Let's Play / Master Classes Archive

Are you serious? I thought it was the other way around? The SNES Shadowrun is pure awesomeness. I'd have to look it up, but I think Parish did a Bonus Stage on Shadowrun and Sharkey said essentially the same thing.

The Genesis one is closer to the RPG, so the pen and paper crowd tends to look at it in a more favorable manner. The SNES one is the better video game, however, going so far as to poke fun at some genre conventions along the way.

I must have had my perceptions colored by the magazine reviews of the time, which were all over the Genesis game's nuts. Personally, I found it indecipherable and punishingly hard. Also, at no point do you fight a laughing jester's mask.

Hmm, every game I had the inclination to play has already been claimed by another.

Well, I might could be convinced into doing one for the original Legend of Zelda somewhere down the road.

Just so I don't end up in the same boat as Octopus Prime, I'll propose myself for Treasure of the Rudras and Inindo. Because FFL3 has been spoken for :P
I'll do one or the other once all these bothersome examination things are done in a week or six.

Only if you use dirty words and/or forum member names for your spells.

I'd like to see someone explain how the game turns words into spells, you know the algorithm or whatever it uses, to turn words into particular spells

It'd be nice if people gave times for when they're going to do a game. "Sometime in the future" sounds like "Probably never, someone else should really do it if they want to."

I see this turning into "first come first served" after a while. I've got a game picked out, but I ain't saying shit until I'm sitting on a few updates worth of material.

Hey, can you put me on the list for Final Fantasy Legends III on the good ole GB? That game lends itself to story-telling due to the sheer amount of dicking around you can do after you get the Talon. So if you'd please, queue me up for FFL:III.

I was thinking have Forum members list as many words as they can think of, as rude, forum-related, or random as they wish, and then I'd test them all out and use the best (in affect and in humour) as my permanent spellbook.
But frankly, don't mind anyway, I've always used silly words in that game. Magic isn't really my focus, since it's the easiest grinding game in history, so I can afford to mess around. So we'll see when I get to it. Which will certainly not be before June 19th, but should be soon-ish afterwards (depending on how many LPs are going at the time).
Or I could decide to be lazy and do Inindo. Forum participation in that would be anti-Nobunaga tactic, I guess.

I'll be eagerly awaiting this one, it's a fantastic game, and a great choice for LP. You ready to go as soon as the schedule opens up? I'm just hoping it won't be months before I can passively enjoy this game again.

I've been idly playing Star Control II in anticipation of my Let's Play. I think I should have a decent amount of material, my only big problem will be editing the number of screenshots I use so that it'll be manageable.

At the same time: I don't want to start yet. I've still got a paper I need to write fast, plus two finals, plus graduation and family visiting, plus moving, so I really shouldn't be spending hours on Talking Time. Once that's done, though (roughly May 27th) I've got nothing going on except home bar study, so I should be able to plow through it pretty fast.

I don't think there is any schedule to open, per se. I think the only requirement is that it gets done eventually.

I'll probably start my LoZ one sooner rather then later.

The whole reason I went with sometime in the future is because we've got 4 running right now, two when I signed up for Fallout. I want to run mine by audience participation, and I don't especially want to flood Talking about Television Games too much. So I'm waiting for at least one or two of these to run their courses.

Or until we get moved to a different area. One can dream!

I'm waiting for the same reason - I'm already kind of sick of all the Let's Play threads.

with the number of Let's Play that are currently running, so I'm not going to start posting until those finish up. Of course, just because you aren't posting doesn't mean you can't be playing and screen capturing and writing (the game you picked will determine audience participation

Ditto on the "I'm not starting mine right now because there are already five."

I'd start capping and writing and whatnot if it was possible at all for my games, but the level of audience participation needed kind of throws a wrench in that. And also it just seems dishonest to make a Let's Play thread when you've already played through most/all of the game for the run you're talking about.

I've started playing and planning my intended project, taking screenshots/videos/etc and attempting to come up with the basic flow/structure it'll take, even though I don't plan on actually kicking it off for awhile. I could get a lot more done if it weren't for FES.

Other than hooking my PS2 up to my computer via video capture card, is there any way to run a PS2 game on my computer screen? I looked around at some emulators, but they don't seem to work for me (read: I have no fucking clue what I'm doing).

Yeah, I don't wanna start mine up till a bunch of people finish theirs. I'm hoping I can get to do mine sometime early summer? Liiiike...mid june?

If you don't mind playing old games instead of MGS4, Etrian Odyssey 2 and/or Final Fantasy Tactics A2.

...crap. Whoever said this was gonna be a slow year is a moron. However, by mid-June I should have a LOT more free time than I do right now. Ok, maybe not a lot, but still significantly more. I'll still try to shoot around that time frame, it'll give people playing all those games something different to read about.

Question for Octopus Prime and TheSL: which emulator are you guys using to get your screenshots? I've never had much luck finding a good NES emu for recent Windows computers (seriously, has anyone improved on NESticle at all?).

You could always try RockNES. I used it for a little while and it emulated most games well enough.

I'm using FCEUltra. I mostly use this one because its capable of Famicom Disk System emulation as well. I don't have a clue if it works under Vista(which I'm assuming you have with your new PC), though.

I'm using Jnes, which I recall as being similar to RockNES, except it has a bit of the window sticking out of the bottom of the screen when taking shots.

It's pretty decent.

So would it be alright if I went ahead and started my Pokemon thread? I have the first post written up, screenshots and all. I just want to get it started before my enthusiasm for it dissapears and I end up chickening out. I don't want to clutter up the forum though...what do you all say?

Thumbs up for NEStopia. Really good emulator, if I may say so.

To put it bluntly, no, don't. There are already too many cluttering up the forum and other forum people are starting to be turned off by the idea. It sucks having to wait, but we really should only have 2-3 running concurrently if we're going to do them here.

Yeah, I'm gonna waver on this and say wait for a little while as well. It shouldn't be too long before things start to clear up fortunately - I'm almost done with my thread, and TheSL looks like he's reaching the end of his, so it might open up soon enough.