One of my goals with my YouTube channel was that I wanted to complete more games that I actually was. Which wasn't a huge goal that was unobtainable since I wasn't completing any games at all. If I could just complete one game I would have met this goal. Fortunately for me I haven't completed just one game. I've completed 6 games . . . so far.
The first game to complete was also a special one because not only was it a "complete to end credits" completion, but also a "earn all achievements" completion. It was Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. (How fitting that is has "complete" in the game title.) Now, I've played (and completed) that game on Playstation 2 many years ago but I wanted the achievements and the gamer score. Unfortunately getting robbed put me back to the beginning and I lost all of my progress. But I did it. There were levels and tasks that I thought I would never get done right (damn you Blue Barrels on that last mission) but I stuck with it and I'm proud of myself for not giving up.
I've also been able to start AND complete the following games since I started posting videos:
Dead Space
Costume Quest (including DLC)
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Medal of Honor
Stacking (including DLC)
That's a total of 6 games that I've started AND completed which is about 6 more than I've done in any other year (for the most part). At least that part of my YouTube channel has been successful. And to top it off a couple of those games also had DLC that I completed. They are also smaller games to begin with but it's still a completion to me. I've got 2 full size "retail" games in there too.
I'm also getting close (I think) to completing Psychonauts. I'm not sure how long the game is but based on my psychic level (about 47) I figure I'm about half way through the game. Unfortunately sickness and allergies have slowed down the time for recording new episodes. It's kind of hard to play a video game and talk when you're having trouble breathing or you're sniffling all the time because of allergies. It sucks.
I think if I started filming the 4 games that I'm suppose to complete based on the post that got this blog started, I would get them done this year. Unfortunately, I've already started those games and they wouldn't be a full play through. I think some of them would be okay, but I don't think that would be good for Final Fantasy VII. Everybody loves that game and who would want to watch a partial play through only? Not me. But I don't want to start it all over again just to record footage. I might, but I'm not there yet.
I wish I had more time to play and edit videos. I think I'd finish more games if I did. This day job is really getting in the way. Oh well. I just have to do the best I can with what I've got. Which is only a couple of hours each night during the week. And if I'm editing, I'm not playing. And if I'm not playing, I'm not finishing games. It's such a vicious cycle. I'll take what I can get now and right now I've finished 6 games that I probably wouldn't have done so without keeping a schedule and posting videos on YouTube. That makes me happy!
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
I finally achieved perfection!
Well, I finally did it. I perfected an Xbox 360 retail game. Now, I've perfected several Arcade titles, but those games don't usually require the time and effort commitment to getting all the achievements that a full retail game does. Retail games are also a lot more gamerscore than Arcade titles (at least they were). It's so much more fulfilling to see 1,000 in gamerscore next to a game instead of 200.
Now, technically I've "finished" several retail titles. Meaning I've finished the story and gotten to the end credits. But I've never perfected the achievements in a retail game before. Now, I did it in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. And it's the third time I've played the game.
The first time I played that game I completed it with my brother, dain bramage, in co-op on the Playstation 2. We completed all the Lego Star Wars games together on the PS2 and when we found out those games were out for the Xbox 360 we doubled up and got those games again for the achievements. We knew what we were in for since we had already played the game and thought it would be a piece of cake to play those games again and get that allusive 1,000 perfect gamerscore.
So, for a second time I started playing the game. This time we were working mostly on our own. We did get together to play the arcade mini-game so we could get that achievement. Other than that I've been playing the game alone. And I don't remember it being that hard to complete. Unfortunately some jackass(es) broke in to my house about 6 years ago and stole all my games . . . and more importantly my game saves and memory cards. They stole a lot of items, but they also stole hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of my life in game saves.
At the time I was robbed I only had 2 achievements left to earn. The one for collecting all Gold Bricks and the one for completing the game to 100%. The last achievement I had earned was to get all the Mini-kits, which I had earned about a month or so before I was robbed. I was that close to finishing the game. But once I got all my stuff back, I had to decide if I was going to start the game over for a third time just for those last 2 achievements. I had to make that decision for several games (Lost Odyssey being one I was about 4 hours away from finishing based on friend's estimates).
I didn't make that decision right away because just the thought of it overwhelmed me. All those game saves lost. Pieces of time ripped right out of my life with no hope of ever getting those moments back. Did I want to do it all over again? For every game? Was it worth it?
I've always wanted to perfect a game and I figured that Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga would probably be my best bet. So I restarted the game . . . for a third time. I would play the game when I was interested so there were times when I didn't pick up the game for months. When I finally get all my shit together to start recording gameplay and posting to YouTube I made a decision that I would use that medium to motivate me to finish the game and finally perfect it. It worked.
Even when I didn't want to play the game anymore I knew I had to make a video to post online. So I took out the game and played it. There are times in the videos that you can probably tell how frustrated I was getting with the game. A lot of that came from the fact that I was replaying it for the 3rd time and I thought it would be easier. It wasn't sometimes. And that made it more frustrating for me. But on Sunday night I finally finished the last missions and the game showed me 100% completion. Except the achievement didn't pop right away.
The same thing happened when I "earned" the achievement for getting all the Gold Bricks. The game showed I had all the Gold Bricks (160 of them) and it let me build the fountain, but didn't give me the achievement. I had to go in and complete a level before the achievement would pop. The 100% achievement did the same thing. Can I tell you how anti-climatic that is? You work really hard and play the game for over 60 hours (for a third time), finally earn the final achievement but the game doesn't give it to you unless you do something else instead. And you couldn't just jump in a level and jump out. No. You had to play and complete the level. Just give me my damn achievement! I earned it.
