2017: A Games Round-Up! - Behind the Scenes (Patreon)

Sorry it's been so long since either anything was posted on here or anything went up on my channel. Lot's of writer's block and general lack of motivation is to blame!

Anyway, as promised I have some stuff to say regarding today's video. There was quite a lot of cut content from the final video so let's get down with the details!

How the video came about:

Throughout the year I had played a bunch of more recent games with the full intention to eventually cover them as thier own games.

However, a combination of not being sure what to do in those videos and preferring to cover older games anyway meant something like this was probably going to be the way they happened in the end...

Which it obviously did! Huzzah!

How the video changed during production:

The main thing that changed before anything had even started is that originally I was contemplating doing a standalone review video, themed around Christmas for (you probably saw it coming a mile away) The Grinch!

I'm fully away me doing that would have got me some stick for it being yet another game that Caddicarus has talked about, but in my defense, it was always the plan to talk about anyway.

That's mainly because it's made by the same people who developed Bugs Bunny Lost in Time and Bugs Bunny & Taz TimeBusters, and it stick to a similar 3D platforming style.

I've no doubt I'll eventually talk about that game, but obviously it'd have to be around Christmas time for it to make any sense, really.

Other than that there's also a segment on Dead Rising 4: Capcom Heroes which never got a mention because... well, I haven't played much of it... and what I have played already started to bore me after a couple of hours, so even if I did mention it I wouldn't have had much to say.

Other things that changes were a few cuts to some of the live action segments, either because they weren't as funny as I originally thought or because of complications involving filming.

The biggest of these changes as to the opening. After taking the basket off my head the camera zoomed right into my eyes, into darkness. There was then going to be a CGI render of a brain which would zoom in to reveal a scene taking place within my own mind....

It'd then just be regular, non-YouTube uniform, casual clothes Pete sat in a chair, looking at a monitor wondering what the hell Petronious is doing.

It sounds stupid but the idea was to have it be sort of like Inside Out, I guess? But with the visual style of this scene from Crash Twinsanity...

Anyway the reason it was cut is because it would have been too big of a ball-ache to film and edit, and justify being there. 

Movie Studio can do green screen effects, but that would have taken a long while to figure out how to get it looking decent given the programs limitations, so I just scrapped it. There was also some elements of it being a narrative teaser for something else... but I suck at incorporating any on-going narratives.

This is will probably come back in the future for something else I have in mind...

Smaller changes include there being a very brief on-camera opening to Titanfall 2's segment, which was ultimately cut because it wasn't funny, and served no real purpose...

And some small changes to the build up of mentioning Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts.The original sequence included a shot of my throwing the game across the room, with the idea being to animate it bouncing around before crashing into the corner... but the footage I had filmed didn't have a good while balance set to it when filming, so everything came out looking all gross.

As well as the above title cards for each segment. Originally I had the animated version of my current avatar doing the spooky Halloween meme dance each time but I figured it'd put people off who weren't into dead meme bullshit... so I cut it out and stuck to what we ended up with.

Other Trivia and Info:

I think it's noticeable enough, but yeah... all of the footage from Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is actually from that one live stream I did of it the day it got released.

I'm surprised at how decent the footage did look because the vast majority of my streams end up lagging out after a while, but that one went really well in that regard!

The whole gameplay clip I used in the video ended up being 2 hours long, which I downloaded straight from my Video Manager page, so that's why there's a good chunk of footage from the earlier sections of the game. Not to save spoilers, but because I legitimately didn't record any footage of the game at the time!

The other thing is that at the very end the quick list of games that appears were some genuine candidates for actual mentions but didn't get added for a lack of a full opinion of the game. One I very nearly finished this year and would have definitely spoke about if I had was the 2013 remake of Shadow Warrior... I still have a lot of footage for that game lying around somewhere, so who knows!

That's a wrap!

So, that's it. Not just for this video, but for a year of videos on my channel.

Thanks to you guys for sticking with me on here and supporting me. Means a lot to think I've even half decent at whatever this is I'm doing!

I'll post an update if anything changes here on Patreon, because I honestly have no idea when the next video will be now...

But for what it's worth... anyone eagle-eyed enough to spot it in the weeks leading up to today's video... 

I've labelled the videos that I consider good enough to be a part of what I've been working towards a new name as Petronious: Season 1 (2016-2017)

As they'll likely be a break between this video and the next, and my recent upgrade from Movie Studio 12 to Vegas Pro 14, I feel wiping the slate clean and giving things from this point on their own playlist seems like a decent idea.

I've got some new ideas that I'd like to try and do with a few of my future videos, as well as the branding surrounding them like the thumbnails and splash screen after each intro.

More new on that when I'm closer to finishing the things I haven't even started yet!

Thanks again for your support, and see you in the new year at some point!

- Pete