this is how catching up on fantasy book series in my 30s feels like. the series debuted in the mid aughts, 20 mainline novels and 5 short story collections deep, and I'm like "haha, that Bayaz guy is kind of a jerk, am I right guys???"

fangy@jeannesfangs.bsky.social · last mo.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

New video is on The Necromancer's Tale, an isometric narrative RPG that chronicles your descent from twink nobleman to lich. youtu.be/X-iLOlCoxKE

A Narrative Necromantic Power Fantasy | The Necromancer's Tale Review | thesummerofmark

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Boards of Canada dropping hauntingly beautiful music after a 13 year break feels like the end times are approaching

New video is on Archolos, a full conversion mod for Gothic 2 featuring a new map, story, and improved gameplay mechanics. This video was a lot of work so any RT, share etc would be greatly appreciated See you in the next one youtu.be/nop0IdrZA4w?...

Archolos is an absolute triumph | The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos Review | thesummerofmark

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Archolos script is finished. By my rough estimations, it should have a runtime of about an hour(ish). Expect the video to drop sometime in April. Now if you'll excuse me, I have three more books from The First Law series to read

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Digital Foundry@digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We've brought back our "zoomer" screenshot tool and loaded up a range of DLSS 5 on/off comparisons from a range of games. Check it out: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/nvi...

is this a Sopranos reference I noticed in Esoteric Ebb or am I actually losing my mind

I’m on book 6 out 9 (nice) of the First Law series. I’ve been reading nothing else but the First Law for the past 6 months. Say one thing for thesummerofmark, say that once he really gets into a new IP, he can’t stop until every piece of content from that universe has been thoroughly devoured

Esoteric Ebb is something else man

25 hrs into Pathologic 3 and I still feel like I'm BARELY scratching the surface. Probably didn't help that I played 5 of those hours under the influence (hah) of the nastiest flu I had in my 33 years of existence on this earth anyways, here's me debating the dialectics of scarecrows with a child

Love it when YTers are like “I only use CharGPT to generate talking points for my video” damn dog you rely on a robot that scrapes the totality of human knowledge off the internet to provide you with the literal backbone of your video?

The biggest improvement Pathologic 3 brought is that The Bachelor is such a pretentious, catty doofus. 8 out of 10 dialogue lines are literally him being like 💅💅💅 Almost makes you forget that it's a game about saving a backwater steppe town from a (somewhat) sentient plague

New video is on Thief 2's excellent second mission, Shipping... and Receiving. See you next year with (hopefully) more videos youtu.be/8rWWEb6UD6U

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News Tower might be one of the best tycoon/management games I’ve ever played. Tight, well-paced progression, great setting, and the headline combo system where you combine news stories with the same theme on the page to boost sales is so, so satisfying

Happy Doomsday y’all

New video is on Drova: Forsaken Kin, a 2024 2D Gothic-like RPG that I enjoyed quite a lot youtu.be/lQfFx49lS0w

Is Drova A Good Gothic-like? | Drova: Forsaken Kin Review | thesummerofmark

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None of my videos show with restricted mode on. None. Zero. It's like I never existed on this damn platform. It's not like I make any significant money from YT, but it's pretty depressing seeing 5 years of work thrown in the shitter by an AI that nobody asked for. Very cool, YouTube!

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

New video is on Thief 2: The Metal Age, the excellent sequel to Thief: The Dark Project. Took longer than I anticipated. Super excited to delve into Thief: The Black Parade and Thief: Deadly Shadows youtu.be/aQpgn-qk8KA?...

Thief 2 is Peak Stealth | Thief 2: The Metal Age Review | thesummerofmark

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I think it's funny how Thief doesn't register as an old game to me - more like a game with retro graphics that just so happens to be 1000 years old

the no1 thing stopping me from writing scripts at full speeed (besides writing in a language I'm not native in) is that Google Docs still doesn't support dark mode natively in the year of our fucking lord 2025

Here's me going through all stages of fear in this clip. Confusion. Morbid curiosity, as I backtrack to search for loot and check the source of the creepy laughter. And finally, "FUCK NOPE NOPE NOPE FUCK THIS" when I realize that the statue is moving. Thief: The Black parade is something else man

after all the mediocre games I've played in the last couple of months only to abruptly abandon, who would've thunk that the one game that will 100% absorb me would be an indie with 90s CRPG aesthetics. skald: against the black priory is a fucking gem

🏆NEW VIDEO!🏆 Eyebrow Cinema's Top 100 Movies The only way to celebrate 100k subscribers. youtu.be/Kvfrp2Xbi6E?...

time to finally give this bad boy a spin

Bro there's no way Drakan: Order of the Flame (1999) came out in 1999

New video is on Thief: The Dark Project, the 1998 first person stealth game that literally pioneered an entire genre. Next up: Wizordum and Thief 2: The Metal age youtu.be/ImHVuJ5wZA4

Thief is still the absolute KING of stealth | Thief: The Dark Project Review | thesummerofmark

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Morning Bluesky. Due to a scheduling fuck up this went live about a week early so enjoy. #retrogames #gaming youtu.be/jh5ypNHoFYM

Syberia 1 And 2 Retrospective. Games As Art.

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Thief Gold first draft = done. 6800 words. We are so back