LadyCrimson

Every time it's gets over 78F here, I turn the A/C in this room on and stay in this room until late-night. I do like temp/weather variety tho. Just in a very limited range. Say, 60F-74F with several weeks of stormy weather per year. The world smells much better when it's raining, too. Well, at least where I live.

In 10 years (or less) Bethesda will likely have joined the ranks of other giant game corps designated as "evil." If I was into programming/had the brains and talent for such, I would definitely be trying to make my own games at this point. Not to sell. Just...for me.

MMO fad may have passed (they learned subscription-commitment isn't what people want), but games-as-service hasn't. Companies are going to continue to try to find ways to make a game monthly/annually profitable for longer (vs. just the initial game sales). So basically appeal to people who have a lot of disposable income and don't mind buying all those pixel-thingies/bonuses/services which end up costing far more than a monthly subscription would. New mounts, new clothes, new weapons, storage space, new areas to conquer, new ships, whatever. Look how much money Star Citizen made and they haven't even come close to releasing it yet. Those people, that's what companies would love to have. I'd actually be one of those people (to a point...) if I liked a game enough (I spent a fair amount on that NWN online f2p (haha) thing) but they always focus on online games so....no.

This is why the gaming industry has largely stopped appealing to me. I know they still make good games (especially in the indie area) but mostly they've turned into the same mass-market, generic, trend-following, over-spending, rebooting culture as the (US) movie industry. Predictable trajectory of all big business, mind, but always annoying nonetheless. And even most indie games aren't developing projects that interest me on a personal level. (edit - eg the "trends" aren't my thing, is all) I'm just happy when I find a game that appeals to me on a visceral level now. But an online shooter type of game wouldn't even do that. Bethesda was never a fave company for me tho. I liked Morrowind and Obsidian's NV and that was about it. But it's not surprising they want to continue to try to capitalize on the online-gaming trend/frenzies. Edit: will this have games-as-service model as well?

The rumor now appears to be a FO3 remaster. https://imgur.com/xcVWo7r

Rosanne+Twitter=cancelled show=lulz.

Part of one of the new themes from the Royal Edition of FFXV (full version is around 7-8 minutes long I think). This part of it is played during a last phase of a boss fight. I utterly love it. I am so going to buy the "Verse 2" of the XV soundtrack (already bought the original first one), which will include the music from the dlc's and such.

Watched the first episode of a S. Korea drama (it's on Netflix) called Live (at least that's what Netflix calls it). For much of the time there's no background music at all, giving it a different/rougher feel. Focuses on a few characters who can't find/make FT employment who end up joining the police force. I liked it a fair bit, seems like a series that may start off a bit slow/deliberately paced but by the end you'd be all "fantastic show!" ... promising start anyway.

My knees had a falling out with me over the weekend. Guess I've been sitting at the desk too much the past couple months, hah. Two skinny heating pads wrapped around ... ahhh, that's better. I need that hottub we always keep talking about maybe sticking on the patio. Tell my hubby to get on that for me, will ya?

For good reason. I hear If you post too much in multiple forums they make you a mod... Hahaha! I registered here during Kotor2. I post mostly here or in C&C these days. This is mostly an occasional social board for me now, not a place for talking shop of a specific game. I don't play many games these days and haven't played an Obsidian game since the first PoE kickstarter/release etc. Also....dang, imagine one little mis-timing.

why would that annoy anyone? It's a shallow game, Diablo with guns or whatnot. But I found it that type of genre fun. It was also great to play with my husband. That's it. ... in terms of E3, what about Bethesda? They put a pic on their twitter that seem to imply ... something. Not that I care much about them these days. What projects to they have in the works?

Ditto. But I also think even if there is one, it won't be the same at all. Then I'll cry for what could have been.

Haven't played much XV since rebeating the main story (burnt out a bit I guess?) but I did decide I could now try a couple more Cheat Engine tables. Using a new save slot, of course. Mostly the table for increasing enemy hp/stat multipliers. It actually isn't too bad/works ok - since it's a multiplier, low lvl/starter enemies stay low level, it's the higher level enemies that get big hp/level boosts, which is what I'd want. A new playthrough you wouldn't have to wear the Nix Band for example - if you tend to reach the last story chapter at clvl 70, put the multiplier around 1.6 or 1.7 and there you go. You can just have their level and hp go up or also have it increase their physical/magic power and resistances. Don't want to get too crazy with that tho or you won't ever be able to do even 9999 damage to anything, let alone limit-breaking. The other table is for adding "permanent" guest characters, whether Iris or Cor or Ravus or even Ardyn. I'm using Ravus and it's hilarious. He's useful in a fight. But he doesn't get a chocobo or ride in the car so he's forced to just chase after on foot. Funny stuff.

