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 Thanks to KC Green of Gunshow fame for the header! Surprised aren't you? I knew you would be! You don't need to have another worry about Silent Hill this year. Consider this a vacation, guys - a reward! It's VoidBurger and Kamoc's turn to take it easy! I'll see that you're comfortable. There's a Nightmare Before Christmas GAME? Released by Capcom on October 21st, 2004 in Japan and a whole YEAR later in America and the UK, The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is a action-adventure game set one year after the events of famous 1993 "claymation" flick, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Yes, the video game came out over ten years after the film. (I suspect it has something to do with Kingdom Hearts, which came out in 2002 and featured a Nightmare Before Christmas level.) Critics rightfully complained about its boring, repetitive combat, samey-samey fetch quests, and VERY irritating music and sound effects. But don't worry, I'll be replacing most of the annoying music with alternate music pretty early on, before the music really starts driving people.... batty.  Oogie's Revenge is surprisingly faithful to the spirit and mood of the film. Capcom recreated Halloween Town very well, using pictures of the original set and even movie concept art for reference, it seems. Many of the original voice actors reprise their roles for the game, also. Too bad the game is so annoying. If you haven't seen or don't remember the movie very well, you should watch this video and I'll sum it up for you. Without further ado, let's play The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge!                                                                                  Nice Work, Bone Daddy by Alex Rosetti (new battle theme) Troublesome Trio by Alex Rosetti (new Oogie's Boys boss theme) Fa La La Wah-Ha by Alex Rosetti (new battle theme) VoidBurger fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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 TyreForHyre helps me impart trivia with :nbc101:   miscellaneous14 robs our souls, then our hearts.  Geop bestows upon us the first gif of the thread!  GeneralYeti pimps their pumpkin!  jameson9101322 gifts a .gif  TyreForHyre gets swingin'.  Arkannoyed says that things got a little heavy in this game's sequel.  Wow. Much RedTeam. So fanart.  ElTipejoLoco uses forensic technology to decipher what Jack used to look like.  dijon du jour knows how to allure.  All work and no play makes @BeaPeaBear a skullboy.  'Tis the season for a Jack Hunt! Here's some of the best, weirdest, shittiest Jacks out there.100Dachshunds posted:Wacky waving arm inflatable tube man! Wa11y posted:Found this at my local Home Depot. The saddest Skelington! clockwork chaos posted:I'm pretty sure this is unofficial merch - a tshirt my dad has had for like five years. Apologies for the lovely phone picture. GirlCalledBob posted:I always completely forget it's NMBC related, but my grandma got me this jumper a while back for Christmas or something: Meis posted:Jack Hunt has found an imposter Jack hiding in Clinton Cards! Pesky Splinter posted:Spotted this walking past a cookie-decorating shop: General Ironicus posted:Jack is shilling for conventions now: SgtSteel91 posted:
Gann Jerrod posted:I wanted to show off the caramel apple that you can get at Disneyland. The Divine Orator posted:FOR SALE: 1 Jack Disco ball (orange), slightly dented w/scratch damage. Small overheating problem. Free to anyone who can pry it out of this sewer manhole. We've tried everything! TwoPair posted:Hey, it's fine, Jack's proven in the past that he's more than willing to work any season. Push it as far into November as you need. Tuxedo Ted posted:
jameson9101322 posted:He screams like a wet cat when you rip his head off...adorable. Silly Voodoo posted:
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Oct 1, 2013 17:56
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Is this game scary and/or spooky? I am terrified of ghosts, ghouls and the undead.
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Oct 1, 2013 17:58
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Ooo, this game. Excellent. This should be fun.
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Oct 1, 2013 17:58
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I love that the weapon that Dr. Finkelstein gives to Jack is one of those fifty-cent sticky, stretchy hands. That boss fight was something, too; looking forward to seeing what else this game has to show.
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Oct 1, 2013 18:30
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I look forward to hearing SOUL ROBBER over and over and over again.
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Oct 1, 2013 18:39
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I love how Oogie Boogie rolls in this game. Most video game villains stick to the shadows, have their henchman fight for them, and prepare for a dramatic reveal. Oogie on the other hand uses a PA system to announce "gently caress you! I'm in charge now! Fight me!" as soon as the gameplay starts.
