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pedrovay2003 posted:And yeah, now that we remembered that first-person view exists, we'll probably forget it by the next episode. Fixed that for you.
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RiffRaff1138 posted:In it, it's revealed that the events of the first two books (Ring and Spiral) occurred entirely in a computer simulation, but somehow Sadako's virus managed to infect the real world, and someone had to send his consciousness into the virtual world to try to find a vaccine. Holy bejeezus. Was that the writer's plan from the beginning, or was that just thrown in to keep the series fresh, or something? And why would they make a game based solely around the third book like that when the first two are clearly important to the plot? SO MANY QUESTIONS. kjetting posted:Fixed that for you. Eh. :-P pedrovay2003 fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Aug 13, 2016 |
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Don't get me wrong: The world is experiencing an apocalypse so someone has to dive into the past to uncover the truth of how to stop it and this fucks with their mind and makes them experience things asequentially and lose some memories is a pretty good plot for something, but not this.
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Cathode Raymond posted:Eager to find out how he/she is going to fit in to the whole smallpox storyline. I'll bet that Naked Pig Bat turns out to be Robert, and he was just trying to hug us. Just watch. pedrovay2003 fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Aug 13, 2016 |
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pedrovay2003 posted:Holy bejeezus. Was that the writer's plan from the beginning, or was that just thrown in to keep the series fresh, or something? And why would they make a game based solely around the third book like that when the first two are clearly important to the plot? SO MANY QUESTIONS. It seems to me like the Ring was a bigger hit than he expected and he was asked to do sequels to a book he already felt he had closure on. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit. That's why I asked a few posts ago if the first book is as good as the movie or if the seams were showing already then. I still hope someone can give an answer to that.
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kjetting posted:It seems to me like the Ring was a bigger hit than he expected and he was asked to do sequels to a book he already felt he had closure on. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit. That's why I asked a few posts ago if the first book is as good as the movie or if the seams were showing already then. I still hope someone can give an answer to that. The only real problem I can remember with the first book is the whole thing with Sadako being a hermaphrodite, as was unclearly mentioned in the game. It just seemed to come out of nowhere, and the only reason I can remember it being important to the plot of the first book is it was basically why Sadako was killed. Her teacher tried to rape her, saw she had male genitals, was freaked out, and threw her down a well. Yeah. It did become more of a plot point in Spiral, which if I remember correctly, involved Sadako somehow using her curse-virus to be reborn as a "full" hermaphrodite, and being able to impregnate herself with... well, herself. I think this book was when the smallpox virus became a plot point, and at this point "Sadako" was basically just the smallpox virus taking Sadako's form, so self-propagation was her whole reason for existence. The Ring series, everybody!
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I'm so glad I found this thread, I remember back when Spoony did a video on this game, and I was so amazed by this things existence. Knowing that this actually faithful to the books makes it even better. Also if anyone wants to know what's up with the series now, here ya go https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6YXCsXL0o34 There is also this shorter trailer, just in case you wanted to see Sadako and Kayako jump at each other over Sadako's well https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc_DdwmZl9U
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RiffRaff1138 posted:The Ring series, everybody! Wow. None of these tales of magical viruses and hermaphroditism explain the monster designs in this game, though.
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Thundersword238 posted:I'm so glad I found this thread, I remember back when Spoony did a video on this game, and I was so amazed by this things existence. Knowing that this actually faithful to the books makes it even better. I keep saying "Just go to Spirits and Such. Friendly, competent staff, real commitment to customer service, high customer satisfaction, all for bargain prices." But noooo, people keep thinking they have a "better idea", and everything goes just like you'd expect it to. Well, at least it keeps Kurosagi in business.
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Thundersword238 posted:Also if anyone wants to know what's up with the series now, here ya go If this gets released in the West, I will unironically buy it as soon as possible. If nothing else, it has to be a better Freddy Vs. Jason.
