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I probably could have gotten this up on Monday if I had tried hard enough, but - oh well. After our valiant attempt at defending Echo Base from waves of Imperial probe droids (for some reason), it failed and now it's time to:  Not much to say about this level other than it adds in some ice physics and at one point combines that with an incredibly poor camera angle.
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I jumped around watching assorted videos and it was enjoyable, thanks for the LP. On thing - if you're looking to cheese boss fights, you don't have to double jump and do the area effect attack to ignore their guard. Single jump and slash ignores guards, is faster on the recovery, and has its own little aim assist to boot. yeah I played these way too much as a kid I'm sure no one can tell 
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Sep 21, 2016 01:58
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Was I doing a LEGO Star Wars LP? Oh, right, I was. So anyway, it's time for everyone's favorite level types, a vehicle level! I'd like to say that Traveller's Tales eventually figures out how to do these but - well, let's just put it this way: LEGO Dimensions removes them entirely.
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Nov 6, 2016 01:56
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Fwiw rhe Lego batman levels for vehicles are decent
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Nov 6, 2016 01:59
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Well, they're decent because after the first LEGO Batman game they basically removed them and left vehicles as a method of traveling quickly around the hub world. 
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Nov 6, 2016 07:43
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Xenoveritas posted:Well, they're decent because after the first LEGO Batman game they basically removed them and left vehicles as a method of traveling quickly around the hub world.
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Nov 6, 2016 14:29
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I can't remember any specific rail shooter levels in later LEGO games. LEGO Dimensions makes vehicles a regular thing you can bring in like any other character and LEGO Batman 3 (which is basically LEGO DC Comics) made vehicle segments be entire separate worlds that are essentially "bonus stages" you can play that are entirely separate from the story. In any case, have a preview of the next level: 
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Nov 9, 2016 20:35
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I guess I'm now going for weekly on Saturdays. In any case, let's go to Bat-obah. I mean,  It's full of bats. So many bats.
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Nov 13, 2016 00:24
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<---------- feels like a good time to post
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Nov 15, 2016 05:09
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It's not a bat raping luke
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Nov 15, 2016 05:19
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I think I may know the background to use for the Return of the Jedi episodes: At the very end of the freaking level. Yay.
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Nov 16, 2016 06:11
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Xenoveritas posted:I think I may know the background to use for the Return of the Jedi episodes: Common problem. Did you ever play the Lego Harry Potter? One of them had a game breaking bug on PC that crashed every time you got to a certain area unless you did this really random non intuitive camera trick. Tt doesn't seem to patch either. At least they didn't back then.
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Nov 16, 2016 15:22
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hanales posted:Common problem. Did you ever play the Lego Harry Potter? One of them had a game breaking bug on PC that crashed every time you got to a certain area unless you did this really random non intuitive camera trick. Tt doesn't seem to patch either. At least they didn't back then. They still don't patch. One of the nastiest bugs I remember is in Lego Hobbit. There's a hub world section right before the Laketown level where you're riding around on Bard's barge (about 3/4 through the story). If you happen to fast travel away to do some side missions or whatever it glitches and you can't enter Laketown and continue the game. EVER. You'll have to start a new game.
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Nov 16, 2016 17:20
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That's still better than the PC version of Lego Jurassic World, where you just can't get past the fourth level no matter what..
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fractalairduct posted:That's still better than the PC version of Lego Jurassic World, where you just can't get past the fourth level no matter what.. I remember repeatedly crashing in the Jurassic Park 3 section where you get the parasail ability but that's a lot farther than the fourth level. Maybe I got lucky.
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Complications posted:I jumped around watching assorted videos and it was enjoyable, thanks for the LP. On thing - if you're looking to cheese boss fights, you don't have to double jump and do the area effect attack to ignore their guard. Single jump and slash ignores guards, is faster on the recovery, and has its own little aim assist to boot. Finally got to videos recorded after this post so this post gets mentioned in  hanales posted:Common problem. Did you ever play the Lego Harry Potter? One of them had a game breaking bug on PC that crashed every time you got to a certain area unless you did this really random non intuitive camera trick. Tt doesn't seem to patch either. At least they didn't back then. Never did get around to playing the Harry Potter games. I'm pretty sure the bug we triggered is a known bug and involves going into one room before another room.
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Can I do it? Can I get The Empire Strikes Back complete before December? Yes!  So a note on the timeline for the movies: in the movie, the reason Darth Vader wanted to freeze Han Solo in carbonite was as a test run to make sure the process wouldn't be fatal, as he was going to freeze Luke Skywalker for - er, reasons. (To safely transport him to the Emperor or something?) Which means that the events of Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 are sort of reversed. The actual movie events kind of split between the two and Luke briefly runs into Lando and Leia as they chase after a frozen Han Solo - which is why we randomly pick up R2-D2 early in the level.
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whitehelm posted:They still don't patch. One of the nastiest bugs I remember is in Lego Hobbit. There's a hub world section right before the Laketown level where you're riding around on Bard's barge (about 3/4 through the story). If you happen to fast travel away to do some side missions or whatever it glitches and you can't enter Laketown and continue the game. EVER. You'll have to start a new game. Yeah and in Lego LOTR the first level never ended. Just stood there with no enemies coming. Forever :/
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Well, I've sat on this episode long enough due to a combination of the Christmas season, PAX South preparations, and then getting sick. But in any case, let's get going with:  This is also the first update since Carrie Fisher died and Princess Leia takes on a fairly prominent role in this level, becoming our first (and only) bounty hunter character available during story mode. I considered doing something to mark her passing at the end of the video but ultimately decided against it, mainly because it's already taken me long enough to release this video. So instead I'm just going to mention it in the thread.
