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| Jeff Plays What YOU Pick 5!; EarthBound: War Against Giygas! | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 03:45 PM (723 Views) | |
| Jeff | Sep 7 2009, 03:45 PM Post #1 |
Destroyer of Worlds
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Welcome one and all! I have hit a crossroads and once again need your help to decide what game's next! Option 1)  JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Playstation) A quirky fighter game that plays similarly to Street Fighter 2. The LP would focus (for obvious reasons) more so on story with brief details concerning the fights. Option 2)  EarthBound (SNES) The funny, curious RPG game about a boy, psychic powers, evil aliens and pop culture references. It even has a guy named Jeff in it! Option 3)  Final Fantasy 3 (SNES) What is this blasphemy, you might ask?! Why, it's my willingness to pick up my first (and currently defunct) LP and run with it once more from where I left (approaching the Empire's Capital) to the end. However, I'd be using the SNES version for three reasons - to avoid the weird-ass glitch from last time, better cap quality and a better translation. First to Let the games begin, as it were! Edited by Jeff, Sep 9 2009, 12:11 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 | Sep 7 2009, 03:47 PM Post #2 |
The Speaker for the Dead
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I say finish up your Final Fantasy LP. That was funny, and I want to see the end for the lulz. |
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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| Sean | Sep 7 2009, 09:35 PM Post #3 |
The ⑥of Four Against Nature
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I say Earthbound, if only because that it's still one of my favorite games of all time. |
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| Dietaku | Sep 8 2009, 10:28 AM Post #4 |
Grade A /B/tard
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JOJO. That series needs more love |
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| Rem | Sep 8 2009, 08:32 PM Post #5 |
Why yes, I do like snickerdoodles.
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Earthbound! I like that game. |
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| Jeff | Sep 9 2009, 12:10 PM Post #6 |
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And the winner is: Released stateside in June 1995 as EarthBound, the game was actually the second in what would eventually become a trilogy, each successive sequel roughly a decade after the previous game. The first game, Mother, was so similar to the second that some people mistook it for a prototype when a leaked NES ROM of the first game got to America. Featuring similar characters, settings and scenarios, the mistake was understandable up until later portions of the game, where it was, indeed, the first part of the story. More on that when the relevant time comes. And we ALL know how I felt about Mother 3, so that's as far as I'll go that way on the timeline. Originally Mother 2: Giegue Strikes Back, EarthBound debuted in the states as EarthBound: The War Against Giygas. The American version changed some minor things, including severed the implied ties with the first game since it never saw an official release and, in the long run, wasn't that significant anyways. It also came in an over-sized box because it came with a full-sized Official Player's Guide as its instruction manual. The game was a critical success, but a commercial failure, though Ness has been a recurring character in the multi-game cross over franchise Super Smash Brothers. The game was also significant in a unique way - Cog and I both used to rent the same copy of this game from the same video store back before we ever met each other. So, in a way, we were gaming side-by-side before we even knew it. Now, the game gives us some slack in terms of naming the characters, your favorite thing and even your favorite food. The cast has three boys and a girl and... heeeey... wait a sec... three boys and a girl, eh?  It works out perfectly! Well, except for Sean. He got ornery over my doing that, but, I mean, really, I've known Cog for nearly 10 years now, I can't ALWAYS relegate him to bit parts every time, can I?  Yay for randomly-placed variables! I guess!  Eagleland! AKA: Not-America!  Root's House. Root WAS sleeping peacefully... until a meteorite smashed down on top of the hill! ZOMG! Well, prepared to go investigate it, he has to go into his sister's room to retrieve his weapon of choice.  I dare say, that kind of bad planning on your part, Root.  Root's mom: Well, you're gonna go check it out, even if I ask you not to. Root: Mm-hmm. Root's mom: Well, at least change out of your jammies before you go. Root:   Let's go explorin'! We go up the hill and to the left, towards where the meteorite hit. Police are everywhere, blocking off the road into town.  Oh! Hey! I can see the club house from here! I'll be going there before this day is over...  I don't understand why... but... well, food is food. Who's complaining?  That's Lier X. Aggerate. Yeah, it's a terrible pun. He has something to show us, but... eh, it's probably nothing plot-pivotal. Let's go.  And Pokey Minch. A douche and persistent thorn in Root's side. He'll get his comeuppance... Well, Root's tired, so he treks back home and goes back to bed. Surely a little meteorite crash can't be life-altering, right?  Unfortunately, he's woken up yet again by an "annoying knock".  Root: Enough rambling. What happened? Pokey: I lost Picky! Root:   Root: Yeah, sure, I guess. How far could he have gone? Pokey: Yes! Okay, good buddy! Let's go! Root: Let me just tell my mom I'm going.    Pokey is the single-most useless assist in the game. The dog is a competent fighter and very helpful this early on and with this low of a level. Root: Why is being a fighter worth anything? I live in the suburbs.  