Our Halloween '17 Plan - Maybe You Can Help!
Added 2017-10-04 23:39:44 +0000 UTCFirst things first: the No Chump Zone Live Q&A with Derek & Grace is this Saturday, 2:00 pm Pacific!
And with that out of the way,
It's the most wonderful time of the year!!
It's October! It's Halloween! It's always a big time for the channel and we've got a lot of stuff planned.
Dusk was our first Halloween 17 video. But that was a smaller video. This year's big video will be a Re:Certified Classic on Silent Hill 2! It is the first time the channel has ever covered the series despite being me personally being a huge fan of the series from the very beginning. Silent Hill 2 is uniformly considered the best in the franchise, that seems like a good place to start, though the video will briefly cover the making of 1, 3, and 4.
We've already begun researching the making of Silent Hill 2 but if you know of any cool interviews or articles, please share them with us! We've never asked for help researching but we so often get insightful comments from people. If you've got some cool facts, post em below!
Unfortunately, this is going to be an unusual Halloween season this year. Dusk and Silent Hill 2 will be the only "real" Halloween video this year due to other games coming out around this time. The new Wolfenstein comes out this month, so we'll have a Punching Weight for Wolfenstein 3D ports.
And A Hat In Time is dropping in a few days and we've been planning on covering that for a while. We got a review copy this weekend and I've played it a bit. There's definitely some stuff worth talking about, especially in relation to Yooka-Laylee.
Evil Within 2 comes out in a few weeks, and while this is something we'd definitely like to cover, we've never played the first one (scooped it up at a Black Friday sale a few years ago tho). I think doing a video reviewing both would be great but we just wont have time to play through Part 1 and then Part 2 and then make a video about them. So we'll be doing Evil Within in November and look forward to some early thought in this week's Media Consumption Blog.
I've also had a Manhunt essay rattling around in the back of my head for a few years. It's a trashy game, but it's good trash and that's rare in video games. We think that'll be a fine fit for November too.
So here's the rundown
October: Dusk / Wolf3d / A Hat In Time / Silent Hill 2
November: Evil Within / Manhunt
So not a whole lot spooky stuff in October, but it'll spill over into November! As always, thanks for the support! We couldn't be doing this without you all!
-da
Comments
wow, this is probably a treasure trove of info in these video, thanks for sharing!!
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
2017-10-05 21:55:02 +0000 UTCOops. Proper link: <a href="https://youtu.be/rBbIil2HPSU" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/rBbIil2HPSU</a>
Nikki Triplett
2017-10-05 06:32:34 +0000 UTCYou should! There's plenty of hidden gems on 3DO worth talking about, like Guardian War, The Horde, Killing Time, Lucienne's Quest, Psychic Detective, Total Eclipse... and Doctor Hauzer, which was an interesting Japan exclusive ripoff of Alone in the Dark. It really is a shame what happened with the 3DO Doom port. Rebecca Heineman on YouTube did a stream talking about the development of it and it's pretty crazy what she went through to make that port. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBbIil2HPSU&t=1581s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBbIil2HPSU&t=1581s</a>
Nikki Triplett
2017-10-05 06:30:57 +0000 UTCyou mean halloween in the summer? we should really go a step further and just be doing halloween all year long -d
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
2017-10-05 05:51:57 +0000 UTCyup! and we'll be covering the 3DO version! gonna have to use emulation tho, same for the jaguar version. never went in on those systems
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
2017-10-05 05:49:54 +0000 UTCi think that will be unavoidable but don't expect that to be the whole video. or maybe it will, i can't really say yet, i need to play more. -d
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
2017-10-05 05:48:40 +0000 UTCA new punching weight for Wolfenstein 3D ports? Awesome! Perfect timing, since I literally just got my first 3DO console, and plan on playing that version.
Nikki Triplett
2017-10-05 05:45:41 +0000 UTCWill you be making comparisons between A Hat in Time to Yooka-Laylee? That's gonna be a great video!
Adam Burkhart
2017-10-05 03:13:05 +0000 UTCThe best time of the year for this channel! Your Halloween videos are always your best. I remember when you did Halloween twice and that was the shit. Keep up the great work as always.
Mr_CDAWG
2017-10-05 02:06:00 +0000 UTC