As I mentioned a few times last week, I didn't get much video produced as I had lost a lot of sleep, and really wasn't up to spending the time and energy producing the high-maintenance LPs...which incidentally is all three of the ones I'm currently releasing. I am currently encoding the last segment of Dishonored, so that LP will be fully prepared for release after I get the other three in order. I seem to have prioritized these poorly. I am going to redouble my efforts this week.
Penumbra Overture will be finished by the middle of the week (though I don't know what to do about the corrupt portion near the end...I'm tempted to re-record it myself, but we'll see). I'm actually quite pissed at how corrupt and desynced this LP turned out. It may be tainting my overall opinion of Penumbra, and that's really not the game's fault. That said, I may have a few words about the games themselves once this is all over.
Two new episodes of Bioshock Infinite have been uploaded. Expect 2 - 3 more by the end of the week. Also another pain in the ass to produce because of the echo.
Half Life 2 is fairly easy to edit and produce, but I got halfway through editing the next segment before I felt like smashing my face into the keyboard (not related to the game, I just stopped functioning at that point). I will be recording more this week, hopefully finishing the game completely. Expect at least 2 more episodes of that this week.
So in summary, you should expect a minimum of 6 videos, and a maximum of *shrug*
Point is, I'm still here, and I thank those who are waiting for specific videos for their patience. Meanwhile, I took a few hours to make a VERY SERIOUS VIDEO, because I really needed a little silliness this week.
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Friday, January 31, 2014
Another Milestone
More like a stepping stone as it's really not that big a deal, but I hit 300 subscribers on YouTube today. It's kind of neat having people interested in the videos I make, both on my own and with friends. One thing I realized while making this video was I really am pretty awful at games...and I find that hilarious. I've had a lot of fun the past 3 ish years making LPs (including the LPs on my old channel) and I plan on continuing my video recording and producing, hopefully getting better at it as I go.
The video I will be uploading today contains about 80% new footage (in that I haven't uploaded it to YouTube). Some of these video clips are part of longer LP videos already on the channel, but a lot of the material has been sitting on my drives collecting dust, and I figured I should remedy that. The video is over an hour long, so I'll be posting markers to each segment of it if you'd like to skip over some of the parts. This is (mostly) footage from 2013, so I might make a 2014 edition next year should I encounter enough silly things to make it. Which is likely.
Also, I have the first Penumbra video encoded. Hooray.
I'll have those going up fairly soon. I also need to start recording Alice again because I, uh, ran out of videos of it. Heh. I'll have my drives cleansed over the weekend so I can start that next week. Maybe.
EDITOR'S NOTES FOR DR.SCHWA'S 10 FAVOURITE WTF MOMENTS
Penumbra - Currently the only footage (aside from the 16 second dog video where I sound like Mr. Hanky) from Penumbra released. As mentioned above, I am working on that. That entire dream sequence section was really messed up. We were both incredibly confused. Also, Tommy Wiseau makes an appearance.
Skyrim/Oblivion - I had a lot of random footage from the game on here. I basically start recording when I find silly things, or there is a potential for silly things. And yes, I really did start choking on bread when I was trying to make a joke at the end there.
Left 4 Dead 2 - I had so much unused footage and unreleased mods/campaigns of this game. The first section was the fun little random clips from more recent runs of the game.The second was when we managed to break the game and tanks just continued to spawn. I apologize for the poor audio balancing and blurry quality. These were processed ages ago. The third instance of L4D2 in this video is basically me failing horribly. That and being tormented by my friends. The usual.
Outlast - Barely had to do anything editing-wise. It was inane on its own. I was the one at the controls in all the clips shown there, so no surprise that it's ridiculous(ly bad).
Overlord 2 - I still have no words for this. I can't comprehend, even watching it multiple times. I truly love the last little clip I added though.
Garry's Mod - Little to clarify. My terrible Prop Hunt skills speak for themselves. BUT I need to defend myself in the video where I killed myself. Both me and my brother had no idea how that grenade missed, Oliver had tossed the barrel down the stairs, Michael nudged the barrel into standing position when he said "is this you Oliver?" and when I shot the barrel, Michael screamed "oh god" so I thought it was him. I cannot justify the orange clip.
