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Pokecapn & The Posse LPs | Actually, we're here mostly for Medibot

they've assembled the gigaquad

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Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
what is this


their place looks messy. >:|

P.S. Is Square Enix trying to canonically make Lightning the strongest character ever in teh Final Fantasies?
I would not be shocked at all if they made her a Superboss in new FF games or new ports. They love her so damn much and they'll put her in more things to make you love her as much as Toriyama loves her, dammit. ;____;

Like I said, I personally think the Mage paradigm is completely useless (for the initial Caius fight). Yeah you can ATB cancel between them, but the time and effort spent doing so is left the same as just re-filling Shaman normally, and it's actually handy to have the refresh ready in case you need to switch to Knight.

Legion of One (V.Lightning's Feral Link) actually does quite a bit of damage because she's built as a COM and not a RAV, so I don't use it to build up the stagger. Instead, I normally raise it up to ~500% and then swap to Knight. It's possible to raise him much higher at higher levels, but I'm mostly talking low level strategies. And like I said, I try to time to stagger for when he hits Medic stance, so he never heals or buffs himself, and actually use Legion of One when the Stagger is about to run out to take out a nice chunk of his health.

Knight only has one ability which is Immortality. The stance is pretty much just like Steelguard, only Lightning has to stop and re-start it in between castings. She reduces damage like normal in it, but she only fully blocks damage when she's in the actual block stance. The only way to actually heal is via Legion of One and Items.
Yeah, the Mage paradigm seems unneeded. Don't know why they split a level up from Rav into different paradigms at all. Does Caius seem to have a pattern for when he switches up to Healer Stance? Because that way, the fight might be a little more formulaic.

I suspect if you brought it up to 999%, the fight might be easier than they intended for you. For some reason I assumed that if you're fighting at a higher level for V. Lightning that Caius scales with you and it's harder to beat him on a higher level. I guess the lower level fights are harder... >.>

And Knight seems like a good paradigm. I don't think they'll use it in Lightning Returns (or any of the paradigms for that matter unless it's affected by her equipped weapons) since blocking and dodging is a twitch-based system now.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
You can't do an entire LP of Crystal Chronicles simultaneously in several sittings if they're doing FSA too. (They really should.)

But you can watch KFJ go through Final Fantasy IX starting from here if you want. He has a ton of long videos on his twitch account, but the whole crew isn't there (though that doesn't detract from anything, imo).
http://www.twitch.tv/spacekop/b/322705736
http://www.twitch.tv/spacekop/b/323033355

I think that's kpop...
I thought this was kpop...
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Episode 68 - Fifty Minutes of Pointless Battle

why kfj why why pokecapn why

why is there more after this? this game won't end. Still more fighting. (They're going about the Bahamut fight all wrong, huh? (They know there's a Repeat command in Ability, right? D:)) Do you know what annoys me, though? Lightning has to animate a pose while she Optima Changes. There is no reason for that. It's asinine and it slows things down, especially if you've ATB cancelled/finished your attack group. It's like they gave her the same animations from FFXIII.

Meltdown =/= Aura, guys. -_-

Meltdown makes enemies' VIT = 0. If you junction it, it gives a +0.8 boost per spell to Vitality. Also, when you use it, it won't affect GF compatibility, so that's cool.

Aura is completely broken and allows you to use your Limit Breaks at will. It lasts for about 6-7 seconds. If you junction it, it'll best increase luck. I think it's strong against some status effect. I forgot. Probably Curse because it cures it. Oh, and you can cast it on some enemies to make them use certain attacks (ex: Raijin will cast Raijin Special if you cast it on him). If used, you'll raise compatibility with Carbuncle and Cerberus. I forgot which GF it'll lower compatibility with.
 

OMG Aero

Member
Meltdown =/= Aura, guys. -_-

Meltdown makes enemies' VIT = 0. If you junction it, it gives a +0.8 boost per spell to Vitality. Also, when you use it, it won't affect GF compatibility, so that's cool.

Aura is completely broken and allows you to use your Limit Breaks at will. It lasts for about 6-7 seconds. If you junction it, it'll best increase luck. I think it's strong against some status effect. I forgot. Probably Curse because it cures it. Oh, and you can cast it on some enemies to make them use certain attacks (ex: Raijin will cast Raijin Special if you cast it on him). If used, you'll raise compatibility with Carbuncle and Cerberus. I forgot which GF it'll lower compatibility with.
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Noi

Member
Fifty....

