PacoDG said:Damn, haven't seen this thread in a while. Just catching up. His Fallout 3 whines are pretty lame. But loving his Dead Space review so far (despite it took him over two minutes before he even mentions Dead Space.. and also says "Rock Band World Tour" ... maybe on purpose to make his point.. didn't sound like it though).
I like his older game reviews more, but he should keep on keeping on (which I see by the amount of updates, that is just what he is doing).
He should just embed some videos on screen while he is just talking (to keep things visually interesting.. otherwise I would just download mp3s of his reviews and listen in my car.... which I would do)
The Spoony One
Well, I just finished recording game footage after pulling an all-nighter session. I nearly went postal on this thing because almost an identical thing happened to Phantasmagoria as my last Final Fantasy VIII review. I played through about three discs' worth of content, felt very satisfied with myself, checked the footage and...
There was no sound. On any of it. Three hours of footage, and no sound.
I'd fucked up. I'd chosen the wrong sound device for my video capture software, and as a result the only sound I caught was my commentary, which I was recording on my DV camera. Basically the entire recording session was a disaster, and none of the footage was usable.
There was nothing for it but to record it all again, watch all the same FMVs again, do all the same stuff in the same way. Basically I had to play the game as if I hadn't played the game before, leaving pauses to allow the viewer to read e-mails along with me, inspect items and game screens, in essence, listening to my own commentary and playing the game so that my actions synced up with my narration. Very tedious, very infuriating, but it came out well in the end. I don't even think you'll notice anything amiss; the puzzles are mainly of the "guess the password" and "use all of your items on the thing that's about to eat you" variety, so I didn't really spend much time fumbling around for clues. The playthrough is pretty smooth.
The videos will take a little longer to finish than I thought, though, but only because there's about three hours of game remaining. I can probably trim some time off of it just removing lulls in the action (Curtis walking around looking bemused), but I'd guess there will be twelve to fifteen more sections to go on YouTube. Hard to say.
It's pretty exciting, though. If you thought the game was funny before, that was when crazy shit wasn't happening. The insanity really kicks into high gear very soon, so look for updates around Wednesday night. My advice: don't read any spoilers on this one; you've gotta see it to believe it, and you want to be surprised to find out who's good, who's evil, who lives, and who dies, right? Is it demons, druggies, ghosts possessing your rat, or aliens from Dimension X? Or is it all in Curtis' latently homosexual mind?
Oh, there will be KY Jelly before the end, folks. Stay tuned.
The-Switcher said:He can be funny, but I dunno anyone that can watch 13 part videos, spanning hours for one game.
freethought said:Man, I lost track of this like 3 or 4 videos ago. I was watching them off his site since youtube was being a bitch and got cut off halfway through one of them. I'm going to have to finish it off before he puts more up.
I second the Yor love too (well the comedy review love at least). Just to see that guy again (Space Mutiny was one of my first MST3K's) made it all worthwhile. RAAAARRRGH!!!!
Shard said:Roll Fizzlebeef
Shard said:We put our faith in Blast Hardchesse.
freethought said:I still support the railing system...
Also; Gristle McHardbody!
tino said:I don't know what's going on in the ET video but FF8 review is damn funny.
Crye said:Disappointed, had got used to getting two episodes at once, but only one today ;(
I'm horrified to find myself being drawn into Phantasmagoria storyline, I want to know what happens next :lol
FINALLY.Atomzzk! said:Looks like we'll be getting another round of FFVIII, judging by the end of "Let's play Phantasmagoria 2"
Calm down :lol This isn't a youtube comment box.RiverBed said:this is the stupidest thing I've seen online in a while. complete garbage.
I could only stand 5 seconds till I black-listed that shit of a site.
I heard that, CurtisRiverBed said:this is the stupidest thing I've seen online in a while. complete garbage.
I could only stand 5 seconds till I black-listed that shit of a site.
But he's lonely, you cruel monster!RiverBed said:this is the stupidest thing I've seen online in a while. complete garbage.
I could only stand 5 seconds till I black-listed that shit of a site.
Omg this is amazing :lolShard said:FINAL FANTASY VIII (IN 7 PARTS)
http://spoonyexperiment.com/games/FF8/