ryume wrote: ↑Jan 26, 2024 3:00 amOoooo I like that Gleaner glam you've got on your DNC. I haven't touched any of the custom delivery NPC's they've added since Endwalker was released, so I need to catch up lol.
Thanks! Sometimes I feel like the cat hood is a bit much, but eh, it's cute lol. Definitely get to the custom deliveries when you can! They're all worth it. I basically inhale everything they release so I get them done asap. The downside is now I'm left with content I don't really want to work on. Blue Mage, Eureka, and other job leveling - ughhhhhh. I'll get to them, most of which already have a huge chunk done or committed, I just don't wanna, right now. Probably once we get Dawntrail's official release date I'll have more of a fire under my butt to work on them.
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Today the only gaming thing I have planned is to play the newest chapter added to NieR Reincarnation. I might hit Muv Luv if I feel up to it, but my main plan today is to read through two thick comic books. After that, who knows.
i hope january has been a good month to you all ^__^ i beat aegis rim a few weeks back. i had a really fun time with it, and can't wait for unicorn overlord soon.
i picked up persona 2: innocent sin last week and clocked at least 30 hours so far. it's really unique from what the series is today and is closer to your average psx jrpg. there's a lot of references and cameos from past titles suggesting that they all exist within the same continuity. it's strange, however, that they've let go of that element from persona 4 and forwards...
no current progress to share on shin megami tensei iv. i tried playing a bit of trio of towns to activate a reverse marriage proposal with ludus, but i got pretty sleepy after 2 days in-game
Cleared Evan's Remains, which cleans up another freebie and brings it to 3 for 2024. The story was ok but I hated the platforming, which is the bulk of the game. Luckily I noticed you can choose to skip the platforming, so guess what I did for the better part of the game? I will probably work on Hue or Figment next on the freebie section of the backlog.
Here's my FFXIV character: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodeston ... /51215057/
Unfortunately I only just unlocked the glamour ability so my clothes for most jobs are a hodge-podge. They probably will be for a while until I actually find/make pretty ones.
I progressed to the point of the story I could access all three starter towns and am just trying to join all the guilds to get a feel for what I want to invest my energy into. I really dislike all the flavors of the magic guilds so I don't think I will main any of those, though I may still level them some. I think it's because casting is so slow and stationary? Haven't decided on what "Disciples of War" class I like best yet. I kind of favor the ones that feel more snappy. I have found my favorite of the crafting jobs though. Weaving. I. Love. It. I can see myself hitting the cap on it probably sooner than the others. Unfortunately the level 20 quest requires an item from the island town area, so I will have to go back there to progress it. I will probably continue on the story after wrapping up some more quests in the desert town.
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greensara wrote: ↑Jan 26, 2024 3:49 pm
I really dislike all the flavors of the magic guilds so I don't think I will main any of those, though I may still level them some. I think it's because casting is so slow and stationary?
Arcanist is a fast distance casting magic class. Most of their spells, you can move around while doing, and they're very quick. That's what my current character is, though I'd been running Warrior on the side with him. Tanks are great for soloing but they're the most responsibility of all when in multiplayer, imo. It's super noticeable when they screw up. I'd definitely go back to DPS if I ever did go into multiplayer. Arcanist is a class you can learn in Limsa Lominsa, if you care to try it.
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My hip is pinched, an old filling ripped out of my tooth last night, my head hurts, and I've got cramps, so I'm not having the most functional day, but...was still happy to receive EIGHT free butters from Uncle Frank as a PTJ bonus. PTJs feel really fitting early game in Trio of Towns. Scraping every penny together with foraging and part time jobs to be able to afford livestock and all of the seeds, feed and fertilizer you need. Now I'll just hope for some vegetable etuver as a bonus from Ford. Ford gives out the best PTJs. Love the medical experiments. That's a lot of money, early game! And a free stamina refill to boot.
I love farming. I love watching the soil turn darker as you water it. I like seeing every stage of the crop growth. So many of these games calling themselves 'farming games' now are such a sham. They're just miscellaneous life sims that have farming as a side activity. They give REAL farming sims a bad name.
I'm gonna go do some more PTJs.
