BFVG Dream League Of Dreams Week 2

Week 1 of the Dream League Of Dreams was filled with plenty of end to end, none stop, edge of your seat action. But here at BFVG we are always looking for ways to make things even more exciting. So we decided on a couple of rule changes that came in to immediate effect.

In their infinite wisdom the FAFF (Federal Association For Football) came to the unprecedented decision that the length of all future games will be doubled. Instead of the regular 5 minutes per half, games will now last 20 minutes consisting of 2 ten minute halves.
The second change that FAFF announced this week was that the games will now take place over two days instead of the previous one. 3 games will now be played Wednesday evenings with the remaining 3 played the following Saturday. In an official FAFF statement released on the 22nd of October they declared that; 'These changes were agreed by a 10-2 majority in favour. The aim of these changes is to ensure that the sports popularity continues to grow and that the DLOD continues to appeal to the younger generation.'

The Dream League Of Dreams will continue to be broadcast on the BFVG official Twitch channel, now taking place twice a week. For more information on future DLOD broadcasts and any other gaming related tom foolery please follow us on Twitter, Facebook and right here on Blogger. And for anyone who didn't catch this weeks action have a quick read below for this weeks football round up.

BFVG Dream League of Dreams Week 1

The players left the dressing room after a rousing pre-match team talk from their gaffer. Making their way down the tunnel the butterflies in their stomach began to flutter. They were only to aware of the responsibilities that now weigh heavily on their shoulders.This was it, this was the moment that they had all been training so hard for. Because today was not just any day, today they would embark on a journey that would either take them down the road to success and glory, or down the path to failure and obscurity. Today was match day!

As explained in a recent post we had recently set up a PES 14 league in which we would each manage a team and all of the games would be streamed live on Twitch. The evening of the 19th of October 2013 was the official launch of BFVG DLOD (Best Friends Video Games Dream League of Dreams) and it would not disappoint.

Felix's Skyrim Playthrough: 05 Schmetty Joins the Dark Brotherhood Part 1

"Urgh... My head! Where the tits am I?" For the second time since his adventure began, Schmetterling the Orc was blearily regaining consciousness in an unknown location. Last thing he remembered was falling asleep in a pile of hay in Solitude, and this place didn't remotely resemble that! He seemed to be in a dark, dingy, craphole of a shack.

"Blegh..."

Schemtty touched his head. He felt a mace-shaped impression where his cerebral Orc-tex used to be. 'Owy', he thought to himself, 'I feel like I've just gone eighteen rounds with Muhammad Orc-li!' But before he could get a hold of the situation, a softly-spoken voice from across the room called out to him.

"Ah, you're awake. Don't be afraid, my good Orc."

Schmetty looked up to see some sort of ninja human female, straddling an offensively filthy bookshelf. "Let me introduce myself. I am Astrid of the Dark Brotherhood," she purred. Schmetty didn't exactly know what that was, but he could take an educated guess at them being the people who'd clonked him on the noggin.

05 Losing my Dragon-ginity

"Guuu-uuuys, wait uuup!"

With some trepidation, I walk down to the main gates of Whiterun, where Irileth is delivering a rousing speech to the assembled town guard.  And while it does a little to steady my nerves, I am very much aware that the largest enemy I’ve faced so far is an overfed arachnid.  I'm glad I bumped up my healing prowess.  The Whiterun guards march out boldly and I tag along behind on Allie, “protecting the rear of the column”.  

PES 14 BFVG Style; The Dream League of Dreams

Who will triumph in the Dream League of Dreams?

Do you love the Beautiful game? Do you enjoy playing said beautiful game on a gaming device? Have you ever wanted to endlessly sim a league with friends and see what happens?
If like me the answer to those questions was yes, yes, no then a few weeks ago I would have agreed with you. That was before myself and a few other members of BFVG found ourselves watching fellow BFVGer, Arjybarjy playing PES 14 while streaming it on Twitch. During our late night ramblings we stumble upon this great idea and from this the BFVGDLOD (Best Friends Video Games Dream League of Dreams) was born.



Its a simple idea, we each create a team including team names and kits (which I will come to later) then draft players to fill our respective rosters. Each week we would sim these games live on Twitch for our, and hopefully everyone else's enjoyment. Unfortunately there are not enough of us to have the league saved on PES (smallest league requires 14 teams) however I will be keeping all the results and updating the table. Then after each team has played each other twice a champion will be crowned. The winner* will be given the greatest trophy of all, the right to rub it in everyone else's face that he/she are the greatest and all others suck.

