Streaming
48 entries. 30,849 words.
2013-12
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Twitch.tv.
2013-12-06.
Over the holiday weekend I started a new Twitch channel for EndgameViable, because I like to do weird stuff like broadcast my gaming sessions for the entire world to see. Plus, all the kids are doing it. (Actually I’m not sure if I like it or not, but I like it when other people do it.)
So yeah, tune in and watch me play games you’ve already seen before! Follow @endgameviable on Twitter and you’ll get an obnoxious tweet every time I go live.
- Streaming
2014-04
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Trying New Things In May.
2014-04-30.
The Newbie Blogger Initiative runs through May, so, to celebrate, I thought I would try a couple of new things and see what happens.T-Day StreamingI’m going to do a regular stream during the month of May. The stream will run Tuesdays and Thursdays at roughly 7:00 PM Eastern Time for about an hour, starting on May 1. You can find me at http://twitch.tv/endgameviable.Why would I do such a crazy thing? Well, everyone else is doing it, and we are all slaves to trendiness.
- Administration
- Stories
- Streaming
2014-05
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ArcheAge Stream – On the Road to Cinderstone Moor.
2014-05-15.
It occurred to me that I should probably post the YouTube videos of my streaming “shows” here on the blog. (I am nothing if not a consummate professional broadcaster.) So here is the first episode from Thursday, May 1, showing the long journey to Cinderstone Moor to find PvP. Others to follow.
Link updated.
- MMORPG
- Streaming
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YouTube Buying Twitch.
2014-05-20.
Google is buying Twitch, apparently. Or YouTube is buying Twitch. Or something. I don’t report news, I just talk about it.
This seems like one of those “surprising but inevitable” plot resolutions that we aspiring authors are always told to strive for. At first you read it and think, “Whoa! Google is buying Twitch! No way!” Then a second later, you think, “Oh, of course Google is buying Twitch. We should have seen that coming a mile away.
- Responses
- Streaming
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Tuesday’s Stream – ESO’s Shadow of Sancre Tor.
2014-05-21.
Tuesday night’s stream of Elder Scrolls Online, wherein I completed two whole quests, including the level 40 story quest “Shadow of Sancre Tor.”
Link updated.
- Streaming
2015-08
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YouTube Gaming Or Something Like It.
2015-08-04.
I don’t stream a lot but I like YouTube Gaming so far. Twitch is okay, and Hitbox is okay, but I almost always see a lot of stuttering, lag, and painful dropouts, both when I stream and when I watch other streams. With YouTube Gaming I’m just going to go out on a limb here and guess that they’re going to have the best possible video streaming technology working behind the scenes.
- Pre-Release
- Reviews
- Streaming
2017-08
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What Should You Stream?.
2017-08-21.
I see this question or a variation of it pop up fairly often in my Twitter timeline: “I’m thinking about streaming. What do you want to see?” Most recently @Jaedia brought this up yesterday:
I'm pretty chill. What would you guys think of chill streams playing like.. story-driven games, things like visual novels, Undertale, etc.? — Jaedia Claus (@jaedia) August 20, 2017 I’m not an expert on this, and I’m sure my preferences on streaming don’t align with the majority of kids today.
- Streaming
2019-01
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Audio Talk Is The Coolest.
2019-01-08.
Here’s another one of those posts I started one day and then decided the next day that it doesn’t really say anything, and doesn’t contain any valuable content except the one link to Scopique’s post. But per the new 2019 blogging rules, I’m posting it anyway.
I saw Scopique’s post on audio settings for streaming, which gives me an excuse to write about one of my favorite things: Audio engineering! I could write thousands and thousands and thousands of words on the inside baseball minutia of all the work I put into the audio tracks on my YouTube videos.
- Musings
- Streaming
- Videos
2019-07
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Blaugust Is Next Month.
2019-07-16.
I’ve just been reliably informed that next month is August. In fact, it will be August in just over two weeks from the time of this writing. (Which was yesterday, as of the time of this posting.) That means Blaugust is back. Head over there to Tales from the Aggronaut for all the details.
Thanks to Belghast for making these awesome images available!
I have to be honest. The idea of writing a blog post every day for a month elicits a heavy sigh from me.
- Musings
- Streaming
- Videos
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Setting Up A Stream.
2019-07-17.
