Or the game companies could, you know, give review sites save files/passwords to the major game review sites?
Better yet, maybe review sites could just hire more people and let them devote more time to a particular game? >_>
VG: Could it be that YOU are the reason they are easy? I know that Mario Kart wii was easy as hell for me to get used to, getting stars and 1st place by the 3rd cup race. My girlfriend took 5 days to get good at it. Could we, as gamers, have an easier time figuring out and completing new games? Especially having gamed for 16 years, I KNOW I have an easier time with games than I did when I first got my genesis.
Definitely a good read. The one I agree with most is the whole issue with unskippable cutscenes. With some games *coughXenosagacough* that could almost tie into the whole padding the game violation. At least Xenomovie was almost, if not entirely, skippable.
There's enough damn buttons on these controllers nowadays. I think developers can afford to use one to skip shit if we want to.
As for the comment earlier, I tend to agree and yet disagree.
Super Mario 1 took me years to get good enough to complete it.
Super Mario Galaxy took me a few days.
Super Mario World I did in a couple of hours.
Are they easier now than then? Maybe. Maybe not.
At least with a number of good games, they have a nice range of difficulty levels (see Ace Combat series for one), and some even have special treats at the end if you beat it at a harder difficulty (Contra III, Phalanx, Philosoma...). It's a tough one to call on that.
Well, by removing 20, we've pretty well killed all of the VBA links. v19.3 is a dead link, and the version prior is v17!
Also, the VBA-DLL links in the pinned topics are broken too.
While I see how and when the Hi-Jump (and Ball Jump) are used, I still feel it's possible to obsolete them as well. Hopefully you'll find a way in a future run.
But since I don't have a way, only thing I can do is vote YES for now.
Yes, you can easily get 100% by yourself. The only spot where you need other Kirbys is the large block in Area 2, and you can do that even on a console w/ computer help only.
I work at a job where I get yelled and swore at by stupid people over other people's mistakes and get paid very little (although I get crappy benefits woohoo!) in the process. Sadly, I would probably make more going across the street working at McDonalds.
Yeah, sad...ain't it?
(P.S. Please be respectful to your hotel front desk clerks or anybody else in the public industry. You get better service that way.)
@Sir VG: can you be more specific as to when I do too much backtracking?
Since I can't remember everything in that 1 hr video right now, the best example is Level 19. It seems VERY inefficient. It's in regards to the last A coin you collect.
I vote yes for concept and MEH for this run. If you improve it, I would vote yes.
Levels like 19 are keeping me from voting yes on it (19, for instance, you do WAAAAY too much backtracking). Like going for the last A coin you collected. This is just one example.
Another I just thought of - the Boo fights. You were slow getting hits off.
First off, to those using software firewalls...they suck. Get yourself a hardware one.
What good is a hardware firewall? They only stop inbound attacks, something a software firewall can do as well.
The largest problem are not inbound attacks. I don't have hard numbers, but I bet less than 0.1% of hacker problems is caused by hackers attacking from the outside and finding a security hole.
99.9% of hacking problems happen from the computer itself, in the form of spyware, trojans and backdoors. A hardware firewall is not going to stop those and, what is absolutely worse, they won't even inform you that something is connecting to the internet that shouldn't. A software firewall will. And that's the point: If it so happens that your system gets infected by a spyware you will *immediately* get notified of the fact when that spyware tries to contact the outside. You can stop it, and you can immediately run something to remove it. A hardware firewall is completely useless for this purpose.
Not having a software firewall in Windows is just madness. You are asking for trouble. Just running ad-aware or spybots S&D from time to time is not enough: By that time your computer may have already been compromised (and used eg. as a spam server).
Common sense wins over spyware detection software. Oh, I win a million dollars if I click this attachment? SCORE! ...wait, WHAT?!?!?!?! (I mean, honestly...how much spyware is caused by complete stupidity? Don't download unexpected attachments and get a fricken adblocker software for your firefox browser.)
First off, to those using software firewalls...they suck. Get yourself a hardware one. Software firewalls have the same flaw every other windows software has...crashability. If a hardware firewall crashes, that's pretty much because your router died. ^^;;
As for other protection, get yourself Spybot Search and Destroy and SpywareBlaster at a minimum, if you aren't gonna have antivirus.
It's funny cause the other day I was actually getting a false positive on FFDShow's download. I was told to "get a real antivirus like Norton". Norton sucks. Bloated hogshit.
There's not enough explosions. Boo hiss. Voting no.
(Part of that statement is a lie.)
P.S. Somebody should do Lab/Fight, as that is the real ending to this game. All of the other endings just say "See you next mission" while that one says GOOD JOB!
So if we can't have all 5/6 endings (which honestly is kinda nice and kinda stupid to have them all here), if we only did 3 (the typical max here) then it should be Secret Ending, Chase/Surrender, and Lab/Fight.
While I do see the note that it's theoretically improvable, this run still kicks ass. It just boggles the mind how he can pull off all of the shit in here that he does.
Now if there was only a higher quality version of this...
Maybe you should try to look for the gameplay in other runs instead of calling them utter crap because of the waiting antics or graphics.
Maybe you missed my point? I was talking about entertainment. Speedruns are made for entertainment.
When a modern FPS game uses its game engine at full quality, the visual experience is a lot better than if it looks like a 90's game played with the first 3D card in the market. In other words, it's more entertaining.
If the game had an option to draw completely flat-colored untextured polygons, completely ignoring any lighting, would that be ok in your opinion? Personally I would skip that kind of speedrun completely because it wouldn't make any sense.
The whole point of those videos is entertainment. If the image quality is utter crap, how is that entertaining?
Graphics != entertainment. While the graphics in a game should be visually appealing, there's so much else that goes into a game. Granted, from a viewers POV, graphics and audio are the only two things that really matter, since you're only watching, not playing.
IMO, a comparison that gameplay trumps graphics for FPS is Unreal Tournament, trumping the later games (I haven't played UT3 though, but I'm comparing the original with like, 2003 or 2004). The original was so much fun, and the others just felt so clunky.
Though I guess clunky controls can hamper the fun of watching a speed run, indirectly.
