"Commander, was there some confusion regarding that last directive?"
"...yes."
Command & Conquer is the groundbreaking real-time strategy game from Westwood Studios that set the bar for all RTS games to follow. With its sleek interface, animated units, sincere if cheesy cutscenes, and near-future setting, Westwood Studios produced the game that would define the industry for years to come. It introduced the world to tiberium, point click and die and, of course, Kane. This is where it all begins.
"Can I wait here? Sure, this looks like a great place to sleep!"
Well it's finally here. Fallout 3. A game that destroyed a company and continues to divide what was once a loyal fanbase even to this day. Was it worth it? Well, we'll find out.
Produced by Bethesda Softworks, best known for the Elder Scrolls series of RPGs, the game is the sequel (of sorts) to Interplay's venerable Fallout series of ground-breaking late 90s RPGs. Fallout 3 takes place in an all-new setting, the Capital Wasteland, and features a first/third-person game engine ala modern FPS. After a false start with 'Project Van Buren' that ultimately drove Interplay to bankruptcy and resulted in the original closure of Black Isle Studios, Fallout 3 was finally released with much fanfare some eleven years after Fallout 2. Was it worth it? Although highly praised upon its release and winning numerous industry accolades and awards, even now the game engenders some resentment from the series die-hard fans.
This will certainly be interesting. This Let's Play has been requested as far back as during my Fallout 2 days. This will be my first official entirely blind Let's Play, as I've never played Fallout 3 (beyond the first hour or so of gameplay) to completion. Every other game I've LPed so far was a game I had extensive experience with, played front to back and otherwise dominated or at least held vast knowledge of. So this will be a new experience for all of us.
Playing the Game of the Year edition from Steam.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-01pxwBSjA
300 Caps? I have a counter proposal. How about one cap?
Well it's finally here. Fallout 3. A game that destroyed a company and continues to divide what was once a loyal fanbase even to this day. Was it worth it? Well, we'll find out.
Produced by Bethesda Softworks, best known for the Elder Scrolls series of RPGs, the game is the sequel (of sorts) to Interplay's venerable Fallout series of ground-breaking late 90s RPGs. Fallout 3 takes place in an all-new setting, the Capital Wasteland, and features a first/third-person game engine ala modern FPS. After a false start with 'Project Van Buren' that ultimately drove Interplay to bankruptcy and resulted in the original closure of Black Isle Studios, Fallout 3 was finally released with much fanfare some eleven years after Fallout 2. Was it worth it? Although highly praised upon its release and winning numerous industry accolades and awards, even now the game engenders some resentment from the series die-hard fans.
This will certainly be interesting. This Let's Play has been requested as far back as during my Fallout 2 days. This will be my first official entirely blind Let's Play, as I've never played Fallout 3 (beyond the first hour or so of gameplay) to completion. Every other game I've LPed so far was a game I had extensive experience with, played front to back and otherwise dominated or at least held vast knowledge of. So this will be a new experience for all of us.
Playing the Game of the Year edition from Steam.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81WEwAr_oqw
Now with a fancy-ass new intro hey how about that huh?
Done for a Patreon sponsor, who wanted to see every single game played out for every week of this PlayStation game. So, uh, here it is. CPU on CPU exciting college football action!
I did trim some of the loading and menu screens out so it's not a truly authentic longplay, but there are some technical feasibility limitations here with the way I'm recording it.
Thanks for your sponsorship, Luke!
I have no idea how long this will take, but I'll try not to let it interfere with my other projects, hopefully.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B093e26bx4k
Still hate commando missions even if no commandos are present!
After their first surprise hit, Westwood Studios upped the ante with Command & Conquer: Red Alert. A landmark game in the annals of gaming history, Red Alert introduces to the commander all new naval and air units, including strike fighters. All of this is just so great, and it was released right around the time internet gaming was picking up. Back in my day, there were tons of skirmish matches being played all over the globe. Cool or what?
Of course this is not to denigrate the single-player campaign. Westwood rolled all the dice with having an actual Stalin actor. And the cut-scenes are just much more than the original C&C could deliver... really, Red Alert is essentially 'Command & Conquer: More Edition'.
The great thing about Command & Conquer contrasting to other real time strategy games, is that the sides are not balanced at all. The Allies have all the naval ships, the Soviets get all the cool air power, the Soviets have big damn tanks and the Allies... don't? And the base defenses... this game made the Tesla Coil iconic. It is really great in all the ways.
I will be playing through the DOS version (or maybe not) because I have the original discs and such, suck it Origin. And man is this gonna be some fun or what!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cfInKyRm8I
Game 86 - Cleveland Indians at New York Yankees. Cleveland record 60-25
Hey, you guys like my Let's Plays, Longplays, Writing, and other random things I do, right? Maybe you'd consider sponsoring me on Patreon? All I ask is a $1 a month contribution. It doesn't sound like a lot, but if enough of you guys help out it will go a long way. Head over to patreon.com/l1011widebody if you want to help a Trijet out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28qJZ-nXTok
Fallout, a Post-Nuclear Adventure, Interplay's stand-out RPG from 1997, launched a venerable gaming series with a relatively down-to-earth first installment. With a mix of thrilling combat, mind-challenging puzzles, and diverse characters all set against a dour, retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic world to explore, Fallout is sure to always have a spot on the list of greatest RPGs of all time. Even thirteen years later, it's still for sale on various websites.
When the nuclear holocaust of World War III rained down upon the world, your parents were lucky enough to make it to one of the vast hardened underground shelters, and the safety of Vault 13. Forty years later and the Vault is in trouble: the water purification chip has failed, and in one hundred fifty days, the Vault will run out of water. You have been selected to set out, alone, into the wasteland, to find a chip and save your people... but the outside world holds many surprises. Life in the Vault is about to change.
The first Fallout will always be my favorite, even with all its bugs and (relatively) short play-time. The story and setting is tighter than in future Fallouts, and the bleak, serious atmosphere emphasizes the weight of the mission on your shoulders.
I played this game in three 'sittings', divided here into 'Acts'. Each Act (arbitrarily delineated by me based on how long I could sit there playing the game and being entertaining) roughly corresponds to a distinct segment-arc of the game. So you'll see several videos all grouped together at once. I sped up the less interesting/repetitive parts with some fast-forward musical interludes. Otherwise everything you see is how it played out. There's some random graphics issues in it that I was unable to resolve but hopefully it's not too distracting.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwkBc8qGpqQ
Game 129 - Cleveland Indians at Toronto Blue Jays
In which historically inaccurate baseball facts are referenced.
Hey, you guys like my Let's Plays, Longplays, Writing, and other random things I do, right? Maybe you'd consider sponsoring me on Patreon? All I ask is a $1 a month contribution. It doesn't sound like a lot, but if enough of you guys help out it will go a long way. Head over to patreon.com/l1011widebody if you want to help a Trijet out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL8HWe-0cLc
Also you can download the song at http://www.mediafire.com/file/590zqlja01ka85w/THUNDERBOLT_THE_SONG.mp3/file
Did you guys know I used to be in a band? This is from over ten years ago, so be nice. I wrote songs and everything, and here's one of them. That's me on the drums, my buddy Christian plays the guitar, this is just a demo so it doesn't have fancy things like bass guitars or vocals. I mean we never did figure out who was going to sing...
This song is like AC/DC but poppier I think. The lyrics are the usual dumb thing you'd find in one of those songs, I don't really know how to write good lyrics about ... intercourse.
Anyway, I hope you guys like it and everything.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwNuNqYauP8