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| Root | Jul 2 2009, 01:00 PM Post #11 |
The Speaker for the Dead
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I honestly wonder what happens if you tell the person you can't join the party in some games? Usually it's a "yes" either way but still. Just food for thought. |
Does being the only sane one make me the insane one, in a sort of way? Though my eyes could see, I was still a blind man; Though my mind could think, I still was a madman... "Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run...there's still time to change the road you're on" | |
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| Jeff | Jul 4 2009, 04:24 PM Post #12 |
Lord of Pie & BBWs
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Welcome, again, to Legend of Legaia: The Game That Refused to be Let's Played. More on that in a second. Down at Drake Castle, the King awaits to talk to you. He takes you to the throne room and points out that though Fish and Angela have different tasks (rescuing Maya/finding parents, respectively) that both goals are quite possibly done by annihilating the Mist. Fish agrees that the conclusion is reasonable and will accompany Angela as they go. Don't get the wrong idea, though, Fish wants Mei - the green-haired chick - to be his honey... Before we leave, in the room to the left of the throne room is a very handy item we'll want to nab.  The Platinum Card! This little baby opens up otherwise inaccessible items at certain vendors across the world, giving you quicker access to superior items and accessories or access to items that are otherwise simply inaccessible. Basically, it's the King's Costco card.  Outside, we find the shops and inn have all opened up (the inn being completely pointless as the recovery room to the right of the throne room is free and readily available even with the Mist being gone) and Angela, still thinking that humans are worth giving a shit over, rushes out to talk to them all. She gives you some fairly amusing prompts about what money is or what an inn is for, then a little quiz that can net you 10 healing shrooms for an A+ in remembering useless details and process of elimination but you can still do worse than free stuff. You can also nab some stuff for Angie here, but before we head to the dam, there's one thing we can go back to Rim Elm and nab apart from an amusing cutscene between Mei and Angela.  The Point Card! This card is unique in that every time you make a purchase with this bad boy in your inventory, 5% of the cost is converted into "points" and slapped down on it. You can accumulate an insane number of them (5 or 6 digits worth) and you can "cash in" on the points in battles, dealing damage up to 9999 HP per use. In short, it's like a "Gold Rewards Card" except instead of frequent flier miles, it eat the souls of demons. Which is cool too.  Next, head to the dam and shut the water flow off. Screw local agriculture! We have a world to save! Next, head across the dry riverbed and make your way to what appears to be a smaller dam down the way, a short walk north of Rim Elm.  As it turns out, it's a Biron Monastery. If Buddhism were cooler and involved more badass one-liners and fewer sermons on why grass has feelings too, it'd be Biron.  Inside, you meet the Head Master of the area (which is still engulfed in the Mist, in spite of your best efforts...), the Master Teacher, in blue, and the resident douche in red.  You also meet Maya, Mei's mama, (Meh, mehmehmeh?) before you're told that Biron, celebrating its first visitors in a decade, will be throwing you a party in spite of the fact you have a type of Seru on your arms (which apparently goes against Biron's vaguely-defined religious terms). At the party, Maya angsts some.  Maya: I can't go back! Fish: Your daughter's all alone since your husband bit the big one due to the Mist monsters and I left without telling her jack like the inconsiderate prick that I am. Maya: But... but they NEED me here! Fish: Aren't women banned by Biron's vaguely-defined religious terms. Maya: Well, yes, but... Fish: I can walk you back and-- Maya: I WALLOW IN GENERIC WOMAN-FEELINGS! *Flees* Fish: Damn it!   Go west, young Fish! (This is a "but thou must" prompt. Songi, the guy in red from before, thinks you're doing something weird by picking the Genesis Tree further away from the Mist if you go east and opts to go that way no matter what you say, forcing you to the west).  Songi: I SMOLDER WITH GENERIC MANCHILD RAGE! The old fart gives you all his blessing and Songi sets off to the east and Mastah Teachah joins the crew.  Master Teacher:  Well, this choice is just obvious!  Now we set off!  