I played the extra level and finally got the achievement to pop. Woohoo!!! I did it. I perfected the game. Below is a breakout of the levels you have to play to complete the game. Since I didn't do very well in some of the levels I had to replay some of them multiple times. That hellish Into the Deathstar blue barrels flight mission was the worst. I think I played that level more than 20 times before I could get all the barrels in the time limit.
36 Story based levels (6 per movie)
36 Freeplay based levels (6 per movie)
36 blue barrel levels (6 per movie)
12 extra movie based levels (2 per movie)
36 "Super Story" based levels
6 extra game based levels (including revised levels, Lego City and New Town)
That's a total of 162 unique levels to play. You can't say the game doesn't offer up enough content. Even if it's the same 36 levels over and over and over and over again. But at least it's done. In the Lego Star Wars II game the only achievements I haven't earned are to play the vehicle missions without dying (and you can't have any extras turned on). I think I'll wait on working on those achievements until sometime later. I'm a little burned out on Lego Star Wars right now. (But if any of my friends would like to jump in to my game save and see if all my achievements will pop up for them in their game, let me know. It will cost you an hour of multiplayer game play in a game of your choosing [provided that I own that game]).
The closer I got to finishing the game the more I decided to set myself a goal and reward. I would finish the game by the end of July (actually finished it August 2nd) and reward myself with finally buying an Xbox One. I refused to buy and Xbox One until I had completed, or perfected, a game on the Xbox 360. Now that I've accomplished that, I can finally get my XBO. I get paid on Friday so look for me online this weekend on my new system. I earned it.
Now, technically I've "finished" several retail titles. Meaning I've finished the story and gotten to the end credits. But I've never perfected the achievements in a retail game before. Now, I did it in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. And it's the third time I've played the game.
The first time I played that game I completed it with my brother, dain bramage, in co-op on the Playstation 2. We completed all the Lego Star Wars games together on the PS2 and when we found out those games were out for the Xbox 360 we doubled up and got those games again for the achievements. We knew what we were in for since we had already played the game and thought it would be a piece of cake to play those games again and get that allusive 1,000 perfect gamerscore.
So, for a second time I started playing the game. This time we were working mostly on our own. We did get together to play the arcade mini-game so we could get that achievement. Other than that I've been playing the game alone. And I don't remember it being that hard to complete. Unfortunately some jackass(es) broke in to my house about 6 years ago and stole all my games . . . and more importantly my game saves and memory cards. They stole a lot of items, but they also stole hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of my life in game saves.
At the time I was robbed I only had 2 achievements left to earn. The one for collecting all Gold Bricks and the one for completing the game to 100%. The last achievement I had earned was to get all the Mini-kits, which I had earned about a month or so before I was robbed. I was that close to finishing the game. But once I got all my stuff back, I had to decide if I was going to start the game over for a third time just for those last 2 achievements. I had to make that decision for several games (Lost Odyssey being one I was about 4 hours away from finishing based on friend's estimates).
I didn't make that decision right away because just the thought of it overwhelmed me. All those game saves lost. Pieces of time ripped right out of my life with no hope of ever getting those moments back. Did I want to do it all over again? For every game? Was it worth it?
I've always wanted to perfect a game and I figured that Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga would probably be my best bet. So I restarted the game . . . for a third time. I would play the game when I was interested so there were times when I didn't pick up the game for months. When I finally get all my shit together to start recording gameplay and posting to YouTube I made a decision that I would use that medium to motivate me to finish the game and finally perfect it. It worked.
Even when I didn't want to play the game anymore I knew I had to make a video to post online. So I took out the game and played it. There are times in the videos that you can probably tell how frustrated I was getting with the game. A lot of that came from the fact that I was replaying it for the 3rd time and I thought it would be easier. It wasn't sometimes. And that made it more frustrating for me. But on Sunday night I finally finished the last missions and the game showed me 100% completion. Except the achievement didn't pop right away.
The same thing happened when I "earned" the achievement for getting all the Gold Bricks. The game showed I had all the Gold Bricks (160 of them) and it let me build the fountain, but didn't give me the achievement. I had to go in and complete a level before the achievement would pop. The 100% achievement did the same thing. Can I tell you how anti-climatic that is? You work really hard and play the game for over 60 hours (for a third time), finally earn the final achievement but the game doesn't give it to you unless you do something else instead. And you couldn't just jump in a level and jump out. No. You had to play and complete the level. Just give me my damn achievement! I earned it.
I played the extra level and finally got the achievement to pop. Woohoo!!! I did it. I perfected the game. Below is a breakout of the levels you have to play to complete the game. Since I didn't do very well in some of the levels I had to replay some of them multiple times. That hellish Into the Deathstar blue barrels flight mission was the worst. I think I played that level more than 20 times before I could get all the barrels in the time limit.
36 Story based levels (6 per movie)
36 Freeplay based levels (6 per movie)
36 blue barrel levels (6 per movie)
12 extra movie based levels (2 per movie)
36 "Super Story" based levels
6 extra game based levels (including revised levels, Lego City and New Town)
That's a total of 162 unique levels to play. You can't say the game doesn't offer up enough content. Even if it's the same 36 levels over and over and over and over again. But at least it's done. In the Lego Star Wars II game the only achievements I haven't earned are to play the vehicle missions without dying (and you can't have any extras turned on). I think I'll wait on working on those achievements until sometime later. I'm a little burned out on Lego Star Wars right now. (But if any of my friends would like to jump in to my game save and see if all my achievements will pop up for them in their game, let me know. It will cost you an hour of multiplayer game play in a game of your choosing [provided that I own that game]).
