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You're in a room. It's dark, it's cold, and you can hear water dripping somewhere down a hall. You can't see anything except a couple clock radios on the table in front of you. Funny, they aren't showing the same time. You don't remember exactly how you got here, but you've still got your cell phone. Just as you pull it out to see where the GPS thinks you are, the lights suddenly flare on with a loud mechanical bang. That's not a clock radio. You look down at your phone. Seconds later you're on the line with a single person. You are the eyes and hands, they are the brains and experience. A beep. The countdown begins.  Hello! Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a one-player co-op game. You're trapped in a room with a bomb, and no idea how to defuse it. Fortunately you're on the phone with an experienc- Fortunately you're on the phone with a capabl- Fortunately you're on the phone with someone with a How To Defuse Bombs manual, and now it's up to you two to fight through the stress, the tension, and the reading comprehension issues to get out of this alive! Bacter and I will be playing this game together, taking turns as the bomb defuser and the bomb defusal expert. I encourage you to play along by viewing the BOMB DEFUSAL MANUAL, accessible right here! Experience the tension of trying to find the relevant sections as we desperately try to remain coherent in the face of certain doom. Come along with us and cut the blue wire as we...                                    
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Oct 15, 2015 05:39
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Reserved in case of BOMBS.
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Oct 15, 2015 05:39
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Bacter's Modules-Made-EZ notes! Part 1 regular modules Part 2 regular modules Best practices are to actually print out the bomb manual, so you can frantically flip through it while your partner is frantically defusing.  Teledahn posted:I have to ask how you're going to handle some of the later levels? I know you said you're both going in blind, but I hope it's not too much of a spoiler to intimate that Bacter (clever as he undoubtedly is) will eventually need some help. Multiple experts would be recommended. We're all the experts we need, and we will continue to believe that until we are meaty chunks on the floor (which will be soon: refer to thread title) Another incidental note: when we say we're "going in blind" that also means we don't read the manual ahead. When you see a puzzle for the first time, WE'RE seeing a puzzle for the first time. Bacter fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 05:40
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Haha, this will be fun once you get into the venn diagram morse code bullshit.
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Oct 15, 2015 05:49
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This looks interesting, and I'm looking forward to more.
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Oct 15, 2015 06:22
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Oh, this one's gonna be super fun. 
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Oct 15, 2015 06:23
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Mzbundifund posted:You're trapped in a room with a bomb, and no idea how to defuse it. Fortunately you're on the phone with an experienc- Fortunately you're on the phone with a capabl- Fortunately you're on the phone with someone with a How To Defuse Bombs manual Oh Mzbundifund, you sure know how to put a LP together with that scamp. Looking forward to this.
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Oct 15, 2015 06:32
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I tried this out with some friends. This game is tense as all, but also a hell of a lot of fun! Really looking forward to seeing you guys try to handle the more difficult bombs.
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Oct 15, 2015 06:39
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This looks incredibly amazing, and one can feel you guys getting more nervous and frantic as the clock ticks lower. I'm looking forward to the presumably more difficult levels later.
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Oct 15, 2015 06:54
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Ironically, i think your knowledge of greek, russian, ancient hebrew, egyptian hieroglyphics, and the darker reaches of the UTF-32 character set may hurt rather than help, if both sides of the equation aren't equally sure of what is and isn't an Aleph. Looking forward to more! (and your eventual, inevitable demise!)
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Oct 15, 2015 07:10
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Okay, this should be good. Having taken a brief look at that bomb defusal manual, god drat are some of those rule paths ridiculous. I feel like I need a flowchart.
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Oct 15, 2015 17:43
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The only other video of this game I've seen was by two of the most inept people I've ever come across, it'll be interesting to see people with actual brains trying this out. You've already done better than them, so good work on that. Also, I think the technical name for the thing that looks like a butt is indeed A Thing That Looks Like A Butt.
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Oct 15, 2015 17:59
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I may be a unique breed but I've never felt all that tense in this game, and I've been on both sides of the defusing process. It's still a lot of fun though, and if you ever need a backup expert, I'd love to jump in.
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Oct 15, 2015 18:42
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When I first heard about this game as something for the Oculus Rift I thought it was a cool idea, but expected the execution to be pretty meh. It doesn't seem all that bad, all things considered. When playing with a Rift or the like, it probably works out really well and is actually able to be tense. From what we've seen just in this one video, I do think that it being ported to Steam and the like kind of undermines the gameplay a lot though. When playing there, the only reason to actually do it co-op is because the game asks you very nicely to not use the manual while playing yourself.
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Oct 15, 2015 18:50
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Dragonatrix posted:When I first heard about this game as something for the Oculus Rift I thought it was a cool idea, but expected the execution to be pretty meh. It doesn't seem all that bad, all things considered. When playing with a Rift or the like, it probably works out really well and is actually able to be tense. True, but if people choose to have a less fun gameplay experience that's really on them. You can only go so far trying to restrict someone from engaging in the game they way they want to. I've been super stoked for this game and I need to pick it up and take it to my friends later.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:42
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I've been playing this game with friends, it is pretty excellent. I've only been on the manual side of things so far though (and scrolling through a PDF rather than printing a copy of the manual out, sadly), so it's cool to see what the game actually looks like from the bomb defuser's perspective.
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Oct 15, 2015 20:53
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I think this should prove who's the REAL bomb expert around here.
