Ready, aim, FIRE! Hidetaka does look funny with a pistol - even a whiz bang one. That katana looks like it absolutely belongs in her hand - a part of her.

Acadian: Guns are not her go to weapon, but sometimes they come in handy. Like against fire-breathing geckos. It's also a nod to her family history. Her brother Oda cemented his rule over Japan by defeating the Takeda clan at Nagashino with arquebuses.


Diarming the bull

Space Samurai

Hands off!

Scorpion Queen

Ninja

Lost his head

Wow, Hidetaka is quite multitalented – bullfighter, space cowboy, extremity surgeon, exterminator, ninja and head removal specialist!

Acadian: Hidie is your all in one Samurai stop shop.


The Divide

Hidetaka walks a lonesome road

Bright future


Hidetaka's game sort of ran out of steam after killing Benny. So I think that is the end of her run in New Vegas, at least for now.

But I did recreate a familiar Fallout character, but not in a Fallout game


I also started up a new game of Senua's Sacrifice last night and took a bunch of pics from the 1st chapter.


Land of the Dead

Coming to shore

Never alone

Hela's Hall

No going back

A bridge only the dead may cross

Looking for a way in

Senua and Druth

The Darkness is inside, as well as outside

Resolve

Walking on

Gosh it took me this long to notice how appropriate Hidetake’s footwear is! She was a neat character. May she rest beside a waterfall of real cherry blossoms.

Oh, Hecate is neat wherever she goes!

And more Senua! That game has wonderful looks and seems like it would be very engaging. Nice to see you giving it another go.

Acadian: In Fallout 3 and New Vegas armor is all one piece. So the split toe socks are part of the entire package. Only the helmet is a separate item.

Hecate is working out well in Pillars. Maybe I will give her a go in Skyrim or Oblivion? If I can get her glasses.



It is not blood or dirt on Senua's right hand and forearm. That is the Darkness inside her, a rot that steadily grows every time you die in the game. Supposedly if it reaches your head you die permanently, and the game is over. But it never does.

Valravn

Whack!

Finishing move

Spleckt!

Sun in shadow

Surt

Knockout

Finish Him!

Flames

Driving it deeper

One more for good luck

Looks very moody - in a neat way. It seems like there may be a good balance between being inside Senua's head and a fair amount of action. Certainly looks like an interesting game!

Acadian: It's very moody and atmospheric. It puts you firmly into Senua's head, along with all the other voices.


On the bridge to Hel

Battle

Rain

The Gate to Hel

But the goddess guards the gate

Striking at Hela

Shattered

Hela rules here

Falling into darkness

Survivor

Cauterized

The screenshots are as wonderful to see this time as were the ones where you showed us your first go through. Are you enjoying the experience second time through? I'm guessing you are as it sure looks like a powerful story. Gosh what a spectacular sky in your first shot!

Acadian: I enjoyed the game quite a bit the second time around. I kind of think of it more like a movie. It is something to experience.


Memory of better times

Dreams turn to ash

Shores and swords

Twilight

Bog

Ruins

Restoration

Dark Forest

Dark memories

Darkness

Gramr

A sword that can kill gods

Despite the harsh lands, these are beautiful pictures. Nice studies of Senua's face. Her wide open eyes and overall expressions quite convey her desperation... almost a sense of internal panic. Very cool and I'm so glad you're enjoying experiencing her story again.

Acadian: They really did a spectacular job with painting a vivid setting in this game, and with the motion capture and voice acting of the actress who plays Senua. The funny thing is she was not even a professional actress. She is one of the behind the scenes people who works for the developer. They used her as a temporary stand in for Senua during the first days of development, before they could hire an actress. She was so good at it that they kept her as Senua.


In the bowel's of Hela's palace

Recovering Dillion's head

A light shining through darkness

Deeper in Hela's hall

Senua presses on

Battle

End of the line



That is the end of the game this time around. It was still really good the second time around. One of the good things is that I still sort of remembered the really tricky puzzles, so they did not vex me so much. But the biggest bonus was understanding that I did not have to win the final battle. I really think this would make a great movie, or Netflix series.


