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There's a few Halo LPs out there on the archive. I haven't watched them as I don't really have much interest in the Halo franchise, but I've seen some of FrenzytheKillbot's LPs and he's pretty informational and interesting. I'd assume his Halo 3 LP would be pretty good. And 19Letterslong has a Halo LP as well, thread here. I somewhat enjoy their Silent Hill LPs. Dodecalypse fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Nov 15, 2012 |
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Dodecalypse posted:I haven't watched them as I don't really have much interest in the Halo franchise, but I've seen some of FrenzytheKillbot's LPs and he's pretty informational and interesting. I'd assume his Halo 3 LP would be pretty good. Halo ODST isn't Halo 3 and I don't know why it is listed as such on the archive.
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Nov 15, 2012 23:44
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Dodecalypse posted:There's a few Halo LPs out there on the archive. Uh..yeah. Halo 1, 2 and ODST, which isn't what I asked about. I briefly checked a few on Youtube but the commentary on all of them was just obnoxious.
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Nov 15, 2012 23:50
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So, TheGreatGildersneeze has been working on a Halo 3 LP for some time now, with the intention of doing Reach as well. I know his plan involves high production value and lots of the extra content included apart from the story. I'm not going to do one as long as it's still his intention to eventually get that going. Then again, I haven't talked to him in quite some time so maybe mentioning his name in here will be enough to get him to show up and comment. Also, ODST is officially called "Halo 3: ODST".
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Nov 16, 2012 01:31
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I want to put out a recommendation for DWK's CSI: Hard Evidence LP. She's got a really nice style for the game, as she presents it really well. Sure, the game itself looks like crap to play, but it's still kind of fun guessing about a mystery and seeing someone else compare DNA samples. DWK has only been through one case so far and has just started the second (real life stuff came into it), but it's a pretty good LP. I just desperately feel it's not getting the love it should.
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I'm going to offer up unfair's Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Human Revolution threads. Unfair does really great commentary without intruding on the game. He's good about explaining why he's doing something or his strategies for taking on the game's missions. He also does a great job of editing out long bouts of waiting for guards to pass to keep the action going. It's a drat crime his threads aren't getting more attention than they are!
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OatmealRaisin posted:I'm going to offer up unfair's Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Human Revolution threads. Unfair does really great commentary without intruding on the game. He's good about explaining why he's doing something or his strategies for taking on the game's missions. He also does a great job of editing out long bouts of waiting for guards to pass to keep the action going. It's a drat crime his threads aren't getting more attention than they are! Yes this, those are some really chill and informative LPs.
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I'd like to recommend a group LP done right: Tales of Eternia. It's a group LP with 4 people playing at once, and the production is top-notch. They're all audible and entertaining, and they don't talk over the voiced cutscenes much. The editing is great, they're cutting out or skipping over most of the random battles, minigames and backtracking, and they're even adding in little things in post like a map of the Forest of Temptation. It's a high effort job, and on top of that, they're going to try and show off everything, all the little hidden secrets and scenes. More group LP's should have this level of quality and editing. *********** I also have a request for something that may be slightly unusual. Does anyone know of an LP done of an story-driven RPG with a female protagonist? Not something like Diablo 2 or Divine Divinity where you can choose from a selection of generic heroes, but your choice doesn't change the underlying story at all. All that I can think of are the Atelier series and Reccetear, but surely there must be more out there that have been LP'ed. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Nov 19, 2012 |
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Nov 19, 2012 18:32
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Does anyone know of an LP done of an story-driven RPG with a female protagonist? Not something like Diablo 2 or Divine Divinity where you can choose from a selection of generic heroes, but your choice doesn't change the underlying story at all. I don't know if it's quite what you're looking for, but Kung-Fu Jesus did an LP of Final Fantasy XIII-2 that's up on the archives.
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I'd argue that the game is anything but "story-driven" The whole thing is way too boring, please do not watch it.
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Nov 19, 2012 19:39
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If you've got archives I did Jeanne D'Arc, which features, well, Jeanne D'Arc as its main character. It's an SRPG though so it might not be quite what you were looking for. Also by mid-December or so I can reasonably guarantee you will have another LP of a game with a female protagonist active, and the world will be so much worse off for it.
