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And My Fax! posted:And I think based on what you've said, it would probably be wise to switch the player to someone who's played the game a bit more...either myself or Christine. I don't think Cory will mind I somehow got the impression you were going to switch off every so often. Some controller-passing could make for a nice gimmick, especially with the Yoshis' rally system and all.
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And My Fax! posted:But really, you don't see the difference between a group consisting of 2 men and 2 women, and a group of just two men? You don't think that there's any difference in dynamic between live, in-person commentary and post commentary via Skype? I think if there were half a dozen LPs of a dude playing Yoshi's Island by himself, and this was just me playing Yoshi's Island and asking for feedback, your criticism would be valid. But that's not the scenario; instead we have 3 existing LPs of the game, distinct from one another, and we're adding another distinct LP to the mix. Not to mention the fact that Famous Ghosts' LP was concurrent with Vicas' (considering Vicas' has been going since February '12, this is probably not a surprise). Not only that, but beyond Yoshi's Island there are many games in the master list with far more LPs completed, including at least one game with more than 10 complete LPs. Ok, slow your roll. There's nothing wrong with concurrent or even sequential LPs of the same game. I watched both Bulletstorm LPs when they were running, and watched both the old and new Demon's Souls LPs. With the Demon's Souls LP by The Wandering Newbie the OP acknowledged that Squint had done an LP of the game previously, and then went on to list how it would be different than Squint's. Having watched the video, I didn't see anything that made it more interesting than the other LPs out there, the jokes all missed and the fact that I wanted to rip the controller out of the player's hands and finish the level for him doesn't bode well for other videos where he gets the controller that are more complex than the opening couple stages. This was why I suggested you re-shot the first video, in addition to the technical issues. You don't need Sandcastle approval to post, as Slowbeef pointed out, we're here to give advice. Our advice was to maybe reconsider the first video based on what we've seen. Don't tell me it gets better, give me proof that I'm not going to want to turn the video off after six minutes of "NO GO LEFT, HIT THE GREEN THING, SWALLOW THE GODDAMN SHYGUY!", or that it won't be there in the future. Lazyfire fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jul 1, 2013 |
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 I'm not sure if this is too preliminary to bring up here, but I'm slowly trying to put together a Magical Pop'n VLP. The person I've lined up to co-commentate (and provide translations for the game's two (2) cutscenes) won't be available for another few days, but I've recorded a few run-throughs of the first level so I'd love to hear any opinions before I bring in my busy, busy friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAXILh_YQME - Here is the run I plan to use, if anyone wants to skim it. The backtracking gets more bloating as the game goes on - for later levels with branching paths I'll probably record each path, and show them in the same video with little visual bumpers to show that it's a different path and where they intersect. I guess my main questions at this stage are - is the video hideous, and is there anything egregiously weird/annoying about my playing style? I don't think it looks that bad, but those kids that film themselves trying to go Super Saiyan don't think they look bad either. If anyone can think of anything I missed or anything that needs to come up in commentary I'd love to hear about that too. I'm wavering on whether I want to talk about Ai Iijima, the lady who provided the main character's voice, since it's cool that this mascot platformer cast a former adult film star who would later do a lot of AIDS activism in Japan, but that might be a little incongruous to talk about over a mascot platformer. My momma always said the less you have to risk crossing sex talk with cute Japanese cartoon characters on the LP forums, the better. VV Aww, nuts. Should be viewable now. Thank you! VV Abitha Denton fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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It's worth taking the group you're presenting to in the Sandcastle into account, I think, regarding the Yoshi's Story stuff going up. Pretty much everyone in here has done at least one LP, most people multiple. That's a really high level of nerdy sophistication in a decidedly nerdy hobby to begin with. Yeah, people are generally going to be pretty cynical for another 'group of folks' LP because most people in here have already seen a ton of them. The real question to ask yourself when considering content criticism like that is, what direction do you want to take yourself in the hobby? If you're just starting out then it's probably fine to do something more bog standard since you're just finding your feet and just figuring out what you do and don't enjoy. I think it's relatively normal to look back on some of your earlier work and cringe a little bit. I rewatched my first LP recently and truthfully I'm mildly embarrassed about it. The technical fundamentals are OK, but I see so many things I could've done better, and my method of commentary is so much smoother now that I'm actually comfortable with myself behind a microphone. If you would ask me today how I'd do the LP differently, I'd probably not do the LP at all. But it was required for me to