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 Introduction After one year of library runs, the Loathsome Jerk stream is switching gears. Our new offer is a double feature: Top 20 and Horror Hour. Top 20 showcases twenty games picked by the viewers, either from the library of a single system or based on a specific feature. A mix of good, bad and hilarious is the idea, while still giving a solid display of the capabilities of the hardware. Horror Hour is all about scary games (or at least games that want to be scary). Survival horror, psychological horror, action horror - we will get a taste of everything! Apart from a few titles I have already picked out, the games featured will be chosen by the viewers. FAQ When/where is the stream? The stream takes place on Saturdays, 1800 UTC at my website. There is also almost always a pre-stream one hour before the regular broadcast where I play more... unique games. What does the schedule look like? We will be alternating between the two features every week, trying our damnedest to squeeze in ten games on each Top 20 stream as long as it is logistically possible. What if I miss a stream? No need to worry; all streams are recorded, edited and uploaded to my YouTube channel. Streams featuring more than one game will be turned into playlists for easy viewing. Will you have any guest commentators? Yes. Since we have been streaming for over a year now we have amassed quite a few regulars, but we always welcome I have some feature-specific questions... Check the next two posts, each feature has its own section. Arthur D Wolfe fucked around with this message at Nov 3, 2012 around 08:03 |
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 The Top 20 feature is the immediate descendant of our previous library run approach. The idea is to give the viewers a good look at a specific system by showing off twenty games that you, the viewers, recommend or simply want to see. Top 20 Schedule Our final three Top 20 features have been decided on! We will start with Top 20 Worst Licensed Games, move on to Top 20 Sequels that Nailed It and finish off with Top 20 Metacritic Disasters. After that the Top 20 feature will be retired. Past Top 20s          Arthur D Wolfe fucked around with this message at Jan 1, 2013 around 13:20 |
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 The Horror Hour will give you a look at some of the most terrifying games of all time. Well, that is the plan at least. Horror Hour Schedule ... OK so we played Amnesia, let us never speak of it again. Next up: something completely different! Suggestion List Phantasmagoria The 7th Guest Realms of the Haunting Waxworks Which Dead Space 1/2 Czho Mythos Splatterhouse Scratches: Director's Cut Echo Night: Beyond Past Horror Hours                         
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Sweet! I was just thinking someone should do a horror megathread, and Clock Tower is one of my favorite old-school horror games.
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| # ? Apr 4, 2012 04:13 |
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Bye library streams! You will forever have your in jokes! And on to the new thing. I still think this was a good idea to do Arthur. Satisfies both camps and you don't kill yourself playing 100+ fighting games in a library with ~180 games in it. I can't wait till Saturday. This is going to me AWESOME*! *Read in a falsetto voice
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| # ? Apr 4, 2012 04:31 |
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Osaka Loop represent. Are you down the OL? You missed your true calling as a train conductor. Really looking forward to the upcoming stream. Glad you're playing Heimdall, for some reason I love that game even though I've never been able to beat it or even get past the first "world map" area.
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It slipped my mind to ask during our discussion on Skype, so I might as well ask here: Which version of Sonic CD will you be playing for the stream? The American or Japanese/European release, or will it be left up to a vote?
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| # ? Apr 4, 2012 12:57 |
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I like the Top 20 approach. If I see an SNK cabinet ever again it's going to trigger some bizarre form of PTSD. Looking forward to this Saturday. Any game about cadillacs and dinosaurs has to be great.
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Looking forward to the stream (Or the stream recordings!), will be on late but besides that all is well  Corpse Killer will be AMAZING.
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Shining Finger posted:It slipped my mind to ask during our discussion on Skype, so I might as well ask here: Which version of Sonic CD will you be playing for the stream? coleman francis posted:Osaka Loop represent. Are you down the OL? Temascos posted:Corpse Killer will be AMAZING. Arthur D Wolfe fucked around with this message at Apr 4, 2012 around 18:46 |
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:I will be playing the PAL release since I am a dirty Swede. It will also be a neat experience for those people who think Sonic Boom was the only theme song for Sonic CD. Apropos of nothing, everybody should go and buy the Steam version of Sonic CD. It's an amazing port, and it includes both versions of the soundtrack for those NTSC people who can't quite let go of their nostalgia for the inferior soundtrack, while still allowing them to use the better music. It's also $5, I mean come on. I bought Sonic CD (or had my mom buy, I can't recall) for about $20 during the system's last gasp, and it was worth every bit of that. VV I'm still firmly in the Sonic 2 camp 
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Well, Sonic CD is the best 2D one, so yes it is a great buy. And no, S3&K is not the king.
