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As disgusting as the game is, this just kind of proves the concept that there's an audience for everything.
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This game would have been unacceptably cringey in like 2005, holy poo poo GrandmaParty posted:This loving game makes FFX seem gameplay heavy. The next two episodes are recorded and of the hour of recording, it's 50 minutes of dialogue. Holy hell. Given the quality of this game's gameplay I'm not sure if that's a blessing or a curse
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Feb 6, 2019 23:03
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GrandmaParty posted:This loving game makes FFX seem gameplay heavy. The next two episodes are recorded and of the hour of recording, it's 50 minutes of dialogue. Holy hell. Of course, even if you made it succinct, it would still be YIIK. The whole thing is rotten from top to bottom and there's nothing worth salvaging.
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Feb 7, 2019 01:51
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If you want an absurdist game that does things right, do yourself a favor and go buy Hylics. It's like two bucks.
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Feb 7, 2019 05:17
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Chillgamesh posted:This game would have been unacceptably cringey in like 2005, holy poo poo The hilarious part is apparently YIIK has a fast forward hotkey in it to make the battles go faster and crowfeathers abuses the poo poo out of it in that video... and the fight still takes 11 minutes.
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Feb 7, 2019 05:20
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Episode 3 is up! Cutscene Commentary On  Cutscene Commentary Off  The episode title is an homage to This Clip from Nailed It Each episode I pick up a bit more about audio quality. HuskyHog isn't PapaSnoogans's real name. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Feb 8, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 16:51
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I'm just going to say that every episode needs to have Scabs in it somehow. I'm ignoring everything that happened in the game because it hurts to pay attention to, so kitty is the balm that keeps me going. That, and being able to ignore everything and listen to you and your co-commentator talk about random stuff.
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Feb 7, 2019 17:37
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Heath posted:If you want an absurdist game that does things right, do yourself a favor and go buy Hylics. It's like two bucks. I can confirm that Hylics is insanely good
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Feb 7, 2019 17:50
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space funeral also
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Feb 7, 2019 18:02
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fluffyDeathbringer posted:space funeral also You know drat well that's a space birth
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Feb 7, 2019 18:25
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This writing is quantifiably worse than Two Brothers holy poo poo. gently caress this has so much goddamn bloat
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Feb 7, 2019 21:16
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SSNeoman posted:This writing is quantifiably worse than Two Brothers holy poo poo. gently caress this has so much goddamn bloat Buddy, you're going to have to explain what's going on here
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Feb 7, 2019 21:21
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Heath posted:Buddy, you're going to have to explain what's going on here Two Brothers was Ackk's previous game (Not to be confused with Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons). It's writing was okay. Nothing fantastic, but it was much better than this.
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Feb 7, 2019 22:39
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It's just called Two Brothers
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Feb 7, 2019 22:40
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SSNeoman posted:Two Brothers was Ackk's previous game (Not to be confused with Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons). It's writing was okay. Nothing fantastic, but it was much better than this. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, meanwhile, was a quietly beautiful game that managed to tell its entire story with virtually zero dialog, so it's kind of the Anti-YIIK.
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Feb 7, 2019 22:41
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SSNeoman posted:Two Brothers was Ackk's previous game (Not to be confused with Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons). It's writing was okay. Nothing fantastic, but it was much better than this. Can you please explain what's going on here
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Feb 7, 2019 23:06
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SSNeoman posted:This writing is quantifiably worse than Two Brothers holy poo poo. gently caress this has so much goddamn bloat There's a reason we're just talking about whatever. Because it says god-damned nothing. Forever. Next episode is worse. Onanism 1999 G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 23:36
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Heath posted:Can you please explain what's going on here Dunno what you're asking here my dude
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Feb 7, 2019 23:52
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new things I hate - the passage about how alex wants to own the memory of not!elisa because it's "intimate", which is uncomfortable knowing the subtext of alex as developer - panda. where the gently caress do you get off acting like this at people - alex has a stronger visual reaction shot to a new arcade opening than to not!elisa being dragged into the void before his eyes while she begs him to save her - "RPG games" - being able to go up to goth teens only to insult them and tell them you don't want anything from them - "OCD Mother" being a throwaway gag - the equipment shop screen not displaying stat comparisons things I hated previously and still hate now - alex not commenting at all on seeing the not!elisa gif when he had two narration flashback screens of talking about the possibility of women he went to high school with doing porn, and also one for elephant porn for some reason - the chatroom having a bit where not!elisa, whose representation is almost a one-to-one reference to actual elisa's elevator video, gets called unattractive and the most vehement opposition is "I wouldn't call her that". and then that just passes by and the game does nothing with it. insulting and pointless things I don't hate - michael calling these games that came out in-universe like three or four years ago the holy grail of his youth. he's like 18 at the oldest? so it's reasonable for him to feel like that things I actually like - that you don't go into people's houses but instead talk to them at the door. nice touch - inquiring teen scouting dates for her mlm brother
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Feb 7, 2019 23:52
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Holy poo poo I just saw the loving fountain. That's the Two Brothers' protag and his wife. She dies in the tutorial. Man what the hell this is approaching narcissism now
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Feb 7, 2019 23:56
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SSNeoman posted:Holy poo poo I just saw the loving fountain. That's the Two Brothers' protag and his wife. She dies in the tutorial. Starting to think the boys at ACKK Studios might have some unexamined problems with women...
