Sleepiness

Kathleen and I made it though the night. I think I fared a bit better, at least mid-morning before we finished as my sleep schedule is messed up anyway. I suffered Sunday and Monday though with exhaustion and super soreness. Dodgeball really...took a toll on my body. Last time I was that sore was "learning" how to snowboard (which essentially meant me falling on my ass over and over and over). Anyway, Kathleen's grand total for money raised was over $1200 (a few more donations may still come in). I am currently working on a recap video, which will go up once I figure out how to get the Twitch videos into my clutches.

Games played included:
Luigi's Mansion (nostalgic)
Fear Online (awful)
No Room in Hell (confusing)
Borderlands the Pre-Sequel (not bad, but super sensitive and clunky after playing Destiny so much)
Sonic Mega Collection (of which I remember little because I was so tired)
And we attempted Killing Floor but I actually broke it beyond repair. I have no idea how I managed this.


Also, I have Destiny now for PS4. Going it solo mostly + playing with randoms, but if you have it, you may add me on PSN: DrSchwa

A Bug Hunt

I am super impressed with how well my title fits this time.

FIRST - Alien Isolation continues. We are not done recording...I assume we are around the halfway mark, especially with the sudden difficulty spike. My thoughts so far? Not a bad game. It has...issues though. I don't particularly find the game scary. Now, listening to the videos, you will be inclined to debate this based on our reactions. But it's not scary like Outlast or Amnesia. It is tense. I am way more tense playing this game, and I was way more frightened playing the other games. Half of that tension just comes from whether the bloody Alien will show up and kill us before we can save and we have to do the same shit over and over again. Part of that tension just comes from the unpredictability. Also the game crashes. A lot. I don't even think I'm going to edit the crashes out to be honest. It's just business as usual between them because it's so common. So far in 8 hours of gameplay I believe we had 8 crashes. One crash per hour. gg. Also, the game is a little buggy. It uses Havok, so the physics objects are already hilarious, but the Alien itself is just...so broken. You should see a short clip on YouTube that I posted (two days ago?) that sums this whole experience up in about 45 seconds.

SECOND - Started Hunted: Demon's Forge with Mesk. We marathoned about...5 hours of it before we both got too tired to continue. So we are near the end of the second chapter and have already broken the game in new and exciting ways. We also recreated many of the old bugs he encountered with HKS back when he ran through it then. This will be...a different LP experience. I would recommend this one if you like seeing a lot of silly things (and don't mind that we take the time to see if we can push things to their limits). The game is actually decent though despite its major issues. It's super buggy, but gameplay is fun and interesting, there are tons of areas to explore, and the story itself isn't boring. I have been looking forward to this one. I've never played it before, but it is far from a blind LP as I've watched Mesk and HKS' videos (which can be found here). This LP should start going up on YouTube early November after Bioshock is complete.

THIRD - Extra Life reminder this Saturday. Kathleen reached her goal, but she's trying to stay in first for the Alberta Children's Hospital as she will have the chance to earn extra money for them (30k I think). So feel free to check out our streams on Twitch. I will post the links again on the date. I will be joining in the evening, so Kathleen will have a head start, so make sure to tune in to her stream while I'm off getting my fingers broken and my face crushed by large rubber balls. I'm uh...playing in a dodgeball tournament until about 4/5pm. I believe Shauna, General Delta, Mesk and Oliver may also join in.

Retribution

A bit of news today. IskatuMesk finished and released his audiobook Black Sun: Retribution today. It can be found on Campaign Creations along with a little background of the project and its history. I voice acted a minor part in it, so there's that. This is why there was a lag in videos today. I was doing some polish takes for the final project.

Also, I am fully finished with Unreal Tournament 3. I now have free space on my drives for the first time in months. WHAT SHALL I DO WITH IT?

Casting Lull

More like casting lol

I haven't been making any new videos for the past while aside for some Resident Evil 5 recordings and Alien: Isolation. I'm not too concerned as I have a ton of material to post that's in queue, but I will need to finish up Half Life 2 Episode 2 and Dishonored at some point. I won't be able to do more recording for a few days as I'm still sick and the condition of my throat will not allow me to speak for prolonged periods of time. I also have some voice work to do for a friend that I am very much behind in.

For the next couple weeks you will see more Bioshock, the first episodes of Alien: Isolation, UT3 and my first few episodes of the Gamecube games I played. I will continue to take suggestions for Extra Life, which is just under 2 weeks away.

