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A screenshot of my character in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. She's a Qunari, meaning she's tall, broad-shouldered and quite muscular, and has two massive horns that protrude from the sides of her head just above the temples. They curl back and under so they're pointing forwards, sort of like a goat. She has golden rings around them at various points, and has a neck tattoo that looks like a choker, along with another set of square geometric tattoos on her cheeks. Her skin is a dark blue/grey sort of colour, and she has a swath of hair that comes down from in between her horns and over the right side of her face. You can't tell from the angle in the screenshot but that same side of her head has long hair on it behind the horns, and the other side is shaved. In short, she will fuck you up if you look at her funny.

My favourite character in Dragon Age: Inquisition was my Qunari Mage, so I've gone for the same this time around in Veilguard! I love how she just _radiates_ "I do not take any shit from anyone" energy. (Also, yay fully-controllable photo mode in this game too! Seriously, all games should have that IMO.)

Posted on 4 November 2024, 22:05

A screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox, it's very wide-angle view of a huge wall of futuristic buildings with neon lights on them, many of them with Japanese writing on them. It's late afternoon so everything is a bit more orange than usual, and you can just see the shadows from the buildings behind starting to encroach on the ones in the screenshot.

Another screenshot, this one is far smaller in scope, it's night time and you're looking down an alley in between two brick buildings, with pipes running along them, grafitti on the walls, and steam coming up from the ground. There are some puddles on the ground reflecting the light.

Another screenshot, back to the wide angle view looking up but this one is closer to night time and it's inside the city with neon-lit buildings towering all around. There's some steam coming up from a couple of places here too.

Cyberpunk 2077 update: still absolutely enjoying the hell out of the atmosphere in this game. And no spoilers so this is a bit vague, but you go to the funeral of a character and man, I was not expecting to get hit right in the feels by a video game.

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Posted on 13 October 2024, 21:02

A screenshot taken in Cyberpunk 2077 on the Xbox. It's a city street at night at ground level, looking across a pedestrian crossing towards a bunch of tall buildings rising up in the background, high contrast and lots of neon signs everywhere, and it's pretty much what you think of when you hear the term "cyberpunk".

Another screenshot, similar aesthetic as the first with some tall buildings in the background, but this feels decidedly dingier and much lower-rent. It's looking down into a set of shops below street level, with a big blue neon "HOTEL" sign in the middle and a bunch of cables crisscrossing the space above it, and there are some red Chinese-style lanterns hanging from the eaves of a building at the right.

Man, they've certainly done a fantastic job with the art direction for Cyberpunk 2077! Absolutely top-notch cyberpunk aesthetic right here. I'm very early-on in the game so I imagine it gets even better.

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Posted on 2 October 2024, 21:28

A screenshot of my Cyberpunk 2077 character. She's a Black woman with purple hair pulled up behind her head and the sides shaved, a bunch of piercings, and she's standing there with her arms crossed and a slight smirk on her face. In the background is an empty street curving away to the left.

Having forgotten about Cyberpunk 2077, and also having forgotten how to play it, I decided to start a new character and maybe actually play more than a couple of hours this time. Unfortunately the lack of being able to use a Southpaw control scheme means I'm absolutely ATROCIOUS at aiming at anything, so I'm playing on easy difficulty and will be primarily leaning on not actually shooting at stuff for this playthrough, hopefully it's not too frustrating — I have an extremely low tolerance for frustration at video games these days. (I can swap the control sticks around at the Xbox controller level, but that fucks things up in a bunch of other ways like navigating through menus, so I'm going to just have to see how it goes. For the love of $DEITY, game devs, JUST LET ME REMAP CONTROLS!)

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Posted on 30 September 2024, 21:54

A screenshot from Dark Forces with the updated graphics, looking at a fairly stereotypical Imperial-looking room and control panel with lots knobs and blinkenlights. It's obviously not a current-gen game but the textures are crisp and sharp.

The exact same shot as before, but using the original software rendering. It's 4:3 ratio instead of 16:9, and the graphics are GLORIOUSLY pixellated.

Oh my god they remastered the original Dark Forces, AND it's available on Xbox! I remember we got the demo of it on a disc full of demos that came with our Power Mac 6200/75 in 1995 (I was 12 at the time), I played the HELL out of that first level and I absolutely begged my parents to buy the full game for me for Christmas. I can still vividly remember sitting in my pyjamas at the computer first thing on Christmas morning after we'd opened our presents, full of excitement when I started the second level. Even now the music brings me back to that. They've done an absolute bang-up job with the remaster, the controls are fully customisable (which is amazing for me because I can't play FPSes without the Southpaw control scheme, but then I need to remap other buttons to compensate and it's a whole thing), and my favourite part is they've done the same thing as Bungie did with the Halo 1 remaster: you can toggle between the new updated graphics and the original rendering!

