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Paul.Power posted:Looking back at Oysterman, I was hoping it'd have a "challenges" gimmick to reflect it being Oyster's level. Although how you'd enforce challenges I don't know. Maybe things like reversed controls for a room or something, although that does sound annoying. Instead of reversed controls, you could disable buttons. One room with no shooting, another with no jumping/sliding, another where you can't move backwards, one where your weapon changes randomly every few seconds...
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KingEffingFrost posted:I love the mechanics of this stage, but the aesthetics of it make my skin crawl. Yet another way Gradius V can knock you off your game. Man, never play R-Type then.
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Jan 21, 2013 01:18
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Interestingly enough there was a TAS of the NES Captain Planet game just submitted to the TASVideos workbench. I watched the first two levels. They were horribly dull.
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Jan 25, 2013 20:20
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I beat Super R-Type (a weird cross between R-Type 1 and 2 on the SNES) legitimately, but I always had to use crazy amounts of continues to do it. Especially the last stage loves to spawn enemies in annoying locations while also making you deal with those organic walls that you can shoot away but they come back a few seconds later. R-Type 3 is just stupidly hard. Is Stage 4 the one where you go through it forwards, and then you go through it backwards? Yeah, that's nuts. I have some appreciation for R-Type Final, though, if only because I love the R-Type ship aesthetic and there's over a hundred ships in RTF. I can also get all of the endings (on Normal difficulty anyway) without excessive amounts of trouble, so the amount of bullshit in its level design is nowhere near that of its predecessors. I just wish the unlock requirements for the ships weren't so onerous. There's a bunch of ships whose requirements are things like "Have N hours of play with this other ship", for example. And yeah, there's an exploit on one of the levels that you can use to rack up flight time without having to actually play, but it's still stupid.
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Feb 1, 2013 06:06
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Oh hey, on the subject of hard shmups, if anyone wanted to take a stab at Recca, I'd enjoy watching that. It's an obscure NES shmup, and it is fast. There's also a second loop (really, a completely new set of levels after you reach the "end" and go back to the title screen), and if you're feeling really masochistic you can use a cheat code to make the enemies spawn random bullets when they die  .
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Feb 1, 2013 18:25
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If I recall correctly, Han always has at least the Fire level of blaster, while Luke and Chewie get stuck back at Laser if they die. Han also has the fastest draw (from pressing the shoot button to the blaster actually firing), and Chewie has the slowest, though their rate of fire is the same. And of course only Luke gets a lightsaber.
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Feb 8, 2013 17:51
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I still remember wall-jumping up a narrow shaft in the original N and splatting against the ceiling because I was moving so fast. I'm guessing that's been "fixed" in N+?
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Feb 15, 2013 01:45
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azren posted:Assuming I get this thing to work properly, are savestates frowned upon, or is it okay to do this 2007 style? I would say generally that it's better if the use of savestates isn't obvious to the viewer. Probably the easiest way to do this is to use input recording (which overwrites itself every time you load state) and then later use the input recording to generate a video file. Of course this doesn't work so well for live commentary.
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Feb 22, 2013 17:30
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Man, that game is nuts. It's neat to see the game played without bombspam / quarter-feeding and with commentary; whenever I play those kinds of games I tend to resort to the former fairly quickly and my commentary tends to be unprintable. (Though, if anyone wants an accessible bullet hell game, they should definitely check out Jamestown; it gives a good bullet hell feel while also having a good range of difficulty levels and a level-select so you can practice)
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Feb 26, 2013 02:35
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DefenderDT posted:Though I wonder if they refer to games like Contra as STG or not, because we, in the west (or at least as far as I've seen on some sites) call them SHMUPS. Here's how I tend to break things down: * Shmup -* Scrolling shooter (c.f. 1944, R-Type) -* Run'n'gun (Contra) -* Bullet hell (Touhou, Dodonpachi) "Shmup" itself is so vague as to be useless in terms of actually pinning down what you're talking about. And it only gets worse with the people who refer to FPSen as "shooters". Bottom line is that the use of projectile weapons in videogames is not exactly a new phenomenon! Remember Spacewar?
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Mar 25, 2013 16:40
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The "move towards target while firing" trick is used sometimes in TASes when an enemy goes in and out of vulnerability; it lets you "stack up" a bunch of shots that will all land very quickly as soon as the enemy becomes vulnerable. But assuming it doesn't affect your firing rate or accuracy, there's otherwise no real point in doing it. Congrats on finishing the LP, Nidoking! I would not have wanted to be in your shoes when you first got to Farta on EX mode.
