Overwatch 2 and other notes

Tonight's stream featured some unusual problems with my microphone that took a few minutes to resolve. Apparently everything but my voice could be heard. 

We did have a wild night of Overwatch, plenty of wins and way too many losses that were due to questionable choices made by the random teammates we had. 

Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun as always!

Picked up two plays of the game (as Junker Queen and Orissa), also put in time as as D.va, Reinhardt, Bastion, Sombra, Ashe, Lucio and a few others.

Big thank you to Redneck_23 for the raid during the stream!

Out next stream will feature DuckTales: Remastered, it will be our second time playing, but the first time playing it on console. 

For tonight's raid, we went over to MissCammi316 who was also playing Overwatch 2.

Finished two commission stories, one was related to Arrow and the other was tied in with Resident Evil

Next story on my docket is WWE/UFC related, which unfortunately will have the same gimmick as quite a few stories this one person asked for.

Other stuff in the commission story queue are related to Ant-Man, Spider-Man and Star Wars.

Starfield and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Starfield saw me stick to to the quests I had and progressing storylines a bit, finding the second temple, dealing with some pirates, managing to completely survey and planet and so forth. 

But the biggest thing was successfully romancing Sarah. Now where exactly does that lead, I don't know, but I do know its clearly based on how much time you spend traveling with the companion.

Oddly enough we didn't earn any achievements tonight.

Our next sream will feature Overwatch, and since I did do some off-stream gaming this week, we won't be completely locked into playing Support roles.

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

Nearly finished the Arrow related commission story, I'll be working on that once this is posted.

Did a little grocery shopping, mostly stuff for the freezer as I'm pretty well stocked on pasta.

Found out the Panzarotti Spot on Marlton Pike is now doing door dash deliveries, but considering it is a popular local spot, best not to try to order from there last minute around dinner or lunch time.

Good night folks!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn saw us focusing on finding all collectables and in the north west portion of the map, which meant finding vantage points, cups and metal flowers, plus one raider camp and oddly enough only one real side quests. We did put ourselves in a great spot to find the remaining of those items the next time we play this, but which day that might be is up in the air because of the pending release of Persona 5 Tactica next week.

Only got one trophy, but it came via a hunting trial, and I need to make sure to find the remaining cauldrons.

There is also the question of how many quests and activities will be rewarding skill points, or if there is a way to respec in game.  I don't believe there is a way to do that.

Our next stream on Saturday will feature Starfield.

For the raid, we dropped in on ElegantlySlays while they were playing Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Big thank you to Droggat for the raid during the stream!

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• Tore off 5 heavy weapons: Detached 5 heavy weapons from machines during combat.

On the writing front, I'm sort of caught up, just need to work on a Arrow commission request which centers around Thea Queen. Following it, I've commissions based on Resident Evil, Pro Wrestling and Ant-Man on the docket.

Bills are paid for this month, but we are entering the time of year where things ended up being really bad in the past, and this year has been so rough there is no way to count on partial unemployment if things go to shit.

On that note, 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!

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!