Boldly go where no Temmie has gone before - Make it so!

Salute .

Finally got around to playing Fear Effect Sedna on the Switch. I'm happy to see a game like that on a Nintendo console so Nintendo is putting on its big boy pants . The game itself is a bit of a challenge but nothing to stressful, the puzzles can be solved by looking at the environments for clues. The graphics are anime worthy and overall just a wonderful nostalgia trip all together 4.5/5 stars.

I looked at it on Gog, and it says Fear Effect Sedna is a real time game. How do you control 5 characters in real time? Can you pause and give commands to all the characters like in the Total War games?

Vampire Bloodlines update (just for you ‘Rocu!)!

Went to the LA Museum of Natural History.
Museum

“Saw some Dinosaurs, so I had fun.”
Some wise guy had the great idea to put this life like raptor around the corner in a dark hallway. Gave us s start!

This lovely TRex Head roars when you get near it. More starts were given.

LaCroix wasn’t pleased with the news we gave him.
See? He’s really upset.

With our official business of the night concluded, we went to Confession.
Bump and grind.

Snack Attack

After dinner we went back home to Santa Monica.
Saw our ghoulfriend Heather and caught up on the news. Sadly none of it was about us.

Had an email from Jeannette wanting to see me so we hoped over to Asylum and “amused” her for a bit then did some dancing with strangers.

At last it was time to get back out into the city, so we hopped in our cab and went to Hollywood to start looking for the Nosferatu at LaCroix’s behest.
Ended the night by taking a pic in front of the famous Chinese Theatre.

You can select characters by the L&R buttons (not to be confused with the ZL&ZR buttons) and press the - button to go into tactical mode to move the characters if you want to set up an ambush. You can also press the R stick button down to tell the part to follow or stay, other then that that's about all the command issuing you can do. So far FE:Sedna is a worthy sequel and now I wander if they're going to implement elements from the lost Fear Effect Inferno.

Thanks, Khajiit! Nice little update on your girl's adventures. By the by, did she extort the doctor who likes to play doctor with his nurses?

Bahahaha, hahahahaha, heh heh, heh... of course she did! All she got was a lousy $75 though.

Wierd amount, yes. But together with what you can get from the suit ($25) when you first leave the apartment it tallies up to 100 bucks.

Lol, we weren’t persuasive enough to get money out of the blue blood guy.

I don't know what I did but I managed to extort him first time I played the game. Think I managed to threaten him or something.

So, Hollywood, huh? Man, I really didn't like that area...

Heh, well to get to Chinatown, you have to go through Hollywood first!

Yup.


Well, I reckon Vesuvius at least makes the visit bearable

Indeed! Good ol’ VV!

Two games in the current rotation:

Fallout 4:
Haven't felt like doing the final part of the main quest yet. I should probably get to it soon though, so I don't perpetually put it off. Kind of strange considering I've never put off the end of a main quest of a BGS game like this before.

Planescape: Torment:
I finally just decided to start a whole new game since I won't ever get around to getting the old files off of my old computer. Wasn't that far into it before anyway.

Khajiit recently reinstalled Fallout4 and is currently going through the pain that is testing mods.

Decided to finally go inside the Institute in Fallout 4. For roleplaying purposes, and because I was curious about looking around, I went with the "not sure" option about joining the Institute. But there is no way my character is actually joining them. I assume that with the quest "Synth Retention" that is the point where I can finally tell Father that the Institute can burn. That is where I left my character at last night.

Fallout 4 is very different from the other Beth games when it comes to the Main Quest and Faction quests. Technically the Main Quest ended the moment you stepped inside the Institute and first spoke to Father (the Institutionalized quest).

From here on out the Faction quests take over. There are four Factions: Institute, Railroad, BOS, and Minutemen.

The Minutemen are pretty much completely separate from the Institute. In fact, you can do the Minuteman questline to completion and never set foot inside the Institute.

The Institute questline is of course all about joining the Institute.

The Railroad questline requires you to pretend to join the Institute for a pretty long time, but in reality you are a spy for the Railroad working to destroy the Institute from within.

I never finished the BOS questline, but from what I gather it is a more direct and open war against the Institute, and it ends with you destroying the Institute as well..

So how you respond to Father influences what you can do with the other questlines. Telling him to F off fails the Railroad questline, since you need to be on the inside to accomplish it. It will work fine with the Minuteman questline though, and I imagine it will be ok with the BOS questline as well.

I've been in a gaming slump nearly a month now. Up until then I'd been playing Mashinky hot and heavy with no sign of letup. Then all of a sudden my interest took a nosedive. Some of that might be due to my having exhausted Mashinky's still limited feature set, so that all I did began to seem too repetitive.

For whatever reason I can't drum up enough enthusiasm for Kingdom Come Deliverance to want to play it very often. Not sure why. I enjoy it well enough, and haven't encountered any of the nasty bugs some claim to have experienced.

Then again, I can't drum up enthusiasm for what are normally sure-fire old favorites like Daggerfall and Oblivion either. Truth to tell, I can't drum up enthusiasm for much of anything at the moment, gaming or otherwise.

Be that as it may, I broke down and bought a title I've been interested in for some time, another train-centric game called Transport Fever. Downloaded it off Steam yesterday. Spent a decent bit of time at the Steam Workshop looking through its many mods, picking out lots of steam locos, passenger wagons, and other mods for use after I learn the ropes. Spent much of this afternoon beating my head against its tutorials. I swear game controls are getting harder for me to master each purchase. Mashinky is an exception, but it's a far less complex game. I'll give Transport Fever credit for including what looks to be thorough tutorials, and boy am I gonna need them.

I'll end this linking a thought provoking recently watched YouTube video of Zaric Zacharon discussing Bethesda.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Apr 8 2018, 10:07 PM

Khajiit likes to play MineCraft when suffering game burnout. You may also try No Man’s Sky. This one finds that simple and/or plotless games allow you to just relax and clear your mind. Before you know it you’ll be ready to get back on the rails, or lop off some heads!

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Apr 8 2018, 11:40 PM