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joshofalltrades

oh fuck me

this already sucks

npc.EXE

adds over 150 brutal rooms

:winky:

joshofalltrades

there's no rule about LPing this game

but maybe we need one

npc.EXE

Well, have you ever considered trying Meat Boy? Might be good for an LP and you're quite impressive in the platforming department.

joshofalltrades

I could give it a shot... I heard it's basically an entire game of ice levels

I think I will eventually LP this

But I'm torn on whether to do a blind run or play through it first to determine whether or not its beatable.

Rent

Do the second

a blind run would be

uh

it'd be pretty awful on the part of the viewer

even though you edit the fuck out of your vids

npc.EXE

The fan of LPs in me say the former but the LP savvy in me says the latter.

I'd wait til you know it's beatable. Your understanding of the game and your word smithery is what makes your LPs so special. For me anyway.

EDIT: ...and it's not so much ice levels as you are made of slippery, easy to grind away, uncooked meat. =D

Adus

Don't torture yourself. These games aren't "hard", they're exercises in futility and memorization. You have to die to learn where all the traps are. There are no tells. Then you just move in a predetermined path. Anyone can win an IWBTG type game after dying a thousand times.

Henroid

Helloween, gravy, I'll be waiting on that PM. Also, follow me on Twitter, man. I mean come on. I follow you. Around. At night. When you're in the bath.

Adus, nobody wants to see the thousand deaths is the thing.

Henroid

Rent wrote: »

Do the second

a blind run would be

uh

ironic?

Helloween

Henroid wrote: »

Helloween, gravy, I'll be waiting on that PM. Also, follow me on Twitter, man. I mean come on. I follow you. Around. At night. When you're in the bath.

Adus, nobody wants to see the thousand deaths is the thing.

I totally sexed you up on twitter...like right now.

Rent

Henroid wrote: »

Rent wrote: »

Do the second

a blind run would be

uh

ironic?

my colorblind burn was better

joshofalltrades

loling irl over here

Rent

so

my 360 just gave me two red rings, which means it's overheating, which could mean that it's not gonna work no more

so possibly, my LP will be put on hold temporarily

luckily I already have three videos recorded plus tomorrow's update so at the least updates are stopping next thursday

SkutSkut

joshofalltrades wrote: »

loling irl over here

Do Tower of Heaven! Don't make me get the jabbing stick.:evil:

It'll take like 3 videos

Owenashi

If it's alright, I'd like to recommend a Halo 1-3/ODST LP run done by a Youtuber named Ramza411sb. It's pretty cool in that he plays the games with a cousin of his named Devin (or TheMan as he so named his profile for the first game's LP) in split-screen co-op. For those who actually are interested in the story, Ramza bothers to cut off the mikes during the cutscenes which is a pretty nice bonus. Here's the first video of Halo 1's second level if you want to get an idea of how they work and talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6zkcBNYTEc&feature=PlayList&p=02B266AB9BC4430D&index=2

cj iwakura

I'm bringing it back.



I'm holding you accountable, LP thread.

npc.EXE

Don't do it cj! There's still time to turn back!

Schide

Yeah finish that so I can read it because it's not like I'm ever going to play it.

Dragonatrix

cj iwakura wrote: »

That looks familiar, and I have no idea why.

Oh and tell that dude in your sig that I love him~ (and include the tilde)

cj iwakura

Because he's from an extremely popular anime called

Magic Knight Rayearth.

Dragonatrix

From that OP I realised exactly how I recognised it;

CLAMP.

That pretty much explained everything

Henroid

Puu Puu!

I hope watching a split-screen co-op video isn't as bad as I'm imagining it will be.

joshofalltrades

SkutSkut wrote: »

joshofalltrades wrote: »

loling irl over here

Do Tower of Heaven! Don't make me get the jabbing stick.:evil:

It'll take like 3 videos

I will add it to IWBTFG and Spelunky on my list of games to consider

Seriously though IWBTFG is kicking my damn ass

Ordinarily I have to actually "let loose" the creative swearing

It is pouring out of my mouth naturally this time and it's a shame it isn't being recorded

Rent

josh you should have a co-commentator

so he can mock you as you lp

PaperLuigi44

"You call that timed jumping?"

