Announcing the Second Annual Josh and Jarenth Save the New Year Stream!

By Josh Posted Sunday Dec 30, 2012

Filed under: Notices, Spoiler Warning 83 comments

That’s right, you asked for it! The illustrious buddy cop duo/pair of idiots are back again to save and possibly ruin the new year! And you’ll be able to watch this terrible trainwreck in real-time tomorrow evening!

We’re not actually quite sure which games we’ll be playing or when we’ll be playing them, but if you tune in tomorrow, you might find us playing:

Sleeping Dogs – Wherein Josh attempts to take down a criminal empire by crashing into things and beating up street merchants!

Space Marine – Wherein Jarenth laughs at Josh because he doesn’t actually know anything about Warhammer 40k – or this game!

Hitman Absolution – Watch Josh guide Agent 47 through his most linear and poorly optimized adventure yet!

Tropico 4 – Josh achieves his dream of becoming El Presidente of a burgeoning banana republic – and then probably ruins everything!

War Thunder – Jarenth and Josh take advantage of the new year to go back in time and shoot down planes in the arcade flight sim you’ve never heard of!

And of course,

Borderlands 2 – Josh and Jarenth murder their way across Pandora to see how long it takes before they degenerate into five hours of car wrestling!

Currently, we plan to start at 6 PM Pacific and stream until midnight Pacific. And I know, that means we’re technically excluding all European New Years celebrations, but we really don’t think we can stream for nine hours straight and I can’t just go cutting it early. Look at it this way: You can have your real New Years Eve parties with all your cool friends, and then come back and watch Jarenth and I screw everything up.

The stream link will be posted tomorrow before we start. Feel free to give feedback about the games we might be playing or suggest others in the comments.

Hope to see you then!

 


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83 thoughts on “Announcing the Second Annual Josh and Jarenth Save the New Year Stream!

  1. MrGuy says:

    A vote here for Borderlands 2.

    Blow stuff up and make people die. What’s not to like in that sentence?

  2. Jenson says:

    I never asked for this.

    1. Denton says:

      What a shame.

  3. EagleEye says:

    Will this be archived for those of us that miss it?

    1. Josh says:

      It should remained archived on the stream page, yeah.

      1. el_b says:

        Many of the old videos on rutskarns Lifestream have vanished,Do they have a limit now? Most of his channel is auntie paladin now and last year’s New Year’s stream is gone.

  4. McNutcase says:

    I would like to see Space Marine being played. Ideally, in co-op mode, just so there’s an outside chance I can join in. Jarenth will know why I want to, as will anyone who’s seen my recent Steam screenshots…

    Or Sleeping Dogs, since I understand that’s nowhere near as wacky as Saints Row 3 – at least until Josh gets his hands on it…

        1. Daemian Lucifer says:

          Hi krellen>

          Combo saved.

          1. MrGuy says:

            Hi Daemian Lucifer

              1. Eruanno says:

                Hi McNutcase…?

        1. Jarenth says:

          You messed up the combo!

          1. X2-Eliah says:

            I’d like to think that I improved it.

            1. Josh says:

              Don’t worry. You did.

  5. Nyctef says:

    woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  6. Bryan says:

    No idea how well it’d stream, but Bastion. …Actually, the non-browser version would probably stream just as well as anything else. So yeah, that. I want to see Josh ruin that one at some point. :-P

    Or maybe Arx Fatalis, but that one takes quite a while to get going. So unless you already have a save handy from somewhere between halfway through and the end (…and let’s face it, that’s unlikely), it probably wouldn’t be good to stream it. The bone+chair cheat might make hijinks possible earlier (since it gives you all the spells, along with a ton of high-level items), but there isn’t much that early either. Maybe a trip to the dragon right away (and an attempted destruction of it, of course) would be funny…

    Or anything else suggested earlier, of course.

  7. Aulayan says:

    Alright! I want ALL The games. This is not ideal so here are my votes in the order of what I want most to what I want least.

    1) Space Marine. Everyone on the Twitters is playing it and I’m curious.
    2) Tropico 4. I have never heard of this game. That makes it interesting.
    3) Sleeping Dogs. I am very interested in this game and I want it. Or I can just watch people have fun playing it.
    4) Hitman Absolution.
    5-7) Everything Else.

  8. Vegedus says:

    First thing that popped into to my mind was “Pff, who aren’t too busy partying to watch a video game stream”.

    The answer is me :(

    1. MrGuy says:

      A winner is YOU!

  9. Jarenth says:

    I am now and forever a tag on this website.

    1. Aulayan says:

      Congratulations! We’ll put it in your stock obituary! And gravestone.

  10. Klay F. says:

    Will there be liquor?

