So yeah, I built myself a new computer on 13 October 2016, after using the same crappy laptop from 2011 for the past 5 years. All videos prior to this Battlefield 4 LP were edited on that laptop, to be clear.
Anyway, I was super excited to see what this hulking new desktop PC was capable of. So first I played 20 hours of MGSV. Then I played 5 hours of Battlefield 4, recorded it, and spent three straight days editing it. It had been about 2 months since I’d worked on a video, so I worked like mad.
On my actual playthrough: As I mentioned in the Portal pt. 1 post, I’m really not that great at commentary. There were huuuge portions of footage where I was dead silent. I also really don’t play first person shooters, so I was inordinately proud of how well I was doing at the game. I’ve since learned that the Battlefield campaigns use completely different gunplay than the multiplayer, and they’re supposed to be that easy.
Unfortunately, I left in a lot of my “impressive” gameplay just to show off, and it actually doesn’t make for that interesting a video in retrospect. I cut about 3 hours of gameplay into this hour-long video, but I probably could have cut it even further down to about a half-hour.
Well, I watched a tool-assisted speedrun of Portal, and suddenly had the idea to present it as a straightforward Let’s Play. Simple enough.
Which is why I guess I felt the need to add another layer of irony to this cake. So I presented it as a Let’s Play from 2007. It might go over some people’s heads when they watch the video, I didn’t actually do a good job communicating it, but I think the description sells it.
Please read description bellow =) And spoilers a little bellow. ________________________________
Hello and thank you for clicking this link.
If you found this video, maybe you already know what Portal is. For those that don’t know… where have you been?
This is overall a quick video I decided to make because of Portal is made from pure awesome awesomeness.
I’ll
try not to tell you the plot, since it’s better a person experience
slowly by watching this video or just play by themselves.
What I can do, however, is to explain WHAT kind of game is it: Basically, it’s a puzzle game with portals (wait, ain’t the name of the game Portal?) It
haves a nice learning curve. For me, since I pasted this game and know
the puzzles, it ain’t hard at all now (if I play slowly and actually
listen and re-live things slowly, the game is quick… 1 hour long).
Still, the first time, without a single clue… it took me 4 hours.
But now since you read all of this (hopes, probably not fulfilled), I’ll keep you in mind with a few rules: –
This ain’t about skill, I didn’t made this to show off my skills
because if I did, I would cut most of the plot and that ain’t fun for no
one… Valve wasted time making a great game and story, passing it like
it was nothing and complain that the game is short ain’t my style. – Do not reveal major plot on the comment section. – Don’t forget to rate 5 stars and well, if you have nothing nice to say… you know the rest. – Have fun and thank you for watching this video.
Unfortunately, I’m not great at commentary. Once I ran out of stuff to say (about a minute and thirty seconds in) I tried to pad it out, but quickly gave up and decided to stick a very unnecessary and jarring montage in. I think my idea was to showcase all the crazy bullcrap that happens in a tool-assisted speedrun, without having to come up with stuff to say about it. I really should have just hard cut through a few highlights and passed it off in my commentary as an “editing glitch” or something. It’s a shame, because I think the ending is very strong even though I improv’d it about a month after everything else in the video.
I capped it all off with a classic line that I will never let people forget they thought was funny.
Interesting note: I was originally going to overlay other tool-assisted speedruns during the montage, like this one, but it was a heckin’ mess.