Hey people, I've recently started doing some Let's Plays of Brood War UMS, among other things. The first two are up at http://www.youtube.com/Starcraft2Tutorials (yeah it's both SC1 and SC2, not much SC2 yet though ;o) This is the second one:
First one had bad sound so yeah I'll take requests, although I currently have all the maps from the 2011 Last Stand RPG contest to finish before I get on with other maps. I'll try do a video a week, so if you subscribe you'll be getting regular content, although that's up to you of course.
Videos are best watched in highest quality (480 I believe). I'll possibly use a resolution expander so I can record in higher resolution; I'll see how that goes first.
Red classic.
"In short, their absurdities are so extreme that it is painful even to quote them."
This is really cool of you and all, but I feel bad you had to play that map It's not user friendly or finished at all D:
s'ok, I had fun working it out. And I'm thinking of doing a speedrun of Recursion RPG :3 that's more userfriendly, and took a little thinking to work out, although I followed your thought pattern pretty easily.
Red classic.
"In short, their absurdities are so extreme that it is painful even to quote them."
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I'm confused are you reviewing the contest RPGs or just Let's Playing them?
If you are gonna do reviews you should do shorter vids with cut together footage while you do VO talking about the pros and cons and your overall judgement.
They're not reviews, they're Let's Plays. Sometimes I do my reviewing at the same time, other times separately. I write on a bit of paper my review notes though. I suppose I could do review-style videos as well.
Red classic.
"In short, their absurdities are so extreme that it is painful even to quote them."
I use Growler Guncam to record. I record onto an external hard drive which has plenty of space. Because I'm recording in SC's resolution (only 640x480), the size is smaller than if I was recording my max screen resolution. It still chews up more than 10 gigabytes though
Red classic.
"In short, their absurdities are so extreme that it is painful even to quote them."
I can record about 5-7 hours of 720p (using fraps) onto a terabyte depending on resolution, so low-resolution videos don't really eat that much in the grand scheme.
Show them your butt, and when you do, slap it so it creates a sound akin to a chorus of screaming spider monkeys flogging a chime with cacti. Only then can you find your destiny at the tip of the shaft.
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new
[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]
Oh_Man -- makes me wonder if SEN knows anything about the topic
It's not user friendly or finished at all D:
