The stories are probably my favorite part of sharing the screenshots. It’s easier (and more fun) on Multiplayer games though imo. I feel like a lot of single player game’s stories boil down too “I made it to this point, I want to make it to this point next”
That looks like it. It’s been almost 6 years since I’ve had to use it though so I could be wrong
It’s been playable. I play on Dock so i can usually lock it on max clock speed. But at 720p it runs pretty smoothly. There’s only been a few times where I’ve gone “okay, there’s some noticeable frame drops here” but even then it wasn’t any critical sections. It’s worth noting though that I haven’t reached the end so that’s subject to change
1 playthrough for every re-release, just as Todd intended
There was a site called Can I Run It? i used way back when i was younger that was what you're describing
Terraria seems so relaxed. They just kind of seem to be coexisting with everyone which i love.
I’ve already noticed that I’m pretty sure the Echoes are meant to be spots from the OG and I’ve already spoiled the secret with the photos too. I’m really excited to see more. The team really put a ton of care into it
I had to lower the graphics today because performance started dropping later in the game for some reason. I was fully expecting it to be noticeable with the drop in quality but honestly it still looks really pretty on the lowest settings
I played the OG when i was 13 on my shitty Acer laptop. It was an experience. I was doing the same thing while going through the remake when seeing the redesigned areas. Like I’d see a space and go “oh. This is where James first encounters an enemy”.
I’m a part time student. Maybe with next semester that will change because I’m looking into going full time. But I always try to put at least 30 minutes to an hour into gaming just to relax after long days.
I think being part time has just afforded me a lot more of that time though, which is why I’m knocking so many games out like this.
Yeah. I played my first playthrough a few years ago. I just finished my crushing run today actually.
One thing I will say after beating it is that I feel like the difficulty of Crushing really drew out combat encounters (at least for me), so it kind of counter balanced the lack of combat encounters
Alan Wake - Screenshot - PC
I finished up Nightmare Mode Episode 4 of Alan Wake Today. For the screenshot I picked the Old Gods of Asgards Rock concert (I was going to take a screenshot during the concert but couldn’t get a good one because the flares and a 800p resolution made it blurry). Without diving too much into story spoilers for those who haven’t played the game, this whole moment is one of the most memorable to me.
The excitement of fighting off taken during a rock concert is euphoric and exhilarating, and it gives me the same feeling as Left 4 Dead 2’s Dark Carnival Campaign with it’s rock concert. Then there’s the battle with the combine right after which is almost as fun as the concert.
Furthermore I almost got the “Child of the Elder God” achievement on Nightmare Mode, which requires you to “Have a rock'n'roll moment without dropping to a low health state”. But sadly Alan took a Flying hatchet to the face at the literal last second and dropped to low a health state, which was disappointing. I’ll probably go back on Normal mode and try again, because as fun as it would be to do it on Nightmare, I just want the achievement right now.
Today’s game is Alan Wake. I wasted no time getting back too it and went through the first half of episode 4. I would have done the second half but the game crashed sadly. I’m hoping to complete it soon, though with the Silent Hill 2 remake on the horizon i’m considering swapping my plans for Alan Wake 2 with that because i’ve been excited for SH2’s remake for a while and just remembered it’s coming out here in a few days, i’m not 100% sure on if i’ll do that though.
I originally accidentally posted this screenshot to the wrong gaming community, but The screenshot is of the Lodge at the start.
I think this game does a really good job of leveraging it’s landscapes, Particularly at this part. The whole game does an amazing job of capturing it's landscape, especially for a game of it's age where i feel like the landscape can sometimes show it's age.
Episode 4 is probably one of my favorites because i feel like it has a good balance of action moments and story pacing moments. Not to mention i love the lodge section. The escape from the lodge itself is great and it has a lot of cool lore elements, and then the hedge maze and garden outside i love too. It is probably one of the most memorable parts too me. Breaking Episode 4 into two parts may have been a blessing though, as it will let me talk about my other favorite part of Episode 4 in more detail tomorrow without drawing out the post
Today's game is Zomboid. I took a break from Alan Wake to play with a friend, and we continued the story of Cable And Jerry.
