Let's Play Archive - I wasn't asking *you*.

Henroid

Someone give it a whirl and drop some feedback on how it is now.

The bad side of this is that they probably don't support the program anymore in any way, so if something is broken, you're SOL.

heenato

Yeah. I just checked myself. recorded a small video. No watermark in sight. I'll try a larger video, upload it, and see what happens.

Klyka

Recording with Hypercam and NOT having the watermark enabled should be a bannable offense.

heenato

Well, good news on that, I think SA wrote up a script for Avisynth that adds the watermark back.

Helloween

Thats kinda neat. Good to know thats free now in case anyone needs a back up. Pales next to FRAPS though mind. But then you have to pay for fraps, so pro and con there.

joshofalltrades

Hey Helloween, I've been watching your Amnesia LP. Your LPs are so much fun to watch when I know where all the scares are ahead of time.

Helloween

joshofalltrades wrote: »

Hey Helloween, I've been watching your Amnesia LP. Your LPs are so much fun to watch when I know where all the scares are ahead of time.

Hahaha. Its alright you guys, i was fucking shitting it. That game is utterly terrifying.

diasp0ra

Helloween wrote: »

joshofalltrades wrote: »

Hey Helloween, I've been watching your Amnesia LP. Your LPs are so much fun to watch when I know where all the scares are ahead of time.

Hahaha. Its alright you guys, i was fucking shitting it. That game is utterly terrifying.

But that's what made it so fun to watch!

Schadenfreude

Schide

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwsome. So it seems that in the months I haven't used it my Gamebridge has decided to stop working. Specifically, I can't get it to capture video anymore, although audio seems ok.

So are there any recommendations for cheap capture devices?

cj iwakura

Dazzle's not bad.

Schide

Hmm. Yeah that looks pretty good.

Ha, the HD version is kind of a joke. You can't actually record HD videos on it, you can only edit in HD with the software.

Jave

Henroid wrote: »

You don't have to post your LP in a thread here, no. If you hosted it on another forum or have a domain just for your LPs or just want your channel advertised, feel free to let us know.

Mind you, I've had a couple requests in the past to link to channels in the past, and the people asking me to do so were only here to have me link them stuff for views. Like I said, this thread is for members of this community, and it doesn't necessarily matter if the work is hosted elsewhere. It's hard to judge this sort of thing with lurkers, mind you, since one PM'd me fairly recently about some things for this thread.

Mmm... I think I worded myself wrong the first time, here's what I meant:

I do want to start a topic here for my LP, which I will use for additional commentary and feedback. However, the meat of the LP will be hosted on my server and I will link to every chapter as I finish it. This is because it's a lot easier (and faster) for me to set up the pictures and text and do any sorts of double-checking. The LP will still be with this forum in mind, since it will be here where I will be posting the updates first.

I have the first chapter fully screenshotted and written, and the next two chapters screenshotted. I can upload a preview tonight when I get home from work to give you an idea on how does it look.

The game is Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, by the way.

Henroid

Oh, yeah if you have your own host for images that's no problem whatsoever. In fact I've encouraged that in the past for image hosting solutions.

Xenogears of Bore

Did someone already do Thracia 776 or was it Genealogy of the Holy War?

Thracia is one of my all time favorite games.

Jave

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Did someone already do Thracia 776 or was it Genealogy of the Holy War?

Thracia is one of my all time favorite games.

That was Genealogy of the Holy War that was done here several years ago. Thracia 776 is the one with Leaf as the main lord and a side story to GotHW.

Xenogears of Bore

I know the difference between the two games, I couldn't remember which one was done here is all.

Still awesome.

Jave

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

I know the difference between the two games, I couldn't remember which one was done here is all.

Still awesome.

Sorry if that came off as me sounding like a jerk, didn't mean to.

Will probably post a preview tonight.

Xenogears of Bore

No, it was helpful in jogging my memory and I didn't take it that way at all.

I'm starting FF6 either tonight or thursday, depending on the schedule.

joshofalltrades

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

No, it was helpful in jogging my memory and I didn't take it that way at all.

