Mailbag: Mailbag: Art of Art of Fighting Edition

It's a crime that Geese's long hair from AoF is not in Tekken 7.

Some of that stuff was pretty cool. Those posters kicked ass.

And I thought the mic levels on the aftermath podcast were bad.

GB videos are really quiet generally speaking, but this one is nearly silent for me.

@mesifiir: Everything they film on phones sounds like this and it is maddening. They have the equipment. Please use it.

Complicit?

Everyone always says gb vids are quiet. Maybe I'm not as old man deaf as I thought. Or I just blast it immediately and don't think much of it. *turns up Silverfuck to the max for the 1000th time*

Also lol at that brutally honest deck. :D

As someone who just picked up Wipeout 3 for PS1 a week ago and experienced that for the first time, I'd be happy to take those Wipeout games off your hands. Honestly think it'd be nice if there was some kind of home-for-wayward-games thread on the forum (maybe for premium members only?) where people could send stuff if they are looking to get rid of it. Lots of stuff they get on here I would love to have in my collection. Not sure what they do with it all.

And the words "Star Trek" and "Klingon" were said yet Brad was completely unfazed and unflinching, clearly deep in the zone.

@ripelivejam My Klipsh Pro Medias (made famous by Vinny) are very loud even with the knob at like 20%. I typically have to watch GB (generally any internet video) content with the video player slider at ~50%. I had to max it for this and I could still barely hear it lol Not that big of a deal though.

Brad used to mock people with that haircut. Now he's the only one on earth still rocking it?

Gotta get that sweet, sweet, $1 ad revenue!

Jason looks like a young Vic Reeves/Jim Moir in the thumbnail.

Good shout!

@seikenfreak:How're you finding Wipeout 3 in 2018? I played it for dozens of hours when it originally came out, but I'm interested to know how it feels without nostalgia goggles!

3 is certainly the most honed of the three PS1 Wipeouts (especially compared to OG Wipeout), but you might find it historically interesting to go back to them.

yas more Youtube thumbnail quality

BARELY AUDIBLE

Really loving the Cactus Jack 4's, Jeff!

Ben needs to learn to use a camera

@ripelivejam: For me it's less that they are quite, I have volume knob, but unbalanced because of how they are recorded. The person holding the phone is booming while everyone is almost inaudible. This could be fixed in post but that's a pain for what is supposed to be a quick cheap video like this. Back when they used the proper camera it had a real mic and balanced the audio so everyone was at the same level.

TLDR; I don't wanna have to ride the knob to be able to here everyone.

@tebbit: It seems pretty good. Most notable thing is the framerate of course which is real nice compared to some other PS1 racing games I've been playing. Music is decent, one particular song (DJ Sasha - Xpander) I immediately recognized and have had in my MP3 collection forever now, yet had no idea when or where it was from.

I was happy and surprised to see you could disable weapons and checkpoints in the options, turning it into a pure racing experience. Some of the finer menu details, like the vehicle stats, are impossible to read even with my decent CRT TV. Widescreen support if you wanted to try that.

Also slightly taken back by the lack of general.. stuff to do? Which is a theme I'm seeing across most racing games from the era. I guess as a kid very little can go a long way, but these days I'm so accustomed to progression systems, that on the surface it can look somewhat thin. I'm guessing there is more to do here than it appears at first glance. Only four vehicles with 5-6 tracks as far as I can tell. Ramping the difficulty up mostly involves me constantly slamming into the walls on tight corners due to increased speeds and I don't know how anyone is supposed to take those turns. The shoulder buttons function more as drift controls, making it feel even looser, and less as actual air brakes to help with cornering.

Overall, pretty cool and I'm glad I picked it up. I've got a thing for collecting racing games and this series certainly deserves to be in it. I haven't looked it up but I'm curious if they made one for PS2.

I'm pulling the volume slider as hard is I can in an upward direction, trying my damnedest to break past the limit of the video player. That thing is strong. Pass I guess.

@darthozzan: I was going to say the same thing. He might of caught the bug after getting the PlayStation PG2s.

Reupload?

@hassun: Looks like it. It says "audiofix2" in the filename. I don't remember anything being wrong in the original o_O

Filename on this one suggests it was just an audio fix of some sort.

Postcard location is Luke Skywalkers island

Oh, hello again, mailbag. Long time no see!

deja ryu

That Dark Souls concept art book is sexy as hell. I want!

I think it was extremely quiet. I could barely hear it with my laptop at full volume.

Hey, I've got that same copy of The Long Goodbye.

Yep, seems to be the case. I managed to guess the location and name of the old file and upon watching it's noticeably quieter than this version.

Thanks for clearing that up!

Rorie having a cheese knife at his desk is the most on-brand Rorie thing I could possibly think of.

Every Bens Lens could use some "audiofix2".

Video doesn't seem to load for me at all

Video loads in Progressive mode

@elektrixx: Agreed. Why don't they just shoot them with a freaking camera? I know phones are cool and futuristic and scifi as fuck, but still. Use a camera, you are a website about VIDEO games. Mailbags from 1990s have better and more stable audio quality.

yes

Great art @oddparticle

the word Ben was looking for was "complicit"

What is Brad's screensaver? I like that

Oooo I love those head profile posters. That would be an amazing shirt/mug design

The thumbnail image is so good!

Wow! I'm so Jazzed that they open my mail and on mail bag! so sweet, I'm the artist for Day One Patch Kids. I knew the name tag was the weakest thing on the stickers., I'm just not that quipy or witty enough to come up with funny names for them but since them I changed them though. Woo!

"I don't have the time or the will to list them on eBay" sooo I sent it off to you instead so I don't have to deal with it anymore

Might want to rethink your wording on that. It makes you sound like you're offloading your crap to them. At least you didn't mail them literal garbage like people in the past have...