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Chiming in to say that this is seriously my new favorite episode of the show. The emotional moments, the Chromelodeon soundtrack, the cliffhanger. Damn. Nothing more to say.
Agreed, brilliant narrative arc this week.
I haven’t played Redder yet, but it looks cool so I hope to get to it later today. Home Sheep Home is a good chunk of fun, though. Hopefully this week Viddler won’t eat my video comment like it has the past couple weeks though. Thankfully it spared you a five minute Kirby rant from me the other day.
Oh, speaking of the narrative, now, my thoughts on this isn’t Jon quit the show, but Jon fired Anthony. I mean Jon’s got the camera and editing equipment. He edited the show together after dropping Anthony off, so clearly he’s still in it. However, seeing as he refuses to work with Anthony any more I’d like to submit my Canidacy for new host of bytejacker. Sure, Jon, you’d have to move out to the midwest, but that just means you’ll be that much closer to GDC next year. Think about it.
Additionally I hope a pair of episodes are coming. One of Anthony doing Bytejacker without Jon and another of Jon doing Bytejacker without Anthony where they’re both trying to one-up each other akin to what PA did a while back and putting their own spin on what the show should be now that they’re free from the shackles of the other.
Hope I didn’t give anything away.
Awesome episode.
I got Mega Man 10 on release and love it so far, but there is something that pisses me off about it. They announced that Bass is a playable character and that there are two 1 dollar bonus stages being released as well as 3 dollar endless mode. What’s so bad about that? Well, hackers have found that these modes were in the original game files, so we’re basically paying extra for the full game. I would have gladly paid 16 dollars for everything. Instead they have to trick everyone into thinking I’m buying more content, when in reality we’re just buying a key to unlock it.
@Ashkc88: That’s common practice since… Pokemon? Maybe even earlier? I don’t see it as much of a problem, either. It gives you the option to not pay for all that useless stuff, which I didn’t in MM9 because I’m not a huge fan of the game. I did enjoy it but I probably wouldn’t have bought it for 16€.
The one that really bugged me was Professor Layton on the DS. It promised new puzzles every week via Wi-Fi download, but then hackers discovered that all the additional puzzles were on the cart and all your were downloading every week was the code to unlock them. Why make us wait to play what’s already on the cart, especially if it’s “free DLC”?
It’s been far longer than Pokemon.
You’re out of your mind if you think it’s alright for a company to lie about DLC, just to make a quick buck off of their customers. It’s like if a used car dealer sells you a car, but takes things out that came with it (like a radio) and then sells it to you for extra. Same difference, except worse because the DLC is being unlocked days later just to fool you. It’s shadey and dishonest.
How come no one gets how hard DLC is to pull off? As soon as someone put the D and the C around the L everyone thinks everything should be downloaded and patched into their game. Alright, so this is not DLC it’s paid unlocked content. So what? Cut the developers a break. It’s a business model. They’re calling it DLC because everyone’s DEMANDING DLC now-a-days, but DLC isn’t easy to pull off. So they’ve got to pull some slight of hand to jump on the buzzword of the minute bandwagon, so what?
Gah, those three letters get on my nerves.
DLC isn’t hard to pull off. Are you joking?
Also, I’m willing to bet that 90% of gamers out there these days wish DLC/micromanagement would go away. Paying for a 60 dollar game, then having to pay a few dollars for modes and maps that have always came with games in the past is lame. Then developers make it so you can’t play the game with people who have the DLC, and some don’t even let you play at all once the DLC is out. Developers now a days are more worried about milking money from the customers they have, rather than expanding the market by creating bigger better games.
Besides, a lie is a lie. It insults the customer’s intelligence. There is no excuse, therefore developers should be criticized for it.
You download the unlock code, don’t you? So it’s not a lie, per se. Even less for Megaman since the whole game was downloaded in the first place. It’s a fudging on the definition, but not an ouright lie.
And yes, DLC is difficult. Technically difficult. Well, proper DLC anyways. Proper DLC (in my mind) should be game content that can be extended indefinitely. This means either you need your game to be data driven, which is always a good idea but always takes more work when developing your game, or your DLC must patch the game, which is no walk in the park and grows in complexity for a game that resides on external media. Data driven means you’re more or less making a script loader and interpreter more or less depending on what level of control you want your script to have on the game world. It is much, much easier to hard code the elements of the game. So it’s no wonder that developers hard code the extended content into their game and mark it as locked until you download an unlock code. Nevermind the challenge of delivery of DLC, especially for large games delivered to consoles. You have to maintain download servers, make sure there’s some way for your game to recognize what content has been downloaded, store it on a rapidly filling internal media so it can’t be too large (even with the sizes of internal media growing it’s still not unlimited).