Next, on to Hecate's visit to Skyland.

From the Wasteland to Skyrim

Hecate is wondering what happened to her glasses?

Wait, now Deathclaws can fly?

Bespectacled, armed, and armored

Watch out for that giant flying Deathclaw

Is this another supercomputer?

Taking it all in

Walking with the town slut

That is one big radroach

They don't have this in the Capital Wasteland

Toto, we are not in Kansas

Lopov'ed

Some more powerful shots of Senua's game. So glad you enjoyed your second play through! I recall seeing a short vid clip I think you linked featuring the young lady who did the acting/formed the basis for Senua. Very neat!

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What a hoot as Hecate shares her Fallout comparisons. Flying deathclaws indeed! Love her big ponytail, Triss outfit and trademarked HecateSpecs. You’ve done a fabulous job with her!

Acadian: Hecate came out well. Though I still miss an actual sniper rifle for her, like her Mk 14 EBR or M110.



Spells to soothe the savage beast

Rockstar

Wow, this praying stuff never worked in the Wasteland!

Straight shooter

Unhand me mutie!

Hecate does what she does best

Magic is cool

Black bow

Can't hit me

But I can hit you

Sniper duel

Incoming

Down

Some beautiful - and nostalgic - bow action shots in Skyrim! With a few tweaks, archery really is very fun in Skyrim.

Acadian: It took me a week, but I finally remembered you can zoom in with the right mouse button when using a bow! I am starting to get back in the way this game is played.


Sven is definitely on the outs...

Magic is much better than stimpacks

Sniper by moonlight

The Lopov shot

Feral Ghoul!

Close up

Wonderful shots, and so glad to see Hecate adjusting nicely to the medieval fantasy tundra. Properly modded, I did indeed find Skyrim to be a magnificently satisfying archer/sniper hunting ground. After 4K hours in the game with only one character though, it did grow to feel. . . a bit small and overly familiar.

Acadian: Skyland got old for me too. But since I have left it alone for over a year, I find I am rediscovering some things again. Especially dialogue. I am hearing things which I swear is for the first time. Which could be, it has been many years since I did the vanilla start of the game, and seen Hadvar and Ralof, or talked to Jarl Balgruuf and Farengar.



Sniper vs Flying Deathclaw

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

How about a breath mint?

Up close

Deathclawborn?

Did that mountain just say something to me?

I'm so glad that you and Hecate are enjoying Skyrim. I can imagine how coming back after a time off would be pretty nice - it is a neat game, after all. Great dragon fightin' shots of Hecate and her bow in action!

This one really captures some of the game's limitations. The bowstring's well ahead of the arrow; her hair is totally unaffected by the blast of frost; and I could probably find more.

But it's still a great screenie!

Acadian: After the last few dragon fights, I am starting to think Hecate might need to get a bigger boat bow...


ghastley: That one pic was taken just after Hecate fired, so the arrow was forward and the bow bent outward.

But of course her hair is unaffected by the dragon's breath. Hecate uses conditioner after all!



The New Mutants

Hmmm, maybe Hecate should read this?

Just another day at Breezehome

Baking some tasty treats

Sneaking

My Word

Ah yes, dragon fights. In her Skyprime, Buffy did well with those - a combo of strong bowpower and maxed out magic resistance (Breton blood from her father, the Mara questline, every trick to max it out).

Fun pictures of life in Skyrim for Hecate. Cooking and such. Heh, darn kids - always letting the atronach out of the bottle. 'My Word' is cute - and wonderfully titled.

Acadian: I don't have a lot of experience with fighting dragons. I usually never see them in my games! For things so gigantic, they are gosh darn difficult to hit when they are flying around. I am using a mod that reskins them, and I cannot remember if makes them tougher as well. They are not easy fights, that is for certain.



Attacked by Miraak's Cultists

Hot under the collar

Hecate and her Cyclone

In the end, there can be only one

Super smack down

This must be how Buffy feels around the rest of us...

