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CLOUDBOND007		#41	[-]
Posts: 12482 (09/03/08 11:20 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	LOL @ Penguin I finished my replay of Donkey Kong Country. Boss Dumb Drum has to be the most pointless boss in gaming history. Between the weak enemies it pours on you, and the predictable way it tries to smash you, it's like it (and Rare) wasn't even trying. I had been finding the game, if not difficult, than at least challenging enough to keep me on my toes. But I pretty much breezed through all of Chimp Caverns. K. Rool took me maybe five or six tries. A few of those were just figuring out the method for avoiding his fast hops during the final phase. I don't think I'll be trying to increase my completion percentage. Finding the bonuses in the other two games can be amusing, but it seems more like a chore in this one, and with no reward. All in all, an enjoyable experience and I still think this is a pretty solid game, overshadowed by it's much more impressive sequel. One thing that made an impression on me is how perfect the play control is. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
Flying Omelette		#42	[-]
Posts: 21190 (09/03/08 11:29 PM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	If people are going to fuck with me, I'm going to fuck them over twice as hard in return. I didn't spend 10 years exploring the differences between good and bad writing only to have some con-artist twat tell me that I can't make posts about it on my own fucking forums. And I certainly see absolutely no reason to keep arguing with someone who just ignores everyone's posts and makes the same exact demands even after they've been answered a million times. I didn't write this for nothing. "There's a worse room than this?! How?! Is it on fire?"
Rushifell		#43	[-]
Posts: 667 (09/03/08 11:38 PM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oh right, it's so much cooler to write 12 page essays on cartoons, complain about arcade beat em ups not having stories, and complaining that an RPG has storyline.S So that's what this is all about? You're making snide replies to people in a misguided attempt to look cool? Hon, considering you're an overweight furry who makes his living scamming people out of their money and games, you're going to have a much higher climb to that lofty goal. FO is an excellent writer because she understands what makes writing good. You would not be capable of writing the way FO can because you haven't even the basic understanding of what makes writing good. She's able to dissect things and figure out what makes things bad, average, good, and great. Like with anybody, no one's always going to agree with her 100% of the time, but acting offended and whiny over it hurts your cause more. I would agree a storyline in a beat-em-up isn't important, but whining about someone saying a story is stupid (which it is, so what's the harm in saying it?) is unnecessary. But who am I kidding? "You" and "good" simply don't go togehter in the same sentence. R U $ h 1 F 3 \|\|
Officer Prowl		#44	[-]
Posts: 295 (09/03/08 11:46 PM) A Donut's Worst Nightmare!! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I would agree a storyline in a beat-em-up isn't important, but whining about someone saying a story is stupid (which it is, so what's the harm in saying it?) is unnecessary. I said this elsewhere, but I'll say it again for posterity: 1. That was hardly the only complaint I had about that game. 2. There's nothing wrong with expecting licensed products to be faithful to their source material. I don't have a problem with the "Stolen Statue of Liberty" plot in Turtles in Time, for example, because even though that's not a great plot, it's something very much inline with the types of crimes that 80's cartoon villains like Shredder and Krang would perpetrate. Smithers robbing a bank is not something that, without some kind of explanation to make it work, makes any sense at all. And Crawl actually already addressed that when he said that the AvP and TMNT arcade games had more for the fans. LEARN TO FUCKING READ!
Officer Prowl		#45	[-]
Posts: 295 (09/03/08 11:52 PM) A Donut's Worst Nightmare!! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oh right, it's so much cooler to write 12 page essays on cartoons, If this has something to do with the ReBoot posts, I asked TWICE if I should have split those out of the Video Thread into their own topic and no one said I should. Therefore, it is acceptable for me to have assumed no one had a problem with them. You missed the boat on that one. Talk about invalid arguments. If this has something to do with my site essays on Transformers and Urusei Yatsura... Do you realize that I receive emails at least once a month from people telling me they like those articles and actually want to discuss them with me? Mentally-incapacitated gamers like you aren't the only audience on the internet. If this has something to do with the RAU Gallery, that's your fucking problem. My characters have as much of a right to exist as any of the made-in-committee shit you worship and defend from anything even slightly negative said about it. It's people like you who make me glad I axed the Cameos Database in favor of it. If it's just a general statement, then boo-hoo, you're breaking my heart. My posts (as well as most everyone else's) on the subject deal with properties such as writing, craftsmanship, and artistry that are universal. They apply to more than just cartoons. Last Edited By: Flying Omelette 09/03/08 11:55 PM. Edited 1 times.
