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# ? Jun 10, 2024 17:13 |
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![]() - Box art, front and back - Opening Movie (Polsy'd) - Closing Credits (Polsy'd) ![]() Possessed Halloween Sam, from SystemLogoff! Check out the extra-possessed thumbnail: ![]() Eeek! ![]() ultrafilter points out that Morcubus' frilly cuffs and white gloves make him look like he's flipping the bird with both hands; CapitanGarlic does the necessary with style and panache. ![]() Click here for the full 702x1600 image Captain Fargle makes a sweet prediction as to how the game will end, and may not be too far off the mark! Picayune fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Ep. 1: The Assistant Pig-Boy![]() Oh, hey, that music sounds familiar. Anyway, if you watched that--and you probably should--you've now seen a highlight reel of the whole game and should have a pretty good idea of how things are going to go. I... guess that means you can stop reading now? ![]() Let's get started. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of them more different than others. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not sure how one 'moves away' when Roland's kingdom covers the entire world, but I guess we can't use the word 'died' around impressionable eight-year-olds. ![]() ![]() ![]() A good set of questions, which promptly dumps us into Create-A-Sim! After Our Hero has been created: ![]() Can't imagine. Anyway, it's time for our opening pan across Capital Island! ![]() Hey, this is a pretty nice kingdom. Very green. Nice rocks. ![]() The camera pans over to the castle, oooh, which appears to be inhabited by a serene pink-haired princess-- ![]() --oooor not. ![]() As the frustrated princess stomps out of the castle, the camera rolls on, coming to rest on... the King's Royal Messenger, gods help us all. ![]() He and his messenger pigeon appear to have similar tastes in red caps. ![]() The Royal Messenger reads the scroll and cheers happily as the camera rolls on once more. ![]() We come at last to a humble pig-herder's hut, and the humble pig-herder herself--with what are presumably a couple of humble pigs-- ![]() --and her extremely humble assistant, Sam, the Assistant Pig-Boy. ![]() ![]() It should go without saying that his life is hell. --- Next time on MySims Kingdom: He's a humble pig-boy--of course he has a Great Destiny! --- ![]() - Capital Island Wanna see that pan in full motion? Here you go!
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This looks unbelievably cute. I probably would have loved it as a kid.
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Sam's back, y'all! Looking forward to this.
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Yay! Sam's back to save everyone! ![]() How is the DS version different from the Wii version? The only copy of it I have is on the Wii.
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Oh yesss! ![]()
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Glad to be back! Let's power through some tutorial. Ep. 2: L'enfer, C'est Les Autres ![]() Last time, we discovered that Sam's life is terrible. Look at that, he can't even afford shoes. Barefoot in pig doings! ![]() ![]() And we finally have control! Oh, joy, a tutorial--wait. Wait. ![]() I can rotate the camera?! Later games in the series--including Agents--did away with camera control entirely. I had completely forgotten that the early games still had cameras. That's because the original MySims and MySims Kingdom were both made using the Havok engine! That's right: this game is just like Dark Souls. ![]() ... anyway! We found Elmira. ![]() Our reward is verbal abuse and another tutorial! ![]() ![]() Okay... ![]() Aww, pet the piggie. ![]() And now he's following us! ![]() ![]() We get control again, yaaaay. Sam runs around, magnetizes pigs, and leads them to the mud--unfortunately that honking big tutorial box will not go away until we're done. ![]() The present box over Elmira's head indicates that we've completed a quest that she gave us. Usually this means we have a reward waiting! However, this is the tutorial, and that's Elmira, so our reward is more abuse. ![]() Elmira chases Sam away from her precious pigs. ![]() Having laid down the law, Elmira leaves. Sam watches her go-- ![]() Sam jumps a mile and then wheels around. ![]() ![]() It's our old buddy, Buddy! ![]() And some things never change. ![]() Buddy waves to the pigs. ![]() ![]() Sam nods. Silent protagonist! ![]() This makes Sam giggle, presumably because he does know how Lyndsay gets. But! ![]() ![]() ![]() YIPES ... did you throw a bird at me ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The evil Princess Butter points and laughs evilly at Sam, then evils off on her evil way. Pause. ![]() ![]() I imagine that being Buddy's friend always requires some patience. ![]() ![]() ![]() FWOMP ![]() ... welp. --- Next time on MySims Kingdom: Whoops, Buddy dropped the invitations and now we don't have one. That was a short game! --- ![]() - EA Render: Princess Butter Okay, she's more 'spoiled rotten' than 'evil', but that sentence was complex enough already.