I don't think I even wanna watch. If it's taking them 50 minutes to win on Easy, I can tell you right now that they're doing something terribly wrong.

Edit: One minute in, "Aura is gonna be used for when he gets staggered" YUP, no clue at all.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
20 years of Sonic was kinda fun to watch, though (For the uninitiated, this is what we're talking about.). Even the Sonic and the Black Knight / Sonic 2006 parts.

You can't make an LP about Final Fantasy XIII-2 fun because there's less variety in the game in comparison. With the FF13 games you're gonna see battle after battle after battle after battle after battle.

Noi said:
Edit: One minute in, "Aura is gonna be used for when he gets staggered" YUP, no clue at all.
They totally thought it was identical to something in FF8.
 

Exentryk

Member
You can comfortably 5 star RoTG at level 5, and takes about 30 mins from level 1 to finish.

Haven't seen that video but considering they do not have a good understanding of the battle system, no point in wasting time. I still would love to see them try to beat Gilgamesh though.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Edit: Final Question: How does this LP match up to the other LPs that any of these guys have done?

Thank you. Appropriate time to end it.

IT'S FINALLY DONE. That was the worst thing ever, with regards to the content. How much did they charge for this? why square-enix why

"I hate videogames."

I love KFJ's meltdown towards the 33% bit with regards to the achievements, lol. The two achievements they were missing are the "ride a chocobo for a while" (what I did was that I used an elastic band on my controller and let the game sit for a while), and the dumbass casino one that pissed me the hell off in the OT because it's a piece of shit and why the fuck would you put the shittiest slots in the world in the game or make you make a chocobo build for this shit, seriously. Even with the FFXIII save it doesn't help. If it wasn't for that casino trophy, I would've finished my platinum so much earlier.

Anyway, I haven't seen the ending of this in English before, so...

Ali Hillis cannot do anime groans in the slightest, lol. But to be honest, I prefer the Japanese seiyuu over her. This dialogue. Just wow, who wrote this shit? Lightning crying over Serah was so disingenuous. Everything about their sisterly relationship is unconvincing. Everyone starts their journey aomehow as a result of Lightning. Lightning talks about herself like she's a fucking martyr for the world to extend its life. Lightning, Lightning, Lightning. Uuuuughhhhhh... Fucking pretentious.

As for their opinions...

"This is the dumbest thing I've ever experienced."
"Vile! Junk!"
"It's not a very good game. At all. It's not."

"That is a lot of vodka. I think I've made a huge mistake."
"I think we've all made a huge mistake."

Medibot's opinion about the game is amazing since I didn't expect him to be so frank. :lol
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
I checked out a little of this series though, it was fun.
Skip everything about Act 2 - Powerhard and I imagine that things would be okay... That's the kind of stuff I don't like about RPG LPs in general.

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I enjoyed the bickering, but the problem is the content. It's just not a fun game to watch.
Well, the thing about the game in terms of providing entertainment via an LP is that the majority of it is battles and trekking through stuff. For a genre that emphasizes story, there's a lot to riff on, but there such a space between things to riff on in this game. The battle system might look shiny and pretty and the animations look cool, but compare that to stuff like this (shamelessly stealing from the FF anniversary thread):

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(FF4 images from me; FF5 images from HiddenWings; FF6 images from Heropon (gif from elsewhere); FF7 images from Lindsay; FFMQ image from me; FF9 images from Heropon (who's kinda showing that FF9 had a pretty good Spanish translation so far))

Battles just aren't fun to watch in this situation. Especially since they aren't fighting them very well (and there are so many of them). They may have a lot of strategy discussion, but they aren't fun to watch from an entertainment perspective.

Battles at least had some quirk back then.

Also, the casino sucks. It's poop.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Hmmm... I'm not sure. You could always e-mail PA and ask if they've tested it themselves (they likely will since they're based in Hong Kong). Don't pay for it yet because they might not cancel it.

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You should probably forward your question to the Lightning Returns thread or the Final Fantasy Community Thread for a larger pool of people to answer the question.

If you're going to get a new PS3 soon and can afford it and are going to play other games on it besides FFXIII-2, I'd probably wait because the region-free thing might save you from a bunch of headaches.
 
If you're going to get a new PS3 soon and can afford it and are going to play other games on it besides FFXIII-2, I'd probably wait because the region-free thing might save you from a bunch of headaches.

Thanks, i was waiting till tales of xilla us/uk/ asia english edition before i repurchase my ps3.
I just brought a new tv to replace my old tv (why do all my hardware break within a year :( )
so...........

