Whoa I forgot that Dark Castle had hybrid controls. Do you use the mouse for throwing rocks? Abuse was the first one I played that had the fluid feeling of a twin stick game but used wasd/mouse. I was one of the people who crowdfunded that Mac gaming book. Looking forward to it!
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Whoa I forgot that Dark Castle had hybrid controls. Do you use the mouse for throwing rocks? Abuse was the first one I played that had the fluid feeling of a twin stick game but used wasd/mouse. I was one of the people who crowdfunded that Mac gaming book. Looking forward to it!
Yeah mouse was for rocks. It wasn't the most fluid game. I think as you moved your mouse around the arm sort of ratcheted its way around into steps of 30 degrees or something too.
Looking forward to the book - I backed it too.
Cheers
eot
Banned
I think you had quite precise aiming in Dark Castle (well, I actually only played Beyond The Dark Castle). The arm didn't rotate continuously but I think you could shoot at any angle.
In Abuse you actually had a crosshair though. That game is intense as hell. Probably the first game I can remember being scary.
In Abuse you actually had a crosshair though. That game is intense as hell. Probably the first game I can remember being scary.
In the latest Dark Souls stream, Nick easily stumbles his way into a secret zone yet again: https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/HealthyPheasantUleetBackup
And he found a bug that let him jump in midair while trying a new shortcut: https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/SleepyCrocodileFailFish
And he found a bug that let him jump in midair while trying a new shortcut: https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/SleepyCrocodileFailFish
Nick's stream hs been full of so many weird moments that would only happen to him.
What's this "Internalization" thing on the stream and people typing percentages in the chat all about?
It's a riff on when he said on a pod that he had totally internalized DS3 after like a couple hours then got wrecked over and over. So now people can type in %s to chat of how much they feel like Nick actually has internalized the game and the bot averages out the last however many and displays it.
NumberThree
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About last week's episode, where was the weird Mega Man quote from?
I'm not sure if I love those covers or hate them.
I think they are spectacular.
NumberThree
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Thanks!
avengers23
Banned
And Patrick Klepek, with Austin Walker as the orchestrator.
eot
Banned
For O&S he was also 25 levels higher, wore Havel's, used a Silver Knight Shield, had a weapon that did 50% more base damage and buffed himself with Power Within. If you add that up it makes a huge difference. Nick actually played way better.
No kidding. I drove from LA to SF yesterday and this podcast was the highlight of the trip.
Just finished the podcast. That segment at the end where Chris talks about The Senpai was pretty great. I appreciate the callout to a lesser-known game like that; I'm probably gonna have to give that a shot now.
There's room for a really amazing Thumbs conversation in the future about great visual novels, or games that are effective at comedy... but both of those are such minefields that it may never happen unless someone is willing to just send them a curated list, or put together a "book" club.
There's room for a really amazing Thumbs conversation in the future about great visual novels, or games that are effective at comedy... but both of those are such minefields that it may never happen unless someone is willing to just send them a curated list, or put together a "book" club.
That's... probably not the first one I'd recommend, for obvious reasons (even though the Rin story is really interesting). Christine Love has put out some great stuff, there are a couple Japanese horror visual novels that are worth visiting-- any others?
baboo baby's first VA should be either Christine Love's ones since they are geared more towards western audiences just with anime tropes thrown on top (although I personally don't hold analogue in high regard) or probably Ace Attorney imho.
or va11-hallA, but I kinda think that's just... a game. and i haven't finished it yet
or va11-hallA, but I kinda think that's just... a game. and i haven't finished it yet
chaobreaker
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999 has the best prose what are you on about?
choaffable
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Sean Vanaman has been missing from the usual Idle Thumbs pod, but he managed to make an appearance on the Ringer's video game podcast "Achievement Oriented."
Hopefully, this means Remo will be appearing on an upcoming Keepin' it 1600 to talk about the GOP's attempt at dismantling the Affordable Care Act using a Planet Coaster metaphor.
Hopefully, this means Remo will be appearing on an upcoming Keepin' it 1600 to talk about the GOP's attempt at dismantling the Affordable Care Act using a Planet Coaster metaphor.
Dog let me tell you about this dude's exploded gut for the fifth time
chaobreaker
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I can practically smell his intestines right now.
nckillthegrimace
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Some people just can't stomach it.
eot
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Related but unrelated, if you haven't read the spec script for a Seinfeld episode about 9/11, boy should you go read it now. One of the best things.
http://splitsider.com/2016/08/this-seinfeld-911-spec-script-is-insane-and-incredible/
http://splitsider.com/2016/08/this-seinfeld-911-spec-script-is-insane-and-incredible/
This is why I leave a disclaimer before every livestream, hahaha. I noticed it about 15 minutes into the episode. Fortunately its not baked into the audio we record out through the board so the normal podcast is saved, and we'll fix it for the youtube version.
Joseph Merrick
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I learned to love that loop after a while. lol
It's in the twitch archive version of the episode http://twitch.tv/idlethumbs go to the videos section, it's in there for sure.
chaobreaker
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I'm only a listener but all these stories of Nick Mr. Magooing his way through Dark Souls has spurned me to give a look into the twitch archive.
Also, I'm seriously impressed Nick apparently beat Kalameet too.
EDIT: Nick looks nothing like I imagined him to look like in my mind but he also look exactly like how he sounds like too if that makes any sense.
Also, I'm seriously impressed Nick apparently beat Kalameet too.
EDIT: Nick looks nothing like I imagined him to look like in my mind but he also look exactly like how he sounds like too if that makes any sense.
It's amazing.
Chris Remo
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I should try it again post-patch. It just didn't really call me back after my first playthrough after release. But yeah in theory it feels like my jam.
Joseph Merrick
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he just started dark souls 2 today. really fun invasion fight against kyir (from twitch chat) towards the very end of the stream. https://www.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/v/106397618
we give him a hard time in chat, but he's actually gotten really good at timing dodges and managing stamina. not so much about observing the environment.
Joseph Merrick
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The gameplay at the core of No Man's Sky is just so mind-numbingly dumb and tedious that I don't think it'll see much redemption. Some of the quality of life stuff they introduced will allow you to skip the dull resource collection, but without that there's really nothing driving the game. You just visit a bunch of same-y planets and that's it.
The Thumbs crew likes strange emergent behaviors and situations that occur in open-world settings, but there aren't really enough systems at work in No Man's Sky to really facilitate that sort of thing. I guess you get the occasional story about how someone landed on a planet full of insane murder-robots, though.
Patrick doesn't bring anything new to the dark souls table, he talks the same stuff every one else has already done with a few years delay. He curates some Dark souls stuff from the reddit but other than that i don't care. Weird shit happening in dark souls isn't surprising anymore to me, the last 5 years has filled out the possibility space for watching people play Souls games.
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