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I posted the test post for critique on the test post itself. And to see what people thought of making almost every choice up to the viewers. Perhaps I should simplify the explanation on choices and not mention the calculations unless someone brings it up in the post? Waltzing Along fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Waltzing Along posted:1 - better? Holy poo poo, you're either trying to outdo Dangan Ronpa in the "useless white noise" category, or you really don't know better. All that'll achieve is goons shouting random letters for ten thousand pages.
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Waltzing Along posted:I posted the test post for critique on the test post itself. And to see what people thought of making almost every choice up to the viewers. Perhaps I should simplify the explanation on choices and not mention the calculations unless someone brings it up in the post? If that's the case, then I'd say you should add a bit more background to your OP; explain to us what the Walking Dead is and where this fits into the timeline of the franchise, if at all. I think you should omit the calculations entirely; if you're adding a random element to it, why bother having choices? And I agree with the sentiment that major decisions should be the only ones left up to the audience.
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Waltzing Along posted:1 - better? A better idea would be to play a certain type of persona for each chapter, voted by the audience, rather than having them pick every single solitary dialog option because holy poo poo is that tedious.
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Lance Streetman posted:Holy poo poo, you're either trying to outdo Dangan Ronpa in the "useless white noise" category, or you really don't know better. All that'll achieve is goons shouting random letters for ten thousand pages. You're right. That's not what I want at all. Dammit. That would make for a horrible thread. How about a caveat that says if you want to vote you have to actually comment? Thuryl's SSLP of World of Xeen has voting on almost every page and it doesn't seem to hurt things. In that LP it is more like, Climb the Tower or go Outside? And then there will be twenty or so comments but it doesn't seem intrusive. Also, I do appreciate the constructive criticism and advice. I just want to do a good LP of this fantastic game. I'm sure someone who knows the game can see what I am shooting for.
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Waltzing Along posted:How about a caveat that says if you want to vote you have to actually comment? No, then you'll have even more useless poo poo. Just don't have voting on every single thing, it's too much poo poo for not enough reward.
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ChaosArgate posted:If that's the case, then I'd say you should add a bit more background to your OP; explain to us what the Walking Dead is and where this fits into the timeline of the franchise, if at all. Well, I don't really have anything to say about the timeline because I haven't seen any other TWD content. You are 100% correct about the random element. I will drop that entirely. So the audience will make the A/B decisions. I will use some sort of randomizer for dialog options. Better? Brainamp posted:No, then you'll have even more useless poo poo. Just don't have voting on every single thing, it's too much poo poo for not enough reward. Yeah. Definitely not going to do that.
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Waltzing Along posted:Well, I don't really have anything to say about the timeline because I haven't seen any other TWD content. Maybe you should do some research on what you're LPing instead of making awful jokes about loving people with trashcans on their heads.
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SpaceGodzilla posted:Maybe you should do some research on what you're LPing instead of making awful jokes about loving people with trashcans on their heads. Maybe I have no interest in the show which really has little to do with the game? E: I'll repost a new OP when I have a video to share. Thanks again for the help, everyone.
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Waltzing Along posted:Well, I don't really have anything to say about the timeline because I haven't seen any other TWD content. Oh right, I forgot about that bit. In that case, would it be possible to talk a bit about what kind of game it is? The only thing I can tell from your OP is that the game is very decision-driven; it doesn't tell me what the game is about or what kind of game it is.
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ChaosArgate posted:Oh right, I forgot about that bit. In that case, would it be possible to talk a bit about what kind of game it is? The only thing I can tell from your OP is that the game is very decision-driven; it doesn't tell me what the game is about or what kind of game it is. Good point. I will do that. Thanks.
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judge reinhold posted:A better idea would be to play a certain type of persona for each chapter, voted by the audience, rather than having them pick every single solitary dialog option because holy poo poo is that tedious. I tend to agree with this. Choose four options for persona (nurturing, aggressive, pacifist, self-destructive? I don't know, I haven't played the game) at the beginning, and for any given update have a vote on which persona you're going to be playing. It'd simplify things immensely, and still hold to the "I don't want to make any choices" thing for the most part. Or, use the vote tallies for "personality" and run that through random.org (per your initial suggestion) for each AXBY choice in an update. Having each choice be dictated by goons is probably going too far though. Kytrarewn fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Maybe I have no interest in the show which really has little to do with the game? I would still look up the show. I mean, at least go to the Walking Dead wiki. Two (maybe three?) characters in the game are from the show so you should mention that. Edit: also, every chapter has an easily recognizable "big choice." You could have people vote on it seperately from the persona vote if you wanted to Honestly, there was a Spec Ops: The Line LP that I enjoyed that ran on a similar formula. ThatPazuzu fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Are there any other concerns about my Exile LP, aside from "Why not do the remake"? Because I get really nervous if I start doing things right and perfectly the first time.
