What did you do today in any other game out there

Sims 4

So the other day I made a new family...again
consisting of a pair of gay parents and their adopted daughter

said daughter has now become a young adult, fell in love with a vampire and moved in with him and his vampiric sister and some vampire guy I created so the sister wouldn't be left out

Yeah...sometimes I don't want to know what they carry around

I've surrendered to the nintendo sales, and got Story of Seasons: friends of mineral town for Switch. Cute, I like the chibi style more than I thought. I got granpa's old farm, and started working. In a few days, an old man have given me a young horse to raise.

The fact that is a remake with older concepts is blatant, expecially after playng trio of town. But for now my only real complain is about the limited customization of our farmer: I would have liked at least choose hair/eye color.

Not only did I download Outer Worlds and Greedfall, but I also downloaded Just Cause 4, Control and Kingdoms of Amular: Re-Reckoning. Fortunately I bought a 2TB external hard drive a couple of months ago to fit these games. I did start playing Jedi Fallen Order last night. So far it's ok.

More running amok in Blood & Wine

Echoes of the Fey

I like this game. It's solid.

I swallowed my disgust and embraced my inner horn dog to at least see what the culmination scene would be for Nikolai. It was uncomfortable and had at least 2 red flags of blatant racism and a thirst for blood. Pass. Reload.

So that leaves the Priest ( evil grin) or my bestie partner.

Edit add: aw. I didn't play my cards right with anyone else, so he's not he only option. So I tried to finish the game romance free and died. So I guess I'll see if I don't die with a crappy boyfriend at least.

Echoes of the Fey

10 hours in and well... I want to reload and say I'll stick with Gross Man, just to see if that adds stability to the end game slides. I need to try it from the start again to try the two different romances, the bestie and the priest. But apparently the Bestie really doesn't like it if you smooch around and it kinda locks you out of him. Isn't Fenris that way too?

I like that I could play a promiscuous woman who refuses to be shamed about said promiscuities. I didn't love so much that she defaulted to being an alcoholic but I guess I didn't have to live through any forced bad decision making, so what she gets up to off screen is whatever.

It's also really clear that there will be a sequel but not in a "all these questions are left unanswered and my rival will be destroyed by another protaganist" kinda way. I'm looking forward to the next installment

Things that I liked: It's strategic mini game, as simplistic as it was, was satisfying to master (although I dont know so much about going through it again from scratch). I was actually disappointed that it didn't get harder. The singing of one of the Love Interests was game themed and well done. The storyline was absorbing. There was a polyamorous default option if you didn't get with anyone, but maybe this happens no matter what? I think it's only because I committed to no one. I just don't get how I have to agree to work for them to date one of them.

Bad: I don't like the art. And the voice actor of the protaganist. Arkady's VA could have been better as well, very scratchy.

yeah, probably going to sink another 10 hours into it so...worth the money.

Echoes of the Fey

Oooooo. No wonder everything felt like the middle of a story. I was playing Episode 2 that whole time. Episode 0 was free, and I paid like a dollar for episode 1. Now all this backstory and the name drops will make sense. Next time I play "the Last Sacrament' it'll be more like... Playing Witcher 3 the 2nd time around after actually playing Witcher 2.

Anyway, episode 0 is essentially a quick setup of why your character is so special in spite of her alcoholic sexual adventures and obsession with board games.

It does a time skip, I believe there may be a short story or a video involved to cover this part, and then it's episode 1. I dunno what the story is behind that decision, maybe a money one.

But I'm super liking the Heremon friendship vibe. Now that I get what they've done for each other, I totally ship them.

I've jus tsurrendered and bought Immortal Fenyx Risin gwas a little worried about the price tag but it looks a fun game. No tsure when I'll get round to playing it but I think I'll enjoy it when I do.

A bit of a semi-retro throwback...

Command & Conquer, Red Alert 3

For those who don't know, a synopsis:
Imagine if someone went back in time and prevented Hitler from being born?
Congratulations, instead of the Nazis taking over Germany and then attempting to conquer the world, Russia can do it now!

