VIDEO: Exploring Donkey Kong 64's Timeless Atmosphere
Added 2024-11-11 22:58:14 +0000 UTC
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I took a break from the channel for a bit and came back to watch the last few videos, and I really enjoy them but I also felt like something was kinda missing, and when I thought about it I realized it's that they're all narrated in post rather than "live" over the game! I came to the Patreon to see if maybe those kinds of videos were being uploaded here and I'm so so glad I was right. The video essay style is great too and popular for a reason but there is something so uniquely relaxing and "hang-outy" about these more improvy ones. Also, and I just thought about this as I was writing this comment, but something incredible about these "live narrated" videos is that they actually double as a masterclass in how to play video games like this. Since I started watching your channel I've started to pay attention to games in a way I hadn't before, like slow down and smell the roses. I've even taken out old games I hadn't looked at in a while and played them with the express purpose of looking for odd and unremarkable places or other details. I hadn't quite put this together until literally just now, but I think the improved nature of those videos was kinda important in making me go do that, because it literally gives me a model of behavior to follow, as opposed to an essay that just abstractly implies the existence of the analysis that went into it. Kind of like how as a kid you would see an episode of a TV show where they make flipbooks or something, and you would go "oh shit I could do that" and then make flipbooks for a week. Because we're watching you observe the game and formulate your thoughts about it live, it's almost like you're running a masterclass in the "skill" of playing video games attentively. Not that that's really a skill so much as something you just have to decide to go and do, but you know what I mean. So in a roundabout kind of way, those videos almost fall into the same genre as something like The Joy of Painting, just that you're recording and broadcasting art appreciation rather than art production. Anyway I'm glad I can still see that style here, and I hope you haven't totally given up on bringing that kind of content to the wider youtube audience because I have now sort of talked myself around to thinking that those videos are somehow to the betterment of humanity. Sorry if that is coming across as the most melodramatic possible way to tell a youtuber to make more videos I like, but I really just mean it as praise (and, well, also the other thing)
Jack
2025-01-02 16:55:01 +0000 UTCJust found your channel a few weeks ago, I absolutely adore your content. Thank you for all the hard work you put into each video! Iβve genuinely learned a lot and have laughed a ton π€
okaykayli
2024-11-27 15:39:38 +0000 UTCImagine all the bacteria and shit in all that standing water! Ick!
DurtyDeeds 69
2024-11-13 22:07:15 +0000 UTCthese are some high quality reflections; thank you for sharing
Kurt Refling
2024-11-12 14:45:53 +0000 UTCim watching this with my dog!!!!
thalia
2024-11-12 14:30:47 +0000 UTCMany more to come
Austin
2024-11-12 02:19:31 +0000 UTCOmg thank you Austin i missed the old "babling non-sense in apparence slow paced" videos soooo much It helped me chill and stay calm and still does I really hope the new audience will dig the old videos :x
Celt Glider
2024-11-12 00:51:59 +0000 UTCDonkey Kong 64 is one of those games that I played in my late N64 years which happened to coincide with my PS2 years and Gameshark years. As a result, I remember the first third of the game like a dream, the second third like a fever dream, and the last third as if someone told it to me and I didn't believe them.
Emily the Trash Captain
2024-11-11 23:45:20 +0000 UTCI personally feel like there's something inherently lonely about all games from the early and pre-2000s that have heavily abstracted, highly geometric architecture and geography. I'm not entirely sure what it is. I think maybe it's how tangible the "making" of the game feels when the models are so easily discernible. It's like I'm right there in the mind of the designer, except we are oceans and decades apart, inextricably connected and yet complete and total strangers. Or maybe it's just that my childhood was lonely and these games make me think of my childhood. It's probably that. Anyway great video thanks for the video I like it when the video. Yep
Cassie
2024-11-11 23:37:28 +0000 UTCI'm terrified of going to sleep at night. I don't know if its because of childhood trauma or just me being dumb but your videos give me a safe environment I can fall asleep to where I don't have to worry about how long I gotta stay up for or worrying about hearing things that aren't there
asvpdynasty
2024-11-11 23:12:59 +0000 UTC