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Another good Hoyo stream yesterday! Penacony looks so awesome - as much, if not more, for the dreamscape aesthetic as for the Space Vegas aesthetic. (Characters I'm gonna try not to prejudge.) New area in Genshin will be peaceful, but pretty similar to what we've already seen as far as I can tell. Penacony though....
The stream chat, on the other hand. Half the kids in the Youtube chat for the livestream were absolute « Cow Poopoo » STAINS. Couldn't go ten seconds without five or six messages screeching about the lack of rewards in Genshin. They had a copy-pasta going that I can't remember. Can't imagine Twitch chat was any better. Maybe a little...for developer livestreams Youtube is usually a complete trash fire.
I can't tell if Sandrock mods will be more trouble than they're worth on Steam Deck. I still can't get part of the ONE I'm using working, and to change settings it tends to require closing and reopening the software. The most important bit works at least, which is good.
As it turns out, the whole "Your Time at Sandrock" thing is the name of the mod manager that the mod community has made for Sandrock. It's quite nice, like an extra "options" menu for you to decide what settings you want for the mods you have installed. There's a LOT that speed up the gameplay. All the recommended mods in the two articles I looked at would be very helpful for speeding through early game.
Kinda got bombarded with cutscenes over the last few days of play. (I wrote quite a bit yesterday and have kinda consolidated with today's babbling...a lot's happened.) TLDR I was just trying to push MSQ a little, and got a cascade of quests that taught me some things. I did learn by accident that like reverse confessions, reverse proposals are also a thing in this game. Guessed so, was about to look it up when I got a very obvious sign... Let's say, some jokes spoil the punchline.
Spoiler talk!
Mechanical
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Being insta married is weird, but I'm okay with it. Getting home from being insta married and having a letter in your mailbox from your parents congratulating you on your insta marriage is INCREDIBLY weird. Devs! Push the letter to the next day! If I had known the wedding itself was so....nothing? I would have just let it play immediately?
Unless the mod really did screw something up (I tried turning everything off, reloaded the game, reloaded the save, restarted the wedding), your partner showing up to the wedding in street clothes is....unfortunate. And no vows! By the Marvelous high water mark, that's the best part! The scene itself is bare bones, though I can forgive the fairly generic wedding comments from everyone. The number of permutations on that based on friendships must be...something else.
Adjacent mechanical spoiler--there IS a mod for Sandrock that removes the jealousy system, so you can date everyone. Which would probably be a godsend for a second file, not having to split saves. As far as I can tell, reverse confessions AND proposals are tied to quests, so after you've seen what you want to, you can just reload and sit on the quest forever. (If you're like me, and have a very hard time being mean to well-meaning, fictional characters. )
Story
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I THINK the trigger for all of Logan's quests is your friendship level with Andy. (Makes sense, a lot of sim games with romance tie marriage to befriending friends/family.) And Andy is involved in everything with romancing Logan. In my case, because I liked the kid before I even met Logan, I was over that threshold and just got, QUEST, QUEST, QUEST. I also expected it to take longer to hit the threshold for proposal.
It's sort of like after the reverse confession you just give Logan permission to tumble off a cliff, because he about becomes a different person. It's forgivable, and probably more to do with my game, the way everything came together for me...it just feels FAST. (For the opposite case, Fang's whole questline is...close to perfect for his personality shift. I buy it, wholesale. Probably would have bought it no matter what because I love X so much, but. That's neither here nor there.)
None of Logan's quests are BAD without the hat off, but they are all better with it gone. One of them has a boy do the devs like him lavish animation. (Very excited to see what else is out there, thanks to that.) Saw it yesterday, reloaded and saw it again without the hat today. Every QTE in this game I just so happen to be sitting back in my chair, hands off the keyboard and have to restart my brain and leap for the mouse. Gotten it every time, though. Should have tried the scene while missing the QTE. Oh well.
I'm also very glad that Andy comes to live with you. You get this quest early on in your dating period that's called "Andy's Last Wish" and they play it off that he's very sick and I got worried that he was going to be killed off. I genuinely like the little gremlin. He's basically Dennis the Menace, just... likeable. He gets special dialogue about the insta wedding, which I was happy about. And for two days I was wandering around going, WHERE IS THE CHILD?! Made him a room right after the insta wedding, and then all the sudden he says something about being excited about moving in with you and Logan. So cute.
