UPDATE: The “Climax” chapter is now available. The FEAR M.E. project has been completed.

Hello and welcome to a special HPAW project. As some of you know I (Mempf for you new people) am a huge F.E.A.R. fan (enough to use the .’s most of the time apparently). And although I was initially a little disappointed with F.E.A.R. 2, the more I think about it it really is a fantastic game.

So what is FEAR M.E.? It is a marathon of sorts. Not of our traditional kind though. For F.E.A.R. 2 a group of people would ruin the mood and immersion the game so well creates. I will however be using the HPAW microphone to capture my feedback and comments of the story alone with other things.

I do plan to play through the whole game (Monolith I promise this will only make more sales!) however my time frame for completing this is currently unknown. Oh and FEAR M.E. means FEAR the Mempf Experience so please enjoy.

F.E.A.R. 2: Fear Me Preview (500.2 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Awakening" (954.4 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Discovery" (648.3 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Withdrawal" (776.1 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Replica" (998.2 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Ruins" (648.4 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Top" (720.1 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Elementary" (658.9 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Nurse's Office" Part 1 (621.7 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Nurse's Office" Part 2 (723.7 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Snakefist" (994.1 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Keegan" (998.0 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Epicenter" (479.2 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Approach" Part 1 (561.7 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Approach" Part 2 (644.6 MiB)
F.E.A.R. 2: FEAR M.E. "Climax" (973.7 MiB)
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Welcome to another episode of HPAW. We are off to a great year so far now with a new, full cast so why not bring back an old guest? Black Light returns on this injury filled episode of skateboarding from EA Black Box.

Also just before posting this I released the “Snakefist” chapter of FEAR M.E. so if you have been following that check it out below this post.

HPAW March 1st 2009: Skate 2 (HD/720P) (995.4 MiB)
HPAW March 1st 2009: Skate 2 (SD/iPod) (485.7 MiB)
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Two episodes released on schedule in a row? No way!

That’s right we are back with our second episode of 2009 and the second episode with our new cast. We have a full cast of Mempf, Teclis and Biske with a guest and possible future cast member Kaisuke. So please join us as we dive into the “story” of Left 4 Dead.

I am trying out new audio mixer settings. The audio level did turn out a little low but much of the background noise and clipping should be gone now. Please provide feedback on the changes. Thanks

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Please leave questions and comments below, I will update this post to answer many of them.

For clarification WorldGone Awry and Nw Striker left on their own accord, no one was fired.

1. Q. i understand but will world and stryker ever appear again or are they gone for good not even once in a time?
   A. Yes both of them are expected to return as guests from time to time.
2. Q. So is anyone(other than Biske)who is considering to become the second new HPAW cast member?
   A. At the moment? Not really but we are open to suggestions from you guys.

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The time has finally come.

Formal announcement coming soon

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Merry Christmas everyone!

Thats right people the return of the unofficial episode, this time in the form of the final HD test.

Teclis and Biske join me (Mempf) as we play online matchmaking followed by the just voted game of the year Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

This test’s goal is to simulate an actual HPAW episode. We know not everyone wants the HD version so the old format (which can be put straight onto any iPod/iPhone and most other devices) will remain but look even better than before. And please people do not try to stream the episodes in a quicktime player in your browser. If this occurs please instead right click on the download link and choose save as.

Hope you enjoy.

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While I have not yet decided whether or not HPAW will go HD I have started my testing now that I have the new HD capture card in my possession.

Over the course of the next week I will be uploading a series of public video tests to both the HPAW server and to YouTube. Any and all feedback would be appreciated.

Audio is now working with direct game capture. Getting this all to work with the HPAW microphone is next on the list.

Check out the flip at 4:07

The bitrate on HD Test 3 is higher than required resulting in a larger file size. Future tests will hopefully be smaller with little to no quality loss.

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UPDATE: Part 2 is now available.

Some of you may have guessed that this was coming from the previous HD test and the talk in the Fallout Marathon. Well here it is the Dead Space episode with hopefully improved (though not HD) quality. Capture was done with the PC version of the game and capture from PC which has proven problematic in the past. (Seems great this time)

I have also started a Twitter account for HPAW which I will try to update at least once per day.

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Some of you may have noticed that I have uploaded two high definition test videos to YouTube in order to test the new “fmt=22” format (aka 720P). These tests do not mean that HPAW will be presented in high definition. In fact they pretty much mean the opposite. I have found that processing time is over 4x longer for HD content and the files sizes will be in the multiples of gigabytes. It would likely take over 24 hours to get a video from filming to online if we filmed in HD as opposed to the current 3-5 hours.

HPAW in HD:

In other news the Gears of War Marathon is now back on the server and downloadable in its original WMV format.

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Well no matter how busy I get I always love to add new features or make improvments to HPAW and now if your chance to make a difference.

Please leave a comment with what you think would make the HPAW site or videos themselves better. From something new to fixing something that does not work quite right.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT FOR GAME REQUESTS!!! (Bans will be given out Dattebayo style)

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