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 My guest co-host Tams is playing Blackthorne while I kick back and shoot the poo poo so I had no actual idea that this was the first game produced by Blizzard Entertainment (under that name), released in 1994 for DOS. I do remember trying this as a kid but I never had it at home so the only thing I remember from the few minutes I've played it is the loving backwards shooting with the shotgun. How cool is that?! My name's Blint, and Dvid (who is now busy with uni exams) and I are #BADATGAMES from Budapest, Hungary, and we started doing Let's Plays in August. We generally play retro or old(ish) games blind or semi-blind, so mostly laid back gaming here and not much expertise to speak of, haha. We have tons of fun though so stick around if this sort of VLP is up your alley, and check out the rest of our series over on YouTube. This game looks like a really well done platformer so far. I love all the energy Blizzard put into the details of both the art and the game mechanics; it really shows that they wanted to do something different instead of just milking on producing a platformer which if I recall were at that time already a dime a dozen. I think the execution is right up there with Flashback from what I've seen so far, and watching my brother play that game is one of my best childhood gaming memories so that certainly says a lot. As for the gameplay itself, I think Tams summed it up quite well when he said it's "Prince of Persia with a loving shotgun." 'Nuff said. Enjoy this guest series while we take a break from River City Ransom and Duke Nukem 3D! We'll be uploading new episodes Tuesdays & Saturdays. Thanks for sticking around!   Playlist  Part 1: DON'T DO DRUGS  Part 2: CURSE THIS TERRIBLE LIFE  Part 3: YOUR SHOTGUN IS SUBPAR  Part 4: OTHER GUYS WITH GUNS  Part 5: YAY 90s RACISM  Part 6: MULTIPLE ASSHOLES  Part 7: CASUALLY ROLLING ABOUT  Part 8: DEGENERATE STRATEGY  Part 9: SPEEDRUN THAT poo poo  Part 10: EXCUSE ME, FRIEND  Part 11: I KINDA SAW THAT COMING  Part 12: THE BLURP AWAKENS  Part 13: gently caress YOU, ONE SPIDER  Part 14: THAT KILLED THE MOOD  Part 15: SO loving INTENSE Playlist ADVENTURE AWAITS! Tuxedo Ted posted:Dang, waited too long to post this: Niggurath posted:https://zippy.gfycat.com/AntiqueDistantCock.webm crab avatar fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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I'm glad I wasn't the only person who thought the backwards shotgun button was the coolest thing ever.
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Dec 9, 2015 15:29
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I know, right? That and orcs are literally the only two things I remembered from my childhood about playing this game for a few minutes. From a game design viewpoint I would maybe even call it useless (at this point in the game anyway). But it's so drat unique the game would be less without it.
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Dec 9, 2015 22:53
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When I first played this game, I was experimentally figuring out the controls by just pushing buttons. So I simultaneously learned that you can shoot behind you and kill captives. It was one of the highlights of my life.
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Dec 10, 2015 03:48
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UNNNNG
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Dec 10, 2015 03:55
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Oh dang! I remember playing this game while on a class field trip to Chicago, and thinking about how INCREDIBLY HARDCORE it was. PRISONER EXECUTION. Looking forward to this!
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Dec 10, 2015 03:55
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I like to think that guy slipped a hover bomb into the orc's rations.
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Super excited to see a Blackthorne LP, just a couple things: 1) The game actually came out a month after Warcraft and the actual proto-orcs are Warhammer orcs, but that's just a nitpick. However, 2) please, please Please don't read the dialogue out loud, it's annoying as gently caress. Anyway, good luck with the later levels, this gets both really repetitive an really hard.
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anilEhilated posted:1) The game actually came out a month after Warcraft The SNES version came out in September of 1994, so, no.
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Dec 10, 2015 08:43
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Well, there I go for trusting the official Blizzard timeline.
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anilEhilated posted:2) please, please Please don't read the dialogue out loud, it's annoying as gently caress. Looking forward to this LP btw. A lot of people think this game is bro-level badass and dope and all that other nonsense, but overall I find it silly as heck, and to me, that's a good thing.
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Wierd thing is, this game somehow got me interested in Mutant Chronicles. I still have no idea how that happened. I think it was the Orcs. It's always the Orcs.