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judge reinhold posted:A better idea would be to play a certain type of persona for each chapter, voted by the audience, rather than having them pick every single solitary dialog option because holy poo poo is that tedious. Yeah, something like this. For my Divinity 2 thread, after the tutorial ended, I had the goons vote for where the character was on the spectrum of a selected few personality traits. I did that once, then was done and I used those to pick the dialogue choices for the rest of the LP. It was much better than having them vote for each conversation choice.
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I would also like to know if anyone else has any suggestions for my LP.mateo360 posted:This Series Is How Old? Let's Play Mighty Morphin Power Rangers berryjon posted:Are there any other concerns about my Exile LP, aside from "Why not do the remake"? Your OP and updates are looking good to me.
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Waltzing Along posted:Maybe I have no interest in the show which really has little to do with the game? I'm pretty sure the show is just based on a comic book series, so you could always look that up. I don't know how loosely the show or game follow it though. Edit: nevermind I guess you already glossed over that in your OP. I second the recommendation to put in the effort and do research. Although I guess it will be interesting to see if the game can make you care about the characters as deeply as people familiar with the series seem to after playing the game. unfair fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Lizard Wizard posted:This might just be personal taste, but you might want to shrink the portraits by about half. Those 85x85 portraits kind of create a lot of What's a good size for portaits?
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Volume posted:What's a good size for portaits? As an example this is 50x60:  , it's not quite as big but it's still fairly easy to make out what it is.
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mateo360 posted:I would also like to know if anyone else has any suggestions for my LP. All I'd say is I agree with the previous comments that your commentary is a little dry and you could use a co-commentator, but otherwise, you're very informative and your video quality is perfectly fine. I'd say you're good to go unless you want to redo your commentary.
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I hope this LP turns out all right. I really like this game and want to expose more people to the goofiness.  Picayune posted:Mahtapa Woolang Harrier Jet: Let's Play MySims Agents! Unfortunately the game has no manual camera controls whatsoever, so I'm at the game's mercy there. Also, capturing Wii footage is an experience. Does it look all right?
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berryjon posted:Are there any other concerns about my Exile LP, aside from "Why not do the remake"? First thing I'd suggest is cut all the stuff where you yourself talk to your character. It's just awkward and can quickly venture into creepy territory (though that's an extreme example). The rest of the dialogue works well, though. Also, you should have blank lines between screenshots and the text, as it'll help it read better. You may also want to use a sprite for your character instead of a face shot so the dialogue portraits are consistent in size, though it also helps people recognize who your character is, plus the sprites are generally ugly, so it's difficult to really give a good suggestion either way. Everything else looks solid to me. I've certainly put a ton of time into Exile 3, and I prefer the Exile games to the Avernum ones myself, so I have no problems with you choosing Exile over Avernum. Hell, it gives a look into how this line of games began. Definitely looking forward to this one.
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Keep up the fire! Let's all die horribly in the Fields of Fire! I have a confession to make: I really hate the bloated, incomprehensible mess that is Fields of Fire. At the same time, I consider it to be one of the best games I've ever played in my life. To be honest, it appears that every single person that had bought it has the same love/hate relationship with it. My wish with this Let's Play is to both show this unique game to broader audiences and to have someone to shame me into not ragequitting in the middle of a campaign yet another time. So, what's the deal with this game? Fields of Fire is a solitaire board game putting us in the shoes of a company commander, published by GMT Games in 2008. It features a rather innovative take on the genre, shunning many established conventions. The way I like to explain it, Fields of Fire is not as much about commanding a company as it is about being a company commander. It's a game that disregards whether a unit possesses BARs or not and is content to measure terrain in units of "between 10 and 100 metres each, uhh work it out yourself, dude" and yet meticulously tracks which radio model you're using and which frequency it is on. Designer Ben Hull, who is a marine officer himself, managed to really hit the mark when it comes to representing what it's like to be a commander, crafting narratives, and - most deviously - making you really care about your little cardboard infantrymen.  Quite unorthodoxly, instead of covering a single battle or theater of operations, the game follows particular unit, 9th Infantry Regiment, "Manchus", through four campaigns set in Normandy, Korea and Vietnam, allowing us to see the evolution of US Army capabilities and tactics as well as arrival of sweet new radios! It also means there's a lot of content. Just look at this poo poo:  At total 880 counters (not a single NATO symbol among them, I promise) and 220 cards split between the theaters it's hardly an exaggeration to claim Fields of Fire is three different games packed into one unassuming box. Coupled with the fact each mission will look radically different each time, the game offers a lot of replayability. So far it sounds pretty cool, why the hate?  