Got a Stone Age Gamer Mega EverDrive X3 (Jungle? Electricity?) Deluxe Edition for $60, and I have now played Doom CD32X Fusion on actual hardware, and I cannot elucidate the feelings that I'm feeling for 30-years-ago me. Also got me excited for Phantom Gear, if they ever finish it.
Ploughed through Halo 5, and it's fine; not as bad as I'd heard, but nothing incredible... Unless you consider how incomprehensible the opening of Halo 5 is you haven't played Spartan Ops, but then you also try to figure-out why the rest of the game seems to abandon so much of what was set-up in Spartan Ops; that's incredible. So many major plot-points feel so unceremonious here.
Honestly, I had to go back and refresh my memory on the previous games because:
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Iconic visual design, epic story with engrossing lore, excited for more
- Halo 2
- Basically DOOM 2 - more of the same, but with more Earth
- Halo 3
- I remembered nothing except for "Floodgate" and the ending
- Halo 3: ODST
- Loved it when it was first released, probably because of the cast; couldn't tell you what happened
- Halo: Reach
- Origins! Really only remembered that final bit
- Halo 4
- Older origins! I remembered there was a lot of talking...
- Didn't play Spartan Ops until this year, and it was really disappointing to see so much crucial plot relegated to what is effectively multiplayer DLC
Finally bought Halo: Infinite, and the opening was kinda great albeit somewhat confusing. Let's see how it shapes-up.
Anyway, I forgot just how annoying Windows 10's HDR implementation is, and so Windows 11 23H2 seems like the way forward... Just need to make sure I can reliably block the 24H2 upgrade; it hasn't been great on my Surface Book, either. Proton has me thinking my next main desktop is just gonna run Arch; only holding-off on my current hardware because of the WMR headset.
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