Haunted Memories - Horrible, horrible indie game. Granted it was free and made by a handful of people. Still, that's barely an excuse.
Just Cause 2 - The clip with the race car and the plane makes me laugh every single time.
The video I will be uploading today contains about 80% new footage (in that I haven't uploaded it to YouTube). Some of these video clips are part of longer LP videos already on the channel, but a lot of the material has been sitting on my drives collecting dust, and I figured I should remedy that. The video is over an hour long, so I'll be posting markers to each segment of it if you'd like to skip over some of the parts. This is (mostly) footage from 2013, so I might make a 2014 edition next year should I encounter enough silly things to make it. Which is likely.
Also, I have the first Penumbra video encoded. Hooray.
I'll have those going up fairly soon. I also need to start recording Alice again because I, uh, ran out of videos of it. Heh. I'll have my drives cleansed over the weekend so I can start that next week. Maybe.
EDITOR'S NOTES FOR DR.SCHWA'S 10 FAVOURITE WTF MOMENTS
Penumbra - Currently the only footage (aside from the 16 second dog video where I sound like Mr. Hanky) from Penumbra released. As mentioned above, I am working on that. That entire dream sequence section was really messed up. We were both incredibly confused. Also, Tommy Wiseau makes an appearance.
Skyrim/Oblivion - I had a lot of random footage from the game on here. I basically start recording when I find silly things, or there is a potential for silly things. And yes, I really did start choking on bread when I was trying to make a joke at the end there.
Left 4 Dead 2 - I had so much unused footage and unreleased mods/campaigns of this game. The first section was the fun little random clips from more recent runs of the game.The second was when we managed to break the game and tanks just continued to spawn. I apologize for the poor audio balancing and blurry quality. These were processed ages ago. The third instance of L4D2 in this video is basically me failing horribly. That and being tormented by my friends. The usual.
Outlast - Barely had to do anything editing-wise. It was inane on its own. I was the one at the controls in all the clips shown there, so no surprise that it's ridiculous(ly bad).
Overlord 2 - I still have no words for this. I can't comprehend, even watching it multiple times. I truly love the last little clip I added though.
Garry's Mod - Little to clarify. My terrible Prop Hunt skills speak for themselves. BUT I need to defend myself in the video where I killed myself. Both me and my brother had no idea how that grenade missed, Oliver had tossed the barrel down the stairs, Michael nudged the barrel into standing position when he said "is this you Oliver?" and when I shot the barrel, Michael screamed "oh god" so I thought it was him. I cannot justify the orange clip.
Haunted Memories - Horrible, horrible indie game. Granted it was free and made by a handful of people. Still, that's barely an excuse.
Just Cause 2 - The clip with the race car and the plane makes me laugh every single time.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Torpedo Puppies
I am still in awe of what I experienced at the end of Overlord 2. I played this once before, and memories of the final boss came rushing back to me like the mess of a creature the Overlord needs to take down. There are no words to describe what I witnessed, and if you haven't played/seen the game, I'm not going to ruin the effect this magnificent beast has on someone's mind. Meanwhile, torpedo puppies end up shooting out of holes in the ground. It makes me giggle. Maybe I'll upload a sneak peak of that one.
The videos created from Overlord 2 are...very large. I should have encoded at a lower resolution for these ones, but the raw files are deleted at this point, so there's not much I can do about it. This means that the LP will take a long time to upload, and will probably be done in bursts of 1-4 videos at a time depending on the connection speed I have available. I intend to use this upcoming weekend to begin recording Alice: Madness Returns on Nightmare difficulty as requested, and to make some other specials to celebrated the holidays. I will start Dark Souls early in the new year.
