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 Grandma, Why Are You Doing This? Because it's bad. Very bad. This game not only continuously makes bad design choices, it features a reprehensible main character, bad art and a terrible plot. It also references the death of an actual person to advance its terrible plot. I want to make it so people can experience this game without giving it money. Do not give this game money. What is YIIK? YIIK is an RPG released for PC, PS4 and Switch. It's a love letter to Earthbound and the 90's and the warped paradigm of the authors. It's also a giant wet fart. This is the outright "Make fun of this awful game" thread. Diacorn is doing a more serious look at this LP here How Are We Going to Do This? This will be video with some screenshots where they're fun. I'm going to edit out the most egregious portions so it's actually watchable. By egregious portions, I mean the combat. The combat in this game is terrible and a straight LP would be unwatchable if I didn't edit it out. I'll be showing off portions of it, but you'll see why we have to edit it. I'll also be rotating commentators. If you guys like one (or want to talk about co-commentating), let me know. We'll make it happen. I know there are other YIIK LPs in the works and I'd love to work with them. If you have any criticism or want some changes made, give me a heads up. Edit: I'll try to do two tv-show length episodes (~22-30 minutes) every week. Usually Monday and Thursday. Sometimes Sunday or Wednesday. Never Late. The Grandma Express is always on time. Should I watch all these episodes? Yes. But if you want a taste, check out the episode Combat Lobster did and invited me to do with him.  Spoilers? Use tags. Otherwise, go for it. Let's begin. Cutscene Commentary On                             Cutscene Commentary Off                            Things This Game Has Spawned       (by Miss) (By Nine-Gear Crow)lovely message board posts from in-game are here! lovely sidequest dump messageboard posts from in-game are here! Upcoming guest commentator list: Blarzgh DrKeiscool 00MeowMix Goofball Ibblebibble Herr Tog Breadmaster Bioenchanted get that OUT of my face HuskyHog ThevoiceofDog has staked a claim on a certain episode of Jimmy so we're gonna do that. We're too late in the game for Courtney because she's not caught up and I'd much rather have someone who's in the know than someone who. Bonus videos: Yiikky Kiss I'm a jerk and hate Rory and I want him to suffer even though he's nice and GrandmaParty wishes that he could still put Rory in his party but can't anymore because he made a promise. Vella Kiss Wussing out Uncut Chaos Stream   What is Two Brothers About? Who the gently caress is Roy? Good news! Combat Lobster has actually located a working(ish) copy of Two Brothers. He has decided to plumb its murky goat-man depths below. The first post is Located here And then for some reason he goes back for sloppy seconds Here Holy poo poo Two Brothers is a game about killing things and eating their hearts what the gently caress Combat Lobster loooves this game and has dug into some of the demo and cut content below. Cutscene Commentary On  Also Also, here's the cut content again with header image so it'll mesh with the OP: 
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In the first episode, Marlene welcomes us. She wants to do a throwback to Earthbound, where we input things about ourselves. And she has one request.  I need some input from you, because we're going to lie to this bird.  - "What is your real name?" - "First Question! What is the name of the coolest girl you know?" - "What about a friend who is smarter than you, but wouldn't ever draw attention to that fact?" - "Name a friend who is the polar opposite of you!" - "What about the nerdiest guy you know, who would go on and on and onabout stupid things like video games, anime, comic books, and crap like that?" - "Name a friend who is always there to talk to you when you're feeling down about yourself." The kind who understands existential quandaries. The kind who knows what it's like to face crippling student debt, knows what it's like to not be anywhere near as attractive as you'd like to be, and can ALWAYS make you feel better when you realize that you're a complete waste of life in the middle of the night." - "Lastly, what is your favorite piece of technology? Something you feel a connection to."Choose wisely. We're not sure where these lead. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Feb 2, 2019 |
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Feb 2, 2019 01:19
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I’ll give you an input.
