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kalonZombie posted:Counterpoint: Keen canonically gets a pet alien and also leaves his parents paralyzed for so long they get stuck in a thunderstorm. ...All in his mind!
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Poil posted:Hang on, Blooguards are three times as intelligent as regular Bloogs? Doesn't Keen himself get stunned by reflected shots? Does that mean he's dumber than a Berkeloid or Mad Mushroom?
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He only gets stunned briefly. The other guys get stunned indefinitely.
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There's one last cool thing to note about the Keen series and it's about how crap the Keen Dreams ending is. Since Softdisk required games to be a whole 360kb (I have Word documents larger than that!), there's was quite a bit cut out, including the music. The only thing left of the ending is this gif. There was also a planned sequel called "Keen Meets the Meats", but it never came to fruition and has instead been created as a mod. In any case, there's only three videos left to go over the coming week and that'll be all 7 official Keen games done. What a journey.
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 Part 3: Cult of Verticality
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Xenoveritas posted:He only gets stunned briefly. The other guys get stunned indefinitely. So he's about as smart as an arachnut. Acceptable.
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 There's only three enemy pages and, finally, here's one of them!
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Surec posted:Doesn't Keen himself get stunned by reflected shots? Does that mean he's dumber than a Berkeloid or Mad Mushroom?
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~[CMDR_KEEN]~ discharges into the water.
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Are Blooglets a subspecies of Bloogs? This is important.
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They're kid Bloogs, but for whatever reason we never see any Bloogs other than green. Perhaps the green ones eat the other colours to grow. Or they learned how to hold clubs first.
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Crosspeice posted:They're kid Bloogs, but for whatever reason we never see any Bloogs other than green. Perhaps the green ones eat the other colours to grow. Or they learned how to hold clubs first. The racial politics behind Fribbus Xax are pretty intense.
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Melting laptops don't stop the LP train (completely). Part 4: The State of Gaming
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I'm a bit late to mention, but in the previous episode you had a small complaint about the UI being in the way... That's one of the options in the configure menu in all three of the games. edit: nevermind i think you did that trick a couple times
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Jun 11, 2015 20:47
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Dying less than 15 seconds into the video is pretty skillful. 
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Poil posted:Dying less than 15 seconds into the video is pretty skillful. Doesn't look that hard.. Especially since it happened in the last one too.
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Cheez posted:I'm a bit late to mention, but in the previous episode you had a small complaint about the UI being in the way... That's one of the options in the configure menu in all three of the games. ...huh. Well things to know for Keen 7-9!
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Steelpudding posted:Doesn't look that hard.. Especially since it happened in the last one too.
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I don't know whether it's just because it's the first one I played or what, but Keen 6 is my favourite by far, and the only one I actually finished, I think. I must have been six or seven when I first played it and I remember being stuck on Guard Post One for ages. And then Bloogfoods Inc. for even longer. That level seemed so impossible at the time.
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Keen 4-6!  I remember playing the gently caress out of Keen 4 as a kid. I never beat it because I could never complete the Well of Wishes. So I spent months with 7 Gnosticenes and just gave up.  I'd really love to see a Keen 4-6 VGA conversion. There are some "VGA tiles" for Keen 1-3 but they're not very impressive, especially since they don't affect Keen himself:  Poil posted:Oh, man. I remember playing through the Well of Wishes for the first time as a kid. Gently gliding through the water and OH gently caress GIANT SCARY FISH SWALLOWED ME WHOLE! Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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These sure are pumping up the nostalgia - Until I bought the ID Bundle on Steam, I'd never played Keen (or Wolf3d) with anything other than a PC speaker. Basically the game sounded like the Keen 1 LP, rather harsh but somehow still sends me on a 90s wave of nostalgia. You guys should do Jill of the Jungle 
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Interesting, I've never seen those before. I do kinda like the more muted colours. Part 5: Molly's My Bloogbae And there we go, that is every mainline Commander Keen game. All there is left is the fanmade Universe is To- -what? There's one more game for this thread? You don't mean...  gently caress
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Crosspeice posted:Interesting, I've never seen those before. I do kinda like the more muted colours. They didn't bother actually giving Keen himself the "VGA" (I suspect the tiles are not actually 256 colors on a single palette) treatment so he still looks like a Wolfenstein mutant and clashes with the background. There are no Keen 4-6 VGA tilesets, just "HQ" versions of the original EGA tiles that are crudely filtered and look like garbage. They're part of Commander Genius, a Keen source port with the usual source port features (widescreen, native Windows/Linux/OSX, high resolutions, OGG music for Keen 4-6, Keen 4-6 controls for Keen 1-3, 60 FPS, etc.). Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Finally, someone else who thinks as eating cold pizza a gross and disgusting thing.