We went and hunted down a gas can today, but had to hike back after i crashed the car into a wreck. After a close encounter in an office building with a room full of zombies, we ended up splitting off after we got surrounded and my friend was hauling supplies. So i made a path through the horde with my pickaxe, and fought them off while my friend made an escape with all our stuff. I ended getting out too and led them too a house. While they funneled in, i shut the door and used the extra time to escape.
Once we got back to our house, we ended up going down the road the other way to look for gas to scavenge for the (non crashed) car and generator, and we ended up finding a gated community by a pond.
After investigating the mystery of the house with all the windows on the left side broken, We ended up moving there. I spent most of them time chopping trees, turning them into planks, and boarding up the windows. There's no zombies out there but it's better to be safe than sorry, plus it gets my carpentry skill up.
I made a spear and started fishing too. I only caught 3 fish, but i was very proud and cooked them. The screenshot is of two of the fish, a Catfish and a Crappie.
I continued with Episode 3 of Alan Wake today. I took quite a few photos, as the free cam mode i feel like really let me explore the game. The primary screenshot i picked was of the FBI helicopter, as with the freecam i felt like it allowed me to get an up close angle of the helicopter i wouldn't normally see.
I thought this menu was a neat attention to detail, as in episode 1, Carl Stucky mentions this is one of his voice lines. Specifically, this one:
"Paul makes the best hot dogs in the state! Belly Buster is the best no contest. Monster dog... is second best".
I think it's cool that this attention to detail was added. I find it fascinating that i'm finding new things like this even so many playthroughs in.
spoiler
it's also cool because Paul is also the guy at start of Episode 3 that shows you to roses trailer
I also took a screenshot of Pat Maine, as during my playthrough i remembered why he's one of my favorite characters. I find him very fun to listen to on his radio show, and i'm hoping he appears in the sequel.
This screenshot i discovered that the Freecam is buggy while i was exploring out of bounds with it. when i returned to Alan he clipped through the ground and fell into the void and died. I thought it was funny and grabbed a screenshot right before i fell into the void.
While wandering around in the daytime i also stumbled across this chair in the woods sitting on a cliff. It had a thermos in it, but the placement of it felt very abstract to me. I'm almost wondering if it's a reference to something, but if it is, then it escapes me.
I did Episode 2 of Alan Wake today. The screenshot is of the sawmill in the park. My assumptions were right about it ramping up in difficulty on nightmare. I found myself dying a lot more in this episode, and enemies are bullet sponges I feel like. Rusty alone took up about 3 clips of headshots. I think it may have been a lot harder if I didn’t use actual strategy (saving ammo by running away, not always hard pressing the flashlight to aim, and using the flares to chokepoint areas to escape, etc.). Overall though I found the difficulty a fun challenge, especially since I usually play on Normal Mode. I ended up taking a detour and also collecting all the Manuscript pages. I’m hoping to wipe out a good chunk of the Achievements and finally 100%. Something that has evaded me in all my past play throughs.
Today’s Game is Alan Wake. I finally got a chance to finish Chapter 1 on nightmare mode.
It was surprisingly easy. If you look at my ammo you’ll notice I still have a ton of Shotgun rounds. That’s because I conserved Ammo and fled when I could, hoping to use it in the fight against Stucky. Turns out though, Stucky went down in a couple Flare Gun Shots and took all the other Taken with him.
I also got stuck wandering around in the woods for a while, as it turns out I took a wrong turn. Those woods are like a fucking maze.
The photo I chose for today was of the Gas Station. It felt appropriate as the End of Chapter 1, since that’s where I chose to end my gaming session for today.
I’m going to continue with Chapter 2 tomorrow hopefully though, as it turns out I still have my Alan Wake II save from when I thought I deleted it because it ate my Steam Deck’s battery alive and I’m a few chapters into that, so I’d like to make parity with them before playing parallel (assuming I don’t end up changing my mind).
Today's game is Alan Wake. Both in preparation for Halloween and my heart's one desire to play Alan Wake II, I am replying through the first one again on nightmare difficulty.
What i'm thinking i'll do though since i'm feeling a little impatient to get to AW2 is Play it parallel to the Second one since i've played through both AW1 and AWAN 4 times in the past. So i'll do one chapter of AW1 and then one chapter of AW2. I'm still thinking this through though
I may have gotten a little out of control with the screenshots though after i discovered the built in free cam, as instead of my usual 10-20, i took 80 in just the opening section. So I figured i'd dump a few extras here today since i won't get a chance to reuse them again.
