So I streamed a bit today, a lot yesterday with a ton of Street Fighter 4 action. Still working out the kinks in my stream though, but ultimately I have discovered I need BETTER INTERNET! I'll still adjust some things here and there and more testing is needed too but my god 2 mb upload speed is just not cutting it.
Please enjoy the videos below as they are pretty funny fails. Would be better though if the audio were synced .... ugh.... oh well.
Watch live video from Acefondu on TwitchTV
Watch live video from Acefondu on TwitchTV
*I died...therefore I lived*
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
It has BEGUN!
So I have begun streaming! My first real day of it has generally concluded, but I will continue a bit to fix some technical issues. Ultimately I wish my internet was decent. Didn't have any viewers =( but that could have helped me solve some problems I was having with feedback. Never the less here's a highlight of some of my stream from today. The earlier parts I was zanier, but meh.
Watch live video from Acefondu on TwitchTV
Watch live video from Acefondu on TwitchTV
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Blog Update
So I haven't updated in a while, this much is clear. Had a year of a pretty great new job, and yet a year of being more emotionally depressed than I ever have been. It's rather clear few if anyone reads this but I've come to the conclusion that some creative outlet is needed to break this cycle of my depressive state. This was a good tool for when I was bored at work, but I don't get those moments anymore as my current job is super busy which is fine. I used to do a lot of things, or at least dabble in a bit of everything. I created a short run web comic, made a few movies, wrote screen plays and short stories all with little fanfare and not much return on investment. Little did I know though how therapeutic it could be and the satisfaction of doing something with my time as opposed to whittling it away with gaming.
This blog isn't entirely better, most of this blog is me ranting at video games or the current state of gaming. And to be fair there is an awful lot wrong with it, especially for us 80's kids that grew up in a world where games had more creativity in one tiny smiley faced mushroom than anything that rhymes with Squall of Doodie *best joke I can come up with at midnight* There is a good amount going right with the gaming world too though, and as we enter the console transition we're seeing some of the most polished games we'll likely see in the coming years until developers can get their heads around the new hardware again. Then again, the new consoles are mirroring what PC's have been for a while now, so perhaps this will be the first console transition that doesn't include game developers taking lessons on how to tie effective killing yourself knots. So who knows.
Got off topic there, this is a game blog after all and somehow gaming infected this post....damnable old habits. So where was I....oh yes, being horribly depressed. So nothing I've been able to do has really knocked me out of this ... oh how do I put it ... wishing the world would suffer greatly while I gazed from high atop my safety hill of candy and moonshine? Nah, that's a bit too long of a title...and I don't like booze....my safety hill sucks. Geeze even in my ideal state of the world I'm not satisfied.
So back to the point, what to do...For a long time now I've watched Twitch, or JustinTV as it used to be called, and I've greatly been interested in doing something there. It's blown up so big now though the odds of having more than even 1 viewer are probably abysmally small. Plus I hate games like League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and any other game that would garner a mass of viewers. Not for that reason though, but because those games really suck. I'd likely play NES games, or SNES games. Games I grew up with that made me happy. Plus I'd save a lot of money not buying a lot of new games but instead playing older ones that I really enjoy.
Man VS Game is one of the most popular Twitch streamers there is and has long said that he aspires to have his stream good enough to play those older games on it consistently. Not sure why I feel the need to mention that, but it always gave me pause, like why are you not playing the games that you like most? Reflectively I can say the same about myself. I have been playing a lot of games I just flat out don't enjoy. I've been avoiding spending more time with Spelunky, Super Meat Boy, Rayman, and of course older Mario and Final Fantasy games all for the sake of playing that new popular thing everyone is talking about. It wasn't until GTAV released that that message really hit home to me. Everyone is talking about and loving the shit out of GTAV and while I respect certain aspects of the game, ultimately it's not what I enjoy about gaming much at all. I enjoy overcoming a challenge set forth by the developer, and games like GTA come with a very "new age" philosophy of gaming where the player cannot die easily, cannot get lost, and essentially cannot get frustrated. If play testers get stuck at x take it out or give the player the proverbial BFG weapon (big fucking gun). That describes a very large amount of gaming these days baring many indie games or godsends like Dark Souls.
Not to mention I prefer games that have unique enemies with combat that's engrossing. GTA is about killing 1 enemy type which is squishy people which gets old really fast. Take an indie game like Spelunky which I've come to love. There are numerous enemy types and though the game is limited in what you're allowed to do, dealing with one kind of enemy requires you do something different than another type of enemy and that's fun, that's variety. In GTA you can get through the whole game with a gun and a car (baring missions that require you use a boat or a helicopter of course) and you are always just dispatching people in a mundane cover mechanic of shooting.
