What did you do today in any other game out there

Oathbreaker

Oh my. Tears. It gave me the tears. A good sacrifice story always gives me the tears. Good music, I like the art, the politics are reasonable and it made me cry.

Need more. Guess I'll go figure out how to Patreon.

Hitman 2 - Miami

I'm attempting a SASO on Master difficulty, and I've figured out a way to take out both targets in one shot, I just need to not be detected by the entire building.
EASY!

So I manage to lure the scientists in the head office where I want them via fuse-box, and the drop is low enough that it only knocks them out.
I'm able to use my collection of tools as lures for the nearby guards and leave them all in an unconscious pile in a corner room that no one goes to.

I snag the computer dongle from the desk and sabotage the satellite dish to get Robert Knox to the roof.
Luckily, I was able to lure his bodyguard away with another wrench and add him to the "knockout pile", so I manage to get him...
Then a security guard catches me for trespassing, ruining my SASO run at the last minute.



So I reload the strategic save and made sure to knock out that set of guards too.

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Fallout 4

I'm traveling with Paladin Danse trying to help a Brotherhood scribe on a tech mission.
It's in a Gunner-infested area, full of turrets and missile launchers, so a lady wearing a sweater and coveralls isn't going to last long.

So I'm going in sniper-style in an attempt to make the area less treacherous, and I manage to get inside the building.

Only for the scribe to go Rambo and try to stop laser-fire with her face.


I fail the mission, so I have to go back to Proctor Quinlan to report on my failure.
Paladin Danse stops me and asks if I have a minute, he wants to tell me something.
Everything is clear, so I say "Sure, go ahead".
Paladin Danse proceeds to tell me how he joined the Brotherhood and why, only for the familiar sound of rotors to be heard approaching.

As well as signature beeping sound.

So while Danse and I are having a little heart-to-heart as brothers-in-arms, Super Mutant Suiciders and Brotherhood Knights are engaged in nuclear warfare.
I'm frantically skipping the dialogue, thinking "Oh man, it's the sleeping bags all over again!"
Only for the vertibird to hit one of the mini-nukes, setting off all the other mini-nukes.
The vertibird goes down in a blaze of glory, and all the Super Mutants are blown to bits.

"Well, Knight, I'm glad we had this talk."
...
"Not a problem, Danse."

Finished my first run of Yakuza Like a Dragon. It was a blast.
Tentatively starting my second round, this time using english dub instead of japanese and playing on legend difficulty instead of normal. So far it's going alright, but I'm only at chapter 1, so teeth kicking has yet to commence. Was also like 6 levels below the recommendation, so figure chapter 2 will show how screwed I really am. Hehe. 

But I'll burn that bridge when I get to it. 

In Madden.

Back to playing the Denver Broncos and that was quite an exhilerating couple of games which both required some last minute heroics.

First up was against the Houston Texans and well it was a pretty back and forth game throughout the entire thing with a couple of interceptions thrown in for good measure but Sharpe and Myers both had over 100 yards and Myers at least had 2 TDs. Felton had couple of neat rushes as he did one of those things where he was able to rush around a defensive end and then make it out of bounds. Then at the 9 yard line there was just wide open expanse of field and he rushed right up for it for an all important score. All important because the Texans would just not go away and even took the lead with about 2 minutes left. Well ran a few plays and then hit Myers on a slant in the endzone for the game winning score with 24 seconds yet.

Next game against the Rams and this might be the funnest game I have ever played certainly ranks amongst them. Once again much like the previous game couldn't get anything going on the ground game like at all but Felton just went off in grand fashion for like 5 touch downs, over 600 yards. Sharpe, Smith and I think De Greene all had over 100 yards receiving. Though I do believe Degreen did fumble the ball twice in this one too which provided some drama because the Rams went ahead late so I started off the quarter down but that really didn't matter as it turned out for once. Myers hadn't had a catch until the fourth quarter despite all those insane passing stats and his first one only went for 3 yards. But with like 4 minutes left in the game was down by 7 50-43 so I went down the field and scored a game tying touchdown, this one to Sharpe. And then despite giving them like just over a minute they gave the ball to me back with 40 seconds left, about mid field so I hit Myers for a 19 yard reception over the middle which set up a perfect opportunity for a field goal which gave me the win despite them doing their BS 'let me call a time out and throw off your timing thing', Broncos win 53-50.

Nioh. The story picked up the pace, the game auto-allied the PC with one of the local warlords*, who wanted to bring peace to the land by murdering the other warlord and his army. If I knew the history of this period a bit better, I'd probably care more, but all of them are equally hard to empathize with.
So, 3 more bosses are down, a warrior, a ninja and a sniper. The sniper took the longest, because his special move was removing the target lock from him and the boss room was on fire.
Screenshots:

*I've checked Wikipedia, the portrayal of this historical figure seems reasonably accurate.

So, Oathbreaker II is a work in progress, so I can't continue playing my first route until the next chapter comes out.

Ebon Light

Enjoyed another round. I was chewing on who would be cannon, and Haron won. He's just so adoring in a passionate way, I can't turn my back on him. Gotta smooch him. I think I'm done with the game for now. I've clicked on a lot of the options, and tried almost all the ways of resolving the main events.

