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General discussionI reviewed Pool of Radiance, the only game where you can save the world with a team of Transgendered Sean Conneries(38 posts)(38 posts)
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Posted January 19, 2018
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Asbeau: Good video, I subbed.
Thank you! :D

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mintee: Have to say that was amusing, thanks for the heads up
Thank you, I try!

EDIT: Btw, is that a Cognition avatar? I worked on that game! :D

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dtgreene: OK, I'll bite, but not in the way you're thinking. A few criticisms about the review:

1. The first 10 seconds of the video are useless. Also, the end cards are annoying.
2. Almost the entire video has music that is completely unrelated to the game. I really don't like it when videos do this. (Also, if you have a person who can't see the captions and whose hearing isn't that great, it makes it harder for the person to understand the video.) (Speaking of which, one other issue: You say "Shawn" when the captions say "Sean".
3. I can't think of any aspect of the video, except maybe the one part where in-game sounds are heard, that couldn't effectively be done in a text article, which is way more accessible than a video.

The video also appears to leave out one of my biggest criticisms of the game; namely, that male characters are mechanically similar to female ones due to the female strength cap. There's also the issue that healing your characters is tedious and time-consuming, as the only healing spell you get is pitifully weak and the rest option doesn't heal much either, making resting tedious. (There's a reason Dragon Quest made inns a full heal, and why Might & Magic also has full heal on rest.)

Edit: Mention Might & Magic in the part about healing.
Wow, I'm usually pretty open to criticsm, but I have to say I don't agree with your three main points at all. Or at the very, least they go against my overall vision for the channel. Still, thank you for the feedback.
Post edited January 19, 2018 by stika
Posted January 19, 2018
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dtgreene: OK, I'll bite, but not in the way you're thinking. A few criticisms about the review:

1. The first 10 seconds of the video are useless. Also, the end cards are annoying.
2. Almost the entire video has music that is completely unrelated to the game. I really don't like it when videos do this. (Also, if you have a person who can't see the captions and whose hearing isn't that great, it makes it harder for the person to understand the video.) (Speaking of which, one other issue: You say "Shawn" when the captions say "Sean".
3. I can't think of any aspect of the video, except maybe the one part where in-game sounds are heard, that couldn't effectively be done in a text article, which is way more accessible than a video.

The video also appears to leave out one of my biggest criticisms of the game; namely, that male characters are mechanically similar to female ones due to the female strength cap. There's also the issue that healing your characters is tedious and time-consuming, as the only healing spell you get is pitifully weak and the rest option doesn't heal much either, making resting tedious. (There's a reason Dragon Quest made inns a full heal, and why Might & Magic also has full heal on rest.)

Edit: Mention Might & Magic in the part about healing.
You can't expect him to do an in-depth explanation of the d&d rules in a 10 minute review of the game. he needs to cover the basics. How it plays. Pros and cons. Basic plot for the story. If he had done a 2 hour review, sure. But all in all he did a very very good job at this one in just a 10 minute episode. I think he made it very clear how this game works and how it plays.

1. Why are the first 10 seconds useless? And so what? It is 10 seconds.

2. No he said Sean. Sean Connery. Pretty damn obvious given how famous a name that is. The music bit is just your personal taste. You like it or you don't. It doesn't mess up the review itself.

3. It is a video review. So why the heck would he do a text article?
Posted January 19, 2018
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Asbeau: Good video, I subbed.
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stika: Thank you! :D

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mintee: Have to say that was amusing, thanks for the heads up
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stika: Thank you, I try!

