Created: 8 Jan 2018
WHAT’S THAT? YOU GAMERS COULDN’T GO ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT THIS EXACT VIDEO IN YOUR LIFE? Only so happy to be of service.
Yeah, so my friend @vigilantefridge (AKA PoppyJR, the ARMS EVO world champion himself) and I had been planning to do a playthrough of L.A. Noire for years. I believe the original reason was “because John Noble is in it.”
So when we finally got a chance this past January, I set up a Blue Snowball mic and recorded it. However, I deleted that footage when trying to migrate hard drives. Then, the mic wasn’t recording. Then yeah everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.
We waited a week, then continued the playthrough, with no choice but to accept that we were going to be missing the footage for the entire first 1/5th of the game. But we persevered!!!
We managed to beat the game at 6AM the night before I had to work an 8-hour shift of lifeguarding, and he had to pack to leave for EVO Japan. We both survived without sleep, don’t worry.
The very next night I stayed up compiling the footage and scanning for moments that were highlight-worthy, and slapped this video together in one sitting, while everything was still fresh in my mind.
Then PoppyJR suggested we commission someone to make a little intro for it (in the style of Two Best Friends Play) and I thought “Who better than my artist girlfriend?” Her art is at @CupidDissolvi on twitter, please check her out and give her some love. She was the perfect pick for the job, and I insisted she not give me a bf discount because her prices are just that fair.
Interesting notes:
- We actually recorded ourselves playing the RE7 DLCs before we ever touched L.A. Noire
- The loss of that footage is a greater tragedy than any other in the troubled production history of this video