We completing games around here
How many variations of that particular phrase am I going to use for a title? I don't know, maybe one. Maybe more. I'm not going back to check. Too busy totally streaming all the time, more than once a month. Wait, shit.
Anyway, on topic, we did beat False Skies last month. It's not a 100% clear or anything, but I did do quite a lot of the available content in the game. There's still new game+ and maybe 20 more hours of game to play if I want to, but I'll leave that for my own private playing time that I totally do. Why? Because I streamed it for almost 44 hours. It's a good game, that's about all I'll say here. You can read my review on Steam (mark it as helpful!) or listen to the end of the last stream to get my thoughts a bit more directly. Make sure you check out the complete archive for the game if you haven't started watching it yet. It's good.
And wait, what's this? Baw gawd it's Deadpool with a metal chair because apparently I went back to it and finished it off! Enough wrestling talk. No one does that anymore. But yeah, the last time I streamed this game was back in 2016, the world was different back then. I still streamed vaguely regularly. That was the main difference. But then life happened, and all of a sudden I ended up with a Steam Deck this year so I installed Deadpool on that and slowly worked my way back to recreating my save file as exactly as possible over a couple of weeks since I don't have a lot of time, and then I streamed it and beat it in an hour and a half and here we are. It's a game that exists, that much is true. Fun enough for what it is with a decent amount of Deadpool antics. Too bad you can't buy it anymore. Here's my complete archive if you wanted to start from the beginning, and then here's just the last episode if you totally remember all of the streams from 2016 and just want to end the story.
The PeerTube archive transfer is also coming along. I made it back almost all the way through 2012, but it's going to be slow going because those early years are the most full of streams. Like Suikoden II which I just finished making available through PeerTube, with its near 46 hours of gameplay (even though it's missing a stream). It actually beats out False Skies for overall duration which is pretty impressive (for both of those games). But I'll keep plugging along here and soon the archive will be complete again. Then maybe I'll add call-ins. Maybe.
So there's your update for the month. I'm still here. Things are always happening, just not always super visible.
Thanks for sticking around!
Slow News Year
So while I may not have been streaming too much lately due to overwhelming work and potentially life, I have still been working on things like transferring all of my archive over to my PeerTube instance. I'm still quite fond of PeerTube and everything that it brings. One of those things I've figured out is that I can directly embed playlists into my site.
So, while I've been transferring archives (we've made it back into 2013!), I've also been creating some complete archives that can just play through the entirety of a given game without needing too much user interaction or page reloads on the viewer's part. They're pretty neat, and honestly probably the better way to consume that Kuolity Kontent™ that you so crave. There's also the added bonus of me getting to see how long I spent on each game in total, which is Fun™.
Unsure how long it will take to get everything over to PeerTube, but it'll be worth it once it's all there. Maybe we'll even get a cool new stream embed on the site one of these days that uses PeerTube. Who knows. I have a lot of ideas and no real follow through. Such is life.
See you guys in future streams.
Kuoushi in 2023, a Year That Existed
Enjoy another Twitch recap.
I know things have been rather silent the past few weeks or so, but that's mostly because I've been extraordinarily busy with work even on the weekends. Sucks, but it is what it is. Hoping to get back to streaming and finishing off False Skies soon enough.
But all that aside, it's honestly been a good year for kuoushi streams. The best on the books since 2019, and I'm sure those of you out there still following along at home will agree. We finished up Homefront: The Revolution earlier in the year, killing all the Norks in existence because why not. All's fair when it comes to defeating invaders or something. Then we powered through a bunch of smaller games like the best Jurassic Park game ever, Trespasser, followed by F.E.A.R. and all of its expansions to finish off that franchise, the first Turok remake for more dinosaurs, and we even visited a space station in Prey (2017).
After that we launched into a small series that I've taken to calling The Bargain Bin, which targets games with something like 100 reviews or so in Steam. So not the biggest games ever, but still a lot of fun to just give them their time.
We also played Dino Crisis 2 which was certainly a time. I might just like dinosaurs. We even played a big ol' Doom TC WAD known as Ashes: Afterglow which was damn solid. Way bigger than I expected, and only a few little stumbling blocks. We even played that first Call of Juarez game to wrap up that series of games as well. And finally, as mentioned in the beginning of the post, we started up a small JRPG known as False Skies. It's big. It's neat. It has a lot of systems. And let's just say I like it so far, and can't wait to finish it.