The videos created from Overlord 2 are...very large. I should have encoded at a lower resolution for these ones, but the raw files are deleted at this point, so there's not much I can do about it. This means that the LP will take a long time to upload, and will probably be done in bursts of 1-4 videos at a time depending on the connection speed I have available. I intend to use this upcoming weekend to begin recording Alice: Madness Returns on Nightmare difficulty as requested, and to make some other specials to celebrated the holidays. I will start Dark Souls early in the new year.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Twilight Days of my Hard Drive
So, here's the scoop. My hard drive is probably going to die in the near future. This is bad because a) it is my largest hard drive that I use to record all my raw files and b) because I have a lot of unproduced videos and projects stored on that drive. I have made archive copies of all the important old videos on my other drive for now, but I have an entire LP of Penumbra: Overture, the first 40 minutes of Penumbra: Black Plague, a ton of Neverwinter footage I never finished sifting through, two chapters of Half Life that are in the middle of being edited (and fixed as I had some problems with the recording) and all of the Amnesia: Machine for Pigs videos, which I am still using to produce a...special video.
This means a couple of things. I no longer have the luxury of storing videos on this drive and working on them when I feel up to the task. These videos must be produced as soon as possible, so I cannot give them the attention they need. I was planning inserting text comments and jokes into Half Life and the Penumbra videos. This takes time as I have to watch the whole LP. I also need to resync some of the audio in Penumbra because apparently these videos want to make me miserable. I'm certain now that it's the lag in the games doing it, and since the voice audio and game are recorded in two separate places...this causes problems. Then on top of that, 25-45 minute videos take 2-3 hours to encode. I can only produce one video at a time unless I get creative (which will require the use of other hard drives anyway).
What's worse is I no longer have a lot of storage space to work with. I currently cannot afford to buy myself new hard drives because I need the money I have for the holidays. I will have to wait until the new year. This drive is my 2TB. The others are all 600GB and lower. This is fine for some games, but the problem is my drives are full of OTHER footage. I am currently recording Overlord 2, which takes up a lot of space. An hour, thirty minutes takes 300GB of space. That's 3.3GB per minute. Yay Fraps.
So, the point of this post, essentially, is to say that my video production schedule will slow significantly until I get this sorted out. The good news is, I still have Overlord 1 to upload, so you will continue to have a running LP. The bad news is, plans may change, footage may be lost and I cannot realistically start or continue a new LP without great difficulty.
Last news is, regardless of whether or not the hard drive survives until the new year, I am working on some special projects for the holidays. I have a lot of...amusing unused footage lurking in the depths of my computer. Keep your eyes out in mid-December for new non-LP videos.
Also, it's not relevant, but, I have my drivers license now. It's kind of a big deal. Well...for me. Now I must attain a chariot worthy of my reign of terror on the road. I mean...that's a nice safe buggy to go on lovely Sunday afternoon drives around town. Yes...safe...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
EVIL in the DARK Beware
The TERROR will consume us all. And other cliche phrases and words.
Diablo 2 Act 1 is completed. For the most part, I'd say the LP is going well so far. I think we'll try and slow down play a bit to be thorough and explore all the areas available (we aren't particularly interested in rushing). Nintendog/Sacrosanct and GameVoyeur are playing with me, the former through text and the latter being the second voice you will hear. I expect the first few of these videos to be uploaded before the weekend.
Amnesia footage is slowly, but surely being edited. It's not an overly large game, but as I have mentioned, it has required more of my attention. I am extremely excited about the special project I have going that I will post after the LP is complete. I have a good chunk of it done already and will be consulting Shauna about any other content she'd like to add. I am having a ton of fun producing it though. I get to try out some more video editing techniques as well. EVIL genius mode engaged. We'll see how effective that ends up being.
Also, I rewatched the hour or so that I played of the sewer section and the big scare I got. Let's just say that I find my own terror quite hilarious. Unfortunately if others find it hilarious as well, I may be...convinced to play more horror video games.
Diablo 2 Act 1 is completed. For the most part, I'd say the LP is going well so far. I think we'll try and slow down play a bit to be thorough and explore all the areas available (we aren't particularly interested in rushing). Nintendog/Sacrosanct and GameVoyeur are playing with me, the former through text and the latter being the second voice you will hear. I expect the first few of these videos to be uploaded before the weekend.
