written by Blain Newport on Friday, July 24, 2009
GAME JOURNALS CONTAIN SPOILERS. DEAL WITH IT PINK BOY.
I took the first step towards starting a video walkthrough of Blood. Unfortunately I can't record, either using Fraps or DosBox's own video output function, without the frame rate going to crap. The idea that I may need to get a video capture device so that I can play on my mothballed WinME machine and record it on my proper machine kind of hurts my head. Plus every time I go to New Egg and look up consumer level capture devices, half of them are DVRs with tuners, which means a lot of functionality and cost I don't need, or they're simple S-video to USB converters that many users seem pretty lukewarm on.
Plus adding voice on top of everything would be a manual process, which means more work and more room for mistakes. I asked a guy on the PA boards who records console games about his setup, and it sounded like many of my worst fears. I don't think there's a good solution.
I played a bit of The Specialists with a guy who likes my YouTube videos. The few people who still play that game are either overly good or using lots of scripts / cheating. But, as long as I didn't mind getting killed a lot, it was fun.
He's huge into Half-Life and Half-Life 2 mods. He's also very young, so his enthusiasm for them is much greater than mine. Ah well. It's good to have someone push you into experiencing new things sometimes.
Tonight is the mini-LAN. 8PM to midnight. I'm guessing Nations @ War since the kids will be playing and that's the main thing they play.
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