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I enlisted Skippy Granola to help me commentate on a lovely game I found in a bargain bin a few years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2M554XBwq4 Before Paradox Interactive split with Paradox Entertainment we got this little gem called Valhalla Chronicles. It's wants to be an ARPG but fails horribly at it, having not only janky animations, but bad design overall. The left mouse button is always attack, no matter what the context. To talk to an NPC you need to right click and choose from a menu. I think I forgot about that every time I tried recording it because of how unintuitive I found it. The story is pretty much a joke, and if you want to risk a hospital visit you can take a shot every time you see something misspelled. To get you excited for the "Myth, Magic and Mayhem in the World of the Vikings", here's the story as presented on the back of the box: quote:Odin acquired his skills in magic and runes by hanging by his neck in Yggdrasil, impaled by spears. He hung like this for a whole week and when he returned to Valhalla, he was the mightiest among the gods. Eight of the runes in the Futhark were so powerful that Odin hid them from the world. Now Odin's vile bloodbrother Loke seeks the runes to initiate Ragnarlk, the end of the world. You must find the runes before Loke and prevent the apocalypse. Play in ancient Scandinavia as one of four heroes, each with unique abilites. Meet dwarves, giants and trolls on your quest for the runes. Figures that my first real video would be a contribution to the Bad Games Megathread. Apologies for not being good at commentating (lots of pauses and "uh"s and "eh"s). Or editing. I don't think this game deserves much better though. Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIkgBXyu4o OldManMarsh fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Sep 28, 2015 |
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BioEnchanted posted:Video is private Should be fixed. Youtube decided to change the settings while I authenticated, and I didn't notice it.
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Sep 17, 2015 16:31
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Sloober posted:The astonishing thing about this game is it came out in 2003 and looks far worse than Diablo, which came out in 1996. I think part of that might be my fault for being new with recording, but it sure as hell doesn't look good. The game also forces fullscreen, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant for a 16:9 resolution. I tried several ways to force windowed, but the game resisted every single one of them, even becoming a crashfest when I tried to use DXWnd.
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Sep 17, 2015 16:56
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corn in the bible posted:What do you use to record? I'm using OBS at the moment. I had to use monitor capture to be able to capture any video at all for this game. Naturally I forgot to switch from the settings you usually use for streaming, because I'm an idiot. Doesn't seem like that part mattered too much with this game though.
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Sep 17, 2015 20:07
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mateo360 posted:
This game seems like it's ridiculously bad. I don't think I've ever seen anything in this genre with combat that slow and uninteresting before. Cowman posted:
So is that the extent of the tile set changes? Because this looks almost exactly the same as before. It's also amazing to me how it seems like there's barely been any work at all put into the how the jumping feels in a platformer.
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Here's another Valhalla Chronicles video. It covers some extra things in the first area, as well as area 2 and 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIkgBXyu4o Skippy joins me once again. Unfortunately, the game is not getting better. At first I was planning on leaving the first video as a one-off. Then I decided for some weird reason to torture myself by recording more of this. I ended up spending 2 hours figuring out why the game refused to start. Turns out the answer to was that an update to Windows was the culprit. By then I had already tried several other things, and lost my earlier save files, so enjoy some extras from the first area before we jump into the next 2. Edit: Had to reupload due to an audio balance fuckup. Hopefully this is better. OldManMarsh fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Sep 28, 2015 |
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