Opening Stage (Central Highway) 8 Bit Remix - Mega Man X
mmx1 is one of if not my favorite games and the ost is fantastic. i'm very tired right now so i don't really know what else to say.
this is the second in a series (i guess?) of full on remakes of old and privated videos of mine. might do more, but i also might not we'll see. not terribly happy with this one but i always want to get something out every week because i like to have a schedule. next week's video will kick absolute ass (i don't know what it will be yet but i just know in my skull that it will.) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5soxEylw_H4
im sure most of you are wondering who the incredibly sexy man in the pixel art is, and ill get to him in a bit. buckle in, bitch.
i grew up on SU, unironically. watched that shit every day when i was a wee lad on whatever ghetto early 2010's chinese streaming service my dad had. looking back, i don't really get the hate. it isn't that bad, actually i kinda like a lot of the show. the show ended with a single season made up of 40 episodes, which was a national fucking tragedy, but years later, the man, the myth, the legend, youtube.com/tamers12345 stepped in and took up the burden of continuing SU.
i fucking love tamers' videos, man. i only got in to his stuff relatively recently after brushing it off for literal years, assuming it was just another sonichu or something, but tamers' videos are fucking incredible. hes been making SU stuff for over a decade at least by this point, and shows no signs of stopping. the series mainly revolves around the relationship between sonic the hedgehog and the richest, sexiest, and strongest man alive, bartleby montclair of dresdin, pictured here in my best approximation of tamers' style. bartleby is the perfect character in every way imaginable. you might think that this would make him a boring character, but his personality and backstory with his family makes him just as endearing as any other character in this masterpiece. the series takes place following SU's original story, which never had a conclusion, so he wrote one himself. the hedgehog family is reunited and living on earth like a """""""""normal""""""""" family. most of the episodes are mostly just the characters doing normal human shit, like going to the dollar store or eating chinese food. my favorite episode is a toss up between, "sleet and dingo origins" and, "the great cereal crisis". "sonic the hedgehog gets stuck in an elevator with his gay lover" is a great one too.
we did a vc like last week over at http://discord.gg/M46bW8eMXa where we started watching tamers' videos in chronoloigical order and that was a grand ol time. not sure if we're gonna continue, but if we do and you want to join us you are more than welcome.
tamers if you ever see this, i love you (no homo because im not gay); never stop what you're doing.
sorry im a bit late uploading the video i didnt forget but after writing the description i went out to get a coffee and ended up being out for an hour okay love u bye
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaY4FCX-LlU
lol almost forgot to upload today
don't got much to say, i mean, it's mario 64. what else can be said that hasn't been already? great game, quite fun to replay, music is great, kondo is a genius. yeah, that's about it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLOaINnkQRs
can you believe that mario kart 8 is almost a decade old? time flies, man. time flies.
honestly, i've never been super big on mario kart. i think it is probably the most effective of the nintendo party game spinoff series based on mario, though. mario party is meh, mario golf is all but forgotten, mario tennis was never that good, and smash bros is barely even a party game anymore. i just never found the mechanics of mario kart to be all that fun, but it does what it aims to do really well. i've always been more of an f-zero guy as far as racing games go because i like how the games (especially x and gx) handle. i knew a guy back in the day who was a fucking beast at mario kart wii and knew about all of the insane shortcuts and intricate mechanics who i believe competed in local competitions who tried to teach me all of that stuff, and i did learn it, but like, it just wasn't the most appealing racing game ever to me. i like the handling in double dash and ds a lot but from what i can remember it changed wildly with each new release. i didn't play double dash until after 8 came out, dunno why. i guess i can't complain about a game series that is pretty soulful at the end of the day - all of the animations in (almost) every game are really well done, the soundtracks are consistently fantastic, and the visual styles are all really neat. modern nintendo is going down the shitter at an alarming rate so it would really suck for the next mario kart to be boring like their last few releases have been. the last fantastic mainline nintendo release was mario odyssey, which came out fucking six years ago. six years of riding off the coattails of third party releases, remakes, and rereleases. the issue is that there isn't really any better console for modern gaming (pcmr, motherfucker) because playstation is continuing their time-honored tradition of having no games, and nobody actually buys xbox. not like i care much, i don't really play many video games anymore. i intend on playing the yiik i.v demo soon but besides that i have no intention of playing any new game release.
i don't really know what else to say about mario kart and i don't feel like complaining about video games for the millionth time. fuck it, i'll talk about something else.
