by Lujo on Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:58 am
Ok, I'm pondering ways to circumvent the issues.
1) The gig's problem. If there was a way to tape this stuff that didn't take so much space, I could probably do it. does anyone know one? I tried converting them on the fly (fraps saves them in 4.5 gig chunks even if you tape continuously), but my Sonny Vegas keeps crashing for some reason, and I can't try it on my wifes machine because she changed the password. I'm not sure she'd give it to me and let me install vegas on it just to tape an hour of me playing a videogame. I need a more cost efficent way to tape it, or I have to save the bigass replay chunks on an external drive (which I have, although not a very large one), then convert them elsewhere. I might be able to do this smoothly next month during the hollidays.
2) All that would probably be circumvented easily if I had a save state feature for Gaan'Telet, which is probably too much to ask for. I'd still have to convert the vids to redce their size for the upload, so I got to get vegas running and my "loads of free time" period is rapidly coming to an end. Still, in a month or so, I'll probably have both the time and the opportunity.
3) Well, I hope that mana burn is comming off Horatio in this update, because that would motivate me to no end. Doing a let's play of something which might turn out to be undoable on such a whimsical detail, if it involves so much effort, is simply not worth it. Especially since it will probably crash anyway. Having said that, I think I really want to do a VICIOUS Gaan'Telet run rather than anything else, because it's quite impossible to make a screenshot walkthrough, and if there's anything I'm actually good at in this game it's taking that place apart. It's also incredibly fun, and a rogulike in and off itself. Without having to account for manaburn on Horatio, I could probably do it every time, at least with a Bloodmage.
4) The accent... Well, I tried taping a few smaller levels to check myself out, and god, it's depressing. I'm an english major and I sound like a depressed Russian mob enforcer. A lowbrow one. I can't pronounce english phonemes for love or money, and every time I concentrate on the game rather than what I'm taping I tend to speak like a depressed russian mob enforcer trying to be really quiet while raiding a corporate compound. I'll have to work on that. I have the vocabulary of a colledge proffesor and the presentation of Ivan the Meat-Shield...
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!