End of the Road! (Blog) (Patreon)

It's been a long fucking road, at least it certainly feels like it on my end. Hope it hasn't been too bad for you guys!

Episode 100) With the big episode finally out, gotta say on a selfish level... I'm so fucking HAPPY that the Reignited Trilogy got delayed. Could you imagine such an important episode getting wasted on that, without Sly, without special effects and with that awesome outro plonked on the end feeling out of place? What a blessing in disguise! To think I thought it ruined my plans (it did) but in the end, it was definitely for the best! Episode 100 will have a full Making-of episode detailing the process, planning and ideas behind the episode, most likely to drop sometime next month. Following Tony Hawktober, I'll be dropping a compilation of all 218 video submissions that were featured in the outro, in full so people can see more of the amazing gags and such everyone had!

Time for Tony Hawktober!) With that important episode out of the way, I'm currently one session away from entirely finishing editing for the special. Day 6/6 is coming along nicely, very happy with how the week is going to end. Once that's done, everything will be revised and uploaded for Early Access later this week. I'll be dropping a trailer on the channel when they're up, that's coming along good too. Much better than the trailer I made last year, fucking hell. That one was ROUGH!

I've mentioned it previously but just to recap, ALL SIX of the episodes will be available at once for Early Access and I'm looking forward to seeing what people think of them. Put a lot into it this year, things might be a bit different but the core idea hasn't changed in the slightest! Of course, Hawktober will also have plenty of Behind the Scenes stuff also dropping in November: A full Making-of episode and two Outtakes videos. There was one shooting in particular that was pure magic so, it's definitely worthy of its own video. 

Moving on from Hawktober) As far as reviews are concerned, while I'm sure I'll change my mind on it. I'm honestly feeling like Reignited could be the final episode of the year. Obviously I love a good Christmas special but the way I feel right now, I'm just a bit sick of the formula after these past couple of months. I haven't worked on any other type of content since June, which had a Top 10 and the MEGA SHOVELWARE COMPILATION for my 22nd birthday. Speaking of which... the first thing I plan to work on following all this stuff is another testing episode focusing on that big box of PS2 games. We barely put a dent in it last time. So keep an eye out the rest of October for Horror-ble PS2 Game Testing or something like that!

I also want to do more game room/collection type stuff. People like that stuff and I really don't do enough of it. I'd like to do a Framemeister followup video, I've got new shelves to hopefully build. I also want to get my NES sent off finally to be RGB modded for the Framemeister so we can get back into that system. So while things have been rather slow, I'm finally in a position to open the flood gates and get back to two videos per week. Even Top 10s, I don't know of any decent Halloween topics I could smash out before I leave for Melbourne to attend PAX AUS but regardless, they're a lot more efficient to produce compared to reviews, mostly because I don't need to playthrough entire games or write for entire games. They're more like 10 quick, to the point observations. So getting to do some more of those plus all the behind the scenes content, game testing and live content... we've got a loaded end to the year ahead!

Closing Thoughts) I'm keen for a change of pace, if that wasn't clear. I'm not burned out on making videos, in fact I'm the most motivated I've been to produce stuff in forever... just not reviews. :P I'm looking forward to taking it easy the rest of this week once the final Tony Hawk chores are complete. Obviously keen for PAX and then I'll be trying to have a break the week following (Red Dead Redemption 2, you know how it is) but that's when I plan to complete all of this behind the scenes stuff. Can't wait to dump all this RAW footage overflowing from my hard drives right now, got no hard disk space haha! But again, thank you for keeping things under control while I get all this hard work done, I really appreciate that you guys appreciate the effort. So I hope you have a great fucking day, cheers guys! :)

Cheeky Hawktober Trailer Preview! (If you're familiar with classic Tony Hawk trailers, you might know what's going on here).