Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Two 30 Second Ads For One Thirty-Second Video?

Beastly In 5 Seconds is 30 seconds, with the WORST Plinkett impersonation ever… and that warrants sitting through a minute’s worth of ads?

Fuck you, Noah. I hope those viewings of Impact… well, actually, no. I’d never hope that on anybody, to be honest.

Except you… yes, you. You know who you are.

Abandoned Ideas: The Dragon Warrior Chronicles

So tonight, I started playing the original Dragon Warrior for the first time in years. And much like I do with most of my gameplay, I’ve been recording my progress to DVD archive. I want to be able to chronicle my progress, but I don’t want to do it in a typical Let’s Play format because it would take too damn long. Anyone who has played the first Dragon Warrior (or Dragon Quest, if you prefer, which I do not) will recall that this is level-grinding at its most tedious – battles are always one on one. Don’t get me wrong – I’m loving every moment of it and the game is every bit as enjoyable as it was when I first played it as a kid, but the grinding does take a long time and grinding does not make for interesting videos.

So what I had in mind was to do a usual playthrough, but rather than record every grinding moment, I’ll keep in the more notable moments – level upgrades, new spells, purchases – and possibly less-than-notable moments, interesting observations, and just random stuff. It’s probably not much of an original idea, but it’s something different in regards to my usual output. This is presently all in the planning stages and it’s hard to tell how long this is going to be… likely depending on how long the game holds my interest… which, these days, is rather hard to do. In either case, it should be an interesting experience for me, anyhow.

More to come when it comes available.

Until then… thou hast died.

(2024 Update: This was one of those ideas that I had trying to come up with some interesting video ideas, because when you’re new to the whole video making process, you usually like to experiment with stuff to see what works and what doesn’t. In the end, the plan fell through and I never got around to playing Dragon Warrior until years later, where that footage would be used for a review… but that’s another story.)

AVGN 100

I had a blog entry ready for this, but I’m going to hold on that. Instead, here’re some comments I posted on a YouTube channel;

No, I don’t think it’s hasty or mean at all to say that IG’s ROB video is better than AVGN’s ROB video. I think it’s the truth. And if you enjoyed parts of it or even the whole thing, good for you. I’m glad you got some enjoyment out of it. But like I said in a previous comment, this practically tore my soul away. It depressed me to no end. In fact, this could very well be the one that kills off any interest I had remaining in the AVGN series. And this is coming from someone who has been following this series since its online debut in 2006. Even when the quality started to wane and I began to lose interest in the [angry reviewing] genre, I’d still watch some AVGN. But now…? Why bother? It seems that for the 100th episode, he decides to go down a path others have gone… and fail so miserably that it hurts.

Whatever remote sliver of credibility AVGN had as a reviewer DIED with this video. Whatever spark of creativity that was present with the AVGN series DIED with this video. There is no way in hell anyone can convince me that James Rolfe has the creative drive to push the series to new heights when, for the 100th episode, he opts to rehash the “Evil ROB” horseshit that has been DONE TO DEATH already. It’s especially telling when the Irate Gamer does a BETTER job with exposition and narrative for a NOTHING episode than Rolfe did for his hundredth. This episode makes the Crazy Castle episode seem like Citizen Kane in comparison!

And if this crap is what he considers to be a worthy 100th episode, then I absolutely DREAD what he has in store for the upcoming AVGN movie.

IMPACT (Feb. 25th, 2011) – Hey, remember when WCW was ripping off WWF?

Judging from the last bit, TNA probably signed WCW’s long-inactive Gimmick Xerox machine to a contract. At this point, though, ripping off WWE segments seems to be a much better attempt at intriguing storylines than whatever TNA is cooking out of their ass.

Hey, TNA? Did you know that the return of Sting isn’t the most shocking moment of the year? Because that’s kind of obvious. I think that even the most braindead fan knows a Sting return to TNA is no longer shocking.

Shocking moment of the year? I’d go with THE ROCK COMING BACK TO WRESTLEMANIA and his BREAKDOWN of John Cena at RAW. Do you think anyone is going to care about JWOWW coming back to TNA?

By the way, TNA, please kill this Kurt Angle/Jeff and Karen Jarrett bullshit. That’s probably the main reason why I’m NOT watching your TV at this point.