The closer I got to finishing the game the more I decided to set myself a goal and reward. I would finish the game by the end of July (actually finished it August 2nd) and reward myself with finally buying an Xbox One. I refused to buy and Xbox One until I had completed, or perfected, a game on the Xbox 360. Now that I've accomplished that, I can finally get my XBO. I get paid on Friday so look for me online this weekend on my new system. I earned it.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga = the game from hell
So I've been focusing on finishing up Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga because I'm so close to the end. I've even put Dark Souls on hold until I can finish Lego SW. After this last week I was beginning to think that would never happen.
For some reason I had a lot of problem collecting all the blue barrels in Jabba's Palace. Not all of my failed attempts were due to my stupidity. Three times my game glitched on me and I got stuck in a room with no way out except a Jawa door that wouldn't let me through. It was really frustrating to spend four and half minutes just trying to get through a door when I only have 10 minutes to play the level and my game is going "uh oh, not for you". It's frustrating. Almost enough to quit the game no matter how close I was to finishing.
But that level has nothing on Into the Deathstar. That level is a BITCH FROM HELL level!!!!! I think I tried that level more than 20 times before I even started to get close to finishing it. The first couple of times I spent 8 out of my 10 minutes just clearing the first area of the 4 Star Destroyers. It's kind of hard to find and pick up 8 more blue barrels in only 2 minutes. Impossible is more like it.
I even got desperate enough to send a message to all my friends that I thought might have the game and be willing to help me out. I told them I was desperate. I was hoping that they would come to the aid of a damsel in distress. While I was waiting for them to respond I opened up my game to strangers. Big mistake! I had a someone jump in and he spent the whole time just switching ships. He never fired his gun. He never collected a blue barrel. He did absolutely nothing. Well . . . not exactly nothing. He did change his ship every second or two and then tried to fly in whatever opposite direction I was trying to fly in. Since you share the screen (even over Xbox Live) you can image how well that got along. I think I had to kick him out of the game 4 or 5 times before I finished the level. Well, actually I ran out of time to be honest.
After that disastrous experience I changed my settings to set my game to invite only and thought I would give it one more try before giving up on the game entirely. It turns out I'm glad I gave it another shot. I was able to finish the level and ended up with just over 2 minutes to spare before time ran out. I was completely shocked, stunned and utterly bewildered, befuddled and confused. But also extremely ecstatic and thrilled. I couldn't believe how close I was to giving up and crying myself to sleep and never playing this game again when the very next play through I beat it with time to spare. I haven't listened to the audio for that level yet so I hope I don't sound like a complete idiot. It's just that I've been working on trying to finish that level for almost 2 weeks and I finally did it. It will be awhile before that video is posted, just don't judge me to badly for my reaction.
Now that my blue barrels were all collected I could focus on the remaining 4 gold bricks I needed in order to get all 160 gold bricks. I had to do the original Gunship Calvary level, the alternate New Hope level and the Lego City and New Town levels. I've tried Lego City and New Town before but could never get all 1,000,000 studs before giving up. It took a couple of attempts for Lego City and I had to pause my own recording of New Town to watch a video online to find out what I was forgetting to do before I could finish New Town. But all of those are now done. Unfortunately I'm not done with the game like I thought I would be.
When I got the last gold brick I waited patiently for the achievement to pop up. It didn't. I couldn't figure out what I needed to do to get it to pop. I even went outside the Cantina and built that gold fountain with all the gold bricks. Nothing. After the Deathstar blue barrel fiasco I was so furious that my anger went immediately to a cold blue fire. Bypass the yellow, red and white hot stuff. I was glowing blue. If it wasn't so late at night I probably would have gone nuclear too.
I was able to calm down enough to go online and see if anyone else had problems with getting the gold brick achievement to pop. Turns out lots of people got all gold bricks but didn't have the achievement pop. Even back to 2011. I read several posts that said you need to go in to a level and play it with all your 'super Jedi powers' and then the achievement will unlock. Eh? The achievement isn't for playing a level (all or which you've already completed in order to get the 160 gold bricks) after you've got all the bricks. It's for getting all the gold bricks. Period. End of achievement. If you want someone to play with all those 'super Jedi powers' make that a separate achievement, or put it in the description of the achievement that we're required to do. It's bullshit and it makes no sense.
I haven't gone back in to a level and played it to unlock it because I realized that I'm not actually done with the game like I thought I would be after I got those last 4 gold bricks. It turns out I forgot about the "Super Story" levels in each movie. That means I have to play all those levels all over again and finish each move in less than an hour and I think I have to get 100,000 studs as well. Yeah me! My completion percentage is somewhere at 97.6% or something and I still have to play through all levels, all movies, all over again. Someone shot me now.
I don't remember the game being this torturous on the Playstation 2. My brother and I played and completed both Lego Star Wars games to 100% but I don't remember it being anything like this. Since we completed this game on PS2 and I had almost completed this game before my stuff got robbed, once I do complete the game it will be for the third time. And I will never play it again. If any of my friends want help picking up achievements or collectibles they are going to have to pay up big to get me help them. Sorry guys. That's just the way it has to be for me.
Right now I've got 6 more levels to play and film and then I'm done. So at least 6 more hours in hell. Let's hope that it only takes one run through for each of the super stories. With my luck this hell will keep me sucked in for an additional 6 hours on top of that. How many levels are there in Dante's Inferno (the book, not the game). I'm sure Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga has got to be one of them.