I also got explorative with it once i realized there wasn't a range and i could go anywhere with it (you'll see more of that in the second section)
Alan and his Magic Spinning Flashlight
The dorky deer float i saw
I screenshotted this building as i realized that i don't think i ever get to see a proper look at it, for how much detail it has. the only other time we're on this side of bright falls is at night during combat.
This kitchen had a surprising amount of depth for not being able to go back here
The entire backhalf of the lodge is rendered in (mostly) full textures despite not being able to see it from the first chapter. Especially not where i'm at
An entire unused room in Birdleg's cabin. I just thought it was interesting the window was see through on the inside when you can't even see it from the outside
out by the coast (?) i noticed this weird water mapping thing going on. It's hard to see but they are on completely different levels
I found some remedy debug textures on the ground under the water. Also interestingly the land under the water had depth to it, instead of just being a flat plane. I'm not really sure why this is (maybe just to be thorough?) but i thought it was interesting.
And god dammit. I leave for a few hours and the entire cabin gets stolen. Can't have shit in bright falls
Today’s game is New Vegas, and it also marks the end of New Vegas for me. For the screenshot I originally considered doing my ending slideshow, but I thought that might 1) contain too many spoilers (though I doubt there’s many people that haven’t played it) and 2) make for too long of a post as I got almost all the slides. So instead I’ll briefly recap some of it in the post.
For my screenshot I selected a Screenshot of the other side of the Dam. It’s a very basic screenshot. But I like it because it’s not an angle I got to see often and I think it shows the scale of it well and it’s like a trophy saying “I got here” since you can’t get to this side until the end of the game.
For the Recap: I did the maddening Sunset Sasparilla Quest (I hope whatever employee came up with that is happy), I got all the companions, and I played 30 games of Caravan. Then I went onto the Second Battle of Hoover Dam (for the NCR). I have to say for how tiny the game is they do an amazing job of making of making it actually feel like a battle. Between all the explosions and action going on I found it easy to get swept away by the battle that I’d forget that there were only maybe 10 other soldiers in the room with me. I brought Cass and ED-E with me, though sadly I didn’t beat ED-E’s main story so he’s lost to the wasteland after the game. I negotiated for peace at almost every opportunity, so the Brotherhood and Boomers helped, while the Great Khans fled (I figured they wouldn’t survive a battle against the Legion). The followers didn’t side with them sadly though. I tried to set it up where everyone benefited (Except the legion obviously. They weren’t winning in this situation).
I also wanted to bring up the slideshow, as I really enjoyed it, and I’m a bit bummed now that Fallout 4 didn’t do something like that. This isn’t a essay interpretation by any means and this could be me misreading it because I’m almost knocked out NyQuill and a Fever right now, but I personally felt like it kind of changes the series’s motto (“War, War Never Changes”) depending on your actions, as it changes the context of it. For example the NCR ending I got where almost everyone came out on the positive it felt much more like it was saying “War Doesn’t change, but it can bring about change”. While with Yes Man Ending I got (I want and quickly did that after for the achievement) I felt like it was a much more dystopian “War will never change”. I felt this is kind of parallel to what Ulysses adds to the motto at the end of Lonesome road (“Men do, through the roads they walk”), because this interpretation is brought on by the “road” the player (as in from our perspective) walks through the game. Like I said though, NyQuill and Fever, so I could be completely misreading this right now.
Anyways, I also mentioned I did the Yes Man ending for the achievement. So here’s a Bonus picture of Yes Man because I actually really enjoyed him too:
Today’s game is New Vegas. I’m cleaning up some things before beating completing the story. Namely achievements so I don’t have to do as many on my next round trip.
This I took when I was going to do the Talent Pool quest in the Ace. I figured it was going to be a quick, 10 minute ordeal. Really easy since I had almost maxed out everything. Only, I forgot that The Tops casino hates me, so I am locked out of the quest as far as I know.
I fought my way into The Aces anyways on the off chance I could start the quest regardless and the room was empty except for a trigger happy barkeep I missed that Rose of Sharon Cassidy (who I also picked up today and is now my new favorite companion) one shot and jump scared me with the sound.
