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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: The UNOFFICIAL Roboenza Survival Guide (W.I.P.)

« on: November 10, 2010, 01:52:35 AM »

I really don't thiink it's that big of a problem.  Mainly when there's too many people on (i.e. mega cool story, full to capacity, on roboenza) and a lot of tight hallways.  A push function would hardly help since usually it's an issue either A) from you running backwards and hitting someone you couldn't see, so push wouldn't have saved you or B) it's for a brief second running into someone in a hallway and in the time you could click to push you'd have already untangled from each other.

Besides, being able to push the one poor zombie with stun immunity would be a little mean.

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: Steam group

« on: November 09, 2010, 10:47:32 PM »

Yeah, I forgot about Alien Swarm!  It's completely free so it should be a great option for anyone with this problem, plus it's actually quite fun.  I think Steam just needs some game installed so that it can function as it has always primarily been a game distribution service and stuff.

And Alien swarm is 2gb.  Considering you can hardly find a harddrive anymore that's less than 100-200gb except for those fancy solid state drives, if 2gb is too much it's time to invest in a new laptop.

And... CODENAME GORDON!  THAT'S what that thing was called!  I just remembered it the other day and I forgot what it was called or where to find it, thanks so much joseph.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Your Megaman Toys and more!

« on: November 09, 2010, 07:24:31 PM »

That Napalmman plush is wicked.  I really want one.

And that statue may be small, but it looks really great.  You should paint it!

All I really have like this is a simple mousepad I made with one of those "we'll make a mouspad/shirt/whatever out of any picture you want and mail it to you for a couple bucks" sites a while back.  The picture i used was like this one, but Rush was facing the same direction as Mega and Beat was there too, I can't find the exact one.  I used it a lot for a long time so it looks pretty bad now, lol.

I've always really wanted Mega Man toys but I just can never find them anywhere.  When I finally do find some it's like Battle Network which I don't care about as much as classic or Legends, I'm thinking of trying to look for some online sometime but I've never gone out of my way to buy a toy... maybe now's the time, lol.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Things in Megaman that you never noticed before until recent

« on: November 09, 2010, 07:18:00 PM »

As for Gemini Man, I actually thought he was the most fitting Master in 3 since you were supposed to be going to other planets, and his was the by far most 'alien' feeling stage or something that wouldn't already exist on Earth like all the other stages.  'Cept maybe Snake Man..
I actually had no idea Snake and Shadow were made by other creators, I thought I heard they were all made by Wily and Light...

Anyway, here's some other things I didn't know 'till pretty recently.
 - Roll was originally going to be playable as early as MM2, in some kind of 2-player deal.  Supposedly Capcom thought this was unfitting since Mega Man was a boys' game and no boy would wanna play as Roll, and the idea was completely scrapped.  We never even got to play as Roll in a major MM game until Powered Up, and not since then, and now Inafune's quit, so... even if it happens in MM11, I dunno if it'll ever be quite the victory he'd hoped for :<

 - In fact, Zero was originally intended to be the main character of MMX, AND a girl.  Again, supposedly Capcom thought this would be a horrible idea since Mega Man was still a boys' series and X was supposed to be even "tougher", and they really wanted the main character to feel familiar to fans of Mega Man and not alienate them too much.. and thus X was born.  I actually DID think Zero was female until something like X3, lol... And as the story goes, Zero has those little green "orbs" on his chest as Inafune's subtle middle finger to Capcom forcing him to be male.  I dunno if that's really true, but it'd be hilarious.

 - I didn't really realize this until many, many years after X was released and i'd played the first three or four X games, but X is in fact a wholly separate robot form Mega Man and a sort of "little brother" made as Light's final masterpiece; for some reason I always thought he was an upgraded Mega Man put into stasis for 100 years.  And afaik "Mega Man" is not actually supposed to be part of his name at all, just part of the title of the series so consumers know what they're buying, like with Mega Man Zero.  This is probably extremely obvious to everyone by this time, but it took me awhile to figure out.

 - Again, a lot of people know this, but I didn't realize it for a very long time; Mega Man Legends, as a series, actually takes place in the same universe as Classic/X/Zero/ZX, thousands of years into the future (as opposed to the aforementioned series being usually about 100 years' time apart from each other in ascending order).  It's really weird since we know that Mega Man/Rockman and MMX exist as video games/cartoons/comics in the Legends series, as if it's supposed to be an alternate universe.

 - The boxart for Mega Man 1 is so bad largely because the artist had about 6 hours to create it.  I don't know what the deal with MM2 and the European boxes were, then, lol.

that's all I got for now.

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: CutmanMike's random streams

« on: November 09, 2010, 06:56:43 PM »

Is grant rubbish or something? I haven't played CV3 before

He's weaker defensively than Trevor (the main guy, who plays like Simon in CV1) and his weapon is weaker, has much smaller reach and can't be upgraded.  And the only subweapons he can use are the knife, axe, and stopwatch.  However, he walks faster, jumps higher, can be controlled mid-jump (probably his BEST attribute), can climb on walls and though his attack is weak and short-ranged, it's VERY fast and can thus stunlock many enemies.  If you practice with him, IMO he's by far the easiest/best character, even though Trevor at first would seem better for most situations, and Sypha (the mage character) is pretty much the most OP thing ever if you find a Thunder spell for her.  Alucard, with the exception of that bat form which you can use to skip some hard platforming segments, is actually be far the worst/hardest to use IMO... his attack is very weak and very slow, he can use no subweapons except the stopwatch, and he has the tallest sprite and thus it's very hard to avoid things with him.  Playing with him alone may indeed be the biggest challenge in the game.