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Kung-Fu Jesus posted:I'd argue that the game is anything but "story-driven" Yeah, I remember opening that thread, reading the warning you helpfully posted to shoo out everyone, and deciding that it probably wasn't for me. Related, I have heard about the Final Fantasy X-2 LP, but I'm waiting for the The Dark Id to finish the FFX thread first. I haven't gotten around to reading Jeanne D'Arc yet, so I can take a look at that one. (I sure hope that the next LP you're doing doesn't have "Hyper" in the title.) Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Nov 19, 2012 |
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Nov 19, 2012 19:52
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Hey Feinne you've done those Disgaea games. Don't they feature a powerful anime girl as the protagonist, predominantly? I was going to recommend Mass Effect if someone had played with the female Shepard, but no one has, apparently. That's weird. Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Related, I have heard about the Final Fantasy X-2 LP, but I'm waiting for the The Dark Id to finish the FFX thread first.
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Nov 19, 2012 19:56
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Feinne posted:If you've got archives I did Jeanne D'Arc, which features, well, Jeanne D'Arc as its main character. It's an SRPG though so it might not be quite what you were looking for. Are you doing the Neptunia games? Because that will be a thread worth watching, for one reason or another.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:
There's the original Phantasy Star: http://lparchive.org/Phantasy-Star/ It's a Sega Master System game, so it's only as "story-driven" as console games got in the mid-80s, but it was one of the first games I ever played so I remember it fondly.
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Metroid Fusion has an OK plot, especially for a GBA-action game, and the protagonist is, of course, female. The followup game, Other M, has more (terrible terrible bad bad) plot. Here are the links: http://lparchive.org/Metroid-Other-M/ http://lparchive.org/Metroid-Fusion/ (US version with sometimes hilarious commentary) http://lparchive.org/Metroid-Fusion-(by-MeccaPrime)/ (japanese version with subs and somewhat more serious commentary, and some game breakage going on)
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Kung-Fu Jesus posted:Hey Feinne you've done those Disgaea games. Don't they feature a powerful anime girl as the protagonist, predominantly? They do tend to prominently feature female characters, yeah. Two of the plotlines of Eternal Poison have female protagonists, and that's on the archives. Kaboom Dragoon posted:Are you doing the Neptunia games? Because that will be a thread worth watching, for one reason or another. I'm definitely going to do the second one, I may or may not do the first one and I may or may not do them in 'order' (they're not actually related per se, they're sort of like that pair of Stephen King books that had the same setting and characters but whose plots had nothing to do with each other and were mutually exclusive). Feinne fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Nov 19, 2012 |
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Nov 19, 2012 20:40
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'd like to recommend a group LP done right: Tales of Eternia. Koudelka is right up your alley.
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Kung-Fu Jesus posted:Hey Feinne you've done those Disgaea games. Don't they feature a powerful anime girl as the protagonist, predominantly? Kinda? I've read all those, but from the way the story focuses on Laharl in 1 and Mao in 3, I wouldn't say that the anime girl characters are the leads. The exception is Disgaea 2, where the male and female leads are equally important. Those are all great LP's, though. quote:I was going to recommend Mass Effect if someone had played with the female Shepard, but no one has, apparently. That's weird. I haven't gotten around to playing ME2 yet, so maybe it's different, but the effect of your gender choice in first Mass Effect was pretty minimal. You may be right on FFX-2, but from some of the discussion in the FFX thread, it sounds like it to take place after the end of FFX, so I'll hold off on it. (I've also read Eternal Poison, but I could re-read Phantasy Star, though.) I'm not all that familiar with the Metroid games, I've only played Prime 1 and half of Metroid Prime 2, but with the exception of Other M, aren't they action games with a silent protagonist?
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'm not all that familiar with the Metroid games, I've only played Prime 1 and half of Metroid Prime 2, but with the exception of Other M, aren't they action games with a silent protagonist? Yes. Those suggestions are most likely not what you're looking for; there's nothing "story-driven RPG" about them.
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Nov 19, 2012 21:30
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I also have a request for something that may be slightly unusual. Septerra Core is an story-driven RPG with a female lead.
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MeccaPrime posted:Yes. Those suggestions are most likely not what you're looking for; there's nothing "story-driven RPG" about them.
