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Posted: 11/12/2012 3:57 PM
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DrJones
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I think this game got called Frankenstein because it was made from spare parts from Pitfall. The game looks hard, and the player does make it interesting in some moments, but it's fairly repetitive. I think for the standards of an Atari game is a pretty entertaining TAS, so if I applied a lower criteria to Atari games I would vote yes. As I don't, I vote meh.
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Posted: 9/23/2012 7:36 PM
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I vote yes, but it's a weak one because although it's pretty well played, I didn't find any reason to watch it a second time.
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Posted: 8/8/2012 10:05 PM
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Even though it got rejected, I give a symbolic yes to this run because after this many months I got the urge to see this movie again and get entertained by its silly premise.
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Posted: 7/1/2012 9:21 AM
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This run shouldn't have been published.
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Posted: 5/25/2012 12:21 PM
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If I recall correctly, the NG+ starts from a save, from a test run done for that purpose, in which the TASer had maximized everything (stats and items are kept in NG+ mode) In a NG+ run, you can travel directly to Lavos and fight him, hence why the movie can be finished so fast. I don't remember it corrupting the SRAM, but it's easy to test, as that requires resetting the game and watching the pendulum from the intro.
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Posted: 5/22/2012 6:42 PM
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The problem is that the published TAS is brilliant precisely because of data corruption. A run that doesn't corrupt save data will be far less entertaining than it.
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Posted: 5/19/2012 12:23 PM
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This thread reminded me of this:
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Posted: 5/19/2012 11:55 AM
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The previous TAS is starred, was a top contender in the "funny TAS" category of its year, and used the glitch in more interesting ways. This TAS is clearly miles inferior in the entertainment category, something like that also happened with the "A boy and his blob" TAS, and I think it was a mistake to obsolete that one. An old rule of the site states that faster runs aiming to obsolete others can be rejected if the slower run is more interesting to watch, and thus I vote NO based on those grounds. However, if the previous run could coexist with this one (maybe relabel it as a playaround), I would change the vote to yes.
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Posted: 5/8/2012 4:19 PM
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I've heard that you can skip collecting keycards in this game. Granted, the only example I've heard is from that one level with consecutive coloured doors that you don't even visit in this TAS, but I thought I would mention it anyways. The first commander keen is definitely simpler than the other games, but it still has some interesting sections that this TAS skips. The only thing I hate is that I always evade the Vorticon (as in this TAS) because I thought he was invincible, and years later I discovered that I just hadn't shoot him enough times. :p
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Posted: 5/3/2012 10:37 PM
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It would take infinite time because Gauntlet 2 has no end. But you might redefine what "beat the game" means for those cases. If you copy all NES roms into a single special cartridge, you can beat all NES games at once with a single punch, just saying.
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Posted: 5/3/2012 11:50 AM
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I know you don't have to see the clerk introducing the combination to open the safe, and you don't need the guide to be able to find the Swordmaster as long as you know the path beforehand (generated randomly at the start of each game). I don't know if that's true for the maze that requires you the help of a navigator, but it might be possible. You can skip talking to a ghost, and picking one grog mug if you open the correct doors in that scrolling town screen. You can also learn one insult if you say a pretty weak insult to the troll on the bridge, but for some reason I remember it wasn't necessary in the end.
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Posted: 5/2/2012 10:44 PM
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I think runs of this category are interesting to create, but aren't that interesting to watch, specially for arcade games. Minimum number of moves/keypresses is a more appropiate metric for turn-based games, though.
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Posted: 4/24/2012 11:47 AM
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That's because psychology is not a science.
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Posted: 4/22/2012 8:30 PM
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I thought I didn't like TASes of this game, but turns out it was just that the last one was forty seconds too long for me. Yes vote!
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Posted: 4/21/2012 1:43 AM
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I, on the other hand, have read a lot of psychoanalists claiming that he's totally discredited, and that his work only serves to understand one person: Sigmund Freud.
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Posted: 4/20/2012 2:46 PM
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What additional entertainment brings 100% over this route?
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Posted: 4/16/2012 10:01 PM
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I don't see why this game deserves a separate 1-player run, but in any case it's pretty well played, so I'll vote yes.
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Posted: 4/14/2012 10:35 PM
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I don't think this one is a good game choice for a TAS, at least from the bits I've seen. There have been bad game choices that have been published, but they were much shorter and had something interesting to offer to the public. I'll have to vote "no" on this one.
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Posted: 4/4/2012 7:43 PM
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This game seems to have a very slow pace, so I'll give it another try once I stop being in sleep-deprived mode.
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Posted: 4/1/2012 8:52 PM
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I love how each time you win, you have an even worse hand than the last round, and she still raises her bet four times anyways.
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Posted: 4/1/2012 4:34 PM
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I thought you were supposed not to sign your posts, you enemy of equality.
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Posted: 4/1/2012 9:49 AM
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Not in some submission texts.
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Posted: 3/31/2012 7:04 PM
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Ultra-yes vote! I was looking forward this TAS because I love the glitches on Commander Keen 6. Many of those glitches got fixed in later versions of the game, though. So remember to pick the right version if you want this movie to sync in your computer!
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Posted: 3/30/2012 4:48 PM
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This is a rockman-inspired fangame, but the enemies show attack patterns and bullet patterns that are clearly meant to be dodged as in Touhou games, and dodging them requires skill and looks cool. Taking damage in this game, as in Touhou games, means that you failed to follow the pattern. The designers allow you to make some mistakes before you lose the game, and as in Touhou games, failing a pattern lets you skip it, so it's actually faster to fail some of them. But that doesn't show superhuman skill, it makes it look as if it's badly played. This TAS should be a "takes no damage" run, as it would imply the player succesfully dodges all the enemy patterns, a perfect play. So, by taking the faster route, this run loses all its appeal for me. It's not a "perfect play" of this game, even if it ends being faster, thus why I vote no.
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Posted: 3/30/2012 12:10 PM
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Just in case it wasn't clear, I've voted after watching the run in nicovideo.
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