Relaxing by the fire

Dinner

What a wonderful set of shots!

Heh, to an archer, a 'ward' spell simply marks her target. I remember that area with those skellies standing so conveniently all together in a puddle of oil to light off. Love Hecate's Stormie. 'Only One' is a cool shot and marvelously titled.

Buffy tried that big ponytail but felt like it was bigger than she was and Superian teased her. Hecate wears it well though. Speaking of Buffy, yes, that is exactly how she feels sometimes! Has to jump up onto the counter to get a clerk's attention.

Relaxing by the fire is just magnificent! The cozy feel, beautiful room and Hecate's pose is picture perfect!

Acadian: Those ward spells do make aiming much easier in the dark!

That ponytail probably is bigger than Buffy!



What is it, Dragons?

That is one big Deathclaw

Hecate has balls

Hecate has a new hat

It's a man's world

Hecate does what she does best

Hecate looses the winds

In Thalmor disguise

Sniper

What a beautiful opening shot with the aerial dragon in the snow.

Heh, I remember ‘Hecate’s balls’ quest.

New hat? Nah, no room for that ponytail!

Man’s world? Or is Hecate simply a dude magnet?

Love the shots of Hecate’s sniping in action. I know what you mean about the Stormie getting in the way. SkyBuff settled on Kitsune. The vixen was below Buffy’s line of fire. She was set up to do no significant damage to the ankles or knees of Buffy's foes, but her magical wardings could make a dragon priest wince – a tiny tank.

Acadian: That horned hat does have some serious frost resistance though. Hecate wore it as far back as Windhelm. Then once there were people around she had to put it away of course.

I have been thinking about what you said about Kitsune, and decided to the same. I create a new summons just for Hecate, that won't spoil her shots. No good pics of it this time around though.



Word Wall Deathclaw

Deathclaw twilight

There can be only one

Cliffracer flyiiiinnnn sooooo hiiiiiiiighhhhh

The Face of Boe

The blood of the Dragonborn

Finally, a Deathclaw that is not trying to kill her

Hecate the Dragonslayer! And a new ponytail! I look forward to seeing her vixen in action!

Acadian: I experimented with a few different hairstyles when I was trying on a helmet that would keep her hair. I didn't use the helmet, but stuck with the new hairstyle!



You Shall Not Pass!

Ice Deathclaw

Deathclaw vs Behemoth

Hecate's summoned Shadow Wolf - Sirius

In Skyrim, cows only have one head?

Blackreach

Elder Knowledge

Sirius again

Hanging around

BlackWhitereach

I know who would win that deathclaw vs behemoth fight. Welcome to Sirius XM ! Wolf should be a good choice to stay below Hecate's line of fire. Yikes! A one-headed cow!!

Acadian: The funny thing is the giant dropped dead an instant after the dragon did. I had to use the console to resurrect him (the giant). Then he attacked Hecate! Talk about gratitude...

Who ever would have thought cows might have only one head? Skyrim is filled with muties...



Deathclawrend

Dorito breath

Face to face

Odahviing

Flying high

Dark deeds

Sovngarde Awaits

Shor's Hall

With the Nordic Heroes of old

Deathclaw Fall

Stand and deliver

Victory

The last arrow

Dorito breath! Aravi gets that frequently.

Deathclaws with wings somehow sounds more frightening than a dragon does.

As lame as the final fight is, his actual death was pretty cool I thought. And then there's all the dragons on the mountain top!

Great shots!

Odahviing. Awwww.

Flying High. Welcome to the rarified world of Dragonriders!

Dark Deeds. Wonderfully mystic with Hecate’s spirit bow and spirit wolf.

Sovngarde Awaits. Wow, what a sky!

Nice to get some ancient Nordic helpers to take on the Big Bad.

King Coin: Deathclaws are more frightening than dragons. I think because there is no magic to use against Deathclaws. Just lead and cold steel.

