What Game/s are You Playing? Daily / Whenever Check :) (GAMEPLAY)

[YoshiM]

I really didn't play anything the last two weeks due to Covid. I worked half days remotely but by the afternoon I was wiped out. The kids got to get more game time than ever until the wife and I felt better and cut them off as the youngest three started to get a little demanding. I was in the mood to play sonething classic but all my gaming equipment is downstairs (save for my PC) and I had no ambition.

Last Friday I went back to work and did get some gametime in. During lunch I played some "Animal Crossing:New Leaf", whittling my mortgage down. Shampoodle came to town and I was able to get a silver shovel.

That night my wife and I usually watch murder mysteries on PBS but it's all stuff we saw over and over again. She wanted to keep watching this new show on Masterpiece online called "Miss Scarlet and The Duke". I watched two episodes already and it didn't get my attention as it was horribly predictable and was hitting "hot points" of today that were taboo and illegal back then. So I played some more "Star Wars-Battlefront".

The gameplay has now reached that formulaic feel and I know I'm playing it to see where the story goes. My character's team defected to the Rebellion, who kinda accepted them with open arms even after Leia said "[Inferno Squad] did its share of damage to the Rebellion" (paraphrased). In a few months, my character is a commander and seems well liked, even though I killed many rebels by shooting most of them in the face.

What were the conversations over time?

"We know you can melt the face off a target at 100 yards. Joko Raisen, an officer that survived your attack on our capital ship now dribbles his cereal on his uniform everytime he eats, gives his full recommendation and a hearty half-thumbs up. I promote you to commander".

I try with modern games.....

[Ostin Powers]

I really didn't play anything the last two weeks due to Covid. I worked half days remotely but by the afternoon I was wiped out. The kids got to get more game time than ever until the wife and I felt better and cut them off as the youngest three started to get a little demanding. I was in the mood to play sonething classic but all my gaming equipment is downstairs (save for my PC) and I had no ambition.

Last Friday I went back to work and did get some gametime in. During lunch I played some "Animal Crossing:New Leaf", whittling my mortgage down. Shampoodle came to town and I was able to get a silver shovel.

That night my wife and I usually watch murder mysteries on PBS but it's all stuff we saw over and over again. She wanted to keep watching this new show on Masterpiece online called "Miss Scarlet and The Duke". I watched two episodes already and it didn't get my attention as it was horribly predictable and was hitting "hot points" of today that were taboo and illegal back then. So I played some more "Star Wars-Battlefront".

The gameplay has now reached that formulaic feel and I know I'm playing it to see where the story goes. My character's team defected to the Rebellion, who kinda accepted them with open arms even after Leia said "[Inferno Squad] did its share of damage to the Rebellion" (paraphrased). In a few months, my character is a commander and seems well liked, even though I killed many rebels by shooting most of them in the face.

What were the conversations over time?

"We know you can melt the face off a target at 100 yards. Joko Raisen, an officer that survived your attack on our capital ship now dribbles his cereal on his uniform everytime he eats, gives his full recommendation and a hearty half-thumbs up. I promote you to commander".

I try with modern games.....

Most modern shows are a sheer disappointment for me. I am a fan of MK but taking into account recent tendencies I feel reluctant to go to the cinema and get disappointed in one more film

[YoshiM]

I haven't watched "regular" TV in a long while, but from what snippets I see, I'm not missing much.

Monday was more Killzone, inching further along in the story. Still a pretty slick FPS, especially since I started dipping my toes in the weapons dealer boxes. I still like my silenced rapid fire gun (no long range site but I'm pretty accurate even at a distance) but I started using the VANguard device. The little shoulder rockets are pretty sweet. Takes 3 or so to take out a flame thrower soldier, though.

Today I took a walk for a bit, so I only had a little time on my hands to play. I loaded Oceanhorn again on the Vita and went to the Withering Island. I was a little lost not knowing where I should go, but it was a fun time. I explored a bit of that island then had to shut down. Thank goodness for its many save points

That might be all this week. Friday my lunch break will be spent at a funeral for my ex-mother in law who I knew since childhood (my ex and I have some same relation due to marriages-explaining it always gave me weird looks). So hopefully folks will save any drama gor their llama.

[YoshiM]

I got to play Super Mario 3D Land, which was pretty dang sweet so far. Didn't play much, maybe the first three levels. I was in a mood around Tuesday (we adopted a newborn kitten and I had made my feelings clear about the last one-long story) so I just plopped down and played more Star Wars: Battleground II on PC. I discovered my X360 wired controller was starting to get some drift in the stick, so I took it apart, cleaned it and played Star Wars again another night. I got through the Lando and Shriv mission at a weapons manufacturing facility and still had drift. Oh well.

Tonight I broke out the N64 to test out the gear replacement I did on one of the controllers. It had the Gamecube style stick and it just didn't feel right. The stick is a little loose feeling but still accurate. I played the new SM 64 hack demo "Return to Yoshi's Island 64", which gives you 26 stars to collect. It looks gorgeous but to me with the new camera system, it was hard for me to judge where I would land or where I was going with some tricky jumps. SM 64 had its issues but to me was manageable. I did play the original to see if I was just losing my touch with the game and I was able to jump around like Mario was wearing a Parkour hat. Even with that issue (which again could be me), this patch should be checked out if you have an Everdrive 64.

After that I fired up some Animal Crossing: New Leaf. It was a nice soaking rain in my town of "Almost", where the fruit made a noticeable "plop" sound when they hit the ground (which I honestly never caught on to before). On there I got a Wii U from the cookies fortune and played some "Desert Island Escape". It's a mini strategy/discovery game where you have 3 animal friends (at the cost of 2 or 3 play coins each) that have special abilities to help get off the island. You have to find items to build a raft along with tools to help on the island. When you encounter creatures or have to interact with bee hives and that, the game uses a prize wheel that I believe you have to try and tap on what you want as it spins. On my first go I was able to get off the island.

My "west wing" was expanded but I never got around to talking to Nook to get my mortgage total. So now I'm sitting on 102,000 bells until I do.

The wife has a show she's in tomorrow and if it's a full house, I'm not going due to social distancing. Then I might fire up the DSi XL and dig into games I haven't played yet.