Terminus

Finally finished one of the endings in Fallout 4, first playthrough clocked in at 63 hours - just under 5 times the length of my New Vegas playthrough, and unlike NV, I'll be coming back for the rest of the endings and all the DLC. Definitely a really good game.

Just got the Blast Ball demo on 3DS. It's okay, Rocket League with guns and slow movement is probably the best way i can describe it. Not making me any more excited for Federation Force, but with everything I've read up about it I don't think of really like it anyways.

Lucio quicky became one of my favorites once I started getting into Competitive, costant AoE buffs make him the easiest support, he's the only healer who can really Heal/Attack at the same time, and hid kickback blast is really useful on maps where you can knock people off. I still like to play Mei whenever I can, though, nothing is quite as fun as freezing people and then shooting them in the face. Anyways, in addition to Overwatch, I've been playing a lot of Final Fantasy XIV and League of Legends recently, slowly been going through the grind to reach max level with every class in FFXIV which is a nice change of pace from just doing endgame content, and I got my first character to mastery rank 6 (Sona) in LoL yesterday.

I was interested in Berserk until I saw trailers for it. Full CG anime isn't at a place where I'd watch more than a minute of it yet. Anyways, started a few shows this season, Sweetness & Lighting, Prisma Illya Season 4, and Hybrid Heart Academy. Sweetness & Lighting looks like it'll be the one calm anime I'll be watching this season, as Prisma Illya actually jumped right into the action this year instead of having a bunch of light-hearted episodes like last year. And then there's Hybrid Heart, which is... Pretty bad, even by bad trashy fanservice anime standards. Might give it another episode, but I'm expecting I'm not gonna keep on watching this one. Also been following Brotherhood Final Fantasy XV, so far it's been doing a good job of introducing the main characters with some stories of their relationships in the past, which is all it really needs to do since it's just a prequel to the game. The series so far gives me some extra hope for FFXV.

I just watched 3 shows this past season, Kiznaiver, Space Patrol Luluco, and Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto. It ended up being one of those rare seasons where everything was pretty good, although that can probably be attributed to the fact that I watched almost nothing. Kiznaiver was probably the weakest thing I watched this season, overall it had a lot of good parts, but it felt like a few more episodes (at least) would have helped the series. I watched Space Patrol Luluco multiple times, although it worked best for me when I watched it with some friends over a party pizza. Definitely the more insane comedic side of Trigger when compared to their more serious Kiznaiver, and the show worked really well as a whole in that single-sitting viewing. And my favorite this season was Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto. If there's one thing I'd normally fault this show for, it's how much of a non-character Sakamoto is (he's literally the personification of perfection and coolness, and nothing outside of that), but he's such a good comedic device that this really works to the show's advantage, especially since it has a rather nicely fleshed-out supporting cast to balance it out. Of course, I'm always a sucker for a good school comedy, so Sakamoto 's got that in its favor as well. This season I'm definitely watching at least 3 series, but probably more once they start airing and I can check out first impressions. Mostly excited for the two Danganronpa series we're getting, although I do wonder if they're going to top Ultra Despair Girls in sheer completely screwed-up-ness, hoping we get some really good psychological horror in there. Also going to watch this year's Prisma Illya (is it safe to call this an annual show yet?), which I've been waiting for since last year. Also, Bleach is apparently ending in a few weeks. It's good, since Bleach should've ended years ago (before the fullbringer arc), yet at the same time, Kubo's been digging himself a massive hole this arc by giving every character their own really important thing to do (mostly battles and stuff) so there are like a million ongoing battles/plots going on at the same time and absolutely no way that they can be wrapped up in half a volume's worth of chapters well. Ah well, maybe it'll get wrapped up in a way similar to Naruto (at least I hope).

Overwatch! It's a really fun game! ... Except when you're doing your ranked placement matches, and every single time half your team leaves, so you lose. I hope I can get some good teams in placement...

So I got Overwatch the other day. I'm liking it a lot more than I was expecting, I was a bit skeptical about the lack of a Campaign/Story mode (since the characters and animated shorts are all pretty cool), but the gameplay itself is so fun I don't really mind that I don't know anything about the characters I'm playing as. Only thing I'm not really a fan of is how a lot of players at lower levels don't always seem to care about the objective (I've been the only one to near the objective on a couple matches), but hopefully I'll get out of that soon.

