Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20170225142933/@comment-3547390-20170305204229

It isn't to say I don't like them, Doom is proof of that, but I am generally not a big fan and even the best cannot hold a candle to a full 3d environment. It really isn't the graphics more than the other technological limitations that were going on at the same time, plus the limitations mouselook and 2d sprites create. Indeed, it is a lot easier to load something in DOSBox and play it than something a bit later... though I actually find DOSBox to be a lot more of a hassle and absolutely frustrating due to its need to slow my computer down to run properly. Trust me, I know about Jedi Knight, I plan to go back to it. You do realize I have a major problem, right? I simply have too many games and not enough time. Hexen, Doom, and Quake make it hard for me to throw everything else on the pile as well until some other projects slow up. I stopped Thief months ago at an awkward place to focus more on Quake. It just is that I am always juggling things. :P

Funny you say that, then play Doom where you often have to face off against a Baron of Hell. I am not that big on bullet sponges too, it is why I am not too big of a fan of Cacodemons and to a lesser extent Barons. In particular, I have a problem with any enemy that takes a long time to die while at the same time not offering risk. Now, if it is a bullet sponge that takes forever to die, but at the same time can insta-kill me, I absolutely enjoy it. At the forefront, I love the struggle and evading danger, so enemies that nearly bring me to the brink of death are very welcoming.

Indeed, I am thankful you are critical and try to combat my points with analysis of your own. I don't exactly agree with your points, but it is much better than just a simple minded response with no sustenance. An important part of everything I do is analysis, it is the true reason I have lengthy black screen dialogs in most of my videos. I could cut it quickly and just show the level, but that in my opinion is boring. One major problem I see when I bothered with anyone else's Let's Play was that they never gave me their own opinion. At the most they would be afraid to because they don't develop themselves, at the worst they just would show the level and offer no commentary on it. I try to make a point to show how I feel about it through the entire process and try to give some decent summary at the end to examine my feelings. The description is pretty much a step further, going back after I had time to decompress and state on reflection how everything is. The black ending thus is good for initial reactions and that "shock value", while the description is pretty much when I calmed down and can think more clearly. I think there has been times where my later description went totally against what I thought originally.

Yes! Hooray for absolutely terrible levels ahead! As for BIGGEST, you could be correct... it is polished and large enough I would be heavily surprised if you didn't have it. 3 hours after I uploaded the video it still only has the lowest quality, so it might take 2-3 days or so to get decent quality. :P

You really have to speak up more. I like commentary or criticism. At worst I don't agree, at best we can possibly change something before I get far into it and realize it was not done in the best way.

I totally agree about the music WAD. The only real thing of loss is the Readme, which isn't really the biggest of concerns. I originally was doing it for reactions, but honestly I just get bored out of my mind sitting there even if it is an amazing song since we are playing the same levels over and over. At least with sounds it could be something evoking or interesting to check out, music I am pretty much just sitting there with a timer and waiting to jump to the next one. I definitely don't feel like a replay of the entire game every single time I want to show off a music WAD, especially since I am cutting it off early and so it is almost pointless that I am showing it off. Much easier just to put it hear and let you listen on your own free time. As you might infer based on the recent edit I made, this thing is pretty much every level of the game, so yeah... glad we prevented this being recorded. The awesome part is that this means we also got a lot more filler music when I actually remember to put the filler music on. The problem before was always that it was a 3-4 minute song and would stop. I finally realized I could just store all the music I have captured in a folder that shuffles itself when I need it. Luckily you can take any file off the Wikia simply by playing it, then saving the file and ending the extension with ".wav". Expect to hear more classical music when I remember to turn it on in the future :P

EDIT: Whew, finally made it through the PWAD. I am definitely glad I didn't record this one, there are many songs that were 5-7 minutes long. My ears are popping after dealing with all of that, this guy seemed to love making his classical music very loud. I also am learning it is unhealthy to listen to an entire PWAD's worth of music at one time, you start realizing how similar all the instruments are and start to go insane nearing the 3/4 mark. Of course, by that time you basically don't want to stop as the procedure takes more time to set up than actually do the recording/conversion (I basically record every song, since MIDI cannot be converted to a music file, and sit through the entirety of it while it is recording, I then trim up any silence before/after the song before making it a WAV file, since my program cannot output OGG files, and then I convert it to OGG. Really it sounds more complicated than it is, the time consuming part is mostly just the listening that I would be doing anyway) so you end up pushing through and realize you cannot handle hours of nonstop piano music.

An interesting thing to note about the new Classical Music (he oddly enough changed his formatting, not sure why) is that it was made by the same guy who made the first one and as such is seen as pretty much an improved version. This is pretty apparent with most of the songs from the older version appearing again, though it is pretty noteworthy to mention that three of the songs don't reappear. I kept expecting them to show up at some place. Also interesting of note is that the readme isn't exactly accurate for what levels have what song.

I checked SS to see how it was doing, it seems we have all resolutions up to 1080p, which is to be expected as 1440p is often the slow one (generally it seems the largest resolution is the slowest, so it benefits a bit to have a bigger monitor than everyone else). As I think I am the only one with a 1440p monitor and 1080p seems to work perfectly fine from what I have seen, it might be possible to watch now.