"Man, this is prime Retsupurae material right here!"

"jooooooosh. jooooooosh... Don't choke."

Rent

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

"You call that timed jumping?"

"Man, this is prime Retsupurae material right here!"

"jooooooosh. jooooooosh... Don't choke."

yes

this is what I want

Adus

The problem is he'd have to stream it and the delay would kind of ruin it.

cj iwakura

Henroid wrote: »

Puu Puu!

I used that as my IM sound for the longest time when I first played MKR.

Trynant

On a completely selfish tangent, I just realized that my update schedule has not been as stupid long between sets as I imagined. I'm about to start my next set and if I finish uploading it today/tomorrow that only makes it a month + a week since I last updated.

Admittedly, that's a pretty stupid wait

Henroid

LPs can be hard to keep up with, especially when your schedule is in constant flux.

Rent

Trynant wrote: »

On a completely selfish tangent, I just realized that my update schedule has not been as stupid long between sets as I imagined. I'm about to start my next set and if I finish uploading it today/tomorrow that only makes it a month + a week since I last updated.

Admittedly, that's a pretty stupid wait

Umm that's an insanely long wait between updates bro

Henroid

It's not insanely long, it's just long. :?

Rent

no it's pretty insanely long

anything longer than one update/week is long, and even one update/week update schedule is a pretty long wait between updates

Henroid

I live in a world where people have shit to do and can't always commit to something like this faster than once a week, maybe bi-weekly. What world do you live in?

Rent

I don't think "I have shit to do" is a reasonable defense for not updating frequently

anyways I'm not talking about a week wait, I'm talking about a month and a half wait between updates

either way if you can't commit to a frequent update schedule, don't start an LP. It's that simple. It's completely optional whether or not to do an LP in the first place, and it's a very time-intensive job requiring a shitload of work behind the scenes


Saying "whelp I have a life" isn't a viable excuse to basically abandon your LP for long stretches of time

If you are you should at least have the courtesy to update your thread with a "well I gotta go because I have RL issues to take care of, my next post is going to be an update" or else we get threads like the nonsense that occurs with necro'd LPs from four months ago where the LPer has pretty obviously abandoned the LP, but we get goosen who post "WHERE IS THE UPDATES?!?!" every once in a while, which makes it that much harder for those of us who actually update our LPs in a timely manner to get views

times like this I really wish OPs could lock their own threads like in SA, so this whole problem could be circumvented

Henroid

I hate having to repeat this for the 15th fucking time but sometimes people don't really get how much time you have to put into these things until they try it first hand.

And if you're worried about old, abandoned LPs because they sap your LP's views, you're kind of a silly goose.

cj iwakura

If the LPs worth watching, people will keep up with it no matter how long it takes.

How many months were people begging for SimBen to continue the Chrono Trigger LP?

Rent

cj iwakura wrote: »

How many months were people begging for SimBen to continue the Chrono Trigger LP?

which is the shit I'm talking about. keep that shit dead, stop necroing it

Trynant

On the bright side, I did just record what was more or less two sets in a row.

In regards to how long one should wait between sets, I was just saying that I'm glad my videos haven't reached "dead" level yet. I agree about a month (and a week) being an absurdly long wait time. Maybe not insanely long, but absurdly for certain. I'm not going to make excuses, but I am definitely going to do my best to cut down time. The only possible valid reason for a delay with the LP I'm doing is that I'm having people vote on the next level I'm doing, so I give people some time before I jump into the next level. That really shouldn't put time between sets more than a week and a half.

Honestly these LPs are not so much work-intensive as they are time intensive (giving me even less of an excuse eh?). What I mean by that is that the longest part of process is by far rendering and converting files. Editing is at least sort of fun and not too time-consuming. Waiting a day or more for videos to finish converting is the pain in the ass.