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Streaming some Breath of the Wild! I just got my joycons working with my WiiU emulator so I can use motion controls now; I'm really excited about that.

Final (probably) haul from the Steam Winter Sale: Portal, Fallout New Vegas (bundle with all DLC), Hades, Powerwash Simulator (downloaded all free DLC). What an assortment. No wonder Steam is struggling to figure out my taste in games.

(I also have about $18 of gift card value left sitting on my Steam account to be used next time there's a game I want on sale. Hades and Powerwash Simulator both have newish sequels that are still over $20, so I might pick up one of those sequels eventually. Or something completely different!)

I hope everybody is having a satisfactory winter holiday season. If I do not pass out from the sleep deprivation (unfortunately not from fun things, one of my housemates is being troublesomely loud at stupid hours), I plan to probably stream my first try at Hades around 2pm or 3pm Eastern US time today.

* Could not get Assassin's Creed 2 to work, as the Ubisoft launcher demanded a CD key that Steam did not have in evidence. Also it does not seem to support controller and I did not feel like trying to parkour on keyboard and mouse. Refunded.

* Enjoyed my first hour or so of Fallout New Vegas vastly more than Skyrim; it's built on the same engine, but the lighting is significantly better, the movement feels less clunky, the combat has a semi-paused option, and frankly I'm a lot more comfortable in a postapocalyptic Southwestern version of the 1950s than in yet another Tolkien knockoff. Also I *may* have figured out how to view my map and inventory? Unsure. I accidentally bought the version that doesn't include $20 worth of DLC for $2.50, and there doesn't seem to be an upgrade option, so I have requested an exchange on that, but I expect to keep it around and fiddle with it off and on.

* Then I tried out the demo for Powerwash Simulator. I've been hesitant to drop $12.50 on sale for a single game (I mean, I can afford it because I've refunded so many games I still have most of that gift card; I think the only game I've actually kept so far was Portal and that was $2), but I just spent most of two hours in the first level and a quarter, so it seems very good value for the money. It's soothing, unhurried, and you can't take fall damage when you accidentally walk off a roof, plus there's even a bunch of free DLC.

extremely brief video game reviews:

* skyrim is impressively dogshit. maybe it was good in 2011? idk man i had never played a video game in my life as of 2011. i played an hour of skyrim and did not enjoy any aspect of it. refunded.

* slime rancher is a game with an extremely cute artstyle, i played a bit of the demo. i do not enjoy the sorts of games where you have to manage resources in order to keep your animals happy and producing more resources. if you do enjoy that sort of game, check out the slime rancher demo on steam.

* i did about fifteen minutes of trying to parry in elden ring, could not get it, and decided i will refund that game also and pick it up again in a few years when it's cheaper and i have considerably more controller muscle memory.

* then i booted up boyfriend dungeon and spent like four hours there. that is such a moreish game. you date were-weapons, do little multiple-choice conversations with them as per standard dating sim convention, take their weapon forms into a roguelite dungeon crawler to level up your relationship, go on more dates and repeat. i did Not expect to enjoy something where the combat genre name involves the words "realtime bullet hell" but i'm actively loving it and apparently fairly good at it? like i am actively planning to buy another game in the same combat genre (hades, currently $7.50 on sale) as soon as the skyrim refund clears.

next plans: probably won't be streaming again till after christmas, probably pick up jedi fallen order again at that time. i'm still having a shitton of fun hanging out with friends in stream chat and will be delighted if any of y'all happen to show up as well (that's why i keep posting the links)

As people have probably noticed, I have been playing a bunch of video games since the Steam Winter Sale started, trying to figure out which ones I'm enjoying. (A friend gave me a gift card, which is allowing me to try out considerably more different games than I could wisely afford on my own.) Of course, I have trouble telling whether I'm enjoying things even when I'm actually doing them, so I am attempting to lay out some thoughts.

( on games I have recently streamed )

And then, especially since I am attempting to figure out whether to refund Elden Ring and have some $40 available to spend on other Steam games, I am also wishing to lay out my thoughts on some games I haven't yet streamed and in some cases haven't yet bought:

( under here )

That's not nearly all the games on my Steam wishlist, but it's nearly half past three in the morning and it's the ones I mainly wanted to think out my thinky thoughts about. Hopefully I haven't hit some kind of character limit.