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My composer friend David and I finally managed to continue our Let's Play of Super Metroid - this time learning from our past mistakes and learning how to pre-record and to edit all the garbage out before shoving it onto Youtube. Turned an hour play session into a much more easily digestable and less death-filled 21 minutes. Aiming to beat at least one boss per video, with this one tackling the weird flower-pod-looking boss! If anyone would like, let us know how we're doing. Trying to get better at this each video we do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaioHuAYzrU  And in case you missed it, here's part 1 from like 3 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqFv9aRyPrs 
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NGDBSS posted:Between DS3's recent release, and the player base being spread over six different ports, there aren't many people around in any particular version. Just today I decided to do some online play with Punchwitch*, and didn't see any PvP hits. Like, at all, or just Ratbroing? And that's a good point, if you want to play "Dark Souls 2" there's 6 versions and none of them are compatible. I keep forgetting there was a "Scholar of the First Sin" available for PS3/360 that doesn't actually have any of the story content. LIke, y'know, the Scholar.  Interesting idea, just circling Freja. I find it's worth it to just block her bite (it'll auto-guard crush you, like Rat Authority; but she's too slow to do anything about it) and keep the hits up with a fast weapon. If you're already using a greatweapon, though, then it makes sense to go for bigger hits. Also, you're missing out on a lot of damage by not using weapon buffs, since they scale with AR in DS2. Snak posted:In the lowest effort of all posts, my roommate wanted to do a LP, Hey, co-commenting is co-LPing to me! You two have some pretty good banter, but it's like... too casual for a serious LP (with the belching and backseating) but too focused for a casual one (since she already knows the game and is skipping some stuff). That's my impression, anyway. Audio sounds great, what kind of setup do you have? I've seen you post in the Tech Fort so I know there's some effort there, heh. CJacobs posted:First off: I had no idea you could straight up just turn around and walk back to Alan's car (and thus examine the island), that's really cool! Alan Wake is a fantastic game, and I like your LP stuff so for me that's a winning combo Aww, thanks!  Definitely glad Ben is playing this one; not only does he get into games more, but he's more willing to try stuff out like that. Alan Wake - Episode 1: Nightmare Part 2After doing some more exploring in the woods, we run into Stucky again, then it's back to the "real world." But the fact he's missing (and presumably dead) definitely makes the player start to think there is no "nightmare world" at all. It makes me think about this idea in the meta sense: games like Silent Hill and Persona and more have gotten players used to the idea that "the action happens in a parallel world" and in some sense doesn't count, but here it does; and the jarring skips ahead and back in the narrative and how weird the "Darkness" is is to keep you guessing.
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Wayne posted:You two have some pretty good banter, but it's like... too casual for a serious LP (with the belching and backseating) but too focused for a casual one (since she already knows the game and is skipping some stuff). That's my impression, anyway. Audio sounds great, what kind of setup do you have? I've seen you post in the Tech Fort so I know there's some effort there, heh. Thanks! My audio setup is an MXL990 which is on a boom-style mic stand so it's about 2 feet in front of both of us while we sit on the couch. I have a little pop screen on it, but that's more for my solo stuff where it's <1 foot from my face. Then I run all the (commentary) audio through audacity and do a low-level noise reduction and pretty significant amount of compression. I don't do any autoducking of gamesound with this video, so I just normalize the commentary to -9db and the game audio to like, -20db. I gate out any sound from the commentary below ~50db, which takes care of any background noise between speaking. The MXL990 is basically my secret to great audio. You can get one on amazon for $90-100, so it's a little pricier than a snowball, and because I haven't tried a snowball, I can't say if it's any better. It needs phantom power, and I'm using a eurorack UB502 mixer that I already had to take the xlr cable and turn it into a 1/4 audio jack, which I then use a Rocksmith Realtone cable to turn the whole thing into a USB mic as far as my computer is concerned. If I didn't already have the mixer and the Realtone cable, I would have bought a xlr to usb adapter, which exists, but I can't vouch for how well they work. It's nice to have the mixer cause it gives me a hardware gain nob. I'm recording with an AVermedia Portable, so I have to use their AVerMedia RECentral software, which doesn't have a lot of options. In order to record commentary separate from the video and game audio, it can only be recorded in mp3 format, which is not great. But I'm happy with my end results, and that's what counts. In the interest of just completing the description of my setup, the AVermMedia records game audio over HDMI, but also has a seperate stereo audio out jack, so I have that going to a mini 4 way stereo headphone amp, that means I can have 4 different sets of headphones plugged in listening to game audio, each with their own volume nob. I really wanted to mix the mic audio back into that headphone hub, so we would could hear ourselves (and each other better), but since I'm using my only mixer as a xlr->usb adapter, I can't do that without dropping another >$60 bucks on another mixer.
