Shadowrun Returns

After following our gathered clues, we knew the identity of the serial killer.
And from the data we acquired in the matrix, that guy was indeed completely insane

No surprise we had to operate a raid on a hospital, as while the public level it seemed to be a normal asylum, what the monster did in the lower levels was something else.

But in the end Sam and all the victims were avenged.

Little we know before hand that it was only the tip of iceberg.
The serial killer was actually working on the orders of someone ! It looks like the work of a shadowrunner is never complete.

That made for a rather fun funerals for Sam later as it was there we exposed some bigger conspiracy.

^ My sister would probably like this but, for now, she's still too intimidated by games that aren't entirely 2D.

1. The Red Oktober gets a laser weapon upgrade bought at this inner system station!

Shadowrun Returns

After the funerals shoot out, the true enemies that escaped were now clearly identified.

And we went after them with some hired runners only to discover that things weren't that clear as we ran into what was in fact a threat to our world.

Reaching the depth of the Brotherhood building, it appeared that it was not the peaceful religion it appeared to be, but it was the front for an insidious cult of otherworldy insectoid spirit entities that goal was to spread into our world to devour it.
Those things used the cultist as "portals" under the promise of eternal life.

Eternal at least true for the monsters , while the cultist was left as mutated husk because those things were unkillable, mixed with the cultists freely accepting to be used as portals (thinking they were granted eternal life) and having spread all around the world with the Brotherhood religion, that was a world-sized disaster in the making..

We still managed to escape after freeing a woman the cult wanted to use as some kind of sacrifice.

^ Marie-Louise looks like an Altmer, the bad guys in The Elder Scrolls lately, but they're so attractive and cultured!

That character is indeed an elf (what's called Bosmer/Altmer/Dummer etc... in post-Daggerfall Elder Scrolls game)

The interesting setup of Shadowrun is that it takes place in our world (though a bit in the future, like the Blade Runner movie), but our world went through some strange changes ( https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Awakening ) , and now it's populated by classic heroic-fantasy type of creatures, so you have megacorporations directed by ancient Great Dragons, immortal creatures manipulating events, magic and sorcery in the middle of matrix computer system hacking, etc...

Wow, talk about immersion breaking for fanboys of the high fantasy genre. I mean, the major selling point of high fantasy games is to get away from our own world for hours at a time.

Shadowrun Returns

Thanks to Marie Louise and Baron Samedi , we managed to identify a possible way to get rid of those unkillable insect -spirit entities so we may be able to finally put an end to our Dead Man Switch contract and avenge Sam completely.

It appears that a megacorporation was working on something called the AEGIS, and that AEGIS could "kill" those things.
Setting up a run against a megacorporation is akin to suicide in the Shadowrun world , those guys have private armies, very equiped guards and a reach as big as the world, that's just insanity to make yourself an enemy of such corps.

Excepted that Baron Samedi that is apparently one of the finest hacker extraordinaire managed to give us a window of a hour or two in which guards were redirected around, security camera would be cut in specific key place, giving us a path in those giant facilities.

And while we got some unexpected change of plans , the run managed to be successful, we got our hands on an "AEGIS" and escaped... only to get captured by a whole regiment of Lone Stars that obviously were all getting a paycheck by the megacorporation head honcho himself.

Looks like that was the end for us, but to our surprise, the big boss was impressed enough by our attempt, and as we discovered it was a -very- good idea to save Marie Louise, we got hired into what would be a "save the world" mission.
Going along the legendary Harlequin himself (that ingame is vastly underpowered in comparison to the tabletop and lore version of that character) it took some big fight to get rid of those otherworldly pests but thanks to those AEGIS devices we could finally deal with them.

In the end mission was a success, and i could finally sucker punch that McKlusky corrupt lone star just for fun.

^ Short game. Heh, McKlusky.

0. Back with a restart of Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition. This time armed with considerable research of how this game plays, I know a lot more of what's going on. What's more, I was able to complete the first true mission thanks to no bug this time, as this mission is famous for a glitch that prevents the player from finishing it. So, here, I and the knot of NPCs who are leading the story, are heading off to the introductory suburb to build a base. After that, I intend to continue with the main quest to find my kidnapped baby son.

Metro 2033 Redux

completed it a year ago, was such an amazing game.

Going at it for another playthrough.

That's the hilarious part, yet somewhat satirical, yet nodding to conspiracy theorists. It's what you get when you morph a genre into another (or a typical setting to another) and they used to be far apart.
It's often said that "that character is a dragon", speaking about second in command to a somewhat intangible or more vague menace, "chief representative" of your opponents that actually battles you. So, now in Shadowlands, they look human but are *actual* dragons, LOL.

Gotta say, I refunded Metro 2033 because I found the weapons to be weak and the story was too grim. On the other hand, I've twice played through S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat which is better in all ways. I'm doing Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition now and, while the setting is bleak, it's also cheeky and humorous and highly buggy. I much prefer The Elder Scrolls among Bethesda games. And I wish GOG would eventually get Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4. Those are excellent first-person open world titles!

6. Can't take away from Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition has beautiful vistas even at low settings to accommodate my GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.

8. and 9. After almost 4 hours playtime, the game's campaign finally starts to become involved. Here I escort Paladin Danse on a raid quest to obtain a communications MacGuffin. He is a member of the East Coast division of the Brotherhood of Steel, serving as the commanding officer of Recon Squad Gladius in the Commonwealth in 2287.

15. We procured the Deep Range Transmitter. Now to get outta Dodge!