Today's game is some more of The Last of Us. I made it all the way through the chapters with Sam and Henry, and damn, did their death's hit hard. They were only with me for a short while but i kinda got attached to them. Maybe it's because the game makes you feel so alone sometimes.

My favorite part so far has been the river. It's just so pretty that i kind of wish we got more time with it. Exploring the story of Ish was awesome too. It was cool seeing that narrative laid out for me to follow in the form of notes.

Earlier in the game I had noticed Ellie stopping to pick up the Toy Sam dropped, and it's a neat attention to detail that not a lot of games do. I know she carries it with her after Sam's death, but it would have been so easy for them to just say "oh, yeah, she picked it up off camera". But nope, they committed all the resources too it. It's just such a good detail.

During the stealth section with the spotlights i committed myself to the stealth too. I took out the guy patrolling the front, and then planted a few bombs. Then i knocked out the generator and bang. Everyone basically died without a shot fired. It took a good few tries but damn was it satisfying. It probably would have been easier if i had arrows, but oh well. I made due. I appreciate that these games arent just Shooters. Being able to use stealth adds a lot of charm i appreciate.

The ambient story telling is on point too. I was checking out this room and picked up the note, not noticing the blanket with the corpses under it. The note points out they their are kid's corpses probably in the room. When i put the note down and turned to look i noticed the blanket and had a "oh..." moment. It was really heartbreaking. But also really well done.

I ended off making my way through the suburbs and starting the Fall chapter close to Jackson. Now that i seem to have solved the issue it's addicting again. I'm excited to get back into it.

Today's game is (finally) some more of The Last of Us. I discovered the crashing i was having seems to be a combination of the game thinking my PC was a Steam Deck and thus messing with some Specs, and the game being a little too powerful. I lowered it down to High and everything seems good now. We'll have to see though for sure.

I finally managed to make it out of that damn hotel. It was an awesome segment but holy fuck did the crashing draw it out way too long. I'm now out on the streets again and i appreciate the change in environment.

They have a segment where you're being chased by an armored truck, and i'm starting to suspect the Naughty Dog loves their Armored Truck chases. Uncharted 4 had one too. Granted that was far more of a scripted sequences while this one is more like run and duck to cover. It's not a bad thing though. It was a lot of fun doing this segment and i loved sneaking past it on the ledge.

While i was in the Basement segment and dealing with the Bloater, i struggled a bit with it. I ended up using a combo of the Shotgun and Molotovs. Even with that it was a bit of a challenge due to the narrow hallways. On the plus side though i got this sick (albeit dark) photo of the Bloater in a scuffle with Joel.

While playing i keep noticing a series of parallels between this and Uncharted 4. I'm not sure why but i feel like i've seen this exact scene before in Uncharted 4 as well only on Libertalia.Maybe i'm just over analyzing things, but damn is this fun to be reminded of.

Overall though, i'm glad to resolved the issue i was having and picking up the game again. I really didn't like living it unfinished so starting it up again is fun.

Today's game is Flyknight. A friend gifted this too me on Steam, and from what i can tell it's a little Dungeoncrawler where you play as a fly. Finally, my biggest fantasy has been fulfilled! It has multiplayer which is why he gifted it to me, and honestly, while i'm not a fan usually of Dungeon Crawlers, it's good fun to go through with a friend.

I named my Character Dan. I made them skinny as fuck for some reason and pale. It contrasts nicely with my friends character Sir Buzzing.

I've picked a sword as my weapon of choice in this game. From what i understand the player has three slots for weapons, this one is just my favorite though. I swapped to a one handed one and a shield though for maximum defense. The combat in this game is pretty basic but fun. The best way i can think to describe it is like Skyrim. You have the swing with stamina, the block, and the spell. You also have to drink potions to heal.

Potions refill at Campfires and give you 4 charges to use, which is nice. The combat isn't to challenging. Especially if you get the hang of the parry system.

The game also features fishing which is nice. I legit love when games have optional fishing mechanics (looking at you Red Dead Redemption 2). Me and my Friend have a tradition of just fishing in games too relax. We've done it in Red Dead, we did it in VRChat one time when we were dicking around with it, and we do it in Zomboid too. We just enjoy anything except real fishing.

