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Wondering how many complex crpgs like Pillars of Eternity or Encased or stuff got LPs. Is there a master list somewhere? I love seeing people abuse the emchanics in ways I never could have though of.
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Dec 25, 2022 19:45
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wondering how many complex crpgs like Pillars of Eternity or Encased or stuff got LPs. Is there a master list somewhere? I love seeing people abuse the emchanics in ways I never could have though of. Might be more of post for the recommend me an LP thread, but if you can settle for JRPGs Orange Fluffy Sheep has some nice ones that center around breaking things into a million pieces.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wondering how many complex crpgs like Pillars of Eternity or Encased or stuff got LPs. Is there a master list somewhere? I love seeing people abuse the emchanics in ways I never could have though of. If you type in "rpg" in the game genre of the master list, it gives you a... List of RPG games.
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habituallyred posted:Might be more of post for the recommend me an LP thread, but if you can settle for JRPGs Orange Fluffy Sheep has some nice ones that center around breaking things into a million pieces. Rappaport posted:If you type in "rpg" in the game genre of the master list, it gives you a... List of RPG games. Thanks! And oops sorry.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wondering how many complex crpgs like Pillars of Eternity or Encased or stuff got LPs. Is there a master list somewhere? I love seeing people abuse the emchanics in ways I never could have though of. I'm enjoying watching this personable Russian break pillars of eternity over his knee on triple crown difficulty
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habituallyred posted:Might be more of post for the recommend me an LP thread, but if you can settle for JRPGs Orange Fluffy Sheep has some nice ones that center around breaking things into a million pieces. They still need to come back and finish Pokemon Reborn! Although maybe it'd be best for everyone if they didn't...
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This could use an update.  I didn't have a save before Chirstmas so I tried to force the cutscene with third-party tools and ended up with this mess the first try. 
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habituallyred posted:Might be more of post for the recommend me an LP thread, but if you can settle for JRPGs Orange Fluffy Sheep has some nice ones that center around breaking things into a million pieces.
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Combat Lobster posted:This could use an update. Why is there a one wing
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Leal posted:Why is there a one wing Short answer: It's the Golden Alpaca redesign for 1.25 Long answer would require I get into the YIIK novel-thing you got for buying the 1.25 soundtrack, and I haven't read it in a few months; but I'm pretty sure it involves a version of Alex watching a movie with Vella. Said movie was directed by some Japanese auteur who will be featured in the new I.V. update. Combat Lobster fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Dec 26, 2022 |
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Dec 26, 2022 16:24
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Why, god why, is that game receiving content updates
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Dec 26, 2022 16:47
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Some people love eating a polished turd.
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Dec 26, 2022 18:08
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Danaru posted:Why, god why, is that game receiving content updates Believe it or not, this game gained a cult following recently. From what I've read from the community, there's a lot emphasis on 'cult'. I've heard that the updates are fans encouraging the brothers to continue supporting the game; and I've also heard that this new update is a bunch of ideas they had for a sequel. Which the idea of a YIIK 2: A Even More Postmodern RPG confuses me, because if I understand the intented story right, which I hardly do, there wouldn't be room for such a thing.
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Combat Lobster posted:Believe it or not, this game gained a cult following recently. From what I've read from the community, there's a lot emphasis on 'cult'. Also the Allanson Brothers have this strange habit of attempting to fix their awful, broken, and incomplete games years after the fact to varying degrees of success. See: Two Brothers/Chromophore, and "attempting to". Has the Third Ending to YiiK been found yet, as a matter of trivia? Or is it still vaporware and/or fanfiction?
