Irregular slice of STG Life - 3rd Big Stream.
Although I wouldn't say yesterday's stream was anything big per se, I was just bored as hell so I just wanted to stream on a whim. Thanks for watching anyway, even though it wasn't really anything special.
Anyway, going back to the list, a lot of things (read: almost all of the stuff here) haven't been completed. For the ones that are complete, they will be replaced with something new. What's going to replace it? That's up to you guys to decide. The stuff you guys picked for the last stream will be attempted for the next.
Anwyay, I'm not sure when the next stream would be. Most likely on a Saturday since it seems to be the best time for everyone.
COMPLETED TASKS:
- [1CC] CAVE - Mushihimesama Futari BLACK LABEL - God Mode
FAILED TASKS:
- [lulz] Progear no Arashi [NO VERTICAL] - Requested by SFN @ MotK (It's just not possible)
- [1CC] Batsugun Special
- [1CC] Crimzon Clover [Unreleased as of yet]
CURRENT UPCOMING TASKS [1CC]:
- RAIZING - Dimahoo, Mahou Daisakusen, or Batrider
- TOAPLAN - Tatsujin Oh
- DOUJIN - Stella Vanity or Fairy Wars
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
CURRENT UPCOMING TASKS [lulz]
- DoDonPachi 1CC [NO VERTICAL MOVEMENT] - Requested by Azinth @ MotK
- Battle Garegga MAX RANK - Requested by Azinth @ MotK
- Futari Ultra with custom Screen Preset (Green) - Requested by SFN @ MotK
- Varth [NO BOMB] - Requested by shadowbringer @ MotK
- ESP.Ra.De [No Secondary Shot] - Requested by shadowbringer @ MotK
- Play Salamander while watching the OVA - Requested by The Astral Pancake
- ???
- ???
The sheer frustration of Do-Don-Pachi Dai-Fukkatsu.
I've been playing this a lot, it's the best goddamn app on the iPhone/iPod Touch ever. Mind you, even that's a biased opinion because my main focus is STGs and Rhythm games, and Dai-Fukkatsu certainly isn't a rhythm game.
In any case, many of you over at shmups know that I'm pretty ambitious when it comes to high scores. Like the Mars Matrix Counterstop I've recently achieved a few days ago.
By the way, thanks to those for the motivation back in the shmupsforum, and especially thanks to ACR, whose video helped immensely to achieve the CS.
Anyway, back to Dai-Fukkatsu. One of the main things in the game is the ability to take hidden routes depending on what you shoot.
Here's the method of unlocking the hidden route for Stage 1, which then leads the way to unlocking hidden routes for the other 4 stages, given that you don't die.
Picture courtesy of としまとHUU.
In a nutshell, unlocking Stage 1's hidden route is as follows.
- Destroy silo 1, then 2. (Both must be destroyed before the tanks get to them)
- Destroy first tank
- Destroy silo 3
- Destroy second tank
- Destroy silo 4
- Destroy third tank
- Keep the hyper gauge full
It may be simple but I can only achieve the hidden route on an average of once per 3 runs, and it's pretty frustrating. Missing out on ONE of those conditions ruin the chances of ever reaching the hidden route, and I guess today, I had a pretty bad day.
All my runs constantly consist of this.
- Run 1: Hyper fills up, I used it, I didn't kill silo 1 fast enough and the tank runs over it. RESTART.
- Run 2: Hyper fills up, I used it, destroyed silo 1, destroyed silo 2, tank kills me. RESTART.
- Run 3: Hyper fills up, I used it, destroyed silos 1 and 2, destroyed 1st tank, destroyed silo 3, destroyed 2nd tank, destroyed silo 4, destroyed 3rd tank, chaining bar drops to 0, scoring potential completely destroyed. FUCK. RESTART.
- Run 4: All necessary things destroyed, hidden mid-boss appears, mid-boss' laser killed me. RESTART!
- Run 5: repeat of Fuckup runs 1-4.
So you see, the sheer inconsistency's really pissing me off, but that's okay, because CAVE games are so good I can't go mad at it forever, especially when the X360 port's coming out.
Irregular slice of STG Life - The 2nd big stream.
Thanks to a lot of you (Those from MoTK) for watching the last stream. Lots of lulz and priceless conversations were had and I'm really looking forward to it again, which brings us to this post.
I'll be streaming again on Saturday, August 14th @ 12:00 PM - 11:59 PM Eastern Time. I'll be setting various goals throughout the stream and hopefully, I can accomplish them as much as I can in just a day or so.
I'll be compiling a list of goals in this post as well, so for those that are reading this post, request any goal that you would like. Please note that these will be played in random order, some may be omitted if absolutely necessary.
1.CAVE - Mushihimesama Futari BLACK LABEL - God Mode 1CC
2.CAVE - ???
3.RAIZING - Dimahoo, Mahou Daisakusen, or Batrider
4.TOAPLAN - Tatsujin Oh or Batsugun Special
5.DOUJIN - Crimzon Clover C78 BUILD
6.DOUJIN - Stella Vanity OR Fairy Wars
7.RETRO - ???
8.RETRO - ???
I'll also be taking requests for the more "lulzy/retarded" goals, so feel free to request anything.
