Aimee Wilbury Plays Portal 2

[aimeeandbeatles]

And is generally terrible at it.

http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/

Quick Links:
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10

I was using YouTube for a bit, explaining the username. But I've since migrated from it. Until I find something a little more .... permanent, I just stuck it under a subdirectory on my other site.

Warnings: There is some swearing (not drawing any more attention to it), some screaming, some fangirling, and a lot of incomprehensible speech. If any of these annoy you to the point of flaming, you may wanna avoid it.

(And yes, I know the videos are wider than the page div's. I'm still trying to figure out how to fix this without shrinking the videos even more.)

Full-res MKV files are available for all of them. They're rather large, though. Available on the video pages. I find the videos run better if you pause it at the very beginning and let it buffer for half a minute or so.

Current episodes:

Spoiler :

Spoiler Episode 1 :

Episode 1: Manual Override?
12:21 | May 21, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode01.html

In March I bought Portal and accidentally got addicted to it. Then I bought Portal 2 and got even more addicted. So I decided to make this.

I'm surprised how silly and scatterbrained I can be.

You may want to turn down your volume at about 7:50, especially if you're wearing headphones ;-)

Spoiler Episode 2 :

Episode 2: Camera Shy
13:47 | May 27, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode02.html

I guess I don't like cameras?

I was quite ill and feverish when recording this. It shows. Badly. Still, it was fun.

Links mentioned in video:
Summary of the first Portal: [link]
Lab Rat Comic: [link]

Yeah, I did throw up on-microphone. I edited it out for discretion.

Spoiler Episode 3 :

Episode 3: Staring Contests
18:33 | May 31, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode03.html

I should've been at the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers concert nearby. Instead, I'm engaging in a staring contest with a large robotic eyeball and accidentally waking up homicidal AIs.

Here's the article I was talking about at the beginning: [link]

Believe it or not, I had to re-record half of my dialogue due to my speech being generally incomprehensible. I messed up the editing in a few spots though hopefully it isn't too noticeable. Sorry 'bout that.

Also noticed a few mistakes in the subtitles. Darn! ("symbol of agency" should be "symbol of masculine agency," for instance)

If you were wondering, Wheatley does weigh 45 kilograms, according to the Portal 2 authoring tools. Also I got a little sloppy on the audio editing towards the end; two bits of dialogue got overlapped when I was trying to fix something unclear.)

Spoiler Episode 4 :

Episode 4: You Monster
21:52 | June 5, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode04.html

In which I acquire a dual-portal device and fall off a platform into toxic water. Five times in a row. Sometimes I'm not very good at this game.

(more summary on page)

Spoiler Episode 5 :

Episode 5: The Return of the Cube
25:45 | June 11, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode05.html

In which I (attempt to) sing another Petty song, eat popcorn, get overexcited enough to knock things down, and yell a lot. I'm pretty silly the day it was recorded.

Yup, I did knock over my chair, folding table, and the garbage. Also, at the bit at the end, I cropped out my Steam ID for privacy issues.

Spoiler Episode 6 :

Episode 6: Breathless Robots
15:04 | June 20, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode06.html

In which I have difficulties with cubes and hard light bridges, and have fun knocking over stationary objects.

Spoiler Episode 7 :

Episode 7: Musical Turrets
19:41 | July 24, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode07.html

In which I have fun with turrets and get disoriented in one of the testchambers more than I'd like to. (At the time of recording, I was having medical issues that cropped up mid-June and weren't figured out until August.)

I'm almost as bad as Valve for keeping a reasonable schedule.

Spoiler Episode 8 :

Episode 8: Thermally Discouraged
11:29 | August 20, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode08.html

In which I give up on trying to make my speech fairly comprehensible and get burned by lasers a lot.

Bit at the beginning is from Garry's Mod; also, interestingly, after a while, my speech actually does improve.

Spoiler Episode 9 :

Episode 9: The Real Confetti
20:39 | August 25, 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode09.html

In which Aimee reunites with a certain personality sphere (and is generally unable to get a word in edgewise with him around), meets a strange turret and tries to stop the turret manufacturing line in an interesting way.

Yeah, I used noclip to throw the turret onto the line. On my first playthrough, I managed to toss it on, but noclipping was easier (and sillier, too).

Spoiler Episode 10 :

Episode 10: Hacking for Dummies
33:46 | October 01. 2012
http://www.thepettyarchives.com/personal/AimeeWilburyPlaysPortal2/Episode10.html

Episode 10: Hacking for Dummies

33:46 | October 01. 2012 | Download MKV (536 MB)

In which Wheatley tries to (unsuccesfully) hack a computer, Aimee forgets about the existence of the fourth wall and much screaming ensues.

Also, what's the point of creating gun-turrets that can feel pain?!

The subtitles got a little screwed up a few points near the end -- I didn't realize until after I had it uploaded and everything.

(more summary on page)

One last thing: No idea of the proper format of a Let's Play; I'm just rushing in without any real clue of what I'm doing, which is really more fun anyways.

 

[NickyJ]

So far all the episodes are great. I'm looking forward to the next one!