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dtgreene:
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stika: Wow, I'm usually pretty open to criticsm, but I have to say I don't agree with your three main points at all. Or at the very, least they go against my overall vision for the channel. Still, thank you for the feedback.
That user once chewed me out for quoting "The Godfather". Don't sweat it. :P
Posted January 19, 2018
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dtgreene: The video also appears to leave out one of my biggest criticisms of the game; namely, that male characters are mechanically similar to female ones due to the female strength cap. There's also the issue that healing your characters is tedious and time-consuming, as the only healing spell you get is pitifully weak and the rest option doesn't heal much either, making resting tedious. (There's a reason Dragon Quest made inns a full heal, and why Might & Magic also has full heal on rest.)
That's more of a criticism of the AD&D 1st edition rules the game is based on. Not disagreeing but both of those have been issues since back in the late 70s.

I know as a DM, I never paid attention to gender restrictions.

At least with the PC game, resting doesn't take Real Life time, just in game time.

edit: At the very least, the background music isn't blaring like some tutorial or review videos.
Post edited January 19, 2018 by drmike
Posted January 19, 2018
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drmike: At least with the PC game, resting doesn't take Real Life time, just in game time.
Not entirely true; you still have to open the menu and select the rest command. Furthermore, chances are your party still isn't healed, so you have to either keep choosing that command, or keep casting a pathetically weak healing spell (the only one you ever get), see that it restored only 1 HP to the character who only needs 2 HP to be healed, re-memorize the spell, and then rest again to actually make the spell available again.

Having your only healing spell restore only 4.5 HP on average (and having a chance of restoring only 1 HP) just isn't enough when a character can easily get over 70 HP (on a fighter with 18 CON), and not having a way to quickly heal to full while in a safe place makes this a problem that you simply can't ignore.

(Fortunately, later games in the series added the "FIX" command as a shortcut for healing, and also gave you healing spells that weren't so ridiculously weak.)

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drmike: I know as a DM, I never paid attention to gender restrictions.
Unfortunately, in a computer game where such restrictions are implemented, you can't just ignore them without hacking/modding the game or save file.
Post edited January 19, 2018 by dtgreene
Posted January 20, 2018
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stika: Thank you! :D

Thank you, I try!

Wow, I'm usually pretty open to criticsm, but I have to say I don't agree with your three main points at all. Or at the very, least they go against my overall vision for the channel. Still, thank you for the feedback.
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tinyE: That user once chewed me out for quoting "The Godfather". Don't sweat it. :P
Ah well, people are always welcome to disagree with me. It's just in this case It goes against the vision I have for the channel ^^
Posted January 20, 2018
Damn. Nobody understood my reference about Sean Connery in a diaper.
Posted January 20, 2018
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pmcollectorboy: Damn. Nobody understood my reference about Sean Connery in a diaper.
Zardoz.
Posted January 20, 2018
Zardog
Posted January 20, 2018
Watch it, but the Golden Axe video is the one who really gets me. Heh, maybe because my MS-Dos in the 90's couldn't do that.
Posted January 20, 2018
Haha, stika, good stuff again.
Posted January 20, 2018
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pmcollectorboy: Damn. Nobody understood my reference about Sean Connery in a diaper.
Sorry, it completely flew over my head >.>

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zlaywal: Watch it, but the Golden Axe video is the one who really gets me. Heh, maybe because my MS-Dos in the 90's couldn't do that.
Hehe, that's still my most popular video

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HereForTheBeer: Haha, stika, good stuff again.
Thank you! :D
Posted January 21, 2018
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dtgreene: You say "Shawn" when the captions say "Sean".
Well that's a mean joke to play on someone whose first language isn't English.
Posted January 22, 2018
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dtgreene: You say "Shawn" when the captions say "Sean".
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SirPrimalform: Well that's a mean joke to play on someone whose first language isn't English.
It's okay, I get a lot of comments of people saying I sound like Borat or making jokes about how Borat has a YouTube channel. xD
Posted January 22, 2018
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SirPrimalform: Well that's a mean joke to play on someone whose first language isn't English.
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stika: It's okay, I get a lot of comments of people saying I sound like Borat or making jokes about how Borat has a YouTube channel. xD
BORAT IS GOD! His sister #3 prostitute in all of Kazakhstan!
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