Awesomized - That was my reaction O_O

Yes, that was my reaction. That & WTF ??????

So here's what happened. I've been saving up to buy Portal 2 since last year & at the start of this year, I went to the shop & asked for it. As it turns out, it was out of stock :'(
Expecting a new stock coming at the first fiscal quarter, I placed a request. & then I waited impatiently.

This Wednesday (25th April, 2012) I got the call (no, not The Call. Sadly, that only happens in my imaginations)

So today on the 28th of April, 2012 I headed out to the store (imagine epic music playing).

I got there, got the game. But then I noticed that the store was having a bumper offer where you buy 1 game & get 1 free. Unfortunately Portal 2 wasn't part of the offer but the Fallout white label collection was :O

For those of you who don't know, the white label collection is the original 3 Fallout games: Fallout, Fallout 2 & Fallout Tactics.

Having enjoyed Fallout 3 greatly, I decided to get it. Then after depositing those at the counter, I began my epic quest to find another semi-decent game that was part of the offer.

There were mostly NFS games in the offer. Me not being a racing fan did not approve. Eventually I spotted 2 contenders: Penumbra Overture & Dark Sector.

However, neither was my particular fancy since I've already seen an awesome LP of Dark Sector so wasn't too thrilled at playing that & Penumbra Overture being a horror game will scare the ever-loving crap out of me without even trying too hard (although that may make for a fun LP).

So I couldn't decide which one to pick over the other as neither of them were particularly high on my games list.

So eventually I was almost making up my mind when all of a sudden I decided to look at the back row of one particular rack, for no reason in particular. & the very last game that was completely hidden behind 3 more games, was the incredibly spectacular Machinarium.

Ever since I played the demo, I wanted this game so bad. I never knew this had a retail release, let alone one in a place like India, in that particular store even. & it was the last copy too 8O

I pleaded that to be part of the deal (even if it wasn't I'd have bought it anyways) & to my extreme surprise it was O_O

[Here's where you play that epic victory music BTW]

[Oh & just in case your wondering the offer price of that buy 1 get 1 deal was (wait for it) 99 INR. For those wondering the exchange rate, it's less than 2 USD. That's right, I got Fallout 1, 2, Tactics & Machinarium at less than 2 bucks]

So moral of the story: This Summer (read that in the epic trailer narrator voice) expect a Machinarium LP, followed by Portal 2 during which Minecraft will take the sidelines (sorry, guys, you know how it is) & then I'll alternate between the Fallout original series with more Minecraft 8D

This Summer, meet Anistuffs at his happiest XD

Playing Minecraft Multiplayer with Rsmalec O_O

Seriously, WHAT ???

Okay, for those of you (non-existent readers of my blog) that don't know, Rsmalec is THE best Minecraft mapmaker & reviewer & an all around awesome dude to hang out with :)
& he invited me (yes, me, the guy who makes the incredibly bad LPs) to play a custom map with him in multiplayer while both of us LPing. WHAT ???
& did I mention we had an awesome time? No? Well, we did. It was about 3 hours of glorious fun :D

Anyways, to the main topic, both of us are uploading LPs of the map (called The Temple of Trials made by Ravioli_Rick) so you can see from both angles how we messed about :)

Here's my viewpoint:

& a Link to my playlist.

& here's Rsmalec's viewpoint:


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On another unrelated news, I played a map that was requested in my LP thread on the Minecraft forums, called Levels by Kinglau3 & enjoyed it greatly :)

Here's the first episode:

& here's the full playlist.
Enjoy :)

Let's Play Gift - The first Minecraft map based on an Ebook

That's right folks, I'm making a Let's Play of Gift, the very first Minecraft custom map based on an Ebook.

The Ebook in question is Gift by Andrea J. Buchanan (or Andi Buchanan) & the mapmaker in question is the creator of the CTM genre, Vechs himself, who was commissioned by Andi Bew-cannon to make this map.

Here's Episode 1

& here's the full playlist.
Enjoy :)

Oh & before I forget, this first episode is actually linked there on the map's page added by Andi Bew-cannon. How's that for awesomeness :)

A couple of requested Custom Map LPs

For those of you (yes, you Mr. Nobody), who don't know, I've started a Map LP thread on the Minecraftforums.
Here it is: Anistuffs presents Let's Plays of Minecraft Custom Maps

& I'm very happy to say I've got a few requests there :)

So here're my LPs of 2 such requested maps. The first went very badly & the second one was quite tedious as well :(
The Curse of Vengeance
&
All Under His Control - First Episode & Full playlist