tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44703603707953996392024-03-13T05:02:22.883-05:00.The blog for my YouTube channel where I play old games. http://www.youtube.com/mattsgameplayMatt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-85808981084594083672012-07-18T13:24:00.001-05:002012-07-18T13:24:55.539-05:00Let's Play Star Wars: Demolition!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This time we fire up another old and obscure Star Wars game, this time taking the form of a crossover between the Star Wars Expanded Universe Twisted Metal, where the mostly cannon characters pit themselves against each other in vehicular combat.Tearing through the galaxy in a competition hosted by a Calypso stand-in Jaba the Hutt, the combatants will fight on many planets featuring landmarks made famous by wars raging from the Separatist Crisis to the Galactic Civil War!<br />
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Here's the intro of the game, and the LP.<br />
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Now we start the game proper. Playing as Boba Fett the Mandalorian bounty hunter on a jet pack, we cut out teeth on the tournament mode, and our tooth breaks off, as we get our Mandalorian asses handed to us! We put up a good fight, but no good. Guess I WILL have to read the manual...
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pxm7w7vbKoA" width="420"></iframe>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-6476518963468197682011-08-26T22:13:00.009-05:002011-08-26T22:34:18.412-05:00Minecraft AvdenturesI find myself playing Minecraft for hours on end. Either mindlessly mining for materials, or building large structures high atop mountains. It all started when I succumbed to the curiosity sparked by conversations I head on podcast. I looked up the game on YouTube, and stumbled on a Let’s Player I’ve forgotten the name of, but soon came across Quickshot14, a long time player of Minecraft with a vision and a lack of design, as he confessed to many times. His structures were grand and sophisticated, and his commentary was genuinely entertaining. Watching him play was a joy, but it seems he has taken a hiatus to take care of matters in the real world.
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<br />It wasn’t long until I reached Wolv21’s region of YouTube (the actual reason I’m doing voice commentary with my LP’s now), along with Coestar and Etho. Hundreds upon hundreds of hours of gameplay videos later, I was finally sold, and purchased the game to play it myself, and have my own adventures.
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<br />I’ve been playing Minecraft for a few months now. I started off just randomly wandering around, surveying the landscape with an inventory of smooth and cobblestone, looking for good places to build random structures. Towers, temples and alters littered the landscape, each recorded with a rough sketch of the finished product and the graphical coordinates of each structure through F3, and stone markers leading back to my main spawn.
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<br />I became enamored with mapping out the landscape, marking each landmark I left behind. Once I found enough sugar cane, and made a few compasses, I began mapping out the land in detail. I made a few of my own maps on paper to link the in-game maps together. When I came across a new biome, I marked the boarder of a new country, creating a new and unique architecture for each region, utilizing the block types unique to the biomes.
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<br />Some countries had older looking structures, taking inspiration from the Forbidden Land from Shadow of the Colossus, using motifs of colonnades and high ceilings. Some countries had technology, where I made contraptions using red stone and buttons. I continued to abide to these design rules until I came to my current base of operations. Now I am less strict and openly build whatever I want.
<br />Using videos from Coestar and Ethoslab as reference, I’ve built more sophisticated contraptions like mob spawners, along with some designs of my own like automatic farms.
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<br />Here is my current base, a city that I am still underway building on top of a mountain that I have linked to naturally created floating islands. It’s a crazy place, as one wrong step while building can send you plummeting to the ground hundreds of blocks bellow! In the city I have a multi-storied automatic farm complex featuring an all automatic wheat farm, mushroom farm, tree farm, cactus farm, and sugarcane farm. I plan to add a passive mob spawning floor, but judging from what Etho accomplished, it may be a larger undertaking than I plan to take on.
