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Hades - Extremely well made Rogue-Lite. Great Characters, Beautiful art, fantastic music, fully voice acted. The game plays well and no run is really a lost run from RNG. I liked it so much I even decided to stream it twice, the second time with Crowd Control.
Videos can be found here
Videos are a re-upload of Twitch VOD
Video run time is 5 hours on average
Crowd Control Playthrough
Half-Life - I started my channel by playing this game. The franchise is perhaps my number one game franchise of all time. First Person Shooter that takes you through all kinds of locales in a research facility where everything went wrong with portal technology. Light on the story telling but big on the everything else. Also for some reason in this franchise I keep getting the headcrabs to float.
Half-Life 2 - Huge step up from the original Half-Life. The tech is just a huge leap forward, and we actually got some narrative moments. The world feels lived in and you get to see what happened after Half-Life 1.
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 - I have a bit of a love hate with the Episode releases. On the one hand, more Half-Life! On the other hand, these are significantly shorter installations and still didn’t fully get us to where I would like to be in the story. That said, the team kept innovating a little and gave us another entertaining game.
Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - A lot of the same notes as Episode 1 here. The game did a lot more to make the NPC’s feel more real and reactive to the world with this one. I have some issues with how the game ends, it just feels slightly out of place, but otherwise I still liked it.
Half-Life: Alyx - VR in the Half-Life world. This game takes place shortly before the start of Half-Life 1. I love how the game plays and it shows us what VR can really accomplish in a game. The over all experience was fantastic and I love revisiting the game from time to time as it is fairly short. I just wish the ending didn’t give me hope for a Half-Life 3 actually happening in the future.
Videos can be found here
Videos are recorded for YouTube
Video run time is 1 hour on average
Release date: TBD
Half-Life: Blue Shift - I originally skipped this when playing through at the start of the channel, decided to record it since I was revisiting the games anyway. I don’t have the same nostalgia for this since I never played it back when it originally came out but it was still a solid experience and addition to the Half-Life series.
Half-Life: Opposing Force - Another one I skipped when I originally started streaming. I never played it back when it originally came out and was a bit confused in sections of the playthrough due to some quirks of the game but it was a fairly solid play. I did feel a bit of redundancy with some of the weapons though.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker - Shipbreaking but in space. Bit of a political message to this one. Basically the cycle boils down to pick a ship, tear it down for 15 minutes, upgrade and maintain your gear, repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have no more ship. The game however does zero gravity really well and the mechanics felt like they made sense based on rotation and the like. Also the music is just perfect for the game. Give it a try, it is the perfect kind of game to just pick up to fill some time and then put back down until you can get back to it. Also the story while sort of disconnected from the gameplay itself was pretty great.
Videos can be found here
Videos are recorded for YouTube
Video run time is 1 hour on average
Release date: TBD
Henry Stickman Collection - Largely referential in humor with subversion of expectations. Occasionally just plays the joke straight too. Keeps you on your toes and I had fun with it.
Hi-Fi Rush - THIS GAME! Fantastic design from the characters to the world and even the mechanics. Most of all the music! Everything about this game is centered around the world moving with the music and it all just flows together so well. Oh and the the story is amazing to boot!
Videos can be found here
Videos are recorded for YouTube
Video run time is 1 hour on average
Release date: July 7
Hollow Knight - Metroidvania with a death mechanic like Soulsborne, well done game that actually had me laughing at the boss fights from the sheer joy of learning something new.
Homebody - Wow this game, I really loved this game. Solid atmosphere building, the characters were fantastic. The puzzles were great. And most importantly this was a horror game that respects your time. The stakes got a bit lowered once I realized I couldn't really game over, but there was enough stuff that was changing the status quo that I was just on edge enough for chat to scare me easily. Oh I also happened to play it during the Perseid Meteor Shower, which the game is supposed to take place during.