Hello and welcome to the adventurer who happens to wander upon The Drunken Sheep.
This is a newly established blog and guide dedicated to some of the finest recipes found within any and all kingdoms. Most of the meals you may find here are inspired by lore of some sort, whether it be from a video game or cultural tradition. Either way, a night at The Drunken Sheep will ensure you the ultimate fantasy food experience. :)
I have been looooving playing New Pokémon Snap on stream! It’s such a fun, pure experience where you can just lose yourself and feel like a kid again. Here are some of my best shots so far! . . . . .
Playing some Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull today! Come and join! We also play Nancy Drew game bingo while we solve the mystery! Twitch.tv/nicklesthename . . . . .
Last time i posted on here it was about SAI, when it was finished for my university hand in. It’s grown a lot since then, we gained funding through Tranzfuser and have been working endlessly to make it what it is today. It’s become something I am so proud to have been a part of.
Fight as a druid, stop the machines. Protect the land. Save the forest. 80% of all protifs going to conservation charities!
Sure, it’s been out for quite a while, but it’s getting a PS4/Xbox One overhaul, so it’s timely that I review it now (also I just played it, so it just makes sense!).
Metro Last Light is the sequel to the under performing but popular Metro 2033, based on the book series by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Unfortunately I’ve not played the first game, and that may have hampered my experience a little.
Last Light follows the character Artyom, played by you, as he attempts to traverse the post apocalyptic underground world of Moscow to find the last Dark One alive, an alien breed all but wiped out at the end of the first game. Some want to make peace with the creature, but many more want it dead, and it’s this hunt that drives the plot. Unfortunately, I personally found the story rather hard to follow. This could have been as much as result of me missing the first game as the story here, but I found it complicated and not that engaging. What drove me was how great the game looks and plays.
Graphically,Last Light is beautiful for most of the time, particularly the environments, and I was struck by just how much variety there was considering the game takes place mostly in dark underground tunnels. There’s a huge amount of detail on show, the lighting is brilliant and it makes it a (scary, creepy) joy to explore. This is also helped by very strong sound design. The heavy breathing of Artyom when he changes gas masks never stops being unnerving, with the sound of adding a fresh filter never ceasing to be a huge relief.
Gameplay wise, it is a standard FPS frame bolstered by some effective sneaking, allowing you to tamper with lighting to hide and cause multiple death. There are also some on rails shooting sections and a few ‘boss’ creatures to keep things varied. It’s fun, often tense, and sometimes quite scary, and the locales and gameplay will drive you through to the (quite abrupt) end.
So where does that leave Last Light? In my opinion, it’s definitely worth a play. If you like horror, action, sneaking and great environments to stalk through, all in the FPS viewpoint, you’ll like it. If you can follow the story, you’ll probably love it.
Bread’s Game Journal 05/15/22: I Figured Out The Problem With Cyberpunk 2077, There’s No Geralt.
So, I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077 again, this time making a lot more progress than the last time I tried to get into it. For the most part I’ve been enjoying myself quite a bit! Far from the disaster the game was when it launched, now it’s a really solid open world action adventure game, with some excellent details around the edges of it’s crazy future city. One thing’s been bothering me though, and I just tonight really came to grips with what it is: Geralt isn’t in this game.
I don’t mean that as some kind of gag statement, or ironic diss, either. Witcher 3, I would argue, shared a lot of the same flaws and jank as Cyberpunk 2077, so I wondered for awhile why it got by so much easier. Having played for about ten hours now, I really do feel like the answer was just Geralt the entire time. Cyberpunk is a deeply cynical game, in a lot of ways, and even though Geralt was an often cynical character, his presence went a long way to lightening up the similarly dour Witcher 3.
Ithink the writers of Cyberpunk thought they had a Geralt, in the form of Keanu Reeve’s Johnny Silverhand, but I’d argue against that as well. Johnny is one of the most powerfully nihilistic characters I’ve ever seen in a video game, and importantly, I don’t think Keanu ever really got a handle on that all that well. I think his cynical attitude and harsh view of everything and everyone was supposed to be made endearing through the Keanu Reeves performance, but it never really shines through.
Meanwhile, Doug Cockles performance as Geralt went a very long way in making him as endearing as he was. Geralt was a cynical old man, sure, but he wasn’t just doing it because he hated everyone. Geralt was ultimately just someone’s exasperated dad, being forced day in and day out to deal with a veritable murderers row of people he didn’t much care for, and it never stopped being charming. Largely because no matter how much bunk he had to put up with, Geralt just pushed through it anyway and made the best of whatever bad situation. Johnny just complains, and to be fair, all Johnny cando is complain, due to the nature of the way he exists at all within the story.
To be clear, I’m enjoying the game. I’m also enjoying hearing Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand whenever he shows up to voice his opinion (which is a lot!). There was just something bothering me about the game since the start, and here I finally figured it out. Well at least I wrote about it a bit, I think, maybe I haven’t figured out anything. What do you think Johnny?
Bread’s Game Journal 04/30/22: Zero Build Reveals The Awful Truth, I’m Bad At Fortnite.
Well, either that, or the fact that I primarily play the game while on an exercise bike as a way to keep my mind half focused on something that isn’t pain. Probably that first thing, though. It’s been almost two years now since I’ve actively gotten into Fortnite, which seems like an insane thing to say. When I first stared “seriously” playing, it was largely just because my best friend was newly obsessed with the game because of the Marvel season, but then I bought that Battle Pass and now I’ve never recovered.
Zero Build is easily the largest change to the game since I started playing. What started out as a plot twist that de-activated the ability to build any structures is now a permanent option. It’s largely the same game, with a couple new movement features and a lack the aforementioned structure building. Even so, it’s a big change in the way the game flows. You don’t have to worry about people building some kind of insane structure you’ll never break through, but you also don’t have the ability to create your own cover anymore either!
Instead the game now has this very basic, down to brass tacks style battle royale charm that it always felt like it had just under the building surface. It’s a far more approachable experience, without the endless complications that came from every player other than you being some kind of super fast nightmare person throwing up a castle in under 2 seconds. Now I’m free to do what I do best in multiplayer games, not pay attention to sounds and get sniped in one shot because I was paying more attention to a podcast than I was to the game.
Unless you’re reading this, Raven, in which case I’m still better at the game than you, and I have more Peely’s.
