/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

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Wow, the ending of Her Story was seriously underwhelming, but maybe that's because I already saw the final twist coming from midway through the first video.

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There is something weird about this guy but I cant put my finger on it.

Been genuinely playing Contradiction and I'm getting that all too familiar adventure game anger. Especially when something someone says directly contradicts what someone else said, but you can't nail them on it, because that's not how the game's internal logic works.

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Dammit, Arin

//youtube.com/watch?v=dXxrOPXxhpA

Dan: What game is this?
Arin: It's Sonic Adventure.
Dan: Excellent. Is it good?
Arin: No.

This and Mario Galaxy is gonna provide some good material in the coming weeks.

>>196848
They have to be playing a glitched version of the game or something. In all my years of playing this and watching other people play it, this has never happened.

>>196854
No, I believe it. They somehow introduced more bugs when porting the game to the Gamecube.

Also, most people were smart enough to just hold forward for those parts of the level, and the game (usually) handles that fine.

>>196857
So Arin was intentionally stopping to fuck with the game's physics, just so he can go "See? That happened for no reason, this game sucks!" just to be a douche?

>>196858
It'd be just to be a douche if he were playing on his own.

He's running a show and has to do something entertaining and people eat shit like that up. Why the hell do you think they're playing another shitty 3D sonic in the first place?

>>196857
>>196858

>Also, most people were smart enough to just hold forward for those parts of the level, and the game (usually) handles that fine.

That's not an excuse for the game fucking up, if it can't handle any direction that's not forward.

>>196864
Dr. Robotnik's nefarious speed traps.

>>196866
Dr Robotnik's nefarious speed traps are exactly why Let's Players keep coming back to Sonic games. Even the Megadrive originals were often strung together with scotch tape and hope, made by programmers who crossed their fingers and prayed the players would do exactly what they were supposed to do - the more complex the engine they had to use, the more the games resembled a Jenga tower that would fall to pieces in a light breeze. Surefire comedy gold.

>>196858

If you count 'navigating the world using the standard control options but without doing the exact thing the game is praying you do' as 'fucking with the physics', sure.

>>196873
It doesn't matter that the game might break if you don't hold forward. The fact of the matter is what kind of idiot doesn't hold forward when you're automatically being pushed through dash pads in a straight line?

>>196877

Well for one thing, up on the control pad only occasionally actually represents the direction Sonic is moving on the screen. For another, the game literally tells you to keep going whichever way you want when the camera angle changes. And for another, it most DEFINITELY matters that the game breaks if you deviate from the developer's exact vision. If the game can't handle any input but up without breaking hysterically, why not just take control away from the player during those sequences?

>the game isn't glitchy, he's playing it wrong!!!
>if you don't hold forward all the times you must be STUPID
>if you run into bugs it's your fault for not playing on autopilot

sonic fans, everyone

>The fact of the matter is what kind of idiot doesn't hold forward when you're automatically being pushed through dash pads in a straight line?

some people actually played the old sonic games and remember that those reward you for not just holding right all the time

the whole "go fast 100% of the time" nonsense is why most sonic games are shit - they're bad platformers and bad racing games

>>196880
Not him, but that doesn't excuse that Arin is deliberately messing with the game. Sonic Adventure is not Sonic 06. Glitches like that during normal gameplay don't happen 80% of the time. Especially not on the Dreamcast original.

Its a gameshow where the main draw to a sonic game is seeing how its fucked up even if it means making it fuck up.
Yeah, its scummy and they're not really coming clean about it, but in a metatextual context its clear as day.

>>196883
>Not him, but that doesn't excuse that Arin is deliberately messing with the game.

You make it sound like Arin is entered some complicated Super Mario World algorithm crap (//youtube.com/watch?v=FkQdwUns7H8). He slowed down a bit and didn't hold forward. The game should NOT have fucked up like that. Either in the original version or the Gamecube port released five years later. Poor collision detection like that is inexcusable.

>>196885
You're right. It shouldn't have. Because I just popped in SADX for the Gamecube just now, and played Emerald Coast. And I did the exact same shit he did, not holding forward. Guess what the fuck happened? Nothing. Sonic stopped for a bit and kept going. He made it through the loop. He didn't clip out of the world.

I replayed it 4 more times just to be sure. Same deal. Then I played it 5 more times and attempted to go backwards while being pushed instead of not pressing forward. I fell ONCE, but only because the camera screwed up and I accidentally walked off the edge. So if I can play the same damn part 10 times in different ways, and nothing fucking happens, then the Grumps have to be doing something wrong. This is not fanboyism. This is BASIC science.

I know it's the hip and cool thing these days to hate all Sonic games, but if Sonic Adventure was really this glitchy, absolutely nobody would see it in a bright light.

>>196886

Really, I think we all know what this is. Game Grumps has been shedding viewers so he's trying to recapture the Sonic 2006 attention.

