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Hah, I forgot about the sorry bastard on the end of the chain. Also it just became apparent to me just how much April's voice changes from when she's talking to someone like the Captain or Map Merchant (or any number of more stand-off-ish character) to talking like someone like Tun Lueic. Her voice actor takes on an incredibly empathetic and soft-spoken inflection that I almost feel pity just listening to her express sympathy for someone else.
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I'm a few episodes behind, but I just want to say how much I hated the stair puzzle in Roper Klacks's tower. It's the first time in the game where you have to act very quickly, and up to that point you could be pretty well convinced that there were no action-based puzzles. Especially in the era when quick-time events were rather rare in games like this, or better established. I do like the battle of wits with Roper, as it's silly in a way that's reminiscent of Bill & Ted playing Twister with Death. I never noticed before how much the VA is channeling Mark Hamill's Joker, though. I guess in its day that performance stood out less. I also never knew the Honor Harrington author was also the designer of Starfire.
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April's really going have to insult herself in a dream to get over this one.
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I hadn't thought it would happen, but that book review is kind of making me want to play Planescape Torment again. It must be well over a decade since I last played that. My only real exposure to D&D has been via the computer games, but Planescape is definitely my favourite setting out of the ones I'm familiar with. Maybe that's not saying much. It's just so much more interesting than bog-standard Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance or whatever.
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Just caught up from Chapter 16 or so. My thoughts: When you mentioned StarFire, my mind immediately turned to a game called Aurora 4x, which sort of spun off an assistant program for it. (History of Aurora 4x can be found here) I also noticed you have similar taste in music to me. I recognized Nightwish and the Rama OST from your videos, so that's fun. I've got nothing else to say really. Love your work. EDIT: Actually one more thing: I too, want a talking bird best friend. Inglonias fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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Just so you know...I Pause my netflix series for this. keep up the good work Bobbin.
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Is it just me or did that section seem... lackluster? You have a queen as the only merperson that you interact with. The dialogue seems to be playing up merpeople society but falls flat without other individuals around to reinforce the idea that this society exists. And the tasks seems devoid of any weight. The puzzles aren't necessarily out of the ordinary for the game, but the context comes across as nonexistent.
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I love how nonchalant April is about being kidnapped to be a slave (along with other people apparently!) if you skip the "I'm not a servant" dialogue option. I mean, yeah, she would probably at some point shift away back to Stark, even inadvertently, but still.
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I remember really focusing in on those missing statue icons and convincing myself it was going to be one of those puzzles where you have to eliminate what you know to find out what you don't know. Took me a while to figure out it was way simpler.
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Sorry I'm late this week. No real excuse; just got caught up with other stuff.
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Decent job on the latest review. Thanks. If we have time for a third request, please review The Talisman, by Stephen King & Peter Straub. It has some concepts in there I haven't seen in many other parallel world stories and good characters. I haven't read the sequel.
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If you can get in a second request from me, I'll ask for a Bobbin's Choice.
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Lest Darkness Fall is also a very direct response to Count Bellisarius.
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For a place that knows magic exists and is widespread I always thought there sure are a lot of people willing to just accept any random bullshit that happens in front of them as prophecy and signs of fate 
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Kibayasu posted:For a place that knows magic exists and is widespread I always thought there sure are a lot of people willing to just accept any random bullshit that happens in front of them as prophecy and signs of fate Consider that BECAUSE magic exists and is widespread, prophecies like that are also very common and fulfilled regularly.
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Peak Longest Journey is pretty accurate. I'm so glad there wasn't a need to type in the things, correct spelling and all, like adventure games of old.
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I couldn't really say why but everything about Galavant seems very out of date. Like if someone described it without mentioning when it was made I probably would have assumed it was made back when films like Braveheart or Dragonheart were being made.
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Good old N.K. Jemesin; I discovered her a while back, largely thanks to the Book Barn. Just tore through the Kingdoms trilogy; I'd never quite read anything like that before, and we need more of it. She explores a lot of themes but the most cutting, as you have described, is how she deals with the internalization of oppression and abuse; there are some jagged protagonists in the Kingdoms trilogy, jagged in the same way Essun is described as being- unpredictable, surprisingly violent, and driven at times by pure spite and rage at their oppressors. I don't know if there are any mainstream stories that tackle the same subject matter in quite the same familiarity and nuance; Black Panther comes the closest, but it's still not quite there. Oh, the video game. It's nice, but I don't have a lot to say about this part.
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I didn't get that obvious thing you mentioned right at the end of the LP bit when I first played. Also I care about what happened to Zack. 
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Neither did I but I was also 13 years old. I think I cared about what happened to Zack but it was more in demonstration of the immediately raised stakes. People were getting killed and it didn't matter how close they were to April.
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I'm going to have to skip a week, unfortunately. A cold is doing terrible things to my voice and a miscalculation means I haven't done the research I needed to.
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And now we're back.
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Sure hope that fire was magical enough that it wouldn't melt whoever put the stones in too. Is it just me or is it some kind of paradox that what should be the most exciting parts of a story (escaping death at the hands of the baddies, solving the big puzzle the game has been building towards, getting your hands on the big object, finally performing an almost-at-will teleport to escape the path of an advancing tyrannical army) are actually kind of the most boring and perfunctory when it comes to adventure games? Since it kind of has to take over or limit control so things can happen properly, at least in the ones that don't let you die. Even the puzzle itself doesn't let you do it wrong, though I supposed the slots can only fit what they're supposed to fit.
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Talyn. Starburst.  e: the best part of Browder's GotG2's cameo is that he went all-in with his ridiculous Peacekeeper accent. double nine fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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How long is this game?
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StrixNebulosa posted:How long is this game? And it's only game one of 3! The last of which came in an episodic release format!
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I don't think Dreamfall or Chapters were nearly as long as the first game. Or at least they didn't feel that way; I don't recall off hand any parts where you needed to have a 30-40+ minute long conversation with one person to try and advance the game. Loved TLJ when it come out but I'll fully admit there are parts where I just wanted it to hurry the hell up so I could find out what happened next.
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I passed on Farscape back in the day because with its art direction, costume/set design, makeup, etc it just looked super cheesy to me. After your review though I'm wondering if that was a mistake; it sounds pretty interesting.
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Antistar01 posted:I passed on Farscape back in the day because with its art direction, costume/set design, makeup, etc it just looked super cheesy to me. After your review though I'm wondering if that was a mistake; it sounds pretty interesting. It is cheesy but it's still a mistake to not watch it because of that.
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there's some real dull episodes in the first season, but it's a show with a lot of heart and campy weird sci-fi goodness. And while they didn't really do season-long arcs, they also never push a reset button, really - if characters hurt each other(s feelings) in episode 4, episode 5 and possibly beyond would remember and incorporate that in some fashion. Have a little scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpHa6tE4Rmo
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Have another scene from early season 2. Crackers Don't Matter is generally regarded as the episode where Farscape finds its footing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc3Egh1p6GQ
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Antistar01 posted:I passed on Farscape back in the day because with its art direction, costume/set design, makeup, etc it just looked super cheesy to me. After your review though I'm wondering if that was a mistake; it sounds pretty interesting.
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