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[Let's Play] Mega Man X2 - Finished! Bonus Videos Added
Daebunz
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I've wanted to do a Let's Play for a while, and now I'm livin' the dream...
It's Mega Man X2!
FAQ
Q: Who are you again?
A: Uhhh, I usually hang in the TF2 and various fighting game threads.
Q: But Blackbeard, why not do the original X? That one is way better, and more popular!
A: Better? I wouldn't know. I never played X2! That's going to be half the fun. I thought it would be more enjoyable to watch me flail about in a mega man game I've never played as opposed to one I played to death when I was but a wee lad.
Q: I'm sure not everyone knows where all the upgrades and stuff are! The masses must be told!
A: Even if I wanted to do X, I'm fairly certain that, after having a firsthand account of the following video, there's nothing more to tell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlvjBrST3Y
Ok, serious version. This is my first Let's Play, of Mega Man X2. I have never played X2, which means I need you all to guide me! After each video I need you all to tell me what stage to head to next. Will you send me on the easy path? Or down the road of frustration and nerd rage? You decide!
I'll try to do the next video as soon as I can, but with my really awesome (see: shitty) college schedule, it might be tricky. At least 1 day apart.
Set 1: The really lame intro stage! With special guest, my mouse pointer! 1.a: The intro cutscene that I neglected to watch
Set 2: Dying to spike pits all up ins
Set 3: Everything's better, down where it's wetter... Bonus Video #1 - Flame Stag failure, in more than one way. (This one's for you, Skutskut)
Set 4.a: The spice must flow 4.b: Vs Violen
Set 5.a: Vs Agile 5.b: What goes around comes around
Set 6.a: Vs Serges 6.b: More like, bullshit cocoon boss, amirite?
Bonus Video: Wire Sponge Re-enactment Set 7: What's a wire sponge? Who cares!
Set 8.a: Minibosses Galore! 8.b: Throwing junk = win
Set 9: Magnet Mine is like salt to this guy
Set 10a: Getting Violent with Violen 10b: Giga Crush is useful after all! Who knew? 10c: Street Fighter Man X2 10d: Boss Rush Stage 10e: Sigma!
Farewell Bonus: Shameful Guitar Playing!
I've wanted to do a Let's Play for a while, and now I'm livin' the dream...
It's Mega Man X2!
FAQ
Q: Who are you again?
A: Uhhh, I usually hang in the TF2 and various fighting game threads.
Q: But Blackbeard, why not do the original X? That one is way better, and more popular!
A: Better? I wouldn't know. I never played X2! That's going to be half the fun. I thought it would be more enjoyable to watch me flail about in a mega man game I've never played as opposed to one I played to death when I was but a wee lad.
Q: I'm sure not everyone knows where all the upgrades and stuff are! The masses must be told!
A: Even if I wanted to do X, I'm fairly certain that, after having a firsthand account of the following video, there's nothing more to tell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlvjBrST3Y
Ok, serious version. This is my first Let's Play, of Mega Man X2. I have never played X2, which means I need you all to guide me! After each video I need you all to tell me what stage to head to next. Will you send me on the easy path? Or down the road of frustration and nerd rage? You decide!
I'll try to do the next video as soon as I can, but with my really awesome (see: shitty) college schedule, it might be tricky. At least 1 day apart.
Set 1: The really lame intro stage! With special guest, my mouse pointer! 1.a: The intro cutscene that I neglected to watch
Set 2: Dying to spike pits all up ins
Set 3: Everything's better, down where it's wetter... Bonus Video #1 - Flame Stag failure, in more than one way. (This one's for you, Skutskut)
Set 4.a: The spice must flow 4.b: Vs Violen
Set 5.a: Vs Agile 5.b: What goes around comes around
Set 6.a: Vs Serges 6.b: More like, bullshit cocoon boss, amirite?
Bonus Video: Wire Sponge Re-enactment Set 7: What's a wire sponge? Who cares!
Set 8.a: Minibosses Galore! 8.b: Throwing junk = win
Set 9: Magnet Mine is like salt to this guy
Set 10a: Getting Violent with Violen 10b: Giga Crush is useful after all! Who knew? 10c: Street Fighter Man X2 10d: Boss Rush Stage 10e: Sigma!
Farewell Bonus: Shameful Guitar Playing!
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Also MM9 now that some time has passed.
If you're going for an optimal playthrough, Wheel Gator should be first. If you just want the easiest one to kill, go get the Ostrich.
My ghetto setup involves recording via the mic on my headset, with the headset volume turned up so the mic picks it up. Then I talk into it for my audio. What was hard to listen to, the game audio, me, or all of it? Kinda learning as I go.
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X4 will always be my favorite. Always.
I love me the shit out of some X2.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Edit: To contribute to the nerdgasm, I can't decide between 2 or 3. then probably X, behind those 2.
I'm no expert with audio, but your voice was fairly static-ish and low volume. You might just want to try talking more loudly and clearly. People (like me) tend to mumble when they play games, but when you do a recording, you kinda want to talk like there's somebody else in (across?) the room you are having a conversation with. Other than that, you're doing fine.
(Well, you might want to up the game volume just a bit)
I think X-2 has a lot of cool bits, but I seem to remember having the most trouble with it out of the first 3 X games.
Cool, I'll try both to make some test recordings to get things sounding a little better. Thanks for the tip.
Also, one of my friends thinks one of my VO's sounds like a dalek.
But yeah if you start with Wheel Gator, you have to go back to his stage to get his power up. Best to start with him though since this is your first time.
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Bull.
What, about Green Biker Dood? I agree it'd be funnier if he started with say, MagniCentipede oh or Crystal Snail, but that'd be too mean.
