the battle with Sae which was on November 18th, and we spent a lot of time pushing to build up numerous confidants to get them maxed out. At this moment the only two that need work are The Hanged Man and Tower. This also means, I spent a lot of time on looking up all the fusion combinations to build up the Strength confidant... and needless to say, a lot of sites some wrong combinations listed.

I do love the fact that following the battle with Shadow Sae, the game catches up to the initial prologue and we got to experience it all again this time with context, With that said...let's talk about that near two hours of plot development between Sae's interrogation of Ren is completed and the big bad dude of the base game is Shido. I mean a lot of ground is certainly covered to explain everything as how the Phantom Thieves thwarted the Akechi's assassination attempt on Ren. Now I'm fully able to suspend my disbelief, but a lot of things certainly had to go right for the plan to go off without a hitch. Clearly numerous things could have and should have gone wrong, but all is well that ends well.  

Next time we play Persona 5 Royal, which will be on Friday, we are picking up on November 24th, just after the initial visit to the Cruise Ship Palace. So we got that to look forward too. And in case anyone is wondering, we have put in 105 hours into Persona 5 Royal up to this point.

Twitch Clips

• That Broke Her Heart
• Too Late To Be Sorry 
• Off With Their Heads!
  

Persona 5 Royal Trophies

• A Night in Kichijoji: Attended the jazz club.
• Casino of Jealousy: Bankrupted: Completed the casino Palace.
  

As mentioned before we had a few raids last night, the first was from just_press_next who was playing Undertale over at twitch.tv/just_press_next.

The second raid was from Oldish22 who was playing Path of Exile over at twitch.tv/oldish22!

The third raid raid was from YrGamerBunni who was playing Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/YrGamerBunni! They also gifted a sub and dropped a few bits which is always appreciated!

For our raid at the end of my stream, we dropped in on DimakTV who was also playing Persona 5 Royal, they were also dealing with the Shadow Sae boss battle. They stream over at twitch.tv/dimakTV! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Intermediate Combo #1, Triple Combo #2, Biceps Shape Focus Combo and Difficult Challenge Combo #1

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise Stats For May 22 to 28, 2022

• Punches Thrown: 10,809
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 4465.88 kcal
  
• Sophie's Contender Progress: 16/30 hours (53%)
  

Got a lead to track down two PlayStation 2 era games, the original Legends of Wrestling and X-Men: Next Dimension. The first game I had years ago, and at some point I must have traded it in back in the early 2000s, while the second game is one of the earliest console fighting games to have an allegedly solid story mode.

SoulCalibur II HD Online has been delisted on the Xbox side of things... which makes me glad I snapped up the game when I did and featured it fairly recently on one of my streams.

For tonight's stream I really have no clue what I shall be doing, but I'll be up to something random. So we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!