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Update: Seven Samurai 20XX Who is ready for the longest chapter in the game? I really wasn't. Chapter 3 - Vanishing Love Petals Part 1
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anilEhilated posted:Cutscenes or gameplay? Because there's quite a difference there. No poo poo? I've got to hear about this. It does explain some of the... stranger lines in the game to some degree though. I know that it was originally called Evil Days, but I couldn't find much on that so was it called something else? Edit Huh, looking it up with a mishmash of search terms, I found it. Or at least the first game in the series, which was... an adventure game. If you don't do the effort post, I'll look into doing my homework and add it to my first post, either way. Nebiros fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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Oct 14, 2015 18:43
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There were two adventure games and one action game. I think I'll go over your videos again and try to catch if there's any jokes that would make sense in Czech and not English; I remember playing the very first one a looooong time ago and thinking it wasn't funny even back then so I kind of doubt that. Still, I'll be able to get to that on Friday at the earliest so do whatever you feel like doing; I just figure I got access to more sources since I can dig up the reviews in Czech.
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Oct 14, 2015 19:01
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Jothan posted:Then I saw him try and walk without it and that's how I learned that apparently Segways are effective mobility tools for people with cerebral palsy. This is good to know! Not because I have cerebral palsy, just because I value being educated and aware of this type of thing.
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Oct 14, 2015 23:47
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we are getting closer to the main succubi Banzai Pecan: Episode 04 - Ruined City
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Oct 15, 2015 03:42
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Well I guess it's time to go into what I assume is the sex dungeon, although you wouldn't be able to tell outside of a few bunnies being strung up. Banzai Pecan: Episode 05 - Sex Dungeon?
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Oct 20, 2015 02:59
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I don't think the question mark is necessary there.
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Oct 20, 2015 03:53
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 Seven Samurai 20XX UpdateChapter 3 - Vanishing Love Petals Part 2 Whose ready for some optional bullshit I didn't have to do?
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Oct 21, 2015 21:03
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Okay, so here's the Pound of Ground retrospective, before I forget it. The nineties were weird here. A lot of the commonplace technology didn't make it past the Iron Curtain and so there was no real gaming background or culture - or that many home computers. Those few who had access to computer games were usually the kids of people who worked in the fairly small IT sector, consoles were almost unheard of (most "gamers" in the eightties used 8-bit computers like ZX Spectrum or Commodore models, importing a Japanese system was apparently difficult as hell), and the most common way of obtaining a game was borrowing a bunch of floppies from a classmate. Games were for kids and adolescents. Now, around 1996 or so, the first few Czech game development companies popped up - and started emulating the games people knew and that were simple to make; an adventure is really just a series of scripted events with no need for mechanics and/or writing talent. The average Czech adventure was a parody of whatever caught the developer's mind: for a very typical example, the first locally-made game that was actually sold as retail was The Secret of Donkey Island; arguably the only case in videogame industry where the parody is less funny than the source material.  Looks familiar? "I'm not going into the water. There are sharks there." Don't tell me Gilbert and co. wouldn't stick a joke there. Copyright infringement and all (for the record, the hero's name is literally Guybrush Threepwood, only spelled phonetically in Czech: Gajbraš Trípvůd), this thing sold and spawned a bunch of "humorous" point and click adventure games by quickly emerging (and dissolving) game companies. One of the more successful games of that kind was 1998's Hot Summer.  What do you think about the intelligence of an average dolphin? The plot to that one is simple: Jan Majer, an incompetent good-for-nothing drunk, is on a tropical vacation with his family, which gets kidnapped by cannibals. He uses the typical adventure game logic of stealing, cheating, violence, animal abuse and (if I remember correctly) murder by Rube Goldberg to save them and call for help by radio. That's it. Its main selling point was that all the characters were voiced by a popular comedian and a lot of them sounded "accidentally" like lead politicians of the day. That, combined with the fact the game was highly quotable for the age 11-16 crowd, turned it into the most successful Czech adventure game to date. So a year later, there was a sequel.  Box art. Most other pictures I could find are decidedly NWS. Whatever else I'm going to say about it, at least this time they managed to come up with a story: it's Wild West, bandits are raiding Indians and steal a sacred stone called The Purple Salamander (and no, it's not funny in Czech either). The local shaman decided to solve the situation by summoning a mighty hero from the future, but the spell fizzles and he ends up with that one drunk moron. It's... better. A lot of the humor is based on punny "Western" and "Indian" names which would come out as racist if it all wasn't so blatantly absurd and as far as adventure gaming goes there's very few dick moves and utterly illogical puzzles. However, there are also action segments and those fuckers stand out. See, there's a reason why no one really tried to do action games here back then: they had no idea how to write an engine and licensing one was completely out of the question due to low sales given gaming's marginal status (there was a fair bit of outright engine stealing, though). You can possibly accept a 1999 game running like poo poo when it's a point and click adventure, but I'd draw the line if it had shooty bits. This game has shooty bits. Oh, yeah, and a strip poker minigame that assured it a cult status among the first game's target audience; remember, not many people had fixed Internet here then.  