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Aw, I missed the voting. I was going to suggest Robo Aleste for the intro... "oh cool, ancient history... wait, what  "
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As much as I agree that the PAL soundtrack for Sonic CD is better than the US version, Sonic Boom and Tidal Tempest Present from the US version are the best songs in both versions of the game.
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Well, we are off to quite a roaring start! Thanks to Greygelgoog, Blodgrevling and Temascos for joining me in the Skype call and thanks to all you wonderful viewers for watching! The stream chat reached the general consensus that we should alternate between features every week, so that is what we will do for now. That means that next week is Clock Tower for the SNES in our inaugural Horror Hour. Look forward to it!
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Did we ever decide if we were going to play the wonderful Sweet Home for the NES?
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Vrikkian posted:Did we ever decide if we were going to play the wonderful Sweet Home for the NES? It sure has my vote, that game looks really good for a NES horror game. Avskum fucked around with this message at Apr 8, 2012 around 09:01 |
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:Well, we are off to quite a roaring start! Thanks to Greygelgoog, Blodgrevling and Temascos for joining me in the Skype call and thanks to all you wonderful viewers for watching! Thanks for keeping the stream up for me Arthur, really appreciate it! Hopefully next time (If I wasn't as annoying as I thought I was) I'll provide some more insightful and witty commentary. Either that or just make jokes about Rasta Man and Dracula
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| # ? Apr 8, 2012 06:44 |
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If anybody wants to see a better Kickboxing vs Dracula game, try Nosferatu on the SNES, it's basically a Prince of Persia clone where you punch monsters in the face and actually a pretty good game.
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Before you watch the above playlist, please take a moment to read the paragraphs below. As you may or may not know, I am a careful man when it comes to stream recordings. Fraps, Audacity and FMLE all record separately from one another to ensure that if one or even two sources crap out I will always have something to fall back on. This Saturday, Fraps, Audacity and FMLE all crapped out on me. Now, I could get technical with you and put into delicately chosen words my hatred for Adobe and their massive, raging hard-on for proprietary technology that fails to load even in their own software suites, but I will simply say this: until further notice, Saturday's stream is delivered to you in one five-hour chunk. For the "real" playlist, I have to make frame-perfect audio matching every time the emulated CD drive reads from the disc and whenever Fraps decided to drop frames due to emulator inactivity. Suffice to say we are talking about hundreds of adjustments over the length of the stream, and there is no way to automate it due to the random nature of the desynch. It will take time and effort to get this done, but I do intend to get it done. I apologise for this delay, but unless you enjoy blurry video and hissing background noise you are going to have to wait just a little longer for your stream playlist fix. As a side-note, the almost five hours long video that just finished processing was my 1000th YouTube video. That sort of makes me even more depressed about all this, but hey, what can you do?
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| # ? Apr 8, 2012 22:05 |
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Bravo! 
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| # ? Apr 8, 2012 22:12 |
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I'd blame Corpse Killer. Rewatching that guy laughing over bones so many times just made his voodoo curse on the stream stronger and stronger. FOO-PAH!
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Sudden Javelin posted:I'd blame Corpse Killer. Rewatching that guy laughing over bones so many times just made his voodoo curse on the stream stronger and stronger. It's your fault SJ. Admit it.
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| # ? Apr 8, 2012 23:42 |
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I may be the only one who's seen this far, but on the pre-stream video, the first one, the audio gets horribly horribly garbled. I'm not sure if it improves the simulator.
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Pladdicus posted:I may be the only one who's seen this far, but on the pre-stream video, the first one, the audio gets horribly horribly garbled. I'm not sure if it improves the simulator. EDIT: Fans of the Neo Geo library run will be happy to learn that Nakoruru is still getting work despite the lack of new Samurai Shodown games. Arthur D Wolfe fucked around with this message at Apr 9, 2012 around 02:21 |
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drat, that sucks a lot. Sometimes you gotta hate computers, and Dracula. I don't envy you on the video editing front, that part is always painstaking. 
