After a bit of grinding I managed to get through the Bounty Hunting missions, and managed to advance the main plot! Then more bounties showed up, and it’s all a vicious cycle of viciousness. On the bright side, the quests seemed much more diverse in the sense that it didn’t feel entirely like “Go locate A and kill B” kinds of quests. One of the last quests I finished tonight involved collecting demon rods.
It’s not what it sounds like.
It’s looking like Okami will make for one fun video to make! I cut down a couple hours of footage down to a little under five minutes. There are a few opportunities for some animation as well, and not at the nightmare level that I operated at for the last project. Still… I might go over some other footage from another game before getting heavily invested in it. While exploring my massive collection of visual gaming nonsense I found some footage of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and I wanted to see how much of it I could salvage. Eh, I’ll save that for next week… My weekend draws close and I have other things I’d like to partake in of the productive type. My back is starting to finally feel more normal enough that I might attempt to excavate my closet.
I’ve been through quite a bit of footage this evening, nothing worth keeping. Of course, this just means I can make room for better recordings. 😀 I’ve been doing test recordings whenever I have time to game, and 4K takes up an electric metric fuck ton of space. Through all of the endless searching, through gigabytes upon gigabytes of digital memories that were inevitably destined to meet the sacred trash can — I did eventually land upon some Okami footage that has successfully evaded deletion.
For now at least…
Two hours of the first recording was easily transformed into just a few minutes. I have one more separate recording of Okami to go over, but it looks like it will make at least one video when I’m done. I still need to go over potential animation points. There is potential for at least a scene or two.
Oh Japan… Why must you tease me with your special Starbux drinks? I don’t even use the one we have over here, and yet here I am wanting to fly to Japan just to try that one drink.
Open Thread!
Before I could wrap up my video project I needed to record a voice line for the intro, but I had to wait due to the sounds of birds chirping, lawn mowers buzzing, and the neighborhood redneck couples yelling and cussing each other out on the front lawn in front of their $3000 dog that they leave alone leashed in the lawn for 12 hours a day. You know, a typical Wednesday.
So, while waiting for things to quiet down — I looked into chopping up the remaining third part, only to find there wasn’t enough for it’s own episode. So, it’s looking like it will just be two videos: One with an assload of animation, and one that’s mostly gameplay. Honestly? That works for me. I can stop playing with pig models and move onto the next thing.
What might that be? I’m not sure yet. I’m going through some TF2 footage that I may or may not use. What started out as a couple hours of footage has now been condensed down to a couple minutes.Whether I decide if any is worth keeping or not will have to be determined after some sleep, and other important shit.
Episode 2 is 99% complete! I just need to do a little polishing to a couple areas, and then I can add the second video to the can. Afterwards, I’ll be able to give Episode 3 my attention, unlike Valve I will release an Episode 3! Though to be fair if they released an Episode 3 it would totally blow me out of the water.
Spent the day getting things in order for tomorrow, cleaning up a bit, and vibing to some music.
All the while finishing up some animation on the last bit of the second video. I should be able to start piecing the ending together tomorrow in full, maybe even export it in the process. Then I can start on the third and final Amnesia video! Looking forward to going through the final part and seeing what parts withstood the test of time. After all, this stuff was recorded a couple of years ago. Some things age like a fine wine, and others age like a pork chop from the 1980’s.
I returned to the world of Shadow Warrior 2 today to grind away at my remaining sidequests, and I STILL have a few more to grind through before continuing the main storyline. Most of the bounties I completed tonight were quite repetitive, but they did make me stronger in the money/skills department. I can’t complain too much, since Skyrim’s bounty hunting in other games usually consists of “find NPC, kill NPC, receive Bacon.” or something along those lines. All in all I did have a good time sipping tea and slaying demons and Yakuza.
Next time I return, there will only be four more bounties for me to collect. Then I can continue with the main plot. I’d like to hopefully finish the game sometime this year, having put it off like so many others.
I plopped down on the couch this evening and enjoyed a little bit of Crash Bandicoot, got a couple achievements! Then a bit later I played Cloudpunk at my desk, and continued getting achievements… huzzah. For some reason I was in a Futuristic Dystopian Delivery Girl kind of mood tonight, and I love the dialogue! I met a couple of android gang members who go around performing typical gang member activities… such as building playgrounds for children. Not long after I had to give a Karen and her Android husband a ride along with the package they wanted to send. Oh, and I had a cup of coffee. :v
I’m already mentally planning my weekend. It’ll probably be a mix of leisure and accomplishment… or accomplishing leisure? I can at least promise myself a special breakfast… I’m thinking Chinese. It’ll give me an excuse to make some sauces that I haven’t made in what feels like an eternity and a half. I can make it a day where I migrate between the kitchen and gaming in the living room if I have the place to myself.
I need a little zen over the weekend to make up for a week of donkey dicks.