Ok, it's become fully apparent I haven't made any progress on FFX-2 or on resurrecting FF:MQ. There are a few reasons for this.
1) Currently, my computer is kaput. I should have it working in 2 weeks (because of a vacation I'll be on next week).
2) I've gotten a job about 2 months ago, so my free time is practically non-existant.
3) NaNoWriMo will be starting next month, and both my wife and I will be trying our hands at this.
However, I have a few things to put up on YTRiffers once the computer is back up. I'll be trying to get into a routine of regularly submitting my 'commentary-included' videos of WJXR clips. Every time I listen to that station, I double over laughing at the extreme countryfied attitude of everyone on there. I have other projects in the working, but that's the only one I can guarantee you'll be seeing soon.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
July 17, 2009
Hey all.
Ok, here's my latest update. I'm going to work on the episode of FF X2, but there's still no promise I'll have it by August 1. I do have another project I'd like to introduce to you--just something I've been kicking around in my head.
It's not so much making fun of video games, but is more along the line of reviews. See, I've been working (slowly) to build my collection of old NES, SNES, etc. games in my personal collection. For the most part, though, it's only for collection purposes. In some cases, I only played it once for purposes of remembering it from my childhood; in other cases, I haven't even played them yet. And it got me thinking...
You know how back in the day before the internet, you had to play a game to see what it was about? There was no going online to see what kind of ratings it got, and not every single game was covered in Nintendo Power. So, basically, you were taking a chance. The first thing you saw was the impression it would leave on you. The memories you carry even today were from firsthand experience. That doesn't exist anymore today. People thoroughly research a game before buying or even playing it. People don't want to be disappointed. People don't want to waste money.
Well, I'm going to revisit those days. I'm going to review games that I either haven't played in years and years, or have never played. We have a local used game store that sells some games really cheap, so I think I'll go up about once a month, buy a game for 5 or 6 bucks, and just review it while I play it. You'll get to see my honest-to-goodness reaction to a first view of the game. Thus, you won't be getting a thoroughly researched impression, like reviewers in magazines give it. You're going to experience it along with me, first hand, as if you and I were both seeing it for the first time. I'll probably play it for 5 or 10 minutes to get the controls and feel of it before reviewing, but I wanna save the surprises for you.
I'm going to play around with this idea with a game or two to see what it turns out like, and if I like it, I'll start putting some of these up on the site.
-Daniel
Ok, here's my latest update. I'm going to work on the episode of FF X2, but there's still no promise I'll have it by August 1. I do have another project I'd like to introduce to you--just something I've been kicking around in my head.
It's not so much making fun of video games, but is more along the line of reviews. See, I've been working (slowly) to build my collection of old NES, SNES, etc. games in my personal collection. For the most part, though, it's only for collection purposes. In some cases, I only played it once for purposes of remembering it from my childhood; in other cases, I haven't even played them yet. And it got me thinking...
You know how back in the day before the internet, you had to play a game to see what it was about? There was no going online to see what kind of ratings it got, and not every single game was covered in Nintendo Power. So, basically, you were taking a chance. The first thing you saw was the impression it would leave on you. The memories you carry even today were from firsthand experience. That doesn't exist anymore today. People thoroughly research a game before buying or even playing it. People don't want to be disappointed. People don't want to waste money.
Well, I'm going to revisit those days. I'm going to review games that I either haven't played in years and years, or have never played. We have a local used game store that sells some games really cheap, so I think I'll go up about once a month, buy a game for 5 or 6 bucks, and just review it while I play it. You'll get to see my honest-to-goodness reaction to a first view of the game. Thus, you won't be getting a thoroughly researched impression, like reviewers in magazines give it. You're going to experience it along with me, first hand, as if you and I were both seeing it for the first time. I'll probably play it for 5 or 10 minutes to get the controls and feel of it before reviewing, but I wanna save the surprises for you.
I'm going to play around with this idea with a game or two to see what it turns out like, and if I like it, I'll start putting some of these up on the site.
-Daniel
Monday, July 13, 2009
July 13, 2009
Hey all.
To be honest, I don't think I'll have episode two of my Final Fantasy X-2 riffing done by August 1. It's sort of an amalgam* of lack of motivation, difficulty with the clips, and busying myself with more important things. I also seem to be off of my routine, which means absolutely nothing gets done, much to the chagrin of my wife. I'm going to try my bestest to get something up, if not the next episode of FFX2, something for the fans. I seemed to be quite motivated today to tackle a riffing of a movie, but that's contingent on getting some friends together to actually see it happen. I guess we'll have to see.
