A Magical Space Adventure With Henry Rollins - Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter

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Glazius: Jul 22, 2007; Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.; Clapping Larry

I like the aesthetic of the space ghost ship. It looks digital and organic at the same time.

# ? Sep 22, 2014 01:15

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 10:31

Tin Tim: Jun 4, 2012; Live by the pun - Die by the pun

Croccers posted:

Master plan uncovered!
They're kidnapping humans/aliens from our system so they can turn them into Doormen.

Space is a complicated place, allright? :v:

Glazius posted:

I like the aesthetic of the space ghost ship. It looks digital and organic at the same time.

Oh hey, that's a good way to describe it! One thing that I wondered about was actually the organic aspect of the design. It's not like the watchers have anything organic about them. Seeing how little they get explained, I suspect the design documents had way more info on them. Maybe they even started as an organic race that at some point evolved into higher beings?

It would explain why they have these strange creatures on their doors.

Also, sorry for yet another delay! I'm editing but I got caught up by other stuff. I never meet the deadlines I put out, but expect the last video sometime this week. I should manage that

# ? Sep 22, 2014 22:17

Tin Tim: Jun 4, 2012; Live by the pun - Die by the pun

Chapter 11 - Face Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9PnGvXyio
After reversing the wormhole, Mace now has to face the Watcher in Richter's body, before he can destroy the Watcher station and prevent an invasion of the Vagnar system.

Since it came up, here is a link to my savegame. So if you want to play the cool parts of this game without suffering through the bad ones, here you go. Afaik, you just need to unzip the files into the save folder.

# ? Sep 24, 2014 23:46

Shadow gamer: Jul 24, 2008; I PASSED UP A BARGAIN

Mace Griffin may have not been a great game, but this was a great thread. Thanks for all the hard work. Now I am off to watch all videos again a grab your unofficial soundtrack.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 00:33

Spudd: Nov 27, 2007; Protect children from "Safe Schools" social engineering. Shame!

I loved the aesthetic of the final area, it looked awesome and the space combat looked like a lot of fun... except for that one section which looked hard and tedious as balls.

Thank you super much for showing this off! And the music, music was top notch you made this a fun experience.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 04:36

Kiavahr: Oct 17, 2013; Outrageous Lumpwad

That delicate-maneuvering section made me flash back to Darkstar One and its lovely tunnel section. It may be tedious here, but at least there aren't moving walls, ~~timed doors~~ (whoops, spoke too soon), tiny little wall turrets, and mines as well!

# ? Sep 25, 2014 08:06

silentbrains: Mar 18, 2009

Thanks for all the rad music! Bought a fair number of the tracks you used.
Not much to say about the game. Seamless transition from fps to space combat was really interesting, though.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 09:04

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

That death was hilarious. Sideshow Bob waked through a field of rakes with more dignity.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 09:10

Lazyfire: Feb 4, 2006; God saves. Satan Invests

Tin Tim posted:

I looked at a walkthrough back when I was young and still remembered that

But as far as I know, the only hint that you get is that Richter uses it when he confronts you and the already possessed Grier. It's a real shaky hint but I don't think that there is anything else. So going by that, the devs expected you to realize that, use the weapon, and then find out why the beam eventually glows blue when you zap the watchers. Yeah, let that one sink in. It's super dumb, and an easy fix would have been to have Richter drop his gun in that scene, and let Mace say a line about how that weapon could be useful against the watchers. You'd still have to figure out the mechanic, but it would at least be something.

My thing with the Watcher Gun is that they gave it to you like 5 missions into the game and you never had a reason to use it once. Most players would have forgotten it was in their inventory at that point sort of like how a ton of FPS' at that time would throw a ton of weapons at you and you would just never have need of the early game weapons after the first couple hours.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 16:55

radintorov: Feb 18, 2011

SelenicMartian posted:

That death was hilarious. Sideshow Bob waked through a field of rakes with more dignity.

Oh yeah: that double-impalement was just so ridiculous.

Thanks for LP'ing this game, Tin Tim, and for the great music selection.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 19:58

fullTimeLurker: Nov 10, 2010

I liked the ending. I mean after playing through this entire game it might not have been enough, but as a person just watching, it was enough. Like you said, not an amazing ending, but it was a decent ending. I have to say though, I was laughing hysterically watching you crash into poo poo in the last part. The doors that open ever so slowly was a fantastic dick move. When the final cutscene started, I thought you had crashed your ship and died again because the doors weren't opening.

I really want to know why the didn't go with the open-world GTA game they where originally going to make. I mean they had all the assets, why not just let you fly from mission to mission instead of loading screens?

Thanks for showing us this game! Great LP

# ? Sep 25, 2014 22:14

Hyperman1992: Jul 18, 2013

Thanks for all the hard work TinTim! Especially for the music!

To be honest, I never heard of New Retro Wave or any of the music that you were playing at the beginning. I can't stop listening to it now! :argh:

(I also found out that a guy I used to go to school with was featured in one of your videos (ironically for one of the most bullshit parts in the game).