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<br />I plane to link all the floating islands together to create a huge city with all the bare necessities that will allow me to be self sufficient without having to go back to ground level. I plane to do periodical updates on my adventures in Minecraft on this blog, and possibly post some videos on the channel.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-20375020848098044462011-05-06T18:04:00.000-05:002011-05-06T18:06:38.705-05:00500 SUBSCRIBERS!<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/S20-1NXOlg4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />In honor of my 500th subscriber, I return to an old favorite game, to play it a little differently!<br /><br />When I uploaded the first video of Drakan back in 2006, I never imagined I would have 500 subscribers one day! Thank you all for watching, playing along and subscribing. It's been a nostalgic experience replaying all these games I've played so long ago in my childhood. It's surprising not everyone forgot about these old games. Even more surprising is that so many people remember them! Thank you all for your support, and here's hoping that all the future let's plays will bring in new people to share memories and relive experiences.<br /><br />No gungans were harmed in the making of this LP.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-53059191054917729562011-03-26T15:01:00.004-05:002011-03-26T15:16:04.690-05:00Pirates Almost Done!I've finished nearly everything now, and am ready for fight Hawk! Only a few more videos left to upload, and those will be kinda boring, as they're basically running around for treasure chests. But, hey, I'll edit it down to opening them. Here's what I've done so far!<br /><br />1) All the crystal hearts, save for the last on the last island, before Hawk's encounter!<br />2) All the fallen stars, unlocking the Wind Dancer!<br />3) Upgraded the Wind Dancer completely, all cannons and power ups!<br />4) All the Mermaid orchids, unlocking the Magical Harp, allowing Kat and the ship a limited time of invincibility!!<br />5) All the forts have been liberated!<br /><br />I probably won't get all the chests, but that's OK, I have all the quest items and the chests above ground. Otherwise it'll be a bunch of wandering around for the buried treasure. And I don't really want to do that... But hey, almost done!<br /><br />The battle with Hawk is a three part battle, no spoilers, but it's gonna be hard. Well, I don't really remember if it was when I beat it the first time, years ago, but I have a lot of power ups. After Pirates I want to try something different, stay tuned for the update on the next game!<br /><br />Here's Part 48, the battle with the Lava Man, as I'm calling him, as there is no real name for him in the game. Maybe in the manual, I doubt it, but hey, he speaks in rhymes, so that's cool. Also, Old Salt, as they call him, tells the story of Dunken "the Blade", in a wonderfully illustrated cutscene!<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zoVHKLt5uJw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-51319760439146569692010-11-04T19:00:00.003-05:002010-11-04T19:08:15.758-05:00Damn! (Correction)<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">I confused Westwood Studios, the EA branch that made Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, the game I’m doing a playthrough of, with Surreal Software, the company that made Drakan, another game I did a playthrough of. I mixed the two up in the last blog, AND the audio commentary for part 1 of Pirates, saying that Westwood made “This is Vegas” and closed down earlier last year, when in reality Surreal did all of that. Westwood, instead, closed in 2003! So there’s that correction. Hopefully no one wrote a term paper citing my site… yeah right, no one told me I was wrong, which is why it took so long to catch the error. Well, no one will read the correction either, anyway. Merherher…</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>RANDOM NEW VEGAS VIDEOS IN THE WORKS, VOICE COMMENTARY</strong></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">In other news, I'm going to attempt to record me playing random quests in Fallout New Vegas, just so there's no excuse for lack of content. Also, it seems people care more about how to get the ghoul mask in 3 than any other video on the channel, so let's gets some more views with Fallout! Also, prepare to hear my dumb voice, trying to say something interesting. I'm watching alot of Kikoskia in order to pick up on why I keep watching his LP's. I think it has something to do with his British voice. While I can't really do a good Brit voice, I hope I can be silly enough to keep people watching me wander around a desert for more than a few videos in. Let's wait and see how it turns out! </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>PRIMAL PROGRESS</strong></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">I'm in Volca in Primal, and I think that's the last part in the game. Which means I'm almost done with it, and can focus on Pirates more. Since, it seems more people are keeping up with Pirates than Primal so far. Also, I won't