Let's Play / Master Classes Archive

I may if I find a way to work it in the Let's Play. The game isn't bad, it's quite interesting, you should give it a shot, the save in-game option that lets you save anywhere allows you to beat it over a long amount of time if isn't really your style.

So I checked my Gmail today and found birthday greetings* from Talking Time! Being that I hadn't checked in since I got my current job (these phenomena are not unrelated) and you guys were pretty nifty**, I dropped back by... and you're doing Let's Plays now? And without being nearly as obnoxious as SA?! Sign me up!***

If there's any interest in it, I was thinking about representing we the few, the proud, (the ancient) PC retro gamers with some Microprose game, like maybe Master of Magic or Terror From the Deep (I saw a [sadly] aborted X-Com LP on the second page, so not that one) or something. MoM is my favorite (and if I have to "call" one now it's that), but X-Com, Colonization, Master of Orion 1 or 2 are all options too.

* Plus, it's pretty cool that at 26 I'm probably just around the average age here. At most other forums I was the dinosaur, and not even one of the cool ones.

** Except for all the SMT fans. ... >_>

*** You know, once there's an opening.

That sounds sweet.

I know nothing about Master of Magic, so that sounds like a good choice, although MoO 2 is also worthy of the LP treatment.

"I vote you start a war with the lizard guys. Yes, I know you only have one scout ship and they have a world-destroying armada."

I can't remember any of the species names in MOO, not even the freaking subtitle species of MOO2

Sakkra!


Antarans!

I love Master of Orion II. My favorite 4X game by far.

Mine too. I have a copy of GalCiv II around here somewhere, and for whatever reason, it just didn't grab me the same way that MoO II did. All the fiddly starbase BS, probably.

My schedule's going to lighten up a bunch in mid-August/September, so I'd be happy to start the Mario Is Missing one then.

I have to put a bit more thought into how I'm going to play it so that it's not a Watch Me Play (Lumber Baron had an idea that I wish had worked, which was to play Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? concurrently, but I couldn't get good screenshots off that one), but I'm sure I'll come up with something.

Which Mario is Missing are you going for again? Mac/PC version is vastly superior!

I used to play the hell out of this game. Stupid Bulrathi and Mrrshan always trying to start fights they can't finish.

I dare you to win with the Gnolams!

http://www.codiekitty.com/File/SuitoHomu/index.htm

It's a screencap of the entire movie! I know, who does this sort of thing?, but there you go, with it you can do an LP and a comparison of the game to the movie!

Looking forward to it!

I usually play custom races (my highest-scoring game was with telepathic Darloks), but I've never gone with a high-money race, so I think I'll try this out. :] Plus it'd be nice to get some practice in if I end up LPing MOO2, since I haven't played it in years and that seems to be a favorite here.

Aw, man, flashbacks to middle school. My dad was the computer teacher at the school I attended for a few years, and people were going nuts for edutainment. Mom even got in on the act and bought some of the Super Solvers and Number Muncher games for us at home, too.

I love Carmen Sandiego, but yeah, they'd be pretty hard to LP. If I remember right, wasn't World? just the one that had a pretty basic interface and one picture per location, and most of it was text? (That and the animation of your cup of coffee spilling. Heh.) It wouldn't be that entertaining, and that's before you factor in all their puns....

There's more than one?

I have the SNES one.

So I spent the last couple hours playing MOO2 and won [the Council vote >_>] with the Gnolams. Didn't even see Orion and ended up with a score of 778, but hey, it's a win, right?* ? Having all that money was actually pretty useful; you can quick-order your factories and get new colonies up to speed quickly, and bribes can buy you time to stave off enemy races' wrath until you can offer them some technology and make nice. (I lucked out and didn't start with two neighboring Repulsives for once, heh.)

That was fun, so yeah, sign me up for MOO2 instead. Just... whenever my turn comes around and you guys get to pick my race, please choose one that can actually, you know, win space battles. *chuckles*

* I would've tossed in a screenshot, but I was playing the Windows version, and forgot to run it windowed; so there wasn't any way to get it. I assume I'll have to play the DOS version in DOSBox for an LP, unless any of you folks know a way to get screenshots the normal way (Print Screen just gives me the black overlay).