Please let the new PS3 SKU be cheap.

Thanks for the reply again :D
 

Noi

Member
It didn't help that they chose to 100% the game either. There'd be less fluff in between had they actually just settled on beating the game instead of doing everything, which involves quite a lot of boring distractions.

And yes, the Casino does suck.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
It didn't help that they chose to 100% the game either. There'd be less fluff in between had they actually just settled on beating the game instead of doing everything, which involves quite a lot of boring distractions.

And yes, the Casino does suck.
I dunno... doing everything in the game is pretty much doing all of the fragments/platinuming to me. :lol Would you have wanted to watch them sit on Chocobo-back for an hour or so considering they barely rode one? :p

It looked like at the end they just didn't want to play it anymore out of disinterest. Compare to their Sonic Generations LP or their Sonic Unleashed LP where they had videos at the end featuring the extra content like Acts that weren't part of the main game, and the DLC for Unleashed. Them doing the extras for Unleashed was interesting to me because I wasn't sure if they liked the game.

Considering KFJ did a God Hand LP which was reasonably good, I'd like to see a Lightning Returns LP by him. Plus he promised this:

Kung Fu Jesus said:
Any future games which may be awful will at least be fun, or funny, in some way. Much of this game was vacuous nonsense which led to the behavior described by a few, so far, where the videos are entertaining merely for their audio track. Even if a game is terrible, I want either interesting action or solid advancement at any given time. Whether or not you like this game, you have to admit that, as an LP, it is garbage because it cannot provide either of those qualities quite a lot of the time.

That having been said, we, the gang, have a few possibilities, some probabilities, and one or two certainties lined up. No schedule, of course.

Using their Sonic 2006 LP as an example, their pain is what made that LP great and very fun to watch... even if it was a very very very bad game.

A very very very bad game.
 

Noi

Member
I dunno... doing everything in the game is pretty much doing all of the fragments/platinuming to me. :lol Would you have wanted to watch them sit on Chocobo-back for an hour or so considering they barely rode one? :p

It looked like at the end they just didn't want to play it anymore out of disinterest. Compare to their Sonic Generations LP or their Sonic Unleashed LP where they had videos at the end featuring the extra content like Acts that weren't part of the main game, and the DLC for Unleashed. Them doing the extras for Unleashed was interesting to me because I wasn't sure if they liked the game.

Considering KFJ did a God Hand LP which was reasonably good, I'd like to see a Lightning Returns LP by him. Plus he promised this:

Using their Sonic 2006 LP as an example, their pain is what made that LP great and very fun to watch... even if it was a very very very bad game.

A very very very bad game.

I think you misunderstood, I actually agree with you! I'm saying that the LP could have been better if they just tried to beat the game instead of getting all the fragments or all the monsters, since it would just let them riff on the plot consistently rather than having entire hour long episodes where nothing happens, more so when they weren't really having fun with the game. The DLC episodes for XIII-2 weren't very interesting because they were going through them out of "obligation" rather than genuinely wanting to beat the DLC.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
I think you misunderstood, I actually agree with you! I'm saying that the LP could have been better if they just tried to beat the game instead of getting all the fragments or hell, getting all the monsters, since it would just let them riff on the plot consistently rather than having entire hour long episodes where nothing happens, more so when they weren't really having fun with the game.
Yeah, going back I totally read that wrong, lol.

But if they'd just tried to beat the game, they wouldn't have gotten the final paradox ending. >.>

Could you do the Lightning DLC without beating the game, or do you have to beat it?
 

Noi

Member
Yeah, going back I totally read that wrong, lol.

But if they'd just tried to beat the game, they wouldn't have gotten the final paradox ending. >.>

Could you do the Lightning DLC without beating the game, or do you have to beat it?

Pretty sure you can, just like you can fight all of the DLC bosses the moment you first leave New Bodhum (where the DLC Colosseum pops up). Though I'm not entirely sure since all the DLC came out (sans Omega) after I'd beaten the game.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Thanks for that. Didn't know if they were going to start posting videos so soon. I wonder if I should make a nondescript/general thread for pokecapn/KFJ/medibot/kaz/etc's LPs? Ehhhhhhhh, doesn't matter right now. Depends on what you guys want. :p

What I could do is that I could reorganize the OP to make it not specific to FFXIII-2 and request a thread title change. But again, depends on what everyone would like!