For some reason I had a lot of problem collecting all the blue barrels in Jabba's Palace. Not all of my failed attempts were due to my stupidity. Three times my game glitched on me and I got stuck in a room with no way out except a Jawa door that wouldn't let me through. It was really frustrating to spend four and half minutes just trying to get through a door when I only have 10 minutes to play the level and my game is going "uh oh, not for you". It's frustrating. Almost enough to quit the game no matter how close I was to finishing.
But that level has nothing on Into the Deathstar. That level is a BITCH FROM HELL level!!!!! I think I tried that level more than 20 times before I even started to get close to finishing it. The first couple of times I spent 8 out of my 10 minutes just clearing the first area of the 4 Star Destroyers. It's kind of hard to find and pick up 8 more blue barrels in only 2 minutes. Impossible is more like it.
I even got desperate enough to send a message to all my friends that I thought might have the game and be willing to help me out. I told them I was desperate. I was hoping that they would come to the aid of a damsel in distress. While I was waiting for them to respond I opened up my game to strangers. Big mistake! I had a someone jump in and he spent the whole time just switching ships. He never fired his gun. He never collected a blue barrel. He did absolutely nothing. Well . . . not exactly nothing. He did change his ship every second or two and then tried to fly in whatever opposite direction I was trying to fly in. Since you share the screen (even over Xbox Live) you can image how well that got along. I think I had to kick him out of the game 4 or 5 times before I finished the level. Well, actually I ran out of time to be honest.
After that disastrous experience I changed my settings to set my game to invite only and thought I would give it one more try before giving up on the game entirely. It turns out I'm glad I gave it another shot. I was able to finish the level and ended up with just over 2 minutes to spare before time ran out. I was completely shocked, stunned and utterly bewildered, befuddled and confused. But also extremely ecstatic and thrilled. I couldn't believe how close I was to giving up and crying myself to sleep and never playing this game again when the very next play through I beat it with time to spare. I haven't listened to the audio for that level yet so I hope I don't sound like a complete idiot. It's just that I've been working on trying to finish that level for almost 2 weeks and I finally did it. It will be awhile before that video is posted, just don't judge me to badly for my reaction.
Now that my blue barrels were all collected I could focus on the remaining 4 gold bricks I needed in order to get all 160 gold bricks. I had to do the original Gunship Calvary level, the alternate New Hope level and the Lego City and New Town levels. I've tried Lego City and New Town before but could never get all 1,000,000 studs before giving up. It took a couple of attempts for Lego City and I had to pause my own recording of New Town to watch a video online to find out what I was forgetting to do before I could finish New Town. But all of those are now done. Unfortunately I'm not done with the game like I thought I would be.
When I got the last gold brick I waited patiently for the achievement to pop up. It didn't. I couldn't figure out what I needed to do to get it to pop. I even went outside the Cantina and built that gold fountain with all the gold bricks. Nothing. After the Deathstar blue barrel fiasco I was so furious that my anger went immediately to a cold blue fire. Bypass the yellow, red and white hot stuff. I was glowing blue. If it wasn't so late at night I probably would have gone nuclear too.
I was able to calm down enough to go online and see if anyone else had problems with getting the gold brick achievement to pop. Turns out lots of people got all gold bricks but didn't have the achievement pop. Even back to 2011. I read several posts that said you need to go in to a level and play it with all your 'super Jedi powers' and then the achievement will unlock. Eh? The achievement isn't for playing a level (all or which you've already completed in order to get the 160 gold bricks) after you've got all the bricks. It's for getting all the gold bricks. Period. End of achievement. If you want someone to play with all those 'super Jedi powers' make that a separate achievement, or put it in the description of the achievement that we're required to do. It's bullshit and it makes no sense.
I haven't gone back in to a level and played it to unlock it because I realized that I'm not actually done with the game like I thought I would be after I got those last 4 gold bricks. It turns out I forgot about the "Super Story" levels in each movie. That means I have to play all those levels all over again and finish each move in less than an hour and I think I have to get 100,000 studs as well. Yeah me! My completion percentage is somewhere at 97.6% or something and I still have to play through all levels, all movies, all over again. Someone shot me now.
I don't remember the game being this torturous on the Playstation 2. My brother and I played and completed both Lego Star Wars games to 100% but I don't remember it being anything like this. Since we completed this game on PS2 and I had almost completed this game before my stuff got robbed, once I do complete the game it will be for the third time. And I will never play it again. If any of my friends want help picking up achievements or collectibles they are going to have to pay up big to get me help them. Sorry guys. That's just the way it has to be for me.
Right now I've got 6 more levels to play and film and then I'm done. So at least 6 more hours in hell. Let's hope that it only takes one run through for each of the super stories. With my luck this hell will keep me sucked in for an additional 6 hours on top of that. How many levels are there in Dante's Inferno (the book, not the game). I'm sure Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga has got to be one of them.
Sunday, July 26, 2015
A little less Dark Souls . . . for now
So I've noticed something when I play Dark Souls. I get a headache. A very bad headache. I don't know if it's because the game stresses me out. Or I just get too mad and frustrated with myself when I play it that my brain cramps up on me. What I've also noticed is that I also get a headache when I edit my gameplay footage of Dark Souls. This is not good.
I don't exactly know what to do about that. I want to keep playing the game. When I'm not dying I'm actually enjoying myself. The problem is I'm dying a lot. And over stupid stuff that shouldn't get me. But it does. And now that I've noticed that it is effecting my editing I'm at a loss of what to do.
