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Continuing Arx Fatalis (2002, PC) today at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

This session we investigate the death of Falan Orbiplanax. #streaming

SNES Shadowrun randomizer today at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Maybe I can complete another one of these in one session? Hard to say. I'm excited to see any new changes to the randomizer since I last played. #streaming

I'm starting a game of Arx Fatalis (2002, PC) this morning over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

I've never played Arx Fatalis before & have been looking forward to it. I'm told it has very good goblins. #streaming

Finished Valkyrie Profile today. I had a real hard time learning the game (especially the battle system) but once I did I enjoyed it a lot.

Appreciated the unique (and very sad) story, the beautiful background art and character design and sprite animations, the great music (though some of it does wear on me after a few hours), and the rewarding battle system built on button combos (almost like a fighting game).

There were a couple things I disliked about the game. Things I wish I knew beforehand. First is that it's on a time limit. It's possible to mess up your pace by re-entering dungeons to grind XP. Second is that there are some impossibly well-hidden items in the game. Things that you'd need a hundred hours or a knowledgeable friend or a FAQ to find. I know that isn't unusual in RPGs but for some reason I wasn't expecting it this time. (I started checking a guide when stuck at around 10 hours in).

Anyway. Valkyrie Profile was fun & I'm glad I played it. I think I'd enjoy a second playthrough more and so someday I may do that.

I'm picking up Valkyrie Profile (2000, PSX) again today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Doing the end of chapter 7 and then chapter 8. Very near the end of the game.

Today I figured out how to compile the Quake 3 gamecode and add debug prints to it. (Turns out it's easy, the gamecode is part of the ioquake3 distribution & the console print function is Com_Printf).

Now I can investigate the specific values being passed around in the player movement functions. (First thing I did was look at what PM_CmdScale is doing).

Had a good run through VtMB this year. My gangrel OLL (unfortunately named by way of keyboard mashing) managed to defeat both Ming Xiao and LaCroix's sheriff without too much trouble. (Having a flamethrower and fortitude 5 helps a lot). Bloodlines is a lot of fun to stream.

I was taking pictures of fish (in the game) and thought to take one of OLL before I put the game away until next Halloween. (A silly thing to do, the picture, as VtMB doesn't have visual character customization, but I felt like doing it anyway.)

#streaming Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines tonight at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Part 4: the Society of Leopold and (hopefully) the end. Will try to finish the game this session.

#streaming Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines in a few minutes at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Today we meet Gary Golden and start the Chinatown hub.

#streaming Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (2004, PC) again tonight at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. Just now starting the downtown hub area.

(This is around where the game starts to get gory / nasty so if you're sensitive to that or to early 2000s edginess then maybe skip this one).

I think my Halloween viewing this year will be Ring, Spiral, Ring 2, and Ring Zero. They're all on Tubi right now (at least for me in the US) and I haven't seen past the first film.

I've heard good things about Ring 2.

I'm starting my yearly playthrough of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (2004, PC) tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Playing the unofficial patch (ver 11.5) in Wine (whatever version of Wine Debian ships).

Back to Clive Barker's Undying (PC, 2001) tonight at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

I think I'm around the halfway mark of this game (just defeated Ambrose Covenant at the end of last stream).

Continuing Valkyrie Profile (2000, PSX) tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

The goal this session is to finish chapter 6 and chapter 7.

Continuing Clive Barker's Undying (PC, 2001) tonight at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Back! Not sure how long I'll play tonight, a few hours at least. I'm still on the Lizbeth quest so near the beginning of the game I think.