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One day I'm gonna go hunt down the jokes in that demo, cause iirc there aren't any once you're past character creation I ended up talking to loads of NPCs going "was that a joke?"
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Communist Thoughts posted:One day I'm gonna go hunt down the jokes in that demo, cause iirc there aren't any once you're past character creation There's jokes but due to the way the development collapsed, most of the character dialogue ended up being written by people who were not the jokesters who wrote most of the dialogue in the original game, hence they're not as funny, and all dialogue written by one of the devs in particular isn't even attempting to have any humor most of the time, just be serious worldbuilding or weird. Which would be fine and add to the setting if it was surrounded by classic gags and non sequiturs, but instead just fucks with the tone of something that's already not really humorous. The game also suffers from not having a party with varied personalities to bounce jokes off of, in the original game Barkley's a gruff rear end in a top hat who dismisses almost everything people say to him which automatically creates hilarious contrasts to the overwrought jrpg monologues a lot of characters have, and you have Balthios and Cyberdwarf who are essentially deadly serious characters who rarely break their facade and take the dumbest poo poo in the setting seriously. Balthios is like someone's terrible Final Fantasy OC and his flowery descriptions of b-ball lore are automatically hilarious, again because of the contrast. In this game XJam's only real character trait is that he's kind of naive and very sincere, which seriously limits the potential humor and makes his interactions with some of the genuinely funny characters or deadly serious ones land kind of flat. Like there's an astronaut NPC who tells you a harrowing story of how he's the only survivor of a grueling disaster and is completely consumed by survivor's guilt, and if you had a character like Barkley there to react with "Say it don't spray it" at the end of that endless wall of text you'd have automatic humor, but instead XJam just goes "That's horrible!". It doesn't help that a lot of the funniest things that are in the demo are hidden out of the way, like the lawnmower creepy pasta. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Mar 8, 2021 |
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maybe the real joke...is the cruelty of the passage of time
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Mar 8, 2021 14:25
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Remember joke's...Chas McGill posted:I'm only looking forward to two computer games - this, and Dark Souls 2. 2013
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Mar 8, 2021 14:28
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I doubt you could even imagine it.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:41
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Dang whoever did all the serious moody writing should be fired and then hopefully Barkley 2 can be funny on its release in 2023
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Mar 8, 2021 14:46
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Xjam being a boring stoic blank slate protag would've been fine if he'd had a companion who was basically navi but with the personality of idk, balthios maybe
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Mar 8, 2021 14:58
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If the writing wasn't already on the wall for other reasons, the fact that they hosed up something as basic as "straight man main character in a comedy" would be a sign that things were going a bit wrong
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You could probably make some scratch just releasing Barkley 3 as a quick turn based rpg with jokes in it but I dunno if the skeleton crew of Barkley 2 owns the rights somehow or something Also I guess nobody wants to work on it anyway lol
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Communist Thoughts posted:You could probably make some scratch just releasing Barkley 3 as a quick turn based rpg with jokes in it but I dunno if the skeleton crew of Barkley 2 owns the rights somehow or something Hey, Yakuza 7 turned out pretty good!
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Guys, there's going to be a second Jack Banger game in a month or two, I think it will satisfy all your action rpg needs (minus the rpg).
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https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/1368800502364794881?s=19
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i do not think an image of his o-face is appropriate in context
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https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/1369179224108634112
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well MyMixtapez,
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Communist Thoughts posted:Dang whoever did all the serious moody writing should be fired quote:and then hopefully Barkley 2 can be funny
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Communist Thoughts posted:You could probably make some scratch just releasing Barkley 3 as a quick turn based rpg with jokes in it but I dunno if the skeleton crew of Barkley 2 owns the rights somehow or something It shoulda been like one of them Mario RPGs instead of a serious grimdark gun's game.
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t-.-t posted:i remember many years ago this game had a booth at PAX and I was able to play the demo, so i ran around in the town cause i wanted to see the writing. anyway the wizard hosting the booth pointed me to a sidequest where i had to fill in a missing word for a couple of NPCs. it was really obvious what the solution was since it was multiple choice with all words being the same except for three out of four of them having typos Thank you for your service.
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Oh man Bonghitz, I'm excited for you when you finally get to the part of the thread where the full game gets released.
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t-.-t posted:i remember many years ago this game had a booth at PAX and I was able to play the demo, so i ran around in the town cause i wanted to see the writing. anyway the wizard hosting the booth pointed me to a sidequest where i had to fill in a missing word for a couple of NPCs. it was really obvious what the solution was since it was multiple choice with all words being the same except for three out of four of them having typos I also went to the booth at a PAX in Seattle. I somehow failed to pick up the starting gun and money when I was playing and mostly just screwed around the town lol I still have the printed receipt for the character creation somewhere, I might post it later if I can find it.
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I still maintain BBall Tactics could've sustained its own game, and the hilariously overdesigned gun'sbreeding system probably could too.
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I like the screen-clearing ultimate moves you can get in b-ball tactics, tho they're a little OP. https://twitter.com/brhoops/status/1352836265540947975
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Tunicate posted:I like the screen-clearing ultimate moves you can get in b-ball tactics, tho they're a little OP. Fire that man before he learns the C*H*A*O*S DUNK
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game good
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The promise...has been broken... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXYZOsXw_o This is not canon. 
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https://twitter.com/1AbbyRoad/status/1378369728796823553?s=19
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The real Monstars are corporations.
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brapbeat_hardcore posted:Not for the purposes of reaching out and bort doesn't have private messages on but point taken.
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That user was permabanned for posting behind the scenes info about Barkley? 
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I think someone said it in this thread but that bit at the climax when you make your choice and the music starts playing was pretty sick
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https://twitter.com/derek8185338005/status/1378505119688355841
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CYBEReris posted:maybe the real joke...is the cruelty of the passage of time You could say time makes joke's of us all
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We were warned from day one: Chef Boyardee posted:will there be joke's ?
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Going by the demo that wasn't a joke's
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Communist Thoughts posted:Going by the demo that wasn't a joke's  's
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It's not gone. There's a button you can use to access it. https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
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Urto posted:I'm the newest B2 dev. Very new, in fact, having only joined last week for sake of the demo. I volunteered because I have the time to, I'm not really doing anything else, and it seems fun to me. Also, bhroom told me I have a "supple" demeanor, which helped earn my way in. For the demo, I didn't have much time to learn the codebase, but managed to fix a few major crashes. I also corrected probably like a few hundred typos and grammatical errors, especially in the prologue. Hey how's it going?
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the big question is if space jam 2 is gonna be a worse train wreck than barkley 2
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