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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:That's called having gumption and personal initiative! 'course if you've got real ambition and want to get into a top school, the question is how many nitro groups you can fit into a molecule. Shoot for the moon. Make hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane.
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The Apostle's design is cool. Though I wish the characters actually had any sort of reaction to all the crazy poo poo they're fighting every half hour.
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ultrafilter posted:Shoot for the moon. Make hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane. I see I'm not the only reader of this thread that went "OH NO" to this whole line of thinking. 
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Ratoslov posted:One thing about nitroglycerin is that it's annoyingly easy to make in any vaguely well-equipped laboratory. This is why it's a bad idea for a high school chemistry lab to stock glycerin soap- the name just begs some teenaged shithead to think 'Hey, all I have to do is extract the glycerin, add a nitrate group, and make something awesome' and then you have to bring the bomb squad in to defuse your lab sinks. My old man tells me his high school chemistry class in the 60s routinely made nitroglycerin and poured it down the sink drains for disposal. "Now be very careful boys, don't bump this stuff hard or we're all in trouble."
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 Episode XXVI: It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere .jpg) Welcome to the fourth and final disc of Koudelka! Our new objective is mixing up some chemicals to blow up this gate because obviously there is absolutely no other way. There’s never been a single alternate path or hidden passage even once in Nemeton Monastery. We’re just going to have to blow this sucker to bits. .jpg) .jpg) Which means we need to do some backtracking. James said he could probably mix-up some chemicals back in Patrick’s lab to make some nitroglycerine. Well, we’re in Patty’s lab and nothing doing, O’Flaherty. What’s the deal? Oh what’s that? You forgot to mention a step in the cultivation of your explosives and we’re missing a vital component to the process? .jpg) So remember how we found that empty flask that was capable of holding any liquid up to and including acid? Weeeeeeeeeell... .jpg) .jpg) We need to backtrack ALL the way back through Patrick’s .jpg) If you’ll recall to way back during Disc 2, there was a convenient acid dispensing device adjacent to the murder victim body melting pits. Back then we lacked the means of taking acid with us. But technology has since advanced and so... .jpg) Good thing this bottle came pre-labeled with “SULPHURIC ACID” or we could easy mix it up with the 87 bottles of assorted whiskeys, scotches and wines to... disastrous effects. Probably involving Edward. .jpg) Now that we’ve gotten a jar of acid, the gang needs to run ALL the way back to Patrick’s laboratory to progress. That said, I’m placing emphasis on the length of backtracking solely because it’s the only other time we’ve had to do any of significance beyond that trek back to the dolls’ cell. It’s only like a ten minute journey both ways (like four minutes if random battles didn’t exist.) Which in the grand scheme of survival horror inspired games ain’t poo poo. Which I appreciate, frankly. .jpg) Koudelka was released a few months after Resident Evil CODE: Veronica on the Dreamcast (about a month and a half before if we’re talking Japanese releases) and BOY, if you wanna talk some egregious backtracking in a video game, look no further... Anyway, now that we’re back in the lab we immediately receive a prompt implying James is going to take a while to remember his chemistry lessons from two decades ago. .jpg)  VIDEO: Click to watch remaining update content. (You should probably just watch this.).jpg)  I'm going to begin my work. Could you two wait for me here?So we’ve got some time to kill. What are James and Koudelka going to do to keep themselves occupied for a few hours? Go grind fighting monsters? Explore the mansion looking for another way to the western building? Maybe get some sleep? .jpg) Naw, son. It’s time to get WASTED! We’re not carrying 56 bottles of whiskey and 23 bottles of