Let's Play! Riddick: Dark Athena. In space, no one can write tasteful antagonists.

donhonk

The Long Awaited (Long Forgotten) Sequel Lets Play!
About 4 years ago I started a Let's Play of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. It was full of my dumb voice quipping how handsome Vin Diesel was, and also stabbing dudes in the most unsanitary prison ever.

Well, after 4 years of mental training, grueling workouts, and practiced shank stabs; I return to once again don the shoes of the galaxy's baldest badass.

Who the heck are you?
Oh yeah, I hope some of the people that watched the old one are still around. If youre new, welcome! Please ignore my awfulness, playing and talking at the same time is hard!

Technical Stuff thats kind of neat to me.
Played on PC, 1080p.
Recorded via Elgato Gamecapture HD.
Microphone: Shure SM-57
Edited with: Adobe Premiere

THE VIDEOS THUS FAR






BONUS

Here are some wallpapers of the media Ive made so far for my Youtube. Yesterday I spent all day in After Effects and Photoshop making this tight 80's style banner.
Don's Youtube Ecstasy:
http://sta.sh/0117y7xc6q5v
Let's Play Riddick
sta.sh/01po0od5om54

LaCabra

Oh man get a load of this sweet video game.

Still amazed it was good.

donhonk

LaCabra wrote: »

Oh man get a load of this sweet video game.

Still amazed it was good.

It is in fact, a paradox. Who knew?

donhonk

New vidya is up. Where in I make progress through the thick gameplay padding this game throws at you.

Drake

LaCabra wrote: »

Oh man get a load of this sweet video game.

Still amazed it was good.

I'll never forget the slightly dazed feeling of walking up to the register at Funcoland with a copy of Butcher Bay. I couldn't stop thinking, I'm actually buying a video game that is based on a film license.

Also super enjoying the LP Don. Looking forward to more.

Ninja Snarl P

Haven't watched an LP in ages, but dammit, I might have to watch this one. The quality of the Riddick games is massively disproportionate to how good they really should have been.

EDIT: Shit. I went to check if I had this in my Steam library. When I searched for the game, I'd forgotten this was owned by Atari and is thus no longer on Steam. SAD FACE.

donhonk

Thanks Drake! And oh man, Funcoland. That brings me back to Kirby's Dreamland on the Gameboy. Man if only my stupid kid self didnt trade carts and throw away boxes.

Ninja Snarl P wrote: »

EDIT: Shit. I went to check if I had this in my Steam library. When I searched for the game, I'd forgotten this was owned by Atari and is thus no longer on Steam. SAD FACE.

Don't fret! It's on gog.com without DRM. Unlike the retail version which has a 5 (3?) activation limit with TAGES copy protection. I actually was trying to install using the retail version initially until I remembered and freaked out and ripped it out of the tray.

Don't need that crap on my computer.

Ninja Snarl P

donhonk wrote: »

Thanks Drake! And oh man, Funcoland. That brings me back to Kirby's Dreamland on the Gameboy. Man if only my stupid kid self didnt trade carts and throw away boxes.

Ninja Snarl P wrote: »

EDIT: Shit. I went to check if I had this in my Steam library. When I searched for the game, I'd forgotten this was owned by Atari and is thus no longer on Steam. SAD FACE.

Don't fret! It's on gog.com without DRM. Unlike the retail version which has a 5 (3?) activation limit with TAGES copy protection. I actually was trying to install using the retail version initially until I remembered and freaked out and ripped it out of the tray.

Don't need that crap on my computer.

Heeeellll yeah. Getting that right now, because I have ever-so-fond memories of this incredibly-brutal and remarkably-good game.

donhonk

Sorry for the delays guys! Heres part 3, in which I almost die many times.

Drake

God that banner is fucking glorious.

Big Classy

haha love the splash, don. Nice!

cooljammer00

I think I have been waiting years for this.

Now for @Ginger Mijango's long awaited return to LPing.

edit: What an intro graphic! A DonHonk production.

Also, I wish LPs were still as big of a deal on these forums as they used to be. I miss the good old days.

donhonk

cooljammer00 wrote: »

I think I have been waiting years for this.

Now for @Ginger Mijango's long awaited return to LPing.

edit: What an intro graphic! A DonHonk production.

Also, I wish LPs were still as big of a deal on these forums as they used to be. I miss the good old days.

Aw man, me too. It was literally the craziest thing. So niche. Now its a big ol deal. /youtube hipster

cooljammer00

A few LPers left because of that period where the forums were really, REALLY unstable. At least I think that's why people like Helloween or Klyka left.

cooljammer00

Tell me more about that cool video graphic at the intro. Also, why do you need an El Gato if you're playing a PC game?

curly haired boy

oh wow. it's on GoG now? fuck YES.

donhonk

cooljammer00 wrote: »

Tell me more about that cool video graphic at the intro. Also, why do you need an El Gato if you're playing a PC game?

I had gotten an obsession with laserdisc a few years ago so I have a bunch of educational laserdiscs that have these wonderful 80s motion graphics. And I knew I wanted a cool intro, and I knew I wanted to learn how to use Adobe After Effects better. Thus the intro was born!

PS I have a new outro on part 3 that was also made with a love for old analog tech.

And the Elgato HD game capture is awesome because you can play the game in full 60 fps and record because all the encoding is being handled by the Elgato's hardware h264 encoder instead of your CPU. It also produces a very very small file in comparison to what fraps spits out. (Close to 1 gig per minute. Seriously!)

cooljammer00

So um, I take it you're a master of the multimedia and visual arts as part of your lifestyle and/or career?

donhonk

cooljammer00 wrote: »

So um, I take it you're a master of the multimedia and visual arts as part of your lifestyle and/or career?

Haha, not exactly a master nor profiting from it. (yet!) It's just something I love to do.

ALSO, apologies for the wait. Hopefully you guys saw the video that said Id be gone for a week, now I just need to not be lazy and record a new episode!

donhonk

FURTHER UPDATE: I got sick and that affected my voice. Waiting on voice to return.