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Posted: 6/6/2005 12:35 PM
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MahaTmA
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It matters to the women, thus it is important. What matters to you is the name, apparently, not wether or not these runs are "cheated" (zOMG). Seriously, close this topic already. Let it die. You cannot collectively change the opinions of an entire forum, espcially so if that forum doesn't care.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 6/4/2005 6:19 AM
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Or piff duddy. There will never be any peace on this topic, thus it is best to let it be. This topic seems to me as though it has been the venting of personal opinions (perhaps from several individuals) to attempt to re-route the behavioural core of this community into thinking they are guilty sinners who should be punished. Both sides have good arguments, and as such, it's a deadlock until either: 1) People accept the current term and the discussion dies out. 2) People change the term because they are sick of hearing about it, then get pummeled by someone else because it's misleading. If we continue changing, my Jedi Sense® tells me that in a few years from now, the videos on these sites would be called: "Videos of videogames done really quickly, but we used and emulator and made a lot of thing we can't do if we sat by a console so these movies are not real timeattacks or speedrun"-movies
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 6/4/2005 6:07 AM
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I think for Console gaming your best bet would be to get a DVD recorder with a harddrive, as you'd then be able to delete mistakes and only burn to the DVD what is actually good. It's 40 gB size (Standard) should make for for around 30 hours of playtime. As for the PC, it's an entirely different matter. Since you can log key input using keyloggers, it would theoretically be possible to do so and "save" a run of the game using this method. In practice, however, this is prone to slowdowns, etc. from all the programs running on yor comp. A single stutter in the game would lead to the entire rest of the run desyncing and not making it's way through the game. For instance: In a platformer, you have to make a jump just right to avoid backtracking. As you record, the jump clears just fine, but in playback a small hiccup by your comp sends you careening into death and leaves the rest of the movie unsynchronized. The only real way to deal with this problem is to record the screen image instead of the keys - making a video. Its large size, constant slowing down of your game and long compression times are more than made up for by its reliability. If the run you make on a game is nulled because of comp slowdown, I know who'd not be a happy adventurer :P Hope this is helpful (If not, you've just wasted my time :P )
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 5/30/2005 7:39 PM
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MahaTmA
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Insanely well done. A definitive "yes."
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 5/8/2005 6:23 PM
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Sounds to me like there are plenty of improvements to be made?
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 5/2/2005 8:18 PM
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Disable screensavers using The Magic of the Right Mouse Button®! Right click in desktop, select preferences, click on "screensaver" on the screen that now appeared. Click the list, scroll up until you find "none." click. Click ok. No need for screen-saving-disabled-emulators with the power of The Magic of the Right Mouse Button®! I didn't expect anyone to use screensavers?
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 5/2/2005 7:50 PM
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Ah yes, nostalgia. A theme I might not be qualified to talk about as I'm only verging on my 18th birthday, but I'll have a go anyway. Bulletin style. - I played the classics in day-care and pre-kindergarden (4-5 kids getting babysitted at some farm.), in that, I'm referring to Snake, TMNT, Mario 3 and not much else. I always envied my big sis for going above 20 "apples" ( @ on our old old something PC-like abomination which my dad brought home from work - state of the art with a 512 kB HD and 16 kB of ram - wow! It even had a 12" yellow/black screen!) The NES was at my pre-school care farm. - In afterschool I was first introduced to the C64. A machine on which I utterly pwned all resistance in this neat little ninja 1on1 fighting game it had. Even took a lowly 2 minutes to load! Great 4 (or was it 8) bit graphics caressed my eyes. - A little later, I got my hands on a SNES in the same after-school club together with a revisit of the NES. Played a lot of different games, even though consoles weren't made for me. 8 bit full-colour dream machines. - Ahh, the wonders of our first PC, with 133 mHz, 128 mB of ram and a 10 gig HD. Cost my dad ~ 2000$ back in 1995, but it ran age of empires smoothly, which pleased me. And every friend I brought home. On 2d vs 3d: I really find 2D controls way more intuitive than 3d controls in many aspects, especially RTS games, as it's much easier to remain in overview if you only have to look for certain colours instead of constantly adding the layer of lighting, movement etc. 3D also causes a lot of high-paced action to be lost. I still remember the 3d levels in sonic levels making me scream "Get on with it!" to my comp, as I was used to the usual action. A lot of things have been lost in 2d->3d, but the addition of first person controls is still something to marvel at, as most of these games give a much more immersed game than any 2D platformer did in the past (I dare to mention HL2 in this respect.). On graphics vs gameplay: Not all games are as bleak as you percieve them. A most recent example in the PC world (Which is where I mostly reside) is Rome: TW. It's graphics are by no means on-par with most other games, but it still scores for having a well-planned and thought-out singleplayer element. Gameplay is high on this one. I'd say every period has its own good and bad games, both graphics-wise and gameplay-wise, but these two do not necessarily have to match up. For every instance of %New and %Old : New != Bad New != Good Old != Good Old != Bad
