Not really. There was the score for "Kobold at the Drone Factory" which was deliberately similar and uses a lot of System Shock ideas like square-wave bleeps, and the same drum set. There was also "Protogen Revolution" on the "Robots and Other People" album but it's not -that- similar. "Fahdonmul's Lament" was original going to be similar but ended up veering away from that style.

@@tapewolf I would like to work a deal to license your song, if you're interested. I'm making a first person dungeon crawler with cyborgs in style of system shock and some ambience would help the mood of the gameplay.

Yeah, I think I managed to get away once, while doing that!

Thanks, it's been a long road to get to that point. It can also be very dispiriting to pour so much heart and soul into something like this, or "Fahdonmul's Destiny" and have it basically sink. So comments like this do help make it seem worthwhile.

cause its funny, just add a script to remove them if you don't like it lol.

Yes, I ended up looking it up myself to find the words you were saying for the subtitles...

Very interesting and funny! Congrats, guys!

Well, this is a somewhat expensive camera to begin with, though you can get decent results with something like a Beaulieu R16, though those are a lot harder to load the film on. If you want to try film, Super8 is a very good place to start because the cameras are fairly cheap and the film is in a cartridge so there's less fiddling loading the film. With this year's Confuzzled I used two daylight spools of film. These can be loaded in subdued light which makes things easier, but they only run for about 2.75 minutes. This camera has a lightmeter and a though-the-lens viewfinder. I used a fixed-length lens rather than a zoom lens to make things simpler. It's then just a matter of setting the focus and adjusting the aperture so the light meter is roughly centred. Last year's shoot I used a 400ft roll which has to be loaded in total darkness. I used a dark-bag for that. It was more awkward to load since I couldn't see what I was doing and had to trust it was okay, but it did give a full 11 minutes of shooting time. I sent the film off to a lab for processing and 3K scan, they sent back some prores MOV files which I did some colour grading on in kdenlive. Unfortunately home scanning isn't practical for these as a good scanner costs about as much as a car.

Yeah, 16mm is still sometimes used for commercials, music videos and suchlike, though usually the Super16 16:9 format, which my camera can't do. (The camera is ex-WDR, interestingly)

1976 was the aim.

If they had fixed all the bugs, it would have been a lot less memorable IMHO

Thanks! The mod I used is this one: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/28854 I put together a small cheat sheet here: it-he.org/skyrim3a.php#2

Fun fact: Fahdonmul's lines at Twilight Sepulchre were actually outtakes. When I went back through the recording sessions to pick the takes to use, it sounded like he was spluttering incoherently with frustration and giving up, so I used those.

Thanks! The raw footage totals 3 hours and 2 minutes including the ending flight to the mountain which was recorded afterwards, plus a few retakes of the initial escape from the battle. The main journey to Windhelm was about 2.5 hours though it felt longer at the time.

Well, there is that one who flies around shooting fire, 70e9b, I believe. While you can use him to propel yourself around he does tend to fly around. Can't seem to bring him into the present though.

Given the other candidates that may be an improvement. Though it depends a lot on the dragon.

Thanks. There were about 15 recording sessions for this as I kept getting new ideas for things he might say. It could perhaps have done with a few more retorts from Fahdonmul, but I think it worked pretty well in the end. I have two more planned, but it might also be fun to do an argument with Delphine or something.

I would have liked to have used more dovahzul for Alduin's responses but most of the phrases I wanted to construct don't have entries in the dragon language lexicon. Even his favourite phrase "my teeth to your neck" (which he says about Paarthurnax and the dragonborn) had to be delivered in English because the dovahzul word for 'neck' isn't known...

...That's actually a damn good question.

'Course, if you really want messed up, the first time I tried this, I was attacking Alduin while transformed into him. Alduin-vs-Alduin. It got very confusing, very quickly.

It is the will of Akatosh. (Though the Play-As-A-Dragon SE mod does help)

@@tapewolf hmm… Does it work with Skyrim ultima?

@@rama-n-i No idea. It gives you a 'dragon form' power, and I think it lets you steer dragons being ridden via Bend Will but I haven't tried that since I can fly myself. Full details are here: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/28854

@@tapewolf finna test it out

@@rama-n-i I made a quick guide to using it here, if it helps: it-he.org/skyrim3a.php#2

Yeah, that one has a lot going for it technically but the story was a bit flat, a bit short and the thing was clearly rushed. However it was the first game where I had enough bugs to think "Hey, I could make a whole walkthrough based around breaking the game" and that led to many more.

I think its a mod that turned him into a dragon, he isnt just riding it

This was recorded after about 2.5 months of playing with the dragon mod, so I've got pretty good at it. Even so I faceplanted the ground near the bridge (the "Ow!" part wasn't supposed to happen) and there were at least 6 other takes of this scene which I didn't use...

@@tapewolf oh that makes so much sense, I genuinely thought I was tripping when I rode mine and thought skill issue. Without using that mod I mean.

I forgot to say, thanks for that feedback. I took it on board for "Alduin's Bad Day".

What can I say? Being a dragon has been such a liberating experience. Plus it's given me a whole new set of ways to crack the game open like an egg.

Thanks! There will be a new Skyrim page very soon, about the strange and terrible things I managed to do while being a dragon. Hoping to have it up by the weekend.

That is correct, though it may be missing the point that the anti-walkthrough was trying to cast things in a ridiculous light.