List of Games

I am posting my list of games for Extra Life here. If you want me to play any, comment on this post (or message me somewhere on YouTube). I have more games than I did last year. Not sure how well they will all stream with OBS, but we'll see. So on Steam I have:

Age of Empires 2
Age of Empires 3
Alice: Madness Returns
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Baldur's Gate
Bastion
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Bioshock Infinite
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Bothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Bulletstorm
Command and Conquer 3
Crysis
Crysis 2
Dark Souls
Dead Space (probably going to LP this so I'd rather not play it)
Dead Space 2 (see previous line)
Descent
Deus Ex
Dishonored
Dungeon Siege 3
Skyrim
F.E.A.R. (probably going to LP this as well, so I'd rather not play it)
F.E.A.R. 2
F.E.A.R. 3
Far Cry 3
Garry's Mod
Grand Theft Auto 3 and 4
Half Life 2
Half Life Episode 1
Half Life Episode 2 (LP will be posted on YouTube soon anyway so...)
Half Life Opposing Force
How to Survive
Just Cause 2 (includes the multiplayer mod...which is hilarious)
Kane and Lynch 2 (if you want to see a truly awful game)
Left 4 Dead 2
Limbo
Magicka
Max Payne
Max Payne 2
Max Payne 3
Miasmata
Portal
Portal 2
Prince of Persia (Sands of Time, The Two Thrones, Warrior Within)
Resident Evil 5
Saints Row 2
Saints Row The Third
Saints Row 4
Serious Sam 3
Civilization 5
Thief
Thief 2
Torchlight
Torchlight 2
Transistor
Trine
Trine 2
Unreal Tournament
VVVVVV
The Walking Dead
The Wolf Among Us

Off of Steam I have...
Neverwinter MMO
Neverwinter Nights
Fallout 1 and 2 (maybe 3? Can't remember)
Guild Wars 2
Morrowind
Oblivion
Diablo 1
Diablo 2
Warcraft 2
Warcraft 3
Archeage
And a ton of other old games I have in CD form.

I will also take requests for Gamecube and Wii. I can bring some of the Mario Parties and Mario Karts. I will also bring Sonic Adventure Battle 2, Sonic Adventure, Lost Kingdoms, Fire Emblem (the Gamecube and Wii version) and any other silly game I think would be amusing. OH I SHOULD BRING SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG. That game is so bad.

Let me know if you have challenges. I love challenges, even if they are tear-your-hair-out difficult.

Accidental "Success"

Note to self: "Fanny Trampling" is obviously a...thing somewhere (apparently Germany and Italy), because Bioshock Episode 2 got way too many hits in the first 24 hours (over 120...and most hits were less than 5 seconds). And yes, I knew exactly what I was doing at the time. The title was not an accident. Just the views. Seriously, I consider 15 views in the first 24 hours successful.

Plan to alternate uploading Bioshock and other videos continues. I will be entering a very unproductive stage soon, meaning I will probably be doing more recording than anything else...so thankfully I have a lot of videos prepared.

Otherwise...no new news really.

Soundtrack Thursday SPECIAL EDITION

I am actually back at my old workplace doing a one-shot project for them...AND IT IS THURSDAY. Couldn't have worked out better. I'll be listening to the soundtracks that tickle my fancy today, so I'll link you them and you'll be able to listen to these awesome tracks as well. Good plan yes?

InFamous: Second Son - I really do love this soundtrack. Compared with other soundtracks of similar music style, I'd say it's one of the best I've heard.

Destiny - Still debating whether I'd like to purchase/play this game. Tried it on Xbox, but I'm not sure...Really torn on this soundtrack. It has some super generic stuff...and some really good tracks. There are better tracks closer to the end.

Borderlands Pre-Sequel - Cause I listened to the other soundtracks and liked them fine.


I just realized my phone populated by phone book with my Google+ contacts. Now I have a bunch of random people in my contact list there...all under their aliases. Anyone looking for a phone number in there is going to be very confused...and possibly amused.

Opt for the Cliche?

Debating posting horror/creepy games for the month of October cause...Halloween? Meh, I dunno. Usually I just post whatever the heck I want. Maybe I shall post a higher frequency of such such videos for this month.

OKAY SO SCHEDULE.

Bioshock 1 begins uploading today. I will be uploading two Bioshock episodes every odd numbered day (ie. Oct 1, Oct 3, Oct. 5 etc.) At that rate, I will be done uploading the entire LP by the end of the month.

On even numbered days, I will be alternating uploads between: Guild Wars 2, Unreal Tournament 3, Haunted Mansion (Gamecube), Bioshock Infinite and Skyrim.

Expect Half Life 2 Episode 2 by the end of the month. Expect Dishonoured: Brigmore Witches early November.

Extra Life is on October 25. I am in a dodgeball tournament that day as well, so I will be joining in the video games after 5pm and pulling an all-nighter.

If I have free time, I will likely make some silly custom titlecards for YouTube. Top of the list for these is UT3.

As for co-op projects (holy crap I'm doing a lot of videos), I will continue Burial at Sea with Shauna before moving on to the new Alien game being released. I will continue playing Resident Evil 5 with Voyeur and I expect to start Hunted: The Demon's Forge with Mesk once he is done some of his other projects. That brings me to my next news...

I, uh, may or may not be voice acting a small part in an audiobook...heh...

I will post the link here when it is released...if it is released publicly.