|
 It's the future, Earth has been ruined by World War III and the remains of humanity have come together and set their sights on the stars in the hope of finding a new home. Earth's first fleet of FTL capable manned exploration spacecraft are about to depart and Edge Maverick is pilot of the SRF-003 Calnus. So yeah, no one wants to look the "the universe was really an MMO all along" plot twist elephant in the eye so it's time to step back a few hundred years for a prequel. Welcome to Star Ocean 4. Welcome to realistically textured 3D anime character hell.  If you've never joined us before, I'm wateyad and I'll be playing the game. Accompanying me, as usual, will be forums moperator Pork Lift who'll probably be doing a lot more of the talking than me. Star Ocean 3 is a game we simultaneously hold dear and despise and from what I've heard about it this one is its own flavour of trainwreck. Neither of us has played it before, I'm spoiled on a couple of things via general internet hearsay (unfortunately including THAT) but Pork Lift is blissfully completely blind so  PLEASE NO SPOILERS OR EVEN HINTS ABOUT THINGS PAST WHERE THE VIDEOS HAVE REACHED.Wait, Edge Maverick? Seriously? Yes. But I thought you were going to...? What about...? For the longest time we were talking about how we were going to spend a week in a caravan doing nothing but eat, sleep and play Star Ocean 4. This isn't that LP. Our first LP back from our long hiatus was going to be something a lot more, err, unexpected shall we say but our attempt at recording that was a trainwreck that led to some long discussions. That game is still going to happen but will need a different approach to do right and we wanted to get back into to swing of things with something we could just fumble through like usual. We also decided that Star Ocean 4 probably wasn't the game to do the stupid endurance run of, we have another idea for that though, one that might prove controversial. There was a Twitter poll that probably looked like it was to decide our next LP (because it was) but I've played both of those games before so we're doing this instead. They both could still happen eventually, consider that our if all else fails option. There was another Twitter poll that was mostly just out of curiosity at this point. We want to go back and record the wedding but that thread long since fell into archives and that wouldn't even be a full day of recording so we wanted to get something new properly under way first. Pork Lift's copy of The Bouncer is gone, let it go. I still kind of want to do Atelier Iris but probably never will. Is that all of the questions like this? So how many years is this going to take to finish? Pork Lift has a new living situation since last we did this that means we should be able to record far more often now. I know better than to make promises though.  ).wateyad posted:As promised, updates will be every other day until the end of the thread now that we've finished recording. No, but, really, Edge Maverick? Is neither particularly edgy nor much of a maverick and no one else seems to have dumb action movie names either. I have no way of further elucidating. TABLE OF CONTENTS Episode 1: The Chain Combo Buttons
Episode 3: Spider Hunter Spider-Gatherer Episode 4: Cave Holes Episode 5: More Kinds of Invertebrates Episode 6: A Meteor Fragment Episode 7: So why didn't we want to ask THEM for help? Episode 8: Oh Well, I Guess You'll Have to Do. Episode 9: Grossly Abusing Authority to Get Some Private Action Episode 10: Welcome to Planet Skyrim 'kay? Episode 11: Let's Go Window Shopping 'kay? Episode 12: This Feels Pretty Good 'kay? Episode 13: Let's Explore a Dungeon 'kay? Episode 14: ダンジョンを探ろうのよ Episode 15: Wet Maverick, Petty Thief Episode 16: Please go find my... Episode 17: Now Go The Only Way You Haven't Been Episode 18: Cat, Dog, Lizard, What's the Difference? Episode 19: 1F North Episode 20: Amen to That Episode 21: I'll Just Run Around in Circles Episode 22: I Got The Whole World In My Name Episode 23: A Battle for the Ages Episode 24: "Let's Hope There Are No Random Encounters" Episode 25: An Ill Omen Episode 26: Let's Head for That Isolation Chamber Episode 27: Wet Maverick, Formless Blob of Protagonism Episode 28: Are You Serious Game? Episode 29: I Hate the Concept of Videogames Episode 30: okay. Episode 31: Specialised Warheads Episode 32: Developing a Group Dynamic Episode 33: Insect Legs Episode 34: The Wet Maverick Appreciation Society Episode 35: Well This Sure is Happening Episode 36: Meow Episode 37: This Chunk of Game Did Not Divide Easily into Episodes Episode 38: WELL THIS SURE IS HAPPENING Episode 39: We Are Roakay to Land Episode 40: Wet Maverick Is Not Very Happy Episode 41: Let's Just Keep Limping Along Episode 42: It sounded like someone said "Ahhhh." Episode 43: Bunny Reins Episode 44: Everyone is