The Golden Bolt

Rest of 2022 Vibe Check! Upcoming vids and feedback from you!

Hey folks, I hope you've all been well!  Things have been a little quiet in Boltland (patent pending), but I've been chipping at a few different projects.  Actually more than a few, to the point that I don't know which ones are coming out in what order!  What's for sure coming in the next couple months:

• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger series retrospective - likely Nov., this one's the next long-form one that I'm passing along to Mr. MykonosFan to lead the edit on.
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October Video Vibe Check Poll

Hey folks, as I mentioned in the Patreon Q&A (which is up over on the second channel if you haven't seen it yet!), I wanted to do another vibe check on how the Patron fam feels about some of my pending/upcoming video ideas.  Below are a random selection of five of the ideas I'm looking at exploring - there are other ideas I'm not featuring on this list because they were either featured in the prior poll I held here,...

The Rise and Fall of Tak and the Power of Juju - Ad-Free Patreon Cut!

Forgive the 480p - I've been waiting for it to finish processing the HD version for over an hour now and I don't want to keep holding off, it seems like this is just one of those YouTube issues that happens sometimes.  The good news is the Tak games were already 480p anyway so it kinda works out!  The public version will be 1080p as normal when it drops tomorrow.

The Pokémon Developer's Sony Games

September Q&A Thread - Put Your Questions Below!

Hey folks!  A bit of a hectic schedule combined with a couple fun colds that messed that schedule even more (I'm just finishing up recovering from strep, so that's fun!) has meant I've been bad about the Q&A videos since TooManyGames back in June.  Time to change that!  Leave your questions below if you've got any in mind - I'm expecting a 50/50 chance that this one ends up being a longer thread due to how much time there's been since the last one, so if you don't hear your...

The Absurd History of Dig Dug

No other video game character has both an MMO game and a divorce on file.

Multi-Disc Video Games (Ad-Free Patreon Cut!)

random access memory  

I clicked schedule and apparently it didn't schedule, I'm glad I fell asleep and left this hanging whoops.

Upcoming videos - which do you want to see first?

Hey folks!  I mentioned in the Rift Apart post that I wanted to share what was in store the next couple months, and I'll do one better!  I want to gauge interest in which videos you'd like to see first.  There's a poll below - and be sure to let me know why you voted how you did, what other ideas you might have that you want me to cover, all that good stuff!  Before you put in your vote, below's a little elaboration:

Part of the juggling act going forward is playing...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - 1 Year Later

don't ask me about clank ever again

(I'll have a more detailed update with future plans in the next couple days.)

Rift Apart: 1 Year Later (Full Script)

Hey folks!  I ended up restructuring a lot of this script midway into production, because I wanted the first chunk to be as spoiler-free as possible.  That ended up bumping me back further than I expected, so you'll be getting the ad-free cut of the video on Tuesday.  (It would be sooner, but I'm out of town for TooManyGames this weekend - if you're going, I'll see you there!)

So since the video ended up delayed, and it ended up delaying the second June video t...

Patreon Q&A May 2022 - Get Your Questions in for June's Q&A Below!

Troy Baker Tactical Tongue Action

The Lost 14th Croc Game (Ad-Free Patreon Cut!

Yes, 14th.  You know you wanna click.  Do it.

Patreon Q&A #7 - Ask Your Questions for May's Q&A Below!

And as some bonus info - the Patreon early/ad-free cut of the next video is on track to drop next week!

R&C PS4 Retrospective - Ad-Free Patreon Cut

I had to let the video process overnight after uploading because while the public version is 1080p, this one is in 4K as originally intended!  (The 4K version probably still has to process a bit longer but hey.)

Programming Update! (+ Last Call for Questions for April's Q&A Vid!)

Hey folks!  I wanted to pop in and update you on my plans for the next video and April's Patreon Q&A.  First, for the Q&A, make sure you get your questions in over the next couple days if you haven't yet!  You can post them below or in the #patreon-updates room on Discord - I'm gonna record this early next week so it'll be a little delayed, due to what I'm going to mention next:

The Ratchet PS4 video is coming tomorrow as long as I don't die - I have a required sp...

The Fall of Sonic Team: Sega's Collapse, Crunch, and Chaos (1998-2005)

have to go fast

Patreon Q&A #6 (March) - Ask Questions for April's Q&A Below!

Love the Glove

Reminder: Get your questions in for March's Patreon Q&A!

