Sendoff Of War: The Discount Ranger

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Published on August 29, 2022 7:24:19 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C-xELktmv4

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Middle-earth: Shadow of War (2017)

Duration: 52:46

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Credit to The Real Ranger - https://bit.ly/2usglWP || Ed's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/editedward || Ed's Patreon: https://bit.ly/2pNOtYn || Discord: https://bit.ly/2GeJNoB || "Murmurs have been heard of a second Gravewalker in Mordor. A much less suave, much less skilled one..."

Outlaw Tribes, Slaughter Tribes, #Gravewalker Difficulty etc. Welcome, Ranger, to the present day. For one night only.

(Real talk a mo, pinned comment will also reflect this)
This all began as taking the mickey on the people who berated my old longform, low-edit OEM videos as being "stealing" from the bigman despite us being...well...pretty different in vibe.
I'm a secure enough chap to admit the homage-satire was partly good natured inspo, & partly bitter "give you something to really moan about" energy.

But in the years that followed, I learned a lot from this journey. SoW:DR taught me to love editing again after uni beat it out of me; it begat X:MBR, which became channel-defining; it forced me out of using the (speedily turning IRL toxic) OEM persona, since he couldn't vocally carry the "ripoff" gag. I want to say thank you; to all the people who left angry, strange, nonsensical comments & messages (back when YT had those) that spurred this into inception. I literally couldn't have done it without you. And to all the people who saw a harmless fan's gaff for what it was & expressed support. You're the reason it continued & is, now, concluding.
Irony is, over the years the "thiefcallers" stopped. I think I get one/two a year now where pre-SoW it was a decent rate per month.

This last episode has been (quite visibly by time & content) difficult to make. Behind the curtain there were a lot of questions.
-How do you close out a sting piece aimed at people who moved on & no animosity remains either side, even evolving to outright gratitude?
-How do you end a meta-narrative about two different rangers?
-Largest of all. How do you deal with how hard SoW's ending S U C K S?!

Both in gameplay & narrative, I truly believe SoW disservices itself at the last - and not knowing that, when I came to record it I found all my ideas for finales (such as a fully-written Rap Battle that I would lose against ToG 'final boss') crumbling away. I don't know what they were thinking here.

But enough of that. The sour finale is over - go celebrate our Mordor lord of old. Say it with me, for old times' sake. "The T to the O to the goddamn G!" - Link in the endcard and description. For on this day, The #DiscountRanger rides from Mordor forevermore! Peace y'all!

I hope on some level y'all enjoyed this satire story of shameless knock-off that revelled in the ripping & spun out so hard it create its own lore (looking at you, Killabrimbor & co)!

I never intended to "steal" the WHOLE style (e.g. bad joke cutaways, screams etc.) - the older more sedate (but still dramatic) SoM-era style was the aim. Now at the end of the experiment I'd say we half got there. The pace was there, but the commentary quality & creativity was lacking on my part. Blame the ep-by-ep growing amount of "me" as time went by since, well, we're different dudes.

Sound Assets pinched from Various Games
Bought from HumbleBundle
Downloaded from sites offering freebies over Covid
& some are straight up custom Frankensteins I made myself

Additional Music By:
-EposVox' Backing Track: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRBHiacaQb5S70pljtJYB2g
-Turbo: https://www.youtube.com/c/TurboA
-ArtificialFear: https://youtu.be/Xtya_7sx3Uo
-Queen
-Kayne
-ERB
-Me (you can tell by the struggle to hit the tenor-tricks)

#Shadowofwar

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