I loved the dragon funeral above the Throat of the World at the end. It is too bad nothing seems to come of it. As it making some kind of peace with the remaining dragons, and persuading them to stop attacking everything near their lairs.


Acadian: Hecate could used to this Deathclaw-Flying business! She would love to bring one of them back to the Wasteland.

Hecate has been chewing through the charges on her bow lately, so she has fallen back on using the bound bow sometimes to save the charges for the times it really matters.

It was fun teaming up with the Ancient Nords that she saw defeat Alduin back in time. They don't have any ghosts back in the Capital Wasteland, or even New Vegas.





Welcome to Solstheim

Now it is bald, blue, bearded mutants

Now that is something you don't see every day

Where is the bolt carrier on this thing?

Mystic archer

Say hello to my little friend

Old blue eyes

Ah yes, the boat arrival in Solstheim.

Heh, I guess to a Human Wastelander a Dunmeri Ashlander would indeed look like a mutant!

Soul gems/charges work similarly in ESO/Skyrim. One difference is that, shortly after I began playing ESO, they went to only one size of soul gem. Bandit or mudcrab, both will fully fill a 'soul gem'. I quite like the change to lession micromanagement and inventory management.

A big elven grin visited as we looked at the several 'mystic archer' shots of Hecate in action.

I recognize that Bloodskal Blade and its location.

Though perhaps related to Darryl, this Blue-eyed bastage got justifiably mystic'ed by our archer!

Acadian: Almost everyone in Skyland is a mutant to Hecate. Of course she is a mutant too. It's hard to get through Fallout 3 without getting a few new lines to the old gene code...



Toad has a wicked tongue

Hitting the books

Hecate might had gone a different way with the decorations

Meet the Skaal

Is that Gene Simmons?

Look who's a good boy!

Wrapped up in a book

Piercing

Visiting the local library

Under an Apocryphal sky

The first and the last

Wow! It is the glasses that make Hecate look right at home in Hermie's house of books. Disgusting as that place was, I wonder if Hecate, like Buffy, was drawn to all those books.

Spectacular sky over that dragon takedown!

Looks like she's pretty much put a fork in Solstheim and called it done?

Acadian: Hecate thought all the books were kind of strange. I mean, who writes on paper instead of holotapes?

Hecate was worried she might get too soft from the easy living in Skyrim. So she left Solstheim and headed back to the Commonwealth, and the old, familiar scents of gunpowder and gun oil.




These opened up a lot easier with magic

Heavy metal

Hecate is red hot

At least in the Wasteland, Deathclaws don't fly

Burnin' For You

Happycate

After used to magic for a while, Hecate now looks quite frustrated while trying to open that safe.

Heavy and rusty.

Red hot redemption. Can it overheat?

Burnin' for You - Lee Cyeng approves.

Prettycate. Are smiling animations vanilla or mod-added?

Heh, using a six shooter instead of a lockpick?

She looks so funny dwarfed inside that power ranger armor.

Uh oh, gotta work on that barrel temperature discipline.

Wingless dragon!

Aww, more than a faint smile from Hecate.

Lopov: Magic made some things a lot easier.

The miniguns can overheat and seize up. I use a mod that makes them last longer, but you still have to be careful not to keep your finger on the trigger for too long.

Except for a fun guns that came with custom animations, all my game's animations are pure vanilla, including Hecate's smile.


Acadian: In the end, the lockpick worked much better than the Beretta.

Those minigun barrels heat up awful quick. Hecate will stick to her sniper rifles instead. One shot is what she prefers.


Exit

Fortress Sanctuary

On the battlement

On Walden Pond

Morning light

A 200 year old bank robbery

Wow, is that Hecate's digs? The place you were complaining about inside the perimeter spawns of baddies?

Morning light is a wonderful shot. Is Hecate earning extra caps by selling add space on her armor?

The Exit pic reminds me of an underground disco I used to visit when studying, which was located in a renovated wine cellar. The way out looked almost exactly the same.

In general, the Commonwealth reminds me a lot of the Capital Wasteland.