wine for nothing. Both Edward and Koudelka sound like they’ve been going at it hard. Koudelka far more so... Or she’s the type to get hammered off a couple cans of Miller Lite. She does weigh less than a hundred pounds wet... .jpg)  And then...? Hehaha hah! What happened to the girl, Melanie? Hehe. She was gone the next morning. She left with practically everything in the room! She even took the toothbrush! Ugh. Don’t even wanna think how my breath smelled after that night... <laughs> You don’t have much luck with women, do you? Heh haha! You know what they say... The cleanest break up is when a woman runs out on you. Hahaha. <laugh talks> What... is this... statement? <laughs and takes another swig>.jpg) Ahhh... But you're lucky, I mean to have so many people to kid around with. But me, I'm all alone. I been all alone all my life. But what about your childhood? Tch. Yes, I did have a childhood. I was born in a small town in Wales right off the banks of the Taliesin River. Wait you’re Welsh...? Heh. You sure don’t sound it. <hic> Like you’re one to talk... You’re like the most American sounding London Eastender I’ve ever heard... Yeah... Err... I just traveled a lot, is all... Lost my accent... Uh-huh. Well yeah... I’m from Wales. Was born in Abergynolwyn. You try saying THAT three times fast... Haha! That was a small gypsy town. Gypsy? That's right... Gypsy. Mean we didn't call ourselves gypsy... We called ourselves “Rom” hehe. <leans back and gets comfortable>.jpg) See, a TRUE gypsy is born under the blue sky. And is destined to die under the same blue sky. It's gypsy law! <takes another swig> So then I guess... you plan on dying underneath the blue skies? That’s gonna be real hard to do in Wales. Hah... Gotta be worried the like one day a year it’s not cloudy... Hmm... Every gypsy is given a name at birth. What a STRANGE custom... Who does that? Tch. Shut up! My given name was “Zlato”. Zlato...? Mhm. It's got a strange resonance to that name. What does it mean? Heh... I can't tell you! Haha! That too must be part of the law? <chuckles> <laughs> The law it is. Hehe. ”Edward” means “rich guard”. Oh yeah...? That why you’re dressed like a bum and getting punched by every monster we come across? Hey! Vests are in style right now! <hic> You know ever since I met you... Enigmatic mysterious glint in your eyes... <sits up, groans and waves a dismissal> It must be the gypsy in you. <sits up>.jpg) “A glance from thy soul-searching eye; Can raise with hope, depress with fear.” <leans in> Byron again? Heh. Yeah... You must really like him, don't you? <takes a swig from bottle> Or that’s the only poem guy you’ve read and you just like trying to sound smart... “Poem guy?” Poe... poetryer? I dunno... I don’t care! It’s “poet” and... Yes. Somehow I feel as though we're birds of a feather. Then he must be self-obsessed as well. <laughs> Heh... I'd rather be classified as a romantic... Uh-huh! <makes jerking off motion>.jpg) <sighs> My father was a strict man who couldn't forgive his son for failing academically. He blamed my failure on the time I wasted inventing adventures, dreaming of an utopian landscape... I was brought up to believe that dreams, the power of the imagination, as well as all the things I loved as a child, were useless... A complete waste of time... It was as if he was telling me I was useless. ...... Then again... Maybe just that... ...... (This is really hurting my buzz.) Ya know, I think I probably was born too late. By the time I was fifteen, everything there was to be done had already BEEN done. The western territories were colonized. The jungles had been explored. There was no wilderness for me to wander in to. No jungles for me to cut my way through. No deep forests for me to blaze a trail through. Ya think I could punch out a bear...? Dunno... *I* bet I could punch out a bear. <takes a swig> I guess that's how I ended up roaming the country. Oh granted... Tch... I picked a few fights along the way. Played with fire... Gambled on my life a few times. Can never go back to Lisbon... Not after... the horse incident... Wha...? But none of that comes close to the truth I'm searching for...  