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Today's game is Uncharted 4. This was a landscape shot i took, the photo mode doesn't remove sniper lasers though, but that's okay because I'm sure Sniper Lasers are a naturally occurring part of jungles anyways. Today's screenshots are a bit sparse because this season is going to be a bit busy for me.

On top of uncharted, I wanted to get a screenshot from me and my friends Halo 2 Legendary, but me and my friend have been having an issue with the gravemind level. It keeps crashing at a door way. Once we finally got past that we got a network disconnect error and called it quits for today. I did get a screenshot of this trippy globe thing on a Halo 3 map while playing a game with my brother and my friend.

I also took a screenshot of the landscape of the Island in Uncharted 4. The way it generates reminds me of old Minecraft and how you could get villages generating with wacky terrain elevations

Tomorrow I'm hoping to get the Halo 2 level out of the way, but we'll have to see. I have a busy week and I'd also like to get Uncharted out of the way for something I'm excited to get to next.

Today’s game is Uncharted 4 (and a bonus screenshot of Halo Multiplayer I accidentally took today and wanted to share). This screenshot was taken in a pretty village like area. The whole area is really gorgeous and has really good lighting imo. Another place this can be seen is in a prison area you can wander into.

This area also just has a lot of fun interactions with characters. There’s a section where one of the NPCs puts their head in a pillory. Immediately I went “oh, that’d make a fun screenshot”, and right after I took it the character mentions wishing they had their camera.

Im excitedly close to finishing the game on Crushing mode. I’m hoping to clean up all the achievements in one swift day to 100% Uncharted 4 (I plan to save Lost Legacies for a later date). I have a few exciting new games I want to pick up after that, I have to see how well they fit into my schedule though.

As promised here’s the Bonus Halo Screenshot. I got it while playing with my Best Friend and my Brother. I got my ass handed at my specialty of Snipers only, but if anyone asks i blame the controller:

Today's game is Halo MCC. Me and my Friend finally got around to picking up our Halo 2 Legendary playthrough again (It's hell on earth). We also played a few rounds with my brother on Multiplayer (I also made some progress on Uncharted by myself today). This screenshot came from a map i was on while playing. The map gave me Xen vibes from Half Life with the sky and the funky birds.

There was also this screenshot i took of a river in the Gravemind. I really like this water. 8/10, i'd like to drink it in real life, it looks nice and cool. Maybe swim in it too.

I also got this cool clip of me ramping off a hunter during the level.

Then finally this is a screenshot of Jeffery, a Soldier we named back at the Beginning of our Halo 2 Legendary campaign almost a full half a year earlier. He rode on our tank and took out a Ghost, so he's earned an eternal spot in our Lore Book next to Jerry and Cable.

I also got another clip today. This one i got while playing CE multiplayer with brother and my friend. My friend blew him up with a Tank right as i turned too look at him

Today's game is Halo CE. I needed to debug an issue i was having with a SymLink on my SSD with the game's Proton data. After that i made sure to double check everything was working fine. I ended up playing through the first two levels. The main screenshot is from the Start of the second level where you have to evade covenant troops. There was this really pretty waterfall i took a picture of. Water just kind of seemed to be the focus of the screenshots for today though (i'm sure !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml will love this though). I had a few extra clips i wanted to share too but i think the file for those got corrupted right after the game crashed.

Overall CE has some pretty water, like this river here. The way it looks reminds me of Ocarina of Time and the river right out front of Hyrule Castle.

Here's the river in the Anniversary version. I think i like the classic one more, but that's more so personal preference (and probably my love for OOT). It still looks very pretty though and i love it.

Finally there was this bulletin board i wanted to share from the Anniversary Graphics (This way no one can say i only shared water pictures in this post). It looks way different there and you can tell the Dev team had a lot of fun with it. I like the cat found poster the most though, it's a very cute cat.