So Sorry Episode 45: TCLF Episode 46: Seeds of Hope Episode 47: Exactly the Same Episode 48: A Bunny To Get Behind Episode 49: A Bunny With No Name Episode 50: Moustache Episode 51: An Excessively Long Cutscene Episode 52: Vs. Blade Liger Episode 53: What are YOU looking at? Episode 54: So the boss comes next, right? Episode 55: One floor too many. Episode 56: We Don't Care About Destiny Episode 57: Nobody Cares About Wallpaper (Except Pork Lift) Episode 59: Oh, Hi Episode 60: Hide and Seek Episode 61: Now with more Tungus Episode 62: Here They Come! Episode 63: GRIND Episode 64: The Cat Has A Lot To Say Episode 65: GRIND 2 Episode 66: More of the Inhuman Soldiers Episode 67: Yes, This Cutscene is Still Going Episode 68: We Fell in A Hole Episode 69: A Deep Dark Hole Episode 70: GRIND 3 Episode 71: Save Us from The Silence Episode 72: Preperations Episode 73: Return to the Dungeon Episode 74: Return to the Boss Episode 75: A Rematch Manifests Episode 76: Wet Maverick Does Not Exist Episode 77: Shut Up and Eat Your Cookies Episode 78: Terrible Anime Cliche Episode 79: Centropolis Episode 80: Ex-position Episode 81: The Perfect Time for a Fetch Quest Episode 82: An A-Maze-Ing Dungeon Episode 83: Birds Episode 84: Noxious Secretions Episode 85: Gratuitous(ly Drawn Out) Space Battles Episode 86: Acting in Private One More Time Episode 87: Higher Episode 88: Vile Goop Episode 89: These Bubbles Are Forever Blowing Episode 90: This Sucks Episode 91: Crescent Wings Episode 92: Diabolic Apes Episode 93: Where Are We Going? Episode 94: WitnessTheQuintessenceOfMyCatastrophicPower Episode 95: Boss... Rush? Episode 96: I Still Don't Understand the Orbs Episode 97: It's Been A Long Road wateyad fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 4, 2017 |
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:08
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 24, 2024 14:45 |
|
|
FANSTUFFxoFcitcrA posted:
Suspect Bucket posted:
Toma posted:The design of the character with the boobs is a bit distracting, so I edited the cutscene more appropriately. Jeedy Jay posted:Here's a gif: D_W posted:I came here to post my very own gif of that: Hel posted:The power of SamRaimi Runic Edge posted:Edge? You ok there buddy? You uh... wateyad fucked around with this message at 23:04 on May 8, 2017 |
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:09
|
|
|
I've not watched any yet, nor have I seen anything about this game, but I'm guess that this will be my reaction to most of it:
D_W fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jul 11, 2016 |
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:15
|
|
|
I'm excited. Are you excited? I'm excited!
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:19
|
|
|
Well I played this for a bit, but some if the characters ended up being too annoying to me and I packed it in. I remember the combat being fun at least, with the archer one?
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:22
|
|
|
Why?
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:23
|
|
|
Every so often I forget, and try to play this game again. It's never succeeded. It'll be nice to finally see where this goes without having to actually play it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:45
|
|
|
I'm excited and not at all afraid of the anime!
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:46
|
|
Highway Traffic 
|
Pork Lift posted:I'm excited and not at all afraid of the anime! 
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:47
|
|
|
This is an awful awful game about a collection of dollfies blundering through every single godawful anime cliche they can find. The voice acting is horrid, the music is trash and the graphics make everything look like plastic. It lasts for approximately 900 hours and feels twice as long.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 21:49
|
|
|
Oh boy, ground floor of this trainwreck. I have Blinded By Light PTSD from your FF13 LP. I can't wait to see what neurosis I pick up from this game! 
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 22:04
|
|
|
I played the battle tutorial from the main menu first thing (in retrospect I guess it's there for if you stop playing the game halfway through and need a refresher) and needed to take a break before I even started the game, it's really exhausting.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 22:09
|
|
|
I am morbidly excited for this horror show. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 22:35
|
|
|
I remember buying this as one of my first PS3 games and boy was that a mistake.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 22:55
|
|
|
I played the first 3 Star Ocean games, and from what I heard about this game, it somehow is worse than the MMO twist in 3? I mean it can't possibly be worse than the "plot" of the first one... right? 
