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!

Sonic Forces and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight we started up Sonic Forces, and while I had played it before, relearning how to play the game after several years proved to be a challenge, resulting in me not catching on to attack patterns or noticing when obvious dangers (like pits, spikes and enemies) appearing in my path. Good news is we did clear about half of the game and got a fair share of A and S ranks. Of course, I do remember how difficult some of the final stages get, so the questions is will I be able to finish it on Thursday's stream? That really depends, if I ignore all SOS mission notifications it's possible.

Of course I did have to talk about how Sonic Forces potential since it does have a similar premise to the Sonic SatAM series from the 90s, and I know I'll bring it up when I eventually do a casual review of it!

Anyway our next stream on Wednesday will feature Journey to the Savage planet as Iceman and I will continue with what was originally the DLC content for the game. Curious to see the expanded area.

For the raid we went over to xlunagoddess who was playing Life is Strange 2

Sonic Forces Achievements

• A New Story Begins: Cleared Stage 1.
• Your Own Story: Created an Avatar.
• Sextuple Trouble: Defeated Zavok.
• Hooked on Wispons: Changed Wispons for the first time.
• Everyday Enthusiast: Completed 3 Daily Missions.
• Infinite Possibilities: Drove off Infinite.
• Super Sonic Rescue: Completed your first SOS Mission.
• Outfitter: Collected 30 parts.
• Mean Egg Machine: Drove off Eggman.
• For the Future: Liberated a world.
• Style Hog: Collected 100 parts.
• Fighter: Defeated 1,000 enemies.
• Global Allies: Utilized the Rental Avatar function.
• Freedom Fighter: Completed 5 SOS Missions.
• Courage in Hand: Drove off Infinite again.
• Sonic Blaster: Collected 10 Wispons.

Knocked out a Superman related story commission today, and I have to say that I'm really annoyed at how Superboy is depicted in the Reign of the Superman film... he was not a foot shorter than Lois Lane in the comics back in 1993!

Next story commission is inspired by the Marvel Spider-Man games on the PS4, taking place with Peter and Mary Jane in Symkaria.

Didn't have work for the second day in a row, but I'll be damned if I can remember when was the last time I ever worked election night during my time as a market research interviewer. Should have work on Wednesday!

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!

 

Overwatch 2 and other notes

 Hi Folks,

Tonight's stream of Overwatch was interesting as we had to content with a new tank in the form of Mauga, and much like Ramatra, I don't see myself willing playing as him often, as there seems to be a bit of a nuance to him. Figuring out how to count him was a lot more interesting as I think D.va can, or at the least has the best chance of mitigating the damage he can dish out.

Big thanks to Panda Sweet for being apart of the action as always! 

Picked up one Play of the Game as Cassidy, while also playing as Sombra, Tracer, Bastion, Orissa, D.va, Moira, Kiriko, Brigitte and a few other characters over the five hour stream.

For the raid we went over to Kalenal as they were playing Final Fantasy XIV 

Our next stream will seem resuming Resident Evil as we inch closer to finishing it. Depending on where we are on Monday's stream when we pause for the night will determine if I choose to go all in to try and finish it on Tuesday's stream

At the time of this writing got most of a WWE related commission request story finished, figuring out how to get it to 3000 words is proving to be a bit of a challenge.

Once that story is done I have two Spider-Man and one Superman related story on the docket.. thank goodness for that.

Having to do some research on The Boys comics / TV series to get an idea of how to do handle a particular character who doesn't talk for a future commission tale.

And on that note, good night!

Starfield and other notes

Hi folks,

Well I wanted to focus on doing quests and we were successful in doing something related to the main story, finding a new companion and getting the first of a set of powers. I've basically given up on trying to explore, because apparently there are some quirks with finding flora and fauna that have been modded out of the PC version, but the console versions are start with. 

We did do a lot of space battles, which resulted in my first in game death. I'm not to keen on the space combat because my instinct to try and maneuver with the left analog stick makes me a sitting duck, Still I at least know that when I die in space it will re-spawn me at the beginning of the combat situation giving me a chance to get the fuck out dodge!