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Wayne posted:Like, at all, or just Ratbroing? And that's a good point, if you want to play "Dark Souls 2" there's 6 versions and none of them are compatible. I keep forgetting there was a "Scholar of the First Sin" available for PS3/360 that doesn't actually have any of the story content. LIke, y'know, the Scholar.  )My circling strategy in fact came about because of the fact that Freya's bite would break my guard. I figured that the safest response, then, was instead to just avoid any potential follow-up attempts rather than wait for my stamina to replenish. I often forget to do weapon buffs on NG+, since generally they don't last for the duration of an encounter with a boosted-health boss and thus require effort to reestablish, but I'll try to show those off in the future. (In some cases I may have to pull out Sacred Oath, but that's still pretty good.)
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Uncharted part 7 is up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sZcnoo29fg This one has some fun editing to where I died a lot.
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Jun 25, 2016 02:42
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ThornBrain posted:
So, Thorn, are you ever going to discover that you can save an entire click per pokeball throw if you just use the 'last item used' button in the item menu? Also, you really seemed confused about the Exp. Share item the chat was talking about, which you'll be getting later in the game and allows you to divide experience more easily among the team without switching pokemon all the time. In any case, I think it doesn't matter if you're using the Exp. Share or not, the total amount of experience a defeated pokemon gives is set and doesn't increase if you use more pokemon. It's just divided up among all pokemon that were in the battle. You get more experience from trainer battles than from wild pokemon, and from pokemon that are at a way higher level than yours. There are a few ways to boost the exp beyond the normal value, for instance by using traded pokemon (but those following your commands if you're overleveled), equipping a rare item called the Lucky Egg, or increasing the pokemon's affection with the Amie. That's also a good thing to know: other than base stats, the Amie increases affection, not happiness. So it's not possible to trigger happiness evolutions with the Amie. The only affection-based evolution is Sylveon's. By the way, you're probably getting really over-levelled and killing a lot of the challenge by grinding that much. Pokemon games are easy enough if you just defeat all the trainers you encounter. In any case... I hadn't seen much of this generation yet. It looks quite neat so far, I like all the 3D stuff.
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Dark Souls II, NG++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiNqunWVPWg For several episodes I'd acquired a different co-commentator who's less acquainted with the series but more, I suppose, gregarious. Also Dxtory got funny on me, so all of this XANTHOUS footage is from Scholar.
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Snak posted:Thanks! My audio setup is... Gotcha, thanks. Very impressive! Definitely taking notes for when I have more money to work with, heh. Right now my brother and I are using a USB condenser (ATR2500) in our living room and that's about it. I did have an old copy of Audition on hand and its live sound settings definitely help; we started using the multiband compressor settings to gain down most of the mic's self-noise and amplify the rest and it's been helping immensely quality-wise. But there's only so much you can do software-wise with limited tools. NGDBSS posted:For several episodes I'd acquired a different co-commentator who's less acquainted with the series but more, I suppose, gregarious. Also Dxtory got funny on me, so all of this XANTHOUS footage is from Scholar. Well, that explains where your avatar is from. Man, and Solaire thought he was grossly incandescent! At least if you were going to have recording problems, it was in a zone that's basically the same between the two games.--- OK, start of the second stream (and thus the second episode) of Alan Wake!  Alan Wake - Episode 2: Taken Part 1/3It's kind of fitting the episode is called "Taken," because Alan immediately heads out to gun down a bunch of people to rescue his family. But seriously it's a pretty good part of the game. Building on what we were thinking last time ("shadow world" versus possessed people in the real world), the game confirms it with Rusty. The "gradual reveal" building up to it hitting a friendly side character is stock horror but it works.The audio was desynced slightly in the original version, so all 3 episodes have about a second cut off the end when I shifted the audio track to fix it. I guess AVIDemux clips a video to the end of the video track, even if there's still lingering audio. Shouldn't happen again.
