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Day 803 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I’ve been working on the Pokédex all day, and consequently the Living Dex. The major headaches so far have been the eggs. A whole bunch of walking to hatch them. I’ve started doing them in batches. I have a media server set up, and I’ve been watching Supernatural while I do it (always wanted to watch it, never got a chance). Normally I don’t try to “multitask” like that. But by step 10,000? I was needing something else to do. This whole thing though made me think, crazy respect to people who do Shiny Living Dexes. I don’t think I could ever. Like. The number of Shinies I’ve found in my life is maybe <10. Maybe 5 if you exclude scripted ones like in ZA. Hell. I did a Living Dex for Gen 3 and the entire time I only found 1 Shiny. It’s crazy man. I saw one of my friends was naming every Pokemon they caught. I thought it’d be a fun challenge so I did the same thing. I need to go back and name some. But around 150~ Pokemon in I stopped giving them names and started naming them after the first noun I saw online. After that I just started making them up or naming them after the first word I came up with. I even started getting creative by swapping vowels and noises. I ended off on Mt. Coronet, hunting for a Absol. im thinking I’ll named this one Ande. Like the Andes Mountains. Or Andesite. Or maybe I’ll name it something Mundane. Like Dave or something. First I need to find the damn thing though.

Day 802 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Fallout 3. I didn’t realize how short the main story was for this. For context I just met up with the Brotherhood of Steel before ending off and I’m on my way to get the G.E.C.K. I can’t check exact hours right now but I’d say I’m maybe 15 hours in? Maybe 10. It’s not a strike against it, I like shorter stories, but it’s just something I’ve noticed. I did Operation Anchorage too today. Binged it all in one go. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it was an interesting experience. There’s almost a sort of fun novelty to a more traditional Linear shooter experience recreated in Fallout 3’s janky engine. I couldn’t do a full game of it. But a quick short story is a lot of fun. The post of the DLC threw me for a loop though. I had been half paying attention to what was going on, so when they mutinied I hadn’t realized what was going on. I almost thought I had stolen something and they were pissed about it. I went back to the Citadel and sorted myself out. I’ll need to go back and pick up Butch since the DLC dismissed him, but besides that everything else is cleaned up. Dropped off the excess weight I didn’t need at the time and headed back to track down the G.E.C.K.

Day 797 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Myst. It was on sale for like 2$ so I picked it up. I was wanting the fancy modern version but ME was 2$ and the same experience. So I figured why not. I’ve been wanting to play this for a hot second for a while. I used to have a disk for my iMac G3 I could play on. I was young though and had no understanding of what I was doing. So I wanted to give it an earnest try. First thoughts? This game is creepy and claiming at the same time. Somehow it usually feels like I’m in this serene calm place (picture above not relevant to this part), but also it feels like there’s something there (picture above IS relevant to this part). Either behind me or around the corner and it’s going to get me. It’s an interesting feeling. I love the graphics. This early kind of FMV is super charming to me in a way even though I didn’t grow up with it. I remember loving it when I was exploring it freely when I was little too. Pair that with the soundtrack and it’s a good time. My favorite so far has been the planetarium. I always loved space growing up and this somehow scratches that feeling. I made it through the mechanical age before having to stop. I brought the blue page back with me so and that was rather fast so I don’t expect this to be super long of a game to play.

Day 800 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Pokemon Platinum. My DS’s screen has been giving me issues because it has a dead zone on it. So I switched to an emulator until I can replace it. I cleared the Pokemon league today finally, which is the main reason I picked this over anything else. Im sure for day 800 though someone will name a game that is a better fit and I’ll go “damn, I wish I thought of that”. Though. I suppose it won’t do any good since my Wi-Fi is currently out. I struggled a little with the Psychic guy and I was really worried about Cynthia since he force me to use all my healing stuff ahead of time. Thankfully though I was able to clear Cynthia without much trouble, or at least trouble by Cynthia standards. Once finishing up the E4 I loaded into the save and worked on my Pokédex a little more. I went by the battle frontier too and got situated there. I probably won’t go back by the battle frontier until I complete the Pokédex though. I’m not big on the battle part of Pokemon so there’s not much for me there unfortunately. I think tomorrow I’ll try and see if I can knock the Pokédex out in one swoop. I’d love to go on to HGSS. I’ve always wanted to like it but never could like it. I want to go through the entire thing and give it a try though to see if I can love it how others do.