We stopped for the night because we had no clue how long this dungeon is and didn't want to keep pushing on. We ended for the night with my friend trying to get an air assault on me. What he didn't know was that i learned my lesson from Halo PvP and found an item that blocks friendly fire. SO NOW i'm the only one that can commit friendly fire. Knowing the two of us i will (not) use this power wisely.

Today's game is Old School Runescape. I was in the mood to hop on and mess around in the game, so i booted it up and did the Cake Quest (finally). It took me a while to find the bucket for the milk, but i eventually did it. While i was looking for the Dairy cows i found these goblins watching the Cows. I don't know if they're busted or Runescape's goblins are friendly, but they don't seem to attack me. I sat back and watched for a while until a player came by and slaughtered the cows and i went back to looking for the dairy cows.

Finding the bucket was difficult, and i spent a good 10 minutes looking. But eventually i found one in the basement of the Castle. I also made sure to grab a jug i needed for the flour nearby so i could future proof.

While searching for the mill i found another goblin, this one just watching the ducks. He seemed like a chill guy and i watched the ducks with him for a bit.

Finally though, i returned to the castle and turned in everything for the cake. It took me nearly 2 years to finally get around to this quest (the fact that i usually only hop on to dick around doesn't help either) but i finally did it. I even got a shiny little achievement for it. I was going to also look into buying a house tonight but it turns out the Houses are reserved for members only and i'm not really down for paying for a subscription for this game (or really any game).

Instead i left my player to squat in this random house with a cat i found until i finally log back on to mess around again half a year later. If he's anything like me he'd appreciate the cat.

Today's game is Dead Rising 2. I've had this in my library for a bit and with me still trying to debug whatever is going on with The Last of Us i had to get my Zombie fix somehow. I got this from a Humble Bundle at some point, so I decided to give this a try. And can i just say? Where the fuck has this game been all my life? There has been a Trashcan being thrown at zombies shaped hole in my heart that this game just filled. It takes itself so fucking seriously and then let's me look like an utter fucking moron by making this guy do the stupidest shit imaginable. I stole a Wheelchair from a zombie pushing it and then proceeded to run everyone over with it. NO OTHER GAME LET'S ME FULFILL THIS ODDLY SPECIFIC FANTASY.

It's a bit merciless with the save points, but i honestly had a lot of fun just browsing around the store. There was one i stopped by on my way back called In The Closet which caught me by surprise with that joke. I was going to stop by and look at what was in there but I was in the middle of an escort mission so i had to hurry to get this lady home.

And despite how stupid this game lets you be, it's somehow the most serious thing ever too. The main character has to get Medicine for his daughter, and already i would be willing to protect this child with my life. This digital collection of polygons and classes is the most innocent thing ever and i refuse to let anything happen to it.

I mentioned rescuing a survivor, Denyce. I was initially hesitant to escort her home but i gave her a baseball bat and she did a pretty good job of fending for herself so i'm not too worried now. I do wish there was a run button but i can't complain too much because i'd probably end up getting myself killed with it.

I ended off after delivering Denyce here safe and sound to the saferoom. This game is definitely a fun romp, i had to wait a bit though to get the Character's daughter her medicine though and i wasn't sure what to do with the time. I think i need to go back to this game at some point though, if only so i can throw benches at zombies.

I also found Kirby, the celebrity life style must have taken a toll on the poor guy, looks nothing like the games.

Today's game is Mario Kart 64. I want to unlock the 200 CC option so i've been playing a bit of this, and plus it's just straight up my favorite Mario Kart. It's basic, and straight to the point of Mario Kart, and the Item Balancing feels great. This is nothing i haven't said before though.

I did Toad's Turnpike though on 150 CC, and came in first. I nearly lost to my Mortal Enemy, Donkey Kong, but managed to pull through after I rammed Donkey Kong into a truck and then he got plowed by Wario with a Super Star.

After the race though, decided to go back in Time Trials and peak around. I discovered the course is partly on a bridge, which i just didn't ever realize. Specifically that green strip up there on the Main Screenshot? That's the bridge and the player starts up there. Even more so i never realized the Toad on the bridge. I guess usually i'm moving too fast to notice these things.

