yeah, so about Friday posts ...

Friday posts are just gonna be kinda late. While Friday is usually pretty chill for me, it is also pretty busy, because the dev team at work has a big idea-sharing meeting all morning, and then we all go for a long lunch, and then I wrap up my work for the week, and then I watch a bunch of dev streams, and then I exercise, and then I go to dinner, and then I stream. You see what I'm sayin'? I think maybe I'll toss up a few really small posts each Friday. We'll see.

Obsidian posted some awesome shit last night and today:




As I've said before, I'm super-stoked about Pillars 2. I was absolutely nuts about the first one, and delivered so much of what I want out of a game.

Yesterday, I streamed some of the latest build of Divinity: Original Sin 2, and my god, it's a great experience. I'm purposely not playing it much, like Torment: Tides of Numenera, so that I can be as surprised and fresh as possible when it finally releases. It's hard, man. Both early access builds are GREAT, and I want those games so badly, but ... gonna hold off, especially since I have so much great stuff to play.

I'm pretty nuts about Elder Scrolls at the moment, so we're just continue with that for now. I'm loving Morrowind, and really looking forward to just throwing myself into it some more. I'm also having a blast in ESO, in which I finally hit level 50, and I may try to finish the core campaign this weekend. We'll see.

I'm also going to continue my Road to Andromeda series this weekend. As you may already know, I've been replaying the original Mass Effect trilogy since September, and we're cruising through Mass Effect 3 now. It's so much fun to share my passion for this series with you all, and I hope you tune into my Twitch channel at 2000 (central time) tonight. I love talking Mass Effect with anyone, and the streams are so much more fun when there's lotsa chatter.

Anywho, I'm off to dinner, so I'll see you cats tonight!

-Blaine

Whoah! Cool stuff hit the internet today!

First, the incredibly vague Squenix - Avengers thing.



I'm intrigued by what this could be, if it ever comes out, since Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics are working on it, but there's absolutely no details now, so let's move on.

Second, this hit around 11AM today, and paired with all the gameplay and details we've seen already for Mass Effect Andromeda, I'm super-hyped about this.



This game looks great, and it's gonna be a cluster-fuck when MEA, Torment, and Horizon: Zero Dawn are all fighting for my free time.

Third, and this was the pinnacle of my day, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire hit Fig today, and I am over the fucking moon. I threw down money on it, and I cannot wait to see more as the year goes on. Check out the Fig pitch video below.



I adored Pillars of Eternity, and cannot wait to do a full streamed playthrough of it for my second playthrough. If you've not played it, if you love games driven by story and character, give it a try. It's among the best I've ever played.

Also, I'm finally adopting a regular streaming schedule. I'll get more into it in another post, but today, I'll be streaming on my twitch channel from 1630-1800 and 2000-2130 (central). My first stream will be a bit of a chat and variety stream. I'm thinking about showing ya'll some Torment: Tides of Numenera, because it's fucking awesome.

See ya'll in a couple hours.

-Blaine