Day 793 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today‘s game is Fallout 3. I really probably shouldn’t have started another game while I was finishing the DLC of Assassin’s Creed 3 and Pokemon Platinum. But I also really wanted to play Fallout 3 recently for some reason. I may not finish it, but that’s fine. I got my fix at least. I did a fully unarmed build this time. I usually go for guns but this time I wanted to use my fists to punch stuff. It’s lead to some pretty good results, like in the opening it’s really easy to knock out NPCs you aren’t supposed to. For example, Butch here I pummeled into the floor before doing the G.O.A.T. First thing I did was of course head for Megaton. I disarmed the bomb and collected the house, then got fresh on the trail of Liam Neeson. I stopped for a moment to get a picture to show off my guy, Player Name, and went on my way. My quest to find Qui-Gon Jinn took me into the metro. I rooted around down there for a while and pummeled some Mole Rats to death. I was about to heal up and head out to find the Player’s dad again, and then the worst tragedy to befall someone in a Bethesda game struck: my game crashed. I took that as a sign to take a breather. I had been playing for about 2-3 hours now and I should have been getting some air (plus taking care of some work I had to do). Tomorrow I’m gonna try and clear out the DLC of AC3, as I do actually want to keep playing this. It’s been a blast and I know if I add something else to my plate something will get dropped which I want to avoid.

Day 794 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Project Zomboid. We made a trip into Louisville today. It was a fucking adventure. I usually measure Zomboid sessions based on how many events could go into a Zombie TV Show. And this one was damn full of them. After packing up the van we got everyone piled in and headed off down the road. The first stop was at a gas station where we stopped to grab some extra supplies. That’s where we had our first scare. One of our guys got grabbed and nearly got bitten. By a miracle he made it out alive. We finished fueling up and headed to our next stop. That brought us to the military base. There was an entire horde in there and we fought our way through the entire thing. We had quite a few scares but somehow cleared the entire thing. If I had to guess we killed maybe 300 Zombies in there. As we were looting it though the worst thing happened: The Helicopter Event. We tried to bunker down but it saw us and we had to hide out while it drew half of Louisville to our door step. We fought them off until the end of the event. We decided to stay there because it gave us a narrow choke point to hold down. Once we survived that though we finally made it to our destination. We drove into town and found some Sheep. Just chilling in Louisville. We tried to take them home but they were too heavy and maimed some of our guys. So we just butchered them and took the meat home instead. We were starting to get tired but some of us wanted to press on. One of our players found some car keys and a working car, so they took some of the group home while the rest of us kept exploring. Our trip ended at the Gentlemen’s club. It wasn’t originally our goal, but one of our guys unfortunately got bitten here and died. We took his stuff but with us being down a man we decided not to press our luck and turn around. Thankfully the trip home was a lot less eventful, it was chill and we basically had no issues besides some mild traffic. I let one of our other players drive so I could mark up the road. I mark it up as we go so we can keep an eye on where the road blocks are and be aware. It’s handy. When we finally got home we unloaded from our trip that lasted nearly 4 hours. It was a blast. I’m glad I got to take that trip because it’s some of the most fun I’ve had in Zomboid for a long while.

Day 792 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed 3. I have finally done it. I 100% the Base Game. I thought for sure it would be about the same as revelations was. I was wrong. It was a whole lot more work. I’d say the 2 worst parts were the Encyclopedia of the Common Man and the 100% Sync. The Encyclopedia namely involved just a lot of waiting around which was horrible. I got it though. And I’m finally ready to move onto The Tyranny of King Washington. Which I finally started today actually. It’s interesting getting to play this. I built up this image of what the game would be like in my head when I was younger but never got to play it. Getting to play it now is interesting. It mainly reminds me a lot of Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare, with the whole alternate time line shenanigans. I’m hoping Haytham shows up but my hopes aren’t very high. Just something about the way he’s briefly mentioned and moved on from makes me feel like he won’t really have a role here which sucks. But is also understandable with how short it seems to be. Doesn’t appear to be much space to cram him in. Still. I hope I’m wrong. Anyways. I ended my play session today by getting the first wolf ability. I honestly think it’s kind of cool. Obviously not something that fits in the base game, but having the ability to turn invisible and take out enemies is honestly really cool. I’m a big fan of mechanics like that so I’m glad to have it. Tomorrow I’ll have to try and get more used to it because it’s a lot of fun to use.

