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Vendettas 2 drat, I was hoping to post ten updates on the first page, but here we are kicking off the second page with the 9th. I can't even fail impressively. Anyway, time for another vendettas block. Kibayasu posted:For everything else that happens on screen, in both games really, its a bit weird that they decide to restrain themselves with Aunt Sarah to mostly off screen followed by a comical explosion of blood. It is a bit of an underwhelming scene. Might have been difficult to make stabbings look sufficiently horrible so they just left it to our imaginations, Bragg is meant to be the star of the scene anyway and it's redundant to try to and make him worse at that point so there's really no way they could've given that moment the impact it needed
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Fiendly posted:You've ruined this LP for yourself in doing so, because Darkness 2 is a huge ripoff of Splatterhouse (people were pointing that out even back in 2013) and because that LP is way better than this one will ever be. Enjoy! Other than maybe ripping off ripping out someone's rear end in a top hat as a finisher, don't really see it.
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Tony Snark posted:Other than maybe ripping off ripping out someone's rear end in a top hat as a finisher, don't really see it. I'll point more stuff out as it comes up in the game. Turned out the comparison made back in the 2013 thread was between Darkness 2 and Splatterhouse 2 for the Genesis, where the hero has to save Jenny from Hell after her tragic death in the preceding game, but there are numerous suspicious similarities to the Splatterhouse remake as well. Anyway, update: Vendettas 3
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Vendettas takes off from the main plot and does its own thing now? Not too surprising. Curious how you’re going to handle it. And yeah, killing Jackie does seem at odds with the Brotherhood’s goals. Maybe they’re hoping the next host will be easier to sway to their side? Who knows? Still enjoying the videos, hope you feel better soon.
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I managed to get the Steam version working after several restarts. I was looking for an excuse to play the game and can follow this thread.
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I really like the graveyard level. The game finally moves away from warehouses, rundown houses, and bright mansions, not that it doesn't go back, and shows it can actually do something interesting. And crashing a funeral always seems to up the stakes no matter where it happens (see Saints Row 2).
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Or Yakuza 1 or GTA San Andreas or a bunch of other great games.
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The Punisher lets you hit a mob funeral yourself in one of its better levels. I thought these might all have been references to a famous funeral shootout in a movie, but i dunno, i've played more video games than i've seen movies so i'm probably wrong.
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Other great funeral action sequences can be found in Hitman Blood Money and Sleeping Dogs.
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Kibayasu posted:I really like the graveyard level. The game finally moves away from warehouses, rundown houses, and bright mansions, not that it doesn't go back, and shows it can actually do something interesting. Kibayasu posted:And crashing a funeral always seems to up the stakes no matter where it happens
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My first experience with the Spear of Destiny was taking it from the Nazis in Wolfenstein, a video game series that has invalidated its own hero’s badass cred by continuing its story in a dystopian alternative universe. But never mind that now. Always nice when you need upgrading to even hurt advanced bad guy kooks.
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I'm really enjoying your LP. The Darkness 2 has a special place in my heart. I went through a rough patch and had to quit gaming for a while. When I came back and got an XBox 360, Darkness II was the first game I played on it. It was so... next gen. I never played through the vendettas, just the main story campaign.
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Glad you’re showing off alternate dialogue where it’s important. There was a tv show based on the Witchblade comics on TNT a few years back. Only lasted 2 seasons, I think, and they skipped over all the ‘force female host to be scantily clad’ thing along with most of the violence. I saw a couple episodes, but it wasn’t that great. The sword that hungers for blood is well established in Japanese folklore. It was made by a smith named Muramasa who rivaled Masamune, the greatest Japanese sword maker. The legend has them going right up against each other in a competition (never mind their historical counterparts didn’t even live in the same century) and Masamune’s swords being judged better. Muramasa swords, it is said, cut everything indiscriminately because they thirst for blood, and this is bad. They pass that fever on to their wielders. The Imperial Treasure Sword of Japan, Kusanagi, has the same name as the Darkness Sword in the game, but I’m not sure it’s supposed to be a Muramasa blade IRL.
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Okay, I'm with Johnny: JP's rad. All these ancient artifacts of terrible power, and he just "I made my own."
