 <\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\nNote that Josh needs to wear two sets of headsets. One for the game, the other for vent. The vent discussion must be isolated from the game, or else the other hosts would hear our own voices echoing back at us over Livestream on a five-second delay, which would be a recipe for madness. <\/p>\n Livestream is too low-def to use as the raw footage. It lags out, pixelates, runs ads in the middle of recording, and throws up little ad boxes with pixel-hunt close buttons and distracting animations. It really blurs the line between free service and intentional griefing. So we need to capture the footage with Fraps to get a nice, clean recording suitable for sharing. <\/p>\n Editing seems to take Josh a few hours. Then the encoding in WMM takes about an hour. Then the upload to Viddler takes another hour. Then Viddler spends about half an hour re-encoding the whole thing in their internal format. Then I can watch the final cut of the episode and write the post to go with it. Then everyone reminds me that I left the video set to private. Then I go fix that. <\/p>\n A couple of people have suggested that we cover console games. This just isn’t feasible. Aside from the fact that I’m the only one in the group who owns any consoles, trying to video capture a console game would add another branch to the technological clusterfarg you see above. I have a video capture card so that I can play console games through my PC, and it’s a mess. There’s serious video delay issues if you go for HD (which we would need to do) and the equipment to do so is expensive. And Fraps does strange things with video-in that I’ve never been able to solve. In short, it would be messy, expensive, and probably wouldn’t work very well, all so the crew could comment on console games they haven’t played and don’t understand. Which would lead to self-righteous protests from people who insist you “know what you’re talking about!!” before you criticize something. <\/p>\n So let’s not do that.<\/p>\n We talked about doing Deus Ex. The idea is that I would be the player and Josh, Mumbles, and Rutskarn would commentate. Note that unlike Josh, I can’t talk and play at the same time. When I play, I stop moving as soon as I start talking. Or I talk with lots of halting pauses. “This is the part… (shooting) this guy, see… (more shooting) this guy wanted us to use a non-lethal… (stops to fiddle with a door) this… this weapon here… (shouting and chaos) no, this weapon… see how it’s like a… uh… (episode ends) this is the… it’s a crossbow that shoots… (the rest of the team leave Vent) see how these guys… well, that last guy, if you notice how he was… um, like, taking damage, like, over time?” It might be amusing to see me do it in the same way that it might be amusing to see Stevie Wonder play frisbee, but my family assures you that watching me act like an idiot does eventually get old. So I’d have to keep my mouth shut. <\/p>\n We batted the Deus Ex idea around for a bit but then shelved it. I think a full run of Deus Ex would be too long to fit our current format. It was made back in the glorious days of 20-hour shooters, and so we’d spend almost five months getting through it. But I think a three or four episode tour of the early game would be a lot of fun and would be a nice contrast to the modern stuff we’ve been playing. Maybe play until we reach Lebedev, which is a good example of actual<\/em> choices and consequences in a game instead of a binary “do you want the good points or the evil points?” decision. <\/p>\n We were going to do KOTOR next. We got together on Saturday night with every intention of chasing down Darth Revan, but Josh found out that Fraps can’t record the in-game videos. We could convert the BNK video into an AVI, and then Josh could edit that footage back in. Or, we could just go with a game that’s not going to be such a hassle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The show is on hiatus this week. I’ll be announcing the next series on Thursday. In the meantime, I thought I’d give a look at how we do what we do. 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