Since our last stream, we’ve been doing pretty well as far as getting games done and working on our site. Aside from the chats on the site itself, but I’m still kind of working on that. But enough of that, let’s go over what we’re working on lately.

Games! We’ve beaten some! Were they short? Yes. Do I care? No.

The first we finished up with FREAKHUNTER, and that game beat my shit up. That game was way too hard for someone like me. We still did it, though. While working on that, we also had four new games we beat. you feel normal, Unveiling, Lair of Anubis, and ASTRA. They were all on the weird spectrum, and certainly on the weird spectrum of quality. I enjoyed them them in one way or another, so who cares. Oh, and the last one I game was Vomitoreum. Despite its rather bad name, it’s a new Scumhead game and very nice. Same dev as Franzen, in fact. I didn’t find every easter egg, but I did do quite a bit. Vomitoreum was sadly not an Bargain Bin game, so it doesn’t have any reviews or anything.

So let’s drop some links to each of these games for you to go check the streams out.

FREAKHUNTER
you feel normal
Unveiling
Lair of Anubis
ASTRA
Vomitoreum

That’s a lot, and it’s pretty nice to see it all up there.

Now that that’s past, let’s talk about the current game I’m working on. It’s called Jrago The Demon Hunter, and it’s going to be a long set of streams. It’s jank as fuck, and it’s also hard. Not always the greatest combo, but I will be do it all the same. Will I ever finish the end of this game? You’ll have to watch out for fun. I guess we didn’t talk much about Unspoken, but we’ll be a while before we play that one again so not much else to say there.

On the side of the work, I’ve been started working on the archives again. The problem in PeerTube that was blocking our progress is now gone, and it means we’re getting things moved in there well again. Still a lot of transcoding to do here, but it’s moving and that’s what matters. All in all, a good place for the site.

I guess I’ve also started working through highlights again, but that’s going to be a while before I get those going. They’re moving, but you might not be seeing much movement on it there yet.

We’ve been doing well. Hope you’re doing well. I’ll see you guys next time.

You may be wondering to yourself, “kuoushi, why do you need to make a full-blown news post for a new version of your self-hosted video archive stuff?” Well, let me tell you. The new version of PeerTube fixes an issue that we were apparently having with audio desync in basically every single video that I didn’t notice because it only affected Chromium and Webkit browsers (which is the entire rest of the internet aside from Firefox users which explains how I didn’t notice it earlier on). This is good news, right? It is.

The bad news, however, is that to fix it in all of my archives, I have to re-transcode every single video on my archive currently. That is going to take a while, and some archives will go up or down until that process completes. The positive, though, aside from everything being fixed, is that after that’s all done, I’ll go back to working on the archive and getting the rest of the missing streams off of YouTube and into there.

Basically, if you click an archive and it doesn’t play, that’s probably what’s going on now.

Back on the topic of games, I’ve been slowly building out things on the site and deciding where things go. Things like The Bargain Bin stuff I’ve been working on. I’ve tossed all the complete archives for those streams into that category, and I’m also now including my Steam reviews of each game there. In the same vein, I’ve also resurrected the Steam Group’s Curator page so that I can put all of this stuff in there too. Like and subscribe and all that other stuff people say. Honestly, it’s just amusing for me to use all these things, even if no one pays much attention to them.

On the other good side of things, we’ve been finishing games! First up after we finished Gunman Chronicles, we moved on to a little free JRPG-inspired game by Scumhead known as Franzen. Longer than expected, and not without its rubbing points, but still a solid experience overall. You can read more from the review on the Complete Archive page, but I had fun per the usual.

We also (barely) finished playing through Ilum. It is an experience, I’ll say that. Whether it’s a good experience or not, well, that’s up to you. Check the review out for that one on the Complete Archive page so you can see more about my thoughts on it. It’s probably more fun to watch someone else suffer through, though. And, what an ending!

I guess I’ve also been making highlights again, but haven’t decided how I want to include them on the site just yet. For now, they’re only on Twitch.

But anyway, that’s all I’ve got for today. We’re currently going through Axe Cop, which is a lot of dumb fun so far. Tune in late nights on weekends to catch more of that, but we’re likely in for a pretty long haul on that one. Maybe not as long as False Skies, but still a full-length JRPG kind of game.

Thanks for sticking around.

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!

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.

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.

Prey Stream Archives

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.