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Day 203 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots
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I started Alan Wake 2's Night Spring DLC today (after realizing i walked right past the first episode during my playthrough). The entire episode i loved. It was a short, but i loved every second of it. It was fun to have something that doesn't take it's self seriously and just run amok as Rose with basically infinite shotgun ammo.
For this one i had a lot of fun using the Post Card option instead of my usual preference for 5:4. I took this photo of Rose pointing her shotgun at the Bad Boy (with what looks to be horrific trigger discipline)
I also took this one of a romantic looking boat, which i think turned out pretty well. I should look into a career as a Postcard designer lol
At one point i came across this book on a stump with a romantic setup, and i sat reading this excerpt of what i assume was an Alex Casey novel. It was a fun thing to read, especially after playing Max Payne 2 so recently.
There's a segment with a talking fish, and it starts talking to you in Alan's voice. The whole thing was funny to me, as just moments before i was thinking to myself "it'd be funny if it started singing in Alan's Voice". all i can say now though is that i want one of those damn talking fish but with Alan voicing it.
and finally i got this screenshot of Rose standing over the bad boy. idk what it is but this image makes me laugh, so i'd like to share it too out of hopes that someone else finds it humorous.
Overall, i really enjoyed the first DLC episode. it was a really fun change from the usual pace of Alan Wake with how campy and relaxed it is. I got a laugh out of the bit where the Bad Boy's motorcycle is revealed to be a Werewolf too. I really recommend the DLC to anyone who played the base game and hasn't played it yet
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Get ready for a smashing time as Wreckfest 2 comes to Early Access in March
(www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Creator of Dicey Dungeons, VVVVVV and Super Hexagon to launch a big freeware collection
(www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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I'm pretty sure you already know it, but I'll post it here anyways, IO-Interactive (The creators of the Hitman franchise) are working on a new game, which will be a James Bond 007 game
I'm excited, are you ?
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Day 202 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots
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After completing the first two chapters of Alan Wake 2, i decided to take a quick break before starting the DLC (i believe they start in the story, but i'm not 100% sure). I decided to take a break by playing Assassin's Creed Rogue. This isn't the best well crafted AC game in my opinion, but i have a soft spot for it because it was the first AC game i bought myself. I was really wanting Unity, but didn't have a PS4. So instead younger me went to my local walmart to buy a PS3 copy of the Sims 3, and got talked down by my parents because they weren't sure exactly how raunchy the sims could be and wanted to do their research first. So they ended up letting me buy this instead because they knew that i could "responsibly consume Assassin's Creed".
This game uses the same engine as Black Flag, and shares a lot of assets. It also ties the Kenway Saga too Unity in a fun way that i won't spoil. It does have an air of being hastily put together though, which is especially evident on 4K resolution. I keep having an issue with an enemy type called Stalkers, and some of them are in dresses. and i've been having an issue where they all die legs up in the air, and concerningly their entire body is plainly missing under the dress. I also feel like the collision is a bit jankier than Black Flags. I keep feeling like i get caught on things.
Despite these bugs though, the world is really pretty. Unity's will probably be one of my favorites for a while, but this one takes place in the northern Atlantic (a setting i wish was explored more because i love the cold more than tropics) with ice and snow in some places:
It makes for a really pretty setting that is fun to explore. I don't feel like i've ever seen a game with a setting like this. Maybe Assassin's Creed 3, but i feel like i remember that staying far warmer for the most part and staying out of the arctic.
The game also sees a return of one of my favorite features in Black Flag: The fish pond. This pond is so pretty, i really like just standing and looking at it whenever i pass by.
The game has a few fun moments too it as well. There's a moment where you're at a party and there's fireworks going off. all the guests there are commenting on it. I've seen fire works in real life, but even i stood around admiring them lol.
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I was actually in the middle of a Half-Life review (spoiler for my next post!) and I got a new Steam Deck in the mail, which thoroughly distracted me for the past few days. That, and I threw my back out, so sitting comfortably at my gaming PC has been impossible lately. Instead, I've been lying in bed, enjoying some of my Deck-ready games like the free Valve game Aperture Desk Job. The screenshots for this post will all be 1280x800, the default resolution for the Steam Deck.
As you may know, Steam (and the Steam Deck) is owned by Valve, the company behind the Half-Life and Portal games, which both take place in the same universe. Aperture Desk Job is a short Portal-esque game they made for the Steam Deck, which teaches you all the controls and functions of the new portable gaming device. While also having a fun, comedic game to play.
