Potential project: Dark Medic Video

[Fail Medic]

This is me putting an idea to paper, and I'm not committing to a project yet, but I've been daydreaming about this for a couple of months.

I dream of doing a dark, kick-ass video for the Medic, and two songs have come to me and said, "Hey, I'd be great for this."  To start off, I'd like to float the idea to you guys and see if either of these songs would work or if you can think of another song.

Candidate 1: Korn's "Counting On Me"

Yes, I know Korn is looked down upon, hush, but I think the song really nails Medic.

Why can't you ever back down?
Why can't you just shut your face?
Oh god the feelings I feel
Would get me thrown in a cage.
You're the one who's always screaming at me
I'm the one that keeps your life so care free
What the fuck more do you want me to be?
Why must you do this to me?

Run away, I can't say
Lead the way, make them pay

Counting on me
Always hoping I'll be
There for all of your problems
In turn you're never there for me
You sucked the life out of me
You hate everything you see
I can't take this anymore
I always stay when I should leave

There's tons of potential for matching video to those lyrics.  Towards the end of the song, there's the "Right Now! Right Now!" part which can be a brutal montage of successive unrelenting ubercharge bloodbaths.

One totally optional bit I would go for would be this: you know how Jonathan Davis has his mic stand shaped in the form of a naked H.R. Giger-esque woman?  The Medic would have a Heavy mic stand with the minigun replaced with the microphone.  I'm totally stretching on that one, but like I said, daydreams.

Candidate 2: Tool's "Vicarious"

Why can't we just admit it?
Why can't we just admit,
We won't give pause until the blood is flowin'
Neither the brave nor bold
Will write us a story. So,
We won't give pause until the blood is flowin'

I need to watch things die
From a good safe distance
Vicariously, I
Live while the whole world dies
You all feel the same so
Why can't we

Just admit it

Blood like rain, come down
Drum on grave and ground

Part vampire
Part warrior
Carnivore and voyeur
Still have the transmittal
Synch to the death rattle...

The treatment I imagine I'd give this would be a Medic floating as a spec sometimes and watching horrible things occur.  "We won't give pause until the blood is flowing."  He could stand motionless and medigun an unending line of his teammates marching to their deaths as he sings, "Vicariously I / live while the whole world dies. / Much better you than I. (wicked grin)"  So, yeah, this song puts the Medic as a masochist rather than a sadist in "Counting On Me".

Well, like I said, I don't even know yet if I would be able to put together a working video on either one of these, even with gigantic help.  Still, I wanted to float it to y'all and see what y'all think and if y'all could think of another good dark and twisted or melancholy theme for him.  I know we already picked his theme song, but this would be different.

What do you think, sirs?

[Luinbariel]

I think this is a super idea, and the only other music I can think of recommending is anything by Linkin Park.

[HeK]

Linkin Park.

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That or Stabbing Westward.

[CaffeinePowered]

Korn

[jorge]

Liberal use of 'emo' tbh. 

Katatonia - Evidence

I hold my breath (I hold my breath)
and check the time (and check the time)
One minute no collapse (no collapse)
If you only knew (if you only knew)
what I would do for you
One thirty breathing lapse (breathing lapse)

We're going in (we're going in)
my voice is thin (my voice is thin)
When I tell you to remember (remember)

That no one will find you
A promise from the heart
If we part, my pulse will guide you through

Be still for a moment
Everything depends upon you
If you die I will die too
Once we were heroes
But everything has changed since then
Now they recognize you too
...

Maybe not as open to interpretation, but it's so good.

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Linkin Park.

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[Fail Medic]

Liberal use of 'emo' tbh. 

I thought that's what the whippersnapper kids called it these days.  Should I change thread title >_> ?

Listened to "Evidence" and read the lyrics.  It seems to lend itself to the "Medic + Heavy 4ever" theme.  Consider it considered.

Linkin Park?  I haven't listened to anything of theirs beyond what was on the radio.  Would they have anything pertinent?

[jorge]

I thought that's what the whippersnapper kids called it these days.  Should I change thread title >_> ?

Yuh, misleading.

Listened to "Evidence" and read the lyrics.  It seems to lend itself to the "Medic + Heavy 4ever" theme.  Consider it considered.

Linkin Park?  I haven't listened to anything of theirs beyond what was on the radio.  Would they have anything pertinent?

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...rch=Search

[copulatingduck]

"Right Now" Ubercharge bloodbath montage sounds epic!  ;D

[Budr]

Korn

I'm shocked that there are actually lyrics. All these years I thought it was just, you know, noise?

You seem to have put a lot of thought into this Fail, so fair enough but it's just unfortunate that every kid that uploads TF2 videos feels the need to add 'atmosphere' by laying on a metal/rock/shit backing track.

[Fail Medic]

You seem to have put a lot of thought into this Fail, so fair enough but it's just unfortunate that every kid that uploads TF2 videos feels the need to add 'atmosphere' by laying on a metal/rock/shit backing track.

I understand that opinion and would agree with it, Budr.  To "justify" this project, I'd have to do the Face Poser phenome thing to make characters sing the lyrics.  I'd also need to animate ragdolls to play guitars and drums so I could simulate the obligatory "shot of the band" in otherwise thematic music videos.  I'd really have to separate it from a mere gameplay video with a Winamp shuffle of Slipknot.