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No, I mean bull about having to come back for the gun power up. The jump is tricky, but certainly not impossible. Hell, this guy got it during his X1 and X2 tandem run: (skip to 5 minutes in)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2509794034861880408#
Oh that, yeah I know you can get it, hell I've done it. But for all intents and purposes you have to come back to get it, I really doubt Blackbeard's gonna do it without spending 20 minutes trying.
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Edit: Speaking of bonus videos, if I end up having to do any backtracking for items, would you prefer I make a small video while I go to get item x/y/z, or just go get it and make note of it at the start of the next stage? I was going to do the former.
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Alright, I'll do that then so I can keep on track with the videos.
You might want to consider doing post commentary because right now both your voice and the game audio sound like shit. You can use something like Audacity to record the game sounds when you're playing and then record your voice when your watching the video again
For the love of god don't read the game text, we can all read. If you insist on reading the text don't do voices
edit: If you want to do live commentary look into something called Virtual Audio Cable (http://lparchive.org/techsupport/guide-vac.html That link has a guide and the link to download it) it should let you record both your commentary and the game audio
Trus, I checked that link and apparently I have to buy the full verson for it to not be annoying. It sounded useful until that part. And you probably won't have to worry about any more of my intentionally bad VO's unless there are cutscenes before the end. What you should be worrying about is how much you hate fun.
At any rate, where to next?
Also, talk louder and talk moar! It's like, just megaman sound for half the video.
Now for choices-If you would like to conitinue the weakness hierarchy, go to the crab.
If you want to amuse me greatly, do Flame Stag.
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I noticed the audio thing too towards the end, so it's not just you. I can try flame stag while recording and if it end up hilarious/disasterous/victorious I'll show it.
Excellent, excellent! You will cry. And yeah, talk more please, you have a good voice for this.
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might come in handy in the future
we can still see your mouse pointer in the lower right
You are seriously not talking enough, and the horrible quality of the in game audio makes your silence all the worse. You don't need to fill all the dead air but you should be talking more than you are, have you considered guest commentators?
There is some serious audio desync by the end (there is a 4.5s gap between when the game tells you that you got the Spin Wheel and when you say it)
A guest commentator? For his own LP? Or would it be to keep him talking with someone incessantly going "JUMP! JUMP! NOW SHOOT! WATCH OUT FOR THE SHOOTY BITS!"and him responding "I KNOW, SHUT UP! AND HOW DID YOU GET INTO MY HOUSE?"
Or hell, he could ask some random PA forumite to be a part of each set. Like a lottery of people he 'knows' on here. If I won I'd read online fan-fiction involving megaman characters. :winky:
Say blackbeard, what kind of frame rate are you getting while recording? I'm noticing somethings off about it. Inquiring npc's would like to know.
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I wouldn't say guest commentators, as it's his first but he does need to fix his audio. What I did for my Undying LP was just use my headphones, and record the sound from the game, then record the dialogue while I watched it. This way I got 2x the time to come up with material.
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I tried to find a quick way to hide the pointer, but I don't really know how without doing a little more research. I honestly thought that the bottom right corner would be fine since it was fairly out of sight and not on the game screen. So if you want to give a tip go for it, but pointing out things I'm already aware of and trying to find a solution to doesn't help me much.
I only notice the audio desync on the youtube version, and I think I know what happened. I wouldn't worry about that happening again.
In regards to the "deadly mouse pointer" what capture software are you using? There's a really easy way to remove it from recordings in many of them. (Honestly I haven't noticed it.)
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Heres the thing though, if you notice the mouse pointer why not just rerecord the video?!
Anyway, depending on what software you are using to capture the video you should be able to tell it to not record the mouse, I don't think I have seen one that doesn't have an option for that.
Edit: I found the option to hide it in camstudio. So that problem is solved.
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Eh, good call.
But in all honesty, would you guys prefer I do commentary after and try to add it on, or live (as long as I speak up/more often)? I can try the former next vid if that would be more enjoyable to watch as a whole, but on the flip side it seems less... I dunno, real. If I start getting my ass handed to me then my rage won't translate as well if I do it after.
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Megaman 2. Hands down. I also do like X, and 4 was pretty good, but definitely 2 is my favorite.
Also, favorite robot master? CRASHMAN. Even though he was a total bitch when it came to facing air.
Megaman X2, I don't think I ever got past Morph Moth's stage. My game froze about 5 inches into that stage
From there, Wheel Gator is weak to the Strike Chain.
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2. The only way I got a optimal audio was to use 2 computers. I would sync them by making a loud in-game noise, and then record commentary onto the 2nd machine while recording game audio with the video. Then I would sync and combine them in Audacity. Bam!
A few things of note
- I never found that one MM thread to rule them all before I made this LP. My search-fu must be weak.
- I originally wasn't going to show the flame stag video because the picture got fucked (image is 1/4 of the screen and occasionally fuzzy for no apparent reason). I opted not to rerecord it because I only tried it due to SkutSkut wanting me to suffer, so it was for fun anyway. But I thought you might want to see my initial frustration during the first ever bonus video!
- SkutSkut is a dick for wanting me to do that.
-I notice a very slight audio desync towards the end of Bubble Crab, and I doublechecked that it is only the youtube version. Would it be worthwhile to just re-upload the videos elsewhere? Can't hurt to try I suppose.
And where to next? Wire Sponge has some easy upgrades I guess, might work out.
I'll let someone else make a suggestion before I chime in.
Oh yeah, dash jump more, you should be more or less holding Dash down at all times.
I will say this, Flamestages stage is next in weakness order
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