Grew up watching things like Freeman’s Mind, and Red vs Blue (their channel is locked behind some kind of ‘join’ thing… wtf…), WoW Machinimas… More recently I saw Neeb’s Subnautica series and it’s a pretty solid step up in quality compared to what I’m otherwise familiar with. I’ve burned through their content, and am seeking more! …and the Subnautica stuff looks like Neeb’s only content that follows this format - the rest of their channel is ‘let’s play’ videos. Boo.
Anyway, nursing student here! …it’s melting my brain. I don’t trust my time-management skills to actually fire up any games right now - the addiction is real, and I’ll fuck up my grades; but the ‘itch’ is also real, so I’m trying to find something to give that gaming fix, but in little short bursts so I don’t one-more-level my way out of the program.
Study up, give my brain a nice 10-20 min break, then get back to it.
Not really picky on the game or genre, just looking for something in-character. YouTube is absolutely STUFFED with videos of people just playing games, but hardly any focused on delivering an actual story. Or rather, I’m sure it’s there, it’s just lost in a sea of low quality slop. Could also be that I just don’t know the right key search term (“machinima” doesn’t seem to really be a thing anymore, and I’m not sure what else to call it).
Any recommendations on picking out the gems?
I really miss the G4/TechTV show “Portal.”
It was machinima and live action, kinda in world lore but it used multiple MMORPGs for the in-game parts and had a sort of multiverse plot line where there were recurring characters that would appear in all the different game worlds and such.
It’s hard to explain because it was really its own unique thing.