I've been playing Splatoon 3 and Omori. The former is fantastic whenever the online works, which is most of the time now. The latter is still very engaging; I think I'm right near the end.
I just saw that actor Henry Silva passed away at 95 the other day from natural causes. I most remember him from the Steven Seagal movie Above the Law. He’s played in numerous other movies, usually as a bad guy or tough guy.
I played Splatoon3. The single player is a bit underwhelming. The levels seem very short and experimental, as in the Octopass expansion, but lack the same difficulty. I'll go 'heh, that's a cool idea' for 5 seconds and then actually playing the level seems like just filler. I don't see Nintendo changing this for further games in the series, but I too would prefer actual large levels to work through.
Turf Wars still rock. Giving returning players access to a couple of weapons of choice early on is sweet, but I find myself gravitating to old favorites very fast. Would have been better to just force everybody to try out the new weapons first. I know I'll tell myself I'll try them out and give them a fair chance, but just end up using the .52Gal and Bloblobber. Happy to see the netcode improved a lot over Splatoon2. In 2 I had major issues with how there was a disconnect between on-screen ink hitting someone and who ended up dying, which often made 1 on 1 encounters feel unfair and arbitrary. In 3 all of that is gone, if you count the hits the maths add up. I've yet to experience a single encounter thta doesn't feel fair.
I'm not sure what happened but I had around 1500 gold in Diablo 2. I died and lost all of my gold! I looked it up and the penalty for death is only supposed to be 20% gold loss.
The GTA story is insanity. Now we are learning that the hacker might be a 16 year old that was responsible for multiple major hacks like Uber. So he leaked the videos (I downloaded them all) on the gta forum and acted like he was confused at how much attention it got. Then he started to blackmail rockstar! He posted his text messages to R* devs saying he wants 6 figures for the source code. He threatens he has the source code and will leak it which could be extremely damaging and cause massive delays. Now the FBI seems to have found him, no word if he released the code. Totally nuts, all around the sequel to the biggest game ever.
As for the footage it's so cool! Miami is so detailed, I could pick out buildings I see daily as I drive to work. I see the Marlins ball park, they changed the name to the Mambas. There are hills and mountains in some videos so you might be traveling outside Florida. The dialogue seems to be all done, some good voice work. Seems to have dynamic robbers shown in a diner sequence with the two leads robbing the place. You can freeze a lot of the debug menu and see a million cool things in the game like mission descriptions, random events, vehicles, seems there is a jet pack. The game will be incredible.
Took around 110 hours, I have to do a few more side quests though.
Game is epic. If you ignored, gave up or passed on this game for whatever reason, you owe it to yourself to push through to the end.
The battle system can seem a touch confusing at first but is very intuitive and easy once you know what you're doing. I played on easy but still died a lot against higher level enemies. Finished up at level 75 ish.
The story feels fairly cheesy at first but pulls through. So much epic stuff happening. In some ways it feels like it fulfills the promise of an already great Xenoblade 1.
You don't have to have played the first game at all, but if you have there's some awesome connections between worlds near the end.
The world is explained perfectly and there are some awesome revelations.
I'll be buying Xenoblade 3 and the remake now. No one will stop me. 😊
I'm still playing Yoshi's Island. I started Diablo 2 as well this weekend.
It’s been all Monster Hunter World: Iceborne for me lately.
I've been playing Splatoon 3 and Omori. The former is fantastic whenever the online works, which is most of the time now. The latter is still very engaging; I think I'm right near the end.
I just saw that actor Henry Silva passed away at 95 the other day from natural causes. I most remember him from the Steven Seagal movie Above the Law. He’s played in numerous other movies, usually as a bad guy or tough guy.
Anyway R.I.P. Henry Silva.
I played Splatoon3. The single player is a bit underwhelming. The levels seem very short and experimental, as in the Octopass expansion, but lack the same difficulty. I'll go 'heh, that's a cool idea' for 5 seconds and then actually playing the level seems like just filler. I don't see Nintendo changing this for further games in the series, but I too would prefer actual large levels to work through.
Turf Wars still rock. Giving returning players access to a couple of weapons of choice early on is sweet, but I find myself gravitating to old favorites very fast. Would have been better to just force everybody to try out the new weapons first. I know I'll tell myself I'll try them out and give them a fair chance, but just end up using the .52Gal and Bloblobber. Happy to see the netcode improved a lot over Splatoon2. In 2 I had major issues with how there was a disconnect between on-screen ink hitting someone and who ended up dying, which often made 1 on 1 encounters feel unfair and arbitrary. In 3 all of that is gone, if you count the hits the maths add up. I've yet to experience a single encounter thta doesn't feel fair.
Were you vaccinated?
Last year. My sister has had all recommended vaccine shots and boosters.
Sorry to hear that Raven. Hope you don’t get sick ant that you’re dad and sister get well soon.
Sorry to hear about your mom’s health issues. Hopefully she doesn’t catch Covid. Kind of the same with my mom in that she has some health issues.
The GTA story is insanity. Now we are learning that the hacker might be a 16 year old that was responsible for multiple major hacks like Uber. So he leaked the videos (I downloaded them all) on the gta forum and acted like he was confused at how much attention it got. Then he started to blackmail rockstar! He posted his text messages to R* devs saying he wants 6 figures for the source code. He threatens he has the source code and will leak it which could be extremely damaging and cause massive delays. Now the FBI seems to have found him, no word if he released the code. Totally nuts, all around the sequel to the biggest game ever.
As for the footage it's so cool! Miami is so detailed, I could pick out buildings I see daily as I drive to work. I see the Marlins ball park, they changed the name to the Mambas. There are hills and mountains in some videos so you might be traveling outside Florida. The dialogue seems to be all done, some good voice work. Seems to have dynamic robbers shown in a diner sequence with the two leads robbing the place. You can freeze a lot of the debug menu and see a million cool things in the game like mission descriptions, random events, vehicles, seems there is a jet pack. The game will be incredible.
That sucks. Hope it works out.Took around 110 hours, I have to do a few more side quests though.
Game is epic. If you ignored, gave up or passed on this game for whatever reason, you owe it to yourself to push through to the end.
The battle system can seem a touch confusing at first but is very intuitive and easy once you know what you're doing. I played on easy but still died a lot against higher level enemies. Finished up at level 75 ish.
The story feels fairly cheesy at first but pulls through. So much epic stuff happening. In some ways it feels like it fulfills the promise of an already great Xenoblade 1.
You don't have to have played the first game at all, but if you have there's some awesome connections between worlds near the end.
The world is explained perfectly and there are some awesome revelations.
I'll be buying Xenoblade 3 and the remake now. No one will stop me. 😊
Congrats on finishing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 GG. I really enjoyed myself as well.
Have you played the Torna expansion? It's physical price has doubled since X3 came out.No, not yet but I did buy it digitally from the eShop not too long ago.