Not So Grump

[akaSM]

First, I watched the Kirby Superstar videos, and really liked them. Then, the lack of any order in the videos the last time I poked their YT channel drove me away. One of their videos popped in my suggestions, and one from a game I like! (Shatterhand)...but the video was really boring to me, it was one guy playing a game and someone talking about things...things I don't remember even though I watched the video yesterday.

Even though I like watching longplays, let's plays and TAS videos, which are just people playing games in one way or another, their Shatterhand video was...just boring. The talking just made it worse for me :/

I'll just go and watch more (ALL of the) Classic Game Room videos because Mark is awesome.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

this is good thing. gives ego time to work on his own stuff and Jon to...do whatever the fuck he does. which is being loud for sake of being loud, I guess. 'cause that's his thing apparently. loud = funny....?

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by Bells

This show was born in overdrive. 2 Videos a day everyday?

Aren't all their videos like 10 minutes long? That's a 2h20m game session every week to have two videos every day. Even accounting for editing each video, not all that impressive.

[Locke cole]

Originally Posted by Grandmaster_Skweeb

this is good thing. gives ego time to work on his own stuff and Jon to...do whatever the fuck he does. which is being loud for sake of being loud, I guess. 'cause that's his thing apparently. loud = funny....?

I've seen some (well, okay, most) JonTron videos, and they seem to focus more on absurdity than volume. It does kind work in certain videos.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by Arcanum

Aren't all their videos like 10 minutes long? That's a 2h20m game session every week to have two videos every day. Even accounting for editing each video, not all that impressive.

Estimated, yes that sounds about right. But it might be much more then that. during one of their Link to the Past vids (might have been one of their other vids), Jon mentions that they still have a lot of stuff pre recorded. So their sessions could have been longer then that. In fact technically we'll still hear Jon in future videos because not all of the prerecorded vids have been uploaded yet. Which includes the rest of Sonic 06.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Grandmaster_Skweeb

this is good thing. gives ego time to work on his own stuff and Jon to...do whatever the fuck he does. which is being loud for sake of being loud, I guess. 'cause that's his thing apparently. loud = funny....?

As far as his role as Not So Grump was concerned, I always felt his contribution to the team was best described as "Budget Nathan Lane."

[Bells]

Being that i'm doing pretty much the same thing with a friend now, i can attest that this is a broad estimate.

What we are doing is recording 2 hours of footage every month and breaking it down to 2 uploads a week, plus any extras. We are not pros of ofcourse... of any sort... so some videos come better than others. Plus there is setup time, breaks, issues with recording... and even spams of time where we are simply not "Into it" enough... It easily takes 6-8 hours to get a half-decent 2 hours when we are in our top game.

Both Arin and Jon have some chops in that department, and that makes stuff a bit easier... but i can totally see how it would be easy to get burned out from it all... they stated the record it once a week, to keep those 2 hours going every week for a full year... yeah, it can be demanding.

Specially since what they did was pretty much all improv, many of the games they knew nothing while playing. And on the last few months it was increasingly clear they weren't paying attention on how to play a game.

I mean, i didn't watch it for the gameplay, i watched for the jokes and interaction... but try to beat a level at least, will ya?

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

As far as his role as Not So Grump was concerned, I always felt his contribution to the team was best described as "Budget Nathan Lane."

Ah, I am not alone, then.
Also the intro won't be as good. The "Hey I'm Grump!" "I'm not so grump!" was amazing. His laugh is good, too.

[Magus]

I'm a bit confused at how time-consuming it could be seeing as how they tape several hours at once and then from what I tell have several weeks worth of footage since they release it ten minutes a day.

On the other hand, I'm perfectly fine with JonTron focusing on his own show because it is actually downright hilarious (probably due to actually being scripted/dramatic as opposed to the spur-of-the-moment fare of Game Grumps). It's also not JUST being loud. There is also the confused muttering of half-intelligible nonsense and blatant absurdism.

If Egoraptor wants to make more cartoons that would be fun too

[Bells]

Originally Posted by Magus

There is also the confused muttering of half-intelligible nonsense and blatant absurdism.

Case in point