And I highly disagree that people don’t want DLC. Why do you think that developers use this buzzword to sell units? True, developers and development investors love those 3 little letters more with the word “paid” is before them, but to the user DLC is synonymous with “extended play after the game is done.” So as long as that extended play is what you get, from the user perspective, what’s the difference if the “download” is nothing more than an unlock code. That’s what it was for Pokemon. You’d “download” your friends pokemons, tho you weren’t downloading anything more than the code that described which pokemon to unlock on your system, with a little additional information about which level that pokemon was at, but you couldn’t download a pokemon that wasn’t already hard coded in the game. DLC is a selling point exactly because people want it.
The whole reason DLC riles me up so much is because I read online someone say that this-or-that should have been DLC. Like Halo OST that it should have just been DLC for Halo 3. That sort of thing, like your comment Ashkc88, shows a severe lack of understanding of what it takes to develop a game, much less a game that’s rigged to accept DLC.
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DLC is really no different than a light mod. I know, from experience, that mods aren’t very hard to create. I know kids who can create mods. If a kid can create a mod on his computer, how is it so difficult for a developer to create one? It isn’t. I actually do create games, so your point on not knowing what it takes to develop games is moot. I’ve actually created my own hardware for my own games, in case you want to know how hardcore I am about it. I don’t even get paid, I do it for fun.
Nothing you say will change my mind. It’s a cheap way to make a quick buck, and it’s still dishonest to parse their words like that. Saying something to get people to think one way, when you mean another is lying.
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VirtualBox + TinyXP FTW.
My box dual-boots Snow Leopard and Windows 7, and yet both have a virtual Windows XP install in them. Go figure, ha!
Also I think it’s obvious Jon didn’t quit, but as for what actually happened to them going to GDC I’m curious…
No worries Tom, we’ve had a lot of new commenters lately and I wanna give them a chance. Last week was really hard because there were so many great answers and most of them came Monday night which killed me cause I couldn’t put them in on time. I’m kind of with you on the Madden games only because I don’t like sports games.
It’s all good Jon. You’re right. There were many new commenters. I’m all good with less screen time in place of newer commenters. ;). I remember what I was talking about. VMWare fusion! That’s it! The thing I’m planning on using instead of bootcamp.
Though Air Pressure didn’t deliver at the end some things I expected, the usage of a medium here is so much superior to other contestants, and if I would look from the perspective of what that game could be not what it is then it would be one of the very best. So my vote definitely goes to it.
Worst game series… simple – Tetris! World would be a better place without any of those or all of the Tetris stuff.
GDC – how is it even possible, those are domestic flights right, it is not like me traveling from Asia to Europe flying 12 hours, those should be cheap and I bet refundable as well so yoiu could get another ticket just at that airport you drove to, so what is the real reason behind not going to GDC?
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THis is a rant I’ve had brewing for quite some time…..
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This is why I haven’t commented on this weeks question. Everything I could want to say has already been said. Well, that and I’m a positive sort of guy, preferring to just forget the things I’m unhappy with.
Madden drives me nuts because every time there’s a free one the weeks worth of advertising circulars seems to forget that there’s any other game on their shelves. Even Halo 3 didn’t get that treatment. And all this for a game that’s better played IN REAL LIFE! (And now I’m repeating Zen above.)
And I feel the same way about war simulations. Do we really entertain ourselves with combat simulators. I’m not gonna go all Jack What’s-his-name (I really don’t care, so don’t tell me) and say we need to stop producing these things, but really what’s the point? I want a degree of separation between my play and life. People’s lives have been ruined by war (huh, what is it good for?) but gamers call it fun and “realistic” is a selling point in these games? Really?
Man I’m writing a lot of text on the site this week. Just haven’t had much time with the camera.
I have a little trouble at the start. This is in defence of the football and baseball games.
But I think I did pretty good!
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I’m calling BS on your argument right there. New Super Mario Bros Wii’s highest criticism was that it didn’t innovate, that it didn’t do anything new. So, no, you can’t just slide on same-o same-o even in these games. The problem with sports games is that the not only don’t innovate but they recycle so much of their content. At least with nSMBwii or Megaman 9 they had to create their framework all over again. Maybe not so much with Megaman 10, but if they go on to megaman 14 without moving the game forward some noticeable way then you can bet there’ll be a backlash. But if you’re a sports game you get a by card year after year after year. That’s not cool.
I see what your saying there, that atleast things like mario and megaman they have to try, But all I was saying is that there is a Niche for sports games, and people like their games updated yearly. Now why they couldn’t make it just DLC, hell if I know. So that is something that bugs me, but for most people who play those sports games, they like the yearly releases and such. I wouldn’t say it was a terrible series just because its not.
Its a sports game series and they do sports games well. May be updated too often, but they do the sports games to where they are fun to play and thats what the games about.
Every day, i love this show even more <3
I cant realy think of any series i hate, i could think of a few games, but cant think of a whole series bad enough.
Here is the link, for some reason it doesn’t like it when I put “.info” in the website address or in my email.
[url]http://dwwilson.info/?page_id=14[/url]
Ok last attempt at trying to not get my posts marked as spam.
the link to my game is:
http://dwwilson.info/?page_id=14
please try it and tell me if it sucks.