>>196883
>>196884
>>196886
>>196887
how about you present some fucking PROOF

if there is a way to deliberately produce the fuckups shown then someone probably already documented it
I'm not googling it, you're making the accusation, you have to present proof

>So if I can play the same damn part 10 times in different ways, and nothing fucking happens, then the Grumps have to be doing something wrong. This is not fanboyism. This is BASIC science.

because software (especially something from the late 90s, which also happened to be new territory for the company at the time) is totally guaranteed to be bug-free and anyone finding a bug is just some evil liar trying to make the game look bad

10 times? that's statistically irrelevant
do you seriously believe running a program 10 times without failure even counts as evidence towards proper functionality?
anecdotal evidence isn't science
I played through sonic 3 & knuckles like a dozen times and I fell through the floor for no discernible reason once; you'd now claim that I'm stupid for having it happen or I manipulated the game in some way, right? bugs? unthinkable in muh favorite nostalgia game, dissenters are just full of hate and hack games or apply TAS-level tricks to make them look bad!!!
also look up what probability is, you don't seem to understand the concept

this shit is fucking unreal, I can't believe fanboy retards can get this mad over someone running into bugs in a decade-old game and making fun of it
you sound like viral marketers

"arin's an angry moron who likes to bitch about games, therefore he manipulates muh grorious sonikku game into glitching out to trash-talk it artificially; that's 100% sound logic, don't you dare to disagree you SONIC-HATER"

are you fuckheads listening to yourselves?
"not fanboyism" my ass

>if Sonic Adventure was really this glitchy, absolutely nobody would see it in a bright light.

hello there stranger, welcome to the internet; you have a lot to learn

if sonic 06 had been the first 3D sonic game, you'd never hear the end of the rampant apologism; sonic fans would praise it as a classic despite all the bugs and shit gameplay because being the first grants a lot of leeway

same as pokemon genwunners calling the first game challenging or "deeper" or "better designed"

if you believe that arin being arin is proof enough that he "manipulated the game", you either need to go back to 8chan or apply as a videogame journalist because you clearly favor your personal narrative over actual logic

>>196889
yes, I mad

fanboyism is retarded

>>196888

I'm not typically prone to saying this, but I believe it fits here: your autism is showing.

>>196893
did you pay your 10bux yet, mr wannabe e-superhero?

>>196888
>10 times? that's statistically irrelevant. do you seriously believe running a program 10 times without failure even counts as evidence towards proper functionality?
As a game tester, I can tell you with 100% confidence that yes, running something 10 times is the standard to test issues amd functionality. Especially for prioritizing fixes.

>>196895
and that's why games are pretty much bug-free oh wait even AAA games ship with bugs

but sure, let's pretend that proves arin somehow produced a bug that doesn't occur otherwise because insulting sonic is hipsterism but hating game grumps is a right opinion

>>196896
I don't care about Arin or Sonic.
I'm just telling you the industry standard for Q&A as set by professionals against your personal opinion.

>>196897
okay

>>196886 is going to take it as proof for his claims anyway, that's how these things always go

So are we suggesting that Arin is somehow competent enough in anything to be able to purposefully break the game?

And of course they're trying to recollect Sonic 06 here. Hell Arin even made a Jon esque noise in the second episode, but the problem is that Danny is a place where jokes go to die. He just says "right" or "Sorry I wasn't paying attention" most of the time. The two do not mesh well together and due to Dan's unwillingness to carry on a joke or concept, Arin has had to step up the zaniness to 12 to try and make up for it.

That said I have never really been into Sonic games at all so I can't tell you if this one is as busted as the other 3D sonics seem to be, but I can say from an objective standpoint that it does not appear to be a good game from my own personal standpoint glitches or no.

>>196898
How about everyone else who's played this game on Youtube and that glitch never happened? Or the ridiculous amount of people who reviewed it and didn't say one word about glitches happening for no reason? Plus the suspiciousness of them trying to rekindle the Sonic 06 flame like >>196901 says.

No it's not proof, there's a substantial amount of evidence here.

>>196902
>No it's not proof, there's a substantial amount of evidence here.
No, you have a conspiracy theory. While saying that other tubers haven't commented on any glitches is not to say that do not and cannot exist. 3D Sonic games are certainly no stranger to bugs and glitches. How would they be able to possibly glitch the game out in the loop twice on disk if it "totally never happens"? Are you suggesting they have a way to trigger such glitches on a whim? Or perhaps that the editing team has the time and resources to edit video to match what Arin and Dan say (which would need to be scripted)?

I would suggest they may be playing on an emulator or with a cheat device however which can cause code to break down a bit from time to time depending on the quality of the emulator, rom, and/or what codes were used.

That said, the single instance of a glitch we've seen thus far, fake or no, does not counter just how poorly the game has aged.

