Slime Squisher
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Joined: Wednesday, 19th December 2012, 13:23
I started making terrible Crawl LPs
Earlier i was making videos with my most interesting crawling experiences being shown, but got to the conclusion that such videos are pretty difficult to produce. First of all, those interesting moments can pop up out of nowhere while i'm not recording. Secondly, even if i predict something awesome to happen, it's too hard to break my fun, stop playing and start recording. Thirdly, those vids require a fair amount of editing per minute of material which i'm just too lazy to do. And finally, i'm being too perfectionist about this, which hurts me more than benefits.
That's basically why i decided to move from making rare montage videos to more frequent LPs. This way i can have all the possible cool fragments of gameplay captured (which will be useful to make a montage later on) and teach less experienced players something. There's a certain lack of good successful LPs on CrawlTube, and i'm gonna try to fill it.
Things you should expect from me:
— showing stuff which didn't get screen time on the CrawlTube yet, this includes relatively recent additions to trunk;
— trying pretty hard to win: losing isn't anything special in this game, so why should i show it?
— trying for Vow of Courage III (getting 4 runes before entering D:14) if possible: i just like this challenge so much that i use it as my own analogue of crate_crawl;
— being heavily spoiled and looking up things i'm not sure about: a corollary to the previous point;
— pretty weak commentaries: right now they are just at a level of being a bit better then no commentary; this should improve with practice, but now i'm only at the square one;
— slow gameplay: which word out of "Yukkuri" (ゆっくり, Japanese for "slowly") and "Chei" do you not understand?
— more melee/ranged based characters than blaster-casters: playing the latter will slow me down even more;
— occasional retarded references to Touhou, Pokemon, some anime and other stuff nobody cares about.
Things you shouldn't expect:
— well-known newbie combos like MiFi, SpEn and DEFE (outside of special challenges): that's what most of the CrawlTubers play anyways;
— trying things blindly (that's what i have a ton of test characters for);
— 100% following the wisdom of Tavern: sometimes i'll do things like wearing GDA or worshiping Chei which usually switch our counselors and other good players into preaching or trolling mode (i'll try to make remarks like "do not try this at home, certified good players™ do not approve" though);
— characters of Xom, Nemelex, Elyvilon, most likely Yredelemnul, Beogh and Fedhas, also summoners: not my playstyle;
— firestorming necromutating liches of Vehumet: a certain musical bounty hunter covered them far and wide;
— fun (in Xomish understanding of this word at least).
Okay, with all that being said, i'm ready to present the pilot episode of my first LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw_cxhjmYhE In this episode i started as a KoAK and got pretty lucky before reaching the Temple (i swear to all the Crawl pantheon, it was my first try to record, i didn't startscum for this!). My intention with this LP is to showcase Lugonu and some stabber tricks you do not see every day.
Thanks for your attention, i'm all ears to your feedback. And no, i won't announce every episode here, this would be too much of a spam. Expect uploads from once to thrice a week, i guess.
Zot:5 on easy mode video
Double Skullcrusher