A DL succession game?

[Monkeyfinger]

For the uninformed, a succession game is where you get together a team of 6 or so people. They are ordered 1-6. One of them starts a file of some game, plays for some time, reports on what he did, then e-mails the save file to the next guy in the rotation, or uploads the file to a place that it can be downloaded from. Go around like this until the game is beat or lost, with 6 sending off to 1. After completed rounds, the team can discuss strategy on the forums, if it's the kind of game that even calls for it. It's kind of like an LP, if the workload is split between multiple people.

<Veryslightlymad> The DL needs to have a succession game of some kind.
<Monkey> *talks a bit about the soul-raping hell that is Civilization 4 succession gaming. Seriously, that's what people do in the Malebolge.*
<Shale> So....Brig SG, then?
<TranceHime> A Brig SG? O____O;
<Monkey> When people react as Trance does, you know the idea's solid.

And here we are.

The problem would be getting a team of people who have emulated Brig (or any other game of choice, seeing as we are mostly console gamers.)  I have the physical copy and hence do not have Brig in a form that could be SGed. I know I'm far from the only person with that "problem". (Don't tell me to rip the CD, my CD drive is from ancient times that predated ripping as a standard feature.) Jump that hurdle and I think we have a good idea here.

[Grefter]

Brig is an absolute stone cold bitch to emulate.

Edit - As in it is a game I really badly wanted to play with emulation features and gave up on and just burned it to disc to play.

Also if you can read a CD you can rip it, drive might just be crusty and old, probably spinning up and down at an inconsistent rate would make a drive not rip things properly.  Not a standard feature added to drives, just an age of drive thing.

[Cotigo]

Sounds like it would be really interesting with PCRPGs.  Not so much Torment, but Fallout and gameplay oriented PCRPGs for sure.

[superaielman]

You could however do that easily with Brig:GE, Grefter. That would be a lot of fun to play in that format.

[Cotigo]

Yeah, or for the benefit of people who might want to get in on this and aren't obsessive assholes about the game, you could play a game that's in English.

[superaielman]

On the other hand it wouldn't be as fun, so go take a flying fuck at a cactus Zenny while the adults talk about real games. 


On a serious note, GE has a menu patch but yeah. Other ideas.. OB is too long off the top of my head. Pokemon is a good possiblity in this group.

[Meeplelard]

Pokemon actually would be a neat thing to work with cause:

A. Game is emulator friendly. Always a good thing.
B. The game has a shit load of options, so different playing styles can actually be shown and thus add to random insanity among the game for others.
C. Game that tends to be well received by most people who play it in the DL.

Granted, which Pokemon game, who knows.  I'd recommend FRLG only cause its the most familiar game of the modern ones (GBA and up) among most people, so might work better than RSE for that reason.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Brig emulation is actually pretty easy now. It's how I'm currently playing Brig.

However, Brig doesn't work well with ePSXe. Instead, if you use PSXeven, the only problem you'll run into emulating it should be the lack of background music. Not quite sure what the problem is there.

There's a few website forums out there where I derived all this information from over the past 3 weeks of playing it. It might have been a problem to emulate it before, but it's pretty easy to use now.

PSXeven doesn't support cheat codes very well yet, but framerate speed, savestates, and certainly memory card saving seems to work just fine and those files -should- be transferable over the web.

If that's still not good enough, there's always SNES games, those are all emulator friendly.

Though I don't know what would make a good succession game, I'm still not really quite clear on the concept.

-Djinn

[AAA]

The concept is that we'd all play Brig, choosing a country, and then for one turn one person would make units, fight battles, try to take territory, etc. Afterwards they would send the savestate to the next person in line and then for that turn they'd do the same thing, and then they'd give it to the next person in line, and so on and so forth until the country dies or we conquer Forsena.

The best example of this is the game Dwarf Fortress, which fits succession games like a glove. There was a LP of one which is on the archive.

Edit: I suppose it could be more than one turn, since that's kinda short. 3 or so would work better for the general strategy of the person playing to affect the game and such.

[Captain K.]

Hmm, how about Advance Wars?