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nine-gear crow posted:Has the Third Ending to YiiK been found yet, as a matter of trivia? Or is it still vaporware and/or fanfiction? Yes and no, the details as to why is a messy can of worms that I am dreading to tackle for the IV LP. To put it simply, the ending scene itself was found real early on; and everyone just 'misinterpreted' it as something else. Turns out, that "cut ending" I recorded was the third ending. As to WHAT a normal-rear end player is suppose to do to get to that scene within the game's rules, uhhh I have no idea. This is what makes the conversation about the third ending loving messy. The HOW to get there. As those following Grandmaparty's thread remember, ACKK was trying to lead players to it with clues and poo poo. Though a number of them either don't go anywhere like the Dick Masterson NPC or are too obtuse for anyone to truly figure out, like the Dick Masterson NPC. I've spent the better half of April this year trying to pin down whether or not a path to the third ending is even there within the different builds of the game. (Yes I have pretty much every build of the game. Thank god for Steam Depots.) So far, version 1.25 has the triggers to get to the final dungeon, a repurposed cut tutorial, and the triggers to get to the final fight; BUT beyond forcing them with third-party tools, I have no idea how you get to that point. Decompiling the code doesn't help too much as my programming literacy isn't good enough to weave through it, but I've seen some bits and pieces of it. Fun fact, that Dick Masterson npc is very unique in that its nametag and dialogue are encrypted with a cipher. I only found that out after finding a function containing the decrypted and encrypted alphabets and started loving with them thus breaking the NPC completely. You might be wondering about the third ending video that got uploaded to youtube. Well... that's another novel-size post in itself. Basically the community sees it as part of third ending, dubbed by the community as "The Frankton ending"; but you can only access that ending in the 1.25 build which was made public long after the video dropped on youtube. There's a gently caress ton more to this whole thing, but I'll leave it for when I have compile it into a video for the LP, but for the most part I have trouble buying that this was intended from the start. Too many little things point to that ending scene being the original ending and the brothers were pivoting to say that was the third ending just to make it look like they weren't incompetent. (well it's really Andrew saying all this, I don't think Brain is to blame really) Combat Lobster fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jan 1, 2023 |
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Dec 27, 2022 12:10
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Everything about this game honestly sounds like a fascinating trainwreck on almost every conceivable level.
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Make no mistake, the brothers are trying their darnest to salvage this game to at least be less painful to play. It's just a really weird narrative the devs and their Combat Lobster fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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Dec 27, 2022 16:59
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The fine art of picking up the broken pieces of a previously spinning plate that already fell and hit the floor and trying to somehow make the plate spin again.
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taking homage from the traditional Japanese art of Kintsugi except instead of gold they use crazy glue that immediately crumbles apart
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I just started a FFXIII apologist run. At the end of the first episode, we had an unplanned "book club" discussion on Chapter 1 of the game. I had an idea for thread participation but my partner think its a bad idea. Would it be a good idea to ask people to post their thoughts on the plot/character/etc and we will respond to it at the end of the video like a bookclub discussion?
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Honestly, if you're doing an apologist LP of FFXIII, people are going to chime in anyway; IIRC the rather overwhelming consensus is that the game's story and writing is dogshit.
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Sounds neat. You may get a lot of dissenting opinions but if you don't mind that, I'd say go for it. Pretty sure you'll have some FF13 fans that will contribute as well, which may help. Never a bad thing to get a different take on a game.
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anilEhilated posted:Honestly, if you're doing an apologist LP of FFXIII, people are going to chime in anyway; IIRC the rather overwhelming consensus is that the game's story and writing is dogshit. You're assuming people post at all lol. Mega64 posted:Sounds neat. You may get a lot of dissenting opinions but if you don't mind that, I'd say go for it. Pretty sure you'll have some FF13 fans that will contribute as well, which may help. I think it would be fun. My partner worries it will make us look silly if no one responds. I don't mind dissenting opinions. I'm not a fangirl.
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Covok posted:You're assuming people post at all lol. If nobody responds then they're not going to see you looking silly are they. (this thread might well rule)
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I tend to respond with giant paragraphs whenever there are opinions floating around. My opinions tend to be different from most of the ones I hear from other people, so I feel obligated to provide them and support them with reasonable arguments, which you might imagine is difficult when, as I say, the opinions I'm defending are so far from the majority opinion already and most people like to stick to what they already believe. I find that, when people really think about things from my point of view, they find that I've got the better take on the subject, but humans are notorious for trusting the status quo over anything new, however reasonable it may be. It also helps that I often agree with the majority in many important respects while still seeing a lot of room for nuanced disagreement, like enjoying aspects of something that's universally considered garbage, or hating some aspect of a beloved thing so fundamentally that it ruins the entire thing for me. The more I see contrary points of view, the more compelled I feel to provide an extended explanation and defense of my opinion, even before anyone steps in to disagree directly. I have to assume that most people just skip the whole thing, but I also often get some thoughtful responses, and that makes it all worth it. And that's without even bringing up FFXIII directly. I played the game, read all of the encyclopedia of background information, and have many opinions as a result. As long as I know the thread's there, there will be at least some discussion.
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Are you playing only the first game or all 3 FFXIII games?
