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Post by therationaldove on Apr 17, 2016 17:22:07 GMT
I think the idea of your first run through being indicative of who you are is pretty telling. Like, one of the LEt's Players that I watch played Undertale out of high demand but didn't really enjoy himself because he felt forced to do a Pacifist run despite the fact that eh wanted to play it like a traditional RPG and not wanting to be nice. In some ways, Undertale is a commentary on the violence of video games in general. Like, I think we can all agree that just because we defeat enemies in most games, doesn't make us killers in real life, but Undertale presents that desire as the ultimate evil, that even in a fictional world, the desire to kill for the sake of power and vidication is just as descrutive as in reality, and that while we might never actually do something like that, we all have that ability to.
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Post by Wesley Foxx on Apr 18, 2016 2:28:39 GMT
I abjectly refused to kill anyone after I started playing and for whatever reason couldn't seem to select anything but [FIGHT]. So I kept letting it miss. So I wondered if I simply was reading the menu wrong and hit Z and killed it and immediately felt incredibly guilty. I died to Asgore about 9 times because I was convinced there MUST be a way to avoid having to [FIGHT]. Fortunately, since the dummy doesn't give you any EXP, it doesn't break the pacifist requirements.
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Post by therationaldove on Apr 21, 2016 0:35:48 GMT
Yeah. I mean, I'm not trying to imply that people who play a Genocide/No Marcy run are evil. I think it's just suppose to make us question that destructive instinct.
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Post by TimeyWimeyHero on Apr 26, 2016 2:11:17 GMT
So my brother started playing the game, and he's even worse at bullet hell than I am.  |
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Post by sigh on Apr 26, 2016 2:20:10 GMT
I've been doing a run with my mom where I do all of the actual combat and I have her tell me what to do with each enemy, even though I practically know this game like the back of my hand at this point. I have her voice the obviously feminine people (so mostly just a couple of characters), and I do all the male characters and Undyne, since I headcanon her voice as pretty gruff.
We've just gotten to the part where we meet Alphys and Mettaton for the first time, and before going through Hotland we're gonna take a quick detour to go meet Undyne at her house.
Also Wes you did eventually figure out that you're supposed to scroll through the menu options with the arrow keys right?
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Post by partymember57 on Apr 26, 2016 2:40:33 GMT
I've been doing a run with my mom where I do all of the actual combat and I have her tell me what to do with each enemy, even though I practically know this game like the back of my hand at this point. I have her voice the obviously feminine people (so mostly just a couple of characters), and I do all the male characters and Undyne, since I headcanon her voice as pretty gruff. We've just gotten to the part where we meet Alphys and Mettaton for the first time, and before going through Hotland we're gonna take a quick detour to go meet Undyne at her house. Also Wes you did eventually figure out that you're supposed to scroll through the menu options with the arrow keys right? Aw man, a mom that is willing to play co-op/actually play video games sounds great. My mom is only good at candy crush, and my dad is only good at ONE specific level in Star Wars Rouge Squadron III :/ |
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Post by sigh on Apr 26, 2016 4:27:35 GMT
Don't get me wrong, I practically had to cash in all my child points to get her to do the initial session, but after going through the Ruins she liked it well enough that we've kept going at least 2-3 times a month.