I think I’m sufficiently setup for streaming now. I just have to push some buttons and I’ll be live on Twitch. I did a test this afternoon and everything seemed to work satisfactorily.
I mean except for the part where the final frame of the video was me rubbing my nose in an awkward way, so that when the video ends my hand is frozen there on my nose and it looks weird.
- Musings
- Streaming
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Blaugust Game Schedule.
2019-07-18.
Here is the official list of games I will play for Blaugust, randomized with random.org using atmospheric noise or some such nonsense:
TimeShift The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Antichamber Majesty Gold HD Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 Dead Space 2 World in Conflict Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit NEO Scavenger Vortex: The Gateway KHOLAT Crysis Warhead Game of Thrones Apotheon Penumbra: Requiem The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Alan Wake’s American Nightmare A Story About My Uncle Darksiders II The Bureau: XCOM Declassified Crysis Wars The Age of Decadence Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Max Payne 3 Tree of Savior (English Ver.
- Musings
- Steam
- Streaming
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Steam Backlog Bonanza – TimeShift.
2019-07-29.
It doesn’t seem like a game from 2007 would be that “old,” but it sure is. I tried out a shooter called TimeShift from my Steam backlog. I bought it in 2016 for $1.80.
Installing TimeShift was painless. In fact, since it’s so old, it took almost no time at all to install. The size of the game was measured in Megabytes-3000 of them, roughly.
The mechanics of the game are pretty standard for a shooter: You point at things and shoot them, with various weapons, which generally fall into the standard categories: Pistol, Assault Rifle, Shotgun, and variations thereof.
- Shooters
- Snap Judgment
- Streaming
- Videos
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Stream Schedule – July 28, 2019.
2019-07-29.
The Steam Backlog Bonanza Week One. Streams will be at roughly 4 PM EDT (GMT-4 I think) on my YouTube channel for about an hour and/or until I get bored. Currently I don’t enable chat so lurkers are extremely welcome. If you miss it, I believe the streams are available to watch if not immediately afterward then shortly after. I know… you can subscribe to my channel and find out! AND SMASH THAT BELL!
- Streaming
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Steam Backlog Bonanza – Lord of the Rings: War in the North.
2019-07-30.
Is Lord of the Rings still Lord of the Rings even when it’s not Lord of the Rings? That is the question I set out to answer when looking at Lord of the Rings: War in the North, from 2011. Actually, it was just the next game on my Steam backlog list. I paid $5 for it in a Steam sale some time back, and yesterday I looked at it for the first time.
- Reviews
- RPG
- Steam
- Streaming
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Steam Backlog Bonanza – Antichamber.
2019-07-31.
Yesterday I tried a game called Antichamber from my Steam backlog. I played for an hour and a half, an almost unprecedented marathon for me in a first look at a game. It’s an indie game that I (apparently, because of course I have no memory of this) got for $5 in 2013, and it took me six years to actually play it.
It's really, really hard to find a representative screenshot for this game.
- Snap Judgment
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
2019-08
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Steam Backlog Bonanza – Majesty Gold HD [Blaugust 1].
2019-08-01.
It’s possible that I’ve played Majesty before, according to Steam, but I don’t remember it at all. From the description it sounded like it would be in the same vein as Dwarf Fortress or RimWorld, both games I’ve enjoyed, but it was a little bit different. Yesterday was this game’s (possibly second?) chance to impress me, according to the schedule.
The map where you select the "quest" to embark upon.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Steam Backlog Bonanza – Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 [Blaugust 2].
2019-08-02.
I was looking forward to seeing this real-time strategy game from 2008 for the first time, and now that I have, I’m not even sure what to say about it. This might be the exact point in time when the games industry stopped and said, “Wait, I think we might have gone a little too far here.” Or should have said that, at least.
First, let’s talk about the game part of the game.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Steam Backlog Bonanza – Dead Space 2 [Blaugust 3].
2019-08-03.
I bought both Dead Space 1 and 2 in a Steam winter sale in 2011 for $5 each (that was back in the halcyon days when Steam sales were always 85%-off sales, not the trolly 10%-off sales they are today). I played seven hours of Dead Space 1 according to Steam. I didn’t hate it, but I obviously never finished it.
Yesterday on the Backlog Bonanza, it was finally time to take a look at the sequel, Dead Space 2.
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Hitman: Absolution – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 4].
2019-08-04.
