Destro Plays: XCOM, Enemy Unknown and Warlock, Master of the Arcane

[Destro_Yersul]

Hello, playgrounders! My name is Destro, and I've recently taken up doing video Let's Plays on youtube. Of course, by 'recently' I mean 'I did Minecraft for a bit, but my computer was too fail, and now I have a better computer so I'm doing it again.'

I've been playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the playlist for which can be found here. This playthrough is now finished, and all 59 videos are uploaded on youtube. I'll leave the link here, for anyone who has missed it.

Voting for the next game I play is now closed, and the winner is Warlock, Master of the Arcane. Videos for that can be found here. I shall also leave the list of games I have available here, to be expanded when needed.

And, because I'm completely mad, I've started a Dishonored playthrough, as well. Special rules? No killing innocents! This means quest targets only may die. No being seen! Corvo must be stealthy. The last rule makes things the most difficult, though. No knocking people out and dumping their unconcious bodies if there is a good way to avoid it. The playlist for this can be found here.

Der List:

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Fallout: New Vegas. I got this one shortly after its release, but never played it all that much. Wasn't fond of the PC controls. I'm willing to give it another shot, though.
Amnesia, The Dark Descent: I hear it's quite scary. I've never played it before, so this would be a blind run.
Metro 2033: One of THQ's which didn't run so well on my old computer. Only played the tutorial, so I have little idea what to expect out of this one.
Lone Survivor: Picked this up as part of one of the humble bundles. Never played it. Worth a shot?
Limbo: Same as lone survivor, except I hear this one is really good. If a bit old.
Dungeons of Dredmor: I have all three expansions, though I'm not sure this one makes for riveting viewing on video.
Thief, Thief 2, Thief, Deadly Shadows: Picked these up as a bundle from Steam's holiday sale. I've played Thief 2 before. Good game.
SOL: Exodus: A space sim. In space. Really, that's all I needed to know to buy it.

That's what I have, and could play immediately. I've also had requests for a couple of the older XCOM games, though I do not yet own those. Most of my other games don't lend themselves to LPs, or have already been completed. I'm also open to any suggestions.

[Domochevsky]

Hm... i'd suggest Warlock then, as the others are already well LP'd across the net.

(Minecraft... yeah, that one is probably past it's sell by date as well by now. You'd need to do something special there that goes beyond "let's build something!". Something story-driven and pre-prepared. Too much effort, that.)

[The Bushranger]

I've heard good things about Lone Survivor, and Limbo is supposed to be a 'modern classic' of sorts. Out of that bunch, though, I'd pick Fallout.

That said, though, if you decided to grab Dungeons of Dredmor, I'd watch the digglenog out of that.

[Destro_Yersul]

Well, I do have Dungeons of Dredmor, it just seems like not the most interesting thing to do a video LP of. Not enough happens, and the floors take a long time to explore.

As for Minecraft... well, I had a sort of story thing going in the last one, and I do plan to pick up that one a bit more, but this time I mean to do it with someone else along with me. You're right, though, it needs to be something special. That's why it'll take me a bit longer.

[Cogwheel]

Throwing in another vote for Warlock here.

[Thanatos 51-50]

League of Legends on some sort of single-champion challange to leve to thirty. Some relatively underpowered campion or something, preferably. Like Karma.

Karma is still a thing people make fun of, right?

(Serious vote time: Warlock sounds good. Let's see some WARlockery)

[Destro_Yersul]

I do actually have plans to do a League of Legends thing in the future, with a friend of mine. Something along the lines of 'Destro Sucks at League of Legends,' wherein I complain about things and generally do poorly. If this comes to pass, I'd be using Twisted Fate pretty much exclusively.

[Thanatos 51-50]

I do actually have plans to do a League of Legends thing inI the future, with a friend of mine. Something along the lines of 'Destro Sucks at League of Legends,' wherein I complain about things and generally do poorly. If this comes to pass, I'd be using Twisted Fate pretty much exclusively.

If you ever need a sub-par Twitch, Fiora, Sona or Nunu, then, I'm your man.

[Destro_Yersul]

I shall keep that in mind. In other news, looks like Warlock is a pretty clear winner. I'll start making videos of that fairly shortly. In the meantime, I shall change the title of the thread.

In other news, part 25 of XCOM is uploading.

[Destro_Yersul]

Right, the first episode of Warlock is uploading now, and should be live in about half an hour from the time of this post. It shall be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS9G9zw2VCg

Let me know what you think!

EDIT: Video is now live.

EDIT: more XCOM shall be incoming shortly.

[Domochevsky]

Mhm... this only makes me want to play this myself. Sounds right up my alley. :O

*checks availability* ...oh. Steam-bound. Ok, nevermind.

Are there other games in this alley from a more modern time? And i don't mean Civ or HoMM.

[RagingKrikkit]

*Looks at to-do list*

I saw yamimash do Amnesia. If you ask me, any game that gives me an adrenaline rush from the other side of the internet is doing its scaring job well.

[Destro_Yersul]

Not sure about anything else. According to the website you can get it on a DVD, but it could still require Steam to run. I don't know. Personally, while I'm not a huge fan of Steam, there are worse things out there.

Still haven't played Amnesia, but I did play a little bit of Don't Starve, which I've filmed and uploaded some of. It's a pretty good survival type game. Quite fun.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

So you've got... what, two? Three? different LP's going right now? Granted, you've already recorded and edited the XCOM files, but now you're also putting out Don't Starve and Warlock? Dude... you are the single most prolific LPer on my watch list. By a good margin.

