Hi All!
It's been a while since the last post, and it's simply because we're busy making lots of videos.
Since Minecraft started we have racked up 67 episodes and are now in the middle of a hiatus. We have also started and are now 18 episodes deep into a series of Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005), in which I play the game while Frank and Liam talk.
We also made a full playthrough of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze as Funky Kong, played all 5 maps in Mario Party Superstars, and are now posting 1 game per week of Colonist/Settlers of Catan.
NFS: Most Wanted was a long time coming for me. Being a big fan of racing games, and seeing as NFS III: Hot Pursuit was one of my first racing games, it's a big deal for me. You will also find in this blog that the earliest mention of doing a Most Wanted series was in 2014, then again in 2015, and then also again in late 2021, until this year when we were discussing what we could do after Mario Party and have all three of us in it.
I wasn't keen on Poke'mon since we've been talking about it non-stop for like 6 months. I suggested doing Castlevania, so we might do that later now that we've done series that Liam and I wanted to do and so one day we'll watch Frank play while we commentate.
Initial hurdles include my internet not allowing me to watch people stream on Discord, Liam not having a disc drive so I couldn't just bring the disc, and then when the series started the game hasn't been cooperating with OBS or Discord, but we've still managed to get it to work. It is easily my favourite series to watch at the moment. I also have a blast when we're recording. The external disc drive has been loaned to us by former YouTuber Angrove.
Ok so I tried out Need for Speed and it all works. Recording it is a bit scuffed because of how old of a game it is but I can work around it. Works with a controller as well somewhat, the mapping just seems a little odd.
It's not really equppied to be recorded with modern day equipment, so OBS doesn't pick it up as a game so I have to use screen capture. Additionally the game plays in widescreen but is picked up in 4'3 which I presume is it's native resolution so it kinda works out. Though I can't do any adjusting on OBS as whenever I minimize the game, it no longer shows up on OBS to edit.
[6:00 PM]
Despite all that the recording is still very much usable, it's just a bit funky is all.
~Liam, 11th February 2022
Stephanie has had a hard time editing NFS: Most Wanted, but she's done an awesome job making it all work and using some sweet Sonic Adventure series music.
After Colonist is finished, we're talking about doing some Tabletop Simulator games like Monopoly or Poker. We'll See!
One last thing; Liam and I were having chat about SAIM's history and the eras that have taken place. We agreed that 2013-2015 with Frank was the original golden era, then late 2015-late 2021 without any series with the three of us was the IM era, and since Minecraft started, Most Wanted, Mario Party, and basically every series having the three of us again we're in the middle of a new golden era. It's a good feeling, and recently we've gained a few subscribers, so we might hit 300 subs this year too! That has also been a long time coming. We hit 200 subs in 2018 or something.
Bye All!
