What did you do today in any other game out there

Started this game



yesterday needless to say that this game is toooootally different then IFR ( duh ). But i had fun nevertheless i had a few minor issues on my PS5 but so far so good.

The game looks absolutely amazing though.

Managed to klep myself a police car in Cyberpunk 2077.



This game is goddamn addictive and I have only two vacation days left, halp

I bought Grand Theft Auto IV a while ago, partially because Rockstar doesn't seem inclined to release any new single-player content for GTA V, and partially because I haven't played GTA IV in years. (The last time I played it was on the PS3, back when I split my attention between Playstation and PC instead of exclusively playing on the latter. Which is why I had to buy a copy even though I've already played it.)

A few days ago, I unlocked the Francis McReary mission where he sends you to assassinate a guy holed up in an apartment. I put it off until I'd unlocked Alderney, since I wanted to try this mission with a rocket launcher, and I figured all the spawn points would be in Alderney. Then I looked up where the spawn points actually were... and it turns out I could have gotten that rocket launcher a while ago. Boy, hindsight!

Anyway, I got started on that mission. Francis gave me a sniper rifle (even though I already had one from the time I had to cover his brother during a drug deal gone wrong) and headed to the rooftop sniper perch... and of course, I switched from the sniper rifle to the rocket launcher.

According to the cutscene showing where the target was, he was sitting right next to the window watching TV. The target wasn't directly in Niko's line of fire from the sniper perch, probably because aforesaid target understood that someone might try to snipe him. So the game requires you to find some way to get him out of the chair. The intended solutions are to either call his phone (said phone is in Niko's line of fire, and the cutscene camera lingers on his phone number for maybe a whole second) or to shoot out the satellite dish on the side of his apartment building (his TV is also positioned in front of the window, and apparently if the signal goes out he gets up to investigate.)

For a guy who knows he's in danger of being sniped, this guy isn't taking all that many precautions.

Back in 2008, when I was playing this mission for the first time? I shot his TV screen, and then shot him while he stood up and tried to work out what was going on.

And of course, my plan this time was to shoot a rocket through the window of his apartment. I figured the most realistic scenario was that the window would break, the rocket would go through it and explode on the floor, and the guy sitting in the apartment would die right where he was sitting. I didn't really think that would happen, but I'm pretty sure it's what physics would mandate if this was real life.

As for what I thought would happen, I figured that it was more likely that the rocket would explode when it hit the window, and that it would either break the window or not break the window. If the window broke, I figured the blast would kill my target. If it didn't, I figured he'd probably survive and hunker down in the safety of his apartment, and I'd fail the mission and have to retry it.

Wanna know what I wasn't expecting?

I was not expecting this guy to respond to a bomb going off on the walls of his bolthole by fleeing said bolthole.

The game prompted me to chase him down and end him now that he'd (quite foolishly) fled his shelter. Instead, I decided to hold my position in the sniper's nest, figuring he'd probably flee through the front door.

I pointed my rocket launcher at said front door, waited for him to run through it, and sent a rocket at him.

Assassination complete.

Cinders

Well. I made a lot of choices. I don't fully understand what effect they had. I ended up marrying the prince I'd literally talked to for less than 5 minutes. And ruled the kingdom with an icy cold fist. There was very little romance, honestly. It was mostly about the relationships Cinders had with her sisters and Stepmother. I think I'd rather the sister, Sophia, have married the prince. and I think I would have preferred to marry the Guardsman. But as a romantic visual novel, it's pretty light on the romance. Not even a kiss.  And I found it a bit... racially uncomfortable that the only black character in the game was painted up like an african witch doctor.


All that said, the art was gorgeous. probably my favorite yet. And the collectibles showing up in the Menu Screen reminded me of Cinderella Phenomenon, it's a nice touch.

Played two games yesterday this one



Immortals Fenyx Rising did some questing some main and some side quests and had a lot of fun.

Also played this game

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Cyberpunk 2077 did some main story missions and some side missions and also had a lot of fun.

Curious Crow
BotW was my first LoZ game and I didn't get lost in lore, so yeah. Definitely newbie friendly.
Can't speak about Astral Chain, but both BotW and Immortals Fenyx Rising don't require motion control. It's there and it's useful for archery, but not required. I didn't even have motion control enabled in IFR at first
As for subtitles... I don't know how big they're in AC, so can't compare, but I'd say they're a bit bigger than in FE:TH. Immortals even adjusts the inventory view between handheld and stationary, to better fit smaller screen.

In-between Cyberpunk 2077 sessions, I played a bit of GW2.

My Norn Renegade is now a member of the Priory and I crafted an ascended weather breather for her too. Cost me about 10 gold to make, so I did the dailies to recoup the cost (it rewards 2g per day).

Once the 15th hit, I'm going to do some of the Wintersday stuff, because I want something that is a collection reward that only happens during that seasonal event. It exist since 2014 and I never bothered with it.

Finished my first pt of Immortals Fenyx Rising and started NG+ right away (on normal again, maybe I'll bump to hard later), this time with a bit more customized Fenyx.

I barely started, and I'm already noticing certain things that make sense now that I finished the game. Before they were just completely random comments.

Well that first cut scene is a dream sequence of something that never happened.
Yennefer was never at Kaer Morhen with Ciri.
But from the Blood of Elves book, when Triss first saw Ciri at Kear Morhen, she guessed she was about twelve years old. (she had already started menstruating)
Although she looks younger than that in the game to me.

Make sure you do.

Seraphina's Crown

I liked it. It took politics and a murder mystery and actually made it engaging with the use of a mini game of high vs low numbers. Didn't love the PC being a crying lovesick mess out the gate, but luckily didn't have to deal with it much.

I dunno if I like the ending, though. It was kinda abrupt and I don't know that there can be a true happy ending.

Also, unless you continue the default romance at the end, there is no romance. But I've been a bit random with my picks lately, so perhaps it never advertized romance in the first place.