|
Zereth posted:I know there's a sword which has a chance when it hits to "Bring an End", which causes the message "Let's Ragnarok" to appear in the message log and fills the loving map with dragons and giants and poo poo who fight each other In elona you can play music in front of people to earn money. If you fail the check, they'll throw a rock at you instead. The rock throw basically counts as a standard attack with some modifiers on it, which means that if you play music in front of this guy you can actually do so badly that you end the world. Also, even if ragnarok doesn't proc off of it the guy still has sky-high strength so he'll probably one-shot you with the rock anyway, which is great especially because this guy is in literally the first town. Speaking of the first town: in Elona, you start with a pet. This can be a cat, dog, bear, or small child. Theoretically, they're supposed to follow you around and help you out in battle. In practice, there's an open well in the first town about 3 squares from the entrance and 100% of the time your pet will fall into it and die instantly the first time you go there.
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2019 22:37
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 17, 2024 08:29 |
|
|
Another funny thing about the armageddon sword guy is that you can kill him and take his sword at level 1 if you're lucky or absurdly patient (the sword is functionally useless as it is essentially guaranteed to kill you, and everyone else, if you try to use it). The opportunity to do this arises when someone is randomly murdered by a werewolf in the starting town. This causes the voting box to unlock, and everyone votes for who they suspect of being the werewolf. You have to go vote for doomsday sword guy, then leave town and make sure you're not there when execution time rolls around (noon iirc) because it doesn't happen if the map isn't loaded and if they never execute anybody then they'll never catch the werewolf. You then come back into town just before midnight, wait around until someone is murdered, and do this again. Repeat the process until ragnarok sword man has the highest number of votes, wait around near him until noon, and go pick up his poo poo when he is instantly killed via democratic execution. I have, in the past, used this trick to kill both the King and Queen of Palmia so as to get their figurines and cards for my museum. There's something pretty funny about a reigning monarch being executed after the populace holds a calm, orderly vote on the matter. Angry Diplomat has a new favorite as of 00:32 on Jun 16, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 00:29
|
|
|
cock hero flux posted:in Elona, you start with a pet. This can be a cat, dog, bear, or small child. ok i was like "wtf you can have a small child as a pet" and googled it and like. uh. i mean let's tell the whole truth, apparently you start with specifically a little girl who is a loli warrior??? wtf is this game
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 00:36
|
|
|
It's anime. It's just... if all anime, ever, became a roguelike
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 00:37
|
|
|
Shady Amish Terror posted:Relatively few really follow this design logic, sadly. Cataclysm:Dark Days Ahead is pretty free-form and allows you to (for example) build remote-controlled tank drones to run over zombies with, and Nethack is the classic example of 'a million little interactions', but trying to build that kind of game means spending years just working on what would be called feature creep anywhere else. I guess Elona has some similarities, in the number of batshit insane paths to power and destruction there are, but I personally somehow found it even more punishing than Nethack. It's not as well-represented a design choice in roguelikes as it would be in, say, building games like Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio, and the like, where uncovering interactions in the world and then ruthlessly exploiting them is an explicit element of the gameplay loop. To be fair, a lot of SS13's weird bugs come from the particular engine it's made in. The fact that everything, even UI elements, if you go back far enough, is fundamentally the same type of object, has a physical location somewhere even if that location is "a person", etc.
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 00:46
|
|
|
Oh my god, give me any game where settlements can be both destroyed and slowly rebuilt And also werewolves make the NPCs play Werewolf, jfc
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 01:03
|
|
|
So these two roguelikes being discussed are Elona and IVAN, right? Where's the best to get them, apparently they're not under development anymore?
