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I started Mother 3. It's a little slow to start, but any game that uses frogs to save your game and has giant people ringing bells can't be all bad.
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greybob |
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I think I'm getting farther in BoF 2, but because of the way the plot progresses, it's kind of hard to tell! It sends you on so many
tangential side-missions before you can complete major objectives, that the whole thing feels like a giant series of side-quests strung together into a linear
sequence.
For example, the current major plot event goes something like this:
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greybob |
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I just found the magician guy. You don't have to fly to get to him. I guess I was just looking on the wrong island!
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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I've updated the site a little bit recently, with GPT Waspinator, the Bus Driver review, and an old post I rediscovered about FF1 map design oddities.
I tried playing Mario 64 and got 7 stars. The child in me likes this game and remembers the fascination with seeing Mario in 3D for the first time and having huge, colorful worlds to explore. But the adult side of me despises it for the shitty camera angles, some annoying music, and the changes it helped bring about. I'm still working on Mother 3, too. It might be picking up slightly.
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Captain Ladd Spencer |
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So I started Bionic Commando 2009. Gameplay-wise it's actually not that bad, but it's really annoying when enemies can hit me from a mile
away, but when I'm further than "right in their face" most of my own shots miss, and I haven't been able to read any of the data logs
I've gotten from hacking because they're all written in HD-Teeny-Weeny-Eyestrain-O-Vision.
And I'm almost finished with Fable 2. Earlier today I was at 900,000 gold, and just need the last 100,000 to buy Fairfax gardens (when I leave the system off I get about 200,000 a day), get my 2.5 million dollar empire, my 100 Gamerpoints, and it goes on the shelf. On RGB I just finished "Slimer, Is That You?" There was something that made me laugh hysterically in the episode about the plant taking over New York. The plant extends down a manhole and somebody down in the sewer goes "Hey, something smells good down here!" |
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Morgannon |
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I was also replaying Super Mario RPG (on the SNES, not the Wii) and had just beaten the Birdo boss in Nimbus Land. I've only actually beaten this game one
time before, way back when it first came out, and was surprised about how much I did not remember of it. I did remember that Link cameo in Rose Town, lol.
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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I wanted to get the actual cart for that game, but I had to be practical, and $8 for the Wii was better than $20 or $30 for the SNES version on ebay. This game
seems to have some major issues when played on PC emulators.
On the Wii, I did notice a couple of graphical glitches in battle that I didn't remember from the cart. Basically, if there was a really large enemy in a certain position on the screen, there would be horizontal lines of missing graphics near the battle command icons. It's actually really hard to explain what it looked like, but it was infrequent enough that it didn't bother me. Other than that, it seemed perfect. I'm glad I took the time to replay it. It's far from perfect... the battle system is just too slow, and lacking in strategy... but it makes up for that in other ways. |
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MW4: mercs
oh well. made it through that steiner stealth mission with my atlas anyway. the raven i tried using wasn't able to get within 800 metres of gamma w/o getting spotted. even if i was able to travel 800 metres at 120kmph w/o being spotted, i noticed the uziel would have spotted me while i was scanning. its patrol path makes it stop right next to the gamma factory, near the north turret. that's definitely less than 250m. seems that the lasers were doing more damage to me than the missiles, so relfective armour saved the day. finished it with my armour in orange. as for the spaceport mission, the rabid fox keeps getting himself killed by the light mecs when he doesn't get stepped on by my own lancemates. i hate escort/ faux-stealth missions. |
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Captain Ladd Spencer |
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I bought Fairfax gardens, went through the hidden catacombs and got... a potion to change my gender. Yeah, this game's going on the shelf now.
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Gray leader rules |
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I played Metal Slug 3 on Xbox Live for the first time and beat it. The lag was horrible and by the time we had finished I'd used 45 continues and the other
player had used 50. I think he had it on the hardest difficulty because some of the bosses took forever.
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Captain Ladd Spencer |
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I finished Season One of Real Ghostbusters.
FO said she thought Masquerade was the worst Season One episode. I actually thought Victor the Happy Ghost was. My eyes just kind of glazed over Ain't NASA-Sarily So, Ghost Busted, and Masquerade, but Victor made me want to drop kick somebody. Should I be posting this in the RGB Topic? |
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Flying Omelette |
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Should I be posting this in the RGB Topic? It doesn't really matter to me. The thing about "Ain't NASA-sarily So" is that it's a case in which the adult interests overshadowed the kid's interest. While I do think that having situations and dialogue that adults can relate to is one of the things that made the series great, there's more emphasis on the government contract in that episode then there is on the alien. |
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Captain Ladd Spencer |
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Actually, all I seem to remember about the NASA episode now is at the beginning they shoot the "incomplete ghost" and that just makes it bigger (the
alien-ghost-whatever also seemed to keep deflating), but at the end they shoot it some more and that lets them trap it now. Huh?
