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a spooky ghost posted:Oh wow, that banner image is awesome and super impressive. I hope those characters are actually representative of the games we will be seeing here, because there are some gems there. I'm looking forward to The Guardian Legend, that game is stupid hard and I remember getting stuck at some 'plot point' as a kid and never getting past it. I'll be doing Startropics, should have the first chapter up around tuesday. It's not nearly as hard as some of the games in this thread early on but it pulls a lot of cheap deaths on the player throughout the game.
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Psychedelic Eyeball posted:You start wall-crawling or clinging on the ceiling whenever you push the jump button. It's not intuitive at first, but as you play the game more and more and play the harder stages of the game, you will get to understand why the designers decided to do this. It ultimately gives you more flexibility in how you approach certain sections. I remember maybe three things about this game: the weird attacking controls, the bullshit final level, and the music. The music was pretty good 
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Jan 7, 2013 19:54
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The spaces between dimensions kinda freaked me out, they were just weird formless tie-dye worlds where bloated mutant frogs fell from the sky until you harvested enough of their corpses to teleport somewhere less theoretical.
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Okay, here we go. Sorry this took so long. This game is radicola! Let's play Startropics!            
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Jan 9, 2013 06:24
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Deargodalion posted:When I saw this I got all excited because we got this game when we were young and we never beat the first dungeon. I never went back to it, and so I just remember being super hard. After watching that video, I can't help but feel like 5 year old me may have been retarded. I know exactly what you mean. As a semi-literate three year old I got stuck at chapter 4 for what felt like forever. Most of you will know why. (I had the instruction booklet)
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Jan 9, 2013 15:47
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NextTime000 posted:clearly that was just the game teaching you that you lose items on death, as well as that whole greed thing... I wouldn't say it's full of insta death rooms you can't avoid, more like a lot of things will kill you the first time because you didn't have prior knowledge of what was in the next room. There is one more room like the one in ch1 and its just as unfair. Also that's a cool trick with the c serpent, I had no idea you could do that. I don't think it would work on any other boss since they all have locked doors.
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Jan 9, 2013 21:43
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That's the song I was thinking of. Remember that song really well. Probably because I had to run that stage 1000 loving times.
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Jan 12, 2013 02:22
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Do not do favors for dolphins.
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Jan 13, 2013 00:00
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Aaaaah I tried to beat Super Return of the Jedi as a kid, that loving game. I never beat the emperor.
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Jan 17, 2013 01:27
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Workin' on em. I recorded all of chapter 3 a while ago but wanted to get all the commentary right. Episode 3.1 should be up soon.
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Jan 28, 2013 08:59
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Things get a bit more complicated.
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Dectilon posted:No, that seems fairly accurate. The next dungeon is probably gonna get it's own update. It's pretty bad.
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Gaz-L posted:Spaced is probably the best example of games on TV I can recall, largely because Simon Pegg and the rest of the cast pretty much were just playing PS1 on set. The problems with sound probably boil down to 2 thing: The foley crew (or rest of the staff on the show) not having played these new fangled vid-ee-oh games so just using the stock sounds they're used to for them, and copyright, you'd probably have to pay Activision for that actual soundtrack from Black Ops to be on your show, and it's easier and cheaper to not bother. You mean this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE24hquGr20 This is a fantastic episode all around but I love that they use RE2's music and audio.
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Jan 31, 2013 00:16
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Let's keep this moving with a spooky level!
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FreezingInferno posted:Also I'm pretty sure the Shyguy face is supposed to be a skull, with the bottom tiles as "teeth". Spoooooooooky 
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Feb 2, 2013 21:34
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Welp, the derail is finally over!
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Feb 8, 2013 03:27
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Psychedelic Eyeball is doing a (speed run?) of Doom II. http://www.twitch.tv/psychedelic_eyeball
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The game tries a new way to stop us from succeeding. Unfortunately Startropics did not forsee the INTERNET
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Dectilon posted:That's actually really interesting. I can just imagine how angry a game reviewer would be at that today as they would never figure it out. If you say to Baboo that you don't understand the clue, he tells you to look at the instruction manual--of course this also eluded me as a kid for a while, maybe I didn't understand those two words yet. It was so weird realizing what the message meant, I'll never forget the day I woke up and just 'got it.' Already recorded the next episode, need to do commentary but it should be up soon. It's a really fun level with a lot of almost dick moves, one of my favorites in the game.