I highly recommend reading the instructions.
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thankyou.
Alright, so I played the tutorial and first level of the game. Unfortuatly that’s about all I’m gonna play because it’s downsides started overwhelming it’s plus sides.
First impressions: an installer. I’ll refer you to last week’s McRanty rant: http://www.viddler.com/explore/cymonsgames/videos/34/ . And while it didn’t turn out to be a real installer I had to go to my control panel to figure that out. Might as well have made me uninstall at that point. Plus it did put an icon on my desktop without asking, what else did you put on my system? So right off the bat you start off in the red and it’s going to take some major wow to win back the difference.
Second bad mark, you weren’t kidding about needing a higher end system, but you made it sound like it was only for the later levels, not for the tutorial levels even. I needed to take this game to my higher end machine, the one that I share with the family, the one that I have for playing commercial games on. So you’d expect this to look pretty good. Maybe 3D graphics, maybe full color characters. Nope. This looks like a flash game. So why do I need to run this on higher end machine?
So I’m finally playing the game and already the score card is chock-a-block with bad points before the first plus comes in. I love games that juxtapose action with strategy. Games like the Horde (made by the Star Control guys), Battlezone (1998), and when I played Team Fortress I always picked the engineer.
In fact a little while back there was a space game like this with the strategy/action thing, tho with that one the guy making it was experimenting with a new UI where you pushed a button, a menu popped up around your ship, and you pressed up for the build, left for upgrade, etc, and from there navigated to the sub-menus in the same way. Wish I could find that game again, if anyone has any leads?
Anyways, back to this game. Strategy/action is a great genre and very under represented, tho I’m admittedly not very good at it. So representing this under rated genre is this games first good point. (I suppose calling it action/tower defense would be more specific a genre nomenclature.)
However, it doesn’t represent the genre very well. The tab key doesn’t work for me so I have to use the mouse to pull up the menu, the rounds come too fast, the levels last too long and too repetitive, the view isn’t centered on the player and it’s hard to see the action happening.
And the whole time I’m wondering why this games is demanding the resources it is, why I’m playing this on a machine I have for playing Half Life 2 and Portal on. I share this computer with my kids and they want to use the computer for watching Inspector Gadget on Hulu and I’m not feeling much incentive to keep playing. And the final tally, it could be a good game but it’s so full of bad points that I really have to forgive quite a if I’m going to enjoy this game. And I want to because I think we need to see this sort of game more.
Figure out why your system requirements are so high or give people more for the resources you’re hogging and make it a zip instead of a quasi-installer, and that would go a long way to improving the first impression and getting people to play the game. Improve the game itself and it would go a long way to convincing people (me at least) to keep playing it.
Good job on making a game, that’s always a heck of an accomplishment in and of itself. But you’ve got to think a lot more about the user experience.
Thanks for the feedback joe, the reason I used a quazi-installer is because of this article I read about EULA in freeware:
http://forums.indiegamer.com/showthread.php?t=20273
Anyway, I have a quick play version on game jolt as well if it really offends you that much:
http://gamejolt.com/games/quick-play/1686/
But that was the main reason for not having it in a zip. That and it USED to have this crazy esoteric 4th wall breaking plot that would have been ruined if you saw the contents of the folder.
The reason it requires such a high end computer is because of the instance count. The tutorial does it worst because the walls are made out of many small instances rather than a few big ones. The resolution is also a big reason why it takes up so much memory. I could optimise the tutorial, but later on in the game the instance count goes as high anyway. So if a computer can’t handel the tutorial, it probably won’t be able to handel the later levels anyway.
It *should* be running at 1650 x 1080. I can’t say I’ve seen a flash game run at that res with as many instances. (machinarium runs at that res, but only has 10′s of instances)
I get sick of freeware games that look like they are from the 90′s. I mean I have a $650 graphics card that can render 1000′s of instances at high res so why not use it?
I get the impression that people come to expect that freeware should be in low res, and that games you pay for are in high res. I often wonder if I had not given this thing away for free, whether the reception would have been better?
Ok, as far as the levels coming too fast, that’s an insteresting statement, heaps of people said the complete opposite which is why I added the “next wave” button. You can change the difficulty from the menu if you’re finding it too fast.
As far as the camera centering on your guy goes, there are two ways in which the camera works because there are two playstyles. If you bump the edges of the screen, you move the camera like you would in any strategy game. However, if you don’t bump the edges, the camera focuses on your guy like it would in any shooter. It doesn’t center on your guy though because that became annoying when I tried it that way.
If you’re having trouble seeing your guy, try zooming out. There is a button in the menu. There are lots of buttons in the menu that allow you to control nearly every aspect of the game.
I keep having to tell people to look in the damn menu. Maybe I should make a tutorial where you can’t get any further until you’ve opened the menu and read everything.