In all seriousness, thanks for the great work, and thanks for showing off this uhh.. unpolished game.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 02:22

PRL412: Sep 11, 2007; ... ... MINE

That was a magical ending. Not only did it have one the longest death animations in video game history, but it had slow-mo stone faced Mace AND his ghost friends.

I don't know what to think of the people who made this game, but it's a shame they didn't have more time to round out this uneven mess.

Thanks for the LP, Tin Tim!

# ? Sep 26, 2014 04:14

vilkacis: Feb 16, 2011

Being impaled once is not enough! NOT ENOUGH! We require more impalement! More!

Good show. :golfclap:

# ? Sep 26, 2014 18:01

racerabbit: Sep 8, 2011; "HI, I WANT TO HUG PINS NUTS."

While the Rangers were reformed, Mace himself was sent out to pasture, because seriously, he's an emotionless psychopath that has such terrible PTSD that he hallucinates that the ghosts of his dead comrades follow him everywhere.

That, or maybe new Watchers are formed from the ghosts of people slain by Watchers! My god, of course! The Watcher realm was Hell, and Mace Griffin: Psychopathic Automaton saved us all from the vengeance of the angry dead!

Anyway, thanks for the LP, Tin Tim!

# ? Sep 27, 2014 04:04

Tin Tim: Jun 4, 2012; Live by the pun - Die by the pun

I'm glad that y'all enjoyed the thread! It's especially cool to hear that some folks grabbed some of the music after hearing it. New retro or whatever you wanna call it has kind of a bad reputation, because it's a genre that a lot of people jump in to produce garbage. But I hope that I showed a few artitst that make legit sweet tunes. I'll keep the thread open for now, as I'm not sure if the on-site archive trouble has been resolved yet. Probably will bug Geop about that while I send off a mail to Baldurk for the usual archive request.

For the people that care about what I'll do in the future, let me say that it'll probably be a little while before I make a full blown video LP again. Got some ideas, but just don't feel like it atm. I'll probably go back to my roots for now, and make an SSLP for some tactics game next. Fallout Tactics or the Silent Storm series are hot contenders. We'll see!

Shadow gamer posted:

Now I am off to watch all videos again a grab your unofficial soundtrack.

Just to point this out for everyone, every song used in the LP is linked in the second post for ease of jamming.

SelenicMartian posted:

That death was hilarious. Sideshow Bob waked through a field of rakes with more dignity.

I legit laughed when I recorded that part. It's so over the top you just gotta love it. It's not enough that he gets a spike through one half of his body, nope, gotta have him fall down to also get impaled :v:

Lazyfire posted:

My thing with the Watcher Gun is that they gave it to you like 5 missions into the game and you never had a reason to use it once. Most players would have forgotten it was in their inventory at that point sort of like how a ton of FPS' at that time would throw a ton of weapons at you and you would just never have need of the early game weapons after the first couple hours.

Oh yeah, totally. I'd bet that a significant number of players tried the gun, thought that it's just a lame stun ray, and forgot about it forever. Such a bad design choice!

fullTimeLurker posted:

I liked the ending. I mean after playing through this entire game it might not have been enough, but as a person just watching, it was enough. Like you said, not an amazing ending, but it was a decent ending. I have to say though, I was laughing hysterically watching you crash into poo poo in the last part. The doors that open ever so slowly was a fantastic dick move. When the final cutscene started, I thought you had crashed your ship and died again because the doors weren't opening.

I really want to know why the didn't go with the open-world GTA game they where originally going to make. I mean they had all the assets, why not just let you fly from mission to mission instead of loading screens?

Yeah, the ending is decent enough. But the thing that I missed was a bit more about what happens to Mace. Like, we can assume that he's back with the Rangers but they could have done a little thing for him. Make him Ranger captain and have a bunch of cadets salute him or something like that. He earned it, dammit!

Also, gently caress those doors! The first one I can see as a little obstacle to throw you off, but that last loving door before the cutscene triggers is bullshit. Imagine if you already wrecked your ship, see the light at the end and floor it, only to die on that last door :qq:

I would assume that the GTA concept got dropped because Warthog was punching above their weight. As sweet as the idea is, it's also a crap ton of work to realize. The final game was still above their weight, but a more realistic goal to accomplish.

Hyperman1992 posted:

To be honest, I never heard of New Retro Wave or any of the music that you were playing at the beginning. I can't stop listening to it now! (I also found out that a guy I used to go to school with was featured in one of your videos (ironically for one of the most bullshit parts in the game).

Lol, that's a neat coincide!

PRL412 posted:

That was a magical ending. Not only did it have one the longest death animations in video game history, but it had slow-mo stone faced Mace AND his ghost friends.

That thumbs up almost killed me. I was very close to grabbing a screen for the thread, but I just couldn't ruin the surprise. Despite doing the least, Del Krugo managed to be the best NPC :v:

AltaBrown posted:

Mace Griffin: Psychopathic Automaton

lmao

Tin Tim fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Sep 27, 2014

# ? Sep 27, 2014 20:55

radintorov: Feb 18, 2011