I don't know if it's because I know I would rather play other games that I'm less terrible at or not. I mean I like Rayman Origins. And I die A LOT more in that game. But it doesn't frustrate me as much as Dark Souls does. And I don't get headaches editing the gameplay.
I've been trying to figure out what to do and so I've been focusing on finishing up Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. I'm almost done too. I've only got one level for the blue barrels left (a stupid vehicles mission) and just 4 gold bricks left to do and then I'm done with the game. I can't wait to earn all achievements in that game. Every chance I get to film some gameplay has been in that game. I've got about 9 videos filmed but not edited yet so I'm debating about making all of the videos I post for the next little while Lego games so I can finally be done with the game.
My reward for finishing the Lego Star Wars achievements and getting 100% in the game is to buy myself an Xbox One system. I can't wait, but I promised myself that I would until I finished at least one retail game on the Xbox 360. I've completed several arcade titles but I haven't finished the achievements in a full retail game and I would feel guilty about moving on to a new system without having done that.
I've been asking all of my friends what XBO games to get since my budget will be limited. Of course that means I'll still have time and games to play on my 360. Which means I will finish Dark Souls . . . it just might not be for awhile. Does that make me a bad gamer? I hope not.
I don't exactly know what to do about that. I want to keep playing the game. When I'm not dying I'm actually enjoying myself. The problem is I'm dying a lot. And over stupid stuff that shouldn't get me. But it does. And now that I've noticed that it is effecting my editing I'm at a loss of what to do.
I don't know if it's because I know I would rather play other games that I'm less terrible at or not. I mean I like Rayman Origins. And I die A LOT more in that game. But it doesn't frustrate me as much as Dark Souls does. And I don't get headaches editing the gameplay.
I've been trying to figure out what to do and so I've been focusing on finishing up Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. I'm almost done too. I've only got one level for the blue barrels left (a stupid vehicles mission) and just 4 gold bricks left to do and then I'm done with the game. I can't wait to earn all achievements in that game. Every chance I get to film some gameplay has been in that game. I've got about 9 videos filmed but not edited yet so I'm debating about making all of the videos I post for the next little while Lego games so I can finally be done with the game.
My reward for finishing the Lego Star Wars achievements and getting 100% in the game is to buy myself an Xbox One system. I can't wait, but I promised myself that I would until I finished at least one retail game on the Xbox 360. I've completed several arcade titles but I haven't finished the achievements in a full retail game and I would feel guilty about moving on to a new system without having done that.
I've been asking all of my friends what XBO games to get since my budget will be limited. Of course that means I'll still have time and games to play on my 360. Which means I will finish Dark Souls . . . it just might not be for awhile. Does that make me a bad gamer? I hope not.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Posting schedule and new games coming soon
I've finally got things settled down on the capturing front and I'm pretty sure I can set a schedule and stick to it for when I'm posting videos. It's subject to change, because, well, I'm a girl and I like to change my mind.
I've currently got three games going at the time. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Dark Souls and Rayman Origins. So I'm going to post a new video in one of those games three days a week. I'm almost done with lego Star Wars so I'll be looking for a replacement for that game when I'm done. For now, I think I'll post new videos Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. I might add to that as I get more games filmed and edited. We'll have to see. I would eventually like to get to a point where I'm posting 5 to 6 times a week. But I'm not there yet.
I've actually done a lot of filming in two other games. I don't want to spoil those for you now, you'll just have to wait to see what they are. I think they show a good mix of the types of games I like and the systems I play on. One is a fun classic and the other is one I would never think of to pick up and play, but I actually found that I like it a lot (except for a pesky boss battle that I'm stuck at).
Now that I can capture from any of my Playstations or Nintendo systems, the possibilities have really opened up for what I can film. I'm so excited. Except for Nintendo's posting videos of their games "system". I'm doing some research on that. I'd love to post Pikmin videos, but while Pikmin (the original) is listed on their "white list", Pikmin 2 is not. Does that mean I can post Pikmin 2 videos? That's what I've got to find out. But that's an issue for later on down the road.
While filming is fun and the editing sometimes isn't, I don't mind. I'd much rather spend my day being frustrated over some editing issues than the work I do for my job. I get more satisfaction out of the editing than anything I do for my employer. I'm getting better at the editing and I hope it shows in my videos because I sure do love making these. And I can't wait to show you what else I've filmed. Stay tuned.
I've currently got three games going at the time. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Dark Souls and Rayman Origins. So I'm going to post a new video in one of those games three days a week. I'm almost done with lego Star Wars so I'll be looking for a replacement for that game when I'm done. For now, I think I'll post new videos Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. I might add to that as I get more games filmed and edited. We'll have to see. I would eventually like to get to a point where I'm posting 5 to 6 times a week. But I'm not there yet.
I've actually done a lot of filming in two other games. I don't want to spoil those for you now, you'll just have to wait to see what they are. I think they show a good mix of the types of games I like and the systems I play on. One is a fun classic and the other is one I would never think of to pick up and play, but I actually found that I like it a lot (except for a pesky boss battle that I'm stuck at).
Now that I can capture from any of my Playstations or Nintendo systems, the possibilities have really opened up for what I can film. I'm so excited. Except for Nintendo's posting videos of their games "system". I'm doing some research on that. I'd love to post Pikmin videos, but while Pikmin (the original) is listed on their "white list", Pikmin 2 is not. Does that mean I can post Pikmin 2 videos? That's what I've got to find out. But that's an issue for later on down the road.
