It’s that time of year again; that wonderful time when Jarenth and I take over the website so we can stream ourselves being dumb for a few hours while Shamus isn’t looking.
This year we’ll be playing…
Uh.
Actually, I don’t know what we’ll be playing yet! But we’ll be playing something! And it probably won’t be Nethack! (That would be sadness.)
The stream will start at 8 PM Pacific/11 PM Eastern/4 AM British on New Year’s Eve (December 31st), or if you’re in Europe, New Year’s Day (January 1st).
And don’t tell Shamus!
The Best of 2019
I called 2019 "The Year of corporate Dystopia". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Stop Asking Me to Play Dark Souls!
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
Chainmail Bikini
A horrible, railroading, stupid, contrived, and painfully ill-conceived roleplaying campaign. All in good fun.
PC Gaming Golden Age
It's not a legend. It was real. There was a time before DLC. Before DRM. Before crappy ports. It was glorious.
Charging More for a Worse Product
No, game prices don't "need" to go up. That's not how supply and demand works. Instead, the publishers need to be smarter about where they spend their money.
I’M TELLING I’M TELLING.
/me kills Winfield
Darn. Wish I could watch that. Don’t think I can make it. A shame.
To another year of insightful stuff on this wonderful website!
What about http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/UnNetHack ?
Needs moar graphix! :P
LEFT5DEAD3!
Half Life 2: Season 3: Episode 4!
portal origins!
System Shock 3
CONTRA!
COD 10!
It’s possible that you think Josh is joking, right now, re: ‘we have no idea what this stream is going to be about’.
But does Josh ever joke?
I think he’s more like Loki.
Like, he’s in a perpetual state of mischief, trolling, and shenanigans.
At least he’s less murderous than that Norse jerk! :P
In all fairness to Loki, he’s only really murdered one person – Baldur. and even then, he only orchestrated it – the blind god Hod fired the arrow.
What I’m saying is, have Loki and Josh ever been photographed in the same place at the same time? does he need to team up with Gabe Newell, the capricious Mesopotamian god?
And even then, it was Baldur’s mom’s fault in the first place.
less murderous? Do you actually watch the show?!
That’s Reginald Cuftburt.
Josh is completely a different person, and 11/10 doctors agree.
Josh does not “joke.”
Josh “is drunk.”
I’d suggest Saints Row 4, but that’s kind of a been there done that thing. Maybe Don’t Starve?
Legend of Dungeon might be good for streaming purposes.
It’s shortish, simple, and best when played with more than one person.
Although it’s local-only multiplayer, so if you don’t have a way of being in the same room…
What about Spelunky? (The remake)
Randomized, platformy, and has multiplayer built in!
All things I like! :)
Go for Artemis. Because Artemis.
This would be hilarious!
They’re going to stream Guild Wars’ login screen for three hours while Josh waxes poetic about it. I can see it now.
they’re going to play dota but only talk about LOL
Hmmmmm.
I would be fine with this.
I wouldn’t mind actually getting to see some Good Robot footage.
Just make sure to record properly this time if you go for that, please.
You should do nethack, just as a joke.
No, no, no. They should play IvAN.
Hah! That’d be a short game. :P
BTW, has anyone modded the game, or continued development of it?
Last time I checked, it was fun/playable, but hadn’t been worked on in several years.
It was still dead the last time I checked.
Something’s off with the comment tracking. From the blog’s front page it says there’s 20 comments (at the time I type this), but from this page it says there’s only 19. My manual count also says 19.
Perhaps the post itself is counted as a comment?
Or there’s something in the mod queue…
Perhaps there was a deleted comment, or something is stuck in moderation.
For me it says “No comments whatsoever.”
Imagine my surprise.
Sad. I contributed a Rumi quote that was used for the pickaxe, back in the day.
Eke. Hit the wrong reply button. That thought should go under the Nethack thread.
Yeah, the comments table got messed up last night and I had to do a repair on it. That fixed the incorrect number of comments, but for whatever reason it was reporting zero comments. I think that number sorted itself out when a new comment was left.
It might be amusing to watch them play a few hours of Terraria or Starbound, whichever they know least well. If you’re not familiar with them, think of side-scrolling Minecraft with bosses. Terraria is the older one which just got some new Christmas content, while Starbound is the newer one somewhat based on Terraria that’s still in alpha and Shamus recently did a review of.
Josh, you & Jarenth should co-create an expansion to everyone’s favourite internet-themed Japanese multimedia property.
You can call it .hack//Net
Alas, I will be too busy getting drunk and trying to make out with girls to watch this for more than maybe half an hour. I feel like a bad nerd.
That’s alright. You were at Auntie Paladin a lot, your nerd cred is pretty safe for now.
5 in the morning? Well that’s a time!
Play Nethack!
Gonna put the link up for the stream soon, guys?
While I only got in to gun for shamus’s last match.
The game was fun as hell.
Any attempts to organize normal groups would be welcomed.
Hell, I have 3 copies of the game to gift on steam since I bought the 4 pack.
And all Hail the Ernie!!!!