Music: Dead .jpg) I yearn for something far greater... I can't quite explain myself. But it’s as though I am on a quest for... some... intangible treasure of sorts. ...... Koudelka, I envy you. You’ve psychic powers that few are blessed with. You can summon ghosts and stuff... That’d be a heck of a trick at parties. They’d call you the ghost whisperer or something. And being born a gypsy, you can choose to live how you wish. Heh. <takes a wine swig> ...... <leans in seemingly pissed>.jpg) And who gave you the right to act as if you figured me out...? Do you have any idea how I was raised? <waves him off> <shrugs, leans back and resumes drinking> Hehe... Ha! You make me laugh. “Adventures.” Heh, please... You haven't the slightest clue. Do you have any idea how much pain my psychic powers have brought me? What like headaches or...? My father died when I was only a child. I predicted the exact time... place... and ending of my father's life. Imagine that! Predicting your own father's death. Hmm... Oh you wanna know details? N-no... A Tuesday afternoon, at his friend Josef’s place, choked to death on a sausage that went down wrong... ...... No, I was cursed as a child. Being given powers not meant for a child. And my mother? Oh... She-she was so frightened and FULL of hatred for me... she tried to kill me with her very hands... (Well this is taking a dark turn...) The gypsy elders got together and decided to excommunicate me. I was only nine then... ...... Do you have any idea how a nine year old child SURVIVES, without the help of a living soul? Treasures!? You must be joking! Have you ever cried and begged for your next meal!? Did you ever sell your body seeking shelter from the frigid night air!? (I’m really glad I didn’t mention my dick of a father was extremely wealthy. Dodged a bullet there.) Humph... I used to be just like Charlotte. When she cried and said, “No one has ever loved me.” Argh! Those words cut straight through me! It was ME she was talking about! Just like her, I wished that everybody would DIE and harbored a hatred for all mankind!.jpg) But you see, Charlotte has made her peace. And flit-flit-flute... Gone to heaven. Heh. Is that what we did...? I thought her ghost just got busted or something. What? No! She found her mother loved her and went to heaven. Heh... ...But she was screaming and exploded. <takes a drink> Yeah... Well... Lookie here she’s not stuck here anymore. I was worried she was going to become a giant monster we’d have to fight when she started hollering. W-Why would that possibly happen!? <shrug> Have you seen this place? It’s not that unreasonable. Well knock it off. She went to heaven and that’s the end of it. But me... Me? I'm still alive... and still... all... alone...Koudelka stands up and starts stumbling around while ranting. .jpg) No one ever lends a helping hand! No one! Koudelka, you? I... am not as free as you make me out to be..jpg) I am a poor... dirty... ignorant woman who THREW her gypsy PRIDE to the DOGS, in order to live! But you see... even someone like me can do good... Cuz with my powers... I can ease the pain of others... That's when I feel good about living. Hmm... I don't need to be loved. I just... want my life to have some meaning... And just... want someone... to tell me they need me... Koudelka slumps to her knees. .jpg) <sniffling back tears> And you... Hmph... No way... could you... ever... understand... <weeps and passes out>.jpg) ...... ...Buzz kill..jpg) <opens door> It’s done... It’s completed! Shuttafuck up geezer! Tryinta sleep! Ergh... Are... are you... drunk...? <hic> Yousa takin’ yer sweet time... I was gone for FIFTEEN minutes! How is it you both are intoxicated!? SHUDDUP! <wings a bottle at James’s head> ...... In any case, the gang has now acquired both a nasty hangover and a bottle of highly explosive liquid. Tune in next time as they definitely don’t immediate get blown to bits along with a decent chunk of Nemeton Monastery as Koudelka continues!    Video: Episode 26 Highlight Reel (You should really watch this!)   Drunk Koudelka Illustration – The hazard of making all your restorative items into various types of alcohol.
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One of my favorite voice-acted cutscenes in gaming. Vivianna makes Koudelka’s pain so vivid and impactful.
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Ubiquitous_ posted:One of my favorite voice-acted cutscenes in gaming. Vivianna makes Koudelka’s pain so vivid and impactful.
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If there's two things that always go fantastic together it's alcohol and shock-sensitive high explosives.
