Starbound

What's up all? I just recently starting doing a 'Let's Play' of the new sandbox game called Starbound. In Starbound you start out in a ship orbiting an unknown planet. Your ship is out of fuel so you need to go down to the planet and collect fuel.

Sounds pretty simple, but it's not! You get what is called a 'matter manipulator,' which allows you to chop down trees, move rocks, dig tunnels, and anything else your heart desires. You can then build houses from simple to elaborate. If you ever played the game Teraria Starbound is very similar. They are both unique in their own way though. I highly reccomend picking both up.

Here is part one of my 'Let's Play,' of Starbound:

Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for reading!

- AJ

Garage Doors and Brandy

Path of Exile

I decided to start doing a Path of Exile 'Let's Play' video series. This is my first narrated video series that I've done, so it is more of an experiment than anything. Let me know what you guys think, appreciate it! Parts 3, 4, and 5 should be up in the next couple days.

Path of Exile is a hack and slash game very similar to Diablo 2. It's been called what 'Diablo 3' should have been. It is also a free game through Steam. (Or via their website.)  They make their money through micro-transactions so be sure to try it out... after all it's free!

The best part about this is game is the customization. The skill tree is ridiculous, and I mean ridiculous. There are over a thousand passive skills to customize your character with. On top of that there are also tons of active skills and supplemental skills to allow you to customize even further.

Part One:

Part Two:

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Donkey Kong Country 3 - Krevice Creepers

I don't what it is about this level but when I played through it I knew I had to play it again, and again. Something about the music and the atmosphere. It really seems to pull together the Donkey Kong games for Super Nintendo.

What do you think? What's your favorite Donkey Kong level?

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Power of Music - Part Two

As I stated in a previous post, I LOVE music. Especially music that has some significance to me. I first got into World of Warcraft my senior year in high school. (2005) I had no idea what to expect and I was a big fan of Warcraft 2, and Warcraft 3 games so I figured I would like it.

Boy, was I right. I practically became obsessed with Warcraft. I wanted my Tauren Druid to be the best there ever was! There were a few times where I called into work just to play Warcraft all day. ( I know, it's sad!)

While playing my Tauren Druid I disliked Orgimmar. Don't really know why but I just didn't like the feeling of it. So, I spent all of my time in Thunderbluff. Because of all that time spent there every time I hear the Thunderbluff song I am taken back to those all nighters with my Tauren.

Those were the days! Stay up all night and explore the World of Warcraft. So many good memories, and this music takes me right back!

Video/Music of Thunderbluff below:

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Some Men Just Want to see the World Burn

One of my favorite screenshots I took of my Skyrim character:

Gaming Stories - Episode One

Hello all! Figured I would share some gaming stories with you. No one particular game or anything like that, but just some good times I had.

This story is all about Starcraft. My friends and I played this game like mad back in middle school. (1999-200) There was one game where we were doing a 4 vs 4 in a money map. I forget the name of the map but it was the one 4 on the north side and 4 on the south side.

I was playing with a friend of mine and we were going to work together to win the game. Well, the game started and we realized we were on opposite teams. Since we couldn't work together we figured why not have some fun and do some interesting builds?

Well, as Zerg I decided to mass overlords. When I say mass overlords, I mean MASS overlords. There is no population limit on Overlords as they do not count as a population. So, you can build over the 200 limit. This resulted in swarms of overlords doing absolutely no damage.

Fast forward to mid game and my friend's team is being decimated by my team. My overlords occasionally fly over the enemy's base to cloud their view, but other than that I'm not doing much. It's not looking good for his team two of his teammates have left and the other is being destroyed.

Fast forward a bit more and my friend is the only member remaining on this team. All he has left is a lone drone trying to escape. He whispers to me that he has one drone left and he is going to hide a hatchery. I reply back 'Ok.'

I then begin looking for his drone. I find it with one overlord. Once I found it I sent my entire swarm of overlords to the drone's location and announced to my whole team, 'GUYS HE'S OVER HERE!'

Needless to say, my friend wasn't too happy with me after that. Still something we joke about today though!

This pic obviously isn't from that game, but it gives you an idea:

The Power of Music

Music has always had a great effect on me. If I hear a certain piece of music it will instantly take me right back to my greatest memories associated to that song. A lot of these songs that have this affect on me are from video games. Countless hours gaming with friends, by myself, or with my father.

One particular song gets me every time is 'Chicago' from Perfect Dark 64. My dad got laid off when I was about thirteen years old. When he had his job he was always traveling and I hardly ever saw him. When he was laid off it was bizarre. He was always home!

Since he was home we got into playing Perfect Dark 64 multiplayer together. I would put all of the settings together and off we would go. I couldn't stand any of the music in Perfect Dark except for the 'Chicago' track. So, I had it repeat constantly. No other was allowed to play.

My father and I played tons and tons of hours in the Combat Simulator. It's been fifteen years since those days but every time I hear that song play I'm instantly brought back to playing Perfect Dark 64 with my father.

Song below:

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