Day 773 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Knights of the Old Republic. I played this like back in 2018 when it was on Game Pass and made it to the academy. Unfortunately I believe it was pulled from Game Pass (one of the reasons I never went back to it and one of the many reasons I avoid game pass now). Because of that I never got a chance to finish it. Fast forward about last year and I bought a copy. Now fast forward to now and I’ve really been wanting to play an RPG. I’m not sure if that will scratch that itch but this seemed the most appealing to me so it’s what I went with. My guy is named Riblet. There’s not any particular reason behind that, I just looked at him and thought “yeah. He kind of looks like a Riblet.” So that’s what I named him. I made him a soldier. I remember on my last save I went with Scoundrel because I thought they were cool but I also really struggled in combat. So hopefully here I should do a little bit better. The combat is fun. I like the concept though I do feel like it’s a lot of “stand there and trade shots until one party wins”. Not bad but definitely nothing amazing. Admittedly after crashing on the planet I didn’t do a whole lot. I spent most the time trying to figure out how to get down to the undercity. I wandered into a bar, watched an arena match, wandered out, fought off some debt collectors, then wandered over to an elevator where I got yelled at followed by me trying to enter a military base. So far a lot of wandering around blind. It’s been a lot more fun than I was expecting. Hopefully next time I play though I’ll actually be able to find my way underground.

Day 788 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Pokemon Platinum. I did the whole Distorted World quest. I have to say that this is by far one of my favorite areas in the game along with the northern snow region. I love how it makes use of the camera angles. It’s a lot more impressive I feel for a 3DS Game. On top of that I love the theme music for the place. There’s something super calming about it yet so eerie. I also love how they setup Giratina’s entrance. Like. It’s still a children’s game, obviously. But I wasn’t expecting a full on jumpscare of Pokemon Satan lunging at the camera. It threw me off a little bit. I also love how it comes out of left field almost. Normally it’d be bad but here it gives off this effect that things have gone so so horribly wrong and now there’s this force that doesn’t belong here that’s loose. At least to me. I returned to the overworld after catching Giratina, which I named Gigi, and went on to Sunnyshore. I didn’t start the gym because it was late but I love the city. I feel like it got dealt a bad hand in terms of pacing because it felt small to me last time I played. It’s wedged between 2 of the biggest parts of the game which is unfortunate. I’m really digging the Solar Panel flooring. Tomorrow I’ll hopefully finish the Pokemon League and then I’ll try and finish the Pokédex. I’m close. Like Half of it is full so I should hopefully be close. I’ll have to see though. I also have to do the event Pokemon which could take a bit.

Day 781 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I’ve crawled my way all the way to the 7th gym today and stopped there. I spent a lot of time though working on filling out the Pokédex. There’s a ton of evolutions I can nab currently for the Dex that I’ve been training. I got some friends to play back to back with me so this really works out great as it gives them time to catch up to me. On the subject of the main screenshot. When checking out the lake it got a a giggle out of me because all the Magikcarp flopping around. I really liked this one region where they were all clustered up. Like. Horrible that it happened to them but also really funny. One thing I’ve noticed I like about Gen 4 is the Professor. Not to shit on the other ones but I really like him because he feels involved in what’s going on. I feel like all the others only really show up every once in a while. Meanwhile here we see him like out and about in the events of the story and stuff. Like when he went to see what happens at the lake. Anyways. I’m at the snow gym now. Not a lot besides that has happened. I’ll probably spend tomorrow farming Pokemon for my Pokédex though. It’ll be nice to have them for my Dex ahead of time so I have less to farm post game.