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And on a really hilarious stream, too! Man...still worth watching, even having to just remember where you left off. Good luck on the editing front, man. When you mentioned how much trouble you'd run into, the first thing that game into my mind was you making that Keanu Reeves "Game Over Grimace" and letting out a halfhearted ADR scream. And then I laughed for about ten minutes straight. Does that make me a
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| # ? Apr 9, 2012 13:49 |
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Hey Arthur do you plan on playing computer horror games because boy ooo boy do I know of some that are kind of hilariously bad.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Hey Arthur do you plan on playing computer horror games because boy ooo boy do I know of some that are kind of hilariously bad.
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:I will play horror games on any system I can stream, basically. I will be doing Nocturne at some point (beware of spoilers in Wiki article!) but apart from that I am open to suggestions. If you have a game you think would be fun to watch, do let me know.
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Despite sounding like a silly made-up-olde-English name Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes game, is a real quite famous London pub. It's alright to drink in but the food is crap.
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Prenton posted:It's alright to drink in but the food is crap. This leads me to thing you've been there. On more than one occasion at that.
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Prenton posted:It's alright to drink in but the food is crap. From everything I've heard couldn't this be said for London as a whole?
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Ehh, you can get some alright pub grub in London, same as anywhere, although the fact that it's London will probably hurt your wallet. But yeah, cool, had no idea that was an actual pub. According to the wiki article Arthur Conan Doyle used to frequent it so that explains that. If I ever had a reason to venture into the City I'd check it out myself.
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MadScientistWorking posted:In the spirit of the Sega CD I recommend playing Phatasmagoria I and II. Prenton posted:Despite sounding like a silly made-up-olde-English name Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes game, is a real quite famous London pub. Speaking of Ye Olde Cheshire Chees, during the stream I not only mispronounced "Cheshire" but "Ye" as well. The Y in ye is actually a thorn, and so the word is technically pronounced just like "the". The thorn was eliminated from written English around the same time as the printing of books started gearing up, as the imported types contained a y but not a thorn (which by that time was generally penned to look roughly like a y anyway). In other news, since the dating sim is taking so drat long to finish, I have decided to make a prequel game to be released this upcoming Saturday. A tide-me-over of the worst sort I confess, but I feel sort of bad about not producing anything of value in the last few weeks.
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:Phantasmagoria II is already on my short list; moving it up a spot or two. It is definitely more hilaridisturbing than scary, but it is a notable game within the horror genre so it is well worth checking out.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 01:41 |
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Still calling for Sweet Home.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 03:39 |
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1000 videos and still relatively sane, impressive! Phantasmagoria is a really good choice for your stream if you want to show off a great example of what the early FMV horror games were like. I'm going to suggest a few games off the top of my head: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Sanitarium Dark Seed 2 (mainly for the artwork provided by H.R. Giger) The 7th Guest The Dark Eye Avskum fucked around with this message at Apr 10, 2012 around 23:00 |
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Dear Europe, I am sorry for the bad Sonic CD soundtrack. I hope they didn't do the same thing to Ecco on the sega cd. Oh god, they didn't, did they? Yours Forever, Coleman Francis Congratulations on surviving 1000 videos arthur. That was a pretty sweet stream. Oh sega cd, so many wonderful memories. The one-huge-chunk video is fine since now youtube remembers where you stopped watching.
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:I will play horror games on any system I can stream, basically. I will be doing Nocturne at some point (beware of spoilers in Wiki article!) but apart from that I am open to suggestions. If you have a game you think would be fun to watch, do let me know. I will second a vote for Nocturne. But I have no idea how humans were supposed to beat that game without cheats. Everything takes half a health bar and all of your bullets to kill and there's loving thousands of them. Atmosphere owned though. I remember turning on cheats and mashing through it for plots, but I still had to save-scum for certain bits. (gently caress you rope bridge in the first act!) Maybe it's just because I was 12 though. Good luck getting it to work on a modern computer. I tried 2 years ago or so to get an LP going, and you'd think I'd put stone tablets with cuneiform in my CD-drive from how my computer reacted.
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