>>196904
All I'm saying is that the probability of glitching the game out multiple times in a single section of the first level is EXTREMELY unlikely and uncommon. Yes, 3D Sonic games are no stranger to bugs and glitches. But the ones before Sonic 06, especially SA1 and SA2, have SUBSTANTIALLY less. To where the average player will most likely never encounter one. The reality is that if this were a common thing, people would be pointing out every time they review it. But they don't. They comment on the game's poor design choices, yes, and I would never suggest that the game has aged well. But glitches? They seriously, honest to god don't happen as often as the Grumps are suggesting them to.

>I would suggest they may be playing on an emulator or with a cheat device however which can cause code to break down a bit from time to time depending on the quality of the emulator, rom, and/or what codes were used.

This is what I'm suggesting, that they're emulating the game and using that as being indicative of the game's quality. I once joined a stream of someone playing the Dreamcast version on an emulator, and it was buggy out the ass. That has nothing to do with the actual disc and the actual system.

Guys.

What if

Sonic just sucks.

The Grumps don't emulate games, so if they were running this one on emulator it would be a pretty big divergence from how they've historically played. Plus, the Dolphin emulator shows text on the top left of the screen whenever the memory card is accessed, and has a persistent glitch with SADX where some text is invisible. No sign of that so far.

And how exactly do you propose this whole thing went down? Did Arin play through a chunk of the game, decide it wasn't glitchy enough to be entertaining, and then went back and played it again on an emulator, all for the purposes of tricking us into thinking the game is glitchier than it truly is? Please. Even when the game's working perfectly, it's still brazenly shitty enough for ragging on it to be entertaining.

The simpler answer, and the far more likely one, is that they just stumbled onto a glitch. The Sonic Adventure games may not be the bug-laden disasters that Sonic 06 and Boom were, but they're not exactly known to be bug-free, and the Sonic Adventure DX rerelease is well known to have added in some extra collision detection issues. Maybe it's some idiosyncrasy of how Arin controls the game, or maybe some sort of weird situational factor that's causing it to trigger more easily for him than for you. But regardless, there's no reason, except blind fanboyism, to suspect foul play.

>>196907
No reason other than knowing Arin is a total scumbag.

Holy shit, I am so sorry. I did not intend for a running argument with my comment.

>>196910
Oh that clears it up, then. Now I know why you think a random-ass person is a total scumbag because you're a pissbaby.

>>196912
Arin isn't a random-ass person. He's an e-celebrity. Hating him doesn't make me a baby, it makes me a normal fucking person who's followed him for years.

This has gone from being an argument to you acting like a 12 year old and throwing childish insults at me to start shitty drama.

>>196911
It's not your fault. This shit just happens sometimes.

>>196913
>He's an e-celebrity
>Hating him [...] makes me a normal fucking person
>you acting like a 12 year old

The lack of self awareness here is astounding.

I don't like Grumps or Sonic.

That game is busted on Gamecube yo, everyone knows that.

So what if he does a video series to parse some of it's shittiness?

>Matt is a fan of Jason Aaron and his run on Thor
>doesn't like Trad Moore's art for All-New Ghost Rider
Man all this shit taste.

>>196919
This is the podcast that gave us Superman Is a Genre, how can you be surprised?

//youtube.com/watch?v=Srdjanah_Kc

>>196922
And let ME guess. You think adhering to a house style on a western comic is appropriate for a book regardless of genre or aesthetic outside of the penciller's ability to draw something that isn't static and anatomically stiff.

>>196922
Is that supposed to be an example of Tradd Moore not being good?

>>196927
But at the very least you don't pass it as "Objectively Bad", anon.

>>196922
Looks fine to me. It's not the most realistic but I don't see the problem here.

>>196927
>aren't going to appeal to a large audience
And yet somehow cartoons with that style get orders of magnitude more viewers than comics. And Archie, for all it's terrible, gets more readers than DC or Marvel.


>>196929
Certain comic book nerds want all their comics to look the same and get very distressed when things fall outside the allowed styles.

>>196932
I believe that's part of his point.

>>196931
Now you're moving the goalposts. Your initial argument was that it wouldn't appeal to a wide audience. That's not a question of your taste or my taste, that's infinitely more objective. You may not be able to show what's "objectively appealing," but you can definitely provide evidence of what's mainstream and what isn't.

Dawko got to release the first video of gameplay footage of Five Nights at Freddy’s 4:

//youtube.com/watch?v=km3J6z-9c-s

>>196940

And Razzbowski, the other LPer who got early access to FNAF4, put up an FNAF4 gameplay video of his own:

//youtube.com/watch?v=lVbeFpkJzbI

>>196941

Night 2: //youtube.com/watch?v=kUoAbUZsWgQ
Night 3: //youtube.com/watch?v=GiTukMmOsHQ

And that’s as far as the demo goes.