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achtungnight posted:There was a tv show based on the Witchblade comics on TNT a few years back. Only lasted 2 seasons, I think, and they skipped over all the ‘force female host to be scantily clad’ thing along with most of the violence. I saw a couple episodes, but it wasn’t that great. If by "a few" you mean "like 17". (It wrapped up in 2002.) It wasn't amazing, but I strongly suspect it's a better watch than the comics are a read. And I think that first season actually ends up being pretty interesting because, unlike most TV stories, things go really, really south for our hero(es) to the point where the season finale...well. That'd be spoilers. But I appreciated it.
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Witchblade comics aren't quite as bad as the Darkness ones, so it's not a surprise that an adaptation could be tolerable. Not sure I could handle the early 2000s cable TV budget take on costuming and effects, though. Good thing there's no Witchblade game so I don't have to, eh? Hit List 6 Fiendly fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Feb 13, 2019 |
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Part 6 This is the part of my casual playthrough that made me interested in doing this LP, so as much of a slog as it's been to get here, it's starting to pay off as we enter the second half
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That last artifact story had me ROFL. If this was a good game we’d be able to find out those words and use that Hellfire spewing urn as an ultimate weapon.
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Part 7 Here's the rest of the level I cut short last time. Completing this gets us the achievement "Date Night" so I guess this counts as a valentine's episode
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Fiendly posted:Part 7 Kind of wish they had done more with the haunted house ride but I suppose they weren't trying to make it too goofy. Even if Jackie scooby-doos himself into an iron maiden.
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I remember dying a lot during the forced stealth section in the last video when I played it. I also recall getting the Darkling Killcount achievement so maybe those respawning guards were good for something. Picking up the 1887 shotgun was cathartic once I got the chance.
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One thing I have to ask- if the Spear of Destiny is supposed to make you undefeatable in battle, why do all the stories about people who get it show them defeated somehow? That thing has a seriously over-inflated reputation. The Vendettas campaign is a fun action romp, even if the story is a bit lacking. Thanks for showing it off.
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achtungnight posted:One thing I have to ask- if the Spear of Destiny is supposed to make you undefeatable in battle, why do all the stories about people who get it show them defeated somehow? That thing has a seriously over-inflated reputation. I don't know but its probably related to why all the bad guys also very helpfully label all the ultra-secret stuff they are carrying in the ships' manifest.
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achtungnight posted:One thing I have to ask- if the Spear of Destiny is supposed to make you undefeatable in battle, why do all the stories about people who get it show them defeated somehow? That thing has a seriously over-inflated reputation. I figured it just means that the wielder of the Spear of Destiny has to sleep/eat/poo poo eventually
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Kibayasu posted:I don't know but its probably related to why all the bad guys also very helpfully label all the ultra-secret stuff they are carrying in the ships' manifest. They do at least address this in the intro to the next video, it's a bit more complicated than that (but only a bit). Vendettas 7 I say it in the video as well, but serious CONTENT WARNINGS here for discussions of sexual assault and hate crimes as I get into the worst few issues of Darkness comics I read. You can still watch the first two minutes of the video before I get into it, that's plenty to get jist of the otherwise innocuous level.
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Congratulations on getting through the Vendettas campaign. Hope to say the same for the main game soon.
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Part 9 Alright, I can read a room and it's pretty clear everyone just wants this thing to be over, myself included, so let's roll credits on this poo poo.
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for what it's worth to mention, you've done a fabulous job squeezing entertainment out of this material. It's just, loving yikes, this material  make sure your tetanus shots are up to date whenever you handle a property with this many ~^jAgGeD eDgEzZ^~, okay?  e: I also genuinely enjoy the VA for the titular Darkness. This is the only work of his with which I'm at all familiar, but I appreciate just how much fun he's having devouring the scenery SatansOnion fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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Yeah, this series was not really worth dredging up, the writing just hasn't held up, and any time they skirt the lines of having fun, they veer back into dour serious poo poo. The only part that remains essential viewing is Mike Patton as The Darkness, originally a neat gimmick that this famous singer was doing voice acting in the first game, and a standout performance showcasing his years of voice acting experience in the sequel.
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I think I give Darkness 2 more credit than it may deserve because it was a game in the middle of the cover shooter/Call of Duty years that was willing to go "actually making the player vulnerable but also overpowered enough to stand in the open is fun."
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end see you in hell
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