get the technical and personal savvy to make better quality stuff with my second and beyond LPs. At this stage, you are probably just figuring out if the hobby is gonna be fun and exciting for you and your crew. So if you don't make an earthshaking first LP, who cares? Worry about thrilling untold masses of internet strangers after you've got the belief in yourself that you can do it. This really hit home for me recently when I checked my analytics on my Google page and realized that, even with the tens of thousands of views SA has garnered our channel over the last six months, a supermajority of our traffic is from Youtube internal references. SA and lparchive.org combined make up something like a quarter of all our traffic. It really drove home for me that, as fantastically useful and helpful as the opinions here are, they really are not everything. I gladly go to the Sandcastle every time I go to post an LP because I can count on people here to give me unvarnished feedback that will help me get better. But if I don't agree with a content criticism, I feel absolutely no compunction to listen to it. I know I have tons of viewers on Youtube who like our style. I'll refrain from giving too many points on the LP itself since I feel like everything I would say has been said already.
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More of a technical advice; you appear to have recorded your video in native console resolution and encoded/uploaded it to Youtube just like that. Two things wrong with that: 1) The colorspace x264 encodes in by default doesn't do well with pixel art, so it is always a good idea to nearest-neighbor resize to double resolution in both directions before converting the colorspace to YV12. 2) In addition, Youtube's encoder hates sub-720p footage. Compare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_QJVagZ_yY <- x240, very blurry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRVh7dcBLk <- x480, better but still has some weird horizontal line artifacts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l98GNa68eQc <- x960, crystal clear pixels In other words, you should upscale your video to 4x the source resolution (using PointResize() in Avisynth) before uploading it to Youtube. It might also be a good idea to pad the video to a vertical resolution of 960 after resize due to Youtube's rigid resolutions, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Admiral H. Curtiss fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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And My Fax! posted:
I'm gonna go against the grain here and say go for it. The commentary is kinda stilted and unfocused at times, but you really need to get used to commentating in general before that will work out, and also to your group's specific traits. And the only way to do that is to make videos. So, general advice, make sure the technical issues are totally cleaned up before you make more videos. The tech support fort can be really helpful for that, but it sounds like you've gotten most of it figured out, so I won't push too much. Technical issues can be a pretty big dealbreaker for a lot of first time viewers, though, so definitely give them thought. Second, if something screws up, don't be afraid to rerecord just because you had some good moments the first time. The very first time someone plays a game is always kind of awkward, and not in the interesting way. You might not get the chance to make the same jokes that you really liked the first time, but the more you do it the more you'll start to notice the openings for other jokes anyway. Genuine first time reactions can be good, but only when presented in the right way. For example, when Geop did Dark Souls, he was playing blind, but he had played enough Demon's Souls that he was familiar with the controls. When Cory takes over there's a lot of really awkward "okay now how do I do this" moments that build up on each other and make it tough to watch. And yes, it's true that he's never not going to know how to play the game at all ever again, but there's still plenty of mechanics he doesn't know or isn't familiar enough with to think of in a tight spot. Those moments will be just as genuine, but less grating to people who have played the game before. Also, while I am all for really casual commentary (I do 100% runthroughs but we never formally prepare bits or discuss what we'll talk about beforehand), it definitely helps if at least one person has facts about the game or even vaguely related to the game to talk about, just to keep the conversation going. So less notes/script and more bullet points. But really, a lot of us started out where you guys are. If you watch my Bounty Hunter LP or Addar's DK64 LP, you can really tell that we were new to this stuff. We redid a lot of the early videos multiple times, and even towards the end of DK64 there were some videos we had to redo after getting over halfway through those slugfests. I pretty much started doing LPs because it seemed like a fun way to spend my free time and do something with my friends (I also had this crazy idea about playing some game with my feet or some poo poo, but I'm sure we're all glad that didn't pan out  ), and I feel like the casual, "let's all play fun games and talk about them" atmosphere makes for some of the best commentary I've watched. But to make it work (especially early on, when you're still figuring each other out) you have to be willing to edit yourselves, and let go of the whole "this has to be our first take" mentality.Hope all this helps, and if you do go through with Yoshi's Island, I wish you luck in finishing before me, which I think might make me the first LPer on the forums to ever have a game LP'd twice within the time he was LPing it. 
