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I played the hell out of Castlevania III as a kid. So many memories with that game.
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dis astranagant posted:So, would you guys like to see 15 minutes of horrible dolphin related fatalities or should I bundle the 67 second successful run in with the next few levels? Eh, how about keep a few exemplary deaths and have it as its own video?
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May 29, 2013 09:39
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It's hard to really define such a thing with this level. It's a lot like if Welcome to the Machine didn't have walls or enemies and replaced them with gaping death pits. And moved at roughly triple speed for the duration. It is mercifully short and the next 2 levels really aren't much longer if the next one doesn't degenerate into a mess of attempts that fail to actually kill me. It's kinda like the ice levels in Ecco 1 except I'm even worse at them and the tank with rocket boosters physics literally pull you out of the level.
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May 29, 2013 10:05
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Choco1980 posted:Just one little thing--I'd wager that "Warakiya" is probably a multi-translated mess version of "Walachia", as in the famous area in Transylvania. Wallachia isn't in Transsylvania. They are both different parts of Romania. Historical Dracula was the Prince of Wallachia, and never had much of anything to do with Transylvania (It was ruled by Hungary at the time) 
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May 29, 2013 13:02
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Have some more Revenge of Shinobi. Not sure if I remembered to post Round 5 here, so have 5 and 6. Round 5 which is a lot of bullshit Round 6 which features Spiderman but absolutely not Batman
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May 29, 2013 18:29
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I, um, hate to say this, slowbeef, but I think you're knocking the ballerinas' tops loose, and that's why they're surrendering.
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May 29, 2013 19:26
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Discendo Vox posted:I, um, hate to say this, slowbeef, but I think you're knocking the ballerinas' tops loose, and that's why they're surrendering. ...Wait, seriously? I've played this game since it came ou- Holy poo poo! You're right! I always thought they were folding their hands together (a la "please forgive me"), but yeah, they're totally covering up. Wow. Stay classy, Shinobi!
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May 29, 2013 19:33
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Also, the 'nunchuck staff thing' is a real thing, called the three part staff or the three section staff. The Japanese version is called a sansetsukon. So now you don't have to look it up!
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May 29, 2013 20:08
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Not only that, but that jump in 6-1 is apparently doable without Fushin or the box on the right - it's just very tricky. I am not the ninja master I claimed to be. 
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May 29, 2013 20:15
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slowbeef posted:Offscreen laser bullshit. While I give them props for coding in enemies that still exist even when not on screen, I've always hated it when enemies and obstructions can tag you from off-screen, especially if you can't hurt them in return.
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May 29, 2013 20:24
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Ah hell. I also thought the ballerinas were giving up in a weird bit of videogame chivalry ( like in the original Streets of Rage, where you can't hit women when they're down ). Unless... perhaps the Euro and American versions censored them a bit? Like they did to Streets of Rage 3?
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May 29, 2013 20:58
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Also yeah slowbeef Round 5 takes place in Los Angeles as 818 refers to its area code.
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May 29, 2013 21:07
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I liked the "Well Come" signs a lot in the last stage  How did they get away with so much copyright infringing back in the day? Sega was no small company back then. And what are Spider-Man and batman doing in this game? Couldn't they come up with some ninja bosses?
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May 29, 2013 21:10
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Eulisker posted:I liked the "Well Come" signs a lot in the last stage They didn't exactly get away with it, since later versions were modified. Presumably the original Japanese version also had these bosses, and they got away with it there because American comic book and movie creators/publishers had little presence in Japan back then. As for why they did this, who knows. Isn't Spiderman bizzarely popular in Japan? That doesn't explain Batman or the Hulkinator of course.
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May 29, 2013 21:21
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Prenton posted:Unless... perhaps the Euro and American versions censored them a bit? Like they did to Streets of Rage 3? For the record, I am playing the US version. Actually, I think Revision 0 is region-free insofar as there aren't different releases for US/EUR/JPN.
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May 29, 2013 21:27
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There isn't a "the US version", the only region differences are the box art and manual, though the original release was pretty rare outside of Japan. There's 4 different Genesis releases:
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May 29, 2013 22:09
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Isn't Spiderman bizzarely popular in Japan?
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May 29, 2013 22:43
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And have the penultimate level to Revenge of Shinobi: Round 7: Total Bullshit I'm going to admit that I royally mess up 7-2. I left it in because I thought it was a little funny, and I didn't think the backtracking went on for too long. I hope you don't think I'm putting up just any old video, but level 7 as a whole is really drat hard, and this was one of the better successful runs I came up with. Also Godzilla is the last of the questionable copyright decisions that Sega made with this game.
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May 29, 2013 23:25
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Asimo posted:Spiderman in Japan has a... strange history. Which Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus made fun of the first episode before in their No More Heroes 2 LP. http://chipandironicus.com/videos/anime/15.html
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May 29, 2013 23:27
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dis astranagant posted:So, would you guys like to see 15 minutes of horrible dolphin related fatalities or should I bundle the 67 second successful run in with the next few levels? Dying in Ecco just warps you back to the intro screen for the level and forces you to start over? Then just bundle the 67 seconds and lets stick with that.