This scene has no innuendo in it. None. In the West Voz Forest, you can encounter more Vera monsters and a new Seru called [Dark] Nighto. Copying it gives you the useless spell that  It does, however, cause the emulator to go into seizures and slowly rotate the camera around the caster in some bizarre form of psychological warfare. It's like the video game version of Chinese water torture. Ehh... is it gonna go? Is it going to keep very slowly spinning around again? Eh... DO SOMETHING!!!  Well it FINALLY decided to let me move along 'til the next obstacle in the road - a river.  Gavin explains briefly that Bridge Grass is an uncommon, inedible plant that grows to enormous size and has considerable strength - allowing people to even walk across large gorges, let alone tiny rivers. If you found it along the way (and you should have) Angela suggests using the Fertilizer item on it.  Doing so makes it span across the river...  And then we can... ... *ahem* And THEN we can... ... Hey, what the hell? Why can't I move? ... REM DAMN IT!!! THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR STEALING THE ANOREXIC CHICK'S COPY OF THE GAME DISC!!! Okay, here's the deal: on my PSOne or PS2, I've never once encountered a problem with running the game from start to finish. In emulator form, doing anything more complex than just having Fish punch with one arm over and over again will cause the emulator to grind to a near-halt as it cries, screams, slits its wrists and writes mean things about me in its livejournal account. Unless I mute the sound, then even using Vera or Gimard in battle makes it crawl to about 50% efficiency. And these are issues I was willing to live with. Certain scripted events, when emulated, become game-breaking bugs. I did a little research on-line and found one endgame-segment FMV will stop all progress until you - get this - convert your memory card file to a PAL (European) format! Why? I don't know. I've long since ceased caring. As soon as I left Rim Elm, I've encountered problem after issue after glitch after random 120 seconds of Zeto-pelvic-thrusting, and I've had enough. Legaia 1? Awesome game... if played in an actual PlayStation! Emulation? Even with a legit copy of the game? Screw it to hell. You won't make it to the first Mist Generator dungeon before it all goes to Hell. I really tried, seriously and truly, to make it through the WORK ERROR3's, the pelvic thrusting, the loopy animation, the inexplicable amount of lagtime between using Gimard or Nighto's summons, but I cannot go on any further. I've completed the game from start to finish and even beat the optional hardest-in-the-game boss battle on my original file. I even ran a new file on there to see if maybe it was my game disc, but I completed the West Voz (and East Voz, the immediate follow-up) Forest scenarios without so much as a hiccup along the way. Legaia is just un-LP-able and for my not researching these innumerable errors and issues sooner, I apologize. I'll make it up to you all, somehow or the other. Poor Fish, Angela and Gavin...  Oh, friends, what have they done to you? Your fight is over and it's back to the LP Options Vote Prompt for me. Rest well, friends, we'll meet again soon enough... *Sniff* Well... everyone, please bear with me as I shift gears to Monster Rancher 2. I know there was some contention concerning the other options being of the same franchises as previous LPs, but I assure you there's a world of unexplored content in both - just believe me. In the future, I'm gonna diversify the voting options and console choices and see what I can do with each. Peace. |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Root | Jul 5 2009, 11:52 AM Post #13 |
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The Speaker for the Dead
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Meh. It was a valiant attempt at least. And I did chuckle at "Rem damn it" lulz. |
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Does being the only sane one make me the insane one, in a sort of way? Though my eyes could see, I was still a blind man; Though my mind could think, I still was a madman... "Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run...there's still time to change the road you're on" | |
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| Jeff | Jul 5 2009, 12:09 PM Post #14 |
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Lord of Pie & BBWs
