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Posted: 12/6/2009 7:08 AM
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Derakon
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Some of the "Super Skills" demo videos are awesome (and I'm pretty certain all of them are tool-assisted). In particular, the one where three players on Yoshis pass Luigi around, and the one that has the four players climbing a vertical level using propeller hats and those helicopter blocks are both excellent examples of the kind of whacked-out speed/playaround stuff you can do with four players. Luigi continues to get no respect at all. <3
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 12/3/2009 4:27 PM
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I was going to suggest "Insert", but I see FODA beat me to it. :)
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 12/3/2009 6:35 AM
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Not just powerful bosses, but powerful enemies, too. To quote from the Let's Play:
This game is notorious for its difficulty. Grinding experience levels is absolutely required, many bosses (and especially the other Apprentices) are ruthlessly hard and scale to your level to boot, and the gear you need is never available when you actually need it. To top it off, there are parts of the game where, unless you have been grinding properly, victory against even the weakest monsters is basically impossible, and in at least one potential encounter, literally impossible. That's right, fuck this up and you cannot win this game. And it's not a bug, it's just that hard. Oh yes, lest I forget, due to a bug, experience is rather difficult to acquire and the game caps your level lower than it's supposed to, so even if you grind out as far as possible you're never going to quite be where you need to be.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 12/3/2009 6:27 AM
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Well, I enjoyed it. Nice work!
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 12/2/2009 3:28 AM
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Keep in mind timing differences. I doubt that their timer starts from power-on; it probably starts from the beginning of level 1 (after the jingle plays). Note that that run uses the same strategies as the TAS, but is less precise (pausing for obstacles, having to jump over a barrel).
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 12/1/2009 1:55 AM
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I'm terrible at this kind of thing, but I did discover a flaw in the quiz: you can use the back button after getting one wrong to keep going. :) I spent most of my time on consoles, growing up, and these days arcade games are generally too transient an experience to keep me involved, barring the occasional urge to play Metal Slug games.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 11/30/2009 10:28 PM
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Mmm...I found this to be rather dull, since most of the levels consisted of "Make a 2x2 in the middle, blow it up, repeat until screen is cleared". Given the way the game scales explosion size, I think a run that tried to clear every level with only one combo would be much more interesting...assuming it is possible. Voting meh. Run is well-executed but not interesting to watch, barring a few levels. Thanks for the encode, sgrunt!
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 11/30/2009 6:11 PM
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Looks good! The movie should probably have a tag indicating that it corrupts save data, though.
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Posted: 11/30/2009 6:04 PM
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As it happens, I agree that a CC license makes more sense here, mostly because people in general think of GPL as being for tools and CC for being for content, and we do generally use the movie input files in the context of content. I guess I was just picking nits...
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Posted: 11/30/2009 3:28 PM
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And code also has comments and source control metadata (which often includes authorship information).
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Posted: 11/30/2009 2:58 AM
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A keypress file is a sequence of commands. So is a source code file. They both have to be interpreted by a special program to generate some desired output. In other words, source code is pure data, nothing else. It's all in how you look at the thing.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 11/29/2009 4:29 AM
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Responding to Arukado's half-year-old post, presumably tool23 was talking about the run, and specifically was referring to the partner-switch spamming.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 11/28/2009 11:57 PM
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Apparently at the end of that video, Wily undergoes a sex-change operation, severely confusing Megaman. Looking good!
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Posted: 11/27/2009 5:10 PM
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Generally codes aren't allowed. Certainly giving yourself all the weapons is out; you might be okay with giving yourself four stars though.
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Posted: 11/27/2009 5:08 PM
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Those invincible obstacle enemies sure make leveling up a breeze, huh? Looking good! :)
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Posted: 11/27/2009 12:34 AM
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The run looked good to me, though it's a bit weird to see Gomez as a creepy little gnome. Nice work!
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Posted: 11/26/2009 1:49 AM
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What exactly was awful about it? I'd suggest a two-player run not use Max, actually, mostly because he's clearly going to do the one-player run, so everyone gets to see him shine already. So my suggestion would be Skate and Blaze.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 12:20 AM
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I don't think that this site would accept a second run of the game unless that run was either heavily glitched or used two players. You can of course still make any runs you like for your own satisfaction though, and I'd love to see Skate tearing up the place. Good luck! Satan: maybe I'll try to track the Japanese version down sometime, then.
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Posted: 11/25/2009 10:35 PM
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Killing X with a Chokehold would've been a nice finisher. Incidentally, I tried playing Streets of Rage 3 today, and I'd forgotten just how brutal it is. Enemies routinely have boss-level amounts of health and are way more agile than you are; most of their attacks do non-trivial damage and come out quickly; the bosses themselves just love playing keepaway and outranging you; and don't even get me started on the stage with the time limit! Oh, and the music sucks, too.
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Posted: 11/25/2009 6:05 PM
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Generally they put as much effort as they can into the graphics, and what determines how good it looks from there is skill. Videogame graphics are not easy to make! I played Iji after watching DeceasedCrab's Let's Play of it. My first runthrough was pacifist on the normal difficulty setting, and I think I might have died...twice? Of course, I had to abort many more times due to accidentally killing enemies...generally by kicking a turret head into them. Stupid turrets.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 11/25/2009 3:38 PM
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Mostly you play Iji for the writing. The actual gameplay is competent, but it is pretty slow.
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Posted: 11/25/2009 3:34 PM
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While I applaud your drive to optimize filesizes, I'm not entirely certain I want to be responsible for this. ¬.¬
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Posted: 11/25/2009 4:06 AM
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It's right here: At around the 8:15 mark in sgrunt's encode. EDIT: man, I just noticed how wrong that image looks. Sorry, folks!
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Posted: 11/24/2009 7:26 PM
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Fundamentally, the way that TASVideos treats the material it publishes is beside the point. We don't have permission from the authors. That should be the end of it.
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Posted: 11/24/2009 3:21 PM
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The reason why copyright law came up is that we were discussing the legality of distributing someone else's work (regardless of who you claim owns it). Copyright includes the right to control distribution. We just noted a situation in which having made a movie is not the same thing as wanting to see that movie get published, so "If he didn't want it published, why did he put it on the Net" is an invalid argument. People shouldn't have to plaster their work with "This is incomplete, please don't grab it and submit it" just to make certain that nobody does something they don't have permission to do anyway.
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