I’m rebuilding the entire thing in XNA so I’ll fix all these problems in that version. Should take 1-2 years to finish.
Thanks for the feedback :D
Now that you’ve reviewed it I can stop pestering Anthony and Jon to put it on free indie rapid fire.
I should have just made another clone in a weekend. In fact I will, I’ll call it “regular freeware game”. It will have 1 mechanic, low res, procedurally generated content, and take ~15 minutes to finish.
This is gonna be awesome.
So you did the quasi-installer so folks would have to read the EULA? There are other ways around that. The text on the download page or a splash page that pops up the first time the game is played for instance. When it comes to my own computer I’m a control freak. I want to know everything that’s being put on there, so dropping an icon on my desktop without asking me was a huge violation of trust.
You may have a $650 graphics card, but I don’t… well, not on my laptop anyways.
So why are you so interested in running the game at such insane resolutions if all you’re giving folks are shooting circles? That’s the part that looks like flash, not the resolution or the on screen instances. The cost for playing is not worth the pay off. Would a lower resolution/lower visual quality allow the game to run on my laptop? Somehow I expect so. Demanding higher system resources just because you have them is a good way to limit your audience, exposure, and popularity. You’re interest should be getting this game to more people, not less.
Now, about the menu thing, that’s funny to me. You spend so much energy making sure folks read your EULA but didn’t think a bit about making sure they see stuff that’s central to actually playing the game. Me thinks your priorities are a bit askew.
I approve of you’re quicky games at regular intervals. I follow a couple of projects like that, so make sure I get the link. But don’t give up on this game. Like I said, it’s an under-represented genre. I think you need to think harder about perhaps an entire UI overhaul. A game like this with so much going on and the user wearing two hats needs to do something clever for it to play smoothly. No one’s ever figured that out effectively. Play the examples of this genre that I posted in the previous comment, see what they did wrong and try to improve on it. I’d like to see this game properly represented.
Herzog Zwei. That was the other one I was thinking of. Old game for the Genesis. More of an Action/RTS than Action/Tower Defense, but still a classic game and shame on me for not thinking of it.
I wish I could remember that space action/defense game with the unique UI. Now that I’m thinking of it I want to play it again.
Ok I made a super cut down version of my game last night but it sucks. I’ve decided to spend my time re-making drone instead. I did discover something though, the high res is only a small part of the problem. It really is the instance count that is causing problems (and game maker’s general slowness). If I had the same number of instances in a real language I’m sure it would run much much faster.
Yeah the UI is a bit of a mess. I mean, I don’t have a problem with it, but I don’t really care about UI’s (got into a massive discussion with Kristian Mejewski about the UI in Mass Effect a while back on his blog which was pretty funny)
If it works, I’m happy.
But that being said, I have an idea of how to make it better. I’m going to split the resource system into two parts. Experience and mana. The idea is you kill things and gain levels. Each level you get a point. Each point allows you to “learn” either a building or a weapon. The weapon’s ammo and the building’s cost are controlled by mana which passively regenerates.
It already follows this kind of logic (later buildings and weapons are only attainable later in the game), except the option is there for you to make mistakes and you have to micromanage buying things.
Calling the weapons and buildings “spells” and making them follow a tree would remove the micromanagement aspect (and over half the buttons) and allow the player to develop over time. The “spells” you have can be placed in icon form at the bottom of the screen with tooltips (as to remove all the text).
Anyway, I get what you mean about the simplicity of the sprites. The idea was to show what the objects in the game did based off a “lexicon” of symbols. e.g. the cannonbot is a big circle (boss) with a turret on the front (fires cannonballs). You’re supposed to be able to understand what an object does even before it does something just by looking at it.
But I’ve already begun the art for this new version, you can have a look at it here if you’re interested, bare in mind that it’s not even 5% finished.
http://dwwilson.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/screenshot101-1024×640.jpg
I looked up Herzog Zwei. Looks DAMN awesome (the video I watched had the 2 main ships having a skirmish in the middle of the map that was beyond epic). I played Battlezone back in the day and absolutely hated it, I also had a look at The Horde. These games require a mix of tower defence and shooting though (except the horde which is just tower defence) which isn’t really the point of my game. The point is you don’t have to use either if you don’t want to.
Anyway I shouldn’t derail this thread any more. Cheers for the feedback Joe, it’s quite cool having a well known member of the indie community respond to your work.
One other thing, I bet they didn’t go to GDC for the same reason I didn’t. Too expensive.
I like the new look. Definately give the player more for the processor power you’re asking.
Ok I just watched that video I posted.
That audio is awful. Sorry about that.
Ok i’ll leave a voicemail for this later, but for now i’ll say the worst video game franchise is going to be metroid. I’ll explain my reasons possibly tonight or tomorrow cause i’ll be in class and work afterwards
If you pull that one off, you are Phoenix Wright.
I’m excited to hear this.
