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Title: With Blood
Video: Mass Effect 1 + 2 + 3// Bioware
Audio: Bleeding Out // Imagine Dragons
Summary: All Shepards choose to save you.
Vidder's Notes: Vidukon 2013 Premiere!
Password: vidses
Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 85 megs approx.
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Video: Mass Effect 1 + 2 + 3// Bioware
Audio: Bleeding Out // Imagine Dragons
Summary: All Shepards choose to save you.
Vidder's Notes: Vidukon 2013 Premiere!
Password: vidses
Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 85 megs approx.
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Date: 2013-05-20 10:12 pm (UTC)Just... capturing the multiversal nature of Mass Effect. You don't even start from the same place in every game, but every choice you make leads you to the same inevitable fate.
She/he/I/you make a final choice in a cycle predicated on the destruction of choice.
The switching between Shepards of all varieties, the flashing between Ashleys and Kaidans, the heartbreaking sacrifice of Thane or Major Kirrahe. Mordin being assassinated or sacrificing himself.
Ugh. So much emotion. I love this. Thank you for making it.
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Date: 2013-05-21 03:50 pm (UTC)She/he/I/you make a final choice in a cycle predicated on the destruction of choice
- Man, what a spectacularly succinct yet perfect way of putting it. I need to remember that line; it captures so much so perfectly. ♥
Thank you again for your comment.
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Date: 2013-05-20 11:01 pm (UTC)Lovely how you managed to include all the various decisions made over the course of the games and show how they still lead to the very same end.
Great!!
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Date: 2013-05-21 03:54 pm (UTC)Thanks - it means a lot to me that the message seems to be coming across so clearly even to people who aren't familiar with the game. I wanted it to work on a meta level as well as an emotional level within the narrative(s) itself, and I think that's coming through. Your point about how the game feels richer for knowing all the other choices that sprawl out before you is absolutely spot-on.
*flails*
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Date: 2013-05-21 06:48 am (UTC)Now I'm going to go hide in the corner being all emotional about Mass Effect again ...
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Date: 2013-05-21 03:59 pm (UTC)I'm so glad you liked it!
Also, I miss you already. :( I will have to do another Vidukon JUST SO I CAN MAKE YOU COME TO IT.
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Date: 2013-05-21 09:14 pm (UTC)It's just absolutely gorgeous on so many levels! And I have to play all the games and then come back and watch it a whole bunch more times...
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Date: 2013-05-22 09:13 am (UTC)I'm so thrilled you liked it even without knowledge of the games, and yes, you MUST try to find a way to play it. It's...well, honestly, it's frustrating in places, both in gameplay and story, but looking at it as a whole...canon, a whole story, it's just breathtaking and left me feeling satisfied on narrative and character levels in a way very few stories ever have. Plus it's full of creepy awesome science fiction social commentary ideas. Which I think somehow a lot of gamer dudebros missed in amongst the speechifying and the Big Damn Guns, but that's their loss.
At which point I should probably stop holding you hostage while I yell about a game you've never played, but seriously, thank you; I'm really very, very happy it went over so well with people.
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Date: 2013-05-21 09:46 pm (UTC)SO GOOD.
I am not, and never have been a gamer. I know NOTHING about Mass Effect (or rather - knew nothing. I may have just spent half an hour googling, after my 3rd viewing of this vid...I feel more clued up now) and this vid still gives me ALL THE FEELINGS! It's just so epic and so well cut and the blurring in and out between the different versions of the characters is amazing. Even to someone who has never played this game, it manages to completely sweep the viewer up in the story, it is totally accessible, and gives the wonderful feeling of an adventure playing out across many parallel worlds....
Have I mentioned that it's really good?
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Date: 2013-05-22 09:31 am (UTC)I'm not really a gamer either - mainly because they don't make many of the types of games I like to play, but if you ever have the chance to play Mass Effect, I suggest you sling it on an easy difficulty setting and give it a go. Before this I never even really liked the idea of a branching narrative; but there's something powerful about that...knowledge that you're playing one of a million variations of the same story, but that it is, in a tangible way, the same story. (And I literally mean a million; by the time you get to the third game, if you've imported over each time, there are over a thousand variables, some of which only ever matter mechanically, behind the scenes, some of which are acknowledged in a single line of passing dialogue, some of which cause massive divergences in plot).
Anyway, I'm sorry, I'm rambling. The point is, I've been incredibly gratified by the positive response this has gotten, especially from people unfamiliar with the series. It's just...exactly how I wanted people to feel, and making a vid and seeing people get what you meant is the best feeling in the world.
So thank you.
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Date: 2013-06-07 07:21 pm (UTC)Thanks so much for letting me know you enjoyed it! :D
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Date: 2013-06-05 12:14 am (UTC)p.s. is there no masterlist of VidUKon premieres anywhere?
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Date: 2013-06-07 07:42 pm (UTC)Answering your question about the ending is a little tricky because it does reference it, but not...entirely directly. It's quite strongly rooted in some of my feelings about the ending and the fan reaction to it, but I think (hope?) it would be inaccurate to characterise the vid as entirely concerned with it. Essentially I wanted the vid to work as a celebration of the diversity of experience we all had, that was still unified by playing the same game, the same broad story. An attempt to grab that...sameness-difference. What makes it interesting is how different things can be, but we can only compare that because there's a core that always remains the same.
So much of the disatisfaction around the ending boiled down to people yelling about how x choice was bad/stupid/wrong (oh invocations of Godwin's law...) or that the final choices in the ending didn't "mean" anything at all. So my personal agenda was, yeah, to sort of...refute that and say, shut up, all of us played a hero, and of course the choice you made mattered.
But, I didn't want it to be preachy (cus I have planned other vids for that MWAHAHAHAHAHA). And I didn't want the message to be overwhelming. Like if a soul exists who DOESN'T know about the ending controversy, I didn't want them to "not get" the vid. I didn't want anyone watching it to go, "OH GOD THAT ENDING DRAHMAH" either because that's...not conduicive to the experience I wanted?
So I tried to vid the message I wanted to convey by, like, celebrating the infinite number of amazing Shepards rather than arguing against the haters who try to keep them down?
I hope it worked, anyway. Though the fact I got a youtube comment saying, "And THAT'S how you make everyone happy!" (it took all my self control not to reply saying that I literally vidded the events of the game) suggests I may have missed the mark.
Then again, that comment was from a dude who watched the vid and rememebered all the great feelings he had when playing the game. Which was the point. I shouldn't be a cynic. ;)
EPIC COMMENT ENDS HERE. That was probably way more information than you wanted... :p
As to vidukon, ugh, yeah, we're still short a few playlists, and some of those I know are actively incoming. I'm not sure the status of premieres but certainly at some point it's something that should get done. I'll see if anyone else was planning to do it...
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Date: 2013-06-17 10:48 am (UTC)I admit, I teared up!
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Date: 2013-10-04 06:01 am (UTC)I'll be reading your mass effect recs after. :p
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Date: 2014-06-23 10:28 am (UTC)Thank you for working in this fandom!
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Date: 2014-07-02 08:52 am (UTC)Thank YOU for taking the time to comment! :D
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