    Please say yes.

    1. AyeGill says:

      There’s always the spoiler warning drinking game.

      Since I won’t be filling my new year’s alcohol quota at any parties this year, we should play it.

  11. James says:

    Unrelated to this, the Anniversary is also fast approaching, and it seams like this year instead of playing Amnesia without being scared or some insane item find game, we need to see josh and co suffer through.

    THE WORST GAME ON STEAM!!!

    thats right Bad Rats, and dont worry we need not burden Josh with buying it, because some asshole, gifted me a copy,

    so there it is if ya want the worst game on steam, the offer is ALWAYS available

    1. Josh says:

      Why does everyone keep trying to get me to play Bad Rats?

      1. McNutcase says:

        Because it’s fun to watch/hear you go insane.

        1. MrGuy says:

          I’m pretty sure Josh playing Bad Rats will find a way to crash the internet.

          1. James says:

            its such a bad game, i wanna see how long josh can stand it, before finding where the dev’s are and killing them

  12. vyndallis says:

    I vote Tropico, since that game has enough going on to make it interesting to watch, but not so much that it keeps conversations from popping up.

  13. Gravebound says:

    You should play Disney Software’s Coaster.

    or Falcon 4.0 (on full realism)

    or Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines

    or Wing Commander

    or Rise of the Triad

    or Tek War (if you want a bad one).

    1. Bryan says:

      Falcon …. 4?

      I have a box from of Falcon 3 still, from way back in 1993 or something when DOS was still prevalent. I *might* even have the disks somewhere. :-)

  14. Daemian Lucifer says:

    Warhammer 40k?Is that that starcraft clone I keep hearing about?Yeah,do that game.

    1. Tse says:

      StarCraft clone? Isn’t StarCraft, itself, a clone?

    2. MrGuy says:

      It’s more of a Warcraft clone. But in space!

      1. James says:

        #SIGH# Warhammer came first before all of them, 40k is an extension of that. Warcraft is a clone of it, and SC is as well.

        now i know at least one of you knew this and was trolling but i need to set it straight before i go insane.

        ALL Space Marines and there like are derivative of Warhammer, Mass Effect, yeap, GoW yeap, ect

        1. X2-Eliah says:

          Space marines are just derivatives of colonial english infantry soldiers, actually. #ultimatenerdhat

          1. AyeGill says:

            Colonial english infantry soldiers are just derivatives of cavemen with clubs

            1. MrGuy says:

              Cavemen with clubs are just souped-up monkeys.

              1. LCF says:

                Monkeys are but lemurs on steroids.

        2. 4th Dimension says:

          Basically Space Marines are the Primarchs of all heavily built stubble wearing brown haired badass dudes in videogames.

        3. Jason says:

          I feel confident that the existence of a multi-branch military in a science fiction game with common-place space travel need not be directly, or even indirectly, inspired by Warhammer.

          1. 4th Dimension says:

            How about game which features power armored space marines, killer flora and fauna ala Ailen, mysterious spiritual alien race with unknowable goals, totalitarian regime rules humanity etc, etc.

        4. Soylent Dave says:

          If we’re going to sigh, Games Workshop shamelessly ripped off Starship Troopers not just once, but twice.

          The design of Space Marines owes a great deal to that of Mobile Infantry Troopers (they’re heavily armoured jump troops backed up with dreadnoughts in the novel).

          Then the Paul Verhoeven film came around, and GW redesigned both its Cadian (Imperial Guard) and Tyranid (space insects) ranges to match the film.

          So if we’re going to talk precedence… Heinlein invented Space Marines.

  15. Josh – Could you please log into Guild Wars 2 and delegate a currently active guild member to take over leadership duties of the Eikosi League?

    There’s only a handful of us currently active in the guild and NONE of us have officer privileges.

    I’d like to at least be able to invite my husband into the guild.

    THANK YOU!

    Leslee (lesterley)

    1. Peter H. Coffin says:

      Need new blood. (btw, I’ve got two looking for more company. Guild Zaibatsu Tora does really well fro just two people but that’s not really enough to coordinate fractals or WvW.)

      1. Galad says:

        I’m currently in a guild, but if I leave it, who should I PM to join Twenty-Sided? (already posted about it in another thread, hope it’s not a problem)

        1. X2-Eliah says:

          I think you can be in more than one guild at once, you just choose which one to “represent” to make it your active guild (the one that gets the guild chat and the bonuspoints for you being active).

          Also.. I guess the issue right now is that all the people who you should PM aren’t actually playing GW2 anymore.

          1. Peter H. Coffin says:

            Bingo. Hence the need for more blood. Or at least a commitment to play a couple of hours a week at some specific time to handle those kind of affairs.