have to render so many videos anymore :D</span></p>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-65736636460208576072010-10-01T16:05:00.004-05:002010-10-01T16:40:57.659-05:00Audio Commentary?After watching Kikoskia, ResearchIndicates and L0rdVega, and WhereDaBootz, some great LPres, I though I would try my chance at doing audio commentary for my playthroughs. I've only done this once, which was actually my first lets play on Google Videos, of Metal Gear Solid 3, which only lasted about 3 minutes, but never something like a potentially 100 videos long playthrough. I'm not really fond of my voice, being one of the reasons, the other being I might not what to say while playing. But hey, let's give it a shot. Let me know what you think, and if I should do ALL playthroughs with audio commentary from now on. I don't think I'm going to do separate uploads of both with and without... well maybe... Oh hell, it's enough of a hassle to FORCE myself to upload at least one video a week. Well, if you subscribers want it, I WILL!<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aFOjfLVkYJ8?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aFOjfLVkYJ8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-30942173839996163842010-09-17T15:26:00.004-05:002010-11-04T18:39:16.076-05:00Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat!<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, which came out in 2002, is one of now defunct EAWestwood Studio’s few games. Sadly Pirates never got the attention it needed. There was a Demo in an issue of PlayStation Magazine, and there was a release for the X-box, but it seems to be an obscure game that barely even has an entry in Wikipedia. </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">The game fallows the adventure of Katrina De Leon, the daughter to Marcus De Leon, the Governor of Pirate Cove, a sea port that has been taken over the ruthless Hawke, who overthrows her father and kills him in a sword fight. Dying from his wounds inflicted by Hawke, Kat’s father reveals to her that her mother Mara was a pirate! Even though he is against Kat fallowing in her mother’s footsteps, he urges her to exact his revenge, an rid the five seas of Captain Hawke. First, however, she must find her mother’s grave, and discover the truth of her mother’s life. </span></p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Since Red Wood Studio’s closing in 2003, it’s almost certain we may never see Kat in another game again, despite the games ending giving hints to another adventure for the femme-fatal buccaneer. Another obscure character will be lost in the dark forever, amongst the like of Gex.</p></span><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">It took a while to get this game again, being the rare/ obscure game that it is. But after a long wait, I can relive the memories. Now, let’s play, Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat!</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"></p><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QsHoH_AFxcc?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QsHoH_AFxcc?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-8451666534608613102010-09-04T12:18:00.003-05:002010-09-04T12:21:29.322-05:00Announcing the Next Playthrough!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodAhV8yWHpJ1KlT1E_hyZDarb1T6fdg3TPiTfEH_BioVbUOhpyk7Vqd1RNqk94XkQFOnFnhTpbjoT-1cNffuWQjNVaeU2Z2Qw7hy3UBo7OGnf6vEU0O09m-8706Bv2VlJesc2-ZV-Mus/s1600/DSC00361.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513109568451073586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodAhV8yWHpJ1KlT1E_hyZDarb1T6fdg3TPiTfEH_BioVbUOhpyk7Vqd1RNqk94XkQFOnFnhTpbjoT-1cNffuWQjNVaeU2Z2Qw7hy3UBo7OGnf6vEU0O09m-8706Bv2VlJesc2-ZV-Mus/s320/DSC00361.JPG" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:180%;">COMING SOON!</span></div>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-35803646154308305462010-06-28T20:04:00.002-05:002010-06-28T20:06:27.700-05:00Primal Part 41: Battle With the Undine King!<p align="center"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XNUJHvtuKfo&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XNUJHvtuKfo&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">The Undine King has been horribly mutated by the toxin in the lagoon. With his mind gone, the king attacks Jen and Scree. Having been locked in the main generator room with him, they have no choice but to fight him! </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">This is a strange battle. You are in a cylindrical room with the boss in the middle. You are free to swim anywhere within the confined 3-dimentional environment. Scree, your AI controlled, and playable partner, is running around a platform that runs along the walls of the room. Along the walls are valves that will open the hatch in the top of the room, allowing you access to the controls that will turn the generator on. In order to turn the valves, Scree needs Jen’s help. </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Between turning the valves, you as Jen have to fight the Undine King to keep him from attacking you, otherwise his attacks disrupt you as you and Scree try to turn the valves. Once you’ve attacked him to the point of unconsciousness, he’ll spend a few seconds recovering his energy, giving you time to open a few valves. Once all the valves have been opened, the toxin in the room is removed.