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Giant Bomb #14 | I'll Never Forget This!
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Sleeping Lesson
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The bummer of Simon's Quest is that isn't not even bad in an entertaining way. It's such a slog.
TheMrPliskin
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From what I remember of the game, there isn't. They could finish it during this episode.
Felix Lighter
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I'm surprised to hear Vinny never finished SOTN. I enjoyed the DS Castlevanias quite a bit but SOTN is still my favorite in the series.
TheMrPliskin
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SOTN seems like the best game for the last VinnyVania.
Yeah, that's the impression I got from what he said.
Yeah, that's the impression I got from what he said.
Ahh I see, thanks for the info.
Poor bombsquad, think of all the stuff they'll have to move
TheMrPliskin
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This fucking game.
Glitchesarecool
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Vinny's reaction to the tornado. Excellent, I'm so glad I'm on lunch break.
SlowRevolution
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this is a very silly game.
TheMrPliskin
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I'm glad I'm able to experience Simon's Quest without having to actually play it.
Felix Lighter
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I was holding out hope that SOTN was going to be natively ported to the PC with Konami's recent interest in the PC platform. Then I remember the whole Konami dropping their traditional game business thing. Fuck. I guess emulated PS1 will be the way to go for that.
So how did people back in the day complete Simon's Quest - without a guide? Sometimes in Japanese? Seems like it would involve an awful lot of trial and error. Souls games have a lot of vague bullshit but at least they point you in the general direction of where to go next.
Although that guide they are using - I doubt you have to talk to all the NPCs in order like Vinny is doing.
Although that guide they are using - I doubt you have to talk to all the NPCs in order like Vinny is doing.
giant_frying_pan
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I just got stuck at some point when I first played it a few years after it came out. Stuff like the tornado shit is just guesswork, so unless you have a guide you're probably fucked (Nintendo Power helped for later games, but first issue didn't come out for a few months after the Simon's Quest release in the US).
edit: Seems like I was wrong about the timeline of Simon's Quest and Nintendo Power. I'm guessing there were some tips in Nintendo Power that helped folks in the States.
AuthenticM
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Neither Firefox nor Chrome can display live videos from Giant Bomb anymore. On my MacBook. Sigh. When are they going to fully change to HTML5. I feel that that would correct every problem.
Edgework (CBSi engineer) said on the BLLSL after hour stream that they were in the process of changing the live player to HTML5, so probably pretty soon.
Vinny's "Sad Mask voice" sounds a LOT by something I heard recently in a tv show, movie or game but I can't remember where and this is killing me.
Edit: Ok... It was reminding me of CB Savage's voice... Curse you whoever linked me that video here the other day.
Edit: Ok... It was reminding me of CB Savage's voice... Curse you whoever linked me that video here the other day.
Open it in vlc. Open the stream page, hit F12, go to Network tab, find link that looks like "http://gamespothdflash-f.akamaihd.net/blahblahblah_1_1400@46333" and open it in VLC.
I just got stuck at some point when I first played it a few years after it came out. Stuff like the tornado shit is just guesswork, so unless you have a guide you're probably fucked (Nintendo Power helped for later games, but first issue didn't come out for a few months after the Simon's Quest release in the US).
edit: Seems like I was wrong about the timeline of Simon's Quest and Nintendo Power. I'm guessing there were some tips in Nintendo Power that helped folks in the States.
If I'm not mistaken, there was complete walkthrough for the game in that issue telling you specifically what to do with pictures.
There was also a mild concern about the decapitated head on the cover.
edit 2: Oops, not Nintendo Power, that was actually a scan from a guide
You getting a black screen or something? I had that a couple of weeks ago and now it's working again. I am also on a Mac. To this day I don#t know what the problem was.
Felix Lighter
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Vinny's getting cocky.
Yeah, the game is a huge open world game. I'm not bothered by early game spoilers of a game like that.
Yeah decided to watch a well. Also I might even make different decisions than Vinny so even seeing the early part again tomorrow will probably not be that bad.
AuthenticM
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I see. Cool.
I will try this. Thanks.
I get a black screen with the four white bars. This:
That's on Chrome. On Firefox I don't get the white bars, just the black screen.
edit: I should specify that the video works on Firefox on my windows PC. That's how I'm watching it currently. It does not work on neither Firefox nor Chrome on my MacBook. It also does not work on Chrome on my PC.
They need to play Vampire Killer before CV3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Killer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Killer
I get a black screen with the four white bars. This:
That's on Chrome. On Firefox I don't get the white bars, just the black screen.
Yeah, exactly what happened to me. Sorry I can't help you out because I was as clueless as you are. It just somehow solved itself after a week. It was also just with live content as in your case.
Yeah, I watched the Greg Kasavin stream of Skyrim live, and I didn't think that hindered my enjoyment of the first few hours of that game. I generally don't care much about spoilers, especially when the game is open world.
I get a black screen with the four white bars. This:
That's on Chrome. On Firefox I don't get the white bars, just the black screen.
I get the same with Chrome on Windows, not with Firefox. Who the fuck knows why.
Felix Lighter
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Ha ha! what an ending.
santeesioux
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I ate one of those for breakfast, I'm living the life.
Sleeping Lesson
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Boy that's a boring game.
vinny's totally gonna skip rondo, isn't he
considering how rough a time vinny had of CV1 dracula it's safe to say he won't be finishing CV3 for a while yet
considering how rough a time vinny had of CV1 dracula it's safe to say he won't be finishing CV3 for a while yet
Jimmyfenix
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time for 64!
AuthenticM
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I hope they do the GBA and DS ones, as I have never seen them.
Oh no.
Although Vinny could probably get into some shenanigans with them.
Time to import one of these.
This is the dark future of ever Konami franchise.
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