October Game Chat Thread Ghost House

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Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

Cowcaster posted:

i don't really watch these speedrun things but aren't you obligated to power through your fuckups and keep going until the run is complete regardless of whether or not your time is going to be screwed up

Super Metroid has no autosaves. If you die you go back to the beginning of the game since they skip all the save points.

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Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

In Training posted:

It's a race so theres no reason to start over if you die. Also they don't ever save

what if the guy you're racing dies

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:22

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

Then they would probably just stop the block due to scheduling

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:23

tap my mountain: Jan 1, 2009; I'm the quick and the deadly

If they never reach the end of the game do the animals still die?

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:23

oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

i think it was the year before this one that three of the runners died to ridley/mother brain and the guy who was in fourth went on to win. that one was good

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:24

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

In Training posted:

It's a race so theres no reason to start over if you die. Also they don't ever save

They sound like a bunch of scrubs to me.

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:26

oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

tap my mountain posted:

If they never reach the end of the game do the animals still die?

presumably they're safe since samus doesn't trigger the autodestruct

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Raxivace: Sep 9, 2014

Using science, I've determined the best race was actually the recent 10 v 1 Super Mario 64 run.

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oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

the best race was Tropical Freeze and everyone should watch it

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:28

Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

the only videogames i watch, are the ones im playing,

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:29

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

Who would ever vote to kill these cute lil' buggers, they teach you how to wall jump

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Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

yeah that would be helpful if it hadn't figured out how to wall jump 36 years before i ever found those guys

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oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

are you really that old grandpa

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Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

not many people can claim to have figured out the wall-jump in galaga, but i was the first

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Saint Freak: Apr 16, 2007; Regretting is an insult to oneself; Buglord

Cowcaster posted:

not many people can claim to have figured out the wall-jump in galaga, but i was the first

But you can, and you say it outloud everyday to people in your college class?

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:37

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

But is it gah-LAH-gah or GA-lah-gah.

# ? Oct 12, 2017 16:38

tap my mountain: Jan 1, 2009; I'm the quick and the deadly

Cowcaster posted:

yeah that would be helpful if it hadn't figured out how to wall jump 36 years before i ever found those guys

I'm going to call BS on this one. Knowing how to wall jump in modern games only makes it harder in Super Metroid.

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haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

exquisite tea posted:

gah-LAH-gah

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Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

It's Galaxian

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CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

It's pronounced "Ace Combat 14"

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Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

That reminds me, the whole reason I bought Ace Combat 4 back in the day was because of a kiosk playing the game in a Toys 'R Us and how loving amazing it looked.

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Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

exquisite tea posted:

But is it gah-LAH-gah or GA-lah-gah.

gai-lah-gai

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Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

exquisite tea posted:

But is it gah-LAH-gah or GA-lah-gah.

actually it's Garaga :rolleyes:

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haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

But is it a hard or soft G

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exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Wamdoodle posted:

gai-lah-gai

Gay le Gay would be a very different type of game, but one that I would be interested in seeing.

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Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

haveblue posted:

But is it a hard or soft G

it's the same sound as in "garage" or "luggage"

# ? Oct 12, 2017 17:21

chumbler: Mar 28, 2010

Will Battlefront 2 finally be the game that flies too close to the loot box sun?

# ? Oct 12, 2017 17:35

tap my mountain: Jan 1, 2009; I'm the quick and the deadly

chumbler posted:

Will Battlefront 2 finally be the game that flies too close to the loot box sun?

Nah there's too much hype surrounding it for it to fail.

I honestly don't believe there's a breaking point for loot boxes. A decade ago we thought they'd push DLC too hard but now there's games with thousands of dollars worth of dlc and there's certainly somebody buying it all.

# ? Oct 12, 2017 18:11

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Star Citizen has shown us that fleecing nerds for all they're worth is really quite easy, and the most disastrous move is to actually try making a game.

# ? Oct 12, 2017 18:13

tap my mountain: Jan 1, 2009; I'm the quick and the deadly

Star Citizen is a good example because it shows that if you fleece em hard enough they'll band together and obsess over your every action, but they'll never learn from their actions and inevitably buy into the next perfect space game they see.

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The Colonel: Jun 8, 2013; I commute by bike!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfQwZESpVug

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An Actual Princess: Dec 23, 2006

I'm running a Games forum sheep game and VideoGames recommended I mention it in here so here it is.

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Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

no thanks i already own sheep game on steam

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Dr Cheeto: Mar 2, 2013; Wretched Harp

Closed-Down Pizza Parlor posted:

I'm running a Games forum sheep game and VideoGames recommended I mention it in here so here it is.

These are always good fun, thanks for making it happen!

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Zaphod42: Sep 13, 2012; If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

haveblue posted:

They did them for all the Halo games, and they just kept getting bigger and crazier. I ended up going to most of the NYC ones because at the time I was really involved with the Bungie fandom.

The Halo 2 event was held at the big Toys'r'Us in Times Square (rip) and while they didn't have any military vehicles yet they did run trailers on the billboards and a guerrilla marketing guy gave me a free Plantronics Xbox Live headset on condition that I also wear a Plantronics hat.

The Halo 3 event was held at the Best Buy near Bryant Park, and there they actually did have someone build a real-life Mongoose and drive it down 5th Avenue. I was too far back in the line to get a good look, but I heard the announcer get real excited about it. That was also where I first tried Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel and holy poo poo that stuff is disgusting.

The Halo Reach event was in a theater in Times Square. Kid Cudi was supposed to perform but he never showed up. I always thought he had scored an early copy of the game and bailed on us all to play it, then felt bad about thinking this a few years later when he revealed his history with depression.

And yeah, no one really does this any more. Way cheaper to mail boxes to a few dozen top streamers than to throw a big party somewhere.

These days lots of people buy digital so there's no reason to even go to a store, or interact with other nerds on release day.

Its all just twitch streams, yeah.

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Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

chumbler posted:

Will Battlefront 2 finally be the game that flies too close to the loot box sun?

http://www.pcgamer.com/mircrotransaction-and-dlc-have-tripled-the-value-of-the-game-industry/

loving the typo "mircrotransaction" in both the url and the article title btw

# ? Oct 12, 2017 18:52

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

Cowcaster posted:

http://www.pcgamer.com/mircrotransaction-and-dlc-have-tripled-the-value-of-the-game-industry/

loving the typo "mircrotransaction" in both the url and the article title btw

I hate consumers

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