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StandardVC10 posted:If there's two things that always go fantastic together it's alcohol and shock-sensitive high explosives. If they got that drunk in 15 minutes they probably could have just used the alcohol as shock-sensitive high explosives. Or just melted the door with it. DGM_2 fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Take it from me, if you’re on a mission to get drunk you can get there in less than 15 minutes
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 : (walking through the doorway) Alright everyone, I've managed to complete-- : (snoring next to a puddle of tears and vomit) : (playing with a live gun, voice slurring) Pew pew! Take THAT, foul ne'er-do-well! That will teach you for messing with my homie, Edgar Allan Poe!: God give me strength...Accordion Man posted:Yeah, its not only the best scene in the game its still one of the best voice-acted scenes in the medium even twenty years later. Koudelka along with Deadly Premonitions both had the actors in the same room together, and out came memorable games with a high level of charm and authenticity. There's just something amazing about the way this game was handled in terms of writing and acting that really added such a human element that is still highly impressive even after so long and between different standards of technology. (plus this is some of the greatest quality drunk acting I've seen.  )Nimsant posted:If this kind of clumsy translation is alright, and it is OK to post here, I can give summaries of other parts in this style later. This is from a while back, but I wanted to say thank you for providing this explanation! I'd be highly interested in seeing what the rest of the episodes are about too! 
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This scene is so memorable, I remember being floored by how noticeably good the acting was. Really opened up my eyes to what good direction can do to a scene, so it's very unforgettable.
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:Take it from me, if you’re on a mission to get drunk you can get there in less than 15 minutes As a teetotaler I admit I wouldn't know, but personally I find the idea that they're drinking the alcohol equivalent of Alien acid blood amusing. Edward survives only because he's built up inhuman levels of fortitude in his role as the party tank. Koudelka is actually slain, but as a psychic medium she just channels her own spirit back into her body (and Edward is too hammered to notice).
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The resolution to Charlotte's story was optional, right? And it might not have been a happy ending? So I'm curious if the dialogue actually changes here depending on the outcome, or if it stays the same since it can be interpreted as drunken rambling. And Edward sounds like he coulda been one of those kids that would have joined the French Foreign Legion.
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The Dark Id posted:
Well she might be all alone and all that, but she's got good tastes in scotch.
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Nice touch that they used the UK Sulphur spelling.
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Yeah Just, goddamn neck the fuckin laphroaig
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Yeah When you're having the night she's having, man, I don't blame her.
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It would have been great if this cutscene was based on how many alcoholic "restoratives" you had in your inventory, the more you had the more drunk they'd get. And either way you'd lose all the alcohol you had in your inventory after.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:It would have been great if this cutscene was based on how many alcoholic "restoratives" you had in your inventory, the more you had the more drunk they'd get. And either way you'd lose all the alcohol you had in your inventory after. All considering the plenitude of obscurely malign game mechanics at play here, this would fit right in.
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Best scene in the whole game, goddamn. Everything about it is just so well done and perfect.  Shitenshi posted:The resolution to Charlotte's story was optional, right? And it might not have been a happy ending? So I'm curious if the dialogue actually changes here depending on the outcome, or if it stays the same since it can be interpreted as drunken rambling. It stays the same. At this time period, the real-life Edward Plunkett was either just joining or was going through Sandhurst Military Academy. And later fought in both world wars. I'll have to dig up my notes from somewhere. As for Koudelka, a bit of Koudelka seeing her dad die is depicted in the manga;   (The layout is weird because of edits, not how it's actually presented in the manga) It's that grey area of dubious canon - Kikuta gave it the okay at the time, and it's not contradicted by anything in the Shadow hearts games, so, whatevs. He also expanded on her backstory a tiny bit in his blog; she made her way to London in 1888, and was taken in by Helena Blavatsky who taught her how to control her powers, until Blavatsky died. And then she went out into the world, like she said, and started to help people with her powers. Also there's a flashback of her causing a guy to spontaneously combust:  --- To cap off the cast info; Patrick is voiced by a guy called Keith Barry. IMDB says he's been in other stuff, as a director and a background extra. That's literally it. Kim Wield plays Elaine. She's actually surprisingly high profile; got a wikipedia page and everything. At the time of Koudelka it seems she was a part of the mocap company Futurelight (the ones who worked on the game - she is listed as a Choreographer for their general mocap), but since then has directed various shows, broadway stuff, and lots of plays.  She also seems to do a lot with making the shows she directs more open to deaf/hard of hearing, which is neat. She seems like a cool person. Finally, Roger Bacon is voiced by a guy called Brian Kojac.  Another actor/director, he founded STAGEStheatre, and has been in, or directed an absolute crap ton of them, and worked with Gavin Carlton (Ogden) in something previous to Koudelka. Sadly, I can't find any videos of him Roger-Baconing it up.