Day 784 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Mario Kart 64. You know what I had? A bunch of cool stuff about Pokemon Platinum I was going to share. My flash cart though isn’t a fan of taking screenshots when the screenshots Archive was made on the 3DS and I switched it back to my DS Lite. So basically all the ones I took were gone. Thankfully, I was uploading some stuff to my Jellyfin server and was playing Mario Kart 64 while waiting. So I have that to talk about. Namely these hills. I was playing time trials and got distracted looking at them. I’ve never stopped to look at them really before outside of with freecam I think. It’s just interesting. They’re striped, despite the main ground not being so and it being something the player would probably never notice. Then again, if it got added I have to imagine someone noticed it. Maybe someone was driving past during play testing and thought they were sparse. This one is a lot less interesting but I was playing Yoshi Valley, and I realized the fall is super fucking long. Like a good 5 seconds of Toad just tumbling down the side of the wall screaming for his life. It’s comedic, though I have to imagine it’s pissed someone out there off before. Anyways. I just ended up tossing the time trial idea out the window when playing and gazing at the world. These Penguins have always been super satisfying to me for example. Just a thought I had when I stopped and looked at them. I wish I had gotten those Platinum Screenshots. But this was interesting to think about and write down and share. So I guess it worked out in the end. Maybe they’re buried somewhere on the card. I’ll have to look later.

Day 780 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Project Zomboid. Me and some friends got back on our world and even got a new person on. I took the chance to blacksmith them a weapon and even build a fancy new materials cabinet. I asked them what they wanted and they said a machete, so i tried to make one for them. It was a little more of a headache finding the materials, but i did eventually get there. More excitingly, i tried making one of our characters a set of plate armor. I mixed things up a little bit but the whole thing came out pretty coherent. They said they liked how mixed up the parts are because it makes them feel like an “apocalypse knight”, so it looks like i wont be returning to the forge. We had started to run low on food, so we all piled up into the mom van and took a trip to raid the local neighborhood houses. I ended up nabbing a deepfreeze i found too and loaded that in the backseat. I found we were running low on fridge space, as while our chef is low on food they insist on keeping raccoon heads in the freezer. As they are our main food person we have no choice but to comply. Finally, we returned home for the night. We’ve been talking about making a trip into Louisville which would be interesting. Our new player was sure it “can’t be that bad” so we’ll have some fun seeing their opinion i suppose. We had everyone log off after and i went back to my Pokemon Platinum.

Day 790 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is some more Halo PvP. I took some friends with me into 8v8 lobbies. We had a friend who’s never played a PvP lobby before and was confident in his skills. We weren’t sure he could but didn’t want to dampen his enthusiasm so we joined him for some matches. Kudos to him, he did pretty good. Nothing crazy but he did well for having only stuck to a private lobby before. It makes me feel a shred of pride, knowing in a way I’m partly responsible for training him to be that good. Besides that, as always with Halo it was a blast. The round was at a stalemate the entire time and both sides barely kept up with each other to achieve a draw. We nearly got a push at the end but failed to make it in time. The entire game I got to dominate with a sniper too which was awesome. We switched to 4v4 after that and we were dominating in that one too. We admittedly may have gotten a little too cocky though as we stopped killing the enemy team really and started chasing each other round. Like for example I stopped sniping to run from my friend with the Energy Sword who was chasing me with it. I got a few kills while running but they were less strategically planned and more so “oh shit. There’s an enemy in my way. I better kill them so I don’t get killed”. I feel like that’s what really captures the magic of Halo for me. It doesn’t just come out like a generic shooter. It has a cohesive balance of cool and moments of just fucking around with friends. It’s a blast. Our last game that’s worth mentioning was fairly quick. I got to dominate with the sniper again in the watch tower and held that position almost all game. Our opponents were fairly skilled but they made the mistake of not watching for grenades. I suppose our commupance though was due anytime. The next two matches after that we got absolutely destroyed by the enemy and it was as funny as it was frustrating. Still. That’s how public PvP games go I guess. I’d like to get friends together for a private PvP lobby again soon. So hopefully that’s something that will happen.

