Here’s a sample of Elypse. This spot took me 7 tries. It’s one of the easier (and shorter) spots. It’s platforming challenge after platforming challenge, with these save points in between. There are well-animated cut scenes every so often and new story dialogue every few challenges.
If you die (everything insta-kills you on contact), you go right back to the last save point and try again. I keep memorizing the movements to each challenge just in time to move on and forget everything I just learned.
Not really playing any games this second outside of the nightly matches of Advance War I play against the computer.
I am fixing to order a gaming laptop. Kind of tired of having a console. I get a big employee discount (about 900 bucks) through the company I work for. I’ve kind of settled on a Dell G15 with a RTX 4060, 16 gigs of RAM, and a Core I713650HX. I don’t need much and it has a 1080P 165hz screen so I’m thinking the 4060 (even at the lower wattage) will last me a long time. When it comes to PC I mostly play RTS games and simulation type games. Plus it’s 200 bucks cheaper than the RTX 4070 model.
I was going to build a desktop but the laptop will allow me to move it easily. Did the math and switching to Steam for most games will end up saving me a ton of money in the long run. Plus I never played the StarCraft II campaign (and the original StarCraft was my childhood; granted I was never good enough to even start to compete with the Koreans) so that’s the first game I’m picking up.
My favorite part of StarCraft was the world building. Even as kid I realized that the Terrans were basically a future where they literally send the entire population of Mississippi to colonize an entire sector of the galaxy. They were literally just rednecks with warp drive.
I’ve got a severe lack of space. I need something I can move from my bed side table to my kitchen table pretty frequently. It’s why I settled on a laptop despite the lack of upgrades.
Plus I was thinking about the kind of games I mostly need to catch up on. It’s all mostly real time strategy games, which as a rule are light on GPUs and heavier on CPUs… It’s why I’m drawn to that G15. It’s got a really good CPU compared to the Lenovo I looked at. And with DLSS 3 the low wattage 4060s aren’t bad cards at all. I suspect with the way PC games tend to release these days (stutter filled messes unless you have a 4090 to just power through it) I’ll still buy AAA games on console unless the PC version is really really good.
I would say my favorite part of the original game story wise was a tie between the niberlheim flashback and when you air drop back into Midgar on Disc 2. I really loved that scene.
Favorite thing in the game though personally was beating Ruby Weapon. That took a long time and a lot of preparation. Plus fighting it alone with Cloud was nightmarish. Thank God for full maxed out mime materia with Knighgs of the Round. And the phoenix materia.
This is such a great family/group effort game. We’ve done three survival worlds so far, and get better and more efficient every time.
Right now we’re strip mining at bedrock in both the regular and nether worlds. There’s a sheer abundance of iron and gold materials and we almost have the same in diamond.
Once we have spare sets of netherite armor and weapons, we’ll be going on our first hunt for the End Portal.
