Yes, I finally got around to making another one of these. I actually recorded this game in the Remastered version back when I made the first video, but after seeing how broken that replay was in Remastered I decided that it’d be better to not upload this, and instead re-record it in the classic launcher. I finally did that this week and here is the result, a recording of this classic Starcraft multiplayer match from 2/12/2002. Yes, that’s February 12th 2002. I do not remember this game specifically, but it’s easy enough to see why I saved the replay, you don’t see nukes used this much very often.
Nukes have always been uncommon and still are, but a lot of other things about this game really make it stand out as old — the insanely large map, how slow we mostly were to expand, and more. Really old Starcraft games are something else, aren’t they? Like many people I had owned the game for several years at the time this game was recorded, but the level of play is very different from modern games. That’s part of what makes it interesting to watch, though, I think.
The video may look similar to the first one, but on a technical level I made a lot of changes this time when compared to the first videos from January.
– The new video was recorded at 4:3, the correct aspect ratio for the classic Starcraft launcher, instead of my monitor’s resolution of 16:10 as the first one was. Sorry about that. I’m thinking about uploading another version of that first video but at 4:3 this time, it would probably be a good idea — I’m sure it’s more likely to fill more of the screen for most people this way, at 1600×1200 4:3, than at 1920×1200 with black bars on the right and left since only 1600 is actually filled horizontally. (Any modern videos will be in 1920×1200, though. Sorry not sorry.)
– I increased the bitrate of the recording quite a bit. Is the difference noticeable?
– I did the first video entirely in OBS. This time I only recorded in OBS but used separate editing software, something I have never used before. I definitely don’t understand it well but managed to figure out enough to make this video… on the fourth attempt, it took a while to get it to render correctly at 1600×1200 instead of 1920×1080. It worked though, as this video shows! Nice.
What about text articles? I have some partially finished stuff I could post, and will — there’s a thing about remasters I wrote that I guess I could post, though it doesn’t really have much of a point — but haven’t made any new reviews or anything, unfortunately. I’m too obsessed with Starcraft to write retro game summaries or reviews… heh. I do still play Mario Maker 2, but haven’t made a new level yet this year. I really need to do that. I have 29 uploaded levels, why am I waiting so long to make it 30?
