i would like to see good dev commentary in more things

the dev commentary in valve games is so interesting and useful and educative, but their games come out somewhat rarely and most of the others that i’ve seen do commentary have done it badly

it’s usually either self-serving pr-type junk or just sort of rambly nothing. what’s the missing ingredient here? the valve commentary is people reading from a pretty concise, edited-down script, but without a lot of complexity sanded off it. i wonder what the process is there

the half-life 2 fan mod “half-life 2: update” which seems to be just about trying to fix minor bugs and graphical glitches, inexplicably has “dev commentary” from just random guys, including the “lead commentary writer”, which is the funniest thing ever to me

in reply to @joewintergreen’s post:

JP @vectorpoem 8/10/2024, 11:45 PM

reading this post it’s clear you’ve got a talent… you should apply for Lead Metacommentary Writer…

giwake @giwake 8/13/2024, 3:56 PM

oh, get this: i knew about the people who did the commentary for half life 2 update. they’re random video-game youtubers, some of which (brutalmoose (who has now moved on to movie/food reviews) and caddicarus) have never covered half-life at any point.