To begin with, these player aids are all double-sided to fit more tables. While certainly not a "monster" game, the game is fairly detailed and complex, with counter swarms of larger scenarios becoming quite confusing and tedious. Most damningly, Fields of Fire rightfully earned a reputation of being nigh-incomprehensible and having a learning curve rivalling that of the Dwarf Fortress. The game shipped with the most  , badly organised, rulebook in existence, which coupled with lack of another, more experienced, player at the table or meaningful parallels with other games made it really hard to know how it was supposed to work. When you do get it everything usually makes sense. Having said that, sometimes the rules really just are lax or obtuse and I still expect to do some minor mistakes!Goon participation! I'd like to off-load some decision-making to you guys, to have someone to blame Feel free to name or claim particular officers for fluff reasons! Just don't get too attached to them. You've piqued my interest, where can I get this game? Sadly, your best best is scavenging Ebay, as it's long out of print. But do not despair! First off, there is a possibility of us getting both a reprint and a second game in the series, covering the exploits of 1st Marine Division. The reprint is stuck in the P500 program for quite a while, meaning GMT games needs a few more pre-orders to consider it viable. The second volume is subject to the same pre-order requirements, but it has the benefit of both fans who already have the first game, as well as generally being a new, shiny thing. The publisher has repeatedly stated he's interested in making an iOS port of the game, but all I know currently is that the supposed work started six months ago and that their first contracted developer bailed on them. Still, we will probably see it finished within our lifetimes! To end on a good note, since GMT uploaded the vehicle chart I think you can grab everything you need to play via Vassal (the floorboard emulator I'm using for this LP) on the publisher site. As well as a revised rulebook, thank heavens. If you like it, don't be an rear end and throw some money at GMT! They're really cool dudes and I want to see more of this game printed! [probably in a second post:] Regimental Archives  Mission 1: Trévières Offensive, June 8 to 10, 1944 General Briefing - What the hell am I looking at?!! Turn 1 [link] - subtitle pending [The mock-up turn is being written right now!] Lichtenstein fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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Volume posted:What's a good size for portaits? I'd say it depends on the game's native resolution, how distinct the character designs are from one another at a small size, if they're expressive or they have just one portrait per character, and how much portraiture you're doing. I used around 32x32 for TWEWY since each character has a pretty distinct appearance and the game's 256x192, so I just had to crop and not resize. FFT's were smaller since each character usually only has one portrait.
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When all you've got is snark, you play Hotel Dusk! Title: Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (In Japan, Wish Room: Angel's memory) Genre: Adventure/Visual novel Release dates: NA: Jan 22 2007, JP: Jan 25 2007, AUS: Feb 22 2007, EU: Apr 13 2007 Platform: Nintendo DS Developer: Cing Publisher: Nintendo Introduction Hey there, everyone. Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is easily one of my most favourite games for the DS. While its not without its flaws, I am a big fan of both its plot and characters, and that is why I have chosen to LP it. Set in the late 70s, this game has you control Kyle Hyde as he searches an old hotel searching for information about his old partner, also helping out the other guests along the way. One thing of note about this game is that it is played with the DS turned sideways, like a book. This is used in conversation scenes by showing one character on one screen, and one on the other, a use of the dual screen gimmick which I find to be pretty neat. In terms of gameplay, the game mostly controls kind of like a point-and-click. You move the main character around, and use the touchscreen to investigate objects. You'll also occasionally run into puzzles which can be solved via the myriad of inputs on the DS, mostly the touchscreen. There are also conversation segments, but I'll get into those when they come up. For this playthrough, I'll be providing links to the music where it changes. I will be going for the good ending, which is obtained by never getting a single game over across the playthrough. However, I will show off game overs that I find to be entertaining. If there's a particular one you want me to show, just let me know. I'll be presenting dialogue like this: Game dialogue My commentary *Sound effects* Update 1 Update 2 Update 3
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:I'd say it depends on the game's native resolution, how distinct the character designs are from one another at a small size, if they're expressive or they have just one portrait per character, and how much portraiture you're doing. Right. Like, someone just said that 85x85 is too big, but for example these are 70x79 and it's already kind of hard to see the slight difference in emotion.    (Resized straight from the raw image textures Here the difference is clearly visible.) To be fair, you could crop these a bit, but then you lose having either consistent image sizes (Raven here would take up more space than Yuri up there.), or consistent character sizes if you resize, where some characters -- or, hell, even some portraits of the same character -- appear to be way bigger than others due to how the resizing ends up on a per-image basis. It's something you probably need to decide on a case-to-case basis.
