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The fun never ends. Clearly xbox is failing so they are trying their hardest to extract as much money as possible from whoever still hasnt sold their console yet

Today's game is some more Final Fantasy 7 Remake. I finally beat the Abzu boss fight. It was a surprising challenge to be thrown into at the start of the chapter. I struggled to get him to catch fire sometimes. Eventually i managed to get through it though. While i was fighting him i noticed a surprising amount of detail on his model for, at least for something that would normally be moving.

Going through the sewers system was interesting. I went ahead and checked the differences between this and the original and i found out they greatly expanded this section. The whole thing was a bit tedious with the gate system, but it wasn't too bad.

There's a cutscene where the bridge crumbles and cloud nearly falls in the sewage water. Aerith and Tifa were acting like he'd die, makes me wonder just how toxic that stuff is? I assumed it would just be extremely gross, but nothing a heavy duty shower won't clean off. Maybe it's really toxic though.

There was the pump minigame, which i really struggled with. I think the instructions just kind of went in one ear and out the other so it was a challenge. I managed to get it though after reading through it multiple times.

I ended at the train yard, which, man, this makes me want to replay Alan Wake because there's a train yard section in that game too. I'm already considering pausing everything else and just doing horror games until Halloween, so maybe i'll put that on the table too along with Alan Wake 2, a replay of Silent Hill 2's remake, and finishing up Silent Hill f.

I cancelled too! I really wanna see what excuse Microsoft will pull out to walk back the changes.

Hit 'em where it hurts, people.

The epilogue is Ruby Sanctum.

They're trying to soften the blow by adding new features to each tier, but it's still just to disguise a price hike. More games are coming to the $15 tier, but it still won't be day and date releases. First party games come to the $15 tier "within a year", but that's even excluding Call of Duty.

Today's game is some more Minecraft Xbox 360 edition. I was going to hop into my world, but i was feeling a bit nostalgic so i decided to jump into the old tutorial world instead. It was nice to relive the memories. That wood shack to the left is still my basic, go to design for any quick homes i need to build.

I wandered around the tutorial area for a bit, and i found one of the old villagers. It's kind of surreal seeing the old model after so long of the new ones. In a way i kind of like it more. It's probably nostalgia though.

After wandering around for a lot longer, i came across this tower. I remember when me and my sister would play the Demo, we would always see this tower and want to get over too it. But with the 1 hour time limit we just couldn't ever get over there in time (our naive child brains probably did not help). By the time we got a copy of the full game i think we had visited it and the allure of visiting it vanished.

I went ahead and went in for old times sake. I looked around and kind of found myself looking at the old glass texture. Younger me hated the dashes in the middle. I remember wishing for a texture pack to replace the glass. Now? I miss it. It's definitely nostalgia, but also i think a part of it is what it represents to me.

When this was still the default glass texture, my builds were a lot less focused on looking pretty and presentable. Instead my younger self went "I want to build a big ass house". and you know what Younger me did? He built the biggest looking house ever. Sure, it looked like shit, but there was something oddly endearing about the big ass house that looked like shit. I still built it and i know it looks like shit, but i still like it.

I guess what i'm trying to say is i have more fun when i don't care that my house looks like shit.

It's something i try to apply a lot now when playing games, and especially minecraft, and though i sometimes falter, it brings a sort of comfort not to worry about how things look.

I had Monaco 2 on my watchlist. Now it’s on sale and it reminded me that I never really joined a multiplayer game in the first one. Because I’m afraid that being a noob I will ruin the game for everyone. Same with Due Process. Of course that is a vicious cycle where I keep being noob but don’t join a game out of fear of doing a noob thing. Not noticing something important, not timing something right, etc

Multiplayer in itself is not a problem, I have been playing other multiplayer titles. Both as a noob and a veteran. But the heist theme feels daunting

In a way I feel Payday was kind of easier in that regard because it was geared towards that “oops, I guess we are shooting now”

Has anyone had similar feeling? I probably should “just do it"
I feel like on the first game I should warn the lobby that I’m a noob, at which point I expect half of them to leave :D

Right....

I'm sure that the new Saudi owners and Jared Kushner will be looking into hacking up human developer cost by any means necessary.

Today's game is Mario Kart 64. I was messing around in the Time Trials mode today. I meant to do a Grand Prix but got distracted just looking around. I decided to go backwards on Toad's Turnpike for example, and I guess the car horns bugged out or something because they kept honking at me.

There was also this section where the Race starts. It stood out to me a bit. As far as i'm aware highways don't have this weird kind of bit here usually, so it makes me wonder what this is for? Does the road have a dedicated section just for racers? Is this a real road? (Well, i guess not since it's just a complete loop). If it's not real, did they just build a fake highway for them to race on? Is this what the Mushroom Kingdom's Tax Dollars are going towards?

I also stopped and looked at this traffic sign. I never really noticed it before but it's funny to me that the Mushroom Kingdom's highway system has road signs and i assume laws on merging lanes too.

On jungle parkway did you know the boat will turn around? I didn't. I stopped to follow it for a bit and just found out it will go down the river and do a 180. I assumed it just kind of popped in and out when it got a chance.

There's this little canyon river i noticed to on Peach Circuit. It's one of those things i knew it was there, but i didn't know it was there. Yknow? I wonder what it leads too. Looking back i should have taken a free cam and seen if it connects to anything.

There was also this little bit behind the bleachers i noticed. I thought it was interesting that it was there, and more importantly it was a sloped surface. It would have been (i assume) easier on the system and developers to just make it a square which is interesting.

Anyways, i basically just drove around the tracks and looked at things i noticed. I kind of forgot to actually play the game. There was another thing to do with the barn on Moo Moo Farms having windows on the side you can't see that i wanted to get a screenshot of, but i couldn't get a chance too.

In a deal involving a company owned by Jared Kushner, a company that is basically just the Saudis, and $20B of debt.