I also did a race on Chocomountain, and the entire race Donkey Kong was stuck on that spot on the mountain. He never moved oddly enough. Serves him right though for what he did in Mario Party 2. The dick.

I won the Cup in first place, which is to be expected. The AI in Mario Kart 64 isn't too hard, and the cheating isnt as bad as Super Mario Kart. Spaghetti Kart has a Harder CPU setting, so i'll have to see if maybe that's something i can handle.

If you'll look closely at my victory though...

Donkey Kong is watching like some sort of Blurry Cryptid photo. Probably plotting his revenge. So if after tonight, news breaks that i was murdered by Donkey Kong (and quite possibly backed by Nintendo due to playing this on PC), don't be surprised.

Today's game is some more Zomboid. We played some more of our save where we're camped out in the Military Apartment. We even got another Friend on (Who we call Chef). He owned the game but never got to give it much of a try until now, so we decided to rectify that (plus he also helped us board up windows and burn corpses).

When he spawned in though we had to go pick him up from Muldraugh. I hotwired a car and drove it to get him. On our way there and back i nabbed a Duffle bag for him and we robbed a beer store for Beer (For medical supplies obviously, though Jerry may have had a few beers on the way home. No one tell the cops.)

When we got back, i had wanted to get my Aiming skill up for later, so i went out with a gun and just started taking shots at any Zombies i saw. The community center was largely open and filled with Zombies, so i went there to build up my skill. It went pretty well.

On the walk back though it was really fog (which is where the main picture was). I ended up sneaking through the alley's and back streets to be safe since i couldn't see an inch in front of my face. I luckily made it back without incident though.

While i was out i was also collecting supplies, which i ended the night unloading the supplies in a room. We're wanting too open the world up as a server for my friend group to play on (instead of having to have me host), so we're hoarding supplies until then so we're prepared since we're expecting some of our friends too be more than a little offensive with their playstyle. We're stocking up mainly on weapons and medical supplies to defend ourselves.

Today's game is Red Dead Redemption 1. I did Nigel West Dicken's quest today, and i forgot how old he looked. Since i last played the first game, i've always just had this image of him i guess being a little younger.

Instead he's this kind of wrinkly i don't remember. I don't know, maybe his tophat makes him look younger?

I also got this lovely quote from him. Words to live by honestly. I'm currently waiting for him to recover. While i did i went and did another stranger mission. Namely American Appetites Pt. 2. It turned out to be more difficult for me than i expected though because i went up the cliff. Turns out though that i didn't need to go up there. I ended up accidentally falling down the cliff though to get where i needed too. That's where the main screenshot is from. Moments before the fall.

The last mission i did was the Cow herding one with Bonnie. It was a chill mission, and it was nice to see John in his element instead of just Shooting guys. I'd have to assume the Bonnie questline is to show how John can't lead a normal life due to his past catching up with him since it ends with the barn burning and Bonnie being held for Ransom.

With how Rockstar is i wouldn't be surprised if this was intentional. It's a very nice detail to notice regardless if it is though. And it's part of what i love about these games. That's where i chose to end off for tonight though. The New Austin Chapter is a lot longer than i remember. And it seems to be longer than the other ones too. Maybe this weekend i'll sit down and just binge the entire game. I'd love to get to Undead Nightmare soon (one of my favorite parts of this game)

Today's game is Zomboid. Yesterday was a lot of fun, and i had fun seeing everyone's opinions. I saw Zomboid mentioned a few times again yesterday and i got really in the mood to bring back Jerry and Cable. It's been a hot minute since i played Jerry i think, so for anyone who hasn't seen him before: Jerry Attricks basically a middle-aged Suburban Dad who when the apocalypse hit wanted to watch the big game and have a cookout. On his way back from the store he picked up his "son", Cable (played by my friend), off the streets. Cable is actually a "20 something gay stoner" (word for word quote from my friend), but he just goes along with it, despite the fact he's lost more limbs than a person probably should due to Jerry's actions.

We started with a light modpack. Spongie's mods, some car mods for flavors, and the Only Cure. Keeps things light but adds a lot of flair in my opinion. I accidentally gave my friend the wrong spawn town so i had to hunt down a car for Jerry to get over there. Luckily i found this lovely thing a few houses down. I tracked down some gas and managed to get it running.