1. DoDonPachi 1CC [NO VERTICAL MOVEMENT] - Requested by Azinth @ MotK
2. Battle Garegga MAX RANK - Requested by Azinth @ MotK
3. Futari Ultra with custom Screen Preset (Green) - Requested by SFN @ MotK
4. Progear no Arashi [NO VERTICAL] (wait, how the hell do you no-vert a horizontal game?) - Requested by SFN @ MotK
5. Varth [NO BOMB] - Requested by shadowbringer @ MotK
6. ESP.Ra.De [No Secondary Shot] - Requested by shadowbringer @ MotK
7. Play Salamander while watching the OVA - Requested by The Astral Pancake
8. ???
Maybe life is progressing too fast.
I can't help but have to accept the fact that people come and go, and won't stay around forever.
It's something I can't exactly bear, but I'd pretty much have to. From relatives dying one by one to the friends you care about leaving for school/business one by one.
Lateness ahoy.
Sorry to disappoint the lot of you, but parts 2-4 of my Anime North entries won't be around for a while, considering I've waited far too long to get around to it that I forgot most of the events. I'm sure it'll be posted in this blog eventually, but for now, none of the further blog entries will be regarding AN2010 for a while. If you really want to know, many of you have me on MSN and I can just tell my story from there. :V
Anime North 2010のこと。 - PART 1, Thursday.
After Anime North and school, I feel I should just lay back and talk about what's been happening for the past week or so.
A lot of things have happened during the weekend or so. Many were just downright stressful, many beautiful moments were had. Another year of AN is gone and it leaves me depressed because in the view of a staff member, many months worth of preparation for me just ended in a matter of days. It just passes by that quick. Oh well, I guess that only leaves us for next year's AN, ね?
Thursday, May 27th, 2010 - DAY ZERO
The only reason this is called Day Zero is because day 1 of AN is technically tomorrow and it's the day where most people go to the Doubletree Hotel to get their preregistration badges.
It's 12:00pm and Mike has arrived to Toronto from Sarnia. He dropped by at my house for a while to wait until Alex dropped by. The original plan was that Alex would come by with his van to pick up my broken DDR pad (which broke during the time of the ACG party a little over a month ago) and to go to TK's house and pick his broken DDR pad up too.
Alex did arrive about half an hour later, except it turns out that Alex's dad would be driving instead with Joseph and Alex in the car with him. We got the pad in the back of the van but there was no room for anyone to sit in (another reason is because no one expected Mike to carpool with us and it was a last minute thing), and Joseph volunteered to sit where the DDR pads were, leaving me, Mike, and Alex and his dad with a seat.
I'll say one thing though: On the way to TK's house, the carpool was a fucking nightmare. Alex's dad kept braking on purpose in an attempt to make Joseph literally fly to the front of the van (because he was lying on the pads so he had no restraining support like a seat belt).
The conversation between Joseph and Alex's dad went something like this.
-[after the brakes were hit]
-Joseph: Thank god I have my backpack in front for support.
-Alex's dad: You think that fucking backpack is going to help you, smart guy?
-Joseph: Yeah, try me.
-Alex's dad: You sure? I'm giving you 5 seconds to back out of it.
-Joseph: 1....2...3....4....5.
-[Alex's dad pulls on the breaks really hard, Joseph's backpack flies to the front of the van]
-Alex's dad: Yeah, that's right. Don't fucking test me. I even gave you 5 seconds to take it back, you fucking retard.
Along the way, I sorta forgot where TK's house is so I called him up on the phone to ask him the directions to his house. Alex's dad overheard me and muttered this towards me.
-Alex's dad: Look at this fucking idiot asking his friend for directions. YEAH, GREAT SENSE OF DIRECTION, GENIUS. DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE HIS OWN FRIEND FUCKING LIVES.
Needless to say, I was pretty damn discouraged. Thanks to that moment, I now remember the directions to TK's house very fluently. We did manage to get to his house though, except when TK was standing in the middle of the road waving at us, Alex's dad floored it to try to run him down. On purpose. Thank god TK jumped out of the way though.
After we got TK's pad in Alex's van, Alex, his dad, and Joseph part ways with us, and instead, it was just me, TK, and Mike. We ended up eating all-you-can-eat sushi for lunch at this awesome place called Hockey Sushi.
Eventually after lunch, TK, Mike, and I all went to get our badges. I had to get my staff badge and then my panelist badge, and Mike had to get his prereg and his panelist badge.
Of course, that all went well except TK had some trouble getting his badge. Why? It just so happens he used an alias to register himself as staff and when he found out it didn't match his ID, the execs wouldn't issue him his badge. Of course, that's his fault for using his alias as a registered name and he can't really prove that his alias belongs to him and the only person to be able to back him up would be our boss, RCE. Of course, we didn't know if he was around the vicinity to help us out but one of the staff reported that he was around but in the other hotel (Sheraton Hotel), which isn't surprising since he's the head of gaming and that hotel holds all of AN's gaming events.
We eventually did make it to the Sheraton Hotel, met up with RCE, and told him the situation with TK and his staff badge. There was pretty much passion in the air when RCE gave TK a huge hug and said he'll get it taken care of. About an hour later, he got off the phone with the guy that denied TK the badge and said to come back to Doubletree to pick up the staff badge. We all pretty much went home after that. It was 9:30pm at the time, so we stayed within the area for a pretty fucking long time.
That pretty much concludes Thursday (Day 0).
