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RoeCocoa posted:Laura looks so put-upon, so done with it all, as though she remembers plant monsters, melting children, and being nagged to bits by the disembodied voices of her parents-- even though those things technically happened to different people in unrelated stories. Her little screen-punching tantrum after Parker's death feels less like "oh no, my friend was just horribly slaughtered," and more like, "why does this always happen to me?" She really wanted to make it big in Hollywood but the best she could ever do was work for some weirdo Japanese guy. It's why she looks and sounds so dead inside.
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# ? Jul 4, 2015 23:08 |
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Am I imagining things or did the techno combined with rapidly changing font text feel almost exactly like something from the "
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# ? Jul 5, 2015 09:28 |
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a spooky ghost posted:My favorite thing about Eno's "digital actor" concept is that part of it apparently involves the actor always having the same first name for no reason. It just seems like a rule he decided on and never questioned because everyone was scared of him. Well it's not like people would be able to recognize the actors by sight if they didn't have the same names. I mean the rapidly changing technology at the time made it so the only thing this Laura and the Laura of D2 have in common is that they're both blonde white ladies. I'm guessing the names stay the same because when the costumes and the faces are changing from game to game it's the only thing that makes it known that these are the same actors.
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# ? Jul 5, 2015 18:32 |
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Taking another look at the save screen: you think Laura did her nails just in case before she went into cryo, or do you think she put a fresh coat on before setting out to investigate Parker's murder?
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# ? Jul 5, 2015 19:15 |
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Antlerhill posted:Well it's not like people would be able to recognize the actors by sight if they didn't have the same names. I mean the rapidly changing technology at the time made it so the only thing this Laura and the Laura of D2 have in common is that they're both blonde white ladies. This makes sense. Still, it doesn't entirely comport that SWERY has (currently) three different Forrest Kaysen-s in his games*. They are certainly all physically recognizable, but also seem to actually have distinct and developed personalities: something Laura doesn't seem like she got around to developing. * Though I guess D4 S02+ could always tie things together in a way I am not expecting!
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# ? Jul 6, 2015 01:57 |
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Blenheim posted:Taking another look at the save screen: you think Laura did her nails just in case before she went into cryo, or do you think she put a fresh coat on before setting out to investigate Parker's murder? It's the future. She has nail polish glands in her cuticles.
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# ? Jul 6, 2015 02:24 |
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I'm so confused. This all seems really, really familiar. I know I've seen this before. I know SGF has LP'd this game before. How else would I know about it? I know the twist at the end. How do I know these things? When I search I can't figure out why. You've LP'd this before, right SGF? I'm not going mad am I?
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# ? Jul 6, 2015 09:40 |
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Jade Star posted:I'm so confused. This all seems really, really familiar. I know I've seen this before. I know SGF has LP'd this game before. How else would I know about it? I know the twist at the end. How do I know these things? When I search I can't figure out why. You've LP'd this before, right SGF? I'm not going mad am I? You watched Niggurath's LP of it?
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# ? Jul 6, 2015 10:34 |
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Golden Goat posted:You watched Niggurath's LP of it? ...Mystery solved? I'd swear it was SGF, but in the lack of evidence and a much more rational explanation than I'm going mad, I will assume that this is the case and my memory is just blurry poo poo.
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# ? Jul 6, 2015 10:36 |
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The save system of this game looks really interesting, I don't think I've seen any other type of game have this style of resource-based saving. Its vaguely similar to the ink ribbons from Resident Evil except you're given them all at once and not in small groups as you explore. When Niggurath did his LP or E0 I think he was on Normal difficulty and it gives you 64 charges plus the condition that you lose one when loading a file. I'd actually be really interested in applying this save system to another game and seeing if it changes the feel of it.
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# ? Jul 6, 2015 20:48 |
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Interlude: Panic Restaurant - Youtube | Download As a little bonus thing during this LP, let's take a short look at some of the other games Kenji Eno worked on throughout his career. Some of them are actually pretty normal, like this one, Panic Restaurant for the NES. It serves as a contrast to what would come later.
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# ? Jul 7, 2015 23:27 |
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supergreatfriend posted:Interlude: Panic Restaurant - Youtube | Download PANIC RESTAURANT WILL BECOME A MORE MOVIE-ORIENTED TITLE, WITH CHEF AS AN ACTOR. THE MAIN STAGE OF THE WORK WILL BE THE RESTAURANT ITSELF. BUT PANIC RESTAURANT WILL HAVE AN ASPECT OF PANIC AS A GAME AS WELL, WITH A LESS WEIGHT. ONE OF THE CONCEPTUAL SUBJECTS OF THE WORK WILL BE "ANALOG SADNESS" MULTIMEDIA, AS ANALOG MEDIA, HAS HAUNTED FOOD FACTORS AND RISKS. THROUGH SHOWING PANIC RESTAURANT, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THERE ARE SUCH CROCKERY RISKS IN THE ANALOG WORLD OF THE PAST TIMES.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 02:41 |
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Well that looks like a thoroughly okay platformer.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 02:47 |
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Panic Restaurant seems like a nice game. Shame no one in the United States played it due to the completely horrifying, but admittedly thoroughly representative, cover art that the US release got!