Nice poses, Hecate!

Grab those pre-war money and run!

Acadian: That super fortress is indeed Hecate's humble home. She is still working on filling up the wall with heavy machine guns. She only has about 30 or so. I think 50 will do it.

Hecate could be a driver for Nukcar...


Lopov: Neat about the underground disco. I hope it did not have a sniper at the exit though!

There are a lot of similarities between FO3 and 4 of course. The biggest difference is that they did put in that green tint over everything in 4. There is more stuff in F4. More things like dead leaves, and more detritus laying around like old tires, rusted shopping carts, and so on. That and the Commonwealth is more vertical. There were some multi-storied buildings in FO3 of course, but not to the extent that there in F4. There are a lot more fire-escapes and rooftops you can climb up on, and get shot from. The exterior of the Corvega Plant is just incredible when it comes to that. That picture just barely scratches the surface.

Hecate's bed sheets are all made from pre-war money! And everything else that requires cloth.


Rolling by the record machine

Twilightcate

Shoot down

Shutting down the reactor

Sundown

Love the nostalgia in the juke box shot!

Heh, I was somehow reminded of the Ant Agonizer in the Shoot Down pic.

Glad to see Hecate still renting out ad space on her armor. I imagine to post an add on her bewb plates costs extra?

It's better to bowl with some music in the background.

I see that Hecate's breasts are named - Novatech and GO6.

That's not the same helmet in Shoot down and the Reactor screenie, right?

Hecate smiles as the Sun goes down.

Dec 1
Solstheim! I really enjoyed that DLC.

Loved that sword you find in the tomb. Made me think of changing Aravi's fighting style.

In most ways, magic sucked in Skyrim, but the one thing they got very right was the summoned weapons.

Dec 4
Toad: they did an excellent job making these guys weird as F***

puppy!

I know they say books can transport you to another world but I didn't think it was literal

Dec 9
I LOVED THAT SEQUENCE WITH THE ARMOR AND THE DEATHCLAW

Dec 12
You put way more effort into Sancuary than I ever do I find most of the settlement building just tedious.

Nice guns and armor. which is that?

Dec 15
I was a little disappointed that the juke boxes didn't do anything in the game.

Again, I love that armor she's wearing.

Acadian: The Juke Box always makes me think of this song (they are an old local band that never quite made it nationwide)

I wish there was an AntAgonizer outfit, I would so love to play Anty in Fallout 4.

Well, 'endcaps' are prime product placement!


Lopov: That is the same helmet in both pics. It is based on the Assaultron helmet from the Mechanist dlc. It opens up when you do not have a weapon out. But when you draw a gun the four pieces close up, leaving only an eye slit open.


King Coin: Solstheim is a really fun place to explore. I just wish they had not tied so much of it to the Miraak quest, especially not being able to sleep.

Those creatures were really all kinds of creepy and gross. They were great additions.

I am not really a big fan of the settlement building. So I don't usually spend a lot of time with it. But I wanted to try out the stone walls for a while. It was a pain to get it all in place. I finally finished putting up the guns - 59 Hardened Turrets. Of course with that many guns, no one is going to attack now.

Hecate wears The Sirius Assault Suit. Her rifle is an HK 417 from Modern Firearms. I don't like a lot of the things in Modern Firearms, and it locks up the Creation Kit when I try to edit it. So I took the meshes and textures, and created my own standalone mod with just the 417.

You can play the Jukeboxes. You just have to select them, the same as with a radio.



Something is bugging Hecate

Swatted

Close up

Too close for comfort (that is a nuke in the mutie's hand)

Incoming molotov cocktail

Shot out of the sky (with VATS)

More nice shots! 'Close Up' really showcases what a wonderful job you did with Hecate's face.

I hope that whatever was bugging Hecate, didn't splash her with its remains.

Close up is a great shot! It only lacks Hecate to be in the center and watching straight into the camera to call it a Lopov shot.

Better to hit a mutie than a nuke.

And then there was light.