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 On 12/16/2016 at 02:43 PM by FAF101 See More From This User » |
December has been a very busy month for me not only with the holidays but actually trying to keep a set streaming schedule (which has been hard with having a sinus infection for a few weeks and feeling extremely crummy along with living with a busy family that is very go-go-go). Thankfully I went to the doctor this past Monday and finally got meds. I am feeling so much better my ears and head don't hurt anymore!.
I decided that starting in January I am probably only going to stream Friday, Saturday and Sunday as my main days. If I have time during the week then I will stream then too but I feel I am overwhelming myself with a bunch of things I am trying to work on while living with my boyfriend’s family and it’s just stressing me out.
I probably will not be streaming the rest of December, I may try to fit some in next week but wuth how things have been going for me lately this month I think it might just be better to take a break from it till next year.
Personal Battles:
My biggest battle right now is losing weight which I honestly need to dedicate the little down time I have during the weekdays to work out and then relax vs workout and stream. It’s hard to cram that all in sometimes because I just get so tired especially with working a normal day job. I usually don’t get home till about 5pm (I work 7:30am - 3:45pm) and it's usually dinner time by then and so on.
I honestly miss having my own schedule and feeling like I have independence, it's for some reason extremely hard for me just to do my own thing here. There are moments I feel I can but then at the same time it gets taken away again just like that.
Gaming:
So far I have been mainly playing Morrowind, FFXV, and Tales of Zestiria. I really like Tales of Zestiria, the story and pretty decent in my opinion and everything else about it is pretty solid. My only complaint is I am not really sure how I feel about the equipment skills that you get, and it could just be me but I get what they are trying to accomplish with it. At the same time though I just don’t really like it at all. I don't pay much attention to it, only sometimes.
FFXV I am really enjoying. I am about 30 hours into it, on chapter 9 and I have done a lot of side questing thus far. The game does have it's challenges sometimes the battle system does get to me, I still have to try using wait mode though as I have not done so yet. I like the side quests even though they do feel a little repetitive. To me it's still fun, it allows my inner questing ocd to be unleashed and just have at it haha. I am a completionist, every quest must get done!
Morrowind I am honestly not that far in haha, I am about half way done with House of Hlaalu quests...okay maybe not even half way done with them. But the main quest has only just gotten started. I still have yet to meet the guy in Balmora I am supposed to talk to in order to join the Blades. Although I have finally learned how the combat works after years of wondering why I never hit anything...and how to actually play the game. Playing that game as a 13 year old was very challenging. I just used god mode and slayed the guards in Balmora haha.
Anime:
I have been in a bit of an anime kick lately and trying to finish up a lot of the shows I am watching. Which there's a lot: https://myanimelist.net/animelist/FAF101
Recently I finished watching Zankyou no Terror (Terror in Resonance) and Orange. Both tugged at my feelings a little, Orange was one that really did.
Orange is about a girl who receives a letter from herself 10 years from the future and she is asked to save the life of a boy she meets whose life could have been saved and she regrets not being able to do so.
Terror in Resonance is about a girl who one day met these two boys and was in the wrong place at the wrong time and her life then becomes intermingled with them as they try to make the city crumble around them.
Yuri on Ice will be wrapping up next week and i LOVE this anime. Mainly because I am a huge sucker for figure skating and the semi hinted at boy love is not that bad either.
And finally I picked up Inuyasha again to finally finish that one yup.
Holidays:
for the holidays I am planning to spend Christmas even and morning with my boyfriend and his family. Then my boyfriend and I are going to travel to NJ to visit my mom and brother till the 29th. I am excited since I haven't seen them both in awhile.
Anyone else have any fun holiday plans?
I hop everyone has a wonderful Holiday season!
I sunk 80 hours into FFXV. Got all the achievements, still want to play more...
And oh man, you will be playing Morrowind a long time if you work on all those side-quests. My save file got corrupted and I think that was a blessing in disguise.
I watched Terror in Resonance and Orange as they aired. I liked them both but had problems with their endings.
Yeah I wasn't thrilled with the endings for those animes either.
I finally beat FFXV at 44 hours but I am now going through again doing all side quests and such to get all the trophies..