Been playing Fallout 4, just got high enough level to get the highest armorer perk and unlocked the strongest Ballistic Weave mods, now I'm running around with 300+ Physical/Energy resistance and am ready for anything.

Watched the Xbox conference earlier, they killed it there. And by killed it I mean that they completely killed the Xbox for me, seems like stuff is becoming less Xbox exclusives and more Microsoft exclusives. It's not really bad news (I've really been looking forward to Scalebound, glad I'll be able to play it on PC), but if exclusives are gone there really isnt much reason to get it over PC.

I paid absolutely zero attention to Overwatch before it's release, but since then I've heard and seen a lot about it and I'm pretty interested in it, it's probably something I'll pick up soon. Anyways, E3 is next week, hoping they show off some really good stuff this year (especially for PSVR. I preordered that thing and still have no idea what's coming to it lol).

Since I'm building a gaming PC within a few weeks, I decided to give a FPS a shot just to see how I like KB/M compared to a controller for shooters (it ended up being the first time I've really liked KB/M for games), so I booted up my copy of Battlefield 3 I got for free a few years ago but never played. After figuring out how to get into my Origin account after two years and learning that yes, you launch the game from your browser, I gave it a shot and ran through a bit of the campaign (I was going to try multiplayer but I couldn't figure it out), it was fun enough. Might give some other FPS games a try when I get my new computer all set.

That right there is half of the reason I haven't picked up Fates yet. Other half is that I really don't want to pay ~$100 to get the whole game, especially since (from what I've heard), all 3 storylines start off the same and they branch off at a certain point, and whatever path you didn't get can be played, but as DLC...

Fallout 4 I wasn't expecting much after playing New Vegas and not really liking it, but Fallout 4 sucked me in pretty much instantly with it's great opening sequences. Crafting seems a lot more prevalent in this, so I've found myself doing a lot of that and more exploration for parts. Another thing I like about the game is the voiced protagonist, while I know people are split on it, I feel like it adds a lot of depth and relatability to the character, as opposed to a completely silent non-character protagonist. Overall I've really been enjoying my time with Fallout 4 and am looking forward to the rest of the game.

I stumbled upon the fact that The Witcher 2 is free on Xbox 360 earlier today, so I picked that up. Put in a few hours and I enjoyed what I played, and I'm hoping it stays that way.

So apparently that stuff didn't get cut (yet) in FE: Fates, it was all clickbait to capitalize on the earlier stuff going on with the love potion scene or whatever that was. This whole incident made me look up some gameplay of the facerubbing game, it does seem less tame than what's in the Hatsune Miku: Project Diva games, but not by much, but it's definitely not the worst I've played (that would probably go to Bullet Girls, with Senran Kagura and Monster Monpiece close runmers-up). If there is any actual censorship/content cutting, I hope it turns out as hilarious as the DLC in Awakening where a conveniently-placed curtain looked less like a curtain and more like Chrom's cape.

Nintendo cutting content in a western release of a niche Japanese title? Impossible! In all seriousness though, this seems to be one of the sillier cuts, a similar feature is in the Hatsune Miku: Project Diva games, and I don't really think anyone said... Anything, really about that feature. I've heard that it's because it may have gotten kinda incesty, but I dunno. I kinda wish they didn't cut stuff, but I'll still be getting all three versions.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Just beat the final boss for the first time, it was a good reminder that Mario RPGs have been going downhill for a long time, and that I should be really cautious of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.