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Apr 2, 2013 02:55
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It's interesting how this game is basically all the traditional Gradius concepts, only amped up and with no slowdown. Also, holy hell that Keeper Core fight 
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Apr 15, 2013 16:25
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Ciaphas posted:Is this breaking at about 03:40 whether streamed or downloaded for anyone else? Yeah, that's happening to me too. Weird.
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Apr 20, 2013 23:12
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Congrats for finishing! The analysis of Dick Move Omega was especially interesting. Do those hatches always open in the same order (bottom first, then top)? If so, then a little watching of the boss's patterns should make it reasonably clear when you can attack him and when you can't, so even if you could jump over the spiked balls you probably would prefer to stand on the hatches instead. Doesn't make being unable to jump over those things less of a dick move, though.
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Apr 22, 2013 22:43
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Melaneus posted:I wonder if there's any etymological connection between the Argonians from this game and the race from Elder Scrolls? Haven't played Elder Scrolls, but I'd guess the reference is to the Argo, Jason's ship in the Golden Fleece story from Greek mythology. I could believe that the term has been co-opted to mean travelers or voyagers in general.
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Apr 23, 2013 03:43
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Konami's not alone in doing those circular-segmented-tentacle legs; plenty of other developers do it a lot (Treasure comes to mind, for example, but e.g. it's also in Super Metroid for Ridley's tail and the entirety of Botwoon). They're an easy way to do smoothly-animated "limbs" without having to spend time on rotating sprites and complicated hitbox detection.
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Apr 24, 2013 21:30
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Dectilon posted:I would, but honestly it's a bit too hard for our usual shtick. Gradius isn't that hard! Just...never die. (Kinda like how Contra is easy so long as you always have the spread gun, I guess, but moreso)
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Apr 26, 2013 22:45
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That spider boss reminds me of Gecko from Einhänder. ...stupid Square. Make Zweihänder already. 
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Apr 28, 2013 02:33
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Man, this game gives me serious Gunstar Heroes vibes, what with all the enemies-composed-of-many-smaller-sprites thing going on everywhere and all the bosses.
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Apr 28, 2013 21:23
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You're gonna give a guy a heart attack, you know that right?
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frozentreasure posted:
Having played some of Pid (2 hours according to Steam), I did find it to be very hard, but not in very interesting ways. The jumps require a lot of precision, but the "excursion funnels" you can throw down (using the Portal 2 term, since that's basically what they are) have really fiddly hit detection. When you're in a funnel you have very little control, which tends to result in a lot of "I can see this death coming and there's nothing I can do about it." The collectibles can only be spent on consumable items and extra hitpoints (normally you die in one hit; you lose the extra hitpoint if you get one-shotted e.g. via a pit, too) -- and the consumable items are also used in puzzles, in which case you're handed an unlimited supply anyway; this makes 100%ing unrewarding. It also means that the consumables are normally limited, which penalizes experimenting with them. As a general rule, I kind of felt like having the ability to negate gravity in a specific area ought to allow you to do really awesome things in a platforming game, but here it doesn't. The implementation felt intentionally constricted to limit the player's opportunities to break free; the character's basic movement abilities were likewise too limited to really take advantage. I like games where the player's skill makes them feel powerful (not necessarily in a destructive sense); here at best you can hope for seems to be "basically competent" and the baseline is "painfully clumsy". That's not a good thing. The game has an interesting setting, its aesthetics and writing are competently executed, they did a multiplatform release...I just didn't have fun. EDIT: HGH posted:Ok I'm convinced, someone has to do a full playthrough of Alien Soldier without ever dying just so we can see what tedious and long boss fights are truly like. TooMuchAbstraction fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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Apr 30, 2013 01:51
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I do have to agree that the Minus Infinity music isn't the greatest. Rockman no Constancy (a very solid MM2 hack, if with a slightly smaller scope than MI has) has a much better selection and execution.
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May 1, 2013 18:21
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I remember that hack. I pulled off a tricky boomerang throw and expected to be rewarded with a sequence break of some kind, but instead I just got permastuck. 
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May 2, 2013 05:00
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Is there any particular reason you guys aren't using Rush Search more often? I keep seeing you finish a room and be almost dead and I'm practically shouting at the screen "Go dig up some health!". I mean, now you have a gazillion E-tanks, so I guess it's kind of moot, but still.
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May 2, 2013 22:12
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I can't stop watching this. Megaman just looks so happy. 
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I've been playing Gunstar Heroes lately (and realizing that there's no way, no how I could do a deathless playthrough even on Normal, the last level's simply too long), and Brownie's upgraded laser weapon looks basically identical to the Blaster+Laser combination in Gunstar. The "lag" when you turn is actually useful since it lets you fire shots in-between the 45° angles you're normally locked to. So for example, if there's a target on the other side of the screen, just slightly above your firing line (so firing straight wouldn't hit it, but firing up at a 45° angle would be too high), then you can hit it by firing and rapidly tapping up to shift your aim slightly. I dunno, it comes in useful sometimes. 
