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As for soothing vs. boring, I found it soothing--but then, I find watching any LP to be oddly soothing for some reason. You know, I actually have the original PSone version of Blood Omen, but I haven't ever got more than half an hour into it. I should remedy that one of these days. (Hell, thinking about it, I own every LoK game. PC versions of BO2-Defiance, plus PSone BO and PS2 Defiance, and I think the latter is the only one I've ever actually finished.)
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KieranWalker posted:As for soothing vs. boring, I found it soothing--but then, I find watching any LP to be oddly soothing for some reason. I have all of them. Beat Blood Omen, got half-way through Soul Reaver 1 (it's the Morrowind of the series, honestly, in terms of "this is awesome, but where the gently caress do I go now?", beat Soul Reaver 2, got to a certain point in Blood Omen 2 where I just said "gently caress this game forever", and beat Defiance. BO1 will forever be my favorite because, as great as some of his lines in later games are (the edge of the coin conversation, oh my god) Simon Templeman's delivery in this game is so incredibly over the top that I have to smile everytime he says something.
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Oct 28, 2015 18:52
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Speaking of over the top dialogue, there's a lot in this one
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I know I don't say much in the thread, but I do love this LP and this game so much.
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Zain posted:I know I don't say much in the thread, but I do love this LP and this game so much. Episode 19 was indeed very soothing. I didn't realize just how much of an effect the background music had until I watched episode 20. Despite the dungeons for both being pretty uninteresting, 19 was way more enjoyable, as the music made it relaxing to watch instead of being kind of tedious.
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I dont know posted:Episode 19 was indeed very soothing. I didn't realize just how much of an effect the background music had until I watched episode 20. Despite the dungeons for both being pretty uninteresting, 19 was way more enjoyable, as the music made it relaxing to watch instead of being kind of tedious. I just checked and the Oracle's cave has no background music at all (also, holy crap, my commentary there is almost like a lecture in that I'm much further away from the microphone than now and I'm borderline screaming as a result) Maybe that's why it's so insanely boring and tedious
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Oct 29, 2015 00:07
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No, you didn't have to do that at all. Especially since that family had a perfectly full barrel of... blood... Maybe you did the right thing.
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I feel like we've seen The Dollmaker before that flashback/senior moment the king had. The videos were definitely relaxing to me as well. Possibly the music, possibly the screams, possibly the improved gameplay. Also, I really miss Tony Jay now. 
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Oct 29, 2015 08:54
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I was afraid the entire village in episode 19 was going to be voice acted by Tony Jay.
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Iretep posted:I was Fixed it for you.
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On an unrelated note, I have two more updates cooked, and then I'll be through all of the footage that I had prerecorded in August before moving. Now I am experiencing techincal issues due to using a laptop with an rear end aspect ratio which screws with the game's resolution and makes the game only play with screen resolution much lower than before (attempts to change it back to 640x480 result in the game crashing, even when I reinstall everything). So if the game begins to look like rear end beginning with 23, then it means that I have failed to fix the problem EDIT: took me an hour and a half that I wanted to spend doing the recording, but I fixed it. More EDIT: we all miss Tony Jay ._. The feels will hit in every LoK nutri_void fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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Oct 29, 2015 11:58
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The update is here. Also, how long are the last couple of videos? Youtube seems to do something weird with the length, this part rendered as a 16:35 video, but in Youtube it's 15:35 (at least in the annotations manager)
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Oct 29, 2015 19:32
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It's been a long while since I played, but with all the gore the Soul Reaver is spraying every time you kill something, could you equip the Flesh Armor, and it will absorb all that blood automatically, keeping your health topped up? Not a good idea when there are green-blooded monsters around, but in Stahlberg, it should have been just fine. Also, this was around the time when I started losing track of who's who and what's what, so I'm hoping watching your play through will help me understand what's all going on. I just remember being confused a lot in the end game. Edit: VV Well, that's unfortunate. It's like they were trying not to make the Soul Reaver too powerful, and instead made it largely useless. Can't cast spells while holding it, it uses up your magic to kill with it, and does poo poo damage if you don't have magic, and the Flesh Armor can't absorb the blood it's filling the air with. I think I hardly used it back when I played, just because it seemed to be more of a liability than an asset. Wa11y fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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Oct 29, 2015 23:29
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Wa11y posted:It's been a long while since I played, but with all the gore the Soul Reaver is spraying every time you kill something, could you equip the Flesh Armor, and it will absorb all that blood automatically, keeping your health topped up? Not a good idea when there are green-blooded monsters around, but in Stahlberg, it should have been just fine. Just launched the game to try that, and it doesn't work, unfortunately: everything just dies without supplying Kain with blood Yes, the lategame is confusing, that's due to the weird configuration of cutscenes and the story itself becoming convoluted
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Alexeythegreat posted:The update is here. Also, how long are the last couple of videos? Youtube seems to do something weird with the length, this part rendered as a 16:35 video, but in Youtube it's 15:35 (at least in the annotations manager) I'm not sure what's going on exactly, but the videos seem to be the right length--however, the timestamps for the annotations are off. The links for the previous/next videos are popping up long before the actual graphics for them show up.
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I see. Hopefully, it's fixed now
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I'd forgotten about Tony Jay trying to do slightly different voices for the villagers. Holy poo poo that was funny as hell. 