Hot Summer Three And A Half. Bigger picture included: see if you can figure out what's going on on that cover. I sure as hell can't. So when 2005 rolled in and the sequel showed up, the devs apparently decided that point'n'click adventures were so nineties (early in the world, late here) and a game had to action. This game actually got an international release - Czech gaming sites tell me it was called Raiders of the Lost Casino. The protagonist is Johnny Majer, grandfather of the "hero" of the first two games, an immigrant in the 1920s America. His grandfather (the whole immigrant thing as well as potential for time loops is handwaved away) has died and left him a casino that he needs to fight the Mafia over. If the previous game was borderline racist, this one crossed the line pretty firmly with their Italian caricatures; then again, the series has always boasted (as in, claimed by the developer's website) an intentionally politically incorrect sense of humor. Gameplay, gameplay... The devs called it an action game with adventure features. What it really is is a collection of minigames, but forget Beyond Good and Evil: you get to drive, shoot, navigate mazes and solve puzzles, all in an overworld that makes Ride to Hell seem positively bustling with life. It plays and controls like rear end and the story doesn't even pretend to be funny this time; your activities are limited to like ten things. Home reviewers ate it up out of either patriotism or bribery; it apparently flopped everywhere else. Now, I haven't really seen Pound of Ground yet so I'll just stick to some observations. The name's translation is pretty close this time, the Czech title literally translates to "Half a Kilo of Ground Meat". I'm not sure if the meat implication is present in English, honestly. Right, next, here's what the game's official page has to say about that rear end in a top hat who constantly interrupts your gameplay: "Scenes from "behind the curtains" fill in the story and bring distinct humor into the game". It's distinct, I'll give them that. I'll rewatch the videos and try to look for something that could've been lost in the translation, but if you keep playing that thing, keep in mind that if it's anything like the third game, the horrible gameplay seen so far is only the tip of the iceberg and there's minigames to look forward to. And if it's anything like the rest of the series, it won't start being funny anytime soon. edit: I can add more details about the games if desired, I remember playing the first two pretty well and the third one is apparently bad enough to have some notoriety. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Oct 22, 2015 16:48
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anilEhilated posted:Legitimately interesting poo poo about an awful series. For what it's worth, I've beaten the game before, I think the only time I laughed was spotting Laurel and Hardy in the background. And this go around that everyone's reactions are almost the same at the same times. Anything else you want to add about the series or the background to it, I'll throw in my original post, I actually think it's pretty interesting. Hell, if you don't want to type it up, grab my Skype and join us on the next episode when I con myself into recording it again.
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Oct 22, 2015 18:35
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Cowman, if you're still in the thread, can I have the title of that yodelling song in the fourth Eternity's Child video? I unironically need it.
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Oct 23, 2015 23:30
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CommissarMega posted:Cowman, if you're still in the thread, can I have the title of that yodelling song in the fourth Eternity's Child video? I unironically need it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO7MWuJ7zLA I didn't know which one you wanted but here's both the yodeling songs I used. I literally just searched on Youtube "Yodeling" and the first one is like the second or third result 
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Oct 24, 2015 02:53
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Damnit, I searched for Batman: Arkham Blackgate wondering if someone had a similar problem in getting through a specific part of the game only to see that most of the posts about the game is right here in this thread. 
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Oct 24, 2015 05:22
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Why the gently caress is he wearing a duster on his head?
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Oct 24, 2015 07:04
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mateo360 posted:Why the gently caress is he wearing a duster on his head? Why have one feather in your cap when you can have 200? 
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Oct 24, 2015 07:10
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mateo360 posted:Why the gently caress is he wearing a duster on his head? Oh you think him foolish now, but when you're walking under a low hanging ceiling and spot some cobwebs, then we'll see who's a fool.
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Oct 24, 2015 07:50
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This game really needs more enemy types. Banzai Pecan: Episode 06 - Rooftops
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Oct 24, 2015 19:31
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Banzai Pecan still seems slightly better than that The Tick game. The pits killing you are an extra nice touch.
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Oct 24, 2015 21:02
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Cowman posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU Thanks man! Looks like I have some new favourite artists 
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Oct 24, 2015 21:07
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Cowman posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU
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Oct 24, 2015 22:22
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Seven Samuari 20XX Update Chapter 3 - Vanishing Love Petals Part 3 Blame Dragon Quest Heroes for me getting this up late today.