For all that Schwarzesmarken is- a gritty mecha series set in East Germany during the Cold War, complete with high East-West tensions, secret police, and executions of people suspected of being traitors, plus an added global crisis of an alien invasion, it's first episode just felt pretty "meh" to me. While I really like the concept, the execution felt really standard, plus the characters were kinda setting off the "this is gonna be another one of those mediocre harem shows" alarm bells in my head. I've still got hope for it, but among everything I've seen this season, Schwarzesmarken is is Right at the bottom. Please tell me! Galko-chan is pretty much an anime version of the conversations that happened at my high school, except replace a bunch of guys in a locker room with girls in a classroom. It's kinda weird, but fun enough for a short. Dagashi Kashi is the last of the new things this season I've started. I only started it because I like the character designs (mainly because a lot of the characters defy standard conventions by having really tiny eyes), so yeah. I actually like it so far, it has some pretty fun comedy, and the first episode introduced all the characters pretty well, so this is definitely one I'll be keeping up with. In terms of returning shows, DRRR!! looks like it'll be focusing on Celty this season, which is pretty good since she's one of the characters I like more. Gate is also looking like another good season, with the JSDF showing off the power of their modern weaponry in secret political negotiations, while the empire is still standing against any prospect of peace, and the big earthquake that's coming isn't going to help anything, either. And Heavy Object is still on its South America arc, which has been the strongest arc so far. Overall, the continuation seasons are off to a good start. I also started reading One Punch Man and My Monster Secret (Actually, I Am...). My Monster Secret was pretty much exactly what I was expecting after having watched the anime last year, and I had fun reading it. OPM, on the other hand, was arguably the most meh thing I've ever read in Jump, the characters are flat, the story is barely there, and at best it just jumps into goofy territory. The art is good, and I like Saitama, but otherwise there's really nothing going for it.

It's been a while since anything's happened here, and the fall season's already over, and it was a pretty even split between the good and bad. The second season of Testament of Sister New Devil had some potential, but it was completely wasted as this season just decided to go all-out on the fanservice and it kinda just dropped the ball on what was once a halfway decent plot. My opinion of Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid was a bit better, if only because I didn't go in expecting much in the way of a good story, and more a fun action/fanservice series, and it delivered on both fronts. I ended up dropping Seraph of the End for the live-action adaptation of Prison School, which I felt was a good decision. This version of Prison School moved a bit faster then the anime, covering all the material in the anime's 12 episodes in just 9, but it didn't really hurt the show that much, and the kinda cheesy over-the-top acting and good cast helped the show stay fun it's entire run. And lastly there was Heavy Object, which was easily my favorite series this season. Qwenthur and Havia make for a pretty fun duo, and their battles against the objects are pretty fun to watch as well, as they have to rely more on their wit and quick thinking rather than just running in with guns blazing. It's got some good characters and story, so I'm pretty excited for what's gonna happen this season. Speaking of this season, it seems like it'll mostly be continuations of stuff for me, mainly with the next parts of DRRR!!, Gate, and of course, Heavy Object, only new thing that's really on my radar is Schwarzesmarken. Anyways, I also recently got the first two seasons of Full Metal Panic on Blu-Ray, so I've been rewatching those, it's still one of my favorite sites after seeing it a bunch of times, and with a new season finally happening after about ten years, it's as good a time as any to rewatch it.

Probably Bloodborne for me- in the 6 months I've had it I've yet to make it very far past the first save point, and I don't even know how far I am from the first boss.

Just finished Uncharted 2: Among Thieves earlier today. Really good game, I'm surprised at how much it managed to improve on the first Uncharted. Now I'm really looking forward to Drake's Deception, which I'll probably start sometime this week.

I'm more just surprised that they managed to keep Bayonetta's... Wardrobe mechanics generally intact in Smash. Less does seem to be coming off than in the Bayonetta games though, so there's that. Also picked up the Cloud DLC, I'm liking how he plays. Limit Break feels a tad OP from the few matches I've played, but otherwise he's a good sword character. Only disappointment is that there's only his Japanese voice, but otherwise he's a nice addition to my main lineup.

Well, the Smash Presentation managed to get me really excited for Smash again. I really wasn't expecting them to top Cloud, but then they passed my expectations and announced Bayonetta, who I've wanted in this from the beginning (initially as "lol Bayonetta would be cool" and then it seemed a bit more possible when Bayonetta 2 was announced as a Nintendo exclusive), although I kinda have up any hope when Smash got an E10 Rating. The other announcements were cool as well (neat that we're getting someone from the upcoming Fire Emblem), but Bayonetta was really the big thing for me.