I'm starting FF6 either tonight or thursday, depending on the schedule.

I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!
I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!
I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!
I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!
I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!

Trynant

So, either subtitle VLPs are easier to edit than voice-commentary VLPs, or Brütal Legend is easier to make an LP out of than Demon's Souls.

HMM I WONDER WHICH ONE IT IS.

Waka Laka

heenato wrote: »

Well, I don't know how well the quality is, since I haven't used it, but Hypercam 2 is completely free now. It might be worth it to at least check that out.

Just tried Hypercam, it's pretty good, but I just did a 7 minute test video (24fps@640x480) and it came up as 10.4gb, tried another codec and now it looks like ass. Not that bad a performance hit though.

I'll keep fidgeting.

Xenogears of Bore

joshofalltrades wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

No, it was helpful in jogging my memory and I didn't take it that way at all.

I'm starting FF6 either tonight or thursday, depending on the schedule.

I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!
I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!
I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!
I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!
I'M GAU! I'M YOUR FRIEND! LET'S TRAVEL TOGETHER!

I've teased at it before but I'm running a pure meritocracy run.

You want terra to be named fagballs? win whatever trivia/short answer/fan art/music hunt I set forth. Same goes with party line up and during the second half of the game, which sidequest I do.

Jave

Here is the preview of my FE5 LP (first half of Chapter 1) for those interested. Later chapters are not going to have as many screenshots, since I take my time to explain several mechanics in Chapter 1. This is just to give you an idea of the format.

And the game gets a lot more exciting as we advance.

Bethryn

Out of interest when compressing videos of games with modern-day graphics, how long does it take compared with how long a set is for you guys?

For me, it takes roughly three times the length of a set is to compress it. I feel this is longer than it should reasonably be, but even with massively lowered video quality settings I still see about the same amount of time to compress. The only thing that seems to have any effect is changing the recording resolution.

Trynant

It's not unreasonable. Compressing really does take that long.

Xenogears of Bore

test image...successful.



First update, tonight!

Adus

Only took you two years!

Xenogears of Bore

It's closer to three.

Henroid

Is this your big announcement, XoB?

Xenogears of Bore

The big announcement is that I finally have nothing better to do than to get this project off the ground...and a more comfortable work station chair. The last one was a repurposed kitchen chair.

enlightenedbum

Well, our Paradox LP might take about two years so taking that long to get started isn't bad.

cj iwakura

I've dabbled with the idea of taking back up Fear Effect 1 & 2 after finishing MKR, because those games are too good to remain unknown.

Henroid

enlightenedbum wrote: »

Well, our Paradox LP might take about two years so taking that long to get started isn't bad.

There's a joke involving this title that I can put a finger on yet.

Trynant

Henroid a joke would be easier to find if they were doing a Dilemma LP.

Or you could say that it was rather strange how straightforward the Paradox LP was....?

Bethryn

I did an LP of Amnesia Justine, which didn't really deserve its own thread since it was only around 2 hours long, but I did put it all in a post in the Amnesia thread. Up to you if you want to add it to the OP.

Henroid

Remind me to slap people around for PM'ing me with their first-ever LP before it is finished.

Not kidding guys, it's gonna save me tons of trouble not having to update the list with impotent LPs until I know they're done.

atat23

I've been watching a lot of BlueXephos recently. I mean they mostly do Minecraft stuff but they show off a lot of the custom adventures people have made and the actual main adventure they've got going has been customised and added to and they have other people playing NPC parts and are living in NPC villages, that kind of thing.

I give these guys a pass because it looks like a lot of effort has been made to create the adventure and they are really funny at times.

Still, Minecraft should be added to the same list as IWBTG. no one needs to LP that game ever again.

Henroid

Adus and Rent are going to hate me for this.

I had to work an almost-double shift today, and I think it made me delirious, because I ended up putting together concrete plans for another LP to do despite SF2 being on a redux cruise.

Adus

An LP of what?

Henroid

Afterlife. It'll likely be a short LP since I'm going to cut the fat. The idea is people giving me general decisions / directions to go in, and the execution is up to me to screw up. Because I suck at those kinda games.