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An evening out, and a bunch more responses!Lizard Wizard posted:I somehow got the impression you were going to switch off every so often. Some controller-passing could make for a nice gimmick, especially with the Yoshis' rally system and all. Yeah I said that we would be doing that, but it seemed clear that no one here wants to see a blind LP of this game in particular, so I figured we'd probably stick with players who are more experienced in order to avoid hair-pulling among viewers. We'd probably still have some handoff between myself and Christine, as we're the two who have played a good amount of this game before. Traci hasn't played at all. Lazyfire, I haven't had the opportunity to meet with everyone yet (we're hoping to get together Tuesday or Wednesday), but I at least am strongly considering rerecording, at least to provide more real content. Coolguye, yeah we were talking about that amongst ourselves. I wonder how different the tastes of the crowd in this thread are in comparison to the general forum citizenry. But it really is a relief for us to hear that trying to do something simple and that has been done before isn't the worst idea ever, while we're figuring out our voice as commentators. I don't think our expectations are terribly high for this LP...like I said, we want to hammer out the kinks and determine if this is something we really want to spend our time on, and a short, simple game is what we think would work best to serve that purpose. And the only way to get better is to just try, and see what people think. Now we're trying to implement the feedback. Vicas, you are awesome. I'm glad you chimed in, because first it gives me an opportunity to tell you that I love your LPs; Dark Souls was superbly entertaining and Super Mario 64 was hilarious and impressive. Your advice is invaluable, and I think you've really hit home the point that I've been having trouble understanding. In my head, I loved the first video because it was our first try, it was exciting and new and I had a lot of personal investment in it, all of us did. But after letting things cool off, I see what you're saying: being willing to sacrifice footage in the name of a cleaner, more entertaining final product is a better mentality. Between Vicas and Spiffo explaining it, I really like the idea of having one person who's a little bit more prepared, with info about the game and talking points to help fill lulls, so that we don't have this panic to always have something to say. I think it will help us be a little less frenetic, along with having a player who's more familiar with the game. Thanks to all of you, it's been an enormous help today. I apologize if I've been thick-headed or defensive...it's tough not to be when the project is personal like this. Like I said before, we'll post here again when we've taken steps towards a new video.
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If I could give one piece of advice, just find a game that one or more of you guys honestly love and LP it. Don't worry if you think it's very LPable or not, don't worry about having played it recently or whatever. The fact that you care about the game will mean you will put that much extra effort into making sure you're doing it justice in showing it to others, and that'll translate to a good product.