-Daniel
* (word of the day)
To be honest, I don't think I'll have episode two of my Final Fantasy X-2 riffing done by August 1. It's sort of an amalgam* of lack of motivation, difficulty with the clips, and busying myself with more important things. I also seem to be off of my routine, which means absolutely nothing gets done, much to the chagrin of my wife. I'm going to try my bestest to get something up, if not the next episode of FFX2, something for the fans. I seemed to be quite motivated today to tackle a riffing of a movie, but that's contingent on getting some friends together to actually see it happen. I guess we'll have to see.
-Daniel
* (word of the day)
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Revival!
Hey all potential readers of this blog.
Since I'm getting some traffic to my YouTube page now, and since I'm trying to bridle a number of projects all at the same time (and therefore need a central locale to mention my updates), I've decided to resurrect one of my old blogs for that implicit purpose.
So... here ya go!
I'll be putting a more thorough update on here either later today or tomorrow, will be gone for the weekend (to see my family), and on return, customizing this blog a little more completely, so as to link in all of my projects in one place.
In the meantime, feel free to leave me feedback on my YouTube page (http://www.youtube.com/user/VGRiffers) or send me an email at thesortamotivator@yahoo.com
-Daniel
Since I'm getting some traffic to my YouTube page now, and since I'm trying to bridle a number of projects all at the same time (and therefore need a central locale to mention my updates), I've decided to resurrect one of my old blogs for that implicit purpose.
So... here ya go!
I'll be putting a more thorough update on here either later today or tomorrow, will be gone for the weekend (to see my family), and on return, customizing this blog a little more completely, so as to link in all of my projects in one place.
In the meantime, feel free to leave me feedback on my YouTube page (http://www.youtube.com/user/VGRiffers) or send me an email at thesortamotivator@yahoo.com
-Daniel
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Coming Soon
VG Riffers (The Video Game Riffers) is a YouTube community-based showcase of something that's saturating the YouTube community enough as is. We're just finally catching up with the rest of the world...
Actually, we're doing something we've wanted to do for a long time. The internet has showcased such eCelebrities as 'The Angry Video Game Nerd' and the serial 'Awesome Video Games'. YouTube has gone the extra step by turning thousands of savant and talented individuals (read:nerds with too much time on their hands) into vloggers who want the world to watch them play video games. This project will be something like that. However, the focus won't be so much showing how to play through a video game (walkthroughs) or giving an annoying and biased opinion on every game (reviews), but rather, a satirical, cynical... RIFFING version of the games. The clips will most likely resemble the other videos out there--Screengrabbed-video captures of the games with recorded over voice-overs. We're separating our videos in the following ways. We, at present, have two different types of videos to post:
VGR Reviews: 'Wait a minute,' you think to yourself as you read that subheading. 'Didn't you just say you were going to be DIFFERENT? Why, that's nothing new! Why, in my day...(etc.etc.etc.)' Well, what can I say, except... if you could shut your trap (er, your thoughts) for just a minute, I'll explain...
Indeed, they will be reviews. However, they are only called reviews because, honestly, I'm 'reviewing' the game, not to give an opinion on whether or not you should play it yourself. The whole purpose of VG Riffers is to be cynical and satirical. Riffing, for those not familiar with the term, has been adopted as the act of making fun of something, ala Mystery Science Theater 3000. Those familiar enough with the website rifftrax.com will acknowledge that even a really good movie can be hilarious when you poke fun at it. Bascially, these 'reviews' will not focus so much as a comparison of the good and the bad, the true opinions of the gamer, but will be making fun of what's going on, as if the person commenting on the video were also watching exactly what you were watching, as if it were a television program or a movie...
How will the video be put together? For the most part, it will just be various clips throughout the game. If the game were an adventure or RPG, it would no doubt be a taped-together excerpt of the plot-relevant points that the player would encounter. (Anyone who owns the movie Final Fantasy: Advent Children will be familiar with what I'm talking about, as the DVD selection 'Reminiscence of Final Fantasy' will resemble what we're doing). Given the length of the game, the number of clips may vary in number. Though the videos will be kept to a maximum of 10 minutes, some games may have more videos than others. One would assume that the length of, say, any given modern RPG (broadcasting a play time of 80+ hours) would have more video clips than, say, A Boy And His Blob (Ask your parents, kids--or, on second thought, just wiki it.) Obviously, side-scrollers (such as Boy + Blob) and Arcade-style games would be a rarity on this project, as it's hard to find new material with redundant missions and just doing the same ol thing over and over for 3 hours.
