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This episode brought to you by spider talk.
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Sep 28, 2019 00:18
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cokerpilot posted:This episode brought to you by spider talk.
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Sep 28, 2019 10:02
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anilEhilated posted:Being arachnophobic I heartily approve of the spider talk. They are a menace and THE WORLD NEEDS TO BE TOLD.  If they're so innocent and harmless how come they're always sneaking into my house, huh? No flies in here. They're after something else. Blood. I also agree with the condemnation of creepy crawlies in general. The cool insects neither creep nor crawl. Bees, butterflies, moths and ladybugs are all rad dudes. (Wasps don't count. They're just evil bees. I suspect they creep when unobserved.)
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Sep 28, 2019 14:56
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Black Robe posted:
I'd personally like to add praying mantises to the "cool insects" classification. Something about how clean they look, how big and obvious they are, and they way they carry themselves make them seem polite, somehow. Like they're embarrassed to be bugs.
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Sep 28, 2019 22:09
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don't mind me, just pouring a bucket of house centipedes into "Cool Bugs"
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Sep 29, 2019 06:34
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Meaty Ore posted:I'd personally like to add praying mantises to the "cool insects" classification. Something about how clean they look, how big and obvious they are, and they way they carry themselves make them seem polite, somehow. Like they're embarrassed to be bugs. I'll allow it in theory, though in practice I'd still freak out if one showed up in my house. Fish Noise posted:don't mind me, just pouring a bucket of house centipedes into "Cool Bugs" No.
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Sep 29, 2019 08:16
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Black Robe posted:I'll allow it in theory, though in practice I'd still freak out if one showed up in my house. well, if one does show up in your house, it almost certainly doesn’t want to be there either, but if you can put it outside in your yard, I think they eat some kinds of garden pests (I know I’ve seen one instagib a moth) so you’ll both be happier I see them in our yard during the spring and summer, and I try to avoid spraying them with the hose when I water because while I don’t want them close to me I think they’re all right imo centipedes are conceptually neato, but they set off my insect phobia worse than mantises do so I absolutely understand your “no” on this subject 
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Sep 29, 2019 08:35
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Did you know: in Japan, centipedes are the creature most closely associated with the essence of pure evil? Granted, I've personally met some Japanese centipedes, and those bastards are NASTY. Bite worse than wasps, and they'll chase you down deliberately-- no "live and let live" mentality here.
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Sep 30, 2019 09:48
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Sep 30, 2019 23:00
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I just started watching and the game immediately won the prize for best unintentional* auto-generated subtitle: * or is it? 
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Oct 1, 2019 02:45
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That's quite some timing on glowing lizard talk.
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Oct 1, 2019 02:55
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The lizards you want don't have glowing tails, they have white tails. They're pretty obvious, and there's always one at each of the save-point shrines scattered around the world (there are a few rare ones elsewhere as well). Incidentally, you never did figure out how to pray (save) at those shrines. Try again. IIRC, you hold the circle button in front of the stone to pray. I don't mind spoiling this "secret" for you because actually finding, tracking, and hunting the lizard at each shrine is actually a fun bit of content and challenge. I remember them being a lot more wily than their black tailed brethren, and some took some serious effort to kill. Also, keep an eye out for fruit trees if you see any. The colossi don't have official names, but the fanbase has somehow come to an agreement on what the names should be for each of them. I think someone wrote a walkthrough years and years ago for the game and he named them? Something like that? The lizard, incidentally, is "Kuromori" ("Black Forest" in Japanese). The first one you fought was "Valus", and the knight was "Gaius". The bird was "Avion". I can't remember most of the others you've fought so far.
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Oct 1, 2019 13:23
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Your health was going down while you were standing there, you didn't instantly die. I assume the mist from his breath attack is some sort of poisonous fumes.
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Oct 1, 2019 14:19
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Iunnrais posted:The lizard, incidentally, is "Kuromori" ("Black Forest" in Japanese). forest? nah, it'll be a contraction of "kuro-yamori" ("black gecko")
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Oct 1, 2019 21:29
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Episode 10 - Please Go Off
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Oct 2, 2019 23:19
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Black Robe posted:Your health was going down while you were standing there, you didn't instantly die. I assume the mist from his breath attack is some sort of poisonous fumes. Yeah I had a look back the the recording and saw. That there's no visual or sound cue is a bit of a pain.
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Oct 2, 2019 23:20
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Normally, you'd be looking through the usual camera angle and you'd see the mist around you. I don't think they expected people to be aiming arrows the whole time they're in the mist.
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Oct 3, 2019 00:47
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Ladybugs are actually cannibals, y'know.
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Oct 3, 2019 15:14
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Wish you had used Agro more in the turtle fight. He's a big help in luring the big monster to the right spot. If you stay too close, getting it to move to exactly the right spot is a huge pain in the neck, as you saw. If you stay at a distance, it's not that bad positioning it, and then since you're on horseback you can get yourself right back to where you need to be in a jiffy. And it's good practice for... well, spoilers.
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Oct 4, 2019 12:17
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Episode 11 - Walk Without Rhythm.
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Oct 5, 2019 00:37
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Not caught up on the LP yet, but having played the game and knowing this reference via pop cultural osmosis... 
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Oct 5, 2019 01:09
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W.T. Fits posted:Not caught up on the LP yet, but having played the game and knowing this reference via pop cultural osmosis... Actually they'll be fighting a tapdancing Christopher Walken colossus.
