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Bobulus posted:The update says the first story (girl with flashlight in trolltown) will probably be four-ish episodes. It means part 4 will be released in 2030 and be basically Skyrim.
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Oct 30, 2014 22:53
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Bobulus posted:The update says the first story (girl with flashlight in trolltown) will probably be four-ish episodes. Homestuck is finally going to take the final step, and go full DBZ as the pacing slows down to a pace where most of us will not live to beat the game.
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Oct 30, 2014 22:55
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Freak Futanari posted:most of us will not live to beat the game Sounds like SBurb all right.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:03
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Plom Bar posted:Welp. Game's probably not going to be good. Oh well. But what if the game ends with flashlight girl getting home, logging onto her computer, and starting her sburb FAQ under the name winniethepoop2? ????
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Oct 30, 2014 23:05
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Bobulus posted:But what if the game ends with flashlight girl getting home, logging onto her computer, at which point you see her screen name...
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Oct 30, 2014 23:06
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Renaissance Robot posted:Chapter 1) Does it really count as episodic if it's just cut in two? Also Persona 2 Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment, the best Persona games.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:13
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Bobulus posted:But what if the game ends with flashlight girl getting home, logging onto her computer, and starting her sburb FAQ under the name winniethepoop2? This would make it all worth it.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:17
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Freak Futanari posted:Then again, we all deserve this for actually funding a Kickstarter. Nah you just funded the wrong kickstarter. Undertale is looking pretty sweet.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:38
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Ammat The Ankh posted:I'm still waiting for Half-Life 3 Well first there will be Half-Life 2 Episode 3 Act 1, Half-Life 2 Episode 3 Act 1 Intermission A Part 1...
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Oct 30, 2014 23:39
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I'll settle for the two protagonists going on wild adventures on Earth/Alternia respectively, finally making their way home, then both getting immediately incinerated in Sburb/Sgrub-related meteor strikes. Although I have to wonder if they do the "troll on earth" story why a troll would possibly want to leave Earth and go back to Alternia. You'd probably have a better shot at survival on earth dodging government agents than on cull-happy Alternia where you get drafted into the foreverwar. I wonder if that shades-wearing troll with the antler horns we saw in an earlier bit of screenshot/concept art is the troll Joey is meant to switch places with?
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Oct 30, 2014 23:49
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What the gently caress is a troll going to do on Earth? Earth sucks rear end.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:59
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Dolash posted:I'll settle for the two protagonists going on wild adventures on Earth/Alternia respectively, finally making their way home, then both getting immediately incinerated in Sburb/Sgrub-related meteor strikes. Although I have to wonder if they do the "troll on earth" story why a troll would possibly want to leave Earth and go back to Alternia. You'd probably have a better shot at survival on earth dodging government agents than on cull-happy Alternia where you get drafted into the foreverwar. Maybe it'll be a highblood troll who was having a merry old time murdering filthy lowblood scum.
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net cafe scandal posted:What the gently caress is a troll going to do on Earth? Earth sucks rear end. Have you ever watched Crocodile Dundee?
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Yeah I payed 4 million dollars to watch a semi-canon troll watch Crocodile Dundee on the Unity engine. Get. Real.
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Crocodile Dundee was pretty funny though, i liked it.
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net cafe scandal posted:What the gently caress is a troll going to do on Earth? Sit under a bridge and extort money from travelers.
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Oct 31, 2014 00:07
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Maybe get hunted by the Condesce who's still in hiding as Betty Crocker and would probably like to know what the hell another troll is doing in this universe. Apart from that anything from E.T. involving hiding from dudes who want to dissect an alien will qualify. Then again it'd be funny if he spent the whole game on the couch, watching TV and ordering pizza because it turns out life on earth is way better than on Alternia.
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Dolash posted:Maybe get hunted by the Condesce who's still in hiding as Betty Crocker and would probably like to know what the hell another troll is doing in this universe. Apart from that anything from E.T. involving hiding from dudes who want to dissect an alien will qualify. Then again it'd be funny if he spent the whole game on the couch, watching TV and ordering pizza because it turns out life on earth is way better than on Alternia. Troll game consists entirely of avoiding ways to get back home. He can't go now, he still hasn't finished watching through Breaking Bad yet!
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Oct 31, 2014 00:23
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net cafe scandal posted:Yeah I payed 4 million dollars to watch a semi-canon troll watch Crocodile Dundee on the Unity engine. Get. Real. You pretty much did, yeah, sorry
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Oct 31, 2014 00:25
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Anyone who has ever donated to a Kickstarter campaign scammed themselves and this one is no exception. It's that phrase about fools and their money, repeated ten million times by ten million mouths.
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Oct 31, 2014 00:37
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loquacius posted:He hired a game studio of his own??? Dangit I just finished a search for engineering jobs in Massachusetts, some of which were in the games industry, a month or so ago. How did I never hear about this??? It's actually based in New York now, those posers.
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Oct 31, 2014 00:47
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Oxxidation posted:Anyone who has ever donated to a Kickstarter campaign scammed themselves and this one is no exception. There's plenty of Kickstarter campaigns that work out well. It's just that most of them aren't for video games.
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Oct 31, 2014 02:32
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For those that didn't back, here's the kickstarter update: http://mspaintadventures.com/KSupdate.html That last concept art makes it seem like one of the adventure game puzzles is going to be crafting yourself a lovely set of horns so you can wander around Alternia with antler-troll's friends.
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Oxxidation posted:Anyone who has ever donated to a Kickstarter campaign scammed themselves and this one is no exception. Mighty No. 9 looks pretty okay.
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GeneX posted:Mighty No. 9 looks pretty okay. I am a huge idiot and paid way too much money to get into the Beta, it's pretty fun!
