Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 03/11/2013 - 08:16
Time: This Friday March 15. 6 PM Pacific (9PM East Coast)
Format: The stream will be non-voiced. Everything will be conveyed through IRC chat which will appear as subtitles in the video.
Chat channel: To be decided
So in anticipation of the second season of Oreimo coming out next month, I'd like to try playing this game. The game's story takes place after the True Route ending of season one. I only watch the anime series, I don't read the manga or the novellas, so as far as I know, the stuff that happens in the game are just what-if scenarios. So maybe spoilers for the new TV series, but who knows?
I'm going to stream the footage to my Twitch account. It'll include the IRC channel where we'll be gathering so I'll try to have some audience participation. The game is basically a visual novel, so while most of it is voiced, there may be some text only parts. I'll try to summarize what I can, but obviously I won't be able to do a line-by-line translation for everything.
I think I'll try the Ayase route first. I really like her storyline and think it'd be interesting to watch.
I've streamed myself playing games before, but this will be my first time trying something in this format. If it works out, maybe I'll do more. I've got Climax Heroes OOO and some of the old Rider Playstaion 1 games. Or we can do something entirely different, I'll post my games collection in the thread.
Past streams: http://www.twitch.tv/takkynoko/videos?kind=past_broadcasts
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Submitted by takenoko on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 16:33
Wow, that looks really good, actually.
Comes out in May for the PS3. Kind of excited.
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Submitted by takenoko on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 05:05
Title says it all, doesn't it? I bought this game at full price because I thought that I could play it with the Japanese audio. Unfortunately, the subtitles are all set to match the English dub. Basically, it's just not a faithful translation of the Japanese, so you're not getting that experience. Just the dub one through text.
This is kind of annoying as a Japanese fan because, that's the whole reason I was hyped to hear that it came with the Japanese audio. Was it naive of me to think that the game would fully support that aspect since they bothered to include this feature in the game? Frankly, if I knew the game was going to be released this way, I wouldn't have paid full price... and maybe I wouldn't have bought this game at all. I'm very picky about my experiences, and it's important to me that everything is perfect for me to enjoy something.
Like arbitrarily changing a character's English name from Mark to Philip, that's the sort of decision making that should worry people about the translation. As an Amazon review put it: "I'm sorry if your name is Mark, but it's too Japanese. Why don't you try changing it to a nice American name like Philip?"
I'm surprised that I haven't seen this mentioned in any game reviews that I've seen. I'm almost certain that I'm in the minority in this, but I do feel like I was cheated by the promise of Japanese audio and English subtitles. It's 2013, so why is this still a thing that happens in games and movies? I really don't expect studios to care unless I'm actively taking money out of their pockets. I guess people like me who have my set of tastes just don't matter to them.
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Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 06:30
Submitted by takenoko on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 15:50
Man, Super Climax Heroes is looking amazing. The recent release looks sort of like episode 22 of Agito.
Look at this, they brought back Agito and Chalice for this game. Crazy! I'm totally supporting this game.
KR Agito 23
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Submitted by takenoko on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 23:41
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Submitted by takenoko on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 14:35
If you haven't played the game, watch a cool choreographed fight scene with epic music involving a nice lady:
http://youtu.be/Qwy2RLAPL7k
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 20:48
http://www.learnwithportals.com/
If you haven't played this yet, it's free until September 20th. So download it and do it already. It's a short game and it's fun! And it's free!
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 22:46
As long as I'm wasting your time between releases, I thought I'd plug the new ascension path in www.kingdomofloathing.com called Way of the Surprising Fist. Spoilers, after you beat the game, you can ascend and replay the game to perm the skills, thus changing your game play from ascension to ascension. Plus you can add conditions to your new ascensions to get more karma points, which make it easier to perm skills.