>>196938

I'm not moving goalposts, I still maintain that Trad Moore's art isn't liked by the mainstream. If it was, why did Ghost Rider crash and fail so badly despite how hyped up it was? There was significant marketing around the book, it debuted at 50,072 issues, a very good start for a Ghost Rider title, and then fell to 29,429 at issue #2. Even taking into account typical drop-off from #1 that is shedding a huge amount of readers. The series continued to lose people all the way until #11 and its cancelation (12,490).

Compare this to Ms. Marvel, another title that received a significant amount of marketing push that also debuted at 50,286, yet only dropped to 38,357 for it's second issue, and maintained 29,851 readers at issue #11 (which is more than Ghost Rider had as of issue #2). Heck at issue #15, with a new artist, it jumped back up to 32,156.

But let's compare it to the title you mentioned earlier, Thor, which seemed to have stabilized at 69,000+ at issue #5. (and checking the most recent numbers, issue 8 was back up to 86,000). Any Thor title that manages to stay above 65k is an impressive feat, no matter how many anons on /co/ complain "Whor is ruining muh comics!"

So, given the numbers, it doesn't surprise me when someone says they enjoy Thor but didn't like Ghost Rider. I'm more surprised when I find someone who says they DID enjoy Ghost Rider, given the absolutely abysmal numbers. Now we can argue that Thor is a character with much more marketing pull because it has a successful Marvel movie, a longtime character/Avenger, etc. That's why I included Ms. Marvel's numbers (who debuted nearly identical to Ghost Rider). I point to the fact that the sales of Ghost Rider went off a cliff by issue two as problems people had with the art style. I don't think writing can "turn off" people on a book by issue #2 like that unless it is an absolute travesty (even then you'd have to wonder as one of the chief criticisms leveled at Thor is its weak writing). It has to be the art, which doesn't have mainstream appeal. In fact Moore's Ghost Rider is more analogous to Ubeatable Squirrel Girl which debuted at 41,693 and dropped to 24,621, or She-Hulk which debuted at 41,921 and dropped to 26,675. These titles have art styles that don't have a wide appeal, and the books shed readers as a result.

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On stage Kaizo.

Take it to /co/, boys.

I'm the original poster and I'm sorry for even bringing it up. Wasn't meant to be serious. Though I still stand by calling Aaron's Thor(s) shit.

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Vinny has been getting far too powerful of late, the return of Creeper Cam is just what's needed to quell any rebellious vassals.

Also god damn Jeff is the eternal master of mugging

>watch the tail end of GBeast stream
>holy crap, Vinny upped his Rocket League game! it's gonna be way tougher for the San Francisco team this time
>Ryckert posts a video of himself playing solo matches
>nevermind
That dude is at nigh pro level at this point. He really does get obnoxiously competitive with stuff like this.

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Matt, Woolie, and Liam embark on Rareware's final adventure before the Microsoft era.

>>196982

>Sitting through another half-hour of Liam exclaiming "no, but everyone is wrong, this game is REALLY good!"

Ha ha nope, fuck that shit.

>>196989
Adventures was good.

>>196989
Adventures wasn't good as a Star Fox game, but once you get past the superficial stuff like the stupid item names and made-up language, and the fact that it's such a blatant Zelda clone, it was a fine game on its own.

>>196990
>>196991

I don't think I can remember a single part of Adventures that I would categorize as "enjoyable."

>>196990
>>196991
>>196992
Adventures, looking at it as a single entity in a vacuum, is at best a mediocre game. One that would have simply faded into obscurity long ago had the StarFox franchise not been stapled to it.

>>197005
A lot of that is because of it getting shoved into development hell. When it was Dinosaur Planet on the N64, a lot of the graphics and stuff were seen as pretty great for the system, and I believe it was less of a Zelda clone. While getting pushed to the Gamecube allowed it to boost the graphics a lot, stapling Star Fox on it required the game to become "safe", in order to not tarnish the brand, and turned it into more of a Zelda clone. And then it tarnished the brand anyway.

>>197016

I can't think of any stage of development where Prince Tricky, an escort quest that constantly needs to be refueled with mushrooms, was a good idea. I just can't see it. That's not a fun game mechanic no matter how you slice it.

>>197020
>Escort Mission
Not quite. He couldn't die and result in hours of lost gameplay like every other escort ever. He was more of a set of abilities that they tied to a secondary character for some reason with a little bit of virtual pet added to the mix. Also he was vaguely important to the plot maybe.

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More Sonic and Zack Snyder love.

//youtube.com/watch?v=CTeZca7tIpk

I figured they'd be doing Rising Thunder since the Street Fighter V beta shut down. I've got a code for anyone who's interested.