Ok i just watched this episode and saw how metroid was up there for best game franchise, so i’m not going to pick it as the worst. That would just piss some people off. Now i thought real hard about this and remembered some of the newer james bond video games. I’m not bashing golden eye, i loved it, but anyone who has played tomorrow never dies can understand where i am coming from. When i first played it, it wasn’t like a first person shooter, it reminded me of playing metal gear solid but a lot harder. I died a lot on the first level on the easiest difficulty in this whole game. So then afterwards came the world is not enough. It felt more like goldeneye but then after playing it for a few hours it felt boring to me.
Now i’ve also come up with a second gaming franchise. I think people will understand where i’m coming from again. People may have or may not have heard of two video game reviewers, one being the Irate gamer, the other being the angry nintendo nerd. Both of them reviewed this one particular game. Though the irate gamer view the entire series. That will have to be teenage mutant ninja turtles. So i haven’t played the newer games that are on the playstation 2, and i probably never will. But the very first ninja turtle game for the NES is just absolute garbage. Then the arcade game came out for the NES, that was just horrible. It made the original arcade game a masterpiece. Which was a masterpiece, which is why i downloaded the game on my 360.
So in conclusion, these two gaming franchises are my picks, both series has it major downsides but then comes up with one really good game and then it all goes downhill from there. I’ll leave a voicemail, since i know Anthony doesn’t like Text comments.
Please go ahead and criticize Metroid. I love Metroid, but I am very curious about what you have to say.
I promise I will not lead the angry mob.
I however can not make that promise, and will be taking the role of Edgeworth…
Would like to point out that any mention of a popular franchise is kind of silly when there are series like Big Mutha Truckers around. Fact is just realeasing a somewhat polished actually working game generally disqualifies any game from truly falling into the worst game category.
If your serious “worst game” or “worst game series” is anything with a metacritic score of over 7/10 then you simply haven’t played enough games. Or you’ve only ever played very mainstream games in your life, which is NOT VERY INDIE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617lGZjYyNo
A friend of mine wrote a piece a couple years ago about how Metroid: Zero Mission was one of the worst games ever and caused quite a flame war over it, but overall the discussion was very interesting.
If the topic were “franchises that need to die” rather than “worst series” then I would definitely say Need For Speed or Pokémon YES I SAID IT AND I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK.
Well i was going to say what was on my mind about metroid. Do i love it? yes i do, i hate the NES metroid cause it’s just confusing as hell. I’d have to go look at Gamefaqs.com just to see where i have to fight kraid or ridley.
I have played super metroid, the first time i played this was many many years ago. I have a little cousin who is four years younger than i am. Yeah this was about the time they had super nintendo, so i’d say i was about maybe 10 or even younger. This was where i grew up in my old house. He brings this game over, which indeed was super metroid. Never heard of it before, he couldn’t get past the first area or some crap, i didn’t know how the hell i’m suppose to play this game. Reminded me of super mario except i’m in a battle suit, jumping around, shooting pojectiles at spikey looking creatures that lurk on the ceiling. Sounds farmiliar. Wonder if i’ll ever see this alien looking thing again? Then i die and realize it was a woman. HOLY SHIT THAT’S A GIRL!!! First time i ever got an erection that day lol. Come to see this very same character in super smash bros. The only reason i bought that game was because of mario, pikachu, and link, the others i didn’t know and or care about.
So playing super metroid, i come to the very first boss which was that walking statue, idk the damn name but who cares. I actually beat it, when my little cousin could not. Then after that i was like a little boy trapped in a well and didn’t know where to go or what to look for.
Now i played this 12 years later and kick this games ass.
So this was exactly what i was going to say, since you asked about it. I’m very open minded when it comes to this stuff, i say what i think, and could care less what people think.
So metroid, i was going to say is one of the worst, well do i have to say why again. My full explanation above pretty much sums it up. It’s too hard, even for kids who don’t even know how to shoot on an angle.
I will admit, i’m not saying i hate the metroid series, cause i did enjoy playing metroid fusion, and metroid zero mission. Metroid fusion was pretty straight forward. Not like super metroid where i have to just go wherever and find what lies ahead. It gives me direction, points on the map where i need to go. Seemed a lot easier to me.
And zero mission i’d say was very decent, i thought having to go through that temple without your battle suit was a pain in the damn ass. Though it took me maybe 10 tries but finally made it.
But i’d say when it comes to boss fights, metroid prime 1. Which was the only prime game i played through the whole game was so damn hard. played prime 2 but got bored with it. So i don’t know if it is because of the same repetitive search, search, kill and search for more. Or the fact that i just got lost again. Both reasons i think is why i didn’t see the last two metroid prime games to their full potential.
Other M, which comes out soon, i have yet to decide if i even want to bother with this game. I’m guessing it’s going to be another long 40 hours of my life, finding missiles and bombs and energy tanks. Those 40 hours i won’t ever get back when i could be trying to catch ho oh or lugia on pokemon heartgold and soulsilver.
