Most of the improvement comes from over all better playing, which lead to me being able to enter some elevators better, which lead to me being able to catch some elevators that I wasn't able to ride in my last run. I was not able to really manipulate the elevator patterns as it seems they move on some fixed timer and they were moving pretty much like they were in the old run.
I tried to make the levels entertaining by using different themes.
The theme of the first level is "An agressive homophobic in a gay convention". Here's the story: http://pastebin.com/f5a0f27f6DISCLAIMER: I have nothing against gay people, I just wrote this story to entertain viewers of this TAS, not to provoke anything.
The second level presents a story of a nicotine addict in a search for cigarettes in a world where all nicotine products have been banned
The third level is a movie by Arnold Swahcrtsenegger Schwarzenegger
In the fourth level I tried to play the game like I assume it would be played
I'm planning on writing narrations for the first three levels, which I think will make this run more entertaining. I didn't write them yet as it would have taken some time and I really wanted to submit this today.
I played 4 levels like I did in my previous run, because back then I thought it was just enough. Not too many to make it repetitive and enough to show off some of the difficulty that the game offers. When I began TASing this run, I thought that the first level is sufficent for showing what the game has to offer. So, if you people and the judges think, that one level is enough, here's a shorter version of the TAS: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/667990198/ElevatorAction_v2-Guybrush-short.fm2
I guess that's it. Enjoy the run and please remember not to enter or exit elevators like our hero does in this run.
adelikat: Accepting as an improvement to the published movie.
I'm sorry... this just is not one of those games that is best suited as even a playaround. I did vote Meh, as there were some genuine o.O??? moments via glitches, which did actually make things interesting.. but even with the premises you chose.. meh.
Not that there's many ways you can make this game entertaining. Now if there was a way to glitch through the wall barriers.. THAT would be impressive and worth a technical upgrade.
Mr. Kelly R. Flewin
Mr. Kelly R. Flewin
Just another random gamer
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<OmnipotentEntity> How do you people get bored in the span of 10 seconds? Worst ADD ever.
I was having fun in a silly way until the last level, which was actually incredibly impressive. I've never actually felt sympathy for the enemies in a TAS before, but it looked like you were doing some seriously unfair things.
Yes.
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The submission text is awesome, though I feel like I'm a bad person for laughing at your description of the first level's theme. The game gets pretty repetitive (especially the music) until the last level, which demonstrates some pretty serious ownage. The glitched elevators definitely helped the speed and entertainment. It's a nice improvement to the previous run, and I'll vote Yes, but I'm not sure if I really like the use of death as a shortcut for a game like this.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically.
Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.)
Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html)
Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature!
Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
I was very tempted to improve this run myself as I knew death saved quite a bit of time.
Could you have died more to save time? Maybe there aren't enough lives... I can't remember.
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- Andrew Gardikis
Well, too bad you didn't like the game, as there's not really much for me to do to make it more appealing.
hopper wrote:
I can't watch the whole thing. This is Guantanamo-grade torture. Wow: there's a published run of this game? I vote we unpublish it.
This TAS is actually approved by Obama, because it demonstrates how to enter and exit elevators more efficiently. People have a lot more time for work and other things, when they don't have to wait for elevators that long.
miseiler wrote:
I've never actually felt sympathy for the enemies in a TAS before, but it looked like you were doing some seriously unfair things.
You have no idea how difficult this game gets in the fourth level... Some of the enemies will just come out of the door, duck and shoot without the player being able to do anything. Sometimes another enemy is coming right after the first too, so that I can't even shoot the first enemy, because the door where the second enemy is coming, is in the way. That's why I have no sympathy for the enemies.
mklip2001 wrote:
It's a nice improvement to the previous run, and I'll vote Yes, but I'm not sure if I really like the use of death as a shortcut for a game like this.
Trust me, it's way more entertaining to see the hero die than to see him waiting for an elevator for over 10 seconds.
andrewg wrote:
Could you have died more to save time? Maybe there aren't enough lives... I can't remember.
I tested it and in the second level it seemed that dying would be faster, but bad elevator movement canceled out that improvement.
Thanks for all your comments and votes and thanks to sgrunt for the encode!
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This movie is f***ing awesome!!! Seriously, it's brilliant, and it's one of my strongest yes votes, since it obsoletes a run by a large amount of frames and entertainment.
I love it how you can just barely get back in the elevator after opening an adjacent door.
I love the elevator glitching.
The movie was overall funny because of that.
Humm I hadn't read the whole submission text and it sure is funny. YES, please add subtitles to insert a little story telling on each level.
Congrats, Guybrush.
This movie has been published.
The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie.
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[1407] NES Elevator Action by Brushy in 06:57.46
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At first, I misread the filename of the published movie as "guybrushy2-elevatoraction.fm2". I thought some of you might find that amusing :-)
Anyway, congrats again Guybrush for the nice improvement!
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically.
Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.)
Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html)
Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature!
Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
