yeah i forgot, edited

Here you go, Episode 1 of my let's play using AI President voiceover.

Feedback on audio clarity and balance between gameplay sounds and voice lines, and balance of time spent on jokes vs gameplay and mod info would be appreciated.

Later videos are already made, and I edited out a lot of time spent making decisions and got the videos down from 33 to around 20-22 minutes which flows better IMO. This was my first swing!

https://youtu.be/AUAM4Ogzvc8

Hey I watched a while, got a chuckle out of the campsite snoozing the party and the conversation with the Fed NPC, and googling the puzzle answer just as the devs intended. I don't know anything about DA:O, but as someone with no experience with the game I thought you had a nice balance of lore stuff, comments on gameplay/tips, and some goofy comments sprinkled in.

I think the audio sounded good, you may be able to bump up the ambient music a tiny bit, at lower volume levels i didn't even realize there WAS some ambient music, and it sounded kinda empty just with the voiceover / no music or sound effects coming through (until i turned the volume up a lot and then i could hear it). May be something to consider. Getting a balance of voiceover audio and ambient sound / gameplay sound is really tricky, and it definitely isn't bad at all, just something to think about. You may be able to bump it up a bit for more immersion, without it competing with your voiceover or needing higher volumes to come through.

You did some in-game audio at one point and that was a nice mix-up from the voiceover. You may consider finding more in-game moments with good audio, other funny moments like your character saying the line about ladders and getting off his back, or perhaps, Iconic voice lines the DA:O community knows, or maybe letting the NPC's drop some of the lore bombshells and plot points themselves rathe than you explaining it all. I know that would extend your video length and editing time, but that time you did some in-game audio i thought it was effective and I bet you could find other moments with great in-game audio or iconic/important dialogue to give your voiceover a short break and let some of gameplay audio shine for a moment.

Thumbnail is good, only feedback is the Red lettering blends a bit with the red object on the right, maybe a different / brighter color would POP more?

Congrats on this by the way, it's a hell of an undertaking and I watched/listened to a pretty good chunk of it while doing this write up. I'm not exactly your target audience having never played Dragon Age, and considering that I still had a good time.

Even with stun trinkets, there's several bosses you just aren't going to stun, or stunning is a straight up bad strategy (Hag)

I took stress IRL watching this

Great post

Arbalest, Houndmaster, Occultist, Bounty Hunter is my favorite vanilla composition.

You could hope to guard dodge cheese him with Houndmaster, but honestly i'd probably not run the mission. I always prefer a Man at Arms to tank through his bombs.

Hard agree, this is a downgrade

The hero we didn't know we needed