After picking up my friend, we drove by a Drive In and planned to stay there. It had lots of space and it was secluded from society. It made the perfect base for us. Not to mention there were a ton of cars and a gas station right across the street.

We found a better base though after driving into a nearby town. We were making a supply run for metal sheets to repair the vehicles, when we found a Military Apartment Building. In our very first save we had a motel base, and remembering that we decided this could be the motel base 2.0. We looted shotgun shells and stuff from the local houses and used the car horn to draw them all out. Then we started house cleaning. Before long we had emptied the entire building basically. Next up on our list will be too cut down trees for planks and make barricades too protect the building. We saved that for later though because Jesus christ are there a lot of windows on the bottom floor.

Today's the Day! The 1 year anniversary. Today's game is Halo 3, I decided the best way to celebrate with a new year would be by kicking back and relaxing with some of my friends. We have here what we call our Spartan B-Team. We suck absolute ass, and are the last ones they'd call for the job. But we're... we're uhhh... we got nothing going for us...

All joking aside though, we played a few social matches and had a lot of fun. Despite the jokes we actually did pretty well. Most matches were tied pretty evenly and were a close call. It was a really satisfying game. Besides that though I'll hold off on talking about more, because I already have a decent bit more for the 1 Year Anniversary. Namely the...

Best of Section (or the section where I talk about the most memorable games I've played)

I was initially going to pick the best Screenshots, but I'm not really sure how to pick the best, plus there's a lot of them and this has always been more about showing the games than the pictures themselves.

So instead, I'm going to do a bit more like what I usually do in a retrospective manner.

Uncharted 4

Initially, when I started, this was my first game. That was back when I was just doing screenshots from my backlog of screenshots, though. I took this screenshot probably around a year before I started? It’s of the cave where Nathan first falls when he crashes on the island. I remember picking this one specifically because I really liked the colors and the view. That’s always kind of been the mentality I’ve gone with for these. I’ve loved taking the photos more like an art piece instead of making them just regular old screenshots. I’m definitely no artist (I nearly failed art class in high school), but I feel like it adds a bit of a personal touch to the screenshots when I take the more artistic angle.

With that screenshot being nearly a year old at the time of posting it, at some point, I had planned to return to the game for a crushing run. Uncharted was one of my first games growing up that I actually owned myself. I bought it to play on a hand-me-down PS3 Super Slim I got from my uncle. I only beat the first 2, but about 110 days into the posts, I decided to pick it up again. It was one of those games where I loved it and wanted more, so the best way I decided to show my love for the game was to try and go achievement hunting. I still need to reach that goal someday, but that’s what kickstarted picking up this game again.

Uncharted is an amazing highlight of the kind of games I like, and I think after this you can kind of see a recurring trend with my choice in games. I like the kind of games with narrative lessons to teach the most. Being able to reflect on them and look back on them is something I enjoy the most, especially when I can apply them to my life. But beyond that, Uncharted 4 is one of the prettiest games I’ve seen. The water (oh great, here goes Atticus talking about water again) is gorgeous, the lighting is amazing, and most importantly? It runs amazingly! I got stable frame rates on Steam Deck. One of my favorite showcases of this is the Scotland chapter of Uncharted 4, where there’s just a lot going on. There’s rock physics and waves, and snow and just a lot of things I imagine happening, but honestly? I can’t tell much of a difference in performance.

I think Uncharted 4 was an awesome choice for me to start off these posts with. It’s an amazing game and really showcases what kind of games I like. It acts as a sort of showcase for the things I’d be sharing. It also started to be when I moved beyond the standard “Here’s a screenshot, now bye” format I started with and instead really started doing these long-winded posts. Maybe it’s just a memory bias, but specifically I remember the above screenshot because I thought the “Nate on a Crate” line was funny. I want to go back one day to finish 4 entirely, and maybe finish Lost Legacy too which I left unfinished, but for now I think it’s a good starting point for these posts.

