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Still playing Dark Souls. Have been doing pretty well I think, gone past half way and currently played for 63 hours. Playing a game for that long is kind of good, but I think it has slowly had an odd effect, it feels like this game is slowly driving me crazy. Well first it feels like the game is changing how I think, which really is not that different for many games, but it feels more than that. I think that a while in some sort of addiction started to set in, some sort of joy from this tough game, the feeling of being totally at risk entering a new area, but after a while the area becomes easier because I have memorised how enemies move, and how I should move. That sounds a little standard as part of video games, but it is different. I just beat a boss on the second try, which is kind of great, these bosses are the culmination of the struggle and feeling good about overcoming it. But as I am trying to make my way down tree roots, I think that I am having something like a diminished effect, where it is making me seek more threats to meet the feeling overcoming it, and the current threat is a slow threat which killed me a few times with one hit and sponges up damage, I feel that this is going to do something bad to me with the patience needed to overcome it.

I need to play a different game. I told myself that I would try and beat this game, and then go play a new game, but I think I need to take a break and risk coming back later having forgot controls or something. I think I will get the new metal gear game today.

I finally completed Operation Flashpoint: Red River. The Quake 1 soundtrack guided me to victory in a bloody final battle.

Never Alone

9/10 for an indie game, very short though.

I really need to play more Quake with the CD in, I think I've only done it once or twice. I'm always either too lazy to pop it in, or I'll have MP3s going or something.

I'm sure most custom mods and maps don't even bother with the soundtrack =)

Some ports like Yamagi's Quake II has OGG/MP3 support where you don't need a cd, I am not sure about Quake I but I am pretty sure most ports support this.

Currently playing Farcry Primal. So far it's great on the set piece, light on the actual story.

Well I got suckered into getting Pokemon Red for the 3DS. I know a few other people who are getting the games, so that might be fun for a little while, if it can hold my interest for long enough

Yeah, there's a few ports that support MP3/OGG, I think there's even a few that support MIDI or MOD or something =)

But I have enough MP3s clogging up space, CDs are lossless. Usually when I play Quake, I'm modding it, so I'm not sitting down for a long play-through with all the bells and whistles.

Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun: Generally perceived as one of the less impressive of the series, and I've got to admit that on current evidence it would struggle to get more than about 6.5 out of 10 from me. Bland graphics, predictable gameplay and indifferent controls (how do you 'run and gun' when there isn't a 'run' button? ), but right now I'm quite happy to play a no nonsense FPS, however limited. Had quite enough of the more exotic versions with their half-baked boss levels and too-clever-by-half 'puzzle' elements for now, thank you very much.

Lol, it also lets one of my ancient PS2s strut its stuff again - this one is at least 12 years old, has had goodness how many previous owners, and has been in hibernation during my ownership for about 3 years, but is still performing faultlessly it seems....

Honestly, most Quake sourceports suck, as hardly any of them even replicate the original game's physics or graphical features. Instead, most of them are based on QuakeWorld, which was never meant for singleplayer, and has entirely different physics made to accommodate the troublesome internet connections people had in the mid-late 90s.

Also, thanks to Windows 7 removing support for the CD Audio pathways used by a lot of older games, I don't think you can even use the old WinQuake engine with music. This also affects Leileilol's Engoo engine, which is an enhanced software-rendered engine based primarily on WinQuake. If Engoo had OpenGL support with shaders to replicate the old software-only effects, and FLAC or WAV support for loading the music, then it would be perfect IMO.

It's a shame so many engines either don't support music on modern OSes, or only support it in lossy formats like Ogg or MP3, because I love Quake's soundtrack, and I honestly consider it the best part of the entire game. It's essentially the album Trent Reznor recorded and released in between "The Downward Spiral" and "The Fragile", and I think it would be awesome if it were released on its own. I'm not sure how you'd assign it a halo number though. (Halo numbers are the numbers assigned to each of Nine Inch Nails' releases, usually to indicate what order they were released in. For instance, the "Down in It" single has a halo number of 01, "Pretty Hate Machine" has a halo number of 02, and so forth. They have nothing to do with the game series also known as "Halo".)

Back to bioshock and probably on to bioshock 2 in a minute,

I feel I have taken to long with bioshock cause I am like 14 hours in and am on the second to last level (I think kinda has that feel). Plan to get back into Grand Theft Auto V and Skyrim again too.

I'm currently playing Pokemon Y again. This time I'm really having a hard time catching Pokemon and using my Pokemon team effectively. I guess I'm just trying too hard to have a well-balanced party?

Also the game's economy is really tedious; Poke-dollars are ACTUALLY valuable in that game... And for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately.

As you could already figure out by my avatar, I'm playing as a girl, which means that I'm just trying to save up as much money as I possibly can (I usually try to keep at least 1,500 Poke-dollars) just to be able to buy some of the clothing in the game's many boutiques (did I mention that clothing was expensive too? ).

What does this all mean? Well...



It also means...



Which ALSO means more of this:



Honestly I'm starting to think that buying that old copy of Pokemon Ruby for the Gameboy Advance wasn't such a bad idea to begin with (Ahh the nostalgia! )

^Don't you have the Exp. Share yet? That makes leveling all of your Pokemon easy. Also, I suggest selling X Attacks and whatnot if you aren't going to use them, as they sell for a surprising amount. I, too, have often found myself short of money from either buying Repels or clothing. By the way, I think I've figured out a way for us to battle: we both go online and play at the same time, and hopefully you will show up on my PSS [my character is named Tifa and has a rainbow dress with a sky blue hat].

Yes I Already got the Exp. share from the bug-type gym leader's sister and yes I already sold as many 'x' whatevers as I could (And I still ended up nearly broke! ). Also, That gliterring cave is both awesome as it is annoying! I had my favorite Pokemon (Mienfoo by the way. I really love her! ) beaten up by the random encounters from the cave's black walls of doom and those silly (and I do mean silly ) team Flare grunts caught me off guard (once again making my poor and innocent Mienfoo faint! ).

Gosh I'm just having such a hard time with Pokemon! But I'm also having a lot of fun too!! !

ALL HAIL MIENFOO!! !



Also how'd you get that un-evolve stone thingy? cause I'm really getting the urge to give my Mienfoo one! I assume you'd find it somewhere in Kalos using some HM move right?

Meinfoo is one of my favourites as well! Her evolved form is quite beautiful:
Hooray for Kung Fu cats!
The Everstone can be found in Geosenge Town [given to you by an old lady northwest of the Pokemon Center. Bear in mind that giving Pokemon the Everstone makes their friendship go down. [I think.] Apparently Roggenrola and Boldore can be found holding them as well.

Thankfully for me, my Gyarados [named Haku, of course] makes short work of Team Flare. Magikarp can be found by fishing on Route 4 and 22, by the way.

marvelheroes2016 where I'm still grinding away

Shadowrun Returns (PC), PAYDAY 2 (PC), Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PS4), Sword Art Online: Lost Song (PS4), Ace Combat Infinity (PS3), and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online (PC).