  16. Tse says:

    Yay, Tropico, a game made in my country! I kinda wish they didn’t use our National Theater as the model for theaters in the game, but oh well…

    1. Daemian Lucifer says:

      Tropico is one of the few games that I dont know how to play.I always end up having an island where everyone loves me,and win all the elections fair and square.Im pretty sure thats not what you should get when you embezzle millions of dollars.

      1. Tse says:

        I, too, make everyone happy. Well, except the loyalists. There is no point to doing anything for them. When they get mad they just become members of other groups, groups who already adore me.

  17. TonyKebell (FatTony) says:

    Ah, the new year stream, hopefully I, in my sleep deprived state, will not lead you 5 minutes, in the wrong direction, through Stillwater (or whatever the city in SR3 is), ensuring you to; “trust me, there will be a top hat.”

    Because this years line up seems to be games I’ve never played!

    1. krellen says:

      SR3 takes place in Steelport.

  18. newdarkcloud says:

    If you do Hitman: Absolution, you have to play the Courtroom level if only to disguise yourself as a judge and pass judgement over a trial for absolutely no reason.

    1. Tse says:

      You can do that? Wow!

      1. Bryan says:

        It’ll be just like ME3, where you make some sort of judgement for no reason over two random people, who are apparently arguing!

        Er… but better, I assume…

        1. newdarkcloud says:

          It’s not important at all to the plot. It’s just an Easter egg.

          So yes, it’s better.

          1. Bryan says:

            Oh. OK, fair enough. :-)

    2. Eruanno says:

      I just finished downloading Hitman: Absolution, and I am so totally going to do that, spoilers be damned.

      1. newdarkcloud says:

        I put that in spoilers mainly because Hitman is more of a game about experimentation and discovery is part of that.

        It has absolutely nothing to do with the plot. It’s just a thing you can do.

  19. Bubble181 says:

    Since I won’t be there: have a nice New Year’s Eve, everybody, and may 2013 bring you friendly strangers, loving friends, close loved ones, plenty of people who are there for you and a clear lack of annoyances, irritations and DRM!

  20. Jason says:

    For a long time I thought Space Marine was an attempt to make the most generic vaguely futuristic shooter ever.

    1. Aldowyn says:

      Warhammer LOOKS really generic because it invented half the tropes of the genre, at least for games. (Starship troopers is probably the first time in literature, or the first relatively popular one. The book’s marines at least were substantially different from the ones common in games, IMO though)

      1. StashAugustine says:

        All I could think of during the jetpack segments in Space Marine was that this needs to be adapted to Starship Troopers. Just triple the jump height and swap the chainsword for nuclear bombs.

        1. McNutcase says:

          Meanwhile, all I could think of was “Fwoosh! Heeheeheehee! STOMP! Chop chop chop! Ehehehehe! FWOOSH!”

          There’s a reason my preferred class in multiplayer Space Marine is Assault.

          1. StashAugustine says:

            Has that gotten any better? Tried it out a month or two after launch and it was dead and laggy.

            1. McNutcase says:

              there doesn’t seem to be any versus going on, but co-op is decent fun, even though we never seem to get past the second stage…

              I’d not be averse to having a bunch of 20-siders do some versus. Quite apart from anything else, I want various bits of Mark 6 armour that I can only unlock in versus…

              1. Asimech says:

                I’ll look into remembering to play the game more so I might be up to it. There’s a good chance you’ll end up curb-stomping my wall shooting arse with the Assault, though.

  21. Eruanno says:

    Will there be a highlights clipshow later for us poor Europeans, perhaps? Pretty please? :3

    1. Aulayan says:

      I’m sure Josh can schedule a highlight reel to appear sometime after L4D82.

      1. SougoXIII says:

        So..never then?

        1. Dave B. says:

          Well, technically after never. In other words, it will take a greater-than-infinite amount of time to come out. A mathematical impossibility, sure, but this is Josh we’re talking about. His computer can warp the shape of the universe.

          1. AyeGill says:

            There are different degrees of infinity. The cardinality of the reals is greater than the cardinality of the integers, for instance.

            Now, physical impossibility, that I can agree with.

  22. 4th Dimension says:

    Space marine, Emperor wills it!

  23. Mr Compassionate says:

    How can I get to this stream? Link please.

    1. Hale says:

      I don’t think the stream starts for another 5 and a half hours so the link probably won’t come up for awhile longer.

      1. Paul Spooner says:

        That said, we’re 12 minutes past the “start” time… so any minute now.

  24. Alexander The 1st says:

    My vote is for War Thunder. If only because it sounds like the one that can be messed up the least.

    I can just hear Josh going “Oh. A challenge.”

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