Madisun's Arc - Reviews By Darth Marsden

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

100th posts are for babies. 101st posts are where it's at.

You are so right.

[Secret Fawful]

Not! Bahahahaha! You fell right into my trap.

[Darth Marsden]

Man, you guys suck. I'm busy getting footage for my next review, and in the midst of it all you steal my 100th post! Gosh darnit all to heck!

Just for that, I'm not even gonna tell you the first letter of what it is! Take that!

Anyone else wanna comment on my remade Review? Thoughts, potential improvements, anything like that. Be much appreciated.

[Icedhope]

I liked this last one a bit better. I think now it's coming a bit natural to you.

[Darth Marsden]

Yea, sarcasm and just pointing stuff out seems to suit me a lot better.

[Secret Fawful]

It kind of annoys me how there's nothing to annoy me anymore. Please do something annoying and loud again.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

It kind of annoys me how there's nothing to annoy me anymore. Please do something annoying and loud again.

Just be annoyed by the red bottle in the backgroud that will never be removed.

[Darth Marsden]

That thing really bugs you, doesn't it?

..well, that just spurs me on.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

That thing really bugs you, doesn't it?

No. I just pretend it does so I have something to complain about. And now stop being so perfect!

[Darth Marsden]

Ah, there you go! See? I knew you could be sig-worthy.

[Darth Marsden]

Three quick things, if I may.

- First of all, my next review is coming! It's just taking me ages to put it all together. I've got around 20 hours of gameplay footage to sort through, and once I've found the bits I need, I then have to import them into Windows Movie Maker, wait for them to load, create 30-second clips of the footage I need, then wait for that to compile, then import those clips into VideoPad and, finally, wait for that to load. It's kinda time-consuming.

On top of that, I've had a lot of 'lost time' this week - Tuesday was a complete loss, and I've had to lose a lot of time today as well. A round trip from where I live to Brighton takes around 3 hours by Bus, and having to go back today because GameStation forgot to actually put the disc into a gamebox when I bought it is not a particularly useful way of spending an afternoon.

For the record, I'm around halfway done, at around 12 minutes so far. I hope the rest will go somewhat quicker, since I'm hoping to get this done by Monday (when I'm going to lose another day because I'm going to London with my Dad), but you never know.

- Secondly, does anyone know what font The Spoony One uses in his reviews? I know it's not a 'default' one, but I've not really got the time to go searching through font sites. If anyone knows, or can suggest something close to it, I'd appreciate it.

- Finally, this is something that's been bugging me for a while, but since I'm asking one favour, I might as well ask another. If any mod happens to be passing, could you possibly rename this thread to something like:
"Madisun's Arc - Reviews by Darth Marsden"
...or something along those lines? The thread title as it is sounds a little silly since there's four of the buggers now (5 if you count the original Crow review), with a fifth (or sixth) on the way. It'd be very much appreciated!

OK, I think that's it for now. Thanks for your support guys, hopefully the next review won't be too much longer.

[Darth Marsden]

Another status update.

The video's currently at the 20 minute mark - this one is definitely going to be another half-hour job. It'll be good, don't get me wrong, it's just taking ages to put all the footage together. Don't expect a lot of game reviews from me in the future, they take forever to do.

The two requests I made in my last post are still valid, but I'll repeat them again, since they seem to have been completely ignored. That makes me a saaaaaaad panda.

- Does anyone know which font is used in The Spoony Experiment videos?

- Could a mod please rename this thread to "Madisun's Arc - Reviews by Darth Marsden"?

If someone could help me with those, I'd very much appreciate it.
Again, hoping to get the review done by Monday, but no promises.

EDIT: Update! I'm at 24 minutes now. Somewhat on the penultimate home stretch. Or something.
I'm at the bottom of page 8 (out of 11) in the script, and of the rest remaining two pages have huge sections that I've decided not to include, for reasons of "it'd double the length of the video if I left them in". So finishing by tonight does actually seem possible.

EDIT2: Uh-oh. Looks like it'll be over half an hour. That's probably a wee bit too long.

EDIT3: Confirmed. It's gonna be 35 minutes, give or take. How am I gonna fit that onto YouTube? It'll either have to be three parts or I'll have to cut stuff out, and I'm not entirely happy with either. I'll probably do the later though. Sad panda.

EDIT4: 34:16. Gah. Still, at least it's done. Well, compiling, but whatever. I'll hopefully get it uploaded tonight, but given its length, it'll have to be on Blip. Not sure if I'll be YouTube-ing this one. Hope you guys don't mind.

EDIT5 (is alive): Uploading to Blip now. I have a Blip page here, so check it in an hour and a half or so.
I'll properly link to it tomorrow once it's fully uploaded and everything.

[der_ketzer]

[Darth Marsden]

Happy 2,000th post!

Let me celebrate with a review of one of the worst games ever - Daikatana!

[Icedhope]

But John Romero is the prettiest girl ever.

[Darth Marsden]

Indeed he was. Then he got his hair cut and trimmed and grew a beard, and now he's a perfectly respectable gentleman.

I'm watching the video on Blip now - does anyone else notice if the audio is slightly out of sync with the video, or is that just some weird quirk on my machine? It wasn't like that pre-compile, honest.

[Alcoremortis]

I didn't notice it, but then again I was kinda listening to it while writing notes about bacteria and sorta went back and forth between looking at giant pictures of cell cultures to watching the clips from the game.

Good review, by the way. It makes me sorta want to try out this game, though I think the NPCs would probably ruin it for me. I have a hard time dealing with them in the best of times and usually ultimately end up getting rid of any I have when I play a game that doesn't allow you direct control over your fighting buddies.

[Darth Marsden]

You do have some control over them, in a similar style to Unreal Tournament, actually. Stop, Follow and Pick Up Item are the most commonly used commands you have, though apparently there are two others.

The problem is that the bots have to be with you when you go through a map change. You can't leave them on their own and explore Norway, for example. It's incredibly annoying.

By all means try the demo, but I don't believe that really shows off the Bots, so it may give a slightly false impression. Then again, so do I with all my cutscene editing. Hey ho.

[Icedhope]

I did notice that when you were reading the prologue..the text was a little out of Sync.

[Alcoremortis]

I might try out the demo. Shooter with RPG elements is kinda becoming a favorite genre of mine, mainly because I'm not good enough at pure shooting to enjoy it that much.