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[EARLY RELEASE] Halcyon Dreams: The Legacy of Dragon's Lair
🕑 Added 2017-11-21 15:22:50 +0000 UTC Hey friends!Here's the new video, up early for patrons. It's a semi-documentary about the legacy of a famous game. Let me know your thoughts!
Just fyi, the credits are based on whoever was backing me at the time the previous video went up, so if you just joined me, you'll be in the next one! Plz let me know if I said/wrote your name wrong/you prefer a different name in the credits as soon as possible!
The next 2 videos are shorter and (hopefully) coming out quicker than normal. One is a response to the 'soy boy' nonsense the Internet Weirds are currently babbling about, in which I outline a mostly-soy diet I'll do for a solid month just to prove they don't know what they're talking about. That should be out soonish, and at the end of the diet I'll publish a video documenting the effects and also properly debunking the pseudoscience behind the anti-soy 'movement' and that'll be more standard fare, just with a side of 'I ate a lot of soy to prove this'. I'll put videos up for backers covering the experience of radically altering my diet for no reason if anything funny comes up, lol.
The second video is an exploration of the 'response video' format and the ways it's changed over the years, and that should hopefully be out in a week. I'm gonna try and keep it short but sweet - my recent videos have tended to be super long and I'd like to avoid doing that when it isn't strictly necessary. I don't want a reputation for being long needlessly, although I must admit it's nice being supported in being as indulgent as possible with the topics I end up covering.
The next game-criticism video was going to be about Night In The Woods, but the creators recently announced a big update that adds way more content, and the game is so good that I want to play it again with the new stuff before talking about it. That way I'll also be able to weigh in on if you should play it again if you did so before the update.
In lieu of that, around December I should be close to finishing the next super-long game analysis, Deus Ex: Human Revolution Was Disappointing, And Here's Why, or perhaps a better name if I can ever think of one.
Thanks again!
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Comments
Dave
Very interesting!
Mimmi
I've got a school assignment were I have to update Wikipedia-pages. Would love to edit Dyer's and Dragon Lair's. Do you think you could help me out by linking some of your sources?
Dyer talking about "Thayer's Quest" and the console sounds a lot like Peter Molyneux talking about "Fable".
TinyPirate
Superb! Thanks!
Hbomb
Sorry about this! I'll get right on that
Thaddeus
Laser Disc is the greatest name for any form of human technology EVER. Everything before & since is but a pale shadow of the potential that lies within the concept of naming.
GhostSnake
18:47 as a citizen of canada your welcome bhomb :D
I second this. Thank you very much, from one side of the Internet to another.
Not wanting to be a whiner but I think I'm missing entirely from the credits.
Gabriel Costa (Hired Sword)
Well done,, really loved this one.
Gene
Damn, this was simply fantastic.
GingerAnimator
This was an incredible video. Just, thank you.
Hbomb
oh wow thanks for pointing this out lol
sevrl bats
I've always been really curious about these games! I didn't understand, like, the means of input? they're essentially point-and-click adventure games with tons of dead ends, right? maybe I should just watch and find out!
Was "Ghostbusters book cover" in the credits a mistake or an intended joke?
The pedant in me want's to point out that Vermeer first name is properly "Johannes," not "Johan," although the latter is not uncommon outside of the Netherlands.
Elizabeth Crowe
I still have the Warlock of firetop mountain!
Louise
I am so excited for every single thing you have listed for future videos. I wanted to comment just to say I adore your long videos and watch them all multiple times. I've watched/listened to the "Bloodborne is genius" video tens of times whilst knitting etc. It's just so good.
Zachary B
Another great video!
Nichtschwert
Okay instead of a dumb joke, let me just say, I really really REALLY appreciate the closing statement. That was pretty profound and I felt that one deep in my hollow bones. Thanks, HBomb.
Iandrasil
Didn't think you'd be a bepis man.
Anna Phylaxis
Also, re: Deus Ex - my GOODNESS I hope you get to talk about the way it tried to make you an oppression tourist, and how that detachment utterly defeated any sting or pathos the story hoped to convey.
Anna Phylaxis
Hey, what's the epidemic sound track playing over yr "why did I make this" section?
SurgeryHead
Holy shit a Hbomb video about video games. What's the world come to?
LANCE MANLY, SORCERER OF SIN
Hey Hbomb, just wanted to let you know that I'd think it quite lovely to be called "Lance Manly, Sin Sorcerer" and that I'm excited to finally be apart of the group of people helping support your superb videos!
