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I CAN'T NOT MAKE GAMES.
I have enough lockerspace to hold an episode of Friends.
"We'll make a toast to absent friends and better days,
To remembering and being remembered as brave
And not as a bunch of whining jerks!
Don't lose your nerve.
Do not go straight
You must testify
(or I'm going to come to your house and punch you in the mouth)
cause CLOWNS MUST STAND."
- TW/IFS, "All The World Is A Stage Dive"
I have enough lockerspace to hold an episode of Friends.
"We'll make a toast to absent friends and better days,
To remembering and being remembered as brave
And not as a bunch of whining jerks!
Don't lose your nerve.
Do not go straight
You must testify
(or I'm going to come to your house and punch you in the mouth)
cause CLOWNS MUST STAND."
- TW/IFS, "All The World Is A Stage Dive"
Iron Gaia
As the only human awake on board a space station controlled by an insane AI with delusions of deification, you must unravel the mystery of your own identity and discover: "What is the Iron Gaia?"
As the only human awake on board a space station controlled by an insane AI with delusions of deification, you must unravel the mystery of your own identity and discover: "What is the Iron Gaia?"
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Suzy and freedom Review
So was the music choices, and the cheerfulness of the first minigames. If you play the game not really knowing what it's about, you will not have the slightest cue it's a game about murder until Suzy says "We kill my parents", and that was intentional. Everything changes after that line.
Man, I would have LOVED to see this bait and switch taken way further.
@Suzy:
I'm not a huge fan of labels in general, but I'd definitely have to say that calunio's most recent games have been arthaus. That's a GOOD thing in my book!
The Social Excommunication Fortnight of Biz
Exodus: Stats and Kings
author=slashphoenix
MUST CLIMB NUMBER OF POSTS LADDER
My quest to be the talkiest continues.
HA HA HA HA
your puny postcount is only a fourth of mine...you will NEVER be the talkiest!
author=Craze
i post like twice a month and i'm still #2
liberty you can't ever touch this
at this rate I will overtake you within the next six months.
spoiler:
i don't actually think that's something to be proud of, but it's probably true
so close to overtaking anaryu's #10 spot on the MS top10 I can taste it
White to Black: Downfall of the Hero (Plot Idea)
So...there's a different between doing actions you know to be evil knowingly and consciously because you think it is justified by the ends you are trying to achieve (Sigmus the Fallen, the Deuteragonist/Antihero of my old Iron Gaia series, is an excellent example of this: he knows that the ends he pursues are making him a monster but he believes that they are necessary enough to justify that), and doing actions you know to be evil knowingly just cause like...for fun.
The former totally exists in the real world. I really generally have not thought the latter does for most of my life, but if you've seen my KILLER COPS thread, I'm having my doubts.
The former totally exists in the real world. I really generally have not thought the latter does for most of my life, but if you've seen my KILLER COPS thread, I'm having my doubts.
Carpan
okay suckahs give me yo games
So uh anybody got any science fiction games for me? Especially RPGs. Yellowmagic's Space Game looks like it might scratch that itch but I could go for more, especially ones that are more "pure" science fiction.
Exodus: Stats and Kings
White to Black: Downfall of the Hero (Plot Idea)
Man, something like *most* of my games explore this to one degree or another.
Including my current project.
Including my current project.
Let's Play: Iron Gaia - Part 3
May I ask if you live in Ireland? The way you say the phrase "Where Angels Fear To Tread" specifically at least just sounds amazingly Gaelic. (I'm of Irish descent myself actually.)
To carry on the Random Encounter discussion, I think that the reason that some games DO force random encounters is to make sure that you aren't underleveled when you hit bosses later on. I'm not sure I thought it through that for IG1 but that's a reason that's often bandied about by commercial games.
The way that the early levels of IG1 handle saving and the menu is a fairly authentic and non-artificial if certainly "questionable" way of ramping up the difficulty/tension by making it so you can only heal in battles. This makes you think about healing a lot more strategically. It's trying to keep you on your toes to keep you engaged, that was the idea anyway, but I can see how it might accidentally alienate some people.
Re: the Self Repair issue, it was a balancing feature because a full self heal for 5 Power felt very powerful. I think the failure rate is something like 5% or 10%. It is again just meant to keep you on your toes, and maybe you won't wait until Rover is almost dead to heal him. Nowadays I'd probably just have made it a weaker heal with no failure rate.
Fun side effect of the save "feature": I can like guarantee that everyone who has actually BEATEN Iron Gaia I will NEVER FORGET THE NUMBER 9001. I know I never will. It's like literally 12 years later and I still remember it.
Stasis is pronounced with a long "a" as in Stacy. In case you were still wondering.
"Screw This Guy, I'm Totally Not Jealous" hey you've got it better you're not on the Gaia.