While filming is fun and the editing sometimes isn't, I don't mind. I'd much rather spend my day being frustrated over some editing issues than the work I do for my job. I get more satisfaction out of the editing than anything I do for my employer. I'm getting better at the editing and I hope it shows in my videos because I sure do love making these. And I can't wait to show you what else I've filmed. Stay tuned.
Monday, June 1, 2015
A new game (Rayman Origins) and the last of my audio problems (hopefully)
So I started a new game for my YouTube channel. I was getting really frustrated with Lego
Star Wars: The Complete Saga that I needed to take a break. Normally when that happens, I would play
something new and not go back to a frustrating game for a very long time. One of the reasons why I started the channel
was to keep me honest and coming back to games I’m in the middle of to make
myself finish them because now I have to post a video of game play . . . even
if no one is watching.
I wasn’t sure what I wanted to play. Hopefully something more fun and happy that
what Lego SW was turning out to be for me.
I picked Rayman Origins. It’s one
of the poll votes and the poll wasn’t done yet, but I still picked it. For some reason I really want to play Dark
Souls which I hear is a really brutal game so I’m hoping that Rayman will lighten
the mood when I play it. I’m sure I’ll
have lots of games on the go at any given time.
Rayman just happens to be the next game I picked.
I haven’t really edited the next video yet. Just listen to the first part of it. I think it sounds AWESOME! It’s like night and day. I really love the sound and think I sound so
much better. I still sound stupid at
times, but I don’t think a new audio set up will fix that. One thing I did notice is that you can really
hear my dog Zoe’s nails click on the wood floors as she walks across the
room. It picks up sound so much
clearer. I don’t know if there’s
anything I can do about that now, other than to keep my dog off the floor, but
I have plans to fix that in the future.
I have an old desktop computer that I really can’t (actually
don’t want to) use anymore. I need to go
through the files and save anything I want to keep and move that over to my lap
top. Then I can get rid of the big brown
box and the SUPER BIG FAT monitor. Those
will go in the garage for storage and maybe a Craig’s list posting. I can then turn that computer desk space over
to my gaming and move my whole set up in to my office instead of sitting in the
living room. That way you won’t hear Zoe’s
nails as she walks across the floor all the time. I will need to get a small TV to set up in
that room before I do, but hopefully I can take care of all of that soon.
The only downside to this plan is that I work from home at
least 3 days a week and I’m not sure how I feel about having my gaming set up
in the same room. 1) it will be too
distracting when I’m trying to work and would rather do anything other than
work (i.e. every single day), 2) when I’m done working I like to get out of the
room for a nice break and not go back in to it again until the next time I work
from home. Sometimes, after a
particularly rough week I won’t go in to my office at all on the weekends. I feel like I’m trapped in a cage while I sit
there and work and I don’t want to interfere with my gaming or desire to
game. I’ll have to figure something out.
The other option is to move my gaming set up in to what I
was making my craft room. It’s currently
mostly storage right now. I’ve been
slowly going through the boxes there and cleaning things out or moving them to
a more permanent storage location. Most
of the boxes being moved are Star Wars figures and toys. I hate to admit this, but I’m starting to
consider selling those on Craig’s list as well.
I could make thousands (although not as much as I spent on them).
The downside to using that room is that I don’t have wired internet
access in that room. I would need to see
how the wireless is working in that area because it seems to be hit or miss
around my house. The upside is that my
gaming station wouldn’t be a temptation while I’m working and I wouldn’t feel
like I’m trapped in a cage all day if I work and then game in the same room. The upside is that my roommate could also use
that room for their gaming, if they wanted to, and it wouldn’t matter if I was
home working or not. While it’s in my
office, on the days I work from home it would be unusable. Another downside is that I was hoping to
create a calming, soothing retreat where I could go and work on crafts. Having a bunch of gaming equipment and stuff
in the room doesn’t really lend itself to a Zen-like environment. I’ve got a couple weeks before I can afford
to buy another TV and clean up the old computer space so I’ve got time to
decide.
Once I do figure everything out and get a final setup of
where/how I want to do things I might post a pic or blog about it. If I can find a replacement battery for my
digital camera I might even do a room tour.
But that’s more money to spend.
Isn’t getting/keeping electronics working properly wonderfully.
In the meantime, why not enjoy my last (hopefully) terrible
audio video before the video with my new set up comes out. And it’s a new game. And I pick up a couple of achievements. Yeah for me all around!
Thursday, May 28, 2015
I curse a lot when I get frustrated
So, I was editing my next video for YouTube and I noticed something. When I get frustrated I curse. A lot. Everything started to fall apart when my game got glitchy and I couldn't get a minikit. I tired over and over again to fit it and try to get it, but it didn't work. All I could hear was me swearing, over and over again. I thought it was really funny (not at the time though) so I added credits to the video and added a "swear count" to the credits. You should watch the video and you'll know right when I start to lose it. Did I miss any? Should I go to anger management classes? You tell me.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
New Achievements!
So I picked up some new achievements this weekend. It's been awhile since I've earned any so I'm excited.
The first one I picked up was in the Arcade game Scramble. I haven't played that game in a long time. Actually the last (and only) achievement I earned in that game was from 6/1/2007. Wow! Talk about some time lag.
I wasn't really looking to play that game. I was actually seeing if I still had the digital download for Gears of War Judgment and I came across that game. I couldn't remember what type of game it was so I loaded it up and tried it out. Within in the first two minutes I got the achievement. Maybe subconsciously I knew how close I was to another achievement and that's why I started it up. Maybe I should listen to those voices inside my head more often. It might help my Gamerscore.
