Let's Play / Master Classes Archive

Well, it seems to still work for most games.

You can add Chrono Cross as being dead, or at least on indefinite hiatus, I guess. (EDIT: And I see you already have. Nevermind, then.)

I've finished another update, and will likely do another two or three this afternoon, since I don't have anything better to do and I expect the next few will move rather quickly.

Yes. I still have that game somewhere, it's faaaantastic. The brilliant thing wasn't just the puzzles, but the awesome meta-game aspect that lets you build a party to make the puzzles easier or harder. How cool is that?

That lily-pad puzzle though, way too crazy on the hardest difficulty.

I always found the Lillypads easy. The toughie was that ruddy hotel!

There's quite a few of us ready to go, but we need to clear the list. Here's where things stand.

Of the ongoing:

Mightyblue hasn't posted an update to FF:Mystic Quest since the 20th, but has been posting on the board regularly everywhere else. Hiatus or cancelled?

Sven's last X-Com post was the 22nd and again, lots of other board posting. Hiatus or cancelled?

Pheeel's last Silent Hill post was the 16th. Last board post was 25th. Hiatus or cancelled?

SpoonyGundam's last Legend of Mana post was on the 22nd, last board post was 23rd.

None of these were capped off with any kind of "short break" messages, they just stopped.

Loki's still doing LW updates (there were a few days of downtime but it's going okay again) and Issun's doing his MM updates (a little scarce, though).

If there's going to be some kind of group consensus on how to handle this kinda thing, now would be a good time. Maybe someone can PM or email the individuals involved and try and get a response.

But see, that's the thing! Puzzles based on the Zoombini's characteristics can be altered in difficulty by carefully choosing your group. Puzzles about grouping the Zoombinis become simple in most cases if you carefully pre-sort them while making the troupe. (I was fond of using a group full of twins while taking the upper route, but this made the "Fleens!" puzzle impossible so I quickly learned not to do that for the south path)

The Lily pads, as I recall, required you to plan pretty much the entire puzzle on the hardest difficulty, before you made any moves at all. I could never wrap my head around that. I was also nine at the time, but still.

I'm changing shifts at work so my updates may be a little sporatic until I figgure out my new schedule. Nothing too drastic. I missed today, but there will be an update tomarrow. That kind of thing.

All right. Got the first update or two of Zelda's Second Quest all up and rarin' to go. It's a bit harder since I seem to be repeating myself a bit with it.

Also, the Second Quest itself is a pain in the ass.

Just finished my fourth update. I've got my troops amassed along the border and am waiting for someone to give me the go-ahead.

Re: people ready: ...right, which is why I listed the "pending" LPs. Parish wanted us to clear the plate before adding any more. So rather than posting preparedness updates, could we maybe work on THAT instead? =p

Essentially: at what point is your LP left for dead? What happens when it is: can someone pick it up later, or is it better to just bury the coprse and forget about it? Where does that decision come from: the first 10 people to vote on it, or a few people specifically (and what happens when those, ahem, superdelegates can't be reached)?

It's funny, I'm sure I mentioned that this kind of organisational stuff was going to bite the whole thing in the ass. ;P

Yeah, that whole organization thing has kind of bit us on the ass, but on the other hand, people have been rallying more for no organization than for a large amount of it. Of course, then we get inundated with LPs, at which point other people complain, and we get what's happening now. Man, guidelines would probably be a great help.

Anyway, if we're going to call something abandoned, how about 10 days without an update or something regarding the status. And I don't see why they shouldn't be stopped from ressurecting said abandoned thread. Anyway, my two cents.

I'd go further than 10 days without an update. 1 or 2 updates in a week is still too little. Ideally your plan should be to update everyday and only sometimes late by a couple days.

I think 10 days is fine. Updating everyday (or even nearly everyday) may be a bit too demanding though.

Luckily my choices are quite conducive to the Lets Play format. Being easily broken into nice little chunks as they are.

I'd say the ideal is something along the lines of 4-5 days a week, with a warning if you anticipate missing an update or two.

This sentence here is hurting my head.

Are you sure you don't see why that sentence shouldn't be changed to make it not less clearer? Yay or Nay?

How about we just do NOTHING to the dead topics, and they stop getting updated and slide off the first page? And then if the guy comes back six months later and decides to fire it back up, that's awesome?

Right, we should let the threads be. But we need to decide when an incomplete thread no longer counts as active so someone else can start.

One or two updates a week is fine if the person sticks to that consistent schedule (okay, one update may be too little). Heck, if people were only updating twice a week, that would allow for more simultaneous LPs, as it would be much easier to follow.

Regardless, I'm not promising anything more than updates every other day. That will also help prevent burnout.

Brickroad, you're a goddamn anarchist, you know that!?!

Actually, I think that's a fine suggestion, though if the guy comes back and wants to fire it up, he should adhere to the same "make sure there aren't too many going before starting" courtesy that new people have to follow.

I think the most important thing is not to have too many topics going at once, and to ensure that all active topics are of high quality. To that end, I'm going to moderate -- slightly. I will allow two new LPs to be launched each week. If you're interested and REALLY serious about doing one, speak up now and I will greenlight two. This seems like a reasonable approach to keeping things manageable while still allowing a regular influx of fresh blood. So: Go!

For your consideration, I submit: Persona 2. And Persona 2.

It's worth noting that these would take a very long time; I spent 90 hours working through the saga on my first playthrough.

Can we count previous speakings up? Cause, uh, I'm ready to get started on Bard's Tale whenever there are openings.

And how long does a thread have to be inactive before someone else can pick up the same game?

Sure, what the hell. Persona 2 and Bard's Tale it is.

So, I was thinking about my LP...OoT is going to be very hard to make interesting. It'll be hard to get good screenshots due to the way my N64 emulator can't remap the screenshot button, and...well, honestly, there's no way I could get any real audience participation.

But then it hit me. I remembered someone else mentioning Ogre Battle 64 once before in this thread. I've beaten that game five times, and I remember most of the details of the game's subsystems...but it's been long enough that I forget the story's finer details and how to recruit some of the tougher characters. It's a fairly open-ended game, and it's mission-based structure lends itself to the LP format pretty damn well.

I'm still busy playing Persona 3, and MGS4 is coming up...and then SCIV after that. And there's a bunch of LPs going on now. BUT! If no one objects, I think I'd like to do Ogre Battle 64 instead. It'd be a lot more interesting, I swear. I skimmed through the thread and I didn't see anyone claim it, so I'm hoping this is okay. If someone else did, then forget it...but I'm hoping no one did.

Edit: After consulting the thread again, I guess Sanagi was thinking about it but then did CC instead. So I think we're cool, right?

Edit Edit: Also, seriously, this is the last time I'm going to change my mind about this. I've already flaked out like, nine times. But this is it fo reals.

Is the Chrono Cross link in the first post linking to this thread intentional?

Whoops. Thanks for catching that.

I want to go ahead and get my name in there for next week's launches...

Me too! Me too! Put me down for next week if we're starting a queue.

I've been itching to do this for a while, but I haven't been able to keep track of when there's space ready.

EDIT: Woops, I didn't know Dosboot already claimed that. How about June 15th for Pokemon Yellow?

EDIT 2: Looks like I get June 8th after all (I think) Sounds good.