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About my Live Stream, Fallout, Cataclysm, Minecraft, and More!

It’s been a while since I updated my blog!  But there are some things I’ve been wanting to talk about, so I’ll make a quick update here.

What’s become of Fallout: New Vegas?

Well, I ran into some serious technical issues with the game while recording.  One part of the game had busted polygons that would stretch into eternity and flash on the screen wildly, and I couldn’t walk down that hallway, much less see into any of that building’s rooms.  People told me the game was bugged, but I didn’t know it was *that* bugged.

In addition to that, I decided to restart my LP of New Vegas anyway because I wanted to focus on Energy Weapons.  I think I’ve since changed my mind about that, too… because I tried restarting my LP and it turned out very bad, haha.  Partially because I kept running out of energy ammo and, MOSTLY because I had some sound problems while recording the game.  I recorded about 2 hours of Fallout only to find out the sound was unusable.  :(

The sound was great in the live stream, but in Fraps it was broken.  Sigh.  Well, if you want to watch the footage of the live stream where I restarted New Vegas, you can watch it here: 

Watch live video from davidangel64’s channel on Justin.tv

I will be restarting New Vegas a third time, most likely while not streaming it.  So wish me luck on that.  I haven’t had much luck keeping that LP going, but dang it, I really want to!

Speaking of the Live Stream

Speaking of the live stream, in case you didn’t know by now, I have one.  Here’s the link: http://www.justin.tv/davidangel64

Make sure to sign up at Justin.tv and follow me there.  You can also keep up to date of when I start streaming (I always tweet it) on my twitter: http://www.twitter.com/davidangel64

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Ah, WoW.  The game that started my whole channel.  Yes, my name is X because it’s short for “Xalamon,” the name of my undead death knight in WoW.

And now Cataclysm has finally been released and I… am not excited for it.  I thought Cataclysm would hook me and reel me back in, but it hasn’t.  Not quite yet.

I’ve seen a lot of videos on it, and watched a number of live streams, and kept up with the news about it.  But Wrath of the Lich King (the previous expansion) was just so very boring at the end there that it left me with a really stale taste for WoW.  I don’t have any desire to get back into grinding heroics for better gear that lets me grind more heroics for hours.

BUT!

I must admit that everything I have seen about Cataclysm looks fantastic.  The expansion really does seem to make WoW a whole new game, with much more dynamic quests, more dynamic play, more dynamic content… I think it’s safe to say Cataclysm is just so much more dynamic than previous expansions.  And that’s a very, very good thing.

But money is tight around the holidays for me, and like I said, Cataclysm should excite me but doesn’t.  So I won’t be buying Cataclysm right away.

That said, I realize that I don’t have to buy Cataclysm to enjoy 90% of what the expansion offers.  Most of the new content comes in the form of the new landscape and the new gameplay experience from levels 1-60, and I can do that without spending an extra penny.  So I may make some videos of Cataclysm content soon, but I make no guarantees.

At the end of December I’ll be getting my first small check from Machinima.  We’ll see how much money that brings in and if it’s enough, I’ll probably buy Cataclysm and join the fun.  We’ll see how it goes.

Now, while I will never turn down donations (you can click here to donate, hint hint), please don’t donate with the idea that it will get me to buy Cataclysm… I appreciate the sentiment very much, but I don’t want to feel obligated to buy and play a certain game because someone donated specifically for that game.  If you DO donate, please do it simply to support my channel as a whole.  :-)

Minecraft Beta

Now, this surprises me.  I’m actually fairly excited about the Minecraft Beta coming out, and I’m not really sure why.  Currently, I am quite bored with Minecraft and it’s difficult for me to stay interested in playing it for more than 2 minutes at a time.

But the beta promises a form of loose narrative to the game, and I really think that’s what it needs.  Some sort of objective, some sort of goal or story to it, while letting it remain a sandbox game.  That’s difficult to achieve, I know, and a tall order, but it’s exactly what Notch is beginning to implement in the beta for Minecraft.

That’s big news for me, personally.  There are also supposedly some other neat features that will be coming with the beta, like full-fledged multiplayer support that should play mostly like the single player game, except with more people.  I realize most of this functionality is already in the game, but that it will be more polished and more fleshed out in the beta is a fun idea.

I might be interested in making videos about Minecraft again after the beta comes out… but remember, I said the same thing about the Halloween Update, and I didn’t make a full series of that update like I intended to.

The reason for that, though, was because I expected more out the Halloween Update and I feel, to me, that update fell flat.  It didn’t add as much as I thought it would, and in the end the Nether (which I looked forward to most) is pretty darn useless.

It was a fun distraction, being as scary as it was for the first 10 minutes, but once you get past the initial disturbing sounds, the Nether became a place where you just went to die.  There are no rewards for traversing the Nether, except that glowing stone that permanently emits light.  Using the Nether as a transportation system is sketchy at best, too, so… in the end, as I said, the Nether was pretty useless and that turned me off even more when it came to Minecraft.

Will the Minecraft Beta release fall flat, too?  Or will it breathe new life into X’s Adventures in Minecraft?  I’m hoping the latter.

And More!

Here’s the “and more” part.  It’s Alizee.  I saw this video a few years ago and just found it again.  For no other reason than “I think she’s hot,” here’s the video:

(Use the full screen button there on the right.)

That’s it for now!  Thanks for reading, guys.