Rarelywinter
November 14th, 2011

Posted by Matt

The week’s new videos are here, and ready for your viewing pleasure. Check ’em:

commodoreHUSTLE: Rarelywinter
Unskippable: Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel
Checkpoint: UbiHardball

This week’s update marks the fourth entry in our Wizards of the Coast-sponsored series of videos, and features the Neverwinter campaign setting. When we were offered the chance to feature this particular product, it seemed like the perfect excuse to bring back everyone’s favorite D&D group – so we looked to Dale, Ryan, and Jess to help us out with this one.

We shot this video in a single evening at Dale’s apartment. We were running on a pretty strict timeline for this one, so it meant getting everyone together for a night, and hammering it out. Some careful planning, preparation, and skillful boom-work (handled by Sir-not-appearing-in-this-picture, [read: me]) later, and this one was in the can.

If you haven’t yet had your fill of Dale, remember also that Desert Bus begins this Friday at 6PM. He’ll make an appearance or two I’m sure. I’m less sure about the planned attendance of Jess or Ryan, but keep your eyes on the video stream, because you never know who’ll turn up!

One final note: our Phases tee-shirts have arrived from the printer, and we will be shipping them out as soon as is feasible. I know the plan is to get them on the road before Desert Bus starts, but we’re still in the midst of Desert Bus prep, and it may just not be possible. We ask for your patience and understanding on this one, and we’ll do our best to get them to you ASAP.

Cheers!

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Outbid
November 8th, 2011

Posted by Matt

It’s video update time!
LRR: Outbid
Unskippable: Call of Juarez: The Cartel – Part 2
Checkpoint: Battlefail 3

It ocurred to me, as I sat down to write this update that perhaps it wasn’t the best timing to release a video about the absurdity of corporate sponsorship while we are, ourselves, in the middle of producing videos that are part of a corporate sponsorship deal. Let it not be said that we aren’t willing to make fun of ourselves. This goes double for when none of us actually put two and two together and realise we’re doing it.

I am given to understand that this video idea arose from the simple fact that Victoria does, in fact, have a cathedral by the name of “Christ Church Cathedral”, and the question of Jesus’ branding deal with the Church just sort of evolved from there.

My personal contribution to the video’s content was the stinger, which we didn’t have an idea for when we sat down to shoot. The rewrite of The Lord’s Prayer seemed like the obvious choice for a stinger, and the first couple lines were already provided in the script proper. It was just a matter of following the theme to it’s ultimate conclusion.

Cheers!

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The Secret Life of Board Games
October 17th, 2011

Posted by Matt

Hi adventurers! Use your move action to head over to The Escapist by clicking this link, and watch this week’s video! (We’ll count the click as free).

This week’s video was written by Graham, and features the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons board game Legend of Drizzt heavily. We’ve fallen in love with these games since Jer got a copy of Wrath of Ashardalon, so it was only a matter of time before they ended up in a video in one form or another. This, as it turns out, is the final result. Graham had the following to say about the writing process:

I think everyone, regardless of what game they’re playing, has at some point given little voices and characters to their play piece. Even if its something as simple as giving revving and screeching noises to the race car in Monopoly. Come on… we’ve all been there.

Going from that, I thought that turning a game filled with as much magic as the D&D board games into “just another day at the office” seemed like a fun idea.

I like that Gary and Dave dislike Ronny not because he’s a big scary half-spider creature (who, in the game, is legitimately a difficult enemy), but because he’s a dick. Then, adding the little cutaways to other games just fell into place. Originally we’d wanted Clue and Snakes & Ladders (“Now it’s Snakes & Ladders & Spiders, bitches!”), but we couldn’t get a hold of them, so Chess and Robo Rally were the replacements.

Unskippable this week was Drakengard 2. You’ll find that video here.

Over on PATV, you’ll find this week’s Checkpoint – once again featuring our good friend Justin McElroy, of Joystiq.

Cheers!

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Cruise Vacation
October 10th, 2011

Posted by Matt

CONGRATULATIONS! You, lucky winner, are about to receive an ALL EXPENSES PAID, ROUND-TRIP FOR ONE, to OUR NEW VIDEO! (click here for details).

This video was shot about a week or so ago, and as it happened, on a weekend when both James and Kathleen were out of town. This left a skeleton crew of myself, Paul and Graham to take care of this video, and with one person being responsible for the camera, and another for the boom, we had to call in some friends! So this week you get a dose of Missie and Cam, who don’t show up in videos nearly often enough. The script this week was written by Paul, and the video was shot mostly on location at one of our many favourite haunts, Graham’s parents’ house. Amusingly, they were on vacation in England when this video was shot, and after we inadvertently set off the house alarm when we got there, we had to call them in order to figure out how to turn it off. We’re awesome at this.

Unskippable this week was Space Marine. You can view that here.

Checkpoint is online as well, with Episode 23: HD Remix.

Finally, please note that our new tee-shirt is up for pre-order, if you love Magic: the Gathering (and we hope you do!) you’re sure to love this shirt as well.

Cheers!

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Me Again
October 3rd, 2011

Posted by Matt

This video is not from the future. You should still probably check it out.

The video was written by Graham this week, and he has provided the following write-up, for your reading pleasure!

As with Rent, this video comes straight out of a conversation. I’m not sure who was there, but I think Kathleen and James were involved. Basically the “did I lose my fashion sense?!” line was the catalyst, leading to the “that’s next year!” exchange.

Once I started writing I went from there and basically freeformed this bizzarre conversation. The ending was tricky. I was trying to avoid two (what I felt to be) obvious endings.

The first was that Future John was just messing with John, which I avoided by having John straight-up acuse Future John of such. The second was that everything Future John says is true, which seemed too easy to me.

So I wrote this dark ending with Future John (revealed to actually be John’s twin brother, Brian) vaguely referencing some problem John has, and the “future-self therapy”.

Paul (rightly) thought it was a little too far of a stretch and combined what I call “The Brazil Ending” with my second outcome from above, into a no less dark and weird ending, but one that at least has more connection to the rest of the video.

Oh, and why Jimmy Fallon? No idea. Seemed funny at the time.

Unskippable this week sees the return of the ever-unfortunate Metroid: Other M

Finally, Checkpoint investigates the failures of Final Fantasy.

Cheers!

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