That's why. Root: Eh?  Root: OH GOD! IT'S GOING FOR MY EYES! MY EEEEEEEEYES!!! Jeff: Anyways, there's only three enemy types around here. I dare say the snakes are the worse. They're dangerous, have a low chance of poisoning you and give beans for experience. The crows will steal stuff and always leave a cookie behind and the dogs are the best for grinding. Root: MY EEEEEEEEEEEEEYES!!! Jeff: Oh, grow up, you big baby. You learn a healing move at level 2! Root: Oh, thank God! Up on the hill, the cops suddenly left to deal with gang violence from "The Sharks". I wonder if The Jets give them any trouble? Hmm...  Sean: Then I wouldn't have come along. Root: But there's no more enemies up here! Sean: Err... right. So... I'm going home. ... Bye. Root: Lazy mutt.   Root: Damn it, Pokey! Pokey: What?! Root: *Sigh* This just figures. C'mon, let's bail.  Root: Well, THERE'S something you don't see everyday. A bee coming out of a meteorite.  Bee: I am from 10 years in the future. In the future, all is devastation thanks to the dark forces of Giygas, an alien overmind. Root: And this concerns me, because...?  Bee: ... Who will defeat Giygas and restore peace to the Earth. And you're the first of the four, Root. Root: Oh. Swell. What's this mean? Bee: You'll be going on a 40 hour RPG adventure. Root: *Sigh* It's a good thing I have all these cookies then. What's your name, anyways? Bee: I am Buzz-Buzz. Root: ... Original.  Root: Yes. Buzz-Buzz: Gewd. Now, let us go looking for the first "Your Sanctuary" locations - Giant Step. It shouldn't be far from here. Root: We'll drop Pokey and Picky off and go looking for it, then.  Buzz-Buzz: Oh, poopy. Root: I assume he's not friendly. Buzz-Buzz: Well, if your definition of "Friendly" is "Kill it with fire", then he's very friendly.   Root: OH GOD! A BOSS FIGHT! WHAT DO WE DO?! I'M ONLY LEVEL 3! Buzz-Buzz: Calm down. I'll use the PSI Shield Sigma. It'll protect us all from his psychic assaults. Then, you and your companions may attack him! Picky: LET ME AT 'IM! LET ME AT 'IM! Pokey: *Bows respectfully* PLEASE DON'T HURT ME! Root: ... Buzz-Buzz: Okay, so, YOU can attack him, at least.  Buzz-Buzz: He came from 10 years in the future to kill me. Root: Just making friends all over the place, huh? Buzz-Buzz: I suppose.  Pokey's Dad: You're both in for it now! Picky: LEG IT!!! *RANDOM VIOLENCE*  Root: Oh, gee. Fuck you too.  Root: BUZZ-BUZZ! NO! Buzz-Buzz: GAH!!! ... This... was... so... avoidable!!!  Buzz-Buzz: And, seriously... who the hell can't tell a bee from a dung beetle? Dung beetles don't even live in temperate North America! Root: Buzz-Buzz! What do I do?! Tell me! Buzz-Buzz: Oh. Yes. You must visit all eight "Your Sanctuary" locations, so that you can channel the very Earth's power through you. Doing so will give you the power you need to destroy Giygas and his evil forces once and for all. To do so, you'll need to record their "melody" through the sound stone.  Buzz-Buzz: Take... the stone... be strong! Root: Rest well, my tiny, buggy companion.   And it's day time!  And it's picture time!  Yay! When I was a kid, I went out of my way to avoid these whenever possible for... some reason. Now I kind of like them. Fuzzy pickles! Now, let's go southward into Onett town proper.  Ooo! A library! Libraries contain KNOWLEDGE and as we all know, knowledge is power! Or something.  THIS LIBRARY SUCKS!   Well, I guess I got a map now. Not that I particularly need it, but I suppose it never hurts.  OH NOES! I ARZ A HACKER! Okay, okay. I turned off the 2nd layer to show this path, which is missed by most first-time players. Equipment is expensive early on since battling snakes, crows and dogs only convinces our dad to load so much into our ATM account (No, seriously) so we gotta do everything we can to get the best stuff we can without breaking the bank.  Our first "Other" equipment piece, and better than the normal cap the shop offers. Speaking of shops, let's head into the busy part of town!   Hey! Someone threw away a perfectly good burger! You can't be finicky in Eagleland. A hamburger is like 6 bucks. And you thought OUR economy sucked, this doesn't even have cheese on it! Anyways, now that Root has some sustenance, this seems like a good a place as any to break for now. Next time, we take the Sharks head-on and find our first sanctuary! See you then! |
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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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| Dietaku | Sep 9 2009, 02:05 PM Post #7 |
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Gawd, I love this game....Now if only they had done soemthing OTHER than the horribly archaic Dragon Quest battle system..... Buit I digress. Good stuff. |
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| Root | Sep 9 2009, 03:17 PM Post #8 |
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The Speaker for the Dead
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That was good. Although...I'm not sure why I had to go digging through garbage cans. Well, whatever floats your boat. So long as something incredibly bad doesn't happen to me. |
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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 | Sep 9 2009, 03:38 PM Post #9 |
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Why yes, I do like snickerdoodles.
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So far, it's funny! Although the story makes no sense to me. Get to six stores and channel energy through you and wha'? ... I also felt sad when Buzz-Buzz died. :| |
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| Sean | Sep 9 2009, 07:43 PM Post #10 |
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The ⑥of Four Against Nature
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Great. I'm the dog. ...Nah, I'm fine with it. Good LP, d00d. |
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