Today I did have a small, borderline trauma that should serve as warning to anybody else: do not put storage chests in your house, unless they are on the top floor. If you resize the room, if you add a floor, a staircase will be smacked into it, dumping ALL of your stuff into the mailbox. Pathea, WHY? (All of the customizations on my furniture disappeared, too!) I couldn't even make emergency chests because my supplies for them were in some random envelope! Needless to say, file 2 will have a storage shed..... Away from the house.
Playing other games at interval while working through Sandrock has been extremely helpful for avoiding burnout. I am - oddly enough, considering a Harvestella playthrough as one of them. It's been a long time since I last played a proper farming sim. (Sandrock, I would put farming in the same tier as its combat. Farming adds context, it is not an integral system. I still enjoy it, kept a plot since farming unlocked, but it is context, not integral.) Harvestella, I feel like farming is more integral, and the social aspect of things are 'context'. So it balances out... I AM enjoying hearing about Trio again, its been interesting remembering things, and comparing what's good and less good about my favorites, but I don't think I can handle two games that require memorization at the same time. I do miss it, though. I think I played Trio a bit right at the beginning of the pandemic? Comfort game, and a way to waste time before Animal Crossing came out. Needless to say, that file got abandoned.
Maybe later in the year I'll be up for it. The likelihood is very, very high that this year is going to be Hoyo + replays.
Claimed Pikmin 4 as my soon-to-expire voucher game. It has downloaded passively, while I continue on with Trio. I'll get to Pikmin 4 sometime, but I think I'll only play it in bits to keep it from getting stressy.
I still want to do stuff in FFXIV, like level up more of my crafts, try Gladiator, Pugilist and possibly Dancer...the Hunting Log for each is great for EXP...and raise the tribes. But for now, I'm not going to. Maybe never, though when they get the 8-man trials worked out with NPCs, I could, in theory, buy the ARR story skip that would take me to the beginning of Heavensward. Though I hate to miss story! The story is the point of playing, after all.
Meanwhile, though I should be securing some more completions, I'm still on Trio of Towns. Had so much fun last night I was up until nearly midnight. I finished up Farming Tips 1 and then received FT2...and finished it the same day I got it, while also new unlocking Town Rank links for Tsuyukusa and Lulukoko. Which resulted in a bunch of animals and constructions and items unlocking, so I had to go around collecting those too, and I just couldn't put it down at such a point.
I have lunch with family today and people over for a signing just before I have to go out and pick lunch up, so I really have to get to some kitchen stuff, but cramps make moving deeply unappealing right now. Bleah. :p Still, I've gotta, and soon.
Pretty much right now.
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Guuuh. I'm exhausted. Currently on day two of a six day stretch at work. My desire to game is so low, I'd rather just watch stuff while doing dailies in the background. I did manage to do 3 pieces of art though, so IDK what motivation is any more lol. With Star Rail 2.0 and Genshin 4.4 just around the corner, they're really taking the wind out of my sails to want to play anything else. I will say that in listening to the Toukiden and Toukiden 2 OST in my car on the way to work is kinda making me want to start my replays of them, IDK if I'll make it past the character creation screen or not.
I also booted up Muv Luv only to immediately close it. I might not be ready for a 100+ hour VN experience again yet. I feel like I should be wanting to play Warframe more now that I finally can play it on my preferred console, but having to relearn the game again kinda bums me out a bit. One of these days I'll bite the bullet and just jump back in.
One more chapter of Portal: Revolution done. Hit a simpler one, so I got through it pretty seamlessly. The only major issue I had this time is more of a Portal 2 vs Portal problem... For spoiler reasons the textures in Portal 2 are decidedly less readable than Portal, so it leads to a little... Where am I supposed to be going...? Feel. Puzzles are still good, story is the same as it ever was.