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May 4, 2013 07:29
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Discendo Vox posted:Does that self-destrictive laser miniboss remind anyone else of Timeron from Gunstar Heroes? Only in the most general sense of being a cylindrical robot. Timeron has a very different design and gimmick, and (this is important) is actually interesting to fight.
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May 6, 2013 19:05
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Pacifisto posted:The Ecco games cause this...primal fear deep inside me. You're always under a time limit, you don't always know where the next air is, and the sound you make when you get hurt, oh geez that sound. That sound haunts my nightmares. I've had a couple of nightmares involving swimming through narrow underwater tunnels, yep. Knowing that there's air somewhere down there, but never knowing how close I am or, if I turned around (if I had enough room to turn around!), I'd be able to find my way back to the surface. Never really drew the Ecco connection, but in hindsight it's pretty obvious.
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May 7, 2013 23:42
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Congrats on finishing! That's one heck of a ROM hack; I'm seriously impressed by the creators. Is Saucer Wily in fact weak to Wire? I don't think you ever tried it. (Also,  at Dr. Light facepalming)
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May 9, 2013 20:26
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It was suggested, and Ragny said he'd be willing to do one so long as everyone involved had at least played the hack before. This is not a good game to play blind.
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May 10, 2013 06:23
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I think that may just be firing a bunch of rings in rapid succession and then holding them all out.
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May 10, 2013 22:39
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For Kid Chameleon, I don't know that there's a clear "best" way to run it since the game is a maze of branching paths, looping paths, and secret exits. Honestly I'd say it's sufficient to just show a relatively normal runthrough, with perhaps the occasional detour for "If I'd gone this way, then I would have seen this other level (or the rest of this skipped level), which looks like this". Of course, you also need a death reel at the end of each video. 
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May 13, 2013 05:38
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Man, I never knew about singing to clams for healing, so I thought the only healing in the game was from eating fish. I'd say "no wonder I never made it very far" but it sounds like that knowledge would mostly have just got me slightly further into the second level...
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Shinobi III is IMO a lot more fair than Revenge of Shinobi, mostly because they greatly improved your moveset. You can run, wall-jump, and (IIRC) grab ceilings, the double-jump is a lot more lenient, and you have a dashing melee attack that gives you a lot of invincibility frames. It's still a hard game, but it's hard in far more interesting ways. It doesn't hurt that the levels and enemies are much better and more varied. Like 80% of the enemies in Revenge of Shinobi are green ninjas or soldiers.
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Zeikier posted:Kid Chameleon will be much less graceful, I'm debating just how far I'll go with showing deaths off there, but it's a much different beast from Hard Corps. The way I'd suggest handling this is to show an edited-together clean run of however many levels you're doing, with a death reel at the end that shows all of your miserable failures. That gives a good sense of how bloody hard the game is without bogging down the main video with lots of repetition because you keep dying 75% of the way through the level.
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Ambitious Spider posted:I never knew about the special powers in Kid Chameleon. Maybe that's why I never beat it. Most of them don't help as much as you'd think. The most notable powers IIRC are 50 crystals for an extra life from the axe-murderer mask, and a cheapo 2-crystal damaging beam for Cyclops which makes him suck that much less.
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May 19, 2013 03:20
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This game is way too fond of taking away all your health in about half a second and then making you replay lengthy levels to get back to where you were when you died. They did it with the Asterite and now this. Holy hell.
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May 20, 2013 17:10
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Now that the Ecco LP is done, y'all might consider checking out the Ecco TAS for a little catharsis. (There's also an Ecco 2 TAS; it's about twice as long).
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May 21, 2013 02:19
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Positronic Spleen posted:I'm still not sure I understand the deal with the asterite. It was missing an orb because you stole it from the past, so it sends you into the past to steal it? It's a completely pointless time loop -- if the Asterite didn't send you into the past to mug itself, then it wouldn't ever get damaged and the game could skip all the prehistoric levels. But given the existence of the loop, its attitude makes sense -- when you show up in the present/future, it's all "Oh, now I know why a dolphin appeared out of nowhere millions of years ago and beat the poo poo out of me." It has reason to be friendly in the future because it realizes you're just trying to fix it. Of course the past Asterite doesn't know that and thus tries to defend itself.
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And why is it friendly in the future, but is all kill-on-sight in the past?
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Zeikier posted:You guys want to see every nook and cranny of the levels and every exit and all that, or do you just want to see them completed efficiently or see all the juicier secrets? I'd say show off the bigger/more interesting secrets, but you absolutely shouldn't try to 100% the levels or anything like that. It'd take forever!
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