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Some time after Monster Rancher 1's initial release (one year in Japan, two years for us in the USA), TECMO decided to expand its ranching franchise (which had considerable acclaim in its home nation) with a sequel titled simply: Monster Rancher 2. The game shared a lot of elements from the first game and is the caliber that later games often tend to be compared to by the fans. MR2 expanded elements the first game only dabbled in, removed an easy-to-exploit element that made MR1 insultingly simply assuming you knew of it, added over a dozen new breeds to the monster list and generally raised the game's difficulty a bit over the first's. There's a lot of trivia and lore surrounding the game. First and foremost, the game Europe and Australia got for their PlayStations called "Monster Rancher" was actually the second game of the franchise. This has caused a small bit of confusion for new fans to the franchise from the PAL regions. Also, due to the games' use of the Q-Code on discs (more on this later), the CD lists for the European/Australian games are different from the American and different still from the Japanese versions of the game. Monster Rancher 2 also has the acclaim of being a part of one of the oddest heists in the history of theft. An Amazon.com warehouse was broken into sometime in 1999 and several hundred copies of the game were stolen (I can't find the exact number. I'll update accordingly if I do find it eventually). MR2 was also supposed to be compatible with the PocketStation - an accessory that plugged into the console's Memory Card slot that had minigames, could tell time, etc. However, the PocketStation was a disaster - costing roughly 50 American dollars and a failure rate of about 90%. As a result, Sony quietly capped the project and never allowed it outside of Japan. So items marked as "DNA Capsule" type exist in the game data, but remain virtually unobtainable without a GameShark or similar device. The game also is the only one of the franchise (arguably) to contain backwards compatibility with a process known as "Slating" which allows access to monster breeds frozen in the lab of save data from Monster Rancher 1 to be birthed as a baby monster in the sequel. The few monsters removed from MR1's library in the second (Disc and Magic, mostly) would be converted into new monsters (Niton and Bajarl, respectively). So! That's enough trivia and details. On with the mandatory intro sequence!  And so a new story unfolds that will hopefully be less fail-tastic.  Hello strange person who we never again see in the game!   Name and gender, huh? Well, I can't be bothered to deal with such minute details, as I have backstory to write. Get to contributing. Gender will be determined via vote, name will be best of the suggested names. Thanks! |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Root | Jul 5 2009, 03:04 PM Post #15 |
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I say you name him/her.... ...name 'em Toast. |
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Does being the only sane one make me the insane one, in a sort of way? Though my eyes could see, I was still a blind man; Though my mind could think, I still was a madman... "Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run...there's still time to change the road you're on" | |
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| Rem | Jul 6 2009, 10:48 AM Post #16 |
Why yes, I do like snickerdoodles.
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Toasters toast toast. Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. ...I like Toast. Edited by Rem, Jul 6 2009, 10:48 AM.
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| Cog-Sean | Jul 6 2009, 12:04 PM Post #17 |
Doctor Seanafunkilus's musterion of Rock
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oh how I know this game all to well lol, sorry about your Legend of Legaia file, It's interesting that error occurred, my emulator has not had any problems and it's been running games like parasite eve which I would have to say is a bit harder on the graphics then Legend of Legaia and it has been working fine... name him Zappa Edited by Cog-Sean, Jul 6 2009, 12:05 PM.
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"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." | |
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| Jeff | Jul 6 2009, 12:45 PM Post #18 |
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Lord of Pie & BBWs
