Information Vote on how Chris Avellone will LP Arcanum!

[Atomic]

If MCA is not naked while playing, i'm not interested.

 

[Average Manatee]

Some kind of blog of his thoughts as a writer would be best. Who really wants to see him on video for an hour raging at (insert every retarded combat-heavy biased towards mage area)?

 

[Ignatius Reilly]

I'd be happy with a document/blog version.

 

[Excommunicator]

This idea is not nearly as good as people are making it out to be.

 

[Carrion]

Arcanum's a huge game. How much stuff can you put into a 10-minute video at a time? I'd have liked to see just a simple blog with lots of text and a few screenshots as Arcanum's gameplay is not really that exciting to watch. Oh well, I'm sure it's going to be fun anyway.

 

[deuxhero]

Bah, gunslinger all the way. Magicks for pussies.

I played a Jinxed Gunslinger once. Only even vaugely playable because I had a mod that buffed fire arm damage and had knew most of the game's secrets.

 

[Surf Solar]

Wow, this is very important news.

 

[Coyote]

Video definitely, who here doesn't want to see more of Avellone? (Also think about the possibilities for emoticons...)

Speaking of which, where does this image come from, anyway? I know the sources of most of the others, but I think this one must have appeared at some point when I was away.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Stream it, but with absolutely no community interaction to spoil or derp up the game for him. It'd be interesting to see his thoughts and reactions in real time.

 

[RK47]

I recommend he play it unpatched.

 

[Regdar]

Unpatched, no mods, dwarven mechanic. Then do a Stream and watch him suffer.

 

[felipepepe]

Sad thing is that probably nothing he learns will go on into Wasteland 2, since all the design documents are already written...

 

[GarfunkeL]

I'd be happy with a document/blog version.

Yes, this is probably the best for overall LP. Though seeing his face and hearing his voice as he goes through the game could potentially be awesome as well.

Wow, this is very important news.

What happened to you man? You're so depressed in every News thread recently. More womyn problems?

 

[eric__s]

I honestly don't care and I think it sucks that you're making something that should be enjoyable for him into work.

 

[Infinitron]

I honestly don't care and I think it sucks that you're making something that should be enjoyable for him into work.

Who are you blaming? Post that on the Obsidian forums, not here.

 

[eric__s]

Nobody really, it just sucks that the internet has collectively decided that he has to play and document some video game.

 

[Marsal]

I honestly don't care and I think it sucks that you're making something that should be enjoyable for him into work.

You make it sound like MCA is a prostitute. Come to think of it, he has been paid to do it, in a way. Does that make Feargus a pimp?

 

[felipepepe]

He dug that hole himself, Arcanum is a impressive game that the God-Emperor of storyfag RPG's should defintely know, and he actually managed to turn his disturbing lack of repertoire into a way to squeeze a bit more gold bars with that whole "at $4.0m Chris Avellone will be forced to play Arcanum"... MCA could've easily said "I'll bake a cake at 4M" and things would probably end mostly the same.

Also, we gave him that game years ago and he never played it, humph.

Besides, I'm almost sure he won't complete it anyway... probably do a "ironman" and quit after dying, or a bug crash, or simply getting bored at the dwarven mines... I doubt this will go beyond Tarant.

 

[General Maxson]

He dug that hole himself, Arcanum is a impressive game that the God-Emperor of storyfag RPG's should defintely know, and he actually managed to turn his disturbing lack of repertoire into a way to squeeze a bit more gold bars with that whole "at $4.0m Chris Avellone will be forced to play Arcanum"... MCA could've easily said "I'll bake a cake at 4M" and things would probably end mostly the same.

Also, we gave him that game years ago and he never played it, humph.

Besides, I'm almost sure he won't complete it anyway... probably do a "ironman" and quit after dying, or a bug crash, or simply getting bored at the dwarven mines... I doubt this will go beyond Tarant.

I hope that won't be the case, there are great things to experience beyond Tarant IMO. He should go through the whole game and see everything.

 

[felipepepe]

The ironic part is that he would probably do that if he didn't had to LP it. Beating Arcanum and exploring should take what? 8-10 hours? If he makes 10 minutes youtube videos, that means 60 videos... he's a busy man, all that Chaos fighting and stuffies, I doubt that he'll go that far.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Video definitely, who here doesn't want to see more of Avellone? (Also think about the possibilities for emoticons...)

 

[SwiftCrack]

The ironic part is that he would probably do that if he didn't had to LP it. Beating Arcanum and exploring should take what? 8-10 hours? If he makes 10 minutes youtube videos, that means 60 videos... he's a busy man, all that Chaos fighting and stuffies, I doubt that he'll go that far.

Just let him play the game and record it and let some intern handle all the editing and uploading bullshit.

 

[Seerix]

Funny how option to just let him enjoy the game has the least votes

Streaming live is probably worst option, will totally derail from the game in few seconds. That and I thought the whole Arcanum deal was more about him finally playing the game and giving his opinions/experience, etc. not about making fucking Youtube celebrity show with maybe even a fucking facecam to make it fully next-gen, huh?

 

[SwiftCrack]

What's the problem with him recording the playthrough in his own pace; then releasing it with comments in video form when it's done? It's not like he has to instantly upload it and has to watch the youtube commentary afterwards :/.

 

[Carrion]

Beating Arcanum and exploring should take what? 8-10 hours?

Try 30-40. I think it took me even longer with a gunslinger build on my first playthrough, but Harm spammers and melee characters will probably beat the game a bit faster. Even if you do just the main quest without exploring a lot, the game will probably take more than 20 hours if you don't want to rush it. Of course, with some heavy editing you could fit more stuff into the videos (make it look like the game has an AoD teleport by cutting all the walking), but that's just additional work and in that case screenshots would be just as good anyway.

 

[villain of the story]

I bet he will grow tired of it real quick. No Obsidian game has had half the mechanical depth of Arcanum. Obsidian is a storyfag's developer with simplistic gameplay. Quite ironically, their most mechanically deep game is FNV, a wreckage passed down from FO3.