Amiga Longplay [246] Dune II: The Battle For Arrakis

http://www.recordedamigagames.org

Played by: Ironclaw

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Ok, this video is actually over 9 hours long, but it shows as 4 hours and 22 mins, so guess there is a length limit at YouTube, BUT, at the end of the vid (at 4 hours, 22 mins) it continues to play the rest of the movie, but in the background... weird... well, you'll see if you jump there. Anyway, like with ALL our movies, they can be downloaded from our site in perfect quality etc.

Hmm, maybe the length limit isn't 4h 22m, as my Simon The Sorcerer II movie is 4h 31m: watch?v=Y6QKTEVJiX8.
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A quickly written comment. (spelling errors and stuff maybe)

This game was recorded on request by one of the members of the RAG site (sign up and post your request too and someone might record it).

When I played this games as a kid, I played as the Harkonnen (my first and only pick, just because I liked the color), not knowing they were the most powerful House. The game was fairly simple. I wanted this movie to be a bit special, so I asked around which House were the weakest, and they all said it was Ordos. Seems like very few people have completed the game with the Ordos. People knowing this also don't play as them just because of that.

The ingame music (the one when playing, not the intro, cut scenes or the outro) in the Amiga version sucks (in my opinion), so I turned off the music in the first mission as I planned to add nicer music later when editing the movie... but sadly, none of my music editing tools like the idea of a 9 hour sound file so I could not do what I wanted. I tried splitting the sound file into smaller pieces, to add music into each one, but had problems with that aswell for various reasons. So... I just let it go and submitted the movie without ingame music :(. Too bad the music in most of the cutscenes where removed aswell. At least the into and outro has music :).

This is my longest movie so far, and it's not that long considering what game this is. I remember I spent hours on each of the later missions when I last played it (as a kid... uhm.. maybe 13 years ago). It was not untill later in the game I realized that I had to build those concrete blocks under a building to get it not to lose health when placed, or over time. I also didn't realize until much later that each time I entered the building where I order stuff, the price of stuff changed. Man, I could have saved alot of credits if I knew this earlier... now I go in and out over and over again till I get a good price :).

It's said that this game has some bugs, well, I didn't use any of them... but I discovered the deviator bug on the last level and sort of "semi-used" used it for a moment. I took over an enemy unit and made it attack an enemy thingy, when it turned back to the enemy color, it kept on attack the target I assigned. But when the target is destroyed, it comes for me again... so no biggie :).

I completely ran out of credits and spice fields, also had very few units left... but managed to win (close call). I wanted a fancy defeat over the enemy with lots of orni's... didn't turn out like that though.

Problem: And once again, I get sound delay after encoding the movie in MeGUI. The source files didn't have any sound delay, the files after editing them in VirtualDub had no sound delay, when previewing the movie through the avs script in MPC I had no sound delay, BUT, when the movie was encoded in MeGUI; I got sound delay :(. I tried updating the tools, reinstalling them etc, made no difference. I have reinstalled Windows now and hope my next movie will not have this problem.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• dune
• ii
• The
• Battle
• For
• Arrakis
• amiga
• longplay
• rpg
• strategy

[whoosh2k]

Is there a way to actually view the video after the 4h22m mark?

Also, is there a reason you didn't split this into two or three videos like you did with some of your other longplays?

[cubex55]

Comment from Ironclaw:

Sure there is; all our movies can be downloaded from our site (check FAQ) in perfect quality (surprised you didn't know).

Yeah, there's a reason why I didn't split it :)... it was laziness. Just download it instead :).

Imo, as I'm a quality geek, I don't think anyone should watch these movies on YT because of the quality, need to stream, slow seeking etc... people should download them instead imo... but not many seem to care about quality it seems.

[iainhead]

shame they dont make a decent remake of this one

[cubex55]

They did - it was called Dune 2000!

[ComCodex]

YES SIR

YES SIR

ACKNOWLEDGED

YES SIR

[mfighter96]

I have a question, who actually watched the whole thing?

[CzarKirk]

4:14:45 :)

[SkSRMLK]

Epic game for its time.The FATHER of all RTS .Addictive and if i remember correcly ,only 4 disks=less than 4mb game for Amiga.The games now are 9gb and boring, not fun at all. :(

[RebelAdmiral]

@1xWertzui i'm pretty sure there was music.

[Ironclaw007]

@Riivens Cuz the movie got bugged, it's actually 9 hours long. All movies can be downloaded if wanted.

[Riivens]

Wow, this is the longest gameplay i have ever seen (4.22.07)! But why does it continue after that time?

[aesutton]

@cubex55 no bro, no... quality is king. fuck the noobs who dont know it. o_o

[ogrejd]

The only RTS I've ever liked...

[djrikki2008]

As much as I loved Dune 2, I felt its predecessor was much better as it had a very engaging storyline and was huge. Although hard to compare side by side really as they are so much different one to another.

[ancalimonungol]

0:23:49 It sucks! AI built a radar on top of your trikes. :)

[1xWertzui]

What??!! No in-game music in the Amiga version?