Finally getting to play through Rise of the Tomb Raider! After my warm up with 2013’s Tomb Raider running with the Steam Controller, I’m jumping right in to Rise with nearly the same profile, only minor alterations. The Steam Controller is once again proving to be by far my favorite way to play games. -- Watch live at http://www.twitch.tv/8bitcerberus
Note: If you see a “Media Offline” flash on the screen for a frame that’s apparently a somewhat common issue with DaVinci Resolve where if the hard drive can’t quite keep up for whatever reason (probably because it’s simultaneously being read from, and written to), rather than slowing down the render a bit, it will instead just mark the frame as offline and keep going and that has made it into the final export at least once that I’ve noticed. Keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn’t happen too often because that’s kind of infuriating, and re-rendering would not fix it, may just put the “offline” frames in different places or make the problem worse.
PC specs: Steam Controller Intel i7 4770 3.4GHz w/ 16GB DDR3 Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 Zotac GTX 980 4GB 2x 256GB SSD + lots of spinning platters for storage
Mic: Audio Technica ATR2500
Video/Audio recording: Open Broadcaster Software Nvidia ShadowPlay Elgato GameCapture HD DaVinci Resolve Audacity Discord Mumble TeamSpeak ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQi5h867Ejo
Get The Witcher here: http://www.gog.com/game/the_witcher
Rise of The White Wolf UI Mod: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/669/?
The Witcher is one of those series, that has been on my "need to play that someday" list for around 2-3 years now. The first game more or less flew under my radar. At the time in 2007 when The Witcher came out, I was more of a console gamer. But a slowly dying PS3, and a new PC (well, Mac Pro) and rumors of Steam coming to OS X conspired to bring me back into the PC gaming fold, and with the help of my PS3 version of Portal 2 coming with a free PC version, it was an easy decision to make. So my first real introduction to The Witcher was the overwhelming praise and acclaimations coming for The Witcher 2 not too long after. I knew I wouldn't want to jump into the story at part 2, so I bought both games but by the time I got around to doing that, Skyrim landed and all plans to jump into The Witcher had flown out the door for a while.
No time better than the present to correct one of my longest standing gaming oversights.
For my first playthrough I thought I'd attempt to get through the story of both The Witcher and The Witcher 2 in preparation for the release of The Witcher 3. I don't know if I'll be able to pull that off, but it's going to be fun trying. I will obviously not be doing an optimal build by today's standards, I don't even know what an optimal build would consist of because this is a game that I'm coming into blind. I've not watched any other let's plays, or looked up any guides or walkthroughs. I want to experience this as if I had actually purchased and played it in 2007, before LPs were a thing and before anyone had managed to play through a half dozen times in order to write up a walkthrough / perfect build FAQ.
What happened to the rest of the playthrough? I had to take an extended leave from my main gaming PC, around 3 months. However I did continue playing to finish out the rest of the game, unfortunately my only available PC during that time was a MacBook from 2008… needless to say recording was out of the question, the thing could only barely handle the game by itself. If you want to see the rest of the story, I highly recommend Gopher’s playthrough, he started playing coincidentally enough a couple of months after I did. You can watch his playthrough here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tdPY9U-zbs&list=PLE7DlYarj-DftNAlzoYNWYfKofD0FHpYk
My episode 35 is roughly where Gopher’s episode 37 is, though there are definitely some differences and it wouldn’t hurt picking up at his 35 as well. Or start from the beginning, it’s pretty great and Gopher is always entertaining.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdbjB9mMr0M
Get The Witcher here: http://www.gog.com/game/the_witcher
Rise of The White Wolf UI Mod: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/669/?
The Witcher is one of those series, that has been on my "need to play that someday" list for around 2-3 years now. The first game more or less flew under my radar. At the time in 2007 when The Witcher came out, I was more of a console gamer. But a slowly dying PS3, and a new PC (well, Mac Pro) and rumors of Steam coming to OS X conspired to bring me back into the PC gaming fold, and with the help of my PS3 version of Portal 2 coming with a free PC version, it was an easy decision to make. So my first real introduction to The Witcher was the overwhelming praise and acclaimations coming for The Witcher 2 not too long after. I knew I wouldn't want to jump into the story at part 2, so I bought both games but by the time I got around to doing that, Skyrim landed and all plans to jump into The Witcher had flown out the door for a while.
No time better than the present to correct one of my longest standing gaming oversights.
For my first playthrough I thought I'd attempt to get through the story of both The Witcher and The Witcher 2 in preparation for the release of The Witcher 3. I don't know if I'll be able to pull that off, but it's going to be fun trying. I will obviously not be doing an optimal build by today's standards, I don't even know what an optimal build would consist of because this is a game that I'm coming into blind. I've not watched any other let's plays, or looked up any guides or walkthroughs. I want to experience this as if I had actually purchased and played it in 2007, before LPs were a thing and before anyone had managed to play through a half dozen times in order to write up a walkthrough / perfect build FAQ.