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Feb 2, 2019 01:22
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My two favourite things about this game are that the majority of reviews both professional and otherwise talk about how much of an unlikable dickhead the protagonist is, and that the protagonist is an author-insert.  Also the game is getting enough bad press that Toby Fox, who apparently did some music for it, deleted a tweet he made promoting it. Godspeed, Grandma. You have more patience for this kind bullshit than I ever will.
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Feb 2, 2019 01:26
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That kitty better be a co-commentator on the rest of the episodes. Speaking of cats, was that literally 12 text boxes talking about the cat?
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Feb 2, 2019 03:13
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ZeButler posted:That kitty better be a co-commentator on the rest of the episodes. Yes. But I think that guy talked about his lovely zine for about 25. Edit: Here, have fun with this.  I leaned down to pet him, without entirely knowing if cats liked to be pet at all.
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Feb 2, 2019 03:39
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Wow, that's really dumb. Almost as dumb as them trying to shoehorn timed hits into the combat.
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Feb 2, 2019 03:41
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Yeah, I figured one of these would be posted soon. There was a brief moment in the past where I was really excited for Yiikes, but those feelings died very quickly. I look forward to seeing where this goes, in that same sort of morbid excitement I get from Pokemon Reborn.
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gently caress I haven't even started working on mine yet, I better get on that
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Feb 2, 2019 04:23
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I wasn't prepared for how completely garbage the quality of the voice recordings are. I mean the actual writing and dialogue are just awful, but on top of that the actual voice clips sound like they were recorded on a cheap headset mic in an empty room and not even cleaned up a little in Audacity after.
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Feb 2, 2019 04:44
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Do we get to see the pog or does it exist only as a string of text?
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Feb 2, 2019 04:44
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Do we get to see the pog or does it exist only as a string of text? It's one string of text. This game could have been redeemed if it were an Alf pog.
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Fedule posted:I wasn't prepared for how completely garbage the quality of the voice recordings are. I mean the actual writing and dialogue are just awful, but on top of that the actual voice clips sound like they were recorded on a cheap headset mic in an empty room and not even cleaned up a little in Audacity after. Actually, Alex's audio quality is fine when he's not talking to himself, so I'm willing to pin the blame on whoever added that effect to those lines. That's not to say we're not gonna hear some bad audio recorded on bad equipment, because we certainly will in the next update.
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Feb 2, 2019 05:16
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GrandmaParty posted:In the first episode, Marlene welcomes us. She wants to do a throwback to Earthbound, where we input things about ourselves.
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Feb 2, 2019 06:14
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GrandmaParty posted:I need some input from you, because we're going to lie to this bird.
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Feb 2, 2019 06:51
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Even the questions from this stupid bird are asinine and assume an awful lot about your sense of self worth. Not even getting into the video this is a train wreck in the making. Edit: Watching the video, I have to notice... Seven years to get a black belt? Maybe its some martial art I'm not familiar with, but most take barely half that long if you don't excel in anything. Or less. Drakenel fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Feb 2, 2019 |
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Drakenel posted:Even the questions from this stupid bird are asinine and assume an awful lot about your sense of self worth. Not even getting into the video this is a train wreck in the making. The general sense I get from it is they’re a bunch of “who do you look up to?” questions, it’s just that the way they’re written makes them seem like you’re just a piece of poo poo (which may be by design, who knows?)
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Drakenel posted:Edit: Watching the video, I have to notice... Seven years to get a black belt? Maybe its some martial art I'm not familiar with, but most take barely half that long if you don't excel in anything. Or less. Remember Alex took longer to get out of school too. Then again this is the rear end in a top hat screaming about how his mom wants him to get groceries while he lives in her house not having a job and diving through the trash for food.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Then again this is the rear end in a top hat screaming about how his mom wants him to get groceries while he lives in her house not having a job and diving through the trash for food. God, I forgot about that. Think my brain blacked that out at first. Like, look rear end in a top hat. You owe her everything and she owes you nothing. Help out around the house you worthless twat
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Alex's monologues have too many  ! So much is being said without actually telling us anything.Also, you seem to have some audio desync in the video, and it got worse near the end.