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 02:53 |
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Now I've got this suspicion that Kenji Eno never left the insanity of 8-bit platformers behind when he moved on to better formats...
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 02:54 |
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It certainly puts the dinner scene in D into a different context.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 09:20 |
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a spooky ghost posted:Panic Restaurant seems like a nice game. Shame no one in the United States played it due to the completely horrifying, but admittedly thoroughly representative, cover art that the US release got! So pretty
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 10:06 |
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SelenicMartian posted:It certainly puts the dinner scene in D into a different context. The true horror of D.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 15:09 |
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Golden Goat posted:So pretty Ohdove did nothing wrong.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 17:07 |
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I'm going out on a limb here, but I bet that Mercus is the killer/monster/whatever. His bio says he's from Germany, but they can't even get the flag right? He's been planted by some evil corporation, who only coughed up enough cash for a sloppy back-alley hacker!
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 20:22 |
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Well, Mercus did go to be a plant-monster miner in D2, so he has an established history of villainy. With all the weird bosses, Panic Restaurant looks like Monster Party for food.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 20:56 |
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4th Asclepiadean posted:Ohdove did nothing wrong. I wonder if Ohdove is in any way connected with Ohnoman...?
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 21:11 |
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The_White_Crane posted:I wonder if Ohdove is in any way connected with Ohnoman...? Oh that Nohman
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 21:18 |
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Despite the awful Frengrish spelling, at least "Ohdove" kinda sorta sounds like "hors d'oeuvre" when you say it out loud, right? Right?
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 21:35 |
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This could be really interesting or really, really horrible. Hmm. I'm a sucker for intriguing introductions and "waking up on a space ship with an invisible alien killer" isn't a bad one, but there's so many ways for this to wind up horrible.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 22:00 |
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Speedball posted:This could be really interesting or really, really horrible. Hmm. discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Jul 8, 2015 |
# ? Jul 8, 2015 22:37 |
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I don't actually remember much about D2. All I remember is SHADOW THE FINAL DESTROYER, terrible poetry, a drug named Linda, plant monsters, something about winged people and a wooly mammoth, and hating Kimberly.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 22:47 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I don't actually remember much about D2. All I remember is SHADOW THE FINAL DESTROYER, terrible poetry, a drug named Linda, plant monsters, something about winged people and a wooly mammoth, and hating Kimberly. That's pretty much it really, aside from the melting children and eldritch horrors killing dinosaurs. D2 was mostly just walking around my back yard in the dead of winter punctuated by random shooting segments.
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 23:05 |
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Hirayuki posted:Despite the awful Frengrish spelling, at least "Ohdove" kinda sorta sounds like "hors d'oeuvre" when you say it out loud, right? Did you translate this game
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 23:11 |
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My favorite bad localization is the bit in Illusion of Gaia where the cast refers to something that is supposed to be the biblical Leviathan as "Riverson"
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 23:22 |
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HenryEx posted:Did you translate this game
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# ? Jul 8, 2015 23:33 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:My favorite bad localization is the bit in Illusion of Gaia where the cast refers to something that is supposed to be the biblical Leviathan as "Riverson" Holy poo poo, is that what that was supposed to be? I always thought it was a weird name for an ocean monster.
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# ? Jul 9, 2015 00:09 |
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Re: Memorable parts of D2: Have we forgotten the masterful symbolism of Xilo, or are we just repressing the memories?
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# ? Jul 9, 2015 00:27 |
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The real puzzler is it literally says "Hors d'Oeuv Polsy fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jul 9, 2015 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:hating Kimberly. You managed to block out that horrible horrible child whose name I can't remember. Kimberly is terrible too, but that kid, ugh.
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# ? Jul 9, 2015 00:48 |
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I love this game so much
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# ? Jul 9, 2015 01:03 |
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I'm going to have to re-(re-)watch D and D2 now aren't I?
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# ? Jul 9, 2015 02:33 |
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Speedball posted:This could be really interesting or really, really horrible. Hmm. Well, nobody is turned into a big-titted lady so it might not be up your alley bro
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# ? Jul 9, 2015 02:55 |
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StarkRavingMad posted:You managed to block out that horrible horrible child whose name I can't remember. Kimberly is terrible too, but that kid, ugh. The kid was annoying, but I didn't expect her to actually goddamn MELT I mean what I kept thinking it'd be a fakeout or a vision but nope, no.
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StarkRavingMad posted:You managed to block out that horrible horrible child whose name I can't remember. Kimberly is terrible too, but that kid, ugh. Yep, absolutely no memory of that. This is a good thing, apparently.
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