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Flying Omelette |
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The reason they couldn't trap it before is because it was too far away, so they had to lure it out. But like Crawl said...they seriously couldn't
devise some way to launch their traps over there? I thought Ray was going to drop it out of an airlock, thus ending with an appropriate Alien/Aliens homage,
but no, the solution was anticlimactic.
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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In Mario 64, I got all the stars in Bomb-omb Battlefield and Whomp's Fortress, including the 100 coin stars.
In Mother 3, I completed the Forest Fire segment. I still need to play a lot more, but I feel like it has the potential to be great, and the translation seems very professional. We'll see how it goes. |
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greybob |
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I was very impressed with the Mother 3 fan translation. It's better than some professional translations I've seen, and alot better than most other fan
translations. BoF 2's official translation, on the other hand, has all sorts of typos, grammatical errors, and missing punctuation. Although, they got away
with some interesting things considering Nintendo's censorship. Most notably, multiple references to religious stuff, like God, the devil, angels, and
prayer.
Progress-wise, I've gotten to FarmTown. I also found Bleu and the dragon upgrades for Ryu.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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I don't know if this is common knowledge yet, but Dan Owsen, who translated Ocarina of Time and Earthbound, did it without knowing Japanese. The writers
gave him rough translations, and his job was to polish them. Many games with "bad translations" were translated by people who were not native
English speakers, but then missed that polish step.
Supposedly, Ducktales almost went out with the ending being that Scrooge realized that what's more important than treasure is "dream and friends", but an American Capcom staffer caught it. I think Breath of Fire 1 was translated by Square, possibly even Ted Woolsey (of FF6 and Chrono Trigger fame), but BoF2 was done by Capcom themselves. "Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon |
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Captain Ladd Spencer |
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So, I watched up to the Boogeyman Returns. Good bye happiness, hellooooo shittiness.
One thing that bugged my about Baby Spookums, and this is probably just my OCD talking: Back in Drool the Dog-Faced Goblin Ray said they couldn't let Drool out of the trap because he was caught at the same time as the other goblin, and when that happens their molecules combine and they can't be seperated. But in Baby Spookums, they catch the mom and dad ghost in the same trap, then when they let them out they emerge as two seperate ghosts. "It's a Jungle Out There" reminded me of something. I know this isn't fair since the book came out, like, twenty years after the RGB episode, but one of those Douglas TenNapel graphic novels was also about a statue possessed by an ancient animal god called "Ungabe" that hated humans, and started its assault on man at a zoo. Except Ungabe shot little darts into the animals that turned them into monsters, and some witch doctor says it hated man "for being the creator's favorite" while this animal god (Janine says his name and it was something underwhelming like "Tusk" or something) seemed to just hate humans just because and gave them man-like intelligence. And fuck, Slimer's managed to become even MORE annoying. Why are the Ghostbusters taking him with on their bustings? Couldn't that get him sucked into one of the traps (yaaaay!)? Is it necessary to occasionally cut to him making "TAKE THAT" gestures? And why does he have to fucking YELL all the time?
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Bomberguy221 |
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Super Mario Advance 2 - Got all the Yoshi Coins! Now I get to collect the Peach Coins... Yaaay. I guess it was appropriate that Yoshi pulled these out of his
ass, because I haven't noticed any changes in position to warrant this add-on. And they're ugly.
So, I think this is a good time to mention some changes for the game. The box that talks about Yoshi Coins on Yoshi's Island now says Peach Coins, so they covered their bases. Oh, and in the "Special World," you don't get the reward you got in the SNES version for beating all 8 stages. I'm looking at GameFAQs, and I'm missing one of the 96 exits (I only have 95... huh?). I don't know what I'm missing - I think I've got all the hidden paths in Chocolate Island, and I think the Forest of Illusion's complete, too. EDIT: Just found it. Apparently Valley Ghost House has a secret I never knew about... Could have saved me some headache. But now I've unlocked all exits, and only have the Peach Coins left.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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No, that thing about Drool was an inconsistency. They really pulled the heart strings with that, but in other episodes, they even took ghosts out of the
containment unit individually.
Well, I don't think you necessarily need to spell out why something -- especially animals -- would hate humans. It's probably easy to come up with a bunch of possibilities off the top of your head. "Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon |
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