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Okay okay okay, broadly saying checks were taking out was misleading, if anything it was combat checks that got reduced, and that kinda took me out of the battles a little bit. It seemed like the chance and creativity were sapped out a bit in favor of a more streamlined, matter-of-fact style of battle, which isn't really my scene. This is where I dig Pathfinder and White Wolf a little better, too. Back in Dream Land, I have a question for you: Just how badly do you think John's going to take the realization of Insane Mode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O7CNcfEQsE
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So by my rough math we'll be getting to Dreamland 3 sometime next year. That is an absurd amount of levels. Also the game loves throwing blocks at you instead of stars which makes everything take twice as long unless you can consistently pull off combos. What sociopath designed this game 
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Sep 20, 2016 20:47
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If I don't rip the controller out of his hands in frustration before then.
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Dustin, take the wheel! Happy to see that the realization of the sheer size of Insane Mode hasn't made John burn down the house. I think him going hands-off for a bit will help. Maybe. Probably not. I'm a gamer, not a doctor, my license was revoked, yo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3_fRzp0iD0
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Can we talk about this? Just why exactly does Japan have a thing for naming games after themselves? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odXP7EBLy_c
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The reason so many Castlevania titles have the same JP name is because while they are very different games from each other, they all tell the same story. CV1, Vampire Killer, Haunted Castle, SCV4, and the X68000 game are all about Simon Belmont's first quest to kill Dracula. Super 4 was originally localized as a sequel to CV2, so in the US it was considered Simon's third adventure, but it's supposed to just be another remake of the original game. I always thought it was kind of cool because it gives this sense that Simon is the ultimate legendary vampire hunter so over the years people were telling stories and adding their own weird embellishments like merchants in the walls or Simon having blue hair.
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That's a pretty neat interpretation, I like that idea a lot! And yeah, shortly after recording that episode, I looked up a bit more and realized that Super Castlevania IV was in fact a remake of Castlevania on the NES, so that does make sense (and frankly, makes the double-sequelly name of the SNES game completely ridiculous).
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At least they have not fallen under the same plague as Capcom Super Castlevania 4 Alpha Hyper Fighting Edition DX
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Of course not, they just decided to junk 30 years of history and start over. Much better, right? In the meantime, here's one last episode of John, Dustin and I screwing with Insane Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnE9md3m5w0
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Oh jesus christ you guys are doing loving Battle Chip Challenge? Have you contemplated hardcore BDSM instead to satisfy your masochism? Unlike BCC the pain is instantaneous, the mechanics are engaging and you meet interesting people! BN4 and BCC are the point where the BN series takes a nose-dive, it's when Capcom Sequel Effect kicked into high gear. The games are merched to poo poo. I'm talking e-reader cards, event only chips (admittedly not a new thing for the series but way worse during this time, continues to 5 and somewhat to 6) and massive emphasis on multiple versions. It's a shame you guys started this before BN4 because BN4 has codes for BCC hidden in the world. like so: http://lparchive.org/Mega-Man-Battle-Network-4-6/Update%2001/41-capture_29092010_164557.png They are all needlessly long as hell. You can fast forward fights by pressing B once. There is kind of a wall in the beginning of the game when you go from tournament 1 to tournament 2. So believe me, you're gonna loving feel those 30 opponents. There is indeed a post-game. It's a 100 battle long tournament with a super boss at the end. Honestly, it's not even like hard. You will probably have a strategy down by that point so it's just a matter of wearing your opponents down. It's just tedium to the extreme. This is not the worst game of the BN series because 1) I don't consider it a part of the BN series and 2) I don't consider it a game. I still wonder whether Xover or this had more gameplay. I actually lean towards Xover, despite having a visceral hatred of that game. BCC is a fee2play phone game released before its time for 40 bucks. It boggles me that Inticreates was a part of this since they also made ZX and that game is rock loving solid. Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Yeeeeeeup, we're gonna slog through it. It's (in my opinion) the worst of the Battle Network timeline games, but at least we're pushing through it double-time to catch up to our planned schedule, so it'll be over before you know it. 4-6 forms a neat (if inferior) trilogy of Battle Network games, and while they don't stick in my head nearly as well as 1-3, I do kinda like the Dr. Regal arc, and how everything ties back into the original trilogy. Time will tell, though. Still deciding exactly how we're handling Battle Network 4 between its two versions and re-release. We may attempt the 100-fight tournament for shits and giggles depending how fast we blast through the game, and I don't know that we'll be playing Rockman Xover since it's inaccessible at this point, but we'll see what we can do. And yes, the Zero and ZX series are phenomenal, and I'm desperately excited to start playing those. Meanwhile, back in Dream Land, let's plot the next snake oil of the day so we can get John to buy more needless bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHKNQejlLTY
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ricdesi posted:and I don't know that we'll be playing Rockman Xover since it's inaccessible at this point, but we'll see what we can do. You could always just play the Newgrounds version
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Dresh posted:You could always just play the Newgrounds version oh god :[
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Time for John to flex his only football muscle and namedrop the local team's coach. I'm sure it'll be a gripping conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-3lXFjONhk And honestly, I just had to drop this Ben gem from one of our fans The Alpar in here, because gently caress me this was way funnier than it probably should have been: 
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http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-can-be-your-angle-or-yuor-devil
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You know, it funny you brought up the "Chocolate Milk" story as I just finished watching all of the Legendary Let's Play minus that 4th playlist of the 3ds remakes, the rest of Hyrule Warriors and Triforce Heroes. I'll get to that one probably after I've caught up with the Mega Let's Play.