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: Steam group

« on: November 09, 2010, 06:32:41 PM »

i GOT steam for this, and im a little annoyed i have to purchase something just to talk to someone, add friends, or send any messages, thats just stupid.

You do?

If you have any old CD copies of any games like Half-Life or Half-Life 2 or anything on the goldsrc or source engines you should be able to install it and show Steam that you have it, then that should work.
Also, a LOT of games on Steam are under $5 or even less with sales that go on all the time, you can check for specifically under-$5 games on the store and probably find one you'd like.

I dunno, i've had Valve games since long before Steam or especially Steam Community existed, so lol.

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: The UNOFFICIAL Roboenza Survival Guide (W.I.P.)

« on: November 09, 2010, 06:22:15 PM »

I actually think it's a neat guide and a very cool concept for a thread, though you shouldn't take these guys playing around and giving their own advice as such an insult.  A lot of them are just trying to help or improve the guide in their own ways, or messing around in a non-insulting way!

But I really heavily disagree with some of these, especially the "don't group" thing!  Yeah, if a group of smart humans all split up and each of them are good on their own, like, Turbo and Celebi or something, it could be a good idea, but generally I think that sticking together is a good thing, as long as you make sure to keep aware of your teammates at all times and make sure not to get creamed if one gets infected.  Really, one person with Water Wave is dangerous, but 4 people with Water Wave can make it literally impossible for a zombie to do anything (which is very cheap, but extremely effective).
And I think "being a hero" is fun and cool and adds to the feel of the mode.  It might be dangerous, but I'm not gonna stop doin' it.  Also, what DTD said about Top Spin...

though I disagree with him that Quick Boomerang is a bad weapon.  It may be weak and short-ranged but in Roboenza if you're good at aiming it can stunlock any zombie that gets too close.

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: Teamspeak??

« on: November 09, 2010, 03:42:03 PM »

Why not just use Skype?

With teamspeak or ventrilo, you'd have to find a server, whereas in skype you could just set up nightly chats or whatever.  Only thing is, you'd have to actually manually invite people and not just allow them to log in and start talking, but then again if as many people used a teamspeak/vent server as who were actually logged onto, say, Mega Cool Story on an active night, I could imagine it'd be hard to concentrate or talk much with all the chatter.

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: Steam group

« on: November 09, 2010, 03:39:05 PM »

well, i'm on steam like 24/7 so this is nice; i even run 8bdm through steam so I can chat while playing and all that.

name's same as on here.

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Cutstuff Discussion and Feedback / Re: CutmanMike's random streams

« on: November 09, 2010, 03:03:55 PM »

I assume making a code for that would be easy but I don't really enjoy playing that game cause, as you probably know it's already brutal!

Pahaha, but that's the fun of a lot of those old games.  Some of them are stupid STUPID difficult but still really fun, so it feels so good to get good enough at them to actually win without cheats or savestates etc.
Besides, back when I used to play SG&G I pretty much exclusively used the Dagger, though laser daggers are hardly a "rubbish weapon".  I'd love to see someone finish it with just the Torch.

Anyway, though, a good "challenge" that actually proves extremely fun to me is Grant-Only in Castlevania 3.  Even better on Hard Mode (finish the game, press start at the end screen and you're back at stage 1 on hard, with whatever partner you had before).  I've done absolutely everything and every path in that game with Grant alone (on Hard even) with the sole exception of beating that hard version of the first skeleton knight boss, that spews bones as you hit him.  Aaaaaauuuuughhhh that's hard with Grant.

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: Screenshots

« on: November 07, 2010, 03:28:36 PM »

I know how to add it.
But do I add the launcher? Will that work?

Add doomseeker when you're gonna be playing online like that.  The launcher only if you're gonna play offline, unless you fancy using that horrible built-in server browser lol.

anyway--


fun on snakeman's stage, which is easily one of my favorites
also, "everyone has the reimu skin" i guess


with fastweapons on the zombies sure do stand a chance

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: Tournament

« on: November 07, 2010, 01:28:59 AM »

Yeah, I had people over and I had forgotten about this until a couple hours before it was set to happen, then the whole server confusion happened and Yellow not being sure which matches were the "serious" ones yet or if we were waiting or whatever.. it was a bit of a mess, but I really had fun anyway, and learned a thing or two playing a mode besides Roboenza for once, and against people who're really good at that.

Next time should be a lot better.. .3.

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: Screenshots

« on: November 06, 2010, 12:29:23 AM »

Freeze Man stage looks amazing.  MM7 rules.  I can't wait~

anyway!  have some random stuff

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MM8BDM Discussion / Re: Your best "frags/death" or challenges!

« on: November 05, 2010, 02:59:27 AM »

Nice.

So far, my best score is 20 and 1 on Pharaoh Man's stage with the Drill Bomb.  And that one death was a total accident I swear ;o;

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Skins & Bots etc / Re: List of Skins

« on: November 05, 2010, 12:53:57 AM »

Well, then, I mean, geez, lol.  I would think that having it linked again from the same exact forum it's already linked from would be good enough, but I guess not.  I don't really think it'd be very fun to slowly go through and ask everyone who's made a skin if it'd be okay to put them up as they come, though I think it'd be neat to happen someday.  You can bet if I ever do make any skins myself I'll offer a pack of them to make it easier, especially since a lot of these deal with dumb sites that get mad if you download more than, like, one file per day lmao.