I'm about ready to buy a 1TB SSD. One, because "I can" and two, because I'm tired of the tiny loading hitches in XV. The frame-pacing/fps is fine ... it's just those little micro-second loading hitchings as you, say, run overground for long distances or enemies drop onto your head. Doesn't happen constantly/always but it's there. Loading screen times are ok/don't really other me, hitching does. Also, then I can use the HDD for another internal storage drive. Win/win. Hope everyone in the US is having a nice 3-day weekend. After a bit o' unseasonal rain, it's cleared up and is very nice here again. Good day to go ... shopping!

Was never a huge fan/follower but I did enjoy some of the WTF videos. And cancer just plain sucks, as always. RIP

Monster Hunter World for the PS4. Which I haven't touched in 2.5 months (the console as a whole I mean). Altho technically it would be FFXV Windows Edition, but that wasn't me buying a new/unplayed game. I occasionally look at Steam and GoG and nothing appeals enough for me to spend cash on it. Although...the other day I noticed GoG had Nox - why have I never noticed that before - and I went as far as sticking it in my shopping cart, but then changed my mind. I loved that game tho, back when. Would be fun to revisit it at some point.

I used to occasionally have something mildly interesting to say in this thread. Now I don't even have cat stories. I think hubby is delaying a "real vacation" because he knows there's a 90% chance of me running out to get a cat as soon as we get back.

I have a feeling I'd enjoy Solo in a light-hearted way....I'm so divorced from SW fandom at this point that I'd just see it as a mostly a new product, like I did with the Star Trek reboot films. Which isn't to say I'd think it was a great film or something. Only that I'd watch the whole thing, get a few chuckles, not regret renting it, then immediately forget about it. Another topic: James Berardinelli wrote up an interesting thought piece re: the future of movie theaters vs. the convenience and cost-effectiveness of staying at home/streaming etc.. I think I'd tend to agree with him that at some point not too far into the future, theaters may go the way of the dodo, or Blockbuster video stores etc. Maybe not entirely, but all those vast multiplexes built the past decade or so are going to have to think of something fast if they don't want to close their doors. http://www.reelviews.net/reelthoughts/reelthought_1527191673 Edit: I kind of miss the days when theaters were either single/dual or maybe 6 screens at the most.

I dunno if someone posted this already at some point, I randomly surfed to it and yeah, I lol'd.

Finally finished main storyline of FFXV/PC. The last fight I purposely delayed winning because the villain kept making me laugh every time I paused the game (faces, poses)...one had to be there, so to speak. I could finally record the end-credits with my photos (on console it's always disallowed to ps4-record because of the song - pc, that doesn't apply, pfft). Familiar enough with the game and what it likes to choose, that the photos part came out almost perfect. Yay! That was a fun 2.5 month ride. Haven't done a complete story playthru of it since July last year I think, plus PC edition/Ansel/sharing photos (I had a pic blog elsewhere) made it feel almost special again. Now I can relax and do the post-game and rest of dlc (eg, a complete file) whenever/whatever. Still love this game. And Iggy is still bae.

I hope he's going to wash his hand afterwards. I've never cared about "realistic strands and hair movement" but having it does make me laugh at least once per play session.

"From the director of the Fast and the Furious." I was never a huge fan of the original show or anything remotely like it, but still...no, just no. Just make a new detective show, Hollywood, stop trading on name recognition.

^ The graphics and combat I saw in another trailer make the game look sweet in those areas. And I like the humor-lines. But is it a mostly one and done kind of action game? Or is it supposed to be good for replaying. It'd be nice to have another PS4 game for the console tho, since I've pretty much abandoned it after XV on PC.

For the first time in our entire together-lives, hubby and I ordered pizza two nights in a row. It was a lazy weekend. I also logged into GoG for the first time in many moons, and when I was told to type in my verification code that was being emailed to me, I nearly had a fit. I absolutely hate being forced to do that (Steam does this too) because I don't allow perm. cookies so they always think it's a "new machine" every single time. So annoying. But thankfully GoG let me disable it...unlike Steam. One day gaming forum software will do something similar and I'll disappear from the 'net. Yeah, I'm old and tech-cranky these days. Turning into my grandparents or something.

That 2nd Jack Reacher movie was "free" on Amazon Prime so we watched that while eating pizza. The first film was a lot better, imo. This sequel was ok, but I didn't like the "maybe daughter" subplot which just felt like boring time-filler. You could have excised that entire subplot/character from the film and never notice anything missing.