The project is completed. Days away from being a full fourteen months after I wrote the script, filming, voicing, editing, and compiling is finished. The good version of the film is over 3 gigs in size. Since I'm not aware of anyplace I can upload that, and since I don't think anybody would download a PSO file that big anyway, a second version was made that is less than 200 megs in size. I've uploaded it to Googlevideo, and it's now available for viewing. You can see it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...86379812&hl=en
This is the last pso project I had planned. At a length of over one hour, I think it will do. While most of it turned out ok, there were three scenes, in p articular, that didn't follow the script at all. I've supplied the original script for scenes 6, 7, and 8 for anybody interested in seeing what those were originally supposed to look like. Reshooting them personally, instead of having somebody else do it, was an option I had considered, though I dismissed it quickly as server interest in this project waned into something less than nothing. This was upsetting, as I feel the scenes lack motivation, and act as a stumbling block less than halfway through the run of the film. I did know, however, that nobody was interested in appearing in the scenes as they were scripted. They are very wordy, which would lead to hours of filming to get them shot correctly. Without further ado, here are the three scenes the way they were supposed to play out - a tribute to past players, and past problems for PSO:
Scene 6
Lightning, Lightning2, and two unidentified characters are in the seabed in the West Tower quest, battling their way to the portal to the tower from that direction. Lightning and Lightning can be together, with the other two on their own path to find the lock mechanism. We’ll let them get there before we start filming much.
Lightning: Be careful, copycat, n00b. I don’t want to have to stand up for your hacked ass.
Lightning2: Haven’t you ever seen the footage of me blasting the crap out of everything in sight?
Lightning: I have, and I’m not happy about people remembering my great name from that piece of crap footage.
Lightning2: They don’t remember you for that! They remember you because you were only 10,000 exp away from level 200 when your brother deleted your PSO file.
Lightning: SHUT UP!
Lightning2: W! Sorry about that. I just can’t believe you stopped when you were THAT CLOSE!
Lightning: How many times do I have to tell you this? I was WAITING FOR SOMEBODY, remember?
Lightning2: Oh yeah!
Lightning: Wuss…
Lightning2: So, why are you telling me I can’t blow the crap out of everything this time?
Lightning: I want you to remember that this is a legitimate run.
Lightning2: Oh…
Lightning: Because, in the case that we have to battle any sentries at the top of the tower, you were extremely useless against them, if I remember correctly…
Lightning2: How did you….?
Lightning: (Interrupting) …that’s why you had to cut the run short in the movie, remember?
Lightning2: Can’t get anything by you, can I?
Lightning: No, you can’t. You hackers make me sick.
Lightning2: Might I remind you that it is because of a few hackers that some prominent websites received the majority of their information?
Lightning: I was hoping you wouldn’t bring that up.
Lightning2: We do what we can to get the information needed to help everyone. Our own problem lies in the fact that some of us decided to take advantage of the ability we possessed.
Lightning: How do you mean?
Lightning2: Well, we can blame people like that for things such as lobby and in game FSODs, item stealing, item hackings, duping, you name it. It’s a problem.
Lightning: Exactly, it’s that crap that makes me sick.
Lightning2: You aren’t the only one. We’re not happy about it, either. As it got worse, more of the coders just decided to give up and become part of the problem. They were already being called bad; why not give into the expectations?
Lightning: That’s not adequate. They should have stuck to their morals and persevered.
Lightning2: While that is true, not all of them could take that way out. Some had the knowledge to do things, or at least an inkling of it, but most of them had just stood on the shoulders of those who did have the knowledge to get things started. That created copycats, and they had no respect for what had been found. They just wanted to utilize it to show they had balls of some sort. The entire scene turned out nothing like our teacher Barubary envisioned.
Lightning: I see your point.
Lightning2: It was a painful ordeal for us all. Thanks for trying to understand.
Mail to Lightning2: We’ve reached the lock to the tower. We aren’t sure of the code.
Lightning2: I’ll be right there, you people. (Warp to them, open the lock, have all of them warp back to Lightning)
Lightning: Nice we could all be back together again.
Other two: Woo-hoo! It’s time to get our game…
Lightning & Lightning 2: Don’t even go there.
All begin walking out of whatever room they are in at the moment.
Lightning: Nice to see we agree on something.