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Feb 8, 2019 00:01
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yeah that porn rant right before Creepy Elevator kidnapping makes it all the grosser, what person gets so hung up about the idea of some rando girl in high school doing 'shameful porn'. Alex is grade A Incel
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Feb 8, 2019 00:07
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nine-gear crow posted:Starting to think the boys at ACKK Studios might have some unexamined problems with women... It's the typical inciting incident across all media, though I don't deny the writers might have some issues after this poo poo. After she dies the hero commits suicide and ends up in "Heaven", and realizes he can go back to his world but the path to the afterlife is blocked to him. This makes him become a reckless thrill seeker, and after seeing the colours of Heaven, he tries to find the colours that exist in his world because...actually I forget why but whatever. Anyway, this actually becomes a central element of the game, anytime you die you end up back in Heaven and can hop back down to carry on. Admittedly gets annoying in boss fights, but it's a unique concept. One reason I guess I kept playing is because Heaven did change, you get access to new areas, some side quests and even some optional boss fights (which rewarded weapons that had colour and might even have decent hit detection!). Like you gotta admit, being able to get side-tracked by the game over screen is a cool idea. Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Feb 8, 2019 |
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Feb 8, 2019 00:07
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Huh, I guess it got patched out, but in the switch version (Ver. 1.01) at around 3:53 in the video that shot was completely out of focus.
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Feb 8, 2019 00:13
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How can I get ahold of Two Brothers?
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Feb 8, 2019 02:26
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SSNeoman posted:Dunno what you're asking here my dude I'm making a joke about the game it'll become clear later
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GrandmaParty posted:How can I get ahold of Two Brothers? I don't think you can anymore, short of maybe  Heath posted:I'm making a joke about the game it'll become clear later Oh 
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Feb 8, 2019 04:06
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The scene where a woman is narrating a description of the android's bedroom from a first person plural omniscient perspective is basically just a straight pastiche of Haruki Murakami's After Dark. Which makes me realize that a deadbeat "everyman" looking for a missing cat, mysterious phone calls that seem to be for someone else, and a weird supernatural being appearing to coach the protagonist are all hallmarks of Murakami stories.
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Feb 8, 2019 07:04
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Cephas posted:The scene where a woman is narrating a description of the android's bedroom from a first person plural omniscient perspective is basically just a straight pastiche of Haruki Murakami's After Dark.  I never thought of the comparisons with the windup bird chronicle. Except that was, you know, good. Noboru Wataya's gigantic bulge appears in the next episode.
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Feb 8, 2019 15:48
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Cephas posted:The scene where a woman is narrating a description of the android's bedroom from a first person plural omniscient perspective is basically just a straight pastiche of Haruki Murakami's After Dark. 
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fluffyDeathbringer posted:new things I hate It doesn't make sense for Michael to be 18 because Alex is 27 iirc
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corn in the bible posted:It doesn't make sense for Michael to be 18 because Alex is 27 iirc If Alex is 27 that does explain why he's home from college and it's cost multiple hundreds of thousands of 1999 dollars.
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Feb 9, 2019 02:16
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Gee Alex why do the attractive women want nothing to do with you? Also you could have fought the demons in the elevator yet panda doesn't bring this up. Alex didn't even get the groceries for his mom who has sacrificed everything so he can do nothing.
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Feb 9, 2019 03:16
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So a thing that bugs me about YIIK that I haven't seen anyone bring up. Alex is a music hipster. Loving music is one of his big quirks. He fights using a music-themed rhythm minigame and so do at least two other characters as far as I know. He gets a phone call early on alluding to "hearing the music". There is no connection whatsoever between the actual game music and the rhythm minigames. There is so much you could do with interaction between the record-player theme and the battle music and it's just not there at all, the music appears to be randomly-chosen tracks and interacts in no way with what you do to the record.
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Feb 9, 2019 06:34
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For taking place in 1999 everyone looks and talks like 2006-2009 era hipsters. I'm pretty sure vinyl records were at their nadir in the late 90s even among ironically cool people. Like this game theoretically stars Gen Xers but feels like a lot more like a Millennial's game.
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Feb 9, 2019 07:17
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corn in the bible posted:It doesn't make sense for Michael to be 18 because Alex is 27 iirc he said he just took the SATs which as far as I know get taken at around that age
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Yep. The mistake here might be in expecting the game to make sense. Seems clear to me that Alex is in fact mid-20s and Michael about 17 - still in HS for the testing.
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Feb 9, 2019 14:05
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yeah, that's what gets me for a game that's about the 90s, it is a scattershot range of 80s (Alex's computer is more what a computer form the 80s look like) and the Aughts - nobody in the 90s used Vinyls it was considered obsolete.
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Made a checklist of things I hate - Everything about that bird - The artstyle - The main character - The voice acting, the use of it as narration. - The fact that you cant click on the wrong person when you want to talk to someone. - The way the kids talk in this game. Screw that, the way almost everyone talks in this game - THE FULLHOUSE HOUSE? - I did wonder if the gamer guy was supposed to be a mouthpiece for the game's creator and his love of the 90s. But then later the character sees the record with 'music from a better era'. So I am not even sure which era the creator has a hard on for. - Who owns a SNES in 1999 but not a N64? - Suddenly there's monsters and everything. Worldbuilding, whats that? (I never played Earthbound, but I imagine it was done better there?) - The battle system and the minigame. Of all things to take from, you take the judgment ring from shadow hearts? and thats just the first part
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Who's in the mood for another taste of combat? So you know how almost every action requires you to play a minigame first? What if one of them breaks and you can't do anything about it? Well, you're hosed. Also peep these damage values. Also this is pretty late in the game so spoilers, you get an airship in the form of a car and you fight a parody(?) of a beloved 80s franchise
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