Not really all that excited for the Genshin update--the community backlash has taken all the oxygen out of the room. I will enjoy seeing Liyue Harbor all dressed up, though. That's nice every year, no matter what's going on outside the game. Curious to try Green Bayonetta, but I'm more curious about Chiori. 2 Geo in 3 patches! I don't think that's ever happened. (On the other hand, Star Rail has revived a LITTLE BIT of the itch to draw. Doing a bit of a Penacony art based on an on brand but completely unrelated song... It's been fun.)
Aaand Sandrock. I am starting to struggle against burnout a little. And it is not for the reason you would expect. I don't mind crafting, I don't mind material harvesting. I mind marriage.....
Spoilers
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Is there such a thing as a helicopter spouse? Because Logan is one of those. In about a week he was about to drive me nuts. Wake up, dialogue. Follow me downstairs, more dialogue. Loiter in the yard while I get my commissions, follow me out of the yard, more dialogue. Get within a larger perimeter than normal at ANY point in the day, attach like a magnet, dialogue. While dating, I think I was pretty cozy with all the personality changes because he was still busy, and had a life. I didn't see him every day, I did my own thing, ever so often I would see him, and things would progress. The systems were new, and I was still curious what improvements to marriage Pathea had made. (I'll have to read on the Wiki for file 2, because I'm noticing no difference. Logan didn't really interact with anything in the house, just stood around in the front room, waiting to go to bed... I know you can give your spouse assignments, but it's all stuff the robot can do. Maybe that matters if you get married early.)
Now...we're about 2 weeks into marriage, and basically separated. I made a shed in the yard to pop a bed into, right next to the horse barn. Get up, run to mount, flee the house. Return when Logan and Andy are gone for the day, pick up commissions, send pet off, leave the house until they're back and in the house or bed. Do what I need to in the yard, repeat. I hate having to avoid my workshop, but I can't say how much I enjoy the return to normalcy.
I'm curious at this point if there's any system to get into trouble for not talking to your spouse for...a really long time. Needless to say, I don't think we're getting to babies on this file.
Also very grateful that in NG+/File 2 I won't see either Logan or Andy for 80+ hours. (How little of a personality shift they have during the dating period might be a criterion for Marriage 2. At this point, it might be the only criterion.)
I am getting VERY low on craftables in the book left to be made. There's still more map to uncover, though, strangely enough. Definitely close, though. Very close.
Aside from a puzzle game, I wonder what would be a good break. Something light weight, and mindless, probably. I'll have to rummage through my stores of games. I could go back to the Luigi's Mansion 3 file I started with my mom over the holidays? Up until the second to last boss that game is VERY chill.
Mikodesu wrote: ↑Jan 29, 2024 11:38 pmAaand Sandrock. I am starting to struggle against burnout a little. And it is not for the reason you would expect. I don't mind crafting, I don't mind material harvesting. I mind marriage.....
Fang doesn't do that at all. BUT...I do recall a glitch, where you went on a date or a walk or something like that with your spouse, and it would never end. The result being that they were in 'follow' mode forever. So they were right on you, all the time, and continually attempting to hold your hand. Which is 'aww' for about a minute...and then it's 'GET AWAY FROM ME YOU BLOODSUCKING LEECH!'
Sandrock is still pretty glitchy even on PC, though the number of game-breaking glitches is thankfully low...Pathea jumps on those with both feet as fast as they possibly can. But it's definitely still a game of many weird happenings. What's going on with you sounds like a mistake, not intention. Some similar issue to the date-that-never-ends, perhaps.
At least make sure you don't have the 'follow' command activated. It automatically activates when you get married, iirc, and you have to take it back off since it seems to fail to deactivate on its own a lot of the time. There's a possibility your spouse thinks they're still on a date with you. (Unfortunately in some cases this can't be turned off due to glitch, though I thought they'd fixed that one.)
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Still having a really good time with Trio! I like it the most when things get hectic. When I have a million things to do and remember. I recently broke Westown's intransigent C-to-B lock and have the other two towns on the same lock as well and am on the verge of busting all of them, and that's the most important lock of the game to break in terms of the 'story', so everything's converging all at once. Plus I just unlocked two more animals AND the Maiden with Shield that'll let me boost my seed maker quality, so I'm in one of those hectic phases and had a very good mining session last thing last night, so that I can go get the last tool upgrades that I need right away, as well as the Maiden, and then it's full steam ahead on ramping up star level on my crops. I can already win the fall harvest festival without it thanks to my grapes, but barring tree fruit, tea leaves, and all-season crops like wheat, winning Expert or Legend in Year 1 is difficult without the Maiden. I like to win with seasonal stuff if I can.
