raocow's talkhaus

kitikami wrote: ↑3 years ago Sonic Adventure is probably near the end of any list of games i'd expect to have inspired Shadow of the Colossus, but that's pretty much what that snake thing was.

Welp, turns out Shadow of the Colossus was just a Sonic Adventure(s) remake all along.

The PS2 causing an international ruckus because politicians thought it was a supercomputer is kind of hilarious and probably a sign Sony's marketing worked a little too well, though apparently people did actually make supercomputers out of PS3s by wiring 100s of them together because it was cheaper ...

Mr/Madame President is how people address the president in the U.S. It deliberately sounds generic since the early political leaders were adamant about not having titles of nobility and wanted a humble title to contrast with European monarchs (some did want a more elegant title, but they were overru...

I vote to leave the rest of World 1 for the postgame.

Thanks SirChasm for running this. Even after watching raocow play it, i would have never guessed #8 was a Mega Man track. I really like #30, not surprised to find out it's Yoko Kanno. Napple Tale looks really cool in general, i'll have to check it out. And speaking of Cowboy Bebop's soundtrack, the ...

I was not expecting a VIP to start off with a Kawabata reference. It almost ended with one too, but only in the English translation (Kawabata's book The Old Capital and that Detective Conan movie don't have similar titles in Japanese).

I think raocow probably wouldn't have gotten as snippy with Omochao if he'd been dying from his strategy leaving him vulnerable to the boss rather than leaving him vulnerable to clipping through the floor. ***** There are schools in the U.S. that use an alternative grading scale where E is the top g...

I just assumed Sonic was arrested for something unrelated to Shadow or the chaos emeralds and probably related to the casual disregard for human life or consequence of any sort he displayed while tearing through the city during his escape.

If i had played this game as a kid, i almost certainly would have just "won" the game by deliberately game overing with Robotnik as fast as possible, and i feel like this should be a valid speedrun category.

This was great as always. In addition to all the cool new quirks to Savant gameplay, Lymia added a fresh dynamic to his story, and her twist at the end was amazing. In general, the writing in this game does a good job at never feeling intrusive and just adding to the atmosphere of everything else th...

This reminds me of when Horikawa jumped straight into hard mode of Nier Automata for a blind LP and spent several videos stuck in the prologue. If raocow has to abandon for health reasons i'm going to guess he was attempting to film himself running a marathon. Although i secretly hoped that the myst...

If he were really dumb then he'd just be an idiot Savant. The real danger with that name is winding up being competent but unremarkable.

Aimbot is so good. It's nice to see it get some heavy usage again after a long hiatus. And the fact that Zodiac Laser pretty much just ignores its surroundings to do its own thing is part of what makes it such an amusing and whimsical choice, but also that room with all the barriers does a great job...

I'm sorry if you are going to voice sonic, you need to be naked other than shoes and glove and paint yourself blue. that's just how it goes. That's discriminatory against never-nude actors https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNAe_N7X4AE0Yj_.jpg Seriously though who was he even picturing that looked like an...

My best guess for the lily pad game being called Over the Rainbow is Kermit the Frog sings about rainbows i guess? I don't know, but Kermit would probably make a good Sonic character. Some of these mini-games seem to be hampered by wonky hitboxes, which is probably hard to avoid when you have to pro...

Void not actually being a villain makes it a little more palatable that Sonic and company kept conspiring with him throughout the game, except that they totally thought he was a heinous villain when they started hiring him to sabotage each other. In the mini-games where you use Robotnik's machines t...

It's fascinating to get today's episode from the perspective of the Cybers. Like how getting hit with Zodiac Laser is pretty much instant destruction from our end, but a Cyber who gets caught in it experiences those final few moments as being trapped in an endless board game for eternity. It makes m...

I've actually come around to the opinion that this is raocow's most innovative LP. The "Let's" in "Let's Play" indicates the genre's collaborative origins, but there is still a clear distinction between the player and the audience. While the player and the audience may interact t...

Savant has now surpassed Garry Kasparov by defeating a computer program at chess.

This feels like a game that was developed as a non-Sonic IP and then had Sonic characters superimposed on the final product at the last minute (even though i'm pretty sure that isn't the case). Especially when Robotnik just shows up out of nowhere.

Savant's affinity for penguins just makes him that much more relatable

After raocow said he was actively dreading playing this, i was optimistic seeing the video was over an hour because i thought that meant he powered through the whole game to get it out of the way. I miss that naivete now.

This has to be the record for longest collective video time in one day for raocow's LPs, right?

What if raocow just got hit the first time he found a fire flower and when he picked it up it just turned him big again so it became permanently ingrained in him from that point that that was all it did

This might be the closest thing raocow has done to LPing an official Touhou game of all things. Even just watching it managed to recreate the feeling of getting a 1cc for the first time with the whole process of building up lives through the first half and trying to make them last, and especially th...