Day 785 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Halo. I admittedly didn’t have much I did today. I ended up booting Halo to play campaign. I figured I could grab some of the loose stragglers I have in terms of achievements for fun. I accidentally booted it up without Anti Cheat though. And that’s when i remembered “Oh yeah. I have mods”. I ended up spending all day just exploring them. Like the one above was an incredibly faithful yet imaginative recreation of 2-fort. It was cool. I wish I had friends playing with me. But it did inspire me to see if I could do the same in Forge. Probably not. I imagine my skills are lacking and forge is less free than full on modding. But it’d be a fun challenge that I’d love to try. Another map I played was one that was a tiny Halo Ring. I expected like a quick recap of a single level or an entire series of them. But nope. This thing was a full on recap of the entire campaign, ending in Chief’s escape. I thought it was really cool that it denied my expectations like that. I guess I had just expected less and it delivered more. The last level I looked at was this backrooms one. I went through it but I didn’t realize it was going to be horror. I don’t mind horror all that much, but If I’m going to be playing a Horror Halo Map I want to do it Co-op with my usual Co-op buddy. They aren’t nearly as tolerant to Horror as I am and I think it will make it infinitely more amusing. I ended up just cutting it short because of that. I really didn’t want to spoil myself for the rest, as I still enjoy getting scared by horror. I feel like that’s the major appeal of horror. To get scared by it (at least on a surface level. On an analytical level it means a lot more to me). Or at-least for me that’s what the appeal is. So I think I’ll save it for later. I fully expect to be coming back to this though, and may even make it a screenshot.

Day 777 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I actually slowed down to do the math on what all I need to play to complete the Pokédex for everything. I cut FRLG out because it’s on switch. I probably won’t buy it, and especially any time soon with the price, but if I want to commit to the challenge of a Native Gen 1-7 Pokédex (or more appropriately now Gen 2-7) it’s probably something I’ll have to do to make it by the deadline I set for myself. Anyways. So. I’ll need to do: HGSS Platinum (Already working on) XY USUM Since I already did Emerald a while ago, that lets me knock out ORAS too, though I love OR so maybe I’ll go back and play it. I’ve also done BW so I don’t need to worry about that, though if I have extra time I want to try and squeeze B2W2 in, I think it’d be fun. Anyways. I did a competition. I entered Dillon (my Bibarel) into it. She was doing great until nds-bootstrap’s menu crashed and I had to restart. Besides that though great. I think she would have won. I honestly don’t ever mess with the contest mechanics. Usually I skip them but I’ve been wanting too for Platinum for some reason so I thought I’d give it a try. Still don’t have an understanding of what it is I’m doing but I’m having fun. I got the 3rd gym badge too. It gave me a bit of trouble but I got some TMs and had a way better time. I like looking at the case, especially because tapping on the badge makes a fun little metallic sound. Playing all these has made me realize though, I don’t really care for how ‘Meta’ the newer games are. Like, I enjoy them and respect them. But there’s an aspect to now I feel like where they feel almost self aware they’re an RPG and give you easy access to EXP grinding. Like the raid battles and stuff. I’m not necessarily saying it’s a bad thing, but I guess it feels a lot less diegetic to me. It makes it feel a lot less like the journey the older games had to. Anyways. I just wanted to talk about this since I made some progress. As I’m writing this I’m running around the woods looking for a Clefairy. So basically I’m really enjoy playing this, so I hope I’m not going to let this go to the bin

Day 775 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Pokemon Platinum. Admittedly, I was going to keep playing KoTOR, but after hearing bank is shutting down, I want to try and meet the deadline to complete the Pokédex in all the games. I think having that deadline will be a fun challenge, and I’m considering transferring them all to Pokemon Home (I’m not sure what all that will require though so it’s more of a “that would be a fun thing to do” scenario). Since my main goal is to complete the Pokédex, I’ve mainly been running around in the woods nearby the flower area. There were few Pokemon there I’m missing and once I nabbed them I had moved on to the next area. The next area of course being the gym. I went through it 3 times now. And I want to just say: Fuck Gardenia and Especially her Turtwig. The Turtwig keeps one shorting a level 30 Pokemon which is complete bullshit. Anyways, I gave her a few more attempts before deciding this is a tomorrow thing. I need to come back with more strategy. Speaking of more strategy, that’s what I love about the older games. Don’t get me wrong, I love some of the newer stuff but the older stuff feels so much more hands on and challenging compared to it. And I love it for that. Anyways, I know this isn’t the most glamorous of game choice, but it matters to me so I thought I’d use it today, especially because it’s the only game I captured due to being out for a D&D session, so not a lot of time today.