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Posted on 6 July 2024, 20:48

A screenshot of my Dwarf Barbarian. She has the standard broad shoulders and stockiness that fantasy dwarves typically have, with dark brown skin, brown eyes, and a solid black line of tattoo over her lower lip and down her chin. Her hair is grey/white dreadlocks that are pulled back into a ponytail. Strapped to her back is a two-handed axe that's almost as tall as she is.

I'm still playing my Warlock, but I decided I wanted to start a new character and really just get up close and hit things, so I've made a Dwarf Barbarian. 😁 I cranked the "Maturity" slider up to about half way, so she's a grizzled veteran who has Seen Things.

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Posted on 20 January 2024, 17:07

A screenshot of my character in Baldur's Gate 3. She has dark brown skin, black eyes with purple irises, and tribal-looking dark purple neck tattoo that extends up to right underneath her bottom lip. Her lips are black, and her hairstyle is rich purple dreadlocks but with the sides of her head shaved.

As tradition demands, I spent way too much time in Baldur's Gate 3's character creator. 😁 I'm going a High Elf warlock, the Archfey subclass.

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Posted on 10 December 2023, 17:28

Man, tonight I had some Mad Max-esque weather to deal with while hooning around Forza Horizon 5's Sierra Nueva rally expansion!

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Posted on 8 October 2023, 21:15

A screenshot taken from person-level at the entrance of Akila City, during the night. It's got a very wild west sort of feel to it, the ground is dirt and the buildings are cobbled together out of a combination of wood and futuristic-looking metal. It's not very well lit and the lights are quite yellow-coloured. In the centre of the frame is an imposing-looking multi-storey mostly built out of stone, with more yellow lights lighting it up from below.

A wide-angle screenshot taken from above the other end of Akila City at sunrise right before the sun is visible above the horizon. There's a solid wall running around a set of closely-packed metal buildings that look a bit more futuristic than in the previous screenshot, but they're still decidedly not pristine and clean. There's some wispy clouds in the sky and mountains in the distance, and a very yellow glow from where the sun is about to rise.

Another wide-angle screenshot of the main bar in Akila City. It's all rough wooden tables and stone walls, with a set of wooden stairs at the right going up to a second level. A handful of patrons are sitting around, the bartender is behind the bar, and suspending from the ceiling is the skeleton of an ashta, a huge predator native to the planet.

Almost 24 hours into Starfield so far and I'm still enjoying the hell out of it. I know I keep harping on about it, but the amount of detail and care in the environments is so good, it feels like a fully-realised world that you want to spend a bunch of time in. Most of my recent time has been spent in Akila City doing various side-quests and helping out the Freestar Rangers.

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Posted on 30 September 2023, 18:49

A screenshot from Starfield of the sunrise over, uh, one of the districts (I forget which one it was) on Jemison in the Alpha Centauri system. It's taken looking over an open public plaza with trees and people walking around, and there's tall, sleek, futuristic buildings as well.

Another screenshot, this one is also Jemison but it's inside The Well which is an underground almost slum. Everything made of metal and it's all brown and industrial-looking, with lots of exposed pipes, girders, and mesh everywhere.

Another screenshot, this one is inside the main control room of the space station "The Eye" that's orbiting Jemison. The room is round and stark white, with rows of "NASA punk"-looking consoles with displays and buttons on them. The roof is clear glass looking out into space where you can see the stars.

Man, I'm enjoying Starfield so much. Tonight was spent mostly wandering around The Well on Alpha Centauri helping figure out what was causing brownouts, and chatting to Denis and Dr. Charlie in Cydonia on Mars (wonderful lines and voice acting for both of them), I didn't even do much of main quest things but I thoroughly enjoyed myself nonetheless. The amount of detail Bethesda put into this game is wonderful, as an example there's a café/not-quite food bank place in The Well, and if you go through the back there's the kitchen with all the things you'd expect to see in there, then upstairs is the living quarters where there's all sorts of stuff scattered around like someone actually LIVES there, there's even a bathroom and everything. The whole thing just feels _lived in_ and it's so good.

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Posted on 11 September 2023, 23:29