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 01:09
|
|
|
^^^I looked up Elona, and it looks to be a game for sex perverts, so uh maybe you shouldn't be trying to track it down.Dabir posted:To be fair, a lot of SS13's weird bugs come from the particular engine it's made in. The fact that everything, even UI elements, if you go back far enough, is fundamentally the same type of object, has a physical location somewhere even if that location is "a person", etc. Yeah, Space Station 13 really pushes the BYOND engine to its limits. One time me, and some other coders were curious about the other games on BYOND, but when we tried playing them they were all basically glorified chat clients. IShallRiseAgain has a new favorite as of 01:15 on Jun 16, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 01:12
|
|
|
Doc Hawkins posted:Oh my god, give me any game where settlements can be both destroyed and slowly rebuilt EDIT: as for obtaining them, you'll want to go ask in the roguelike thread, I'm not sure where to get the current versions of IVAN or Elona+ Zereth has a new favorite as of 01:20 on Jun 16, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 01:17
|
|
|
IShallRiseAgain posted:I looked up Elona, and it looks to be a game for sex perverts, it's not a game for sex perverts but was probably made by one
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 01:47
|
|
|
Zereth posted:I think they just reset if you stay away long enough, rather than people slowly rebuilding it. Thanks
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 01:51
|
|
|
I'm annoyed that modern open-world games cannot match the feature set of loving Raid on Bungeling Bay
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 05:21
|
|
|
InediblePenguin posted:ok i was like "wtf you can have a small child as a pet" and googled it and like. uh. i mean let's tell the whole truth, apparently you start with specifically a little girl who is a loli warrior??? wtf is this game Ahh. Epic. So the goons talking about the game are, in fact, pedophiles. Very well.
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 07:29
|
|
|
Elona is a weird game that generates interesting stories but is full of horrifically awful edgy garbage like a slave market
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2019 16:08
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/Kalonica_/status/1142302833657516032 Travelling outside map boundaries in Red Dead Dedemption (there's a few other glitches above, it's in the middle of a series of tweets) example tweet https://twitter.com/Kalonica_/status/1142304256705228800
|
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 07:28
|
|
|
IShallRiseAgain posted:^^^I looked up Elona, and it looks to be a game for sex perverts, so uh maybe you shouldn't be trying to track it down. 
Bum the Sad has a new favorite as of 22:06 on Jun 22, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 17:46
|
|
|
uvar posted:https://twitter.com/Kalonica_/status/1142302833657516032 Did anyone do this kinda stuff for rdr1? Kind of interesting given how most rockstar maps are islands and avoid this kind of stuff
|
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 17:56
|
|
|
Regular Nintendo posted:Did anyone do this kinda stuff for rdr1? Kind of interesting given how most rockstar maps are islands and avoid this kind of stuff Shesez does the Boundary Break series on Youtube does this kind of stuff. He didn't do RDR, but he has done other Rockstar games. http://www.youtube.com/user/PencakeAndWuffle/videos (Yes, that's his Youtube video link, I guess he changed his username at one point.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIEVOMxKWxc
|
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 18:35
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 21:34
|
|
|
Elona is pretty much just "what if Nethack, but all the anime." It's a complete and utter mess of a game, but it's not actually as skeevy as it looks at a distance. Still borderline unplayable, but for different reasons.
|
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 22:20
|
|
|
Woah, first hint from Q! Does 4chan and r/thedonald know about this?
|
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 22:40
|
|
|
Gokuweed420 posted:Ahh. Epic. So the goons talking about the game are, in fact, pedophiles. Very well. Nah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodT5e5oyGU
|
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 23:06
|
|
|
Babe Magnet posted:is IVAN the one with the artifact weapon mace that causes explosions when you swing it, but does not actually make you immune to those explosions. I've played A LOT of roguelikes and that's up there with my favorite weapons of all time. it is, its a mace called Turox 
|
|
#
?
Jun 22, 2019 23:35
|
|
|
Zereth posted:I know there's a sword which has a chance when it hits to "Bring an End", which causes the message "Let's Ragnarok" to appear in the message log and fills the loving map with dragons and giants and poo poo who fight each other Whelp. I know what my next game will be.