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One thing I noticed when working the kinks out of my setup is that I couldn't plug my mic's USB plug into a USB hub. It would work, but it introduced a bunch of noise. Plugging it straight into my laptop eliminated that completely.
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Snak posted:One thing I noticed when working the kinks out of my setup is that I couldn't plug my mic's USB plug into a USB hub. It would work, but it introduced a bunch of noise. Plugging it straight into my laptop eliminated that completely. That's weird, I wonder what specifically causes something like that.
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GamesAreSupernice posted:That's weird, I wonder what specifically causes something like that. Yeah, it's super weird, because the signal should be all digital by that point. But it's possible that the hub itself was generating some kind of interference that was getting picked up earlier in the hardware. I didn't really mess with it once I figured out what worked.
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 P2 Side (Hard) This is the side that I usually play on, and it also has its advantages beyond the game itself. People seem more eager to join in when they see that the P1 side is vacant, and it just makes for a more enjoyable experience than going solo. Anyways, here's the diagram for playing this game in Link Mode, which is the closest thing to replicating the 2-player arcade experience at home without it costing you more than $2000 for an actual arcade machine: Game Manual posted:The only caveat to this setup is that it requires a specific "fat" PS2 - it has to have an iLink port (S400) that's located near the USB ports on the front side. This made Time Crisis 3 one of the few PlayStation 2 games that utilized this feature along with Gran Turismo 3/4, Armored Core 2/3 (and their expansions), and TimeSplitters 2, to name a few examples. Speaking of setups, I really would have liked to do this LP with an actual light gun, but the GunCon2/G-Con2 doesn't work on an LCD TV. There is an HDTV-compatible light gun available for purchase, but shelling out $100 for such a short LP is kinda silly if you ask me. Maybe someone else who 
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It's been a while, so to recap a bit, I've been doing a low effort LP of a really low effort game in order to get my audio sorted. It's been a month so here's the previous updates: Let's Play Legendary 01: Everybody Jump! Let's Play Legendary 02: The World's Flattest Werewolf Let's Play Legendary 03: Strategic Invinciblity Let's Play Legendary 04: Hedgehog Generator Let's Play Legendary 05: Miniwhales And Rainbow Wolves And here's the new one: Let's Play Legendary 06: Ye Olde Englyshe Sewage As usual, any feedback pertaining to the technical stuff/quality of video, audio, commentary is appreciated. I think it sounds a bit quieter than it should but I really can't tell with my voice and admittedly bad enunciation. And then there's the bit with the dog. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Jul 3, 2016 |
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Jul 3, 2016 13:38
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 Still on the Salvation, nothing to see here, move along. We got one more entire video on the Salvation to go, because pacing isn't this games selling point.
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Trizophenie posted:
How big is the Salvation?
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GamesAreSupernice posted:How big is the Salvation? In the Wii version it's a Nebulon B-2 frigate, so that's ~250m length in total. Totally big enough for all the time we run around in it.
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Trizophenie posted:In the Wii version it's a Nebulon B-2 frigate, so that's ~250m length in total. Totally big enough for all the time we run around in it. You win this round, starwars.wikia.com
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Happy  day, everybody! To celebrate, let's go into the woods and shoot  Alan Wake - Episode 2: Taken Part 2/3But seriously, I think the "reverse escort mission" with the Kidnapper is a definite "your mileage may vary" moment. I thought it was pretty cool to have the game establish that not only are other people explicitly aware of the Darkness some of them are capable of fighting it, while in a lot of stories everyone except the protaganist are "muggles" who can't really do anything about supernatural forces. On the other hand... you get a major moment of disempowerment and the AI isn't good enough to avoid deaths that aren't really "your fault" when he simply fails to shoot enemies and whatnot.
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Hey NGDBSS, I know it's been like a literal month since you asked for DS2 to be in the OP, here is my public apology for forgetting you sent that PM since they disappear from the user control panel after you read them. I've added it now! I am also going through and updating the other people on the list because I haven't been keeping track of that recently either. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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I seem to recall that you've had continuing (but hopefully fixed now!) health issues, so don't sweat it too hard. Dark Souls II, NG++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwmEkDuFXk Along those lines, here's the second half of the Gutter. When I first heard that there was some crazy easter egg phantom who'd only appear if all the torches were lit in Scholar, I'd wondered what I'd missed. Somehow I never noticed the entire side area with the zipline, despite it being kinda obvious with the architecture and the torch-carrying hollows.