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I'm most of the way caught up now but I'm concerned about the Chief and Peter's increasingly strained relationship. I hope it doesn't end in virus murder. I hope it ends in virus murder.
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I see we've outfitted our grenade launcher with the legendary "zero explosion radius" grenades.
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Glazius posted:I see we've outfitted our grenade launcher with the legendary "zero explosion radius" grenades ...that are spin-armed by the time they reach the end of the barrel. And packed with child-safe directional incendiary charges. xoFcitcrA fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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Hey, everybody. Unfortunately, there won't be a new episode today; between having our first wedding anniversary yesterday and me being ungodly sick for the past few days, we just didn't have time to record over the weekend. We'll be back on Friday as usual, though, so don't worry, you'll get your much-needed fill of The Ring again soon. :-P xoFcitcrA posted:And packed with child-safe directional incendiary charges. I was honestly laughing for hours over the incendiary grenades in this game. Even after seeing how they worked, I was so afraid that I was going to get myself killed, because I like to imagine that I have at least a shred of logic in my head. pedrovay2003 fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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No new video? I guess my bad feelings came true.
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Hey, happy paper anniversary! (I am pretty sure that is the first one) Those are some pretty solid reasons, we can wait. At least for a short while...
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Cathode Raymond posted:No new video? I guess my bad feelings came true. Aw, I'm sorry. We'll be back to not horrendously sick by Friday, I think. (We love doing these videos, so it sucks from out point of view, too.) Thesaya posted:Hey, happy paper anniversary! (I am pretty sure that is the first one) Thank you very much, and yes, it is! I have no idea where the paper idea comes from, though.
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pedrovay2003 posted:Aw, I'm sorry. We'll be back to not horrendously sick by Friday, I think. (We love doing these videos, so it sucks from out point of view, too.) I dunno man. You have no idea how powerful the force of the curse is, so if you end up skipping another week...I'm going to assume that THIS happened to you  ...
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pedrovay2003 posted:Aw, I'm sorry. We'll be back to not horrendously sick by Friday, I think. (We love doing these videos, so it sucks from out point of view, too.) Nah it's fine, I was just looking for an opportunity to use one of the weirder dialogue lines from Meg's long conversation with Brigade Member in the pitch black darkness. I actually just caught up with the last video today over lunch. So when Amy talked about how Office CDC is the game and Dark World is the real world, is that actually what's going on? What is going on story-wise? It seems like not that much has happened, despite Meg proclaiming that "so many things have happened that I'm confused!" I'm actually confused by the lack of happenings. Also, they should have made that ghost girl translucent or shiny or something because she does not really look like a ghost.
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Happy anniversary, and here's to many more. And more episodes too. Also good.
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Cathode Raymond posted:So when Amy talked about how Office CDC is the game and Dark World is the real world, is that actually what's going on? What is going on story-wise? It seems like not that much has happened, despite Meg proclaiming that "so many things have happened that I'm confused!" I'm actually confused by the lack of happenings. From what I can tell, yeah, I think that's the story. It seems to line up with some of the spoilered movie information, too, so I can't imagine it being anything else. Lotish posted:Happy anniversary, and here's to many more. Aw, we appreciate it! :-D And yes, many more videos.
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You should check out Siren after this. It's also extremely confusing, but in a good way.
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Forgall posted:You should check out Siren after this. It's also extremely confusing, but in a good way. Not to be mean to our friend Pete, but from what I've seen of SGF's playthrough and based on the things Pete has butted up against in this game, I suspect that if he played Siren the LP would not end before he died 
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Not to be mean to our friend Pete, but from what I've seen of SGF's playthrough and based on the things Pete has butted up against in this game, I suspect that if he played Siren the LP would not end before he died
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Siren is hide and seek where a slightest gently caress-up kills you. P&A could do Extermination on the PS2. It's kinda horror, with a mild romantic side plot, and if you get the Euro version the voice acting is just amazingly bad. Or Raw Danger, which is a disaster survival game, where you start as a waiter and can step on someone's contact lenses, crawl on all fours in a high society crowd and yell for no reason in the first five minutes. Then the actual disaster starts.
