Step Into Guff's Randomness

12/09/2024

30 Years 🥳

12/08/2024

FYI all you old folk gamers including me. PlayStation is celebrating 30 years and the boot up start up screen is the og PS1 load screen. I will try to capture it when I turn my PS5 again soon for you all. 🤩

11/22/2024

Welcome to my randomness! Full disclosure I will post here what interests me and what I am going through in transparency and honesty.

There will be a whole lot of game videos, some memes, photos or places I have been, etc. If anything interests you in my posts, links or videos then feel free to comment.

I will do my best to view the comments and anything I find offensive, harassing or where someone or myself is uncomfortable. My intention and resolution is to delete or remove that person or persons from viewing this page.

09/25/2024

Is it feasible to be gluten free and it doesn't hurt your wallet?

08/02/2024

Could Bethesda Make a Successful GI Joe game?

My favorite Joes growing up were Law, Snake Eyes and Cobra is definitely Destro. I stumbled upon a few FB groups post wanting Bethesda to make a GI Joe game. This has also come up a lot on Twitter as well recently and in the past.

I strongly disagree that Bethesda is one of the last developers and arguably the most outdated developer who would ruin a GI Joe game. They would make it too grindy, cumbersome, repetitive and an inventory threshold hell. A better fit would be Square Enix, Bioware, Blizzard, Rockstar or the Embark Studios if it's a looter/shooter who made The Finals.

I am not a fan of Bethesda's flawed inventory management, bugginess of their games and each game still feels like Fallout 3. It's 2023 and their game still doesn't have a pleasing to the players experience HUD, mini map, directory and menu system. Don't get me started on their outdated combat mechanics and their hit box or cross airs. I would and it pains me to say it, Infinity Ward, Dice and Activision could do a better game then Bethesda. Don't hate on me just because I know video games. 😬

Being for real though, if High Moon Studios the creators of the Transformers War and Fall of Cybertron games weren't bought out by Activision, they would make an epic GI Joe game. If you can somehow manage to pick those Transformers games up because they can be pricey to own and play them they literally feel like the 80's comics and cartoons experience.🔥

08/02/2024

The Destiny franchise has been a roller coaster just like my life in the last ten years. Cayde's sacrifice has me self reflecting on my life and what has happened over the years in this epic Light and Dark Saga. It's nice to finally have a narrative and an ending to this journey from the beta testing that I participated in prior to the release of Destiny in September of 2014 to now and find closure.

The ups and downs in my life for the last 10 years both success, failures, setbacks, heart break, missed opportunities, the joy I've shared and the love I've been shown I cannot express my gratitude for my Wifee who's my forever fire team member, my family, fam, friends, fire teams over the years, Destiny community, clans I've been apart of and the looking for groups over the years. In life and this game it has shown me how to practice patience, if you want something in life bad enough then you have to grind, persevere and devote time into it. I have been given hope in this game and in life.

Destiny has given me, the desire for remaining dedicated to my goals, wants in life, remaining courageous and often showing bravery when others didn't. I thank you all for being alongside in this constant change and journey. The ability I've seen and demonstrated to constantly get back up, when this game or life seemed too hard and impossible. I still in the end kept my body from falling on the ground permanently and giving up, which I give credit to Destiny to inspire me to work towards building a legacy and continue to share a life with others worth living.

If it weren't for my previous clan friends keeping in touch with me after our clan and community, Hektik was forced to dispand and losing our sponsorships opportunities through my destructiveness, immaturity, paranoia, doubt and taking things to an extreme when it wasn't needed. For them to still be there for me that meant the world to me. Where others left me alone to work through a lot of issues, work on myself, getting sober and having some of my darkest moments in life that you continued to be there. I am grateful you kept in touch with me.

Thank you for never giving up on me and you every day remaining in contact with me. Even when the clan disbanded and I tried so hard to play by myself and never play again with anybody, because I was devastated and felt personally responsible for losing something we all loved. I appeared offline and from 2011 through 2014 didn't play with anybody.

I love my first ever LFG Grandmasters random paired fire team member with all my heart and I am forever grateful and glad that I created a group for the very first Grandmaster I've ever attempted in the Devil's Lair. If it weren't for them during Covid and through these years being my dear friend and fire team member I wouldn't have had the courage let alone the strength and perseverance over the years we have shared.