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Well, update time. I REALLY like the Dollmaker's house. And the music. And it's probably a good thing that the Dollmaker's house is very short and that its soundtrack is not reused anywhere else in the game, which is what differentiates it from another great place, Nupraptor's retreat Also, Lpix refuses to recognize my password ._. nutri_void fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Oct 30, 2015 18:50
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Just a few seconds in I knew exactly what you meant regarding the soundtrack.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Well, update time. I REALLY like the Dollmaker's house. And the music. And it's probably a good thing that the Dollmaker's house is very short and that its soundtrack is not reused anywhere else in the game, which is what differentiates it from another great place, Nupraptor's retreat This segment is FAR creepier knowing that one of the game's designers was involved with child abuse.
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I dont know posted:This segment is FAR creepier knowing that one of the game's designers was involved with child abuse. Well, at least Elzevir limited himself to the soul... wait, that makes it worse
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That was a good segment to watch while I was getting my Halloween outfit (creepy clown) ready!
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I dont know posted:This segment is FAR creepier knowing that one of the game's designers was involved with child abuse. What the gently caress really?!?
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Zain posted:What the gently caress really?!? From earlier in the thread: quote:Polygon in July 2014 posted: http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/30/59...ography-charges
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1) gently caress, I completely forgot about the child abuse thing 2) Wtf is Halloween 3) Update (short one, I know, but the next one is a big one and it's already rendering, so I'll post that tomorrow) 
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Oct 31, 2015 18:49
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I'm kind of confused. So the Time Streaming Device prevented the war then?
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Zain posted:I'm kind of confused. So the Time Streaming Device prevented the war then? It's a bit jarring. Some voice over/cutscene appears to be missing but IIRC this is how it's supposed to go: Battle starts - > king Ottmar gets killed - > morale drops and people start running. Kain realizes the Nemesis has won. -> last-ditch effort he uses the time streaming device -> we are now in the past, before the nemesis gets his armies together. IIRC we are still after Ariel gets murdered and the pillars get corrupted/ go insane. Next video Kain should IIRC start commenting on "oh that's event X - but that happened 20(/30/40/50?) years ago?!?!?!" Also there's a bit of a vampire hunt/mob going on. double nine fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Oct 31, 2015 20:26
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Zain posted:I'm kind of confused. So the Time Streaming Device prevented the war then? No, it just moved Kain back in time so that Kain can now prevent the war. What happens next is spoilage until the next vid, which is when the game and myself give further clarifications double nine posted:It's a bit jarring. Some voice over/cutscene appears to be missing but IIRC this is how it's supposed to go: Kain is moved 50 years back, whereas Ariels's murder happened 30 years before the start of BO (at least I hope I'm not screwing this up) as established in later games. Blood Omen doesn't identify whether it's before or after Ariel's murder. However, it's irrelevant, as for this specific part only the fact that Kain can now prevent the Nemesis from becoming the Nemesis is is important nutri_void fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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This is a weird part of the plot for me, because it's further than I got when I played Blood Omen, concerns events that aren't really seen later in the series, and yet is kind of pivotally important to the overall plot. I'm looking forward to seeing it unfold, since all I did before was read a plot summary and infer things from SR2.
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George posted:This is a weird part of the plot for me, because it's further than I got when I played Blood Omen, concerns events that aren't really seen later in the series, and yet is kind of pivotally important to the overall plot. I'm looking forward to seeing it unfold, since all I did before was read a plot summary and infer things from SR2. I will explain the relevance in the final part (don't want to do it right now, because spoilers). Hopefully, I understood your confusion correctly, but you'll be able to ask again if the answer isn't what you were looking for --- On an unrelated note, I have recorded the entire game (both video and commentary), and drat am I tempted to just upload them all at once right now to be free to talk about the endgame ._. Gotta resist...
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Alexeythegreat posted:On an unrelated note, I have recorded the entire game (both video and commentary), and drat am I tempted to just upload them all at once right now to be free to talk about the endgame ._. Gotta resist... It's a slippery slope; I won't be content until the end of Defiance. You are going to be running the entire series, right?
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Yeah, even after this game is done we still can't really talk about poo poo. There's big things that we can't really discuss until at least the end of SR2. And immediately after that BO2 has what is in my opinion the biggest WTF plot point in the series. I really, really hate that plot point.
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George posted:It's a slippery slope; I won't be content until the end of Defiance. You are going to be running the entire series, right? As long as I don't get banned from Youtube for not muting Ozar Midrashim, yes, I am going to run the entire series. I even have the purple graphics (that's my way of procrastinating) for Soul Reaver done. Hopefully, the later games will be done in shorter timespans than half a year RickVoid posted:Yeah, even after this game is done we still can't really talk about poo poo. I'll allow tagged spoilers in the SR thread. Hell, there are tagged spoilers here, and I don't see anyone complaining BO2 is just a sequence of these WTF plot points. I'm not even sure which one of them specifically you're talking about nutri_void fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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I only just this week watched the BO2 storyline, and while it sort of smoothed out one of the plot points it's basically totally unnecessary and causes more problems than it solves. It's definitely more of a Blood Omen game than a Soul Reaver, so it fits the series's zany naming conventions I guess.
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Blood Omen 2 was really weird for me to jump into after only having previously played soul reaver 2, and the demo for soul reaver. I THINK the war we just did is mentioned in the blood omen 2 opener?
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Different war.
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Update! Only two more to go (plus bonus video, but I hate walking around the world and collecting secrets, so who knows how long it'll take me)
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Alexeythegreat posted:Update! Only two more to go (plus bonus video, but I hate walking around the world and collecting secrets, so who knows how long it'll take me) Tony Jay Voices Everyone: The Game.  remake of William the Just's castle there, but I laughed at the skulls part.
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Well, one could argue that having a skull is beneficial to one's health and well-being
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Did the enemy soldiers manage to hit each other by accident at a few points in the last couple of updates? Like at 15 minutes...
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