So I've been playing KH:BBS for the PSP now that I finally have it. Fun game so far, I'll probably blog a full review of it once I finish it completely. My current playthrough is just to have fun and get a feel for the game before I start recording. The question is, what AM I going to record?
Well, unfortunately, recording LV1 CM playthrough seems out of the question for this game. Unlike KH2FM, you really need those levels to do any amount of meaningful damage to bosses. If you're the lesat bit underleveled, you could be hitting the boss for 1 damage a hit. And trying to do entire boss fights with those stats would make them 20-30 minutes each, and no one wants to watch that IMO.
Instead, I think I'm going to just record a normal Critical Mode playthrough of BBS. I'll probably only record bosses. Not sure if I want to bother including forced fights yet, probably not though. My KH ego is too big from KH2FM, so I started off on Critical Mode right away. Anything lower would make me feel like a scrub. Critical Mode in this game seems quite a bit more difficult than in KH2FM, if not only for damage output issues and lack of dodging options combined with bosses who aren't as safely open to attacks as they were KH2FM.
Regardless, I finished Terra's story already, and am working on Ven's story now. After I finish his and Aqua's as well, I'll do the final story and then figure out how I want to record. I'm going to try to do the boss fights as a semi-low level, so that it's not easy. The wonderful thing about KH:BBS, is that you can get most, if not all abilities right off the bat, due to the ability to Meld Commands right away. So you'd just need to farm Munny, farm CP for the Commands to Meld, and then you can have a rather broken set of abilities for LV1 CM playthrough. Of course, for my initial recording, I won't be doing LV1 likely, so I won't over prepare. However, after I record all the bosses on CM, I may try a LV1 run. If the bosses start taking too long, I probably won't bother, though.
When are these videos going up? Well, got some more Brawl videos to dish out over the next few weeks most likely. By then I should have a good amount of KH:BBS recorded to start upping, hopefully. Because other than my Brawl tourney videos I have coming out soon, I have more Brawl vids planned to be uploaded, and there's about a months worth of them.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
PSP Get!!!
Yes, that's right, I finally own a PSP! Big thanks to Pelca for selling me his PSP for only $45. Amazing deal. Came with KH:BBS fully installed and a memory card.
What does this mean for my Youtube subscribers? It means you guys could be seeing new Kingdom Hearts videos soon. How soon? Well...probably not for a few months. But hopefully after I finish up on my backlog of Brawl videos, I can get on that fast.
The only downside to this PSP is it's a PSP 1000, which means I can't easily record with it. But I can record off the PC with Fraps like I did with Touhou, so that should be more than good enough. I started a KHBBS file last night. We'll see how it goes.
What does this mean for my Youtube subscribers? It means you guys could be seeing new Kingdom Hearts videos soon. How soon? Well...probably not for a few months. But hopefully after I finish up on my backlog of Brawl videos, I can get on that fast.
The only downside to this PSP is it's a PSP 1000, which means I can't easily record with it. But I can record off the PC with Fraps like I did with Touhou, so that should be more than good enough. I started a KHBBS file last night. We'll see how it goes.
Monday, April 11, 2011
A Universal Brawl Ruleset for Brawl?
Depending on how much you know about competitive Brawl will depend on how much this makes sense. So back at the beginning of the year, Alpha Zealot formed the BBR-RC on Smashboards with the goal of constructing a universal ruleset for Brawl tourneys that will be used by all TOs. A stage list was released when it was announced, and it was claimed that all the future Brawl national tourneys will be using the stage list.
I ended up getting invited into the BBR-RC a couple months later to help, since I'm a TO in the New England region. It's been pretty interesting being a part of the BBR-RC and helping put together the ruleset. It's difficult to get everyone to agree to all the rules, but the first version was released publicly last Wednesday. It was a little rushed, but overall it came out pretty good.
If you're curious, the ruleset can be found here: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=301032
It's not perfected yet, but the few issues with it will likely be re-discussed and fixed as we get more feedback on tourneys that run the ruleset. The stage list will probably change, and other little things, such as possibly the LGL rule and the Starter Stage List. But anyway, I just wanted everyone to know what's up with this. If you go to tourneys that aren't running this ruleset, try to let the TO know about the ruleset and see if he'll agree to using it. Remember, the goal of this ruleset is to get as many tourneys to follow it as possible.