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May 30, 2013 02:18
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Yeah, that was just me being stupid at 4AM ranting at the walls about wanting to rip Ed Annunziata's throat out with my teeth. It's the loving ice levels all over again just with a different gimmick. I'll probably keep a couple deaths to point out why these levels are bullshit and also that one of them manages to have even more of a dick move than the final boss of the first game. I keep forgetting that my new workflow actually makes editing these things feasible.
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May 30, 2013 02:41
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slowbeef posted:Have some more Revenge of Shinobi. Not sure if I remembered to post Round 5 here, so have 5 and 6.
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May 30, 2013 03:58
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TheEggsBenedict posted:I just found a retweet that lead to this. Is Spider-Man really Batman's shameful secret? The answer is contained within a 2 minute podcast clip. Yes.
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May 30, 2013 04:11
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Let's end this. Round 8: The End
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May 30, 2013 04:47
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The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin for the Sega CD has a similar end boss fight, where things are made far harder by having to manage keeping a hostage from being killed by a machine while taking on the endboss. In fact, it pretty much steals this mechanic part and parcel from Revenge of Shinobi (I guess Marvel figured quid pro quo). You fight the kingpin while he's lowering a tied-up Mary Jane into some death machine thingie, and you stall it by shooting your webs (which are limited outside of easy difficulty) at the mechanisms. IIRC, this is also one of those games where losing to the endboss gives a unique game over ending, so there's in all, three different endings to the game.
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May 30, 2013 07:49
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Also hinted at in this product description:
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May 30, 2013 10:46
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...that's the product described behind the link you didn't click, and the image ON the video.
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Choco1980 posted:The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin for the Sega CD has a similar end boss fight, where things are made far harder by having to manage keeping a hostage from being killed by a machine while taking on the endboss. In fact, it pretty much steals this mechanic part and parcel from Revenge of Shinobi (I guess Marvel figured quid pro quo). You fight the kingpin while he's lowering a tied-up Mary Jane into some death machine thingie, and you stall it by shooting your webs (which are limited outside of easy difficulty) at the mechanisms. IIRC, this is also one of those games where losing to the endboss gives a unique game over ending, so there's in all, three different endings to the game. You're right. Losing to the endboss leads to a cutscene where (spoiler tagged in case someone decides to LP it later on) both Mary Jane and Spider-Man get dunked into a vat of acid and die, followed by the credits.
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May 30, 2013 13:17
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Ah, it's nice to know that the pixel-perfect jumps were really pixel-perfect, and not me being an idiot as a kid. Me and my brother only ever completed Revenge Of Shinobi using the kind-of-neat cheatmode: set shurikens to "00" in the options and wait, and the double-zero symbol turns into an infinity sign.
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May 30, 2013 22:06
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It was the double-jumps that always got me. The controls for that really aren't as tight as they should be. It was years before I was successfully able to get past the first part of the second stage with any kind of regularity.
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May 30, 2013 22:19
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:The controls for that really aren't as tight as they should be. By "aren't as tight", people who haven't played the game should read "are ridiculously finicky". If you don't press jump again at exactly the right time (at most a 5-frame window, I'd guess), you don't get your double jump. It's possible to do reliably but you need a lot of practice, and the game starts requiring you to do it quite early in the game. Which reminds me, later versions of the game tear out an awful lot of the levels. I don't think the version I played had any of the "Chinese" enemies (kung-fu dude, staff dude, ballerina) or the nuns; they just omitted levels that had them. Well, the highway level was still in the game; I can't remember if they just removed the nuns from that level or if they put new obstacles in. In practice, this meant an awful lot of time spent fighting soldiers and Rambo, since they're basically the only enemies to show up after the first two levels.
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May 30, 2013 22:43
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Update time! Part 4, the Realm of Earth- If you thought this game hated you already, you haven't seen anything yet
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May 31, 2013 00:14
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I remember one Summer when I was about ten or so, asking for the Gameboy versions of Wizards and Warriors and Battletoads for my birthday. Apparently, I hated myself as a child.
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May 31, 2013 00:42
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How does that bossfight work? Buggy collision detection only using the lower 8 bits of the spell's position?
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May 31, 2013 01:34
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:How does that bossfight work? Buggy collision detection only using the lower 8 bits of the spell's position? If you try the upward shot trick standing anywhere else in the room, it won't work. Your guess is as good as mine as to why that is.
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Kid Chameleon - Part 5: Chicago Two short levels. Things get a little trickier after this. [img]http://lpix.org/1246866/KCsewers.avi_snapshot_00.58_[2013.05.30_20.46.08].png[/img] Windy City - Sinister Sewers
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:How does that bossfight work? Buggy collision detection only using the lower 8 bits of the spell's position? quote:Long distance attack of Earth boss:
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May 31, 2013 06:59
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Syrg Sapphire posted:...that's the product described behind the link you didn't click, and the image ON the video.  >
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May 31, 2013 10:35
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And so it ends  Level thoughts 
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Dectilon posted:And so it ends You aren't going to show off the secret ending? The video that appears in the options menu or something when you manage to get an S-rank on all levels? Sure I could just link it from youtube but... It even references Rock knight adventures! Agent355 fucked around with this message at 17:58 on May 31, 2013 |
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