The next achievements I got were in a new game. I put in Rayman Origins and made a video in that game that should be released later this week. Yes, I know it's one of the options in my poll which doesn't close yet, I just wanted something fun and bright and cheerful to play since Lego Star Wars was driving me crazy. So much so, that there will be a "swear count" in the credits at the end of one of my videos once I post it. I'm not done editing it (or counting swear words) so it probably won't be up for another day or two. When you watch it, you'll understand. At least I hope you will. And it's all my fault.
I also spent some time today working towards 3 achievements in Gears of War Judgment. And no, I don't seem to have the digital copy on my hard drive anymore. I'm working on finishing the campaign on insane and I have a friend that is helping me out. I'm playing on insane. He's playing on casual. We were able to play the 3rd chapter before we called it quits. I should get the achievement for hardcore, insane and co-op once we finish everything. That will be 125 points for my Gamerscore. After we do that, we talked about working on the getting the stars and declassified mission achievements. I think that will bring in another 100+ points, but those are much further down the road. Let's just try to get through the campaign first, shall we.
I am seriously trying to get to (and possibly over) the 30,000 mark with my Gamerscore before the end of the year. I've got a full time job that sucks the life out of me Monday through Friday, plus a bunch of other things going on in life. It's doable. It's just going to take me awhile. That's kind of one of the reasons why I wanted to start a game that I haven't played to help me get some achievements. And to experience something fresh and new. But, mostly for the achievements. What can I say. I like achievements.
The first one I picked up was in the Arcade game Scramble. I haven't played that game in a long time. Actually the last (and only) achievement I earned in that game was from 6/1/2007. Wow! Talk about some time lag.
I wasn't really looking to play that game. I was actually seeing if I still had the digital download for Gears of War Judgment and I came across that game. I couldn't remember what type of game it was so I loaded it up and tried it out. Within in the first two minutes I got the achievement. Maybe subconsciously I knew how close I was to another achievement and that's why I started it up. Maybe I should listen to those voices inside my head more often. It might help my Gamerscore.
The next achievements I got were in a new game. I put in Rayman Origins and made a video in that game that should be released later this week. Yes, I know it's one of the options in my poll which doesn't close yet, I just wanted something fun and bright and cheerful to play since Lego Star Wars was driving me crazy. So much so, that there will be a "swear count" in the credits at the end of one of my videos once I post it. I'm not done editing it (or counting swear words) so it probably won't be up for another day or two. When you watch it, you'll understand. At least I hope you will. And it's all my fault.
I also spent some time today working towards 3 achievements in Gears of War Judgment. And no, I don't seem to have the digital copy on my hard drive anymore. I'm working on finishing the campaign on insane and I have a friend that is helping me out. I'm playing on insane. He's playing on casual. We were able to play the 3rd chapter before we called it quits. I should get the achievement for hardcore, insane and co-op once we finish everything. That will be 125 points for my Gamerscore. After we do that, we talked about working on the getting the stars and declassified mission achievements. I think that will bring in another 100+ points, but those are much further down the road. Let's just try to get through the campaign first, shall we.
I am seriously trying to get to (and possibly over) the 30,000 mark with my Gamerscore before the end of the year. I've got a full time job that sucks the life out of me Monday through Friday, plus a bunch of other things going on in life. It's doable. It's just going to take me awhile. That's kind of one of the reasons why I wanted to start a game that I haven't played to help me get some achievements. And to experience something fresh and new. But, mostly for the achievements. What can I say. I like achievements.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Epic Failure in the making
It was only a matter of time. I was bound to screw up eventually And I did. In epic fashion. I guess that should teach me not to play video games late at night when I'm tired and can't think straight. I'm sure it will happen again. I'm only human right? If you want to know what I'm talking about check out part 3 of my Lego Star Wars Complete Saga - Ruin of the Jedi video. Don't worry, you won't have long to wait before you see me to do probably the stupidest thing I've done in a video game in a long time. I'm sure it won't be the last time.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Ruin of the Jedi part 2
I'm not going to wait a week before I post part 2 of my video Ruin of the Jedi. Hopefully I'll get part 3 post in the next day or two as well There will be a lot of editing on that one. Trust me.
There's several things I learned while watching this video as I edit. 1) I can't jump 2) I get frustrated easily and 3) I sound like a younger version of my sister. I'll talk more on #3 later. Apparently I suck at jumping in that game. Single jumping. Double jumping. Doesn't matter. All suck. And when I can't jump I get frustrated. And swear. And sigh. A lot. Sorry. I'll have to listen for that and correct myself in the future. If you wanted to hear someone sigh all the time you should probably go watch a porno. Well you won't get that from me. I'm not in to ASMRs either.
There's several things I learned while watching this video as I edit. 1) I can't jump 2) I get frustrated easily and 3) I sound like a younger version of my sister. I'll talk more on #3 later. Apparently I suck at jumping in that game. Single jumping. Double jumping. Doesn't matter. All suck. And when I can't jump I get frustrated. And swear. And sigh. A lot. Sorry. I'll have to listen for that and correct myself in the future. If you wanted to hear someone sigh all the time you should probably go watch a porno. Well you won't get that from me. I'm not in to ASMRs either.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Lego Star Wars: Ruin of the Jedi (Ep. 3 Chap 5)
I still don't have an ideal audio set up but it's getting better. So much so that I'm actually posting a video of me working towards the 2 missing achievements I need in Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga.
For this video I'm playing Episode 3 Chapter 5 Ruin of the Jedi. It's going to be in more than one part but that will help to keep the video short. Why not take a look at my YouTube channel and see how well I'm doing. I know I need Minikits and the power brick but how will it take before I realize I also need to fill up my stud counter to True Jedi status? Tune in and find out.
For this video I'm playing Episode 3 Chapter 5 Ruin of the Jedi. It's going to be in more than one part but that will help to keep the video short. Why not take a look at my YouTube channel and see how well I'm doing. I know I need Minikits and the power brick but how will it take before I realize I also need to fill up my stud counter to True Jedi status? Tune in and find out.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Achievements unearned . . . Star Wars style
Okay I said I had a few achievements that I really haven't earned. And it's true. The latest one I got came from joining my brother in one of his games.
He had earned and unlocked the Gopher achievement in Star Wars: The Complete Saga. You know, the one for maxing out the stud counter. 4,000,000,000 to be precise. I hadn't collected enough studs yet to earn it myself. I was just over 2 billion studs short. I knew I would get it eventually so I wasn't worried. I joined his game so we could help him work on the blue barrels. As soon as I joined I heard that bleep and sure enough the message came up that I had now earned the achievement. Eh? For what? Joining his game?
I don't think he was very happy that he did all the work and I get some credit for it. And to be honest I wasn't happy either. There was no fulfillment with finally meeting all the qualifications for that achievement and THEN hearing the bleep. And since my brother dain and I are in a gamer score battle who can blame him. I plan on playing the game and meeting those qualifications for that achievement so I can get it legitimately. And I'll make sure he knows too.
But that's not the only achievement in The Complete Saga that has me scratching my head. It's all those "crossover" ones I'm thinking about. You know, kill Anakin with Dooku or destroy Darth Maul with Qui-Gon and all the other ones. At first I thought this meant I had to play through the level and battle someone in those "boss battles". So I'm jumping through the lava on Mustafar to get to Anakin, or circling around the center of the second Death Star to get to the Emporer only to find out that it doesn't matter. You don't have to play the level and then beat the guy. You can strike them down in the cantina. Well, that's not hard, especially if you have someone to play with or a second controller.
So where's the real work in getting those types of achievements? If you can rack up 100+ points in a matter of minutes with the help of a friends where the challenge or bragging rights? I like achievements, but aren't they suppose to be for something you . . . well . . . achieved? At least with the Bar Room Brawl achievement you had to plan things out to make sure you had a steady flow of victims to get the body count up there.
I don't like these silly easy achievements. But I'm not saying all achievements need to be incredibly hard like the "Mile High Club" in Call of Duty 4. Couldn't we compromise a little? I don't know how many times I tired to finish the Could City level still wearing a helmet only to find out online that I just have to make it to the first hat dispenser, put one on and then quit the game. Now is that something as a gamer you can be proud about?
When games for the Xbox 360 first came out achievements were required but developers didn't know what to do about them. Now the 360 has been out for over 2 years and developers are seeing what having achievements in games is doing for gamers. Just look at me and see how obsessed I am with my gamer score. So why can't they make better achievements for games. Ones that are challenging but not impossible. Fun but not tedious. Is that too much to ask for?
He had earned and unlocked the Gopher achievement in Star Wars: The Complete Saga. You know, the one for maxing out the stud counter. 4,000,000,000 to be precise. I hadn't collected enough studs yet to earn it myself. I was just over 2 billion studs short. I knew I would get it eventually so I wasn't worried. I joined his game so we could help him work on the blue barrels. As soon as I joined I heard that bleep and sure enough the message came up that I had now earned the achievement. Eh? For what? Joining his game?
I don't think he was very happy that he did all the work and I get some credit for it. And to be honest I wasn't happy either. There was no fulfillment with finally meeting all the qualifications for that achievement and THEN hearing the bleep. And since my brother dain and I are in a gamer score battle who can blame him. I plan on playing the game and meeting those qualifications for that achievement so I can get it legitimately. And I'll make sure he knows too.
But that's not the only achievement in The Complete Saga that has me scratching my head. It's all those "crossover" ones I'm thinking about. You know, kill Anakin with Dooku or destroy Darth Maul with Qui-Gon and all the other ones. At first I thought this meant I had to play through the level and battle someone in those "boss battles". So I'm jumping through the lava on Mustafar to get to Anakin, or circling around the center of the second Death Star to get to the Emporer only to find out that it doesn't matter. You don't have to play the level and then beat the guy. You can strike them down in the cantina. Well, that's not hard, especially if you have someone to play with or a second controller.
So where's the real work in getting those types of achievements? If you can rack up 100+ points in a matter of minutes with the help of a friends where the challenge or bragging rights? I like achievements, but aren't they suppose to be for something you . . . well . . . achieved? At least with the Bar Room Brawl achievement you had to plan things out to make sure you had a steady flow of victims to get the body count up there.
I don't like these silly easy achievements. But I'm not saying all achievements need to be incredibly hard like the "Mile High Club" in Call of Duty 4. Couldn't we compromise a little? I don't know how many times I tired to finish the Could City level still wearing a helmet only to find out online that I just have to make it to the first hat dispenser, put one on and then quit the game. Now is that something as a gamer you can be proud about?
When games for the Xbox 360 first came out achievements were required but developers didn't know what to do about them. Now the 360 has been out for over 2 years and developers are seeing what having achievements in games is doing for gamers. Just look at me and see how obsessed I am with my gamer score. So why can't they make better achievements for games. Ones that are challenging but not impossible. Fun but not tedious. Is that too much to ask for?
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