BLOOD 2: THE CHOSEN - RAWMASTERED (Patreon)

EDIT: After some feedback and some editing glitches, I've uploaded a new version of the video. It's slightly shorter, fixes some editing glitches, and removes a few Ramsay clips that weren't necessary. I wasn't going to remove them at first to avoid going too far and George Lucas-ing the thing, but I don't think it hurts. 

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Three years.

It's been three years since I made those Blood 2 videos. I had fewer than 10 subs. At the time, the DNA of the show relied on me talking about games that, I assumed, nobody cared about. The retro FPS revival barely existed. I'm not even sure the first episode of DUSK was out yet in July of 2017. 

It was really, really weird to watch one of the old videos so thoroughly, and while it wasn't as painful as I expected, so many things seemed off. I didn't want to George Lucas it, so only a few things were dramatically changed. I haven't had the game footage that was used to make the video since 2017, so all of the footage here is from the original exports. I did have everything else besides the game footage, including the original project files, graphics, and sounds. In fact, the bad editing of the original helped a lot when making this because all of the sound and video was haphazardly thrown together without proper mixing, so game audio was completely isolated. But enough technical bullshit, let's get down to what's changed: 

1. The voiceover has been completely re-recorded because the old one is trash and I couldn't even begin to fix it. This has caused the pacing to be slightly faster.

 2. Editing glitches here and there were removed. Bad cuts, one-or-two-frame overlaps that I didn't notice at the time for some reason. 

3. The big one: Audio has been completely re-balanced and re-tuned. I didn't have the game footage, but everything else from the video was in the project folder, so I was able to adjust every sound individually. 

4. Old, crispy DOS Blood footage has been re-recorded and replaced. There weren't any Blood source ports when this video was first made. 

5. The three parts are all smashed together and introduced with title cards matching the ones from Part 3, except slightly brighter to make them clearer. 

6. The "In The Mouth of Madness" intro from the beginning of Part II was moved to the very beginning of the video and movie footage was replaced with HD footage. In general, most of the movie clips were replaced with HD footage when available. 

7. All the "X minutes later" cards were re-done to be like the new ones because people had told me that the rainbow colored backdrop hurt their eyes, which is fair. 

8. Other miscellaneous improvements - stuff like adding a subtitle during one of Caleb's quieter, hard to hear lines in the original Blood footage. 

This was kind of an important video for the channel because of how many running gags started here. Obviously, Gordon Ramsay, purposefully used to such excess that it would justify Civvie getting irradiated in Part 3. I didn't even want to bring it back after this video, and it wasn't until about six months later that I'd throw it into the Hunt Down the Freeman video, which I hoped would get some exposure because of how recent a controversy that game was. (It did!)

Oh, and Elevator Trouble - named for a Rise of the Triad level, but it would make a return in the Shogo video (Further Elevator Trouble), Pro Nukem 3D: Lunar Apocalypse (Elevator Trouble: The Revenge), The ROTT video (Elevator Trouble Origins), and Daikatana (Bride of Elevator Trouble). Malfunctioning elevators come up a lot and I might have forgotten one. 

I want to periodically remaster older videos, and thankfully this one was the longest and most difficult to do - I think I actually still have the game footage for Operation Bodycount - and something about having a fully remastered version of the Capstone Tetraology seems appropriate, though I'd absolutely lose the bit where I didn't realize there was a screen wipe key. 

Oh, yeah, and the next video is a descent into Quake 2, which will probably be out sometime next week while I work out how to make Quake 2 less boring. I have a decent amount of that video edited already. And after that is some DOS trash that was brought to my attention by a patron after the last video. It is so very special. It's hard to top trash like Island Peril, and it may never happen, but I must try. 

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