So I'm here for a couple reasons... initial one was to post a video, but I figured I should do more. After all, I'm not looking for free advertising.
Before that "more," here's the video. A few hundred of you guys may have seen Barack Obama in your servers this week. That was me, and here's the end product. Hope you guys like it.
Barack Obama plays Natural Selection 2
I started this series in 2010 with a video I thought would be a one-off hit. It went viral, and a year later I started making videos with a Barack Obama soundboard, with the goal of doing five videos of Obama and then moving on to someone else. Then I dropped the series for a couple years until recently, when I returned last week with CS:GO and was about to move on to doing a video in DOTA2 (or at least see how talkative DOTA players are).
Then this game went on sale, and it took me back to just shy of a decade ago, when I used to play Natural Selection with another clan. It had probably been eight years since I played the game, and I followed NS2's development pretty closely until my personal life got in the way of video gaming. Priorities skew when you are planning a wedding, buying a house and getting a promotion at the same time.
In any event, I started playing the game again last weekend after the 250 build dropped. I saw a lot of complaining about the changes, the nerfs, things like that. In every game, I've always found that anybody who gets used to playing a certain way only to have that way balanced will likely complain about it.
But what did I find, as the guy who hadn't touched the game in almost a decade?
It feels exactly the same - a bit advanced, a bit more evolved (I won't say the graphics are better, because my memory of NS's graphics is in comparison to the games coming out a decade ago). It was just as easy to get into here as it was a decade ago. For all I know, it might have been easier - while some were pretty intolerant of me being a rookie (or was it the soundboard?), the fact that the game had rookie support so I could go somewhere, be pants-on-head retarded as I readjusted to the game and get away with it, goes an incredibly long way.
In any event, I hope you guys enjoy the video. It's the first one I've done in a community where people weren't spouting racist slurs at me, which says a lot about the community.
Oh, one last thing. I went into this video knowing it would, at least for the time being, be the last Obama Plays video. That was my primary factor in choosing NS2 - I wanted to go out with a game I loved growing up before shifting gears on another personality.
So thanks![:)]( ":)")
Before that "more," here's the video. A few hundred of you guys may have seen Barack Obama in your servers this week. That was me, and here's the end product. Hope you guys like it.
Barack Obama plays Natural Selection 2
I started this series in 2010 with a video I thought would be a one-off hit. It went viral, and a year later I started making videos with a Barack Obama soundboard, with the goal of doing five videos of Obama and then moving on to someone else. Then I dropped the series for a couple years until recently, when I returned last week with CS:GO and was about to move on to doing a video in DOTA2 (or at least see how talkative DOTA players are).
Then this game went on sale, and it took me back to just shy of a decade ago, when I used to play Natural Selection with another clan. It had probably been eight years since I played the game, and I followed NS2's development pretty closely until my personal life got in the way of video gaming. Priorities skew when you are planning a wedding, buying a house and getting a promotion at the same time.
In any event, I started playing the game again last weekend after the 250 build dropped. I saw a lot of complaining about the changes, the nerfs, things like that. In every game, I've always found that anybody who gets used to playing a certain way only to have that way balanced will likely complain about it.
But what did I find, as the guy who hadn't touched the game in almost a decade?
It feels exactly the same - a bit advanced, a bit more evolved (I won't say the graphics are better, because my memory of NS's graphics is in comparison to the games coming out a decade ago). It was just as easy to get into here as it was a decade ago. For all I know, it might have been easier - while some were pretty intolerant of me being a rookie (or was it the soundboard?), the fact that the game had rookie support so I could go somewhere, be pants-on-head retarded as I readjusted to the game and get away with it, goes an incredibly long way.
In any event, I hope you guys enjoy the video. It's the first one I've done in a community where people weren't spouting racist slurs at me, which says a lot about the community.
Oh, one last thing. I went into this video knowing it would, at least for the time being, be the last Obama Plays video. That was my primary factor in choosing NS2 - I wanted to go out with a game I loved growing up before shifting gears on another personality.
So thanks
