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[LET'S PLAY] VVVVVV! Hmm? What's this? New levels?
joshofalltrades
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Been a long time for me.
If you're only interested in the frustration (special thanks to ohthecommotion!):
Summary of Swears
VVVVVV is a puzzle/platforming game by Terry Cavanagh. It features a chiptune soundtrack and Commodore 64 graphics. The primary game mechanic is that there is no jumping. You alter gravity in order to get from the floor to the ceiling, many times dodging spikes or dangerous obstacles in your way. Most of the games segments have some variation on this mechanic; one stretches lines between platforms that reverse your gravity when touched, for instance: (spoilered for huge)
You play as the captain of a spaceship. After mysterious events, you and your crew members are teleported around and you must rescue them.
The game is mostly open-ended in that you can explore the map and rescue your crew in whatever order you like, but there are a few scripted sequences here and there that will show up no matter who you rescue.
Additionally, there are 20 "shiny things" scattered around the map. They are more difficult to gather than simply rushing through to rescue your crew, but collecting them is worth it. They unlock different game modes.
Everything kills you in one hit, just like IWBTG. Spikes, the word "YES", cars, everything.
The chiptune soundtrack is also worthy of mention.
The first video is just an introduction. The game gets much, much more difficult.
Buy the game here!
THE VIDEOS
If you're only interested in the frustration (special thanks to ohthecommotion!):
Summary of Swears
VVVVVV is a puzzle/platforming game by Terry Cavanagh. It features a chiptune soundtrack and Commodore 64 graphics. The primary game mechanic is that there is no jumping. You alter gravity in order to get from the floor to the ceiling, many times dodging spikes or dangerous obstacles in your way. Most of the games segments have some variation on this mechanic; one stretches lines between platforms that reverse your gravity when touched, for instance: (spoilered for huge)
Spoiler:
You play as the captain of a spaceship. After mysterious events, you and your crew members are teleported around and you must rescue them.
The game is mostly open-ended in that you can explore the map and rescue your crew in whatever order you like, but there are a few scripted sequences here and there that will show up no matter who you rescue.
Additionally, there are 20 "shiny things" scattered around the map. They are more difficult to gather than simply rushing through to rescue your crew, but collecting them is worth it. They unlock different game modes.
Everything kills you in one hit, just like IWBTG. Spikes, the word "YES", cars, everything.
The chiptune soundtrack is also worthy of mention.
The first video is just an introduction. The game gets much, much more difficult.
Buy the game here!
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edit: Also, LP foul! Not having a set for us to devour already?
I pronounce it bee-log.
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I pronounce it bee-log.
EDIT:
Hole-EE SHEEeeeeeit, it's almost 2 Gigs in size. Gonna take a while to upload. How did an 8 minute long video get to 2 gigs?!
I am looking forward to Sad Elephant. Sad Elephant is the best.
Also, Purest Unobtanium.
Anybody have a site other than YouTube I can upload to and play videos from that doesn't eat monkey turds?
Guess I'll try Viddler.
polsy, however
polsy is good stuff
WeGame is sweet too
uhhh...Polsy is just a front end for media playback sites like Viddler, you still have to upload it there.
Viddler is fine, Blip.tv is where most of the LP community puts their stuff now.
I pronounce it bee-log.
dis
90% of the time it's because someone reported all/none of his videos for posting 'gameplay vids' w/o permission and youtube auto-banned him
I'll look into Blip.tv, but in the meantime it'll be up on Viddler. That won't work in the long run though, since they only leave stuff up for thirty days.
Yeah, but there's a million Let's Plays up on YouTube. Why mine?
They even have a category called Gaming. But no games allowed!
EDIT: Blip.tv has a thing specifically saying no video game recordings allowed.
wegame is like soooooo much better
Someone probably doesn't/didn't like you on YT, in response to your question about 'why yours'
anyways honestly YT LPs have a negative connotation and since yours are actually you know good you shouldn't associate with that trash
No straight videos
As long as it's voiced and you post a video description of it you should be okay
ed: a short intro is good
basically blip is all about episodic content. a VLP is considered episodic content. but you have to make sure to 1) post a video description of it 2) if you can have a little intro or something (this can be like your voice rattling off the name of the LP and "Episode/set X" or whatever else you want to do). Just whatever you do don't just post the video with no description or they'll assume it's just a video of straight gameplay and delete your shit
Viddler is first since that's the first suggestion I got. It'll be up on Blip soon after and I'll look into wegame.
Also man whut, IWBTG is gone now? That was one of the few pieces of schadenfreude I could actually enjoy.
you might also want to try dailymotion if your vids are under 20 minutes
basically I'm urging you to try anything but viddler because holllllllly shit does viddler suck now
It's on Blip.
UGH, tons of technical problems this time. Hope it's worth it once I finally get this thing up and running
Fixed now, and I left the download link
Also, I had the option of earning money from ads for this thing but it's not fucking worth it. I know I'd personally rather watch an LP without wasting 15 seconds on a car commercial first, and I'm not putting you all through that shit.
Thoughts:
Okay seriously that voice-to-text stuff was fantastic for us people who've already played the game, it really fit the style thematically and wasn't the imo annoying as shit "lper reads dialogue aloud in 'funny' voice" stuff, josh I love it
Nice to see you back in the swing of things, "uh"s and all! :mrgreen:
Also I'm seriously glad that even though it took you this long to LP another game you brought your A game, it was worth the wait to see the standard of excellence maintained from IWBTG
I thought about doing another "take" but decided if I did that every time I said "uh" I was never gonna do another LP again
Glad to hear you like the text to speech, it took longer than anything else making this video and if nobody liked it I wasn't about to do it again
I pronounce it bee-log.
here
sig is clickable, leads to this thread
ed: well if I weren't jailed it would be
Nicely done!
The best part of doing LPs is getting avs/sigs
You bastard
I pronounce it bee-log.
Actually I don't think the Laughing Man will be sticking around, I think I'm the last guy with him for an av
Why don't you come to bed honey, it's getting late and you did so much for me today
Part 2 is uploading now