I'm on leave, and this time, I'm not completely sick (but still feel bad enough that I'd probably crash out after writing this entry). The ``why'' is simple---Labour Day is on a Thursday, which begs for Friday to be a leave day, which then begets the idea of ``well... it's already two days, and we're in a quasi-lull period now anyway, so...'', ending with this fine Wednesday being a leave day as well.
I had originally wanted to go on yet another long-ass cycling trip, but with the recent bouts of colds and other nonsense, thought better. So I was confirmed to be confined to quarters for the most part.
I would have considered playing Oblivion: Remastered, if not for a few things:
- A recent update made the performance of the game more suspect than before;
- The price tag of SGD70-ish was a bit steep (though not insurmountable); and
- EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 was 70% off (sub-SGD15).
EDF! EDF! EDF!
And so I found myself playing EDF 5 for much of the day.
My introduction to the series is via a playthrough by IRyS on it, and of course, her spiel in the collaboration with the publisher:
``But MT, that is for EDF 6!''
No, her playthrough of EDF 5:
It looked fun then, and now when I finally got to play it, it is definitely fun! It's also the first time [in a damn long while] that I'm actively playing a shooter-type game but with a controller. The reason for the parenthesis is that I vaguely remembered playing Halo: Combat Evolved on an Xbox, but I cannot remember where it was that I played it at.
The funny thing about playing 3D environment games on the controller is that the ``aim'' or ``camera'' analogue stick is almost always vertically inverted---it just feels more comfortable for me. This is not the same when it comes to mouse-look---moving up on a mouse must correspond to up movement, otherwise my brain goes weird.
Which makes using the mouse as a controller for a 6-DOF game like Sublevel Zero Redux a damn pain in the ass. In fact, the control scheme being a right pain in the ass is a big reason why that game is filed under the ``Don't Bother'' category in my Steam library.
There is some thought when doing the missions in EDF 5, but the execution is more forgiving than a game like Elden Ring, at least, for the Ranger class. And the stupid number of bugs to kill reminds me too much of Ninety-Nine Nights, a beautiful on-screen kill-fest that never saw a PC release that I had always wanted to play, but never had the chance to.
EDF! EDF! EDF!
And so ends the day. I've putzed about enough for the day, and should really turn in for the night. Any and all General Election campaigning in SIN city will come to a head tomorrow, and then a ``cooling-off day'' where any and all discourse on the politics relating to the General Election are forbidden for reasons [of law] before citizens vote on Saturday.
Till the next update.
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