The completed video, titled CvS2 Nimuro's Wrath, is available for download here: http://lowfierce.com/nimuro
A partial writeup explaining the highlights of the video can be found on the third page of this thread. Giant block of text, you can't miss it.
Thanks to everyone for your advice and support.
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AEG is holding an L5R video production mini-contest. They're probably expecting people to create a picture montage with a narrated story or to dress up as samurai characters from their card game then act out scenes or whatever. I'm not particularly interested in any of that stuff, but it does give me an excuse to try out this gimmicky idea of making a combo video that kind of tells a story.
Basically i've color edited CvS2 Haohmaru to resemble Matsu Nimuro from L5R. I've also color edited several opponents to look like other characters from the game. So like, i've color edited Sagat to look like "Hitomi" and i'm having Nimuro beat up on Hitomi for one round, showing off as wide a selection of CvS2 Haohmaru combos as i can manage.
To mix it up a little bit, i'm also going to have a credits section at the end of the video where it says, "Starring ... Sagat as Hitomi" while a Sagat combo from another game plays in the background. This'll add a bit of variety to the video, cuz CvS2 Haohmaru isn't exactly a combo maniac. Though to be fair, he's got enough versatility to make it work, especially with all the good stuff i'm jacking from ZenFire's recent tutorial.
This video is going to end up requiring quite a bit of editing. Nothing too complex, but there's gonna be a lot of pre-match dialogue referencing events in the L5R storyline. I figure it's a good way to draw more attention to the fighting game scene, cuz i sure as hell can't con that crowd into watching a 17-minute Guile video.
Here's what other people had to say about this concept:
omni wrote:geekiest thing i've ever read
Haters.jchensor wrote:But yeah, that's pretty geeky.
Ok, so i've already got all of the CvS2 Haohmaru matches choreographed, programmed, played out in Versus Mode, and saved as replays on VMUs. Hopefully i'll have time to capture (at least some of) them tomorrow morning and post them for you guys to see. I've also got a couple of non-CvS2 clips done, but i might have to ask for help with some games that i know nothing about.