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mateo360 posted:You know, it funny you brought up the "Chocolate Milk" story as I just finished watching all of the Legendary Let's Play minus that 4th playlist of the 3ds remakes, the rest of Hyrule Warriors and Triforce Heroes. I'll get to that one probably after I've caught up with the Mega Let's Play. Remains one of my favorite ridiculous stories to this day (and is thankfully pretty drat easy to find among all our videos). I mentioned this in the other thread, but at the end of the week I was a bit distracted from posting here due to best man duties, so here are the videos that went up since the last post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBqB8QdNrbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRhQqzGMIsQ
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As for today's episode, we're spending some time talking about "jumping the shark" and other associated "suspension of disbelief" tropes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljTh5GMhx7s
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So you looked at the Mega Man cartoon in the Mega Let's Play and are looking at the Sonic cartoon (one of them, anyway) in the Sonic Let's Play. Are you going to look at the Kirby cartoon in this Let's Play?
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Carbon dioxide posted:Wow, you guys are still playing Star Stacker? I think I'm gonna tune out until the next game. There's only so many blocks you can watch fall down before it gets boring. I've been treating it like a podcast, just listening to it. Their chatter amuses me.
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For example, today's episode features a frankly disgusting amount of conversation related to whether or not Ben actually eats dicks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm-vcKJmiM That said, I assure you that we're speeding up (literally as of tomorrow). I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this series'll tap out at around 33 episodes total.
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ricdesi posted:For example, today's episode features a frankly disgusting amount of conversation related to whether or not Ben actually eats dicks. So you finally get better about clearing the middle row? That's been the cause of so many frustrating last second fails.
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Related to your continued megaman-ish suffering This is a Komusō Buddhist monk, their most notable trait was playing a bamboo flute to meditate and/or beg for alms. They were abolished by the Tokugawa shogunate but the practice was revived by modern Buddhists as a historical reenactment thing. I think the wicker basket hat was meant to impart some level of anonymity. The music for his stage is a lovely 8 bit version of the SNES Tengu man stage music.
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Ooh, neato... That definitely explains the getup and his gear. I also find it amusing (and more than a little confusing) that Challenger from the Future has both a Komuso Man and a Compass Man. That's gotta be real aggravating for the Japanese speakers.Ryushikaze posted:So you finally get better about clearing the middle row? That's been the cause of so many frustrating last second fails. Something like that, yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWhOLqZUxAs
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I swear I wasn't trying to show him up or make him feel bad!
