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Expo Streams Update (March 2024)
2 years ago
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Currently, my weekly streams are Tombs-days, Wednesdays for older titles, and Fridays tackle my backlog.
Tombs-days are of course dedicated to Tomb Raider on Tuesdays and the remasters came out right as I've gone through the mainline + Lara Croft entries. This time, I've been going for every secret in every game and completed the 1st game + its Unfinished Business expansion, heading into TR2 this coming Tuesday. Secrets should be easier for me there since I've played that one the most and there are consistently 3 in every level. TR3 is going to be a problem not just because of its difficulty spike (and having to suffer through Lud's Gate again...), but there's also currently a bug where the bonus All Hallows level doesn't unlock even with all secrets found. Hopefully, the upcoming title update addresses this.
Wednesdays going forward will be a Year of the Dragon special, going through the mainline Spyro series starting with the OG PS1 games. Fitting not just because of my dragon sona, but also because the games have been my main childhood series, and why I went with a dragon OC to begin with.
Maybe it'll rekindle my love for the series after everything that's gone on with Activision and how they were essentially rewarded for widespread workplace abuse with golden parachutes via Microsoft's monopolistic buyout, and the layoffs that followed. Glad Toys for Bob broke free and went indie recently.
Which brings me to my hot take right upfront: I'm perfectly fine with there not being a Spyro 4 because I still refuse to support the publisher and the latest Crash games have been disappointments: Nitro-Fuelled is a live service grindy bait-and-switch of a "remake" (my biggest disappointing game of the 2010s, beating out Saints Row The Third by a mile), It's About Time's awful padding + difficulty balance, and then the unnecessary mobile and MOBA titles.
Tombs-days are of course dedicated to Tomb Raider on Tuesdays and the remasters came out right as I've gone through the mainline + Lara Croft entries. This time, I've been going for every secret in every game and completed the 1st game + its Unfinished Business expansion, heading into TR2 this coming Tuesday. Secrets should be easier for me there since I've played that one the most and there are consistently 3 in every level. TR3 is going to be a problem not just because of its difficulty spike (and having to suffer through Lud's Gate again...), but there's also currently a bug where the bonus All Hallows level doesn't unlock even with all secrets found. Hopefully, the upcoming title update addresses this.
Wednesdays going forward will be a Year of the Dragon special, going through the mainline Spyro series starting with the OG PS1 games. Fitting not just because of my dragon sona, but also because the games have been my main childhood series, and why I went with a dragon OC to begin with.
Maybe it'll rekindle my love for the series after everything that's gone on with Activision and how they were essentially rewarded for widespread workplace abuse with golden parachutes via Microsoft's monopolistic buyout, and the layoffs that followed. Glad Toys for Bob broke free and went indie recently.
Which brings me to my hot take right upfront: I'm perfectly fine with there not being a Spyro 4 because I still refuse to support the publisher and the latest Crash games have been disappointments: Nitro-Fuelled is a live service grindy bait-and-switch of a "remake" (my biggest disappointing game of the 2010s, beating out Saints Row The Third by a mile), It's About Time's awful padding + difficulty balance, and then the unnecessary mobile and MOBA titles.