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Feb 12, 2013 20:30
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DO. NOT. SEEK. THE TREASURE.
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Feb 13, 2013 07:59
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I know, if I had only shown my parents that phrase that tells you to wet the letter on the instruction booklet I would've gotten past ch4 way earlier. I also used game genie quite a bit when I would get too stuck, so I probably beat the game when I was 4-5 and then went back and did it legitimately. I did that with a lot of games as a kid, especially the megamans  \/ Seriously feels like you should be finding gold at the end of this dungeon. What the hell Capt Bell. thevoiceofdog fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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Feb 13, 2013 15:49
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That would've been a great crossover, to have king hippo as the chief of one of these villages. We did get chief Mario and luigi though
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Feb 13, 2013 18:13
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Ragny posted:
Reminder of what Tintin does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZOOsvZUGag&t=204s
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Feb 14, 2013 18:54
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Not the most exciting part of the game--next one will be better.
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Feb 22, 2013 02:44
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Now why would I ever need another heart container? Oh, right. This level. (just didn't wanna have a 40min video so I split it up, enjoy)
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Feb 22, 2013 03:58
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I'll be working on it tomorrow for sure. The rest of the game is pretty much recorded, and Ch7 is almost done save for commentary. I had to do a few takes on that one.
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Mar 5, 2013 04:55
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Wake up, Mike Jones. Wake up, and smell the ashes.
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Mar 16, 2013 12:46
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I'm actually really glad I died where I did in retrospect, just to show off how the game treats people who can't beat each level in one life. The final level isn't as bad as 7-1 in my opinion, but holy poo poo does it have some incredible dick moves.
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Mar 16, 2013 17:00
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Bet you forgot about this. Well here's the finale:
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Apr 22, 2013 21:19
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Forgot to ask--since I plan on doing Startropics 2 regardless, would you guys/Dectilon want to see it in this thread? Or should I make a seperate one? The action is considerably harder due to some new freedom of movement that breaks the game, and it definitely gets hard from chapter 4 onward.
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No unfortunately... Mike gets a strange variety of new weapons in the sequel but no Yo-yos. We start off with infinite throwing axes and go from there.  The game is also silly as hell and I will very likely bring in a co-commentator or two to make fun of said silliness. The game has a pretty good difficulty curve, it's a lot more steady than ST1 that's for sure, but it starts kinda tricky and stays that way throughout. It's hard but in a less dick kind of way.
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Apr 22, 2013 22:34
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As a kid that room confused the poo poo out of me. I figured I was just screwing up the timing for jumping over the death disks rather than realizing the game changed the basic rules of the game for this one room. Also you always want to stand on the top hatch because the bottom one opens first--this way you get a warning when the top one is about to open. The whole thing itself isn't too hard if you know what you're doing, but there's no one to tell you about the changes the first time you walk in, so.... 
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So uh, consider this a test post for ST2 in this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w7c4uo9u-0 What do you guys think? Make a new thread? Or keep posting it in this one?
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Apr 25, 2013 20:07
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Really? I'm not having any trouble with it...
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Apr 25, 2013 21:09
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Okay, this'll be my OP for Startropics II. Mike Jones' Radicola Adventure! Let's Play Startropics II, Zoda's Revenge!         
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Apr 26, 2013 05:52
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Good guests, yes, too bad they won't survive the PYRAMID OF DESPAIR!!! note: pyramid may not actually contain despair
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Apr 27, 2013 04:04
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Let's keep things rolling.
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Apr 28, 2013 05:31
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I think it's a chain of command kind of thing, with Z being at the top. I guess we killed Zoda-W in the first game
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Apr 28, 2013 11:12
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do the dance. do it.
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slowbeef posted:It's ridiculous but YouTube will butcher anything at 480 or below. It's honestly the best option I've found. Seriously. I have to encode an nes game at 796x894 or something just so YouTube doesn't destroy it and render it a blurry mass of pixels.
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