Fade out
Scene 7
This scene finds Lightning, Lightning2, and the other two accompanying them into the Seabed portion of the West Tower quest walking through the last one or two rooms before the room with the Tower portal in it. There is no scripted dialog before viewing the portal. If any interesting conversation comes up, that’s great, and it might end up being used.
Upon viewing the portal
Lightning: We’ve reached the lift up to the Tower. We must proceed with caution now, you people. This could end up being dangerous.
Lightning2: You forget whom you have as company, old man. We’ll be fine.
Lightning: And you forget that this is a legitimate search. We are not in as good a situation as you may think.
Other two: ZOMG! WE B DUMED!
Lightning2: Where did they find these two again? I forget.
Lightning: Meh, these two are kind of like the random guys in red shirts in Star Trek.
Other two: … Crap…
Lightning: Alright, when we get into the Tower, you two act as a distraction to anything that comes up against us while Lightning and I run past them.
Other two: Double crap…
Lightning2: Right, don’t forget to step in front of any oncoming enemies that threaten the two of us. We need to keep going until we reach the top of the Tower.
Other two: Who signed us up for this?
Lightning: Think of it this way: as soon as one of you dies, you won’t be speaking in unison anymore.
Other two: But if that’s the case, the survivor won’t speak at all?
Lightning2: We can only hope.
Other two: ZOMG!
All head into the portal, and fade out.
Scene 8
We find the four from in the West Tower running through the different floors. I’m expecting the two unidentified characters to die early on. Whenever one of them dies, they will both say OUCH! This is followed by one of the Lightning’s asking why the other one said it, to which it is replied that he has no choice!
So then, shortly into the West Tower, the following occurs:
Lightning2: Crap! We’re all alone now!
Lightning: I told you it wouldn’t be easy. This place is home to some dangerous things.
Lightning2: I had no idea! When I ran through it on ultimate last time, everything crumbled at my feet!
Lightning: Not this time though.
Lightning2: No, not this time. I’m scared!
Lightning: Don’t be scared, little copycat. You have me to keep you safe for the journey.
Lightning2: The only reason I copied your name was because I wanted to be known. You were a hero on Ragol, and across the solar system. You were my hero, too. I can’t help it; I want to bask in your glory.
Lightning: You can’t copy the glory though. You need to find that on your own, and this could be a good way to go about doing that.
Lightning2: Really?
Lightning: Yes, really. We are on a quest right now to save the remnants of our new home planet from being overrun by the will of the Armies of the 10 Nations. We must do this, for our own peoples, for their independence.
Lightning2: Yes, we must do so. I’m sorry I questioned it!
Lightning: You must…
Lightning2: Free them, I know.
Lightning: No, you don’t. You don’t only have to free them; you need to show them how TO be free from this threat. You must believe.
Lightning2: I do believe.
Lightning: Good. Let’s continue then.
Lightning2: Yes! Let’s do this thing!
The two enter the last room with Epsilon, and fight. Epsilon is easily defeated. After the battle, nothing happens. The two of them face each other.
Lightning: Is that it? That was far too easy.
Lightning2: Hold on.
Lightning 2 messages Otis in a lobby somewhere:
Mail from Lightning2: We defeated a large robot sentry here, and there’s nothing happening now.
Mail from Otis: Who is this?
Mail from Lightning2: This is Lightning. Lightning and I journeyed to the Tower in order to find and stop Black Paper from taking the Mother.
Mail from Otis: Which Tower was it you journeyed to?
Mail from Lightning 2: Right now, we are at the top of the West Tower.
Mail from Otis: You were aware that there are the West and East Towers. Correct? Perhaps the answers you seek are in the other one.
Lightning2: Uh oh…
Lightning: What’s the news?
Swing the camera so that the East Tower is visible out the window. Have both Lightning’s look out to it.
Lightning2: We made a mistake.
Lightning: No, we’ve held this place successfully, and have cleared a path for examination. The real problem is housed across the valley.
Lightning2: I had hope… I was to become a splendid Force this time around. This was my chance to leave my mark upon this world.
Lightning: You have left it already. With disbelief, and with amazement…
Lightning2: What do you mean?
Lightning: With hacking…
Lightning2: Oh… you aren’t going to let that go, are you?
Lightning: No, I won’t.
Lightning2: I will show you that I am more than a hack, prove that I can still be the greatest, even though I may not have extreme talent in my specialty. I will prove that I can be the best!
