Risk of Rain Streaming Tonight!

The old school action continues with another new game: Risk of Rain. It's a sidescrolling action platformer roguelike. If that sounds like a lot to handle, it is. However the game was on sale this weekend for 3.39 USD, and I picked it up along with about a million other gamers. With all these roguelikes in the mainstream, it's hard to believe people used to gape in awe when I talked to them about NetHack. 

Risk of Rain is hard like NetHack, but the UI pains that plague many ASCII games are being washed away in the modern generation of games like TOME, FTL, Binding of Isaac, and Risk of Rain.

The game is awesome. The music kicks ass, the sprites are tiny, and the action is huge. Classes are varied and uniquely fun. You can play as a commando, bandit, engineer, mutant, miner, and 5 other equally cool classes as you battle through hundred of enemies in your quest to survive the horrors of the strange planet. Each class is very different. The bandito relies on trigger-fanning shotgun blasts and nimble dodging while invisble. Acrid the Mutant, however, requires you to get up-close and personal as you stack poison on mobs of mobs.

Want to experience the awesome? Then come check it out tonight on www.twitch.tv/Robot2600 or check out the embedded video at the end of the post.

Risk of Rain is brutally difficult, and the longer your game lasts the more difficult it gets. After 40 minutes of action you reach "HA HA HA HA HA" and "I'm coming for you" difficulties in which all good manners are forgotten. I managed to make it this far last night, and I'm hoping to beat the game tonight. I made it to the last level but couldn't take the heat and died in the kitchen.

On top of all this, you can play with up to 4 people in truly epic co-op. The server-side stuff is a bit complicated (I hosted a game and then my computer decided not to allow a second game despite the fact that I changed no settings in the interim). If you want to play come drop by the twitch channel or post a message here. You could be on (twitch) TV! Wow! You'd be totally famous and popular.

Anyway I'm off to a place where there is a risk of rain in space. For great justice and adventure!

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FTL Live Stream -- NOW!

It's the last night before the big update to FTL. Come check out the live feed now.

Click this link for 8-Bit City's twitch:

twitch.tv/Robot2600

Let's Play FTL Vanilla

Parts 3-9 of my ongoing FTL Let's Play. These 9 parts are all I'm going to do of Vanilla.

The new expansion comes out Thursday, and I'll be doing a twitch broadcast tomorrow of my first impressions. I'll also record it for youtube if you miss the broadcast.

 I'll post when it starts tomorrow, but that will depend on how early we can download the patch.

Until then, why not waste some time?

Twitch.tv Live Stream FTL NOW!

I am streaming FTL Live right now. Come check it out, and vote on what decisions I make.

twitch.tv/Robot2600

Click that link to go to my Twitch.tv page. I'll be playing all night.

New Let's Play FTL Series Starts Today!

I was making a ton of FTL videos, and I realized that I need to standardize the number system and decide if deaths should stay in the videos. I am going to leave all the deaths in the footage, not just post good runs with ships. The Basalisk run I posted yesterday is a "good run" but if you start watching the series below, you'll see me fuck it up a few times and explode some perfectly nice spaceships.

The "space girl" wallpaper is made by an anonymous artist. You can check out the funnyjunk page here if you like.

Also, I have full video and recording capabilities now.... if you'd like to see some LPs now would be a good time to ask.

Let's Play Faster Than Light

FTL: Faster than Light is a spaceship roguelike. Imagine nethack meets Star Craft and you might begin to understand what it all about. Death is permanent, and the game is known for its brutal difficulty. Sounds perfect, so watch my new FTL: Let's Play videos! I don't ramble on if there is nothing to say. 

I finished recording a few hours of FTL adventures, but I plan on doing more. I'll be posting a new video or five everyday until to new expansion comes out on Thursday. I'll always post new youtube videos here, but you can also follow me on youtube. No twitter or anything else, just the blogspot and the youtube.

If you haven't started playing FTL yet, you need to start! I'll be reviewing the new expansion as soon as I play it, but experience vanilla now before the world is changed forever.

Part 1



Part 2