i saw in the news recently that the blood meridian movie adaptation is finally coming at some point in the future and i really think it will crash and burn upon release. blood meridian is a book by cormac mccarthy that isn't actually his best work (his best is suttree) yet is still rightfully hailed as a brilliant masterpiece. it is really fucking good. fantastic, actually. i haven't read the border trilogy yet, but i've heard good things about those novels, too. blood meridian is about the fictionalized version of the glanton gang travelling across the 'ol u.s of a in the mid 19th century during the wild west period. they recieve lectures from the enigmatic judge holden - an entity who more so represents an idea than being just a normal human - during their travels and kill a lot of minorities to get money and credit. eventually they just kill for lulz. it's somehow an incredibly dense read yet also with what feels like super large sections worth of downtime where the gang is just travelling written in an overly descriptive manner. read it, i can't do it justice in this short little section. don't you fucking dare go and watch some video by some little pussy bitch that goes through it for you, either. fucking read it, it's really good. i wouldn't reccomend dogshit literature. anyways, the movie is going to suck. it's been a meme for a while that the judge is impossible to cast but it's fucking true. judge holden's physical description in bm is based on the real-world account of samuel chamberlain who was a member of the actual glanton gang. in the novel, he is described as being a heavier-set albino male who is devoid of all hair with a stature like no other. (in s. chamberlain's "my confession," the real judge is said to be 6'6, but he is implied to be taller in bm. can't remember if it was stated but i feel like early on it says he's seven feet tall.) the judge also has tiny extremeties and deep-set eyes like that of a pig. who the fuck looks like that? i don't watch movies, so i'm genuinely asking. it's not hard to find people who look like every other character in the book but to find someone at that height and with that build with small limbs is nigh impossible, right? i'm interested to see how they'd translate some of the character descriptions to real actors, toadvine and the idiot, especially. i hope it uses as much practical effects as it can. it would be unbelievably dissapointing for them to just use a bunch of vfx and greenscreened extreme long shots for the travelling scenes.
have a wonderful day, gentlemen. god bless.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFjYfBjfePA
i found myself singing along with this as i was working on it, lol. crush 40 made amazing stuff, and i hope they do something for the upcoming game.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-JWfwqX_Q
good day, boys.
i recorded about half an hour of me making salad last night because "urethral sounding tutorial and/or cooking show" won the poll but i have yet to edit it. maybe i'll make the potential cooking show a monthly series starting next month if anyone actually wants to watch it. i said a lot of shit that i am going to need to go back in and either censor or cut entirely so i have a lot of editing to do.
anyways, here's a song. it's alright. i write chiptune in a very unorthodox manner. always have, always will. it's just more fun to put ideas down and follow rough ideas of the theme instead of following a strict formula. i can and do write stuff with proper structure but as far as chiptune go it just really doesn't feel right to have it have traditional structure. maybe it's because i'm inspired by old demoscene and general chiptune stuff. not the kind of chiptune like what most people think of, fuckin mario 1 theme or whatever, i mean shit that is very uniquely made with the intent of taking full advantage of the medium, not stuff that could be written in any other genre. chiptune is a really unique genre and i get that i don't use console limitations n shit but i think i can justify that in pointing to people like fantomenk and anamanaguchi and souleye, to name a few. souleye, especially, i am extremely fond of just by virtue of his stuff being my main introduction to chiptune beyond the confines of the nes as a lad. vvvvvv is still one of my favorite games ever made up there with megaman x and sa1. i own the vinyl for the v ost and it is currently above my laptop framed beside my copy of sonichu issue 0. i don't know if i've talked about it before but i do have some of the amazon prints of the first 5 or so issues of the sonichu comics. they stopped selling them after the alleged [side note: fucking knew it was fake, i said it back in can't think of a server name. they had no grounds to charge cwc on beyond his grossly unreliable and easy-to-influence spoken word] fucking of barb. i dunno, people should just let cwc rot in peace. it stopped being funny over ten years ago and frankly the [slur i cannot say on youtube, not "retard," the plural of the one for gay people] who still follow him and shit are really cringe. i hate using the word "cringe" because of how overused and misused it is nowadays but the people who still keep up with cwc post-jail saga are deserving of that title. is that fucking gay documentary still going? i last heard of it a few months ago and i'm honestly surprised it's still going. i get that it's supposed to convey that he's le most documented person on the internet but at a certian point it just becomes a straight reading of fucking twitter messages and mundane updates. he should have cut it after bob died. that's the point at which it became boring and not at all fun. i cannot believe people have the time to sit around and get fed the video equivalent of goyslop. just pure processed shit that goes through your system without leaving any lasting impact on you and that requires such little effort to make. "B-B-B-B-B-B-BUH MUH EDITING MUH 3 HOUR LONG SCRIPT MUH VOICEOVER" don't even try and hit me with that shit, content like that is a fuckin' joke. this applies to video essays and iceberg charts and all that kind of shit. i got reccomended an ultraman iceberg a few days ago because i've been going back to watch tiga on and off recently and the iceberg was a fucking hour long. i do not care for fucking iceberg media - if you want to learn more about deep-cut knowledge about anything then go and fucking read about it online, dude. [ultraman side note: tiga is good. generally i was never a big ultraman guy but now that i know what i like in my mongolian media i can appreciate it a lot more. i still think the original ultraman is not great at all, though. i don't like any of the three suits for the original boy. i only ever saw the original and tiga. i've heard good things about leo and seven.] the internet has noticably gotten worse during the last few years because people stopped actively going to search for information about shit they like on external websites n shit. the problem is the (figurative) centralization of the internet and the sheer domination at the hands of big platforms like youtube and what have you. most normal[slur, you know which one]s are too coddled by the simplicity of having one or two websites to get all of their information from that the prospect of going anywhere else is entirely unfamiliar territory and deemed not a good spend of time. i still browse encyclopedia dramatica when i have some free time (that explains a lot, eh?) and other shit just because it's more fun than watching a fucking video about whatever internet item. nothing against the people who make those vids, moreso those who choose to watch such videos.
