PXA's Extra Life 2012 Campaign - Amnesia Stream Done, Maybe More In Future

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And stream is DONE! Finished it about 2 hours ahead of the median time from HowLongToBeat.com. Thank you to everyone who watched and chatted with me, you made it much more fun. This game is a steaming pile of fail and that's its creator still has a voice in the industry and press is a travesty. I've never felt so good uninstalling a piece of software in my life.

I will update this thread once I have more solid details on when the Amnesia stream will happen. I hope to start that one more in the middle of the day to accommodate more time zones cause I expect that to draw the biggest crowd. Should be a Hell of a time.

Posted a little update on the Amnesia stream which I hope is coming real soon!

No sweat. We can wait a little longer...and hopefully you will the higher upload speed soon at home

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Posted a little update on the Amnesia stream which I hope is coming real soon!

I look forward to watching you play this, since I'm pretty sure I'm too scared to play it.

Hey all. This is only semi-related to this but I figured posting here might get a little more exposure than the video makers thread. I've created a prototype video for a new YouTube series I'm considering doing related to retro games. It's very much a work in progress and will probably get at least one or two more revisions but I'm curious what people think about it. You can find the video and some of the "known issues" over here. Looking for any and all honest feedback. Thanks all!

Why did they not put pants on him? Also he's like a Ken doll. I don't have time to watch the whole thing now PXA, but I'll leave some feedback if I can think of anything useful to say.

Hey guys, remember that Amnesia show I totally haven't done yet?! Guess what, I'm totally doing it and kicking off a new project at the same time! There will even be an opportunity to force me into more suffering for your amusement! Check the OP!

Alright! Hopefully I'll be able to tune in, because watching the Dark Souls stream was super fun, and Amnesia sounds interesting. Hoping the kids' naptime will coincide with the start of the stream.

I'll most likely still be at PAX East during a good portion of this, but I wish you the best of luck and can't wait to watch the archive!

I think I actually have that day off

Yess, I am so there. I am ready to laugh at your suffering.

Hmm. It looks like I'll be drinking in the middle of the day on the 24th. I hope to be able to watch the stream and laugh about the game rather than be scared along with you.

Calendar marked. I cannot wait to watch this. I love scary games and the monsters in this one freaked me out.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

...starting at 3pm EST.

Oh come on, you know you picked this start time so the sun would be up and you could have the lights on. Or will you be man enough to black out the room and play with headphones?

PXA, glad to see you're still doing this despite the donation drive stretch goal business having been a success quite a while back!

Vega wrote:

Or will you be man enough to black out the room and play with headphones? :D

Well, he used a headphone/mic combo in the Dark Souls and Duke Nukem Forever videos, so unless he's specifically buying a mic just because of the game's reputation, we're in for a treat. And that's not just because PXA's a scaredy-cat, but because those first two streams were a lot of fun (though I didn't get to see DNF while it was happening). I'm not sure if I'll be able the see the whole thing live, but hopefully at least some of it.

I've already told my wife not to plan anything for the 24th. I cannot miss this. I know watching it afterwards is fun but I hate that it records it without the chat stream. Watching DNF was kind of weird without seeing the chat (and also being able to participate). How long is the entire playthrough anyway?

Vega wrote:

Calendar marked. I cannot wait to watch this. I love scary games and the monsters in this one freaked me out.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

...starting at 3pm EST.

Oh come on, you know you picked this start time so the sun would be up and you could have the lights on. Or will you be man enough to black out the room and play with headphones? :D

Well, here's the thing. I will have my headset on as I need it to commentate. And I will have to once again do the stream from the office board room at the office since my home upload speed is still sheit and won't become less sheit until later this year. There's only one window in the board room here and I believe it does have curtains on it. And I do have a dark red blanket at home I usually use to black out our bedroom window. So there are ways for me to play in the dark. Just me though, the sound alone will be enough to freak me the eff out. But also yeah, the west coasters gotta' be able to watch without getting up with the roosters.