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Oct 15, 2015 23:38
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Dragonatrix posted:From what we've seen just in this one video, I do think that it being ported to Steam and the like kind of undermines the gameplay a lot though. When playing there, the only reason to actually do it co-op is because the game asks you very nicely to not use the manual while playing yourself. The only reason to play the game at all is because you want to have fun. It's just like games that provide a developer console (or that are written in javascript): nothing is stopping you from ad-hoc modding the game to remove all the challenge, but that may or may not be any fun, and it's not the developer's fault if you make their game worse. If you can have fun playing this game and looking at the manual yourself, more power to you. If you can't have fun doing that, then maybe you should follow the developer's recommendation and not do that? Sillyman fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 23:49
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And what's the deal with books? I really feel the way I can just turn to the last page and spoil the ending at any point really undermines the tension of the plot. Great videos, but short. So far, you're on the easy stuff. It gets... it gets weirder. Like, by a lot.
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Oct 16, 2015 00:00
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Every dire warning only increases our burning desire to get to the real monsters. I cannot WAIT you guys!
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Oct 16, 2015 00:07
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Oh man, how have I never heard of this game? It looks ridiculously fun. And to make things even better it's another Bacter and Mzbundifund LP. All I need is that million dollars and all my wishes really will come true.
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Oct 16, 2015 00:09
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Dragonatrix posted:When I first heard about this game as something for the Oculus Rift I thought it was a cool idea, but expected the execution to be pretty meh. It doesn't seem all that bad, all things considered. When playing with a Rift or the like, it probably works out really well and is actually able to be tense. It's a top notch party and co-op game despite the regrettable need for the honor system, I think. Well, okay, maybe a notch or two down - each round by definition being 5-10 minutes long is an issue.
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Oct 16, 2015 00:57
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I love how this is essentially a board game that takes full advantage of its video game format.
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Oct 16, 2015 01:14
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It doesn't matter that the game relies on the honor system because it's not competitive, it's cooperative.
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Oct 16, 2015 01:17
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Kai Tave posted:Oh man, how have I never heard of this game? It looks ridiculously fun. And to make things even better it's another Bacter and Mzbundifund LP. All I need is that million dollars and all my wishes really will come true. It only came out last week.
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Oct 16, 2015 02:17
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If you want to see more, Smite did 3 videos of this game for those who want to see how more then 2 people can play this. link to Smite's first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAHTvmmRNs Still, looking forward to more of this. Shiva Asori fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Oct 16, 2015 04:55
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Three modules on a 5-minute bomb is a tiny number for tiny babies. Today we tackle six!
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Oct 16, 2015 23:40
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Doing good on the easy ones. That alarm clock is the worst.
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Oct 17, 2015 00:02
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The Alarm Clock is the true terrorist. There was a Jade Star stream of this game too, but it went further so kinda contains spoilers. This game works perfectly fine with more than one defusal 'expert'. Edit: I feel saying BOOM to your defuser is kind of mean. Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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Oct 17, 2015 00:50
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Veloxyll posted:Edit: I feel saying BOOM to your defuser is kind of mean. I didn't actually notice until editing the video how that might be misinterpreted!
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Oct 17, 2015 01:14
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How are you guys going to handle it when the inevitable *BOOM* happens? Keep trying until you get a successful run after your failure? Switch off on who is defusing? Close the thread because one of you had a bomb go off in your face?
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berryjon posted:How are you guys going to handle it when the inevitable *BOOM* happens? Keep trying until you get a successful run after your failure? Switch off on who is defusing? Close the thread because one of you had a bomb go off in your face? The one who has the manual for the largest number of explosions over the course of the LP has to do an LP of Bad Rats after this.
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Oct 17, 2015 02:14
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I can't imagine that'll be a problem. 
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berryjon posted:How are you guys going to handle it when the inevitable *BOOM* happens? Keep trying until you get a successful run after your failure? Switch off on who is defusing? Close the thread because one of you had a bomb go off in your face? Right now the plan is to just do repeated attempts until we win the last level or the game gets aggressively repetitive and dull to watch. Again, it's a blind LP so I'm not sure if there's any sort of endgame to shoot for besides beating harder and harder bombs. Bacter posted:I can't imagine that'll be a problem. No I don't believe it will.
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Oct 17, 2015 02:23
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Clearly, whenever a bomb goes off, the person defusing the bomb should be replaced with a new let's player
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Oct 17, 2015 04:20
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I noticed that the game gave you the win after pressing the third button of the last module.
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Oct 17, 2015 04:36
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This game looks neat! How many pages is the manual? Also I can't help but think of this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_WmV50e7c ally_1986 fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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Oct 17, 2015 04:40
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23 pages all told, but I'm not sure how many of those are modules - "many", I guess!
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Oct 17, 2015 05:06
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Fellow goon MyNameIsKaz was also playing this game last night (you can see it on his twitch channel, where he's known as kazeugma). He and his partners (first fellow goon Medibot, then his girlfriend) are so much worse than you at this. For playing this blind, your teamwork is amazing. Which is no surprise, I loved your Baldur's Gate LP.
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Normally you would think the pressure is on the person with the bomb. seeing as they're the one that's about to explode. But it's definitely on the one with the manual. You can basically hear it in the manual owners voice how much they're trying to find the correct solution. So far, the answers have seemed easy enough so it's not too bad. I imagine harder bombs are going to get worse and worse for the one with the manual. It's easy enough to describe what the bomb looks like, unless you don't know your greek letters. So far at least.
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