Topic: Your Latest PS4 Purchase

@Th3solution indeed you are right. I’ve been really sitting on the fence about it, pondering over the meaning of life and what we should really do….

Oh yeah we’re talking about ME, not me.
Ah yee the more important topic; video games.
Yeah! I’d love to hear her first thoughts! Now that you mention it it’s definitely gonna be encouraging seeing a fellow newcomer.
I believe FemShep was added in the legendary edition of ME1? That’s awesome for me!
What do you mean, “spruced up”?

@Yousef- Lol, right - ME, not me. 😂 You got that right.

And yeah, to clarify some English idiomatic expressions —
“Sitting on the fence” or “Straddling the fence” or basically just being “on the fence” about a certain subject is to be undecided, equivocal, non-committed, or feeling neutral about that subject. I think you may have got that too.

As for something being “spruced up” it means to be enhanced, beatified, groomed or just overall improved, particularly related to appearance.

I was too curious so I looked up where the term “spruce up” came from and found that:
The origin of the term comes from the 1580s, from spruce leather (mid-15c.), a type of leather imported from Prussia into England in the 1400s and 1500s and used there to make a popular style of jerkin that was considered smart-looking. Apparently “Spruce” is a region in Prussia / northeastern modern Germany, so I guess they made good leather there years ago.

So I learned something new too. Since a spruce is a type of evergreen tree (probably also named for that region…?) and I had assumed the term “to spruce something up” came from trimming the tree to make it look better, like for a Christmas tree, but apparently that’s not where the term comes from. Who knew 🤷🏻‍♂️

And yes, somehow a discussion about Mass Effect has turned into lesson about ancient Prussian clothing.

As for Mass Effect 1 - I think FemShep was there all along, but either way, yes, there’s an option to play as man or woman. Speaking of - I know most people play as the gender they identify as, but I like playing as a female sometimes. It depends. Lately I’m playing more as a man in my RPGs that have a character creator, but over the years I’ve probably chosen to have a female avatar just as often. For some reason I’ve yet to do a female in my FromSoft games, as the identity of your character in those games is so completely inconsequential that I barely put much thought into it. But I’m deciding now to do a female for Dark Souls 3. I need to diversify. 😄

@Th3solution I knew what being on the fence meant. Was being playful. Although with how often I wake up with a dry eye that I need to close and not use, it wouldn’t be surprising if I come off like a trrrible reader. I need to see a doctor.

Interesting information about spruced up. To me it just sounded like a fusion between spiced up, slurped up and sparse (why is everything in my head food related…?)

Interesting point about male/female. I actually back and forth on that in souls stuff, I think to myself you gotta see as much game content as you can, and what’s not better than straight up switching to a character with entirely different voice lines?

@Th3solution Spreading your legs and stretching your legs mean different things entirely.

@JohnnyShoulder 🤣 Exactly!
Stand down, sir. Stand down.

Shafow Man

@Yousef- a cross between Shadow man and Shaft I presume 🤔… I’m down 👌

@colonelkilgore I was gonna post in “ps3 purchase”, but I was surprised shadow man was never ported to ps3!

ion fury

@Yousef- but how about Shafow Man?

@colonelkilgore I bought both

@colonelkilgore I’m silly for not clarifying but yes I did indeed purchase the remaster for the N64 shooter, Shadow Man. I plan to purchase plenty other old N64 shooters. Like Turok

Should ping @Pastellioli because he’s interested in trying out more n64 titles.

@Yousef- @colonelkilgore Shafow Man sounds like something out of Bo' Selcta!

@JohnnyShoulder …. That is an extremely fitting description.

Rise of the triad
PowerSlave Exhumed

Found a couple of nice steelbooks today - Persona 5 for £10 and GTAV (PS3) for £3. I already had the GTAV one but at that price I couldn’t leave it there.

Cloak engaged....Crysis remastered. £16 which is more than it appears it often appears on PSN for but....

Psychonauts 2, The Outer Worlds Expansion pass, Battlefield 1, Hose Flipper 1 & Expansion Luxury

Just picked up the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone trilogy on the stores’ Xmas sale. My mate in work talks about these games with supreme reverence, so I’m interested to see how they land with me.

Arcade paradise VR bundle which also includes Tin Hearts and Last Worker. Tin hearts looks good but last worker looks so so. £16 on psn.

@colonelkilgore. Nice, that is on my list to pick up at some point.