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JasonMoses .
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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NES Metroid in 11:45.
This runner plays as Samus out of her Power Suit. I always thought it was slightly creepy how the developers made Samus took suit off as your reward for beating the game, but at least you could say it was symbolic of the character's rebirth as a human being after overcoming the great adversary etc etc.
With this one, there's no excuse. She spends the whole game wearing a leotard and after saving the universe, strips down to her bra and panties and waves at you. It's wrong.
Then again maybe she's saying 'I'm going to bed now, goodnight!' |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Wow. That Metroid run is amazing.
I have to say, I generally enjoy tool assisted runs more than regular ones. This one almost goes to far in terms of skipping Ridley, and a bit of save state abuse (going to the password screen seems a bit 'meta' to me, but still... it's like watching a fantabulous Samus Ninja. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:18 am Post subject: |
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full throttle edited into an hour-long movie. a really interesting project. it's not just the game's cutscenes played back-to-back, there's been a lot of editing to make it as watchable as possible: voice-overs, cuts, selective use of gameplay footage (check out the way the derby scene is patched together). it's an impressive undertaking, and possibly says a lot about the design of the game that i'm not going to go into because we luv you tim schafer here at the gamer's quarter. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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The end of Full Throttle is weird. That Ben. I don't want to spoil anything, but really, what a bastard. |
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Neal .
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:49 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | The end of Full Throttle is weird. That Ben. I don't want to spoil anything, but really, what a bastard. |
Thanks for no spoilers man, I started this game yesterday for the first time. _________________ ........ |
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Tim .
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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kirkjerk wrote: | Wow. That Metroid run is amazing.
I have to say, I generally enjoy tool assisted runs more than regular ones. This one almost goes to far in terms of skipping Ridley, and a bit of save state abuse (going to the password screen seems a bit 'meta' to me, but still... it's like watching a fantabulous Samus Ninja. |
I felt the same way about this Half Life 2 speedrun. It's done by various people from Half Life 2 Done Quick, and it abuses glitches like crazy. It's like watching a super-powered Gordon who can propel himself forward at incredible speeds faster than a car, and jump off of a tiny piece of wood over and over again while he's holding it, as if it's a portable levitating platform. HL2 speedruns always look so surreal.
It's also on archive.org as a single segment video. |
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Lackey .
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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That HL2 run is really amazing. I love the way the player shakes or nods his head during cutscenes too. And forcing NPCs on their paths by putting small objects in their faces. _________________ | Little bird fighting against a bat sect game | |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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internisus .
Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 354
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:36 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | full throttle edited into an hour-long movie. a really interesting project. it's not just the game's cutscenes played back-to-back, there's been a lot of editing to make it as watchable as possible: voice-overs, cuts, selective use of gameplay footage (check out the way the derby scene is patched together). it's an impressive undertaking, and possibly says a lot about the design of the game that i'm not going to go into because we luv you tim schafer here at the gamer's quarter. |
I think this is a really cool thing. As a project, you know? This is what I was hoping for with that MGS3 movie. I like the idea of recording an "ideal" playthrough and making a movie out of it for narrative purposes. |
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Slonie .
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:23 am Post subject: |
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I watched the Full Throttle movie too, and it really worked. The editor cut out a lot of stuff that could have been int here but slowed it down (excess fighting on the road, the cavefish part) but kept the main plot, and reminded me of how sweet that game really was.
Also: When I'm on the road, I'm indestructable. Nobody can stop me.....But they try.
Somebody want to try thier hand at Interstate '76? _________________ -Slonie
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internisus .
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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I actually missed the cavefish part.... but then I thought about it and realized it was better off. |
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Six .
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Does it have the bunnies, though? The bunnies are critical. |
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internisus .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Lestrade wrote: | I am looking for a replay movie of Final Fantasy 8. I don't want to play the game right now (indeed, the last time I tried it wouldn't even work in my PS2), but I would be more than willing to sit through somebody's video of an entire playthrough. Preferably the video would include all the important dialogue and, of course, the cutscenes. World map travel and most battles could be omitted, I imagine.
Basically, I want someone who's done the work for me, so I can watch the story.
Does anyone know where I might be able to find something like this? |
I wonder if a profitable business could exist whose sole purpose was to record and edit ideal performance playthroughs of games like this. Would people pay for the Full Throttle treatment in general? For long games with a lot of annoyances such as FFs? For more action-packed games that don't focus as much on story?
I wonder if interest in speed-run videos will start to shift towards the generation of narrative video.
I would love to do that for a living. Maybe you could work out some copyright arrangement with publishers similar to what strategy guide writers do. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:14 am Post subject: |
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Too bad that if you charged for something like this, you'd probably get sucker punched by twenty lawyers. _________________
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internisus .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:19 am Post subject: |
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That's why I included that last line?
And there are dvds for speedruns, so? |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:25 am Post subject: |
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so they haven't caught any major attention yet? christ, you fucking twit?
if I made a game, I'd refuse to let anyone do this. i'd want the game to be experienced as it was meant to be, not as a completely different medium. in conclusion, it's a stupid idea. _________________
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internisus .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: |
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It's an expected but shortsighted objection. The content of any work can plausibly be translated to another medium with respectable results, but the nature of videogames makes them an interesting case. Because the game is inert without a player, every individual playthrough of a game represents a unique presentation of what it has to offer. It interests me that one could perform a videogame with this in mind and attempt to render an ideal experience. It's a form of role-playing, I think. We've already seen that performances emphasizing skill can be presented as worthwhile videos. Why should the same not be true for narrative and cinematic purposes? Skill videos do not replace the games in which they are made, so why would narrative videos?
