This is my first poor attempt at reading something I wrote. Not the best, and the way I get audio files is still laughable. In some ways this is a response to video from user Elbryan42 who recently blogged his 15 biggest pet peeves. Check out his video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQEKQnGdVgs&feature=plcp If you have never come across his playthroughs of games, you should know that his throw-away runs are better than my best runs in games, so do him the honor of subscribing. I decided to show footage of Tomb Raider II for this vid, to show a game where completing the training is almost required to understand the game, and get the hang of the controls. I forgot to make a note about how older, more complex 3D games, like TR, or even Half Life never forced you into training, but left it as optional. Here is a transcript of what is being said: Training modes, since the advent of 3D gaming they have been around in one form or another. The problem is, they used to be optional. Nowadays, there are a number of developers who have decided to take optional out of the equation, and have decided to force these modes onto unsuspecting gamers. Did you ever have a teacher in high school that would talk to you like an idiot, because the rest of the class was full of idiots? Essentially, that is what developers are doing to gamers. Just because some of the people who are playing, may be new to gaming, or may only game casually, they decided to treat all of us as if gaming was something we discovered yesterday. I would just like to know, WHO THINKS THIS IS GOOD DESIGN? Does it really improve the game at all when you take a mode, that used to have a separate option on the title screen in games, meaning it was optional, and then force gamers to go through a tedious training mode, sometimes after you already let them play through the first level of the game. Are gamers so stupid that they cannot figure out how to press buttons to find out what they do? Press "A" to jump. Really? Because I never would have thought to press a button if you had not told me to. Forced training modes are tedious enough, however, what I like to call simon-says training modes are the absolute worst examples of training modes, and the best example of bad game design there are. "Press "A" to jump." "Oops, you punched, failed. Let's start again. Press "A" to jump." Oops,You tried moving, FAILED. How dare you try to do anything else but what I have commanded you to do." One very good example of the worst kind of forced training mode that has stuck in my head is in Spiderman 3. I borrowed the game from a friend a few years back, and by the time I got done with the training mode, I was already done with the game. You even get scolded by Bruce Campbell for trying to press buttons to ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHHLogbX2is

Shoutout to all my fellow Left-handers out there. I apologize for all the screen tearing in this footage, but this is captured from my Windows XP rig I built, and there are a few ways to do it. One way is to use Fraps which is beyond a system hog, and the other way is to split the HDMI output from my Radeon HD 4770 (the GPU I chose for my XP rig), and capture the footage through OBS on my Windows 10 PC which is what what I am doing for this footage. I am using a cheap HDMI USB capture device I bought at walmart for this footage, for not bad quality, but quite a bit of screen tearing. I don't think my Elgato HD60s is capable of capturing footage like this, considering the game is running at over 60fps. I had to handbrake it down to 60 to align the audio. I love Quake II, and I'm running it off the actual disk thanks to having a vintage rig. No fixes needed to get the music to work, just put the disc in to play the game, and, boom, Sonic Mayhem in your earballs. #Quake2 #Gameplay #Quake ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt6o9ETP9Xg