This is just my opinion, and opinions shouldn’t be taken to heart. The guy mentions that pokemon is the worst franchise. Not going to agree with that, but hey that is his opinion.
Anyone ever watch the secret life of an american teenager? Go to abcfamily.com and just look at the blogs for this TV show. It is an all out war, like omg i want Amy and ricky together or ben and grace together. Here i come by and just tell them……it ain’t happening just to piss um off.
So there you have it. I hope my email isn’t visible otherwise i will have to cancel yet another yahoo account.
“Those 40 hours i won’t ever get back when i could be trying to catch ho oh or lugia on pokemon.”
I just can’t get over feeling like everything was invalidated with that statement. :/
Yeah, because the game you likes is so much better than the game he likes.
Seriously, I like both Metroid and Pokémon, but I can’t take more Pokémon generations. There are enough Pokémon for the whole eternity(they even have a Pokémon god). They need to either change or die. And there is no need for a single new Pokémon. I’m tired of Gyms and Badges and Elites and stuff…
Do you know what I want? I want to play as a Team Rocket (or Rocket-like) member. I want at least something new.
How is it this comment stays at the bottom regardless of what’s posted above it?
Yeah, whats up with that!
Hey man, just thought I’d let you know I managed to optimize the tutorial a bit. Got the CPU usage down by about 50%. It was the strangest thing. It wasn’t just the number of instances, but also the glow around the words in the tutorial. Anyway, this + lowering the resolution from the in game menu would probably make it run on your laptop.
Send us up a link and I’ll be the judge of that. Haha.
I bet Anthony latently just loves text comments, at the end when you transfer information (like when you watch someones video comment) it is all “ones” and “zeros”….
Okay, I WILL play the games this week. D:
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please, cut me some slack bros.
Congrats on the comment yo.
But I have to say, SONIC! I guess I could almost understand how it could be repetitive, though most games like Mario and even (The best series ever made) Megaman could see the same, run sideways and shoot stuffs. But What about Sonic Adventure 1! I mean, sure everyone says that was the beginning of the end of sonic, but the first Adventure game was Soooooo awesome.
But To each his own. Air pressure was pretty awesome too.
First of all, SAN FRAN FTW!
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Yeah, Animal Crossing just got on my nerves recently because the situation I described at the very end of the video is what happened to me recently. Getting your little character to run around town pulling out weeds isn’t fun. It’s just annoying. But for the record, I don’t consider it THE WORST. I just can’t think of the worst. I bet people will be pissed off at me for even suggesting this series…
Awww, it seems like I missed some great games last week. OH WELL. Also, Angry John is hilarious.
ditto here. i couldn’t come up with the worst series – sports series, sims, stupid WWII series. but my mind must’ve blocked my memories of this one. THANK YOU, Headphonic, for bringing this up.
i played Animal Crossing on my NDS for about two weeks and when i quit it i hated it. it’s pointless blah-blah and all the inhabitants jump on you and talk to you like you’re the only person on earth they care of. that’s just creeps me out now.
Never tried it and never will, i agree
You just never felt as if you were actually part of the game. Atleast the Sims offers a wide variety of interaction with other characters. In Animal Crossing, like you mentioned, all the animals just creep you out and talk to you as if you’re the only one there. Not to mention that the walls of the city make you feel imprisoned like some kind of gerbil being experimented on.
I just hated that right when you get there, You have debit.
I mean, I’m a mans man, I wanna go lumberjack some trees and build a house Eeyore style!
And all the NPCs are so useless, with this tiny, sad problems that any decent person would just solve on their own.
And what kinda museum takes crap that I found in my back yard.
A shitty one, thats what.
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Good grief, skipping all over. I run down my reactions to the free indies this week. During Redder I was saying I wonder if the point of the game was seeing how much you’d be willing to put up with a progressively glitchier game to get to the end and the answer for me is “pretty much the same as without them.”
But my pick is Home Sheep Home.
Going text this time since I couldn`t find the usual button to do a audio comment and I dont have a web cam.
Anyways worst video game series of all time would EASILY be the “Bugs Bunny’s Crazy Castle” series. I cant believe this game even made it past the first but it managed to make it upto Number 5. How in the hell is that even possible. Their really damn bad games.
Their so bad that James Rolfe the Angry Video Game Nerd covered them in one of his hilarious videos.
Truelly awful games.
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The Simpson arcade game was an extension of the side-scroller beat ‘em up that had it’s genesis with games like Golden Axe, saw an epoch that started with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade which is when the Simpson one came out and the Simpson’s Arcade was notable in that it was the first of these types of games that allowed you to combine players to do special powered up attacks.
But I agree. Aside from that one shining gem (which was also the plot of the game) Simpson’s games has been a long string of garbage.
By the way, congrats on getting your video comments working again Sanskrit.
That was one of the best comments I’ve seen in awhile.
Hah, I remember that simpsons driving game… Still not that great, just silly…
Seriously, five minute Kirby rant last week. So mad Viddler crashed while saving.