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Buddy and Sam are back! Yay! ![]()
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If Sterv can make it into General Smilies, I'm sure we can get that wonderful MySims one in there. ![]()
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Is that a Chronicles of Prydain reference in the thread title, because those books were 70% my childhood. This looks promising, though I'm slightly disappointed Sam doesn't seem as talkative as he is in Agents, because Sam's snarkiness in Agents was amazing. Though...I may be mixing that up with your writing. I'm not sure.
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Wild Knight posted:Is that a Chronicles of Prydain reference in the thread title, because those books were 70% my childhood. Considering the main character is literally an assistant pig-boy, I think the game is what made the reference.
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Until this assistant pig-keeper goes on a long journey to discover himself and becomes king of the land in the process I will not consider this a wholesale reference on the game's part good sir :colber-- ...wait, the name of the game is... ...ohhhhh
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The game pretty much fed me the Prydain and Earthsea references, yeah. I'll have to shoulder the blame for the Sartre.Miniature Moose posted:How is the DS version different from the Wii version? The only copy of it I have is on the Wii. I never actually played the DS version of Kingdom, but a cursory Googling informs me that it's more minigame-based and takes place all on the same island in King Roland's land. Also, there's a villain named Dr. Nefario! That's... terrible!
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If this game is eve 20% of what Agents turned out to be, it will be one fun ride!
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Another Picayune MySims! YAY! ![]() Seriously, three days ago I was muttering to myself that I missed MySims Agents and I wished you'd get another of the series on the go. Scout's honour!
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Another Picayune MySims LP! Hooray!Picayune posted:
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Yesssssss, let's get ready for some ![]() I missed Sam so much.
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TracerK posted:Another Picayune MySims LP! Hooray! The wands are secretly powered by the life force of the wandoliers. Brave heros willing to fritter away their vitality, even give their lives, to build bridges without anyone having to learn masonry.
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Is that pig the new Wolfah?
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TracerK posted:I'm more concerned on how Roland's still king if so many of his Wandoliers retired. What, did he give them away to a whole bunch of sexagenarians or something? Does being King automatically grant immortality? Being a Wandolier is like being a dot-com millionaire. Once you have everything you want, why not retire young? As for the ones who moved away, clearly they went to the Summer Country.
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Oh man, I am so hyped for this. Your LP of Agents was so great.
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These are my Sims. There are many others like them, but these ones are mine.
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Hooray, more lighthearted MySims games! I loved the last LP so this is an instant bookmark for me.
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Fingers crossed for more Wolfah related antics and something as great as the Cyrus Mansion arc from Agents.
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This is a really weird thing to pick up on, but I'm making my way through the Agents LP on the Archive and I love that Sam is voiced by Scott Menville. It just seems to fit so well there. Kind of a shame that it's not the case here on account of that "silent protagonist" thing.
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This looks like its gonna be good. I'll also say that I wouldn't mind if you threw in some Sam-snark, Picayune, even if it wasn't in the original script. The Sam-snark in Agents was great.
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Oh ho ho am I glad I saw this thread.bunnyofdoom posted:Is that pig the new Wolfah? Nothing is ever going to be the new Wolfah.
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Psion posted:Oh ho ho am I glad I saw this thread. Let's all keep in mind that there's a good chance that Woolfah will be the new Woolfah.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Let's all keep in mind that there's a good chance that Woolfah will be the new Woolfah. Now I'm imagining a sheep Wolfah.
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Angela Christine posted:The wands are secretly powered by the life force of the wandoliers. Brave heros willing to fritter away their vitality, even give their lives, to build bridges without anyone having to learn masonry. ![]() bunnyofdoom posted:Is that pig the new Wolfah? This is a judgment we should probably wait to make, as Kingdom is stuffed chock-full of adorable cubical animals! Most of them do not have Wolfah's star power, I'm afraid. For the record, Elmira's pigs are named Pigglez and Porkz. Dragonatrix posted:This is a really weird thing to pick up on, but I'm making my way through the Agents LP on the Archive and I love that Sam is voiced by Scott Menville. It just seems to fit so well there. Kind of a shame that it's not the case here on account of that "silent protagonist" thing. Sam does actually have a voice actor, since he babbles in Simlish like any other Sim--and since I tried very hard to reproduce the original Sam as closely as possible, he almost certainly does have Scott Menville's voice again here. Sam doesn't speak in dialogue boxes like the other Sims, though, and in cutscenes he has the silent-protagonist act down pat.