Day 779 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is some more Assassin’s Creed 3. Admittedly I was originally going to do some more Pokemon Platinum, but the SD card I was using with my FlashCart failed me. it’s my fault. I should have known better than to trust the cheap no-name Chinese SD card that was giving me issue after issue. Nonetheless though, I was able to save my save file so all is good. Since I had none of those screenshots though, I was left with not a lot of options. I ended up settling on AC3. It’s been my background project for a little bit. My original plan was to play it to 100% from the start, but it turns out my Save File got backed up. So instead I’ve been running 2 saves. A 100% Save where the story is already complete, and a story save, where I’m just worrying about the story. I love this game, not enough to play 100% twice on it though. Anyways. First off, I’m playing the remaster and I feel like it looks like shit. Like, I know it’s a 360 game but the black colors don’t look black. It’s like the gamma is high or something. I’m wondering if it has something to do with me playing it on an SDR monitor but I’m not sure. Gameplay wise though. It’s assassin’s creed 3. After having played the OG and Ezio saga though compared to this, I see why those games are so praised for the Parkour. Like this isn’t bad, but 1-Revelations felt so hands on. Each action felt deliberate. Here Connor kind of feels like he goes up and that’s it. It’s not bad but the Ezio stuff was amazing to control. I see now why it’s so heavily praised. Anyways, I will admit my story playthrough I was doing got sidetracked by reading the index before bed. It’s something I love about these games. It feels like they wear their setting on their chest and they’re proud of it. I love it. Like. I don’t know many other games set during the colonial war that will give you a run down on some minor general, including life and death after the events of the game. It feels special. I don’t remember if they do it anymore (specifically I mean shadows) but I love it here. Anyways. Reading all that kind of turned into my reading before bed, and it put me to sleep a little bit. I think it’s the nostalgia. I used to stay up late on School Nights in the living room playing this game. I specifically have a fond memory of laying on a fold out bed on a couch and playing the Mission where you chase down Lee with the sound off so I don’t wake my parents. Basically though, I have a lot of nostalgia for this game. Getting to view it through this lens of having since become an adult and building my own life is surreal, and I’m glad I get to experience it.

Today’s game is some more Control. I started the Foundation DLC today for the second time. Let me tell you, i forgot how much this cube puzzle pisses me off. I tried to do it once i got far enough that i could. Went and tracked down what i thought was all of them, then spent maybe 30 minutes trying to place them correctly. Only to find out i was missing one. I don’t know if it got knocked off the cliff on accident or what but i couldn’t find it. I had just given up and decided to move on though. Seeing the Nail is really pretty. It’s one of the most memorable parts of this DLC to me because of the area surrounding it. It gives a really pretty view. If i remember correctly too, as you progress it will get taller which will be fun to watch. I ultimately didn’t get as far as i would have liked with this one. As the enemies somehow feel harder. I suspect it’s the melee guys now being there to close the gap. So it means a new threat to deal with. I’m trying to avoid touching the difficulty settings though so i’ll try something else instead to get through. Maybe a different weapon loadout.

Day 769 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Old School Runescape. I got approached by a wizard who asked me to solve his maze. I love mazes so i figured why not. I have to admit though it threw me for a loop with how trippy the walls are. It made navigating it difficult. I managed to make it through though with around 60% rewards left so not too hard. Honestly, that brings me to my main point. I love how Runescape isn’t really grounded. They’ll just throw shit at you and i love it for that. I’ve spent the last few days just running quests and trying too get my levels up. I hope to take on the Dragon Slayer quest next. After that though i’m not really sure what my next goal is. Maybe i’ll travel somewhere i havent been yet. Anyways, a lot of these quests have kept me hovering around Lumbridge. I neglected a lot of my earlier skills so these are perfect for leveling up everything i had ignored. That’s probably all i’ll end up doing for the rest of the evening. Tomorrow i think i’ll go back to control. I finally caught up to my save last time i played and i don’t want to let that go to waste.