Also, I spaced on this while recording the video, but Need For Speed. What the eff, man. I get the Shift and Nitro were new diversions this year, but that series has been run into the ground. Criterion’s supposedly making the next game, but I’d rather just a new Burnout from them.
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Heh, I said “Redder Redder”.
ok this is officially the week of text comments… it is just scarry to start readign them all.
I would have to agree with the whole 493 pokemon. Though they just keep coming up with legendaries that have to do with elements of the planet. Mewtwo is physic for example. Moltres, articuno, and zapdos are bird of fire ice and lighting. While suicune, entei, and raikou are dogs of those same elements. Lugia the legendary bird of the sea and ho oh the legendary bird of the sun. Groudon legend of the earth element. Kyrogye legend of water. Raquazza legend of wind mostly.
It will just keep going, now we have dialga and palkia, legends of time and space. Darkrai and giratina are pretty much legends of darkness.
I think they are running short on ideas though. Otherwise they wouldn’t have made heartgold and soulsilver. Though those were probably created to occupy our time for the next generation they possibly could be making.
By the way, my father decides to buy this huge Mac computer, it looks like it has a camera ontop. Can it be used to make videos? If so, i will be able to post videos on here for you people now.
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Yes! third time recording, and it saved!
I will try and get allie back, so lonely…
Redder redder redder redder redder redder
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Seems like this comment will have to be another Monday-nighter. :P
Greetings from a drilling rig somewhere in the north sea!! :D
Just discovered there’s a wifi connection here. which is usable but bytejacker.com is blocked through regular browsers. Thankfully i can access through using opera mini on my winmo device. Long story short that’s kinda like accesing the site through a proxy. (one for all you hackers out there :p )
anyways i have ‘read’ all the coments (read being the appropraite word since
A) opera mini can’t stream video
& B) streaming video is a huge no no on these remote offshore sites. )
& judging by what I’m seeing something huge is afoote within bytejacker and I’ll be really looking forward to seeing this when i get back. :D
You missed a dramatic week here Laurence but not as dramatic as drilling in the north sea. Have you found oil yet?
Not so much oil yet. We do still have deeper to drill =/, there is a lot of gas, however that’s mainly ’cause of the large amount of beans that gets served in the galley. :p
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Stealing Sanskrits answer above, couched in a larger discussion about any game that updates it’s stats to keep abreast of real life.
Wait, does that really exist? That 24 hour race thing?
… thats just terrible.
Haha, wow i watched your video joe larson about the 24 hour race. I must say, you make absolute sense and someone like you could be a spokesperson or something like that. People who go around saying that make people like you and me look ten times more intelligent than them. Though this applies for any….and i mean….any kind of video game that ever exists to this day. Exception of the Wii games, sorta kinda. Your controlling mario or luigi in a go kart with a steering wheel but your not actually driving the go kart. I see your point and the whole concept makes me think why i never did buy a racing game. Or even a baseball game for that matter. I was a baseball player since grade school. Would i rather be actually hitting the ball than hitting a single button and making a computerized image of frank thomas hitting the ball out of the park. Yeah the feel and the excitement of my own hands and strength knocking the ball out of that park is more thrilling to me.
Hulu also has Speed Racer. Thats why when i have a kid, I’m replacing all our networks to different shows of Hulu.
OH DAMN THE MIC ON MY NEW LAPTOP IS BAD.
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But yeah, if you’ve never heard of Monuments Of Mars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT55A1EQkXo
Ok so before I start I need you to know that I love you guys, and I really do enjoy the casual gaming news that I can only get at bytejacker =)
Right, now my beef!
I’m not gonna say what I think the worst game series is, I’m not voting for fiw, I just wanted to say that I’ve watched every episode of this web-series, and I wanted to say something when you missed the last GDC, but I was watching it months after it was recorded. So here it is: WTF!! I don’t understand how you can run this show (which I do enjoy) and yet you supposedly can’t remember what day a HUGE convention falls on, or to which AIRPORT you are headed.
As I see it there’s two possibilities:
1.) You know that GDC coverage would be a boon for the show, so even though you couldn’t actually make it this year, you pretended to try for the viewers benefit. If this is true it’s just sad, we arn’t morons just tell us the truth. The whole emo drama is bs. The jokes are great, but we are all here for new indie games, not days of our lives.
2.) You actually are that absent-minded. Which is unfortunately more likely because we all saw the Web 2.0 signs behind you last time. This is even sadder. But don’t get me wrong, ITS IS JUST AS MUCH JONS FAULT if its true. I always double check airline tickets THEY ARE AIRLINE TICKETS…COME ON.
So yea, thats about it.
P.S. To Headphonic- Is there an elusive pack of cute gamer girls? It’s like a crazy cult on some secluded mountain somewhere. A girl that plays starcraft. Are you kidding me!?
FEEDBACK:Dynasty warriors that simple
Yeah sorry for the Monday night lateness.