Final Fantasy probably isn't a good example for this. Think of something like Ico instead. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Actually, I hate skill videos too. I watched the SMB3 one and now I just can't enjoy the game the same way I used to. Now stop getting all up in my grill. _________________
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internisus .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:05 am Post subject: |
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Uh, okay. So sorry. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:14 am Post subject: |
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It's ok Guardian, I just don't wanna see you get fried. _________________
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internisus .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:21 am Post subject: |
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Are you done? |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: |
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Oh how I wish I were, my dear old friend, but I fear my work will never be done. _________________
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internisus .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:31 am Post subject: |
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Did you have a lousy new year's or something? |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:40 am Post subject: |
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If I did, I probably wouldn't be in such a super, fabulous mood!
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:41 am Post subject: |
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if you get up in cycle's grill you're gonna get cooked.
you just watch yourself. _________________
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internisus .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:50 am Post subject: |
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I think... I think it may be too late for me. |
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helicopterp .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Internisus, your paragraph about ideals was very interesting!
You still got flame-broiled afterwards, though. _________________ Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one. |
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Ketch .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: |
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The thing is, that there are some games which are probably better to watch than play. I'd like to see edited (highlight) videos of Psychonauts and Shadow of the Colossus. |
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internisus .
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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helicopterp wrote: | Internisus, your paragraph about ideals was very interesting!
You still got flame-broiled afterwards, though. |
I'm still not sure how that happened. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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c64 longplays. it's a pity that few of the more interesting games on the platform are there, and instead there are walkthrough videos of arcade ports like arkanoid.
there is one of project firestart though! _________________
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Oh man! I've pretty much never finished any C64 or Apple II game, ever, so I could kill weeks in there. Plenty of good stuff. |
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Lestrade Bug Fister
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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I wanted to test out my new video camera; recording, connecting it to my computer, the whole bit. Around the same time, I was having this incredible urge to play Quake, as I get every few months—except I really wanted to play it on my television, with my sound setup, as I do all my other games.
So I hooked up my wife's iBook (the very one I'm typing on now!) and recorded a simple playthrough of a few levels. I really should have cranked the audio, though; it sounded creepy and beautiful and full of oomph in reality; here, it's a bit thin.
Anyway, here are the videos:
E1M1 and E1M2
E1M3
Enjoy! (I really hope this comes out for XBLA.) |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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Quake 4 comes with a full version of Quake II for the 360. I almost bought it just for that. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: |
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OK! I've been playing Darwinia, which I picked up because of GDC.
I have a freaking awesome superplay already!
HERE!!!! _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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JasonMoses .
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: |
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My mind is blown! |
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Lackey .
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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zoradius. came up the other week during lunch with mr. eric-john rossel waugh. worth watching just for the novelty of gradius in 3d. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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amiga longplays! including another world, rick dangerous, robocop 3, it came from the desert, gobiliins, and a bunch of other stuff. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:53 am Post subject: |
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no-miss playthrough of metal black (saturn port). i had to download and install some divx web player to watch it.
metal black is one of the most emotionally gripping games i've played, and probably has the best soundtrack ever composed for a videogame. i'm probably going to write about it soon, actually.
dessgeega wrote: | it's called "appearance: patterns of uru" and it's pretty remarkable in that there's no actual gameplay footage in it. it's a short movie of scenes from the game set to music - and by scenes i mean places and spaces, shot from interesting angles. the movie is an attempt to capture not the gameplay but rather the symmetry and beauty of the crafted world the players explore and inhabit. |
from another thread. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:42 am Post subject: |
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all clear of psikyo's amazing gallery shooter space bomber. actually six videos total. includes the infamous "we'll tell the world about your secret sex life" scene. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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let's play la-mulana! complete walkthrough of la-mulana, with english commentary, in 53 parts. _________________
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JasonMoses .
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Watching those videos is singifncantly more interesting and less frustrating than actually playing the game! |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Even though scientists could distil his voice to isolate the base element 'dorkium'. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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yes! the commentary can be grating, but it also contains lines like "arrgh! surprise fish! i hate surprise fish! and cat ball! i bet surprise fish and cat ball have tea together while they talk about killing my face!" and it does make the videos much, much easier to follow, as it otherwise would often be really unclear what was going on. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | let's play la-mulana! complete walkthrough of la-mulana, with english commentary, in 53 parts. |
I think someone's missed the point. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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so the la-mulana walkthrough is now more or less complete. people who havn't seen this really should (mute the volume if you have to). it's a hidden game in la-mulana, a "dating sim", but just watch.
also, this person has been uploading super plays from the sega ages discs (the youtube clips contain links to the full versions on google video). there's one from gunstar heroes, one from wonder boy, and one from wonder boy in monster land. there are a few more videos on the discs; i havn't watched the uploaded ones so i don't know which ones they are. _________________
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JasonMoses .
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Even though scientists could distil his voice to isolate the base element 'dorkium'. |
Compared to the vast majority of game videos on youtube with voice commentary, the guy is a fucking movie star/radio personality. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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i know all of you people are too cool for the la-mulana player's voice, but the hell temple videos are probably the best documentary of videogame-induced emotional breakdown i've ever witnessed.
this video isn't bad either. _________________
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