Today’s game is Uncharted 4. I wanted to play some Halo CE (for whatever reason I’ve been craving that lately), but Halo MCC has decided to just stop launching from my external SSD. I ended up biting the bullet and installing it onto my internal SSD on my Steam Deck instead. This whole fiasco with my SD Card dying and me being limited back to 512 GB has me considering buying a new internal SSD for it (though, I do have plans for a expensive Ray Tracing Gaming Desktop I want to build after playing Alan Wake II, so maybe some day)

I ended up calling Uncharted 4 off early today as I got stumped at an encounter and was starting to get frustrated. It was at that point I decided to let it go for a bit before I stopped having fun. I plan to pick it back up tomorrow. I did get some gorgeous pictures though, I tried cropping them all at 5:4 to see if that helped sell the realism like I felt it did with Alan Wake II, I don’t think it did though (I suspect Alan Wake II had some more going on than just a simple crop though)

This picture, and the main one I picked reminds me of Red Dead Redemption 2. In the northern part of the map up in the mountains there’s a Waterfall with a cave you can pass through behind it. This section of Uncharted and RDR2 have similar lighting I feel like which reminded me of it

Then there’s this dangling skeleton which reminded me of Ocarina of Time and the Forest Temple. Specifically that section with the courtyard. This one I can’t really narrow it down why it reminded me of that. Maybe it’s all the foliage?

Finally theres these two Cave images, which I thought were pretty. Today just has me very nostalgic ig, because these two remind me of something to. It’s a lot less specific what though. I’m thinking maybe Red Dead 2 again with the cave with the guy who claims he’s satan (and you can use to glitch out of bounds)?

I Continued Uncharted 4 today. I played Chapter 12, which had me driving a boat. The whole section is really pretty, the only part i hated was when i was driving around trying find 3 damn dolphins for an achievement. I found 2, but could never find the last. I have come to the conclusion i hate dolphins.

Despite Dolphins ruining the mood, i got some other lovely screenshots, such as this one: The angle makes it hard too see, but the water in the floor gives me Observatory Vibes from Mario Galaxy.

There was also this screenshot, which i feel like the lighting helped to sell the realism. I also turned off FSR and started running it at a native 720p which makes it look far better in my opinion.

Finally, out of the bulk of screenshots i picked i wanted to share this one too. I really like the cave and the water in it is gorgeous. This game has some absolutely beautiful water. I have to put it up there with Ocarina of Time and Mario Galaxy as some of my favorite water in video games.

Today's game is Uncharted 4 again. I got back too it with Chapter 11. This whole chapter is really pretty with it architecture and lighting. Another example of what i mean is the lobby of the clock tower you go to:

This whole section gives me Myst vibes too. I think it's the way the lighting is done, but whatever it is makes, it makes me nostalgic because i had Myst on my old iPhone 1 way back in the day when i was younger.

There was also this screenshot which gave me heavy Assassin's Creed Syndicate Vibes. I think it's because it's a clock tower:

I also tried my hand at an action shot again. The FSR was making the water really fucking sparkly, i don't think it translated to the screenshot, but if you see some sparkles that's what it is:

Finally i wanted to share this shot i took while climbing the tower. I really like how it came out with the contrast between the pillars and city:

Me and a friend were going to play some Halo 2 today, but i forgot about my fucked about SD card, so i had to download the entire game again. ODST finished first, and i decided to just mess around in it since i've already beaten it and i was short on time today and wanted to play something. This was a lovely mugshot i took of a enemy that got stuck.

My screenshots were acting funky today and the timestamps were all off and then for some reason some screenshots didnt save. I only walked away with two really worth sharing, because of that. I think most of my screenshots i picked today were new ones, but i took so many i can't be sure, i know for a fact the Main one i picked is new though.

this was a picture of a picture of a antelope i took on the Zoo level. idk why but something about it in a Halo game stood out to me. I also have suspicions that this may not be a new screenshot, but was missed in. But i really like this one so i left it in.

I really like ODST's vibe. Master Chief is fun, (and i'm not fully in on the Halo lore so i may be wrong about this) but playing as the rookie and not Master Chief in the Spartan suit feels fun and more commando. I'm a sucker for everyday characters.

Today's game is Sea of Thieves. Me and a friend did the final Monkey Island story line after nearly a year of putting it off. This screenshot i took at the start of our voyage.