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>It seems that the toxin was regenerating the King in the recovery periods, and now that the toxin is gone, you can kill him now.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">After beating the Undine King, Jen has remorse for killing Aino’s husband, as it was him Jen and Scree were to help. Aino, via psychic telepathy, assures Jen that what she did was the right thing, and that she holds no grudge against her for doing so. She tells Jen that what she killed was not her husband, Adaro, but a horrible monster that took over him. Her husband was already lost.</span></p>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-79355106317607942942010-06-19T13:46:00.004-05:002010-06-19T14:28:57.879-05:00My Red Dead Story<p align="center"><a href="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d143/mattsboard/DSC00229.jpg"></a></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Hey it’s been a while since I’ve posted on this blog. Not much going on with me, really. I’m still doing the Primal play through, but I’m sure you already knew that. I’ve been trying to keep it consistent, one video a week. I’ve been wanting to kick it up to three, like I was able to do in my Drakan play through, so I could get it out of the way. It just takes so long to get a ten minute video up on YouTube. Anyway, yay videogames.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I’ve been slowly finishing up Red Dead Redemption, and dabbling in the multiplayer. It’s kinda boring running around and picking flowers. There’s only so much fun going from gang hideout to gang hideout. The hunting is almost pointless. The multiplayer matches are ok. I do have a story for that.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I was playing “hold your own”, basically capture the flag, but with a bag, but with two flags... err, I mean bags. Anyway you have to capture three of the enemies’ bags to win. This match started out with a shoot out, as the game types usually do. I never could do well at these, but this time I had the head shot down. In a fraction of a second, I shot the hat off of my opponent, and was able to finish the second of the three off, leaving me the last survivor of the shoot out. I was able to hear the first guy I downed exclaim “Oh my god” over his mic. I couldn’t believe it. </p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d143/mattsboard/DSC00229.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 619px; HEIGHT: 430px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d143/mattsboard/DSC00229.jpg" /></a></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Now the match started. Everyone was busy shooting each other, totally distracted. Now, being as humble as possible, I was kicking ass in the previous matches where killing the other team mattered, up to 10 kills and 4 deaths, being the highest scoring player of the match once! But in hold your own, only the bags matter. Everyone else, however, seemed content with shooting everyone else’s face off. This is where I made my move. </p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Getting on my horse, I rode over to the enemy base, took the bag, and made a beeline straight for our drop-off. BAM! My first capture. No sweat, only one guy got in my way, and I gave him a free haircut. Now for the second bag. Some player got lucky and drilled holes through my back on the way to the enemy base, but I got back in the game, got on my horse again, and got the second back home safe. This was it, I was going to win the game single handedly. I was in the enemy base. A guy came straight at me, bag, bag, dead. He was out of the way, now the bag. I loaded up, and made for our base. I was close enough to the enemy I downed that I was able to hear him alert his fellow team-mates that “he got the bag”. I was so existed! There was no one in sight. The bag was in the bag, as I came through the gate of our base, I DID IT! Boom, loading screen. What the f@ck?? John Marstin stood center screen. Single player… I had lost connection. FUCK WIFI.</p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Other than that, the free roam has been the main staple of multiplayer, and so far I’ve been disappointed, but that’s probably because all the people on my friends list have gone back to Modern Warfare (boo!) before anyone learned how to properly play it, not to mention the co-op add-on content coming up. I’ll probably never play free roam with another person I know, which will segue into my rant.</p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">F@cking Modern Warfare! All anyone on my friends list EVER plays is CoD4. When ever a new game comes out, it’s exciting to see everyone play it, especially if I got the game too. I’ll even be lucky enough to get a match going with someone I “know”, but then a week later, everyone is back to CoD4, and I’m left playing the new game by myself, or with strangers. No one plays Bad Company 2 anymore. No one plays Red Dead Redemption online. It’s all CoD4. It’s depressing. I wish knew more than three people on my friends list, and I wish they played more than once a week. Damn CoD…</p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Oh, and Broken Steel for Fallout 3, woohoo....