Lightning: Good, but don’t do it for me. Do it for yourself. Don’t ever give up on yourself, even when the world is down on you.
Lightning2: Yes, I have hope…
SCENE END
Moving forward, completion of this project line will leave me more time to face life again. PSO was something that left me in a bad place, and I wanted to turn that negative into something positive. That's kind of what started me on these films in the first place. I'll not go into what made it negative in the first place. The people who know me well already know what that's all about.
This film touches upon a few others I've filmed in the past. As a continuation to the series, it carried on the storyline set up in episode 11, bridged in episode 12, and completed here. You can see both episode 11 and 12 at google video, where they have been up for viewing for quite some time. The addresses are as follows
episode 11: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...16335323&hl=en
episode 12: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...42476341&hl=en
In scene 3, I meet up with a pre-level 200 Tyrant Flame. At this point, he has just recently left Black Paper out of frustration. You can see the Black Guard visible on his arm. He makes a remark about not being able to defeat the flies in the forest. Continuing into scene 4, I state that after all this is done, I'll teach him to swat flies. You can see him do so in his original level 200 video from October of 2005 right here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...95962093&hl=en
or here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O--WTZWjSw4
I thoroughly want to thank the few people who agreed to be included in the making of these last three films. Each film took close to a year to complete. Episode 11 took around 9 to 11 months to finish. Episode 12 took a year and four days to finish, and Episode 13 took lasted almost a full fourteen months. It's been a trip, as well as a casting and scheduling nightmare to get them done, but they are finished for now.
I also need to thank a few of the moderators at the free server forums for character creation and setup. Episode 13 could not have followed script at all had they not been around to help people prepare for their parts. I want to thank The Dude, particularly, for agreeing to stand in as Elly Person, and remind him that it took the better part of the year filming just to find somebody who would agree to play that character on film.
Last, I want to thank the few who agreed to supply voices to the series. It mostly ended up being me talking to myself, which is completely sad in retrospect, but uh, yeah. I'm a voice actor anyway, so this just helped practice different voices some.
In scene 14, I wanted to bring viewer attention more to the sound effects than the simple run through the tower. The towers are kind of a place for creation, so I hope the sound effects and music accompanyment translate that well enough.
As for my time on PSO, it's over for the most part. I've been feeling out of place online for the last few years anyway. There's not much more there that interests me, and the community as a whole is dead. I had briefly considered jumping over to blue burst to see what that was all about since PSU sucked donkey dick, but two things made me stop: I hate playing games on the computer, and I don't feel like starting over from scratch. I've blown over 5000 hours on PSO over the characters I've played, past and present, corrupt and still around. I don't need to start over with that entire process. Beyond that, there seems to be a growing dislike of seeing me in the lobby, or seeing me at all, and though it's just a game, I've dealt with that in real life long enough that it bothers me even in this virtual arena. I don't need to deal with that, so figured that I just wouldn't anymore.
My play span on PSO is not as long as a lot of the people I read from on the forums, but I consider it to be not such a bad run. I've had fun, made some lasting friends, and found some good things along the way. I've also learned how to deal with a vast amount of differing opinions at once, which has translated into a very good job skill.
If this is the best I can leave the shrinking PSO community with, so be it. It was a good learning task.
Enjoy everyone.
Adam
episode 1:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...97914325&hl=en
episode 2:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...85384692&hl=en
episode 3:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...87024750&hl=en
episode 4:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...49108898&hl=en
episode 5:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...70215340&hl=en
episode 6:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...15213540&hl=en
episode 7:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...18467381&hl=en
episode 8:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...01858683&hl=en
episode 9:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...31887861&hl=en
episode 10:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...46445275&hl=en
episode 11:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...16335323&hl=en
episode 12:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...42476341&hl=en
episode 13:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...86379812&hl=en
PSO beach quest 2004:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...59155389&hl=en
Hacked Character Run:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...52980254&hl=en
Rare Monster Movie:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...00587193&hl=en
Halloween Spooktacular 2006:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...88617672&hl=en
PSO funnies:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...92446662&hl=en
PSO Soccer:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...80468690&hl=en
Axel/LunaChild 200:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...33608512&hl=en
Kamica 200:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...21299305&hl=en
Tyrant Flame 200:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...95962093&hl=en
RJ/Tyrant 200:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...92785137&hl=en
Hellfire kid 200:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...31855932&hl=en
Game on, everyone.
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