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Feb 10, 2017 01:35
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Says video not available
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Feb 10, 2017 04:48
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bunnyofdoom posted:Says video not available Works fine for me. Country of access issue? I'm in the States.
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Feb 10, 2017 04:56
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I'm in Canada so I dunno
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Works for me? I dunno, YouTube has been amazingly inconsistent about ContentID on these things. Since the game uses the actual Star Wars music it almost always triggers a match but Sony (who has the music rights, apparently) has been mostly just monetizing the videos rather than blocking them. (So if you get ads, blame Sony.)
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Could be a mobile issue. Couldn't open it on my tablet
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OK, PAX East is now done with, so now I have time again, which means it's time for: I kind of wish I had more to say about this one, but - it's just a great showcase of how unpolished this game can be. Nothing that's out-right bad, just a whole bunch of confusing things that make little sense.
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I don't really have a good excuse for taking so long on getting to here, but this is the last one we had recorded (well, last one that we recorded without the game crashing), so let's get the obligatory level out of the way. This level is an interesting mix of good level design and bad level design. Good level design includes having the Scout Troopers show up on the bikes the player is going to use. The player is naturally going to defeat the Scout Troopers and then get onto their new prize, thereby continuing with the level. The initial sequence with the AT-ST is pretty good, too: the player again will naturally want to try out their new toy and the natural thing they can do now that they couldn't earlier is destroy the shield generator. But then after the shield generator is destroyed, there's little reason for the player to expect they're supposed to repeat the speeder chase, and continuing to spawn enemies is a great way to suggest that there's more to do in the area. Then there's things like the grappling point backwards at the start of the level. The game has never been shy about not providing some way of backtracking. It isn't shy about it in this level: each little point around the speeder bike loop can only be visited once, with the exception of the starting and ending point which is visited twice. It's essentially a trap, because a player would expect that building a new way should lead to something interesting and not backwards. It's just an interesting mix of well designed elements and - well, not so well designed elements.
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A quick preview of the next level... http://www.xenoveritas.org/static/lets-play/lego-star-wars/ep6/crash.webm Xenoveritas fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Apr 29, 2017 |
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Xenoveritas posted:A quick preview of the next level...  I've been binging this lp for the past few days, it's really fun. Looking forward to the rest!
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Happy Star Wars Day! I had hoped to have the next update up by now, but I've had a terrible cold for this part - well, week, basically, and part of that is being entirely stuffed up and not really able to perceive volume all that well. Which makes balancing audio somewhat difficult. So hopefully some time next week. When I can hear properly again. And also breath. You know, minor things. Edit: Oh, and hey, this game is currently on sale on Steam for $5! It almost never goes on sale for some reason! Xenoveritas fucked around with this message at 20:45 on May 4, 2017 |
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Xenoveritas posted:It's just an interesting mix of well designed elements and - well, not so well designed elements. In game dialogue posted:"Once again, anything LEGO can and should be destroyed." Of course, this makes them quite a unique item - even in the Hoth snow speeder level you can shoot the little LEGO rock outcrops before you run into them even if they give little or no reward. The break in the usual pattern of always destroying LEGO items can really trip you up. Complications fucked around with this message at 02:04 on May 9, 2017 |
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May 9, 2017 02:01
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 This game is currently free on xbox games with gold for xbox one or 360. Started playing it with my 7 year old
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Happy Star Wars Day! Get it, because it's May the ... way, it's July the Fourth. Crap. Well, have an update anyway. (So, yeah, a combo of being sick, trying to decide exactly what to do with three runs due to crashes, and Stormblood being released took up too much of my time.)  Now that I'm past that, the last two levels are relatively short and don't involve crashing so hopefully there shouldn't be quite as long a wait between updates.
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For some reason it's saying the video is not available.
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WilliamAnderson posted:For some reason it's saying the video is not available. It works for me.
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YouTube works in weird ways - these videos almost always trigger Content ID for the Star Wars music, which Sony has mostly chosen to simply monetized world-wide. But I think there are a few places where it just gets blocked, but I don't know. In any case - it's finally time to get on to dealing with Emperor Palpatine.  Only one level to go until we finish out the story!
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So....if you play this single player, the opening xutscene is different and instead you play as Luke dueling Vader. Which is better
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No you don't? None of the levels play any differently with the second player "dropped out" (in fact, either player can drop in and out at any time). There is always at least one AI-controlled character in every level, even if you're playing alone. You always play as Luke and Vader fighting against the Emperor.
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Xenoveritas posted:No you don't? None of the levels play any differently with the second player "dropped out" (in fact, either player can drop in and out at any time). There is always at least one AI-controlled character in every level, even if you're playing alone. You always play as Luke and Vader fighting against the Emperor. Weird. I really could sworn if you load it single player it's you vs vader
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There is no "single player" mode. It's always co-op, but if you only have one player, then the second player is AI controlled. (This only really comes up in Freeplay mode, since in the story there are generally multiple "other characters" that are AI controlled.) Every level is designed to have at least two characters that can be player controlled at all times.
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So when you finish the story mode after Episode XI comes out are you planning to do free play?
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