James Schumacher – Writing & Art
Writing, Art, Photography, Media & Commentary
Youtube is the defacto leader in online video viewing programs. Youtube provides a number of options for both individual users, groups and businesses. Their gaming service was recently created to compete with Twitch, though their livestreaming capabilities have been slow to take off. Youtube reamins one of the most daily visited sites throughout the world.
Using this tag you fill find nearly all of the videos from my personal Youtube page, where provide lots of content. There is a large collection of game intro sequence videos in the highest resolutions possible at the time of recording. I also have full playthroughs of single player games, sometimes including all collectibles as with the Uncharted series. I also have some videos with commentary and recordings of multiplayer/co-op videos as well. If you like the content be sure to like the videos and subscribe to the channel for more excellent content.
Graveyard Keeper is game in the management/sim genre and can probably most be compared to a recent game like Stardew Valley in it’s visual and gameplay styles. It’s a fantastically fun and interesting indie from a small Russian Studio and can be currently played on ALL of the major platforms.
Continue readingGraveyard Keeper – Intro (2018, PC – Lazy Bear Games, tinyBuild)
Skyborn is and RPG from Dancing Dragon Games and Publisher Degica. It’s an RPG in the traditional 16-bit SNES era style built using the RPG Maker VX Engine. This is the intro section of the game captured in fullscreen 1920×1080 and the resized back to the correct aspect ratio. Additional
This was sourced from the Youtube upload of my previous version https://youtu.be/lpZ-BWwQwJI (Unfortunately I don’t have the original footage and my consoles/old games are in storage). This is a simple AI Upscale to 1080p. Results are mixed to my eye, but may be of interest for some people, so thought
Continue readingOnimusha 3 Demon Siege – Intro (AI Upscale 1080p) [PS2 Widescreen Enhanced]
Uncanny Valley is a 2015 pixel-styled adventure horror game centered on permanent choices and replayability. The game was developed and published by Cowardly Creations and firmly fits within the group of games like Lone Survivor and The Last Door. Our intro sets the tone for the events that will follow
Whispers of a Machine is an adventure game in the classic style but with a few new twists of interests. Vera, our main character, is an officer sent to investigate a murder. WoaM has some cool mechanics, including a bio sensor, strength enhancer, and scanning abilities that investigators, including Vera,
The Longest Road on Earth is a stylish black and white/monochromatic narrative-focused gaming experience from Developers Brainwash Gang and TLR Games, published by Raw Fury. Released in May 2021, the game features ever-present music and vocals from artist Beícoli. Best described as character-focused and firmly within the experimental art segment
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A Plague Tale: Innoence is a unique story and graphics-heavy game from developer Asobo Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive. The game is one of many making use of quixel megascans to create photorealistic landscape for use in projects. The intro sets up the tall for an incoming plague and
Unavowed comes to us from David Gilbert and publisher Wadjet Eye Games. Gilbert is perhaps best-known for his Blackwell series of games. Wadjet Eye, Gilbert’s company, is known for publishing adventure games in the classic pixel style but with some modern sensibilities. A little more via Wiki: Unavowed is an
Judgment follows Takayuki Yagami a former lawyer turned detective in the familiar Yakuza haunt of Kamurocho. Wiki description: Judgment is an action-adventure video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega for the PlayStation 4. A spin off to the Yakuza series, the game initially began
Seven years in the making, this is the intro sequence to The Last of Us Part II from developer Naughty Dog, 2020, exclusively for the Sony Playstation 4 system. This intro sequence gives a very brief summary of the main plot points/conclusion to original The Last of Us, the
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The latest in the SEGA beat ’em up series made famous on the Genesis/Megadrive in the early ’90s. Streets of Rage 4 comes 26 years after the series’s third and at-the-time final entry in 1994. Know for it’s side-scrolling action in the style of Final Fight and other classic sidescrollers
The latest entry in the XCOM series is Chimera Squad, a surprise spin-off title focused on premade characters in a post XCOM 2 storyline, where the humans, aliens, and hybrids attempt to co-exists. The game shows off a new twist on the turn-based mechanics of the series, as well
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