Video Games in the Brooding Caverns

-Sorry I've missed a couple of days this week. Work has been awful and I swear that it has been trying to kill me./"/

-Anyway, on to the prompt which I've not actually put much thought into./"/

-SO, which character do I think I am most like? I have no idea. There may be quite a few that I have similarities with, but there aren't really any that I could say I'm most like./"/

-As for characters I wish I were like... Again the list is huge but far more easily narrowed down... Once I get my brain to think straight and sensibly, that is./"/

|"|Time Passes|"|

-Ugh. Sometimes I hate having a vast quantity of games in my past because that immense soup of content is making things difficult to pick any one character, or even a small number of characters. But! I think I'd most like to be... UGH! Whiy is this one so hard? I know these prompts are meant to be light hearted but I'm maybe overthinking this waaaay too much./"/

-Fuck it. I'm going to say I'm like *dithers once again* I have no idea. I'm trying to force this but it just ain't happening. I would quite like to be like someone like Arthur Morgan from RDR2. Someone with good survival skills and a fair amount of self confidence and conviction in my own actions./"/

-At first I thought this was going to be a difficult one to answer as I don’t really have much to do with gamers-at-large and wht games are trending and popular but then, as I was getting ready for work, I had a bit of a brainwave which provided me with my answer for today./“/

-A game that I believe is underrated is... *drumroll* Chromehounds!/“/

-Now. I took a bit of a liberty in choosing Chromehounds because it isn’t actually a current game. In fact, it was a pretty early game for the xbox360 that I discovered pretty late into the game’s life. However, I do believe that even when it was current it was a very underrated game./“/

-Chromehounds seemed to have taken influences from games like Armored Core and paired it with squad based capture the flag mechanics to create something rather unique./“/

-The players controlled modular megatanks, called ‘hounds’ and, in teams of up to 8 (i think) fought against each other with a ‘You Die, Your Dead’ mechanic. The entire battlefield was cloaked in a fog of war whicch blocked intra-squad communications which could only be lifted by capturing strategic locations known as COMBAS Towers and the access to communications only lasted as long as your team held the tower, meaning it would be entirely possible to cut off the communication of the other team by cutting the line of towers back to the opponent’s main base./“/

-The Hounds themselves were pretty nuanced and complex. Unlike Armored Core games in which the mechas had arms-legs-body-head-weapons setups, and the orientation and positioning are very strict, in Chromehounds each hound required a method of propulsion, a cockpit and a generator and they could be attached however the hard points would allow. The size and number of weapons that any hound could equip was only limited by the weight limit of the locomotion part and the power output of the generator. I regularly saw Hounds with 6 rocket pods, 4 machine guns and a sniper canon or two, all on the same vehicle. My personal preference was reverse jointed legs and two stacks of two of the most powerful sniper canons in the game, with which I got to be very adept - even managing to hit enemies beyond the typical reach of the weapon by mastering the bullet drop and flight times./“/

-I played Chromehounds a lot but, sadly, the servers were closed down after only a couple of years which speaks to how underrated it was. The mechanics and graphics were solid, and so was the gameplay even if the offline mode was only considered to be the tutorial for the online gameplay. I made a few friends playing that game and it will remain in my top games for a long time/“/

-So the basis of this list comes from Xenoplush here./"/

\"\I say 30-ish because I might group a couple of shorter days together and/or add my own extra questions but I will aim to hit 30 days over all.-

-So. Day 1: Very first video game/"/

\"\This one is very easy for me, as is probably meant to be the intention for Day 1.-
-The very first video game I played was on December 25th 1993. Sonic the Hedgehog. My parents had gotten me a Sega Megadrive for Christmas and it included three games; Sonic the Hedgehog, Flashback and I always struggle to remember what the third was, perhaps Revenge of Shinobi but I can't be certain of that-

-Incidentally I recall hearing an anecdote from my dad a couple of years later that before they gave me the console they had set up the console one night to 'test' it and my mum got playing Sonic and she would lean with the controller while she was playing as though it would make her go faster or otherwise help her play./"/