Amnesia footage is slowly, but surely being edited. It's not an overly large game, but as I have mentioned, it has required more of my attention. I am extremely excited about the special project I have going that I will post after the LP is complete. I have a good chunk of it done already and will be consulting Shauna about any other content she'd like to add. I am having a ton of fun producing it though. I get to try out some more video editing techniques as well. EVIL genius mode engaged. We'll see how effective that ends up being.
Also, I rewatched the hour or so that I played of the sewer section and the big scare I got. Let's just say that I find my own terror quite hilarious. Unfortunately if others find it hilarious as well, I may be...convinced to play more horror video games.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Too Many Pigs
Shauna and I finished A Machine for Pigs today. We had mixed feelings of the game, but ultimately we enjoyed playing. It surprisingly didn't match up to Outlast in terms of overall horror, but, it did have one section that I was nearly paralyzed with fear, so I'll give it that. I think it might have been an early instance of a pig man being right behind me with no warning, but I was crippled for about 30-40 minutes playing where I became a shaking mess of garbled words. Stay tuned for part 7 (whenever I catch up in my encoding) to see me almost fall apart completely.
In other news, I am a mad genius without the genius in that I have concocted an new idea for a (hopefully) humourous compilation video. The idea came to me when I put the image of two incredibly creepy ghost children to the theme of Captain Planet. I'll let your imagination run wild for what the rest of the video will be like. I'm not sure of the timeline on that one as I want to get the full LP out first, which requires me to sync audio, make comments, clean up the video as best I can and encode another 4 (ish) hours of gameplay.
Half life has been paused for a moment to create more hard drive space and for when I have a good chunk of time to sit down and play. Expect this LP to be done mid-October. Also, Diablo 2 will be LPed. I have done some tests and the videos have been produced perfectly. The only issue that I may have is balancing audio. Regardless, I will be co-op LPing with two other people.
In other news, I am a mad genius without the genius in that I have concocted an new idea for a (hopefully) humourous compilation video. The idea came to me when I put the image of two incredibly creepy ghost children to the theme of Captain Planet. I'll let your imagination run wild for what the rest of the video will be like. I'm not sure of the timeline on that one as I want to get the full LP out first, which requires me to sync audio, make comments, clean up the video as best I can and encode another 4 (ish) hours of gameplay.
Half life has been paused for a moment to create more hard drive space and for when I have a good chunk of time to sit down and play. Expect this LP to be done mid-October. Also, Diablo 2 will be LPed. I have done some tests and the videos have been produced perfectly. The only issue that I may have is balancing audio. Regardless, I will be co-op LPing with two other people.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Drifting
All my marks are in from school, so now all I need to do is put on a silly robe, pick up a couple of pieces of paper and wait around for three hours while I wait for other people with silly robes to pick up their slips of paper. In the meantime, I will continue making LPs and other videos for YouTube.
I will be gone for a month and a half this summer, so I'm not sure how much time I'll have to start new LPs after I complete Dungeon Siege 3. I am estimating that I'm a little over half done DS3, but it's been a long time since I was last at the part I'm thinking of AND I never actually finished the game last time. I got very mad about this one battle, which I am sure will make me very mad again. I have a ton of ideas for new LPs however.
1) Single Player LPs:
I am thinking of LPs I can do on my own time in the next while. I may return to the Dungeon Siege series to complete additional quests or do a showcase of pets and recipes, but ultimately I want to move on to new games.
My top options for LPs at the moment are: Half Life 1 (the original, not the overhaul it got last year), Diablo 1 (of which I have only completed once), Baldur's Gate (of which I already have three videos) and Overlord 1 (of which I started a text LP and then promptly gave up on it).
