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CtrlAltDestroy wrote:
I think a sidequest is only truly a sidequest when the result is just some pointless collectible item that doesn't make the main adventure any easier or harder for you, it's only added in to increase the gameplay length.
By that definition, getting all of the heart containers in the Zelda games is not a sidequest. I disagree, since having all of the hearts is not essential to completing the game.
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DK64_MASTER wrote:
But why do you want to differentiate between side quests and the main adventure? They all make the game.
I judge linearity by how much freedom the player has in completing the main adventure. Side quests are not essential to beating the game, so I ignore them in that respect.
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I agree with the examples of LoZ and the MM series, and I'm quite sad to see where the Zelda series has been going in this respect. Sure, there was the possibility of not knowing what to do next, but that very thing made it so much more rewarding when you finally did figure it out. Now, it seems like the "helpers" in the Zelda games bug you about going to the next dungeon every five minutes. I find that this interferes considerably with side quests that the games may have, and I don't even consider myself a large fan of side quests.
DK64_MASTER wrote:
Sure it's a good example, but the best one I can think of is: The Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask. That game was nonlinear in almost every way possible, and this makes it really interesting for route planning and sequence breaking.
LoZ was more nonlinear than MM. The fact that there are sequence breaks in the latter game attests to this.
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I thought about making a topic called "Ask X" in order to stop the copycats, but there is that problem you mentioned (assuming people would actually stop making individual topics).
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upthorn wrote:
No, because there is a place in the rules where it says that a TAS of the game must be entertaining. The OoT run entertained many, while the SC2 one did not.
That's because many people hadn't ever played SC2, so they didn't know the planning behind the movie. If you would ignore the people who shouldn't have voted because they didn't know the game (which I think would be a logical rule to add), there wouldn't have been so many unfavorable votes or comments.
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DK64_MASTER wrote:
The general public weren't screaming for a SC2 run were they? Were they screaming for a OOT run? No, they were demanding it.
I don't see anywhere in the site rules where it says popular demand should be a factor in determining whether a movie gets accepted or not. If we would actually have followed the rules, the OoT run should have been rejected and the SC2 one accepted.
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I was planning some sort of Wizards & Warriors III FAQ/walkthrough when someone on an IRC channel that I no longer frequent linked me to the TAS on this site. After I finally got the FCM to work, I was very surprised, and I joined the site some time after, mostly with the intent of adding the tricks to the walkthrough. In the end, the "walkthrough" ended up being just a list of various pieces of information that could be useful for TASes.
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I found the site's address difficult to remember... so I usually would just type in Bisqwit in google search
Lol, I did the same thing before I bookmarked it. I thought of the name as a strange variant of biscuit, which made it somewhat easier to remember.
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I've been using FCEU's memory viewer recently (NES -> Debugger -> Memory). After a while of having it open, the game starts to lag, and sometimes the main FCEU window loses the focus to the memory viewer window. This happens in both versions 0.98.13 and 0.98.15. I'm running WinXP Home, if that's relevant. If someone would be willing to look into this and see if it can be improved, it would be much appreciated.
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I found this movie very entertaining. While I don't like the fact that such a major glitch exists in the engine of one of my favorite games, it was put to great use in this movie. Yes vote.
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Actually, it is possible to save some time (maybe a second or two) by improving the jump as Kuros enters the third wizard guild. He needs some leftward momentum as he's entering the door, and he'll make it to the top of the steps in one jump.
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Harvey Denton: Very nice find. Looks like it's time to cancel another submission of this game. Hopefully that "third time's the charm" thing will apply.
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This is an awesome movie. I could never figure out how to get past the first dungeon-type area myself, so most of it was stuff I had never seen. Very amazing boss fights, nonetheless, and playing around with the enemies in levels was entertaining, too. Yes vote.
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A pretty funny thing happened when I beat this game for the first (and, so far, only) time. It was Thursday morning when I saw the link on IRC, and I started playing it. I had to go to a research lab for part of the day, so I just left the game on while I was away. When I finally beat it, my time was 7:45. Yes, that's 7 hours and 45 minutes.