Alan Wake (I, American Nightmare, and II)

This is the game I’ve been most excited to get too. I think it’s safe to say Alan Wake is my favorite game of all time. It’s the first game I’ve truly gone out of my way to 100%, and I enjoyed every second of it. I’m going to roll the 3 games into one to save on length because this already will probably be long, but the first game I feel like is amazing. The screenshot above was taken when I was messing around in the story, something I do from time to time. I took a selfie with a bear, which I think people thought was a reference to something else. Complete coincidence, but I’m glad people enjoyed it.

Talking more about the game, the gameplay is satisfying to play. It’s like a fun challenge of keeping your distance from enemies while also managing resources. The story is awesome too. It has so many little details to pick up on that even nearly 6 playthroughs in, I’m finding new things.

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, though I think perfected the gameplay. It built off of it in a good way. The flashlight is a bit more floaty and easier to manage, and the game has more playstyle options. Story-wise, it’s a different flavor though. The first one is a thriller, while this one is a bit campier. I still love it, and the art style is amazing. The motel in the above screenshot is one of the most memorable places for me in the entire game.

Alan Wake II, though I feel like is where the story hits its absolute best. The time loop and all the foreshadowing it throws right in your face is amazing. And then the final draft is so fucking clever. I remember when I was doing the final draft, I went out of my way to try and word it like it’s my first playthrough for the screenshots just to go along with the bit. I even tried to mirror my screenshots just to play along with the Time Loop bit. One of the places that stuck with me most is the deer in the lodge Saga stays in. Alan is my favorite character, but Saga was fun and that Lodge was so cozy. It made amazing use of the Mind Place too, because it makes it seem safe, but at the very end, it rips that safety away from you and takes away that safety it established. It was really well done and I love that they did it.

Fallout New Vegas

This was another major game on here I did. It’s an amazing game and I love some of the points it tries to make with its story and DLC. And the way the DLC ties together is so amazing. The best screenshot from this I’d say is the “Left my ♡ in the Sierra Madre” one. It marked the end of that journey, and served as what I kind of consider the “Beginning of the end” of my overarching Fallout New Vegas journey. I really liked picking that one as the main screenshot for that day. It felt very fitting.

I think the other best photo for Fallout New Vegas though is my final main one. It’s a photo of Hoover Dam, which is where I chose to end it. With it being the very end of the game, it seemed appropriate, especially with how one of the main things in the game is how people are obsessing over it. That final post ended up being a bit of a breakdown of my thoughts and feelings of the game (and it was what started making these posts a lot bigger). After ending for the night, I actually went back though and stayed up to 100% of the game. It was a lot of fun. Never again though. I love that game, but there is a lot there to do.

Silent Hill 2

Finally, this is the last “Major Game” I’ve decided to cover. There are a lot of good options, but I don’t want to draw this out too long. But Silent Hill 2 was an amazing experience. I loved being on the streets and just capturing photos of it. Still, the most memorable photo for me of this is the first one I took of James standing there on the street. The town is phenomenal. It feels like a generic Midwestern town, which is where I grew up. The art direction, I feel like, is something that did not miss in this. They knocked it out of the park. I 100% it with my first run through, but god, it was so amazing. I'm not picky about my games; most things will get like a 7 or 8 out of 10 from me, 9 if I really liked them. But God, Silent Hill 2, I'd say it's a solid 10 out of 10 for me. It was amazing, and it was one of those games that made you feel empty after beating it. I was wanting more. I think the only other games on this list that did that were Uncharted and Alan Wake.

There's one other photo that's memorable to me from this game, so I'd consider it a contender for the best of. And that's this photo of James's car I took during my new Game+ run. It's of the backseat of a blanket in the back. You can't normally see this during gameplay, but I took a free cam back there, and I wanted to use it as a sort of photo mod to capture better screenshots, and the blanket is very body-shaped. If you know anything about Silent Hill. One of the big things is that Mary was in the back of James’s the entire time. And I'm 90% sure Bloober Team did this on purpose, and it's just a detail I love.

Honorable Mentions

Sea of Thieves

Sea of Thieves is one of the games here that I wouldn’t be surprised if people recognize the most from me. It’s decently well known, I’d say, and I feel like I play it a lot with friends. The first screenshot for it I took the day of, and it’s the first one I did it for. I’m not going to linger too much on this game as ultimately I feel like it’s more of a footnote despite how often I feature it. This game is amazing to just hop into with friends and play around in. It has its share of issues, I feel like, such as network problems, and the local Voice Chat seems utterly janky as fuck. But ultimately I think it’s a good time to spend with friends and fun to just dick around in for an hour. There’s a good deal of fun to be had solo, but ultimately I think the most fun would be found in the Multiplayer.

Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid is another multiplayer game I play fairly often. Not as of late, unfortunately, but God it is so satisfying to play. It feels like a mini episode of The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead I grew up on, and I honestly am really disappointed. We've been denied a good Walking Dead video game. Like an open-world survival sandbox one. Zomboid fills that niche so well. Every session just feels like an episode of The Walking Dead, a good one too. Maybe it's just because I'm in that episode. But it's so satisfying. Like one of my favorite examples was my friend and me. And we went to go get a generator, and we had to go to this airfield to find it. But we crashed our car on the way there, so we had to carry the generator back by hand. Only a horde started coming in as we're dragging it back. So we had to take shifts dragging this generator back while also keeping watch on the hoard to make sure they didn’t get us.

The game is great for those kinds of moments. I feel like the only downside to it is that it’s very dependent on you being able to make your own fun. The game honestly led to my friends and me making a lot of lore. For example, there’s Jerry Attricks. He's like the middle-aged, unhinged American dad Barbie. I've cycled him through so many jobs. He's not qualified for any of them, but he picks them up in the apocalypse like hobbies. He's been a doctor, a soldier, a taxi driver, a chef, a stripper, a carpenter. All sorts of stuff. And he has a son named Cable that he picked up off the streets when the apocalypse happened. His son is like 20 and he's a stoner. He was an adult when he picked him up. Our lore is that the son just went along with it despite being an adult. He's not the best father. But he tries. Sometimes.

No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky is in a very similar place for me as Zomboid. It's a lot of fun, just hopping around discovering planets and honestly kind of role-playing as an explorer. I think it's very much the same place, though you have to be able to make your own kind of fun. I think since it's launched, the game has greatly improved. There's a lot more to do. The planets are more vibrant. And it feels like the game has its own kind of society. I've seen guild and clans pop up and run by players. And honestly, I think that's really cool. And I appreciate that they didn't give up on it.

Halo Master Chief Collection

Halo, honestly, I feel like it's an injustice to include it in the honorable mentions section. But there's just so much that I have to relegate it here. It is an amazing game, and when you're with friends, even the shitty parts of the games are fun. Like Halo 2 legendary? Fucking nightmare. But I have such fond memories of that because I did a co-op with a friend. Honestly, if it's a friend that I get along well with, I might do it again. I mean, it took me nearly half a year just to beat Halo 2 co-op. Just because it was so difficult. But God, it was so fun. And Halo, I feel like it has this magic formula to it. Or like a magic sauce. And just even the shitty, grueling, tiring sections. Can be really fun. I'm not sure why, maybe it's the wacky physics or maybe it's just because the highs of the game make you feel like a fucking bad ass. But those first four games, there's something magical about them. And honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that I would need to talk about Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo ODST, Halo Reach, and Halo 4, it would definitely be getting its own page at the top.

The Conclusion

Honestly, I've had a lot of fun this past year. I think there are some points where it just felt like I was going through motions. Less like I was talking about the game and more like checking off boxes. In a sort of “I did this part of game x” way. But I think the daily nature of that is going to cause that. Because there are only so many opinions you can have on a game. And I have more free time than others usually, but even still sometimes life gets in the way of that. Despite all of that though, having this community to share the games I like with has been really fun. And I think I will keep going for another year, Or at least try to.

At first, I was considering moving to a per-game kind of post after this. Like I said, sometimes I feel like it’s hitting check marks, but also I’ve always wanted to stream but don't want to overlap this thing I have going on here with that. But the more I thought about it and the closer I got to a year, I think I'm kind of having fun sharing these like bite-size pieces of a game. I feel like it points out details that a general overview would miss. Like the water ranking that I do or fish that I've been discussing. I think a full-length overview, those will kind of get brushed over. Besides, I think if I really wanted to start streaming, I think I’d be able to balance it out right now. So because of that, I think I'm going to try and go for another year. I think it'll be fun to get my own website set up one day too. Maybe even with like an RSS feed or something. But that's just me dreaming. I wouldn't expect to have a website set up soon. Anyways, I just want to thank everyone for being so supportive. It’s a nice community, and this is the first time I really put myself out there in this way and it makes me happy to know that I people enjoy these.