Gonna watch FSA and be in awe that holy crap there's a lot to keep up with. It's beautiful. <3

pokecapn said:
4 GameCubes, 4 GBA Players, 4 GCN-GBA cables, a Wii to plug them all into, 4 SD capture cards, 1 HD-PVR, and 2 computers. For some reason, it's named after my first USB flash drive, but that doesn't really matter.
Sounds terribly expensive.
 

Noi

Member
Thanks for that. Didn't know if they were going to start posting videos so soon. I wonder if I should make a nondescript/general thread for pokecapn/KFJ/medibot/kaz/etc's LPs? Ehhhhhhhh, doesn't matter right now. Depends on what you guys want. :p

What I could do is that I could reorganize the OP to make it not specific to FFXIII-2 and request a thread title change. But again, depends on what everyone would like!

Gonna watch FSA and be in awe that holy crap there's a lot to keep up with. It's beautiful. <3


Sounds terribly expensive.

Wouldn't be a bad idea. There's already a thread for Game Grumps, which is pretty much the same deal.
 
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My Name Is Kaz said:
Behold! :eng101:

We're using one computer to capture the sound through the mic using Soundbooth, the wii through the HDPVR using Arcsoft capture, and one of the gamecubes through a kworld using Xsplit.
This computer is also outputting to a monitor that medibot uses to see his screen.
The other computer captures the remaining three gamecubes through three kworlds using Xsplit. One instance of Xsplit on this computer captures all three as different cameras, and creates one file that is all three screens together. This computer outputs to a monitor that pokecapn, Kung Fu Jesus and myself use to see our GBA screens.

Why not just use one Xsplit and have all four there?

For one, it would require we all sit uncomfortably close together to all see. For another, more real reason, we all bought our kworlds at different times, and it is a shitty chinese DVD piracy device. So the customer support doesn't exist and the manuals are in engrish or simplified Chinese. This gets in the way of our troubleshooting, the trouble being that no computer can see all four of these devices together. We can make any computer see any combination of the newer three, and any computer can see the older one, but as soon as one new and one old are connected, each stops displaying. It's weird and what we have is a work-around.

[sub]Link to kworld site (warning, sketchy). Safer link.[/sub]

Now it is time to reveal some of the dirty secrets of modern consoles. Let's compare this effort to the one we just finished, that used the 360.

We're still running one of the same computers, the same hdpvr, the same television, and the same mic with amp.

With the gigaquad, we are less one 360, plus one wii, plus four gamecubes with gameboy player attachments, and plus one computer and monitor, and plus four kworld sd capture devices.

I'm not going to count the computer and monitor because I think those were on in another room of the house during the last let's play anyway. So those are both neutral to this question.

And with the kworlds, I couldn't find anything about power consumption and they draw from usb. It is a missing figure, sure, but a small one.

So really the comparison is between five nintendo consoles and one xbox, which shakes out like so:
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gigaquad total: 111.6
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wii: 16.4
gamecube: 23*4 = 92
GB player: 0.8*4 = 3.2

[sub]All numbers in W. Sources 1, 2[/sub]

So actually we're at a net savings thanks to Nintendo hardware being really energy efficient.

I do often invite the neighborhood skunk in to chew on the wires and spray or pee on them, but the sparks from the various wires have yet to reach more than a few millimeters in diameter, so I'm not worried.

At any rate I'm not publishing my power bill, not even as a raw number.

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jesus christ
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Holy shit at that map. That just makes things sound even messier but in a more organized fashion.

Kaz said:
So actually we're at a net savings thanks to Nintendo hardware being really energy efficient.

At any rate I'm not publishing my power bill, not even as a raw number.

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Oh jeez...

I'll work on retooling the OP and asking for a thread title change later tonight or tomorrow when I'm not as busy. You guys can submit titles (it'll go something like "Pokecapn & The Posse LPs |OT|" at the beginning of it) in the meantime because I suck at naming things.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Thanks for that. Didn't know if they were going to start posting videos so soon. I wonder if I should make a nondescript/general thread for pokecapn/KFJ/medibot/kaz/etc's LPs? Ehhhhhhhh, doesn't matter right now. Depends on what you guys want. :p

What I could do is that I could reorganize the OP to make it not specific to FFXIII-2 and request a thread title change. But again, depends on what everyone would like!

Gonna watch FSA and be in awe that holy crap there's a lot to keep up with. It's beautiful. <3
Maybe just make this thread a "general interesting LPs to watch" thread?

edit: holy fuck my eyes are dizzy from trying to keep up with it
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
I feel like we already have one of those in this recent thread and this old thread. It would turn into the anime thread, kinda, if everyone's talking about different series/episodes too. I feel like there would be some overlap with the Spoony thread, maybe the Siglemic/speedrun thread, the Giant Bomb thread, etc.