This is a week full of appointments. I have to get go get ready for one right now.
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Kikki wrote: ↑Jan 30, 2024 3:28 amAt least make sure you don't have the 'follow' command activated. It automatically activates when you get married, iirc, and you have to take it back off since it seems to fail to deactivate on its own a lot of the time. There's a possibility your spouse thinks they're still on a date with you. (Unfortunately in some cases this can't be turned off due to glitch, though I thought they'd fixed that one.)
It's not to the degree of follow mode, follow mode the entire game devolves into preventing hand holding. (Pathea mean't well with that, I swear.) This is like...in any game where there's stealth, that...vision "cone" that the guard/enemy has to spot you. If you stay behind them it's fine, they can't hear, but in the cone they have 2.0 vision and are far more interested in stopping what they're doing to come over.
Speaking of follow mode, though!
Spoiler:
If you remember the dungeon that Larry is enlisted to go to with you... Logan is in the party, and in the dungeon follow mode is automatically on. So if you want to loot things you're constantly running away from him. It was equally funny and « Snuggly Bunny » awful.
On the other hand, that glitch sounds...emotionally game breaking?
I don't think I've encountered too many mechanical glitches (thankfully), but Sandrock is just about as bad as Portia with visual bugs. I have screenshot evidence. I don't know why (maybe it's a caching issue?) but it does seem like bugs have gotten more frequent as the playthrough has gone on. More frequent, and slightly more severe.
I know Unity isn't supposed to be good for use in big, open world games... Genshin Impact makes it work to a reasonable degree, but the number of hands/man hours (and probably level of expertise with the engine) can't compare.
Double posting cause I don't know how edits to posts with quotes mess with things...and its been a couple of days.
Edit: Next day update...
Portal: Revolution complete! Puzzle difficulty took a bit of a nose dive through the last chapter, and then skyrocketed into the stratosphere for the final encounter. In true Portal fashion,
Spoiler:
the boss fight had a timer to it
and because of that I couldn't get it done without following a guide. This was SO much more complicated than 1 or 2. Impressive, but incredibly stressful. I tried to get it done without a guide, but I was losing my mind. Even WITH a guide I struggled. And after the game was over I needed a drink. Kept really, really hoping they would have gotten GLaDOS' VA for a few surprise lines there at the end, but it was still very, very good overall. (In spite of also...retconning 2, but. Ya know.) I am still impressed.
And I'm equally impressed with Valve, that they continue to let these things exist. They could so easily be a Sony or a Nintendo, and instead they celebrate the love dedicated fans have for their IP. (Sometimes, even when it's bad. *Ehem* Hunt Down the Freeman *Ehem*) Now...I wanna replay Portal/Portal 2.
I wanna play the Harold Halibut demo...!! But it's SO BIG. How can a demo be 50GB!? I have a feeling this game is going to be special, though, something like the Owl Boy of claymation, so I've got it wishlisted. I'll decide over the weekend if I want to play the demo. Correction, if I want to download the demo.
Celeste 64 is downloaded. Celeste main game is also downloaded, but while I was on Itch I saw a thread about how to get Celeste working...which is going to be a 'future me problem'.
I think I have my Sandrock problem solved. Best as it's going to be for now, enough for me to feel 'normal'. Spoilers from yesterday layered in with spoilers from today...
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Did the precursor to the Catori World stuff, with again Logan desperately trying to hold hands the ENTIRE QUEST. The solution this time was simpler, though. Kept him and Justice tied up with monsters, and I was free to putter with vacuuming up goop.
I think his time in 'time out' fixed SOME of whatever is bugged in his AI, because he's notably LESS obnoxious, now. I'm still sleeping in my shack, though, so maybe part of why he ends up SO attached to my character is because of starting the day together. Before it was wake up to a voice line, get followed out of the house with a voice line, get followed around the yard with another voice line... so on/so forth. Now he still loiters, but there's far less, run up to/shout at.
