Simone Plays Portal - Part 1 - YouTube Version (Patreon)

Alright here it is! Our first venture into blind playthroughs! It turns out theres a few technical challenges and lessons to learn about filming gaming sessions, mostly to do with Audio.

Here's what we've learned out so far;

1. Simone needs a mouse pad. I (George) hadn't considered that not everyone plays with the mouse flat on the desk top, but instead may lift, drag and reposition the mouse to move.

2. Turns out filming a game and discord on the same machine does not mean perfectly sync'd audio, but rather there are random moments where the audio drifts off for 1/30th of a second for a few second. Which is why at random points you may hear a tinny or even echoing sound of one of our voices, then it would after a short duration, re-align itself. With this we're going to have to record our conversation on discord separately from the game audio, and manually resync'd afterwards.

Anyways, hopefully the audio issues doesn't make this unbearable for everyone. Part 2 has already been filmed but needs a bit of work/clean up before we can post it, so the same audio issue still persists in that one. We will be filming part 3 later this week so hopefully the quality will be improved.

Thank you all for your support and patience with us!

PS. Regarding game suggestions, please feel free to comment down below or message us directly! It will be done as a separate poll every few weeks (depending on the length of the game, and how many episodes worth everyone wants to watch).

PPS. What's everyones thoughts on the big story games? My guess is that games like RDR2, Witcher 3 and so on would be popular, but those are 60-80 hour investments, if not longer for Simone, does it make sense to do those games all the way to the end? Because with day job work schedule and film/tv reactions, it limits Simone to maybe 3-4 hours a week to record game sessions. Which would result in months of just one game till it concludes.

Or would it make more sense for us to dabble each game for a few episodes, then move on for a while? Would that piss everyone off if we stop epic story games after 6-8 hours? Let us know!