2014 Extra Life: Trace's Second Horrible Life Mistake for Kids
By trace 11 Comments
Some Background
A few years ago, I attempted to play Forza Motorsport 4 for 24 hours straight. This was during Extra Life, as might be expected, but it wasn't actually for Extra Life in that I didn't have a donation page. Rather, this was some sort of self-imposed challenge that I wanted to try for the sake of pushing myself. The endeavour, looking back on it, was selfish, stupid, and it ended in horrible failure, since I fell asleep numerous times during the final six hours. I'm sort of embarassed by how I handled everything, from terrible video footage to how I acted over Skype towards other people actually raising tangible funds for the children.
I want to try Extra Life again. This time, I'm going to do a better job at handling the 24 hours and (hopefully) bring in some money for team Giant Bomb to help sick kids get better. However, and perhaps unfortunately, racing games aren't ideal for my campaign this time around. Despite my best hopes and wishes, I don't have a racing wheel that can withstand 24 hours of use, so iRacing is out this year. The Xbox One and PS4's streaming options aren't great for someone who needs an overlay to tell people where to go to donate, so Forza and #DRIVECLUB are out. All other racing games wouldn't be watchable for such a long period of time.
With my favorite genre out, I decided the next most-entertaining option would be to take on one of my LEAST favorite kind of games: The horror genre. The scariest game I've completed is Eternal Darkness. I'd like to change that, even though I am terrified at the thought of games like PT, Silent Hill, or Resident Evil.
Yeah, I'm going to play scary games for 24 hours. This is a really bad idea.
DONATION LINK SHAMELESSLY INSERTED HERE
Here's the Rundown
I'm starting at 9 PM Eastern on Friday night. That's 6 PM Pacific, for those in need of a Giant Bomb west comparison. I will stream here (hopefully to be on Explosive Runs as well, but possibly not), and play some or all of the following games, depending on progress:
- Neverending Nightmares
- Among the Sleep
- Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- Outlast (plus the DLC)
- The Path
- Any suggested games (leave a comment with your ideas!)
- Costume Quest 1 and 2? OK, maybe not, these aren't really scary
- Deadly Premonition if I exhaust all other games before 24 hours
As noted above, I'm looking for suggestions on good scary games to fill in the noted gap. They have to be on Steam, and I'll not touch the original Amnesia or Five Nights at Freddy's, since I've been exposed to the monsters from both a little too often already, so the psychological torment wouldn't quite be as fun as the other games.
Naturally, I will be asking for donations, and there will be benefits for doing so. Mainly, you'll be helping sick kids at my local Beaumont Children's Hospital! It's a really great hospital, I can assure you of that.
DONATIONS GO HERE. All donations are greatly appreciated, and you'll be helping the Giant Bomb team as a whole.
Prizes
Anyone who donates $5 or more will have a shot at one or more Steam games from my long-standing pile of crap, via a raffle (so $5 a ticket, if you will). I MAKE NO GUARANTEE THAT ALL OF THESE GAMES STILL WORK, but they're either in my Steam or Humble Bundle inventory. I'll gladly give a selection of them to lucky donors on a random draw, first come, first serve. In all likelihood, everyone will have a chance at a game, unless I receive a huge amount of money. Consider it my small amount of thanks for donating a well-sized chunk of money to hospitals helping out kids.
In somewhat of a disorganized order:
- Borderlands 2 w/ Mechromancer pack
- Dirt 2 (2 copies)
- Grid
- Monaco (2 copies?)
- Antichamber
- Aquaria
- Atom Zombie Smasher
- Bastion
- Bridge Project
- Brutal Legend
- Burnout Paradise
- Cave Story+
- Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- Cortex Command
- Crayon Physics Deluxe
- Darksiders
- Dungeon Hearts
- Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- FEZ
- Gish
- Greed Corp
- Guacamelee! Gold Edition
- Hotline Miami
- LIMBO
- Little Inferno
- Nightsky (2 copies?)
- Orcs Must Die!
- Orcs Must Die! 2
- Organ Trail: Director's Cut
- Penny Arcade Something Something Adventure 3
- Red Faction: Armageddon
- Rock of Ages
- Sanctum 2
- Serious Sam 3: BFE
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
- Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
- Shank
- Shank 2
- Solar 2
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sorcery
- Surgeon Simulator 2013
- The Bard's Tale
- That Binding of Isaac game
- Patrick Klepek's The Swapper
- Toki Tori 2+
- Tropico 4
- Universe Sandbox
- The Ship (2 copies)
- Some Payday Christmas Soundtrack Thing (3 insipid copies)
HERE'S A LINK TO THAT PLACE WHERE YOU CAN DONATE $5, MORE THAN $5, OR LESS WHICH IS TOTALLY COOL TOO
Hey, Peace Egg, screw that prize list, I thought you were a Car Guy, play Car Guy Games
If anyone's actually saying this, I have a final side challenge. Money must be put where the mouth is if you want any Trace-playing-racing-games this weekend.
The Bonus Challenge
If you mention one of the three following games in a donation comment...
...and at least one of these titles gets over $100 in donations, AND I get at least $200 in total donations, then sometime between my first 24 hours and the end of Sunday, I will devote a sizeable bonus stream of at least five hours to playing one of these games as non-stop as possible. Post-marathon exhaustion racing stream excitement! I will likely fall asleep and/or become ill on camera.
I'm saying at least five hours because I might fall asleep exhausted after all of the horror and wake up late on Sunday. I have work on Monday, so I can't be too crazy in a year where I'm out of vacation days, yo.
#TwoScoops2Scared