There have been a couple of instances where I'll come out of a shop and he's just...standing there, right out front, staring....
I do feel a lot more normal, though. Gonna let things play out as normal while I finish up MSQ. I still feel like the writing for Logan takes an unfortunate turn. I've seen a lot of this kind of stuff over the years... media that either glorifies or comes dangerously close to glorifying codependency and white knighting. Whoever wrote Logan's story has read one too many crappy teen romance novels (or is pandering to that specific audience)... I don't mind characters behaving like he does, when the writing is at least critical of it. Because people DO behave like that. It's just...not okay.
So my prior point still stands. Prior point:
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Aside from the mechanical annoyance of Logan's behavior (hearing the same dialogue line on repeat as he loiters in the yard and I'm trying to get work done...is annoying), I've realized my problem is entirely related to my personal issues. He starts this « Cow Poopoo » while you're dating, but it gets worse (to me) in marriage. You get lines in dating cutscenes that I sort of wrote off (because of course characters are dramatic in "heart event" cutscenes, this is their chance to woo YOU) that ere on the side of "if I didn't meet you I would have gone out into the desert and gotten myself killed by something".
And...I don't think it's the character, because outside of dating he doesn't exhibit any behavior that implies this. He's already very close with Haru, he seems attached to and involved in raising Andy. (Surely Haru wouldn't have left town if he thought Logan was unstable.) Possibly more than that, if he was the kind of person his dating/marriage behavior implies, I don't think he would have stayed around after his dad died.
I think whoever wrote these lines doesn't understand how dangerous they are. Saying things like that is toxic. It's one step away from "if you leave me, I will kill myself". And when I connected those dots, I realized where my stress was coming from. I have been told things like that in real life, I have been around people using suicide as a weapon, and it is INCREDIBLY emotionally abusive. I was starting to get physically stressed playing the game, and after I had that realization, and cried a little, it was like a release valve on my stress.
I've been sick with a wicked fever and ghastly cough for the past 4-5ish days. I've only really popped on Ushi to post some new game announcements before drugging myself up again. I have been at work too, unfortunately. The attendance policy of my workplace is ludicrous and overly strict that they'd rather you be here sick than call in. I got sent home once due to my fever being so bad all I could do was shiver but every other day has just been absolute suffering.
Anyways, obviously no gaming got done other than me begrudgingly doing dallies to not break my streaks or miss out on things. I'm on my two days off now so I will probably get SOMETHING done now that my brain isn't being baked alive and I'm not wheezing every five seconds. There's new Genshin content and I still need to do NieR Reincarnation's new chapter. I might hit FFXIV too as the new moogle event is running, but man, none of the prizes this time are even slightly enticing. I either have them already or they're just not worth the grind. At least there's other ways to get the currency this time so I don't have to do Praetorium twenty times. Speaking of FFXIV, a fun video popped into my feed regarding Eureka. It'll probably be the hardest thing I do yet in the game, if I ever find the motivation, but the video was fun regardless.
Makes me want to take up Warrior a bit more seriously if it'll help things go a little faster.
Gosh, the things a man will do to allow his digital avatar to ride a big glowing ball around a digital world...
Warrior is, I think, the best class of all to solo. Of course, I've only taken 4 classes to level 50 (Summoner, Warrior, Bard and Dragoon) but it definitely felt the easiest to be alone as a Warrior who can brutalize all enemies while taking next to no damage (and having all kinds of protective and healing effects). All the more so when I had my Chickaboo leveled up as a healer, but even without that, WAR seems very self-sufficient. Though I would NOT want the responsibility of a tank if I was in multiplayer, that sounds like the highest stress option of all due to such high visibility (and consequence) of any mistakes you might make.
My poor old PS4 sure is lucky I can play FFXIV on it, or it'd not have had any attention from me in literal years, it seems. There isn't anything left exclusive to Playstation that I'm interested in? Huh. (Used to be Tales and Trails, but they both tend to go to Steam now so can play on Deck if I want. Seems like I'll never need a PS5. A good thing, but also a bit sad, somehow.)