Inside-Baseball Note Of Possible Worth To New Bloggers during Blaugust: I forgot you’re supposed to put the more important and unique search keywords at the beginning of a blog post’s title, and thus have I changed the format for my titles and introduced an inconsistency into my Blaugust posts. (At least, that was the last SEO advice I remember reading. It changes at least once a year.)
Yesterday, Hitman: Absolution came up on the Big Board for the last day of the first week of my Blaugust Steam Backlog Bonanza.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Brütal Legend – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 5].
2019-08-05.
For undoubtedly many of the same reasons as the rest of the United States, I wasn’t in a very good mood yesterday, so I called an audible and substituted Brütal Legend instead of the game I *planned* to play. I remember enjoying a demo of Brütal Legend on the PS3 years ago, so when I saw a PC version in a Steam sale for $5 in 2013 I had to get it.
- Music
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 6].
2019-08-06.
I bought 2010’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit for $8 in a Winter sale in 2014, and yesterday I installed and played it for the first time. I believe this was the ninth game in the Backlog Bonanza so far, with a depressingly huge list of games left to get through.
Every frame of every race looks exactly like this.
I’ve always liked racing games. They’re simpler games from a simpler time.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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NEO Scavenger – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 7].
2019-08-07.
Yesterday I played NEO Scavenger for the 10th day of the Steam Backlog Death March I mean Bonanza. It was released in 2014, and I bought it in 2016 for $5. (Coincidentally it’s actually on sale today for less than that.)
Waking up from cryosleep.
I goofed with this one. I have, in fact, played it before. But for some reason, Steam didn’t think I had. I know I played it because I found a video I recorded of it in 2016.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Survival
- Videos
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Vortex: The Gateway – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 8].
2019-08-08.
Yesterday on the Steam Backlog Bonanza, I tried out a survival game from 2016 called Vortex: The Gateway which I got for $9 in a sale. (I think it’s probably a universal constant that all of the games in everyone’s backlog are games from a sale.)
Surviving on an alien planet that looks like a nice camping trip.
I only played for about 40 minutes because of a looming thunderstorm, but I tried the two different game modes.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Kholat – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 9].
2019-08-09.
Yesterday I played a game called Kholat for the 12th day of the Steam Backlog Bonanza, which I got in 2016 for about $9. For some reason, most of the literature puts it in all caps so it’s KHOLAT! Not just Kholat. KHOLAT!!! One of the main attractions is Sean Bean voicing some of the narration.
It’s a really interesting game, in a certain kind of way. It’s basically a walking simulator at its heart, but it’s a very intense walking simulator.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 10].
2019-08-10.
Back in 2013 I bought Shadow Warrior for $10, and it came with a free “mini-game” called Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior. That’s what came up on the schedule for yesterday’s stream, so I finally tried it out.
I had heard about Viscera Cleanup Detail before but I don’t own it. It’s a physics game where you take on the role of a janitor who “cleans up” after the heroic gamer has gone through and slaughtered all the bad guys, exploding them into gibs or whatever.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Game Of Thrones – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 11].
2019-08-11.
Game Of Thrones, the game from 2012, not to be confused with all of the other Game Of Thrones games, was next on my Steam Backlog Bonanza. I bought it in 2013 in a $10 bundle with … I don’t even know what else. I played it for the first time yesterday.
This is not a Nazgul, but in fact the character that you play at the beginning.
It’s actually surprising that this game has been sitting here for almost six years.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Apotheon – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 12].
2019-08-12.
Yesterday for the 15th day of the Steam Backlog Bonanza I played a game called Apotheon, which I got in 2016 for $3.74. Hard to believe I’m into a third week of this. Anyway, I had been looking forward to this one because I knew it was a visually unusual game.
I don’t normally like side-scrollers. The last one I remember enjoying was Pitfall on an Atari 2600. Actually I can’t think of any other side-scrollers I’ve played on any platform since then.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Penumba: Requiem – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 13].
2019-08-13.
The Steam Backlog Bonanza marches on with a look at Penumbra: Requiem (and Black Plague). Penumbra came out in 2009 but I couldn’t find any records of when I bought it, so it must have been a long time ago. I had played Black Plague for about a half hour before, but yesterday was the first time I looked at Requiem.
An obelisk puzzle in Penumbra: Requiem.
