Sick Again

I have been fighting off this cold or flu or whatever it is for over two weeks now...and it's finally taken over. I can't do this to myself anymore. I keep doing too much, I don't say no to anyone who asks for help or asks if I can do something, and I'm not eating or sleeping well enough. So I have decided to finish outstanding projects and back off from a few things for awhile until I can get myself well again.

Thankfully I have a reserve of videos to post, so releases shouldn't slow down, but I'm going to limit myself to what I produce for the next two months. I am not stopping my videos. I will still be doing LPs. I am however limiting myself to what I do.

I will be:
-Producing only one solo LP per month, which means some requests will not be granted until later this year. I will finish up Dead Space 1 and then choose ONE game to do afterwards. The exception will be Life is Strange Episode 2, mainly because that will only take 3 ish hours to complete. I have no idea when it will be released even.
-Doing a Borderlands 2 LP with GeneralDelta. This is my sole commitment to the new channel he set up for the time being. I will post other, shorter, one-shot videos. This will likely change in the summer.
-Continuing LPs with Shauna. I need to work my way through the multiple LPs that we have already finished recording before we start anything else. I will be suggesting a break from new content for awhile while I finish this.
-Continuing LPs with Mesk (and HKS). I will be finishing Hunted, producing some Tera and most likely take on Scourge:Outbreak with them.

I will not be doing any other collaborative work at this time. If you ask me to do a co-op or tag-team LP with you, I will say no. This is not personal, I just can't handle anymore work or commitments. Talk to me again in June.

I will take requests, but know that they will likely not be done until later this year. Expect some livestreams (Transistor and Left 4 Dead 2 or anything else I don't want to record).

Sleepy

Oh online moderation...things do explode so quickly sometimes. Over silly things. You check in on a community and everything his happy and peaceful. Check in again five hours later and suddenly all hell has broken loose. People make me sleepy.

I have a busy week ahead of me. I need to get a lot of video finished. I ran out of Alien Isolation videos again (I have about 4 hours left to edit I just need to stop playing Fire Emblem and GET 'ER DONE). I need to finish up two LPs so I can work on other projects. First, I need to finish up Hunted with Mesk. We have one more chapter to complete. Second, I need to finish Dead Space. I think I have 4 chapters to complete. Third I need to get all that Tera and Guild Wars 2 footage off my computer. I have no idea what the hell is going on with those projects. Both are adventures of screaming, horses, random encounters and giggling and I just don't know anymore.

I have told GeneralDelta I will be prepared to play Borderlands 2 by Thursday. So I have to get everything together and off my drives. I HAVE THREE DAYS.

What's new this week other than heaps of recording work?
-Sanitarium - Started posting this yesterday
-Tera videos should go up sometime this week
-I might start uploading Bioshlock 2, but I might save that for filler when I need it

I don't know if there will be any streams or not this week. If there are, it will likely be Left 4 Dead 2 with Shauna and Nick, Borderlands 2 with GeneralDelta, or Transistor and my bitter tears.

MOAR VIDEO

Yeah I messed up and didn't upload enough video to cover the week...so instead of two per day, you'll get one video some days. Meh, my uploads are usually super inconsistent anyways as I sometimes forget or am too tired to post them (also I hate doing the tags). Regardless, you should still get some video each day, just less than normal.

Also, Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is now a completed LP. I recommend watching episodes 40-46 for maximum wtf factor. It is so random, rushed and horribly corny. I love it...mostly because even though the quality drops and there are sudden unexplained events, the game is still playable and entertaining. Three points of ughhhhh: Grima, Funny Looking Orc Dude and the stupid Nazgul in Osgiliath. That is all.

Coming up this week: Alien Isolation, Hunted, Dead Space 1

Coming up next week: Sanitarium.

Bioschlock 2 is next on the list after these. I will likely start posting it once Dead Space 1 is finished. Among the Sleep is next up after Alien Isolation in terms of LPs with Shauna (AtS is about 3 hours of gameplay so it should only be about 6 episodes at most). Then I will focus on getting all that Bioshock Infinite off my drives (which was also played with Shuana).