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Thanks for the input, every peoples, but I'm ready to begin as soon as I finish up a few other things first. The results are: The main character will be a male. Also, point of interest, the graphics may have slowed my processor (or maybe my graphics card, neither is the greatest in the world) but the graphics themselves are not the cause of any of the major problems the emulation suffers from. Rather, they stem some kind of weird error in the game's programming or something that makes it highly, highly unstable while being emulated, even straight from the game disc. Go fig *shrug*. And thus our story begins...  ???: See that guy there? With the paper in his hand like a schmuck? That was me a long time ago. Jeff: Hey, wait, you can't narrate! You're a-- ???: Character within the story. Yeah, I know. Hasn't stopped anyone else thus far, has it? Jeff: ... ???: That's what I thought. ANYWAYS!!! That was me... dealing with a very powerful loan shark/mob boss. I had attempted a few business ventures that didn't go very well and I was now being confronted by my "business partner" about my inability to repay the loans... Jeff: You tried to raise a legion of lobsters to take over France. You had it coming. ???: STFU!  Man: So, as you can see, it's about time you at least considered paying... interest. Past ???: Yeeeeeah. About that... I, uhh, can probably get you it by next week, I bet. Man: Heh heh. Which means you have no money. Past ???: Err... Man: Which means we'll need to "extract" it from you. SEND OUT THE GOLEMS! Past ???: GOLEMS?!  Past ???: OH MY REEEEEEEEEEEEM!!! ???: I ran. What would any of you schmucks have done? Well, I ran and I ran and I ran, hearing the thudding feet of the massive rock creatures after me. I had no idea who or what they were - I'd never seen anything like them before! I just had to run was all... Unfortunately, along the way I ran into plenty of other problems.  ???: I had stirred up a nest of very angry bees! Jeff: Bees! My God! ???: ... Well, to avoid their pursuit I hurled myself into a nearby river. I hadn't noticed it before, but I wasn't going to complain if it saved me! Unfortunately...  ???: There was a waterfall. Past ???: WHAT?! I DON'T REMEMBER THAT BEING HEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee...  ???: My clothes largely destroyed, my pride torn asunder, my very perception of reality turned upside-down and thrown off a cliff (literally), I found myself near-dead at the base of the falls, with barely enough strength to deliver one final sentiment to the world. Past ???: Fuck you all. Seriously. Jeff: And yet you're alive to tell the story? ???: I'm getting to that part!!! Anyways, I was survived by some passersby and brought to a hospital. A few weeks later, I was back up on my feet, but something changed. I was suddenly acutely aware of a bigger world... beyond... the 4th wall! Unfortunately, this awoke me to the painful realization that I may be, in fact, fictional. But that's fine, because I was alive, somehow, and now exalted to a new plane of existence. Sort of. I then found I was, like, 1000 years in the past in some kind of alternate world. Must've happened when I was running from the golems, but you can't hunt down and kill a fella for a contract that won't be signed for 1000 years! HAH!!! Jeff: Great to see you have your priorities straightened out.  ???: So, with a new outfit in tow, and (unfortunately) many, many girls telling me how pretty my hair was, I managed to obtain a new outfit and set off. Along the way, I overheard people talking about people making a killing in "Monster Battles". Intrigued, I went to the International Monster Association - IMa - Building. Which is when the lady handed me the forms to fill out. That's where I am now.  Toast: TOAST IS A MAN'S NAME! AND I AM A MAN!!! Lady: Your name is Toast T. Zappa? Are you related to-- Toast: NO! Lady: I was just asking... Toast: Yeah? Well, don't. I get asked that a lot and it pisses me off.  Lady: We need you to fill out a 10-question survey to determine the kind of person you are. Toast: That's easy. The lazy kind. Jeff, you do it. Jeff: Up yours, Toast-boy. Toast: Damn it!  Toast: I like it cold.  Toast: Going over a waterfall that throws you through time and space can do that to you.  Toast: Apart from me? No. But I am pretty awesome.  Toast: HELL NAW!!! RESULTS, BITCH! Make 'em happen!  Toast: That's a really weird question. Jeff: Especially as none of them actually influence anything in the game... Toast: Did you say something? Jeff: Hm? No.  Toast: Sure! I can totally forget about who I owe stuff to over night! Just like that! BAM! Gone!  Toast: HELL NAW! The ladies lurve the Toast-Man! Jeff: Toast-Man? Toast: ONLY THE TOAST-MAN MAY REFER TO HIMSELF AS THE TOAST-MAN!  Toast: Uhh... no. I'm going to keep surviving, thanks. And Operation: Lobster Normandy SHALL SUCCEED! Jeff: *Sigh*  Toast: YES! Like DEBTS! Debts should totally be let go of! Jeff: You're hopeless.  Toast: Hey, if it's worth doing, it's worth doing. LIKE LOBSTERS CONQUERING FRANCE! IS THAT SO WRONG?! Jeff: *Facepalm*  Toast: So... there's like, no screening process or anything? Any idiot can just waltz on in here and become a rancher? Jeff: Mm... I guess so.  