What happened to the rest of the playthrough? I had to take an extended leave from my main gaming PC, around 3 months. However I did continue playing to finish out the rest of the game, unfortunately my only available PC during that time was a MacBook from 2008… needless to say recording was out of the question, the thing could only barely handle the game by itself. If you want to see the rest of the story, I highly recommend Gopher’s playthrough, he started playing coincidentally enough a couple of months after I did. You can watch his playthrough here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tdPY9U-zbs&list=PLE7DlYarj-DftNAlzoYNWYfKofD0FHpYk
My episode 35 is roughly where Gopher’s episode 37 is, though there are definitely some differences and it wouldn’t hurt picking up at his 35 as well. Or start from the beginning, it’s pretty great and Gopher is always entertaining.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyg1fXzOOi0
Zelda goes back to it’s roots with by far the most ambitious game of the series. It’s finally here! The wait is over.
PC specs:
Steam Controller
Intel i7 4770 3.4GHz w/ 16GB DDR3
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3
Zotac GTX 980 4GB
2x 256GB SSD + lots of spinning platters for storage
Mic:
Blue Yeti - Blackout Edition
Video/Audio recording:
Open Broadcaster Software
Elgato GameCapture HD
DaVinci Resolve
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBOtPvR0DKE
Zelda goes back to it’s roots with by far the most ambitious game of the series. It’s finally here! The wait is over.
PC specs:
Steam Controller
Intel i7 4770 3.4GHz w/ 16GB DDR3
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3
Zotac GTX 980 4GB
2x 256GB SSD + lots of spinning platters for storage
Mic:
Audio Technica ATR2500
Video/Audio recording:
Open Broadcaster Software
Elgato GameCapture HD
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H1Htg85li0
Zelda goes back to it’s roots with by far the most ambitious game of the series. It’s finally here! The wait is over.
PC specs:
Steam Controller
Intel i7 4770 3.4GHz w/ 16GB DDR3
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3
Zotac GTX 980 4GB
2x 256GB SSD + lots of spinning platters for storage
Mic:
Audio Technica ATR2500
Video/Audio recording:
Open Broadcaster Software
Elgato GameCapture HD
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSvsTqRLajc
Zelda goes back to it’s roots with by far the most ambitious game of the series. It’s finally here! The wait is over.
PC specs:
Steam Controller
Intel i7 4770 3.4GHz w/ 16GB DDR3
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3
Zotac GTX 980 4GB
2x 256GB SSD + lots of spinning platters for storage
Mic:
Audio Technica ATR2500
Video/Audio recording:
Open Broadcaster Software
Elgato GameCapture HD
DaVinci Resolve
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wCDXdjccIo
This is what I get for not mic checking before starting the stream. I’d just installed Skype earlier and forgot that it takes over the audio levels. I disable all that after it’s installed, of course, but not until it had already jacked my mic to 100%, when I normally keep it around 50%. This session took some heavy audio editing so of course it sounds absolutely terrible. Oops!
Get Borderlands 2 here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/
Co-op with my cousin, a Borderlands newbie, with some friends who are even more Borderlands nuts than I am. -- Watch live at http://www.twitch.tv/8bitcerberus
PC specs:
Intel i7 4770 3.4GHz w/ 16GB DDR3
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3
Zotac GTX 980 4GB
2x 256GB SSD + lots of spinning platters for storage
Mic:
Audio Technica ATR2500
Video/Audio recording:
Open Broadcaster Software
Nvidia ShadowPlay
Elgato GameCapture HD
Audacity
Discord
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URLS_YR_mKE
Sorry about the framerate, I was having issues with my capture software only capturing about 10-15fps. The game itself was running smoothly, It's just the recording that got jacked up.
Get Draw A Stickman here: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/drawastickmanepic_storefront
If you've missed a stream I'm keeping a running playlist going here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzYTeLFR5EXSLJkujD3WiaxfsfB8FDiGX
If you like this and want to check out any future streams you can head to my Twitch channel here: http://www.twitch.tv/8bitcerberus where you can watch me fail live, or of course I'll be uploading them here afterward, as well. Keeping a record of my ineptitude. It's what I do!
PC specs:
Intel Haswell i7 4770 3.4GHz w/ 16GB DDR3
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3
EVGA GTX 670 2GB
256GB SSD + lots of spinning platters for storage
Mic:
Audio Technica ATR2500
Video/Audio recording:
Open Broadcaster Software
Nvidia ShadowPlay
Elgato GameCapture HD
Audacity
Mumble
TeamSpeak
Video editing:
Lightworks
Blender
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CXdzYlkkSY