My Gaming Diary – Gamedate 78978.5
What I’ve Been Up To
Games
- Call of Duty: Black OPS 6 (PC) – I got an itch to play a lil GAAS last night after I saw SloMo mention that we should get together. I figured I needed to reinstall the game, upgrade it, and upgrade nVidia drivers if needed. I’m not wrapped around the axle about the Season Pass. Just having fun. I do wish that idiotic Beavis & Butthead mess from the recent Season Event would stay out of my windshield. It’s one thing to have an event and allow people to participate or not. But there is an unstoppable cutscene when you first log-in after the event started. And then it routinely pops an animation when you’ve completed stuff on the free tier. I couldn’t even stand Beavis & Butthead when they were on TV. The last thing I want is to have them in my grill in my video games.
- Super Smash Bros Ultimate (NS2) – I finally got time to try out my Nintendo Switch 2 in handheld mode. Looks beautiful. I can’t really track with the whole news outlets reporting => screen looks great (during initial hands on after the direct) => screen works horribly now and can’t do 120Hz (last week) => Street Fighter 6 looks awesome and plays great (this week). I’m just leaving it at beauty being in the eyes of the beholder, mine seems to look fine, so I’m not losing any sleep over it. I have absolutely no idea what I am doing in this game. Never have. But I love the eye candy, & it’s tons of fun (though I might not play on the DK levels anymore 😭 )
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered – I already had a copy of this on PC via the Epic Game Store. I guess I had a copy on console too, & now I have the PS5 Pro and have returned to console gaming. Game plays great, looks great, feels much more fluid. I’m actually better at combat, although that could be b/c I’ve played it twice to near completion and not b/c the graphics are smoother, frame-timing is better, and a given overall more fluid look and feel, or that I was playing on the DualSense Edge. I’ll just count it as a win for right now
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Rolled credits. Thoroughly satisfying. Playing this back-to-back with TLOU2, I am seeing how much Naughty Dog are in their bag with the seamless transitions in-and-out of gameplay, to cinematic, back to gameplay. It’s a really wonderful implementation that earmarks any given title as a Naughty Dog game. While not leaving me with the same post-completion feelings as Clair Obscure: Expedition 33, it def gave me a space to replay the story I’d experienced in my head. My feelings about the characters. It was good stuff. And a good bit of lingering impactfulness to go along with it, which is never a bad thing in the aftermath of a game.
Tech – I’ve been noodling on getting into some retro-tech projects and spent the morning looking for old PDAs and MiniDisc player-recorders on eBay. I’ve bookmarked an HP Jornada and a Sony Walkman Net MiniDisc player/recorder for the time being. I have my reasons with both as to why not pull the trigger now. I had a Palmtop before in a retro phase maybe 18 years ago and got rid of it b/c I could not come up with use-cases for it when I could not ship anything off the device. And I have so much to learn on Minidisc. I have time to give it some more thought and plan how I am going to connect it a PC and transfer music. Amongst other things.
Rounding Off Infinity 