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Scrapped Projects and a Cyberpunk Game?
7 years ago
This post is kind of a grab bag of various things I want to talk about but aren't worth a post of their own, though all are roughly around the theme of scrapped projects.
First off, I was clearing some hard drive space when I came across my unfinished review of Far Cry 2. It was all recorded and ready to be edited, but the problem was that editing required combing through an entire playthroughs worth of footage with little to no notes or book marks. At over 50gb of gameplay footage, I deleted it, though I kept the audio. The files were dated around April. I doubt I'll ever get around to finishing it.
I have a review of Monster Hunter World written, just got to give the final read of the script, record and edit. I'm lacking a few clips though. Tempted to scrap that one as well.
On a related note. the great compression-a-thon continues as I have over 300gb of raw footage to edit and compress. These are mostly games with friends that I recorded and kept for some reason or another. Those are going to be compressed from largest to smallest. I'm not bothered about them being very low quality since I doubt I'll actually go back and watch them. I'm also using h265 compression. Not widely used, but gives better results for the file size than standard h264 used by YouTube and the like.
I've also been getting more aggressive about deleting crap. Lots of gameplay footage for games I was going to do videos about, and recordings I don't know what I was keeping for, if anything. Those clips are getting deleted and I won't really miss them.
Back on the review side of things. I have a written review of the PS1 game Medal of Honor planned. I've been playing the game on emulator for nostalgia's sake. It's fun. Holds up surprisingly well.
I also have a long form review of The Surge planned, similar is style to the Far Cry 2 review. I don't know if I'll see it through. We'll see. At very least, I can do a written review.
That's enough about reviews and videos. What else am I thinking about.
One is Half-Life joke mod I threw around ideas for a while back. An update to being it line with current year. ie. A parody of social justice, walking simulators, and games journalists. The mod would only be 5 minutes in terms of "gameplay" and since it's basically a walking simulator, there isn't much to do in terms of level design. I think I could make it in about a week or so, but I don't know if it's worth it. Put this one on the scrap pile unless people really would want to see it.
I also had ideas for a sequel focused on game journalists which had quality jokes, like them sending you on dangerous missions while they stay at base on twitter and take all the credit, and you freeing "political prisoners" from the sex offenders wing of a prison (in refence to various journalists accused of sexual assault). It was dumb.
Finally, the year 2020 is in 2 years. and 2025 is in 7. I dunno. Seem like good years to release a cyberpunk game.
Oh, and still chipping away at that Krystal game. Just nothing really of interest to say about it.
Anyway, that's about all I wanted to ramble about.
First off, I was clearing some hard drive space when I came across my unfinished review of Far Cry 2. It was all recorded and ready to be edited, but the problem was that editing required combing through an entire playthroughs worth of footage with little to no notes or book marks. At over 50gb of gameplay footage, I deleted it, though I kept the audio. The files were dated around April. I doubt I'll ever get around to finishing it.
I have a review of Monster Hunter World written, just got to give the final read of the script, record and edit. I'm lacking a few clips though. Tempted to scrap that one as well.
On a related note. the great compression-a-thon continues as I have over 300gb of raw footage to edit and compress. These are mostly games with friends that I recorded and kept for some reason or another. Those are going to be compressed from largest to smallest. I'm not bothered about them being very low quality since I doubt I'll actually go back and watch them. I'm also using h265 compression. Not widely used, but gives better results for the file size than standard h264 used by YouTube and the like.
I've also been getting more aggressive about deleting crap. Lots of gameplay footage for games I was going to do videos about, and recordings I don't know what I was keeping for, if anything. Those clips are getting deleted and I won't really miss them.
Back on the review side of things. I have a written review of the PS1 game Medal of Honor planned. I've been playing the game on emulator for nostalgia's sake. It's fun. Holds up surprisingly well.
I also have a long form review of The Surge planned, similar is style to the Far Cry 2 review. I don't know if I'll see it through. We'll see. At very least, I can do a written review.
That's enough about reviews and videos. What else am I thinking about.
One is Half-Life joke mod I threw around ideas for a while back. An update to being it line with current year. ie. A parody of social justice, walking simulators, and games journalists. The mod would only be 5 minutes in terms of "gameplay" and since it's basically a walking simulator, there isn't much to do in terms of level design. I think I could make it in about a week or so, but I don't know if it's worth it. Put this one on the scrap pile unless people really would want to see it.
I also had ideas for a sequel focused on game journalists which had quality jokes, like them sending you on dangerous missions while they stay at base on twitter and take all the credit, and you freeing "political prisoners" from the sex offenders wing of a prison (in refence to various journalists accused of sexual assault). It was dumb.
Finally, the year 2020 is in 2 years. and 2025 is in 7. I dunno. Seem like good years to release a cyberpunk game.
Oh, and still chipping away at that Krystal game. Just nothing really of interest to say about it.
Anyway, that's about all I wanted to ramble about.
