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July Videos, Newsletter & Updates
🕑 Added 2018-07-10 01:24:50 +0000 UTC Ahoy! Doing this newsletter a bit late but that's alright. Let's get you up to speed on my plans for this month!So I didn't fulfill my promise to do 3 episodes of the Legendary Halo 2 No Deaths run, it's just hard because I need a solid hour or two to record them and with people going in and out of my house that can be hard. But I will continue to post videos on Act Man TV and do my best.
Finally got the ODST video out and that was great! Hope you all enjoyed it! I've set my sights on a Dark Souls 1 video and I'm currently playing through Doom 2016 as that has also been a highly requested video for me to make.
Apart from those two, I'm totally open to ideas at the moment so feel free to message me something. A few months ago I talked about doing a video on Vermintide 2 and I want to follow up with that because that game is fun as shit.
So in a nutshell, got some really good videos coming up and they'll take some time to put together and do right, especially Dark Souls. So hope you're excited for what's to come! Thanks for all your support :)
Here is the script for my Halo 3 ODST video: https://1drv.ms/w/s!ApKuQCp3U1TwgkSlCwL1uj56FLIR
Comments
Yifeng Hou
Sounds good. Can't wait to see the video.
The Act Man
Hey man! Glad you enjoy the vids, the channel and became a Patron! You know, your post made me think, did I cover this in my Halo 4 review? Or any of my other videos? I don't think I did to be honest. Kind of a missed opportunity for me. Hmmmm I've thought of doing a video outlining maybe the 10 best and worst decisions 343 has made with the Halo series. I'm not necessarily a lore channel so a video on the Forerunners alone might not be my cup of tea. What do you think about that idea?
Yifeng Hou
Would have messaged you but it is too long for the system to send it out.
Yifeng Hou
Hi Act Man, I am a fan of yours and therefore I subscribed to the "professor" level support. Despite of the fact that you say you will do almost anything you are asked for that subscription level, it will not be my expectation. I do not want you to do anything that you do not feel comfortable doing even it is my request. In other words, I expect you to do what you like and agree with. The reasons are as follows: 1. I become a fan of yours because I believe we share about 90% of the views on the games about which you have made videos. 2. Your videos have the most systematic and deepest insights among the ones I have seen in the video game community. 3. Subscribing for the sake of control will only ruin the independence of the youtubers. Now that we have got that out of the way, I would like to request an in-depth video on the significant changes 343 made in the depiction of the Forerunner and why they are so bad (that is if you agree with this as stated above). Unlike many kids who played Halo, the first piece of the artistic work on Halo that I came to know is the first three novels by Eric Nylund and William C. Dietz (I am from China by the way and I couldn't get myself an XBOX at that time because PS2 was the kind at that time). In my memory from the novels (and the games), Forerunners are basically god-like species that buried so many mysteries with them on Halo rings. Even the sloppiest appropriation of their technology could give the Covenant a huge edge over humanity. "Mystery" is indeed the first thing that comes to my mind when people talk about Halo. 343 removed most of the mysteries about Forerunners and make them an enemy (Didact) that is emotionally the same as humans (Didact hates humans and attack them). Besides all the negative sides you mentioned about the Halo games made by 343, I think this change in story and design significantly downgraded the Halo franchise. Look forward to hearing your thoughts and reply. Love Halo and love your work. This is Riemannstein signing out. War!
Deh Way
You think you could do "why is Metroid Prime so awesome?!" I think it would be a great video! Also YES DOOM is awesome still need to beat it lol
Christian Stanley
HEY MY NEXT VID IS GONNA BE ON VERMINTIDE YOU CANT COPY ME
John
Really looking forward to your Doom video! It would also be very interesting to hear your thoughts on the recent happenings surrounding the Guild Wars 2 devs being fired and Naughty Dog going full SJW.
Kenny D
Duuude, Doom 2016 is fun as hell! I didn’t really enjoy the multi player that much, but the fact you can make your own maps and layouts and let people play them has been so great! Has a decent amount sandbox features for creating maps. Was looking into vermintide 2, but my laptop isn’t doing so great (cracked screen and damaged graphics card), and I don’t have an Xbox one. I really liked the halo ODST video you did. Despite not playing the game that much (once at a friends house) I really enjoyed firefight, and craved more! And don’t mind the late newsletter. Shit happens sometimes.