Anyone can win space battles if you throw on enough stellar converters. I guess you can use plasma cannons, phasors or disrupters if you prefer efficiency over the awesomeness factor you get from being able to cut a planet to ribbons.

Oh, totally, but the midgame is my favorite part of MOO (chalk it up to starting with the first game, where by the end of it you had to have Black Hole Generators because the AI would show up with stacks of 32000 ships :|) and in MOO2 it's harder to be effective there without production/research bonuses (for the quantity/quality edge) or a big racial bonus. By the endgame offense so vastly outstrips defense that it actually gets kinda boring again-- especially given how long battles take when there's so many ships-- and I usually end up going for the Antaran win.

Would anyone appreciate a Homeworld LP if I happened to start one?

I've been itching to replay it.

Skirmishes, sure. Something like the Dawn of War LP.

The danger with doing the campaign is it could wind up just being a straight walkthrough, which is.. okay for some, but not something I'd read (and I love Homeworld).

One thing to keep in mind (whether you go the skirmish route or not) is that RTS games don't typically offer the same kind of opportunities for interactivity that JRPGs with branching paths and dialogue trees do.

I can't know for sure that that's why the Dawn of War LP has drawn less attention than others - maybe most people aren't interested in Warhammer 40k, maybe I'm boring or don't provide sufficient openings for replies or comments - but it's something worth thinking about.

Homeworld has a nice advantage in that fleets are persistent. As such, you guys would dictate to me what to build, once I got past mission 4 or so. I can also practically guarantee that I can show off some stuff you never knew. Besides, even if it is just a walkthrough, I don't see it as being significantly different than an rpg or some such. Not to brush off what you're saying, but it's not like Final Fantasy X has had a bunch of branching dialogue paths so far.

In all honestly, skirmishes would be the most boring for me in general. The AI sucks, but at least with the massive starting advantages campaign mode brings it can make things interesting. In skirmishes, not so much, unless I did something like 7 hard cpus vs poor little old me. If I was playing online vs other humans, maybe, but the online service was semi-recently discontinued.

If you guys think it's a bad idea, I won't bother taking it any further, but I think it has potential.

• Salvage corvettes.
• More salvage corvettes.

Oh, no, I don't think that it's a bad idea at all - the persistent fleets would help a lot to encourage reader interaction. I just didn't know about that feature (I've never played Homeworld).

If you think it has potential, then I say go for it - so long as you have an idea and a plan for your LP it should turn out fine, and would be a fresh experience for those whom haven't played it.

Shrug. If you WANT to show off the game, do it. Don't get locked into some kind of need for popularity. If you don't really really love (or hate, I guess) a game, it's probably not worth you doing an LP.

I really agree with this, the main reason I want to do my Ys 3/Oath in Felghana Let's Play is because I really like the Ys series, and I want more people to see Oath in Felghana. I think as long as you really like a game, it'll show through what you write about it.

If you're still uncertain, test write a first entry or two. Try to get a feel for it. Some games you can love to death but you might discover there's less to work with than you thought.

I for one am totally cool with a Homeworld campaign LP. That way I can see it all but not have to play it myself. And then could you do O.R.B.? I'll never finish that one either.

So, as it turns out, I'm supposed to start my LP next week on the 3rd, which was all good and well when I was staying home for my birthday.

However, it turns out that I'll be going to Minnesota that weekend only due to family matters, and I won't be getting home until Sunday night. And frankly, I won't feel like writing a starting post.

So would anyone mind if I tossed up the intro post on, say, Wednesday?

Start whenever you feel ready. If I remember correctly, dosboot didn't start until later in the week, so it's not like there isn't a precedent.

It turns out that I will probably do a Homeworld LP sometime in the future, but not now. Maybe a couple months from now. I'm going to be busy with something else for a while.

Well, there was one picture per location, but it had a lot of locations and a good variety of animations. There was text, but it was comic-book style word bubbles. I could get screenshots of the still images, but not the animations, which are the most interesting part.

Good to know, as I probably won't be starting mine until the middle of the week since I wouldn't be able to post Tuesday night anyway.