Yeah I am assuming I'll sink a few hundred hours into the game trying to complete everything in Morrowind haha
I hear ya about the weight. I'm finding it hard to consistently do the gym with work, but I get it in here and there and it's helped, just not seeing significant weight loss yet, just strength and energy so far. I got to fix my diet too. That may be even more important. Then there's career plans. It all gets pretty overwelming to me sometimes and then I just go out and buy some toys-to-life stuff or music or games. I'll get back to it soon though.
I took off the week just after Xmas. I don't know what I'm doing with that time yet, but I need time off, and I'm going to take it.
Spending Christmas with Jason's family. We invited my mom, but she'll probably cancel last minute like she did for Thanksgiving.
Luckily for me, I have Beau to keep me honest in the exercise department. That, and the three snowshoe races I'm signed up for. I was doing really good with the running until the snow hit last Monday. It's a lot harder running on snowshoes, by the way, as if you couldn't figure that out on your own.
I liked Morrowind, but something else that was shiny and wonderful came out while I was playing it and I left my character out in the middle of the wilderness, never to be heard from again. I was lucky and found an introductory walkthrough that taught you the basics and then recommended that you throw out the character you'd just made and start over from scratch with whatever type you actually wanted to play as and start over. Worked out really well for me.
As for Tales of Zestiria, I pretty much completely ignored the whole weapon synthesis and skills crap and did just fine. The combat and a few other things in that game were overly complicated, in my opinion.
Well I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas still and hopefully she doesn't cancel.
That's awesome! I figured I needed to do more of a schedule for myself and I set the date for January 2nd to start. I got a stream schedule down and a work out schedule set in place for January so I figured it's time to start taking back my life.
Mines in the wilderness right now too...at some camp haha. I will say when you go from playing skyrim to morrowind you are like wow....where the heck do they want me to go for this quest?!
Yeah I don't really like how you have to have another human to have the seraphim help you out...it's annoying. And I pretty much ignore it as well and pick what I want. Some of the battle aspects I do like, but some I really don't. I think I am pretty much nearing the end for that as well but I am sad because it wiped out my side quests I wanted to do...and is now forcing me to do the main story which I thought was evil.
Its tough finding time to get in a workout, but even finding an hour to go walking makes a difference. If you do it on a treadmill you can watch some TV (this is my go to during the summer when its too hot to walk outside)
As for fun Holiday stuff, we're doing the usual family get together here and we are hitting the local outlet the day after Christmas. I'd like to find some new sneakers (I don't need any more shoes) I also bought 3 months of PS+ so my brother can play some Battlefront and I can get my fill of the game before losing interest
I was actually going to start doing that on the 2nd and just walk for awhile and start playing Dance Central again just to get into it. And I scheduled it into a calendar for myself!
Nice! Sounds like it'll be a fun Christmas =D
Is FFXV a real-time battle system? I want to play it, but Conan's Clueless Gamer made it seem like it would take a while to get anywhere.
For the holidays, I'm spending them at my parents' in Dallas until the 2nd or so and then going back to Nacogdoches for more professoring. 3 hour drive and pretty much what I usually do for Christmas these days, so no big deal.
Happy Holidays!
To initially get to some places it takes about 5 minutes to drive in the game but once you get to certain spots you can fast travel for 10G. which isn't horrible at all.
There's two types of battle systems one where it's real time and wait, I havent' tried wait yet and have only used the realtime.
Sounds like you had a fun holiday!
I got FF15 a while ago, and it is pretty fun. I don't normally enjoy open worlds because I find them boring, but FF15 is doing something for me and I'm not sure why? I haven't progressed at all in the story, and I've spend a dozen hours just doing sidequests, hunts and dungeon diving. It's just really fun! I honestly don't even really need a story. FF open world clicked for me this time. Interesting?
The story for me once you hit a certain point goes by fast and you feel a lot of stuff is missing but I get that's because contract deadline and they had to take stuff out and rewrote the game so many times just to get it out in 2016.
I am planning on playing through again on new game + but trying to finish all the hunts, sidequests and dungeon exploring first before doing that but currently hooked on DQ builders.
I read that THIS game has actually been in development for like 3 years, which is why there is only an "outline" of a story, and that makes sense to me. I mainly enjoy the hunts because they feel like Monster Hunter, which is a series I really love. I ended up doing like 60 hours before progressing the story at all, and I did enjoy my time with it. Haven't finished it yet. I also read that SE is planning a major patch with added story content to fill in gaps or whatever. Unprecedented for a games company.
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