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#13 - The Situation
🕑 Added 2016-05-21 09:49:13 +0000 UTC That's a pretty melodramatic title right there.So you might be wondering why I haven't uploaded a video yet this month. I think I should explain what I've been doing.
I started working on the Dark Souls 3 script immediately after I finished with Bloodborne. I had to play the game a lot, and over the first week of May I realized that I had made a mistake. Going from so much Bloodborne, and writing and talking about it, right into Dark Souls 3 had made me thoroughly sick of the series. I was getting annoyed and I could tell I wasn't being as fair about some things as I should be. So after getting close to about a terabyte of footage on my video drive, I decided that it was best to take a break, do something else, and then come back to it.
My plan was Uncharted 4 shortly after it released, with a brief look back at the previous games before it. I thought it would be cool if I did some sort of summary of the first three games so people who hadn't played them could watch them to catch-up on the series so they could play Uncharted 4. Or watch the video I would do on it.
So on the 6th I started playing Uncharted 1, then 2, and then 3. And by the time I was wrapping up, Uncharted 4 was out. Then I realized if I wrote a bunch of stuff criticizing the first games when Uncharted 4 fixes a lot of issues then I'd look like an idiot, so I should play Uncharted 4 now too since it's already out. Uncharted 4 ended up being a bit longer than I expected. I also realized that I needed to replay The Last of Us as well because that game is close to the series and...
The big thing is that I started writing my 'brief summary" of the first three games, and by the time I was done it was over 20,000 words. With The Last of Us it was pushed comfortably over 2 hours long. And that's not including Uncharted 4.
So to be melodramatic again--I'm a little fucked.
I'm going to work as much as I possibly can to get *something* out at least. And I know that a huge video is comparable to a bunch of smaller ones. But I'm starting to get worried I won't have anything finished in time. I don't want to rush. But I don't want to appear like I'm wasting time either. I'm confident that I can get the long summary done before June but I'm not sure about Uncharted 4. So I think I'll split that into its own video. If I miss May on that, it'll be very early next month. Then Dark Souls 3 right after it since I already have most of the footage that I need.
I hope that's acceptable. I might be fretting for nothing but having the patreon thing set up monthly means that I never, ever want to go a whole month without uploading at least one worthwhile video unless I have major hardware failure or something.
If anyone's curious the script ended up being so long because it's close to a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the story and major gameplay sequences, with the occasional break to talk about how gameplay works in general. I repeat myself a little too much for my liking, but the games are similar so it was unavoidable. I'm hoping to trim a lot of it out in editing tomorrow.
TL;DR - I'm working a lot, I swear. The projects just got switched around and then became a lot bigger than I planned.
Comments
Don't worry, you have to live outside the reviewing too. Keep up the good work! :)
No worries man. If i may make a suggestion Perhaps in between these long projects you do in order to not get burnt out you should do a single short video Maybe a not so spots video, less in depth analysis, more review style. This way you get to do something on between that you enjoy. I agree with everyone id rather wait longer for a good video. But i think you personally would benefit from this
To be honest, I could have figured that you'd get Souls burnout trying to deeply analyse two of the games in a row. An admirable goal nonetheless. Also goddamn it I'm writing Uncharted critiques as we speak and no doubt yours will be better. Damn you and your high quality videos Joseph -_-
Ryan Moye
I appreciate the transparency :D. No worries man just relax. Quality over quantity even if that means no videos in months.
Take your time boo
