LP Update/Comment Thread

[KnoutOut]

metal slug is an epic game. I have the 3rd one myself on an arcade emulator, and it ROCKS! One hour of metal slug contains more action then the entire god of war ascension game. You died a lot, and a lot of these were silly, but when i play i die almost as often, it's just a practice thing, and some things are practically inavoidable like those green orbs in the alien fight that come flying up. Or that stage where you are in a dock with these shooting videocameras, holy shit, it's almost like playing a bullet hell game.
Speaking of, you impressed me at the final stage of the 3rd game, where you fly with the spaceship into the alienship. I don't think i ever managed to get the ship through the first set, but you almost made the second one aswell. I was really thinking "haha, there goes 20 credits again" and was very surprised when you confidently beat the shit out of those aliens. Good job!
Really liked those playthroughs, I'm looking forward to some more throwbacks to arcade classics. Definitly like watching these over those new disaster games (cough bteam coughcoughgowcoughcough).

[IskatuMesk]

well, there's plenty of arcade games and older stuff on my to-do list (including what would be surely impossible games for me to do atm like DDP and gradius).

Yeah I was surprised I was able to get through the shmup stage with minimal rectal trauma. The last boss is supposed to be abused with vehicle invulnerability to get past all the balls and shit.

[IskatuMesk]

Things are really shitty right now with the cat so I don't think I'll be able to do any casting for a while. To think a few weeks ago we were looking good for be finished with it, and right now I have to manage nearly twice as many drugs and am looking at having to dump the very last of my money into surgery... yeah.

Someone asked about the civ5 game on the blog. In short, I haven't finished it. I don't think I will. I didn't find the game very enjoyable once it was obvious the computer AI was barebones, and I haven't really had the time or motivation to sit down for anything longer than a half-hour of messing with sc2's editor.

I really don't know what is going to happen. This year really turned out to be shitty, huh? I always expect to be able to get a lot of work done then x or y happens and nothing else happens. It's April and I'm still dealing with nonsense that started in December. Even if the cat situation turns out OK, by that time the summer heat will be suffocating me again.

Given the total lack of response regarding character models from anything, I am considering Retribution totally dead, as opposed to simply indefinitely dormant. I have no desire to work on the project anymore. I will never, at any point in my life, garner any kind of skill in modeling or in the UDK, so there's absolutely no point in pursuing a totally hopeless goal. I'm almost 27 fucking years old and I'm still staring at the same shit I was in 1999 barely anywhere ahead from that point. I was messing a bit with Starcraft 2, but I'm just as dependent on other people to solve even the most remotely difficult problems, so it's really not going anywhere either. I have regressed since those days. At this stage, if I continue Retribution, it will be because I myself learned how to model characters. Which won't happen.

I will consider what to do with the Retribution dev material, if I want to make it public as it is or just delete it all. There was no demand in the past for dev material and the MGEC series has no viewers, so I think it's just a waste of space right now. It is, however, the only surviving documentation of any of my work in a reasonable form of completion.

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I have decided to make the test demo portion of the dev series entirely public.

http://www.gameproc.com/meskstuff/ret_d ... ttest.html

[nu1x]

Thanks, at least I can learn something. Some of these videos are actually pretty informative.

[ArcCain]

Sucks that Retribution won't happen...

[IskatuMesk]

We FINALLLYY have some good news.

So, we saw the eye specialist today and apparently the eye is doing well and doesn't look too bad. Surgery is not even on the table for this. However, the problem with these superficial ulcers is (as we have discovered) they are incredibly slow to heal. So, the specialist cleaned up and eye and used a dreidel on it oddly enough, to encourage more blood vessels to show up.

So, we managed to dodge an enormous taxi bill AND the total suffocation of the last of my money.

Well, hopefully.

Phew. That is relieving.

Okay, maybe we can think about catching up on some shit soon.

[Jee-Host[gm]]

Nice...

Also - it seems that Fart Souls 2 is out... Are you preparing for that kind of rectal friction again by chance?

[Mucky]

So, the specialist cleaned up and eye and used a dreidel on it oddly enough, to encourage more blood vessels to show up.

wait

used a dreidel on it

what

[IskatuMesk]

Nice...

Also - it seems that Fart Souls 2 is out... Are you preparing for that kind of rectal friction again by chance?

Nope. Honestly, I really doubt I will waste time on any more of that trash. At least not for a long time. Everything I have heard about that game made me reconsider forcing myself through it.

[Jee-Host[gm]]

You know - that's actually a relief in a sense. It's not like there is not enough awful examples to compare games against already in the bag. But anyway - I'm eager to see what the next LP will be, whether it is aforementioned 'the last of us' or something else. Hope you'll recover a bit.

[IskatuMesk]

If I'm going to play a game I know is probably going to be awful, it'd like be Golden Axe. At least then I wouldn't be playing the exact same content I've already played across two other so-called "games".

[IskatuMesk]

A new AWP is available. I go over the events of the last while, we talk a bit about Warframe, and other such discussions are had. Projections for future projects are laid out.

[KnoutOut]

I BELIEVE I FOUND MY NEW FAVOURITE BAND

[ArcCain]

Do to my internet restrictions it takes a while for me to get your full LP's. I just finished Devil May Cry 4 and The Ball. In DMC4 you mention that people don't want you to read up on the lore on items and the like. Personally I love to hear you read lore and comment on it with your critical/comical style.

Also, about Dark Soul's 2. Having played it I can say that you are not missing out on much. It is worse than Dark Soul's and the artificial difficulty is through the roof. "Hard" still equals shit hits hard and breaks your block faster, as well as insane leading. Add to that that they withhold quite a bit of content until you unlock NG+.

It has blatant laziness that you find 5-10 minutes into the game with floating trees, seams, repeating textures, great weapons hovering a few inches over the characters shoulder etc. The story makes no sense and is completely uninspired. Add to that, they blatantly lifted stuff from Demons and Dark Soul's. It is clear that they have already run out of ideas.

[IskatuMesk]

Someone told me about the NG+ stuff and I wasn't sure it was real until you mentioned it now. Bahahahahahaha that is hilarious


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We recorded a new AWP. During that AWP, I mention about how I'm going to the vet, and I expect good news. We got pretty good news, actually. Off all drugs, can take the hood off. We were essentially in the clear.

Half an hour after I get home the cat managed to mangle its eyes even though five minutes previous it was sleeping.

Back to square one!

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Fuck they are making a real GoW4. Now I have to rename my GoW ascension files on the FTP since they won't be accurate anymore. It also means I get to watch this franchise die that much harder. Unless it's on the ps4, which I am not touching for a VERY long time.

/edit

Aforementioned AWP is now up.