When I play a game I like that challenge, that feeling of nauseating failure after hours and hours of trial all leading up to that moment of success. Hitting that emotional high is amazing and rewarding. Nothing compares to it, and you just can't find it in a game like GTAV, Borderlands, or Call of Duty. What you did that mission everyone else did in one try? *golf clap* Who cares. I still remember where I was and who I was with when I beat a game like Ninja Gaiden on the NES because it was that amazing, and that exciting. I'll never remember the time I beat GTAIV for instance. I can't even remember who the end bad guy was.
That will be my focus when I start up my stream. Games that give me that emotional high, or are just that much fun to play. I will probably go back in time to older games, and some of the really great newer games. Also, if I do play a "blockbuster" type game I will probably force myself to do the hard modes and at least try to force the game to be about the gaming aspect rather than the everlasting gobstopper developers are trying to peddle to the masses.
Once I get everything set up I'll post about the stream here, and possibly start a new blog.
*I do a thing at the end where I put an asterisk and say something witty every blog I've ever done. Not sure if anyone really noticed that*
This blog isn't entirely better, most of this blog is me ranting at video games or the current state of gaming. And to be fair there is an awful lot wrong with it, especially for us 80's kids that grew up in a world where games had more creativity in one tiny smiley faced mushroom than anything that rhymes with Squall of Doodie *best joke I can come up with at midnight* There is a good amount going right with the gaming world too though, and as we enter the console transition we're seeing some of the most polished games we'll likely see in the coming years until developers can get their heads around the new hardware again. Then again, the new consoles are mirroring what PC's have been for a while now, so perhaps this will be the first console transition that doesn't include game developers taking lessons on how to tie effective killing yourself knots. So who knows.
Got off topic there, this is a game blog after all and somehow gaming infected this post....damnable old habits. So where was I....oh yes, being horribly depressed. So nothing I've been able to do has really knocked me out of this ... oh how do I put it ... wishing the world would suffer greatly while I gazed from high atop my safety hill of candy and moonshine? Nah, that's a bit too long of a title...and I don't like booze....my safety hill sucks. Geeze even in my ideal state of the world I'm not satisfied.
So back to the point, what to do...For a long time now I've watched Twitch, or JustinTV as it used to be called, and I've greatly been interested in doing something there. It's blown up so big now though the odds of having more than even 1 viewer are probably abysmally small. Plus I hate games like League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and any other game that would garner a mass of viewers. Not for that reason though, but because those games really suck. I'd likely play NES games, or SNES games. Games I grew up with that made me happy. Plus I'd save a lot of money not buying a lot of new games but instead playing older ones that I really enjoy.
Man VS Game is one of the most popular Twitch streamers there is and has long said that he aspires to have his stream good enough to play those older games on it consistently. Not sure why I feel the need to mention that, but it always gave me pause, like why are you not playing the games that you like most? Reflectively I can say the same about myself. I have been playing a lot of games I just flat out don't enjoy. I've been avoiding spending more time with Spelunky, Super Meat Boy, Rayman, and of course older Mario and Final Fantasy games all for the sake of playing that new popular thing everyone is talking about. It wasn't until GTAV released that that message really hit home to me. Everyone is talking about and loving the shit out of GTAV and while I respect certain aspects of the game, ultimately it's not what I enjoy about gaming much at all. I enjoy overcoming a challenge set forth by the developer, and games like GTA come with a very "new age" philosophy of gaming where the player cannot die easily, cannot get lost, and essentially cannot get frustrated. If play testers get stuck at x take it out or give the player the proverbial BFG weapon (big fucking gun). That describes a very large amount of gaming these days baring many indie games or godsends like Dark Souls.
Not to mention I prefer games that have unique enemies with combat that's engrossing. GTA is about killing 1 enemy type which is squishy people which gets old really fast. Take an indie game like Spelunky which I've come to love. There are numerous enemy types and though the game is limited in what you're allowed to do, dealing with one kind of enemy requires you do something different than another type of enemy and that's fun, that's variety. In GTA you can get through the whole game with a gun and a car (baring missions that require you use a boat or a helicopter of course) and you are always just dispatching people in a mundane cover mechanic of shooting.
When I play a game I like that challenge, that feeling of nauseating failure after hours and hours of trial all leading up to that moment of success. Hitting that emotional high is amazing and rewarding. Nothing compares to it, and you just can't find it in a game like GTAV, Borderlands, or Call of Duty. What you did that mission everyone else did in one try? *golf clap* Who cares. I still remember where I was and who I was with when I beat a game like Ninja Gaiden on the NES because it was that amazing, and that exciting. I'll never remember the time I beat GTAIV for instance. I can't even remember who the end bad guy was.
That will be my focus when I start up my stream. Games that give me that emotional high, or are just that much fun to play. I will probably go back in time to older games, and some of the really great newer games. Also, if I do play a "blockbuster" type game I will probably force myself to do the hard modes and at least try to force the game to be about the gaming aspect rather than the everlasting gobstopper developers are trying to peddle to the masses.
Once I get everything set up I'll post about the stream here, and possibly start a new blog.
*I do a thing at the end where I put an asterisk and say something witty every blog I've ever done. Not sure if anyone really noticed that*
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