raocow's talkhaus

Man I know I haven't updated in a few days.

Terraria updated, man.

there was nothing I could do to stop it.

http://i.imgur.com/rtbar.png Let's head to the East, like we said we would. (Notice the difference in color? Hell of a lot better) http://i.imgur.com/1nbXW.png When we get there, we see the Dragos that Sualc was talking about. Turns out they're actual ****ing dinosaurs. They're friendly though, so ...

NOTE: The images are initially dark because I'm dumb and didn't put the emulator on Truecolor. This is fixed next update! Mother 3: Episode 1 - Defining a Family http://i.imgur.com/qPPGP.png Why hello. Once you start up the game it thrusts you right into the naming sequence. Here we meet our family...

I tend to enjoy the Mario hack more, but that's mostly because they're consistent. The B side can either be hells of a lot better, (An Untitled Story) or kind of a bore. (MariAri, Nitroid) Of course, this is all subjective, but I find the Mario hacks are funner to watch just to see what wacky thing ...

http://i.imgur.com/1I0IX.png Mother 3? What the dick is that? Mother 3, released in 2006, is the sequel to Mother 2, which all you in the Western World might know as Earthbound. Unfortunately, Mother 3 was never officially translated and released in the West, due both to Earthbound's relatively poo...

Over, Under, Repeat is just another example of the game forcing guesswork and luck. The best way to use podoboos are to set up a system where the player would know where they are. Maybe a coin, maybe a grate in the floor, something. As long as it's consistent and the player knows what to expect when...

AUS wrote:But there's a cape there!

There's an easier cape to get near the beginning of the game, in a level called... Vertical Climb? Ascension? Something like that, it's the third level. It has a cape in a ? box near the beginning if you have the yellow switch pressed, which raocow does.

I think it's more that people are interpreting using a meme as a substitute for humor. To an extent, it is. Memes that are played out are only funny to people who think they're in some elite club who "get the joke." The use of LAZORS and the appropriately black face shooting and/or chargin...

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic single-handedly bought raocow tomorrow's newspaper.

Good job.

raocow wrote:

Paralars wrote:The orby shenanigans gave me the idea of having an atxs level where you have to hold up orbit to prevent him from eating you.

you have 4 days

Don't listen to him

You have all the time

To make an entire hack with every level having this gimmick

Call it A3MT

Orby Shenanigans reminded me a lot of the kind of gimmick that the Wario Land games would have, specifically Wario Land 4. It was a pretty good level and didn't overstay it's welcome, which is very good for this game! Still Underground was just that, another underground level. And strangely enough, ...

raocow I didn't know you were Japanese at all!

What else have you been hiding from us, you scamp!

Oh lord.

I can smell the already.

Also game overs remove the midpoint, so there's that. Well, it's not like it's hard to go farm lives. It's one of the reasons why I play by plonking a savestate at the beginning of every level. I enjoy the philosophy that games like Super Meat Boy take, that when you die, the game wastes zero time ...

Yeah, spaces between levels, going to the map screen and such, seems like a nice (sometimes much needed) break. Having a level like Kinda Sorta Think in which there is no break shatters the natural stride the player takes, jettisoning them into a marathon that they definitely didn't sign up for. Eve...

I'm surprised that, while pointing out things you liked, you specifically mention Kinda Sorta Think, which is probably the worst level in the game for a number of reasons. The puzzle is okay, in fact, it's very clever, making you switch between your flower and cape at the end is something you don't ...

Are the Letters/Numbers being added up through each "Folder Video" Going to group up into the password to the final folder? Not exactly, what it does is Between Worlds 7 and 8, there is a level called "Crossing Over" or something like that. Pretty hard Hell based level, but that...

Alex wrote:

Sebby19 wrote:stupid horse.

There wasn't a Yoshi in that level, though.

There was some strange species of dinosaur though. It's easy to get these things confused.

Man I almost forgot about the whole process you need to go through to get a Yoshi. It doesn't get any easier either, unless I've missed something, and I've hit every exit up to around the beginning of World 8 so far. It really is stupid to have to require a Yoshi, then to have the player go to oddly...

I don't think it's so much his "style" as much as it is "things that could be easily ironed out". Cypher could easily release a Mario Gives Up v1.1 with a few fixes and tweaks, (Nix the entire second half of Kinda Sorta Think for one) and it'd probably be a great game. This entir...

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard Welcome to the majority of Mario Gives Up 2, would you like me to lead you to your table I like the new guy. I was actually in the Talkhaus scene when it opened up way back when but I'm just coming back now under a username that I actually use places and n...

Argumentable wrote:That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard

Welcome to the majority of Mario Gives Up 2, would you like me to lead you to your table

Especially because the secret exit is literally required to beat the game. You need that password. Based on the fact that it seems to be using dice, I'm pretty sure you could skip one of the Land of the Dead levels and just brute force it. Only six combinations. Ah, but the catch is At the last roo...

Well there's obviously a bit of hyperbole going on, but it was overall a poor level. Good concept, generally good level layout, but hiding the midpoint away in a place that forces you to re-do the level in its entirety is one of the worst design choices you can make. Edit: Especially because the sec...

Again, the game is plagued with poor design decisions. I enjoyed the ponies level because I'm one of those guys. Though I suppose I should clarify that I liked the concept. It reminded me of the Boo races in the GBC port of Mario 1, and it was pretty cool. What wasn't cool was the fact that the midp...