UXGV6-UULQO-IF7ZL-0232Z-YD96M

I actually haven't watched Best Friends in a while. None of their current playthroughs really interest me. I just want more GoT and Life is Strange, but it looks like those won't happen for a while.

>>197060
I kind of feel the same. Most of the games they've been doing lately just aren't my thing. The Starfox one is OK, not because I like the game though I don't care enough to be bothered that they do, and more because I find the furry snark amusing.

>>197060
>>197061

I'm surprised, given how amazing the Ride to Hell LP was.

>>197060
//youtube.com/watch?v=xcqcPL1i8iY

Wish granted!

Enjoyed Film and 40s, but Dan's ignorance of... everything really burns when he's talking about my academic focus (Cold War).

Also boy did I lose my shit when Jeff's joke prediction of Halo Wars 2 came true.

//youtube.com/watch?v=iAqCGhzqNg0

Oh my god they just keep adding more and more animations to Fox's item getting, and they happening over and over, I'm going to lose my mind and it's only part 5.

WHO LOOKED AT THIS AND THOUGHT "YEAH, NO, THAT'S OKAY! THAT'S GREAT! LOVE IT!"

>>197096
Possibly the same people who thought that making players run through each level of Donkey Kong 64 five times was a good idea.

Man it's hard to feel the drama in the Game of Thrones game when half the time the sound doesn't even work. Also on a side note I just found out Beskha and Nanafua have the same voice. That explains why the voice acting for Nanafua always sounded a little off to me. Too obvously a young woman pretending to be old.

//youtube.com/watch?v=KIOXBEcxtAk

Matt and Liam are really bad detectives.

Dan explains why he's been pushing to play FFVII and how important GG has been to reintroducing him to games.

//youtube.com/watch?v=aY_bJEGWs40

Dan: Ocarina of Time. When we do it, not if.

>>197160
Saw someone deduce what the ending will likely be and the reason for the time erasure storm. Knowing what the game feels like I say they are probably right.

//youtube.com/watch?v=Jy2XJkJMpC8

>Liam trying to figure out the code

It's the Shrine of the Silver Monkey all over again.

This Spindash Quick Look is a hell of a thing

>>197186
I have never in my existence used the phrase "get a life" in earnest.
But in this case.....

//youtube.com/watch?v=ciaYKjBxneA
I've reached the other side.

>197186

>He doesn't agree with /v/'s inexplicable obsessions and hate-boners, such a dumb fellow!

Good thing he didn't laugh at the 60-fupps dilettantes and has a penis. He'd need police protection by now if not.

//youtube.com/watch?v=pckfTImQAEU
>Defending the Test of Strength

No, Liam. Stop it. Stop it right this instant.

>>197172
Link? I'm curious.

>>197207
It was on twitter in response to relationship developments and the spiral from saving the father to a LPer

Chloe's death is the central point and the more Max saves her from dying the worse things become. Though that could be invalidated in the last acts with something crazy which will let Max save her, maybe bringing her old girlfriend back so that she's safe, but Max cannot be with her. First part is their speculation second is my idea how things could pan out since it feels a lot like a David Cage style French game.

//youtube.com/watch?v=I3vBMmcXSMw

>>197208
So like Madoka then?

>>197210
That's the theory going into the stretch, I've not listened to the best friends LP of it for a couple of parts since they all started ending with massive stinger cliff hangers. Wouldn't be surprised if Liam starts talking about similar going into the final acts, then we are handed something that flips the script.

>>197211
>Wouldn't be surprised if Liam starts talking about similar going into the final acts, then we are handed something that flips the script.
He did already in the most recent video.

>>197212
I'm too far behind in the series to care now. Yeesh. Its not fun enough for me to keep to it as background sound that I use with LPs while I work or game.

Ross and Holly episodes are actually pretty entertaining. BFP... rustlemania 2 needs to be over.

>>197240
Rustlemania has been great, Zone-tan's drunken intro was hilarious.

//youtube.com/watch?v=3E7iWYXnf8s

Mario Party Party 5 might be the best live show Giant Bomb has ever done, the crowd was perfect and you couldn't write the perfect series of twists and turns it is comprised of.

>>197259
>Mario Party Party 5

//youtube.com/watch?v=G3-7F2L_IOE

I think my favorite let's play right now is Two Best Friend's play Until Dawn.

>>197302
I really hope it gets scary, that is when the Squad is at their best. Drunk and Scared and screeching at every shadow.
>>197303

I'll take a look at that.

But overall damn, the games that Sony literally throws money surprises me sometimes.

Also fuck you Ward, two girls vanished here last year so stop being an asshole.

//youtube.com/watch?v=tHL3Uy86KK0

>>197317
>>197303

I like the contrast between these two. If I'm using the word contrast correctly.

