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End-of-Year Update!
🕑 Added 2017-12-30 20:05:53 +0000 UTCThanks usually come last in update blogs, but that's not gonna fly this time.
On Christmas Eve I posted my Christmas special, and right after I went to a party at some friends' house. When I came home there was a FLOOD of new patrons, and that flood continued for days. Even now new patrons are trickling in. And I can't even describe how much this touches me. Seeing all those notification emails was incredible, and between this and finally reaching 200,000 subscribers (on the 25th, I might add!) this was really a magical Christmas. I really can't thank you guys enough, and we're so happy to have all you new folks in the comment section!
Well I don't have too much to say about upcoming videos, mainly because I'm still trying to figure things out. But here's what I know so far:
First there's the top ten games of 2017 video I'm doing with Lockstin from over on Gnoggin. This will come out tomorrow, and if I can manage to finish it up tonight I'll give it to you $10+ guys early, but otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to. That's the problem with releasing videos on a strict schedule, sometimes it's just about impossible to get them done too far ahead of the deadline. XP
After that I've got a few videos planned for January though I couldn't tell you exactly which videos will come when. One of them though will be that review continuation for Super Mario Odyssey. The main focus will be on how it's got the best endgame of probably any Mario in existence, but it will also cover a few other thoughts I couldn't put into the main review for spoiler reasons.
Then I've got my "The amiibo Problem" video. I can't remember how much I've talked about this already, but for you newcomers it's just a video talking about the current issues with amiibo and how Nintendo could overcome them and use the things to their fullest potential. It's a pretty long video, and it could do with some fancy editing work, but hopefully it will be a January thing after all. (Lonely Goomba wants to focus more on his own channel but maybe I'll go poke him until he helps me again...) I know I'll at the very least wait until after the (potential) Nintendo Direct though, so early February is possible.
I don't have any other for-sure videos planned, but with any luck Nintendo will have a great big Nintendo Direct for January! And seriously, I don't want to get my hopes up too high, but the idea that they could potentially announce such a thing within the next few weeks has got me pretty darn excited. Anyway, at the very least I'll release a reaction/commentary video for that. Those are always nice because even if I can't get any ad revenue off them they still count as a weekly upload and bring in decent views. If it really is a big thing like January 2017 though, I'm sure I'll be doing a full discussion video talking about all the big announcements and my thoughts on them.
So that's a decent spread of new stuff coming up. It's fun to tease stuff that's further off though, so I'll paste a few ideas I've got on my idea list. None of these are guaranteed to become videos, but I'd say there's a decent chance. (And forgive me if some of these have been mentioned before.)
Paper Mario partners I want to see
How can 2D Zelda work on the Switch?
1 2 Switch and Nintendo’s Casual Philosophy Moving Forward
How To Make an Arlo Buy a Game
It’s Time For Nintendo Kart
It’s Time For a “Zelda” Game
It’s Time For a (better) Peach Game
It’s Time For Metroid Prime Trilogy HD
Lastly, very exciting news for those of you who watched the Christmas special, Family Member A has been approved by their boss to switch to part time!!! That means we've got one more work week of our normal schedule (minus Monday which is a holiday, so it's really only four days) then we'll switch to our NEW schedule, where they work four hours, then come home and let ME work for four hours. This plus the bits I was already getting plus, let's be honest, the evenings I'll inevitably keep giving up, should give me lots of time for making videos. This change combined with the recent surge in patrons has got me EVEN MORE excited for 2018!!! I'm closer than ever to taking over and running ArloStuff full time. It's absolutely unreal. Just got to keep pushing.
Thanks again you guys, and if you're new be sure to introduce yourself in the comments! See you next time!
Comments
How about it’s time for Luigi’s Mansion 3 CAUSE IT IS
Do how to make Arlington buy a game
If we're lucky, Full time Arlo might have the extra time to revive that Let's Play channel. "Super Arlo Odyssey" ;)
Cole Durrett
Arlo you're the best. I always get excited when I see one of your videos. Bring back the Let's Plays tho!
Arlo
Earthworm Jim needs a revival BAD!
New patron here too! Love all that youre doing! Thank you! Maybe do a video on "How to Motivate Companies to Resurrect Old Games" cuz I think Earthworm Jim on the Switch could be eppppppiiiiiicccccc!!!
Happy New Year! I am very intrigued by "How To Make an Arlo Buy a Game" as a video concept. What motivates other people to buy games always interests me.
If you told me a few years ago that my first Patreon subscription would be to a blue muppet who plays video games, I'd be like, "What's a Patreon?" But now it's 2018 and my first Patreon subscription is to a blue muppet who plays video games. And I'm darn happy to be here, too. Keep doing your thing, it's working.
Happy New Year! Here's to a great 2018!
Scott (TurboGenesis-64)
Arlo is like a $3.00 cable channel that I subscribe to. Happy New Year!
Antony Oscar
I'm glad for the new schedule. Congrats for getting new patrons too!
Can you do top 10 Mario games?
Good luck, Arlo!
One of the new flood, been watching your videos for a few weeks and the Christmas special made me want to become a Patron
Bobby Mageau
Just joined but happy to be here! Can't wait to see the new content, I'm sure it'll be great
Quazillionaire
It's great to be on board! I think you're an intensely talented and creative individual, I like what you're doing, and I'm glad I'm able to support you in some small way so that you can keep doing it!
All those ideas you listed were all awesome! I hope too we get Nintendo kart and Metroid prime trilogy HD those would be awesome!!
Evan
Goodness, the How To Make An Arlo Buy a Game sounds like the best. But that’s coming from a “super fan” so maybe it’s not best for channel health. *Tangent* in the Mario review you made a comment about how Nintendo games don’t age, new ones just come in and add to the “Nintendo well” that intrigued me for some reason. Is there a video there? **Tangent 2** I love that you described Doom as a game made for Nintendo fans (in spite of the aesthetics) I would love to hear what makes a Nintendo game special to you, and perhaps some recommendations of Non-tendo games. I’m Sure whatever you do will be terrific: and I hope you have a happy New Year
Yay! Full time arlo! I can’t wait to see all you have in store for us in 2018!