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Oct 5, 2019 02:29
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Kangra posted:Actually they'll be fighting a tapdancing Christopher Walken colossus. Wow, rude, just casually dropping spoilers out in the open like that.
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Oct 5, 2019 02:40
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...thanks, Nat, now I'm going to have the drat Um Bongo jingle in my head all day 
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Oct 5, 2019 09:24
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....aaaand this boss is why I was hoping you'd practice with Agro more. Absolutely one of the best two colossi in the game. Quite ironic how the first thing you said upon entering the cave is that you didn't think Agro had anything to do with fighting the thing. And yeah, you haven't NEEDED to use Agro before now (although he would have been really HELPFUL in a number of them) so you just assumed that Agro's only mechanic was to bring you TO the boss arena. Not so. Is firing behind you from sitting on Agro's back new to the PS4 version? I distinctly remember having to stand up in the saddle first... In other news: You found fruit! It doesn't just heal you either... pity you left some on the tree. They increase your MAX health. Iunnrais fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Oct 5, 2019 |
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Oct 5, 2019 10:28
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No, you can definitely fire backward in the original version. I've never been able to consistently do the standing up move.
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Oct 6, 2019 03:36
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Really? It's just a matter of holding a button and a direction for a moment, then aiming as normal...
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Oct 6, 2019 06:03
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Oct 7, 2019 23:15
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Well...That's certainly one way to win that fight...
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Oct 8, 2019 03:46
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I don't think that was actually a glitch, just the physics engine being a bit tetchy; I've had that happen to me before as well. The best way to do this fight is to use the camera to try dropping directly onto its back; failing that, staying close is your best bet to avoid attacks. That said, I also feel bad about this one--the poor kitty! Meaty Ore fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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Oct 8, 2019 04:11
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The guy and the girl both have names, though they don't really come up in the game itself since there's pretty much no dialogue. As for the colossi, there are no canonical names for them in the game itself or in any associated side materials, though some websites out there swear up and down that there are official name lists that were released for them at some point. This is another colossus that can be a pain in the rear end your first time through the game. It's interesting because the body language it displays when you're diving it back with the fire is almost enough to make you feel guilty or sympathetic to it... unless it manages to knock you down and then systematically maul you to death by stun-locking you whenever you try to get back up.
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Oct 8, 2019 06:03
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Meaty Ore posted:That said, I also feel bad about this one--the poor kitty!  it seems so much less monstrous than some of the others. (Biased, who me?)Also Walker holds his scabbard when he runs because otherwise it whacks into your legs and is really annoying/potentially a trip hazard. Black Robe fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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Oct 8, 2019 09:04
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Oct 9, 2019 23:03
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Psst, Nat. You were too busy watching the footie last night and forgot to post here when Episode 14 went up.
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Oct 12, 2019 08:33
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 Black Robe posted:Psst, Nat. You were too busy watching the footie last night and forgot to post here when Episode 14 went up. Apologies for the late posting here folks. It was my birthday yesterday and I was tremendously, tremendously drunk at 11pm.
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Oct 12, 2019 12:53
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I'm not sure you needed an excuse  but happy birthday!
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Oct 12, 2019 14:28
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I smiled when you got lost in that beautiful dark forest on the way to this colossus. I have gotten lost in that same forest the majority of times I've played this game. The beam of light goes directly for it, it's clearly designed specifically to trap you in the cul-de-sac. I feel like there were fewer patches of light in the PS2 version, but I could be wrong about that... I just remember being stuck in there for like 15-30 minutes on multiple playthroughs of this game. The fight itself took you a while to figure out simply because you had a hard time grasping that swimming underwater wasn't just to dodge, it makes you go faster. Falling off the thing's belly multiple times sounds about right from my memory though. It's a pain in the neck to fight casually. The best part about learning the speedrun strat is never having to spend multiple iterations swimming around to its back.
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Oct 13, 2019 11:59
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Assuming we will not see the colossus in question again - what is the speedrun strat here?
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Oct 13, 2019 14:54
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anilEhilated posted:Assuming we will not see the colossus in question again - what is the speedrun strat here? I'd like to request that this be behind spoilers as Tea and I are going to watch speedrun strats on the bosses and commentate through them as our final episode.
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Oct 13, 2019 15:24
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Nat20: Definitely don't read these spoilers yet! The strat I learned years ago has been superseded by a MUCH faster one these days that involves having the colossus push you deep underwater to its weakpoint, and it turns out it's possible to get a plant on the thing even fully submerged. If you're not aware, a "plant" is a specific spot you can grab onto a weakspot where you stay "planted" with all four limbs glued to the colossus even while it shakes about (or goes underwater). Every weakspot in the game has a possible plant, although they can be super finicky to land. The old strat is slower but, in my opinion, more fun/visually appealing: Get his attention with an arrow, he'll duck his face just low enough for just long enough that you can jump all the way up to the top of his head from the first island where you wake him up from. From there, go as normal. Then the trick is simply to get a good plant on the weak spot and stab with the right rhythm so you one-cycle him down. Mistime it and you're getting dunked. If you miss it, it's POSSIBLE to regrab the face, but I was never able to do it-- it's swimming time again, which sucks, which is why I bothered learning the timing-- not that I still remember it today. I just wanted the unlocks you get for doing time attacks fast enough.
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Oct 14, 2019 07:44
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