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I really hated Air Pressure. I had much higher expectations going into it, so it just sort of let me down when I realized that my decisions were basically useless. If a game is going to change your character (just like how your character grows old and dies in Passage), then it’s going to have to make an effect on you. If your character changes, but your mindset remains the same, then all that happens is that you get frustrated. The same thing happened in that one game called Edmund, where you rape that chick. The player didn’t CHOOSE to, it was just forced on you. And you just realize “Hey, I guess this is the only way to advance the game.” So all in all, the effect went to waste. Well….it was wasted on me, at least.
So just got pokemon Soulsilver sunday morning at 9 in the morning. 8 if you include myself turning my clocks ahead one hour. Which is a pain in the ass. I wasn’t going to do it so i could sleep more but whatever. Someone changed my clocks, wasn’t me….
Well i could say, a lot of those games were sold that day. I didn’t really see a lot of kids buying it. This was at gamestop though. A 45 year old fellow bought both games, so i figured hey i’m 22 so i don’t care what others think of me playing this game. I didn’t preorder heartgold. So for no reason i just bought heartgold. Didn’t get the ho oh figure, but got the lugia one.
Ok to the point, to those who have bought either one or both. Try the pokewalker out yet? I used it twice, i must say very handy. I worked both on sunday and monday. So i transfered my starter there twice, it leveled up both times. Caught a bellsprout, machops, spearow, and paras.
So next time my sis decides to run on that treadmill, i’ll have to have her strap both pokewalkers on for me. hehehe.
Hahaha. Awesome! A friend of mine just got Pokemon Heart Gold. I’m going to get it too, once I have the money, but I don’t know which one to get. I’m pretty picky. I might get Soul Silver cause I like lugia better. Who knows. By far, by favorite series ever: Pokemon. Not ashamed to say it. I even brought my old 98′ pokemon cards back to college.
Free indie picks, if it isn’t too late.
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Oh joy, what a flattering thumbnail image for my video.
Oh, mine aren’t much better. :P
@Tom Pease
Yours is the first comment I’ve seen that shows an understanding about what was actually happening in Air Pressure. So, kudos. I think Anthony really let the ball drop on this one though. There were two games this week (Redder and Air Pressure) which were vastly improved if you completed them. Redder has been commented on sufficiently, and that would have been my choice for FIotW. Air Pressure on the other hand got the raw deal this week. It has a deeper meaning than just an emotastic codependent relationship. It took me two endings to really understand what was going on (the “good” ending and then the “bad” ending for me). Once I figured it out, I played another couple of times to get the “medium” ending. Overall the story was very well written and deep, but probably would have seemed like crap if you didn’t understand what was going on.
Just my 2c.
Can’t play any of the games & i’m text commenting my feedback answer for reasons that I’ve already stated.
Now i’ve been an ardent PC gamer for around a decade and a half. and i only own a PS2 in terms of a console and i only own guitar hero for that. I always read reviews from magazines and sites before buying games, ergo i hardly ever fall on a bad title. But with this in mind my vote for worse series has to go to console soccer series FIFA. (although this could extend to console socer games as a whole.)
This is for the following reasons. First of all years of keyboard & mouse gaming have made me totally suck at console sports. And it’s the only game that my friends are willing to play multiplayer with me on (on their consoles). They don’t want to challenge me to a pc game of choice either online or on a LAN. and their gloating makes me feel so small when i get my arse kicked.
And the other thing is they are never up for a REAL LIFE game of football (soccer… natch) any more. I may be in my late 20s now but i’m still as up for a kickabout in the park as i was back at school and it narks me that they’re willing to run rings around me in a virtual game. but not in a real-life game!! GAH!
Never got a chance to get my video in this week, just wanted to say REDDER is definitely my pick of the week. The ending was great. The fact a game with that much backtracking got me to finish it says enough.
As for the QotW, we’ll I’m a programmer so I’ll explain in code:
GameSeries getWorstSeries (GameSeries myFavoriteSeries, GameSeries yourFavoriteSeries) {
if (yourFavoriteSeries != myFavoriteSeries)
return yourFavoriteSeries;
else
return (new GameSeries(“Bubsy”));
}
lol whoops
dwwilson.info/games/drone.exe
or (just for joe)
dwwilson.info/games/drone.zip
;)
No apparent significant different on my laptop. In fact it even seems to be worse. Before I could sputter my way up to the tutorial and jerk motion my way half way around the first curve before getting frustrated, now I can’t even do that. If I press a key it either doesn’t respond or it starts moving and doesn’t stop until it darn well feels like it. Thanks for trying. I think the new style when it’s implemented will be a huge boon for the game.
Has anyone else played this game? Am I the only one with a crappy system that can’t play it?
I voted for REDDER but I think I’m going to feel bad for not voting for air pressure :(
Home Sheep Home’s controls kept cutting out for me and it didn’t look like my cup of tea anyway.