2) Multiplayer LPs:
I have a lot more Left 4 Dead 2 videos I can post, which people seem less interested in watching. My brother and I play most of them, but I have some friends join us in other campaigns, including another LPer, IskatuMesk, which I unfortunately didn't get the entire recording of the campaign for. Shauna and I are still debating whether we will do an Amnesia: Machine for Pigs LP, but you can guarantee that we will be doing more LPs, probably horror survival related, in the future. We are also contemplating joining up with another friend of hers to do a Neverwinter LP, but we haven't got the details of that one worked out yet. I also have multiplayer videos of Dungeon Siege 1, but I'm not sure what videos of that one are going to be produced.
3) Reviews, Compilation videos and Music:
I currently have a review of Amnesia: The Dark Descent done by Shauna and myself encoding on my computer. I plan to upload it tonight (if it cooperates. It is an hour and 7 minutes long, and would probably only target a few people, but I feel we give an in-depth analysis of the game. It's the first time I've done a video review and I may move on to do reviews of the Dungeon Siege series and perhaps some Fire Emblem games. I am not sure how these reviews will work yet, or even if it's worth doing. I'll have to see if people are interested in seeing them. As for compilation videos, I have another Left 3 Dead 2 one planned that I need to review a lot of video for. I currently don't have enough footage for another "Five Years of Flails" type video yet, so that will be a long time coming. As for music, I plan on making some more continuous tracks for video games, but I am not sure which ones yet. Probably Dungeon Siege 2 or and extended version of the Dungeon Siege 1 version.
Overall, I have a lot to work on. I will be asking any viewers interested what they'd like to see as an LP. If no one really cares, I'll do whatever the hell I want and hope for the best.
I will be gone for a month and a half this summer, so I'm not sure how much time I'll have to start new LPs after I complete Dungeon Siege 3. I am estimating that I'm a little over half done DS3, but it's been a long time since I was last at the part I'm thinking of AND I never actually finished the game last time. I got very mad about this one battle, which I am sure will make me very mad again. I have a ton of ideas for new LPs however.
1) Single Player LPs:
I am thinking of LPs I can do on my own time in the next while. I may return to the Dungeon Siege series to complete additional quests or do a showcase of pets and recipes, but ultimately I want to move on to new games.
My top options for LPs at the moment are: Half Life 1 (the original, not the overhaul it got last year), Diablo 1 (of which I have only completed once), Baldur's Gate (of which I already have three videos) and Overlord 1 (of which I started a text LP and then promptly gave up on it).
2) Multiplayer LPs:
I have a lot more Left 4 Dead 2 videos I can post, which people seem less interested in watching. My brother and I play most of them, but I have some friends join us in other campaigns, including another LPer, IskatuMesk, which I unfortunately didn't get the entire recording of the campaign for. Shauna and I are still debating whether we will do an Amnesia: Machine for Pigs LP, but you can guarantee that we will be doing more LPs, probably horror survival related, in the future. We are also contemplating joining up with another friend of hers to do a Neverwinter LP, but we haven't got the details of that one worked out yet. I also have multiplayer videos of Dungeon Siege 1, but I'm not sure what videos of that one are going to be produced.
3) Reviews, Compilation videos and Music:
I currently have a review of Amnesia: The Dark Descent done by Shauna and myself encoding on my computer. I plan to upload it tonight (if it cooperates. It is an hour and 7 minutes long, and would probably only target a few people, but I feel we give an in-depth analysis of the game. It's the first time I've done a video review and I may move on to do reviews of the Dungeon Siege series and perhaps some Fire Emblem games. I am not sure how these reviews will work yet, or even if it's worth doing. I'll have to see if people are interested in seeing them. As for compilation videos, I have another Left 3 Dead 2 one planned that I need to review a lot of video for. I currently don't have enough footage for another "Five Years of Flails" type video yet, so that will be a long time coming. As for music, I plan on making some more continuous tracks for video games, but I am not sure which ones yet. Probably Dungeon Siege 2 or and extended version of the Dungeon Siege 1 version.
Overall, I have a lot to work on. I will be asking any viewers interested what they'd like to see as an LP. If no one really cares, I'll do whatever the hell I want and hope for the best.
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