all made up with nowhere to go

The other day, I discovered the PS4 controller has motion controls??? I did not know this! (It flicked on by accident while I was making an account for my nephew to use next time he plays something on the console). Apparently the PS3 has them as well???

I don't know that there's a whole lot you can use it for, because I think for motion stuff, Sony want you to use the Move controller.

But this is why consoles should still have proper manuals, GDI! I have had this console for nearly a year, and only just discovered this, w t f

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I think I might like playing action games, y'all.

I decided to check on my Dark Souls save from 2017, and discovered I did not get very far at all. I actually wondered if it was because I didn't know how to level or something daft like that.

And...then I continued on playing, beat the Asylum Demon extremely easily in one go, and got as far as the Undead Burg. Which admittedly is not far, but I did take a detour to New Londo Ruins by accident. I also got mushed by the skellies in the graveyard near the Firelink Shrine because I didn't know which way to go to start.

MAPS, FROM SOFTWARE! THEY WOULD BE USEFUL!

(Here I hear Aoife from Eurogamer in my head saying that she likes that From games don't have maps, because then you have to explore and. Well, yeah, but also you have to explore when you have a map, because you don't necessarily know where any of it leads to. The same things could well have happened to me had I not had a map).

Also I kept wasting estus because I kept hitting X/square for attack instead of R1 (I think that's because X/square is attack in Kingdoms of Amalur, and that's the last console game I played). So I kept having to truck it back to a bonfire to reload, so to speak.

I don't know that I will continue playing, but it's given me confidence that I might be all right with Sekiro (if I ever get a copy) and has even piqued my interest in Nioh, which I had next to no interest in before, because it was inspired by Dark Souls.

I have also been watching Aoife play Ghost of Tsushima, and I like the idea in principle, but something about it makes me feel uneasy (maybe I'll be able to tap into why better when I watch Ellen play it?) The character models are a bit uncanny valley for me - they don't look in proportion, and the faces don't look right, imo (though I had this problem with ME:A, so maybe it'll pass once I get used to it). However, I do like that the majority of the English speaking cast is Asian, even if they aren't all Japanese or of Japanese descent (I imagine the pool of Japanese-American actors is small, and that of voice actors is even smaller). I'm glad Sucker Punch didn't cop out on the English voice track just being American accents regardless of time period (or a bunch of white actors doing offensive accents, for that matter).

And then finally on the "maybe I like action games" thing, my hand slipped and I bought the HD version of Okami for my PS4, when I already own the PS2 version. I shouldn't have looked up how much secondhand copies of the original are, admittedly, but I was doing it out of curiosity, and of course, the HD version came up in the results. I do want more games for my PS4, but I shouldn't be spending money I don't have on games I don't need (which why I'm still holding off FFXV and Horizon Zero Dawn, and definitely Sekiro, plus a whole other bunch of games I want).

So yeah. It's possible I only like action games with certain themes or settings, like Mass Effect is the only shooter I'll probably ever play. I guess we will see!

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Outside Xbox, Dicebreaker, and Eurogamer did ANOTHER multi channel Among Us Stream!

(I'm linking these because I find them hilarious, and I will never play Among Us because I don't have enough friends to play with :( and I would find it super stressful).