Update #20 - Pathologic & Preparation (Patreon)

Kreal, one of the channels I mentioned last year, uploaded a new video and I'm glad to have played a small part in its making. I've linked it here if you want to check it out. He makes great stuff.

On the video front, I have very little to report since I'm entering the last third of recording Pathologic. It's a very long game as I've mentioned before, and it does become extremely mundane and repetitive at points so it's something that's hard to just power through in one sitting without going crazy. This is the first time I've dared to play all three stories, and as people warned me it truly does push the limits of patience but I'm really curious to see where it all goes. The simplest way to put it was said by someone on Twitter in the vein of "this game is awful, it's great". I'm still wrapping my brain around it, but nothing is going wrong in technical issues this time. The guy I was working with for Cultist Simulator ended up having to drop out in the last minute due to an issue but I hope that we'll be able to put something together in the future. It's just one one of the risks of doing collab stuff that props up. So in the case of Pathologic no news is good news. 

In the meanwhile (when Pathologic becomes too much) I've been going through the list finding some games that I've wanted to do videos on that I'm not sure I'd be able to run. Since I've been looking for candidates of other videos to do in early 2019 along with the regular lineup, I'm leaning towards doing a video on the Return of the King game since I managed to get it running in widescreen (with only some UI stuff stretching) with functional co-op. This would also be a good starting point to see how people will react to a game that was mainly played on console. After all, that's where I first played it.

Some abandonware titles like Hardwar are also being messed with, though some older games have surprising issues of their music being flagged for copyright due to being sampled by later artists or having licensed music with expired rights, which can make showing the audio for some of those difficult. This isn't so much as a "I won't get money" issue, more of a "will people be able to watch this" issue, since I've had videos basically permamuted or shut down completely years after the audio was deemed alright due to changes in YouTube or licencor backend. So that's still something to figure out. 

I'm still trawling through the November mail, and should hopefully be caught up midweek if all goes well. I should have more detail to report on Pathologic's video next week.

Thanks for all the support!