A Nocturnal Update

Hey there GGN, since I feel like I'm gonna have my nose to the grindstone for a bit I figured I'd fill you in on where my heads at. So, The Darkness won the discord poll and I've been playing that and capturing footage for it from the 360 version while taking notes. It's certainly one that I've wanted to cover for a long time and I'm excited to get deeper into the process. Meanwhile I've been working on the script for a longform video about a game I already covered, though it was several years ago,

Nocturne (1999).

I don't really plan on addressing it much within the video, so I'll let you know here, some of the reasons I wanted to do this. For one, when I made the video for Nocturne it was when YouTube wanted you to go for clicks instead of minutes watched so I was always trying to make videos as short and to the point as possible. Weird to think for so long I worried that people would despise long videos and not bother with them. Since I started making them longer, Ive found that this is the kind of content I enjoy making the most. A big ol thing that makes me PC lag just looking at it's timeline. Reason number two is an extention of that, I love Nocturne and I have so much of my formative love of games wrapped up in it so it doesn't feel right being a short video I made when I wasn't nearly as competent at making them. In a way I knew even then that someday I'd want to remake it or at least that I wasn't ready to do what I wanted with it.

Reason the third, I fucking hate that video. I understand some people enjoyed it, but it has, over the years, actively bothered me. Like a weird discolored blotch on my channel. I think I even make a weird unprovoked Gamergate comment in it without knowing much about the cicrumstances around that event other than, "Huh, guess people are mad at some lady." It was just a gamer thing I could comment on and Nocturne deserves better. It's too much of a part of my love of games to not be more in line with my recent output. Which kinda leads to reason four.

Ideally I'd like to (in the near future) cover the other games tangential to it, which would include one other remake(maybe, but I really don't want to normalize that with myself) :

- Blair Witch: Volume 1: Rustin Parr
- Blair Witch: Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock
- Blair Witch: Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale
- Bloodrayne (maybe, could also include its recent re-release and ports)
- Bloodrayne 2
- Aeon Flux

This is not at all like, my gameplan, just something I'd feel more excited to do without the open wound that was the first Nocturne video. There are of course other games I'd like to have in between as well as poll winners. This is all just a brainstorm here. We're just talking, but for sure I want a better Nocturne video. Since I'm sure it being replaced may bother some, I'll probably end up just making it unlisted and having that link somewhere here. In the past I've just taken videos to a shed out back when I feel they no longer represent what I want my channel to be, but I have noticed it upsets some who may have revisited it every now and then and I wouldn't want that even though it's hard for me to see any value in them. Just pls don't re-upload.

ANY GODDAMN WAY, I'm trying to overlap the work on Nocturne/The Darkness so that you won't have to wait too long if the remade video doesn't interest you. Aside from that, I spontaneously devoted a couple days to making a song for a contest that CDPR is doing for Cyperpunk 2077. I already submitted it and it could wind up in the game which would be cool because the TTRPG setting is a big influence to me and if it doesn't then it was an excuse to add another track to the album I was trying to finish up anyways hehe. Either way I'll share it eventually because I think it's pretty fun.

Umm...what else...I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the plates I been spinning here. I revamped my channel's banner which looks kinda neat and cybergoth now. Oh, if you use Tumblr, I'm gonna try to post there more since Twitter seems to be in perpetual flames as of late.


https://at.tumblr.com/goth-gamer-nation/d6n42vttyrou

Alright, I'll wrap this up. I felt like reassuring you that I have stuff I'm working on, which I feel more compelled to do when I'm actively fighting off burnout. Haha. More work! Fight burnout with BURNING🔥 sorry about any typos, I'm typing this on a phone while using a janky stationary bike. K byeloveyoubye