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Mraagvpeine posted:Are you playing only the first game or all 3 FFXIII games? Right now, just the first one. I own all three for steam. I have actually played all three but never beat Lightning Returns. I am considering it but we haven't comitted. Apparently XIII-2 for steam is scuffed as hell so that could be a problem. XIII-2 is my favorite of the three games. I also don't know if Lady Mapi would be down to do all three either. So that is a factor as well. I do LPs to hang out with friends so if they don't want to then I'd need to find another friend or I wouldn't be excited for it. I haven't discussed it with them yet as I feel, since we just recorded and posted only one episode, they'd probably feel I'm thinking too far ahead. Nidoking posted:I tend to respond with giant paragraphs whenever there are opinions floating around. My opinions tend to be different from most of the ones I hear from other people, so I feel obligated to provide them and support them with reasonable arguments, which you might imagine is difficult when, as I say, the opinions I'm defending are so far from the majority opinion already and most people like to stick to what they already believe. I find that, when people really think about things from my point of view, they find that I've got the better take on the subject, but humans are notorious for trusting the status quo over anything new, however reasonable it may be. It also helps that I often agree with the majority in many important respects while still seeing a lot of room for nuanced disagreement, like enjoying aspects of something that's universally considered garbage, or hating some aspect of a beloved thing so fundamentally that it ruins the entire thing for me. The more I see contrary points of view, the more compelled I feel to provide an extended explanation and defense of my opinion, even before anyone steps in to disagree directly. I have to assume that most people just skip the whole thing, but I also often get some thoughtful responses, and that makes it all worth it. Well, that was a lot of words. The thread is here then, for reference: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4020609 I kid, of course. I would welcome the discussion. Covok fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Saw a minor archive issue for Bobbin Threadbare's GalCiv 2 LP. His third opening post was edited out after the LP was ended, but it had some info about the sub-committees mentioned in the LP. It was a parliamentary style game so different SA posters were posing as legislators representing them. That post can be found on the Internet Archive, though.
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I'm preparing my next LP (one that I will have a lot done ahead of time, for once, since there's no thread participation this time!), but I'm trying to streamline the investigation process this time around to cut down on text (and because frankly I think going 'ok next we click on thiiiiis and then next we click on thaaaaat ok now we're going to click on this ooooother thing' gets dull to read after a while  ), so I wanted to get some feedback on an early chapter- how does the flow on this read?
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Mix. posted:I'm preparing my next LP (one that I will have a lot done ahead of time, for once, since there's no thread participation this time!), but I'm trying to streamline the investigation process this time around to cut down on text (and because frankly I think going 'ok next we click on thiiiiis and then next we click on thaaaaat ok now we're going to click on this ooooother thing' gets dull to read after a while I think two things I'd change is that I'd scale down the "dialogue avatars" slightly, maybe 80x80 or something. And if a character has two lines of dialogue immediately after each other, and the avatar change isn't very spectacular and important, I'd just fold them into one line even if the game keeps them as two. But that's minor preference stuff.
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PurpleXVI posted:And if a character has two lines of dialogue immediately after each other, and the avatar change isn't very spectacular and important, I'd just fold them into one line even if the game keeps them as two. One way to do this is just have a fully transparant image that's one pixel high and as wide as your 'avatar' pics, and put this in front of every line they say after the first one. That way, the dialogue stays nicely aligned.
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I'm considering a paradox MegaLP, but focused on Africa. Maybe Ethiopia?
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Fivemarks posted:I'm considering a paradox MegaLP, but focused on Africa. Maybe Ethiopia? May God have mercy upon your soul
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Fivemarks posted:I'm considering a paradox MegaLP, but focused on Africa. Maybe Ethiopia? Do you still need to mod out that "rains in Africa" event to make African nations playable at all or did they patch that? Or was the awfulness of it exaggerated? Anyway I would absolutely love to see Paradox MegaLP set in Africa, it might unironically be super educational, I'd love to learn historical facts and tales about African nations. Personally the more southern the better, though, since it feels like I know Northern Africa better and would love to learn new things.
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PurpleXVI posted:Do you still need to mod out that "rains in Africa" event to make African nations playable at all or did they patch that? Or was the awfulness of it exaggerated? You do for CK2, but not for Ck3. The problem with going south is that the further south you go, the more Paradox's euro focus becomes "Africa is just savages" instead of "We chose not to do the research on an obscure area"
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Ethiopia's a fun time in Eu4, at least.
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Would there be appetite for a OOTP/baseball goon draft LP? I did one a few years ago that I thought was fun and turned out well. Take a peek, as the OP sums it up and has links to the various updates: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3754182 In it I had goons pick a name/number/position/whatever and let OOTP create a player, then simmed a bunch of seasons to see who did well, their genesis, and commented a bit on the league as a whole. It was also fun to take the retired players and make them managers and see how they did in management positions. OOTP has come a long way and has more fun and interesting personality options now too, which would make for some wild customization! One reason I ask is to see if this would be appropriate as an LP, or if it might be better suited for the sports subforum. I don't really post in either one anymore, and it might be fun to introduce OOTP to a less familiar audience! For reference, here was the first batch of goons: 
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