I love going on adventures with you and sharing some of the coolest memories that I have ever had in Destiny 2. We have vanquished many, many tough and hard fought foes. We have laughed and cried for many days in this game. It's awesome to now over all these years finally have a third to do the Grandmasters, Legendary Exotic missions with Bomba.

I appreciate everyone who has helped me in completing raids, events, campaigns and to remain in touch with me over the years. Thank you for my fellow leaders that I appointed to keep the clan and fire team in tact in my absence while I mourned my Bungie friends who lost their jobs. I appreciate you for allowing me to be gone for long periods of time and always checking in.

As for the rest of you my dear clan, looking for group fire teams, random encounters, raiders and my Destiny fam, it continues to be an honor to fight alongside you. I appreciate you staying remaining active, helping me complete over the years activities that I couldn't do on my own and making hopefully lasting friends as a result.

While this saga has sadly finally come to an end I loved the last ten years. May there be many memories to come and my hope is to share them with all of you. Like in life and in this game, I will continue to have setbacks, success and go on many adventures until my last day on this Earth. May the ending result in your lives and this game be filled with memories that may last for a lifetime. I hope you continue to love this game and hopefully share your joys with others.

Until the end when my body is extinguished and my light is restored to the Traveler.

Gratias tibi

Thank you,

Step

08/02/2024

https://www.thegamer.com/xboxs-hardware-console-revenue-down-42-percent/?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem-TG&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawEZYdlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXPZsUnZOUC5Cdm6NXpO3LAFHQphcHu3s1jc0SVIFMzfEAkgIzd7fuX0lA_aem_9UGBTiq19m4gL1IANYWfbQ

I think the issue is Microsoft isn't catering to their clientele. Losing their classics to competitors certainly doesn't sit well with a lot of Xbox community members, but if the classics were done right then Xbox probably wouldn't have to sell off or lose the platform rights to these highly fan favorite games. Getting overly caught up in the developer company giants like Electronic Arts and in many cases selling off to crappy studios games we grew to love games from the original Xbox and 360 era the general sentiment is a poor business decision. If they would just stop making games in general and discontinuing games we as the community love then they would be in a good spot.

Microsoft needs to express an interest in resurrecting, remastering or fronting cash towards sequels to the games for many years we have asked for to be placed on the platform. Some that come to mind are Halo but recapture what made it great story telling, campaign, multiplayer and servers that work and actually matchmake. Unreal Tournament because there is a vast majority that want to see a new game and relive the carnage with the updated console graphics. Marvel Heroes that is not unsupported and disconnected, True Crimes Streets of LA, either able to purchase after being remastered X-Men Wolverine Origins, X-Men Legends game and allow Xbox games that are loved to be played online again, same with the Xbox 360 and make all games backwards compatible. If Microsoft can somehow figure out a way to make each console compatible, allow discs to work on the Xbox One and current console and support online multiplayer again then that's a game changer. Those are just some things they can do which can make them over the edge of their competitors.

I would love to see Games with Gold brought back but call it Games with Ultimate brought back where you get a free Xbox 360 game and Xbox game on the Game Pass or Microsoft store or previous marketplace that you own, which doesn't become discontinued or unsupported and brought offline. Reconsider the hiking of prices for the Game Pass and playing online, because these continued Xbox Game Pass monthly prices are getting ridiculous and the anticipation of by 2026 paying $50+ a month is outrageous. If the Game Pass has to increase for inflation then the games that are available need to increase in the subscription easily by 40 to 60% then what's currently offered. The games should consist of Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One games that have quality reviews, still playable with friends, supported multiplayer, possibly split screen or locale ability and at least each month or quarterly you get to choose like you were able to in the Microsoft Music model one game that is yours to keep.

I absolutely hate and this is the general sentiment the dashboard, way to access the store, inability to search for Xbox, Xbox 360 and genres I am interested and the clunkiness of the guide. It just sucks all around and needs to be simplified. Honestly bring back the blades dashboard, the nostalgia of the Xbox 360 dashboard, simply the Microsoft store or create another store strictly for digital Xbox and Xbox 360 games.

One final thing that I missed and loved was is the ability to watch a movie or your gaming clips with your friends through their avatars and hang out. There was emotes and general sense of the togetherness when your friend or family isn't with you in the same room. It's time to buy into the retro gaming interests, bring back the community engagement, listening to what we want to see and start separating yourself from Nintendo and PlayStation. Gain back your identity and be innovators not followers again.

Microsoft has released its financial results for Q4 2024, revealing a whopping 42 percent decreases in Xbox hardware revenue.