whoops, almost out of space. i was going to talk some more, man!
have a wonderful day, gentlemen. see you next week.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNaJReN16YE
please go and check out the original if you haven't already heard this and the rest of the perfect blue ost - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amx0foOO7fI&t=89s
out of all of the mega man fangames i've played, the perfect blue demo is up there with my favorites. the team working on this game has something truly special on their hands. my favorite song from the ost is probably the miniboss music, "KAKUGO!" (which you should also check out on rrthiel's channel), but this track is certainly a close second.
also unrelated but kind of on the topic of mega man since i'll probably never have the chance to say this again: i'm calling it right now that x corrupted is never coming out.
never ever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP0cDvYvlYg
okay for once i actually have a decent excuse as to why the pixel art today is bad: my computer was actively rotting yesterday and there was a bunch of wacky shit going on with it. i genuinely don't know what the problem is but i've narrowed it down to ram problems or the feds planting shit on my c drive because i have something like 0b to 20mb of space on it at any given point and it causes my computer to slow to a crawl constantly. i bought new ram recently but i have yet to actually install it, i'll do it soon.
anyways, sonic heroes is a pretty good time. i don't dislike it like i dislike sa2 but i also don't love it like i love sa1. it's a cool little game that tried something new and pulled it off pretty well. frankly, i don't really have any new or profound opinions on it because there isn't much to contest or add to discussion. no point in taking about something that's already been talked to death if you've got nothing important to add, eh? one of my biggest problems with video essayists/essays (i know this is the 4 gorillionth time i've talked shit about video essays but fuck if i care, it's funny) is that you'll never see video essays on games that nobody has ever heard of and when you do it's often just someone poking fun at it. video essays rely on characters, story, and minor gameplay mentions, greatly limiting the amount of games/series one could talk about (see all the 6 gorillion video essays on persona or zelda or whatever the fuck) which is exactly what game reviews shouldn't fucking be. shoutout to motherfuckers who review exclusively the gameplay of different video games, i got a lot of respect for you. video games very rarely need any level of story "dissection" or whatever the fuck people say they're doing, the only acceptions being shit like mgs and yiik, but even then people go overboard on that shit. there's this one fucking mgs4 video i got reccomended a while ago that was like, 4 hours long and i watched a bit and hated it. why do people like having every aspect of a game explained to them in order??? just play the fucking game, or better yet, read the story summary if you care about that shit. i know you're probably sick of the "eggo complains about video essays" schtick by now but unlike video essays every time i talk about these people i always have something different to say. i'll move on now.
i think 2023 has been a decent year for game releases up to this point. i haven't played any new releases besides fist of the north star fitness boxing but there's some shit that looks good coming up. obviously there's the new sonic game, but mario wonder (lol it leaked) looks alright, too. the game i'm most looking forward to seeing this year besides the new sonic is grendizer feast of the wolves. it looks like it's shaping up to be fun eurojank at worst and absolute soul incarnate at best. i've said time and time again that i don't play games often anymore and only make occasional acceptions for new things so who knows if i'll actually play it but either way i'm glad a dynamic pro series is finally getting a non-srw game. it looks like they're going for a varied gameplay style with the new dizer game and honestly i think that's probably the best way to do a grendizer game. the spazer shmup sections look fun and the ground combat looks great. this video isn't about grendizer so i won't talk about it but check out the feast of the wolves trailer, it looks good. i was hoping that a new isao sasaki recording of the main theme would be used but i guess they're holding that off for dizer u (which i probably won't watch becuase they made duke look gay (in the homosexual way) to appeal to people who's only exposure to robot stuff was evangelion) but either way it's cool that there is finally a proper super robot game.
modern video games really have nowhere else to go. advancement in graphics and technology leveled out in like, 2015 and no new tech innovations have happened since, so really all that is left to do is innovate on and create new game styles, and people aren't even doing that shit anymore. i saw a thing on the google news feed thing that i look at occasionally that was something about a new undertale-inspired rpg which looked incredibly derivitive of undertale. we've officially reached the point where we are getting indie games "inspired" (translation: "stealing content from" because a lot of people people aren't creative enough to come up with new ideas for games anymore) by other indie games by other indie games which were inspired by niche old games. the only hope left for vidja games are indie devs and most of them aren't doing much with the opportunities they have. i dunno, though. i'm just a dude making fun stuff on the internet at the end of the day.
have a wonderful day, gentlemen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh94x_NPVx8
star light zone, also known as: "we're sorry we made you play labyrinth zone so have this to make up for it." - sonic team.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug-Hmc6B1LA