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funmanguy posted:I felt a kindred spirit from across the forums. I stand with Sally and their correct opinions. Mathwyn posted:Hear hear! 
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Shinjobi posted:Dash Rendar is a plague, and a menace. a phantom menace, perhaps? edit: oops! followed a quote link from an active thread and thought I was still in that same thread! I was not, in fact, still in that thread
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this thread is still active! it's just really slow... but it will never die!
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Mar 9, 2021 16:12
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Dash Rendar gets similar amounts of action.
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Mar 9, 2021 17:59
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I'll take a Dash's Dandies tag in solidarity with a fellow pineapple pizza lover. 
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Hazamuth posted:
Will you settle for "The Year We Maybe Finish LPing Killzone: Shadow Fall and Mercenary" instead?
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nine-gear crow posted:Will you settle for "The Year We Maybe Finish LPing Killzone: Shadow Fall and Mercenary" instead? This post made me so mad I considered LP'ing the PC version of Shadows of the Empire.
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nine-gear crow posted:Will you settle for "The Year We Maybe Finish LPing Killzone: Shadow Fall and Mercenary" instead? Sure, I'll take anything I can get.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:This post made me so mad I considered LP'ing the PC version of Shadows of the Empire. *looks at the 3/4 footage of SOTE PC that's been on my HDD for years* yeah maybe you should do it
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SotE tape is real.
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The Dash Tape is definitely real, but you probably don't want to know what's on it.
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Artix posted:The Dash Tape is definitely real, but you probably don't want to know what's on it. I wanna know what's on it.
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 Now you better continue that Killzone LP or you know who will haunt your dreams.
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Hazamuth posted:
lmao that Dashgar... Rengar? tell you what, an LP will update tonight. It'll be a crow/sally/cjakes LP. it may or may not include all of us. Artix may even appear. i cant spoil it. but an LP featuring one of will get an update T O N I G H T
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What the gently caress?
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haha, now watch me promptly forget about this thread and not post an update for another three years
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 alright, here it is. it's finally loving here. I teased this goddamned update last July damnit: Sally posted:a preview: Did y'all know there was an attempt at creating a Lucasarts point-and-click style adventure game version of Shadows of the Empire? BECAUSE THERE WAS!!   And you know what? I actually went and played what was available of the game and captured hundreds of screen shots and was all primed to launch a proper SSLP update... but it was all just dull as hell. Maybe I'm just not that into adventure games, but for a fan game trying to mimic the Lucasart style, it really feels like a fan game just trying to mimic the Lucasart style. which, fine if that's your thing, but I don't think it makes for interesting LP content. So instead of all that, you're going to get my analysis of what could have been. To do that, I have to take you back... way back, to the heady days of 2004:  Now let me tell you first off, the updates will NOT be frequent. I'd say they average and update or two a month. But our ambitious friends at hexence are really pumped on this Shadows of the Empire point-and-click idea and are quick to start teasing sprites and animation of their game. Such as one-hundred-and-sixty-six R2-D2s:  And walking Luke:  But it isn't long before our intrepid team of modders has created a working Tech Demo of the game. Within a few months, they surprise the internet of the mid-2000s with a download on New Years:  And, well, it's competent. I'll give it that much. I personally did not have a lot of fun playing it and threw out all the footage. I just could not justify either recording commentary for a video over top of it or attempting to turn it into a fun and lighthearted SSLP romp. It's just kinda... there. And all the tech demo has is Luke Skywalker bumbling around in Ben Kenobi's hut with R2-D2. There's a bunch of snide in-jokes and pithy comments, assuredly in the spirit of old Lucasarts point-and-clicks, but none of it really landed for me. If you'd really like to see it in action, there's this video here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZzS7471i9c It's just... it tries really hard to be sarcastic and aloof and good for these guys, but I'm just not into it. Maybe because it's not Dash Rendar? Maybe the final version will be better? Oh, the final version promises all sorts of side-story content related to Shadows of the Empire interspersed with the main narrative. And the main narrative will contain at least four different characters you can swap between, including our boy Dash, Boba Fett, Luke, and... either Lando or Leia, I was never clear on it. Anyways, the SOTE-GA (Shadows of the Empire Graphic Adventure) project got some recognition, was mentioned in an Italian video game magazine, translated the tech demo to German, and racked up 10,000 downloads. Pretty good for '05. They even won a "Best demo" award on the Adventure Game Studio forums:  Note: That website is long gone. The link redirects to a weird booking site for international hotels that, for some reason, still contains an About Us blurb from AGS I guess to rope in clicks from search engines. Throughout 2006, the hexence team tease a bunch of updates, including sprites of Dash, Lando, and Leia:   They also released concept art of Ord Mantell, Zhar (Gall Spaceport), Mon Calamari, and the planet Ilum from the Clone Wars cartoon(?!):  Then finally... months later in June of 2007, they finally tease that the first actual demo for the game is nearing completion, feature our boy, the loving man the myth the legend, Dash Rendar, fully playable in a segment on Ord Mantell and Gall Spaceport:   Well, folks, they hype is off the charts for this, you'd best believe it! Dash Rendar in an adventure game? gently caress it! It could be Dash Rendar in a visual romance novel and I'd play it. Dash Rendar could be a lovely RPGMaker game and I'd play it. It's Dash Rendar! But then July rolls around... ...and August... ...and September... ...October... ...November... ...and finally December, and there's still nothing but updates on how the demo has been delayed and they're busy and they have lives and