And none of the above is mentioning that my archives of streams are now as complete as they can be. Every single stream that I have a video archive for on my hard drives is now available from the kuoushi archive. Most are available through YouTube at the moment, but I've also started getting my archives entirely self-hosted on my own PeerTube instance to cut YouTube out entirely. It's honestly been going really well, but I still need to get more of the old streams uploaded there instead of YouTube. This mostly helps when YouTube would mute things or otherwise say my streams are unsavory. I'm also able to stream through PeerTube as well, plus I'm looking into getting that to be the main embed on the site here with a chat that doesn't require logging in, similar to how the old site functioned. Still figuring that all out with my limited time, though.
All in all, a good year for streams and Kuontent™ in general, even if I mostly only streamed Friday and Saturday nights when I had time. I'm hoping to free up more time next year to stream here and there, though we'll see how that goes.
Oh, and I'm also in the top 10% of Homefront: The Revolution streamers again this year.
I'll see you guys in 2024.
Thanks for hanging around as always.
Keeping up with posts on a blog? Who does that?
Not me, that's for sure.
Been a couple of weeks since I streamed something, so now that I have, it's time for another blog post that will meet all of your wildest desires (for kuoushi™ content).
The most recent thing to talk about is how we've begun the current endgame for the Call of Juarez series. Playing things in reverse is normal, and here I am starting up the very first in the Call of Juarez series. What's that, you say? There was another game I'm forgetting about? Well too fucking bad. It's not sold anymore so I'm not going out of my way to get it and play it. This is it. No more Call of Juarez after I finish playing this first game, unless of course they release another. I'm sure all of the dozens of Call of Juarez fans will fault me for this and stop watching my streams in droves. Whatever the case, hey come watch the Call of Juarez streams live or check them out as they get posted to the archive.
The other thing of note is that I've kind of sort of taken up a new streaming hobby where I'll find games that have around 100 or less reviews on Steam, and then I'll stream them. There likely won't be many diamonds in the rough, but I do expect to have some experiences. On that note, we've done four such games so far! I'm calling the series The Bargain Bin to myself, and if you want to keep up with whenever I stream those games, just check out the tag here. That Which Gives Chase and The Warriorlock in particular were a lot of fun to me. Katana Soul and Powernaut Vangardt were just too hard on my old man reflexes, unfortunately. I might give the latter another try now that I know how it works though.
What's that? More has happened since the last post? You're right. I've actually been busy. On top of the above, I also finished playthroughs of Dino Crisis 2 and the Doom total conversion mod known as Ashes: Afterglow, which is fantastic.
We'll say that's it for now (aside from the PeerTube archive still moving backwards fairly swimmingly into the year 2015), so hope you've all enjoyed this recap of the past few months of totally good times.
Thanks as always.
Prey is as Prey does
It's done, is all I'm saying. We arrived on Talos 1 with naught but uh, naught. And we left with even less. I mean, honestly it was a fun game with a lot of different options in how you play it. I didn't play it the right way, and I can tell you why. One, I didn't even know how to zoom in until the very last stream. That's pretty much it. Also I never used any of the different powers available. Just shooty shooted my way through. But hey, it was a viable way to play and that's what makes Prey a good game. It let me be an idiot and didn't stop me from doing so. I had fun.
That being said, we now have to pick some new games! I actually already have, for once, and can let you know right in this post what we'll be playing tonight! It's a miracle of modern science.
Tonight we'll be starting off by playing That Which Gives Chase, a small horror adventure into the snows of the north with a team of dogs on my sled and shit. Honestly seems like a neat little experience. And since that's relatively short, we'll follow it up by starting up with THE WARRIORLOCK. There's a lot of WRITING in this game, and I'm really unsure of the quality, but we'll get through it all the same.
And, what would a new post be without me updating you all on the cool progress my PeerTube instance is making in transferring my entire archive from YouTube to a nice, locally-sourced video hosting platform. It's uh, it's making progress. We're going backwards through time and have made it into 2017 now with some of the final drunk streams. It's safe to say things are going well.
That's it for now, thanks as always and see you at the streams or in the comments or just, you know, wherever you happen to see me.