Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Let's Play Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine (Hard) - Part 008

The new video is up.


In this update we see me make many mistakes, learn from some of them, and finish out Chapter 8. Also, we acquire the best freaking weapon ever. There may or may not be maniacal laughter.

I messed around with MeGUI, and it seems to work a lot better for me than Virtual Dub. Not only does it support FAAC, but also muxes to the format of my choice after. And it's got a pretty shallow learning curve. I can just feed it a .avs script and go to town.

I noticed some framerate issues on the youtube version, but I think I can probably fix those by tweaking my own encoding settings. I'll give it a go next time.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Best Laid Plans....

I really had intended to get another episode of Space Marine up, but, well, shit happened. I figure I ought to explain for the two of you who actually read this thing.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 launched, which I had planned for, but I ended up being stupidly busy right up to its release date and didn't have a chance to get another video in around futzing around with codec settings and MeGUI. I had hoped to have enough content recorded to cover me while I went through XIII-2, but it didn't work out that way. The logical thing would be to just record XIII-2, but I don't have a way to do that, so meh.

I was planning to kick things off with Kingdoms of Amalur after Space Marine, but my PS3 died and required replacement, which ate up the cash I was going to burn on Amalur. I'm back to kicking around ideas as to what to play after Space Marine. I suspect I have a couple weeks to figure it out. Suggestions are appreciated.

Expect things to be rocky and updates to be sporadic for the duration of Space Marine. Once I'm through that, I should (hopefully) have the whole process smoothed out enough to at least get regular content posted.

As always, news will come through this blog.