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2019 21:25
|
|
|
Wild T posted:Whelp. I know what my next game will be. Make sure to look up the "immediately walk out of the tutorial, don't set foot in the starting town, and instead do odd jobs in the thief town until you save up enough money to buy a nuke with which to suicide bomb your own house so you can loot the tutorial NPCs' (really good) artifacts" method, it really speeds up the early game
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2019 23:24
|
|
|
I have never heard of that method, but I am intrigued. The early game is a pain in the rear end. Which is to say I've never actually made it past it.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2019 00:40
|
|
|
Angry Diplomat posted:Make sure to look up the "immediately walk out of the tutorial, don't set foot in the starting town, and instead do odd jobs in the thief town until you save up enough money to buy a nuke with which to suicide bomb your own house so you can loot the tutorial NPCs' (really good) artifacts" method, it really speeds up the early game
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2019 18:59
|
|
|
What is up with "You drink from a well. You taste something bad. You are pregnant"? 
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2019 23:00
|
|
|
Sounds like bill cosby's well
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2019 23:08
|
|
|
Panfilo posted:What is up with "You drink from a well. You taste something bad. You are pregnant"? congratulations on your upcoming reenactment of the movie Alien
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2019 23:33
|
|
|
Panfilo posted:What is up with "You drink from a well. You taste something bad. You are pregnant"?
|
|
#
?
Jun 27, 2019 06:30
|
|
|
Zereth posted:I think the dude with the Ragnarock Sword is in the tutorial, too, if you want to play russian roulette No, the tutorial is two elves that teach you how to eat (by giving you poisoned food), how to equip items (by giving you clothes so heavy you will die of exhaustion in a few steps if you wear them) and how to fight (by setting loose enemies that hopelessly outlevel you). Go through it once just to find out why they deserve to be looted. The first town outside it has:
This all seems intended - the chair in front of the piano is covered in bloodstains when you first arrive. It's just that kind of game.
|
|
#
?
Jun 27, 2019 09:53
|
|
|
The tutorial NPC also tries to trick you into cannibalism and teaches you to try lockpicking on a uniquely non-lock-pickable chest, I believe? It also has underaged slaves (subject to the pet mechanics, whatever that may entail, I don't fully know) and suicide-bombing ninjas. In light of the full hosed-up world, the tutorial is...honestly a pretty decent, light introduction into what the game entails. It's a somewhat (read: very) problematic setting, it should be forewarned. I'm a little surprised that no one's tried to remake the setting with all its weird sadistic mechanics interactions and a bit less of the skeeviness. Unless that's been toned down already. Random GDQ glitch to hopefully shift discussion elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXwqYxKkN0&t=1210s It's a small thing, but I'm fascinated by a glitch that came up during the Prime 2 run earlier. Somehow an unintentional damage boost (maybe?) sends Claris careening sideways at a bizarrely high speed. Between this and people apparently now being able to skip some of the Metroid Prime fight in the previous game, it's interesting to see new tech still being discovered in the Prime games even after they've been so thoroughly dissected over so many years. Bonus: Whatever this animation glitch is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXwqYxKkN0&t=355s
|
|
#
?
Jun 27, 2019 13:49
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFLUE2kdemE Unbelievable sights
|
|
#
?
Jun 29, 2019 19:32
|
|
|
There’s a tweet chain with oddities for Harvest Moon games: https://twitter.com/ntagonistic/status/1146104034429931522 https://twitter.com/ntagonistic/status/1146124260194357248 https://twitter.com/ntagonistic/status/1146130654612152320 Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 17:19 on Jul 3, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2019 17:17
|
|
|
Why are they trying to make it so bots can’t read the word “kill”?
|
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2019 17:46
|
|
|
You're joking, but that's exactly what they're doing. Twitter bans accounts for violent words. Racism and homophobia are fine, though.
|
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2019 17:53
|
|
|
Well, that’s a piss poor way to avoid censors. In effect, it makes it so people with vision impairments can’t read your tweets, because screen readers and other assistive technology will output garbage. Meanwhile, Twitter’s bots will normalize the text into NFD, drop the accents, find the word, notice you’re trying to avoid their detection, and flag your account.
|
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2019 18:03
|
|
|
RandomFerret posted:You're joking, but that's exactly what they're doing. Twitter bans accounts for violent words. Racism and homophobia are fine, though.
|
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2019 18:16
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 17, 2024 08:29 |
|
|
post itt every time you remember roger a muirebe to a real one
|
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2019 19:11
|
|