Channel Update #9 (Nov) – planned videos for 2021 and next poll (Patreon)

With Deus Ex now done I’m going to get started on something Elder Scrolls related for the time being, and then switch to Cyberpunk when(if) it comes out, and then back to Elder Scrolls when the Cyberpunk video is finished. This means no new video next month but oh well.

Anyway I wanted to give everyone an indication of my plans for next year as I think it makes sense to share that kind of thing with you all. Keep in mind this is all subject to change, particularly as fitting all these videos into a single year is quite ambitious in terms of time required, but also because plans change, new games come out, etcetera etcetera. But, with that said, this is what my planned schedule is looking like:

Dec - Cyberpunk 2077 review

Jan - Elder Scrolls p1 (Morrowind?)

Feb - Elder Scrolls p2 (Oblivion?)

Mar - Elder Scrolls p3 (Skyrim?)

Apr - Bannerlord one year later

May - poll #4 (series)/Mass Effect series

Jun – Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 review?

Jul - Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous review?

Q3 - Baldur’s Gate 1 retrospective

Q3 - Baldur’s Gate 2 retrospective

Q4 - Baldur’s Gate 3 review

Q4 - poll #5 (series)/Mass Effect series

So to explain my thought process a bit. Basically in 2021 I want to cover some of the bigger projects I’ve always planned (Elder Scrolls, Baldur’s Gate, maybe mass effect), as well as cover any new big rpg releases that interest me. I haven’t decided the exact format of the elder scrolls video but I imagine I’ll have a lot to say which means I think I want to split it up into more than one video to make it more manageable for myself. Mass effect makes more sense to do all games in one video, but the announcement of a trilogy remaster makes me a bit unsure. It means I don’t know whether to use the old games, which might be better for a retrospective, or the new versions, which might be more relevant. But I’ll keep an eye on the remaster and its release date and decide when I have more information. Baldur’s Gate should be simple and hopefully I can make retrospectives on both games leading directly up to BG3’s actual release. Fitting in Pathfinder and Bloodlines 2 might be more difficult as neither have very solid release dates, but I’ll just have to try to make things fit. It’s not the end of the world if videos get moved around and so on, so should be fine.

This does mean less patreon polls but if I included Elder Scrolls in a poll I’m sure it would win anyway and the only way I can tackle some bigger projects, while also covering new releases, is to do it this way. But polls will return when they make sense. As for the next poll, I mostly want to see people’s interest in which entire series retrospectives they’d like out of the ones that I think would be good. So that’s what this current poll is. I assume Mass Effect will be most popular  so that will probably be the next entire series video I do, but hopefully I’ll fit in another series retrospective into next year as well and I’ll likely have a dedicated poll to decide that one.

As for stuff not on the poll… there are rpgs I plan to cover some day but that I don’t think an entire series retrospective is the best fit, so that might be why they are not there (stuff like KOTOR or Neverwinter Nights). There are also games that are not part of a series but I still hope to get around to one day, like Arcanum. There are also quite a few entire series videos I want to make but just aren’t realistic. Stuff like: Total War, Persona or X-Com are all series that I’d be interested in covering except there are too many games so making a video on them would take too long. There are a few other series that I’m not sure on for different reasons (like Half Life as I don’t have VR for Alyx, or stuff like Dark Souls which I’m not sure if an entire series video is the right fit). I also haven’t included Final Fantasy, which I do plan to cover although I have no idea if I’ll get to do the whole series or instead have to take a more realistic approach. But that’s a problem for 2022 and this update was about 2021.

So there you go; these are my thoughts and plans for (roughly) the next 13 months. Feedback and suggestions are, of course, very welcome but there does tend to be reasons for my selections so I’m not sure how much will change based on this. Really I’ve tried to strike a nice balance between what I think my audience will want, what I think will perform well on youtube, and what I think I will enjoy the most. My biggest problems are around uncertain release dates and whether I can fit so many videos into this time frame, but this is all just a plan and the nice thing about plans is you can change them as much as you want. So what does everyone think?