General Update

I'm trying to create a Game Time With Manny brand, but I feel like I'm all over the place. Over the past few weeks I've tried to consolidate quite a bit. I now have a Game Time With Manny Google+ page, which is linked to my YouTube channel. I'm going to try and post everything I do there. 

On the Twitch front I've been streaming a lot lately too. I play a whole lot of Inazuma Eleven on my channel, and play fighting games with my friends every Thursday. I'll be doing mostly Inazuma Eleven until the end of March. Every stream is uploaded to YouTube after the fact for archiving purposes.

I've been tweeting a lot lately as well. I used to think Twitter was stupid, but it's actually very helpful for getting the word out. I tweet whenever I go live, which means that I don't clog up the blog with one sentence posts. Twitter is definitely a great tool that I need to utilize more often.

I don't know, I just wanted to type up a quick thing about what I've been doing lately. Definitely follow the Google+ page to see everything I have going on, and if you want to see me live stream following me on Twitter and/or Twitch would be your best options for that.

I'll be back in a few days with the February edition of game time.

Peace out!

Welcome to Arcade Assault

Since I finished the Bayonetta Let's Play I've been trying to come up with a new video series. I finally came up with Arcade Assault. For some reason I always force myself to play through arcade mode in fighting games with every single character.

I used to do it in order to unlock characters, and see all of the endings. Sadly arcade endings suck in most games now, and characters rarely need to be unlocked. For some reason I still force myself to do it! For the first game and episode I chose to do classic mode in Super Smash Bros. for Wii-U. There are so many characters to do it with and I need to unlock those sweet sweet trophies!

I recorded the first episode last night, and streamed it as well. I decided that I'll stream smash and put the archives on YouTube, because there are so many characters. When Guilty Gear comes out on  the 16th I'll just be recording myself playing through arcade mode in that. It seems like shorter episodes will be better for most things, but at least for Smash I have so much to get through.

Okay, enough of the introduction. I leave you with the first episode of Arcade Assault!

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2 is Over

So, it turns out that Let's Plays aren't the best format for the way I play video games. I like to binge play games. With a Let's Play I had to stop and render videos after every chapter, which vastly slowed down the way I played Bayonetta 2. If I ever do anything like this again I'll probably just stream large chunks of me playing a game and then export it to YouTube.

I made a huge dump of episodes today, so that I could finish the series up. Sadly there were some technical difficulties though. The 14th episode mysteriously has no commentary, so that's just game audio. I am kind of against re-recording and making the same reactions again, so I left it as it was.

As if that wasn't annoying enough the 15th episode was not watchable. The video file freaked out halfway through and the frame rate halved. So you'd get to the end of the video in terms of audio, but it was only half of the actual video... Needless to say that wasn't something I wanted to upload. So I just left it out completely. It's the 14th chapter of the game, so if you want to see a mech punch stuff you can find that.

I liked Bayonetta 2 a lot, and I'm happy to post the entire playlist here so I can stop flooding this page with individual updates. Thanks!

Mario Kart 8 DLC Pack 1 Tracks

Yesterday the first pack of Mario Kart DLC came out. It came with four new karts, three new characters, and 8 new tracks spread across two cups.

I created two videos, one for each cup in order to showcase the new stages and their amazing music. I hope you enjoy them!

 

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2 - Episode 10

In this episode the story really starts to draw me in as we fight a floating blue guy. In all seriousness though there are important plot points in this one that relate to both Loki and Bayonetta's past. It was awesome.

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2 - Episode 9

Who wants to see Bayonetta fight some cubes? What if I told you that the cubes transformed into monsters? If you like what you're hearing, then this is the episode for you!

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2 - Episode 8

Last episode took place falling down a tower, so why wouldn't this one take place inside a giant manta ray? Also, the thumbnail for the video couldn't have possibly been any better!

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2 - Episode 7

This is the shortest episode yet. It takes place mostly while falling from a tower. It's nuts.

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2 - Episode 6

Who's ready to transform into a giant water snake?

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2 - Episode 5

This time I tackle chapter 4. It's probably my favorite so far, just because I like fighting strong human sized enemies. Sure, it turns into a giant battle between two ridiculously sized creatures, but that's okay too.

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2 - Episode 3

Episode 3 is up and ready to go, it's time to conquer chapter 2. This time I pick up the awesome katanas and start cutting stuff up!

Let's Play: Bayonetta 2

As you may have noticed over the past few years many people on YouTube play through video games in their entirety. These are generally known as Let's Plays and they are done in many separate parts. Now that I have proper recording equipment I decided to get in on the action.

For my first one I decided to play Bayonetta 2, because there aren't an insane amount of Wii-U's out there. Also I think Bayonetta was an amazing game. I have recorded the first episode, which you can find below. However, the quality of the video is not the best. The El Gato Game Capture HD I use does not do well with encoding high action sequences. So while the file looks incredible on my computer, once it's uploaded to YouTube the quality takes a major hit.

With the installments going forward I'll be using a different program to capture the footage. While the overall quality will probably not be as high, the action sequences should look much better. So please, enjoy the first episode.

Grim Fandango Stream Archive

We completed our playthrough of Grim Fandango and made a little bit of money for Extra Life in the process. Turns out people really like Grim Fandango, so I ended up getting more viewers than I expected. Anyways, if you weren't able to make it to the stream you can check it out in its entirety on YouTube. It took us about 7 hours and 40 minutes to get through it all, and it's split into five parts.

We had a super fun time doing this and I'm definitely going to do it again next year!

I hope you enjoy!

Spelunky Daily Challenge 10/20/2014

As promised I am going to stream the daily challenge in Spelunky every day until I get sick of it. Today I did the run before Noukeo did, so there was no chance for teabagging. It wouldn't have mattered though since I did so unbelievably bad!

HD Test Stream of Spelunky

Well, I tried streaming in HD. It came out super choppy and looked like skipping garbage. The game I chose to stream was Spelunky, because I've been wanting to do the daily challenge.

I am still going to do the daily challenge, and probably stream it every day. Below I will embed the video of the test stream. Beware, because the first minute or so skips quite a bit. I will also embed the video of me streaming the daily challenge for today. That one I used different settings for and it actually turned out looking quite nice. So look forward to daily videos of Spelunky I guess?

Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN Japanese Demo Gameplay Video

I downloaded the Japanese Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN demo and played it on video for like fifteen minutes. You can find the video below, which basically consists of me having a fit about how ridiculously amazing it looks. If you're not watching it in 720p you're doing it wrong!

Peggle 2 Test Stream Extravaganza!

Have you ever wanted to see what the credits in Peggle 2 are like? Have you ever wanted to see Peggle 2 in glorious 480p SD? If you said yes to either of those questions, then I have the perfect video for you!

Earlier I decided it was time to try my hand at streaming, and of course I picked Peggle 2. The stream itself went fine, but I didn't realize it was in SD. My internet is very slow, so I'm sure HD wouldn't work very well at all. In some point in the transfer between Twitch and YouTube the quality got even lower, so the video on YouTube looks a little awful.

Never fear though, because I will not give up. Sure my first video isn't the best, but I had fun doing it. I'm going to try streaming more often and record some videos using the record function to see how they turn out.

So please, check out the first ever Game Time With Manny video. It's the oh so compelling Peggle 2 test stream. Enjoy!



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