So we're really enjoying the fisting path because you can travel around to certain areas and gain fist skills. It's just funny because when you get the skill, you get this scroll, which basically says "big penis" backwards:
Anyway, feel free to join the game. Join our clan, TV-Nihon, for some minor benefits. Find me in chat using
/c clan
If you need stuff, just ask or grab it from our clan stash. Join us and have some fun with this funny pop culture humor game.
Submitted by takenoko on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 16:08
Submitted by takenoko on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 20:22
Retro Game Master will be featured exclusively on Kotaku every Thursday night, posting at 8pm EST, starting June 23, 2011.
http://kotaku.com/5812385/kotaku-presents-retro-game-master-japans-cult-hit-video-game-show
So what's that mean for us? I strongly suspect that what they'll put out will be highly edited, so we'll probably continue to release what they leave out, I'm guessing? At any rate, this is exciting news for GameCenter CX fans. The staff are talking about watching the first broadcast together.
Once we know more about it, we'll make some decisions on how we proceed with the project in the future. For now, let's give our support to Kotaku and hope they do the show justice. I definitely recall them mentioning the show in past articles, so they must have fans among the staff.
Our thread about the matter.
On a side note, we are working on TimeRanger as a backburner project. I'm just QCing and encoding it, so it won't interfere with the other Sentai projects going on. But as you can expect, it's probably not going to come out super soon.
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 00:19
"We all make choices. But in the end, our choices make us." ―Andrew Ryan
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Submitted by takenoko on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 21:48
Hyper Clock Up please?
So I tried playing Climax Heroes OOO with the PSP over Adhoc with a couple people from the staff. It sucks, it's super slow. We tried it using both the American and Japanese adhoc party programs. Everything is just super laggy. Anyone have any idea on what can be done to make the play experience better?
Climax Heroes OOO thread
Edit: Does anyone have a larger scan of this Kabuto picture?
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 13:24
Got a PSP? Got a wired connection PS3?
Maybe join us sometime for some gaming?
I think it's worth setting up at this point because I'd like to maybe someday host a TVN Climax Heroes OOO tournament or something. Like we can have a diagram with the lines show who's competing and eliminating them as the time continues.
Submitted by takenoko on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 18:18
So I bought this for the PSP. I guess it's a story game done in the style of those hentai games. You make your dialogue choices and see what kind of ending you get
The actual gameplay elements were a bit surprising to me. There's a Two Shot mode where you basically have to calm the girl down by either selecting a dialogue line as it scrolls by (you only get one choice) or not saying that at all.
The other gameplay aspect depends on collecting keywords and storing them in your O.R.E. List. At certain points items from your ORE list will show up and you can press left or right to select them. Things sure have changed since the days where you were just given a list of options to select, eh?
So anyway, I beat the game, puposefully trying to do the worst job possible. I ended up with about 14% completion, it looks like I didn't unlock any story branches. I think I basically got the bad ending where I'm stuck buying BL goods with my Akagai for his little sister. Girls start pointing and whispering, so I end up running away while my friend yells out my name. Humiliation?!
http://oreimo-game.channel.or.jp/
The trailer for the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RoYk7BSynwk#
Bonus: I wasn't able to obtain this since it seems like it's sold out, but the special version actually comes with an additional game. The bonus game is a sister maker where all the characters are your sister or something. Here's the video for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0of6N3qD5w&feature=channel
Submitted by takenoko on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 20:37
Image courtesy of Kingdom of Loathing
So a bunch of people joined in the last week (14 to be exact) which is cool since we normally get zero (Even if they do apply, I never see their application till after they quit the game).
So the second part of the Crimbo content is out. The Elf Alley thing was too high level for most people to survive the sewers, but this part should be okay for all levels. I guess our new goal is to get a clan Deluxe Fax Machine from the gift shop to install in our VIP room (you need a VIP key to even see this room). If people can help with that, we'd greatly appreciate it!
I'm also going to include a link to the forum thread for it. Feel free to use it to talk about the gam. See if you can beat the quests without spoilers
Forum thread
And of course, if you join the game, our clan is TV-Nihon, so please apply there and pm me when you do
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