//youtube.com/watch?v=LuliJubhIfc

Eh the more they go down this game the less I'm interested in actually playing it. Sure seeing the player reactions but the whole bit of it doing EVERY horror movie setup just loses some of the bite.

I don't think I can stomach Gunjumper Liam going through MGSV. I'll wait for Metal Gear Scanlon.

Liam is good at Metal Gear and I don't get why some people are upset about that. Him casually slipping and diving through the world is hilarious.

It's like the people who said he was disrespecting Aria just because he had the game memorized.

>>197333
Alot of people who watch lp's are the same sort of people that leave comments on youtube, dumb whiny shits.

>>197333
I'm not saying he's bad at the game. I'm just saying the way he plays is bad for my heart.

//youtube.com/watch?v=ksoGAEHtpyY

>>197336
Love they are playing it straight up Mystery Inc Style, getting the clues and solving the mysteries.

//youtube.com/watch?v=fO5vF2UitSM

I've heard that there is an everyone wins scenario and I think it includes the sisters as well. All plays I've seen so far cannot do this but does any know of one where they decided to "let it go" at the beginning.

//youtube.com/watch?v=WBj3vC8EjZ8

Was watching some old grumps things and ran across a mario party playthroughs after watching some runbow... and suzie really is the antifun.

//youtube.com/watch?v=dq-NkAVTmdU

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//youtube.com/watch?v=UAjhCup6a5E

//youtube.com/watch?v=cOXLoitZiK8

That was a damn good let's play.

Hope we get more squad action on Halloween.

Also seeing quite a few LPer doing some streams recently now that Youtube is rolling out the stuff for that. So far the app looks better than Twitch.

>>197407
Yea that was awesome. Loved how they played it by type instead of how they would aside from Matt. Also how invested they became about keeping them alive. I could watch the squad take on Life is Strange.

So did they fuck up or does Emily stay a bitch regardless? Kinda wish there was a option to Nuke the Windego Spirit, Hanna would likely still kill herself for what she did regardless even if she could be saved

>>197423
Emily stays a bitch no matter what happens. She does however have a little bit in the ending credits where she's genuinely concerned for Matt and a little remorseful about treating him badly, if he stays alive.

>>197424
I do agree with them that was a cheap death, and they things tend to become a little less troubling when you realize there was only one real threat

//youtube.com/watch?v=NDaA1VY8ags

The moral of this episode is: Always do the opposite of what Pat tells you to do.

>>197426
In hindsight you can tell what that is. Windego trap

Final Thoughts on the game story.

If this does get some kinda sequel or DLC that delves deeper into all of the goings on inside the mountain. I've got a feeling we don't know the whole story as to why there is a curse. We've gotten the "Don't do" stuff but for such a curse to manifest there has to be a "patent zero" and since after transformation these suckers appear to be mostly ageless I've got a feeling there is a First Nation Windego trapped or imprisoned deep within the mountain.

Maybe some bastard that fucked with a powerful chief and was banished and wandered deep into the caves before getting tapped transforming as he starved or someone that did something to anger the gods in the first place and was imprisoned deep within the mountain by the tribe as a repentance and punishment for their actions and they transformed and they've been reaching out over the centuries to those in the weakened state and then getting them to partake and share its curse. I mean there has to be some connection to that kinda thing. Miner Windegos were nowhere near as Spidery Long Limbed as Hannah.

Oh~ bonus episode.

//youtube.com/watch?v=bUNkd26K7B8

>>197433
So kinda right. maybe. So the Omega Windego is the one that posses Hannah what of the others? Was it just that the Cabin and the Surrounding Area was her territory or was the fight between those groups something different. Again there is more history that I don't think it getting through. Next game should feature one of the Tribesmen and maybe some of this crew talking to them to get some answers. It wouldn't surprise me if part of the curse was linked to a massive tribal conflict that lead to tons of death resulting in cursed land. Wonder what it would take to cleanse the area.

You see this is a good seed for a horror series, giving some explanations but leaving out enough so they can go elsewhere.

>oh hey the grumps are doing MGSV... That's not going to end well for anyone involved
>Arin and Suzie are doing it
My god it's like the anti-entertainment of let's plays. The antithesis of enjoyment to watch... I almost want to watch it now just to see how bad it'll go.

>>197439
Arin's good when he doesn't go into games blind. Bloodborne was pretty enjoyable, ending notwithstanding.

>>197439
It's okay, just a husband and wife having fun playing a game they both like, kinda explains Arin's ego a bit too, Suzy really tries to pump him up all the time and he fishes for it.

Yeah I mean, a silly game playthrough is no reason to want to murder somebody.

//youtube.com/watch?v=GA4l3GuoVwg

>>197444
Dodger should be a squaddy. Though I don't know how she'd handle her Evan Williams.

//youtube.com/watch?v=hMQbRvtlYnA
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>>197468
These thumbnails do a great job of ensuring I'll never click on the video.