it's still coming. All good. We all get it, right? Modders have lives. It's all good. We're just pumped for Dash Rendar content! So to tide over the internet, they let slip a few more screens:   But by now you've probably already guessed where this is going, yeah? We get nothing for nearly another four months. Just updates here and there about trivial stuff. An updated model of Dash, the completion of a background segment... we are teased a few new screens in April:  But then it dips right back into radio silence or mundane updates. As we enter December, something more substantial gets posted: quote:december 9, 2008 Which, hey, good for them! That sounds rad. The photo from the con is interesting because they appear to either be in a cave or the Mos Eisley cantina itself:  Still, things are going. They've got an entire Italian demo of the game's Part 1. It's right here if you want to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DitaUWIr2uM It's the segment where Boba Fett gets attacked by Bossk and the other bounty hunters trying to take Han Solo's frozen carbonite body from him so they can claim the bounty themselves. Seems alright in action. Note: It's entirely in Italian! There's no Dash Rendar, though, which is an immediate strike against it. Sadly, I don't think this Italian demo exists in the wild. I suppose you could email one of them and see if they respond, but I didn't bother. The Tech Demo is the only easily available game at this point in time. But anyways, time marched on and after a couple intermittent updates we suddenly got this:  and then six months later they drop a bombshell saying they are dropping AGS and attempting to recreate the game from scratch on Multimedia Fusion 2. I have no idea what the platform is, but they seemed convinced it'll work. Keep in mind, it's now 2009 at this point. The project started in '04. It's also at this point that the old website just ends. You can check out the old index here and click around and see what remains here: http://sote.hexence.com/indexold.html I'm not sure the exact timeline and if it stall or not, but one of the members independently tried to restart the project again and started posting updates on a new site: http://soteadv.blogspot.com/ The blog has a lot of broken images and a lot of technical stuff... background images, etc. It all lacks Dash Rendar, which is a pretty damning indictment. The only post that really stood out to me as not aging well was this one for it's Duke Nukem Forever reference:  But also this lone dev had a kid, so I'm really happy for him and hope his family life is going well!  If he's not gonna finish SOTE-GA because he's too busy living the good life with his fam, then hell, good for him. Dash would've wanted it that way.The last update was August of 2012, so I'm not holding my breath that his solo project will keep going. Back on the hexcene front, they have an updated home page that tracks the history of the project up to 2019(!?): http://sote.hexence.com/main/index.php According to the autobio they've got going on, the latest version of the Hunting the Hunter portion of the game wrapped up in 2016. But the article was written in 2019... but now it's 2021. quote:At the time of writing, more than ten years after our restricted "Hunting the Hunter" release, it would be fair to assume that the project is dead, but it is just stalled. We have never published the 2009 preliminary version because we still hope to be able someday to put out the complete version of "Hunting the Hunter". At the time of writing, the latest commit on the SOTE trunk is from 2016: not that long ago, after all. So yeah, I dunno. This is it. It just kind of rapidly fizzled out and has been slowly updating in intermittent fits and starts. LIKE THIS THREAD HAhA!!!
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All this proves is that people need to make more stupid puns in picture form to make you feel guilty about yourself. Still, very much appreciated. edit: I also updated my avatar for the first time since registering and while I don't miss the loss of the JOE gangtag, I do miss that that Dash gangtag. Hazamuth fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Mar 11, 2021 |
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i can fix that.. i'll queue it up
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yer a fookin' legend crow. dash would be proud
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hatchi machi!
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In the grim darkness of the near future there is only Dash Rendar.
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This is avatar material right here. edit: gently caress it, did the needful. Might I get a crumb of the Dash's Dandies tag? Warmachine fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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Warmachine posted:This is avatar material right here.  Smaller
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I also did an alt version of the Dash Stride where I swapped a couple of frames around so it looks like he's trying to do The Mario, but failing ineptly
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Warmachine posted:edit: gently caress it, did the needful. Might I get a crumb of the Dash's Dandies tag? you coulda just added the Dash's Dandies tag when you bought the new av  hold on, i'll see if i can get it fixed for you
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Sally posted:you coulda just added the Dash's Dandies tag when you bought the new av And deny you the pleasure?
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lol, you're in 
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Dash will never die as long as his dandies are around!
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The Shame Boy posted:Dash will never die as long as his dandies are around!
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My only regret is that I can't see my gangtags because I use the app.  (Unless someone knows how!)
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Mathwyn posted:My only regret is that I can't see my gangtags because I use the app. You can set this as your phone background: 
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Warmachine posted:
Dash is love, Dash is life.
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Warmachine posted:You can set this as your phone background: You are a 
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I came across a Dash Rendar action figure at a used book and media store and now he stands on my work desk the past year as only Dash ever could smug undying vaguely reminding me of this thread all the time and difficult to explain to my colleagues
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Broken Box posted:I came across a Dash Rendar action figure at a used book and media store and now he stands on my work desk the past year as only Dash ever could "This guy right here? Better than Boba Fett." 8 words
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