[Vongore]

Rammstein, because the Medic is german and stuff methinks

[Dave]

Rammstein, because the Medic is german and stuff methinks

[Eschatos]

I think Tool would be better.  Korn is good but it just doesn't fit.

[HeK]

Linkin Park?  I haven't listened to anything of theirs beyond what was on the radio.  Would they have anything pertinent?

Not really angry like Korn, but more emo.

Just listen to the whole 'Hybrid Theory' album. It's all pretty much the same genre.


I'd also look at Stabbing Westward. 'Everything I touch', 'When I'm Dead', 'Torn Apart', 'You complete me'.

'You complete me' would be good with the whole Doc/Heavy pairing:

I am lost in the darkness
Between two worlds and here I'm struggling
You're the light that I've been seeking
'Cause my whole life there's been something missing
Only you
Can make me whole
Just one touch
And you complete me
Only you
Can make me whole
Just one touch
And you complete me

Rescue me from this black hole
That sucked me in and left my dying
You're the truth that I've been seeking
'Cause my whole life I've been lying

'When I'm dead' is more angry-emo:

I know the tears you're crying in your bed at night alone
I've cried those tears a thousand times
But those shallow empty songs about suicide are patronizing
You've got to learn to face your fears
Or do you think I'll be less lonely when I'm dead
It can't silence all the voices in my head
I close my eyes but I can't make it go away
Do you think I'll be less lonely
God I pray that I'm not lonely

When I'm dead
When I'm dead
When I'm dead

When I'm dead I won't feel any pain
And when I'm dead I won't feel anything

When I'm dead
When I'm dead
When I'm dead
When I'm dead

I know the songs you're singing, saying nothing loud and clear
I've heard that song a thousand times
But your shallow empty lies about suicide are patronizing
You can never understand what I feel

[Mission Difficult]

I have a few suggestions, but I guess it depends on the feel you're going for. I have the songs if you can't find them on the web. All of them are by Pig.

The Fountain of Miracles

With a temper like that
There's trouble to come
You'll have your eyes wide open
And your belly to the sun
With that attitude
There's trouble to come
You'll have your mouth wide open
And your best suit on

Hey tell me lord
What should I know?
Hey tell me lord
What should I know?

The last one hired
Is the first one fired
Everybody say "why?"
Everybody say "why?"
If we're late to break
Could be the last mistake
And everybody's gonna die
Everybody's gonna die

Hey tell me lord
What should I know?
Hey tell me lord
What should I know?

We need a fountain of miracles
A fountain of miracles
Give me a fountain of miracles
A fountain of miracles
Hey tell me lord
What should I know?
Hey tell me lord
What should I know?

Rhapsody in rhythm
His loving hand is given
Rhapsody in rhythm
My dirty soul is smitten
Take your pity from the mount
Pick your misery from the mouth
The devil dances on an empty pocket
The eyeballs jumpin' outta them sockets
I feel the urge of suicide
We're on the verge of genocide
You're under my skin
Tell the next of kin
I'm under this gun
I'm under this knife
From the blackest rocks
Shines the brightest lights

Hey tell me lord
What should I know?
Hey tell me lord
What should I know?

Shake me lord is there something
I should know?
Shake me lord is there something
I should know?
Shake me lord is there something
Shake me lord is there something
Shake me lord is there something
I should know?

We drink together
We stink together
We breed together
We bleed together
We swing together
We cling together
We work together
We hurt together
We mate together
We hate together
We break together
We fake together
We cry together
We lie together
We gain together
We stain together
We crawl together
We breed together
We brawl together
We bleed together
We make together
We steal together
We hail together
We squeal together
We fear together
We slay together
We love together
We prey together

Well I just want to hear you say
Hey tell me lord
What should I know?

My Sanctuary

..Doubting
..Trying
Not to look at the face of the man who is dying
To look for the face of the man who is lying
The ambler gambler is low and loaded
His rusty steed turns to burn into my soul
I hear the cries
My body lies in sanctuary
The long way home I cannot seek
He knows the pain its special place
I know its look I know its face

White silver draws black lines
Bright whites the killing kind
Two wrongs don't make a right
Two blacks don't make a white
Devotion isn't what it seems
The broker of my broken dreams
Hell is all that I see
My cell is my sanctuary

There's a black space where my soul should be
A gaping wound where my heart could be
I feel so low I feel like Christ
I see my head is turning white
The knuckles twisted raw and I'm so empty
And there's no respite
You prey together on the small
Hell-vision shows it every night
The ambler gambler is low and loaded
His rusty steed turns to burn into my soul
I hear the cries
My body lies in sanctuary
The long way home is what I seek
He knows the pain its special place

Hot Hole

I never thought that it would come to this
The spike the spoon the darkening room
Holed up in my mecca of misery - motel hell
Dancing for the drunken, diseased and the doomed

I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this
Hot hole!
Hot hole!
Hot hole!
Hot hole!

I never thought I would confide in you
Suckled as I am by the righteous roots of envy
And I never thought that it would ever ring true
The more you help me the more I hate you

I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this
Hot hole!
Hot hole!
Hot hole!
Hot hole!

I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed I'd confide in you
I never thought that it would ever ring true
That you could hurt me the way I wanna hurt you
I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would it would come to this
Hot hole!
Hot hole!
Hot hole!
Hot hole!

I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this
I never dreamed it would come to this

[Kyrie Sutra FRICK]

I have always wanted to make a pyro video to this song....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8x7YgxT5fA

so if you guys are down to help me fraps it someone can help me edit it.