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 5/2/2005 7:21 PM
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If I find the guy who made only one music piece for that game, I'll give him a lesson in variety. With heavy objects. Good movie, doesn't seem to be much room for improvement, as I expect the 2-3 frame pauses at times are intentional? Yes vote.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 5/2/2005 2:39 PM
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Very good movie, appears to be optmimised in every aspect. Fun auto-scrollers as well.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 4/18/2005 9:19 PM
Post subject: Artpad - Online painting software
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Really neat little applet that allows you to do your own little paintings: Most well-known phone ever: http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?if5um1f48lc An eye: http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?if3ueo1146s
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 4/9/2005 10:10 PM
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It's fast, it's precise, it's lovingly decorated with care. Yessir, that's how I like me timeattacks.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 4/1/2005 3:23 PM
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At the end of world 8-3 you seem to pause for a second before grabbing the flag, is this intentional?
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 3/31/2005 5:00 PM
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Very nicely executed. Yep.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 3/29/2005 12:45 PM
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Added ending gets my "yes" vote.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 3/25/2005 4:57 PM
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Well excuted, but voting no since it doesn't play until the very end. If the ending is added, this is a "yes" vote.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 3/25/2005 4:34 PM
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I've stared at walls more funny than this game. Good run though, but severe lack of interesting stuff in the game makes my vote "Meh."
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 3/21/2005 8:34 PM
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Very professionally done. I can't see it getting any better. Yes.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 3/16/2005 2:56 PM
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Great work! The Limbo Song has almost been answered on this one. On the second flying level you pause for a ½ second or so to land on an enemy when it looks like you could have continued onto the next flying thing (A bee). Is there no way to reach that one?
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 3/9/2005 9:34 PM
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You scored 86% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 72% Expert! Pretty good, considering I'm sub-18 and English is only my second language, I'd say.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 3/4/2005 10:44 PM
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Movie can also be highly entertaining, but have disturbing flaws in it, that got a 'meh' off of me once or twice.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 2/26/2005 3:27 PM
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Right around the time agopo mentioned, you also paused on a ledge for a spilt second, letting the medusa almost attack you. is this intentional? Getting a yes vote from me, even if this isn't intentional.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 2/24/2005 10:59 AM
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Biro, it was played at the highest setting. Great diversity and planning (Especially interception Bison with his cannonball roll.). I especially like that you didn't rely heavily on superpowers, but took out the cpu as a real martial artist would; bare fisted. Hopwever, I don't like your choice of character. IMHO Ryu is much too overdone, why not do a challenge with Dhalsim or Zangief (Whom I consider to be the worst characters in the game)? Still, a yes from me.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 2/22/2005 7:45 PM
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Rather uneventful and slow menu handling. Meh.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 2/21/2005 3:19 PM
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Nothing bad to say here. Yes from me.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
Posted: 2/3/2005 10:42 PM
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Desynced for me at stage 4 -can anyone confirm this? Was looking to be a mighty fine play.
"We observe the behaviour of simple folk, and derive pleasure from their defects." -Aristotle - Book of Humour
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