What did you do today in any other game out there

NHL 22

This was a lot of fun. I do love my heaping pots full of Pasta. Also pretty much got all my contracts settled by and large which should be kind of interesting, of course, for the off season, lets see how this goes. But did lock down Pasta long term and the only people I didn't go for was Chris Wagner since he is no longer a Bruin...he is actually an Avalanche in fact...and Joe Thornton who is 43 years old and wanted a two year extension...I have him a 1 year extension. And he didn't like it, oh well he is probably getting a cup and playing well for me so...yeah who knows what my lineup will look like next year again.

As far as the games Wild, Senators, Red Wings. 5-2, 11-0, 10-0. ALways fun beating up on the Red Wings.

Wild game the Flower was in net so always looking forward to a great little goalie showdown and he did quite well by and large. Just peppered him and he did hold up well. On the flip side though did go out to a 5-0 lead by the second... and then they scored two goals in the third so that is a little annoying. I mean can't have it all but there it is. Most notable goal though was a bit of intentionality on the Power Play. Got the puck to Pastranak, geared up for a slap shot, changed my mind since I didn['t got the one timer down, so instead he wristed it. Chaos ensued as the ref initially ruled it as a no goal and the commentators started gesticulating about the puck being kicked in...but it stood in the end and it happened that Coyle got a tip in.

Senator game was wild for its own way. Just a human highlight real and the most ironic and weird part is I only went 2 for 5 on the Powerplay. Think Bergeron opened up the scoring on a surprising goal that got in by bouncing off the goalie, then the crossbar, then in. Pasta would get the next one on a breakway for the first power play goal. And yeah lets see here. Carlo got his second of the season on a weird breakway for a defensemen. Gryz got his 14th, breakway. Two goals for Thronton, an assist which went to Fredric, Marchand probably as well. Zacha got his fiftieth of the season as well. But the real coup was Pasta just went off, 5 point night, 4th hat trick of the season, and his second game with 4 goals. This gives him a league leading 52 goals and up to 84 points so he went on fire.

And the fun didn't stop there as during the game he got his 53rd goal. Another goal by Thornton got his 11th and finially Seguin got back on the board for his ninth. Only annoying thing happened Hall got hurt for a couple of games, like a week, with a strained shoulder so have to shuffle the lineup deck again...Tomas Nosek is back in for now.

Ghost Recon Wildlands

We did some of the most competent, Ninja, and funniest play sessions we've had in a hot minute.

We pick up on the mission where we are hunting for the Cartel deserter. First up the first guy you go for I had the idea of disabling his car with an EMP drone...and it didn't work as he quite happily got in said car to drive away when we blew the cover. But I put two bullets into it which stopped it dead in its tracks, and then another one across the way. Then I provided sniper fire for wifey as she went in via helo to go after the guy. Things got extra dicey though when just random arseholes popped up out of nowhere on me and vehicle reinforcements came in. Three rounds blew up the vehicle and then I expertly took the fire, worked the bolt, and struck down the three guys that went after me. After that it was a pretty simple mission to mop up the rest of the sicarios. Next set piece here started to work on things to go after the deserter. I of course missed a shot which all hell broke loose but it was hilarious because the deserter started shooting at the sicarios...started shooting at me...then onto wife's helicopter as she provided air support...and then back to me as I grabbed him.

Onto going after Bookhart and the Battle of the Mines part two. And dead body got discovered which got us into a fire fight but it was just so neat as we worked ourselves through the base methodically. Just popping them. My first side objective is wifey pushed for a Kingslayer but there was a mini gun in the middle of the hall so I went to secure it, just squatted on it and popped anyone who came after us. Then she got the jump on Bookhart.

Finally though off to Villa Verde. Did a misison where we had to clear sicarios out of pyrolucite mines. Actually got some pretty good sniping in that I got a 268 meter shot with supressor still on. And other similar shots from both of us as we swept through both locations.

I've redownloaded Honkai Impact 3rd (I wasn't free for long ) and downloaded AFK Journey (I succumbed to pretty art).

With HI3rd I'm mostly doing daily/weekly stuff. I still have some chapters to play, but they're mostly part 1.5 filler chapters, so I'm not pressed to complete them. I'm caught up with all part 1 chapters and all available part 2 chapters.

As for AFK Journey, it's still pretty new, so the progress is somehow steady, though it does significantly slow down when you start to run out of one of the resources. But honestly, I expected that of idle/afk game. I'm here mostly for art, which I knew would be great after AFK Arena and Dislyte (played both as well).

