Part 29: Extras - Hatchat WS
Hey! Hey you! We've just finished an episode, right? That means I get to do another of these!
Now legitimised with a logo! Mmm, now there's no excuse for me not to cack on endlessly about space fashion shows. Unfortunately, what's on show at the minute is a bit, er..not very good. That's right, it's the Waysiders. Booooring.
We've already discussed what the Waysiders are meant to be, sort-of, but let's go over it again just in case you fell asleep in class that one time and ended up dreaming about a gigantic Carpetbagger with a ponytail the length of the M6: as opposed to the factions we've seen so far, who've run the enormous gamut from "rich private mercs" to "well-equipped and probably quite rich organisation", the Waysiders are meant to be a merc faction who're struggling from one disaster to the next with no equipment, no real sense of direction and a frankly embarrassing taste in dirty, tattered clothes. Take, for example, Waysider A.
What do you mean "you don't recognise him"? You've been staring at his flappy coat for ages!
Unfortunately, it's a spectacularly poor hat showing for old Waysider A--in fact, he's barely got a hat at all! The fact you've strapped some weird gigantic set of future-binoculars doesn't do much to draw attention away from the fact that you've turned up wearing just a bloody bobble hat, you idiot! Also, it kinda looks like it's weighing your face down. Very, very poor. At least he's got a nice coat.
"Ah," I can already hear you saying, "but Waysider B is better, surely? He's got a hat and everything!" Well, you're wrong and I wish you'd stop interrupting.
That's definitely a hat he's got there--and quite a cool one, I'll add! I like the flight helmet look of it--but unfortunately this chump gets an automatic fail because all he's done is steal a hat from the protagonist of Lost Planet 1. What, you thought we wouldn't notice? As though to add to the insult, his jacket is genuinely bloody awful and for some reason he's decided to accessorise with leg irons that make no sense whatsoever.
I'm not a tremendous fan of Waysider B. The Waysiders in general aren't hugely exciting or unusual, but A kinda gets the tattered and messy aesthetic across. Oh, and their leader is...
..sort-of Castro for some reason.
Luckily, the sniper pricks from Chapter 2 have actually-quite-cool costumes which we'll be looking at on, errr. "Next week's episode", I suppose! Same time and place.
a dog posted:
Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime is actually kind of similar concept. You have a tank and you have to pick up ammo to be launched at the enemy tank while protecting your tank from invasion by enemy ground troops. You have some AI controlled helpers with different abilities and there's a few other mechanics too but yeah it's kind of similar.
Also you forgot the best part about it: you can use yourself as ammunition and storm enemy tanks by shooting yourself through the windows! Also there's the title music which is just belter.
harold harcourt posted:
I take it from the next episode preview that we're back to following Nevec. Have we seen every faction already? Or are there still more groups to come before we can officially pick our favourite team based exclusively on hat style?
P.S. Any hat wearing Akrid would also count as a group.
Off the top of my head, there's only one more major human-y faction that we've got to stumble across, unfortunately. That said, there's going to be a whole lot of variety in the costumes we actually get to see in the next few episodes, despite it consisting mostly of NEVEC and guys we already know; I wouldn't get all upset about it quite yet! To even hint at the most exciting ones would be to give the next episode's thing away entirely, however.
also there is not a single hat wearing akrid in the game much to its detriment
Iggy Johnson posted:
I hope this hasn't been answered already, but somehow I suspect it has, but Dan, whatever happened to your Bionic Commando Rearmed vids? I just went to go watch them again, after finishing Kekfafloyd's thread and saw that they were missing.
Regarding this game, however, I haven't really been enjoying these train levels too much. Seems too restrictive to me. Might just be me though.
Hello! Don't worry, I forget if I've answered it too by this point. I ended up getting rid of BC:R from vlp because I wasn't tremendously happy having it lying around--it was good for the Devolution thread, I guess, but I'm not really happy with it "as a thing" on its own. I don't really like doing LPs on my own anymore for a thousand different reasons and I think the videos are kinda bad. They're still on blip.tv and, if the feeling takes you for some mad reason, Viddler.
Here are some links!
Watch them all in a blip.tv playlist player thing | Have a leisurely browse through them
Don't be tellin' nobody, kid.
InfinityComplex posted:
For the most part, yes, but you're going to need it for the absolute final part of the fight.
I don't know if it's more fun to fight it without the cannon until that part, only seen it done off hand.
Possible? Certainly, as you say--just shoot the cores out with the turrets on the side/the helicopter and then get up to the cannon at the end, yeah. It'll take a while to plink out the cores, though, and it's considerably less impressive and fun to do it the fiddly way than the huge explosion cannon way. There's no reason whatsoever not to use the cannon unless you're trying to prove something. Like how dull you are.