What did you do today in any other game out there

That's quite the pose in photo mode. Always need to experiment with those more. Granted always more difficult I guess when the character isn't custom. 
Yeah. As someone who was pretty luke warm on the other Far Cry games I've played 6 is by far my favorite. And Giancarlo Esposito, whom I am a pretty big fan of too, his role in that is probably my favorite role he's done. 

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NHL 22

Bit of a unique situation presented itself today. Started off playing AC Mirage but the Bruins game was on and on Hulu so I was able to watch it, kind of, but it wouldn't play on the tv so wifey just put it on her phone for me to listen to...and I didn't want to distract myself in case I ran into story content...so I booted up this game. Which I have been playing every single day this week but...you know. Just muted the tv volume, funny story the controller wasn't muted though so there was that. 

Game was against the Edmenton Oilers and this is the wildest game maybe I've ever played. Just so many goals. So many penalties. So many really fun moments. Hell as a preview both goalies got pulled in the game too it was just that insane.

And well trying to remember just all the goals that happened to but I've been really hot on the power play scoring on like lets see 6 of the last 7 on the last two games. Pastranak has also been super hot over the last little bit, just has started the season cold but he is coming down and starting to bear down with I think a streak of 4 multi point games. He got it going early in the second period today, after it was 3-2 Pasta got the puck... to Bergeron or Marchand who was able to get it in the net, I also think on the Power Play. Then the very next face off the Bruins got it and given the stats McAvoy got it to him in space for a breakway and he buried the back hander to make it 5-3. 

Other general story line before I get to the 'fun' parts is the first 'perfection' line is finally getting going, Marchand even had the first hat trick for me on the season a game or two ago...and this game was no different as they contributed for 4 goals...which is actually a really small number given the final score but still quite important to consider. Marchand had 2 and Bergeron/ Pasta both had a goal apiece. 

Finally Carlo got a defensive goal pretty sure in the first period off the face off and just a heavy slap shot which got through to the net. 

All that goes into the third period, 8-3 Bruins, and this is when the insanity stated. Now before I made the comment to wife that they were really giving a lot of penalties to me and just making the game so easy for me especially since I was converting. Well similar to the game I played against Montreal not too long ago I spent virtually the entire half of the third period on the PK and the highlight of which Bergeron got a game misconduct on a hit...which is probably pretty ridicilious, so that was a ten minute major right there. So as the dust started to settle on this it got up to 8-7 as I continued to try and push, Debrusk picked up his nineth of the season for a short handed goal making it 9-7. They came back again for the PP and got their 8th to make it 9-8. Taylor Hall I think picked up the next goal and then...like in real life Trent Freddick buried the Empty net clincher, final score, 11-8. Ugh. What a game. 


AC Mirage

A rather unique bit happened today. Now you can do these quests in any order that you want so this could happen earlier but this is farily late game for me...and there was an area in this quest I was doing with automatic  combat not permitted in this area things. Of course as per usual in this game you can really bump into a restricted area very easily, with guards, who see you, then you have to run. 

Another thing about this game is...given its advertised short nature I was operating somewhat on the assumption that the gear chests would be in story areas. So I haven't gone out of my way to hunt down gear chests because I want to avoid the Vietnam effect as much as possible. And for the most part this has really bared out and been the case as the gear is in the story areas and aside from that one area, I have pretty much been to every area once...only like a couple of other areas which have been maybes but not too horrible. But when this does not happen, because there are gear in the open world that aren't tied to the stories. And in my experience they are really complicated and hidden behind complicated puzzles. Ugh. 

Guilded Butterflies

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This was the most unique assassination mission of the game and aside from what I mentioned about the weird no combat rules pretty much executed to perfection. ANd what was good about this mission to was just that it was different and unique from the other two set pieces in how it operated which were very similar. Get into area, figure out how to infiltrate area, kill target.

Basim did have to infiltrate an auction but the level of help and how the help was presented to you and the threat from the bad guy's was very different for the most part.

So had to go around and get clues and do more errands for Kong...he had me steal somebody's plate which he passed off as his own *rolleyes*. Had to follow around a bunch of rich women who put me onto the identity of the tressurer as Ning..a Chinese woman. Not sure how acurate this is per se but this is seemingly setting up the next arc for the games though I guess the next game may be set in Japan and not China. Still, a way of explaining why the Order is in the east.

Anyways a neat assassination followed where I got a personal meeting with her. I found it a very bad idea that Basim kept introducing himself as Basim, but got a meeting and she did indeed seem to be sus to us...but we were faster and put the hidden blade in her neck.

The Jinni made an appearance and its weird but also cool. Each assassination the Jinni seems to be getting more and more active. Just waking up, to crawling, to now actively running around and stalking Basim in the shadows. And he didn't mention it to Roshan this time saying it was 'gone.'

The thing that is unfortunate about this is that the Jinni/Loki and Basim still have not actually interacted. Sure do a different thing and I think this still fits Loki's parasitic nature compared to what Odin was trying to do with Eivor but, I guess much like with Corypheus in Dragon Age, its just unfortunate not seeing the two interact and sort of give into corruption and madness...because Odin wasn't trying to take over but persuade Eivor and give him/her options for whether or not they were going to give into Odin's corruption. Here Basim is not getting any choice, which not an RPG, and as I said general take over. But Loki is getting stronger when Basim is doing things he should be doing in the first place. Killing the Order. Its an, imo, bit of an odd narrative choice.