[Destro_Yersul]

Well, it's more like one, at this point, since I only really planned to do Don't Starve until my first death, and XCOM is already editted in its entirety. I do try to put out one video a day at least, though, which I guess is a point in my favour? This is largely a result of night shift - on my days off I don't have much to do other than video games, and filming them doesn't take much extra effort.

Speaking of Warlock, by the way, I was hoping to get a bit of audience participation going. I'm not sure what all can be renamed, but the cities can at least, so if anyone wants a city, speak up now!

[The Bushranger]

*raises hand for a city*

Call it Mechanicsberg.

[Domochevsky]

Incidentally, you really need to become better at letting people know where they can find what. Ideally a list of active videos both in your sig and the first post of this thread.

(I had to click on your XCOM LP link and then to your channel to find the Warlock and Don't Starve videos. And with youtube's "Let's Make Everything Worse" redesign that is somewhat of a inconvenience.)

[KillianHawkeye]

Youtube is forcing everybody to learn to organize their videos themselves.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

*raises hand for a city*

Call it Mechanicsberg.

The Heterodines would be amused.

Also, I am not a fan of Youtube's new layout.

[Destro_Yersul]

Sorted, Domo.

ANd yeah, Youtube's new layout is terrible.

[Destro_Yersul]

My apologies for the delay in new Warlock videos. I meant to make a fancy intro thing for them, but then I got lazy, and busy. I've also got to do some voicover recording for one of the XCOM videos, but in the meantime, part 35 is up, and I've got part 6 of Warlock on the way.

I've been playing through Metro 2033, by the way, and actually enjoying that a good deal. I may take it off the list when I'm done, but then, I might not, if there's enough demand for it. Expect atrociously bad Russian accent imitations if I do play that one.

[Destro_Yersul]

It's been a long time since I posted here. Sorry about that. It's also been almost a week since I posted new videos. That has been rectified!

I do apologise for all the silly microphone nonsense in the XCOM videos. That gets fixed before the end, thankfully.

[The Bushranger]

And so, with X-Com not caring for alien shenanigans, it's time to post Erin's final score!

16 Thin Men
15 Mutons
11 Heavy Floaters
8 Chryssalids
8 Muton Elites
6 Floaters
5 Drones
4 Cyberdiscs
4 Sectopods
2 Sectoid Commanders
2 Etherials
1 Zombie
1 Muton Beserker
1 Inigo Montoya
(and 2 portable toilets)

[Destro_Yersul]

Indeed, XCOM is done. Which means, I need to think about what I should do next! Warlock is fun, but I think my playing style makes it a little slow. I've got the Amnesia fortnight stuff from Double Fine, and everything else on my list is still on the table.

I've thought about getting Dishonoured for the PC, as well, specifically so I could do videos of that.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I really enjoyed Coestar's LP of Dishonored, and I think it would make an excellent LP, since there's just *so many* ways to play the game.

He's trying for a No Death run, as "Her Majesty's Sleep Therepist". It's rather amusing.

And yea, you did an awesome job with your X-COM LP.

[Domochevsky]

Personally i'd prefer more Warlock videos in general, as that game is fascinating (and out of my reach, due to Steam). Your playstyle lends itself to that game.

[Hiro Protagonest]

(and out of my reach, due to Steam)

It's on Gamers Gate.

And Steam does have an offline mode, if you really hate the problems that most DRMs have. Personally, I check Gamers Gate and GOG first, but I still buy games off Steam that aren't on those sites (Cave Story and Team Fortress 2 being good examples).

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I've also been having a lot of fun with a game called Towns.

For those not familiar, it's a twist on an old standby.

In Diablo, the city of Tristram was beset by evil forces, with a dungeon buried underneath it. You played the daring hero who went down to do battle with the forces of evil and attempted to clean it up.

In Towns, you're the town mayor of the city which has a dungeon buried underneath it, and you need to attract adventurers to your town to clear it out for you, since your townsfolk are hopelessly outmatched. In addition, you need to build the town from the ground up, manage supplies, keep everyone fed, making sure you have all the resources you need, and continue expanding your town to provide the support infrastructure for the dungeon-clearing effort.

It has a similar feel to Dwarf Fortress, but without as much !FUN! to be had. The User Interface is about a million times better, the graphics, while simple, are entertaining, and the controls are intuitive.

Vechz is doing a LP of it, and it has been rather amusing, but I think your play style and witty remarks would make it much more entertaining.

[Destro_Yersul]

Towns does sound interesting. I'll have to look into that. I do mean to continue Warlock, I'm just worried people might not find it too interesting. It does seem to have a few fans, though, so there's that.

If I did do Dishonoured, I'd do a 'no detection, minimise number of people knocked out.' run. Obviously, this would mean I wouldn't explore everywhere, or collect everything, but it would also mean I'd get to show off a few of the sneakier ways I've found to get around in the game.

[Domochevsky]

It's on Gamers Gate.

And Steam does have an offline mode, if you really hate the problems that most DRMs have. Personally, I check Gamers Gate and GOG first, but I still buy games off Steam that aren't on those sites (Cave Story and Team Fortress 2 being good examples).

GamersGame says

DRM:Steamworks (Requires a third-party download and account)
Activation:Must be activated on Steam

and the Offline Mode of Steam is a joke at best.

I tried Towns a while ago, and it seemed still to be in heavy need of development. In the same way, Gnomoria isn't bad, and Timber And Stone is looking to shape up quite nicely, too.