EDIT: Random thought. Armand Carter was about 6 years older than me when I decided his age. He's six years younger than me now. So weird how life happens.
Nanited Status: I honestly don't remember what it does. I think it was like poison plus fucked up your stats?
The save points once you can save anywhere are just to remind people who are less compulsive about saving than you that "hmm maybe I should save now". Also as a "just in case you missed the menu download" type thing.
Glad it didn't crash again this time.
To carry on the Random Encounter discussion, I think that the reason that some games DO force random encounters is to make sure that you aren't underleveled when you hit bosses later on. I'm not sure I thought it through that for IG1 but that's a reason that's often bandied about by commercial games.
The way that the early levels of IG1 handle saving and the menu is a fairly authentic and non-artificial if certainly "questionable" way of ramping up the difficulty/tension by making it so you can only heal in battles. This makes you think about healing a lot more strategically. It's trying to keep you on your toes to keep you engaged, that was the idea anyway, but I can see how it might accidentally alienate some people.
Re: the Self Repair issue, it was a balancing feature because a full self heal for 5 Power felt very powerful. I think the failure rate is something like 5% or 10%. It is again just meant to keep you on your toes, and maybe you won't wait until Rover is almost dead to heal him. Nowadays I'd probably just have made it a weaker heal with no failure rate.
Fun side effect of the save "feature": I can like guarantee that everyone who has actually BEATEN Iron Gaia I will NEVER FORGET THE NUMBER 9001. I know I never will. It's like literally 12 years later and I still remember it.
Stasis is pronounced with a long "a" as in Stacy. In case you were still wondering.
"Screw This Guy, I'm Totally Not Jealous" hey you've got it better you're not on the Gaia.
EDIT: Random thought. Armand Carter was about 6 years older than me when I decided his age. He's six years younger than me now. So weird how life happens.
Nanited Status: I honestly don't remember what it does. I think it was like poison plus fucked up your stats?
The save points once you can save anywhere are just to remind people who are less compulsive about saving than you that "hmm maybe I should save now". Also as a "just in case you missed the menu download" type thing.
Glad it didn't crash again this time.
Let's Play: Iron Gaia - Part 2
Starting 3:30: it's not Sigmus it's Carter I'm sure you know that by now since you're 5 videos deep. Yes I used different facesets for the same characters to try and show different emotions and angles. But the different faces actually came from different characters so yeah...it was a mad strange and awkward choice.
The 'download your menu' thing was an interesting choice that likewise I now find myself scratching my head about. I'm pretty sure it was inspired by MGS2. Iron Gaia's save system is weird. You do get save anywhere once you unlock the menu. Until then you get these portable save terminals that act like combination ink-ribbons and typewriters from Resident Evil. It's fucking weird.
You pronounced opaque correctly.
Armand Carter's date of birth was IIRC 2186 so he's actually 194 years younger than you XD.
Yes Jesus exists this is the real world just far in the future you probably know that by now too.
Iron Gaia is really full of self-conscious self-referential lampshade hanging. It is odd.
STRAIGHT UP MARIO IS ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CAN GET OUT OF THAT STASIS CHAMBER ON NG+
It would be fascinating to see you LP IGV after LPing this. While maybe 20-35% of the problems carry over, overall it's 300-500% better. The amount I learned about game design between '02 and '06 is nuts.
I actually agree with you about random encounters. In IGV all encounters are at least potentially avoidable. All my games since 2008 have had on-touch encounters too.
I have no idea why your proggie crashed at the end, I don't think that was Iron Gaia's fault though.
The 'download your menu' thing was an interesting choice that likewise I now find myself scratching my head about. I'm pretty sure it was inspired by MGS2. Iron Gaia's save system is weird. You do get save anywhere once you unlock the menu. Until then you get these portable save terminals that act like combination ink-ribbons and typewriters from Resident Evil. It's fucking weird.
You pronounced opaque correctly.
Armand Carter's date of birth was IIRC 2186 so he's actually 194 years younger than you XD.
Yes Jesus exists this is the real world just far in the future you probably know that by now too.
Iron Gaia is really full of self-conscious self-referential lampshade hanging. It is odd.
sorry mario but your princess is in another castle
STRAIGHT UP MARIO IS ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CAN GET OUT OF THAT STASIS CHAMBER ON NG+
It would be fascinating to see you LP IGV after LPing this. While maybe 20-35% of the problems carry over, overall it's 300-500% better. The amount I learned about game design between '02 and '06 is nuts.
I actually agree with you about random encounters. In IGV all encounters are at least potentially avoidable. All my games since 2008 have had on-touch encounters too.
I have no idea why your proggie crashed at the end, I don't think that was Iron Gaia's fault though.
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