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Ep. 3: A Pig-Boy's Tasks Are Never Done![]() Having just tripped, fallen, and thrown his pile of royal invitations to the winds, Buddy picks himself back up and dusts himself off. ![]() He then develops a severe case of Not-Actually-Plumbbob. A quest! Well, okay, a 'task'. The little book in the upper right corner is our task book, which contains all kind of debatably-useful information. It will alert us to new tasks and completed tasks (as you can see). The blue shield next to it has no use just yet. Anyway, let's talk to Buddy. ![]() ![]() ![]() By popping open our task book, we can see the gory details of our current chivalric quest. There are eight invitations to find, and we have found zero. The bar on the bottom tells us how far along on a task we are: someone has a job for us; we have talked to them, accepted the job, and presumably started working on it; we have completed the job but not yet turned it in; we have spoken to the person, gotten our reward, and finished the job. ![]() So, anyway, we run over here, and... ![]() ![]() ![]() Ping! Right, then. Let's ask Elmira if she's seen any invitations flying around. ![]() ![]() I'll just take that as a 'no'. ![]() Getting near the pigs kills them. Uh, I mean, it opens up some actions that Sam can perform. He can pet the pigs, which we've already seen. ![]() Or he can choose to feed them! ![]() ![]() Sam feeds the pig and it drops... some... organic matter... which just jumps right into Sam's inventory agh agh ew. The organic thing makes a magical 'plink' sound as it bounces into Sam's pocket. What did he feed that poor critter? Eh, well, surely that'll never be important. We also nab the invitation which was sitting right there. Maybe Buddy's found a couple? ![]() or maybe he's just been standing here and freaking out and we have to solve all his problems for him because we are the only competent person in the entire world and also we are not bitter at all ![]() Ergh, fine. Yoink. Sam follows the trail of invitations to the castle, and... ![]() Oh dear. ![]() ... ARGH GET OFF Anyway, Princess Butter does eventually step off the invitation. Sam grabs it and goes to find the others, getting and acing a jumping tutorial along the way. ![]() Finally we find the last invitation by the river! The day is saved, Buddy wishes to thank us, etc. ![]() ![]() Just then! ![]() Lyndsay runs over to join us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() that's right, live vicariously through me, everyone else does, that's why I'm the protagonist of a videogame ![]() Lyndsay scowls and faces Sam. ![]() Lyndsay looks back at Buddy. ![]() ![]() Buddy thinks for a minute, then jumps. ![]() ![]() ![]() --- Next time on MySims Kingdom: We hurry to the castle! For a certain definition of 'hurry'!
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Picayune posted:Next time on MySims Kingdom: We hurry to the castle! For a certain definition of 'hurry'! So you'll be hanging out with the pigs for how long, then? An hour? Two?
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Ep. 4: Sadly, Our Princess Is In THIS Castle![]() Run, Sam! Run to the castle! ![]() No, Sam! Don't stop to pet the pigs! What is wrong with you? ![]() That's better. ![]() We cut to the throne room, where King Roland is preparing to make a speech. ![]() ![]() King Roland pauses to look out over the humble ranks: ![]() Long pause. Princess Butter eventually dusts some imaginary lint from her skirt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pause. ![]() ![]() ![]() The king pats his belly, content. ![]() Suddenly, a shout rings out! ![]() ![]() Sam walks up to join the, er, vast ranks of the hopeful. ![]() ![]() Hands on hips, Sam checks out his competition. ![]() Pfft. Sam looks back at the king and nods, which is a total diss for a silent protagonist. The princess immediately gets all up in Sam's face. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pause. ![]() ![]() POOF ![]() ACK ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone chooses to ignore this. ![]() Everyone nods. The princess preens a bit. ![]() With a mystical incantation of 'Abakadoobie'--no, really--Marlon waves his hands. ![]() Sparkles of magic flow around the contestants-- ![]() POOF ![]() Barney looks around, then sighs heavily. Marlon laughs indulgently and waves his hands again. ![]() POOF AGAIN Marlon bows and poofs out after the contestants. Pause. ![]() ![]() Buddy does! --- Next time on MySims Kingdom: The Assistant Pig-Boy undergoes... the Trial of the Wandoliers! Dun dun dunnnnnnn. --- ![]() - Video: Abakadoobie! So much sparkly teleporting!
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Well, my doubts are erased as to whether this is gonna be as funny as Agents. ![]()
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This LP got me to check out the Agents LP. Good stuff! Guess I'll catch up on that between Kingdom updates.
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I'm beginning to suspect that all the old wandoliers retired because it's a thankless job that requires you to deal with a lot of strange and irritating people. Also, Barney is now voiced in my head by Scruffy the janitor.
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Having to deal with strange and irritating people seems to be a trend for the Sams.
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This is going fine, certainly the wizard's way of getting around.
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 17:13 |
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You can't be a royal messenger without appreciating the small joys in life. Like cupcakes. Wonderful to see you and this series together again.
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