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The only Siren LPs I've seen were more story-focused affairs, I'd love to see an LP where someone had to flail their way through it. (In the best possible way, of course.)
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Son Ryo posted:The only Siren LPs I've seen were more story-focused affairs, I'd love to see an LP where someone had to flail their way through it. (In the best possible way, of course.) Can Pete's voice even take that much ranting?
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Ha, I guess I need to track down Siren. The only exposure I have to the series is the Blood Curse demo.
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SelenicMartian posted:Siren is hide and seek where a slightest gently caress-up kills you. I was looking up Extermination on Wikipedia and there was mention of another game called Carrier, a horror game on the Dreamcast. If P&A want more Dreamcast games, that's another suggestion.
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Mraagvpeine posted:I was looking up Extermination on Wikipedia and there was mention of another game called Carrier, a horror game on the Dreamcast. If P&A want more Dreamcast games, that's another suggestion. I do remember seeing Carrier when it was new. I never got the chance to play it, but a new Dreamcast game is never a bad thing.
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Can I interest you in a little PS1 game called "Countdown Vampires" Apparently it's just an awful RE Clone and is probably not worth even looking up other than it's terrible name and wonderful EU box art. I mean... look at the EU box art:  EDIT: Also this gif illustrates Pete and Amy's cat trying to turn off the Dreamcast that one time. 
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D_W posted:Can I interest you in a little PS1 game called "Countdown Vampires" Everything in this post is simultaneously glorious and horrifying.
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Part 12 is up now, and boy, is there plot in this one! "Plot."
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"Plot?" Is doctor motorboat back?
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Lotish posted:"Plot?" Is doctor motorboat back? I don't know; did Robert say that?
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I can explain some of this. The "chanel" room was most likely meant to be a "charnel" room, or in more modern terminology, a morgue. There was a file two few videos ago that mentioned Shizuko by name. It says that Sadako "showed her powers when her mom, Shizuko Yamamura, was caught by the press as a public experiment." That film clip when Meg examined the brain machine is what that file was trying to talk about : Shizuko was clairvoyant, and made a public demonstration of her abilities by psychically viewing what was written on a hidden piece of paper and writing it out. (All of which was based on a real person.) The guy who got up, pointed and yelled angrily at Shizuko was a journalist who was calling her a fraud, and he fell over dead because Sadako psychically killed him. Shizuko mentioned that she was resurrected somehow, and that this is why she's a child now. This wasn't in any of the books in the original trilogy, so I don't know the particulars. It might even be from the movies, and not in the books at all. Or maybe it's original to the game! I don't know. Apparently Sadako physically existed in the game's real world? That would have to mean that the LOOP program in the game is not the computer simulation from the book Loop. The book's simulation sure as hell wasn't made from Sadako's brain. I guess it's not actually in continuity with the books, it's just a reference to them. If it is meant to be in continuity, the game's "real world" would have to be the book's simulation, and the game's LOOP program is a simulation within a simulation. But then, the game seems to be based more on the movies' continuity than the books. It is using clips from the first movie, and included Sadako killing the guy harassing her mother, which only happened in the movie. So maybe the books' simulation doesn't actually exist in the game? But Sadako is a hermaphrodite in the game, which she was in the books but not the movies, so it is the book continuity? Or maybe I'm putting more thought into this game than the people who made it did? Also, a little late, but I thought you might like to know that Kayako and Toshio from the Ju-On series have an Instagram account. There are some Sadako vs. Kayako images in there, so it's not totally off-topic for this thread.
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Countdown: Vampires is a pretty meh choice 'cause they thought it was a brilliant idea to hide all the plot behind a special game mode you have unlock by getting an S rank in the normal game mode (it was something dumb like this... been 15 years though). Seeing you two play Carrier would be amazing though!
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