Retrospective: February 2014

Busy, focused, and productive are the best ways to describe February in terms of my time spent working to share things with the Internet.

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This Blog:

I guess "two posts and a retrospective" is my new M.O. for this blog, but there's nothing wrong with that. My attention was directed elsewhere, so the lightness of content here should not be interpreted as a lack of interest or inspiration. Truth be told, I was so busy with GameCola and YouTube that I eagerly wrote up half of the last post and then completely forgot about the rest of it until almost the end of the month.

- Retrospective: January 2014
- Living Quantum Leap
- Snake? Snake! SNAAAAAKE!!!

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GameCola:

Whoo-ee! The links that follow represent hours upon hours of writing, recording, and especially editing—I don't remember the last time I devoted this much time to Gaming Outside the Mainstream, but I'm very satisfied with the results.

Columns:
- Q&AmeCola: Greatest Gaming Achievements

Podcasts:
- [NSFW] Final Fantasy RPGcast – Part 3: The Lost Chapter
- [NSFW] Final Fantasy RPGcast – Part 4: Mad Little Pony
- [NSFW] Final Fantasy RPGcast – Part 5: Legends of the Fiendish Temple
- [NSFW] Final Fantasy RPGcast – Part 6: Forget Pancakes; Let’s Cook the Town
- GC Podcast #70: Best Games of the 3s

Videos:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time

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YouTube:

With my preparation of the Final Fantasy RPGcast posts keeping me in a recording and audio-editing mindset, and with the completion of the RPGcast posts freeing up my spare time substantially, February was the perfect time to get back on the horse and continue my Mega Man 7 playthrough. I'm already brewing up ideas for the next RPGcast, but I intend to make YouTube a priority so that I'll finish this series soon. Otherwise, you're getting a Mega Man 7-themed April Fools' gag for the third year in a row, and that's just sad.

GeminiLaser:
- Mega Man 7 - Part 4: Brothers at Arms

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The Backloggery:

Adventure games have officially become my new staple, with RPGs occupying a more regular spot in my gaming lineup than they have for some time. In an effort to expand my library of space shooters, a genre I only really started getting into relatively recently, I poked around the Wii Virtual Console library for something I could pick up with the spare Wii Points I'd had kicking around since filling out Mega Man 10's DLC roster. For the first time in a long time, though, I became so fed up with a game that I actually removed it from my library altogether. I can deal with mediocrity and unfair challenges, but when bonkers camera controls render the game almost entirely unplayable, I draw the line.

New:
- Final Soldier  (VC)

Started:
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 3: Night of the Raving Dead  (PC)
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 4: Chariots of the Dogs  (PC)
- Final Fantasy IV: The After Years  (WW)
- Pac-Man World 2  (GCN)

Beat:
- Final Fantasy IV: The After Years  (WW)
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes  (GCN)
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 2: Moai Better Blues  (PC)
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 3: Night of the Raving Dead  (PC)
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 4: Chariots of the Dogs  (PC)

Completed:
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 2: Moai Better Blues  (PC)
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 3: Night of the Raving Dead  (PC)
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 4: Chariots of the Dogs  (PC)

Mastered:
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 3: Night of the Raving Dead  (PC)
- Sam & Max: Season 2: Beyond Time and Space: Episode 4: Chariots of the Dogs  (PC)

Removed:
- Pac-Man Vs.  (GCN)
- Pac-Man World 2  (GCN)

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Good good good. Keep it up, me.