Not that you should ever watch a non-Giant Beast playthrough of Contradiction anyway.

//youtube.com/watch?v=0XONd-_X7X8

A Link Between Worlds begins and Dan's thumbs are too big for the 3DS.

Fuck Ross, I mean really.

//youtube.com/watch?v=2dE8WBKXyiE
//youtube.com/watch?v=bGulKYvg-2Y

>>197520
Those are literally the easier ones he made.

Take a tip from Paul Anka on how to beat people like Ross.

//youtube.com/watch?v=SlKao_Pox5A

//youtube.com/watch?v=OekIITxGLbY

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Between this and the soul-crushing ReBoot LP, Woolie's salt level is at an all-time high.

Woolie has said he's pretty stoked about the coming LP with Matt.

I hope to all things higher and powerful it's Undertale. The writing, characters, music and plot makes for truly fantastic moments. That game deserves more exposure.

>>197561

Haha oh my god, it's so much worse than I could have possibly imagined.

Man, Liam was not kidding about Starfox making a return. What an upset.
>>197569
Woolie/Matt LPs are never that interesting.

I liked Wolf Among Us, Shaolin Monks and Def Jam. GoT has been pretty good as well. Matt and Liam is the weaker combo because they are too similar in disposition.

>>197572
Aria and Berserk are both strong runs.

//youtube.com/watch?v=rahaJ7HFEJ0

//youtube.com/watch?v=G08l8zeDpes

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//youtube.com/watch?v=HtGNPWAQ7AY

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I have to say, I like how hype Matt and Pat are for the big plot twist. And the secondary reveal.

//youtube.com/watch?v=YhCHkwtn4u8

//youtube.com/watch?v=STQ7dGP_ORg

//youtube.com/watch?v=KI8IVYlMetg

//youtube.com/watch?v=2ASF0SwsK9s

They got a mostly perfect game on a blind playthrough.

>>197709
If you are keyed to the methodology of the movies its working with that can work.

//youtube.com/watch?v=o_ePjBHCsCo
Another great Kickstarter game.

>>197709
Who'd they lose?

>>197747
A bungled QTE cost them a portion of Mike's chase scene and they didn't get all of the totem pieces.

>>197748
Also, by failing to escape the "psycho" as Sam, they missed out on Josh's confidential files and messages from his therapist that show just how mentally ill he is. But they picked up on that before the end.

>>197750
They find the journal at the end, what was the reaction or had they already figured that part out. I already watched the Spooky Run and its to good a game for me to sit through it again without playing it.

>>197751
I think they figured it out by that point.

//youtube.com/watch?v=8h4A4goLdjc
Pat really showed this alien balls on this one.

//youtube.com/watch?v=uUbApOb1wWk

For a guy who likes survival horror games and their puzzles so much, Pat really struggled with these.

//youtube.com/watch?v=7RyL6flPbCw

Super Best Friends Play - Transformers Devastation
I'd buy it. It looks good.

//youtube.com/watch?v=bWUadx-fskQ
Let's Play fanfiction.net

//youtube.com/watch?v=IdvYBHpEWIY

Watch the scrub lords (minus Liem no I don't care if I spell his name right) collectively lose their shit as they play Dong Dong Never Die.

I don't think I have ever been this mad about videogames before. Like, putting-off-the-phone-call-with-my-parents-I-had-planned-because-I'm-so-mad levels of mad.

>>197824
You're not really providing context, for instance what game?

>>197825

Dota 2. Trying to get the last hero on my ten-hero challenge and it just will not happen. Six, seven games in a row of crushing defeat. And then when I finally find myself on the winning team, about ten minutes before we would have won, after like an hour of back and forth...the game just disconnects me, and refuses to reconnect. There's nothing wrong with my internet, it loads other things just fine, but it simply will not communicate with the game server at all.

And the real kicker is, because I disconnected and then didn't come back, the game counted it as an abandon, so now I have to play five games of low priority queue. In low priority, you have to play all random. You can't choose your hero. So I have to play five more games before I can even TRY to get back to getting this last hero.

The only time in recent memory when I was even close to this mad about video games was when I was trying to beat the Belfry Gargoyles in Dark Souls 2 with a dual caestus build.

I've seen how to beat The Ryckoning. Patrick is not going to beat The Ryckoning.

>>197830
Nah, he's still just keeping to his regular streaming hours for now. I saw another streamer beat it.

>>197831
Oh OK.

I think this Dan vs Pat stuff is fucking gold. I liked Pat as part of the team even if his written stuff was bad, it was sad to see him first exiled to Chicago and then cut from even Lang and Max's stuff and forced to go to the Koraku mines. It's good to have him back.

http://www.twitch.tv/sodiumeyes/v/20089234

>>197833
This is a link to someone completing Ryckert's stage The Ryckoning. So spoilers if you want to know the solution or would rather go along for the ride with Patrick.