Well, instead of having to defeat fascism, then communism; now the free world has to defeat communism, then communism AGAIN only they have giant zeppelins, tesla coils, crazy snipers, and bears.
At least we have time-travel, weaponized light, and Tanya (tank-tops, one-liners, and enough C4 to make a Marine blush).

Basically, it's WW2 with the Allies (United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Korea, etc.) VS the Soviets (Russia, Iraq, Libya, China, etc.)
It can vary based on which game/timeline you go with, but that's the gist of it, with a few major differences.
Albert Einstein is key to the Allies' technological edge, and gameplay-wise it is a test of quality-VS-quantity; Allies are blue, Soviets are red.

Anyway, the third installment (circa 2008-2009), now has the Empire of the Rising Sun, because time-travel shenanigans, AGAIN.
Picture giant robots, transforming mecha, ninjas, and psychic schoolgirls. Yeah.

So now it's a three-way-war between the Allies, Soviets, and Imperials.

So, in brief terms, the three different factions have "their" prime unit type, i.e. the realm of war that they have the edge.
Soviets run on land.
Imperials dominate at sea.
Allies rule the skies.

That isn't to say that you can't have a strong air-force playing as the Soviets, or that the Allies can't muster mighty land units, but I digress.

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A 4-player skirmish, me and one AI ally VS two AI players, a 2-vs-2.
My favorite faction is the Allies  (naturally), and I'm facing off against an Imperial team.

I'm going for my hybrid-strategy of turtle/strike-team, where I have a nigh-impenetrable base and a crack-squad of high-powered units.
Either I use my Chronosphere (lets you teleport units anywhere on the map) to get some Mirage Tanks (cloaking vehicles that utilize the aforementioned weaponized light) or, if I can get to the maximum tech level, Harbinger Gunships (massive, heavily-armored bombers that carry both high-powered chain-guns and "Collider" cannons).

I have several Airbases to construct aircraft, and an Armor Facility to construct a team of Mirage Tanks; my Chronosphere is fully-charged, and my Proton Collider (Allies' Ultimate Weapon) is going to be ready in 2 minutes.

What I didn't plan for was six Imperial Giga-Fortresses to decimate 85% of my base in 30 seconds.


So now I'm down to a single Ore Refinery, two Power Plants, a Multigunner Turret, and an Outpost.
I have NO production capability. I cannot build any units, and if I lose these last few structures, I'm defeated.


I do have a single Harbinger Gunship with full veterancy, and three Apollo Fighters.

Thankfully, the H.G.'s repair naturally, and with full veterancy that repair rate is increased, so I can take some hits...
But boy howdy is this suddenly more difficult.

My tiny "base" is well-hidden, but as mentioned, I have my few units, and that's it.
A tense battle of attrition ensues, with me carefully bombarding the enemy Generators to shut down their production capability.
Because I've lost my Construction Yard, I no longer have access to my special abilities; no Cryoblasts or Time Bombs for me.


My ally has built several Aircraft Carriers, and is using their EMP Missile liberally, so that does buy me some breathing room to rain down fire from on high, and eventually we take out one Imperial team.
At this point, it's just a matter of circumventing their air defenses so I can take out the remaining Imperial Docks.

Victory.

Y&eah I did It is a bit costly but I thoughtI was likling everything I was seeing about it so thought it was worth the gamble after umming and arring about it all day. Looks like they made it pretty accessible too given the amount of difficulty settings it has which is another thing that's worked in it's favour. I'm looking forward to playing it even if I'm not suer when that'll be yet I know it releases in a couple of days but I know I won' t be playing it at launch as I've already got my hands full finishing m ylatest run of Andromeda atm. Then I was going to play HZD after that the PC version of Halo (by Halo I'm referring to both the Halo Wars games and the MCC which is now complete) and then AC Origins and Oddysey. I may play it after Oddysey but I'm not commiting to it yet as I want to keep things flexible in case I want to change my mind. Eithe rwa ythat's a lot to get through for now.