Bioshook

As of five minutes ago I have finished Bioshock 1. I enjoyed it. I'll have a longer review in the video, but overall not a bad game. It has its issues with AI, interface and terrible escort missions, but the music, atmosphere and story were all good points. Oh and the physics objects. The amazingly random physics objects that launch you into the air and spring across the room like torpedoes. A+

Bioshock will begin uploading October 1. I will continue to add UT3 and Skyrim videos periodically. I need to focus on editing and encoding Guild Wars 2 and Bioshock Infinite in the meantime.

Ah yes, and we need to finish Resident Evil 5 Mr. Voyeur.

*prod prod*

IT'S OVER

The Penumbra Trilogy is now fully uploaded, and posted and stored away in the LP playlists. I can now wash my hands of it. Let us never speak of this ordeal again.

ONWARDS TO SORTING OUT THE MESS THAT IS BIOSHOCK INFINITE.

Also, there is a preview of a blind Bioshock 1 LP that will be release early October. This clip is...basically my experience of the game in a nutshell. Random, confusing and full of my poor aim and broken sound clips. Apparently my sound card can't handle the inanity.

Ahead of the Game

Also behind at the same time. I have a ton of video ready to release, and have recorded a lot of other stuff I've been meaning to go through. I finished UT3 last night, but unfortunately the game crashed on the last mission, and Mesk and HKS beat the level on that try before I could reconnect. Mesk will be giving me video footage to complete it. Over the last two days I have started Bioshock Burial at Sea with Shauna, continued Resident Evil 5 with GameVoyeur and started HL2Ep2 as well as Bioshock. Also thinking of future projects with Mesk and HKS, which will likely include Neverwinter Nights, Guild Wars 1 and Hunted: The Demon's Forge.

A list of prepared video:
-Unreal Tournament 3 (almost have the entire LP encoded and ready)
-Schwa Can't MMO content including: Guild Wars 2, Archeage, Neverwinter
-Skyrim (another three episodes)
-Haunted Mansion - Gamecube
-Lord of the Rings, The Third Age - Gamecube

A list of recorded video that has not been processed (and are mostly incomplete):
-Half Life 2 Episode 2
-Bioshock
-Bioshock Infinite
-Bioshock Burial at Sea Episode 1
-Dishonored, Brigmore Witches

I may pre-release some of these. You can find them on my Google Drive. I have made a public folder.

Extra Life 2014

I told Kathleen I'd make an announcement here and on my YouTube channel as well. Both Kathleen and I will be participating in Extra Life this year. I am promoting Kathleen's fundraising initiative, because I figure she has more connections willing to donate. The money would be going to the Alberta Children's hospital. Kathleen is trying to raise over $1000 dollars this year. So far she has just over $400 dollars.

I will be playing games for 24 hours as well, whether that will be at Kathleen's house or not, I am unsure. Regardless, I plan to stream off and on all day, so I will take suggestions on what to play. I can do Gamecube games as well thanks to my capture card.

Kathleen's Blog

Kathleen's Donation Page

I will add links to Kathleen and my Twitch accounts closer to the date (October 25th).

My Interwebs

My internet is so broken right now. Ever since the snowstorm last week that broke a bunch of trees in my city, it has been atrocious. It's really sad to think that these type of freak storms are going to happen more and more in the future. You can believe whatever you want about climate change, but after the last year and a half with freak floods, cold winters and storms that destroy half the trees in the city, there is no way you can convince me that we aren't in for a shitstorm of terrible weather in the future.

At any rate, a lot of online activities have become annoying. It will flip from being extremely slow and back to normal again in the span of an hour. Then it'll just drop for no reason. Therefore recording UT3 was especially aggravating. I have a good reserve of UT3 videos to upload as well as the final dungeon of Neverwinter. I also have a reserve of two Gamecube games recorded as well as a bunch of Guild Wars 2 I've been too lazy to produce. I'll have some new Schwa Can't MMO up soon, including a run of Archeage. Other than that, just have a ton of Bioshock Infinite to produce. Also, I ran out of Skyrim videos.

This week on YouTube:
-More UT3 missions (I'm so bad at this game)
-The final Neverwinter Dungeon (with my rogue not hunter)
-Penumbra Requiem (ugh)

What I need to do in terms of recording:
-Record more Skyrim
-Finish Dishonored DLC
-Record more Dark Souls
-Finish LOTR: The Third Age (this is...an experience)
-Continue Resident Evil 5 with Voyeur

September Snow

Yes, it is snowing outside right now. It was 26 degrees Celsius yesterday. Today it is snowing. Welcome to Calgary.

Not much to update at this point in time. I finished editing Penumbra Requiem and it is prepared for release. So that's a big deal. Shauna and I finished Bioshock Infinite a couple days ago, so that means I'll have more editing to do for that. I have more Unreal Tournament 3 and Guild Wars 2 to go through and Resident Evil 5 is still being produced with GameVoyeur.

My hands are killing me. A combination of games and editing video have made them extremely sore. I may have to alternate days to keep them from getting worse, especially because I NEED them to do most of what I do to keep myself occupied.

The good news is, you will have a steady stream of videos. I don't have a set schedule, but you will see more UT3, Skyrim and Neverwinter this week. I will save Penumbra and Guild Wars 2 for later. Meanwhile, Voyeur is uploading one episode of RE5 per week, so stay tuned on his channel for that LP.

I really want to finish up some of these projects so I can play Bioshock and Half Life 2 Episode 2.

Online Storage

Hmmm...

So I got an email informing me that I have 100GB of storage online on Google Drive. I'm debating what to do with this new resource. I have shared videos in the past with people through this tool, but some have had problems accessing it. What I may try, is post currently unreleased videos in a public folder and share videos with interested parties. These would be videos that I would unlikely post on YouTube as they are too long or of no interest to most people. That, and I can use add videos that may be rejected by YouTube for copyright reasons. One major issue with this is bandwidth. I already walk a fine line as it is.

Anyway, just throwing it out there. If you are interested, let me know.

A Little Bit of a Mess

Is the state of my videos right now. My hard drives are very full, which means a lot of work for me and a lot of video for you to watch. I spent the majority of the day here freeing up space. I am happy to announce that I have finally, completely, dealt with Penumbra Black Plague, and the final episodes will be available this week. I made a mistake and uploaded the segments out of order, and only realized it today when I was attempting to update the tags.

Meanwhile, I have begun recording Unreal Tournament 3. It has been...an experience. I am not very good...and we are playing on the highest difficulty. I will need to heavily edit the first two missions as we had to attempt them multiple times. We get better as we go though, so the rest of the videos should be full videos unless we hit problems again.

Right now my priorities are: Neverwinter (need to get that under control), Guild Wars 2 (not sure what I'll do with this yet), Unreal Tournament 3 (because it's taking up a non trivial amount of space) and Adventures with Boxes....I mean Penumbra Requiem (because it's...been a year). Thankfully, Requiem is short and does not take up much space.

I am likely only going to commit to those 4 projects for the time being, but I am still taking requests and I will eventually move on to other titles. I will keep a running list of the LPs that have been requested, or that I plan on doing at the bottom of this blog.