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kalonZombie posted:Finally, someone else who thinks as eating cold pizza a gross and disgusting thing. cold pizza is the grossest poo poo and you are now my brother
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Cold pizza is edible, thus fine. It's not especially delicious though.
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If the pizza is within 10 ft of the microwave there is no point to eat it cold. Unless the last piece is the type that you can eat in 1 large bite.
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It utterly depends on what kind of pizza we're talking, here. A Turkish pizza with ample salad on it works just fine cold, but I wouldn't attempt to eat one of those 4-cheese, meat-slathered, deep pan monstrosities if it was anything but torrid.
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You have pizza for dinner, but because you ordered such a large one, you can't finish it, so you put it in the fridge and have it for breakfast.  ANYWAY, to the surprise of no one, probably, Mortimer McMire is still alive, which the ending of Keen 5 kinda told us. However, if you had translated the letter, you would've known all the deepest secrets.  DEAR BILLY YOU FELL FOR MY ANDROID DUPLICATE PLOY IN THE MANGLING MACHINE AND NOW YOUVE FALLEN FOR IT AGAIN IM BLOWING UP THE UNIVERSE NOT THE STUPID GALAXY THIS WAS JUST A BIG DISTRACTION DODO TAG YOURE IT MORTIMER PS GANNALECH IS HOW THESE DUMB SHIKADI PRONOUNCE GRAND INTELLECT OR DIDNT YOU NOTICE THAT MISTER THREE FOURTEEN And while I remember, this is the only thing that changes if you don't destroy the fuse in the secret level.  That's it. Finally, the last two enemy pages.   See you all tomorrow for what may be the worst game in the series. AGAIN.
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quote:The Fleex are amongst the finest engineers in the universe, having designed all the buildings and devices on Fribbulus Xax. Unfortunately, the Bloogs built them, devastating the sleek and elegant design  That explains so much about the level design.
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I'd say Keen 4 was the most polished and most memorable of Keens. Each level was kind of unique, and there was the dopefish.
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I'm actually fond of Keen 5. It has tight design, a good feel of progression and progress, and some of the best music in the series. There's a bit too much reliance on "invincible monster with semi-random movement" enemy concepts, but this is forgiveable. 4-5 is definitely the high point.
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Five was good, but it lacked a ravenous, dumb and green monster. 
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I do like Keen 4 the most. It's strange that a fresh new engine has a better overall game than some of the later Keens did, even though they were mostly the same and virtually all the work to be done was in adding in new assets and levels, most of the enemy types even running off older behaviors.
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I actually enjoyed Keen 6 the most.
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kalonZombie posted:Finally, someone else who thinks as eating cold pizza a gross and disgusting thing. Anyone that thinks cold pizza is good hasn't had good pizza before.
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Why would you eat it cold? Just heat it up and it tastes so much better.
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Poil posted:Why would you eat it cold? Just heat it up and it tastes so much better. Pizza that has cooled off is still a cold pizza no matter how much you try to rescuscitate it.
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As a pizzologist, I can say with 100% certainty that cold pizza can be good on a case by case basis, and reheated pizza can be good on a case by case basis as well, with separate results for microwave and oven. Now if you'll turn attention to the blackboard, I've created a pizza flow chart...
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