Sleepy times.

Yakuza Like a Dragon
I have realized the extent of my foolishness in this attempt. 
Or well I tried the next main story dungeon and got one-hit-KO'd by a level 13 mook, who had like 5 other mooks waiting to smack me around. So like even if I'd manage to perfect guard each hit, I would not make it. And they kinda just chuckled at my heavy hitting moves so...That's a mood. 
Now I could try and grind up a level. Which would take around a year since I get like 20xp per encounter and I need around 100k to level up so...And I'm not even doing so hot in those encounters either...

So, gonna shelve that run for now. Did instead return to my Post ending save and did some grinding there, since there is a dungeon in the last chapter which has three encounters with some juicy xp bombs who give around 100k exp in an encounter. More with XP enhancing gear. So getting from level 64 to 75 was a breeze. 

Then started a new game plus with that save and just speed ran through the first two chapters. The difference was amazing. The difficulty will probably rack up again, but if I can make it to Chapter 5 I think I have a chance.
Maybe.
It's possible. 

Sims 4
After that I've been fixing some in-game 'lore' for evidently EA neglected to make lasting impressions between Sims
downloaded a file from YouTuber Pleasantsims which already fixes the 'lore' for the base game so I just had to do the extra parts for the expansions and game packs I have that her file doesn't cover (she only focuses on the more mundane expansions, which kinda leaves out people like me who enjoy their sims to be wacky with colorful character and personality such as vampires and spell-casters)

so for example, in the game pack 'Vampires' there's two main families, the Vatore siblings (consisting of Lilith and Caleb) and Nosferatu look-a-like Vladislaus Straud

Pastry Lovers

Got it for 50 cents. It's not terrible but it isnt amazing. It starts off as so innocent that I could almost doze off from boredom, but I looked at some of the screen shots and now I'm really wondering how this sparkly virgin ends up half naked in a hot spring with a love interest.

Elisa the Innkeeper

The premise is you dont play one character, you play all of them. I'm already after the Tsundere Knight who claims he's never loved a woman. Saw a screenshot where he's banging angrily on her door and I'm like OOOO grumpy face wants me I see. So long as it's, ya know, not too boundary crossing. I wish I could play a romance VN where I can sleep with multiple people. Ahh, the good ol' days of DAO and DA2 where you sleep with half your followers. Le sigh.

I downloaded the Jedi fallen order game. Will start playing in the next few days.

Should I download Outer Worlds and/or Greedfall? I ask because both are on sale on psn.

I ended my play-through of Trails of Cold Steel III, and hell... Things really gone mad at the end. And of course in the true Falcom fashion the game ended in a massive cliffhanger. Well - I guess I have to wait to the first half of 2021, when the PC version of Trails of Cold Steel IV is released. Only then I will see how this huge saga (at least the Liberl, Crossbell and Erebonian part of it) will end. Of course there is another part underway that will form a bridge between that last saga and the new story in the Calvard republic, but that's not very soon I guess. For now Ys IX: Monstrum Nox will be the next Falcom game  that will be released for the west (and I am surely going to play it).

Anyway - In the mean time I picked up some more JRPG stuff, and plan to play the Sword Art Online games from the first (Hollow Fragment) to the latest (Alicization Lycoris). So - Five games to go then.

I also have a nice time with Atelier Ryza - Ever Darkness and the Secret Hideout, and will cetrainly play Ryza 2 when it will be released. On the visual novel front I am doing fine with Flowers -Le Volume sur Automne- and Sakura No Mori Dreamers, but those are, of course, not really games...

Yakuza Like a Dragon
The dungeon the first legend attempt stopped at was cleared with some difficulty. Needed 2 rocket launchers, 1 respawn and 1 throwing knife to get through, plus most of my best moves and some healing stuff. So it went WAY better than expected.

So have made it to Chapter 5. Yuss! And remembered that there is a super long dungeon in this one. Oh nu.
But doing a fair bit better than last time. Until the game decides I'm not and beats me to pulp. But that's just life.

Getting a wee bit burned out though, so putting it on ice for a few days.

Picked up Persona 4 again and that opening cutscene is still a banger.
Mostly spent the session going through the Secret Lab dungeon. Which was pretty nice since I remember having trouble with it the first run, but now it's smooth like butter. Having buttered up the fox so he heals for cheap was also real nice. And he was in a good mood today as well, even if he kept getting stuck alone in a room with Kanji and his adoration. 
Kinda miffed about the music though. It kinda lacks any oomph, especially after the earlier dungeons soundtrack. Had to pop in there for a few moments to get some items and that jam is still so good. 

Also saw some new assist animations since Kanji and Yukiko are benched this run. Kanji's move is pretty handy, but oh my gosh Yukiko's shenanigans are so cute. Yosuke is about to get benched as well, so hoping I'll see his assists soon. 

Got some story stuff up next in the next session, so that's fun. Doubly because I've kinda forgotten how things go after this point and most of the S-links I've got left I haven't seen yet. So that's fun.