Emerald Lynk		#46	[-]
Posts: 59 (09/04/08 12:02 AM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I feel a trembling joy, I feel a joyous shout!
Officer Prowl		#47	[-]
Posts: 295 (09/04/08 12:03 AM) A Donut's Worst Nightmare!! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	da dick wrote: anyways, i just like to repeat again that the dialogue in Kartia put me to sleep. if it talked more about fucking trees, i bet mana clan lezzies might just pop in for a cameo. hey, at least i wasn't the one who bought the game. Sorry if I missed an earlier post on it, but c'mon, gimme a break. Mona's a druid. Druids are supposed to talk to trees. The alternative would be to have her drop food wrappers on people's lawns. Edit - LOL, Sethra.
Flying Omelette		#48	[-]
Posts: 21190 (09/04/08 6:45 AM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sorry if I missed an earlier post on it, but c'mon, gimme a break. Mona's a druid. Druids are supposed to talk to trees. The alternative would be to have her drop food wrappers on people's lawns. Although I enjoyed both halves of the story, I think I've mentioned before that Toxa's quest is more like a sidestory to fill in the holes in Lacryma's quest. Lacryma's story is the better of the two and there's less talk about the World Tree (which doesn't even really have much to do with the overall plot). Troy and Kun are written exceptionally well. One scene that impressed me is when Troy is pulling a prank on Kun because he knows that if he says something a certain way, Kun will take him seriously. That scene depends on particular traits of the characters' personalities and could not have been pulled off without (a) an excellent translation and (b) an excellent translation by someone who understands how to write in character voice and focuses the words appropriately. Playing that game would be a good exercise for anyone who wants a quick lesson in writing in character voice (cough Sethra...) "There's a worse room than this?! How?! Is it on fire?"
Emerald Lynk		#49	[-]
Posts: 59 (09/04/08 6:01 PM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The alternative would be to have her drop food wrappers on people's lawns. Oh shit. I've got an idea for a character for my sketch comedy now...
Captain Ladd Spencer		#50	[-]
Posts: 2381 (09/04/08 11:09 PM) Behold the many uses of my amazing BIONIC ARM! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I replayed Bionic Commando on the NES, and I bet that's how Blue Sea felt when he plugged in Final Fantasy 4 after his headaches with the DS game. Everything was so crisp. The graphics, the sound, the controls. I'd also forgotten how rich the atmosphere can be. I'd forgotten about the giant bugs in Area 3 (I remembered the flytraps, just not the bugs), or that part of Area 10 with the oozy red walls. The floor of Area 11 had moving flames, while in Rearmed it's just bright yellow. Sometimes you wiretap and get some creepy messages, like Super Joe's cries for help, or the last words of some people getting killed by the level boss. Whenever you hack in Rearmed, you get a conversation between the same two assholes explaining how to beat the boss of the level. I've got to get screenshots comparing Area 4's opening on the NES versus its opening in Rearmed. Actually, I think I'll do that now.
Flying Omelette		#51	[-]
Posts: 21190 (09/05/08 6:35 AM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I beat all three difficulty settings of E.T. for the Atari 2600 in less than a half an hour last night. I tried beating Raiders of the Lost Ark, but couldn't quite do it. It's too easy to fall off the damn mesas in this game. Almost all of my lost lives were caused by that. I really need to finish this game as it's one that's haunted me since my early youth. "There's a worse room than this?! How?! Is it on fire?"