</p>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-70341251482726455902010-03-06T00:35:00.004-05:002010-03-06T00:46:23.599-05:00Sack it to me!<div>I got this cute <strong>Sackboy</strong> doll from the FYE store in the mall Thursday. It was only $12, and they have four different characters in total. I went for the basic one for now, and might get two of the Sackgirl ones. It's really nice, made of really good material, and looks just like the little guy from the game. The only negative thing I can say about it is that the zipper is plastic. It would have been really cool if they made it with a metal zipper and track, and maybe even be able to unzip his stomach, but maybe that's asking too much. </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8AbPiZ-cKy7Rjo9-d6qYJl6_h85ur9p1Ql48gcL9Rh8RZKEhiGnWHzG7TYR6DLAeLQ0VsOTN3WUqqjHJ0FM56T3s6nY4Ki4BG5auuAr3Gug485yEcLeC-h6GItOcjoIFQfafXVohxcGU/s1600-h/DSC00033.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445392900979313010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8AbPiZ-cKy7Rjo9-d6qYJl6_h85ur9p1Ql48gcL9Rh8RZKEhiGnWHzG7TYR6DLAeLQ0VsOTN3WUqqjHJ0FM56T3s6nY4Ki4BG5auuAr3Gug485yEcLeC-h6GItOcjoIFQfafXVohxcGU/s320/DSC00033.JPG" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I just felt like sharing this, other than that I've been going on a trophy hunt. Just today I got three trophies for the <strong>Bad Company</strong> story mode, two in <strong>God of War II</strong>, and four in <strong>Uncharted 2</strong>. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Nothing much else in the way of games, but I totally enjoyed the <a href="http://www.ea.com/1/ea-podcast"><strong>EA podcast</strong> </a>this week with Mike and Jerry from <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/"><strong>Penny Arcade</strong> </a>as guests! Go listen to it right now.</div>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-62368800590468062692010-02-19T16:57:00.003-05:002010-02-19T17:03:19.215-05:00Polish Subtittles!<strong>Polish subtitles</strong> are now available for videos 1-10 of the <strong>Drakan</strong> playthrough! If you don't want them there, click on the little box at the <strong>bottom right</strong> of the videos and uncheck them. Also, a 2 part video of an online match in <strong>Battlefield: Bad Company</strong> is up. Played on the RU side. The match ended in victory. I managed to get <strong>13 kills with only 3 deaths</strong>, granted I was in the light tank for a good amount of time, it was still a good match for me! Go watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PrB1dAe76k">here</a>. A match in <strong>Bad Company 2 </strong>will be up shortly.<br /><br /><strong>Oh! Be sure to fallow me on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mattsgameplay">Twitter</a> if you want to stay updated with what I'm playing, or doing on the channel.</strong>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-31775265709619789552010-02-18T19:50:00.002-05:002010-02-18T19:52:33.530-05:00Now I have a Twitter, yes a Twitter... really!Yep, I made a Twitter because I thought people would care what I'm playing, or what I think, haha, well if you wanna fallow me or whatever, go right ahead, maybe this will be fun? At least you'll be able to know why it's taking me so long to get anything new up ha!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/mattsgameplay">MattsGameplay</a> on Twitter.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-26481986322574613032010-02-07T18:50:00.000-05:002010-02-07T19:10:14.291-05:00Bad Company 2 and God of War CollectionI played the multiplayer demo of Battlefield 2: Bad Company last night, and was overwhelmed at first. They changed a lot of the controls around. Now the knife if on R2, and to change a weapon is now triangle! By the way I’m playing on PS3 if you haven’t noticed by now. Not only were the controls shuffled around, but the game just felt a lot more… heavier to me. Like the movement of the character was, well it was like you were running through knee-high water. Or pudding even, if you’re the kind of person where analogies make you hungry. I got the hang of it after a while, and found myself loving the medic kit, or class, or whatever. I love giving amateur snipers health and reviving them every five minutes because they never stay in cover. And I know if I wasn’t playing a medic, there wouldn’t be anyone to revive or give me health like I do for them! Which kinda sucks when thinking about it, but mostly everyone is a mechanic, like, 80% of the time the camera goes in to show me my killer, it’s a mechanic! Well, I got a lot of points, and a crap ton of metals, most of who’s purpose I couldn’t determine. There’s just too much stuff to read now, especially coming from 1943. But hey, it looks like all my friends might be getting it, so I won’t have to play alone that much, hopefully.