The next Gamecube game I will be posting is Lost Kingdoms. This will likely be followed by Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance on Hard difficulty (because Sacrosanct wants a piece of my suffering). I'd share the anguish of Fire Emblem: Awakening on Lunatic Classic mode, but you are likely only going to get a crummy video from my phone on that at most as it's on the 3DS and I can't emulate that at this time. Guys it's painful. I am currently stuck on CHAPTER 2 because SOMEONE couldn't remember their god damned axe. Yeah the issue is really the pointy stick dudes. Frederick survived the Hammer Man and now it's just the pointy stick dudes.

The next solo LP I will be doing will likely be finishing Half Life Episode 2. The end of February and March is CATCH UP TIME.

Finally expect some extremely silly video from Tera.

Triple O

"Out of Office" for the next week. I will be travelling to Murica to partake of the many flavoured Oreos and Cherry Cola. I will return next weekend. I will have internet access for the entire week, but there shall be no recording (which is not necessarily a bad thing as I am low on hard drive space for the 1000th time due to Tera recordings) and I will either be bringing a hard drive with me, or pre-uploading my videos for the week. So there should be no interruptions in video releases unless I forget to make them public.

At least one of you will be pleased to learn that I am almost done editing Alien Isolation. It has been difficult finding a good chunk of time to do this as I have work, people I have promised to game with, other chores and appointments. Also turns out I need this "sleep" thing I keep hearing about. I thought I could just not sleep, but I tend to pass out periodically and it's really annoying. Sometimes when I'm playing a game. Yes, I recently had two microsleeps while recording Neverwinter with GeneralDelta. Oops.

Lord of the Rings: Third Age will be finished this week. I have 4 more episodes. May also add custom title cards as GeneralDelta was so kind to make them for me. Dead Space will continue as well. I REALLY need to finish recording it soon or I will completely forget how to play, and it's not a good time to forget about it. I've just been putting it off due to space constrictions and because I've been a little stressed out (and it is kind of a stressful game).

Meanwhile I've been streaming a bit as it does not require any hard drive space from me. I may be streaming some Left 4 Dead 2 with Shauna and Nick tonight. I'll see if they're up for a stream or not. Usually it's only one or two people watching anyway. http://www.twitch.tv/drschwa


SEE Y'ALL IN A WEEK.

I Forgot a Title

I just realized I had an opportunity to do a soundtrack Thursday today...and totally didn't think of it. Oh well. Here, have a Life is Strange Episode 1 Soundtrack. It is very mellow.

Yeah so about Life is Strange. I think I will be LPing the rest of the episodes when they come out. This will be a slow LP as the next episode will be released in March. I've had enough positive feedback to continue however. It's interesting how many mixed reviews I have received about it. Seems as though the general consensus is: love the main character, like the character development, dislike the cliched (and unrealistic dialogue) and there was nothing that was really HATED. My opinion?

Character development: good
Voice acting: Some good, some awful
Dialogue and Writing: Some good, some awful, some unrealistic
Interactions between characters: Mostly believable if not a little cliche, but some motivations and actions really confused me. I couldn't understand the reasoning behind Max not contacting her best friend for five years for instance...
Setting: A little bland, but the characters are the focus
Style: Meh. Don't love, don't hate. I like the little details. I like the small funny bits. Some of the models and art looked...weird to me, but other parts were quite beautiful. I loved Chloe's design. Max has this perpetual look of exhaustion about her, which is fine because she's a stressed out student.
Mechanics: Kind of hilarious at times, especially when I couldn't get the football part right and the girl kept getting smoked in the head. Again, a little cliche with the time control.
Music and sound: Suits the game. I enjoyed the soundtrack. Hopefully that won't result in copyright issues on YouTube.
Additional notes: All the boys in the game all seem either creepy, scary or high. The exception is the teacher (who is like built up to be the best human being ever in Max's eyes) and the principal who just wants money. Also I think I have an irrational hatred of Brooke. She was kind of an asshole. I expected so much more from you Brooke.

I am interested in continuing this myself. I want to know what the consequences of my actions will be, and how much it changes the story (I plan to play through again without recording and try different options).

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age will be finished by the weekend. Sanitarium should start next week. I plan on finishing the recording of Dead Space this weekend. Mesk and I will finish Hunted shortly. Shauna and I will continue Murdered: Soul Suspect (of which I actually think we're almost done). And Alien Isolation continues to clog up my drives as I slowly sift through the CONFIRMED 34 crashes that we experienced during the series.