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mateo360 posted:Your shots seem to be squished and stretched a bit in the second and third updates compared to the first Ah, I guess I didn't notice that until it was pointed out to me. Does this look any better? 
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That MySims game looks really cool, too bad it was "soiled" by the franchise, I had no idea this existed until now, and it seems like something I would've enjoyed when it was generally available for purchase. Both updates in the test posts looked just fine to me as well, will need to keep an eye out for this one, for sure.Lichtenstein posted:Field of Fire I may be a huge moron, but is there actual LP content somewhere in there? Looks like it could be interesting, but can't really say anyting based on nothing but the OP.
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Since portrait chat seemed to have spun off of my test-post, I'll bring up by dilemma. Now, I'm aware 85x85 is pretty big, but the portraits in Trails are fairly expressive, and there's a lot of different expressions. (Estelle has at least 26 different expressions, and over 50 if you count different outfits.) So making them half their current size is just too small. So here's some different sizes I've experimented with, what works best?         (I deliberately chose fairly similar expressions here.)   
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shinmai posted:I may be a huge moron, but is there actual LP content somewhere in there? Looks like it could be interesting, but can't really say anyting based on nothing but the OP. It's still coming, but it simply took me much more time than expected! I had to do some further Vassal module modding and scrap and re-do much of what I had prepared earlier due to my own stupidity. I fully expect to have something real to show today. [edit] Also, I used the game as an excuse to look at pretty maps and spergy historical articles for half of the day. Lichtenstein fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Cake Attack posted:Since portrait chat seemed to have spun off of my test-post, I'll bring up by dilemma. Now, I'm aware 85x85 is pretty big, but the portraits in Trails are fairly expressive, and there's a lot of different expressions. (Estelle has at least 26 different expressions, and over 50 if you count different outfits.) So making them half their current size is just too small. So here's some different sizes I've experimented with, what works best? Honestly, I prefer the bigger ones. If one of the draws of the game is the expressiveness, then I don't want that to be lost in formatting. Ed: Actually, here's an idea: Use the bigger ones for major conversations between important characters, and use the smaller ones for normal NPC dialogue. Should help the formatting somewhat. Lance Streetman fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Honestly, the 64x64 ones look fine to me. Considering that any change in expression will be incredibly apparent anyway, if there is something so small and subtle as "sometimes X's smile is one pixel more on the left hand side than in others!" then it's not exactly going to matter.
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Cake Attack posted:Since portrait chat seemed to have spun off of my test-post, I'll bring up by dilemma. Now, I'm aware 85x85 is pretty big, but the portraits in Trails are fairly expressive, and there's a lot of different expressions. (Estelle has at least 26 different expressions, and over 50 if you count different outfits.) So making them half their current size is just too small. So here's some different sizes I've experimented with, what works best? If expressions are important then I'd say go with the big ones. Just be consistent in size and I doubt anyone will have problems.
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Just for the record, there is a Hotel Dusk LP, already. But it hasn't updated since January. Sooooooo... 
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Cake Attack posted:Since portrait chat seemed to have spun off of my test-post, I'll bring up by dilemma. Now, I'm aware 85x85 is pretty big, but the portraits in Trails are fairly expressive, and there's a lot of different expressions. (Estelle has at least 26 different expressions, and over 50 if you count different outfits.) So making them half their current size is just too small. So here's some different sizes I've experimented with, what works best? The big ones look fine to me. If space is really that big an issue, then the middle ones should be ok, but I'd lean towards the big ones.
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Cake Attack posted:Since portrait chat seemed to have spun off of my test-post, I'll bring up by dilemma. Now, I'm aware 85x85 is pretty big, but the portraits in Trails are fairly expressive, and there's a lot of different expressions. (Estelle has at least 26 different expressions, and over 50 if you count different outfits.) So making them half their current size is just too small. So here's some different sizes I've experimented with, what works best? I can't really tell the difference between the large ones, so I think you can use a smaller size mugshot pretty safely. If you want to catch a specific expression in full resolution, you could always put that line of dialogue in a full screenshot in between all the transcribed stuff, I see that kind of thing done all the time.
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VagueRant posted:Just for the record, there is a Hotel Dusk LP, already. But it hasn't updated since January. Things like that aren't an issue. There are at least two Dark Souls LPs going on right now and I know there were, and possibly still are, simultaneous LPs of Majoras Mask as well.
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