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Though this is starting to simmer down now I'll just say that, while I didn't quite fully enjoy the first draft mostly because of the technical stuff (audio mix specifically), I do feel like your group might have a good bit of chemistry. You all sound nerdy or in to games enough to warrant sitting down together and playing and managing to be somewhat relevant. I'm glad it's not just a case of you trying to get your vaguely interested friends to sit and make jokes about games. You could have a really cool thing if you heed the advice of the sandcastle a bit more if only because the people posting think what they're saying will help you rather than drive you off the forum. You probably will find a more accepting audience from general forum goers rather than the sandcastle regulars who get a lot of first timers and people seeking to improve and thus have grown to be very specific about advice because they've had to say it over and over (which is nice, that they still do that!). People speak with a lot of finality here because it usually only goes one of two ways: The person accepts the advice and is willing to tweak or improve or they turn in to defensive little blouses and rush back to the sanctity of YouTube. I'd say that with a few tweaks (everyone's got you covered, I have nothing productive to add) like letting the more experienced people play most often and trying to play to the strengths of your commentary (you guys were close to being quite funny/entertaining at times before getting distracted), fixing the tech issues and perhaps having a little bit of a session plan even if you still want certain group members to go blind, having a little guideline or goal in mind for the session might help. That wound up being a lot more  than I had intended but whatever. I hope to see you come back with more after you've chatted with your group.
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Sundowner posted:Though this is starting to simmer down now I'll just say that, while I didn't quite fully enjoy the first draft mostly because of the technical stuff (audio mix specifically), I do feel like your group might have a good bit of chemistry. You all sound nerdy or in to games enough to warrant sitting down together and playing and managing to be somewhat relevant. I'm glad it's not just a case of you trying to get your vaguely interested friends to sit and make jokes about games. You could have a really cool thing if you heed the advice of the sandcastle a bit more if only because the people posting think what they're saying will help you rather than drive you off the forum. Thanks for the kind words, and the explanation of the mentality. Can you email doubledatelp at gmail dot com? I wanted to follow up with you outside the thread, if you don't mind. JT Jag, I think our trouble was finding a game that doesn't require a PVR that we all also love. In Yoshi's Island, we found a game that at least half the group loved and that most of us were aware of (Traci didn't have a console until I bought her a PS2 a few years back). However, game selection is still a topic for discussion...we may yet try something different.
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:More of a technical advice; you appear to have recorded your video in native console resolution and encoded/uploaded it to Youtube just like that. Two things wrong with that: Holy moly, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you so much!
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I am trying to find TheDarkID's unfinished Final Fantasy X LP and am chronically bad at searching the SomethingAwful forums. Would anyone happen to have a link by any chance?
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Captain Oblivious posted:I am trying to find TheDarkID's unfinished Final Fantasy X LP and am chronically bad at searching the SomethingAwful forums. Would anyone happen to have a link by any chance? And if you have trouble searching, it never hurts to check out the LP Master List Database: http://lparchive.org/lpmaster/
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Niggurath posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3483148 Muchos gracias. drat do I miss me some TDI LPs~
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I'm doing a screenshot LP of an old game called KGB/Conspiracy. It's been in the works a long while, and I'm in the editing stage. It's a bit rough at this point, but I'd like some feedback all the same. http://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=14104 Some notes: The character portraits are too big, I know. What would be a good size for them? I doubled the size of all the screenshots, using the nearest neighbor scaler. They were originally 320x200, and were way too small to see anything. Is this a good idea? There's a problem with the in-game time. I'll edit them using Photoshop.
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red mammoth posted:I'm doing a screenshot LP of an old game called KGB/Conspiracy. It's been in the works a long while, and I'm in the editing stage. It's a bit rough at this point, but I'd like some feedback all the same.