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EagerSleeper posted:Koudelka along with Deadly Premonitions both had the actors in the same room together, and out came memorable games with a high level of charm and authenticity. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Accordion Man posted:The Legacy of Kain games did too, it well and truly does show. and most of the actors were stage actors who knew both how to project their voice and emote (wow, just realized Michael Bell has some very impressive range)
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What everyone said. Weird how you have this and Resident Evil coming out around the same time. Superficially similar, but with totally different emphasis.
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It's such a great sequence and part of the reason why I feel like this is one of those sorts of games that needs to be experienced in some way, because the performance is just so good. Written and performed perfectly, and makes me wish we saw it happen a lot more in games, or at least the games I end up getting my brain into.
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Okay, I've been doing some catch-up on the LP. If this was a tabletop game, then the bad ending to Charlotte's quest would basically have been Koudelka having rolled a 1 on Diplomacy.
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I think the last time I heard voice acting this good was with the N:A LP but it sure feels longer.The Update posted:
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EagerSleeper posted:This is from a while back, but I wanted to say thank you for providing this explanation! I'd be highly interested in seeing what the rest of the episodes are about too! Thank you for posting the Drama CD! Maybe it's not bad I took some time before typing the following parts because some of Koudelka's backstory is revealed only in the latest update. Continued from the previous part. The girl (Alicia) emits monstrous shrieks, and everything around Koudelka starts burning. She thinks "If this goes on, I will die. Oh, wait, I can die. And go to where mom and dad are". Flashback to her past. Some people discuss that this girl (Koudelka) had prophesized about someone's death. Or maybe attracts death, and so its scary. They quickly agree to exile her from the clan. She begs for help and says she doesn't want this power. Back to the fire. Koudelka says that memory was from 9 years ago, and she is tired of her life already. She hears the voices of the villagers ( Alicia's memory) and finds out that Alicia was in the same situation: villagers were afraid of her power, her family tried to run, but couldn't. She hears Alicia's cries for help as Alicia dies in flames. Alicia cries for mama and papa, and this cry sounds alike with Koudelka's voice from the flashback. Koudelka hugs Alicia, even though she is burning herself. They tell each other how similar they are. She says "God, please help, I pray to you for the first time", and we hear some sound, like a spell cast maybe. The flames are gone, Alicia is gone. Elaine's ghostly voice is back "You... saved ... her" "No one ... but you" Koudelka guesses that Elaine is in the same situation and needs to be saved by her. With the sunrise, Elaine vanishes. The cart comes back. The driver says he was worried and thus returned. Koudelka says she is OK, because the ghost here was cute. She says she wants to go to Wales. She is determined now that she knows that her power can save people. Parts III and IV are from Edward's point of view. The dialogues from the game are repeated: (1) the time he met Koudelka and told she is like an angel (2) the time he killed Alias and cited Shakespeare (3) the time when Elaine's ghost talked to them and James said he wants a minute. From here, Edward and Koudelka leave the room and discuss some of Edward's and Koudelka's background and motivations while being attacked by a monster. I will type in more detail once I make sure these won't be mentioned in the game. Part V (and VI? is VI the last one?) is told by James. When he goes to search for tools to make a bomb he has a conversation with Bacon. I guess this too spoils things a bit, but I don't remember how much is revealed in game, so it maybe spoilers for me too. I will just read the LP and post about it near the game end.
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So Koudelka is going around busting ghosts by giving them release. And bustin' makes her feel good.
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The Dark Id posted:
I'm Russian, and this is obvious to me, but I thought it may be not to some others. This word means "Gold"
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I love this ragtag crew Remember when edward loving shot a man? that was hosed up
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Nimsant posted:Thank you for posting the Drama CD! That's pretty cool. Looking forward to seeing the rest.
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