For the raid we went over to Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV 

My next stream will feature Overwatch, as we'll be grinding out matches due to the next K-Pop event crossover, and yes I did get the bundle for the new skins.

Starfield Achievements

• Home Sweet Home: Build an Outpost
• Into the Unknown: Complete "Into the Unknown" 

Didn't finish the WWE commission request I had planned for today, so once this blog is posted I'll be doing that after getting the stream and clips for tonight situated. 

Someone is asking my to do a story based on The Boys series and to feature the character of Love Sausage. Given my unfamiliarity with the show, that will be a challenge.

This week's line up looks like it's going to be about the same, and that will depend on when we finish Resident Evil, as the next big story point will be the decision to Trust Barry or not.

Added a few groceries today, milk, pot pies, oranges... minor stuff since I'm good on everything else. Also grabbed something from Wendys... forgot how good their Frosties are.

And on that note... good night!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn saw us getting back to the main area of the game, and focusing on finding Metal Flowers, and side quests, scaling a tallneck and find figures. We did run across an entrance to ruins that apparently I cannot get to until a certain quest is done. We did pick up a couple of achievements related to doing things but not related to story progression.

Since we're doing all the side stuff without advancing the plot, next time we play Horizon Zero Dawn (which will be next Friday), we'll be continuing our exploration. 

Our next stream on Saturday will be Starfield, and hopefully I can figure out which quests are important to the story.

For the raid we went over to lilmoolah_ who was playing Baldur's Gate 3

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• 3 Strikes From Above: Killed 3 enemies using the Strike from Above skill.
• All Transport machines killed: Killed at least one of every type of Transport machine.

Read the Batman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Crossover, which direct crossovers with the Batman Animated Series from the 1990s and the TMNT series that started in 2012, and tone wise, it works very well. In fact during the stream I put the comic over a lot because of how it really made good use of the Batman villains.

Knock out a Resident Evil story to fulfill a commission request, and I needed to pad it with some plot related stuff because using Mr. X in a prominent role limit what I could do, because unlike Nemesis, Mr. X doesn't talk.

Next commission story I'll be working on is WWE related, in fact the next two stories are WWE related so... ugh... but hey, getting paid for it.

Had a nice long chat with my good friend Kristi today, which was awesome. Was nice to touch base for an extended period of time

Good night folks!

Resident Evil and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Resident Evil saw us make our way through the mansion as second time, getting turned around on where we had to go, but in the end we ended up in the Courtyard Basement, which meant we ended up knocking of the Yawn and Black Tiger (aka Giant Fucking Spider), and making some liberal use with the grenade launcher. Of course we did end up dying once because of a puzzle involving walls closing in and having to get a stature into an alcove. So there goes the 'no death run'. 

So next time play play Resident Evil, which will be on Monday's stream, we'll be heading to the elevator room to get the shaft to combine with the cylinder we found, and basically work our way to the big decision to Trust Barry or not. Now at this point I think we're maybe going to get two more streams out of Resident Evil, possibly three depending on how long it takes me to understand the guide and what needs to be done!

Out next stream on Friday will see us continuing Horizon Zero Dawn as we get back to the main areas of the game, finding the normal collectables and grinding towards hitting level 60!

For the raid we dropped in on DatShadowWolf who was playing Dead By Daylight 

Resident Evil Achievements

• Giant Snake Got Nothin': Defeat Yawn using Jill.
• Get Used To It: Die for the first time.
• Spider Sense: Defeat Black Tiger.

Didn't quite finish the Spider-Man story commission I was working on today, because I wasn't feeling well this morning. But I'm going to finish it before I go to bed, so that I can work on the next Resident Evil related story commission (which will involve a version of Mr. X that fits the narrative I've established) 

After that I have two back to back WWE related story commissions, along with another Spider-Man and then one based on Superman.

And if knock all those out, I might get around to planning the next Persona: Dereliction chapter!

So on that note, good night!