Day 776 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is some more Old School RuneScape. I finished the Goblin Diplomacy quest today and started on the Slayer quest stuff. That’s what brought me to the giant pig monster thing above. The game makes you do a lot of walking. It’s an interesting perspective. I’m someone who every once in a while will try and play a game without fast travel, but here I’m definitely feeling the lack of it. I had to make a 5 minute walk 5 times for the Goblin Quest for example to finish it. It’s tedious, but I will say, making me work for it has given me an understanding of the land I’m not sure I’d have otherwise. Speaking of said creature, with all the walking the quest had me do it was amusing to essentially have the game throw one last walk at you. The creature spat acid in my eyes, and that knocked me out. Because of that I had to backtrack all the way back to the creature. And you want to know what I found out? I’m not even a high enough level to kill it. I tried to get a few strikes in but it knocked out 2/3s of my health so I ran away. I guess I found my next major goal before the dragon slayer quest as I’d like to complete as many quests as I can.

Day 770 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Control. I went back through the Ashtray maze today and got a series of photos i really like. I did a lot of stuff with lines and light which i really like how they turned out. I’m just gonna quickly dump them here because there’s not a lot i have to say about them other than “I think they look cool”. Anyways, Reflections. These reflections are so damn sexy. Like, i legit spent a solid 5 minutes playing with the photomode and checking out the reflections. I think Control has to have some of my favorite reflections i’ve seen in a long time. It makes me want to see how Alan Wake 2 fairs… I’ll hold off on another playthrough though. For now at least. I’ve done quite a lot of playthroughs of that game and i should work through other things in my library. I finished the Foundation DLC today and started the AWE expansion. I didn’t get far but i primarily wanted to talk about Hartman. They fucking nailed it with him as an enemy. I love how he’s this sort of Dynamic Threat you can’t fight off. You can only really ward him away for the time being. Getting in that elevator especially was terrifying because it traps you in there and you can’t do anything as he inches closer and forces the door up. My experience with Alan Wake had me really going “I wish i had a fucking flashlight right now”. Anyways, the DLC appears to be short so i’ll probably make quick work of this game and then move on to the next game in my backlog. I might try a few sidequests though that catch my attention.

Day 774 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. Today I went and did the Goblin Diplomacy Quest. I will admit I expected it to be a lot shorter than it was. Unfortunately I was wrong as it had me running back and forth looking for little items I admittedly should have had on hand. The biggest thing I struggled to find was the onions for the dye. The lady said I could find them by the cow pens. I thought there would be a field with onions in it. But nope. I get over there. Check every field. Nothing. I double check every field thinking maybe I missed something. Still nothing. Turned out it was in a little field behind the farmer’s house. The Redberries were a little easier. As I was harvesting though this wizard guy came up to me and asked me to move some bodies around for him. I don’t know about you but if a wizard asks me to move some unspecified bodies around I’m doing it no questions asked. It ended up being a bit of a chore because I was having a hard time recognizing the labels. Luckily I got them though. I scored some Zombie armor for my work too which is nice. I probably won’t use it but it’s nice to have. Anyways, after all that I make my way back to the goblin village. Orange Dye in hand. And you know what they tell me? The orange “clashes” with the skin. They want blue. I decided then that was a good point to end off for the night. Despite all my complaining I did rather enjoy the quest I did. Sometimes fetch quests like this are fun. I rather enjoyed it. Tomorrow I’ll try and finish it because I can’t imagine blue dye is that hard to get.

