I just have to share this goldmine…
1.8 million views in about 5 days… amazing.
I’m gonna say this will take over YouTube’s top 50 spot in a matter of months, easily.
Plus, the music was created original, so I’m guessing they’ll have a hit with that as well.
TLDW
I agree that the number of views is amazing. This video was probably the least interesting thing I’ve ever looked at on YouTube. EpicNonsense, do you really think this is worth the time it takes to watch?
I literally beat myself into unconsciousness with a baseball bat after about 45 seconds, just to avoid having to see the rest.
I think it has a certain charm for those of us who miss our old computers/game consoles which showed 8 colours and 400 pixels and that was the way we liked it, thankyou very much. If it really WAS created from thousands of photos of lego constructions that’s pretty interesting in a point-at-the-freak kind of way. As someone who managed to flog their Atari ST for a tenner quite recently, the music style brought a tear to my eye (but then, I have an emulator which keeps me terrifyingly occupied).
That was actually quite good. I didn’t see any Link, though.
The kickboxers look like William Murderface.
That was completely awful. The only good part was the Pac-Man scene. The rest… bleh!
And the L-block used in the Tetris scene was made up of five “pieces”, that is a serious no-no!
That music was so terrible I wanted whoever made it to be crushed under a freight car full of Commodore 64’s.
Yeah, Tetris means “four.” I heard the creator on NPR recently and that was one of the few things I was able to pick up out of his broken English :p.
I caught this over on Digg.
I think the B&W video is video, pixelated, and is not legos.
However, the amount of time for the part that was lego… incredible.
That was horrible. I love my 8-bit games as much as anyone, but that video just brutally murdered a little of nostalgia.
The Lego and animation were technically proficient, but the video was horrendously boring, the soundtrack sucked, they showed the same things over and over again, the interpolated fake-8-bit effect of the players completely ruined the atmosphere… I forced myself to sit through as much of the video as I could but it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. Ugh. I get infinitely more amused making Mario sounds to myself.
The music is really bad but I think it’s just an excuse for something to animate the Lego blocks to. The kicking kung-fu guys were cool and the pacman maze was awesome.