CLOUDBOND007		#52	[-]
Posts: 12482 (09/05/08 9:58 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I got some more stuff from ebay in the mail today and started Soul Blazer. I'm at level 3, and I've made a solid start to the first dungeon. This game is interesting because you can barely play for 3 seconds without accomplishing at least something. You can definitely see how Illusion of Gaia grew out of this, but while Soul Blazer is an enjoyable game, that was a pretty awesome improvement. I can't remember how far I made it into the game when I played it on PC. I vaguely remember a forest-town, but it might be my imagination. I got my N64 and it looks really nice and green, but I don't have any games to try on it yet. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
Flying Omelette		#53	[-]
Posts: 21190 (09/05/08 10:25 PM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I finally beat Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600. I had long ago looked up a FAQ on this game to see how you were supposed to complete it since there was no way in hell I could ever figure it out on my own. This is a game you really need a FAQ for because some of the things you have to do are so intentionally mysterious. I also got the secret Yar on my second play after I beat it. Then I beat it again, and that got me the better ending where you see HSW's initials and Indy is higher on the pedestal. "There's a worse room than this?! How?! Is it on fire?"
CLOUDBOND007		#54	[-]
Posts: 12482 (09/05/08 10:40 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I was just watching it on Youtube and I can't believe anyone could have figured it out without help. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
CLOUDBOND007		#55	[-]
Posts: 12482 (09/05/08 10:50 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I forgot to mention that the previous owner's files on Soul Blazer were named (spelling approximate) ASSLIKR and BTCHKILLR which certainly brought a smile to my face. If the ebay guy tested the games at all, he had to know they were named that. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
da dick		#56	[-]
Posts: 2341 (09/05/08 11:45 PM) and my bird can sing too! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	bah. druids can talk to wolves too. i would rather talk to a wolf than a tree. then again i would rather talk to flowers than a wolf who could bite my head off. but seriously, trees are boring. songwriters write trees into their songs to emphasise(sp?) boredom. if them trees aren't in the real world producing the air that we breathe, and getting chopped down to make a good table... ah, fuck trees. http://rogerebert.suntime...0427/REVIEWS/4270301/1023 actually that sounds pretty hardcore except for the nanny-ing bit. i wonder how hot that druid-nanny was. "Birdies!" Last Edited By: da dick 09/05/08 11:54 PM. Edited 1 times.
Crawl and 1OOO		#57	[-]
Posts: 15851 (09/06/08 10:12 AM) Administrator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	FO just walked me through ET.
Flying Omelette		#58	[-]
Posts: 21190 (09/06/08 10:36 AM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	da dick wrote: bah. druids can talk to wolves too. i would rather talk to a wolf than a tree. then again i would rather talk to flowers than a wolf who could bite my head off. but seriously, trees are boring. songwriters write trees into their songs to emphasise(sp?) boredom. if them trees aren't in the real world producing the air that we breathe, and getting chopped down to make a good table... ah, fuck trees. Yeah, but, would you really want them making powerful Kartia from wolves? That'd be a little more disturbing. "There's a worse room than this?! How?! Is it on fire?"
CLOUDBOND007		#59	[-]
Posts: 12482 (09/06/08 10:39 AM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Your Pi is served. Since Yahoo was going to force me to upgrade in a month anyway and offered a discount for doing so early, I now have a better, if slightly unnecessary hosting plan with unlimited transfer and storage with the reservation that if the numbers got completely out of control, they could restrict it. There's some other new tools and crap that I probably don't know how to use. I still don't see that there's an easy way to block remote loading of images at some places and allowing it at others. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
CLOUDBOND007		#60	[-]
Posts: 12482 (09/06/08 11:38 AM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I finally got Pilotwings 64 (which came today) to actually work. It's gotta rank up there with some of the dirtiest cartridges I've cleaned. At first I thought something was wrong with the N64 and I tried removing and reinstalling the expansion pak. But no, I had to go give the cartridge a cleaning three times to get it to even come on with some regularity, and four times for it to work with every removal and reinsertion. Obviously, the first cleaning or two wasn't as thorough as it could have been, but still, NES games are usually easier to get working than that and those are a hell of a lot older. It seems to retain a lot of the feel of the original game (which I SHOULD try to finish) and seems fun. I also got DKC 2. Joy. I know that one was cleaned because it has a big chunk of cotton swab still in the connectors! Jeez, lazy ebay sellers. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS

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