Absurdly Epic Games

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Recently, I started doing YouTube videos of my own playthroughs of video games. It might sound a bit odd but it turns out that video game playthroughs are a very popular type of video... potentially because they allow you a preview of the item you plan to spend $60 on. That's only one possible reason though. I discuss more in a video on my main YouTube channel, Absurdly Epic Tales!

After some internal debate, I decided to start my own playthrough of video games! I eventually decided that, in anticipation of doing uploads of video games videos every week, I should create a separate channel just for the majority of videos as I'm trying not to clog up peoples YouTube feeds... which may be a bit presumptuous as people would have to subscribe to me first but I feel it'd be better to be prepared in this instance.

I plan to upload to my original channel as well, but I really intend to keep my gaming channel for games!

I felt my mind racing with possibilities at what games I might play for the channel and some of them are a bit beyond the capabilities of my current PC so I looked into building a new gaming machine that would be powerful enough to run any current game and games for the next few years without an upgrade!

Whatever Fantasy PC Build Part 1

Whatever Fantasy PC Build Part 2

Needless to say, any machine I built was well out of my price range. But recently, Steam, a computer game digital service, had a big sale. I bought many, many games because of this and some of them don't run on my current machine... as I found out to my dismay.

Yet, I found a good replacement video card through amazon.com that I expect will do the trick!

This is the Radeon 2450 video card, which should allow me to run more games and faster than my current video card allows.

Now I've returned to trying to figure out which games I want to play for my channels! I am of course hoping that everything goes smoothly with this new card although many of the games I plan to play do not require this new video card! I'm also hoping that it will quiet down the noise that the fans on my PC put out but at this time, that's not my priority!

So here they are, in no particular order, some of the games that I will be playing either a bit on my original channel or on my gaming channel!

NOTE: This probably won't be a complete list either but just a rundown of games that made me want to do this!

This was actually the game that made me want to do video game videos. It look really fun and I can't wait to get started!

I only got this one recently as it was half price on the Steam sale and it is one of those games that needs that video card I mentioned earlier. It's a bit strange as I have not played, nor do I intend to play, any of this series before but this one looks like fun!

I am currently playing the Lego Marvel Superhero series on my channel. I know I have a ways to go before I'm good at the video game video, but this is what really made me realize that I enjoyed it!

I've had this one on my system for awhile but keep getting distracted before really digging in.but I am hoping that doing this as a video series will actually see me playing it through entirely.

I've always enjoyed the Hitman games and I believe that they will make for very entertaining playthrough videos when I get to them.

This will probably not be a series I play from start to finish as it is way too big and I only have one game time card for it but I thought it'd be kinda cool to put some video through as I quest my way through Azeroth and continue to build my character. I also intend to do Star Wars: The Old Republic videos... and that is free to play so I'm not really sure why I haven't yet... too many games I guess...

This is another series I am starting to play on my channel. I think it will mostly be on my gaming channel but exclusives may pop up on my main channel from time to time! Unfortunately, I can't really play through the story mode in this one because my software exits the game when I try but I can get the skirmishes so most pf the carnage is always intact... plus, this is one of my favorite games so I plan to do as much of this as I can!

I picked up FarCry 1 - 3 + Blooddragon for a steal during the Steam sale... I've heard so many good things about these games and I just wanted to see for myself!

The Saint's Row series is a guilty pleasure of mine... not that they're considered bad games... just that they are not exactly high art. It's just kinda fun running around causing mayhem in a world without consequence... well, I guess there are consequences, but very few that a well fired rocket launcher wouldn't solve!

I think only 2-4 are available for PC and that's what I have... honestly, I think this series is essential so I may just skip ahead and start doing this one soon!

Along with Saint's Row, I also plan on doing some Grand Theft Auto... currently, I'm playing San Andreas since I never played it but I also have GTA 4 and Liberty City Stories... plus the classic top down GTAs which should be interesting.

GTA is a bit dryer and more gritty and realistic than Saint's Row, making me like it a bit less but wackiness still ensues and I think they will make for very entertaining vids.

I have Rogue Legacy, Castle Crashers and Battleblock Theater and for I'm not afraid to say that I'm really looking forward to playing them! They are all a bit different but I really think playing them will make for nice videos!

P.S. I know Catle Crashers and Battleblock Theater are made by the same people and not associated with Rogue Legacy but they are all indieish type games...

Of course that is not all of the games I would like to play... I have a bunch more myself... but even just what I've talked about will probably take some time... even with multiple episodes every week. And then there are so many others that have yet to come out... I really just don't know!

But if you're interested in gaming and/or watching some random guy on the internet play games, please come on by and take a look at what's going on!

http://www.youtube.com/absurdlyepicgames

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Justin Christopher Davis is an avid watcher of movies, television and YouTube videos as well as a general enthusiast of video games and music and other stuff... to find out more, visit his website at www.absurdlyepic.com