Month: May 2019

Overwatch and Bad Guitar Playing

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Randy and Jenna join me for a few games of Overwatch before we end the stream with a few life stories and some awful guitar playing! Also, Skittles are all the same flavour!

Highlights

Four Quick Eliminations

Your Shield vs. My Dragon

Clever Use of Ashe’s Shotgun

Dynamite Past the Wall

Seeing the Temptations in Concert

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Tetris 99 – Last Day to Get the Game Boy Theme

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Did you get the Game Boy theme? We played many rounds of Tetris 99 while sharing all sorts of stories about our experiences with traveling around the world, region-specific McDonald’s menu items, Detective Pikachu, why I play Tetris 99 with a DualShock, and more!

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D-Pad Left Joycon

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Decorating My Video Game Streaming Space

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Steff and I have big dreams for this basement of ours. We want to rip out the carpet, update the walls to anything other than wood paneling, and knock down the dividing wall so that the basement is one large space. Someday, we envision it being a larger entertaining space.

In light of these plans, I’ve been reluctant to decorate down here. Didn’t want to go through the trouble of putting things up, only to have to duplicate the effort after the room has been renovated. As such, the only real decor you’ve seen of my streaming room until recently was a large Snorlax bean bag chair.

However, a couple of things have happened since we came up with our future vision for the basement. One, our priorities around the house have shifted to other projects. Two, I started taking streaming seriously. Part of taking streaming seriously is ensuring that everything you see adds to the overall experience. Snorlax is cute, but I’m no longer content with using an empty wall and an oddly-placed divider curtain as my backdrop. Recently, I finally decided to spruce the place up a bit.

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Tetris 99: Getting the Game Boy Theme and Tetris Show and Tell!

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Throwback! Tetris 99 adds the theme we’ve all been waiting for as part of the 3rd Maximus Cup! Along with a few wins, close losses, and embarrassing blowouts, we talk about some Tetris 99 tips, Super Mario Maker 2 hype, safety in professional wrestling, a tour of my newly-decorated streaming space, and a special Tetris show and tell!

Highlights

Top 2 and I’m Not 2

Worst Job

The Difference Between Live Streaming and Pre-Produced Content

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Early Impressions of Mortal Kombat 11

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[NOTE: I’ve sampled a little bit of everything that the game has to offer, but I’m not gonna be able to spend enough time with some of the game’s more involved single-player content to provide a thorough judgment on the game. As such, I’m keeping the scope of this piece just to the parts I’ve played so far.]

Ever since the release of Mortal Kombat 9, NetherRealm Studios has set the gold standard for what a complete fighting game should be. Sharp visuals, tons of single player content, and combat – er, kombat – that’s appealing to casual and competitive players. They’ve never rested on their laurels either, as the Mortal Kombat and Injustice games have introduced a number of innovations to the genre, from a Variation system where different versions of the same character will have altered move set and costumes, to the ability to leverage background objects as weapons or jumping-off points in battle.

Based on NetherRealm’s glowing track record, Mortal Kombat 11 should have been as close to a guaranteed home run as one could get in the genre. Based on what I’ve played, it reaches or exceeds those lofty expectations.

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Join Me for Part 14 of Our Paper Mario Let’s Play Tonight at 8:00pm EST

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So…we’re still in Flower Fields. But I promise you, we’ll make it out this time! Tune in at 8pm EST and let’s play more Paper Mario!

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Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar Review Review

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During my childhood, the original Fireball Island board game made quite the impression on me. Unlike many games of its time, this one was played on a 3D board, complete with pathways, hills, rickety bridges, and an ominous fireball-shooting mountain at the top. You could steal treasure from other players by passing them on the board. Of course, there was also the fireballs. Strategically positioned on the map, you could send one crashing into your rivals, knocking them down while causing them to drop their treasure. This level of adventure and treachery was beyond cool at the time.

Though the original has been long out of print, the game returns as a modern remaster from Restoration Games. Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar certainly looks the part when you set it all up, but does it maintain the essence of the original while making the game play well for modern times?

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Let’s Play Paper Mario – Part 13

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If you are looking for speed run quality Paper Mario, this isn’t it! I flounder my way through Flower Fields and still am not finished it yet! However, we all had a great time chatting with each other about an assortment of topics, from arcades, to Detective Pikachu, DnD-like board games, Canadian-specific menu options at McDonalds, and more!

Highlights

Crazy board game deal!

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Mortal Kombat 11 and the Evolution of Scorpion’s Spear

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“Come here!”

One of the genre’s most iconic special moves, Scorpion launches a spearhead attached to a chain directly at his opponents. If it successfully makes contact, he yells out one of his two signature catchphrases as he reels in his now-stunned opponent. From there, his opponent is left standing in a dizzy state, primed for Scorpion to smack them any way he so chooses. In the old games, my go-to follow-up was the classic uppercut.

In most Mortal Kombat games, this is how the spear works. It’s not quite so in Mortal Kombat 11.

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How Super Mario Maker 2 Won Me Over

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I liked Super Mario Maker a lot. I’m not one who enjoys making stuff in games, but I did have a great time during the brief stretch where I was into it. However, it fell out of my rotation pretty quickly when my interest in making levels waned and it felt like all of the user-created levels I encountered were awful. Because of this, Super Mario Maker 2 was not on my radar at all.

Then the Super Mario Maker 2 Direct happened. What I saw knocked my socks off! While I expected Nintendo to make improvements over the original, the sheer volume of improvements on display were staggering.

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