G'day, posse, hope you're all doing fantastic.
Off the top, to my American friends among you, the election raging and it's inescapable on social media. Whatever happens, stay safe over there. It sounds like a highly charged event and not in a good way. No preach from me, just hope that you're all safe and well.
The Dragon Age: Veilguard drama is in full swing as I write this. I'm so tired, and I don't even have a horse in this race. If you play it, tell me what you think. I never had an interest in it and the discourse has quickly become a dumpster fire on 'both sides'.
Moving on to greener pastures, I'm almost finished the Blood West video, there's only a few minutes of video left to edit. I lost a chunk of time this month which meant I couldn't quite squeak it over the line before November, but we're almost there.
The next indie preview will be on Monomyth. I've had my eye on this for a while, and it's shaping up to be something special. A little Arx Fatalis, a little Legends of Grimrock; I can't wait to get stuck into this one. I was originally going to preview Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, but apparently it can take 20-25hrs to get through what it currently has to offer, and I don't want to spend that long on an indie preview.
Stalker 2 releases this month, and I have already planned for release day by taking the week off. I'll be recording a longplay for the Blondefire channel and will probably play it offline simultaneously. I may also take a hiatus to finish it seeing as I don't get excited for many new releases these days, but I'm not 100% on that yet. Either way, I may also record footage and take notes for a Stalker 2 analysis video. Don't expect that project to release until sometime early next year though.
What is Blondie playing
This is a new section which I'm playing around with. If you hate it, let me know. I just started playing Pacific Drive. Survival, looting, crafting; yeah, it's my bag. I've only explored the first location but I'm already enjoying the direction this is heading. That old jalopy will be upgraded in no time.
I also started playing Witchfire earlier in the month which is a lot of fun, though I hear that there isn't a huge amount of content for it yet. Amazing polish and fluid gunplay, it feels really to dash around and shoot bad guys.
What are you playing? Got any recommendations that I should put on my radar? Drop a comment and let me know.
Until next month (amidst the Christmas mayhem), pardners.
There's no sugar-coating this one. July was a rough month. Between a bunch of personal stuff and a busy IRL work schedule all coming at me at once, July has been a frustrating month, a month to forget. There were times I felt like throwing my hands up and giving up the Youtube gig, it felt that hopeless. Only in the last week have I wiped the plate clean and gotten back on track. They say the victories are won a step at a time, but they never tell you how to feel about the times your feet are moving yet the scenery isn't. This isn't a sob piece, but I need to get it off my chest. I have disabled Patreon payments, temporarily at least, until the Marathon 2 video is out. I swear there was an option to charge per video which is feeling a lot more fair than monthly payments at the moment, but I couldn't find it in the settings. I'll have another look soon.
Amidst the chaos of life, I had to face a hard truth: long form videos aren't as fulfilling as they once were. Am I saying anything new in them? Do they still mean ...
G'day, folks. Work on the Marathon video has begun. The playthrough is finished and the draft script is roughly 2/3 done. It's hard to say how long videos will be anymore. I've sped up my voice-over cadence which has compressed video length by around 1/3 to 1/4 but it's an ongoing refinement to find the right balance. The video won't be as long as the Marathon 1 video but I'm expecting at least an hour runtime. A lot of research goes into the Marathon videos because there's so much information out there and it takes time to review the relevant bits.
I got sick earlier in the month which wiped out a week of productivity. Because I couldn't sleep properly during the nights, I spent any and all free time sleeping that week.
What's Blondie playin'?
I finished Atomfall and its DLC this month. Fun game, though not as open and revolutionary as I was led to believe. More interactivity between characters which revolved around questlines would have been welcome. The System Shock 2 remaster came out recently, and ...
