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Everybody loves desert graves: Let's Play UN Squadron!

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Old 01-31-2011, 11:10 AM
Ample Vigour Ample Vigour is offline
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I really like how that guy's tie is tucked into his shirt.
how dare you sir
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Old 01-31-2011, 11:32 AM
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I'm pretty sure that regional college sports rivalries demand that I vote for attacking the Wolf Pack.

Also the SR-71 Blackbird is totally the bestest plane ever, so I vote for any stages containing it as early and often as possible.
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Old 01-31-2011, 01:02 PM
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I want you to show us what happens when the enemy gets close, so no Wolf Pack. They are mercenaries, like us!
The Pack isn't the last moving enemy in the game, so he can still take them on now and let the other get close.
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Old 01-31-2011, 04:40 PM
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I love this game. When I rented it as a kid, my dad liked to watch me play it - mainly because since he was an aviation buff, he'd tell me what every enemy was. ("And there's an SR-71 Blackbird...and it's laying eggs.")
That's what I love about UN Squadron, too. Sure, other shmups had done this before (like the 194X series) but these were actually current planes that were still flying out there, so it made the game more... "real," somehow. Even if the enemy planes were 10x larger than real-life I especially like that stealth bomber and the B-1 knockoffs.

And, IIRC, all planes except either the F-22 or the YF-23 exist, too.

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I vote for Wolf Pack because it's the most fun to play with the Crusader.
Hell no! Wolfpack deserves the F-14 Tomcat

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Forest and Ocean aren't maximum fun without the A-10, so interdict the Wolf Pack now.

Or knock off some trucks in the meantime.
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Old 01-31-2011, 08:16 PM
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Hell no! Wolfpack deserves the F-14 Tomcat
Well now, this raises an interesting question. In a normal playthrough of this game, you have about enough money to buy one intermediate plane early on and then the Efreet right at the end for the last level or two. I don't intend to grind up enough cash to buy all the planes, but I wouldn't be above using the magic of save states to do a few demonstration runs with some of the mid-tier aircraft.

So here's the deal: vote for your favorite plane, and the winning plane is the one that I'll use for most of the game. However, if there's a particular combination of plane and mission that you'd like to see, I can go back and replay certain levels to give you a taste of the other planes' abilities. I'll probably save that for the end, though, so for now you can expect the next video to be Crusader vs. The Wolf Pack.
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Old 01-31-2011, 08:23 PM
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A-10. Like there's any other choice.

Plus, you get to yell COBRAAAAAAAAA while flying it.
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Old 01-31-2011, 08:30 PM
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A10A.
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Old 01-31-2011, 08:50 PM
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Old 02-01-2011, 08:20 PM
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New video!



Now that we've taken care of those guys, where should we head next? DESERT, FOREST and OCEAN are all still options, but I think I'll save the submarine for now. The A10A is looking to be the most popular option for a new plane, so unless a bunch of people vote for something else, I'll buy that one as soon as I have enough money.
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Old 02-01-2011, 08:44 PM
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I see the FOREST for the trees...you know, the ones that blow up all awesome when you shoot them or drop a bomb on them.
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Old 02-01-2011, 08:46 PM
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Default I did learn what mercenary meant by the time Blackwater made the news, though
Another story about this game with my dad was when the "They are mercenaries like us!" screen popped up - so being a dumb kid, I asked him what a mercenary was. He said that it's a soldier that fights for money.

Unfortunately, due to my not asking any follow-up questions, what I took away from this was that no one enlisted in the military gets paid anything at all. For a while, I even thought that enlisted folks had to pay for their own room and board. (Hey, I was a kid, OK?)
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Old 02-01-2011, 09:38 PM
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Haven't watched the video yet (going to as soon as I finish this post), but I say go for the A10, since there's really no cooler plane than that. I mean really, can anyone think of a better one?
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Old 02-02-2011, 09:34 AM
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I mean really, can anyone think of a better one?
Batplane?

I say you head to the DESERT and blow up a horse with no name.
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Old 02-03-2011, 12:46 AM
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A-10 vs. FOREST. Which will win?
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Old 02-03-2011, 12:56 AM
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Whoever loses, the audience will win.
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Old 02-03-2011, 05:57 PM
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Enjoying the LP so far, Mike. You want I should plug you on my channel?
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Old 02-03-2011, 06:33 PM
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Enjoying the LP so far, Mike. You want I should plug you on my channel?
Hey, why not? I could use a few more 20 times the viewers I currently have!
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Old 02-03-2011, 07:10 PM
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After looking at that map screen again it dawned on me for the first time to ask, how many of the Bionic Commando staff worked on this game?
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Old 02-04-2011, 07:14 AM
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Great LP so far! Imma go OCEAN, because F-14, because Afterburner/Tom Cruise.
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:39 AM
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I'm withdrawing my vote for forest. You don't have the right plane yet.
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:43 AM
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Get some more money in the relatively easier DESERT - save OCEAN and FOREST for testing out our mid-tier plane.
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Old 02-04-2011, 10:12 AM
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Ocean all the way.
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Old 02-04-2011, 02:13 PM
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That's two votes for DESERT, two votes for FOREST and two votes to save FOREST for when I have the excellent A10A. Looks like we need a tie-breaker between DESERT and FOREST. If you guys can get this sorted out before I get home tonight, then I'll start work on the next video.

For the Luddites: text content coming soon! Stay tuned...

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After looking at that map screen again it dawned on me for the first time to ask, how many of the Bionic Commando staff worked on this game?
That's a good question! And the answer is...I have no idea. I guess we'll see once I get to the end of the game!
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Old 02-04-2011, 02:44 PM
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T-T-T-Tie Breaker!!!

Desert.
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Old 02-04-2011, 03:21 PM
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Additional Tiebreak: Desert as well.
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:41 PM
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Tie = Broken.

Commencing mission!
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Old 02-04-2011, 09:51 PM
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Good Luck
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Old 02-05-2011, 07:37 PM
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Plugged.

No backing out now!
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Old 02-07-2011, 08:09 PM
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You know, when I first saw the video title and description, I thought you had named your cat MCBanjoMike for some wierd reason.
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Old 02-07-2011, 10:17 PM
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I don't want to waste Brick's generosity, so it's back to work for me! Are you folks man (men?) enough to handle:




Yeah, that's what I thought.


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You know, when I first saw the video title and description, I thought you had named your cat MCBanjoMike for some wierd reason.
Coincidentally, I am a cat named MCBanjoMike for a weird reason. Is that close enough?

Oh hey, where are we going next? A lot of folks seem to be interested in defoliation, shall we take this party to the FOREST?
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