Penumbra: Requiem is actually an “expansion” for Black Plague.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Geometry Wars 3 – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 14].
2019-08-14.
Yesterday’s new game for the Steam Backlog Bonanza was Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved. I think it’s an extended edition of the “Dimensions” release. It’s a pure arcade action game, of the kind you might find in an old-fashioned upright arcade cabinet.
It's very difficult to get any sense of what the game is like from a still image.
I don’t know why I bought this game, but it was only $1.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 15].
2019-08-15.
For the halfway point of Blaugust, more-or-less, I played Alan Wake’s American Nightmare from my Steam backlog. I got it, along with Alan Wake, for $4 right before it was removed from Steam.
Is it live or is it Memorex?
The first game, Alan Wake, did not qualify for my Steam Backlog Bonanza because, according to Steam, I’ve played it for precisely one minute. I do not remember that minute. I’ve read numerous reports that Alan Wake was a great game, a must-buy game, particularly when it was about to be removed, but I haven’t played it, and apparently something about it made me recoil away from it.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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A Story About My Uncle – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 16].
2019-08-16.
The big wheel of life turned and landed on a game from my Steam backlog called A Story About My Uncle*. I got it in a 2016 sale for $2 and tried it for the first time yesterday. (It turns out that 2016 was the final year that I indiscriminately bought games on Steam.)
It’s getting really hard to think of a different opening sentence and paragraph for each one of these things.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Darksiders II – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 17].
2019-08-17.
Death knocked at the door yesterday, and I answered with a game called Darksiders II. Get it? Because Death is the protagonist in Darksiders II? Anyway, it was the 20th day in a row of the Steam Backlog Bonanza, and one of the most expensive games in the list so far. I got Darksiders II for $10 in 2013, and it’s taken six years to install and play the game.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 18].
2019-08-18.
I was minding my own business when aliens descended from the sky, firing lasers from their circular flying saucers. Everything around me exploded. Otherworldly creatures crept out of the smoke and fire, approaching me like simians on all fours. Anyway the next game on the Steam Backlog Bonanza is The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. I bought it in a 2013 Steam sale for $4.
Just an average green glowing energy field in a federal building.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 19].
2019-08-19.
I found myself wandering a wasteland of wrecked tanker ships when a radiation storm blocked out the sun. In other words, I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat yesterday for the 22nd day of the Steam Backlog Bonanza. It’s one of those Eastern European shooters from 2010. I couldn’t find any record of when or how much I paid for it, which suggests I probably bought it soon after 2010 and it’s been sitting in my Steam backlog unplayed for nearly nine years.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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The Age of Decadence – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 20].
2019-08-20.
For the 23rd day of the Steam Backlog Bonanza, I played an indie game called The Age of Decadence, which I got in the 2016 Winter sale for $7.50. I think I mentioned this before, but the Winter sale of 2016 was the last time that I splurged on Steam games just because they were on sale.
The outdoor isometric view, which is actually not seen very much.
I don’t remember why I bought this game.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods (Enhanced Edition) – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 21].
2019-08-21.
I was in a funk yesterday so it would have been a great day to discover a fun new game. Unfortunately, Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods (Enhanced Edition) was up next on the Steam Backlog Bonanza. I got it as part of a “Gothic Complete Pack” for $7.50.
Now I didn’t realize this until afterward, but Forsaken Gods is actually an expansion or addon to the base game of Gothic 3. Steam tells me I’ve played the base game of Gothic 3 for 12 minutes, so technically I can’t say that I haven’t played it.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Crysis 2 Maximum Edition – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 22].
2019-08-22.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing up my sleeve, there are no wires or electronic devices of any kind. That’s because I played Crysis 2 Maximum Edition yesterday for the 25th day of the Steam Backlog Bonanza. And I’ve been watching episodes of Penn & Teller’s Fool Us as well.
The mean streets of New York, sometime in the near-future.
I bought Crysis 2 for $10 back in 2013. I already had Crysis 1, but I only played it for about 4 hours.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Max Payne 3 – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 23].
2019-08-23.
It was a dark and stormy night, and noir was in the air when I played Max Payne 3 for the 26th day of the Steam Backlog Bonanza. I got it in 2013, just a year after it’s release, for $4. In those days, the sales were sales. Now you’re lucky to get $4 off in a sale.
