John Harris

@rodneylives

Extended Play: Patreon: Game books: I write for Gamasutra and @ Play. He/his. OUT OF SPA

Brunswick, GA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: listopad 2007.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    16. sij

    Two of my recent books can now be purchased on their own ($5 each): The Atari VCS book: 8-Bit Obituaries:

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    29. sij

    Haven't seen anyone use this as an opportunity to promote these two games, so I'm going to: Wheels of Aurelia, a road trip in Italy during the Years of Lead: Jalopy, explore post-Soviet eastern Europe in a beat up old Laika 601:

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  3. prije 7 sati

    But I can say this much about Time Stalkers: it is an *RPG* for the *Dreamcast*. There are only really two good RPGs in its whole library, Skies of Arcadia and Grandia II. TS falls into its second tier, with Evolution and an obscure Record of Lodoss War game (which I own!)

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  4. prije 7 sati

    I wasn't able to unlock many of those, don't know the criteria, and now don't remember much about them. Maybe I should investigate some more, but I'd have to play through more of those annoying DUNGEONS, urgh.

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  5. prije 7 sati

    I came back a while later and played a bit more, advanced a few characters' ranks a bit more, and found that, sometimes when you finish dungeons with Sword, you get a flashback cutscene that explains a bit more of his backstory. No FAQ seemed to mention those.

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  6. prije 7 sati

    And there might be things about the game I haven't discovered yet. Back when it was new I played through it and got to the ending, but it doesn't explain much about Sword or who he is. Since the dungeon game is pretty uninteresting I dropped it for a while--

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  7. prije 7 sati

    There are some good things about it though. I complained about its story a bit, how it throws together unrelated characters, but the characters themselves, esp your main guy Sword, seem annoyed about it too. And there's some funny writing, better than the game deserves.

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  8. prije 7 sati

    It's got the J-roguelike hunger meter, but no good reason for having it. Dungeons are simple and easy to completely explore. Hunger matters to the game if it forces players to make choices; almost all of Time Stalkers' exploration choices are obvious.

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  9. prije 7 sati

    ["Modal combat" is when the game goes to a separate screen or play style for fighting. There's a combat *mode*, you see. A key roguelike element is that fighting happens in the same play mode as exploration. It's a subtle but important aspect.]

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  10. prije 7 sati

    It was a huge disappointment. It's not very good by roguelike standards either. It feels a lot like they didn't want to bother implementing a non-modal combat system, or didn't understand it, so went right up to the edge of it, then did modal combat anyway.

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  11. prije 7 sati

    A bit more into it-- Back when the Dreamcast was new and seemed like it might have a chance against the Sony juggernaut, I picked up Time Stalkers, knowing it was made by Climax (not the current one, different company), the people who made Landstalker, which was great.

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  12. prije 9 sati

    For the purposes of shooting screens I am playing on an emulator tho. And man, that opening is like five minutes of no-skip. The game makes you WATCH those opening credits and cutscene, how DARE you not care about its stupid crossover plot.

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  13. prije 9 sati

    Next on the old kinda-roguelike cavalcade is Time Stalkers on Dreamcast, a game that, I am sorry to say, I got when it was new, and in fact I still have.

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    who you think is : an entitled bro in Brooklyn who I met today in Iowa: people who are kinda apolitical after being materially hurt by the Democratic Party for so long but would engage again for Bernie I don't agree that it's bad to bring these people back in.

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  15. prije 16 sati

    Last night I played a bit of the PSP, very Nippon Ichi-ish Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger vs Darkdeath Evilman. It definitely has its interesting elements, but I look with trepidation at having to play that Shadowgram minigame to get any kind of decent inventory space.

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    prije 18 sati

    In the last couple of hours she's deteriorated really badly so we're taking her to an emergency vet. It'll cost at least £100, so much as I hate to even ask, if you've loved her pics over the years and have even a spare quid or two, it would mean the world 💖

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    2. velj

    would you let him into your town

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  18. 2. velj

    Important news the world must know at this time 2 in the morning: Markdown is nice.

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  19. 2. velj

    It's just, can't we just talk instead? I kind of have a headache tonight. It's not you movie. Put on another fight scene. No- no, it's not necessary to show me her butt. I've just got some things on my mind, you know?

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  20. 2. velj

    Princess lady, while not a great actor, had fun with her role. She was so gosh-darn gee-whiz energetic with it, it was hard to hate her. Sadly the movie took every opportunity to remove her top. As a guy I am expected to gaze and ogle and forgive any trespass that brings breasts.

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  21. 2. velj

    To get him to help her, the princess/seer at the start had to promise that their adventure would be a tale at *least* as great as Conan's. Slick move movie, name-dropping a better story in yours.

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