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 23:29
|
|
|
I've missed you two so much
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 23:35
|
|
|
Oh Wateyad, no. You didn't need to go this far in your cry for help. You could just ask.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 23:36
|
|
|
I know he's very polarizing, but I'm glad that Motoi Sakuraba is constantly able to smuggle pipe organs and synths into the recording studio despite every effort his handlers try to stop him.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2016 23:50
|
|
|
FeyerbrandX posted:I played the first 3 Star Ocean games, and from what I heard about this game, it somehow is worse than the MMO twist in 3? I mean it can't possibly be worse than the "plot" of the first one... right? Fun fact, when I was playing Star Ocean 3, the twist briefly got me interested in the plot again after having long since zoned out but then the game reminded me that the way it's written is completely incapable of making anything even vaguely engaging. FeyerbrandX posted:I know he's very polarizing, but I'm glad that Motoi Sakuraba is constantly able to smuggle pipe organs and synths into the recording studio despite every effort his handlers try to stop him. Polarising? The worst I've heard is accusations that he's been phoning it in on Tales ofs for a while.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 00:54
|
|
|
Hey he also does Souls games music.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 00:57
|
|
|
T.G. Xarbala posted:Hey he also does Souls games music. and I haven't heard anything bad about that stuff! wateyad fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Jul 12, 2016 |
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 01:09
|
|
|
Call me when it's Nappy Time.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 01:13
|
|
|
I just remember White Dragon or whoever did an SO2 LP plus some other people being very explicitly "not Sakuraba fans" Also, he did Smash Brawl's Gourmet Race. That should be enough to get anyone who has a soul to recant their hatred.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 01:21
|
|
|
I know pretty much nothing about Star Ocean and that's probably a good thing it seems so I guess good luck playing Space Anime 4 featuring Edge Maverick.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 01:44
|
|
|
Oh man. I rented this piece of crap once when I was dumb and regretted it only slightly less than I did that time I tried Infinite Undiscovery.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 02:20
|
|
|
As soon as I first noticed it, I can't stop seeing the characters in this game (especially the female ones) as those cosplayers that wear anime masks: Also, is Eating Only Apples going to be in this LP at all?
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 08:13
|
|
|
Geostomp posted:Oh man. I rented this piece of crap once when I was dumb and regretted it only slightly less than I did that time I tried Infinite Undiscovery. This game (and Infinite Undiscovery) killed my too-long-lingering teenage fascination with JRPGs. All combined 45 minutes I played of them.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 08:26
|
|
|
Hooray! It's garbage!
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 09:40
|
|
|
Why swords in space.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 10:18
|
|
|
Edge Maverick is the name you come up with when you're telling a joke about how dumb JRPG names are, but don't have time to come up with anything particularly clever.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 10:44
|
|
|
After this first hour, the only good thing I can say about this game is "At least it has Laura Bailey in it".
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 12:49
|
|
|
chaos rhames posted:Why swords in space. Can't risk shooting inside pressure vessels, duh. Not sure who they were expecting to fight though. Humanity is meant to be united, they don't know about any aliens. Do they have a serious space bandito problem?
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 12:50
|
|
|
The animation teams profound love of thunderbirds sure is front and centre. The doll hair doesn't help avoid that comparison either. Could we get the recording date as just a subtitle? A title board kills the binging flow.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 13:38
|
|
|
Red Bones posted:As soon as I first noticed it, I can't stop seeing the characters in this game (especially the female ones) as those cosplayers that wear anime masks: Those costumes are called animegao kigurumi and they sometimes get used in an official capacity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2SgfYKZUus You're welcome. chaos rhames posted:Why swords in space. This will be explained. megane posted:Edge Maverick is the name you come up with when you're telling a joke about how dumb JRPG names are, but don't have time to come up with anything particularly clever. It's a perfectly good name for a protagonist, just not this one. Erd posted:Could we get the recording date as just a subtitle? A title board kills the binging flow. I was going to make it a lot shorter starting from the next video.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 15:15
|
|
|
Could you make it like the old 24 "The following takes place" bit, tia. Your best Kiefer Sutherland impression.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 15:18
|
|
|
Please also put the sound effect from Majora's Mask on one
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 16:57
|
|
|
Oh no.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 17:35
|
|
|
so4 is too painful and lovely to even watch so i don't know anyone would want an lp of it really
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 17:37
|
|
|
Star Ocean 4 is everything wrong with modern JRPGs.
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 18:50
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 24, 2024 14:45 |
|
|
Are the "Recorded 34nd June Space Date -90something" intros supposed to look so menacing?
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2016 19:08
|
|
