Somehow March is almost upon us, and I still haven’t written about Tyranny, the other free game I got from the Epic Store oh so long ago now. It was the next in a burst of isometric CRPG games that I played around Christmas time, which started with Wasteland 2 and then Pillars of Eternity.
I don’t get the Valheim craze and I wasn’t wowed by Outriders either. There, I said it.
This past week I found myself trying three free games I got from the Epic Game Store.
I got a two-month free trial of Stadia Pro and have been trying it out.
Video adventures uploaded in the last week or so.
At last, the Pillars of Eternity series comes to an end.
Before and after I started a new job in March, my gaming time and interest plummeted to nothing, so I commenced a period of short gaming sessions of mainly free games and demos which continues to this very day.
Some Twitter activity prompted me to think about how and why I follow some D&D shows.
And now we move into videos of games I’ve played during a Free Two-Month Stadia Pro Trial phase (which I got from someone at my new job). There are a whole lot of free games to click on and play with a Stadia subscription, but the down side is that 99% of them are games you’ve never heard of before.
Finding a microphone that can also be used for content creation (aka. makin’ vidyas) in a noisy room is challenging.
Another week of playing strange games for free with a free trial of Stadia Pro. It’s really a fantastic system for trying out new games quickly. The technology is very cool. The sticking point is who pays for it, and how much this luxurious convenience is worth to a consumer.
How to stream a local video file to Twitch with ffmpeg.
Since I was experimenting with Stadia, it seemed fitting to try out Amazon Luna for comparison. It was only a seven day free trial, though. Also, it was noticeably worse quality than Stadia. Also, you have to pay for an early access subscription. Also, it had far less good games available for free. In summary, not a lot of pros with Amazon Luna.
Firewatch and other games I’m currently playing: ie. The Surge, Hellpoint, and Greedfall.
I blurted out some tweets yesterday morning about Final Fantasy XIV which I think need some further clarification.
The end of my streak of miscellaneous one-off videos.
Or: “Battle for Your Oats.”
The 42-part adventure in The Surge begins, a game that was fun except for the boss fights, and the last zone, which was an ordeal to finish.
The continuing adventures of Warren rending his way through his first day on the job at CREO.
I put together my new PC build over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. There’re always some surprises when you build a PC: Things that don’t go according to plan. Here’s some of mine.
The continuing adventures of Warren hacking and slashing his way through the Resolve Biolabs to reach his ultimate goal of … who knows? Warren doesn’t really have any motivation. Just an unquenchable thirst for hacking up robots and zombies. (Though he might have a secret backstory.)
The continuing adventures of Warren on his first day on the job at CREO. We’ve now reached the point in the story where I no longer remember what happened, didn’t write anything down, and don’t have enough time to re-watch the videos to figure it out. Soooooo. Yeah. Vague, one-sentence summaries!
It’s the last stretch for The Surge, as Warren finishes out his first day on the job. I hated the last zone in The Surge (the Nucleus) so much I almost uninstalled the game with only a couple hours left to play, but I powered through it because I’d gone too far to throw away so many videos. :)
I was thinking about why some boss fights are fun challenges and other boss fights drive me absolutely crazy with needless frustration.
There’s a lot of buzz about Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion, and now I see it’s that time again when Square Enix is letting lapsed Final Fantasy XIV accounts login free for a couple of weeks.