Best ShootMania frag video ever?

[kursix]

I'd like everyone to post what they think is the absolute best frag video.

I'll get the ball rolling by posting my own frag video which was filmed a long long time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzERxgt2Y0c

And what I think is the best that I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6N1eSbTi_0

[UrinStein]

Caspa
http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic. ... 37&t=28374

[plopp]

Dignity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yDDIvnHtqY

[novationx]

Bioform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMeLleEgEOM


Human Beings ( music is epic )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxmaGFm05zY

[kursix]

Caspa
http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic. ... 37&t=28374

That's a nice vid. Good aim.

[novationx]

How could I forget this ^^

This is obviously one of the best : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T00c4B82ow

[Cuts]

Love Caspa + kryw's frag movies, but there are not really many great rocket frags in them (with one exception in kryw's movie). I would say that Elite is not the place where player can get good rocket frags.

The best mode for rocket frags imo is Royal, the map design tends to give more opportunity for interesting rocket fights.

[kursix]

Elite not good for rocket frags pfft. Did you watch my frag video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzERxgt2Y0c

Some good triples there. I think triples in elite look awesome. Elite is balanced for 3v1 so you're doing the work of 3 other people and winning the entire round for your team by yourself.

[plopp]

Elite not good for rocket frags pfft. Did you watch my frag video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzERxgt2Y0c

Are you a bot? All I see from you is advertisement for your own youtube channel.

[UrinStein]

I must say I find all these "best videos" so far rather... meh.

While I can see why you like those videos, I always wonder what those "fragmovies" are actually about.
I must say those people have great creativity and editing skills and it's cool to watch those things in action too. But all the wub-wub, all the fast forwarding (or even skipping ahead) and the glitch effects just take away from the gameplay. What's a frag worth when I only see what happened half a second before and then the actual hit is in slow-mo? I get no real feel for anything that's happening on screen.

If someone were to ask me for a video introducing them to Shootmania, the one by killaProD would be a very good choice. It shows some cool action, it's got style, different modes, all that jazz. But as a Shootmania player? Pleaaaase... don't tease me killa, just show me the god damn rocket hit.
That's why I like caspa's fragmovie so much. He had the balls to just put some really really nice Elite rounds together with no editing at all. It's so much more impressing to actually see him play. The people that made the videos you guys posted, they could probably take a replay of an Elite map 3 bots vs 3 bots and make it look cool. That's impressive from a video making standpoint for sure, but that's not the point for me in a skill based, competitive game like SM is.

I don't mean to say that I don't like editing in fragmovies at all. But if you're gonna make a fragmovie, I would expect you to use your editing skills to improve on the frags and not destroy them.
Here's a Royal-Fragmovie by Egophargus, which is probably even better than caspa's.That video almost speaks with you, to help you enjoy the frags.

Here are two examples of what I mean:
5:24: The slow-mo and the music effect tell you: "Here, look at that.", then it goes on normally showing you the hit in first person, and then again from another angle.
4:05: Here it shows you how he shoots the nucleus and then the slow-mo kicks in and says: "Wait right there! First the nuc hits and theeen...", he double taps the other guy in real time again.

The video helps you understand the context of the frags, as some of them get a bit unclear from first person. That's something that isn't so much necessary in Elite replays, as everything that happens, happens in real time, and always involves the attacker, in whose view we are wathing most of the time anyway. Therefore a video like caspa's doesn't require editing.

But in my opinion a lot of Elite "fragmovies" have the habit of taking away all context to any frag that they wanna "show". Dignity is a good example. It just cuts directly to the millisecond before the shot and you only see people vanish all the time. I like the style of the Dignity video, the custom health bar, the custom kill feed and those other little touches. I just dont see how this video is supposed to be a frag movie, when there's almost no untouched gameplay, making the replay feel all alien.