What did you do today in any other game out there

97 hours later I finished Arthur's story. Really cool the game keeps going after the end in a kind of denouement. More games should do this. Playing as lanky Marston again brings back the feels. Didn't expect the story and characters to impact me as much as they did, as the writing isn't so much a case of being original or clever but just solid all around with amazing VOs. The banter between characters was brilliant and unlike Rockstar's other games, everyone seemed to have their own personality and distinct mannerisms. As for the open world design, it's some of the best that's ever been done. It'd be a 10/10 game for me if it didn't lead you by the nose through every mission and have seriously annoying design quirks that are a slog to get through.

I think I found the lady from the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer all those years ago.

The sidequest aptly-named "Bullets" has you going to a swanky clothing store where you can buy Corpo-themed clothing, only for a cyberpsycho to bash in and start blasting.

You fight the guy mano-a-mano for a few tense moments then MaxTac shows up.

In the front is a guy with a shotgun and a lady with perfect lips and Mantis blades.
They take care of business (it's not tied to the Cyber-Sighting quest) and the lady asked if you enjoy the bloodlust.

You can agree or call her out.
I've taken many lives, but only because if I had left them alive they would have continued doing things like selling drugs to kids or other depraved things involving children.

Yeah, some quests are like "I'm going to let you go, but I'll be watching", then I'll find out that old woman used an 8-year-old boy for a snuff film.

Then the shotgun comes out and I walk away from a smoldering wreck.

In situations like that there are only two responses:
Violence and Annihilation.

Oi, some of these quest lines are DARK.
I don't know that I'll ever be able to do a pacifist run.
Here I was hoping to be a Batman, but I drift closer and closer to a Red Hood.

I'm...doing something a little ambitious in the sims 4

I saw some save games online from people deleting the entire world, including sims and lots, and rebuilding them from the grounds up
problem is, most of those files require you to have all the expansions that offer new worlds. Which is something I don't have
Currently I have access to the three base game worlds, plus 6 from expansions/game-packs...making a total of 9 worlds to play with.

Completed Horizon er oDawn on PC earlier interesting game. Lookin gforward t oplaying through it again at a later date to visi taeras I never went in this time. Next up will b eHalo once I get tha tdownloaded tomorrow as I work through the Halo Wars games and the MCC

Immortals Fenyx Rising

Little to no story progression on my part since last time I posted. Instead, a lot of training 

I'm also trying to keep up with daily challenges, to get currency for cosmetic items that get rotated weekly for purchase with in-game. You can also buy them with real money, but I'm not that desperate

Quantum Conscience

I finished this sometime last week. Three Love Interests, 4 possible endings. I tried all three romances. None of them really did it for me. If anything, I kinda liked Gray the Shadow, the being in your mind who becomes kinda needy and wants to be with you in your mind forever. And there are only two endings that allow that. The "Confused" ending and the Evil ending. I will never understand Crain or how I could have killed him. *shrug* Still neat and unique with the mind reading mechanic.

Once Upon an Electric Dream

I got through 5 endings in less than 90 minutes.

There are two love interests.
1. Zero the android was a sweet feeling and I also liked the exploration of doubt.
2. Miel the plant man was complicated. Liked his VA for sure. Liked his loyal servant pining (har har, he's a tree person) sentiment towards MC.



The voice acting was good, though a few lines were a bit wonky but nothing immersion breaking. I actually liked Miel's VA best, even if I didn't like his route as much as Zero's. Good appropriate music and acceptable art.

Crimson Memories
The cover art is cute. It's 60 cents. Maybe it has mixed reviews but surely at 60 cents I can ignore some things. 

(Proceeds to read barely acceptable translation into English Script.) Okay, I can handle that. 

It reads: "fights back urge to hit him"
Me: Well, probably another translation thing, she doesn't ACTUALLY have such poor self control
It reads: "Remember the job two weeks ago that you lost because you beat the manager to the ground for touching your butt."
ME: @_@ I mean...okay, that was the past so--
It reads: "WE must treat all customers at this cafe equally!" Manager "But he's gross"-- She punches him so hard he falls down.

Me: SIGH. Turning it off and getting my 2 quarters back.

Another RA3 bit.
3-player map, 2-on-1.
Me and an Easy against a Brutal.

An interesting strategy I sometimes use is one where I let my ally/allies do the fighting and I focus on support abilities and defenses.

In practice, I'll build base defenses and walls around my ally's base and hold various tech buildings (Hospitals, Garages, Airports, etc.) so my friendly forces auto-heal.

I'll garrison buildings and build support units, but tanks and bombers take a backseat.

It's a fun strategy, especially if one is looking for a low-intensity skirmish.

Reflections ~Dreams and Reality~

I played about half an hour last night. The prologue was a fairy tale, the introduction was just a bit...odd. and finally, I guess literally ALL of the Love Interests literally march their way to your door and attempt to strike a deal, through respect or seduction, for your magic ability. At the same time. They are literally all there at once, running into each other. This is about as natural as getting a group together for DnD and saying, "All 5 of you happen to be in the same tavern and a man walks up to you with a mysterious supplication for help!" Fortunately, the painful introduction phase is over, and I can get to the which one do I like?" phase. I don't know if they were trying to subvert expectations regarding the women, but both women have tried to take a bath with MC and MC is weirdly attracted to petting the third woman, so long as she is in Dragon form. Whereas the men are very unimposing (thus far.) I guess the women subverted my expectations, but by ascribing them an entire lack of manners and an almost predatory sexual interest... I am just as uninterested in them romantically as I would be if a male character had these manners and traits. So right now, my interests lay in Cat-boy, the childhood friend (mostly because it makes the most sense regarding not falling in love with a total stranger). Sho, the mystery boy who showed up through a portal but that actually offered something of equal value for my services, at least. Knight boy, the one of high speech who offered to help with the dishes. and lastly, the wolf-boy, who is coming off just enough blushy tsundere in a CG that he caught my eye. So anyway, I'll finish that.

But I felt like trying to other cheap VN I'd grabbed this morning.

My Lady

I'd bought this purely on the high rating + cheapness factor. I didn't actually read the reviews (steam returns are easy). So I was quite delighted when the Butler was the Love interest I love me a butler romance. I named him after my hubs and proceeded to read out all the lines to my hubs. It hit all the boxes of forbidden romance trope plus the yearning and yum. The lack of expressions and poses are very well made up for with the excellent voice acting and significant enough romance CGs (two). The music is appropriate and non distracting.

It was a cute bit of fluff. I finished almost all routes in 34 minutes. I spent $0.52! for this but honestly I've 6 times twice as much for longer VNs that disappointed me anyway. I didn't leave disappointed. OH YA- they also had this awesome mechanic where the MC recieved letters that told her how to get the happy ending, but they were in code. It was just genious.

Today I learned that I hate building big houses...I mean, what am I going to put in them?

made a very pretty looking mansion (at least imo.) in the sims 4 but there's so much wasted space

so...now I'm just going to fill it with useless junk such as a bar...some chambers no one is ever going to use...and other stuff