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Kaubocks posted:Other M likes to think it's story driven. Other M likes to think its a lot of things. It's fun to play pretend, isn't it.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:You may be right on FFX-2, but from some of the discussion in the FFX thread, it sounds like it to take place after the end of FFX, so I'll hold off on it.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I also have a request for something that may be slightly unusual. Well, there was Eien no Filena which was a jrpg, extremely odd, and very very japanese. Its unique to say the least. VVVV: 
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http://lparchive.org/Eien-no-Filena/ Eien no Filena is basically the movie Gladiator, only Russel Crowe is a woman pretending to be a man. It was pretty interesting. edit: fuuckkk
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Does anyone know of an LP done of an story-driven RPG with a female protagonist? Wild Arms 3 features a female lead who also manages to not get roped into traditional JRPG gender tropes in the process, most of the time.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I also have a request for something that may be slightly unusual. Going back a looong time now, but Nakar did an excellent and hilarious series of Ultima LPs playing a female anti-hero Avatar. They're best read in order though you could safely start from Ultima 6. http://lparchive.org/Ultima-4-5-and-6/ http://lparchive.org/Martian-Dreams/ http://lparchive.org/Ultima-VII-The-Black-Gate/ http://lparchive.org/Ultima-VII-Part-2-Serpent-Isle/
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cmndstab posted:Going back a looong time now, but Nakar did an excellent and hilarious series of Ultima LPs playing a female anti-hero Avatar. They're best read in order though you could safely start from Ultima 6. That sort of falls into "where you can choose from a selection of generic heroes, but your choice doesn't change the underlying story," though, doesn't it? Kung-Fu Jesus posted:Hey Feinne you've done those Disgaea games. Don't they feature a powerful anime girl as the protagonist, predominantly? Did you mean La Pucelle? And didn't Final Fantasy VI have a female main character?
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Yes, La Pucelle does have a female main character.
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Keeshhound posted:That sort of falls into "where you can choose from a selection of generic heroes, but your choice doesn't change the underlying story," though, doesn't it? Yes, though Nakar adds significantly more colour and characterisation to the games with the way he handles it. Admittedly it's played for laughs more than anything else, though, which might not be what Stabbey is looking for.
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Gonna go ahead and recommend this Kingpin: Life of Crime LP by Depressing Drawers. He has a very rambling, excitable style that's perfect for making less than stellar games (read: giant turds with some redeeming qualities) like this interesting to watch. Heck, he managed to make Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend watchable, that's some achievement. The editing is also top notch with added sound effects and all the backtracking parts nobody's interested in have been cut out.
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Thoughtless posted:Gonna go ahead and recommend this Kingpin: Life of Crime LP by Depressing Drawers. He has a very rambling, excitable style that's perfect for making less than stellar games (read: giant turds with some redeeming qualities) like this interesting to watch. Heck, he managed to make Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend watchable, that's some achievement. It's worth mentioning, Kingpin's actually a pretty decent game in and of itself, it's just a game from 1999, so it's rough as hell and has some... questionable mechanics (motherfuckin' rats, yo), so it's not quite a mock LP on its own.
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Seconding that - Depressing Drawers vocal stylings make me enjoy the LP a good bit, even if the game is crap (more referring to his postal 2 LP)
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Pickwick posted:This makes me wonder: are there any other LPs where the speaker is drunk or otherwise intoxicated. Lurkdawg, aka the best LPer the world has ever seen. http://lparchive.org/Legend-of-Zelda-A-Link-to-the-Past-(by-Lurkdawg)/ He does a video where he drinks a beer every time he dies, then dies so much he makes excuses for himself and starts doing half-beers, then eventually stops drinking and goes into a sort of drunk blackout trance as the video goes silent for 20 minutes. It's not for everyone I guess but it's the funniest loving thing in the world to me.
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Under the vegetable posted:Lurkdawg, aka the best LPer the world has ever seen. http://lparchive.org/Legend-of-Zelda-A-Link-to-the-Past-(by-Lurkdawg)/ hurf i'm dumb missed the whole "backup" on the right
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I'm looking for recommendations of LPs where I learn something from watching. I'm talking about something like the AC I and II Lps, or the Endless Ocean LPs. (What's the status on Endless Ocean 2 LP? Did that stall or is it just started? I only was looking at it through the website). Anyway, are there any more LPs like that that I could learn from? Thanks in advance.
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The only one I can think of at the top of my head is Suspicious' ongoing Tomb Raider Megathread. He spends a lot of time discussing the history and culture of the locales you visit in the game, and since the protagonist's a globetrotter that means a lot of diverse information. Oh, and Zorak has started his Endless Ocean 2 LP a while ago, so there's that, too.
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ferndavant posted:I'm looking for recommendations of LPs where I learn something from watching. I'm talking about something like the AC I and II Lps, or the Endless Ocean LPs. (What's the status on Endless Ocean 2 LP? Did that stall or is it just started? I only was looking at it through the website). It's been brought up before in this thread, but there's also Egomaniac's recently finished Kenzan LP (though I think he has one more bonus update). He provides a lot of information on the life of Miyamoto Musashi, samurais, and the history of that time period.
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a cartoon duck posted:The only one I can think of at the top of my head is Suspicious' ongoing Tomb Raider Megathread. He spends a lot of time discussing the history and culture of the locales you visit in the game, and since the protagonist's a globetrotter that means a lot of diverse information. Just wanted to second this. I think Suspicious has set the high-water mark for edutainment LPs.
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