I passed 300 subscribers on YouTube! This is a teeny tiny milestone, I know, but it's still a milestone, so I'm going to celebrate it — particularly as I feel like it's the first real milestone I've reached since starting to do YouTube stuff on a more regular basis.
Thank you to those of you who are subscribed and who have been kind enough to watch, like and/or comment on my videos. It is very much appreciated. Much like MoeGamer, I do the stuff I do on YouTube because I enjoy it, and because it's an enjoyable way for me to keep a record of the experiences I've had with a variety of games, but it's heartwarming to know that other people are watching and enjoying them.
With that in mind, I wanted to share a few personal favourites from the channel that you may or may not have previously seen. Patreon's silly blog editor won't let me embed the videos directly, so you'll have to click the links to see them.
Going from oldest to newest…
The Squadron of Shame – Trailer 1: This was the first thing I ever posted on YouTube back in 2007, and an experiment with video editing software. I was working for Apple at the time, so I was fiddling around with iMovie to see what I could do with it, and this was the result. Dated and low-res now, yes, but it summed up what the Squad was about — and makes me a bit sad that none of those guys save maybe one or two have spoken to me for several years now. But that's something to rant about another day, I feel.
Bearded Backlog – 1000 Amps: This was one of my first experiments with doing "Let's Play"-style content. I still quite like the concept — pick something I haven't played before, give myself 20-30 minutes to determine whether it's worth continuing with, profit. It was a good excuse to check out some Humble Bundle acquisitions from over the years.
Unprovoked: I may have come to loathe Rockstar games for various reasons, but one can't argue with the fun that can be had in Grand Theft Auto V's movie-making mode. This was one of a few videos I made that I very much enjoyed the end result of.
MoeGamerTV – Kana Little Sister: An early experiment with doing a "reading" of an article from MoeGamer. I'd like to get back to doing more of these; the tentative aim is to try and get some out on at least a few Mondays every so often!
MoeGamerTV: Sword Art Online – Re:Hollow Fragment: An early scripted video, not a reading of an article this time. I was quite pleased with how this came out.
MoeGamerTV: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood, and the MMO as Musical Theatre: I really liked the concept for this article that later became a video. Making this video was pretty much what spurred me on to get a better microphone, and you'll see a noticeable increase in audio quality from this point on.
The MoeGamer Podcast: Pilot Episode – Sega, Sega, Sega: The beginning of a new era! I used to really enjoy podcasting, so I was very much Up for It when my good friend Chris suggested we should try and do one together. I enjoyed our first episode — and indeed enjoy revisiting it — and feel we've really found our groove since.
MoeGamerTV: Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: To date the only MoeGamer Cover Game feature I've successfully managed to make a complete set of companion videos for. I was pleased with how most of these came out, and Pirate's Curse is my favourite Shantae game, so here we are.
The First Auto-Runner?: I'd been trying to think of a way to celebrate my love of all things Atari for the longest time… and then it occurred to me. Video would be a great means of showing off some old favourites to people who perhaps hadn't seen them before — and also a great excuse for me to check out some games I'd never tried before. It all started here, with Aztec Challenge.
A Fighting Game for Scrubs Like Me: Slightly different from a regular Let's Play but still ad-libbed, in this video I went in with an argument I wanted to make, and attempted to put it across to the audience. Something I might try again at some point in the future when there's something I feel strongly enough about.
My Brother's Girlfriend's Father: I like this one just for the fact I feel I got a nice balance of nostalgia and commentary. I absolutely suck at the game, but I enjoyed telling the story of how I first encountered it.
The MoeGamer Podcast: Episode 11 – Shadow of Silent Probotectravania in Time. Also Asterix: One of my favourite episodes of the podcast, in which we talk all about Konami without descending into the usual "fuck Konami" stuff you see around the Internet. This was a really enjoyable discussion.
The Definition of Insanity: I think this is my favourite video on the channel. There was so much pain and suffering that went into this play session, and I was pleased with the editing. I don't normally heavily edit or adorn my playthrough footage, but in this instance I feel like it deserved some special treatment to reflect my rapidly declining mental state throughout.
Hope you enjoyed these and/or any others you've been kind enough to watch! There's plenty more where that came from… I've settled into a good schedule to get them done now, so I intend to keep on going as I am for the minute, since I'm enjoying myself so much.
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