Still taking options and stuff. Not in any hurry at all.

Edit: Thread OP rewritten and edited in. Still looking for other people's inputs with regards to thread titles, though!
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
I'll PM someone with regards to the thread title change a little later, but alright, new ep!

God, it truly is like they're playing Mario Party again. :lol

That horse racing minigame is the worst!

Also, like I said in the OP, if you find some other good video LPs by other people, post them in here and if people seem to like them or if I look at them and they seem cool, I'll add them to the bottom of the OP.
 

Adnor

Banned
God, it truly is like they're playing Mario Party again. :lol

Medibot's even the purple, evil character.
Maybe his and My Name Is Kaz Kirby's LPs?
The Freelance Astronauts could be also be an option, being members of SA too, but they haven't made a LP since... last year?
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Oh great, the title changed pretty quick. Like clockwork around here. :D

Medibot's even the purple, evil character.
Maybe his and My Name Is Kaz Kirby's LPs?
The Freelance Astronauts could be also be an option, being members of SA too, but they haven't made a LP since... last year?
I was thinking of some of the Freelance Astronauts ones last night when I was working on the text, but I wasn't sure if I should link a few LPs like the Mass Effect one, the NSMBWii one, etc., or if I should just link to their site for an entire catalogue of their stuff.

Most of the Kirby LPs are in the OP because I... was looking at them because the Kirby Collection's gonna be released this week. >.>
 

Adnor

Banned
Oh great, the title changed pretty quick. Like clockwork around here. :D


I was thinking of some of the Freelance Astronauts ones last night when I was working on the text, but I wasn't sure if I should link a few LPs like the Mass Effect one, the NSMBWii one, etc., or if I should just link to their site for an entire catalogue of their stuff.

Most of the Kirby LPs are in the OP because I... was looking at them because the Kirby Collection's gonna be released this week. >.>

Looking at their site, most of the videos don't work anymore, because Viddler has a "premium" system right now, and if they don't update, you can't see their videos.
That's sad, because their NSMBWii is one of my favorites LPs.
 

Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Looking at their site, most of the videos don't work anymore, because Viddler has a "premium" system right now, and if they don't update, you can't see their videos.
That's sad, because their NSMBWii is one of my favorites LPs.
They ended up uploading some of their stuff to YouTube but stopped after a few months. It's such a shame that some of the stuff isn't archived or anything because, like you said, the NSMB Wii stuff is amazing and it's difficult to see it now.
 
Freelance Astronauts are gods. If you're pretty hardened to profanity, search Youtube for "The most offensive LP ever". It's totally awful but so fucking hilarious at the same time. The King of the Hill fanfic about 2 minutes into part 1 fucking slays me every time.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
They ended up uploading some of their stuff to YouTube but stopped after a few months. It's such a shame that some of the stuff isn't archived or anything because, like you said, the NSMB Wii stuff is amazing and it's difficult to see it now.
I'm having a serious itch to go play that game again.
 

OMG Aero

Member
Also, like I said in the OP, if you find some other good video LPs by other people, post them in here and if people seem to like them or if I look at them and they seem cool, I'll add them to the bottom of the OP.
I'd like to cast a vote for the LP group formerly known as Tipping Forties. They were mainly known for drinking heavily while playing through games and this came to a head during their Goldeneye LP (where they take turns playing while following conditions set by viewers such as always walk backwards, say an appropriate one liner after every kill etc and the player has to drink every time they can't or don't follow a condition) and Tales of Symphonia (where viewers would suggest words that everyone would have to take a drink when the characters say, this resulted in some guy in the thread playing the game ahead of them to pick the words that would come up most in order to destroy them). But they aren't just about drinking, they just generally have fun playing through games unless it is Final Fantasy or Fable in which case they start off okay then slowly hate the game and it's funny to see them suffer.
They also did Mario Party before Pokecapn made it cool.

They stopped doing LPs as a group recently and aren't called Tipping Forties any more, but Kuvo and Topikal from the group are continuing LPs and are doing a Deus Ex: Human Revolution (SA thread here, Youtube account here) one right now that still stands up to the standards of the previous LPs and probably has way more work put into it since now they actually show off all the stuff they miss as well as having a fun time. Aside from that, if anyone was to watch an old LP of theirs I'd probably suggest New Super Mario Bros Wii, Fallout New Vegas or LittleBigPlanet 2.
 
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