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red mammoth posted:I'm doing a screenshot LP of an old game called KGB/Conspiracy. 1. There's no need for the space between images one after another. 2. Since the images aren't that big, it might be better to put some of them side by side EDIT: Nevermind, the images are too big for that. It worked in the preview, though. I swear! 3. 480x300 might be a better option, especially if you want to put them side by side.   Like that. 4. I find for these adventure games, only showing off the interesting bits of text works best, so cutting down on some of the boring text like, "Nothing Special" when inspecting Belov's phone would be good. 5. Colons next to portraits are unnecessary. I don't understand why people use them when it's obvious that the next to portraits refers to them. This isn't an insult to you, so please don't take it that way. 6. Portrait sizes might be a little too big, but it's not that big of a deal. 7. I think you should add some of your own commentary to break up the monotony of the conversations. I get that it's supposed to be a first person narrative LP, so adding the main characters thoughts could be a good start. Finally, why should the reader pay attention to your LP? This isn't a knock on your work - it's not bad. But it's pretty bland at this point, and the game seems to not be that interesting so far, even though I don't really know what's going on without some sort of introduction and we've barely seen any of it. The title is Conspiracy, so there probably is more to it. I'm stealing this line of thought from somebody else in the sandcastle a little while ago, but I think if you're going to make a narrative LP, you've got two choices. You can either make something plain-toast, and most won't remember it three months after it's done, or you've got to make it your own. It's certainly not easy: a good narrative LP is a hell of a lot harder to make than a good informative one, and it'll take a lot of work. However, if the game's plot is interesting, narrative can take a backseat and play a supplemental role, but I still think you should tweak your narrative into something more memorable. gatz fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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OKAY! I have changed up the video footage, so it should look much clearer. Just thought I'd check in one more time, just to make sure I'm not forgetting something. Thank you everyone who helped me in tech and helped me here. --------- Let's Play...  The Story: Mega Man X Command Mission takes place in the 23rd century about 100 years after the events of other games in the Mega Man X series. A new substance known as "Force Metal" is extracted from the debris of a small meteorite. New technology based on the metal revolutionizes the field of Reploid Engineering. So of course the only smart thing to do was build a whole city/island centered on this new technology, mining and smelting the metal so later Mavericks can come in and take it. Let's also make sure there’s no Maverick Hunter base set on the island to protect it. I’m sure there’s some sort of Maverick invasion quota they have to fill per year. Giga City, where the game takes place, is an artificial island in the middle of an ocean. A takeover of the island is staged by a Reploid named Epsilon, who has gathered others to his cause. They call themselves The Rebellion. What exactly they’re rebelling against is less clear. But this assult brands him and the others with him as Mavericks, so a call is made by Colonel Redips to the Maverick Hunters for backup. This is where the story begins. And quickly ceases to make any sense. At least it’s upholding the fine tradition of the later Megaman games. About the Game: Despite the game's plot being so easy to lose track of, the gameplay is pretty good. It's a turn-based RPG, which is very different for a Megaman game, with some neat mechanics thrown in to keep things interesting. I am set on finding all the items in each level, getting X and Zero's extra armors, and fighting the extra bosses. I’ll be playing the PS2 version of this game, so I can’t collect all the extra figurines present in the game, since some can only be obtained in the GameCube version. But the GC version is for masochists who enjoy unnecessarily high encounter rates and hurting their palms trying to spin the C-stick inhumanly fast, although the graphics and sound are a tiny bit better. About the Let’s Play: The purpose of this LP is to show off this game to any Megaman X fan that may have missed it, and hopefully explain everything to any others who played this game and were just as confused as I was. This is going to be a hybrid SSLP, with videos included for cutscenes. The Chapters:  Part 1 Part 2
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Animated Reviewer posted:Mega Man X Command stuff  What's this all about? I presume this is on my end, but it's still super loving distracting. What you've got seems decent enough to me, besides that weird thing which is probably my fault anyway.
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I say pull the trigger. Looking forward to this game.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:
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frozentreasure posted:Check your browser text encoding settings. That's usually set by the webpage itself. Most commonly I've seen it when people use the weird (unicode?) directional single quotes (used by default in stuff like MS Word) instead of a normal universal apostrophe. EDIT: My browser is using ISO-8859-1 for that page and it indeed does show up as one of the single quotes. unfair fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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Xander77 posted:Bah. That will teach me to procrastinate my LP's forever (again). You could do with some commentary both in general, and about Soviet specific stuff. How many people in the LP forum are actually familiar with the Iron Felix? You were working on another LP of this game? Sorry about that. Anyway, thanks for the help. I'm thinking of adding a lot more commentary to the game, and I'll add Soviet stuff. gatz posted:1. There's no need for the space between images one after another.