[Grefter]

We could go for a game that people haven't played.  Rebel Star: Tactical Command maybe?  GBA so it is small and easilly emulatable .

[superaielman]

*Nods* That could also work. GBA's easy to emulate and has a universal emulator.  Definitely interested in this.

[Otter]

I second Grefter's nomination.  Just downloaded the ROM real fast and it looks like X-COM the SRPG; in other words, it's fractactical squad combat where you move your guy up to the alien guy and select Aimed Burst for 11 AP or something and then you kill him and it's sweet, but your guys level up in ways that are familiar to the RPG (not in the arbitrary "rank up" system of X-COM itself) and it plays like your basic SRPG with a straight shot through missions rather than having any other kind of management going on in between fights.  I somehow doubt that the PLOT AND CAST!! are going to win awards, from what I've seen so far, but the gameplay has promise just for being what it is, really, and we can mock the rest just fine.

Not exactly saying we should all go try it out real quick before deciding, I think it's fun if people come in surprised, but this doesn't seem to be moving and so I want to put out the call for, like, an actual list of players who would take a turn in a succession game of Rebel Star: Tactical Command.  It's on the GBA!  If you've played anything with AP before, it's not gonna be a shock to the system!  If you haven't, it's not hard anyway!  The list doesn't need to be in order, we can figure that out once we have the list, but still.  I'll start us off with people who seem to be going along with it so far.

1. Grefter
2. Super
3. Otter
4. ?

I don't actually know how many missions are in the game; how many missions each of us gets will depend on both the total number of missions and the number of people playing, obviously.  Maybe Grefter can fill me in on that?  Either way, we definitely want as many as we can possibly get, here; it's not much fun if one person has it for too long, although I guess an exception can be made for the start of the game (maybe someone could just get all the training stages out of the way at a shot?).  I'm also gonna totally call out OK right here, because he's already gotten all LP-ish about X-COM and this would be a light, easy version of that, with just the fun shooting of things!  How can he refuse?

[Grefter]

There is over 25 missions, I haven't played much before and that is the latest mission a walkthrough mentions.

[Shale]

Sounds like fun.

[Grefter]

Alright a bit of the ways in.  You might want to run through the tutorial to get an idea of how to control it.

members.optusnet.com.au/grefter/2118_-_rebelstar_-_tactical_command_(u).sav

Up to Mission 8

[superaielman]

I'm next, eh? Will take a swing at this tonight when I get off work.

[Otter]

Okay hold up!  The idea is sort of that we have a collaborative LP going, with the first player doing an update and then passing it on.  You don't just pass the .sav around and get through the game, that's no fun.  In fact people in chat expressed that they were interested in this idea to begin with but then lost all interest when it looked like there weren't going to be any updates.  This will not do!

-So.-  Just to clarify: there will be updates!  You'll have to write stuff about it as you play and if you want you could probably put in some fun pictures, just like a regular LP!  The way it differs from a regular LP is that you'll only have it for a few missions, so you'll have just enough time to play some, give your take on how things were going during that stretch of time, and then pass the baton.

Real quick list update:

1. Grefter
2. Super
3. Otter
4. Shale
5. TranceHime

This is not in order yet!  DON'T LET THE NUMBERS FOOL YOU.  I'd like at least a few more names on there before we even figure out who's gonna start us off.  Once we have all the names in place, maybe we could Hatbot for the succession order?  Random is fun!

(If Grefter or Super wanna drop out as a result of the "there's gonna be updates!" thing, they can do that!)  I'm still calling out OK for a slot if he wants to take a turn here (it'd be megasweet! do it!) and it occurs to me that Monkeyfinger started this thread so maybe he'll be interested in a spot?  You should be too!  We're looking at 25+ missions, and while I think whoever goes first can probably wipe out more than his share just because the early ones are training missions (he could take a double-turn, let's say) I'd still want, like, eight or more guys on this if we can swing it, to make sure nobody's playing for more than around 3 battles.  Remember, the more people sign up, the easier it gets for everybody and the faster it's likely to go!

[Grefter]

Well yeah I don't really feel like playing Chapter 1-8 again and document it.  It would be really good if Super just started a new game then I guess.

[superaielman]

Okay, can do that.