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Oct 1, 2013 18:49
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Mr DJB posted:I love how Oogie Boogie rolls in this game. Most video game villains stick to the shadows, have their henchman fight for them, and prepare for a dramatic reveal. Oogie on the other hand uses a PA system to announce "gently caress you! I'm in charge now! Fight me!" as soon as the gameplay starts. Haha, it's funny you say that the main villain usually "sticks to the shadows" because what we fought in this first episode was not Oogie himself, but literally his shadow. He brags about it in the lyrics of the boss battle, and the figure we get at the end of this episode is "Oogie's Shadow."  I need a version of this emoticon that is Jack instead of that smiley. Fixed! Yay, TyreForHyre!I talk a little bit more about Oogie's shadow in the second episode. Trivia ahoy! VoidBurger fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 1, 2013 |
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Oct 1, 2013 18:54
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This LP is spookier than a skeleton gif; here's hoping my delicate nerves can handle it! I have a friend who was a big NBC fan, I think I remember her talking to me about this game way back when. What console(s) was this thing on?
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Oct 1, 2013 18:57
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Ahaha, I thought this was Standard Cash-In Game #1248 but then I got to the PaRappa the Rappa fight sequence. Now I wanna see Jack go to, I dunno, Thanksgiving Town and have a dance off with Tom Turkey.
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Oct 1, 2013 19:19
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Meis posted:This LP is spookier than a skeleton gif; here's hoping my delicate nerves can handle it! It came out for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. I'm playing an emulated PS2 PAL version.
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Oct 1, 2013 19:22
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"This Is Halloween" was playing on Pandora when I spotted this thread, so good timing there.
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Oct 1, 2013 19:23
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This is going to be a great LP and I loved the movie recap video. Is the camera always fixed in such awkward positions? Soul rubbing those skeletons looked like a pain .
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Oct 1, 2013 19:39
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I've never seen this game in action but I was a huge NMBC fan when I was a kid. A sequel just seemed... I dunno, kinda unnecessary? Love that the boss fights are song-offs though.
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Oct 1, 2013 19:46
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Using a whip-like device to take down spookyscary skeletons and other badnasties? The Belmont family will surely sue. Glad to see they got so many of the original voice actors back, but I will be severely disappointed if Steve Blum doesn't voice at least 14 characters.
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Oct 1, 2013 19:46
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VoidBurger posted:I need a version of this emoticon that is Jack instead of that smiley. Always wondered how this game was but never picked it up, really cool to see ya doing it.
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Oct 1, 2013 20:15
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TyreForHyre posted:Here ya go:  Holidae posted:Using a whip-like device to take down spookyscary skeletons and other badnasties? The Belmont family will surely sue. General Ironicus posted:This is going to be a great LP and I loved the movie recap video. Is the camera always fixed in such awkward positions? VoidBurger fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 1, 2013 20:24
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Never heard of this game before, looking forward to this LP. The extra-hammy voice acting is what really sells the game for me. Can't wait to hear more 
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Oct 1, 2013 21:37
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The best part of this LP is Kamoc's Jack voice.
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Oct 1, 2013 21:40
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The flamboyance and whip attacks made me think of Bayonetta and the Kulshedra weapon. Whether Jack will also don a dominatrix outfit remains to be seen.
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Oct 1, 2013 22:41
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The music-boss battle is so weird that I love it! 
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Oct 1, 2013 22:41
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Voidburger needs to do more movie summaries. Reminds me of the Silent Hill overview you did. Great start to the LP.
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Oct 1, 2013 23:52
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Maybe those other skeletons were from Dia de los Muertos town.
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Oct 1, 2013 23:55
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EasilyConfused posted:Voidburger needs to do more movie summaries. Reminds me of the Silent Hill overview you did. Seconding this. Even if you remember the movie perfectly, you should watch the recap because it's pretty dang funny.
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Yay! A new voidburger (plus kamoc!!) LP!  Can't wait for more goodness to fill my eye holes and ear holes!
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Oct 2, 2013 02:03
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I knew there was a GBA game, but I didn't know that there was a Nightmare Before Christmas console game. You learn something new every day.
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ThatPazuzu posted:Ahaha, I thought this was Standard Cash-In Game #1248 but then I got to the PaRappa the Rappa fight sequence. Now I wanna see Jack go to, I dunno, Thanksgiving Town and have a dance off with Tom Turkey. I've always loved that there's a 4 leaf clover door, implying that there's some sort St-Patrick's-Day-Town, which one can only imagine as an infinite meadow with nothing but leprechauns drinking, fighting, and puking all over pots of gold.