Toast: Uhh... yeah. Man: We did a little research and we found your perfect ranching partner! Toast: Is it female? Man: Well... yes. Toast: Is it hawt? Man: What? Jeff: Idiot! Toast: WHAT?!  Toast: Damn. Loli-tastic. Jeff: Take a close look at the date... Toast: March 24th? ... SHE HASN'T EVEN BEEN CERTIFIED FOR 10 DAYS AND YER FOISTING HER OFF ON ME?! Is this your idea of a joke?! Man: Well... we make no discrimination between experienced assistants and rookies... it was luck of the draw and your personality exam! Toast: *Sigh*.  Jeff: ALIENS AND MONSTERS ARE ATTACKIN UR PLACE! Toast: Shut up! Just shut up!!!   Colt: By the way... your name is Toast T. Zappa? Are you-- Toast: NO, DAMN IT!!! Colt: I was just asking! Toast: Look, my last name may be uncommon but that doesn't mean I'm related to ANYONE else who happens to share the same name! I didn't ask if you were related to Mr. Ed, COLT Colt: Sorry... sheesh!  Toast: Oh God, why didn't the bees kill me, why? Jeff: Too easy, I guess. Man: Good luck! Toast: At least he's gone now...   Toast: Huh? Jeff: English is her second language. Be nice.  Toast: Oh. She's asking if I want to ask anything about it... but what's there to know? Get strong monster, beat everyone else's monster up, profit! Jeff: Well, it wouldn't hurt to review a little-- Toast: Meh. You'll help me out, won't you? Jeff: ... Sure, why not?  Toast: Find? You mean I have to go out, club one and throw a little capsule at it? Jeff: Nah. It's way easier than that. Not to mention more fun.  Toast: This is all the places we can go, huh? Jeff: Mm-hmm. Market allows you to get monsters, or sell old ones. Toast: Sell, eh?! Jeff: But not for much money. Toast: Oh. Jeff: Shrine lets me plop a disc in and make a monster based on it. Toast: That's pretty cool, I guess. Jeff: We don't have access to all of them right away, but... meh, you'll figure it out. Lab lets us freeze, defrost and fuse monsters. Ranch takes you to your ranch. It's pretty basic. Toast: Right. So, what's File do? Jeff: That's data stuff. Leave that to me. Let's go to the market first.  Toast: Whoa. Who's she?!  Toast: Note to self: Get into Wyola's pants. Jeff: You're in an era completely unknown to you, in a history not your own, in a setting you're not liable to survive in and all you can think of is getting a date? Toast: It's like looking in a mirror, isn't it? Jeff: ... Touche.  Toast: Kick-ass! Free?! Jeff: Yup. Toast: Which ones?!  Toast: ... What's the spring seasonal?  Toast: I'm suddenly a lot less enthused about the market. Jeff: Suck it up. Let's hit the shrine.   Toast: How's this work, anyways? Jeff: Like I said - I plop in a new CD of basically any type and, presto! Monster. Toast: How does THAT work? Jeff: Well, the game reads the Q-Line on a disc, which is-- Toast: Y'know what? Never mind. Let's go to the Lab.  Jeff: He's staring at you kind of funny. Must be the flowing locks. Toast: ... *Cough*.  Toast: And I'm outta here! Colt: H-hey! Stop tugging on my arm! Ahh!! Jeff: So, how do you wanna do this? Toast: The market monsters suck! Jeff: They're not bad... Toast: I'd rather you pick some CDs and let the peepz vote for 'em. Jeff: Okay. Let's see... how about: Toby Keith's Greatest Hits 2 Weird Al's Food Album and DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm Toast: Okay, cool. But you said a disc might be sealed what if one doesn't work? Jeff: I'll just go down the rankings in the vote until I get one that works. Toast: Great! See you all next time! Jeff: That's MY line! Edited by Jeff, Jul 6 2009, 04:44 PM.
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Root | Jul 7 2009, 09:18 AM Post #19 |
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Weird Al's Food Album. If you're going to do something, at least make it funny. Oh, and you're doing it wrong. It's: "I ran, so far away. I just ran, .... but I couldn't get away" Sheesh. |
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Does being the only sane one make me the insane one, in a sort of way? Though my eyes could see, I was still a blind man; Though my mind could think, I still was a madman... "Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run...there's still time to change the road you're on" | |
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| Rem | Jul 7 2009, 11:29 AM Post #20 |
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Why yes, I do like snickerdoodles.
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I AM GOD. Also, Toast-man should cut his hair. He's going to have creepy buff guys staring at him. Because he looks like a girl. |
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