I ended up getting invited into the BBR-RC a couple months later to help, since I'm a TO in the New England region. It's been pretty interesting being a part of the BBR-RC and helping put together the ruleset. It's difficult to get everyone to agree to all the rules, but the first version was released publicly last Wednesday. It was a little rushed, but overall it came out pretty good.
If you're curious, the ruleset can be found here: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=301032
It's not perfected yet, but the few issues with it will likely be re-discussed and fixed as we get more feedback on tourneys that run the ruleset. The stage list will probably change, and other little things, such as possibly the LGL rule and the Starter Stage List. But anyway, I just wanted everyone to know what's up with this. If you go to tourneys that aren't running this ruleset, try to let the TO know about the ruleset and see if he'll agree to using it. Remember, the goal of this ruleset is to get as many tourneys to follow it as possible.
Friday, April 1, 2011
April Fools?
Many people and websites play pranks on April Fools day. I've played a couple myself. I'll describe the ones I did as well as others I see on websites.
#1. Joke Brawl Power Rankings for NE
I put up fake Power Rankings for New England. They were technically due April 1st, so instead of putting up the real rankings, I put up a fake image I created and wrote up fake reasoning to go with it. Believe it or not, quite a few people fell for the fake rankings. They looked pretty believable. You can check it out here:
Joke PR Image: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6647/neapril1st2011rankings.png
Joke Reasoning: http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?pid=1282174#p1282174 (if you're reading this past April 1st, you'll have to scroll down to the bottom)
#2. Youtube Video
I put up a video for Brawl claiming that LV9 CPUs are impossible while showing a few clips of the CPU KOing or comboing me. The joke itself is an old GameFAQs joke from back in the Melee days, where a player would jokingly claim a LV9 is impossible, and skeptical readers would comment on how the player is just bad at the game and how they beat CPUs all the time. The original player would likely respond with "you're lying."
Youtube
Youtube's seemingly only prank is a joke about how the site worked back in 1911, or something alone those lines. You can watch videos using the 1911 button to see them displayed in old movie & music style, replacing the videos original audio. It's pretty amusing if you watch certain videos with it.
GameFAQs
Well the front page makes it pretty obvious. There's a joke 40 year anniversary page for GameFAQs, as well as the poll of games that will likely never be released (or even made). Lastly, there's an Awesome Mode option in the upper right area that turns the website into a gigantic eye sore.
AllisBrawl
Neal went all out this year with April Fools pranks. To start it off, everyone has had their avi changed again to something random. Instead of Pokemon, it was changed to random animated sprite gifs of older video game characters. Pretty neat to see who got who, but apparently it's changeable if you know how, which sort of defeats the purpose of it being random. The front page has a poll on which user should be the next AIB Admin. All of the members in the poll are known trolls. The MLG livestream link to a Brawl Throwback Event links to a Starcraft song parody of Justin Bieber's song "Baby." All the videos on the site were changed to a video where Neal gets a hug from someone.
To make things even more interesting, all comments on the site changes a user name to "Admiral [username], Literally." The Admiral part is a joke against the user Admiral Pit, who is generally hated by most of the site, or just trolled for being weird, rather. The "literally" part is because Neal made a blog a few weeks back calling everyone out who uses the word "literally" wrong. Needless to say, tons of people trolled the blog using "literally" wrong. It's a pretty amusing inside joke, but makes figuring out who made the comment rather difficult. The sites trading card display replaces all characters with Fox, all stages with Final Destination, and removes all Items. Melee joke, really.
Last but not least, there's a joke ModCP, where all users have the ability to view and submit mod commands. For example, there's a Ban User, where a user will get a badge if they try to ban Toonblade (or I think any user on the front page poll). There's a Badge command, Ladder Dispute command, Mod Ladder, and the most amusing, Toonblade Tracker. Toonblade is a known annoying troll on the site, sometimes claimed to be Neal's alt account, so Toonblade Tracker displays all his activity, while adding a few amusing notes, such as when he annoys a mod, or when he makes a spelling error.