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Post by Wesley Foxx on Apr 26, 2016 5:19:25 GMT
I've been doing a run with my mom where I do all of the actual combat and I have her tell me what to do with each enemy, even though I practically know this game like the back of my hand at this point. I have her voice the obviously feminine people (so mostly just a couple of characters), and I do all the male characters and Undyne, since I headcanon her voice as pretty gruff. We've just gotten to the part where we meet Alphys and Mettaton for the first time, and before going through Hotland we're gonna take a quick detour to go meet Undyne at her house. Also Wes you did eventually figure out that you're supposed to scroll through the menu options with the arrow keys right? Obviously, but I absolutely swear that the first time I played, I was trying to select other stuff and it wasn't responding. |
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Post by Gilian Zorybo on Apr 26, 2016 6:45:04 GMT
This is the only thing I live for now. In all seriousness tho, Undertale is one of my favourite games of all time. Is it weird that I ship Flowey and the tsundere cactus? This video is still wild af |
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Post by sigh on Apr 26, 2016 7:36:59 GMT
I've been doing a run with my mom where I do all of the actual combat and I have her tell me what to do with each enemy, even though I practically know this game like the back of my hand at this point. I have her voice the obviously feminine people (so mostly just a couple of characters), and I do all the male characters and Undyne, since I headcanon her voice as pretty gruff. We've just gotten to the part where we meet Alphys and Mettaton for the first time, and before going through Hotland we're gonna take a quick detour to go meet Undyne at her house. Also Wes you did eventually figure out that you're supposed to scroll through the menu options with the arrow keys right? Obviously, but I absolutely swear that the first time I played, I was trying to select other stuff and it wasn't responding. To be fair from what I remember Markiplier ran into the same issue with his run during the first episode. He managed to get past the first frog just fine but for some reason he couldn't not fight the dummy, which didn't help the whole "everyone rallying on him to do a pacifist run of the game" because at the time a lot of people didn't know if that would affect the pacifist run one way or another. |
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Post by TimeyWimeyHero on Apr 27, 2016 11:29:56 GMT
Weird, I haven't any issues. Does playing on a mac make any difference? So my brother's apparently doing a neutral run. He killed a few enemies as the beginning, but seems to now be going mostly pacifist. I've been giving him next to no spoilers, so this should be interesting.  |
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Post by PlatinumUmbreon on Apr 27, 2016 15:06:02 GMT
I didn´t go into Undertale totally blind. I watched Mark play through the Ruins, and my friend showed me the Neutral final boss fight and True Pacifist final boss fight. Otherwise, I tried to keep myself spoiler-free of the Neutral/Pacifist routes, though I completely spoiled myself on Genocide as I don plan to do so anyways.
I don´t want to get so bored of the game that I go Genocide though, so I plan to get the Undertale HATE corrupter to corrupt the game and see what wacky results I get.
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Post by TimeyWimeyHero on Apr 27, 2016 21:08:37 GMT
and my friend showed me the Neutral final boss fight and True Pacifist final boss fight Those are huge spoilers though! Undertale relies on the element of surprise to truly blow your mind. My brother's on Waterfall at the dump and is having some trouble with the Mad Dummy boss. |
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Post by PlatinumUmbreon on Apr 27, 2016 21:26:17 GMT
Yeah, that's pretty much my biggest regret with my playthroughs, that I spoiled myself so much.
As for Mad Dummy, all you can really do is outlast him.
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Post by pointycatears on Apr 30, 2016 18:19:19 GMT
I died to Mad Dummy sooooo many times on my first game. It was so frustrating. You just have to get good at avoiding everything that gets thrown at you, because it is one of those fights where you have to survive until a certain point.
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Post by The Paradoxical Insurgent on Apr 30, 2016 18:24:35 GMT
Just realized Mad Dummy and Spades Slick would make good Knife Friends.
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Post by InternallyLactiad on Apr 30, 2016 22:41:34 GMT
I looked over the games guide and found the character page. I'm sure it's good for a laugh.  [ |
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Post by Neptz on Apr 30, 2016 23:07:11 GMT
It's such a shame that was dropped. It was such a great thing.
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Post by PlatinumUmbreon on May 1, 2016 0:56:21 GMT
"Friendly flower"?
Why you be lying?
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Post by Shadow of the Lotus on May 1, 2016 2:32:18 GMT
Flowey is a poor representative of us flower folk.  |
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Post by Neptz on May 1, 2016 3:00:18 GMT
Watched a until-asgore let's play of it first. Wanted to see how hard it is myself, played it. It was great.
I didn't get spoiled on Omega Flowey, which is raadddd
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Post by PlatinumUmbreon on May 1, 2016 3:02:30 GMT
Indeed. Once you get over the initial shock of encountering Omega Flowey (despite the spoilers I still wasn't completely prepared), he turned out to be quite an awesome boss, actually. In fact, "Finale" is one of my favorite Undertale tracks, and seeing YTPMVs of "Your Best Nightmare" is rather fun.
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Post by ttstooge on May 1, 2016 4:50:38 GMT
I wish I could've gone in blind, but at the time I had no way to play it. :/
It wasn't until several weeks after I watched a Let's Play of it that I was able to get the game.
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Post by Shadow of the Lotus on May 1, 2016 12:12:47 GMT
Eh, I'm not as convinced on the need to not have spoilers. I went into the game having most things spoiled and I think I had more fun knowing in advance the shtick of the game. There were still plenty of things that weren't spoiled for me; particularly the amalgamation part which I thought was done fantastically. The dog amalgamation? Jesus, that was well done.
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Post by Neptz on May 1, 2016 14:02:31 GMT
Spoilers aren't that bad honestly. Most of the time I don't tend to get surprised by things (and I'm not counting jumpscares. They'll get the best out of anyone. It's so cheap)
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