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Recordkeeping: Jazztronauts COMPLETE
I have not finished all the quests in this, but I have finished the "main" game. So let's have an entry.
If you've spoken to me lately, you've heard me go on about this because I fricking love it. If you haven't, let me go on about it a while, because I fricking love it.
Jazztronauts is an add-on module for popular dicking-about simulator Garry's Mod, and to my surprise it has a legit plot. While exploring a fairly generic Half-Life 2 map, you discover a gang of literal cat burglars hanging out chatting about their latest scheme. They take you back to their interdimensional headquarters/bar and quickly conscript you into being their latest dimension-diver. You fiddle with a machine, it sucks a world up (from the Steam workshop) and you and your magical item-stealing superbaton charge in there to yoink everything. Furniture, people, wall textures, etc.
It beautifully re-contextualizes the maps away from shootman adventures to a playspace where you can just run around, do urban exploration, suck all the light fixtures off the walls, and have genuine fun.
Then you pull a lever back at base and get money to upgrade your stuff, all while running fetch quests for your new feline employers. Could you in fact... find a partner among them?
Well probably not, or at least I'm not sure how. But they're a fun bunch to hang out with and really well-characterized for a fan mod.
Plus, Jazztronauts is near-infinitely replayable, because of the sheer scope of maps you can find on the workshop. Every mistake or someone's first map is a new adventure, every mess of godawful texturing mistakes is something you can yank down and sell off. If you've been a FPS dork for years, you probably have all the Half Life games, maybe Counter Strike Source, and Garry's Mod. If so, I really advise you to try out Jazztronauts. This thing's gonna show up in my game of the year awards for sure.
And if you do try it out, give me a yell and I'll join you in stripping the walls off the wall.
If you've spoken to me lately, you've heard me go on about this because I fricking love it. If you haven't, let me go on about it a while, because I fricking love it.
Jazztronauts is an add-on module for popular dicking-about simulator Garry's Mod, and to my surprise it has a legit plot. While exploring a fairly generic Half-Life 2 map, you discover a gang of literal cat burglars hanging out chatting about their latest scheme. They take you back to their interdimensional headquarters/bar and quickly conscript you into being their latest dimension-diver. You fiddle with a machine, it sucks a world up (from the Steam workshop) and you and your magical item-stealing superbaton charge in there to yoink everything. Furniture, people, wall textures, etc.
It beautifully re-contextualizes the maps away from shootman adventures to a playspace where you can just run around, do urban exploration, suck all the light fixtures off the walls, and have genuine fun.
Then you pull a lever back at base and get money to upgrade your stuff, all while running fetch quests for your new feline employers. Could you in fact... find a partner among them?
Well probably not, or at least I'm not sure how. But they're a fun bunch to hang out with and really well-characterized for a fan mod.
Plus, Jazztronauts is near-infinitely replayable, because of the sheer scope of maps you can find on the workshop. Every mistake or someone's first map is a new adventure, every mess of godawful texturing mistakes is something you can yank down and sell off. If you've been a FPS dork for years, you probably have all the Half Life games, maybe Counter Strike Source, and Garry's Mod. If so, I really advise you to try out Jazztronauts. This thing's gonna show up in my game of the year awards for sure.
And if you do try it out, give me a yell and I'll join you in stripping the walls off the wall.
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This has made me go back and wishlist Garry's Mod and the Half Lives and everything else I have no business ever playing but I need to run this game, because this sounds amazing and I would love to come dink around kuso maps with you.
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