VID: With Blood [Mass Effect] [Vidukon Premiere]

[beccatoria]

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

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Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 85 megs approx.

Cross-posted to vidding and vidding and masseffect and bioware. So basically everywhere...?

Other vids available here.

Comments

[purplefringe]

This vid is just SO GOOD. I don't think I can properly express that to you, even via the very expressive medium of CAPSLOCK.

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?

[beccatoria]

I DUNNO, MAN, CAPSLOCK IS VERY EXRESSIVE (AND APPRECIATED!) :D

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.