VGR Feature: These will be more rare than the Reviews. That's because there will be a lot more involved in putting them together. See, a Feature would resemble more to a movie. In fact, the VGR Features to come will actually be pretty close to a Video Game version of MST3K. The clips will be the same length, but there will be many more than one would expect from a basic review. In addition, the Features will oftentimes have guest riffers, sitting along and poking fun at the games. Since this will be a bit more in-depth over the Reviews, we're still finding out ways and coming up with ideas that would make the Features that much more special. Stay Tuned for updates.
We're expecting to punch out about 3 or 4 reviews in short order, so it will take a little while before we can actually put anything up. In addition, because of a certain hardware situation, the Features cannot be compiled as of yet. We'll be handling reviews until we've taken care of it, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.
We'll try to update this blog every week or so for the first month until we get a schedule set down and decided what games are coming first. After all, we'll have to basically play through the entire game to capture the video before we can review. We're pretty busy people here just with our everyday lives, so the process may be a little slower in coming than for others. But we're going to do what we can.
Thanks for visiting and please stay tuned and informed as we fire up this project!
Actually, we're doing something we've wanted to do for a long time. The internet has showcased such eCelebrities as 'The Angry Video Game Nerd' and the serial 'Awesome Video Games'. YouTube has gone the extra step by turning thousands of savant and talented individuals (read:nerds with too much time on their hands) into vloggers who want the world to watch them play video games. This project will be something like that. However, the focus won't be so much showing how to play through a video game (walkthroughs) or giving an annoying and biased opinion on every game (reviews), but rather, a satirical, cynical... RIFFING version of the games. The clips will most likely resemble the other videos out there--Screengrabbed-video captures of the games with recorded over voice-overs. We're separating our videos in the following ways. We, at present, have two different types of videos to post:
VGR Reviews: 'Wait a minute,' you think to yourself as you read that subheading. 'Didn't you just say you were going to be DIFFERENT? Why, that's nothing new! Why, in my day...(etc.etc.etc.)' Well, what can I say, except... if you could shut your trap (er, your thoughts) for just a minute, I'll explain...
Indeed, they will be reviews. However, they are only called reviews because, honestly, I'm 'reviewing' the game, not to give an opinion on whether or not you should play it yourself. The whole purpose of VG Riffers is to be cynical and satirical. Riffing, for those not familiar with the term, has been adopted as the act of making fun of something, ala Mystery Science Theater 3000. Those familiar enough with the website rifftrax.com will acknowledge that even a really good movie can be hilarious when you poke fun at it. Bascially, these 'reviews' will not focus so much as a comparison of the good and the bad, the true opinions of the gamer, but will be making fun of what's going on, as if the person commenting on the video were also watching exactly what you were watching, as if it were a television program or a movie...
How will the video be put together? For the most part, it will just be various clips throughout the game. If the game were an adventure or RPG, it would no doubt be a taped-together excerpt of the plot-relevant points that the player would encounter. (Anyone who owns the movie Final Fantasy: Advent Children will be familiar with what I'm talking about, as the DVD selection 'Reminiscence of Final Fantasy' will resemble what we're doing). Given the length of the game, the number of clips may vary in number. Though the videos will be kept to a maximum of 10 minutes, some games may have more videos than others. One would assume that the length of, say, any given modern RPG (broadcasting a play time of 80+ hours) would have more video clips than, say, A Boy And His Blob (Ask your parents, kids--or, on second thought, just wiki it.) Obviously, side-scrollers (such as Boy + Blob) and Arcade-style games would be a rarity on this project, as it's hard to find new material with redundant missions and just doing the same ol thing over and over for 3 hours.
VGR Feature: These will be more rare than the Reviews. That's because there will be a lot more involved in putting them together. See, a Feature would resemble more to a movie. In fact, the VGR Features to come will actually be pretty close to a Video Game version of MST3K. The clips will be the same length, but there will be many more than one would expect from a basic review. In addition, the Features will oftentimes have guest riffers, sitting along and poking fun at the games. Since this will be a bit more in-depth over the Reviews, we're still finding out ways and coming up with ideas that would make the Features that much more special. Stay Tuned for updates.
We're expecting to punch out about 3 or 4 reviews in short order, so it will take a little while before we can actually put anything up. In addition, because of a certain hardware situation, the Features cannot be compiled as of yet. We'll be handling reviews until we've taken care of it, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.
We'll try to update this blog every week or so for the first month until we get a schedule set down and decided what games are coming first. After all, we'll have to basically play through the entire game to capture the video before we can review. We're pretty busy people here just with our everyday lives, so the process may be a little slower in coming than for others. But we're going to do what we can.
Thanks for visiting and please stay tuned and informed as we fire up this project!
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