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Oct 2, 2013 02:37
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Oh man. Nightmare before Christmas reminds me of my angsty middle-school days. Will this LP contain a trip to Hot Topic? That way it will be comprehensive.
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MGN001 posted:I knew there was a GBA game, but I didn't know that there was a Nightmare Before Christmas console game. You learn something new every day. Prokhor Zakharov posted:I've always loved that there's a 4 leaf clover door, implying that there's some sort St-Patrick's-Day-Town, which one can only imagine as an infinite meadow with nothing but leprechauns drinking, fighting, and puking all over pots of gold. Smoking Crow posted:Will this LP contain a trip to Hot Topic? That way it will be comprehensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eISEn8kGJoU I might cry. By the way, I want to have a Jack Hunt! Even those unfamiliar with the Nightmare Before Christmas film are probably aware of Jack, due to Disney finally wising up and marketing the poo poo out of the film way too late in the game (so that it's nostalgic now!) I want you guys to find Jacks in the wild and post them in the thread! The weirder the merchandise, the better! I'd especially like non-official, rip-off merch and copyright-dodging Jacks. For example, this magazine I saw in the supermarket: 'Tis the season! VoidBurger fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Oct 2, 2013 |
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VoidBurger posted:I like how Nightmare has a Thanksgiving door and the game adds an Independence Day door... I guess that means that Halloween Town is in the USA? The holiday grove is worldwide, it's just that all the non-US holidays are in the back where loser holidays belong. The movie would have been much more laid back if Jack went in the Diwali door, but Nightmare Before Zagmuk would have been hardcore as gently caress. General Ironicus fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Oct 2, 2013 |
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This is going to be an interesting LP for me. Nightmare before christmas was one of my favorite movies growing up, and I too even have all the lyrics ingrained into my brain. I had never played this game, thinking it would be an awful cash-in of the movie, but I'm seeing that may not be the case, because that boss battle was wonderful.
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Oct 2, 2013 03:27
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The concept for this game seems to be "Devil May Cry but with Nightmare Before Christmas characters and every boss fight is a musical number" which sounds like the best thing ever made but for some reason it just falls flat. A shame, that. It's really cool that they got a lot of the original voice actors though. Interested to see how the rest of this game plays out!
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VoidBurger posted:The GBA game (The Pumpkin King) came out simultaneously with Oogie's Revenge, oddly! I'll probably talk about that game at some point in the LP. (I haven't played it though, never had a GBA...) My sister got the GBA game. It plays kinda like a NMBC'd up Castlevania, from what I've seen. She still has the   EDIT: I looked it up; this is "Lenticular Printing" according to Wikipedia. MGN001 fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Oct 2, 2013 |
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Oct 2, 2013 03:44
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TNBC has always been one of my favorite movies ever since I saw it as a 5 or 6 year old kid. I didn't even know there was a game, but so far it looks interesting and fun. I like the singing for the Oogie boss battle, and also the dancing rhythm part. That made me chuckle and smile. I'm looking forward to more.
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Oct 2, 2013 04:27
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Looking forward to this!  Great to see both of ya tackling an LP together.
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Oct 2, 2013 05:14
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Call me a dork if you want, but I am really digging on the "Jack's badass I am ready to whup you with a Soul Robber" idle pose.
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Oct 2, 2013 08:30
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Geop posted:Looking forward to this! The first gif(t) of the thread. woo. I actually only saw NMBC a few years back. I am interested to see how they can make me hate it with every fibre of my being due to poor game design.
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Oct 2, 2013 09:18
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I am so ready to GET SPOOKED. And since a lot of people are discussing it, I'll share my experiences with this film. My first exposure to it was in Chain Of Memories, and then I actually got around to watching part of it in school a few years later. Haven't ever seen the full movie.
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Oct 2, 2013 09:23
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Green Intern posted:I look forward to hearing SOUL ROBBER over and over and over again. I recall a time long ago, when streaming where done on Ustream, Voidburger playing this game and the chat was filled with sentences that rhymed with SOUL ROBBER.
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Oh man, this game. I was such a fangirl for the movie that I pre-ordered it from GameStop. Still have the paper pre-order stub somewhere... Still, glad to see someone tackling the game, looking forward to more!
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