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Dec 10, 2015 09:24
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please feel free to read all the UNNNGs out loud
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CirclMastr posted:When I first played this game, I was experimentally figuring out the controls by just pushing buttons. So I simultaneously learned that you can shoot behind you and kill captives. It was one of the highlights of my life.  J/k that poo poo's bombanilEhilated posted:2) please, please Please don't read the dialogue out loud, it's annoying as gently caress. Coolguye posted:UNNNNG  Sorry, we have a bunch of episodes pre-recorded with dialogue alreadyGlad to see there's interest for this game over here. I'm super psyched for the next recording session so I can drink more beers while Tams gets owned! 
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In this episode: Tams pledges not to kill any civilians. Will we make it?  Part 2: CURSE THIS TERRIBLE LIFE
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Not sure if it's the brightness on your TV/monitor, but the waterfalls you can go through have a darker, door-ish shape in them:
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Lizard Wizard posted:Not sure if it's the brightness on your TV/monitor, but the waterfalls you can go through have a darker, door-ish shape in them:
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Part 3: YOUR SHOTGUN IS SUBPAR
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Part 4: OTHER GUYS WITH GUNS Happy New Year, and thank you to everyone who's been following so far!
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Put Blackthorne in Heroes of the Storm. His ultimate abilities are going UNGGGG or shooting a shotgun backwards.
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New episode! Part 5: YAY 90s RACISM
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Oh hey! Tams got a lil sick so we had to postpone our recording session originally scheduled for two weeks ago, but now we're back in the saddle and ready to kick some more orc butt. The Androthi will rise again! Part 6: MULTIPLE ASSHOLES
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Oh hey, another new episode!  Expect new videos Tuesdays and Saturdays!Part 7: CASUALLY ROLLING ABOUT
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Dang, waited too long to post this: Sorry for your tables, phoneposters, but I'm not timg'ing this.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Dang, waited too long to post this:
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crab avatar posted:Hahahah, oh you beautiful bastard. See if you can find the other priceless GIF moment in Part 7.
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Update 7 was great because it went from success: https://zippy.gfycat.com/AntiqueDistantCock.webm to slowly worse: https://zippy.gfycat.com/LastingFancyBonobo.webm to ummmmm a quick fall off into being bad at games: https://zippy.gfycat.com/FarDifficultHammerheadshark.webm p.s. thank you, friend discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Perfect. This is what we're all here for. Horrible gameplay <3
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Part 8: DEGENERATE STRATEGY
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Part 9: SPEEDRUN THAT poo poo
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Heyyyy guess who forgot to post #10 last Saturday. Here's a double episode day then! Part 10: EXCUSE ME, FRIEND Part 11: I KINDA SAW THAT COMING
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Part 12: THE BLURP AWAKENS
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Part 13: gently caress YOU, ONE SPIDER Seriously though, does anyone else feel that rolling in and out of the screen to defeat an enemy is scummy? Something about the screen change that feels like it's an exploit, like it's breaking the forth wall or something. I can totally get behind the walking from one side to the other past the enemy while he's hiding tactic though. *cough* This is totally not coming from someone who openly exploits a huge bug in River City Ransom to completely dodge a major punishment mechanic.
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I certainly have a hard time letting that exploit go BECAUSE IT'S CLEARLY AN EXPLOIT, DUH Part 14: THAT KILLED THE MOOD
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This was one of the first games I got on my SNES as a kid, and I love it to this day. I blew through this whole thread today while nursing a hangover and had a great time, thank you chaps. Keep up the good work.
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Montalvo posted:This was one of the first games I got on my SNES as a kid, and I love it to this day. I blew through this whole thread today while nursing a hangover and had a great time, thank you chaps. Keep up the good work.
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The thing that doesn't detonate is a 'dud'. Also I vote you keep using the exploit, because watching you fight the enemy fairly is boring.
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To be quite honest, I feel like this strategy works out better for you guys https://zippy.gfycat.com/HollowEsteemedArcticduck.webm
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CirclMastr posted:The thing that doesn't detonate is a 'dud'. Also I vote you keep using the exploit, because watching you fight the enemy fairly is boring. Niggurath posted:To be quite honest, I feel like this strategy works out better for you guys This latest episode turned out to be quite the nail biter by the end, gaddamn. Part 15: SO loving INTENSE
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Thank you everyone for following the series so far unfortunately due to scheduling difficulties we won't have any new episodes for some time. In case you want to get notified when we're able to upload more vids, it would be a good idea to subscribe over on YouTube and bookmark this thread. In the meantime you might enjoy our other series on there. Cheers!
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