This was a screenshot i took at the end of the Voyage. I thought the sunset was pretty.

I took this screenshot before rescuing the Charmingly Handsome Captain Coco. We got him a Monocle and he helped us blow stuff up

This one was taken in a cave in the story. I got curious whether the Lava would actually kill me, so for science i threw myself onto it. Then my friend started talking shit about me, so i took the Compass-Severed-Head-Thing and proved him wrong (this was after he got called out for talking shit about my Rowing skills and then proceeded to crash the boat and i had to fix it)

This last one was a pretty waterfall i got a screenshot of while trying to hunt down Banana Oil to lather up a Pike with a Skull on it to help captain Coco help us.

Today i Continue Uncharted 4. I Believe i am halfway done (having just got to chapter 11). Pixelfed has been making it easier to share more screenshots, so i have a few more for everybody!

Today's main screenshot i took at the foot of the tower at the end. I'm a bit disappointed i didn't get to climb it, but oh well.

This here is a Waterfall i took a screenshot of right before driving through it. Something about Waterfalls with caves behind it i love in games (Vent/Crawling sections too which this game has had a few of)

This here was the cave behind the Waterfall. I like how dark and damp it is back there. On my way out i enjoyed ramping out i did it a whole second time

I found a Lemur to go with my Rat from yesterday. I remember from my first play through in the next chapter there's a lemur you get to play with too. (I think there's an achievement for it as well)

I got the car stuck here. I wanted to go back and clip it because Sam was telling a joke right before i got unstuck and we fell into the ravine, but my Steam UI locked up for some reason and by the time i was able to get it back my recording was already overwritten

This was i just thought was funny because it's Nate on a Crate

Here's a pretty Landscape shot i took of the end of the Chapter. I angled it up again like with the statues from last time to give it a bit more of a foreboding vibe.

Finally here's the city at the start of the next chapter. this is probably one of the chapters i remember most from last time (along with the last chapter, and the Scotland Chapter)

Today i continued more of Uncharted. I have gotten into taking Clips of my Playthroughs i wanted to share, and so i started reusing my Pixelfed account. Just so everything is the same I will be hosting the images over there and then cross posting them over here (on the main instance). If you want to follow that to my account name is the same as here (Not to advertise or anything, just letting people know there are now options)

While i was running past this cliff face i swear i saw a Whale leap out of the water. I waited a good 5 minutes and it didn't come back out. I swear i'm not crazy, there was a whale in the sea.

There was also this clip where i panicked and meleed these enemies to death. My fear induced maneuver i feel like came out better than i expected

I also got this really cool photo of a Statue of Saint Dismas. Crop it right and i think it could make for a really Sick album cover.

Then there's this really cool bridge i had to cross. I'm trying to get all the Treasures, but i missed one and had to reload a checkpoint as the bridge would not let me go backwards.

This image was also really sick. I tilted the angle up a little to get a neat perspective. I feel like it really makes these creepy ass statues more foreboding.

This picture i don't have much of a story behind it, i just like how the rats look in this game.

Then finally i got a cool Action shot of Nate climbing a pillar. I feel like the tilt on it really added to it.

Today i played some more Uncharted, though, i really didn't get far (today was a busy day for me and i was exhausted)

I took a landscape shot of the monastery in this chapter. Looking at it from this angle i feel like you can really see how it's a video game level. All the parts fit together in a way that is perfectly crafted to be climbable and cater to Uncharted's whole "cover fire" game play, while still offering some level of immersion. It's something i love about video games. Some of them do an amazing job of hiding their video game "elements" while still utilizing it to their fullest.

I attempted the Ghost in the cemetery achievement again a few times. My current route has me following the ledge face, climbing the broken arch to stay hidden, and then dropping down to the other cliff face. Then a enemy will walk past to check out the ledge and I'll stay hidden. once he turns around I'll sneak behind him. That's where i currently get stuck, because I'm not sure how to sneak past all the enemies watching the gate (The location i need to open to get the achievement) without getting killed or my NPC companion stealth killing them. As much as I'd like to do this in crushing difficulty, i think I'll just have to save it for later and come back and do it on easy because it is brutal.