Sorry you've been so sick and forced to go to work anyway, Bluie! That's really cruddy. And if you deal in food service even on the side lines somewhere, it makes no sense on their part to want a sick person to come to work. If I knew a restaurant or grocery store or etc made their employees come in sick, I'd be finding somewhere else to shop. (The guy who delivered our new stove yesterday was on week 2 of an ear infection, but that's not quite the same situation.)
I've not been playing for a few days. Have to go to an 'emergency' dental appointment today, though it's a pretty low-level emergency, but that's kind of blown today's schedule up. I guess I just lost steam with gaming anyway, though. Not sure what to do next. Tackle some more demos, perhaps, or maybe Pikmin 4. I've already decided that in February I should tackle the Star Ocean, Survivalist, Silent Hope and Cereza demos, since I'm already part way done each of them. (I wasn't interested enough to complete any of them the first time I tried them so it's very unlikely I'll go on to buy any of those games, but I should at least finish the demos!)
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I've been playing DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power for the past two weeks. I really should follow Toybox Inc more. I liked Little Dragons Cafe and Hometown Story too.
The game was unfortunately overlooked by people online and just scoffed at as a "kids game". Yet people went gaga over SpongeBob's new game and that Nick fighting game? It all comes down to nostalgia unfortunately.
DCSHG is a high quality licensed game. I have over 20 hours and I'm not even finished. A ton of missions, full voice acting for the core characters, writing just like the cartoon... It even has a Japanese voice option.
It's a shame we will never see a Teen Power 2, since the cartoon was cancelled shortly after this game came out. You can't even find the game in stores anymore
Kikki wrote: ↑Feb 02, 2024 8:20 am
Gosh, the things a man will do to allow his digital avatar to ride a big glowing ball around a digital world...
To be faaaair, some of the things I've done in FFXIV for my orchestrion scroll collection makes people raise their eyebrows at me. Hours upon hours of grinding FATEs, forcing myself into game modes I would never play otherwise, playing literal millions of gil for just one scroll because I ran the content that drops it a ludicrous amount of times with no luck. I could go on... but I wont. I have obtained every single one available in-game minus one due to me being unable to get the Mahjong mini game mastered. A lot of people in FFXIV collect for the sake of collecting, or just find that one thing they really, really want and work towards it. It's all really self imposed and not at all required, but it's an option! I might not be as insane as Pint, but I get it, I do.
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Did a little gaming today. I played all of Cloud Retainer's character quest in Genshin and I played the newest chapter in NieR Reincarnation. I was also going to play the new Silent Hill game as it's the prequel to the game Ryukishi07 is penning, but it's unfortunately in first person - therefore I cannot play it without making myself ill. Bummer, but I'm not too broken up about it.
My budget for gaming is now very low. The hubbo and I are now home owners and have more adulting bills than usual. It's a good thing I really don't want much this year plus I have plenty of games sitting around from sales, plus my burning desire to replay stuff. But this does mean no longer whaling in Hoyo games, which is fine. I'm basically set in both Star Rail and Genshin, I don't NEED anything else. When ZZZ drops, I'll just have to FTP it and I was never planning on spending money Honkai Impact anyways. This puts a damper on my FFXI playthrough, because I am not going to have two subscription based games sucking my money at once. I guess I'm just not gonna do it. Guess I'll find and online playthrough or something instead.
I'm also thinking of canceling my Nintendo Online before its next renewal, because I am legit not even using it any more. I'll have to see if I already paid for it this year, because if I have I'll try to make an effort to use it I guess, but if not, I may as well axe it.
I will probably work on Hue or Figment next on the freebie section of the backlog.
I'd definitely go back to DPS if I ever did go into multiplayer. Arcanist is a class you can learn in Limsa Lominsa, if you care to try it.
I finished up Farming Tips 1 and then received FT2...and finished it the same day I got it, while also new unlocking Town Rank links for Tsuyukusa and Lulukoko. Which resulted in a bunch of animals and constructions and items unlocking, so I had to go around collecting those too, and I just couldn't put it down at such a point. 