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It's pretty convenient that folks were making some Empty Video Game Nerd parallels with the previous episode, because in this one, we're busting out a couple (really awful) Dustin impersonations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdL61x2R1a4
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And now... for the cringe of high school to come rushing on back into our memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w1VWAFO6FU
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Sometimes, we come to some... real uncomfortable conclusions when we let our mouths talk before our brains can figure out what's coming out of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTQmy-5zZU
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Mega Man and Sonic may be experiencing some scheduling setbacks, but that doesn't mean we can't regale in more stories of John's intense melissophobia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AneJG99Z7fc
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ricdesi posted:Mega Man and Sonic may be experiencing some scheduling setbacks, but that doesn't mean we can't regale in more stories of John's intense melissophobia: Regarding your Mega Let's Play, I have two pieces of advice to make the WonderSwan Megaman & Bass easier on yourselves (for Megaman at least, Bass gets better weapons and his double jump comes in handy, but it takes a lot more work to make him useful. But I'm assuming you guys are only doing one playthrough): 1. Grind up at least 300 bolts so you can buy the Super Armor from the shop (the item that looks like this: "( )") which cuts the damage you take in half (there's another item that does the same for special weapon usage which is also useful). 2. Beat Aircon Man (the boss right above Komuso Man on the Stage Select) as early as possible as literally every single boss in the game is weak to his weapon. Larryb fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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Larryb posted:Regarding your Mega Let's Play, I have two pieces of advice to make the WonderSwan Megaman & Bass easier on yourselves (for Megaman at least, Bass gets better weapons and his double jump comes in handy, but it takes a lot more work to make him useful. But I'm assuming you guys are only doing one playthrough): Hadn't put much thought into it, but if the game ends up being pretty short (and judging by what we've recorded so far, it's looking that way) we may consider doing Bass's storyline too. Larryb posted:1. Grind up at least 300 bolts so you can buy the Super Armor from the shop (the item that looks like this: "( )") which cuts the damage you take in half (there's another item that does the same for special weapon usage which is also useful). Doing this as soon as possible. More armor would be a serious help (even though most stuff seems to barely hurt Mega Man). Larryb posted:2. Beat Aircon Man (the boss right above Komuso Man on the Stage Select) as early as possible as literally every single boss in the game is weak to his weapon. Currently in Aircon Man's stage, christ almighty this level is exhausting and brutal. Happy to report Star Stacker is moving along nicely -- we're starting to approach the end, and we even have a long-missed friend rejoining us for the final episodes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-pM05GRTMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F8SR0VBOto
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ricdesi posted:Hadn't put much thought into it, but if the game ends up being pretty short (and judging by what we've recorded so far, it's looking that way) we may consider doing Bass's storyline too. The game is only 8 stages long (and that's counting the intro and final levels) but yeah, Megaman seems a bit more durable than Bass in general. Aircon Man's level is probably the worst one in the game but the reward is worth it. If you do end up doing Bass' story I'd also recommend getting the items that power up his shots and give him the ability to shoot through walls (unfortunatly though they both cost 300 bolts a piece). Overall while it does get far more manageable once you get a few weapons and powerups under your belt this is not a particularly well designed game (the items are all stupidly expensive, the level design isn't great, weapon energy is only refilled on a Game Over rather than between stages like every other game, and there is some absolutely dickish enemy placement at times plus the fact that a lot of said enemies hit pretty hard without the armor upgrade). Larryb fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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Oh god. We finished the game last night and christ, there are some absolutely monstrous enemy placements. Was that game even QA tested at all? gently caress me. Annnnnnnd here's another pair of Star Stacker videos as we inch closer to the finale! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix1HXyQAwvg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rkiDECPr-U
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ricdesi posted:Oh god. We finished the game last night and christ, there are some absolutely monstrous enemy placements. Was that game even QA tested at all? gently caress me. So out of curiousity, do you guys basically go into a lot of the games you do blind (which seems to be the case during a lot of your Megaman playthroughs at least) or does it vary? Also, since you did Mighty No. 9 a little while back are you planning on tackling other Megaman-like games such as Shovel Knight and/or the Azure Striker Gunvolt series at some point (Inafune did have some involvement in the development of the latter at least)? Larryb fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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We usually go in as blind as we can for most games. A lot of folks seem to like our raw reactions to unexpected stuff much more than series where we go in knowing a lot about what's going on, so we try to bottle it as best we can. As far as Mega Man-like games, we've already done the main campaign for Shovel Knight a little over two years ago, though we always said we were going to come back for more. We'll likely continue it (though maybe not necessarily as part of the Mega Let's Play) -- as far as Azure Striker Gunvolt I & II and Mighty Gunvolt go, those are definitively part of the Mega Let's Play (since they're so tightly woven into Mighty No. 9 and Inti Creates). WAY down the line, but they're coming!
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