I have 17 achievements left after this before I end the game, one of which I may have to drop since It requires me to get kicked out of all the casinos and just remembered I am still locked out of the Tops. I got what I think is the hardest out of the way (The Warheads achievement) but the Star Bottle Caps quest has me a bit worried. So I may postpone that for whenever I play again.
Today's game is Fallout New Vegas. I was stuck at home all day and laid in bed playing through the entirety of Lonesome Road (wouldn't have been possible without the Steam Deck!). I got a ton of Screenshots, so I decided that I would just share multiple photos
This one I took on my way into The Divide. Just like with Dead money, it seemed appropriate.
This is a screenshot I took of ED-E right before I freed them. I have to say, for having spent so little time with them, the ending made me kind of sad. They were very entertaining and I like the conversations with them.
This is a screenshot I took of the missile as it was launched above Ashton shortly before crashing down. I have to say the journey here was hell because I had to fight 4 deathclaws. I ended up using Med-X and Psycho along with the Red Glare and spamming rockets in their direction. I spent nearly an hour trying to kill them (sometimes they'd kill me and sometimes I'd accidentally walk backwards into a hole in the ground)
This screenshot was taken just because I thought it looked neat. I don't really have any story behind it besides that. I will note that it stood out a lot more to me than the others though, as I feel like a lot of the other graffiti that wasn't obviously written by Ulysses was just random things like "Smile".
I took this screenshot on the final stretch of my road. I used a stealthboy and sneak attacked all the scorched men along the way. I also stopped and picked up the veteran riot armor, though sadly it didn't last long with its durability so I need to repair it soon.
I took this screenshot while fighting some scorched men. I thought it looked cool from the side profile I got and wanted to share it. I got the sniper rifle from the Veteran Ranger, and I used it for most of the rest of my journey. It felt appropriate since I was taking his armor, I may as well pay respects and use all that he had instead of just picking at what I wanted.
This is right before the final confrontation. I detonated all the Nukes in the area right after this screenshot (Though, I'm missing 10 so I'll have to go back and find those for the achievement) and prepared myself for the final fight.
I ended up sparing Ulysses by passing the NCR faction check and the 90 Speech check. We fought together to against the scorched men. The fight was fun. For as simplistic as FNV AI can be sometimes it did a good job of making it feel far more epic and cinematic. I ended up sacrificing ED-E to stop the Nuke, as I'm doing a morally good playthrough and I was avoiding spoilers so I didn't know if I letting it launch at someone would have consequences outside of the faction I targeted.
I came back after the slideshow and just sat with him for a bit and looked at The Divide. I listened to his final message and talked to him, before heading back.
It made me happy though to know that ED-E was transferred back to the Mojave model though, as I was surprisingly sad about it. As soon as I got back I went and activated ED-E at the Mojave Express. I also did some progress towards misc. achievements and getting endings for everything. I picked up Raul, Veronica, Arcade Gannon, and did Rex's quest. while in Jacobstown I was planning on picking up Lily but I can't remember how to get her as a companion.
I went back to Fallout New Vegas today. I’m hoping to wrap it up before I start to miss the game and so I can move onto either FF 7 Remake or Alan Wake II. Unfortunately I caught something last night and I wasn’t in the mood to start Lonesome Road, so I went back and grabbed an achievement I missed in Old World blues and also to sell off some more of the gold.
Turns out I missed getting all the personalities for the Sink. So I went back and did that since I thought it would be easy. I ended up running out of ammo fighting scorpions though and was lazy and decided to just sprint past them and tank the shots. Somehow I didn’t die from it, and managed to grab the last 4-ish modules.
I also had to go by Higgs Village for one, and was creeped out by it more compared to last time. I think it’s because I slowed down to appreciate it. Anyways, I got the Toaster up and running and I have to say it’s my favorite of the personalities. I wish I had one irl. So I picked a screenshot I took of my conversation with it for today’s screenshot
I hope to tomorrow to get over what I caught and start lonesome road. If not I may just start it anyways though because I don’t want to put it off too long before I fall out of the mood for New Vegas.
I love Oxygen. It’s such a fun game. I can spend hours on just one save