Smashboards
Smashboards appears to have replaced the front page with a terrible color scheme, and renaming the site to "The Friday World Forums". The banner at the top is an image of Rebecca Black. Sadly this makes the site an eye sore, and hard to put up with. To make things worse, the front page auto players the song "Friday." This seems more like a major troll than an April Fools prank.
Overall, most were pretty annoying or uninteresting. I found Aib's to be most amusing out of all the others. Whatever happened to making April Fools jokes without making the website impossible to withstand?
*My April Fools Pranks*
#1. Joke Brawl Power Rankings for NE
I put up fake Power Rankings for New England. They were technically due April 1st, so instead of putting up the real rankings, I put up a fake image I created and wrote up fake reasoning to go with it. Believe it or not, quite a few people fell for the fake rankings. They looked pretty believable. You can check it out here:
Joke PR Image: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6647/neapril1st2011rankings.png
Joke Reasoning: http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?pid=1282174#p1282174 (if you're reading this past April 1st, you'll have to scroll down to the bottom)
#2. Youtube Video
I put up a video for Brawl claiming that LV9 CPUs are impossible while showing a few clips of the CPU KOing or comboing me. The joke itself is an old GameFAQs joke from back in the Melee days, where a player would jokingly claim a LV9 is impossible, and skeptical readers would comment on how the player is just bad at the game and how they beat CPUs all the time. The original player would likely respond with "you're lying."
*Other Website April Fools Pranks*
Youtube
Youtube's seemingly only prank is a joke about how the site worked back in 1911, or something alone those lines. You can watch videos using the 1911 button to see them displayed in old movie & music style, replacing the videos original audio. It's pretty amusing if you watch certain videos with it.
GameFAQs
Well the front page makes it pretty obvious. There's a joke 40 year anniversary page for GameFAQs, as well as the poll of games that will likely never be released (or even made). Lastly, there's an Awesome Mode option in the upper right area that turns the website into a gigantic eye sore.
AllisBrawl
Neal went all out this year with April Fools pranks. To start it off, everyone has had their avi changed again to something random. Instead of Pokemon, it was changed to random animated sprite gifs of older video game characters. Pretty neat to see who got who, but apparently it's changeable if you know how, which sort of defeats the purpose of it being random. The front page has a poll on which user should be the next AIB Admin. All of the members in the poll are known trolls. The MLG livestream link to a Brawl Throwback Event links to a Starcraft song parody of Justin Bieber's song "Baby." All the videos on the site were changed to a video where Neal gets a hug from someone.
To make things even more interesting, all comments on the site changes a user name to "Admiral [username], Literally." The Admiral part is a joke against the user Admiral Pit, who is generally hated by most of the site, or just trolled for being weird, rather. The "literally" part is because Neal made a blog a few weeks back calling everyone out who uses the word "literally" wrong. Needless to say, tons of people trolled the blog using "literally" wrong. It's a pretty amusing inside joke, but makes figuring out who made the comment rather difficult. The sites trading card display replaces all characters with Fox, all stages with Final Destination, and removes all Items. Melee joke, really.
Last but not least, there's a joke ModCP, where all users have the ability to view and submit mod commands. For example, there's a Ban User, where a user will get a badge if they try to ban Toonblade (or I think any user on the front page poll). There's a Badge command, Ladder Dispute command, Mod Ladder, and the most amusing, Toonblade Tracker. Toonblade is a known annoying troll on the site, sometimes claimed to be Neal's alt account, so Toonblade Tracker displays all his activity, while adding a few amusing notes, such as when he annoys a mod, or when he makes a spelling error.
Smashboards
Smashboards appears to have replaced the front page with a terrible color scheme, and renaming the site to "The Friday World Forums". The banner at the top is an image of Rebecca Black. Sadly this makes the site an eye sore, and hard to put up with. To make things worse, the front page auto players the song "Friday." This seems more like a major troll than an April Fools prank.
Overall, most were pretty annoying or uninteresting. I found Aib's to be most amusing out of all the others. Whatever happened to making April Fools jokes without making the website impossible to withstand?
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