I wrote a blog post detailing more about the day and about the Retro Flashback launch.

Please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested either in the stream or a YouTube show about retro video games. I'm super excited about this and want to pack people into that Twitch chat!

I have to leave PAX early and expect to be home by 4:30/5:00 PM. Please play slowly, I want to see you pee your pants live!!!

imbiginjapan wrote:

I have to leave PAX early and expect to be home by 4:30/5:00 PM. Please play slowly, I want to see you pee your pants live!!!

According to How Long To Beat, it takes around 8 hours to finish this so I'll be on for a while yet when you get back. The stream will be archived too, though of course it will be more fun to mock me in the chat.

I've got the first Retro Flashback episode all set and ready to upload that morning. Can't wait for people to see it and hopefully we can drive some subscribers so you can see me suffer with another horror game.

Hey, I didn't miss this yet after all! Fantastic!

It'll be a pleasure to have you in the chat dude. We can pretend the monsters are the Angry Old Bat from the MedicAid office! Sadly, all you can do in Amnesia is run away, rather than beat their stupid asses.

I have marked my calendar! This may coincide well with the kiddos' naptime.

Today is the day!

Sunday, March 24th, starting at 3pm EST

Let the suffering begin!

Where's the link to the stream? Having issues finding it.

EDIT: Nevermind, found it.

http://www.twitch.tv/pxabstraction

Stream is up on my big screen TV and surround sound. The wife and I sitting and waiting patiently for the stream to start. I cannot wait to hear how scared you get!

Watching as well

Wanted to watch this, but apparently Twitch.tv is one of those sites that only partially works at work... and by partially, I mean the ads work and not the stream.

So I clicked into this thread to see how the tail end of Amnesia stream went and I saw this :

And stream is DONE! Finished it about 2 hours ahead of the median time from HowLongToBeat.com. Thank you to everyone who watched and chatted with me, you made it much more fun. This game is a steaming pile of fail and that's its creator still has a voice in the industry and press is a travesty. I've never felt so good uninstalling a piece of software in my life.

I was thinking , 'Man, I know it didn't hit you in quite the way you expected but WOW that is harsh!' . Then I noticed the date stamp on the message. :p

So how was the end? I think I mentioned before signing off chat that I thought maybe the one-sitting playthrough kind of hurt the experience as breaking up the slow-paced areas during multiple sessions would alleviate the potential tedium and make the scary points more intense - you wouldn't necessarily have the same sense of where you are in the pacing cycle if you stopped partway in and came back to it later on.

Thank to everyone who came out yesterday! I was hoping Retro Flashback would get more subscribers than it did but it's all good. That project ain't going anywhere so I've got lots of time to build it up. I had a ton of fun doing that show and despite not hitting the subscriber stretch goal, I will still probably do a stream of Condemned some day. The concept of that game just looks too neat.

My feeling on Amnesia are surprisingly mixed. I'm wearing the fact that I finished it in one sitting like a badge but at the same time, I'm not sure the game lived up to its hype, though it did indeed scare the crap out of me multiple times. Mystic Violet was kind enough to note the times I freaked out during the show and I'm hoping I can maybe cut together a little highlight reel during my week off this week. I'm going to write a little review of the game for my blog. I never write reviews there because who cares what I think about video games but I'm interested to talk about this one.

I agree with the comments that chat + light = less scary. If you heard those creepy sounds and had noone to talk to I think it would have been much different. I'd say the next time you do a stream like this you need to not have chat available or anyone else around. Close the laptop and open it only for a couples minutes every hour or so to take a break and so we can give input or feedback. It did weaken the game some but it was really fun watching some of PXA's expressions and the times where he did freak out some.

I have quite a few timestamps at home that were the funny moments. I'll get them over tonight so a highlight reel can be made. Wish I could have stayed until the end but was starting to fall asleep and had to work today