Anyway, I was looking forward to playing this particular game. I don’t precisely remember why I bought it-probably because it was a AAA title for $4, which was reason enough in 2013.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Tree of Savior – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 24].
2019-08-24.
Yesterday for the Steam Backlog Bonanza I tried out an MMORPG called Tree of Savior. It launched in 2016, but I’m not entirely sure how it got onto my list. It’s free-to-play on Steam, so I never actually “bought” it, so it’s technically not in my backlog. I might have placed it in there manually because I wanted to try it, but I don’t remember. I made the game list weeks ago.
- MMORPG
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Titan Souls – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 25].
2019-08-25.
Speaking of Souls-like games, yesterday on the Steam Backlog Bonanza, I played a game that is frequently described as Souls-like: Titan Souls, from 2015. I got it in that infamous Winter 2016 sale, what turned out to be the last hurrah of Steam sales, for a whopping $3.74. I don’t remember why, except that I probably had a vague memory of seeing it described as a game that fans of Dark Souls would like.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Enclave – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 26].
2019-08-26.
Yesterday an odd game called Enclave appeared on the Steam Backlog Bonanza. I had never heard of it before. It’s an action-ish RPG which I bought in 2016 for $1.24.
This screenshot looks much better than the game does.
According to Steam, it was released in 2013. I quickly discovered, through simple observations, that the game did not look particularly advanced for a 2013 game. I’ve since learned that it was actually released in 2002, and re-released on Steam in 2013.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 27].
2019-08-27.
Yesterday I played the second Tolkien property game in my Steam Backlog Bonanza: Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor. It came out in 2014, I bought it in 2016 for $7.50, one of the more expensive titles on this list.
First the good news: The story of this game starts out fantastic, one of the best I’ve seen. It began with yet another “this is the epic story of the entire history of Middle-earth” prologue and I started to roll my eyes.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Never Alone – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 28].
2019-08-28.
Yesterday for the Steam Backlog Bonanza, I played a game called Never Alone. It was released in 2014, but I couldn’t find any record of when I bought it or for how much. This is the most interesting game in the list so far.
I had been looking forward to this one, and dreading it at the same time. I knew it was a game that involved a story with an animal companion (a fox, in this case).
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Remember Me – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 29].
2019-08-29.
Two great games in a row! Yesterday I played a cyberpunk action game called Remember Me for the Steam Backlog Bonanza. I got it in the 2015 Winter sale for $6.
I really enjoyed it. I liked it so much I lost track of time, and played for nearly two hours. It’s an “action movie” kind of a game, by which I mean it has a whole lot of cut scenes and voice acting and storytelling in between the gameplay.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Mount & Blade: Warband – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 30].
2019-08-30.
The game of the day was Mount & Blade: Warband for the Steam Backlog Bonanza. I got it in 2010 Winter sale, but I can’t find any record of how much I paid for it. I probably got it in a bundle with both Mount & Blade and Warband.
Fighting bandits from horseback.
Warband is an “old” game. You can always tell an “old” game because they are stretched out horizontally.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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BioShock 2 Remastered – Steam Backlog Bonanza [Blaugust 31].
2019-08-31.
Since my production pipeline is offset by a day, this should be my 31st and last “official” Blaugust post. However I’m still going to play at least one last game today on the 31st as well, which will get a blog post tomorrow.
Yesterday for the 34th day of the Steam Backlog Bonanza, I returned to Rapture with BioShock 2 Remastered. This is a game I’ve owned since 2010, but never played until now.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
2019-09
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Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (Beta) – Steam Backlog Bonanza.
2019-09-01.
For what will probably be the last game in the Steam Backlog Bonanza, the 35th one on the list, I played a shooter called Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta). I have no idea how I got this game. I have a bunch of Serious Sam games, but I don’t remember buying any of them, and since Blaugust is over now I don’t particularly feel like doing the work to look it up.
- Reviews
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
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Blaugust 2019 Wrapup, Part 3 – Statistics.
2019-09-04.
The Blog Here I present the reason you should never pay attention to statistics when blogging. My views actually went down during Blaugust 2018, and went down even more during Blaugust 2019.
Views and Visitors
I also offer this chart as evidence that the “you have to blog every day to build an audience” advice is completely obsolete. Blogging every day is strictly for fun and/or personal growth. Building an audience is accomplished by networking, and is largely unrelated to the content you produce.
- Musings
- Streaming
- Videos