<br /><br />Speaking of playing alone, I’ve actually went back to single player games for a while. I’ve been playing God of War 1 from the PS3 GoW Collection. I’m at the battle with Ares, and have gone through the game on hard difficulty for the first time! The first time I beat the game I switched to easy from normal when facing the first of the Cerberus dogs. This time I just used the medusa head and broke it to pieces! I feel kinda cocky getting through the game on hard mode; it is a hard game to start off with, right? Also, I got the trophy for the thing in Hades, whatever it was, and I’ve heard that was supposed to be crazy difficult? Oh, speaking of trophies, I’m at 8 hours now so I have to beat the game again to get the 5 hour completion trophy, which should be easy just doing it again of easy, and not bothering with all the extra chests. Oh, one last thing, the trophy for maxing out all the weapons, yeah, should you be able to get it one the first play through, because I am at Ares, and I have like two or three weapons still at level 2, so… I don’t think I missed any chests, and I killed every enemy! I don’t remember not being able to max out all the weapons the first time I finished it… I don’t know. That’ll suck having to beat it a third time. I want to finish #2 before three comes out too. Oh well… All for me know, Primal is being slowly chipped at, I’ll be done… some time. Maybe before the end of spring break. I’m just so lazy when it comes to editing the damn footage. I mean I can sit there and play it for the one or two hours, but splitting it all into ten or eleven 10 minute videos is a pain, and then I have to render and upload each of them, so that’s like a whole day for three videos… I don’t remember Drakan kicking my ass like this, and that was a 99 part play through!<br /><br />...ok enough, later for real this time.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-91727538784880031392010-01-20T10:04:00.004-05:002010-01-20T10:21:04.903-05:00Battlefield Bad Company: My Best MatchI’ve been playing a lot of Battlefield Bad Company since I got it for Christmas. I really like it, and I’ve been doing quite well. In one match I managed to get 14 kills with only 4 deaths, and in another, one you’ll see on the channel soon, I got 13 kills with a meager 3 deaths. The first one I wasn’t able to capture, but it was far more impressive.<br /><br />I was in the map “Over There”, the one with the wide open corn field. I was the specialist class, and stationed up in the second floor of one of the barns with the flag in the center of it. You could call it camping, but I call it defending a base. At the end of the match the barn was the last remaining base under our control, and all the enemy players were coming for it.<br /><br />To prepare for the eminent onslaught, I threw down a C4 charge down to the flag, and waited for someone to attempt to take the flag. It didn’t take long for them to get there, and one right after another they were blown up by a C4 explosive charge dropping from the second floor. Oh they tried, unlading clip after clip to try to suppress my fire so they could get a guy up the ladder, but I kept nailing them. At this point I had only four hit points left, and they started sending guys up the ladder, brandishing knives right as they go to the second floor, but were immediately gunned down before they got in striking distance. They managed to spawn a few soldiers on the second floor in squads, but they were to slow to react all of them. I can’t remember, but I think we won that match, and I ended up staying through to finish on that last spawn.<br /><br />It was incredible, a match I wish I captured. I did manage to take a pic of the results, but you would have to have seen the action to believe it. I was shaking with adrenaline, taking out player after player with only four hit points; surly only one shout would have taken me down! I love it when a match comes along where everything seems to come together. Damn this game is exhilarating.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-74342082697431866412009-12-20T18:09:00.003-05:002009-12-20T18:13:51.803-05:00Primal Behind the ScenesJust got done capturing the 15 minute or so behind the scenes footage off of the Issue 63 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">OPM</span> demo disc. I'll wait till I finish the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">playsthrough</span>, or at least get through the parts the show in the videos because it could be considered spoilers, or whatever... Anyway it shows the voice actors behind the mics, development footage, a short summery of the premise and story, and a bit about the band the band that provided music for the game, 16 Volt. So look for that in the near future!Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-22862330904875134752009-11-26T21:52:00.003-05:002009-11-26T21:54:28.392-05:00New Toy!<a href="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/4/l_c199d538bdc747448540f996d4838dae.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 449px; HEIGHT: 599px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/4/l_c199d538bdc747448540f996d4838dae.jpg" /></a><br />Wow... I didn't even finish the first game! I had the money, and wanted it... for some reason... $25 well spent? It's realy big, and heavy too. So yeah, I guess GoW Collection can wait...Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-73111076497469460422009-11-25T16:33:00.003-05:002009-11-25T16:38:14.066-05:00COMPUTER BACK!OK, I got my computer back, and everything is gone. Aww, no big deal, just a bunch of crap on there anyway. So here's the thing, I was lazy to edit some footage for Primal so I lost a bit of it in there. I may have to start over so I can recapture the footage of the part I already did back then. So yes, I think I am going to finish the game. Also, I have some new (old) games I'm planning to do playthroughs for. I want to get back into the streak I had going during Drakan; multiple videos up in a week. First I'll have to build up a back log so I can get ahead of myself and fall back on videos when I don't have time to play any further. Also, apparently lack of memory isn't a problem anymore, so I'll be able to save the videos under better quality! WEEEE! See you soon.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-30121239911338029302009-11-21T13:51:00.002-05:002009-11-21T13:53:27.272-05:00Crap...My computer crashed, so I haven't been able to do anything for the channel. I may even end up losing everything on there, but that's ok i guess, nothing IMORTANT on there, so hell... Maybe it'll be OK, but I feel bad getting so far behind on stuff. Eh, it's not like anyone cares. Who reads this stupid thing anyway? Well, I just felt bad not doing or uploading anything lately, so I felt the need to get it out. thanks for reading this if you did... you are awesome!Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-25202600240816348232009-11-10T20:45:00.003-05:002009-11-10T20:47:43.600-05:00PrimalDoes anyone care about Primal? It doesn't seem to be getting many hits on the channel, while the Ghoul mask video continues to get hits. I might just give up on Primal, I haven't been playing it at all since I started months ago. I don't really care about it, it's no Drakan I'll say that! I don't know, tell me what you think, otherwise I don't care, you guys are the reason I'm doing this.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-45055879509747191662009-10-09T13:33:00.003-05:002009-10-09T13:37:48.984-05:00Primal, Part 1<a href="http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/14755/815859-front_cover_large.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 425px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/14755/815859-front_cover_large.jpg" /></a>Primal, a game I’ve never played before, but do remember seeing in the late Official PlayStation Magazine. They even had it as a demo on the disk that came along with every issue of the magazine, along with a behind the scenes trailer. It looked interesting, dark and epic. I was just fresh off Drakan: The Ancients' Gates at the time, and was looking forward to another game of just the sort. However, I was hesitant to get the game for some reason, and only came upon it again just a few years back in a Game Stop. I purchased it based on my initial interest I had all those years ago, yet put off playing it until now. Well, strap in, because this is looking to be another long playthrough, that's sure to last over forty of even fifty installments. So... Here we go! Let's hope it's worth it :D<br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JITtmgTzWIQ&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JITtmgTzWIQ&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object>Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-29424786794854776662009-10-04T17:17:00.003-05:002009-10-04T17:30:47.144-05:00Next Playthrough!OK, I think it's time for a new full playthrough. I don't really have much time to play games anymore, with college in full force, but I thought that 190 subscribers (!!!) should deserve some new content. So, I'll let you decide.<br /><br />Here are the choices, and keep in mind that I have NEVER played any of these games, so I don't even know if they're good, so it's up to you. Hell, I just bought them because I'd heard of them... and they were cheap, too.<br /><br />So here they are:<br /><br />Primal (PS2 - adventure game?)<br />Killer 7 (PS2 - weird ass shooter?)<br />The Darkness (Ps3 - horror shooter?) I don't have this yet*<br /><br />I looked through YouTube and saw little in the way of a The Darkness playthrough, maybe I'll get it just to LP it? Shouldn't be that hard to find... I don't know, until I can track down Pirates, these are some obscure games I have. So, comment with your recommendation.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-37812317414733642272009-09-26T19:36:00.002-05:002009-09-26T19:38:56.237-05:00New Toy!<a href="http://figures.insidepulse.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/neca-player-select-dead-space/deadspaceisaac-plasmacutter.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 127px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 248px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://figures.insidepulse.