The game opens up with a pre-recorded speech from Cave Johnson (voiced by J.K. Simmons), the owner of Aperture Science, welcoming you to the company. That's a portrait of him on the right:
Your view traverses down through various floors of the company as he espouses all the wonderful things that you can do for Aperture Science. After all, you are a gifted scientist who will save humanity with your genius!
...Or not. Turns out they were playing the wrong recording.
It turns out, you're just a lowly product inspector. You're introduced to Grady, a personality core overseeing your new position in the company. Grady is excessively chatty.
He says you're going to be inspecting... something. It's not written on his chart, so he moves on to your inspection desk. Look familiar? It has all the same buttons and joysticks and touch pads as your Steam Deck, including the four buttons on the underside of the device (the L4, L5, R4, and R5 buttons)
Your first product comes down the line and it's a puke-green toilet with a white lid. (Incidentally, it looks EXACTLY like the toilet in my childhood home, right down to the color scheme!)
The board in the back seems pretty self-explanatory, so you start pressing buttons in sequence to go through the whole testing cycle. You fill the tank with water, test pressure on the seat, flush the toilet, then move it down the line.
Grady notices one of the toilets is burning and decides to ignore it and continue testing regardless.
Shenanigans ensue and the burning toilet ends up filled with live ammunition, firing rounds all over the room. Which gives Grady an idea.
Six months later... Grady returns to show off his new invention: the Aperture Science Turret! (See first screenshot) It almost immediately breaks, but he claims that was just the initial prototype and brings out the actual turret he's been working on - the Mark Two. He asks you to take a picture of him with it, for the history books. Which teaches you how to take screenshots with the Steam Deck.
Grady aims it away from you and asks you to test it out. He opens up all the panels on your desk and tells you to go wild, pressing absolutely everything.
You proceed to shoot up the entire warehouse, with enthusiastic encouragement from Grady. Once all the ammunition is spent, Grady comments on how 90% of the features didn't even work. Then police sirens can be heard in the distance...
Grady quickly assigns you to take the blame for the whole incident, while he runs off to "streamline" the turret.
18 months later... you're released from prison on probation, and Grady shows up to claim you. Note that this is an "Aperture Incarceration." Meaning that Aperture Science has their own in-house prison that they can keep law-breaking employees locked up in.
You're required to sign a prisoner release form, which requires 3 forms of identification - vocal recitation of your name, typed name, and signed name. Again, showing off more features of the Steam Deck, including the microphone, on-screen keyboard, and touch screen.
Oh, and it turns out, Grady is now licensed to be a probation officer. He studied for his license while you were incarcerated. So he takes you under his charge and escorts you, and your desk, back to your station. He's very excited to show off the Mark Three version of the turret.
When everything seems to go off without a hitch, Grady informs you he arranged a meeting with Cave Johnson to show off the turret. If all goes smoothly, the two of you could be rich beyond your wildest dreams!
But when does a plot with Grady go smoothly? I'll let you play through the rest to find out what happens.
I enjoyed this little sub-plot going on between the floorboards, where a bunch of praying mantises discover electricity, then rapidly advance as a civilization over the months this game takes place.
Even though Aperture Desk Job is the latest game in the Half-Life/Portal franchise, it actually takes place in an alternate universe. Valve has confirmed that it happens in the "Portal expanded universe," a concept created in the "Perpetual Testing Initiative" DLC for Portal 2. As far as a time frame goes, it's been speculated that it takes place sometime in the '80s-'90s, if this universe's Aperture Science lines up with the main timeline.
Which is kind of a shame, because it was a great opportunity for Valve to introduce more lore to the Half-Life universe. But at least they're continuing to write new stuff for their famous franchises instead of completely abandoning them. COUGHHalf-Life3COUGH
Still, this was a fun little game with plenty of comedy, an opportunity to control an Aperture Science turret to shoot up stuff, and also taught you all the various functions of the Steam Deck. The whole game took maybe 40 minutes to play through, so it's a pretty decent tutorial for the Steam Deck without being a nuisance to sit through.
My first Steam Deck came with this game already at the top of my library, but you can find it on the Steam Store for free. I don't know how well it would play on the desktop, since it's reliant on Steam Deck specific controls, but if you can re-map all the buttons to a controller or keyboard, more power to you!
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