Chell and GLaDOS and Fat Jokes

Hey guys, sorry it's been a while since my last post - unfortunately real life has taken over with a bit of a vengeance, but I've found myself a couple of hours free, so thought I'd get in on the next article.  Chell, from the Portal series.

Portal is a physics-based puzzle-platform game in which you play as Chell, a test subject for Aperture Sciences.  It is never 100% clear what exactly they are testing, as you are equipped both with "long fall boots", which basically explain away all those other times in games when you jump of a building and basically survive, and a portal gun.  The portal gun opens a portal, but in order to be able to walk through it you need to open a second.  Basically, you walk through one portal and out of the other.  The gameplay gradually introduces other nifty "test" products - such as repulsion gel which you can bounce off, Propulsion gel, which causes you to run very quickly over it, and others, adding complexity to the puzzles throughout the game.

I have only played the second of the two games, but being a logic fiend, thoroughly enjoyed it.  However, whilst still trying to figure out exactly what to do (I was given no explanation at all, either by the game or by my maniacally grinning boyfriend), I got a bit freaked out when, through one of the portals I saw some strange woman with odd shoes on in it.  At this point, aforementioned boyfriend finally piped up and informed me that I was in fact seeing myself (obviously, not literally myself, but rather the myself of the first person perspective - I wouldn't be caught dead wearing those shoes....not least because they basically eliminate the chance of it happening in the first place).  So I was a bit shocked but pleased that I was playing a female character.  Realistically though, if I hadn't noticed "myself" through the portal, there is never any real indication that you are in fact a woman.

MMO Diaries: Guild Wars 2 Trial

It's fair to say that Guild Wars 2 became my obsession for the week that I was able to play it. According to the MMORPG's server message I have played the game for 30 hours in the week I had access to it.

At the start of the game I realised my choice of races was quite stupid. I've played a fair bit of Skyrim talking to hearty Scandinavian type folk in mostly snowy and mountainous lands. You'd think that after that I would not go and choose the hearty Scandinavian class of the Norn, with their stomping grounds being snowy and mountainous. My experience may have been filled with more varied and interesting locales if I had chosen another race but the games still managed to capture my attention (and copious amounts of time).

04 Whitewun and Weligious Wondewings

The weather is against me the next morning, as I leave the Sleeping Giant Inn after a much-needed rest and find that a blizzard has descended.  But the Jarl must (finally, after much distraction and dilly-dallying) be warned of the dragon menace!  Through the dense snowstorm, I spot four figures plodding on ahead of me: three Imperial soldiers escorting a captive Stormcloak rebel.  The loyalist asks that I help him overpower his guards.  Erm, no.  Instead, I zap a mangy wolf who snuck up behind me and sprint off down the road.

"WOOF WOOF" *ZZZZZAP* "WHINE WHINE"

Felix's Skyrim Playthrough: 04 Solitude

With the assistance of his new-found giant buddies, Schmetterling the Orc was now happily soaring through the air at a rate of 88 Orc-miles per Orc-second (roughly 15 Orc-knots).*

*Not known for their seafaring abilities, Orcs are on shaky ground when it comes to the unit of Orc-knots.

It might have been the altitude clouding his better judgement, but there was something about viewing Skyrim from such a great height, something about the fact that from this perspective, all humans looked like puny ants ripe for the crushing, that made Schmetty, for the first time in his life, feel at peace with the world.

In a state of euphoric serenity, Schmetty whispered to himself.

"Literally nothing could spoil this for me..."

THWACK!

CRUNCH!

Podcast #5 - Death Friends Video Games

Our 5th podcast-iversary we talk about the pretty inconvenient trait we humans have - mortality - and how video games reflect this. We'll be discussing perma-death as well as regular bucket o' lives games and how meeting our grizzly ends (in video game form) can improve or diminish the games we play. Expect technical difficulties as internet connections reflect the fragility of life itself...

Browzings: Speed Warp and Elements

Idle games have proven to be pretty divisive here at BFVG, what with the recent controversy surrounding a certain game which may or may not involve clicking on or near baked goods. Nonetheless, today's first entry will boldly go where I've gone twice before (with candybox and A Dark Room): it's Speed Warp!

Eagle-eyed Twitpeeps will have noticed this game being retweeted by aniwey, the creator of candybox, a few days ago. Speed Warp is, as dev Tom Medley notes, heavily inspired by candybox, with parts of the game borrowing chunks from the former.

Podcast #4 - Stimulating Simulators

In our 4th inaugural podcast we try to pinpoint what the difference between a simulation and a game exactly is. Should they have similar features to games? Should they accurately reflect the drudgery of carrying out these activities? Expect really unprofessional behaviour as we leave our mobile phones on and send Skype IMs to other people throughout this topic!