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Feb 2, 2019 09:59
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I dunno about the rest, but I always felt this very close connection to The Ouya
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I wanna point out something to everyone. Our protag's shirt has advertising for Ackk Studio's previous game Two Brothers. It was a zelda/legend of mana game that was out on Steam and then later pulled because it was buggy as gently caress. A remake was supposed to be released back in 2018. And they decided to put advertising for it on the main character. Like that takes some loving balls, I'm almost impressed by the audacity, if I wasn't one of the schlubs who paid for Two Brothers.
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SSNeoman posted:I wanna point out something to everyone. Our protag's shirt has advertising for Ackk Studio's previous game Two Brothers. It was a zelda/legend of mana game that was out on Steam and then later pulled because it was buggy as gently caress. A remake was supposed to be released back in 2018. And they decided to put advertising for it on the main character. Like that takes some loving balls, I'm almost impressed by the audacity, if I wasn't one of the schlubs who paid for Two Brothers. And by buggy as gently caress they mean you could sorta move around the game-world, but nothing happened, and areas didn't scroll correctly. I didn't even find anyone/thing to interact with. At least it was just part of a bundle.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:And by buggy as gently caress they mean you could sorta move around the game-world, but nothing happened, and areas didn't scroll correctly. I didn't even find anyone/thing to interact with. At least it was just part of a bundle. Oh that's prob because you resized the game window. That makes the event triggers stop working. Or because you moved in a way the game didn't like. Or because you played it on a day that ends with a y  And since there is no reload option your only choice was to open and close the game until you get lucky and can continue. That bit was really fun during the Pokemon Gym boss (actual thing, not trolling). I got through 3/4 of the game before I just quit. It has some interesting designs but its everything else is awful, including the weapon hit detection and the loving map design. Holy gently caress do you ever appreciate Zelda's tight map design after that game.
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GrandmaParty posted:In the first episode, Marlene welcomes us. She wants to do a throwback to Earthbound, where we input things about ourselves.
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GrandmaParty posted:
Because let's be honest, this is exactly what's going on here.
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Dr. Fetus posted:Alex's monologues have too many I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the heads up.
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Maybe it was thanks to the font but I always read the title as "YUK".
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CommissarMega posted:Because let's be honest, this is exactly what's going on here.
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In honour of Final Fantasy VII I want to change all of my answers to Sephiroth.
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By the way, any chance for later episodes you could raise the volume some? It's kinda tough for me hearing what you two are saying.
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Feb 2, 2019 17:39
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I wish I could muster up the effort to make decent suggestions for joke names, but this game looks so unrepentently lovely I can't be bother. Name one fo the choices Dash Rendar??
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Zanzibar Ham posted:By the way, any chance for later episodes you could raise the volume some? It's kinda tough for me hearing what you two are saying. Absolutely. I'm working on two more episodes for the upcoming week and I'll crank it more.
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Feb 2, 2019 22:16
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So, just as a thought experiment, if you made a bingo card consisting of the lyrics to Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) by The Offspring (an more on-point era-appropriate reference than anything I bet YIIK will throw up), how many of them do you think Alex will tick off before we're even out of the first chapter?
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Feb 3, 2019 00:38
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nine-gear crow posted:So, just as a thought experiment, if you made a bingo card consisting of the lyrics to You Only Get (What You Give) by The New Radicals (an more on-point era-appropriate reference than anything I bet YIIK will throw up), how many of them do you think Alex will tick off before we're even out of the first chapter? A good idea.
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Okay in the SMT games I tend to go with forenames and surnames that sound alike (like Hom Thompson and Bob Bobbins) but this game doesn't deserve the cleverness.GrandmaParty posted:
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