Tomorrow is the day! Today's game is Halo. Specifically the public multiplayer of Halo 3. We also did some CE but Steam seems to be feuding with anything microsoft recently and has so issues with the screenshots, so i had to go in with theater and take them that way.

The main screenshot is from a slayer match where i saw someone coming on my Minimap and hid behind a corner to jump them. It was fun, it felt cheap though so i only did it once, the constant fire though made it difficult to try and get off those stairs.

I've always dismissed Halo public matchmaking as being not for me, as i didn't grow up with it, but i had a friend in my party who did and he suggested turning off the Precession slayer and Swat modes, and what do you know? I actually did really well. Maybe it's just sheer blind luck, but i won 2/3 games i did by a pretty close margin. This isn't meant to shit on people who are really skilled at the game btw. Mad respect to them, just, I want something a little more casual personally.

Before we turned off Swat though, we were getting stomped by these guys who seem to be regulars. They were really skilled, we didn't have much room to move before they sniped us and we kept matching with them lol. No ill will though, it's just the way PvP games work and we still had fun.

I mentioned Halo CE and i did manage to get one screenshot of it. it's an absolutely random one but i love it. It's from me getting pelted by a grenade from across the map while holding the point. That's honestly what i love about CE multiplayer. It's like a Magnum and Grenade Hell. There's explosions left and right and you can absolutely get your ass handed too you by the most basic weapon in the game. I love it.

I wanted to end off tonight with my favorite kill of the match. Some guy came down the stairs when i was trying to get off and i tried to get him with the hammer. I missed enough that he still went flying but he didn't die. He killed me but the momentum from the hammer sent him backwards and he fell right off the landing and i got the kill like 5 seconds later. It was a fun match. I doubt the people i played against are going to see this, but absolutely a good game. Sorry for Teabagging you though, I got a little caught up in the moment and Campaign Co-Op instincts kicked in.

2 Day's until a year! Today's game is Red Dead Redemption 1. The Last of Us was initially planned for today, but the crashing kept getting on my nerves that i decided to step back for a sec. I'm going to try and look into a fix because i'm really enjoying but those freezes seem particularly horrendous today for some reason. I still was in the mood for a narrative heavy game though and i had recently picked this up so i went, "what the hell?" and installed it since it was small and would take less than an hour.

I have to say, i'm glad i picked up on discount. Not worth the intial price, but god damn it's not a bad port at all. It's gorgeous and features a pretty decent selection of graphics options. And i'd argue it looks better than the original version unless you're fond of the crunchy 720p. Like, damn, this is a Xbox 360 game? I don't think they changed much graphically besides a few tweaks and extra options, so fuck does this look good. It runs well too. I'm at 1440p and it runs at a stable 60fps for me with FSR at Native Resolution. I did have some stuttering the longer the game went on though, which is odd because i remember Red Dead 2 having the exact same problem on Steam Deck/my gaming rig. I wonder if it's a issue with the Rockstar launcher and Proton?

When i played the first one, i was young enough for a lot of things to go over my head. So playing this again, especially after 2 i'm picking up on a lot of things. Like for example the same Motif in American Venom from Red Dead 2 plays during this same mission. Which is a cool detail that i'm glad they added in two. It must have been so cool to remember this song from the first one and then finish 2 and hear that Motif. I'm just a sucker for Motif's in general though.

I got to experience the absolute joy of this game's physics engine too. When doing one of the Wagon missions i hit a rabbit or a rock or something and watched the wagon flip into the air before hitting the ground like nothing happened. It's amazing. I wish i got a clip of it just to share because it was hilarious.

Finally, during the first mission, at the very very beginning, do you see that guy there? The one behind John? I accidentally pointed my gun at him and he ran off. When i got on my horse i caught up to him and he got absolutely railed by a train. He falls to the side, and then just walks it off like nothing happened. God this game has an hilarious physics engine. I loved Red Dead 2's but god there's some sort of magic in this one or something.