PRO NUKEM 3D: THE RISE OF SUNSTORM (Patreon)

The long awaited Duke3d episode on the Sunstorm expansions - Duke it out in D.C. and Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach - two expansions of varying quality. It took a while to get this one out for a couple reasons. Had some technical issues with the voiceover. As a result I spent a lot more time than usual going over the video and trimming/adding. Expansion packs are generally harder to do videos on because there's much less to talk about. Usually, you don't get much besides new levels. The worst case scenario is Duke it Out in D.C., where it's a bunch of new levels that are kinda boring and lame, while the best case scenario is Duke Caribbean, where there's tons of new stuff and it's fun and well-designed. 

Aside from that, I've also been working on remastering the old Blood 2 videos. It's been nagging at me for a while because of how big the Pro Blood videos have been. I had to put aside some time to work on it because I felt like it was one of the most important ones to re-do and while working on it I realized how many running gags started in those three vids. ("Raw" clips and Elevator Trouble) 

Aside from the original audio balancing issues that needed fixing, I re-recorded the entire voiceover which has resulted in a slightly faster pace and a much less noisy, nasally, and mostly expressionless VO . Without the original game footage, I was forced to go back to the original export itself, which is thankfully better quality than the YouTube upload. The only thing missing from the original project file was the game footage, so I was able to mix everything else properly and cleaned up a lot of the editing while constantly asking "What the fuck was I thinking?" There will be a nonzero percentage of people who like the old voiceover better. I didn't go into it trying to George Lucas the thing - the original jokes are all still there - mostly it was cleaning up the audio, transitions, cuts, some of the graphics, and putting all three parts together into one video. i think the most major change was moving the intro to Part 2 to the very beginning and getting properly scaled HD footage to accompany it. 

There's still a bunch of work to do on that, so it will be a little while before it's ready. Hopefully, the next video will be Petty Thief #3. Been recording footage for other stuff as well - I have the first three episodes of Heretic done on Black Plauge difficulty (I'm dreading episodes 4 and 5, and maybe those few levels of episode 6), an entire playthrough of Quake 2 on Hard+ (which is not as hard as you would think) and I'd really like to do some DOS trash again soon. Ok, well,  maybe I wouldn't like it, but I feel it's been neglected on the channel recently. They're often the hardest things to play through although Kreed and Corkscrew Rules give them a run for their money. 

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