Let's Play / Master Classes Archive

I for one, would love to see Soul Hackers. I think I'll buy it at some point, actually, but given my Japanese skills I would love to see someone else have at it.

The Persona thing sounds plenty cool too. I'd be interested in it, but I'd have to say even more so for Soul Hackers.

I considered this, but realMyst doesn't work very reliably on my computer, unfortunately. And personally, I think the original game looks better in still shots. I could still do the extra section when I'm finished, as well as point out the few changes between realMyst and the original.

At any rate, I've got an initial batch of shots and I've started on the text, so hopefully it won't be too long before I've got the first segment ready to post.

I'd like to reserve the next slot opening up after this week (after the 20th or so). The run is recorded, so all I have to do is grab screenshots. Shadowrun isn't too long either, so this will go by pretty quick. What do we think is the best update schedule, twice/day?

Sounds good, I'm looking forward to it.

2/day worked well for me; enough time for people to discuss things and ask questions, but not so much that they were all crying for updates.

I opted for once a day, it was pretty easy to maintain.

I did 3/day a while, but then I almost burnt myself out because of it. 1 or 2/day is a good schedule.

I claim the slot after you, I suppose. I have the first update ready to go, screenshots and all. I just need audience input before I can go any farther (with names of the characters)

I don't think you should stick too strictly to a schedule though. If you just do it casually and update whenever you can, I think it'd be more fun for you instead of forcing yourself to update even when you can't/don't want to.

I think I may as well lay claim to The Second Quest of LoZ, as I'm going to be making that one a different Thread, when I get to it.

Tentatively, Dragon Warrior 3, as well, but if anyone wants to beat me to the punch there, go right ahead.

This is why you play ahead of your udpates (once you have the audience input you need of course). That way if Real Life creeps in and you can't play for a day or so, you still have something to feed the Insatiable Masses (us).

You can cheese this a bit for most games: Play to your first stopping point, but split the segment into two updates by using one to explain game mechanics to people who haven't played before. This trick won't work for Myst (it doesn't take long to explain point'n'click really) but would be great for walking Pokemon virgins through how the game works.

Yeah, see, I think the Persona one would stimulate more discussion, but really, Soul Hackers has so much more polish to it and is more fun to play.

Oh what the hell. Sign me up for (Shin Megami Tensei) Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, coming in June-ish. I may have to start the thread a little bit earlier to get you guys to pick a name for our intrepid hero, as well as to decide which magic path we're sending the heroine on.

Your party will consist of a Joker, a Merchant and a Thief (depending on version you're playing, substitute Martial Artist for Thief).

I would love to see DW3. First console RPG I ever played, plus tons of stupid party options.

You just hate me, don't you?

It's Dragon Warrior 3, you can swap your party out. The Merchant will help you get some spare cash while it's tight in the beginning of the game. It'll be great, I promise.

Yeah. The only issue would be for something absurdly complex like, say, X-Com, where I'm quite sure everyone playing the game for the first time is figuring it out far faster than I'm able to type out the entries (I just wrote three pages on how to get through a door, for crying out loud).

Yeah, but the Joker is useless until you reach the point where you can reach Level 20 quickly and can upgrade them to Sages. Until then... they're pretty crummy.

They'll give your adventuring party a whimsical atmosphere.

Can't argue with that

In other news, it looks as though the LP Archives site is full of horrible lies, in that they don't take non-SA LPs despite their FAQ clearly stating otherwise. Also that sentence has lots of abbreviations in it!

lame and unfair, but don't worry Brickroad, your LP will always have a home here and a special place in our hearts as TT's first LP!

Who needs SA anyway? Those guys are jerks.

What!? They look like dorks!

I am 100% serious when I say that you and your Let's Play are too good for them. If they don't want to face up to that, then balls to SA!

I don't know about all that. The guy invited me to put it up on the SA forums and then he'd post it. I just don't want to do that.

It's their clubhouse and that's cool. I made Parish's front page after all, and nobody can take that from me!

Different sandboxes, different rules. That's still lame, though.

I'm pretty sure six LPs for X-Com would go six wildly different, equally challenging directions. If nothing else, you can count on your thread spreading the love of X-Com, and that's what really counts.

PS love the thread thx

But it's a great three pages, looking forward to your next posting!

So I've been waiting until we're down to 2 or 3 ongoing LPs before starting Bard's Tale. I'll need a lot of participation in the beginning of the game so there isn't much I can do to pre-load it... though once I reach the mid-game, it will be relatively smooth sailing.

I will be there. With bells on.

(you're doing BT1, right? please say yes.)

To see this go up, as I could never even get out of the first city in BT. I often ask myself why I own it and it's two sequels...

I have season tickets to your Bard's Tale thread. I just know after one update I'm going to have to break down and find a copy of the game.

Probably the NES version, 'cause that's how I roll.

I never played any of the Bards Tale games (except for the XBox one, briefly), so I'm looking forward to it.

I tried to play the NES version, but Etrian Odyssey kind of spoiled me for first-person dungeon crawlers. Same problem with Dungeon Magic and Might and Magic.

I hope it didn't wreck Arcana for me, though. I loved that so bad when I first played it.