Gaming

Must. Acquire. Every. Free. Game.

Before my hairy yeti disaster I managed to have a late GFN session last night for the first time in a while and (encouraged by yesterday's trailer) I got a bit further in A Plague Tale by completing chapter fifteen. It was a bit tricky and probably the first time in the game that I got a little frustrated by my recurring failures but I eventually got my sling skills to work for me.
AND....
Spoilers.

Many screenshots were taken but none will be posted.

Not even a burning bear can get past my lovely glass shield!!

 

I didn't do a long session in Skyrim this week cos I'm at one of those points where I have to make a decision in a quest and I need to have a think about possible consequences before committing.
So I switched to Ori And the Blind Forest and tried to escape from the Forlorn Ruins...

 

And I tried many, many, many, many, many times.
Ooof, that was hard.
Much frustrated shouting occured before I got out.
But I have a sneaking feeling that the big scary owl thing is gonna be coming back next.
 

I thought I already had Rayman from a previous freebie but that one was Legends not Origins. But now I have both.

It's that awkward time of year when you'd like to buy a game but you know that lots of companies will been giving away Christmas freebies and you really don't want to pay for something only to find it being free a week later.
I do have some coins for the inevitable Steam Sale but I definitely won't be buying anything early.

Dear Roach,
Why, oh why, oh why, oh why will you not walk along this particular road?

 

Every time I have to go to the Vegelbud's Estate for a race I end up walking back this way and you just won't move beyond this point! Yes, I can turn right to the wheat fields but I need to go straight ahead back to Novigrad via the Seven Cats. There's a path right there, it's even marked on the map, all you have to do is walk forwards instead of stupidly running on the spot like a Peloton advert!
Oh, well, back to cross country riding again through the fields.
But at least I've now won a Gwent game with my Scoia'tael deck.

But enough of Geralt let's switch games and return to the Call Of The WIld for some pretty tree hunting...

 

...but this time I DID shoot an animal by doing my best Elmer Fudd impression and hitting a rabbit...

 

I also killed a deer too but not in the orthodox hunting fashion. You're supposed to slowly creep around silently, stealthily stalking your prey from a distance but I was noisily running around like an out-of-breath maniac trying to find a coyote and after bursting through some trees I literally ran into the deer.
I'm not quite sure which one of us was more scared or surprised, but amidst the panic I fired off a shot somewhere and managed to hit it. It bounded off down a hill and I followed the trail of blood for a while until I found that it had eventually curled up quietly and died alone by a tree.
Which was a bit sad really.
Sorry, deer.

But then I saw a bear!
Blimey, they're quick!
I was expecting a big, slow, lumbering beast like the bears in other games but this was quite sprightly. I fired off a shot and I thought I'd hit it but no blood traces were seen. Maybe I need a bigger gun.