VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 254-262)

Hello! This week (+2 days, because 2018 is ending on a Monday) saw me cover most of the Wintersday event in Guild Wars 1. I had fun recording all of this, and am very glad to have it more spread-out than Halloween ended up being.

This also marks the end of VOD of Consciousness round-ups, because today's episode was the last VOD of Consciousness episode. New years are times of change, and that's definitely happening here. VODoC had a good run, but, well, you all saw the announcement video, right? (If not, you should be able to find it previously posted here!)

Thank you for watching, and please continue to join me with the new content I'm making!

-- Sientir

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 247-253)

This week I focused on doing stuff on my Ranger, Anna Yggdrasill. I collected heroes and skills and began pursuing the Prophecies storyline. Recording these episodes made me really appreciate the structure of Prophecies when it comes to acquiring skills in a way that I'd forgotten over the years. It's definitely something I'm thinking about as a game designer.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 240-246)

This week was a lot less structured than many have been, since I didn't have specific goals in mind of what I wanted to accomplish due to the fact that I'd finished most of the story stuff. As such, there's a real hodge-podge of things: random Nightfall missions, skill capturing, a Bonus Mission Pack episode, etc.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 233-239)

This week was a productive one! I finished both Hearts of the North AND Young Heroes of Tyria. This leaves me needing to figure out what I'm going to do next, but I'm sure I can figure something out.

Also, even if you don't watch all of these, I highly recommend the Future Plans episode (the first one). In it, I discuss my plans for VOD of Consciousness starting next year. I'll be making a more formal announcement video for it closer to the time, but this is a good chance to hear it early.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 226-232)

This week saw me conclude the War in Kryta (which was a lot shorter to play through than Winds of Change, but I think that's because it was more streamlined than the original release). I also began Hearts of the North, which takes place between the War in Kryta and Winds of Change.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 219-225)

This week I continued doing War in Kryta content. This involved doing some stuff for Keiran Thackery, then eventually transitioned to doing bounties for Princess Salma. These bounties escalated to include Mursaat leaders!

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 211-218)

This week saw me complete the main story for the Winds of Change content in Guild Wars 1. I then did the Zinn quests and began the War in Kryta. A lot of specific questing, huh? Though, I do make time to go and grab an elite skill or two along the way.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 205-211)

This week was mostly focused on the Halloween content in Guild Wars 1. I'm glad I was able to get to it, since I didn't actually get to record until November 1st! I had fun playing it, and it makes me excited for the Wintersday content that'll come out around Christmas/New Years.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 198-204)

This week I spent my time playing through more of the Winds of Change content for Guild Wars 1. Things are really heating up in the story, and in a way that feels like oddly relevant social commentary for today.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 191-197)

This week I mostly played Guild Wars 1, with a focus on collecting random things (skills and hero armor). I did finally get back to Winds of Change content. I also finally made a Dev Play recording of Highway to the Moon! I don't show off everything the game has to offer—I wanted to give people an incentive to explore the game themselves (and buy it, of course!)—but I do show off a typical playthrough of the game.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 177-183)

This week my Pre-Searing Ascalon character got to level 20, becoming a Legendary Defender of Ascalon! I also began a Let's Play of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice in an intentional decision to use my VOD of Consciousness recording time to work on my game backlog. And then I returned to Guild Wars 1 and the Winds of Change content.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 170-176)

This week I continued working on Winds of Change content. This included finishing off the last of the Afflicted, and the beginnings of the Ministry of Purity targeting other groups, in this case, the criminal organization, the Am Fah. The Am Fah have a particular fondness of the Affliction-causing plague, so this progression makes sense.

Also, this week I finished the Fury3 Let's Play! It ended up having 8 parts in total. Replaying the game was a lot of fun! I'm glad I did this Let's Play.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 163-169)

This week I continued the Winds of Change content, making it through cleansing the rest of the areas near Kaineng. I struggled a lot on Shing Jea Island, though, both in Minister Cho's Estate (where some bad build decisions complicated my efforts) and massively in Haiju Lagoon. I spent a lot of episodes this week trying out various builds to try and conquer that particular quest, and they were longer than normal, too.

The buildcrafting process is one I personally find really engaging, so the recording times felt shorter than the episodes actually are. A sign of a well-crafted system, but perhaps the videos are a bit long, heh.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 156-162)

I started off this week by being a bit uncertain about what I wanted to do. I eventually decided that I wanted to continue working on filling out my Young Heroes of Tyria book, then return to Winds of Change content. And, of course, I continued the Fury 3 Let's Play!

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 149-155)

This week on VOD of Consciousness I finished the Wayfarer's Reverie, finally read the Hero's Handbook (which summarizes the Eye of the North story) and showed off one of the four Bonus Mission Pack missions. I wanted a fancy new spear to make into a Zealous spear, and the one I wanted came from completing Saul D'Alessio's story. Oh, and of course I continued the Fury3 Let's Play.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 142-148)

This week I finished Eye of the North's story. I also had a couple of extremely long episodes as I tried to stuff the Wayfarer's Reverie into one week. I ended up not being able to do that, so there are going to be a bunch of (shorter) Wayfarer's Reverie videos next week as well!

I also continued the Fury3 Let's Play, of course.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 135-141)

This week I was able to finish the Asuran part of the Eye of the North storyline, which is pretty exciting to have accomplished. Of course, I also got to part three of the Fury3 Let's Play. I'm enjoying doing that.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 128-134)

This week on VOD of Consciousness saw me finish up stuff in the Charr Homelands region of the map (at least for now) with me completing a number of side quests there. I also made my way into the Asuran lands, even recruiting Oola. Finally, I continued the Fury 3 Let's Play, completing the second planet.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 121-127)

This week I played a lot more Guild Wars 1, as is customary. I'm wanting to get a lot more progress made in the Eye of the North expansion's story, so I spent a lot of this week doing that. I also started a Fury 3 Let's Play subseries within VOD of Consciousness that I'm planning on running on Saturdays. I think there should be about 7-8 episodes of that?

Oh, I also switched up the ordering of the name, so that instead of "VOD of Consciousness [2018] Ep. ### - Title", I put the Title first and the VOD of Consciousness part second. My hope is that, if people see them recommended, the actual title being first will make them sound more interesting. Also, if the title gets partially cut off, then I'd rather lose the VOD of Consciousness part than the actual episode name.

VOD of Consciousness Round-Up (2018 Season, Episodes 114-120)

This week I finished off my (on screen) time in Pre-Searing Ascalon, returning to my Paragon and tackling the Norn/Dwarf portion of the Eye of the North storyline in order to gain access to some quests needed to unlock some powerful Player vs. Environment only skills.

I also tried an experiment, where I played a different game, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, for one episode. I'm curious to know what people thought of that!