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/neca-player-select-dead-space/deadspaceisaac-plasmacutter.jpg" /></a> I got my haircut Friday, which gave me an excuse to go through the mall afterwards. I picked up the <a href="http://www.darkfigures.com/plseacfinepl.html">Player Select </a>Isaac Clark (<em>Dead Space</em> game) figure with the plasma cutter. It’s pretty awesome looking, and now seeing him in full, I can say that the character design of his suit is really wild! It’s a really detailed figure with lots of points of articulation, and if you press a button on his back, his helmet visor and the Holotech meter lights up! (The bars on the back of the suit that act as the in-game life meter, btw) It was pretty pricy, at around $17 or so, at FYE. They also had the one with the saw blade weapon. The only thing I don’t like about the figure is the flimsy nature of the plasma cutter, it’s made of some PVC plastic, and O was scared that I’d break off a thin, long part off it just taking it out if the packaging. Other than that, it knocked off one of my Shadow of the Colossus figures (Wander on Agro) and broke off the sword, which really brought me down this morning. I used super glue for a quick fix.<br /><br />I’ve been playing more of <em>Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations</em> for the DS, and so far it’s either really easy and boring, or confusing and not clear in what it’s asking of the player. I hope it’ll get better as I get further into the game, but so far the part I hate most is the parts where you have to talk to people and collect clues around the crime scene; really boring, and not much going on.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-86912382187404793682009-09-21T18:56:00.005-05:002009-09-21T19:13:13.104-05:00DS Games!<a href="http://games.kikizo.com/media/elitebeatagents_jun07/01c.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 350px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 291px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://games.kikizo.com/media/elitebeatagents_jun07/01c.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I got <em>Elite Beat Agents</em> for <strong>free</strong> a few weeks ago. I was able to do this because there was a special deal at the Micro Center where if you bought some <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">DS</span> accessory on this shelf, you would get the game for free. So I bought some nice <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">DS</span> pack for around $17 and got the game for free essentially.<br /><br />I got the game purely because the <a href="http://www.mega64.com/">Mega64</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZGzhsS-5I">video</a> I saw a while back, and if it's good enough for them to do a video about, it's good enough for me to buy. I've actually never seen it in stores till then, but then again, I wasn't looking for it when it came out.<br /><br />It's pretty fun, and it's so far been one of the only games to make me tear up, just because I got so into the music, and the music is awesome! Earth Wind and Fire's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknEJf9cPeY">September</a>" and Queen's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiot1P3-Hng">I Was Born to Love You</a>" are just beautifully-kick-ass songs!<br /><br />So I was glad I picked it up, and so far I'm stuck at the ninja level on medium. I'll give it another shot when I'm not playing <em>Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations</em>! Which I picked up for $19.89, and ended up only paying $15 for! This game is fun, but so far slow-paced. I don't mind the text, coming right off <em>Hotel Dusk: Room 215</em> (Which kicked <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">soooo</span> much ass!), but I wish there was more I could DO.<br /><br />Wall-Mart has some old shit, like a <strong>brand new</strong> copy of <em><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Okami</span></em> for $39! Wow, still $39? Damn...Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470360370795399639.post-45699431401317218802009-09-16T18:38:00.002-05:002009-09-16T18:55:27.434-05:00New Videos Soon!I'm thinking of doing some quick <em>Battlefield 1943</em> videos displaying techniques that I've learned playing all three classes of soldiers. Hopefully I'll be able to show off the maps in an effective way as well, and maybe show off a little all the while :D I'm no good at the plane so forget about that for now. I <strong>REALLY WANT</strong> to do some more gameplay videos dealing with <em>Fallout 3</em>, since they've proven to be the most popular on the channel, with the one about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Col7JikaQvA">getting the Ghoul Mask </a>well over 10,000 views (!!!!), especially when the DLC FINALLY comes out.<br /><br />I will eventually do a <strong>complete</strong> play through of <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKD1M8wGOds">Black Kat</a></em>, IF I ever find a<strong> complete</strong> copy. I haven't tried eBay yet, so I might give it a look.Matt's Gameplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18030858954825815541noreply@blogger.com0