#oneaday Day 151: Video Musings

Hey folks! Been thinking a bit today, and in the near future I'm going to make a few changes to video having been "experimenting" a bit with format over the last little while. The long and short of it is that I'm a little concerned I'm taking on just a tiny bit too much at one time, so I'm going to rethink how I do things somewhat. Here are my thoughts.

First up, Atari A to Z is staying right where it is, in all three of its incarnations. That is, by far, my favourite video project and also the one that gets the most views and responses. You know me, I'm not super-big on metrics or anything, but it's clear that of the people who are stumbling across my channel, a significant majority of them are interested in the Atari content. Which is great! I'm always happy to share the good word of Atari with everyone.

Warriors Wednesday is also something I'm going to continue with primarily as a "vanity" project; I enjoy the Warriors games a ton, and having a suitable excuse to spend time with them each week means that I'm inclined to… well, spend some time with them. I'm having a blast with Warriors Orochi, and I'm excited to explore the other installments once I'm done with that.

New Game Plus hasn't worked quite as well as I hoped. I enjoyed the Project Zero series, but the Rorona playthrough has been a bit of a slog to record rather than just play. As such, I'm going to finish the Rorona playthrough and then give New Game Plus a rest for a bit… at least in video form.

What I am going to do, however, is launch an occasional New Game Plus series of articles, where I either talk specifically about postgame content in games I've previously played, or make an effort to go back and explore postgame content in games I've seen the end credits of but not taken things any further. That seems like a more practical way of doing this — though I'm not ruling out some video playthroughs of the other Project Zero games at some point, since I know Ken will enjoy those if no-one else! 🙂

Likewise Sunday Driving and Sunday Shooting are a little redundant given that I have the "Essentials" series on MoeGamer. From this week, I'm going to retire these series for now and perhaps do video versions of some of the Essentials articles — you may have noticed some readings of the Death end re;Quest Cover Game feature on the channel recently, and I really enjoy recording and editing those, so I'd like to do more of them.

Finally, as I've mentioned previously, I'm going to do a Final Fantasy marathon on video, because there are still some Final Fantasies I've never played, several I want to revisit and some that I want to draw particular attention to. This will kick off when the Rorona series finishes.

At present, I'm planning on doing all the mainline FF games (including X-2, XIII-2 and Lightning Returns as well as XI and XIV's main storylines) but I'm contemplating making this a truly comprehensive marathon by attempting to incorporate spinoffs as well. There are a few titles for which this probably won't be practical — DS and 3DS games specifically, although there are emulation solutions out there, I just haven't explored them yet — as well as some that are tough to track down. Even if I'm emulating, I like to own the games I'm playing. I haven't decided if I'll go through with this yet, but it would be an interesting prospect, for sure.

With regard to the earlier games, I'll likely play the PSP remakes over the NES originals simply because I like them better; for IV I'll likely play the PSP version (with The After Years, which I've never tried). For V, I'm not sure; I have the PSone version but the load times are a bit poo. VI is easy; I have a SNES mini, so I can just play the version on there. And I still have original copies of all the others and/or remakes for modern systems — I'd play FFXHD over FFX, for example, because the PAL version of the PS2 version was arse, and I'd play FFXIITZA over original FFXII because… well, it's just better.

There you go! Shop talk. As I say, New Game Plus will continue until I beat Rorona as I don't like leaving things unfinished, but after that things will change a little bit. Please look forward to it!