I do actually have native hardware! Along with everything setup to transfer it. I meant to talk about it in the post but forgot, but I actually had transferred my save off my 3DS and played it in an emulator to get the screenshots until I find a better way to get ahold of them because ftp on CachyOS seems to be really difficult to keep a stable connection for me

I think the Minecraft one is the most impressive to me from a technical level, though the Tiny Halo ring rotates the gravity so you’re always facing the right way, which i have to imagine was a pain to program

I think the newest game I’ve played to completion was SWSH. I enjoyed it but really don’t have much to say. I’m with you on BW though. It feels like a league of its own. If I didn’t have a living Dex for BW I might have gone and done BW 2 again instead of platinum

I’d say you can just turn off the zombies, but I feel like that’d take a lot of the point out of it. Though, now that I say that I’m tempted to try it just to see what it’s like. I feel like it’d be interesting

Oops. I sent the wrong ones for the plate armor. I’ll get some next time I play that are clearer

If by rough you mean difficult, you can actually fine tune the settings in game to match what you want. Like if you want something where zombies go down super easy and supplies are super common you can easily set the save settings to that. I will add though they’re different experiences when comparing Solo and Multiplayer

Gameplay definitely leaves a bit to be desired for me. Mechanically it feels fine but there’s just something there about the presentation that feels off

One thing i can remember off the top of my head is talking to the Pirate guy at the bar when you first learn to sail. I have a screenshot saved of the player’s reaction too it and me and my friend both spent a good while laughing at it

Now that you mention it i have noticed a lack of FOMO when it comes to OSRS, which would help explain why i like it so much. Whenever something hits me with an attempt at causing FOMO it always makes me go “Why am i tolerating this?” and start to lose interest fast. At best the thing will have some core part of it i actively enjoy, but there’s a lot of “pure” FOMO things that i end up getting tired of fast

I always mean to add a disclaimer that i’m a lot more biased towards these games than other people lol, i do really enjoy sharing these thoughts about them though. Especially 3 & 4 as those are what i grew up playing.

Noita is one of those games i hear pop up every once and a while. I will admit i watched someone cover a mystery around it (I want to say it was Oddheader), and it did pique my interest. I will probably just try and watch a video on it though, roguelikes aren’t really my thing unfortunately

It’s just a guess but i have to assume it’s my preference for strong Depth of Field. I know pictures of Miniatures have a weird thing going on with Depth of Field. I can’t really say for sure though

I think I have a copy of Doom 2 for the switch I’m considering, but also I have a personal stigma whenever I do Switch games. Something about it makes me feel dirty lmao

I’ll try to go into it with an open mind then! I really enjoyed Ocarina of Time’s water dungeon (as long as I’m playing SoH or 3D with the equipable iron boots). So I’m actually a little hopeful about this one too

I haven’t gotten that far just yet. How bad is it compared to OoT’s? The world building is absolutely something I understand. It’s like finding that one game that clicks and really makes you want to construct your own. OoT was that for me.

I feel like I remember that Volcano Turtle one having an ability that halved egg times, right? I remember I was trying for a hidden ability Indeedee when I was younger because I was convinced I wanted to do competitive (despite knowing I don’t care for Pokémon’s combat) and used that one. My Wi-Fi has been out and I’ve had Supernatural saved on my Jellyfin server for maybe 5 months now. I figured it’d be a good time to watch it since I don’t have much else going on. My Wi-Fi going out has been a boon in some ways because it’s given me less to procrastinate on. I’m halfway through Season 2 now and I started last week I think I absolutely am enjoying, though. Platinum is one of my favorites. Gonna try and figure out which Pokemon game to do next. I’m thinking HGSS for orders sake, but XY is also sounding really good

If I could get screenshots from the N64 I totally would. I legit have everything except a video cable and an appropriate adapter to feed it into a capture card for screenshots. I’ll have to search for Easter eggs on rainbow road. I know about the lights and stuff but something tells me that’s not what you’re talking about. I’ll have to go take a look when I get a chance

Damn. I thought they were a newer ability. If I had known Flame Body and its egg hatching was a thing in Gen 4 I would have used it today when I was hatching all the eggs I needed. I just made it to season 3 today. Season 2 I enjoyed, I think Season 1 was my favorite though. Season 2 felt almost campier in a way, especially with some of the episodes. I still enjoyed it though.

I usually just use a civilian vehicle for that. It feels good, or at least does until it takes too much damage and won’t start

I mean, it’s N64 Rainbow Road. I’ll take any excuse i can to go drive around on it. legit one of my favorite courses of all time