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CJacobs posted:I am also going through and updating the other people on the list because I haven't been keeping track of that recently either. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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You also missed the entirety of my Miami Vice let's play, but to be fair I did upload that very quickly.
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GamesAreSupernice posted:You also missed the entirety of my Miami Vice let's play, but to be fair I did upload that very quickly. Did you tell me you wanted it added? I don't recall. anilEhilated posted:Could you add my Legendary videos in there? It's back on, I swear. Okay!
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GamesAreSupernice posted:You also missed the entirety of my Miami Vice let's play, but to be fair I did upload that very quickly. CJakes is only adding LPs to the OP if you specifically PM him and request it. (Lots of acronyms in this post).
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CJacobs posted:I am also going through and updating the other people on the list because I haven't been keeping track of that recently either. (Oh hey can you put my Brigador videos on there too while parts aren't falling off of you?)
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Oh woops. No I didn't request it, my bad. And it doesn't need to be in the OP, I just thought you were doing a completionist run so I was meaning to be helpful.
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Forgot to upload Part 9 yesterday, so here we are. Part 8 is the changeover between the first stream and the second, so my guests change to a couple friends and fans.
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ThornBrain posted:
This is a great idea and I'm happy you seem to be enjoying it.
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I've been streaming Dark Souls 3 and Dragon's Dogma currently, so I was thinking about posting those here too. Unlike SotN and Alan Wake, they'd be edited for deaths and backtracking and stuff like that. I'd probably be posting them together to avoid clutter, too... y'know, "Dark Double Feature" (since Dogma's Steam version is the "Dark Arisen" expansion). Any thoughts? 3 "LPs" at the same time could be a bit much, but those are both fairly popular games, and in the latter case nobody's put up any Dragon's Dogma content on LP since the PC version came out. I dunno, just feels like  is kinda running asymptotically toward  or something.  Alan Wake - Episode 2: Taken Part 3/3This wraps up episode 2! Alan and the kidnapper get separated and our hero manages to save Barry from a Birdemic. While waiting for their next move, and next episode preview reveals that, naturally, things are not well in the local trailer park.
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Wayne posted:Any thoughts? Don't worry about it. If you can handle the load, upload and share as many games as you want. If I've learned anything from my time on the Let's Play subforum, it's that running three simultaneous LPs is perfectly doable and a lot of fun.
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Yeah. Do what you want to do. If people don't want to see it then they can just not watch. It's not like you're shitposting or something.
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My audience becomes absurdly generous this week. The game audio is very quiet through Part 12 due to a lot of static coming through Skype, so the noise removal ended up taking some of the game audio with it.
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 Part 3 of Stevie Plays Resident Evil 4 (and I co-commentate) is up (Part 1, Part 2) and also still doing my uncharted poo poo  Part 8: Architectural Anachronism In this one I talk about architecture. Sort of. Barely. (Part 1: The Boat to El Dorado, Part 2: Elena Punches Me in the Face, Part 3: Two Trees, One Plane, Part 4: Explosive Barrels Respawn, Part 5: Not in Spanish, in English, Part 6: Adventures in Driving, Part 7: My Blindspot is Behind Me) Snak fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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Alright, thanks for the replies, guys.  I'll get those two going shortly, then! For now, more Alan Wake, start of episode 3: Alan Wake - Episode 3: Ransom Part 1/4Ransom! The titles pretty much sum it up, heh. Alan has a meeting with his wife's kidnapper, but there's the matter of the missing manuscript (and the missing week, for that matter) too, and that takes him and Barry to Rose's trailer. Unfortunately, the Dark Presence seems to have gotten there first and the zombie waitress drugs our heroes. Next thing we know, it's back to the woods at night (...  ) running from the FBI!
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After a whole bunch o' computer issues, I've finally gotten around to taking another crack at this. I've switched to recording my voice separate, and then combining them in reaper. Unfortunately, I'm still having trouble figuring out how to pull my breathing out of the mix, though it is at least a little diminished this time. I also tried to keep my mouth moving as much as possible, limit the dead air. Overall, I'm happy with the progress made on the production side. The actually playing the game side is still going rough. Anyway ARMA Tactics Episode 3: The Claymore Gambit
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I threw together a playlist of cjacobs Bubsy playthrough. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_uJM6r1IrCP53AuOvXClvKIWliGH3Sj-
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