So I've got an idea for a stream show. Partly scripted other part playing physical games (board, cards etc) with people in the stream. Would such a thing work in Twitch or would it be more suited for the newer Youtube Streaming stuff?

>>197843
There have been LPs like that on SA for ages, often for wargames, so yeah that can work.

>>197844
A copy of RISK 2210 is in the roster for one of the first I've got a thought for in my roster along with a selection of older card and . Was thinking of adding games from the 80s and 90s as I come across them. Also adding a "Potluck" game made up from various pieces of others if I cannot get a complete version.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snlj3r
Isn't he like in his 20's still? Fuck, man...

>>197851
I thought he was like 30 something.

>>197852
Facial hair ages you up.
Or down if you have peach fuzz in highschool.

>>197851
>>197852
He's 31, which is still extremely young. I do research on colon cancer for a living and the youngest person to provide samples was in their late 40s.

>>197856
I remember a podcaster from the mid 00s that was diagnosed like that. Believe were in their mid 30s.

Glad to hear he intends to fight and I hope it goes well for him.

//youtube.com/watch?v=AXnZs8XhAzA
This is kinda surreal.

//youtube.com/watch?v=I4Re5YiNSxQ

More Scary Game Squad!

Did not expect them to do SOMA. Last I heard they were hinting at Layers of Fear.

Yahtzee is amazingly ignorant about Dark Souls.

>>197872
And a lot of other things. Funny, but whenever he and Gabe try to have social commentary hour it's... I mean it's not Gamergate, but it's the sort of people who get fooled by it.

>>197872
That's why I don't bother to watch his videos anymore, even if I don't feel particularly strongly about the guy.

Yahtzee is the dumbest pile of shit.

>>197878
Yea the nitpicking for nitpicking sake has grown thin

>>197879
Not really. I mean he and Gabe have at best a faint grasp of politics but whoop de doo, let's players. He's a good comedian and a decent developer/writer. ZP is like, the most ancillary thing he does.

He really doesn't know as much about Dark Souls as someone who has played so much of it should though. How do you play DS2 4 times and not know what the jester set does?

>>197870
Everyone else is tackling SOMA and people wanna see four drunk knuckleheads screech and get scared.

//youtube.com/watch?v=8I0-8CxDS0w

Getting some more Scary Squad action

https://youtu.be/CT8JySzk38QQ

Kleptaku reports: Dark Souls 3 is a Souls game

>>197908
Know a person getting into this, may drop by their Discord server and see what is going on sometime.

I like they gave the mana pool back and an easier way to refill that once you start running dry. Hope they are more into Co-ops taking on bosses with more than just a health boost to the boss.

Did that in Dark Souls 2 a bit and it was pretty fun baiting and then moving so another could get in the shot then hitting a few spells and laying down a heal or two.

Felt a lot more involved than "Memorize the pattern, then dodge and swing till dead."

I want the Co-op battles to trigger different move sets in a boss to make it a different experience.

God damn it Choose Your Own Adventure is just going to turn into week after week of Life is Strange isn't it?

>>197918
Maybe they take some of that over to Playdate, if they end up enjoying the game that much.

//youtube.com/watch?v=lg-xoC-koYM

I didn't see this one coming at all.

>>197918
I kinda want to see Scary Game Squad play Life is Strange. Just to see how quickly they pick up on what the ending is. Save the girl or save the world/town Probably get wise to it after what triggers the first time jump.

//youtube.com/watch?v=XWs9eXStw6k

oof getting some feels in the Squad.

>>197934
I can't believe how upset Davis got over that.

//youtube.com/watch?v=vd4uERzFobQ

Now The Ryckoning was an asshole level, but this is straight up bullshit.

>>197935
Would make a Life is Strange playthrough very interesting. Wonder if the endless falling down stairs tragedy of Chloe would deaden them to the ending

http://fortune.com/2015/10/22/youtube-red-content-creators/


Guess its a good thing TBFP started their own site.

>>197945

Wow. Fuck Google and YouTube for that shit.

>>197945
>Guess its a good thing TBFP started their own site.
Which they've admitted has been a failure. Which has been the reason they started that Vessel thing.

>>197951
I wouldn't have had a problem with it if the vids on that site weren't of such low quality compared to being viewed on Youtube. They to hire a better computer engineer or something.

>>197945
YouTube has a pretty strong monopoly in regards to video streaming, but I could honestly see this creating room for a competitor. They're shooting themselves in the foot here.

>>197952
Site should have bigger vids for sure. I still listen to the podcast on a regular basis for news and whatnot.

//youtube.com/watch?v=wta9_6m8oiE

//youtube.com/watch?v=0uPoFGNASwg

Questions answered which leads to more questions for the Scary Game Squad.