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Oct 29, 2015 04:42
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Seven Samurai 20XX Update Chapter 4 - The Man in White
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Nov 4, 2015 17:07
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I guess I can put this here too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4ktKYgxpU
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Nov 6, 2015 05:28
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^ you may want to put that in the
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Nov 6, 2015 07:54
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Hey next Friday I'm planning on doing a drunken Bad Rats stream. I've 100%ed the game and it's so hilariously terrible. I plan on getting very drunk and getting through it all or as much as I can. I may also play other bad games but that'll be a surprise."The Bad Rats Steam Page posted:Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores. The physics are broken so even if you do the premade solution it doesn't work 95% of the time. Often times the solution is to just run the puzzle over and over until the RNG decides you can continue. You can only place the rats on a 2D plane but the ball is on a 3D plane so it falls off the map extremely often. It frequently goes on sale for <$.25 so people buy it for others as basically a steam meme that costs money. It's really stupid and bad and hilarious. I'll post a more exact time later but I'm just gauging interest in this thread for it. Edit: I took a look at the game folder and all the music is just WMA files named stuff like "music01.WMA" I could totally replace it all with yodeling and make it a tortuous night I probably won't unless I go crazy from the music Edit 2: If you want to know what the game is like, here's a pretty funny by this dude named videogamedunkey that sums up the experience pretty well. I don't know how his solutions work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY4NNGW8LM Cowman fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Nov 8, 2015 |
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Nov 7, 2015 19:21
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Cowman posted:The physics are broken so even if you do the premade solution it doesn't work 95% of the time. Often times the solution is to just run the puzzle over and over until the RNG decides you can continue. You can only place the rats on a 2D plane but the ball is on a 3D plane so it falls off the map extremely often.
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Nov 7, 2015 22:38
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Cheez posted:Even worse than that, they're using 3D physics to interact with the ball in the first place, so anything that would send it flying off into the foreground or background affects the physics going in the other directions, because they kind of try to hold the ball in place while it's doing this. With more physics. The physics are wonderfully broken. Everything is random and broken it's fantastic.
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Nov 8, 2015 05:25
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Seven Samurai 20XX Update Chapter 5 - Struggle in the Wilderness
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Nov 11, 2015 21:30
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mateo360 posted:
That fight made the entire game worthwhile. It was the most 00's thing I've seen in so long, that it whipped right past stupid and became awesome.
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Nov 12, 2015 04:43
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*rap video finishes* *hero takes out his sword* Yeah, that was... uh... a thing. The bosses were kinda like the skater mooks in Maken Shao.
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Nov 12, 2015 09:06
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I still think all the stupid plot elements and characters would have been considered quirky and fun if the game itself had been fun to play. Games like God Hand have just as much sillyness, but work because the fighting is really fun and challenging. Maybe have more dynasty warriors-like large open maps and let the player choose between the seven different Samurai with their own unique playing style. Make the fights challenging and relying on technique and skill rather than just pushing one single attack button and then sidestep repeatedly until you wait for your special to fill up. It seems like the makers of this game haven't played any fun videogames themselves, because they obviously don't know what makes games fun.
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Nov 12, 2015 10:22
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Tonight at 9pm eastern I'm gonna start my drunken bad rats stream. I've got a couple of commentators who are going to drink as well so it's gonna be a chaotic and fun night  One of them asked me if it was wise for me to drink and play this and my answer was that it doesn't matter because the game is so broken I can do it sober and get the same result
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Nov 13, 2015 22:49
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Alright stream begins! It's already going great what with a half hour delay and other nonsense!. http://www.hitbox.tv/Cowman And I just had to reset my computer. We're off to a great start! Cowman fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Nov 14, 2015 |
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Nov 14, 2015 03:24
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Last night was a lot of chaotic and terrible broken fun. I've got the stream uploaded to youtube, it's still processing the longer videos as of this post but if you want to check out the chaos and brokenness that is Bad Rats and a surprise game here's the playlist of the stream. I had a lot of fun and I may do this again sometime https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVr0Y1WpjEPX71yGCKmlib1XTXtkPE3W9
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 So you probably remember my LP of this game that came to a close back in May. One thing that we briefly touched on in the final episode was the fact that DLC for this game exists in the form of LOG's Lost Challenges. Vile and Jordan did their best during the video to persuade me to tackle it but after nearly 5 months of doing the same challenges repeatedly and occasionally getting kicked in the face in the form of LOG's choice, I'd had enough and was quite content to never go near Nuts & Bolts ever again. 3 months go by and I entertain not a single thought of Nuts & Bolts. During that time, Rare Replay is announced during E3 in June, and released on the 4th of August for the Xbox One. When I finally boot up Rare Replay and scroll to the end of the list of games that Rare has released over the years I see it. And suddenly I remember. Rare Replay comes with every bit of DLC that was released for these games as well as the games themselves. Including, of course, Nuts & Bolts. And so, Ladies and Gentlemen, I present: My contribution to the Bad Games Megathread. 6 months later, The real conclusion to Let's Play: Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts& Bolts I hope you enjoy it Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts: L.O.G's Lost Challenges Part 1[YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Nov 18, 2015 17:32
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UPDATE: Seven Samurai 20XX Chapter 6 - Justice for Oneself The game has not even begun to Bullshit.
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Nov 18, 2015 18:02
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Nuts and bolts isn't a bad game.
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Nov 18, 2015 20:27
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Earnestly posted:Nuts and bolts isn't a bad game. Yes but it's a terrible Banjo Kazooie game.
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Nov 18, 2015 20:30
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I liked dicking around in the vehicle creation part but the idea of actually finishing the game -let alone 100%ing it- bores me to tears gently caress Log's Choice
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Nuts & Bolts is a game that needed to be its own IP and to be a lot shorter. A lot of the problems with it come from the fact that they very obviously ran out of interesting challenges earlier, plus Log's Choice is absolute poo poo.
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