Ravenworks gave me a link to this game - obviously having felt that The Stanley Parable was just insufficient - and I felt my way around it briefly in what you could call a reluctant Halloween special. I must have barely scratched the surface, but it felt so oppressive and unpredictable that I'm rather glad I didn't dive further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF8081fgwuE

If you want to have a try, it can be played at http://www.datatragedy.com/wipmoabd/ !

ravenworks and several other people wanted to see me trying Antichamber. I had only vaguely heard of it before a Steam sale prompted me to try it out - it defies all sane description, really, because after about two hours of gameplay I'm still not quite sure what's happening, but it's a first-person puzzle/maze game of sorts where you have to learn to adapt to the rules of an environment that constantly defies the laws of physics and logic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJhHUcbb6Q&hq=1

I'm really not sure how to describe my run-through of it, either - everything about the game is unexpected in a different way from any other video I've ever done, and it's designed to confuse and disorient you, making the whole thing looks like someone playing a normal game after having overdone it at the pub. Please enjoy my confusion.

I'm back from holiday (and into a long weekend!) - here's another Unreal Tournament 3 level, a vehicle Capture the Flag game. There have been a few parts of this queued up for a while - they're dead easy to edit but a bother to finalize, because I've been making such special efforts to adequately communicate a plot that makes no sense.

Still, battle vehicles and tight corners - what could go wrong? (You know by now.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT9XTKfb54I&hd=1

Also features a guest star of sorts at 4:20ish, and a massive cube of jelly for some reason.

Frankly I'm not sure how I forgot about this for so long, but here's a video of Geordie Racer, a game that we used to have in school that was full of pigeons. It was based on a television series, also called Geordie Racer, that was also full of pigeons. To the best of my memory, it was about a family of runners who kept pigeons, and they (either the family or the pigeons) foiled a smuggling plot somehow.

What happens in the game naturally bears very little resemblance to this - BBC Micro games were invariably collections of minigames strung together into an adventure and they always took a bit of a condescending attitude towards the player, punishing them severely or chastising them for their stupidity even when the only way to progress through the game was essentially to just pick random numbers and hope you weren’t eaten by a cat or struck by lightning. So here is an opportunity to watch me being confounded by a game intended for eight year olds.

Retrospectively, of course, I can only see this game as an omen of what was to come.

http://youtu.be/BGUSrfVSRZ0

Twenty minutes... for two levels, if you can believe it. kjorteo and I struggle together through the final stages of this alleged game, this artefact of pain distilled into the form of a cartridge. In it, we climb the last ice mountain stage (being more successful at going downwards), and then fight against one of the most ridiculously unfair bosses ever created by man or beast. Wish us luck... not with the game, because we've already done that - just with the recovery.

http://youtu.be/iOQc2cCQ-78

As an addendum, shockingly, Terotrous on the GameFAQs boards posted an entirely legitimate run of it - he gets through the game impressively unscathed until the geyser/waterfall section, and then is absolutely destroyed by the six tiles of right-sloping ice at the top of level 10, which claim two continues on their own. Nintendo games just... did not like to be beaten.

As I felt I just didn't have enough video series in flight just now, kjorteo and I got together and revisited the game that started all of this in my life. Snake, Rattle 'n' Roll was a game that Kjorteo grew up with and mentioned to me when I was at work, in the context of the entire game being one continuous environment broken up into levels - and I wanted to do a playthrough of it and put up a video simply because doing a text one would have taken too long.

Getting the confidence to do that video was one of the best things that's ever happened to me - and though I didn't feel the gradual evolution over the last couple of years since I put that first one up, the difference in my voice between then and now is incredible... the original one is so timid!

Still, this time, Kjorteo was around to help - and through a surprisingly workable VirtuaNES netplay session, we bravely climbed the mountain towards the moon or whatever on earth is going on in this game. Our first chapter takes us halfway through the game by level count... but probably not by time spent or anger level. It's eighteen minutes, about five of which are spent on one screen.

http://youtu.be/8xhTttTVOiY

(Scrooge McDuck!)

Unreal Tournament 3 continues to be unusual among the usual genre and time point of my videos, but if you watch only one of these, I promise... watch this one! Because, as if we hadn’t been provided with enough ways to seriously injure ourselves during the course of the campaign so far, in this one someone has entrusted us with a tank. Hilarity ensues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7kJAZlArBY?hd=1

For our second part of the Portal 2 playthrough, here is a slightly gin-and-tonic-fuelled adventure through the Mass and Velocity section of the game (things that mix absolutely ideally when you're dealing with huge falls and catapults). I'd just like to point out that after this, we're only on two deaths and neither were me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGHwMgu69Q

Two new videos this time, as both of them are rather short. In them, we get our first taste of gameplay in the Capture the Flag and Warfare modes - I've chosen to showcase the fourth one because it's much funnier, directly due to some ill-advised person giving us access to hovercrafts.

Mission 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyR7qj2gFzA

Mission 4: http://youtu.be/x3EYkJKkynk

I'm opening another Stumbling Through, which if all goes to plan, I'll do alongside a new Team Hatoful project! This one is a small change of pace from Super Metroid to a game about flying through space shooting each other with big guns - it's Unreal Tournament 3, and rakarr and I are going through the cooperative mode together. (It's still an old game, though - it came out six years ago. Frightening, isn't it?)

It's probably one of the very few cooperative videos around over the past six years because I didn't realize at first the Unreal Tournament 3 requires a degree in network engineering to get it to run - I was hunting through masses of config files to set it up how we needed it, and I install distributed medical software as part of my job so I'm used to doing that to set things up, but I forgot that... games aren't usually like that. Now I see why, despite being a great sequel to the UT99 at heart, the game never really took off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-TfGGzrnDw
Doing a cooperative play introduced its own unique editing challenges, and super-professionally, the style of this video changes halfway through - we didn't do this for every match, but going forward with the series, I'll be putting his view inset on my own where we have it. But at least here you can watch the completely unnecessary introduction, followed by us finding our feet against the computer-controlled tutorial-bot and later ally Jester.