Aside from playing those two, I've been mostly playing Honkai Star Rail. Patch 2.1 dropped a little over a week ago with continuation of Penacony story and it's shaping to be my favourite storyline Hoyoverse have ever created. Honestly, I'm 99% sure it'll end up my fave, I'm just waiting to see if they stick the landing. Not to mention some of the questions asked drove me into teeny tiny existential crisis.

After finishing my own playthrough of 2.1 story, I went on binge of watching content creators playing it (technically I'm still on that binge). I love their reactions, especially how most of them did 180° on one character and those who didn't simply liked that character prior

Would you recommend it to somebody who hasn't played the first game? It's on my wishlist but I don't actually know what to expect. Should probably watch some gameplay. From what you describe I'm uncertain now.

Dragons Dogma 2
Put down my first Griffin today He was one of the two who harassed me yesterday since he only had 1 health bar instead of four (or something), so that was nice. 
Was affected by the griffins in real life too yesterday, since when a shadow passed over me and the dog during our walk I was ready to throw hands until I realized it was just a seagull and it was not planning to fight me. But I would've been ready then. Pow, right on the beak. 

Ulrika and Daphne are my first blushy people. Hoping it's more of a platonic crush since they are daughter zoned in my eyes. 
My pawn has commented three times that he's been adventuring in the rift and keeps talking badly about his combat prowess. And like. He's trying okay! 
Granted I was certain I'd said no to online shenanigans so it might just be the game dissing him. Maybe I should let him go online and see if he gets grabbed by somebody nicer. Or maybe he'll just have even crueller ratings? Or maybe he'll get sick and I'll have to toss him in the river. 


Been getting better at putting down Ogres, which is nice. They seem to dislike it when I stab pointy things in their heads. Understandable mr Ogre, understandable. 
Maxed out the Fighter vocation. Tried the Warrior one but the sword was just too slow and no block button so. Am using Magic Spearman vocation now and it's fun. No block but the stabby stab is fast and powerful. Might try out archer or thief, archer since the pawns keep dissing my lack of bow skill and there is some quest connected to it and thief should be a fast stabby stabber. Might even have dodge. 

And a pic of my Arisen and a side pawn. His name was Cordelia and he was lovely. Her face is tired from all the tanking it did. (✿◡‿◡)

GW2

Little Necro Asura is now in Orr. Already. Secured Fort Trinity. I'm not doing all map completion.

I'm already starting to think about story core story. If I do everything or skip some stuff to move forward faster (I can replay it later anyway).


Dragon's Dogma 2

I'm starting to think that I shouldn't have explored so much before doing the main story. The main quests are super short so far. Especially when you can already teleport on the other side of the map...

The Exile is only on Republic side FPs (they are named Taral V and Maelstrom Prison, Republic and Imps have a different storyline). They are supposed to be done after you did the 1st planet in Chapter 2 (Balmora for Republic, Taris for Imps).


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Continuing through Banishers. Now that I've opened up the side quest stuff you can really see where the open world design fails this game. I think 75% of my time at this point has been running back and forth because they only allow you to fast travel from and to rest locations. So you spend ALOT of time running around for a quest that would only actually take a few minutes.

I'm still enjoying the game but it's really starting to push its luck with all the back and forth. They really just need to patch in a fast travel from anywhere and that would make it much better.

So, in terms of gameplay they are actually pretty different, so there isn't much relation there.
In terms of story, Cutter has (of course) lost his memory at the start of Outcast 2, which means you are not required to know anything about the first one. However, I will say that they do reference the first game a lot and I certainly recognized a lot of the background. Not sure how easy it is to make sense of it all if you don't know it./ They do provide a very helpful glossary and character directory though. In fact, the glossary is great because you can press shift during dialogues and an abbreviated version of the "foreign" words used in that dialogue line will be shown on the right side of the screen. Very convenient, especially because, just like in part 1, there are a lot of words in the language of the inhabitants of the other world, which you will learn. This is where the glossary comes in very handy, especially if you don't already know the words from playing Outcast 1.

In short, I'd say it should work out but you'll need to pay attention and maybe read some stuff to get everything.

DD2

Ugh. The fourth riddle is where I pick up the first Seeker token and I don't know. If I can't get it right, the Sphinx riddles end here, no more rewards. Ugh!!!

I only remember I picked it up in a barn. sigh

Looks like I'll have to look up locations of Seeker tokens and go one by one.