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Oct 31, 2014 03:43
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JT Jag posted:So here I was, going on a nostalgia trip, running through all these old flashes, and then I reached this page. Right here. I think that's a pretty good point of where things started "going downhill", if you are of the opinion that homestuck has gone downhill. Hussie was extremely good at creating the effect that there were very big and mysterious things going on behind the curtain for the first few acts of homestuck, which is what really got me hooked in the first place. It really felt like the answers that would eventually come would be really satisfying. Anyone else remember reading the end of the Spades Slick intermission? That absolutely blew my mind, and is the reason that whole part is my favorite. Understandably, the effect of the first few acts has completely gone away, and I'm not even sure what important mysteries we're supposed to be pondering at this point are.
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Yeah can't say I was not expecting this, it's like the ol' trollpocalypse from ages past and at this point Hussie has me not even caring if anyone comes back or not; because he has shown us time and time again that he will do whatever he pleases. EDIT: man am I paranoid
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Yeah, I think I agree. When rereading the comic it's actually strange how many of the earlier mysteries turn out not to be important - the story's almost completely left Sburb behind, the idea of the game and its rules mattering has sort of been dropped. Bec Noir was the driving, building villain for the first half of the comic and they don't even beat him, he's just faded to relative irrelevance. The story's not really about discovery or fitting things together anymore, there aren't that many mysteries left to solve, there's just a big heap of cosmic powers stacked up and we're waiting to see how they shake out and who ends up on top. It's still a lot of fun, especially now that it's back and updating again, but Homestuck seemed to outrun Hussie at some point and I'm hoping he used at least some of that year off to rough out what's going to happen in the rest of the comic and do a little editing and smoothing. The flash was an encouraging first step since it worked a bit like Cascade or Descend did to clean up plot threads and tighten up the story.
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While we're all awake like losers, the Paradox Space story just finished. I like it a lot, though I am probably biased from reading Junji Ito comics for the last hour.
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YggiDee posted:While we're all awake like losers, the Paradox Space story just finished. I like it a lot, though I am probably biased from reading Junji Ito comics for the last hour.
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Dolash posted:Yeah, I think I agree. When rereading the comic it's actually strange how many of the earlier mysteries turn out not to be important - the story's almost completely left Sburb behind, the idea of the game and its rules mattering has sort of been dropped. Bec Noir was the driving, building villain for the first half of the comic and they don't even beat him, he's just faded to relative irrelevance. Irrelevance? He's one of the three horrifically powerful beings threatening everyone's lives of their own volition (the others being Jack English and the Batterwitch now that Aranea is dead again) and he just killed Dave. The fact that he's less powerful than Lord English doesn't make him irrelevant at all.
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The game didn't have a clear idea, pitch or plan behind it, and I'm sure most people outside the MSPA fandom had absolutely no interest in funding the project before or after it's multimillion dollar success. Most people gave money because they want to support Hussie as a creator, and/or are guilty about consuming 100+ hours of free entertainment provided by a single crazy person working night and day. Given the man's reputation for being a troll, I'm actually surprised with how responsible and accountable he's been throughout this process. All of his posts over the past couple months have lacked the playfulness typical of him, which is disheartening to see. 
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Dolash posted:I like episodic games and thought it'd make sense for the Homestuck game from the start. Pretty skeptical that Hussie'll ever pull off the game, though - I mean, it was funded two years ago and they're still at the "putting together a team, drawing concept art, playing with pre-pre-alpha models" phase. It sounds VERY Double Fine Adventure Game, and I bet the cost of prototyping it with one set of programmers/designers and then moving their work over probably extended their development time frame by years (you know, Hussie style). That said, the previous studio (The Odd Gentleman) looked like it came out with pretty lovely material that didn't look anything adventure-gamey, or might have just wanted to do their new Kings Quest stuff full-time. Freak Futanari posted:Also, i think it's pretty lovely of them to split the game into two. Even if they claim that they're both going to be complete games, it's pretty obvious that they just decided to cut the game in half so they could recoup some of the money they lost when they decided to hire a bunch of nobodies to make their game. You're still getting the whole game, so you can't complain about that. Here's what you can complain about :
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pumpinglemma posted:Irrelevance? He's one of the three horrifically powerful beings threatening everyone's lives of their own volition (the others being Jack English and the Batterwitch now that Aranea is dead again) and he just killed Dave. The fact that he's less powerful than Lord English doesn't make him irrelevant at all. He's been outpaced, there are multiple characters who have powers that make him effectively irrelevant in the big picture, and he has an equal who's opposed to him in all matters not relating to being a Good Dog and guarding Jade. Also he's stopped being a character with actual personality to some degree, and taken on more and more of an "oh, another super powered animal" type of thing as time has gone on and new villains were introduced. He's basically become a giant, relatively evil dog. He was a super-ambitious menace to two entire humanoid races beforehand. That's a pretty significant downgrade, even if it's just a matter of depiction.
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I like when Jack walks through a dream bubble and it shows him all the places he destroyed and people he killed, and then we get the good fight scene between John and he.
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It was one of the really good parts of Act 6 so far in this Homestucker's opinion
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net cafe scandal posted:I like when Jack walks through a dream bubble and it shows him all the places he destroyed and people he killed, and then we get the good fight scene between John and he. Same. That one panel that was a big pastiche of all the destroyed stuff was really good and cool.
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David Copperfield posted:Double Fine, for all of its "holy poo poo we dug ourselves in too deep," is at least big enough to have other projects paper over their cash flows while it delays getting a game out there. And Hussie/WP isn't? How much merch do they have that stupid teenagers keep buying at this point?
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