Of space pirates and jellyfishes

We originally made this blog so we could write summaries about our past marathons and notify the readers for upcoming ones, especially since last time we heard quite a lot of critique of insufficient advertising. The problem is, we don't really know if any of you read this blog, or where else we could advertise our marathons. Last weekend there was some talk and ideas about a public marathon calendar, so perhaps in the future it would be easier to spread the word.

But enough about that! Last weekend (10th-12th of August) we had a Metroid Prime (Trilogy) marathon on Wii. We started on Friday with Unita and Yuffie, and on Saturday Lefrin and Kiraito joined us (though Kiraito was only visiting, and she had to be on her way soon after). This was a new experience for us all, since none of us had played any of the Metroid games before, and at least I personally am quite new for games with a first-person camera (and Wii as a console).

We originally had plans to play through the whole trilogy, but the first game proved to be so challenging and long that we didn't have time for the other games. Perhaps in the future. Nevertheless, we had lots of fun and managed to beat the first game within the timeframe with some help from our lovely co-hosts and audience. Thank you, everyone! We hope to see you all again in our next marathon, whenever that may be. : D

We also recorded the marathon, so if you want to watch it, you can find it on Unita's channel.

Smashing some spacepirates o/

Hi!

It's been a long and quiet year and half. Not that quiet as we've held one more marathon in autumn 2011. That was a small Spyro the Dragon marathon that I and Yufii played together. We finished first three Spyro games and played Spyro: Year of the Dragonfly a bit. Sadly we don't have any videos about that. But we have fanart! And I'm finally going to upload the pics in here very soon.

But enough of that. Finally we've decided to have a new marathon. 10.-12.8.2012 our plan is to play Metroid Prime Trilogy. Most of us don't have any experience of playing Metroid games, so it will be blind running. No worries though, it should still be quite entertaining. ;D

We're sorry that it took this long to update, but it has been a busy year. It certainly won't take this long in the future. The next update will be about the fanarts, I promise!


- Unita

Nine fingered monkey from hell

It's Sunday morning, four o'clock, and we've just reached the last 'level' of Assassin's Creed 2. There were slight misunderstandings on our part, mostly with the fact that we did not realize that our copy of the game was the platinum version of the Game of the Year-version, and thus had all the DLC's embedded in the game. Which prolonged the game tremendously. I think I can abbreviate all of our feeling to a simple word:

"FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU."

Now we have 14 hours or so left to finish AC2 and start Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Most likely we won't be able to finish Brotherhood since we're not fast pro gamers or anything, but we're doing the best we can.

Old fags and young boys

It is 6:58 AM and the marathon has been going on about 12 hours - I, being a first-timer in these marathons, have been up all the time, though soon I'll get couple of hours of sleep now that boss has been killed and blah blah blah.

First Assassin's Creed has officially been taken to the end and second game is running on; we started about half an hour ago. Everybody is a bit tired, and levels of "amusing jokes" is just magnificent, but no complaining - we have fun! We have had loyal streamers with us in the chat the whole night, thanks for everyone, and after some frustrating fights and interesting running-from-damn-guards situations, we indeed finished the first game - two more to go. :3

Assassin's Creed 2 started really.. nicely with Baby Born Ezio, shut-the-fuck-up-please-Lucy and Desmond in the trunk; but no more of these hardcore spoilers, if you want to follow, follow! ;3 Stream is going on all the time to the Sunday evening.

Feelings from the gaming group in the moment:
"Yay!"
"Having fun, good-working game marathon"
"herp-derp-herp"
"Can't sleep, too high"
"Fuck yeah"

Assassin's Creed -marathon info

I'm sorry, I promised to update faster but again time went so fast that suddenly it was friday already. As some may already know, the AC marathon will be held today at 6 PM (+2 gmt).

I didn't manage to verify my Livestream account so the viewer limit will be set to 50 viewers. Such a small amount is very problematic so we're looking for other options. We might try to stream at Ustream since it doesn't have viewer limits. We will do that only if we have to, if many viewers are left out when we stream at Livestream. No worries I will update the stream link here.

So again, the games that we're playing are Assassin's Creed 1,2 and Brotherhood. The first game we will be playing is Assassin's Creed 1. Kiraito might be the first one to play since she will be playing only at day time in this marathon.

We will be figuring out our co-host rules soon. This marathon has more players and people to follow the chat. So we might not need as many co-hosts as in the Zelda marathon. But there's surely places open for co-host at night time at least.

More to come ~


Livestream - Assassin's Creed marathon - 6 PM

Took off the Stream window ~

Hyrule was saved almost thrice four weeks ago

This is just a small report of our on-the-spur-of-the-moment Zelda marathon that was held in 21.-.25.4. Like I mentioned, we didn't plan to have this marathon. I just figured that since I had four day long weekend I might as well do something interesting then. We didn't promote this marathon almost at all. Despite that we got many viewers which was awesome. Thanks for everybody who were watching! :D

We chose to play Zelda because Kiraito hadn't played Zelda games before. This was pretty good way to introduce her to the series. The games that we played were Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. We're not Zelda experts so it took us all that time to complete two and 3/4 games. The last thing we managed to do in the marathon was to finish the Oocca -place in Twilight Princess.

We started at 21.4. 8 PM and ended the marathon at 25.4. 8 PM. That makes an unbelievable 94 hours of marathoning! I didn't even think that we would be playing that much. Even though we had our hands full with only I, Yufii and Kiraito playing the games, Lefrin visiting on sunday, we survived. I thank all the co-hosts that visited the marathon too.

I will be adding couple of videos from our Zelda marathon later. Stay tuned for the upcoming Assassin's Creed -marathon info!

We are alive!

Finally our team decided on what to play next and when!

EDIT:

Next in our game menu will be:

Assassin Creed 1-3

We'll continue MGS games when PSP streaming is possible in good quality~

Some of our team members are busy before summer, so we will stream most likely and hopefully in June. More detailed information coming later!