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red mammoth posted:You were working on another LP of this game? Anyways, I guess I can do some commentary in your LP, if need be.
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Megaman X Command Mission Post! Thanks for all the help, everyone! The thread is now up.
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gatz posted:1. There's no need for the space between images one after another. I think It looks much better when images are separated by spaces. quote:2. Since the images aren't that big, it might be better to put some of them side by side Those portraits are definitely too big, though.
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You know, I've been thinking, I think I've got a relatively successful Let's Play going right now...but, there's no harm in posting my latest update, just to make sure I haven't gotten into any bad habits or anything, right? So basically, it's a sort of "alright, how am I doing so far", you know what I mean? So here it is. The update I'd like people to read (if they're willing), is the one right below the grinding one, if you don't mind. In any case, have a nice day! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3535179&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=5#post416647019 EDIT: Roger doger Sundowner! Thanks for telling me! Fionordequester fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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I haven't read the post yet but just fyi, you can link directly to a post by clicking this and copying the link it puts in your address bar:
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Is there a general guidelines for starting new LP's after finishing old ones? I just finished my Shadowrun LP, (the one for sega,) and now I want to go ahead and do an LP of the one for SNES, I'm building my stuff right now, and I was planning to have a post done by tonight-ish. I was just wondering if this is breaking some sort of guideline. Unrelated, but I definitely want to thank this thread for teaching me about lpix and rightload, which has made everything do 100x easier. I couldn't believe I was trying to use dropbox to host my pictures  .
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Jul 3, 2013 06:14
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There are people that are doing multiple LPs at once, no one cares if you start another one right away.
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Jul 3, 2013 06:19
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Turtlicious posted:Is there a general guidelines for starting new LP's after finishing old ones? I just finished my Shadowrun LP, (the one for sega,) and now I want to go ahead and do an LP of the one for SNES, I'm building my stuff right now, and I was planning to have a post done by tonight-ish. I was just wondering if this is breaking some sort of guideline.
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Jul 3, 2013 06:20
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Niggurath posted:It's all really up to what you can handle; there are some people out there that have multiple LP's running at once or immediately start LP's after finishing whatever they have just finished. I would say though that if you're just doing the SNES version of Shadowrun that it'd probably be fine to just stay with the thread you already have rather than starting a new one. Oh I didn't consider that, The two games are just really different, so I worry about having my OP be about one game then being pointed to a new OP about another game. The two versions are way different, (like Action RPG compared to a Point 'n' Click.) Even though they're different, I should still keep with my old thread? vvv Alright, cool thanks. Turtlicious fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 06:27
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Turtlicious posted:Oh I didn't consider that, The two games are just really different, so I worry about having my OP be about one game then being pointed to a new OP about another game. The two versions are way different, (like Action RPG compared to a Point 'n' Click.) Even though they're different, I should still keep with my old thread? There's no rule against it and if you feel it'd be difficult to integrate it into what you already have, then I'd say just make a new thread.
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Jul 3, 2013 06:37
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Of course the one time I decide to skip the Sand Castle, I have issues. My images look super blurry in thread. (seen here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3557876&pagenumber=1#lastpost) but when I open them individually they look fine.  They also look fine in my Quick Reply Box, is SALR resizing the images in thread? Or does it seem somewhat blurry to you guys as well?
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Jul 3, 2013 07:56
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Turtlicious posted:Of course the one time I decide to skip the Sand Castle, I have issues. They look fine in thread to me. Must be your SALR resizing them.
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Jul 3, 2013 08:01
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I think I can guess, but I figured I should ask just in case: does the 3-month rule apply to Sandcastle posts as well? Me and a buddy are recording The Last of Us and I just figured I'd check to see if getting my stuff sorted out sooner rather than later was a possibility.
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