The title says it all - I'm gonna be recording the Patreon Q&A for March in the next few days, so if you have any fun questions and you haven't asked 'em, drop them here or over in the #patreon-updates room on the Discord!

Into the Nexus Retrospective (Ad-Free Version!)

At last I am free, and this video is AD-free!  The proper ad version will drop later tonight too because I have a sponsor deadline to hit, but I wanted you folks to have this version at least a bit early.

Patreon Q&A #5 - Ask Your Questions for the Next Q&A Below!

At last, after other stuff getting in the way, the January-sorta February Q&A session is hot and ready like Little Caesar at a strip club!  I'm gonna save the next Q&A for after I finish the Into the Nexus video in the next two weeks, so it'll be a sort of Feb-March Q&A, make sure to ask me any questions you'd like either below or over on the Discord!  Thanks for your patience to those of you that did ask some questions - between COVID and then projects, it's been a monk...

Ratchet & Clank: The Blunder Years

It's been a while since I edited a full video from start to finish without throwing things at Chris MykonosFan, so this one ended up taking longer than I'd hoped.  But it's here now, apologies that I didn't have it to the Patron fam a few days early like I'd been planning, but nevertheless please consume and enjoy <3

Now that this is uploaded, I'm gonna sit down and record that workflow video-slash-January Q&A for probably Sunday, and the February Q&A thread w...

Ask Your Questions Here! Q&A Thread (Jan. 2022)

Hey folks, you know the drill!  Feel free to ask as few or as many questions as you'd like, and I'll answer 'em in this month's Q&A video.  (Obviously if you ask a ton, I may not get to all of them, but I'll at least hit the most fun ones!)

Sly Cooper COMPLETE SERIES Retrospective

Hey folks, I hope you enjoy this enhanced director's cut of my 2018 Sly Cooper retrospectives, featuring 20 more minutes of brand new information threading together much of the entire series' development! 

I also wanna apologize for the lack of a Patreon endcard reel - that's always the last thing that I do, but right when I was about to record it, I got hit with an absolutely terrible cold.  As in like, I went from totally fine to feverish and bedridden within an hour, so I j...

Patreon Q&A December 2021 (And a 2022 Channel Update!)

Hey folks, here's my slightly delayed December Q&A video!  I mention it briefly in the video, but I had to bump this back a few days because of a COVID exposure that forced me to move my recording schedule around just in case.  I didn't end up getting COVID from the exposure anyway, so hey.

SA2 Patreon Cut!

Q&A Thread (December 2021)

Hey, folks! You know the drill, if you've got questions for this month's Patreon Q&A, go nuts! I likely won't record this one for a few weeks since I just uploaded November's last week, so if nothing comes to mind right away, that's totally fine.

I've got a couple other announcements coming this week, plus SA2's video should be good to go very soon. Fun times ahead!

Patreon Q&A November 2021

Hey everybody, here's this month's (on-time!) Q&A video, and I come with another announcement as well: I guess Patreon added annual membership options recently, so I went ahead and enabled that in case anybody would be interested in something like that.  Please don't feel obligated to change memberships or pay upfront or anything like that, I figured that more options are good, and it let me throw on a 10% discount for anybody that might want to select an annual membership! ...

Patreon Q&A #2 - SUBMIT QUESTIONS FOR THE NEXT Q&A BELOW!

Make sure to submit your questions for November's Patreon Q&A either below, in the comments of the video above, or in the poorly-named #patron-updates chat on Discord!

Hey folks!  October's Patreon Q&A video ended up being a bit delayed due to my post-TooManyGames cold and then my subsequent "oh god I'm behind on the Crack in Time video" rush, but earlier this week I finally had the time to record it!  Since I'm a good amount behind, this wi...

Crack in Time Retrospective Ad-Free

I mentioned in the Discord earlier that I had rendered the sponsored version of the video first by mistake, instead of having the Patreon version done first. My apologies, but here's the ad-free version for your viewing pleasure!

Double apologies actually, this finished processing a few hours ago but I'm away from home so it slipped my mind. It's been a week, that's for sure! Much love, folks! Onward to SA2!

GET YOUR VOICE IN THE NEXT VIDEO!

It's about time that I pay off two specific running gags I've put in every Ratchet video so far: "Say it with me" and "Clank's a robot, that's pretty cool."  So I'm paying them off together in the Crack in Time retrospective, by asking both friends of the channel and Golden-Tier Patrons to lend me their voices!  

If you'd like to feature your voice as part of a big group cameo, I'm going to have a whole crowd say "that's pretty cool" with me in unison.  A...